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Ken Rogoff, who famously predicted a big bank would collapse during the financial crisis, warned that people had got used to ultra-low interest rates.
He also said the economic policies of the Trump administration posed a risk.
Previously the economist had said China was the number one threat.
Talking to the BBC's World at One Mr Rogoff said that levels of personal and corporate debt had risen in the global economy.
This was while interest rates had been held at historic lows in many countries, to encourage investors to borrow and spend after the financial crisis.
"If something was to happen that pushes interest rates up, we could see a lot of soft spots - places where there is high debt - start to unravel," Mr Rogoff said.
He also said that the economic policies of the White House were creating uncertainty, without naming specific policies.
President Donald Trump is pursuing a more protectionist trade agenda and trying to relax regulations brought in to protect the financial system after the crash.
He has also pledged to slash taxes and boost infrastructure spending.
"The risk is that the White House or the US will do something really irrational. That may seem hyperbolic but we are all holding our breath," Mr Rogoff said.
He added that China, the world's second largest economy, remains a threat due to its own debt problems, political instability and dependency on exports.
Speaking ten years on from the start of the financial crisis, Mr Rogoff said the US had substantially recovered from the downturn of 2007-8.
But he said a generation had been "scarred" by the crash and many young people had struggled to find work as a result.
"I think the crash greatly amplified this wave of populism that the world's feeling right now," he said.
"The US would not have had Donald Trump as president without the crash." | A sudden rise in interest rates poses the greatest threat to the global economy, the IMF's former chief economist has told the BBC. | 40,880,640 | 408 | 29 | false |
Earlier, Australia called on Indonesia to delay executing two convicted Australian drug traffickers until corruption claims were investigated.
Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were convicted in 2006.
The two, along six other foreigners and an Indonesian, have been formally told of their execution. A French trafficker is appealing against his conviction.
Under Indonesian law, convicts must be given 72 hours' notice of execution. This means the executions by the firing squad could be carried out as early as Tuesday.
"France and Australia share the same attachment to human rights and condemn the death penalty in all places and all circumstances," the French presidency said in a statement after a meeting between French President Francois Hollande and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott in Paris.
French convict Serge Atlaoui still has an appeal before the courts. France has warned of "consequences" if the execution goes ahead.
Meanwhile, Philippine President Benigno Aquino appealed to Indonesian President Joko Widodo for "humanitarian consideration" in connection with the case of a Filipina woman, Mary Jane Veloso, who is also on death row for drug-trafficking offences.
Mr Widodo's spokesman said he was "sympathetic" and was consulting the attorney general on legal issues.
Australia made last-minute pleas on behalf of the two Australian men to delay their execution until a corruption investigation into their case was complete.
But on Monday evening, Indonesia's attorney general confirmed that the nine death row convicts would be executed as planned, without giving an indication of when the executions would be likely to take place.
Attorney General HM Prasetyo told the BBC a judicial review "could not amend [a] previous court ruling" and that "foreigners do not have any legal standing for a judicial review on the Constitutional Court".
At the scene: Alice Budisatrijo, BBC News, Jakarta
The Indonesian government is determined to carry out the execution because it believes the country is facing a national emergency - it says more than 30 people die from drug abuse every day. It doesn't seem to matter to President Joko Widodo that the statistics he based that assessment on have been called into question.
And then there is domestic politics. President Jokowi, as he is known, was elected with popular support but his approval ratings have plummeted in just six months in office.
While Indonesia's death penalty has been widely criticised abroad, most Indonesians don't have a problem with the government executing drug convicts and murderers, as the law currently allows. Many people are even calling for an expansion of the law, to allow death sentences for corruption convictions.
At this point there doesn't seem to be any political will to do that, but if the government calls off the execution of drug traffickers, particularly foreigners, it will have serious political consequences in Indonesia.
Who are the 10 facing execution?
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said the two Australians should not be executed while legal issues remained.
"I should point out that Mr Chan and Mr Sukumaran's lawyers are pursuing action before the Constitutional Court in Indonesia," she told Australia's ABC News.
Ms Bishop also said she was "profoundly dismayed" by the 72-hour execution notice.
Claims that the Indonesian judges in the trial had asked for bribes for lighter sentences first surfaced earlier this year.
One of the judges involved in the case denied there had been political interference or negotiations about bribes.
"I can assure you there was none," the judge told Fairfax Media. "We protected ourselves from everybody. It was purely our decision."
Chan and Sukumaran, along with seven other Australians, were arrested in Bali in 2005 for trying to smuggle more than 18lb (8.3kg) of heroin from Indonesia to Australia.
The pair were later found to be the ringleaders of the group and sentenced to death.
Australia's top politicians have been actively campaigning for clemency for the two.
The other seven members of the "Bali Nine" are currently serving either life or 20 years in prison.
Indonesia has some of the toughest drug laws in the world and ended a four-year moratorium on executions in 2013. | France and Australia have condemned the death penalty as executions for three of their nationals loom in Indonesia. | 32,476,497 | 947 | 23 | false |
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The Blues will face the Scottish champions in their second round qualifier with the first leg at Windsor Park on Friday.
Celtic have already said they will not be issuing tickets for supporters who were hoping to travel to Belfast.
Linfield have secured an allocation of 1,500 tickets for the return leg.
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"The club is disappointed Celtic did not take up its ticket allocation," said Linfield chairman Roy McGivern.
"It was their decision and we respect that but we remain disappointed."
Linfield say they were initially given an allocation of 1,000 tickets for the match at Celtic Park but received an additional amount after making a formal request to Celtic.
"It's a massive game for all concerned and that creates pressure," McGivern said. "But we truly look forward to the occasion." | Linfield say they are disappointed Celtic have chosen not to take up their ticket allocation for their Champions League qualifier. | 40,554,897 | 185 | 24 | false |
With surprisingly few journalists within striking distance of Fifa's headquarters in Zurich, Twitter users were forced to await nuggets of information from a small group of reporters.
Fortunately, one of the journalists at the scene was BBC 5 Live's Richard Conway.
As the conference was pushed back by 30 minutes, then another 15 minutes, those furiously refreshing Fifa's live stream debated what announcement awaited.
When Fifa President Sepp Blatter eventually took to the stage, it wasn't long before the shock announcement that he would be standing down was met by an onslaught of terrible puns:
Twitter users may have been confined to a 140 character limit - but this image was easily worth a thousand words. It was shared widely across the social network, as news of Mr Blatter's shock exit spread.
With Fifa talking of "ensuring an orderly transition" it felt more like a coup than the resignation of the top football official. If that was the case, there was another question on people's lips:
Oh, and the Americans want to take the credit:
With Mr Blatter gone, talk soon started over who might replace him:
Others had more pressing matters on their minds:
And with that, the excitement was over. At least until the election campaign starts again.
The nominated books are divided into five categories: novel, first novel, biography, poetry and children's book.
The category winners will be announced on 4 January, with the overall book of the year revealed on 26 January.
Kate Atkinson, who won the award in 1995 when it was called the Whitbread Prize, is also in the running.
Atkinson's A God in Ruins is nominated for the novel award, alongside Anne Enright's Booker-longlisted The Green Road.
The awards are open to authors based in the UK and Ireland and are worth £3,000 to each of the five category winners.
The winner of the overall prize, awarded last January to Helen Macdonald's memoir H is for Hawk, receives £30,000.
COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2015 SHORTLISTS
The Girl in the Red Coat, Kate Hamer's thriller about a kidnapped young girl, is one of two thrillers in contention for the first novel award.
The other is The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley, a debut novel that had a first print run of just 300 copies.
The other first novel nominees are Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume and Things We Have in Common by Tasha Kavanagh.
The latter, a former film editor who worked on such films as Twelve Monkeys and The Talented Mr Ripley, has published several children's books under her maiden name, Tasha Pym.
Andrew McMillan, Kate Miller, Don Paterson and Neil Rollinson are the four poets shortlisted for the Costa poetry prize.
No poet has won the overall book of the year award since the late Seamus Heaney was named the recipient of the 1999 prize.
The Story of Alice, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst's exploration of Lewis Carroll through the adventures of his most famous creation, is up for the biography prize.
It is shortlisted alongside books about 17th Century antiquarian John Aubrey, the Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt, and a house in Germany that was lived in by five different families.
Andrew Norriss, who won the 1997 Whitbread children's book award, is nominated for the Costa equivalent for his latest work, Jessica's Ghost.
He is the only male on a category shortlist completed by children's authors Frances Hardinge, Hayley Long and Sally Nicholls.
This year's nominees comprise 12 women and eight men in all, with ages ranging from 27 to 68.
"The quality and breadth of talent and writing in this year's lists is staggering," said Christopher Rogers, Costa's managing director.
Novelist Louise Doughty, writer Matt Haig and journalist Penny Junor are among the individual category judges.
Speaking on Radio 4's Front Row on Tuesday, literary critic Alex Clark tipped Enright - the first Laureate for Irish Fiction - to be overall winner of the 2015 prize.
The 34-year-old is the second-highest points scorer in Premiership history, with 2,147 for Leicester, Saracens, Worcester and Wasps.
Goode, who won 17 England caps, turned down the chance to stay at Wasps in a coaching capacity.
"He has a wealth of experience to offer and is also a leader," said Exiles director of operations Bob Casey.
"Andy has proven himself as one of the best fly-halves in the Premiership and we are delighted he has signed for us."
Goode, who is out of contract at Wasps at the end of the season, said he wanted to extend his playing career before making the switch to coaching.
"I have huge respect for the coaches and the players at Wasps, and I am very grateful for them offering me the opportunity to start a coaching career here," he said.
"But I love playing the game and I'm excited to be joining London Irish, which is another club with fantastic opportunities ahead, following a similar re-building process to Wasps.
"The facilities are very impressive and having spoken to the management and coaching staff, it is a club I am really excited to be joining.
"I have had two brilliant years at Wasps and will leave with many fond memories."
The Coventry-born fly-half - and lifelong Sky Blues fan - set a Premiership record of 33 points against the Exiles earlier this season with a fairytale performance on Wasps' first appearance at the Ricoh Arena.
Goode won five Premiership titles and two Heineken Cups during nine seasons with Leicester, either side of a stint at Saracens, before moving to French side Brive, Worcester and then on to Wasps as well as a short spell in Super Rugby with the Sharks.
His England career came between 2005 and 2009, but Goode never truly established himself in the number 10 jersey for his country during a difficult time for the national side.
However, he proved himself a valuable asset at club level, with only Saracens fly-half Charlie Hodgson bettering his points tally in the top flight.
"We would have loved for Andy to stay at Wasps in a coaching capacity next season, but we fully understand his decision to play on at London Irish, during an exciting time for that club as well," said Wasps director of rugby Dai Young.
"Goodey has been a tremendous ambassador for Wasps since joining two seasons ago, both on and off the field. His performance against London Irish at our first game at the Ricoh Arena will live long in the memory."
Meanwhile, London Irish have also signed utility back Andy Short from Bristol on loan until the end of the season.
The 23-year-old former England Under-20 international is set to rejoin Worcester when his Bristol contract expires in the summer.
''The opportunity came up for us to bring Andy in for the rest of the season and it is a good fit for all involved," said Exiles head coach Glenn Delaney. "Andy will suit our style of play and be an asset to the group for the remainder of the season."
Emergency crews were expecting to deal with an increased number of alcohol-fuelled incidents as people marked the start of the festive period.
The last Friday before Christmas is known as "Mad" or "Black Friday".
Gwent Police and South Wales Police said the number of arrests were on par with any busy Friday or Saturday night.
Gwent made 28 arrests, while 134 were held by South Wales Police which said its average was 129.
Dyfed-Powys and North Wales forces have not revealed their arrest numbers but all four police forces said the evening passed without any real issues.
Inspector Jason Herbert, of South Wales Police, said: "Demand was in line with the season.
"There were no serious incidents of note and it passed without any real concerns.
"It was busier than a normal Friday, but not as busy as previous Fridays at this time of year.
"I'd like to thank the public for taking onboard the advice from all the emergency services and for playing their part in making it a safe evening."
Like many big tech firms, Facebook offers financial rewards, known as bug bounties, in exchange for issues reported directly to it rather than publicised.
It is Jack Whitton's second big payout from Facebook - a previous find netted him $20,000.
The more serious the bug, the higher the reward.
It means that vulnerabilities can be fixed before they fall into the hands of hackers.
Facebook recently announced that it had paid a total of $4.3m in bug bounties since it launched its programme in 2010.
Last year, it awarded $936,000 to 210 people. The average payment was $1,780.
Jack Whitton describes so-called bug hunting as a hobby. He has also identified weaknesses in platforms run by Paypal, Microsoft, Dropbox and Snapchat among others.
"It can take a day to find, then more to investigate whether it's a real issue," he told the BBC.
His most recent find involved an image that could be embedded with malicious code, which would enable its owner to take over a Facebook account once a particular member had clicked on it - a vulnerability known as cross-site scripting.
It would not have affected the user's computer, but would have enabled their account to be accessed and controlled remotely - including sending private messages, posting links and pictures.
"No-one had actually exploited it," Mr Whitton said.
"Facebook were pretty pleased. They managed to get a quick fix - within six hours. They are a great company to report bugs to, they take it seriously."
A permanent fix took longer, which is why he is only now able to talk about the bug although he found it last year.
The social network has also included Jack Whitton in its "hall of fame" - a list of white hat - or ethical - hackers who have helped it to make the platform more secure.
However, potential bug hunters should choose their websites carefully, he added.
"Firms are becoming more aware that every company has issues, if you don't let people report them, the bad guys will use them and you just won't know about it," he said.
"It's fun to find these things - and it is also very nice to get money from it - but only if the website has an official bug bounty policy.
"Otherwise you might find yourself accused of hacking."
Cybersecurity expert Prof Alan Woodward told the BBC that bug hunters were a cost-effective way for tech firms to find security flaws.
"Compare the potential financial loss to a company and the bug bounties they pay and you soon realise it is a very cost-effective means of finding and plugging security holes," he said.
Companies have a difficult balancing act to perform with the size of bounty they pay.
If they pay too little, they can be accused of undervaluing the work of security researchers, and thereby not taking security seriously enough. If they pay too much, the companies might be accused of paying sums equivalent to protection money.
"While there are security flaws and those willing to exploit them for criminal purposes, there will be a need to pay people a bounty to responsibly disclose what they find," Prof Woodward added.
"Just like in the Wild West, it's not an ideal solution, but it works."
The 34-year-old American star, known for her songs Crazy in Love and Halo, will perform at Cardiff's Principality Stadium on 30 June.
She will also visit Sunderland, London, Manchester and Glasgow as part of the Formation World Tour.
Ticket go on sale next week.
Mr McGuinness stood for the toast, proposed by Irish President Michael D Higgins, as an orchestra played God Save The Queen.
The banquet was in honour of President Higgins.
It marked the end of the first day of his four-day state visit.
When he was a Sinn Féin MP Mr McGuinness refused to sit in the House of Commons because he would have had to swear an oath of allegiance to the monarch.
Mr McGuinness had previously shaken hands with the Queen during her 2012 visit to Northern Ireland.
Relatives of IRA victims protested outside Windsor Castle against Mr McGuinness' attendance at the banquet.
A father whose son was killed in the Omagh bombing was part of the protest.
Victor Barker's 12-year-old son died in the 1998 attack, which killed 28 other people and unborn twins.
Mr Barker held a sign that said: "A terrorist in a white tie and tails is still a terrorist - Martin McGuiness time to tell the truth". (Sic)
He said: "I'm here because I think that people should be reminded of McGuinness' past and not just rewrite history as far as he's concerned."
The sister of a woman killed in the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings called for the arrest of Mr McGuinness.
Julie Hambleton, whose 18-year-old sister Maxine died in the atrocity, said she was angry at the British establishment for giving "permission" to Mr McGuinness to "come on to the mainland".
She added: "By rights he should be arrested. He's got so much blood on his hands."
She described his attendance at the event as "the epitome of hypocrisy", and added: "We are absolutely outraged at the British establishment."
Since May 2007, Mr McGuinness has held the role of deputy first minister of Northern Ireland, in a power-sharing coalition of unionists and Irish nationalists at Stormont.
Before the banquet Mr McGuinness had praised the Queen for her "leadership role" in the peace process.
His attendance at such an occasion would have been unthinkable even a decade ago.
Sinn Féin refused to take part when the Queen made an historic visit to the Republic of Ireland in 2011.
The e-borders scheme was meant to collect and analyse data on everyone travelling to and from the UK before they arrive at ports and airports.
But the National Audit Office says checks remain "highly manual and inefficient", and IT systems outdated.
The Home Office says all UK arrivals are checked against watch lists.
The e-borders scheme has been dogged by problems since its launch in 2003, and in 2014, the head of the UK Border Force, Sir Charles Montgomery, told MPs it had been "terminated" in its current form.
By collecting advanced passenger information (API), such as passport numbers and nationalities, it was meant to allow officials to "export the border" by preventing people from embarking on journeys to the UK where they were considered a threat.
Among the report's key findings:
The NAO said a database known as the Warning Index - designed to flag up known criminals or terrorists - was still being used eight years after it should have been retired.
While it has been upgraded, it is "still far from good" and suffers an average of two "high priority incidents a week".
These breakdowns include situations where part of the system is not available or performing too slowly to function, or where it is inaccessible at 30% or more control points at a port or airport.
The Home Office insisted contingency arrangements were in place for when those incidents occurred.
Analysis: Danny Shaw, BBC home affairs correspondent
This is a devastating critique of a project presented by the Home Office, first under Labour, as the key to securing Britain's borders. In fact, as the report reveals, the programme has been torpedoed by its ambition.
Collecting and assessing advance passenger information on more than 200 million journeys a year was always going to be hard task - involving co-ordinating the supply of data from 600 air, ferry and rail carriers and 30 government agencies.
Add in creaking computer systems, a high turnover of key staff and a draining legal dispute with the private contractor, and it's clear that ministers and officials over-reached themselves.
There's little doubt more advance passenger information is available now than in 2003, when the scheme was first developed, but the costs have risen hugely with some border checks still being conducted using scraps of paper.
The Warning Index operates alongside another system called semaphore, but the NAO said the failure to integrate them meant staff still had to check passports manually and consult printed A4 sheets when probing suspicious vehicle registrations.
Amyas Morse, head of the NAO, said e-borders had not "delivered value for money".
"Some valuable capabilities have been added to our border defences during the life of this project, though their efficiency is impaired by a failure to replace old IT systems," he added.
Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, described the report as a "devastating indictment" of the e-borders project.
"With the terrorism threat level currently at severe, a failure to properly cover millions of people entering the country without having passenger information in advance gives a green light to people who wish to come to the UK for illegal or dangerous activity," he said.
What are e-borders?
Immigration Minister James Brokenshire said every passenger arriving in the UK was checked against a range of watch lists.
"The e-borders programme was set up under the Labour government and when that contract ended in 2010, our immediate priority was to invest in stabilising the crucial but old-fashioned systems, to tackle the fast-evolving terrorist, criminal and illegal immigration threats faced by the UK.
"The Border Systems Portfolio, in conjunction with a range of programmes across security and law enforcement, is working effectively to keep our citizens safe and our country secure."
The incident took place off the coast of the southern state of Kerala last Wednesday.
Italian officials said the Indian fishing boat had behaved aggressively and ignored warning shots.
They said they opened fire, mistaking the fishermen for pirates. India said the fishermen were unarmed.
The incident has sparked a major diplomatic row between the two countries, with Indian police opening a murder enquiry into the deaths.
Indian Defence Minister AK Antony has described the killings as "very serious" and an "unfortunate incident".
The Italian ambassador in Delhi was summoned by the foreign ministry on Thursday over the shooting.
"We have taken two suspects to the land. They will be taken to Kollam town by the investigating team and produced in a local court there after completing formalities," Inspector General of Police in Kerala K Padmakumar said on Sunday evening.
A police team went to the Italian oil tanker MV Enrica Lexie along with Giampaolo Cutillo, the Italian consul general in Mumbai, and detained the marines after getting the go-ahead from Delhi.
Police said they had questioned the captain of the vessel and five others.
Italy has insisted that its personnel cannot be charged under Indian law, but the two sides have so far been unable to resolve their differences.
The MV Enrica Lexie is anchored off the port of Kochi in Kerala.
Officials said the vessel was on its way from Singapore to Egypt, with a crew of 34, including 19 Indians.
Indian officials say they are surprised at the shooting, maintaining that the fishermen did nothing to threaten the Italian ship.
The Italians say the crew members fired in self-defence - after initially firing warning shots - because they feared their vessel was about to be attacked.
A senior official in Kerala, PG Thomas, said the attack was unwarranted as there were "no weapons on the trawler".
Indian officials said nine of the 11 fishermen in the trawler were asleep and the two victims were steering it when the incident happened.
Following the incident, the Indian coastguard sent two boats and an aircraft to intercept the ship.
The Kerala state government has authorised a payment of 500,000 rupees ($10,125; £6,450) each to the dead fishermen's families.
Piracy has emerged as a major threat to merchant ships in the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea, with Somali pirates hijacking ships and their crews for ransom.
But there have been fewer attacks recently, partly because more armed guards are now deployed on board ships.
The crash happened in Ferryden, near Montrose, at about 13:45 on Monday.
The rider of the Honda bike died at the scene. The driver and passenger of a white Peugeot van were uninjured.
Police said Craig Road would be closed for some time while an investigation was carried out and drivers were urged to find alternative routes.
Officers urged witnesses to contact them using the 101 number.
The name of the dead man will not be released until relatives have been informed and a formal identification has been made.
A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal.
The body was discovered in a woodland area by the Tesco Extra superstore and Ysbyty Gwynedd just after midday on Sunday.
North Wales Police said the man had not yet been formally identified, but there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death.
The man's family and the coroner have been informed.
British Transport Police figures show 1,448 offences were reported in 2016-17, up from 650 in 2012-2013.
Campaigners say the rise shows the importance of work done by authorities to encourage women to report incidents.
The majority of the incidents recorded were sexual assaults on females aged 13 and above.
The reports cover England, Scotland and Wales and include the London Underground.
The figures came to light following a freedom of information request from BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast to British Transport Police (BTP).
One charity said the rise in the figures might be a response to better awareness of how to report offences among victims, rather than a rise in incidents.
Rachel Krys, co-director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, praised the effort BTP and train companies have put into campaigns to encourage victims to report abuse. She said the rise in reported offences does not suggest women are more at risk than a few years ago.
"It is really important that these campaigns continue. When the scale of sexual violence is better understood, police forces take it more seriously and measures can be taken to reduce the risks to women and tackle perpetrators, who for too long had been acting with impunity."
"Research on the London Underground last year showed that the majority of these offences happen during rush hour, dispelling the myth that this is anything to do with a late-night drinking culture.
"These figures showed that it is sober men, travelling to and from work who thought they were entitled to assault women passengers, and that they would get away with it."
Journalist Imogen Groome was a victim of such a rush hour attack earlier this year on the London Underground.
"I felt something against me, at first I just thought it was someone's bag or something but it continued. I realised what was happening, he was rubbing himself up against me. I was unable to move for about 10 minutes until the carriage got quieter. Then he moved away.
"My first thought was don't shout, he might have a knife, I felt angry and upset, I spoke to my editor when I arrived at work who said I should write it down.
"I didn't report it, felt like there was nobody to tell at the time. I didn't feel comfortable doing it.
"I have spoken to other women since telling my story in public and encouraged them to report incidents, I think it is the right thing to do.
"I don't feel like I can travel on public transport when it will be crowded. I plan ahead and get the bus."
Detective Chief Inspector Darren Malpas from BTP said: "When the 'Report it to stop it' campaign launched, we fully expected to record a rise in sexual offences and it is pleasing that previously reluctant victims of sexual offences now have the confidence to report this to us.
"Tackling all forms of unwanted sexual behaviour on public transport is a priority for British Transport Police and we have worked hard in recent years to send a clear message to victims that they will be taken seriously and we will investigate offences."
BTP say if you are a victim of a sexual offence on trains or the underground you can text them in confidence on 61016.
The controversial plan to make all state schools in England become academies, including good ones, seems to have come as a surprise to some of its own MPs.
But the direction of travel in government thinking has been clear for some time.
Last autumn David Cameron told the party faithful at the Conservative conference: "Every school an academy... and yes, local authorities running schools a thing of the past".
Taken aback by the strength of feeling from both Tory councillors and backbenchers, ministers are looking at where they can persuade or cajole, and where they might need to quietly give ground.
The two main hurdles are the outrage of councils that can point to solid evidence they're doing a good job, and the future of small rural schools.
What you might call the Hampshire problem and the Norfolk problem, although there are plenty of other examples.
The draft plans already suggest councils can take all their expertise and put staff into a not for profit social enterprise to run a multi-academy trust.
Schools could then choose to join it. Several councils are already looking at this option.
So could it be made easier, for example, for some councils to oversee a group of academy schools?
If you say yes to Tory-run Hampshire, you might also have to say yes to Labour-run Leeds.
Both can point to evidence they oversee plenty of good schools, who are happy being part of the council's extended family.
And what if they don't have to set up a social enterprise, if it's made even easier to simply re-label some schools?
That would be a major concession, and a big step back from Cameron's vision of ending the role of local councils.
A U-turn in other words, which the government will be reluctant to make unless it has no other option.
There are more than 5,000 primary schools with fewer than 200 pupils in England. That's around a third of the total.
Many of these smaller schools are in rural areas which are traditionally Conservative.
So Education Secretary Nicky Morgan was at pains to make clear to her own sceptical backbenchers this week, they won't be forced into the arms of a big chain of schools.
She told them schools don't have to be part of a multi-academy trust to be an academy.
But many smaller schools simply don't see what they would get out of being an academy, on their own or in a group, that they don't already get from their local authority.
The political sweetener here for backbenchers and councillors will be the promise of more money.
A new way of working out how school funding is allocated to each area is to be introduced.
Some of the winners will be more rural areas, there will be some losers in inner cities, which over many years have gradually benefited from financial recognition of deprivation.
This may be enough to give ministers a sales pitch to MPs from the counties and shires who are worried about the future sustainability of small schools.
It's easy to forget in all of this that whatever happens to these plans, one new law has already been passed in the last few months making it easier to compel schools to leave the embrace of local councils.
Those judged to be "coasting" by one of the new Regional Schools Commissioners can already be forced over the line.
They have considerable discretion, which means it's not clear how exactly they'll decide which schools will be pushed to convert to academy status.
With the debate about academies now firmly back on the political agenda they may choose to take their time making any contentious decisions.
The board of Literature Wales has been described as "lacking the skills and experience" to spend public money.
The Welsh Government-commissioned report was written by Professor Medwin Hughes.
Literature Wales said it would give the report "careful and thorough consideration."
The findings include:
Literature Wales was created in 2011 following a merger of various organisations and had an income of around £1.2m last year, including £717,000 from the Welsh Government via the Arts Council of Wales.
Following the publication of the report on Tuesday, the economy minister Ken Skates announced that several responsibilities will now transfer from Literature Wales to the Welsh Books Council.
They include the Wales Book of the Year award, bursaries for writers and literary events.
Literature Wales will retain control of the Ty Newydd writing centre in Llanystumdwy, Gwynedd and some events and festivals.
Mr Skates said the changes were in "response to specific needs in a specific area of activity".
"They are not a reflection on the wider work of the arts council and my appreciation of the good work that Literature Wales has delivered in some areas," he added.
"However, I am persuaded that these steps are needed to create a support structure for publishing and literature that is more effective and fit for purpose."
A spokeswoman for Literature Wales said: "The Welsh Government's Independent Review of Support for Publishing and Literature in Wales presents a number of recommendations which will require careful and thorough consideration.
"We look forward to reading the report in full and working with colleagues in Welsh Government, Arts Council of Wales and the Welsh Books Council to ensure that literature in all its forms continues to be accessible to a wide range of communities and individuals throughout Wales."
A spokesman for the Arts Council of Wales, which provides most of Literature Wales's funding, said: "This is a very substantial report that has drawn on the views of a large number of individuals and organisations.
"With some 60 recommendations, the report deserves detailed and careful consideration.
"Some of the headline recommendations are challenging and far-reaching.
"The report proposes a change of approach and we must consider whether an alternative strategy is likely to deliver better results. We expect to reach our initial conclusions when the council meets in early July."
Since it was established in 2011, Literature Wales has awarded nearly half a million pounds in bursaries to writers and helped organise big events like the recent Dylan Thomas and Roald Dahl celebrations.
Mr Perry had recently stopped paying campaign staff in states with early contests like Iowa.
His campaign has been struggling in the polls and he failed to make the cut into the main Republican presidential debate last month.
Mr Perry also ran in 2012 but dropped out after a series of gaffes.
Without naming front-runner Donald Trump, Mr Perry warned fellow Republicans to reject hard-line stances on immigration that could alienate Hispanic Americans.
"In America, it is the content of your character that matters, not the colour of your skin," he told supporters on Friday.
Rick Perry certainly possessed a resume to be a top-tier contender for the Republican nomination.
He was an ex-military officer from humble roots who, as governor of Texas, led the state through economic boom times. His campaign never caught fire, however, and - eventually - the campaign money dried up.
Just four years ago, in his first presidential bid, Mr Perry had widespread support and seemed a real threat to Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination. That was before poor debate performances - capped by his "oops" moment, where he forgot the third in a list of federal agencies he'd abolish - and sharp criticism for a moderate position on immigration reform that was out of step with the Republican electorate.
It seems in a crowded 2016 field, Republican voters were just not interested in giving Mr Perry a second look.
Mr Perry - who led America's second most populous state for more than a decade - was initially seen as a top-tier candidate.
However, he has been quickly eclipsed in the polls by political outsiders like Mr Trump and former neurosurgeon Ben Carson.
"We have a tremendous field, the best in a generation, so I step aside knowing our party is in good hands," he said.
Sixteen Republicans and five Democrats remain the race.
Two days later the city of Baltimore, in Maryland, erupted in rioting over the death of a young black man in police custody there. Madam attorney general, welcome to the job.
Freddie Gray died after suffering unexplained injuries and falling into a coma; six police officers have now been charged in connection with his death.
It follows a string of similar cases - in Ferguson, Missouri, for example, where police shot dead an unarmed black teenager in August last year, or, more recently, in South Carolina, where a white officer shot another unarmed black man five times as he was running away.
Each time something like this happens, it raises the same question with ever increasing urgency: can the law offer justice to black Americans?
Ms Lynch seems peculiarly well-placed to provide the answer.
She was born in North Carolina in 1959, so into a world where law and justice were most certainly not the same thing.
In the early 1960s, life in the American South was still dominated by the so-called "Jim Crow" laws - legislation introduced after the American Civil War to segregate white people and black people.
Despite that, her father, the Reverend Lorenzo Lynch, a Protestant pastor like his father before him, believed the law could be a force for change. And when the future attorney general was a very young girl, he used to take her down to the local law courts.
"When I was growing up we were taught [to] stay away from the courthouse," he told me. "Don't be caught at the courthouse. [But] I thought it was a positive institution, and I wanted her to have a different view of it."
The Jim Crow laws finally went in the mid-1960s, but casual racism remained.
The "Jim Crow" laws were used to segregate white people and black people in parts of the United States until the 1960s and covered all aspects of life including:
Ms Lynch's mother, Lorine, remembers that her daughter's teachers had trouble accepting how clever she was.
When she was in the second grade - so seven or eight years old - she had to retake a class test because she did so well the first time round.
"[The teachers] felt it was not accurate because she was African-American and all the white students scored lower," Mrs Lynch told me.
Her score was even higher second time round.
None of this seems to have blunted her aspirations. Ms Lynch pursued a childhood dream of going to Harvard - America's oldest institution of higher education - where she completed a first degree in English literature before switching to law.
A student radical she was not. Karen Freeman-Wilson, now a mayor in Indiana, was a member of the same sorority (a student club for women) and remembers how smartly turned-out she always was.
"In college you tend to wear jeans, you tend to wear khakis, you tend to dress down," she says, "but I can't remember an occasion that Loretta dressed down. I used to tease her... 'Do you ever have any play clothes?'"
The sharply dressed lawyer of the future was already in the making.
The big New York law firms were still very male and very white when she joined Cahill Gordon and Reindel in the mid-1980s.
Two other black American women were part of her cohort, and the three liked to refer to themselves as "the triplets".
One of them, Alysa Christmas Rollock, who is now a vice-president at Purdue University in Indiana, told me they used the nickname because the firm's receptionists, who knew the 250 male partners and associates by name, seemed to be "incapable of identifying us from each other, so we became the non-identical triplets".
The slight must have been - to put it at its mildest - irritating, but there seems no evidence Ms Lynch resented the racism she faced. Those we spoke to for BBC Radio Four's Profile programme said she lacked any trace of bitterness.
We can restore trust and faith both in our laws and in those of us who enforce them
Her first really high-profile case - in 1999, not long after the then President, Bill Clinton, appointed her the United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York - raised just the issues that are back in the spotlight as she takes on her new job.
Abner Louima, a Haitian, had been arrested after an altercation outside a nightclub and accused of hitting a police officer.
The police later admitted the charge was false, but Mr Louima was brutally beaten.
During the trial it emerged one of the police officers involved was in a long-term relationship with a black American woman, and it was put to the court he was therefore unlikely to have violated the rights of a black man.
Alan Vinegrad, who worked with Ms Lynch on the case, remembers the way she tackled this sensitive issue head on, accusing the officer concerned of "hiding behind the colour of his girlfriend's skin".
It was high-stakes stuff - the trial team had to be escorted out of the courtroom by US marshals that day - but it was done in a "calm and measured way".
Ms Lynch's ability to stay calm stood her in good stead when she faced rough questioning during her confirmation hearings.
"Many of us looked at the treatment she received… [and] we didn't feel good about it, we did not feel there was a sense of fairness," her old friend, Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson, said.
"But her reaction was, 'That's OK, let's just keep our heads and eyes on the prize.' That's who she really is."
She is also - and everyone seems to agree on this - a formidably good lawyer, a "consummate professional" in the judgement of one of those who worked with her.
She will need all of those qualities if she is to restore faith in US justice.
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His name is John McFarlane, the man who took over as chairman of Barclays earlier this year and, from 17 July, will also be the bank's chief executive.
Mr McFarlane will ostensibly use his position to lead the hunt for a new chief executive following the defenestration of Antony Jenkins - also known as "The Saint".
But, make no mistake, Mr McFarlane will use his lofty position to take a long hard look at the structures at Barclays and see where he can cut costs and make the bank run more efficiently.
It was exactly what he did in his previous role as chairman of Aviva, where Andrew Moss, the chief executive, soon found himself surplus to requirements.
For Barclays, the gimlet eye of Mr McFarlane could mean more job losses and more branch closures.
"Yes, of course that is happening right across the industry and that's quite natural," he told me.
"Of course automation and use of mobile technology is bringing that to bear anyway.
"Inevitably over the medium term banks are going to have [fewer] branches than they have now because people are just not using them to the extent they used to. They are exponentially using other means."
And anyone sitting in what might be described as a "cumbersome" management role better watch out as well.
When I spoke to Mr McFarlane earlier this morning, he was clear where the problems lay.
"Barclays is not efficient, we are not productive, we are cumbersome," he told me.
"We have [a] very large bureaucracy and personal accountability is not as high as we need it to be.
"And so it's not just a reduction in costs, it's a change in the way we do things that's required here."
Clearly, although Mr McFarlane insists the strategy remains the same for Barclays, there could be some major structural changes.
The board appears to have come to the conclusion that Mr Jenkins, the "safe pair of hands" after the trials and tribulations of the Bob Diamond era, was not the man for the next stage of Barclays' development.
"His skill set was suited to what we needed to get done and he did that superbly well," Mr McFarlane said of Mr Jenkins who settled the bank down, attempted to change the hard-ball culture and started reining in the investment bank during his three years in charge.
"He is a tremendously successful retail banker. That has been his strength and in the values creation.
"What we really need is profit improvement and returns improvement and that is a different skill."
I asked, pretty bluntly, if Mr Jenkins was fired.
"Yes, he was definitely asked to leave and it was a board decision, fully endorsed by me.
"I was approached by the senior independent director, who convened a session of the non-execs, who came to me and said 'I think we need new leadership and we need it quickly, would you prepared to step in?'.
"I considered it and endorsed thoroughly what had happened. There had been some rumbling over this for some weeks in the non-executive camp and so we brought it to a head and we made a decision."
I am told that Sir Mike Rake, the deputy chairman of Barclays, led the delegation which spoke to Mr McFarlane about their concerns.
Sir Mike has always been more positive than Mr Jenkins about the role of the investment bank in Barclays' future. He was, after all, a close colleague and friend of Mr Diamond who revamped the bank's investment arm.
I asked Mr McFarlane if the global investment bank would now grow.
"None of the investment banks are producing superior returns at the moment," he said.
"It's a very difficult marketplace, everyone is tightening their belts and so that is in parallel with us.
"When you look at where we are in investment banking - we're very strong in Europe and in North America and we have satellites elsewhere to feed that.
"So I would not use the word global, I would use the word international. We are very committed to that.
"We are pro investment banking.
"But having been through this over four decades, this area can be quite volatile, you don't want it to be an unusually large percentage of your profits.
"It needs to be balanced. We do want it to grow but we want the other parts of the organisation to grow faster so that proportionately it does not increase as a percentage of the total."
Barclays' era of safety first appears to be over. Expect a bank now rather more aggressive about looking for growth and cutting its own cloth.
The Labour-run council said reductions in its budget since 2010 meant it would have lost £44m in funding by 2020.
Proposals could see libraries and Sure Start centres close and Darlington's Victorian Market, which needs a £4m refurbishment, sold off.
Councillor Bill Dixon said: "I feel sick. I was born and bred here."
He said: "We have been forced to set a budget for four years which will have a far-reaching impact on the town.
"Much-loved services and buildings will be lost over that period."
Greengrocer Robin Blair, whose family have been trading at the market for 145 years, said: "It is important that we keep it as a market - what would you do with it?
"It's the heart of the town, it's the jewel in the crown and it's got to be kept."
The council said it could afford only £2.5m a year on discretionary spending, with the remainder of the £84m budget going to statutory services such as adult and children's services.
A council tax rise of 3.99%, the maximum allowed, has also been set.
The council said it aimed to keep open its Dolphin Centre, which was well-used by local sports clubs but not profitable, making it "unattractive to the private sector".
Mr Dixon added: "Darlington's biggest asset has always been its people and as we see services we have relied on being steadily cut, now is the time for us all to step up and think what we can do for our community, however large or small."
The proposals will be considered at a cabinet meeting next week.
The cherubic little girl sits on the concrete floor, pretending to cook dinner.
She is the same age as Alan Kurdi, the Syrian boy whose body washed up last week on a Turkish beach.
Soon she will take her place in an overcrowded smuggler's dinghy just as he did.
Her doting father, Mounib Zakiya, plans to take his children and grandchildren from the Jordanian capital to the Turkish coast, to be smuggled into Europe.
He says he is leaving Amman, after three years, for one reason - his meagre aid has been cut off.
"It's safe here," said the former estate agent, "and life is good. But we have to buy food and milk for the children. We have to pay for medical care. How can I pay the rent?"
His family of nine was living on about $1 (£0.65) a day per person. Now even that has gone.
He says the United Nations and the international community are forcing him to risk all on the open seas.
"They bear 75% of the responsibility," he said, cradling Rana on his lap.
"They have opened a gate to death, and are making us walk through it.
"It's better to die fast on the journey, than die slowly, watching your kids starve."
Mr Zakiya is one of many Syrian refugees in Jordan who have lost their lifeline.
For months the World Food Programme (WFP) has been cutting aid to the bone due to a lack of donations. It reduced the monthly stipend for about 211,000 Syrians by half.
At the beginning of September it went further. Almost 230,000 Syrian refugees - living in cities, not camps - had their aid stopped entirely. Help is still being provided for 100,000 living in camps, but there, too, funds could run out in November.
Aid workers say that if refugees cannot get help where they are, they will risk their lives to find it elsewhere.
"If people were receiving enough assistance and were able to have a somewhat stable life where they are, they would not make that decision," said the WFP's Dina El-Kassaby.
"But unfortunately, some people are pushed to the edge."
Adnan Ghanoum is one of them. The former factory owner from Damascus, aged 61, is weighed down with worries about his extended family.
He has 19 relatives living with him in Amman, including a disabled daughter.
Mr Ghanoum says he almost had a heart attack when he read the SMS saying his aid was ending.
"We have no future here in Jordan," he said. "There is no education, no work, and no money. We have been eating flour and onions for a week."
He is now thinking of returning to the war zone from which he fled. "It's better to go back to Syria to die there," he said, "and rest in peace."
If he goes back home, he will not be the only one.
Aid agencies say the numbers returning to Syria have doubled since the cuts began.
And the flow of refugees from Jordan to Europe is expected to increase substantially.
Western governments are partly to blame because they did not provide enough support in the region, according to one senior aid worker.
He says it would have "made sense" for Europe to invest here but there was "penny-pinching and ineptitude".
Mounib Zakiya says he and his family would stay in Jordan, if their aid was restored.
But he has already packed blankets and winter clothing for their journey to Europe. He knows they could perish on the way - just like his old neighbours from Syria who drowned two weeks ago.
The family of five slipped beneath the waves as they tried to cross the Aegean Sea.
"If we die, I hope it will be on the TV and everyone will see it," he said sombrely.
"Then maybe they will find a solution for Syria."
The Australian, 27, joined the Red Devils in 2016 and has scored four tries in 21 league games this season.
Coach Ian Watson said he was "ecstatic" to re-sign "one of the best half-backs" in Super League, a day after Niall Evalds also signed a new deal.
"This again signals our intentions to bring in and keep top quality at this club," Watson added.
Patrick Hickey is being held at Bangu 10 Prison over his alleged role in a scheme to sell Olympic tickets for more than their face value.
It was reported that when police arrived at his hotel room Mr Hickey's wife said he had gone home to Ireland.
He was later found in another room in the same hotel.
In a statement, Mr Hickey's lawyer said: "Mr Hickey did not try to escape as informed by police.
"He was sleeping already for two days in one of the three rooms that were allocated to him and his family, due to insomnia, and he did not want to disturb his wife."
His lawyer said claims he tried to escape were "ridiculous" and said his wife had merely "panicked" when faced with Brazillian police.
Mr Hickey denies the allegations against him but has stepped down from all his posts temporarily.
It is thought he will appear in court later this week.
On Sunday, three other senior Olympic Council of Ireland officials, including one from Northern Ireland, had their passports, phones and laptops seized in Brazil.
The OCI has appointed a crisis management committee to lead its response to Brazil.
The "black" route favoured by ministers is opposed by Plaid Cymru and Lib Dem Kirsty Williams, as well as some Labour AMs and environmental groups.
UKIP's assembly election manifesto backed the cheaper "blue" route, to relieve congestion around Newport.
Mr Hamilton said having the black route was "better than no route".
He told AMs on Wednesday: "We came to this place to be constructive in our position and we want to play the kind of role, which Plaid Cymru claims now to be playing, in relation to the development of government policy.
"I just want to say, in relation to the black route or the blue route, my party is prepared to enter into discussions and negotiations with the government.
"We think the black route is better than no route, and so if this is necessary to unblock the logjam we are prepared to play our part in it."
Mr Jones said: "I hear what the leader of UKIP has said. It's important that the process now moves forward."
It was "difficult to see an alternative" to the black route, the first minister.
A decision is due before the summer recess on holding a public inquiry into the scheme, with construction scheduled to start in 2018.
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood, who faced Labour criticism after UKIP backed her bid to become first minister in a tied Senedd vote in May, told Mr Jones: "It looks like you might be able to strike a deal with UKIP, first minister, on the future of the black route.
"How very interesting."
New Zealand-born Vui, who can play at lock forward or in the back row, earned his first cap for Samoa against France last month.
"Chris is a big, powerful and adaptable forward," said head coach Carl Hogg.
"He will certainly add some strength to our pack. And, at just 23, he is an experienced leader."
But he will not make an immediate debut in Saturday's European Challenge Cup tie at home to Newport Gwent Dragons as he is not yet registered for European games.
"He will not be involved this weekend," Warriors backs coach Sam Vesty told BBC Sport. "His registration becomes an issue when you're talking about Europe."
Worcester also play the Dragons in the away leg the following weekend but it might not be clear until after this Saturday's game whether Vui would then be involved at Rodney Parade. "We will make that decision as we go forward," added Vesty.
Vui, who represented New Zealand at Under-20 level in the 2013 World Rugby Championship, has played all his club rugby in his native country.
He captained New Zealand side North Harbour to the Mitre 10 Championship title in October, having played for Auckland Blues in the 2015 Super Rugby campaign.
Vui is the fourth short-term signing made by injury-hit Warriors in little over a month following the arrival of Australian scrum-half Michael Dowsett, Bristol full-back Auguy Slowik and Canada fly-half Connor Braid.
Going into the two-week break for European action, Warriors lie next to bottom in the Premiership after just one win this season, six points clear of bottom club Bristol, who they are due to meet at Ashton Gate on Boxing Day.
Shaker Aamer, 46, who has been in the military prison in Cuba since 2002, has never been charged or been on trial.
Since 2007 he has been cleared for release twice, by US presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama.
The Saudi national has permission to live in the UK indefinitely because his wife is British. They have four children and live in London.
His daughter Johina, 17, who last saw her father when she was four years old, tweeted: "Thank you everyone for all the support.
"The news hasn't hit yet. We can't believe we might finally see our dad after 14 years."
A British government spokesman said: "The government has regularly raised Mr Aamer's case with the US authorities and we support President Obama's commitment to closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.
"In terms of next steps, we understand that the US government has notified Congress of this decision and once that notice period has been concluded, Mr Aamer will be returned to the UK."
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond tweeted: "Welcome decision by #US Government to return Shaker Aamer to the UK. Long standing priority for HMG to secure his release."
The BBC understands that the earliest date Mr Aamer could be released to the UK is 25 October.
The US Congress, by law, is allowed a 30-day notification window to review the inmate transfer.
Mr Aamer was detained in Afghanistan in 2001. US authorities allege he had led a unit of Taliban fighters and had met former al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.
But Mr Aamer has maintained he was in Afghanistan with his family doing charity work.
By BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner
The release of Shaker Aamer from Guantanamo Bay prison after 13 years there without trial follows a lengthy campaign for his release by numerous high-profile figures on both sides of the Atlantic.
Mr Aamer was picked up in Afghanistan in late 2001 on suspicion of playing a leading role in an al-Qaeda cell but his supporters say he was sold into captivity by bounty hunters.
He was then "rendered" from one detention centre to another, transferred to Cuba and never formally charged.
His lawyer says he is innocent and he was twice cleared for release by US presidents, in 2007 and 2009.
Once he arrives in Britain he is likely to be subject to some oversight by the authorities, part of the deal for his release.
But after his long incarceration without trial, during which he says he was tortured, he will be under pressure to tell his story.
BBC home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani said Mr Aamer became a spokesman for other prisoners in Guantanamo - and camp commanders negotiated with him to help end a hunger strike.
Former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg told the BBC Mr Aamer was probably the "most well-known prisoner there" because "he has been fighting and advocating for the rights of the prisoners from inside the prison".
Mr Begg said "no amount of therapy" would replace the years Mr Aamer has spent imprisoned.
"I think this will be a harder struggle for Shaker Aamer to deal with than the actual imprisonment," he said.
Mr Begg added: "Shaker of course has been subjected to almost 14 years without charge or trial in Guantanamo, spending a huge amount of his time in solitary confinement.
"He lost more than half his body weight at several junctures during that period because of the hunger strikes he'd had to go on.
"He's been force fed, with tubes forced into his nose, being strapped down to a chair, with his head and his legs also tied down."
Mr Aamer's lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith of the campaign group Reprieve, said his return to the UK was "about 13 years too late".
He said: "I think we need to keep the pressure up in order to make sure that he comes home just as soon as possible."
Amnesty International UK director Kate Allen said the news was a "huge relief" for Mr Aamer's family and supporters, who have "worked tirelessly" for his release.
"Let's not forget that his 13-year ordeal at Guantanamo has been an absolute travesty of justice," she said.
"Shaker Aamer is the last UK resident to finally get out of Guantanamo and his return to Britain brings a long, painful chapter to a close."
Joanne MacInnes, co-ordinator of the "We Stand With Shaker" campaign, said it had been a "long struggle" and it was "amazing news" that he was to be released.
"Every day he was in there was just a horror," she said. "We have got a lot of support to give him when he gets back."
In January, Johina Aamer told BBC Newsbeat: "It is still not enough to just speak through Skype while people in the prison are listening to us.
"What we want most is to have our dad home so that we can be a family and so that my mum can finally be with him... we all hope that he is released soon so that we can be a normal family again."
Is she enthused by this prospect? Does she thrill at the notion? Is she buffing up her best lines from 2014? The answers to those questions would be no, no and, once again, no.
To be clear, for the avoidance of any doubt, Nicola Sturgeon remains rather keen on the concept of Scottish independence. Indeed, she yearns for it.
She knows that means another referendum at some point in the future. But not now. Not in these circumstances. Not in these troubled times.
Political leaders, understandably, seek to mould events to their own agenda. They dislike being driven by circumstance. Ms Sturgeon is now in the latter case.
Consider things from another angle. Cast the EU referendum from your mind. Imagine it never happened. (Yes, that's right, just like David Cameron and George Osborne.)
Do you think that - without that EU referendum result - Nicola Sturgeon would now be making legislative plans for indyref2? You do? Behave yourself.
Left in first ministerial peace, without European alarums and excursions, Ms Sturgeon would regard a second independence referendum as a mid-term project. Work on that White Paper, especially the currency. Work on the voters. Govern sensibly and consensually meanwhile. Then try again.
She does not now have that option. SNP leaders - Mr Salmond was no different - have to balance the pressure from the party with pragmatism. They hear the cry. "What do you want? Independence! When do you want it? Now!!"
Frankly, they join or lead the chants. But Nicola Sturgeon is also a deeply serious strategist. For the umpteenth time, she does not want to call a referendum. She wants to win one. And she suspects that the immediate environment may not be all that propitious.
But she is now constrained. To win support during the 2014 campaign, it was thought sensible to talk up the choice as being generational - or even once in a lifetime.
To sustain the support of the SNP's more enthusiastic advocates, it was felt necessary to place caveats on the 2014 defeat for the independence cause.
In particular, it was felt appropriate to link those caveats to an issue which had been so dominant in the 2014 campaign itself: that of Scotland's links with the European Union.
To be clear, this is a core element, not remotely peripheral or second order. For decades, the SNP pitch has been that Scotland would not solely be quitting the Union of the UK in pursuing independence but joining the Union that is Europe on equal terms. Not leaving, but joining.
This was fundamental within the offer to the Scottish people. It offered reassurance. Hence the importance attached by the SNP to the growing debate across these islands, prompted by a fretful Conservative leader, over the EU.
Hence the declaration that overturning Britain's - and thus Scotland's - membership of the EU would result in a "material change in circumstances" and possibly indyref2.
However, declaring it as a possibility, forecasting it might happen, does not mean that Nicola Sturgeon wanted such an outcome. To repeat, she did not. She wanted Scotland, Britain, to vote to Remain. She wanted to resume her independence campaigning on her own terms and to her own timescale.
She wanted to choose. That choice has now narrowed. Still, Ms Sturgeon does not finally call an independence referendum. She declares that, prior to that, she will examine alternatives to sustain Scotland's links with the EU.
In essence, Ms Sturgeon isolates the Scottish vote from the UK outcome. How would she do any other? She believes firmly, viscerally, that Scotland is a nation and should be a state. Just like other states in membership of the EU.
She believes firmly, viscerally, that she is now mandated, obliged, to seek to implement that Scottish EU verdict, by whatever means are available.
But what might those be? David Cameron has already accepted her demand that Holyrood and the other devolved administrations must be given a role in the EU exit talks. But that would be definitively a devolved role, a subsidiary role. Not leading, but following.
She has pressed for direct links between Scotland and EU institutions, without going through the prism of the FCO or the Cabinet Office. But what, in practice, would that mean, other than lobbying and discussion? Would it replicate the current relationship? No.
Might the EU concede membership to Scotland - or associate membership? Scarcely. The EU operates by member states, several of whom are nervous about sub-state autonomous campaigns within their borders. For them, UK out means UK out. The entire UK.
There may be warm words. Contented communautaire conversation. But it is membership which, ultimately, counts. And that points to Scotland seeking to join (or rejoin) on her own right, on negotiated terms. Post independence.
It is possible that the people of Scotland will feel so aggrieved by the EU result that they turn towards independence.
It is equally possible that they feel that the political environment is already sufficiently chaotic and troubled without adding indyref2 into the mix.
Remember, too, the nature of the core SNP pitch. It is based upon mature confidence, urging Scotland to take back control of her own affairs. (Where have I heard that phrase recently? Ach, it will come back to me.)
It is not based upon flight. It is not based upon escaping tyranny or despotism. It is not based upon a rejection of cultural or physical imperialism, as so many other nationalist offers are. It is different.
Still, it is not always given to political leaders to control the events which shape their decisions. As one remarkable referendum is digested, stand by, in due course, for another.
Ms Sturgeon, of course, is not remotely alone in finding the overnight results a problem. They are a conundrum for Labour; its understated, limpid appeal for Remain rejected in its English heartlands.
They are a challenge for the SNP, seeking to cope with the independence implications. But they are a crisis for the Conservatives whose leader sought to use a plebiscite to unite his team, to unseat UKIP and to cement Britain within the EU. A catastrophic miscalculation on all three counts.
Still, the best laid schemes and all that sort of thing. As an Ayrshire woman, Ms Sturgeon undoubtedly knows the next Burnsian verse. She may envisage David Cameron bemoaning "thou art blest compar'd wi' me".
But they both might usefully conclude: "An' forward, tho' I canna see, I guess and fear."
The Independent Monitoring Board, which ensures fairness and decency for all prisoners, is aiming to increase its membership from eight to 15 for the city centre jail.
Duties include checking on inmates in solitary confinement and ensuring cells are adequate.
Training will be given to new members.
Steve Cocks, chairman of Cardiff IMB, said: "We're desperately trying to get a better range of people on the board.
"We're all basically white British so it would be nice to get ethnic minority representation and also younger people."
He said the role was "challenging but rewarding" - as official representatives of the justice minister, volunteers have "complete access to the prison".
"Our role is to look into all aspects of prison life and bring any concerns to the attention of those responsible," he added.
"We sample food, visit education facilities, monitor the admission of new prisoners, sit in on the governor's disciplinary hearings and a whole range of other tasks.
"We are also called into any serious incidents in the prison, though these are rare."
Eva Ottoson who lives in Nottinghamshire has agreed to take part in the medical procedure that would see her donate her uterus.
Her 25-year-old daughter, Sara, who lives in Sweden, was born without reproductive organs.
If successful she could become pregnant and carry her child in the same womb that she herself was carried in.
The mother and daughter hope the procedure could happen in Sweden next spring.
The pair have undergone tests to ascertain their suitability for the transplant operation.
Sara Ottoson was born without a uterus because of the condition Mayer Rokitansky Kuster Hauser (MRKH) syndrome.
Her mother, who moved to England from Sweden three years ago, said: "From the start when we realised what her condition was she [Sara] has always been talking about adoption.
"Then this opportunity came along last autumn.
"So I think there are loads of young women out there, who for one reason or another, can't get their own babies and if this could be some way of doing it in the future, why not?
"Both me and my daughter are rational about it.
"It's just an organ like a kidney or whatever. She needs it, I have it. I don't need it anymore.
"I can't see the ethical problems about it really."
The only previous womb transplant widely reported occurred in 2000, in Saudi Arabia.
A womb from a 46-year-old was given to a 26-year-old but it had to be removed 99 days later because of complications.
The chances of the Latics earning a first home league win since August looked slim when Gills captain Doug Loft blasted in a 35-yard shot.
But the hosts had looked threatening both before and after Loft's opener and levelled through Curtis Main's header.
And Jonathan Forte volleyed the winner with 17 minutes left, when he crashed home James Wilson's cross.
Gillingham slip to third, one place out of the automatic promotion places following Wigan's win over Walsall, while Oldham are 22nd, four points from safety.
Oldham manager John Sheridan told BBC Radio Manchester:
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"I'm chuffed for the players because they've had a tough season at home.
"I think that performance today has shown that they're really ready for a fight until the end of the season.
"It was a brilliant performance against a good team. In the manner we won it, I thought was really positive and I think it was a fully deserved win." | It didn't take long for news of Fifa's impromptu news conference on Tuesday - coming after several days of crisis and controversy - to spread on social media.
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It is estimated that about 100,000 people moved out of Belfast in the 1970s and 1980s.
Now the council is trying to encourage people to come back and hopes 66,000 more people will move into the city.
Council leaders believe that a bigger, better Belfast will be good for Northern Ireland.
The council have launched an ambitious long-term plan, the Local Development Plan (LDP), on how the development of the city will be planned to 2035.
During the Troubles, the population of the city dropped dramatically and economic development was hit hard.
The current population of Belfast is about 340,000 and the aim is to increase the total to above 400,000.
Councillor Peter Johnston, chair of Belfast City Council's planning committee, said: "It's absolutely critical that we plan for and stimulate Belfast's growth.
"Our Local Development Plan will have an impact on everyone who lives in, works in and visits Belfast, because it will shape how Northern Ireland's capital city grows and becomes more competitive in the future."
No firm details have been announced about how exactly the council plans to do it.
A public consultation will take place before concrete plans are announced.
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Simone Joseph, 36, was arrested after footage emerged of her allegedly abusing passengers on a 206 bus in Brent, north-west London on 13 October.
Ms Joseph, from Brent, was charged with causing racially aggravated intentional harassment, Scotland Yard said.
She is due to appear at Hendon Magistrates' Court on Monday.
The patient was one of seven who were diagnosed with Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) following treatment at the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said previously that RSV was a contributory factor in the deaths of the two others.
The health board has also identified an eighth case of infection in a patient who was discharged from the Beatson.
The patient who died had been giving cause for concern and was transferred from the Beatson earlier this week to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
Dr Teresa Inkster, infection control doctor with NHS GGC, said: "Our thoughts and sympathies are with the family of the patient who has died.
"In addition, a further case has been identified that had been discharged from the hospital before testing began.
"This patient attended an outpatient appointment and was showing mild symptoms of this respiratory virus. The patient has been admitted to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital as a precaution."
Dr Inkster said two other patients with the virus were "recovering in isolation and in line with infection control procedures" and the ward at the centre of the cases at the Beatson was "now admitting new patients".
She added: "As a further measure we have contacted all patients who have been in the ward since the beginning of December which established there had been no other patients reporting symptoms."
When NHS GGC announced earlier this week that two Beatson patients with RSV had died, it said that one of them "had significant underlying health issues".
RSV was a contributory factor in the death but not the cause.
The other patient who died had been discharged from the Beatson after being assessed as clinically fit but their condition later deteriorated and they passed away in another hospital.
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.
Chelsea have now won their opening two games to top WSL 1, while the Gunners have lost two of their first three WSL games and lie fourth.
England forward Kirby nipped in to loft over goalkeeper Sari van Veenendaal for her first, with Jemma Rose unable to prevent her shot crossing the line.
She then smashed in a second from three yards after a goalmouth scramble.
Chelsea lead the table on goal difference, ahead of Manchester City, who have also won their opening two games.
Liverpool will join the pair on six points from their first two outings if they beat Sunderland on Saturday.
Arsenal, for whom Van Veenendaal made a series of fine saves before Kirby's second settled the contest, will meet Chelsea again in the Women's FA Cup final at Wembley on Saturday, 14 May.
Arsenal 0-2 Chelsea as it happened
Chelsea forward Fran Kirby told BT Sport: "We came here to win the game. We want to win every game we can.
"We knew we had to get a result here and happily we did.
"The start of the season has been really good. Overall we're happy but obviously we just need to keep going."
Arsenal boss Pedro Martinez Losa told BT Sport: "It was a poor performance. We made it easier for the opponent.
"With performances like that we can't think about winning the league.
"Against a good team like Chelsea you can't make mistakes. We will try to come back, analyse and do better for the next game."
The study by the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) is being released during the group's annual assembly in Geneva.
Just 55 female MPs took part in the survey, but they represent parliaments from across the globe.
Over 80% said they had experienced some form of psychological or sexual harassment or violence.
The report from the IPU comes at a time when US Presidential candidate Donald Trump's comments about his opponent, Hillary Clinton, and his alleged sexual harassment of other women over the years, have been making headlines.
It reveals some of the abuse female politicians around the world face while fulfilling their roles in elected positions.
A European member of parliament reported receiving more than 500 threats of rape on Twitter in the space of just four days.
Another, from Asia, received threats of violence to her son, detailing his school, his class, and his age.
Of the women who took part in the survey, 65.5% said they had been the target of insults using sexual language and imagery. The report suggested humiliating remarks from male colleagues were commonplace.
"In my part of the world… there is all sorts of language that is associated with female parliamentarians," says Prof Nkandu Luo, currently minister of gender in Zambia.
She recalls a male member of parliament publicly recounting that he liked to go to parliament because "all the women are there and I can just point and choose which one I want".
The remarks, Professor Luo said, were reported in the press as something amusing and acceptable. "It's the way they demean women."
Meanwhile Senator Salma Ataullahjan of Canada said she at first thought the survey would not be relevant to her. "I said, I'm from Canada, I don't need to take part in this."
But answering the survey questions was, she said, enlightening. "You know as parliamentarians, we go out, we meet people, and I remember this one gentlemen getting up very close to me."
The 'gentlemen' went on to make suggestive comments to Sen Ataullahjan, which at the time she brushed off.
But recounting the incident for the survey brought it home that she had experienced inappropriate, even threatening, behaviour.
Now, she says, she has become much more open with her male colleagues.
"We have to change the mindset about what is acceptable language, and what is acceptable behaviour and what is not," she says.
The report concludes that the sheer pervasiveness of sexual discrimination, from humiliating language to harassment to real violence is preventing many elected women from carrying out their duties in freedom and safety.
That, according to the IPU's chief, Martin Chungong, is one of the report's most worrying aspects.
"Members of parliament are supposed to be leaders in society," he says. "But we see women members of parliament, the elite, as it were, are not immune.
"So if the elite are victims of sexual aggression, what about the underprivileged?"
The Scottish government has published a 649-page blueprint for how it believes Scotland could operate after independence, and if the SNP was elected in 2016.
BBC Scotland's correspondents and reporters take a more detailed look at the plan and what a "Yes vote" in next year's referendum could mean for the economy, health, pensions, education, defence, justice, the environment and the media.
The White Paper says Scotland has strong economic foundations and as an independent country would tailor its economic policies to Scottish businesses and industry.
In an independent Scotland, an SNP government would:
More details from BBC Scotland's business reporter Gillian Marles.
The White Paper says in an independent Scotland pensioners would be better off.
In an independent Scotland, an SNP government would:
More details from BBC Scotland's health correspondent Eleanor Bradford.
The White Paper argues the full powers of independence could make a big difference to the overall education system - especially the role of the education system in lifting people out of poverty and helping them into employment.
In an independent Scotland, an SNP government would:
More information from BBC Scotland's education correspondent Jamie McIvor.
The White Paper says an independent Scotland would have have its own voice in the United Nations, Nato, the Council of Europe, the Commonwealth and others.
In an independent Scotland, an SNP government would:
More information from BBC Scotland reporter Steven Godden.
The White Paper outlines the choices open to an independent Scotland in the justice system.
In an independent Scotland, an SNP government would:
More details from BBC Scotland's home affairs correspondent Reevel Alderson.
The White Paper says Scotland is blessed with an abundance of natural resources that can bring prosperity and ensure the global challenges of the 21st century are met.
In an independent Scotland, an SNP government would:
More information from BBC Scotland's environment correspondent David Miller.
Culture and heritage are already devolved and the Scottish government sees it as an enduring and powerful asset to be developed under independence.
In an independent Scotland, an SNP government would:
More information from BBC Scotland's arts correspondent Pauline McLean.
The teenager was a passenger in a Ford Focus which crashed into another car while being pursued by a marked police vehicle in Middlesbrough on Tuesday.
Cleveland Police said a teenager and a man were arrested at the scene of the crash in Park Road North.
A force spokesman said the incident had been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
No-one else was reported injured.
The spokesman said: "At around 8pm officers in a marked police vehicle sighted a Ford Focus containing a number of people.
"Officers activated the vehicle's lights and sirens, however the Ford Focus failed to stop.
"A short pursuit ensued, during which the Ford Focus was subsequently in collision with a Qashqai which was being driven near the junction of Park Road North and Park Vale Road in Middlesbrough.
"A 16-year-old boy in the Focus suffered serious injuries during the collision."
Police said the boy was later confirmed dead at James Cook University Hospital.
He said a boy aged 17 and a 22-year-old man had been arrested in connection with the incident.
The IAAF has put a blanket ban on the Russia team but Darya Klishina had been cleared for Rio as the governing body was satisfied she was not doping.
However, the IAAF has now revoked the long jumper's eligibility based on new - but unspecified - information.
The 25-year-old insisted: "I am a clean athlete", and said she would appeal against the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Russian track and field athletes were banned en masse from the Olympics following claims the country ran a state-sponsored doping programme.
"I have proved that [I am clean] already many times and beyond any doubt," Klishina wrote on her Facebook page.
"I am falling victim to those who created a system of manipulating our beautiful sport and is guilty of using it for political purposes.
"I will take every possible effort to protect my clean image."
Klishina had been cleared to compete as her drugs-testing record was established in the United States, where she is based, rather than in Russia.
She was scheduled to compete in the long jump, which begins on Tuesday.
Russian Olympic chief Alexander Zhukov, quoted by Russian news agencies, said the IAAF's last-minute suspension of the country's only track and field athlete in Rio was "a cynical mockery".
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The 36-year-old off-spinner was reported last month after match officials raised concerns during the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle.
Analysis of Ajmal's action revealed that "all his deliveries exceeded the 15 degrees" by which the arm is allowed to bend, the ICC said.
Ajmal said he was disappointed, but added: "I know I can correct it."
He is currently the world's top-ranked one-day international bowler.
He also has 178 Test wickets, at an average of 28.10, and is still the leading wicket-taker in the County Championship this season with 63 in nine matches for Worcestershire, despite not having played for them in almost two months.
"An independent analysis has found the bowling action of Pakistan's off-spinner Saeed Ajmal to be illegal and, as such, the player has been suspended from bowling in international cricket with immediate effect," the ICC said in a statement.
Ajmal's action was analysed by an ICC-accredited team of human movement specialists using the National Cricket Centre in Brisbane, Australia, on 25 August.
"The ICC has stopped me from bowling because my elbow is bending beyond the 15 degrees allowed and I know I can correct that," Ajmal said.
"It is very disappointing to know the results of the tests, but I am a fighter and I know what I have to do to get back into international cricket before the World Cup."
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) confirmed it was considering an appeal, but was more circumspect on Ajmal's chances of returning to the international arena.
PCB spokesman Agha Akbar told BBC Radio 5 live that Ajmal's chances of playing in the World Cup early next year are "bleak".
Asked if the ban could signal the end of the bowler's international career, Akbar said: "It looks like that."
The ECB told BBC Sport that the ban would extend to domestic competitions, preventing Ajmal from returning to county cricket.
"We're disappointed for Saeed," said Worcestershire chief executive David Leatherdale. "He was never reported while playing for Worcester.
"He will now have to go through the remodelling process like other cricketers have had to do before him.
"As regards next season, it's not something to be talked about while he goes through that remodelling process."
Ajmal, who made his international debut in July 2008, can apply for a re-assessment after he modifies his bowling action.
The ICC has recently taken action against several off-spinners.
Sri Lankan Sachithra Senanayake and New Zealand's Kane Williamson were banned from bowling in July, while Zimbabwe's Prosper Utseya and Bangladesh's Sohag Gazi are currently under investigation.
"Utterly enthralling with moments of brilliance" is how the comedian, impersonator and amateur astronomer Jon Culshaw describes the shortlisted entries in the competition to become the Astronomy Photographer of the Year.
With his personal interest in the cosmos, Culshaw was one of the judges this year.
He says he was aged about seven or eight when he got the space bug.
He looked for UFOs, was fascinated by lunar eclipses and always watched the Sky at Night.
We are joined in the circular Endeavour Room, with its domed ceiling at the top of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, by another judge - Marek Kukula, the observatory's Public Astronomer.
"It is astonishing to see how far astrophotography has come in the past five years," he says.
The next image of the twinkling Milky Way was taken over a lake in the Pyrenees in south-west France.
Kukula says it is what the night sky would look like "if our eyes could take long exposure pictures like a camera".
"I love these noctilucent clouds which can be seen at certain times of the year, " says Culshaw of the next photo.
Normally seen in mid-summer in the UK - noctilucent clouds are high enough in the atmosphere to still be illuminated long after sunset.
"They are mesmorising," says Culshaw. "And taken over Sunderland, which is also pleasing."
Because the competition gets so many photographs of aurorae - the Northern and Southern Lights - there is a category just for them.
"It is a challenge to take an aurora shot which isn't a bit kitsch, a bit Christmas cardy" says Jon Culshaw.
But he describes the category winner as a wonderful shot with "the aurora cascading down, contrasted with a snowy mountainside cutting the image in two".
The next image took runner up in the Aurorae category.
"As a geeky physicist what I really like about this is the colours," says Kukula, "and how they are separated by height".
"It is to do with the physics of emitting atoms, high in the atmosphere. Green comes from oxygen, and the reds and blues come from a mix of oxygen and nitrogen. It is physics in action."
This next image - from the Our Moon category - shows the International Space Station crossing very close to the Terminator, the division between the illuminated and dark parts of the Moon, the lunar equivalent of day and night.
The moon is the largest satellite orbiting the Earth - the ISS is the second largest.
"The timing of this shot is great," says Culshaw. "And to get the detail of the space station - it doesn't look like just a blob or a fly on the lens."
"Unlike other astronomical objects - which emit too little light for photos - the Sun emits too much," says Kukula.
With the Sun he says, "photographers must limit the amount of light that comes into the camera - and this photographer has perfectly judged it with the right amount of dazzle".
The image is of the second diamond ring of the total solar eclipse of 20 March 2015.
Culshaw, who himself witnessed the eclipse from a ship just north of the Faroe Islands, says this photo makes him think of "clanging cymbals - an orchestral cacophony of light. It really does capture the drama".
Culshaw describes the next image as "a wonderful moment of serendipity".
It's called The Arrow Missed the Heart - and shows the Heart Nebula with Comet Jacques passing by.
Marek Kukula explains how near and far are juxtaposed beautifully here.
"The comet is well within our own Solar System - but the nebula is trillions and trillions of kilometres away."
Moving far, far beyond our own Solar System, the next photo is of a globular cluster of millions of ancient stars all swarming together like a cloud of bees.
"I would just love to be on the surface of a planet around one of the stars right at the centre," says Culshaw. "Imagine what kind of a night sky you would see. It would be incredible."
This next image is of colliding galaxies - "and for something so violent it's really rather graceful - like a dance," says Culshaw.
"It is a galactic crash playing out over millions of years," adds Kukula. "Red clouds of hydrogen - clouds of gas - collapsing to create new stars."
"This is a picture of the distant past and to see what the galaxies are doing now we will have to wait millions of years for the light to reach us."
This next image won the Galaxies category. It shows M33 - one of our neighbouring galaxies.
"You can see how chaotic the galaxy is with clouds of Space Dust," says Kukula. "Not a neat and tidy galaxy like the Milky Way or Andromeda."
Jon Culshaw says the People and Space category is one of his favourites.
"Part of the processing of this category is to reject certain images, where people have stood in what would otherwise been a lovely shot - as if to say LOL or take a selfie."
But in this next image he says, the interaction between people and space is very subtle.
He says the silhouetted figure adds a rather alien quality.
"I love the sense of the night sky being a cinema screen revealing a great display for the lone astrophotographer," says Kukula of the next image.
Taken in Chile, it shows the Milky Way arching in the night sky. The astronomer uses a red torch - so the red light won't affect his night vision.
This next image - taken in Hong Kong - won the People and Space category.
"It looks like rivers of molten quicksilver running down," says Culshaw.
But the photo was taken with a long exposure and the rivers are actually the torches of astronomers going up and down the hill.
"I love the fact that the winner of the People and Space category this year doesn't have any people in it!" adds Kukula.
The winner of the Young Astronomy section was taken by a 15-year-old boy, and features Comet Lovejoy.
Both judges describe it as technically very competent.
"Comet Lovejoy is still and vivid," says Culshaw, "in contrast with the dotty morse code star trails around it".
From the same category, this image of the total solar eclipse of 20 March 2015 was taken by a 7-year-old boy on a tablet computer, as he was on a flight over the North Atlantic.
"We were blown away by this," says Kukula. "He spotted an amazing sight and opportunity - and just clicked."
The next image took the special prize for robotic scope images. It shows an relatively close encounter between Comet Siding Spring and Mars.
Robotic scopes are sophisticated pieces of equipment - often powerful telescopes at dark-sky remote-site observatories. They are accessed by members of the public over the internet.
"It put me in mind of a 1970s science fiction special effect," says Culshaw. "I am glad there was no impact."
The Sir Patrick Moore Prize for Best Newcomer is for photographers who have only been taking images of the cosmos for up to a year.
It shows the Orion nebula - "a wonderful picture," says Culshaw.
"Like cigarette smoke in a club. Grey, blue and raspberry - contrasting shades beautifully captured."
This final image is the overall winner.
It is from the Skyscapes category and again it features the solar eclipse of 20 March 2015 - as seen from Svalbard, Norway.
Marek Kukula says it was a unanimous choice of the judges.
"It captures the moment of totality. The Moon blocking the Sun. The lighting effects in the sky reflecting in the snow. It feels like you are there."
Jon Culshaw says the image's beauty and power is in its simplicity - and it captures the feeling you get when you see an eclipse.
"A ball of rock the size of Australia blocking out the light of the Sun - but also the heat. There are huge laws of physics and the clockwork of the solar system being witnessed. I saw this and couldn't stop looking at it. It's almost other worldly."
Images from the Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2015 competition can be seen at the Royal Observatory Greenwich in London until 26 June 2016.
All images subject to photographer copyright and provided courtesy Astronomy Photographer of the Year/National Maritime Museum.
Plaid Cymru MP Jonathan Edwards said that Longhua had abandoned a deal with FieldMaster Tractors in Betws, near Ammanford, which promised 40 jobs.
He blamed the UK government's "dithering" over Wales' future relationship with the EU single market.
Wales Office Minister Mr Bebb denied the charge but said he was disappointed by the news.
The Carmarthen East and Dinefwr MP raised the issue during Welsh Questions in the Commons on Wednesday.
"Last week, the owner [of FieldMaster Tractors] received notification from China that the deal was off due to uncertainty about our future trading relationship with the European Union," Mr Edwards said.
"Does the minister recognise that the UK government's dithering over Wales's future relationship with the single market and the customs union is costing jobs now?"
Mr Bebb said he was "disappointed", adding: "Any loss of investment in Wales is to be regretted.
"He is wrong, however, to talk about dithering," the minister continued.
"We want strong trade relations with the European Union and with the rest of the world.
"Any Chinese investor looking at the UK knows that this country is friendly to investment from all parts of the globe."
FieldMaster Tractors founder and owner Chris Parrott said he was disappointed his Chinese backers had pulled out of the project, citing uncertainty over the UK's future trading relationship with Europe.
He set up the company in 2014 after 30 years in the car industry, and had begun on a small scale assembling tractors from India.
The firm had changed its name to Longhua FieldMaster in anticipation of the deal, Mr Parrott said, which would have seen the operation expand to assembly tractors from China instead.
"You just have to pick yourself up and carry on," he told BBC Wales, saying the company had spent a "small fortune" getting Longhua on board.
"We've just got to rethink our strategy and grow organically."
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UK Sport's target is between six and eight medals but, after five days of competition, Britain have one - Mo Farah's gold in Friday's 10,000m.
While Campbell believes there is "hope" for the future, he told BBC Radio 5 live: "Clearly there's something wrong.
"We can't pretend it's not happening. If medals are not won, funding is cut."
On Monday, Britain's Laura Muir just missed out on a medal by finishing fourth in the 1500m, while Olympic bronze medallist Sophie Hitchon was seventh in the hammer throw.
The previous day, Katarina Johnson-Thompson finished fifth in the heptathlon, Holly Bradshaw was sixth in the pole vault and Andrew Pozzi failed to qualify for the final of the 110m hurdles.
"I am the last British sprinter to win an individual global medal, at the 2003 World Championships in Paris, but the talent we have is better than that," said Campbell.
"The problem we have is the mental side of things."
Many high-profile athletes missed the British trials in July, which formed part of the selection process for the World Championships in London.
Campbell said: "We were told that the top athletes who weren't there were being rested for the Worlds. Well now we're here, where are they producing what we were told they would?"
Campbell, who won 4x100m gold in Athens in 2004, said the experience of former athletes such as Brendan Foster, now a BBC commentator, should be utilised.
"You've got Brendan up here, in five minutes you can see his experience. We're not tapping into that? Wow."
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UK Sport funding is already set for the Olympic cycle up to 2020 - with athletics the second-highest Olympic recipient behind rowing.
When the funding was announced in December, UK Sport CEO Liz Nicholl said the decision to cut funding from several sports was "based on a judgement of potential number of medals".
"With only one medal at the halfway stage, it's not going to plan," former Olympic javelin thrower Steve Backley told BBC Sport. "That is the simple message.
"There have been some marginal performances that went the wrong way. With medal hopes like Hitchon, Muir, Bradshaw, Johnson-Thompson, we could have had three or four medals in the bag by now.
"But sport is brutal, and this is a reminder of how tough it is out there. There aren't that many more chances left."
BBC Sport commentator Mike Costello
We were talking here at the Anniversary Games in July about how important the first weekend of the Worlds would be.
On Monday night we thought we could win at least two bronzes, but Farah's gold remains the only medal. Whichever way you look at it, that is troubling.
And if you look at the programme between now and the final day next Sunday, you couldn't put your hopes on anything but the relay teams.
The pressure is growing and growing on them now - both the men's and women's teams.
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The band were due to appear at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre in California on Saturday, but pulled out due to Kiedis suffering "complications from the intestinal flu", a band spokesman said.
He said the band had also cancelled their show in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
Kiedis "is expected to make a full recovery soon", the spokesman added.
Following the cancellation on Saturday, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith wrote on Twitter: "No one's more disappointed than us that we couldn't perform tonight.
"Sending love and a speedy recovery to my brother Anthony."
The band, who have sold more than 60 million albums worldwide and won six Grammy Awards, release their first record in five years, The Getaway, in June.
They are due to headline a number of festivals across the summer, including T In The Park in Perthshire, Belfast's Vital and Reading and Leeds.
Det Supt Adam Hibbert told the hearing in Crawley a file was being submitted to the Crown Prosecution Service.
Sussex Police has been investigating pilot Andy Hill, 53, for possible manslaughter by gross negligence.
The date for the full inquest into the 2015 crash, which saw a jet plummet on to the A27, has been set for next year.
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Det Supt Hibbert told the hearing that a "conservative estimate" was that 25,000 documents in relation to the police investigation were now held on the force's database.
"We continue to talk with the families and I'm extremely grateful for their continued support and patience in what continues to be upsetting circumstances for them all," he said.
Mr Hill has been questioned voluntarily under caution by police.
The vintage Hawker Hunter jet crashed on to the dual carriageway while performing a looping manoeuvre during the Shoreham Airshow nearly two years ago.
West Sussex coroner Penelope Schofield said the inquest may have to be suspended pending the outcome of any criminal prosecution.
But she assured families at the hearing that she was was monitoring the police investigation.
She told them: "I want to assure you I am satisfied that they are moving forward as quickly as they can in quite difficult circumstances and they are hoping to bring their investigation to a conclusion as quickly as possible."
Speaking on behalf of the families after the hearing, Gerard Forlin QC said the families were very disappointed.
He said the crash had taken place more than 22 months ago.
"However what they want is a full, frank, thorough and fearless investigation into this incident," he added. "And of course for that they will wait as patiently as they can."
Kanza Rehman, 21, an international tourism management student at Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Aberdeen, was badly hurt in San Antonio.
She was taken to hospital after the accident and then flown to Majorca for further treatment.
She was believed to have suffered serious head injuries.
Prof Ferdinand von Prondzynski, RGU's principal, said: "We are aware one of our students has been involved in an accident while on holiday in Ibiza.
"Our thoughts are with the student and her family and friends at this troubling time and we hope for a full and speedy recovery."
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office confirmed a British woman had been taken to hospital, and that it was in contact with local authorities and ready to provide support.
The inquiry would be a "dead duck" if Fiona Woolf remained chairwoman, Peter Saunders from National Association for People Abused in Childhood said.
Victims have called for her to step down because of her social links to ex-Home Secretary Lord Brittan.
A spokesman said PM David Cameron was "absolutely clear" she can do the job.
The inquiry will look at whether public bodies and other institutions did enough to protect children from sexual abuse from 1970 to the present day.
Speaking after a meeting between victims' groups and officials from the inquiry, campaigners called for Mrs Woolf to be replaced and for a statutory inquiry to be set up with powers to seize documents and compel witnesses to give evidence.
A statement from Alison Miller, of Leigh Day Solicitors, said child abuse survivors' representatives were "unanimous" that Mrs Woolf was unsuitable to lead the inquiry.
Mr Saunders, from NAPAC, said Mrs Woolf was someone "we would not be able to work with", adding that it was "essential" it became a statutory inquiry.
Dr Liz Davies, who was a social worker in Islington and acted as a whistleblower there, said victims from the London borough had adopted a policy of "absolute non co-operation" with the inquiry as it stands.
"Something really has to change," she said.
The NSPCC was also at the meeting in London, which began at about 10:30 GMT. The charity has declined to give explicit backing to Mrs Woolf, a corporate lawyer.
Home Affairs Select Committee chairman Keith Vaz told the BBC he had written to Mrs Woolf asking her to return to the committee next week to "clarify outstanding points".
It comes after the first person appointed to lead the inquiry - Baroness Butler-Sloss - stepped down in July after concerns were raised about the fact that her late brother was attorney general during the 1980s.
The voices of abuse survivors were always going to be vital.
The phone hacking inquiry proved that victims have a moral authority like no other and their opinions will be heard.
Yet survivors and their representatives at today's meeting said they had no contact from the Home Office or the inquiry until last week.
Survivors are concerned about the way the inquiry has been established, its powers and its terms of reference.
One survivor - Phil Johnson - said that when he asked for his travel expenses to be repaid, he was told that could not be guaranteed.
So a victim of abuse summoned to meet officials had to leave his Eastbourne home after rush hour - to avoid the highest train fares - then run from the station to get to the meeting in time.
He said: "I think the victims are being taken for granted."
A victim of historical child sexual abuse has already launched a legal challenge to Mrs Woolf's appointment, claiming she is not impartial, has no relevant expertise and may not have time to discharge her duties.
BBC legal correspondent Clive Coleman said senior or former judges were the obvious choices as chair of long inquiries as they were used to hearing and analysing vast amounts of testimony from multiple witnesses.
However, our correspondent said victims and survivors must have confidence the chair is "divorced from the contentious subject matter of the inquiry and key people who may figure in it".
Earlier this month Mrs Woolf, who is Lord Mayor of London, disclosed that she lived in the same street as Lord Brittan and had dinner with him five times between 2008 and 2012 - but said he was not a "close associate".
Lord Brittan may be called to give evidence to the inquiry. He denies any wrongdoing in the way the "dossier" on alleged high-profile paedophiles was handled in the 1980s.
On Thursday, MP Mr Vaz said letters from Mrs Woolf showed her appointment was "chaotic". He said a letter from Mrs Woolf about her links with Lord Brittan was re-written seven times until the final version gave a "sense of greater detachment".
Former Labour home secretary David Blunkett told BBC Radio 4's The World at One there was now a "very substantial cloud" over whether Mrs Woolf could continue as head of the inquiry.
He said revelations about the way the letters had been edited put a "very different complexion" on the situation.
Mr Cameron's official spokesman said the prime minister's view that Mrs Woolf should lead the inquiry "has not changed".
"The prime minister is absolutely clear he thinks she can do this job with integrity and impartiality," he added.
Labour's shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, said Home Secretary Theresa May had "totally failed" to get the inquiry going.
1 July - MP Simon Danczuk calls on former Home Secretary Leon Brittan to say what he knew about paedophile allegations passed to him in the 1980s
7 July - Government announces independent inquiry into the way public bodies investigated and handled child sex abuse claims. Baroness Butler-Sloss chosen as head
9 July - Baroness Butler-Sloss (pictured) faces calls to quit because her late brother, Sir Michael Havers, was attorney general in the 1980s
14 July - She stands down, saying she is "not the right person" for the job
5 September - Lord Mayor of London Fiona Woolf named the new head of the inquiry
11 October - Mrs Woolf discloses she had five dinners with Lord Brittan from 2008-12
22 October - Abuse victim launches legal challenge against Mrs Woolf leading the inquiry, amid growing calls for her resignation
The county council's planning committee rejected proposals to build 133 homes on land at Mindale Farm, Meliden.
It followed objections by Prestatyn town council and residents.
Members said they were concerned about the scale of the development and its impact on road safety and flooding in the area.
The application by Penrhyn Homes had been recommended for approval by officers, which said there were limited technical grounds for refusal.
M&S rose 1.1% after its latest trading update, which said underlying sales of clothing and homewares fell 0.4% in the past quarter.
But the retailer said it was on track to meet its planned increase in profit margins.
The FTSE 100 index was down 3.50 points at 6,532.18.
The market had fallen 0.8% on Monday as investors reacted to Greece's rejection of the terms of an international bailout.
Shares in Asos fell 0.8% despite the online fashion retailer saying its full-year sales growth was set to be at the "higher end" of its 15-20% projections.
Asos said retail sales in the four months to 30 June grew by 20%, with UK sales up 27% while international sales climbed 16%.
On the currency markets, the pound slipped 0.04% against the euro to €1.4110 and fell 0.3% against the dollar to $1.5553.
Thai-based SSI took over the former Tata Steel complex in Redcar after it was mothballed in 2010.
But chief operating officer Cornelius Louwrens has warned that losses due to falling worldwide demand for the slab steel it produces cannot be sustained.
The company has invested about £1bn in reopening the Teesside blast furnace.
At full capacity the Redcar plant produces up to 400 slabs of steel a day, each weighing up to 33 tonnes.
Mr Louwrens said the price paid for slab steel had plummeted from $500 (£318) a tonne to below $300 (£191) over the past year.
He declined to put a figure on the plant's losses, but described them as "significant and substantial".
He said the long-term future of the Redcar site was in doubt, adding: "You cannot make this size of losses continuously, without, at some point, saying this cannot work any longer.
"What I cannot say is how long we have for the market to turn around. But my message to everyone is to focus on their jobs, do them as good as possible, because this is what we can control."
Mr Louwrens blamed a slump in demand for steel in China and Russia for the company's problems.
He added: "Throughout our rebirth, since SSI bought this, all the evidence is that the parent company in Thailand have been willing to invest.
"But this is really tough on them at the moment and they are continuing to stick with us and we can only hope and trust that will continue."
The current level of provision at Northallerton's Friarage Hospital has been described as unaffordable and unsustainable.
The plans, first announced in 2011, have led to protests including a petition, and a march led by local Conservative MP William Hague,
The existing service, run by consultants, will become midwife-led.
The changes will start in October.
There will also be limited community paediatric services with no overnight stays for ill children.
Pregnant women or children with complicated medical conditions will have to use the James Cook University Hospital 22 miles (35km) away in Middlesbrough.
The Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) said the low number of births at the hospital meant it was difficult to provide enough doctors with the range of skills needed to cover more complex medical problems.
In the report announcing the decision, the CCG said it had "been unable to find a model that allows services to be delivered on the same footprint as before without continuing and unacceptable compromises on safety and sustainability, or unaffordable investment."
More than 10,000 people signed a petition opposing the plan and an appeal against the closure was made to the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
In May, Mr Hunt rejected calls for a full review into the changes.
However the Foreign Secretary and MP for Richmond, William Hague, said he was "disappointed" at the decision.
"The Friarage is held in high regard and the uncertainty over the future of these services has caused a great deal of anxiety for patients and staff alike," he said.
He added: "It has been my view all along that while there are legitimate clinical concerns faced by the Friarage, these are challenges to be overcome and not surrendered to."
Dr Vicky Pleydell, chief clinical officer at the CCG, said: "We have investigated models of service up and down the country, leaving no stone unturned.
"Other options we looked at did not conform to the high standards we feel it is right to aspire to for our patients.
"Our job as a CCG is to ensure we deliver safe high quality services for our patients. We cannot compromise on that."
A major operation was launched after emergency services were called to Cardigan Bridge in the Ceredigion town at about 13:15 GMT on Sunday.
Police, coastguard teams, a rescue helicopter and firefighters were stood down at 16:30 due to fading light.
The Coastguard resumed the search at 09:00 on Monday.
Cardigan RNLI lifeboats were launched at the request of the UK Coastguard to resume the search.
Along with other emergency services, they are searching between Cardigan Bridge and the mouth of the estuary.
Ch Insp Peter Roderick, of Dyfed-Powys Police, said an investigation was under way to verify the identity of the woman who went into the water.
The grenade was found during the night near buildings housing 170 people in the town of Villingen-Schwenningen. Its pin had been pulled out but the explosives failed to detonate.
Justice Minister Heiko Maas said it was a new level of "hate and violence".
There were 1,005 attacks on refugee homes in Germany last year - five times more than in 2014.
Some of the migrants at the Villingen-Schwenningen hostel were evacuated while bomb disposal experts carried out a controlled explosion.
Police spokesman Thomas Kalmbach said it was "just luck" no-one was hurt.
Officers said the grenade still contained its explosives but it was not clear whether it still had a detonator.
Mr Maas said he was summoning his regional state counterparts to crack down on hate crime.
"Grenades are already flying towards refugee homes. We can't wait until there is someone dead," he said.
News of the grenade incident came as new figures showed five times more attacks were carried out on migrant hostels in Germany last year than in 2014.
The total for 2015 was 1,005, compared with 199 in 2014, the police report said. Far-right activists are suspected in 90% of the cases.
Last year a record 1.1 million people sought asylum in Germany - many from war-torn Syria. Many local authorities have struggled to house them.
Germany is expanding its list of safe countries of return, hoping to curb the influx.
The governing coalition plans to declare Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia safe countries of origin, making it easier to send migrants back, said Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel.
Last year Germany did the same for several Balkan nations - including Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo - to cut the large numbers of migrants claiming asylum. Very few of their applications are granted.
The police say the biggest rise in attacks on migrant hostels last year was registered in the mainly industrial state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
State Interior Minister Ralf Jaeger said "investigators have noticed a marked increase in aggressive language" towards migrants on the internet.
Most of the thousands of migrants arriving daily on Greek islands hope to get asylum in Germany.
Migrant crisis: Who does the EU send back?
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 victim had just got out of a taxi in High Street, Biggar, at about 02:50 on Sunday when he was involved in a row with another man.
Police believe the attacker crossed the road near the Elphinstone pub before carrying out the assault in front of the victim's partner.
The attacker is described as white, of medium build and wearing a blue top.
Det Con Graham McAdam said: "This was a frightening incident which left the victim requiring hospital treatment and it is crucial that we find the man responsible.
"I am appealing to anyone who was in the area around the time of the incident to contact us.
"Maybe you saw the suspect prior to or following the attack, or maybe you saw him run off up the High Street in Biggar. If you have any information at all, please do pass it on to police."
It follows a row after former Labour councillor Sophie Howe was named as the new future generations commissioner.
Mr Towler told BBC Wales it would be better for scrutiny and independence if the assembly ran the entire process.
The Welsh government said if candidates declare a party link then impartiality questions are covered at the interview.
Welsh Tories branded Sophie Howe a "Labour insider" when she was named as the new £95,000-a-year future generations commissioner on Monday.
She also worked as a special advisor to Natural Resources Minister Carl Sergeant in his previous role responsible for local government.
However, she was appointed by the first minister following the recommendation of a cross-party panel, like other commissioners.
Mr Towler, who stood down as children's commissioner in March, told Sunday Politics Wales the Welsh government had never tried to interfere with his work or influence him.
But he added: "I think it would be better for transparency and it would be better in relation to scrutiny and for the independence of that institution if all of that was managed by the National Assembly for Wales.
"Then you would take away legitimate questions that are asked about degrees of independence. Because you can't have degrees of independence."
On the question of political links, Mr Towler said: "If you're a member of a political party you should resign that membership if you become a commissioner - and it should be absolutely clear that your political affiliations no longer exist."
A Welsh government spokesman said: "Whilst it is not mandatory, there is a section on the application form where candidates can declare political interest or affiliation. These interests do not always have to be publicly disclosed.
"Where declarations arise they're picked up at interview stage and questions on impartiality are covered.
"There is no requirement for individuals to resign membership of a political party."
Sunday Politics Wales is on BBC One Wales on Sunday, 8 November, at 12:20 GMT.
NK News said the price spike was affecting petroleum and diesel fuel sales equally, and followed "rumours China had been considering a halt of all crude oil sales to the DPRK", as North Korea is formally known.
Crude oil is used for gasoline and petrol for cars and for diesel.
Foreigners in Pyongyang noticed motorists scrambling to fill up their tanks, as petrol stations started limiting what they would sell or even closing altogether.
At one petrol station, supplies were restricted to diplomats or vehicles used by international organisations, the Associated Press reported.
Queues were also much longer than usual and prices higher, it said.
The rise has prompted speculation - unverifiable - that China may be getting tough on its difficult neighbour, something other states have long been pressuring it to do.
Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump met in Florida earlier in the month, and have since talked on the phone.
Mr Trump has tweeted that China needs to do more to rein in Pyongyang. There is better US trade in it for China if it controls North Korea, according to the US president.
And China seems worried that there really is a risk of war on its doorstep, a war from which it could hardly isolate itself.
So China might be tightening the oil tap.
Alternatively, North Korean drivers - a small but growing number of privileged Pyongyang residents - might have feared that China was about to tighten the oil tap and decided to stock up, prompting a price surge.
Or the military might have requested more petrol. Or there might have been a simple glitch in supplies. We do not know.
But it does illustrate how much power China could exert over North Korea.
Figures are hard to come by because detailed data from North Korea and China on trade are not published. But it is clear that North Korea produces virtually none of its own oil and relies instead on China.
It produces abundant coal - even more abundant now since China cut down (perhaps to zero) its imports of coal from February.
Coal can fire power stations but it cannot make vehicles move. Therefore, the result of restricting oil to North Korea would eventually be a paralysis of the economy, certainly of the war economy.
According to most estimates, North Korea has about three months of oil in reserve.
In 2003, the oil pipe from China to North Korea shut a mere three days after a missile launch. China said it was a mechanical failure, but the suspicion outside was that it was China reminding North Korea where its oil comes from.
According to Stephen Haggard of the University of California: "The objective is to send a credible signal that would make the North Korean leadership think twice."
"It is all about shifting North Korea into a mode where negotiations would resume," he told Reuters.
Is North Korea thinking twice now as petrol prices rise in Pyongyang?
Not obviously. It seems to be sending irritated messages to Beijing.
A commentary on the state news site warned that a "neighbouring country" - widely read as China - "will certainly face a catastrophe in their bilateral relationship as long as it continues to apply economic sanctions together with the United States".
China might tighten the flow - but would it shut it off altogether and so halt the North Korean economy?
Would Mr Trump really punish China if it didn't?
The situation remains unpredictable on so many fronts.
The moving image of the circling clouds began appearing in social media timelines earlier this week.
But it was a Facebook Live posted by New York-based NewsFeed on Wednesday where it built momentum - racking up a staggering 18 million views within five hours of being broadcast.
Although storms like this are not uncommon, many Facebook users were quick to point out that the four hours of footage was not real.
One user commented: "The recording is being played over and over. The cloud on the right isn't moving. There are no cars on the road. The lightning on right is in the same spot and not moving. Please do better next time."
BBC weather presenter Nick Miller says: "This clearly looks like footage on a loop. Although not completely impossible the blue light coming from inside the cloud is odd. We would expect it to be more of an orange colour.
"Cloud formations like this are known as rotating thunderstorms or super cell thunderstorms but this looks like it's been added on top of an image. We cannot say which part of it is real or fake. The image, the storm or both."
Another giveaway is the lack of information offered by the supposed news page. We don't know where the storm took place, or when.
Many Facebook commentators also pointed out the sound of booming thunder and crackling lightning which accompany the video were in fact sound effects played on a loop.
Shortly after the live, another Facebook page The Cherry Orchard, which also claims to be a news company in Los Angeles, broadcast the storm footage as a Facebook Live to more unsuspecting viewers.
"Wow that's awesome," posted one Facebook user. Another commented: "It's beautiful."
Although attracting fewer views than the NewsFeed live, many Facebook users jumped into the comments again to question the video's authenticity.
An eagle-eyed Facebook user commented: "It's not true, because the sound is just repeating and the image below is a photograph, because you can not even notice the plants moving."
Some mentioned the lights from traffic in the image were the same throughout the broadcast, while others claimed it was a three second gif or screensaver.
A frustrated Facebook user posted: "This is not live. I shared this picture yesterday! It's on a loop with sound added. I can't believe so many of you are so gullible lol."
Although Facebook has promised to crack down on so called fake news, it is not the first time a Facebook Live has claimed to be something it wasn't.
Last October, Facebook Live viewers were duped into believing they were watching a live broadcast from Space posted by Unilad and USA Viral.
Seventeen million believed thought they were looking at live pictures of astronauts in space suits apparently working outside the International Space Station with amazing images of Earth in the background.
In fact the footage was old with part of it being filmed by astronaut Terry Virts in 2015 and another part from a spacewalk by Russian cosmonauts in 2013.
In May, Facebook broadened its campaign to raise awareness about fake news, by publishing adverts for social media users. They include tips for spotting fake news, including checking the article date and website address, as well as making sure it the news isn't intended as satire.
The platform says it has already removed "tens of thousands" of fake Facebook accounts and that systems were now monitoring the repeated posting of the same content.
By Rozina Sini, BBC's UGC and Social News Team
Weekend trains are due to start running 24-hours on the Piccadilly, Victoria, Central, Jubilee and Northern lines by the end of the year.
Night-time services will be extended to the Metropolitan, Circle, District, and Hammersmith & City lines by 2021.
Services will be extended on the London Overground in 2017 and the Docklands Light Railway by 2021.
The plans are part of a six-point long term economic plan Chancellor George Osborne and London Mayor Boris Johnson said would add £6.4bn to the London economy by 2030 and create half a million new jobs.
The government said it will provide £10bn of funding for investment in new London transport infrastructure over the next parliament, including new Tube improvements, better roads, more buses and cycle lanes, amid predictions the population of the capital is expected to reach 10 million by the early 2030s.
The so called "night Tube" was announced in November 2013, with all-night services expected to run on Fridays and Saturdays on the Piccadilly, Victoria, Central, Jubilee and Northern lines from September.
Tube services from central London currently finish at around 00:30 GMT on Friday and Saturday nights.
Mr Osborne said: "We live in a 24-hour city, and the mayor is going to set out how our plan will deliver a 24-hour Tube operation to support it."
Six-point plan for London
Mr Johnson said: "As London's population continues to grow, it is investments in infrastructure such as this which will ensure that the capital remains competitive and the best big city to live in."
Labour London Assembly member Tom Copley said: "With fares up more than 40% under Boris Johnson passengers rightly expect to see improvements but the fact is these plans won't come into effect until well after Boris Johnson and George Osborne have left power."
Steve Hedley, senior assistant general secretary of the RMT, said the union was not opposed to the changes, but they did not want to compromise passenger safety.
"We understand it is going to create jobs and it is going to help the economy, but we can't do that at the expense of the safety and comfort of our passengers and indeed our staff," he said.
"We are all for the night Tube and we understand it's going to help the city but we do need adequate staffing and they need to stop this crazy proposal to close all the ticket offices."
Mike Brown, managing director of London Underground, has previously said: "The new service will boost jobs and will benefit the economy by hundreds of millions of pounds."
Transport for London (TfL) also confirmed it will extend wi-fi to all below ground sections of the Tube by the end of the next parliament.
TfL announced it is ordering 200 more new Routemaster buses this year and committing to 800 new vehicles each year from 2016 onwards.
The series has been hit by several by controversies over access to county players who are also involved with university teams.
"I will be available to get involved as mediator," McAviney said during the official launch of the competition.
"But there's no point in me getting involved unless co-operation is there."
The Ulster Council president added:"We want to have the co-operation which we had last year, and I would ask for that to continue on."
Three years ago, Queen's University withdrew from the McKenna Cup as a result of claims made on players by county managers.
St Mary's and Ulster University have also threatened to opt out in recent seasons, frustrated by unavailability of key players.
Since the college sides became involved in the Dr McKenna Cup, they have been given first call on players, but that guideline has not been adhered to by several of the counties.
Tyrone, who will be aiming for a fifth successive title when the 2016 series gets under way on 3 January, have been drawn in the same group as Derry, Antrim and Queen's.
The competition will be run off within the month of January.
Dr McKenna Cup draw
Section A: Queen's University, Antrim, Derry, Tyrone
Section B: St Mary's, Donegal, Fermanagh, Down
Section C: Ulster University, Cavan, Armagh, Monaghan
Semi-finals:
Section B winner v Section A winner
Best runner-up v Section C winner
DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme "it is only the DUP who can deal with this issue now".
He said the party would move to exclude Sinn Féin from the Northern Ireland Executive.
His comments come ahead of a DUP meeting with Secretary of State Theresa Villiers to discuss the IRA's status.
The Northern Ireland Executive is a power-sharing government drawing ministers from the five biggest parties in the assembly.
On Wednesday, the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) said it intended to leave it.
The announcement came as part of an ongoing political row over the status of the Provisional IRA after the murder of Kevin McGuigan Sr.
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Mr Donaldson has responded to the UUP's announcement saying the "only people who were punished by what Mike Nesbitt has done here are the people who vote for his party as they are now excluded from the government".
"We are going to move to exclude Sinn Féin from the government," he added.
"In the end, if the other parties are not prepared to support the exclusion of Sinn Féin, then we will act unilaterally, and if that means that we have a period in Northern Ireland where we don't have a government until we resolve and sort out these issues then so be it."
The nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and the cross-community Alliance Party have already met Ms Villiers.
Following their meeting, SDLP members ruled out backing a motion to exclude Sinn Féin from the executive, saying they would require more evidence of IRA involvement in the murder of Kevin McGuigan Sr.
They said while they had sympathy with the Ulster Unionists over the issue, they believed they had acted prematurely in leaving the executive.
The SDLP leader, Alasdair McDonnell, said his party would not make a "knee-jerk" decision as much more information was needed.
"We will act on facts and when we have clear ground to put our feet on and know what we are doing and why we are doing it," he said.
The Alliance Party said Northern Ireland's political situation was in "a very serious crisis and ever deepening".
Stormont's Employment Minister Stephen Farry, who is from Alliance, said the party would judge its response to any exclusion motion on the evidence available at that time.
On Tuesday, UUP leader Mike Nesbitt said he had chaired a meeting attended by the party's MLAs, MEP, MPs, senior representatives of its councillors association and its party chairman, and they had "unanimously" endorsed his recommendation to leave the executive.
He said the party's ruling body would make a final decision on Saturday and if it was supported then the party would form an opposition.
Sinn Féin has accused the UUP of creating a "crisis". The party's North Belfast MLA, Gerry Kelly, said Sinn Féin was prepared to sit and talk to all parties.
He told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster: "I do not think the executive should fall".
"Mike Nesbitt is trying to push the DUP into following them [the UUP]," he added.
The Ulster Unionist announcement came as part of a political row that has followed the Police Service of Northern Ireland's assertion that members of the Provisional IRA were involved in the murder of Mr McGuigan Sr earlier this month.
The 53-year-old ex-IRA man, was killed in what police believe was part of a "fall-out" in republican circles after the murder of former IRA commander Gerard 'Jock' Davison in May.
Police said an infrastructure exists at a senior level of the Provisional IRA, but that there was no evidence that Mr McGuigan's murder was sanctioned by that hierarchy.
On Sunday, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams said there was no reason for armed republican groups, such as the IRA, to exist as the movement was committed to peace.
Other titles chosen include David Almond's Skellig, The Moaning of Life by Karl Pilkington and Roddy Doyle's short novel Dead Man Talking.
A poetry anthology has also been included on the list for the first time since the scheme launched in 2011.
Volunteers will hand out 250,000 free books on 23 April next year to encourage more people to read.
"I'm really pleased that one of my books is to be part of World Book Night," Almond said. "What a great, optimistic, liberating, democratic project."
The event is run by national charity The Reading Agency, with books donated by publishers.
The 20 titles for 2015 are:
Some demonstrators hurled stones while other burned tyres and blocked roads.
They say they are angry that billions of dollars are being spent on next month's football tournament, rather than social projects and housing.
Protests also took place in many other cities, including the capital Brasilia.
Teachers and civil servants, among others, were also on strike across Brazil.
By Wyre DaviesSao Paulo
Most people here will eventually support the World Cup when it gets under way, but it's cost a lot of money - $15bn (£10bn) - and most of that has been public money.
Brazil is still a developing country with many inequalities and high levels of poverty. And when you see brand-new stadiums popping up in a Sao Paulo suburb at the cost of millions, and around there are squatter camps full of people saying they cannot afford to live, then you can see where the conflict comes from.
What the government will be looking out for is a critical mass. If these protests are attracting 5,000-10,000 people every time, then they will become too difficult to police.
In Rio, aerial images showed hundreds of people marching in rush-hour traffic on a main thoroughfare. The city will host the final match of the World Cup on 13 July.
Protesters there and in Sao Paulo, Brazil's biggest city, clashed with police before beginning to disperse.
The number of people on the streets was much lower than during similar protests last year.
Some of those taking part, however, promised the demonstrations would get bigger and more frequent as the World Cup gets closer.
Last June, more than a million people took to the street over poor public services, corruption and the high cost of hosting the World Cup.
The tournament is due to kick off on 12 June.
The BBC's Gary Duffy in Sao Paulo says that the scale of the protests will be watched closely by the government as an indication of the security challenges they may face during the tournament.
He adds that, with both the World Cup and a presidential election this year, many groups have spotted an opportunity to exert maximum pressure on the government.
The demonstrations began earlier in the day in Sao Paulo, with one of the biggest protests in the city's Itaquera district near the Arena Corinthians stadium, which will host the tournament's opening match.
Protesters there demanded housing, and not stadiums, be built in accordance with Fifa standards, in reference to world football's governing body.
"Our goal is symbolic," said Guilherme Boulos, the head of Homeless Workers Movement.
"We don't want to destroy or damage the stadium. What we want is more rights for workers to have access to housing and to show the effects the Cup has brought to the poor."
The government has tried to downplay the scale of Thursday's unrest, arguing it was not related to the World Cup.
"From what I've seen, these are specific claims by workers. I've seen nothing that is related to the (World) Cup," Brazilian Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo said.
"There's no reason to panic ahead of receiving three million Brazilian tourists and 600,000 foreign tourists (for the tournament)."
The planned protests coincide with a range of strikes, including one by the police force in the north-eastern state of Pernambuco.
The army was deployed there to provide additional support after some robberies and looting, before the strike ended on its third day.
Local media reported that, in the last 24 hours alone, 234 people were arrested. Recife, the state capital, is due to host five matches during the World Cup.
Thomas Sellar, 38, stabbed Jamie Walsh, 23, during a confrontation in Greenock, Inverclyde, on 10 September 2015.
Sellar said he feared for his life but a jury heard Mr Walsh was unarmed, and a claim that Sellar stabbed himself afterwards in a bid to evade justice.
At the High Court in Edinburgh, sentence on Sellar was deferred.
The trial had heard that he and Mr Walsh both lived at 123 Wren Road in Greenock.
Mr Walsh had recently moved into a flat below Sellar, which was being rented by the victim's friend.
In the days leading up to the murder, Sellar had objected to "noise" which was coming from the downstairs flat.
On the night of the incident, Sellar said he had gone to the downstairs flat to try to convince the residents to keep the noise down.
He claimed that a group of youths objected to this and had "battered" him and chased him back to his flat.
Sellar claimed he felt he had no other option but to grab a knife in a bid to protect himself.
He said that in the ensuing fight, the knife came into contact with Mr Walsh, who died shortly afterwards.
He said: "They chased me down. I couldn't breathe. I never intended to kill him. I never intended for anything like this to happen."
Christopher Walsh told jurors that his brother did nothing wrong and that Sellar had attacked him.
He told the court that following the incident, Sellar claimed that Mr Walsh had stabbed him first and showed off a wound which he claimed he had suffered during the fight.
He said his brother did not have a knife and when asked why Sellar claimed to have been stabbed by his brother, answered: "He was trying to get a defence."
Sellar denied stabbing himself and maintained he was acting in self defence.
However, a jury refused to believe his claims and returned a guilty verdict to a murder charge.
Sellar was returned to custody and faces a mandatory life sentence.
Following the verdict, it emerged that Sellar, formerly of Greenock, had six previous convictions for offences involving knives.
The 23-year-old Denmark international is the Women's FA Cup holders first signing ahead of the 2017-18 campaign.
She had spells with Dragor Boldklub and Ballerup-Skovlunde Fodbold before joining Brondy and has played against City in the Women's Champions League.
"The set up at Manchester City Women is unparalleled and I am looking forward to growing as a player," she said.
Just nine days earlier, Kohler-Cadmore had smashed 127 in 53 minutes to break the county's T20 Blast scoring record.
He hung around most of day one to make 153 not out, starting the rescue with a stand of 155 with Ben Cox (75).
Ed Barnard made his maiden first-class fifty and Jack Shantry chipped in with 26 as Worcestershire closed on 341-8.
Left-armer David Payne's opening spell of 3-11 in seven overs gave Gloucestershire the start they wanted after taking up their option to bowl first on a greenish pitch.
Worcestershire, who themselves had bowled out Leicestershire for 43 in their previous match, had lost half their side before noon, but in-form Kohler-Cadmore's second Championship century of the season led his side out of trouble.
Tom Kohler-Cadmore's century was his fourth in his last five innings on his home ground - an aggregate of 580 runs, with only two dismissals.
The sequence began last September with 130 not out in the Championship against Middlesex.
This season, he has followed it up with 119 not out against Essex and then his T20 special 127 from 54 balls against Durham.
In his only other knock, in this season's Championship game against Sussex, he 'failed' with 51.
Worcestershire centurion Tom Kohler-Cadmore:
"It was good to get us to a competitive score. Anything above 300 is one of our main goals as a side. To get past that is good and hopefully we can push on.
"They bowled well. The ball was moving around a lot, as you would expect when you get put in. It's not easy up front.
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Gloucestershire head coach, Richard Dawson:
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"We made him work for his runs at the start but he was tremendous, and Cox as well. Barnard then chipped in with some good cricket. They put the pressure back on us.
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The film was nominated for 11 awards going into the Los Angeles ceremony, but only won three including prizes for its stars Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver.
Following on from his Oscar win in February, Leonardo DiCaprio won best male performance for his role in The Revenant.
Mad Max: Fury Road's Charlize Theron won best female performance.
Will Smith was given the MTV Generation award, recognising his film career. Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry, who presented Smith with his award, praised the star as "a champion for diversity in Hollywood".
"[He] blazes a path for actors by showing that someone of any colour can play any role, and can open any movie and win any award and be the biggest freaking movie star in the whole world," she said.
Accepting his award, Smith joked the honour was "code for the old dude award".
He added: "This is absolutely beautiful. I released my first record when I was 17. I'm 47 years old now. This June marks 30 years in this business."
British actress Ridley beat her Star Wars co-star John Boyega to win the breakthrough performance award, while Driver was voted best villain for his role in the franchise.
Chris Pratt and Amy Poehler also collected awards for best action and best virtual performance respectively, while Oscar-winning Amy Winehouse film Amy was voted best documentary and Straight Outta Compton won best true story.
Bridesmaid's star Melissa McCarthy received the comedic genius award and said although she was the first woman to achieve the feat, she was "certainly not the first one to deserve it".
Ryan Reynolds collected two awards - best comedic performance for his role in comic book movie Deadpool, and best fight for a sequence in the film with Ed Skrein.
Among the other quirky category winners were Pitch Perfect 2's Rebel Wilson and Adam Devine for best kiss, and Jennifer Lawrence for best hero for her part in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2.
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The surrealist painter, who died in 1989 at the age of 85, was buried in a crypt in a museum dedicated to his life and work in Figueres, in north-eastern Spain. Samples will be taken from his remains to see if they match the DNA of the claimant.
The process is going ahead despite the objections of the local authorities and the foundation carrying Dalí's name, both of which claimed that not enough notice had been given ahead of the exhumation.
It will require the removal of a 1.5-tonne slab covering his tomb in order to reach his body.
María Pilar Abel Martínez, a tarot card reader who was born in 1956, says her mother had an affair with Dalí during the year before her birth. Her mother, Antonia, had worked for a family that spent time in Cadaqués, near the painter's home.
Last month a Madrid judge ordered the exhumation to settle the claim. It is contested by the Dalí foundation, which manages the estate of the artist, who was not believed to have had any children.
Ms Martínez says her mother and paternal grandmother both told her at an early age that Dalí was her real father. She told El Mundo newspaper that her grandmother said to her: "I love you a lot but I know that you're not the daughter of my son. What's more, I know who your father is - he is Salvador Dalí."
One day, Ms Martínez says, she asked her mother: "Am I really Salvador Dali's daughter? Because look at how ugly he was." She says her mother replied: "Yes, but he had his charms. And yes, he is your father."
Ms Martínez's action is against the Spanish state, to which Dalí left his estate. If she is confirmed to be his daughter, she could assume his surname and be entitled to part of that estate.
But the story of the supposed affair has surprised many - not so much because Dalí was married in 1955, but because of his complex sexual tastes. And for some, this is why the thought of Dalí making a woman pregnant seems unlikely.
Ian Gibson, an Irish-born biographer of Dalí, says the idea of the Catalan artist ever having had an orthodox physical relationship with a woman is "absolutely impossible", despite five decades of marriage to Elena Ivanova Diakonova, his Russian wife more commonly known as Gala.
"Dalí always boasted: 'I'm impotent, you've got to be impotent to be a great painter'," the biographer said.
Salvador Dalí - Life of a surrealist
Photo gallery of Dalí's work
His close friendship with the gay poet Federico García Lorca has fuelled speculation that Dalí was homosexual, although Ian Gibson believes they never consummated their relationship.
Carlos Lozano, who was for a time part of the painter's inner circle, told the biographer that "Dalí was totally unable to have any sexual relations with anybody, not even, probably, with Gala... He hated being touched and when he touched you it was like being clawed by an eagle."
Dalí's sexual eccentricities appeared to feed into his work and in 1956, the year of Ms Martínez's birth, he wrote in his diary: "I feel in a state of permanent intellectual erection."
Paintings such as The Great Masturbator (1929), in which a woman's face emerges out of the side of a giant human profile, beneath which a large winged insect is resting, and nuzzles against a man's bulging groin, contributed to his reputation for bizarre erotic tastes.
Lluís Llongueras, an artist and writer who knew Dalí from the early 1960s until his death, traces much of his friend's attitude to sex back to his childhood. He says that when Dalí was a teenager his father traumatised him by constantly showing him pictures of penises mutilated by syphilis.
However, Llongueras says Dalí's preference for watching others engaging in physical contact rather than doing so himself made perfect sense for someone with his gifts.
"He was an artist and so he was a great voyeur - all of us artists have to be voyeurs, otherwise how could we work with the human body?" he said.
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The footage, taken by a local wildlife watching operator, showed an adult male grey seal biting and eating its prey.
Researchers believe seals could be taking on larger prey due to increasing competition for food.
Natural Resources Wales said the video is thought to be the first of its kind in the world.
The SPL announced a relaxation of its rules on standing following a general meeting of all 12 clubs on Monday.
The league's chief executive Neil Doncaster said the move came in response to supporter demand.
"Whenever we talk to supporters about what they'd like to see, safe standing comes up as one of the things they'd like to see," he told BBC Scotland.
"Whilst there's a number of hurdles that clubs would need to overcome to re-introduce standing at their grounds, our rules are one of those hurdles.
"So, that's now out the way and that paves for clubs to come forward with pilot schemes if they have the support of their local police force and local safety committee to come forward and put forward pilot schemes that the SPL board can look at."
The perception from some that we're going to see the re-introduction of open terraces as was the case before is wide of the mark
A Strathclyde Police spokeswoman expressed surprise at the announcement, saying: "We have not had any detailed discussions with the SPL around the safe-standing areas.
"If the SPL would like to discuss the issue with us then perhaps we would be able to understand what the specific proposals are."
Terraces were banned following the Hillsborough disaster in 1989 and the issue of allowing some standing areas has been revisited since all-seater stadiums became compulsory in England in 1994.
Scotland is not bound by the law which banned standing areas in top-flight football in England, which came into force after the Taylor Report into the Hillsborough disaster.
"That legislation was introduced in England back in the 80s," said Doncaster "In Scotland, I think there was a view that Scottish football was already well underway with making improvements at that time.
"The perception from some that we're going to see the re-introduction of open terraces as was the case before is wide of the mark. What we'll be looking at and what we'll be welcoming are pilot schemes put forward that look at the rail seating systems that we see, for example, in Germany.
"Having spent some time recently in Germany, looking at the systems at Borussia Dortmund, it's a fantastic system and it certainly does a great deal for the atmosphere within the ground and if it is introduced here, if we are able to get pilots away, hopefully we'll see the same here.
"The systems are fairly straight forward to police. There are some stadia where it simply wouldn't work but there are some stadia where it could work.
"Friday night football, safe standing areas; all of these are issues that are responding to supporter demand, looking at ways in-which we can improve the product and tempt people back through the turnstyles."
SPL rules currently state that clubs must only use seated areas with a minimum of 6,000 seats per stadium.
"The fans are standing anyway," Aberdeen manager Craig Brown told BBC 5Live. "So I think it's better to make it official and to have the police involved.
"I'm a traditionalist and I certainly enjoyed standing at a match.
The fans are a bit more involved when they are standing and can get more excited
"The fans are a bit more involved when they are standing and can get more excited.
"I'm not so sure it will make a big difference on attendances but I would imagine it would be less expensive to stand rather than sit."
Celtic, Rangers, Kilmarnock and Motherwell are known to be keen on exploring the possibility of introducing standing areas and St Johnstone would not rule it out but St Mirren have no plans to modify their recently constructed stadium.
The at top-flight football matches, while the Football Supporters' Federation is keen for their return.
Meanwhile, the SPL has also tightened the rules governing unacceptable conduct, to include: "using words, conduct or displaying any writing or other thing which indicates support for, or affiliation to, or celebration of, or opposition to an organisation proscribed in terms of the Terrorism Act 2000."
Doncaster said: "Changes to our rules on unacceptable conduct raise the bar in terms of what is expected of clubs and shows our clubs are committed to playing their part in tackling unacceptable conduct."
The blazes are continuing to burn on the outskirts of Sydney, despite the easing of temperatures and winds.
One man has died while trying to protect his home.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott visited Winmalee in the Blue Mountains, one of the areas worst-hit by the fires, around 70km (45 miles) west of Sydney.
By Jon DonnisonBBC News, Springwood, Blue Mountains
For families living around the small community of Springwood in the Blue Mountains, many have had their lives turned upside down. Australians are well used to the threat of bush fires, but nothing can prepare you for the moment when you return home to find your house and everything inside utterly gutted by fire.
"It's devastating but we're all here and that's the main thing," Chris Muller told me, as her daughter picked through the smouldering rubble of her mother's home.
Among the few recognisable things are a couple of silver spoons and a battered coffee pot.
"We're looking for one of my cats Olly. We hope he managed to hide down the drain," she tells me.
Several fires are still burning around Springwood. Relays of helicopters whirr through the smoky haze, dumping water to try and douse the flames. A drop in the temperature today has given fire fighters a window to try and get on top of the situation before the weekend, when the mercury is expected to rise again. It's only spring here. The fear is of a long and difficult summer fire season.
Correspondents say bushfires are common in Australia but they have come earlier than normal this year, sparking concerns of further problems to come.
Minister for Police and Emergency Services Michael Gallacher told the BBC that "the speed and the ferocity" of the fires was something "not seen for many, many years".
"We had one fire front that changed direction and had a front to it, so if you can imagine, burning in one direction 25km [15 miles] wide."
"We're only now in the process of being able to return to some of the sites to check the magnitude of the losses and I've got to say, it's going to be quite substantial," he added.
Hundreds of residents spent Thursday night in evacuation centres, with many returning home to find their houses razed.
Fire fighters described blazes as tall as 20m to 30m (100ft).
A 63-year-old man died from a heart attack as he tried to defend his home in Lake Munmorah, in the Central Coast region of NSW, on Thursday afternoon.
Around 2,000 fire fighters across the state worked to try and contain the fires but many are still burning out of control, says the BBC's Jon Donnison.
Mr Abbott, in Winmalee, said of those helping to battle the fires: "These are ordinary people who, on an extraordinary day, come together to support their community and to protect their fellow Australians."
At least three fire fighters have been reported injured.
The NSW Rural Fire Service said an initial assessment of the Winmalee and Springwood areas showed that 81 properties had been destroyed, with 37 damaged.
"Approximately 30% of the fireground has been assessed," it said. "The number of properties destroyed or damaged will rise."
Reports estimate that as many as 200 homes could be lost in total.
The fires have been caused by unseasonably hot temperatures and strong winds. While these have now died down, more hot weather is forecast next week.
"It's been an awful 24 hours for the Blue Mountains [region]," Mayor Mark Greenhill told Nine Network Television. "We've lost possibly scores of homes."
Ron Fuller, who lost his home in Winmalee, told ABC News: "We've had a number of fires through here before but this was an extraordinary fire. The speed was extraordinary, it just raced through this whole area, took out some houses, left other ones standing."
Jodie Harrison, Mayor of Lake Macquarie, said that four heritage homes, as well as a historic jetty, were caught in the fire.
"It's been confirmed that four houses in the heritage village of Catherine Hill Bay have been lost," she told local media.
NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell, in an interview on broadcaster 7 News, called the fires "some of the worst we have experienced around Sydney in living memory".
"We're in for a long, tough summer," he added.
Alex Chesser, a District Officer with the New South Wales Rural Fire Service, told the BBC that the fires had come unusually early.
"It's... a combination of a couple years of quite wet summers and winters which have allowed the bush to continue to grow at high rates, and also prevented us undertaking as many hazard reduction burns as we'd like," he said.
Smoke and ash from the wildfires blanketed the Sydney skyline on Thursday.
New South Wales was also hit by bush fires in September, which injured several fire fighters.
All three players have been with the Gloucestershire side since July 2015.
Former Wrexham forward Wright, 32, has netted 31 league goals for the Robins.
Midfielder Storer, 30, has - like Wright - also played for Wrexham and Kidderminster, while defender Downes, 32, previously spent eight years at Chesterfield and three at Torquay.
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The children were from a poor neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The Jamaican sprinter was in Brazil for a race, but visited Copacabana Beach to throw some shapes.
The city will hold the fourth race of the eight-leg series over the weekend of 10-11 June.
Olympic gold medallist Alistair Brownlee won his first World Series race of the year in Leeds this month.
"To be able to put triathlon into the heart of a major city is really important," said chief executive of British Triathlon Jack Buckner.
Brownlee's younger brother Jonny finished second in Leeds in 2016, while Rio hopeful Vicky Holland made the podium with third place in the women's event.
2017 ITU World Triathlon Series calendar:
Abu Dhabi, UAE - March 3-4
Gold Coast, Australia - April 8-9
Yokohama, Japan - May 13-14
Leeds, England - June 10-11
Hamburg, Germany - July 15-16
Edmonton, Canada - Dates to be determined
Stockholm, Sweden - August 26-27
Rotterdam, Netherlands - September 14-17
The baby, identified only as Child A, died in hospital in March 2015 after being found in a home strewn with dirty nappies and drug paraphernalia.
A significant case review said failures of communication led to deficiencies in the care of child protection services.
They said they were developing a plan in response to the review.
Despite prior involvement from social services in the city, when police officers arrived at the family home on the day of Child A's death, they expressed immediate concerns about the conditions she had been living in along with her siblings.
The review said: "They reported the home being in a state of disarray, dirty soiled clothing and nappies observed in rooms throughout the home, the bedroom occupied by two of the older siblings was stated to be uninhabitable with broken beds, no mattresses or bed clothes.
"Police further noted evidence of drug misuse within the property: scorched tinfoil on the floor and remnants of a plastic wrap believed to have contained heroin."
CCTV footage of the area also showed Child A's siblings being out at midnight without adult supervision.
A post-mortem examination of the child later concluded that she had died of sudden and unexplained death in infancy syndrome.
The review said that it was important to acknowledged that had there not been any issues with the intervention of care services, the outcome may have been the same for the child.
However, in its findings, the significant case review said there had been deficits in information sharing within and across agencies, which impacted on assessment, decision making, care planning and intervention with Child A and her family.
The review also highlighted changes of social service personnel at key times combined with staff absences reduced the opportunities to re-assess the child and family circumstances.
A spokesperson for the Glasgow Child Protection Committee said it was unable to publish the full report for legal reasons.
It added: "The significant case review process is clearly intended to give professionals the opportunity to learn from serious incidents and how best to improve services to protect children and young people.
"It is not an inquiry into culpability, which is a matter for criminal investigation or disciplinary procedures.
"Throughout the review process, the committee has welcomed the readiness of staff to reflect on this complex case and to identify shortcomings as well as good practice.
"The agencies involved are developing a plan in response to the findings of this review and this work will be subject to further scrutiny by the Child Protection Committee."
A spokesperson for the Glasgow Health and Social Care Partnership said: "This has been an extremely sad and difficult case involving the tragic loss of a very young baby.
"We are addressing concerns raised in the findings of this review as a matter of priority.
"We want to ensure that our assessment processes are robust and that our systems deliver effective joint working.
"The Child Protection Committee is aware of good practice within our services but we must make sure this positive work is found consistently throughout our operation.
"The review also identifies that the impact of neglect presents a major challenge for all staff working with children in Glasgow.
"We are firmly focused on neglect as part of our work and what can be done to manage as effectively as possible the risks created by neglect.
"As the review acknowledges, however, even a flawless system may not have prevented this sudden unexpected death in infancy."
Amber Peat, 13, left her Mansfield home on 30 May and her body was found three days later.
Nottingham Coroner's Court heard a post-mortem examination found ligature marks on the teenager's neck.
Adjourning the inquest, coroner Mairin Casey said hanging was the "most likely" cause of death.
Amber left her home in Bosworth Street at about 17:00 BST following an argument an argument with her family on their return from a holiday.
She was reported missing in the early hours of the next morning.
The hearing was told an extensive search had involved both police and the public before Amber's body was found at about 19:00 BST on 2 June.
Police have said there are no suspicious circumstances.
The inquest was adjourned to a later date while further tests are conducted.
A number of community events in Mansfield have raised more than £1,000 towards funeral costs.
Lawyers for Sean Hackett claim prison authorities have not complied with a court recommendation that he should receive appropriate psychotherapy.
Aloysius Hackett was shot at the family home near Augher, County Tyrone in 2013.
Hackett is serving a minimum seven year sentence for manslaughter.
A jury found the ex-GAA player guilty on the grounds of diminished responsibility after acquitting him of murder.
It emerged during his trial that he had suffered depression in the preceding months, triggered by a split from his girlfriend.
In September 2015, he won his appeal against the original sentence of 10 years behind bars, before he can be considered for release on licence.
Up to five psychiatrists backed the view that Hackett was in a delusional state of mind when he carried out the killing at the age of 18.
Based on the additional medical evidence, the Court of Appeal accepted his ability to form a rational judgment had been significantly impaired.
At the time Lord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan decided against making a hospital order, but said the case required the Department of Justice to urgently consider a transfer.
He also identified a compelling need for Hackett to receive appropriate psychotherapy at a suitable location.
However, Hackett's legal team claim nothing has been done to implement those recommendations.
At the High Court on Wednesday, Hackett's barrister was set to open his application for leave to seek a judicial review of the Department of Justice's alleged failures.
However, the case was adjourned amid arguments that the relevant health trust should become involved.
Further submissions are expected to be heard next month.
Until now, the social network had been defined by its 140-character limit.
But from 28 January, it will allow some users to write longer messages, although not all of the text will immediately appear in followers' feeds.
The move could increase pressure on Twitter to do likewise.
China's official news agency, Xinhua, reported Weibo's chief executive Wang Gaofei had confirmed the move.
It said that during a pilot phase, only the first 140 characters would be shown to readers up front and they would have to click on a link to see the contents of longer messages.
It added that only "senior users" would be able to use the extended facility from the start but it would be open to other members before the end of February.
In its last financial report, Sina Corp said its Weibo service had more than 200 million users.
That is about 100 million fewer than Twitter, which recently indicated it was reconsidering its own character limit.
"We didn't start Twitter with a 140-character restriction," chief executive Jack Dorsey wrote earlier this month.
"We added that early on to fit into a single SMS message.
"It's become a beautiful constraint... [but] we've spent a lot of time observing what people are doing on Twitter, and we see them taking screenshots of text and tweeting it.
"What if that... was actually text? Text that could be searched, text that could be highlighted - that's more utility and power."
One company watcher said Twitter risked damaging its appeal by ditching one of the features that made it stand out against Facebook, but added it might have little choice.
"They have to do something, as they are clearly losing the social-media game right now," said Dr Bernie Hogan, from the Oxford Internet Institute.
"It's still keenly used by some people, including journalists and academics, but it is not showing a lot of growth or profit.
"And Dorsey's moves at the company so far have not inspired a lot of people to use it in the way that they were hoping."
The ship's company, which was given the freedom of Monmouth in 2004, took part in a military and civic ceremony followed by a parade and inspection.
This month marks the 350th anniversary of the use of the name Monmouth in the Royal Navy.
The ship is at Cardiff's Britannia Dock until 24 March.
It will then return to its base in Plymouth where it will undergo maintenance ahead of operational training in the summer.
The crew has recently completed a deployment to Scandinavia and three weeks of exercises with 825 Naval Air Squadron and the new Wildcat helicopter.
Paul Sandford, also known as Paul Dyson, was sleeping at his home near Rotherham when Adam Goodridge repeatedly punched him before taking photos of his injuries, police said.
The 38-year-old died in hospital five days later on 4 November 2015.
Goodridge, 31, of Huntington Way, Maltby, was found guilty of manslaughter at Sheffield Crown Court.
South Yorkshire Police said Goodridge, who denied the charge, had gone into Mr Sandford's house on Littlehey Close, Maltby, at about 01:00 GMT on 30 October.
He then attacked his victim in a "despicable" and unprovoked attack.
Goodridge had previously threatened to kill Mr Sandford "if he did not move from the area within a week".
Det Insp Simon Palmer said: "Goodridge then briefly left the room and even had the audacity to say that he would buy Mr Sandford's friends a beer, before returning to the room to continue his attack.
"He told Mr Sandford's friends to tell ambulance staff that he had fallen in the bath, but when emergency services arrived it was clear that his injuries has been caused by this unprovoked, cowardly and brutal attack."
Mr Sandford suffered a bleed on the brain, a fractured eye socket and severe cuts and bruising to his face and hands.
In a statement, his family said they had been "left a gaping hole in our hearts which is never going to heal" and described Mr Sandford as "a kind, caring and sensitive man".
The family said: "From the age of eight, Paul had suffered from ongoing health problems and the indescribable actions of Goodridge on that night have robbed us of the precious time we had left with him.
"We should be making lasting, happy memories with him right now, but instead we are left with the utter devastation of having our son, brother and friend taken away from us."
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The Conservatives won 30 of the 55 seats on the council at the 2013 elections, but have since gained a councillor due to a defection, giving them a majority of seven.
The election count will start on Friday and results will be published on the council's website.
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Prop Ryan Verlinden cut a lone figure as the 14th man for already-relegated Town in Sunday's 46-26 Championship Shield loss at Halifax.
Jason Mossop played the second half despite badly dislocating his finger, while Matty Gee also appeared with a knock in a side decimated by injuries.
"I'm proud of that group of players," said head coach Phil Veivers.
"I can't fault the effort of the boys, there were guys out there that shouldn't have been there.
"Tom Walker, our front row, played 70 minutes without a break, so I'm extremely proud by a lot of performances out there."
Veivers said a non-availability compounded their injury woes, which saw as many as 13 players in a 25-man squad not available at one time in the season.
"From day dot, the beginning of the year, we had seven bodies injured - they were a starting seven," Veivers told BBC Radio Cumbria.
"Not week a has gone by that we didn't have less than five that were not injured."
Dorset County Council said 20,000 lights would be switched off on residential streets in Corfe Mullen, West Moors, Ferndown and West Parley.
They will be switched back on at 05.30 GMT if it is still dark. The scheme will begin in December.
Lighting will be retained in high use and high crime areas, a council spokesman said.
It is understood Jaime Brynes, 36, was attempting to throw a punch during an argument on Ferry Road at 09:00 when he missed and toppled over into the road.
He was hit by a truck and died while being taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary by ambulance.
The road was closed for several hours while emergency services worked at the scene. Police said his death was non-suspicious.
A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal.
"McGuinness up for peace award" reads the front page of Friday's Daily Mirror.
The paper leads its news offering in Northern Ireland with the former first minister's nomination for the Tipperary International Peace Award.
It says the ex-IRA commander could be given the award for "his work in securing Northern Ireland's future".
Mr McGuinness shares the shortlist with human rights lawyer Amal Clooney and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
Inside, the paper reports that rape and sexual abuse charity Nexus has met officials from Ulster Rugby and the GAA following a "spike in calls" to its offices.
The charity says there had been a surge in referrals to its offices in Londonderry, Belfast and Enniskillen, but it would not say if those getting in touch had claimed they were abused in sport settings in Northern Ireland.
And we go from peace to protests in the papers as up to 200 people gathered at Belfast's US Consulate on Thursday night.
The Irish News features a picture of the crowds in Stranmillis, some of them holding up placards.
It reports the protest was over an invitation for President Trump to visit Northern Ireland.
Amnesty International's Patrick Corrigan says: "If President Trump comes to Northern Ireland it would spark mass protests."
Some common ground now between the Irish News and the News Letter, who both carry the story of a wild swan found in County Londonderry that tested positive for Bird Flu.
They report the bird was found near Lough Beg.
Chief veterinary officer Robert Huey says: "The prevention zone and temporary suspension on gatherings of poultry remain in place."
Members of the public have been encouraged to report sightings of dead birds as a result.
Also in the News Letter is the remarkable story of an Irish ex-heroin addict who has become the fastest solo competitor in the history of the Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge, which has been dubbed the world's toughest row.
Gavan Heenigan, from Galway broke the record by rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic in 49 days, 11 hours and 37 minutes.
It means he also broke the record for the quickest Atlantic crossing by an Irish rower.
The paper reports Mr Hennigan turned to heroin after struggling to admit he was gay.
In the Belfast Telegraph, a mum has shared the story of a birth she doesn't actually remember.
Ciara Murray, from Enniskillen, tells the paper how she woke from an induced coma to find she had a ten-day-old son.
She was in a coma after suffering a stroke when she was 37 weeks pregnant in December 2015.
Thankfully both mum and one-year-old James are healthy and happy now.
Also in the Belfast Telegraph is the news that Aer Lingus plans to begin a new route from Dublin to Las Vegas.
It reports the route is expected to run two to three times a week and will begin next winter, but could be extended depending on how popular it is.
The inaugural service left Stirling at 05:26, and will arrive at London King's Cross at 10:52.
The direct route means passengers do not have to change trains in Edinburgh and will cut journey times by about 46 minutes, Virgin said.
Transport minister Derek Mackay said the new route would boost business and tourism in the city.
Trains will also stop in Scotland at Falkirk, Haymarket and Edinburgh Waverly.
The new route is Virgin's first expansion of services in Scotland since it won the franchise to operate on the East Coast mainline.
Mr Mackay said: "I am pleased to launch this service from Stirling to London and I am confident that it will be a major draw for tourists, students, business and residents and deliver significant economic benefits to Stirling and the wider locality.
"It will bring further attention to Stirling's diverse and growing business base, its splendid university and Business Innovation Park, its impressive cultural and sporting facilities and its historical attractions."
The route is part of Virgin plans to increase services on the East Coast line with a fleet of 65 bigger, faster and more environmentally-friendly trains from 2018, which the company said would mean more capacity on its routes.
Warrick Dent, safety and operations director for Virgin Trains on the East Coast, said: "This is exciting day for us as we connect another of Scotland's cities with a direct, early-morning service to London and start our journey to transform passenger services to Scotland.
"We've been really encouraged by the feedback from people in Stirling, particularly among businesses who have told us how much they value having this additional service, which will get them to and from London faster and without having to change trains."
The 25-year-old midfielder has agreed a two-year contract and moves on after just a year with Burton, who signed him from Dundee United.
Butcher told Millwall's website: "I'm very excited. This is a massive club. As soon as the opportunity arose it was something I couldn't turn down.
"I know what it takes to get out of this league and hopefully that is something I bring to the squad."
Butcher was on Tottenham's books as a youngster.
Has was part of the Burton squad which won promotion from League One to the Championship last season.
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Bristol City striker Tammy Abraham, 19, is alleged to have been involved in a crash near the club's training ground in Failand, near Bristol.
Avon and Somerset Police said a 19-year-old man was reported for summons for careless driving and driving without licence and insurance.
A Bristol City spokesman said the club was aware of the situation.
Abraham is currently on a season-long loan from Chelsea. He has scored 16 goals so far this season.
Speaking to Florida Today ahead of a one-man show, the 77-year-old said: "I know people are tired of me not saying anything, but a guy doesn't have to answer to innuendos."
More than a dozen women have now have come forward to accuse Cosby of sexually assaulting them.
And accusations dating back to 2005 and 2006 have also recently resurfaced.
"People should fact-check," Cosby told Florida Today.
On Thursday, a woman from Florida came forward with allegations Cosby had drugged and raped her backstage at a show in Las Vegas in 1976.
Therese Serignese, from Boca Raton, said the star made her take some pills that made her feel groggy and then sexually assaulted her.
The 57-year-old's allegations are similar to those of other women, including former supermodel Janice Dickinson, who allege Cosby drugged them and then raped them over the past three decades.
Meanwhile, Cosby received a warm reception at his show in Melbourne, Florida, on Friday.
Some radio hosts had offered prizes to anyone who disrupted the show but just one protester stood outside the 2,000-seat theatre, holding a sign which read: "Rape is no joke."
Several of Cosby's planned performances have been called off, including those in Oklahoma, Nevada, Illinois, Arizona, South Carolina and Washington.
Cosby's lawyer, Martin Singer, said the accusations had "escalated far past the point of absurdity", dismissing them as "unsubstantiated", "fantastical" and "uncorroborated".
Cosby has never been charged in connection with any of the allegations.
NBC has shelved plans to revive Cosby's television career and repeats of his 1980s sitcom The Cosby Show were pulled from cable station TV Land earlier this week.
Netflix also decided not to broadcast a special about his work.
In 1899, Harrow and Sandhurst educated Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, whose father was the third son of the Duke of Marlborough, stood for election in the northern industrial mill-town of Oldham - and lost.
As he put it in a letter, the defeat left him "with those feelings of deflation which a bottle of Champagne represents when it has been half-emptied and left uncorked for a night".
The by-election was called after the town had lost its two Tory MPs - one had died and the other resigned due to ill health - and Churchill had stood with the hope of replacing one of them like-for-like.
Allen Packwood, the Director of the Churchill Archives Centre, says his candidature was "a marriage of convenience", which served both sides well.
The Oldham Conservatives got a man with a weighty name - his father Lord Randolph Churchill had been Chancellor of the Exchequer - and Churchill, as a young man "desperate to follow in his famous father's footsteps", had what he saw as an open door into politics.
He initially wrote about his confidence in the campaign and how he had spoken to meetings of up to 2,500 people.
But before polling day, the Conservatives introduced the Clerical Tithes Bill, which proposed the Church of England be funded by local rates.
In Churchill's opinion, it was this "stupid" bill which led to Oldham - a fortress of non-conformist Christianity - electing two Liberal candidates instead.
Defeated, Churchill was undiminished and he set about continuing a profile-raising mission he had begun long before his Oldham campaign.
He had used his time in the Army to "make both money and a name for himself", Mr Packwood says, publishing reports of his exploits in Cuba, India and Sudan in newspapers and books.
"In the aftermath of his defeat, Churchill returned to his day job as a roving war correspondent, travelling to South Africa to cover the Boer War for The Morning Post.
"On 15 November 1899 he boarded an armoured train [that] was ambushed and, after a heroic defence in which he helped most of the train to escape, Churchill was captured.
"He was taken to a makeshift prison. Not penned up long, he jumped over the wall on 12 December and on to a passing train."
In an odd coincidence, he was helped in his African escape by a coal miner from Oldham.
"Churchill was alone and on the run in Africa, which must have been the last place on earth that he expected to meet someone from the town," says Mr Packwood.
"But for three days, he was hidden in a coal mine [by an] Oldham native Dan Dewsnap.
"Churchill later described how Mr Dewsnap locked his hand 'in a grip of crushing vigour' and said 'They'll all vote for you next time'."
Source: The Churchill Centre
That prediction proved to be correct, as Mr Packwood says Churchill's escape "made him a national hero and the incident was enough to ensure his celebrity status".
When he returned to Oldham to speak in July 1900, he was greeted by brass bands and massed crowds. Churchill wrote the town had "almost without distinction of party accorded me a triumph".
"I entered in a procession... and drove through streets crowded with enthusiastic operatives and mill girls."
He went on to give a well-received talk at the town's theatre, which saw his mention of Mr Dewsnap's role in his escape met with a cry from the audience that "his wife's in the gallery".
Mr Packwood says this "warm reception may have been instrumental in persuading Churchill to stand for Oldham again" in the 1900 General Election.
That said, he had already written to his mother two months before, saying that he had "very nearly made my mind to stand again in Oldham... they have implored me not to desert them". He had also lost by less than 1,500 votes in 1899.
Sure enough, buoyed by a campaign that focused on the "apparent British success in the Boer War", the 26-year-old Conservative candidate garnered enough of the Liberal majority's second votes to be returned as the town's second MP.
Yet Churchill, as an ambitious politician, was rarely seen in the town. "Churchill certainly raised the profile of Oldham - he was not shy of the limelight - but his base was certainly London," says Mr Packwood.
However, that did not stop the town having an effect on the new MP, not least because before he arrived in the town, he had lived a privileged life.
"Oldham gave Churchill his first experiences of dealing with visceral poverty," Mr Packwood says.
"This almost certainly steered him towards social reform and he subsequently worked with [future Liberal prime minister] David Lloyd George on unemployment insurance."
It also led him to take the most serious political move of his early career when in 1904, he crossed the floor of the House of Commons and joined the Liberal opposition. after falling out with the Conservatives over the issue of free trade.
In December 1903, the local party committee passed a motion of no confidence and a month later he ceased to be the town's Conservative candidate.
Source: The Churchill Centre
Instead, he crossed the floor and two years later, moved on from Oldham, standing as the Liberal candidate in Manchester North West.
There, he swept to victory, and the rest, as Mr Packwood says, is history.
"Oldham was very much the first rung on the ladder," he says.
"It got Churchill into politics and into Parliament and gave him his first experiences, not only of campaigning and public speaking but also of political in-fighting and manoeuvring.
"In later life Churchill looked back fondly on his time at Oldham, remembering 'the warm hearts and bright eyes of its people', and writing that 'no-one can come in close contact with the working folk of Lancashire without wishing them well'."
In 1941, with the outcome of World War Two still hanging in the balance, the town became one of the first to recognise Churchill's achievements, electing him as a Freeman of Oldham.
And 23 years later, as the great leader's health failed, Oldham's mayor sent a message of thanks and congratulation from the town.
His message was signed on behalf of all the town's population "whose parents launched you on your parliamentary career".
Whatever the falling-out during his time as the town's MP, by his death, Churchill's "warm" feelings for Oldham had turned out to be mutual.
The 26-year-old was a free agent after spending the last three seasons with the Stags, making 124 appearances in all competitions and scoring 12 goals.
He is the seventh player to join the Bootham Crescent side this summer.
"I've played against York City a lot of times and I've always admired the way they play and the atmosphere the fans create," he told BBC Radio York.
"As soon as I got the call that they wanted me I was straight in my car to get up here and get it done.
"I've heard a lot about the manager and I'm hopeful he can develop my game a lot."
He told his party conference in Glasgow he would not "seek to distance" the Lib Dems from the coalition's record.
The deputy prime minister attacked the "bitter tribalism" of British politics and told activists in Glasgow the party had to "make our voice heard".
He also announced the first national waiting time targets for people with mental health problems.
People with depression should begin "talking therapy" treatments within 18 weeks, from April.
Young people with psychosis for the first time will be seen within 14 days - the same target as cancer patients.
Also at the Lib Dem conference:
BBC political editor Nick Robinson said Mr Clegg had presented himself in the speech as the man to take on what he sees as "increasingly extreme" rival parties, while attempting to "break through the anger" people feel at the Lib Dems - and to get voters to think again.
Opening his speech, the deputy prime minister said Britain would not be intimidated by Islamic State, paid tribute to murdered hostages Alan Henning and David Haines, and declared his "immense gratitude" for Britain's Armed Forces.
Turning to the domestic scene, he said Labour leader Ed Miliband and Chancellor George Osborne's conference speeches "could not have been more helpful if they had tried" to the Lib Dems' cause, with one forgetting the deficit and the other unveiling tax cuts for the wealthy.
The Liberal Democrats would borrow less than Labour, and cut less than the Tories, he said.
"If the Liberal Democrat voice is marginalised in British politics our country will be meaner, poorer and weaker as a result," he predicted.
"We must not and cannot let that happen. We must make our voice heard."
He outlined a string of coalition government measures which he said were "designed and delivered by Lib Dems", including raising the income tax allowance, parental leave reforms and same-sex marriage.
Mr Clegg said he "may no longer be the fresh faced outsider", and the Lib Dems no longer "untainted... by the freedom of opposition".
But the party still stood for "a different kind of politics".
He said the "politics of fear" was "seductive and beguiling", but was in fact "a counsel of despair".
He said he had chosen to debate on television against UKIP leader Nigel Farage - whose name he pronounced with a French lilt - because "someone has to stand up for the liberal Britain in which we and millions of decent, reasonable people believe".
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He directly criticised Conservative Home Secretary Theresa May, who had accused him of jeopardising public safety by blocking new data-monitoring powers.
Mr Clegg accused her of "playing party politics with national security".
He added: "Stop playing on people's fears simply to try and get your own way. Your Communications Data Bill was disproportionate, disempowering - we blocked it once and we'd do it again."
A Lib Dem government would introduce "five green laws", on carbon reduction, green space and energy efficiency, Mr Clegg pledged.
He would not set out "red lines" in the event of a hung Parliament, but said "people do have a right to know what our priorities are".
He pointed to the rise in the income tax threshold to £10,500, saying Labour "would never have made the change" and the Conservatives were "explicit" that it was not their priority.
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Mr Clegg said he thought Britain would have more coalitions in the future, and rounded off his speech by saying the Lib Dems were "the only party who says 'no matter who you are, no matter where you are from, we will do everything in our power to help you shine'".
Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman said: "Nick Clegg's speech was that of a man trying desperately to justify the decision he and his party took to back the Tories all the way.
"Nick Clegg was right about one thing in his speech: the Lib Dems should be judged on their record. It is a record of broken promises and weakness."
The mental health pledge, which will be funded by reallocating money from other parts of the health budget, is coalition government policy, rather than a Lib Dem aspiration.
But Mr Clegg also pledged to extra money in the next Parliament if the Lib Dems are in government, to introduce similar targets for conditions such as bipolar disorder and eating disorders.
Under the plan, suicidal patients get the same priority as those with suspected heart attacks.
Analysis by BBC health correspondent Nick Triggle
Playing devil's advocate, you could say the government has set its mental health targets in the areas and at the levels it knows the NHS can achieve.
Already nearly two-thirds of patients get access to talking therapies within 28 days. So asking the NHS to ensure 95% are seen within 18 weeks does not seem a big ask.
A similar thing could be said for the two-week wait for help for people experiencing psychosis for the first time.
Nonetheless, those working in the sector are still delighted.
Why? To understand that, you have to consider where mental health stands in the pecking order of the NHS.
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Half of the £1bn Mr Clegg announced for the NHS at the start of his party conference conference would be spent this way.
Mr Clegg said the commitment would go "smack bang on the front page of our next manifesto".
He said: "Labour introduced waiting times in physical health - we will do the same for the many people struggling with conditions that you often can't see, that we often don't talk about, but which are just as serious."
He added: "These are big, big changes. And in government again the Liberal Democrats will commit to completing this overhaul of our mental health services - ending the discrimination against mental health for good.
Mental health problems are estimated to cost the economy around £100bn a year and around 70 million working days are also lost annually.
The announcement was welcomed by mental health charities.
Mark Winstanley, chief executive officer at Rethink Mental Illness, said it had "the potential to improve the lives of millions", while Centre for Mental Health chief executive Sean Duggan said it would "help to overcome the current postcode lottery" accessing essential services.
Sue Baker, from the Time to Change charity, which campaigns to end the stigma around mental health, said there should be no "discrimination" between different types of health spending.
As teams of officers prepare for a street festival in Brixton, the south London suburb that is one of the hearts of black Britain, a commanding officer says the last image he wants to see that day is a cop in a confrontation with a black youth.
As the camera pans around the briefing room, there is a sea of white faces.
Given that London's population is incredibly diverse and drawn from all continents, the pictures on the television screen don't sit too well with the idea that the police are supposed to represent the society they are policing.
The five-part series The Met has been some 18 months in the making.
Four BBC teams were given open access to the force's units, other than counter-terrorism for security reasons and royal and diplomatic protection on privacy grounds.
One of the most important characters in episode one is Ch Supt Victor Olisa, the borough commander for Haringey.
As an inquest jury decides that armed police lawfully shot dead Mark Duggan in 2011 - a death that triggered that year's riots - you can see his face drop as the dead man's family warn there will be no peace.
When he leaves the police station to talk to a growing and angry crowd, he is accused of being a stooge - a black man put in charge of a difficult problem just to stop black people complaining. In the video above you can see him being challenged by a journalist who questions whether he has the trust of Tottenham.
Ch Supt Olisa says the organisation is at a crossroads - and this first episode of The Met tries to capture that tension: will the Met be able to transform itself into an organisation that commands the trust of all Londoners, rather than just some?
For decades, the Met was the career of choice for the capital's traditional white working-class communities.
But those types of officers in those numbers are representative of a city that has gone. While almost nine out of 10 of the force's officers are white - more than a third of the capital isn't. People born abroad (a different measure of ethnicity to skin colour) are in the majority in at least four of the capital's boroughs. Only 6% of the Met's senior officers, ranked inspector or above, are from a minority background.
As Northern Ireland knows to its cost, when a police force isn't drawn from all of the community it is empowered to police, sometimes with the use of force, trust is hard to come by.
The relationship between the Met and minorities in London reached rock bottom in 1999 when the damning Macpherson Inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence branded the force institutionally racist.
Speaking at the launch of the BBC's series, the Met's commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, said that if people thought that the force was still institutionally racist, then he had to take that on the chin.
But while he says he is trying to change the culture of the force, he knows that he also has to change its face.
Scotland Yard has outsourced some of the stages of recruitment to ensure senior officers don't keep recruiting people who look the same as them. It has offered interest-free loans to help poorer applicants to complete a special pre-entry policing exam and, critically, introduced a London residency test.
Applications from minorities have gone up - not least thanks to a huge PR drive - and as these recruits enter the lower ranks, and older white officers retire, the force will move closer to representing what London looks like today.
But Sir Bernard says the Met cannot transform itself as quickly as London is continuing to change.
As the force's budget falls with forthcoming public spending cuts, the number of new officers the commissioner can recruit will correspondingly fall.
In short, argues the commissioner, the Met needs exceptional help. He wants legislation for a one-off time-limited recruitment exercise that will force rapid change.
Such laws have had a dramatic effect on both the Police Service of Northern Ireland and the New York Police Department.
The system that Sir Bernard wants for London is simple. If an applicant passes the entry exams, they go into a recruitment pool. When there are the widest possible spectrum of candidates available in the pool, they all join the force at the same time.
In other words, there would be no exclusion of white applicants, simply a mechanism to ensure a better balance of new constables as posts become available.
The commissioner's proposals are backed by the London Assembly - but it's ultimately for the home secretary and Parliament to decide whether he gets what he wants.
The Met: Policing London begins at 21:00 BST on Monday on BBC One and is then available on the iPlayer.
Antonio Perkins, 28, was shot in the head and neck on the city's west side.
The video is still available on Facebook and has been watched nearly 700,000 times.
It is the second time in less than three months in Chicago that a shooting has been streamed live on Facebook. In March an unidentified man was shot 16 times while broadcasting live.
No arrests have been made in either case.
Facebook's live-streaming feature allows anyone to broadcast online in real time. It was launched in 2010 but has become more central to the social network's strategy in recent months.
The video of Mr Perkins shows him and a group of people talking before gunshots are heard. The phone then appears to tumble through bloody grass before going black.
Bystanders can be heard screaming and crying.
The video remains on Facebook with a warning message about its graphic nature.
A spokeswoman for Facebook said the video does not violate company policy. The social media site would remove a video if it celebrated or glorified violence, she said.
Earlier this month, the killer of a French police commander and the commander's partner broadcast on Facebook Live shortly after the killings, urging followers to kill prison staff, police officials, journalists and lawmakers.
Chicago has one of the worst gun crime rates of any US city. There were nearly 500 homicides last year, and gun violence is up in 2016, police say.
"Hi, are you busy? I need you to process a wire transfer for me urgently. Let me know when you are free so I can send the beneficiary's details. Thanks."
Many of us would jump to it, eager to please.
But this message has all the hallmarks of CEO fraud, one of the most common forms of business email fraud targeting thousands of companies around the world every day.
Last year, Barbie manufacturer Mattel sent more than $3m (£2.3m) to a fraudulent account in China, after a finance executive was fooled by a message supposedly sent by new chief executive Christopher Sinclair.
Mattel eventually got its money back from China - where the company has significant business interests - but most companies usually have to take the hit after falling victim.
Earlier this year, for example, Austrian aerospace parts maker FACC fired its president and chief financial officer after losing a thumping €42m (£36m) in a business email fraud.
Some smaller companies targeted have gone bust as a result.
"Criminals have realised that hitting businesses rather than individuals can mean much bigger wins," says Orla Cox, director of security response at cyber security specialist Symantec.
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says CEO fraud has shot up by 270% since January 2015 and has cost businesses around the world at least $3bn (£2.3bn) over the past three years.
Simply tricking companies into sending invoice payments to the wrong people costs UK companies about £9bn a year, according to research from invoicing company Tungsten Network.
And procurement fraud - charging for stuff that was never delivered; taking a bribe for awarding a contract to a particular supplier; or encouraging suppliers to charge over the odds then creaming off the difference - accounts for 88% of total UK fraud losses.
"Procurement fraud is becoming a big problem, with at least 20% of corporate spend categorised as 'unmanaged'," says Philip Letts, chief executive of enterprise services platform, Blur Group.
'Unmanaged' means there is insufficient monitoring of the tendering process and whether the terms of the contract have been fulfilled, for example. Quite often smaller jobs are given to suppliers without any written contract at all and paid for cash-in-hand.
"This puts businesses at high risk of procurement fraud," says Mr Letts.
Lots of such payments add up to a big amount of cash potentially lost down the back of the corporate sofa.
Blur's platform helps companies find vetted service providers and manage the entire contract from pitch to payment, theoretically making invoice fraud easier to spot and harder to perpetrate.
Most business email fraud is relatively lo-tech, relying on psychological manipulation and people's willingness to get the job done.
But Jim Wadsworth, managing director at Accura, the data analysis arm of payments giant VocaLink, believes his company's hi-tech solution could prove the best way to combat it.
Called Accura Invoice Payment Profiling, it is an anti-fraud analytics system that uses VocaLink's massive store of payments data to identify and flag fraudulent payments before the money is even transferred.
"We are working with one of the country's largest banks to prevent these frauds by scanning transactions and contacting the bank directly when we see something suspicious," Mr Wadsworth says.
In effect, the system looks for unusual characteristics in the invoice, such as a destination bank account number that has never been used before, atypical payment amounts, or false purchase order numbers.
"Every time a business pays an invoice a trail of information is left behind," he says. "By using this data, and overlaying it with cutting-edge data science techniques, Accura is now able to identify and flag suspected incidents of these types of fraud before the money leaves the account."
The system, which went live a few months ago, has already prevented a number of invoice redirection frauds, says Mr Wadsworth. And he hopes that many more crimes will be prevented as the system evolves.
"We recently saved a public sector organisation £100,000 by foiling an attempt at invoice redirection fraud," he says.
"As CEO fraud has very similar characteristics to invoice redirection fraud, we should be able to use the system to help companies avoid being taken in by this scam, too."
But are there ways of intercepting bogus emails in the first place?
"The emails used in this kind of fraud can slip through spam filtering systems because they are not sent to multiple users, and are written to appear innocuous," says Orla Cox.
"However, Symantec's cloud-based email security technology looks for key words such as 'transfer' or 'payment' and also flags up messages from sender domains that are very similar to the target company's.
"If an email seems suspicious, the system will then block it and inform the company to check whether it is genuine or not."
She believes that a combination of email security software and transaction analytics could be the best way for businesses to fight this kind of fraud.
But staff also need to be trained to look out for tell-tale signs in emails, such as domain names that differ very slightly from their company's, she believes.
"A fraudster might, for example, switch the 'm' and the 'n' in Symantec when setting up a fake domain," she says.
Businesses can also protect against email fraud by ensuring staff question any messages requesting actions that seem unusual or aren't following normal procedures.
"Employees should be encouraged to doublecheck everything they do," says Steve Proffitt, deputy head of Action Fraud, the UK's reporting centre for fraud and cyber crime.
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The Wales game was good fun. We were down at half-time but the second half we played a lot better, began to relax and really express ourselves. It was a really enjoyable game to play in.
The first half we knew we could have been better. We looked at a few things at half-time, adapted well and that was pleasing for us. We converted our chances really well. Any time we were in their 22 we were scoring points or tries so that was really positive.
I feel like I'm playing all right just now. It helps me if the rest of the team are all doing their jobs well. The forwards were excellent against Wales and the backs were so clinical that it was easy for me to play the way I wanted to play. It definitely helps my performance when so many guys round about me are bringing their A-game.
Italy's tactics against England in round three certainly generated a lot of debate. I thought it was smart rugby
It was a relief to kick well after taking over from Greig Laidlaw. He has been kicking so well for us over the last few years. It gives you confidence when you're kicking well but I think it boosts the whole team to see the kicks going over, keeping the scoreboard ticking over.
I was pleased with my kicking against Wales but I don't think Alex Dunbar can say the same. His attempted cross-field kick was hilarious. We've all been getting stuck into him at training this week about it. He knew we had penalty advantage so there was no harm done. It was really funny. In all seriousness, Alex was outstanding against Wales as he has been throughout the tournament. He's been making turnovers and creating the space for the likes of Huw Jones and Stuart Hogg to do damage.
We feel we're in good form but we know how big a challenge we face next up at Twickenham. England are three from three and are on a 17-match winning run and looking to equal the world record for consecutive Test victories.
People have said they've not properly hit their stride in the Six Nations so far but they are still winning games. At international level that's all that really matters. Even when they've not been at their best they are still managing to win games.
We've seen how composed they were even when they were trailing late in the games against France and Wales to come back and win. They are very good when it comes to those pressure moments. We'll need to counter that.
Italy's tactics against England in round three certainly generated a lot of debate. I thought it was smart rugby. It was a good game plan that caught England by surprise.
The first half they were rattled but they came back out after half-time and adapted to the circumstances and ultimately won the game with a bit to spare. Now that Italy have used those tactics I think any team would know how to counteract that so I'd imagine it will be a more traditional battle at the breakdown this weekend.
George Ford and Owen Farrell have a brilliant partnership at 10 and 12. They've been playing together for quite a while now. With Farrell playing at fly-half for Saracens he seems to take a bit of pressure off Ford. He'll know what Ford wants outside him and he takes the kicking responsibilities to touch and at goal. That allows Ford to just concentrate on his game.
Ford has great skills. His kicking is outstanding. He's good at putting those high balls up and pressuring the opposition with kicks. I'm looking forward to going up against him but it will be tough.
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England are chasing that record but we've got plenty of motivation ourselves to win this game. The record is of no interest to us. We just know a win will put us in a fantastic position in the championship and that's all the motivation we need.
Scotland are never the favourites when we take on England but it will be good to go down to Twickenham and have a crack at them. We've not won there in 34 years but the history doesn't bother us.
This is a different team. We are in a good place, playing well and looking forward to going down there and getting stuck in.
Finn Russell was speaking to BBC Scotland's Andy Burke.
But this is not a practice session, even though the musician playing is an international performer.
The pianist is stretching his hand out over the keyboard demonstrating to a software designer that he is working with how many notes one hand can span.
"We have taught a computer to write musical scores," says Gustavo Diaz-Jerez, software consultant and pianist.
"Now we can produce modern classical music at the touch of a button."
The team working on the music project, known as Iamus - after the Greek mythological figure who could talk to birds - inputs only basic information.
"We've just told the computer some very general technical things," Mr Diaz-Jerez says.
"We have informed the computer that it is impossible for a pianist to play a 10 note chord with one hand. We only have five fingers on one hand."
Instructing the computer to write musical scores is a milestone in the linkage between technology and music.
An offshoot of artificial life research, the project uses evolution as its basis, according to Francisco Vico, professor of AI at the university.
"Some people don't believe it is possible," he says.
"Each composition has a musical core that becomes ever more complex and evolves automatically."
The software enables Iamus to write countless scores without needing any human help - that is until the music needs to be performed. It is all down to mapping information.
"It starts with very complex structures inside the computer," Mr Diaz-Jerez explains.
"It is very different from other computer-generated music. When people hear the phrase they imagine that you can hear the computer playing music.
"Iamus does something different, it projects the complexity we are growing in the computer into musical structures."
Iamus is fed with specific information setting out, for example, which instruments have to be composed for and the desired duration.
The activity is controlled by an algorithm inspired by biological processes.
Just as human genomes mutated over time to create a multitude of unique people, Iamus alters and rearranges its source material to create complex pieces of music. The only restrictions placed on its output are determined by what can be realistically played by a musician and their instrument.
"It evolves the composition inside the machine," says Francisco Vico.
"Then a human selects from the set of compositions that Iamus provides."
Compositions have been recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra. Violinist and director Lennox McKenzie says it was a first for the organisation.
"This piece is not the sort of thing that you listen to and then walk away whistling a tune," he says of the event.
"It's really quite large in sound. It reminds me a bit of Varese or Frank Zappa."
In a test British amateur musicologist Peter Russell also referred to the music as "artistic and delightful" after hearing it before being told of its origin.
Iamus has the potential to compose in genres other than contemporary classical and for instruments to which it has not yet been introduced.
Mr DÃaz-Jerez explains that at present it uses what we call the tempered western scale - in which there are twelve notes in an octave.
"But if we instruct the computer to use more notes, like for example in Hindu or Arabic music - they have more notes to the scale - then Iamus will be able to compose pieces that relate to those cultures," he says
"So it's just a matter of extending the knowledge of the computer."
It may strike an eerie note that a computer could become a more prodigious composer than Mozart, Haydn, Brahms and Beethoven combined. For now musicians can still take refuge in the knowledge that it still requires their own personal feelings and talent to interpret the machine's music and bring it alive.
Meantime the innovation has opened up the door for a new kind of music sales.
The commercial offshoot of Iamus, US-based Melomics Media, is offering the computer-created compositions at a similar rate to what it would cost to download a track from iTunes, Google Play or some other online store.
But the big difference is that not only can purchasers get a copy of Iamus's creations but also their copyright. And with an limitless number of tracks there's no risk of running out of material.
An Afghan soldier and an interpreter also died in the Nato air strike after Monday's operation in Zabul province
Afghan officials say coalition forces called in air support when they were attacked by the Taliban at the end of the operation. Nato is investigating.
Militants have stepped up attacks as foreign combat troops leave this year.
The incident, which happened on Monday, is among the most serious cases of so-called "friendly fire" in Afghanistan, where Nato-led troops have been battling Taliban and other insurgents since 2001.
A statement from international forces in Kabul said: "Tragically there is the possibility that fratricide may have been involved."
Nato did not immediately confirm the nationality of these latest casualties.
But the BBC's David Loyn in Kabul says the term "fratricide" is used by US forces when they mistakenly kill soldiers on their own side.
Chroniclers of the battle of Waterloo, fought in 1815, have recorded how British infantry squares engaged one another by mistake and other allied cavalry, causing many casualties.
Similar incidents happened in the Crimea in 1854, during the American Civil War of the 1860s and the Boer War of 1899-1902.
War diaries from World War I are peppered with accounts, mainly of British artillery shelling British troops by accident, poison gas clouds being misdirected, or a worn gun barrel firing shells inaccurately.
In World War Two, many allied aircraft were lost to so-called friendly fire, because of poor aircraft recognition skills, or the split seconds in which a pilot had to decide whether to engage an oncoming plane or not.
Historians now think that the famous RAF fighter ace Douglas Bader was shot down by one of his wingmen, not the Germans.
A history of friendly fire
The Isaf force currently has soldiers from 50 contributing nations in Afghanistan. Most troops stationed in the south are American.
The governor of Zabul province told the BBC there was a joint operation involving Afghan and international troops.
The incident happened in Arghandab district, a place hotly contested between the Taliban and international forces for some years, our correspondent reports.
Southern Afghanistan is the heartland of the Taliban movement and insurgents frequently attack security forces in the region.
There have been more than 30 Nato forces killed this year in Afghanistan - the latest incident is the deadliest so far in 2014.
Afghanistan is set to hold a run-off round of voting in its presidential election on Saturday.
Insurgents - who vowed to disrupt campaigning and voting - attacked the campaign rally of one of the contenders last week.
Allen, 22, was at Anfield on Thursday as Liverpool beat FC Gomel 3-0 and passed a medical on Friday.
He becomes Brendan Rodgers's second signing after the capture of Italy international striker Fabio Borini.
Joe's ability to control and dominate the ball is an important ingredient in our attempt to gain success on the field.
"I feel incredible. Everyone knows the history of this club, it's a massive club, and I'm delighted to have joined," he told the club's website.
"The passion that people here have for football is something I share and I want to be part of that.
"I'm looking forward to being part of some great years ahead for Liverpool."
Rodgers believes Allen will play a key role in helping him impose his style of play on the Liverpool team.
Allen was crucial to Rodgers's system at Swansea and expects the Welshman to do a similar job at Anfield.
"I'm absolutely delighted that Joe has made the decision to come with us on this journey," Rodgers said.
"Joe is a player whose profile will fit perfectly with the ideas of this group. His ability to control and dominate the ball is an important ingredient in our attempt to gain success on the field.
"Joe has had a fantastic education at Swansea City and will now begin the next chapter in his exciting career."
The two clubs opened negotiations over a deal for Allen last month, but the Anfield club's opening bid was rejected.
Rodgers offered about £12m plus fellow midfielder Jonjo Shelvey on loan, but that deal was turned down by Swansea chairman Hugh Jenkins.
Although the new Liverpool manager has a written agreement with Swansea not to return to his former club to try to sign any of their players for the next 12 months, the Welsh club can waive that clause if a deal is deemed to be in the best interests of the club.
Capt Albert Ball, from Nottingham, was 20 when his fighter plane crashed in a French field on 7 May 1917.
He already had the Military Cross and was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. He was considered one of the great British pilots of World War One.
Two of his relatives visited the cemetery in Annoeullin.
He was buried there by the Germans with full military honours.
Relative Yvonne Neville said before her visit: "It will be very interesting and very touching to see (the French memorial).
"His father insisted his body should remain in that cemetery but all the other war dead were taken away… so that cemetery only has Albert as a war hero."
A service was also held at his memorial in the grounds of Nottingham Castle.
Capt Ball attended Nottingham High School where a plaque still marks his achievements and later Trent College in Long Eaton.
He was known for his "lone wolf" style of flying and attacks on multiple enemy aircraft.
He died without a shot being fired.
Simon Williams from the school said: "What seems to have happened is that he got disoriented in cloud and… the plane became inverted which killed the engine.
"He (and his plane) fell out of the cloud and crashed into a field."
Capt Ball was awarded his VC for "most conspicuous and consistent bravery" and was credited with 44 confirmed and 25 unconfirmed kills.
His businessman father made sure he attended a good public school in his native Nottingham.
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The 27-year-old left-back has had spells at Ebbsfleet United, Woking and Whitehawk this season.
He is eligible to make his debut for against Tranmere on Saturday.
Dover, who are sixth in the table, three points off the play-off places, have not disclosed the length of Braham-Barrett's deal at Crabble.
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Mr Farron said there was no need for the Orkney and Shetland MP to step down or contest a by-election.
Mr Carmichael has been under pressure since admitting leaking a memo about First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
An SNP MP has said Mr Farron should show respect for the current parliamentary investigation and court action into Mr Carmichael's actions.
Mr Farron said Mr Carmichael, Scotland's only Lib Dem MP, had made a "fulsome apology".
Mr Carmichael, who was Scottish secretary in the Tory-Lib Dem coalition before May's election, initially denied leaking the confidential memo to the Daily Telegraph but has since admitted being responsible.
The article, which was published in the newspaper on 4 April, at the start of the general election campaign, contained details of a private meeting between Ms Sturgeon and the French ambassador Sylvie Bermann.
It claimed the SNP leader would prefer to see Tory leader David Cameron become prime minister rather than his Labour opponent Ed Miliband.
Both Ms Sturgeon and the ambassador denied the account and Mr Carmichael accepted, after the election campaign, that the "details of the account are not correct".
Mr Carmichael will appear before a special electoral court in September after a legal challenge to his election was lodged by a group of constituents under the Representation of the People Act 1983.
Mr Farron told BBC Scotland: "Most decent people, and most people are decent, think people deserve a second chance.
"Alistair has made a very fulsome apology and I think most decent people in Scotland, in Orkney and Shetland in particular, think 'fair enough, give the guy a break'.
"If a handful of people want to pursue it, that is their right but I think it speaks more about them than they would want it to be said."
The Liberal Democrat leaders comments have been criticised by SNP MP Peter Grant.
"Mr Farron claims that most people want to move on and give Mr Carmichael 'a second chance'. However, the fact remains that Mr Carmichael contested the election in May on false pretences, claiming that he knew nothing of the dirty tricks campaign against Nicola Sturgeon when it was in fact orchestrated from his own ministerial office.
"There is an investigation into Mr Carmichael's conduct by Westminster's Standards Commissioner, and of course the election court hearing has still to take place - the decent thing would be for Mr Farron to show some respect for these important processes as they take their course."
The 28-year-old suffered serious injuries after he was assaulted by two men in Union Street at about 05:30.
He was taken to the city's Royal Infirmary, where his condition was described as critical.
The first man was about 6ft tall, of heavy build and had dark hair. He was wearing a grey T-shirt and dark jeans.
The second man was described as being 5ft 9in tall, with short grey hair. He was wearing a brown bomber-style jacket and dark blue jeans.
The attack happened between St Nicholas Street and Broad Street.
Police appealed for anyone with information to contact them.
Det Insp Norman Stevenson said: "Whilst this happened in the early hours of the morning, I would appeal to anyone who saw it happen or any part of it, to come forward and tell us what they saw."
In Uttar Pradesh, a special police squad has been set up to fight eve teasing - a local term for sexual harassment. But the move has led to allegations of moral policing. The BBC's Vikas Pandey spent a day with the squad in Allahabad city.
In a public park, a young couple try to hide as they spot the squad.
"Please come out. We are here for your safety," Niraj Kumar Jadaun, assistant superintendent of police and head of the squad, tells them.
The boy emerges and asks for forgiveness, only to be reassured by Mr Jadaun that he has done nothing wrong.
After a brief conversation, the couple manage a faint smile before disappearing into the park.
"Some people are scared of cops. And that's the perception we have to fight against," he says. "But eve teasing is another reality that we need to fight against."
Police in Uttar Pradesh established the squad due to rising reports of sexual harassment. There are no reliable statistics and police say that in most cases women don't report harassment. But most women have a story, or several, to tell about inappropriate or abusive groping, language or behaviour.
A total of 1,400 officers have been deployed to anti-harassment squads across the state. Each squad includes three uniformed officers and a female officer in plain clothes. They patrol in cars and on foot, targeting areas where they get most complaints about harassment.
So far there have been mixed results. Some squads have made headlines for "moral policing" and there have been reports of couples being harassed and even beaten up.
But Rahul Srivastava, chief spokesperson of the police, said that only "a handful" of officers were making mistakes.
"We are repeatedly training our staff about the dos and don'ts," he said. "We have suspended nine officials so far for violations. Our instruction is clear that consenting adults should not be disturbed."
Mr Jadaun says upbringing can be to blame. "In some cultures it's still a taboo for a boy and a girl to sit together in public places. So some cops who think on similar lines end up indulging in moral policing," he says. "But their number is very small."
Back in the park, Mr Jadaun is stopped by a young man who wants to talk.
"My name is Abhilash Denis and I want to thank you for this initiative. But I also have some issues," he says.
Mr Denis says that he likes to go to public parks with his girlfriend.
"But it's always a risk. Eve teasers are always around. They make nasty remarks and make rude gestures. The squad's presence has made sure that such people are less visible in public places," he says.
"But that doesn't mean that cops have a right to disturb us any time."
Mr Jadaun assures him that police will only disturb him to ask about their safety.
Elsewhere in the park a woman, who didn't want to be identified, seems angry with the police.
"It's the police's responsibility to make us feel safe. But I don't want random police to question me just because I am sitting in a public place with my male friend," she says.
"Yes, I agree that eve teasing is a problem. And I am happy the police are doing something about it. But they need to get better at what they do."
In another part of the city, police approach two couples sitting on a bench.
Kritika Singh says she appreciates the work the police are doing, and didn't mind having a conversation with them.
"You have to know how big a problem eve teasing is in this state. Every girl can tell you horrific incidents they have faced in public places," she says.
"Abuse, filthy gestures from men are very common. Sometimes they also end up touching us inappropriately in public places."
Her friend Sadhna Maurya agrees.
"I have seen reports about moral policing and that must stop. But the squad should not be shut. I have seen it making a difference. We feel a bit safer now, though not 100%."
She says she has grown up accepting harassment as a reality. "For the first time something is being done, I am willing to accept it despite its imperfections."
I witnessed similar conversations between the squad and people across the city. We stopped at schools, malls and shopping districts.
The squad questions many men, but nobody is detained. "Our purpose is not to arrest people. We want eve teasers to know that the police are out there to catch them. We want them to change," Mr Jadaun says.
As the day finishes, the jury still seems to be out on whether the initiative is a success.
In some places people, mostly women, appreciated the squad's work. But some still have doubts about its methods.
I put this question to the state's top police official, Javeed Ahmed.
"Eve teasing is a reality," he said. "We needed to send a signal that women would be protected and people who harassed them would be dealt with in a strict manner."
He acknowledges that there is a long way to go. "But I am glad we have made a start," he says. "We can't become a progressive state if women don't feel safe here."
Back at base, the squad hold a briefing to go over the day's events.
Superintendent of Police Vipin Tada says it is a chance to identify mistakes. "They are learning fast. Just remember it's a new initiative for them as well," he says.
Allahabad's top police officer Shalabh Kumar Mathur says he does not regret putting resources into this initiative.
"Eve teasing is a menace. If the choice is between doing nothing and doing something with scope for improvement, I would pick the latter," he says.
Playcraft Live will be performed at the city's Playhouse Theatre on 14 October.
It will simultaneously be streamed to the world online via the theatre's website, Minecraft and Youtube.
Slipping between both stage and game world, the story will unfold across different locations and times.
Minecraft is the second-best-selling videogame of all time.
It allows players to build things using cubic blocks and take part in exploration, engineering, crafting and combat.
The game is hugely popular with children and young teenagers.
The production will see the dramatisation of a script, written specifically for Playcraft by Alex Scarrow, author of the teen science fiction series of novels, Time Riders.
The story is based between books one and two of his Time Riders series.
Online audiences will experience the production as a live-stream simulcast.
For those lucky enough to be part of the Playhouse audience, they will be able to see the physical actor on stage communicating the play to them.
They will also see a stream of the digital version of that actor, within the Minecraft world, projected onto a screen.
These avatars will be developed and built by Minecraft experts operating from an adjacent room.
Kieran Griffiths, creative director at the Playhouse Theatre, said he was excited to be introducing something "completely new to the world of theatre".
"The production is hugely ambitious and a definite step into the unknown, but a tremendous opportunity to allow two artistic worlds to come together and learn from each other," Mr Griffiths said.
The project will also involve renowned creative producer Adam Clarke and digital educators MakeMatic.
It has been commissioned by The Space, which is funded by the BBC and Arts Council England.
"I suppose the thorny rose in between is the technology," Mr Griffiths said.
"Over the coming months we have to remove the thorns and make sure that rose is passed gracefully.
"At the end of it, we hope to produce an educational asset whereby we will see online amateur societies creating their own world within Minecraft."
Throughout the summer, Minecraft fans will be invited to join in on the production, find out more about the play and contribute to the process along the way.
She was walking along Harcourt Hill, Botley between 19:45 and 20:10 GMT on Tuesday evening when she was approached from behind by an armed man.
He took her to Raleigh Park where he raped her, Thames Valley Police said.
A traffic collision involving a black VW Golf in Wytham shortly before 23:00 is being linked to the investigation.
A forensics tent has been put up in the park with a cordon surrounding it and police are combing the area, with increased foot patrols in place.
The offender is described as white, about 30 years old, muscular and just under 6ft. He was wearing dark black clothing, with a hood up and a balaclava covering the lower part of his face.
A 38-year-old man is currently in police custody.
Senior investigating officer Det Insp Jim Holmes said: "We are appealing to anyone who saw or heard anything unusual in the area to come forward.
"We are particularly interested in hearing from anyone who may have seen a man matching the description running away from the Harcourt Hill area shortly after 20:25, or anyone who saw a man matching the description with a woman in that area last night.
"We are also interested in speaking to residents in Wytham... we are linking this road traffic collision to the rape."
An Oxford Brookes spokeswoman said the university was co-operating with inquiries.
The gunman, Gavin Long, an African-American who had served for five years in the Marines, was also killed.
He had posted videos on the internet complaining about police treatment of African-Americans.
Tensions in Baton Rouge have been high since a black man Alton Sterling was shot dead by police two weeks ago.
That death - and a second police shooting in Minnesota - sparked protests across the United States and triggered a revenge attack by a black army veteran who shot dead five officers in the city of Dallas.
In one video, posted on YouTube, Long said that should "anything happen" to him, he was "not affiliated" with any group.
"I'm affiliated with the spirit of justice, nothing more nothing less. I thought my own thoughts, I made my own decisions," he said.
In a live broadcast from the White House, President Obama called upon all Americans to unite and refrain from divisive language.
"Regardless of motive, the death of these three brave officers underscores the danger that police across the country confront every single day, and we as a nation have to be loud and clear that nothing justifies violence against law enforcement," he said.
"Everyone right now focus on words and actions that can unite this country rather than divide it further," he added, as the US begins two weeks of political conventions with Republicans meeting in Cleveland later on Monday.
"We need to temper our words and open our hearts... all of us," said the president.
A vigil was attended by police officers and members of the public on Sunday evening at Saint John the Baptist Church in Zachary, just north of Baton Rouge.
The incident began on Sunday morning with shots being fired at a petrol station on Airline Highway in Baton Rouge.
Police received reports of a man with an assault rifle.
Witness Brady Vancel told WAFB TV he saw what may have been gang members shooting at each other before police arrived.
Another witness said she saw a gunman wearing a black mask and military-style clothing.
Shots were exchanged over a period of more than 15 minutes, leaving three police officers and the suspect dead, with three other officers wounded, one in a critical condition.
The dead officers were named as Montrell Jackson, 32, and Matthew Gerald, 41, of the Baton Rouge police department, and Sheriff's Deputy Brad Garafola, 45. All three men had families.
The suspect was named as 29-year-old Gavin Long, of Kansas City, Missouri, a former Marine.
He received an honourable discharge, and won several medals while in the military, including one for good conduct.
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards told a news conference it was an "absolutely unspeakable, heinous attack."
Although no other suspects have been identified, police said they were investigating whether the gunman had help from unknown others.
"We are not ready to say he acted alone," said state police spokesman Major Doug Cain.
Baton Rouge Mayor Kip Holden said he had spoken to White House officials who had offered assistance. He said it was "a defining moment" for community relations.
But he also told local media the "rhetoric from some people" after the death of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge may be connected to the shootings, without elaborating who.
"Everything's been anti-police," he said.
Four officers died when their helicopter crashed over the notorious City of God favela on Saturday.
Gang members were suspected of shooting down the helicopter after gunfire was captured on video footage of the crash.
Rio state security chief Roberto Sa said no bullet holes were found in the helicopter or the officer's bodies.
Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the crash which happened during an anti-drug operation. On Sunday Mr Sa stressed: "It's too early for any conclusion."
Several clashes between police and criminal gangs operating in the City of God favela were reported on Saturday.
On Sunday, police backed by an armoured vehicle carried out further operations in the favela, arresting two people and seizing a number of drugs. Brazilian media also reported that seven unidentified bodies were found.
Mr Sa said police were investigating a territorial dispute between members of two favelas in western Rio.
Shootouts between police and gangs are common in Rio. In 2009, gang members shot down a police helicopter, killing both pilots.
Violence has been on the rise in the city over the past two years following the failure of a 2010 programme to rid the favelas of drug gangs.
A total of 3,649 murders were reported in 2016 up until the end of September, a rise of almost 18% on the same period last year.
The government said SSE Renewables' Stronelairg project would generate power for 114,000 homes and bring £30m-worth of benefits to the region.
Landscape charity the John Muir Trust opposes the scheme.
In April, it challenged Highland Council's decision to raise no objection to the wind farm.
The trust lodged a petition in the Court of Session for a judicial review of the local authority's decision.
It warned that the project would "destroy the character" of an area of wild land.
The Mountaineering Council of Scotland also opposed the wind farm.
Following the Scottish government's decision, the council said the project would be a "massively intrusive industrial development" that would be visible from surrounding mountains, including peaks in the Cairngorms National Park.
SSE Renewables had sought permission for up to 83 turbines at Stronelairg near its Glendoe hydro-electric scheme above Fort Augustus.
The scheme was later reduced in size.
SSE said no turbines will be visible from the main tourist routes of the Great Glen, Loch Ness and Cairngorm National Park.
The company's Colin Nicol said the project would bring "real socio-economic benefits" to the Great Glen area including job creation, skills training, business opportunities and community funds.
Mr Ewing said the wind farm would create work during its construction and operation.
He added: "Once it is up and running, the wind farm will save thousands of tonnes of carbon dioxide each year, and will be able to produce enough electricity to power thousands of homes in the Highlands.
"As well as bringing benefits to the local community, the Stronelairg wind farm will also benefit the wider Highland region through the provision of a sustainable development fund."
The project is being planned for the sea just off Murlough Bay - an area of special scientific interest.
But the energy company said the bay is just one of two options for bringing the cables ashore.
It said if the bay is chosen there will be conditions to the planning approval.
Patrick Casement is amongst those opposed to the cable plan at Murlough Bay.
He said laying an underground cable to a sub-station some distance away would create a "scar on the landscape that will take years to heal".
DP Energy want to build the first commercial tidal scheme in Northern Ireland and have identified an area near Fair Head.
It said it can generate enough power for 70,000 homes.
The company has two options for getting the power ashore.
The first is a cable run of 2km to Murlough Bay.
The second is a longer route covering 10km and coming ashore near Ballycastle.
DP Energy has not yet decided which it will choose.
Clodagh McGrath from DP Energy said if it gets the go-ahead the project would "have a range of conditions that have to be complied with".
So far the company has only applied for permission for the off-shore element of the project.
A range of turbines options are being considered.
Some are totally submerged, but others would have service pods protruding above the waves.
DP Energy said there will be a separate planning application for the onshore work, including the cabling, in due course.
The monarch, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, attended a Solemn Drumhead Service of Remembrance at the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London.
The event took place on the centenary of the shooting of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.
The assassination sparked the chain of events that led to war.
It comes as Armed Forces Day celebrations take place across the country.
The Chelsea ceremony included a marching contingent of modern-day reservists from HMS President, among others, led by the Honourable Artillery Company band.
Several other members of the Royal Family, including the Earl of Wessex, Prince Michael of Kent and Princess Alexandra, also attended.
After the service, the Queen was presented with Stepping Forward, a book written in tribute to volunteer military reservists and supporting auxiliaries from Greater London 1908-2014.
Lieutenant Governor of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, Maj Gen Peter Currie said: "There is no more fitting site for this event in London than the home of the Chelsea Pensioners, which for over 300 years has stood as a symbol of the nation's gratitude."
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Meanwhile, Bosnia is commemorating 100 years since the assassination of Austrian Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo, with a programme of cultural and sporting events.
Gavrilo Princip shot dead the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and his wife Sophie in the Bosnian capital in 1914, sparking four years of conflict.
Austria responded angrily and declared war on Serbia, securing support from Germany. Shortly after, Russia announced the mobilisation of its troops, with Germany declaring war on the country days later.
On 4 August 1914, Britain declared war on Germany.
The South Douglas MHK was unanimously chosen to succeed Mr Karran, who has led the party he founded since 2006.
He said it "was time for a change" and that Mrs Beecroft was the "right choice for the future."
Mrs Beecroft and Mr Karran are currently the party's two elected MHK's.
She said she was "honoured to accept the role" having been proposed by Mr Karran at the party's annual general meeting on Sunday.
He said: "There is no question she is the right woman for the job. She has the intelligence and the values to be our leader and help bring about the much needed changes in government."
"She will continue our work to scrutinise every decision the Manx government makes."
Mrs Beecroft added: "Mr Karran was the reason I joined the party and I am delighted to now have an opportunity to lead it."
"I want this party to have many more credible candidates for the next general election and I will do my absolute best to make this happen."
The Liberal Vannin Party has said it pledges "politics to the people".
The English league champions beat Danish side Fortuna Hjorring on Thursday to progress to the last four in their debut European campaign.
French side Lyon have reached the final five times in the past seven seasons.
"We're ready for it. We need it because we were undefeated last year in our league," Cushing told BBC Radio 5 live.
"Now we need to see where we are at, where our mentality is at and where our game is at, against the best. They [Lyon] are the best team.
"There is no pressure on us. Everyone expects Lyon to beat us. We'll enjoy putting ourselves up against the best, because we think we are a good team."
Cushing's side won the English Women's Super League One title in September, finishing their league campaign without defeat, and added the WSL Continental Cup (League Cup) in October.
So far in their maiden Champions League campaign, City have knocked out Russian side Zvezda 2005 plus Danish sides Brondby and Fortuna.
"It is an unbelievable achievement in our first season to get to the semi-finals," added Cushing. "We now can draw on all of those good performances and try to play Lyon.
"We need to enjoy putting ourselves up against what people believe is Europe's best team."
City will be at home in the first leg on the weekend of 22-23 April, before the return leg in France on the weekend of 29-30 April.
The other semi-final sees Barcelona, who beat Swedish side Rosengard on Wednesday, face 2015 runners-up Paris St-Germain, who were 4-1 aggregate winners over Bayern Munich in the last eight.
Like City, Barcelona have reached the semi-finals for the first time in their history.
The Blades reached the semi-finals of the Capital One Cup but finished fifth in League One and failed to gain promotion through the play-offs.
A statement on the club's website said: "A change in direction was necessary for the forthcoming season."
Clough, 49, had managerial spells at Burton Albion and Derby County manager before replacing David Weir at Bramall Lane in October 2013.
Clough's backroom staff of Gary Crosby, Andy Garner, Martin Taylor, Simon Clough, Michael Forsyth and Matt Brown will also leave the club, which faces a fifth successive year in the third tier.
The club statement added: "The search for the club's new first-team manager will now start and it is hoped this will result in identifying and recruiting the right candidate within a relatively short period of time.
"The club would like to place on record its thanks to Nigel, as well as his backroom staff."
Former England international forward Clough started his managerial career with Burton Albion in 1998 after a successful playing career that took in stints with Nottingham Forest, Liverpool and Manchester City.
Having guided the Brewers to the top of the Conference Premier, he left to take over Derby in January 2009, following in the footsteps of his late father Brian, who managed the club to the league title in the 1970s.
A penalty try helped the hosts lead 10-6 at the break before Jared Payne and Jackson crossed in the second half.
Rob Kearney and Luke Fitzgerald were sin-binned for Leinster, who failed to score in the second period.
The win guarantees Ulster a European Champions Cup place ahead of their final Pro12 game against the Ospreys.
Despite the emphatic defeat, Leinster remain in third and could still secure a home semi-final if second-placed Connacht slip up against Munster in next weekend's final round of games.
Ulster were forced to make a late change to the starting team with Craig Gilroy ruled out with a virus and replaced by Rory Scholes.
The home side started brightly with Jackson nailing a 12th minute penalty after obstruction on Andrew Trimble.
Ulster grew in ascendancy, moving the big Leinster pack around the pitch, and converted their dominance into points when Ruan Pienaar engineered the opening try.
He spotted a hole in Leinster's midfield, burst through the gap and launched a kick-chase before being clattered illegally by Rob Kearney after 18 minutes.
The Irish full-back was sin-binned for the cynical body-check which denied Pienaar a certain try and referee George Clancy awarded Ulster a penalty try, which Jackson converted.
With a 10-0 lead and Leinster down to 14 men, Ulster had the opportunity to press home their advantage but instead it was the visitor's who seized the momentum.
With Rhys Ruddock influential and Sexton pulling the strings, they worked their way into the game.
Leinster outscored Ulster 3-0 while Kearney was in the sin-bin, Sexton landing a difficult sideline penalty attempt in the 28th minute and he scored again to reduce Ulster's interval lead to 10-6.
Fitzgerald, part of a Leinster quadruple substitution early in the second half, was only on the pitch two minutes when he was sin-binned for holding Scholes' arm as he tried to collect a Stuart McCloskey pass.
Ulster ended a 35-minute scoring drought through Jackson's penalty to move 13-6 ahead.
Having failed to take advantage of Kearney's sin-binning, Ulster were more clinical with the extra man this time with Jared Payne scoring a 58th minute try.
After a lineout maul, Luke Marshall's fast hands deftly switched the play and Payne made the numerical advantage count by crossing over out wide.
Man-of-the-match Jackson added a penalty and a breakaway try, intercepting Eoin Reddan's misplaced pass, to wrap up a convincing victory for Ulster.
Ulster: J Payne; A Trimble, L Marshall, S McCloskey, R Scholes; P Jackson, R Pienaar; C Black, R Best, R Lutton; P Browne, F van der Merwe; I Henderson, C Henry, S Reidy.
Replacements: R Herring, K McCall, A Warwick, R Diack, R Wilson, P Marshall, S Olding, D Cave.
Leinster: R Kearney; I Nacewa, G Ringrose, B Te'o, D Kearney; J Sexton, L McGrath; J McGrath, R Strauss, T Furlong; D Toner, H Triggs; R Ruddock, J van der Flier, J Heaslip.
Replacements: S Cronin, P Dooley, M Ross, M Kearney, J Murphy, E Reddan, I Madigan, L Fitzgerald.
Referee: George Clancy (IRFU).
Writing in the acting union Equity's magazine, he called low pay or working for free "a virus" that stifled diversity.
He said it was the theatre industry's "job" to "hold a mirror up to nature".
"Unless we keep the widest possible demographic... we are building a time bomb into the future of the industry".
West, who is currently directing April de Angelis's play After Electra in Plymouth, said "actors should never be asked to work for nothing when other professionals in the production are drawing salaries".
He said the usual explanation that it will "lead to visibility" should not be given "when that usually depends more on backgrounds and contacts".
West, whose parents are the actors Timothy West and Prunella Scales, said it seemed like the industry based its "economic model on those who can afford to live with their parents", which does not work.
"Talent is no respecter of postcodes, or how much your parents earn," he said.
Echoing the current campaign for more diversity in the arts - he said ultimately if the industry does not represent BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) people fairly "we hold up a distorting mirror; we alienate audiences and deny lots of good artists a chance of work".
"If we don't employ people with disabilities, we spread a culture of 'difference', and deny shared understanding," he said.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 took $51.6m (£34.3m) on its second weekend in North American cinemas.
The Good Dinosaur, in contrast, could only muster $39.2m (£26m) from its first five days on release.
Creed, a continuation of the Sylvester Stallone Rocky series, opened in third place with a $30.1m (£20m) haul.
Both The Good Dinosaur and Creed opened in cinemas on Wednesday to take advantage of America's Thanksgiving holiday.
Mockingjay - Part 2, the final outing for Jennifer Lawrence's futuristic tyranny-battling Katniss Everdeen character, has now made more than $440m (£292.7m) worldwide.
But according to the Box Office Mojo site, its 10-day takings in North America - which currently stand at just short of $200m (£133m) - are $25m (£16.6m) down on what its immediate predecessor had grossed at the same point in its release one year ago.
The Good Dinosaur, Pixar's second release of 2015, tells of a friendship between an Apatosaurus and an infant caveman in an alternate reality in which dinosaurs have not become extinct.
The film, which had a troubled production history, had the third lowest North American opening in the company's history, with only A Bug's Life and Toy Story 2 faring less well with what were far more limited debuts in comparison.
Creed, in which Stallone's Rocky Balboa character becomes the trainer to the son of his former adversary Apollo Creed, attracted an audience primarily made up of males aged 25 and over.
Ryan Coogler's film, part of which was shot in Liverpool, has received glowing reviews from critics, one of whom said it was "the best Rocky film since the [1976] original".
Spectre, the latest entry in the James Bond series, is ranked fourth in this week's chart, with The Peanuts Movie charting in fifth place.
The latter, which brings Charles M Schulz's Peanuts characters to the big screen in computer-animated form, will be called Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie when it is released in the UK in December.
Victor Frankenstein, a new version of Mary Shelley's monster story starring James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe, failed to make much of an impression, earning just $3.4m (£2.3m) in its first five days in cinemas.
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Wales opted to kick for the corner when trailing 16-13 in the 51st minute.
They were penalised at the ensuing line-out as Scotland recorded their first win over Wales since 2007.
"The kickers didn't want to so we just went for the corner," said 107-times capped Jones, who added he "would have liked to" have taken the points.
"We didn't do it, did we?" he added.
"And I got done for blocking at the back of the lift then, but, yeah, I would have liked to have gone for the three (points)."
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The incident was more remarkable as Irish referee John Lacey could be heard saying a kick at goal had been indicated while Wales fly-half Dan Biggar could be heard asking Jones if he could kick for the corner.
After the match Jones said the referee had not been involved.
The penalty was awarded on the Scotland 22-metre line close to the touchline, so would normally be considered well within the range of place kickers Leigh Halfpenny, who kicked eight points, and Biggar.
Wales led 13-9 at half-time, but failed to add to their tally after the break as Scotland scored 20 unanswered points.
Jones felt the momentum shift started before the interval when Halfpenny missed a chance to give Wales a 10-point lead and man of the match Finn Russell cut the gap to four points with the last kick of the half.
"At the tail end of the first half they took an opportunity and then into the second half, but we coughed up possession a little too easily," he said.
Jones said he wanted Wales to improve their discipline for their next game against Ireland on Friday, 10 March in Cardiff.
"We gave away one or two soft penalties and Scotland did a good job of disrupting us at the breakdown in the second half," he added.
Bruce, 55, is a candidate to succeed the sacked Remi Garde, along with Nigel Pearson, David Moyes and Sean Dyche.
"No approach had been made nor would one be welcome," a spokesman for Hull, fourth in the table, told BBC Sport.
Former Villa player and manager Brian Little, who recently joined the club's board of directors, will play a key role in the selection process.
However Villa, bottom of the table and 12 points adrift of safety with seven games to play, are in no rush to make an appointment.
Villa want a British manager to succeed Garde, BBC Sport understands.
Former Leicester manager Pearson and ex-Manchester United boss Moyes have been tipped as replacements.
Bruce, who has been with Hull since 2012, and Burnley manager Dyche are also possible candidates.
The board's recommendation will need to be passed by Randy Lerner, the club's American owner, before a final decision.
Former Villa striker Garry Thompson says the next boss needs to know the Championship, which is where the club are likely to be playing next season.
He also says Garde's successor needs to have broad shoulders.
"People don't realise what a massive club Aston Villa is," Thompson, who played for the club in the late 1980s, told BBC Radio WM.
"You've got to be strong enough and big enough to carry this thing. Obviously, Remi wasn't."
Bruce guided Birmingham City to the Premier League in 2002 and 2007, before doing the same with Hull in 2013.
Police said the incident Inver Road happened some time between Friday night and Saturday morning at Inver Road in Larne.
Democratic Unionist Party MLA Gordon Lyons said he was "appalled" by the attack.
It was "an insult to the memories of all of those who fought and died for our country", he added.
"Council will begin a clean up operation as soon as the police are finished at the scene," he said.
"I trust that the memorial will be restored as soon as possible."
Sinn Féin MLA Oliver McMullan said it was a "shameful attack".
"All memorials should be respected and treated with the respect and dignity they deserve," he added.
From 13 April, patients on acute wards at Princess of Wales, Bridgend, Morriston and Singleton in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot Hospital can have visitors between 11:00 and 20:00 BST, seven days a week.
It is hoped the changes will make it easier for people to visit relatives.
The announcement follows a successful pilot at Neath Port Talbot Hospital.
Cheryl Jones, from Port Talbot, regularly visits her 82-year-old mother Glynis Andrews at Neath hospital and said the new hours meant her mother had lots of company during her eight-week hospital stay.
She said: "It has been really good. I can keep mum company for as long as she likes. It is much better than just having a short visiting time in the evenings."
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University (ABMU) Health Board said its paediatrics, maternity, mental health, learning disabilities and intensive care wards will also have flexible visiting hours, but they will be based on each patient's needs.
The couple had escaped from traffickers after arriving in Dover, Kent, and eventually settled in Bournemouth.
The children were placed in foster care over social services' concerns about the family home, domestic violence and the woman's mental health.
The parents were later evicted and returned to Slovakia.
Their current whereabouts are unknown and Mr Justice Baker said it was unrealistic to return the two-year-old girl and one-year-old boy to Slovakia.
The judge, who sits in the Family Division of the High Court, described the family's background as "sad and disturbing".
He said the couple, who are both in their 30s, married in Slovakia four years ago.
The woman, who is Hungarian and of "Roma origin", is illiterate, has learning difficulties and was raised on the street in Slovakia as part of a homeless family.
The man is also Hungarian and has a "low IQ", the judge said.
The woman gave birth in May 2013 and May 2014 after arriving in England.
The children were placed in foster care in July 2014 after social services raised a number of worries, including the conditions of their home.
The couple were evicted from the home in early 2015 and returned to Slovakia.
The judge heard evidence from social workers in the country who said the children would probably go into a children's home while efforts were made to place them with relatives.
If that was unsuccessful, they would be fostered or placed for adoption.
Mr Justice Baker said a move to Slovakia would be a "sudden interruption" for the children and deemed that their "cultural needs" were outweighed by their need for security and stability, which were being met by their current foster carers.
Over 18 years, researchers analysed bees who forage heavily on oilseed rape, a crop widely treated with "neonics".
The scientists attribute half of the total decline in wild bees to the use of these chemicals.
Industry sources say the study shows an association, not a cause and effect.
In recent years, several studies, conducted in the lab and in the field, have identified a negative effect on honey bees and bumble bees from the use of neonics.
But few researchers have looked at the long term impacts of these substances.
This new paper examined the impacts on populations of 62 species of wild bees across England over the period from 1994-2011.
The team, from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), used distribution data on wild bees, excluding honey and bumblebees collected by the bees, ants and wasps recording scheme.
They were able to compare the locations of these bees and their changing populations with growing patterns of oilseed rape across England over 18 years.
The amount of this crop being sown has increased significantly over the period of the study, from around 500,000 hectares in 1994 to over 700,000 in 2011.
A key innovation was the commercial licensing of neonicotinoid insecticides for the crop in the UK in 2002. Seeds are coated with the chemical and every part of the plant becomes toxic to pests.
Manufacturers hailed the development as a major advance, reducing the need for leaf spraying with other insecticides. Around 85% of the oilseed rape crop in England now uses this method for pest protection.
But this new work suggests, for the first time, that the detrimental impacts seen in the lab can be linked to large scale population extinctions of wild bees, especially for those species of bees that spend longer foraging on oilseed rape.
"The negative effects that have been reported previously do scale up to long-term, large-scale multi-species impacts that are harmful," said Dr Nick Isaac, a co-author of the new paper.
"Neonicotinoids are harmful, we can be very confident about that and our mean correlation is three times more negative for foragers than for non-foragers."
There was a decline in the number of populations of 10%, attributable to neonicotinoids, across the 34 species that forage on oilseed rape. Five of the species showed declines of 20% or more, with the worst affected declining by 30%. Overall, half the total decline in wild bees could be linked to the chemicals.
"Historically, if you just have oilseed rape, many bees tend to benefit from that because it is this enormous foraging resource all over the countryside," said lead author Dr Ben Woodcock from the CEH.
"But this co-relation study suggests that once its treated with neonicotinoids up to 85%, then they are starting to be exposed and it's starting to have these detrimental impacts on them."
"What we can't say is what these detrimental impacts are but what it does suggest is you can have these population declines and they can be big - I mean 30% is a big decline."
The authors acknowledge that their study finds an association and doesn't prove a cause and effect link between the use of neonicotinoids and the decline of bee populations.
The manufacturers of the chemicals agree that it is an interesting statistical study, but they argue that intensive farming and not just a single insecticide might be the real cause of the decline.
"Since most of the oilseed rape grown in the UK was treated with a neonicotinoid seed treatment during the years that this study looked at, we believe its findings would be more correctly headlined that intensive agriculture is causing some issues with pollinators," said Dr Julian Little, from Bayer Crop Science in the UK.
"Whether this is due to the use of insecticides is not clear; a lack of nesting sites and pollen and nectar sources in these areas may also be critical factors."
Other scientists, though, believe that the new study is some of the strongest data yet for the impact of these substances over the long term.
"This is the first good evidence that bees are affected at the population level by the widespread use of neonicotinoids," said Prof Henrik Smith from Lund University in Sweden, who was not involved with the research.
"It is the combination of evidence that is persuasive, that the effect depends on neonicotinoid exposure and affect species known to forage on oilseed rape more than other species."
The European Food Safety Authority is currently conducting a review of the scientific evidence about neonicotinoids.
An EU-wide moratorium on their use was implemented in 2013 and is still in place. This new work is likely to be part of that review, along with another, major field study due out in the Autumn. However, the National Farmers Union (NFU) say that it doesn't make a convincing case about the extinction of bees in England.
"While this study claims to provide an important contribution to the evidence base underpinning the current EU moratorium on some uses of neonicotinoids, experts reviewing all the evidence have concluded that there are still major gaps in our knowledge and a limited evidence base to guide policymakers," said Dr Chris Hartfield from the NFU.
The scientists involved in the wild bee study caution against "simplistic solutions" to the problems of pollinators. They say a "holistic" approach to the use of insecticides must be taken and they are lukewarm about the idea of banning chemicals.
"When you grow oilseed rape you can't do it without pesticides, there's an underlying reality to this," said Dr Woodcock.
"Just because you say 'don't use neonicotinoids anymore', the likelihood is that another pesticide is going to have to be used to compensate for that, that is going to have impacts on runoffs into waterways and on other species that you can control for."
"It needs to be taken in a very holistic perspective, you can't just say as long as we can save the bees everything else can go to hell, that's not where you want to be at."
The study has been published in the journal Nature Communications.
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The 26-year-old made 37 appearances for the Seagulls last season, helping the club win promotion to the top flight.
Norwood told fulhamfctv the style of football Fulham play is ideal for him.
"It suits the way I like to play," he said. "Once I knew of the interest I was desperate to get it done and I am very happy to be here."
Norwood has 46 international caps and has played in all of Northern Ireland's last 32 matches, starting 31 of them.
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The town's Borough Council took action over an unpaid £10.25m loan, but it has also allowed more time for the club to be taken over by Kelvin Thomas.
The proceedings also stopped it being separately wound-up by the taxman.
The council told the High Court it had taken an "informed decision".
It has been agreed the club will have its debt to the taxpayer wiped out in return for the council acquiring land near the Sixfields Stadium for development.
The £10.25m was originally given to former owner David Cardoza to develop the stadium, but the local authority subsequently called in the police.
Counsel James Morgan told Mr Justice Mann an agreement had been reached which was not arrived at lightly or without taking into account the alternative scenario of the club going into administration.
He said: "The council has taken an informed decision that this will be in the best interests of the council, the ratepayers, the football club and the wider community."
The judge said it should be made clear that in granting the order sought by the council, the court was not giving its approval of the deal, which had only been presented in outline.
Mr Justice Mann said: "It [the council] has come to the conclusion that the deal is a proper one. That is ultimately a matter for the council and not for this court."
The judge was told that another debt owed to HM Revenue & Customs had been paid in full and its application for the League Two club to be wound-up was withdrawn last week.
John Weston, from Groby, was strapped to the upper wing of a 1942 Boeing-Stearman biplane and flown 500ft (152m) into the air for 15 minutes.
Mr Weston, a rear gunner on a Lancaster Bomber in World War Two, was raising money for the Alzheimer's Society after his wife's death.
The event took place at Wickenby Aerodrome, in Lincolnshire.
After he landed Mr Weston said: "It's windy up there!"
The veteran, who had to lose 12 lbs (5.4 kg) for the challenge, raised an undisclosed amount for the Alzheimer's Society.
He said: "For three years [my wife] was reasonably active, then she got very poorly and for the last eight months it was cruel to see her.
"She'd lost the use of her arms, legs, speech and couldn't swallow."
The World War Two airman added he felt grateful that no one was trying to "shoot him down".
The Read On. Get On. coalition said "decisive action" must be taken by which ever party triumphs in May's assembly elections.
It claimed 10,000 of these children would be from poor backgrounds and must be allowed to fulfil their potential.
The Welsh government said literacy would be central to a new curriculum.
Read On. Get On. is a UK-wide campaign aimed at getting everyone reading well by the age of 11.
In Wales, it is made up of charities and literary agencies, including Save the Children, the Welsh Books Council and Literature Wales.
The group said children who read well by 11 do better at school, achieve better exam results and fare better in the workplace.
In Wales, it said the figures amounted to one in four of the poorest children and called for all youngsters to start secondary school as confident readers by 2025.
To achieve this, it wants more investment in the early years workforce, including specialist support and help for parents to encourage reading at home.
"We know that this is a challenging ambition, but it is wholly achievable and within our grasp if we focus our efforts," said Save the Children's Mary Powell-Chandler, who is the chair of Read On. Get On.
A Welsh government spokesman said literacy and numeracy would be "right at the heart" of a new curriculum being devised.
He added a £6.3m programme had recently been approved to provide qualifications for the early years workforce as well as an "education begins at home" campaign.
Aled Roberts, Welsh Liberal Democrat education spokesman, said: "The Welsh Liberal Democrats, in budget negotiations, insisted on the creation of the Welsh Pupil Premium, which focuses resources to Wales' most disadvantaged children.
"We are already seeing the benefits of this policy, which is beginning to break the link between poverty and attainment that has dogged our education system for so long. However, more must be done and there is no room for complacency."
Plaid Cymru's education spokesman Simon Thomas said: "There is a clear and urgent need to improve standards in our schools. Strong reading skills open the door for children to do well in other subjects and it is important that parents as well as teachers recognise this fact."
Angela Burns, Welsh Conservatives' education spokesperson, said: "This report highlights serious and legitimate concerns, and as a party the Welsh Conservatives would echo the need for decisive action to be taken to tackle shortfalls in literacy standards at some Welsh primary schools."
The other parties have been asked to comment.
His remarks came after Mr Almagro called an emergency meeting over Venezuela's "institutional crisis", a move which could lead to Venezuela's expulsion from the OAS.
Mr Maduro dismissed it as "meddling".
The Venezuelan leader also called for "a big anti-imperialist and anti-Almagro march" to be held on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, Mr Almagro published a 132-page document (in Spanish) requesting a meeting of the OAS Permanent Council.
He argued that "the institutional crisis in Venezuela demands immediate changes in the actions of the executive branch".
He also said Venezuela was "at risk of falling immediately into a situation of illegitimacy".
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At the emergency meeting, member states will decide whether to invoke the Inter-American Democratic Charter, which could lead to Venezuela's suspension from the OAS.
Mr Maduro, who has clashed with Mr Almagro in the past, reacted angrily.
He told a rally of supporters: "Mr Almagro, you can take your Democratic Charter, put it into a thin tube, and shove it wherever it fits. Venezuela must be respected!".
Speaking on his national television programme, he later said that Mr Almagro was "filled with hate against Venezuela" and accused him of acting on behalf of the US State Department.
"History will judge you and you'll drown in the deepest mire in hell [reserved] for interventionist traitors," he added.
Mr Maduro has in the past accused Mr Almagro of being a CIA agent and has blamed Venezuela's problems on a war being waged against it by the US with the help of right-wing forces within Venezuela.
Latin American 'traitor' row escalates
He also had harsh words for leaders of Venezuela's National Assembly who had asked the OAS to invoke the Democratic Charter.
He said he would put them on trial for treason.
The government and the National Assembly have been engaged in a stand-off ever since the MUD opposition coalition won control of the legislative body in parliamentary elections in December.
MUD politicians say their every move is thwarted by the Supreme Court and the National Electoral Council (CNE), bodies they allege have been stacked with supporters of President Maduro.
They accuse the government of trying to block a recall referendum which could see Venezuelans vote on whether they want Mr Maduro to serve out his term or be removed from office.
Members of Mr Maduro's Socialist Unity Party allege that at least 10,000 of the 1.85 million signatures on a petition demanding the recall referendum belong to people who are dead, and are therefore fraudulent.
The National Electoral Council has yet to comment.
After June's referendum vote to leave the EU, politicians and observers began to consider what, if any, the implications might be for Northern Ireland's political future.
Some 56% of people in Northern Ireland voted to stay in the EU.
However, across the UK a narrow majority decided to pull out.
With the UK charting its own course and the Republic of Ireland staying an enthusiastic member of the EU, would people in NI begin to reconsider their identity?
Sinn Féin called on the secretary of state to hold a border poll under the terms of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
Then in August, the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin reported a sharp rise in applications for Irish passports by people in Northern Ireland.
Did this represent a shift in people's allegiance or a pragmatic move to keep options open on travel and employment?
Between mid August and early September the pollsters Ipsos Mori interviewed more than 1,000 people face-to-face at locations across Northern Ireland.
Their questions for the BBC were designed to shed some light on Northern Ireland after Brexit.
Only a third (33%) of those interviewed agreed with Sinn Féin's call for a border poll, while more than half do not want one.
A further 15% did not know whether they wanted one or not.
Predictably enthusiasm for a border poll is greater amongst people with a Catholic background than those with a Protestant background.
More than half (53%) of the Catholics interviewed backed holding a border poll, whilst more than seven out of 10 of the Protestants interviewed opposed such a move (72%).
Not surprisingly, the closer people live to the border the more likely they seemed to be in favour of a referendum.
County Armagh showed the highest levels of support with 47% of those interviewed there in favour of holding a border poll, whilst Greater Belfast appears to be most sceptical with 68% of people there against the idea.
But if the government was to press ahead and call a border poll, how would you vote and has Brexit changed many people's minds?
The View is on BBC 1 at 22:45 BST on Thursday.
A panel of politicians will mull over the public's answers to these questions and consider what impact not only Brexit, but also the prospect of a future Scottish independence vote might have on the sensitive political balance here.
Mark Roy Mason, 48, from Rhyl, died after being stabbed outside the town's Home Bargains shop on 27 October.
The opening of an inquest in Ruthin heard a post-mortem examination revealed Mr Mason had suffered a punctured artery.
Four men from Liverpool have appeared in court charged with murder.
John Gittins, the coroner for North Wales East and Central, said the criminal investigation would take priority and so he would not be fixing a date for the inquest to resume.
James Davies, 20, Anthony Baines, 30, Jake Melia, 21, and Mark Ennis, 30, were remanded in custody at Mold Crown Court on 3 November.
The University College London study involved patients with frontotemporal dementia, with the results appearing in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.
Questionnaires from the friends and family of the 48 patients revealed many had noticed a change in humour years before the dementia had been diagnosed.
This included laughing inappropriately at tragic events.
Experts say more studies are now needed to understand how and when changes in humour could act as a red flag for dementia.
There are many different types of dementia and frontotemporal dementia is one of the rarer ones.
The area of the brain it affects is involved with personality and behaviour, and people who develop this form of dementia can lose their inhibition, become more impulsive and struggle with social situations.
Dr Camilla Clark and colleagues recruited 48 patients from their dementia clinic at University College London.
And they asked the friends or relatives of the patients to rate their loved one's liking for different kinds of comedy - slapstick comedy such as Mr Bean, satirical comedy such as Yes, Minister or absurdist comedy such as Monty Python - as well as any examples of inappropriate humour.
Nearly all of the respondents said, with hindsight, that they had noticed a shift in the nine years before the dementia had been diagnosed.
Many of the patients had developed a dark sense of humour - for example, laughing at tragic events in the news or in their personal lives. The dementia patients also tended to prefer slapstick to satirical humour, when compared with 21 healthy people of a similar age.
Dr Clark said: "These were marked changes - completely inappropriate humour well beyond the realms of even distasteful humour. For example, one man laughed when his wife badly scalded herself."
Lee Pearce, from Sheffield, was not involved in the study, but he can relate to the findings.
He first noticed a change in his mum's behaviour when she was 55, but it took four years before she received the correct diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia.
"She'd always been very loving and family-focused but became increasingly uninvolved and emotionless," he says.
"As she had a history of depression, we put it down to that, and her doctor agreed.
"Mum's behaviour became more and more erratic, and we began to question the diagnosis.
"She'd forget family birthdays, laugh if someone had an accident or she heard someone was unwell and was even sacked from her job - all completely out of character."
Dr Simon Ridley, of Alzheimer's Research UK, said anyone concerned about changes in their behaviour should speak to their GP.
"While memory loss is often the first thing that springs to mind when we hear the word dementia, this study highlights the importance of looking at the myriad different symptoms that impact on daily life and relationships," he said.
"A deeper understanding of the full range of dementia symptoms will increase our ability to make a timely and accurate diagnosis."
Sir Norman witnessed the 1989 disaster as a spectator.
At the Hillsborough inquests, he denied being part of a "black propaganda unit" set up to blame Liverpool fans and "concoct" a false version of events.
His book, entitled Hillsborough Untold, will be released in November.
Biteback Publishing said the proceeds would be donated to charity.
Ninety-six football fans died following crushing at Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield, during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
New inquests into the deaths concluded the victims were unlawfully killed.
A spokesman for Biteback Publishing said they hope the book will help "add to the narrative" of what happened during the disaster.
"Hillsborough was a tragedy of horrendous proportions. So many voices have come from Hillsborough," he said.
"We think [the book] can add to the narrative and shine a light on what happened and why things went so badly wrong."
In the wake of the disaster, Sir Norman was part of a police team that gathered evidence about what had happened, for use at a public inquiry.
In 1998, he was controversially appointed chief constable of Merseyside Police.
Barry Devonside, who lost his son Christopher in the disaster, said he was "saddened and disappointed" at the former officer's decision to write the book.
He said it "shows a clear lack of sensitivity towards the families", adding that it was "the type of behaviour we've come to be used to from Norman Bettison".
How the Hillsborough disaster unfolded
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Sir Norman said it had "never occurred to him" to mention the work he did after the Hillsborough disaster in his application for the Merseyside top job, and he was not "embarrassed" by it and had "nothing to hide".
He held the post of chief constable in Merseyside from 1998 to 2004 before becoming chief constable of the West Yorkshire force.
Sir Norman resigned from that post in 2012, saying an investigation into his role after the tragedy was a "distraction" to the force.
The Hillsborough Independent Panel (HIP) published its report in September 2012, revealing that 164 police statements by South Yorkshire Police officers were altered - 116 to remove or change negative comments about the policing of the 1989 FA Cup semi final.
The HIP report said the review and alteration of statements was part of an attempt by South Yorkshire Police to deflect criticism on to fans.
A day after the publication of the HIP report, Sir Norman said Liverpool fans had made the "police's job much harder than it needed to be" - a comment he told the inquests he "regretted" making.
Sir Norman remains under investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission regarding his alleged involvement in a police cover-up.
The IPCC said it was aware of the book, but declined to comment further.
Ms Roberts, of Grassmere Close, Felpham, was outside the Post Office in Felpham Road, Bognor Regis, when the crash happened on 13 January.
The Nissan Micra, driven by an 87-year-old Bognor Regis woman, was leaving a parking space near the local shops.
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"Ian has been a massive part of the one-day and T20 side in recent times," said head coach Richard Dawson.
Cockbain, 29, made his first-class debut for Gloucestershire in April 2011, after three seasons on the MCC Young Cricketers' programme at Lord's.
He was briefly appointed county captain in 2015 when Geraint Jones stood down.
He then got injured in a pre-play net session at the Cheltenham Festival, breaking his wrist, but he recovered to have a successful time in the T20 Blast in 2016.
He was the country's third highest run scorer, with 499 runs, at an average of 55.44, but struggled to make runs in the One-Day Cup with 119 in seven matches, and made just four County Championship appearances.
Bootle-born, he is the son of former Lancashire and Cheshire opening batsman Ian Cockbain Sr.
Gloucestershire had Gareth Roderick as four-day captain last season, while Australian Michael Klinger skippered them in white-ball cricket. | Gloucestershire batsman Ian Cockbain has signed a new three-year contract with the county, tying him to Nevil Road until the end of the 2019 season. | 38,303,861 | 236 | 40 | false |
Bolt, 29, sustained the grade-one tear during the first round of the 100m and withdrew after winning his semi-final.
He is still expected to defend his 100 and 200m titles as Jamaica's selection policy allows medical exemptions.
Bolt "will seek treatment immediately" and is aiming to return for the London Anniversary Games on July 22.
In the double world champion's absence, the 100m final in Kingston was won by London 2012 silver medallist Yohan Blake in a time of 9.95 seconds.
Meanwhile, Sanya Richards-Ross will not defend her 400m title in Rio after pulling out of the US Olympic trials in Eugene, Oregon.
The 31-year-old, who will retire at the end of the season, dropped out after 250m of her heat with a hamstring injury
"I've had an amazing career," the three-time Olympian said. "No Rio. That's the toughest part. No matter how banged up you are you still think it's possible." | Six-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt has suffered an injury scare ahead of Rio after tearing a hamstring at Jamaica's Olympic trials. | 36,692,575 | 224 | 37 | false |
The Indian boxer announced on Monday that he would be based in the UK for training to start his professional career.
Singh became the face of Indian boxing after winning a bronze medal in the middleweight category at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
"I don't want to compare myself to a legend like Pacquiao, but if I can achieve even half of what he has, I will consider myself successful," the Mid Day quotes the 29-year-old as saying.
He said he would miss his official blue jersey, but wouldn't stop carrying the Indian flag at his bouts.
"Just like how Pacquiao carried the Phillipines flag and (Floyd) Mayweather Jr carried the US flag to their bout, I will carry the Indian flag to my bouts. I've taken Indian boxing to a new, untested level and opened international avenues for our boxers. This cannot be viewed as un-patriotic," he said.
But not everybody is impressed with his decision.
Many were expecting Singh to win a medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
National coach Gurbax Singh said the decision was "surprising" for him. "I am in a state of shock because I never expected this would happen," The Indian Express quotes him as saying.
Some argue that the boxer decided to turn professional and train in the UK because of the absence of world-class facilities and professional management in India.
The boxer has often been critical of the sport's management in India.
"There are so many things. If you see boxing affairs in India...there is no boxing federation right now and there are so many other reasons. When I came here [UK] to see the set up, they are all so professional. They all work step by step," he said.
The Indian Amateur Boxing Federation (AIBF) was suspended by amateur boxing's international body in 2012 after reports of "manipulation" in the IABF elections in 2012.
India's boxing affairs are currently overseen by an ad hoc team set up by the International Boxing Association.
Some pundits feel that Singh can't be blamed for choosing a professional career and it certainly doesn't mean that "he has turned his back on India".
"The jingoistic sections of our public and media are bound to holler. But I'm in Vijender's corner on this one," writes Shamya Dasgupta in The Economic Times.
He acknowledges that Vijender "inspired a generation of boys and girls, especially in Haryana [state], to take up boxing seriously".
"Yes, this could be start of something fantastic for Vijender, and Indian boxers on the whole. Why bring nationalism into it?" he asks.
But can the boxer become the next Pacquiao from India?
India's former professional boxer Raj Kumar Sangwan tells the Times of India that "Vijender can go a long way. He has the skills and boxing sense... but he needs to have more power and must be ready to be patient".
For Singh, his bouts will always be about inspiring his fans and fellow boxers.
"I am still a boxer. It shouldn't matter to them whether I am an amateur or a professional. I love the tricolor [Indian flag], and I want to see it go high in professional boxing too. That will be my aim," he told NDTV.
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Rangers used the scheme from 2001 until 2010 to give millions of pounds of tax-free loans to players and other staff.
HM Revenue and Customs said these were salary payments and subject to tax.
HMRC lost two tax tribunals before winning its case at the Court of Session earlier this month. Any appeal will be heard by the Supreme Court.
Announcing its decision, BDO said: "Following discussions with the company's legal advisers and the liquidation committee, the joint liquidators have filed an application seeking leave to appeal the Inner House of the Court of Session decision in respect of the EBT case.
"If the company successfully obtains leave to appeal, the appeal will be heard in the Supreme Court in London.
"The joint liquidators are not in a position at this stage to make any further comment in respect of the appeal."
Rangers' use of EBTs and the subsequent appeals by HMRC have become known as the "big tax case".
HMRC lost its initial appeal that tax was due on EBTs at a First Tier Tax Tribunal on 2012.
The decision was upheld at an Upper Tier Tribunal in 2014.
HMRC's third appeal, made earlier this year, was upheld in a decision issued earlier this month by Lord Carloway, sitting with Lord Menzies and Lord Drummond Young.
The judges ruled that if income was derived from an employee's services, in their capacity as an employee, it was an emolument or earnings and "thus assessable to income tax".
The decision was in relation to Murray Group companies, including the liquidated company RFC 2012 - formerly The Rangers Football Club PLC.
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Jonathan Pay, 46, shot a man who wrestled him to the ground during the failed raid - leaving a pellet lodged in the base of the victim's skull.
A second robber stabbed the 50-year-old before both men fled the Lloyds Bank branch in Liphook, Hampshire, on 16 May.
Pay was jailed for 16-and-a-half years at Winchester Crown Court.
Pay, of Liphook Road, Lindford, had previously admitted wounding with intent, having an imitation firearm with intent and two counts of attempted robbery.
The customer, who has asked not be named, said Pay held the gun to his wife's head before pointing it at bank staff.
He said: "I had him on the floor and nearly got the gun off him but his friend stabbed me and he shot me in the face.
"I dragged him out of the bank then he came back in and shot me again through my hair-line.
"It was adrenaline, complete instinct. I though my life was going to end in the bank."
The victim, from Headley Down, was treated in hospital for a minor stab wound, but he said the pellet could cause facial paralysis if removed, because it was embedded in a major nerve cluster.
He said his wife now "shakes all the time" and was unable to go shopping on her own.
Det Con Kat Bird said the couple had been nominated for bravery awards.
She said: "That customer tackled Pay to the ground causing his face to be uncovered and dislodging sunglasses which later forensically linked him to the offence.
"The man's wife also grabbed a bag containing gloves and a balaclava, which Pay was carrying.
"These items, which he had forgotten to put on, also forensically linked him to the scene."
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The 5.1 magnitude quake caused buildings to sway and sent people scurrying into the streets.
Quito's main airport suspended operations temporarily as a precaution.
Parts of the city were covered in clouds of dust that formed from shifting earth at nearby quarries.
The three confirmed casualties are two workers and a four-year-old child who was buried underneath falling sacks of rice.
Three people are still missing in a quarry in Catequilla, near Quito, after the quake caused a landslide.
Another landslide engulfed a vehicle on a road north of the city, but the driver escaped unharmed, rescue workers said.
"I was talking on the phone with my daughter and suddenly the line went dead. I thought the house was falling down," Laura Flores, a resident of Quito's northern Carcelen district, told the Agence France-Presse news agency.
She said the quake had opened a crack in one wall of her house and caused plates to fall and break.
Teresa Salazar, who works in northern Quito, said they were "all very nervous".
"We could really feel it. The first thing I did was leave (the building) with my colleagues," she told the Reuters news agency.
The US Geological Survey said the quake was centred 23 km (14 miles) northeast of Quito at a depth of 7.7 km (4.8 miles).
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Much of the Glasgow-based firm's operations are in US dollars, and without the weaker pound, the constant currency decline would have been 31%.
Revenue dropped 2% to £1845m, though that was an 11% drop without the help of currency fluctuation.
Weir said the downturn in the oil, gas and commodities markets was the worst it had seen in more than 30 years.
Its report cited the drop in capital spending by mining companies of 50% since 2012.
The number of rigs used for fracking in onshore US oil and gas fields had fallen 80% in only two years.
However, it said commodity prices rose during last year, and trading conditions improved towards the end of 2016.
There were also signs of more activity in US onshore oil and gas towards the end of the year.
The new chief executive of Weir Group, Jon Stanton, said: "Following a challenging and prolonged downturn, the group returned to growth in the fourth quarter of 2016 as our main markets showed signs of improvement and we benefited from our on-going investment in new technology and long-term customer relationships". | Engineering equipment firm Weir Group has reported a 21% drop in pre-tax profits to £170m last year. | 39,062,385 | 241 | 27 | false |
That's a line from Naomi Alderman's book The Power, the only novel to appear on this year's longlist for the Orwell Book Prize for political writing.
It imagines a world in which almost every woman suddenly develops the ability to electrocute people at will - "from a tiny tingle all the way to full electro-death".
On her website, Alderman says her "feminist science-fiction" novel explores what would happen if women had the power to cause pain and destruction.
Fourteen books in total - including works on Brexit, FGM and the impact of the Hillsborough disaster - are in the running for the £3,000 award.
The prize is named after George Orwell, whose dystopian classic 1984 re-entered the book charts earlier this year.
Other books on the list include All Out War, Tim Shipman's contemporary history of the EU referendum campaign; and Black and British, in which David Olusoga charts the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa.
Also in the running is Hibo Wardere's memoir Cut, about female genital mutilation in Britain.
Revealing the longlist, the judges said it offered "a clear and calm perspective on Britain and its place in the world".
The shortlist will be announced on 15 May, and the winner on Thursday 8 June.
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More than 12,000 people signed a petition criticising Debenhams in Commercial Road after a Facebook post by Russell Allen went viral.
Debenhams it was an "unfortunate accident" during routine cleaning.
Councillor Paul Godier said he was trying to find Mr Allen accommodation.
Mr Allen posted a message on Facebook claiming his clothes, bedding and dog food had been "flooded" from inside the Debenhams store.
A statement from the retailer said: "We have established that this was an unfortunate accident in which the routine cleaning of the fire exit from the inside of the store resulted in some of the gentleman's property on the other side of the fire exit becoming wet.
"Debenhams has now supplied the gentleman with new bedding and clothing, and a member of our team has met him to offer our sincere apologies for any distress caused."
Charles Dickens ward councillor Mr Godier said Mr Allen's situation "needs addressing" but criticised what he said had been threats made against Debenhams and himself on social media.
"Portsmouth is a passionate city - when people see vulnerable people becoming victims, they will be impassioned. But in many cases some of this passion has been misdirected," Mr Godier said.
"This is an opportunity to bring the businesses sector a greater understanding of the homeless."
He said as Mr Allen had no local connections and was not classified as vulnerable, he did not qualify for council help but an individual had offered a private room.
"The only dilemma was finding temporary accommodation for his dog which would need to be arranged."
"Homelessness has risen drastically across the country. It's not an easy fix. As part of the [Portsmouth City Council] homelessness working group next year we'll be delving deeper into the causes of homelessness and assessing vulnerability in much greater detail," he added.
Mr Allen said he believed "something good and some awareness" would come out of the situation. | The row over a rough sleeper who claims he was soaked in a shop doorway in Portsmouth on Boxing Day has raised awareness of homelessness in the city, a councillor has said. | 38,461,108 | 437 | 45 | false |
On Wednesday, at the PlayStation Theatre in New York - the same venue in which the PS4 was first revealed some four years ago - Sony showcased an upgraded console, the PS4 Pro, for the first time.
The PS4 Pro represents a break from a 40-year home console tradition. Since the days of the Sega Master System in the late 1980s, it has been commonplace for console manufacturers to gradually roll out slimmer, smaller and sleeker editions of existing hardware.
Sony released several iterations of the PlayStation 2 during its 13 years, and rival Microsoft shipped five different Xbox 360 models across its 10-year lifespan.
But the PS4 Pro is the first time Sony has offered a substantial hardware upgrade mid-generation.
It is a system bolstered by a more advanced GPU and processor, and packaged with faster memory, making it capable of rendering games for ultra-high definition 4K televisions.
It might carry the PS4 logo, but elementally this is a new console.
Here's the twist: what makes PS4 Pro different from a PlayStation 5 is that it is designed to play the full library of PS4 games and have no exclusives of its own.
"This is an unprecedented step. We've not seen upgrades of this nature before, at least not on home consoles," said Christopher Dring, the editor of games retail publication MCV.
One key reason behind Sony's move, Mr Dring said, was to ensure the PS4 did not lose pace in a market that showcases more powerful technology at an alarming pace.
"If you look at the [original] PS4 at its current specs and compare that with the latest PC, it's already looking outdated. With PS4 Pro, Sony has a chance to stay at the forefront of gaming technology," Mr Dring told the BBC.
"More than ever, consoles are competing with PCs, and I think more and more Sony and [PC platform owner] Valve are becoming rivals."
Yet Sony's plan is not merely to sell new silicon to diehard games enthusiasts, according to IHS games analyst Piers Harding-Rolls.
It represents part of a two-prong strategy, with both the PS4 Pro and the original PS4 targeted at different kinds of gamer, he said.
"With the [PS4 Pro], Sony can offer a premium product to an audience that wants the best games experience possible, while also allowing it to lower the price of the 'standard' console," he told the BBC.
Mr Dring agrees, and added that a low-price original PS4 would be crucial in drawing in the more casual consumer - the kind of buyer that helped drive sales of mainstream titles such as Fifa and Call of Duty.
He said: "More than anything, Sony wants to expand its user base, ultimately so that it can sell more games.
"In my estimation, the first people to buy a PS4 Pro will be people who already have an Xbox One or PS4.
"But the original PS4 will likely be promoted with more family-friendly games in mind, which will be just as important."
Since it first went on sale in November 2013, Sony has sold more than 40 million PS4s.
At an alarming pace, the system has been embraced across North America, Europe and Asia, but Sony still has a long way to go if it wants to match the success of the best-selling console of all time, the PlayStation 2.
"Since the PS4 and Xbox One came out, business started flying," said Mr Dring, who has monitored the games market for nearly a decade.
"It's been not on the same level as the Wii or PS2, I don't think, but we're only a couple of years into the cycle and there's already an estimated 60 million new consoles sold [PS4 and Xbox One combined].
"But if PS4 wants to get anywhere near the success of PS2, Sony needs to broaden the market.
"The death of the Wii, in particular, has turned off the family audience a bit.
"That's actually a big problem for the likes of Sony."
According to Mr Harding-Rolls, the PS4 Pro also serves as a pre-emptive strike against the expanding empire of games systems, from iPhones to Amazon Fire TVs, and Nvidia Shields.
He said: "The console sector is under more pressure than it used to be.
"There are increasingly more devices that you can play games on, which are becoming increasingly powerful. That's not just smart devices like phones and tablets, that's also devices that connect to TVs. These TV devices haven't made a huge impact yet, but they're definitely encroaching on similar ground.
"So, I think Sony is responding by thinking that they need to keep the PS4 experience fresh."
While selling two distinctly different versions of the same machine will come with its own marketing challenges for Sony, for games creators it could pose even more complex problems.
A distinct advantage that consoles have had over PCs is that their specs remain unchanged throughout their lifecycles.
Gradually, that tends to make life easier for developers.
The more programmers and designers that work on the console, the more the hardware becomes familiar, the more the code gets optimised.
It is not uncommon that, later in a console's cycle, its games tend to achieve remarkable feats not foreseen at the system's outset.
This advantage may not be true of the PS4 Pro, because developers will need to build the same game across two different hardware set-ups.
One independent PS4 games developer, who asked not to be named, said that using the PS4 Pro's advanced power to fulfil complicated processing tasks could create problems when trying to achieve the same feat on the original PS4.
"Where PS4 Pro might pose a problem is if you're building bigger games, or open-world games, and want to use the upgraded tech for more complex physics," they said.
"If, for example, you want to use PS4 Pro's extra power for a game that has no loading screens and streams all the data, that could be an issue when scaling for the 'vanilla' console."
The developer anticipates that there will not be such an issue if games creators utilise the new hardware for faster frame rates and higher resolutions.
Concerns should not be so much fixed on the PS4 Pro, but what comes afterwards, the developer said.
"If we're about to head into this iOS-style upgrade system, where every year or two years a new PS4 comes out, then that is a problem," they said.
"The best thing about consoles is you can put a flag in the ground on what your target technology is.
"Two separate systems make things messier, and even more would muddy the water. It will make it harder for developers to make assumptions about the future.
"If the PS4 Pro is the in-between console, then fine.
"If it's the stepping-stone to the PS5, then fine.
"If it's a start of a line of PS4 system upgrades, then that's a problem."
The developer added that, besides mentioning some of the potential pitfalls of developing for both PS4s, overall they had many reasons to be positive about the upgrade, especially that the new console would prolong the PS4's lifecycle.
That is, of course, if PS4 Pro keeps Sony's sales momentum going.
While Mr Dring expects the new system to perform "very well", Mr Harding-Rolls struggles to see the broad appeal.
He said: "With Sony's strategy to allow the same PS4 games and content to be playable across both systems, that somewhat undermines the marketing potential of the PS4 Pro.
"The whole premise of selling hardware is to get new experiences on new machines, and that's what new consoles have done in the past.
"In this context, there isn't going to be any exclusive content on PS4 Pro."
In that scenario, he asked, what exactly were the reasons to buy the console?
"You have a slightly better performance than the original PS4, and you have 4K video, but those drivers - I think - represent a relatively small proportion of the total PS4 user base," he said.
"On that basis, who this new system appeals to is a relatively niche market."
Sony's chances are complicated further due to what Microsoft has on the horizon.
In June, at the annual E3 event in Los Angeles, Microsoft revealed its own plan for an upgraded console.
Codenamed Project Scorpio, the system is said to be a 4K-ready machine that will be powerful enough for virtual reality gaming.
"I expect Scoprio will offer better specs than PS4 Pro by quite a meaningful amount," Mr Harding-Rolls said, "but I also expect Scorpio to come out a significantly higher price point."
In order to match those specs, he said, Sony may need to offer a second PS4 upgrade down the line.
"But Sony might release a brand new console altogether for that task," he said. | Three years after Sony launched its PlayStation 4 and dragged the games market out of a sales slump, the company is taking its machine along an uncharted path. | 37,302,049 | 1,994 | 36 | false |
Barry Island Pleasure Park was rescued in 2010 from closure due to a drop in visitor numbers.
The planned redevelopment would see the 4.7 acre site turned into a mix of restaurants and cafes, a cinema, bowling alley and 124 flats.
Vale of Glamorgan council deferred a decision for a site visit.
Owner Ian Rogers said: "It's very disappointing, but it's just a site visit."
The fair, close to the beach, has been an attraction since 1920.
It was well used by holidaymakers who went to the nearby Butlins holiday camp, and after that site closed in 1986, it relied more on day trippers.
Poor weather conditions over recent summers had led to a drop in visitors, and in 2010 new tenants agreed a deal with the owner to run it for a year on a seasonal basis.
The park gained new fame when it featured in hit comedy Gavin and Stacey, the story of the romance between a Barry girl and an Essex boy.
Nessa, the character played by Ruth Jones, who co-wrote the series with fellow star James Corden, ran an amusement arcade in the fair.
The council said the site should still be used to attract people to the resort.
"Given the nature of the existing use and the importance of the site to the tourism function of Barry Island as a whole, it is considered essential for the development to be focused upon commercial leisure and tourism uses that can strengthen the existing package of attractions and encourage more people to visit the island," said Rob Quick, the council's director of environmental and economic regeneration.
"The proposed indoor leisure/entertainment centre would form the primary commercial use and, on the basis of the indicative plans, would serve as the hub of the development."
He added: "Since the closure of the Theatre Royal, there is no longer a cinema in Barry and, therefore, it is considered that this element of the scheme would provide a valued facility that is unavailable anywhere else in the town.
"Having regard to the above, it is considered that the proposed development would widen the seasonal spread of tourism activities at Barry Island and assist the maximisation of tourist opportunities." | A decision on plans for a multimillion-pound redevelopment of a famous seaside fair which featured in TV comedy Gavin and Stacey has been deferred. | 16,855,264 | 480 | 39 | false |
The combative 31-year-old captain made his 400th appearance for the club against St Johnstone on Wednesday - a game which saw Celtic equal the Lisbon Lions' record of 26 domestic games unbeaten from the start of a season.
BBC Scotland takes a closer look at Brown's career.
Tam McManus is four years older than Brown and was already established in the first team at Hibernian when a teenage Brown started to make waves at Easter Road.
"I called him baby Andre the Giant," the former striker told BBC Scotland. "That name stuck at the time.
"He played right-back and he was a bundle of energy. He was up and down and firing into people. There was no respect given to anybody and it was the same when he made his first-team debut.
"It was a game against Aberdeen towards the end of the 2002-03 season [Hibs won 3-1]; he came on and he never looked back. He was in and about people.
"I can remember a game at Celtic Park and we'd beaten Celtic previously in the League Cup in the midweek with Kevin Thomson scoring in the last minute.
"We went to Celtic Park on the Saturday and Celtic were miffed, to say the least, that we'd put them out. We were 2-0 down at half-time and Derek Riordan had been sent off.
"We were eventually beat 6-0, but I can always remember, with about 10 minutes to go, Scott Brown was playing centre midfield that day.
"Neil Lennon got the ball and Celtic were giving it the 'ole's'. Scott went in and absolutely clattered Neil - halved him in two! Neil got up, patted him on the head and smiled.
"The game was finished (as a contest), but he was still out there trying - it tells you everything you need to know about him as a character."
Brown was brought up in the same Fife village - Hill of Beath - as another lauded Scotland midfielder, Jim Baxter.
He was not blessed with the same silky skills as the 1960s legend and was told by Rangers that he was too small to make the grade.
Undaunted, what the 5ft 9in midfielder lacked in height, he made up for in endeavour and went on to play 135 games for a Hibs side dubbed "the golden generation", which also launched the careers of Garry O'Connor, Steven Whittaker, Steven Fletcher, Derek Riordan and Kevin Thomson.
A few months after helping Hibs win the League Cup - their first trophy in 16 years - by beating Kilmarnock 5-1 in 2007, Brown joined Celtic for £4.4m - then a record fee between two Scottish clubs, despite reports he would join close friend Thomson at city rivals Rangers.
Brown, who had previously turned down a move to Reading, then in England's top flight, expressed delight at joining "one of the biggest names in football". "The opportunity to join a club of Celtic's stature was one I had to take," he said.
Then Celtic manager Gordon Strachan, now Scotland's head coach, also predicted big things for his latest acquisition.
Brown made his competitive debut in a goalless draw at home to Kilmarnock in August 2007, and was denied a last-minute winner by Killie keeper Alan Combe tipping away his looping shot.
Brown is closing in on his sixth consecutive title as Celtic captain and a seventh league winners' medal overall. He has also helped the Glasgow outfit win the Scottish Cup twice and the League Cup three times.
"It's been a good nine and a half years so far and here's hoping for another nine and a half years," he told Celtic TV.
Can he continue to tot up the appearances despite injury niggles that led him to retire, albeit briefly, from Scotland duty last year? McManus thinks so.
"Four hundred Celtic appearances is fantastic," said Brown's former team-mate. "His attitude, his application, his hunger and his willingness to work was the best I've ever seen from a young player.
"He's 31-years-old: does he stay at Celtic to try to win 10-in-a-row? He could play until 35 or 36 and might go back to play the sweeper role, similar to Steven Gerrard.
"If he does, he'll go down as a true Celtic great. I'm delighted for him, he's a great lad.
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"You see him in the tunnel before games and he's so serious. I always laugh when I see it; he's straight-faced and he looks ahead, doesn't talk to anyone. But he's the life and soul of the party at Celtic; he's a funny boy.
"Even last season, when he was being heavily criticised - he couldn't move, I spoke to him and he had tendonitis in his hamstring - but he had to play.
"Celtic were in dire straits. Even his presence - I think, if it wasn't for Scott and Leigh Griffiths last season, Aberdeen would have won the league."
Despite his stated desire to help Celtic make an impact in the Champions League, Brown has only managed to help the Glasgow side reach the last 16 of the competition once more - in 2012-13 - since achieving the feat in his debut season.
Similarly, his 51 Scotland caps - a number as captain - have come during a period during which the country has failed to reach a major finals.
Arguably, his most notable performances have come in Old Firm derbies - and famous duels with the likes of El Hadji Diouf and Joey Barton.
Brown marked his equaliser in a 2-2 draw in 2011 with an 'in your face' celebration before Rangers forward Diouf, who had dismissed him as a "nobody" pre-match.
Brown later admitted the moment helped cement his bond with Celtic fans, with whom he had previously enjoyed a somewhat "love-hate" relationship.
Earlier this season he won the midfield battle with Barton, who had said Brown "isn't in my league", as Celtic hammered their city rivals 5-1.
The man who has already racked up 12 yellow cards in 36 outings this season will further silence the doubters should he help the runaway Premiership leaders win the domestic treble - having already won the League Cup - which he says would be a "fantastic" way to end his 10th year at Celtic Park.
Brown has revealed he is in talks about a testimonial - he celebrates 10 years at the club this summer - and would be keen to extend his contract, which expires at the end of next season.
"If they want to offer me another four-year deal, I would be happy to accept," he said. "Here's hoping I have another good few years left here.
"I have still got the legs and the love for the game as well - and that's the main one. I feel as good as I have ever felt in a Celtic jersey."
Manager Brendan Rodgers' words certainly suggest he would be keen to keep Brown in the dressing-room.
"It is a remarkable achievement by a top-class professional," the Northern Irishman said of his 400th appearance. "He sets an incredible example.
"My first impressions of him were very positive and he's a remarkable leader.
"To play that number of games at a club this size, your professionalism, your enthusiasm, your energy for the game and your commitment to being a top professional has to be there.
"The players take a great lead from him. He's at the very front from the first steps we take onto the training field, the warm-up, right from the very start.
"He's been at the top of his game this season. 400 is great for him, but there's quite a few more to come as well."
You can watch the cross country on BBC Red Button, Connected TVs and the BBC Sport website and app, plus highlights on BBC Two on Sunday 3 September.
Oliver Townend, Nicola Wilson and Tina Cook, part of GB's European gold medal winning team, will all be at Burghley, as will fellow Britons Piggy French and Gemma Tattersall.
World champion Michael Jung of Germany will also be competing.
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11:00-16:00 - Cross Country, BBC Red Button and BBC Sport website
15:00-17:00 - Highlights, BBC Two
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Alastair Cook, England's highest Test run scorer, stepped down on Monday after a record 59 Tests in charge.
Root, vice-captain to Cook, is the favourite to take over but director of cricket Strauss previously refused to "rule anyone in or out" of the role.
A new captain will be appointed before England's limited-overs tour of the Caribbean in March.
The trio met Strauss and his team on Thursday, although it is understood that the discussions were not considered as interviews for the position.
Strauss previously stated that he would be speaking to senior squad members in leadership roles about who should succeed Cook.
Bowler Broad previously captained the Twenty20 side between 2011 and 2014 and all-rounder Stokes was vice-captain on the recent limited-overs tour of Bangladesh.
Batsman Root was described as the "obvious candidate" for the captaincy by England's leading Test wicket-taker James Anderson on Tuesday.
Wicketkeeper Jos Buttler, who is the limited-overs vice-captain but not a Test regular, was also spoken to over the phone by Strauss and his team.
The 22-year-old will join the club on 1 July after agreeing a three-year deal.
Holt was part of the Doonhamers team that finished fourth in the Scottish Championship and lost out to Rangers in the play-offs, making 41 appearances throughout the season.
He becomes the fifth player to sign with Paul Hartley's men ahead of next season, joining Kane Hemmings, Nicky Low, Rory Low and Daryll Meggatt.
Anthony Crook, 37, from Clacton, was working in Dubai when his image was released by Essex Police in 2010.
He was not prosecuted, but the force said publication was in the public interest. A judge at the High Court disagreed and said it was not "necessary and proportionate".
Mr Crook was awarded £67,750.
Judge Deborah Taylor said sex offences carry a great stigma and the release of his image, name and allegation was a violation of his human rights when more could have been done to locate him first.
"Whilst the press release was to local media, no consideration was given to the realities of modern technology: firstly, the potential for information to spread across the internet, and secondly, the difficulty once spread in eradicating that," she told the court.
"The police lost control of the data."
Mr Crook only found out about the article - alleging he was wanted and at large over an attack in Clacton - through his family.
It included an address for him and a photo taken when he was a teenager.
Mr Crook said the allegation was "malicious" and there was no need to publicise it, as he had already offered to speak to police to clear it up.
The result was that he was left "unemployed and unemployable", his lawyers told the High Court.
"I was financially in a very good place and that's completely wiped out overnight," he told Judge Taylor.
"The fact they didn't remove these things for such a long period of time made it impossible to get back into work and rebuild my life."
Police agreed to remove the story but it had already spread to other media around the world.
Mr Crook sued for breach of confidence, in publishing the old photo, and for breaches of the Data Protection Act and a violation of his human right to privacy.
Outside court, Mr Crook said he was "extremely happy" he had been vindicated.
"I now feel my name has been cleared and there has been an acknowledgement that the police had done wrong," he said.
The force, which contested the claims, was ordered on Monday to pay Mr Crook's legal costs of more than £100,000.
Jose de Jesus Gallegos was named as tourism minister in Jalisco's state government only 10 days ago. The Jalisco authorities said the attack had nothing to do with Mr Gallegos' current job.
Unconfirmed reports say four people have been detained.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has joined state governor Aristoteles Sandoval in condemning the attack.
Police said Mr Gallegos was attacked by gunmen as he drove through Zapopan, which is part of Guadalajara's metropolitan area.
Initial reports said two vehicles had blocked Mr Gallegos as he was driving on the border area between Zapopan and the state capital, Guadalajara.
Several gunmen opened fire when his car stopped.
"It was probably related to his business activities before he took the job as secretary of tourism," said Jalisco's government secretary, Arturo Zamora.
Federal authorities had been instructed to help local police solve the crime, which Mr Zamora said must not go unpunished.
Mr Gallegos had spent most of his life working in Mexico's tourism industry, but not in the public sector.
Jalisco, known for tequila and mariachi music, was recaptured by the president's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in 2012 and the new state government took office on 1 March.
The killing happened a day before the president marks his first one 100 days in office.
Since his inauguration, on December 1st, there have been more than 3,150 violent deaths in Mexico.
Craig Jones pounced on Ryan Clarke's fumble after the break to give Bury the lead.
Ruffels levelled with his first U's goal less than two minutes later, nodding home a Danny Rose corner.
Clarke protected the point, denying both Daniel Nardiello and Andrew Tutte.
Seven minutes of stoppage time was added at the end of the game after Shakers goalkeeper Brian Jensen and U's striker David Connolly received treatment after clashing heads.
Oxford remain unbeaten in three games under caretaker manager Mickey Lewis following Chris Wilder's exit last week.
The pair batted through the final day in a stand of 226 as the home side reached 420-5, 159 runs ahead of the visitors.
Ingram's marathon near 10-hour knock saw him reach a county-best 155 not out, while Cooke was unbeaten on 113.
Nottinghamshire stay top of Division Two thanks to a 12-point haul.
England spinner Samit Patel came close to bowling Ingram three times either side of his century, but there was little assistance from the pitch for their willing seam attack.
Ingram's century was the slowest in the Championship this season off 294 balls, in sharp contrast to his huge hitting in the One-Day Cup.
The pair came together half an hour before the end of day three and Cooke also reached three figures shortly after tea on the final day, not giving a chance in his equally gritty innings.
The sixth-wicket partnership was Glamorgan's highest against Nottinghamshire, beating 131 from Peter Walker and Don Ward in Newport in 1961, and was approaching the all-time record of 240 when the teams shook hands on a draw at 16:50 BST.
Glamorgan's Colin Ingram told BBC Wales Sport:
"It's quite strange, while you're out there you get on with it ball by ball and you're in the moment, but looking back it was a long couple of days and we can be proud of what we've done. It is my longest innings but once you're out there, you keep it simple.
"I really enjoyed the partnership with Chris and the longer we went on, that process became easier. But we still want to get on the winning side and maybe this is what we need to change momentum for us."
Chris Cooke added:
"It was good to get through the tricky spell last night with Colin, it gave us momentum going into the last day and it was just about (setting) small targets.
"Getting to lunch was important and from there the belief started to grow, they kept running in but we were up to the task."
Nottinghamshire acting captain Steven Mullaney told BBC Radio Nottingham:
"From my point of view the bowlers have everything and it was an outstanding effort, but hats off to Colin Ingram and Chris Cooke who did really well.
"We've had more luck (on other occasions), Samit Patel was outstanding without any luck.
"We welcome 12 points and we're still top of the league so we can't complain."
Graham Jones, 53, had driven past two road closed signs ahead of the incident between Newton-on-Ouse and Tollerton, near York, on 5 January.
He denied dangerous driving but was convicted following a trial.
Jones, of Linton Woods Lane, Linton-on-Ouse, was also handed a 36-month driving ban at York Crown Court.
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Judge Paul Batty QC told Jones he had shown "vaunted arrogance" during his evidence and did not understand why he had not pleaded guilty given the evidence against him.
The bus was transporting the pupils on an eight-mile (12km) journey to Easingwold School on the first day back following the Christmas holiday.
Jones had driven through one stretch of water without incident but got stuck when he attempted to drive through a second stretch, the court heard.
Prosecutors said he had driven past two road closed signs, although Jones claimed he had only seen one and thought it referred to a bridge closure nearby.
He told the court he had made a "genuine mistake".
In sentencing, Judge Batty said Jones had refused to accept the amount of danger he put the children in because of his "reckless act".
He said: "This was an extremely bad case of dangerous driving.
"The consequences that could have followed simply do not bear thinking about."
None of the secondary school pupils on board the bus was injured but some had to be carried to safety by firefighters.
Speaking after sentencing, a spokeswoman for North Yorkshire Police said: "It should send a clear warning to drivers not to ignore road closure signs that are put in place to protect people, and to heed the dangers of driving through floodwater."
Dennis Young, of Burton Stone Lane, York, denied committing the offences while teaching at Skegby Hall, near Mansfield, about 60 years ago.
He was acquitted of seven counts of indecently assaulting a child at Nottingham Crown Court on Wednesday.
An ex-pupil had told the court he had been "bribed" with sweets to be quiet.
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In a police video interview shown in court, the alleged victim said he was threatened and told that if he said anything, he would be sent to a borstal.
He also said when he complained to the school's head, he was told "not to be a silly boy".
When asked why he had taken so long to come forward, he replied: "To get it off my chest, I'm ashamed, I feel guilty as though it's my fault."
Speaking outside court, Mr Young told the Nottingham Post: "I am getting on for 91. I'm weary of the whole business."
Andrew RT Davies said he did not want devolution to "move backwards", with Welsh ministers needing permission from UK ministers to make laws more often.
First Minister Carwyn Jones called the idea of extending UK ministerial consents over Welsh laws a "relic".
Mr Davies said he believed Tory Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb was in "listening mode" on the Wales Bill.
Mr Crabb and Carwyn Jones met to discuss the matter on Monday.
On Tuesday, Mr Davies told AMs: "I and my colleagues on this side do have issues and concerns around the consenting process.
"Ultimately, what we don't want to do is move backwards.
"What we do want is clarity and coherence in the settlement, as the prime minister outlined in the St David's Day agreement."
Opening a Senedd debate on the draft Wales Bill, Mr Jones said it was "the most important debate that we've had in Wales for some time".
Reiterating his concerns about the draft bill, he said: "What we cannot see is the creation of a Welsh parliament that cannot enforce its own laws."
Zero Waste Scotland's Good to Go initiative aims to reduce the stigma of asking to take leftovers home.
The body's research shows most diners would like to see doggy bags offered in restaurants, but are too embarrassed to ask for them.
Figures show that the equivalent of one in six restaurant meals is thrown away.
Iain Gulland, director of Zero Waste Scotland, said: "Over 53,000 tonnes of food is thrown away in restaurants in Scotland each year, which is not only a huge waste of money, it's also a huge waste of good food and the energy and water that went into producing it."
He added: "Research shows that most people want to take leftovers home to enjoy later, but are embarrassed to ask, so the Good to Go pilot is all about making it a normal, mainstream thing to do."
The initiative is being piloted at 11 restaurants in Glasgow, Edinburgh, East Kilbride and Irvine.
Those participating include Two Fat Ladies at the Buttery, Cafe Gandolfi and Mother India in Glasgow and The Edinburgh Larder Bistro.
Branding will be on display in the restaurants to promote the availability of the take-home containers.
The scheme was launched at Two Fat Ladies at the Buttery.
The restaurant's owner Ryan James, chairman of the Glasgow Restaurant Association, said: "What we're trying to do is break through that embarrassment barrier and encourage people to take their food waste home with them and reuse it."
He added: "As a restaurateur I'm obviously passionate about amazing food so I'm delighted to support anything that helps to ensure as little as possible ends up needlessly going to waste."
The pilot will run until 25 May and research will be carried out to investigate the impact and determine if it will be rolled out nationwide.
Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead said: "It's remarkable that the equivalent of one in six meals served in restaurants is thrown away.
"We want to reduce this, not only to make the most of the food we pay for when we're eating out but also to help the environment."
Zero Waste Scotland, funded by the Scottish government, works to maximise the effects of Scotland's resources such as energy and water.
They showed 193 people - all but four of them men - were charged in the year to the end of March.
That number was down from 206 in 2013/14 and 267 the previous year.
The figures showed that the accused had an affiliation with Rangers in 30% of the charges, Aberdeen in 16%, Celtic in 10% and Hibernian in 8%.
Some 16% of all charges were connected to the Dundee United versus Aberdeen match in December last year.
A further 7% were connected to Hamilton v Motherwell in September and 7% to the Scotland v England match in November.
Court proceedings have begun in relation to 168 of the 193 charges.
The report on the figures said the average age of the accused had risen from 23 to 27.
Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012 criminalises hateful, threatening and otherwise offensive behaviour that is likely to incite public disorder in relation to football.
Last year people were accused of offences that were "threatening" in 61% of the charges and "hateful" in 30% of charges.
Behaviour was described as "otherwise offensive" - for example including a reference to celebration of loss of life or support of terrorist organisations - in 13% of charges.
Of the 58 charges relating to "hateful" behaviour, 50 charges involved incidents of religious hatred, down on previous years, while 4% involved racial hatred, and no charges involved sexual orientation.
As in the previous two years, derogatory behaviour towards Roman Catholicism (84%) accounted for the largest proportion of religious abuse.
Six charges (12%) included behaviour that was derogatory towards Protestantism.
One charge included derogatory behaviour towards Judaism, and one charge included derogatory behaviour towards Islam.
Fewer charges occurred in football stadiums than in previous years, with the majority relating to incidents outside grounds or in town or city centres on match days.
An academic evaluation of the act, published by the Scottish government, said football fans said they had not noticed any significant decrease in the amount of problematic behaviour since the new laws had come into force.
The report also said police and stewards in football grounds appeared to be concentrating on groups of young fans - terming them risk groups - and losing focus on more serious offenders, perhaps away from stadiums.
There has also been some criticism of the act from within the legal profession, with some sheriffs "emphatically critical" of it. Successful prosecutions have fallen from 73% to 52%.
Minister for Community Safety Paul Wheelhouse said: "We have seen a raft of encouraging statistics and evidence published today showing that hate crimes in Scotland are on the decrease, both on the streets of Scotland and in our football grounds and this is to be welcomed.
"Religious crimes are down, race crimes are down, crimes in relation to sexuality are down and we've seen a decrease in crimes of offensive behaviour at regulated football matches in Scotland. Whilst the legislation we brought in two years ago has had its critics, the latest statistics show a steady decline in offences at stadiums and a YouGov poll shows 80% of Scots support the Offensive Behaviour Act."
"We will not be complacent and will continue to monitor how the act is working very closely going forward. However, I believe the legislation is working. The evaluations, backed by the latest statistics out today, demonstrate that the act has had a positive impact and our approach has delivered real improvements in behaviour at football and online."
The 2013 World champion will compete alongside Vicky Holland and fellow Welsh athlete Helen Jenkins in Rio.
Swansea-raised Stanford trains in England with Holland and male athletes Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee.
Asked about the impact moving to Leeds made on her, Stanford replied: "It's been career changing."
And she added: "It's been absolutely integral to be honest.
"I wouldn't be sat in this chair right now talking about going to my first Olympic games if I hadn't moved to Leeds.
"The boys [the Brownlees] really showed me what it is to train and how to train and so definitely shifted me from an amateur athlete to a professional athlete and I can't thank the team enough for doing that for me."
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Stanford and Holland pre-qualified for the Olympics by finishing second and third at the World Triathlon Grand Final in Chicago in September 2015.
However, Stanford has not competed at a major multi-sport event at senior level after missing the 2014 Commonwealth Games with injury.
Her Welsh compatriot Jenkins has had a long battle with injury since the London Olympics in 2012, and admitted she was relieved after being confirmed in the team for Rio.
The Bridgend athlete was nominated after winning the International Triathlon Union race in Gold Coast on 9 April.
"I'm really excited," said Jenkins.
"It's great to have the official announcement because until then you are only nominated so there's still that couple of % doubt so it's great to be here and get the official letter."
The 53-year-old, who has also managed Millwall and Sunderland, was sacked as Wolves boss in February.
He will be assisted by his former number two at Wolves, Terry Connor, who succeeded him as manager at Molineux.
McCarthy replaces Paul Jewell, with the club bottom of the Championship table.
Mick McCarthy has managed all his three clubs (Millwall, Sunderland and Wolves) to the First Division/Championship play-offs and led the latter two up to the Premier League as champions
Jewell's assistant Chris Hutchings, who took charge of Saturday's 3-0 loss to Sheffield Wednesday - Town's fourth straight loss and 12th game without a win - has left the cub by mutual consent.
"I'm obviously delighted to have been given the job as Ipswich Town manager and I'm looking forward to the challenge ahead," McCarthy told the club website.
"It's a fantastic football club, with a proud tradition and history and a terrific fanbase. While the long term ambition is to take the club back into the Premier League, it's clear that the first priority is to get some confidence back into the team and start climbing the table."
His first game as Town boss will be the Championship match at Birmingham City on Saturday.
"He will get respect instantly. He talks to you in the right manner and tone. You want to play for him straight away.
"What you see is what you get. He's fair and honest.
"I'm sure it's the right decision to appoint him.
"He's got fantastic experience. In the Championship he's got Wolves and Sunderland promoted.
"Over the course of the season they will improve under him and improve even further next season."
After five and a half years as Wolves manager, Barnsley-born following a run of one win in 13.
The former Manchester City and Celtic defender started his managerial career at Millwall and, after four years at the Den, he left to take the Ireland job in 1996.
McCarthy, a Republic international during his playing career, led the national side to the second round of the 2002 World Cup finals, but was embroiled in a public dispute with then midfielder and former Town boss Roy Keane.
He has led all of the three clubs he has managed to the Championship play-offs and won promotion as champions with Sunderland and Wolves.
Connor, McCarthy's assistant at Wolves, replaced him at the helm but following the club's relegation to the Championship reverted to the role of assistant when Norwegian Stale Solbakken arrived in the close season.
The 49-year-old, who joined the Molineux coaching staff in 1999, was sacked in September.
Town chief executive Simon Clegg said: "I am delighted to welcome Mick and Terry to Portman Road.
"We are under no illusions of the challenge ahead for this club given our position in the table but we feel we have the right manager to lead that challenge.
"Mick has a wealth of knowledge in the game and has shown that he knows how to compete successfully in the Championship in his time at both Sunderland and Wolves.
"While the first task is to guide the club away from our current position, we believe Mick has all the credentials and drive to eventually bring success back to Ipswich Town."
McCarthy will be unveiled to the media at a news conference at Portman Road at 17:00 GMT.
Alan Curbishley, who counts Charlton and West Ham as his former clubs, and ex-Newcastle manager Alan Shearer had also been linked with the role.
Constable Claire Lowe, 39, died on Wednesday on the Moss Road near Ballygowan.
She is believed to have been riding with a local hunt.
The incident has been described as a "freak hunting accident", although the cause of death has not yet been confirmed.
Lisburn and Castlereagh City District Commander Supt Sean Wright paid tribute to an experienced and professional police officer with six years' service, who "was in the prime of her life".
"We all knew of her love for horses and for her sport but we also knew her for being a committed police officer who found challenge and reward in serving the local community and in keeping people safe," he said.
"She will be very much missed by all of us and her loss will be deeply felt for a long time to come.
"Our thoughts are with Claire's family and friends at this tragic and difficult time," he added.
The 28-year-old, whose stay at Vicarage Road is now extended until 2021, has made 84 appearances for the club since joining from Blackpool three years ago.
Cathcart struggled with a hernia injury last season and only featured in 15 Premier League games.
However, new manager Marco Silva has opted to tie down the long-term future of the experienced international.
Cathcart made his Northern Ireland debut against Slovenia in 2010 and has won 33 caps.
Watford also signed midfielder Will Hughes from Championship side Derby County last weekend as Silva prepares his side before they host Liverpool in the opening Premier League fixture on 12 August.
The wings for the new aircraft will be made in Belfast, supporting 800 jobs.
Certification of the CS100 was received from Transport Canada after 3,000 hours of test flying.
The move paves the way for the first passenger flights with Swiss International Air Lines early next year.
Michael Ryan, vice-president of Bombardier Belfast, said: "This is an achievement of which all our employees and our supply chain should be justly proud."
The CSeries project has been troubled by delays and a $2bn (£1.34m) cost overrun.
Firm orders have been stuck at 243 since late 2014.
The CSeries - versions of which seat between 110 to 150 - is the firm's attempt to expand from executive jets into a market dominated by Airbus and Boeing.
The programme has placed Bombardier under huge financial strain, prompting a bail-out from the provincial government in Quebec earlier this year.
Certification is a milestone for the CSeries and Bombardier needs it to be a momentum-changer.
2015 ends with a zero in the sales column and certification must now reinvigorate the order book.
Bombardier will look to turn the corner in 2016, but it will not happen quickly.
Investors have been told to expect lower profits and 20% savings need to be made in its Belfast operations.
When a CSeries test plane flew to Belfast in June, a worker, admiring the aircraft, told me: "All we have got to do now is sell it."
Six months later - with certification at last obtained - sales now become an even greater priority.
But the company is at least ending a gloomy year on a celebratory note.
Enterprise Minister Jonathan Bell said: "I congratulate the whole team at Bombardier and especially Michael Ryan and his staff in Belfast on this marvellous achievement.
"This is a hugely significant development and the last major milestone ahead of the aircraft's entry into commercial service."
Guy Hedger, 61, died in hospital after he was shot by intruders who entered a house in St Ives, near Ringwood, Dorset, just after 03:00 BST on Sunday.
Detectives have launched a murder investigation.
They said a second person in the property at the time was "deeply affected by the incident" and is being supported by specially-trained officers.
Mr Hedger's next-of-kin are aware, a Dorset Police spokesman added.
Det Ch Insp Sarah Derbyshire said police do not believe Mr Hedger was known to the intruders, although all lines of inquiry are being pursued.
She said: "At this stage we are still trying to establish exactly what happened at the address and how and why the victim was shot dead.
"I am appealing for anyone who may have seen or heard anything suspicious in the area, or was in the area at that time, to contact Dorset Police as soon as possible.
"There will be a heavy police presence in the vicinity and officers from the local Neighbourhood Policing Team will be carrying out high-visibility patrols to offer reassurance to the community. They can be contacted with any concerns."
The UK is home to more than 30 miniature villages, ranging from hobbyists to full-blown tourist attractions employing professional engineers.
They can be found in weather-beaten coastal resorts, picturesque villages nestled in rolling hills or as complements to major tourist attractions such as Land's End or Blenheim Palace.
Or even just an enthusiast's garden.
Brian Salter, author of Models Towns and Villages, said: "People love going to model villages because we like things in miniatures, we all had toys and there is a nostalgia and old worldliness to them.
"And people like making models because it is a way to build and own something you love when you could never have the real thing."
Generally accepted as the world's first model village, Bekonscot in Beaconsfield opened in August 1929 when Roland Callingham - under instruction from his wife - moved his model railway from his home to a neighbouring garden.
About 160,000 people a year visit the 1930s-styled village, which has around 200 buildings, including a house on fire and operational coal mine.
And one of its hidden gems is a replica of Green Hedges, the home of Enid Blyton who lived next door to the Callinghams.
Brian Newman-Smith, managing director of Bekonscot, said: "What we have here is unique and different, we don't have white knuckle rides, it is quite peaceful and depicts England. People leave their world and worries behind when they enter the gates."
To experience meta on an epically small scale, visit Bourton-on-the-Water's 75-year-old model village.
Found in the back garden of the Old New Inn, the attraction is modelled on the Cotswold village with its streets, shops, River Windrush, houses and churches recreated from the mustard-coloured stone in 1:9 scale.
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The River Windrush which flows through Bourton also flows through the model village
The Church of St Lawrence's medieval nave and Georgian tower have been recreated in model form along with its interior
The model village in the grounds of the Old New Inn was completed in 1941 after the landlord and his wife meticulously measured Bourton to ensure their version was accurate
The only things that change in the village are the shop fronts which are kept up to date with the real retailers' alterations
The model village was granted Grade II Listed status in 2012, much like many of the real buildings the oldest of which was built in the 17th Century
One of the highlights is the model of the model village in the model pub's model garden. And it goes on, with a model in that model, and then a painted model in the model's model's model.
Owner Vicki Atherton said: "People do get really excited about the model in the model, they are quite surprised by it which surprises me because, as it is a model of Bourton, you would expect to see it."
Brian Salter said the challenge facing villages is not a lack of interest but rather their mere maintenance.
Mr Salter said: "Everybody loves these villages but the maintenance of them is like a treadmill, both the buildings need attention and the grounds need to be well kept."
Home to what was the world's smallest working television, Babbacombe in Torquay also has fishing villages, Stonehenge and a fire-breathing dragon.
The attraction opened in 1963 with the models originally made from timber, but the coastal wind and salt took their toll so fibre glass is now used.
It attracts 150,000 visitors a year and general manager Simon Wills said he has noticed a particular interest from Chinese tourists.
He said: "I've been trying to figure out why it is so popular for the last 40 years.
"People are fascinated with things in miniature, perhaps it dates back to their childhood with model trains or doll houses."
Edward Robinson started making models 23 years ago after an ME diagnosis forced him to end his career as a builder.
He and his wife Kathleen have converted a paddock behind their home in Flookburgh near Grange-over-Sands into a display area for his models.
His latest creation is the unusual but eye-catching Bridge House in Ambleside built, like most of his creations, from locally quarried slate.
The model has now been moved to the Honister Slate Mine, but visitors to Lakeland can still see dozens of his creations all modelled on real Lake District buildings, albeit their original states as barns and farms rather than their modern-day conversions.
He said: "I find it therapeutic, it can take three months to make a model but it is time well spent."
Mr Robinson said his models were particularly popular with visitors from India although he cannot explain why.
He said: "They seem to be crazy for them and are really bowled over when they come in, which is nice to see."
Bondville in Bridlington was created by Geoff and Carol Cooper in 1988, their third model village.
Although it is now owned by Jan Whitehead, Mr Cooper still makes and maintains the models and figures while Mrs Cooper helps with the gardening.
What's unusual about Bondville is its total adherence to the 1:12 scale (plus its picturesque harbour and miniatures of characters from Last of the Summer Wine).
Ms Whitehead said: "Geoff is very strict on the scale and while many other villages have variances we simply don't.
"Geoff will adapt things to make sure they fit properly, vehicles in particular are very difficult to buy in 1:12 scale, especially things like ambulances and fire engines, so Geoff will make them himself.
"The maintenance is a huge task but we are all committed to it. Our buildings are made from concrete with brickwork scribed by hand, it would be much easier to use fibre glass but we don't want to go down that route because then we would lose the realism which is the real charm.
"People say to us it looks exactly like a real village only in miniature, that's what we strive for."
The Magnum agency photographer has gifted 1,500 photos taken over his 60-year career and 700 images from his private collection.
They include some of his most celebrated work taken worldwide as well as photographs of his native Wales.
They will go on display at the museum in Cardiff from 30 September.
Over the past six decades, Mr Hurn has amassed a large private collection of images, gathered mainly through swapping works with fellow photographers.
They include French humanist photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson and American photojournalist Eve Arnold, as well as emerging talent such as Clementine Schneidermann, whose photographs of Abertillery, in Blaenau Gwent, won the 2016 Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award.
Mr Hurn has spent the past two years selecting images from his own archive to create an edit of his life's work for the museum.
The collection of 1,500 new prints includes photos taken across the UK, Arizona, California and New York.
It features some of his most celebrated work, such as images of debutants at Queen Charlotte's Ball in 1967 and pictures of Jane Fonda on the film set of Barbarella.
But photographs of Wales will form the main focus of the collection.
Mr Hurn, who now lives and works in Wales, chose the museum because of the fond memories he had of visiting as a child.
"My earliest visual/cultural memories are visiting the museum when I must have been four or five," he said.
"I remember the naughty statue - Rodin's The Kiss - and cases full of stuff that people had donated.
"Well now I have the chance to repay, something of mine will be there forever, I feel very privileged."
Mr Hurn's donation means National Museum Wales holds the largest collection of his work worldwide and the museum said the archive would "transform" its photography collections.
Director David Anderson added: "We are extremely grateful to David Hurn for this generous gift, which will drive this important and much needed photography programme for Amgueddfa Cymru, benefiting the people of Wales and those further afield."
Jim Robertson, 61, from the Glasgow area, disappeared on a trip to the Cairngorms.
Police said the searches planned for the weekend would focus on the area of Derry Lodge on the Mar Lodge Estate in Aberdeenshire.
Mr Robertson was thought to have stayed in the Bob Scott Bothy on the estate.
Insp Matt Smith, Police Mountain Rescue Team Leader, said: "Vast areas of the Cairngorms have been searched and we remain indebted to the commitment shown by the volunteers from Braemar, Aberdeen and Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Teams as well as the Search and Rescue Dogs Association and air support from the coastguard.
"However, despite this effort Jim is still missing and we are still encouraging hill goers to contact us if they have any information which could assist with the search."
Braemar Mountain Rescue said on their Facebook page: "Over the weekend further searches by Aberdeen Mountain Rescue Team and ourselves will continue and we urge hill users to report anything which may help.
"Jim's family have shown enormous strength and we are hugely grateful to them for starting a fundraising page for us on Just Giving. Stay strong."
The appeal was set with a target of raising £1,000 but by Sunday the total stood at more than £9,400.
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The scientists says that the fitting a flock with wireless sensors could help to look after the animal's welfare.
The sheep will be able to communicate directly to a computer.
Here's Jenny to explain.
The Fairer Scotland for Disabled People plan includes 93 actions aimed at aiding independent living, protecting rights and improving working lives.
Social Security Minister Jeane Freeman said 1m disabled people contribute to Scotland's communities.
Disability groups welcomed the plan as a "positive direction of travel".
Campaigners say many disabled people still face discrimination, poverty and prejudice.
The Scottish government, which is taking over some social security services including disability benefits, drew up the action plan around five key ambitions. They are:
Ms Freeman launched the plan at the Royal Conservatoire in Glasgow, where she met disabled staff, interns and apprentices from businesses and organisations around the city.
She said: "We know many disabled people are still unable to live their lives as they would want to because of the barriers in their way.
"It is not the impairment which disables people, but society's failure to adapt our environment, workplaces and information so they are open to everyone on an equal basis. This must change.
"The time for talking is over and it's time for action. We cannot achieve these changes unless we work together across the public sector and with the direct involvement of disabled people. Our strong collaboration is essential as we take the 93 actions forward."
The move was welcomed by disability groups, although they warned that there was "no time to lose" in the current climate of welfare cuts.
Dr Sally Witcher, chief executive of Inclusion Scotland, said the plan sets out "a positive direction of travel towards a fairer Scotland for disabled people, based on a firm foundation of human rights".
She said: "Specific commitments on funding for internships, to promote volunteering and to help address the under-representation of disabled people in politics and public life are particularly welcome.
"But the challenge now is to transform ambitions into actions that will, in turn, transform disabled people's lives and the country we live in. There is much to be done and no time to lose."
Layla Theiner of Disability Agenda Scotland added: "As the plan notes, public spending cuts to services and social security have negatively impacted a large number of disabled people and exacerbated inequalities.
"It is key that the ambitions and actions in the report are realised to ensure a difference is made to their lives."
Safety checks were not carried out on some staff members at Barton Clough Primary School in Stretford, Greater Manchester, a report by Ofsted said.
School leaders also failed to keep children safe and were criticised for being "unaware of the catalogue of safeguarding failures".
Trafford Council said action has been taken to address concerns.
The report said the 250 pupil community school "has declined significantly since the last inspection" and "leaders, managers and governors are not demonstrating the capacity to improve".
It was also rated "inadequate" over concerns bullying was not being dealt with effectively and some pupils said they did not feel safe on the school yard.
Checks on staff and governors were incomplete and some pupils were prevented from making progress in class because disruptive behaviour was not managed well.
The report also highlighted the strength of the school's special educational needs provision and pupils' progress in mathematics due to additional teaching.
The council said it was disappointed at the findings and was "keen to reassure parents".
It added it was "confident in the current school leadership team" to "take the necessary steps to improve".
Relatives of some of the men were at the service of dedication at Enniskillen Castle.
The event was also attended by the First Minister Arlene Foster.
The Victoria Cross, the highest award for bravery, was introduced in 1856 by Queen Victoria to honour acts during the Crimean War.
Each medal is made from the bronze of Russian guns captured at the siege of Sevastopol.
The 10 men from County Fermanagh received the award for their bravery in British military campaigns, including the Indian Mutiny of 1857, the Abyssinia Expedition, the Boer War and the First World War.
A commemorative centenary paving stone was also unveiled to Captain Eric Bell as part of a nationwide campaign by the government to honour those who received the Victoria Cross during the First World War.
Eric Bell was born in Enniskillen and was killed at the Somme in July 1916 as he attempted to organise a counter attack at Thiepval.
The campaign to permanently recognise their heroism was organised by Oliver Breen, who thought it was "a piece of lost history".
He has spent the past 10 years working to have the memorial erected and said the monument was built with the support of all sections of the community in Fermanagh.
"The men who won the VC's here, they're from both sides of the community," he said.
"It's a shared history and let's hope they will give us a shared future.
"I feel very proud that the lost history of Fermanagh, which most people don't know about, has now been resurrected."
Marie Flanagan, great-great-granddaughter of Corporal Michael Slevin, said she was "very proud" to honour his memory.
"Just remembering the dead and remembering why they died, I think that's very important. They died so that we could have a country to live in."
James Irwin's ancestor Charles Irwin fought in the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
"He was wounded in the shoulder and he stormed into a house to rescue some colleagues, despite being severely injured.
"As a result, his colleagues put him forward for a VC, which is a great honour to receive."
He said he and his family only became aware of the story about 15 years ago and described the unveiling of the memorial as "a very special occasion".
"It is very very important that we do remember the sacrifices they made," said Mr Irwin.
The Obama-era measures prohibit broadband providers from giving or selling access to certain internet services over others.
Those who fought to get the rules passed said his proposal would set off a fierce political battle.
Mr Pai announced the plan to roll back net neutrality measures in Washington.
"Do we want the government to control the internet? Or do we want to embrace the light-touch approach" in place from 1996 until 2015, he said.
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He said the current framework discourages the spread of high-speed internet to poor and rural communities.
"Title II has kept countless consumers from getting better internet access or getting access, period. It is widening the digital divide in our country."
The commission plans to seek comment on new rules - including how to address questions such as paid prioritization for some traffic - in the coming months.
Mr Pai was first appointed to the FCC by former US president Barack Obama and voted against the rules in 2015.
His plan for a roll back places him on the side of internet providers such as Comcast, AT&T and Verizon, which have opposed the rules.
In the 2015 debate, many people - galvanised in part by firms such as Netflix - wrote in support of net neutrality provisions.
Stuart Cowie, who was extradited from South Africa to face a hearing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court, admitted carrying out the assault in 2012.
The court heard that the 75-year-old was caught molesting the child by his wife.
In addition to fining him, Sheriff Kenneth McGowan placed him on the sex offenders' register for five years.
The court was told that Cowie and his wife Margaret had flown to Edinburgh from their South African home just ten days prior to the incident in October 2012 and were staying with the girl's parents.
Fiscal depute Kim Schofield said: "On October 7, around 5.30pm the accused was sitting in the TV room with the girl, who at the time was six-years-old.
"They were both sitting on the sofa and the accused placed his hand down the girl's trousers."
Mr Schofield said Cowie then exposed himself to the child. He added: "At which point, his wife walked into the room and saw the accused with his trouser's zip open and asked the girl to leave (the room).
"His wife later confronted him about what she had seen, saying she had seen his zip open. He replied she was 'talking nonsense'.
"While this conversation was ongoing, the mother of the child walked past the room and heard the argument. She heard Cowie's wife say 'I saw you with your zip down while the girl was there'."
The girl's mother then confronted Cowie about the attack, who responded by telling her: "I don't know what came over me - I just started fooling around."
Cowie was thrown out of the house by the child's parents and fled back to South Africa.
The court heard that Cowie sent two letters to the family begging for forgiveness for his "inexcusable behaviour", adding that he was "deeply ashamed" at what he had done.
George Henry, defending, said Cowie's family life had "disintegrated" since he admitted the abuse.
Mr Henry also said that upon his arrest in South Africa, his client had spent two nights in custody before being returned to the UK and then spent a further five nights on remand in HMP Edinburgh.
Mr Nesbitt was addressing delegates at the UUP's spring conference.
"Without co-operation, there was a real danger that our capital city would have no pro-union MP after 7 May," he said.
Mr Nesbitt said its "pro-union potential" had not been maximised, as the DUP "would not discuss South Belfast in a practical manner".
"So, the understanding is not what (DUP leader) Peter Robinson wanted any more than it is what I wanted, but politics is about the art of the possible, and this arrangement was the best possible, given the different direction the DUP was approaching from," he said.
The deal involves four constituencies where the UUP and DUP will field a single candidate in May's general election.
The UUP is standing aside in both North and East Belfast in favour of the DUP.
In return, the DUP is encouraging support for UUP candidates in Fermanagh and South Tyrone, and in Newry and Armagh.
Mr Morales said he had "lost a small battle, but not the war".
With 99.7% of the votes counted, 51.3% of voters had rejected the proposal, while 48.7% had voted for it.
Evo Morales has been in power since 2006 and his current term, his third, runs out in 2020.
"The struggle does not end here, just because the 'no' has won," President Morales said.
He also spoke about a "dirty war" which he said had been conducted against him in the run-up to the referendum.
The president's approval ratings had fallen after recent allegations that he used his influence to favour a Chinese construction firm which employs his former girlfriend.
Mr Morales has rejected the allegations and has ordered an investigation into how the contracts were awarded.
"We respect the results, it is part of democracy," he said.
Mr Morales had said on Tuesday that he wanted to wait until the full election results were announced to comment.
Exit polls had given the "no" campaign a wide lead after polls closed on Sunday, but that lead dwindled to 2.6 percentage points as results came in from rural areas, where support for Mr Morales is strongest.
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But many voters said they felt changing the constitution to allow Mr Morales to serve beyond the 19 consecutive years in office he will reach at the end of his term would go too far.
Passport and credit card details were also stolen from the Grozio Chirurgija clinic, Lithuanian police said.
After the release of hundreds of photos from the clinic in March, the rest of the database was published on Tuesday.
Patients in Denmark, Germany, Norway and the UK have received demands for ransoms of up to 2,000 euros (£1,737).
Lithuanian police say it is unclear how many of the clinic's clients have been affected but dozens have reported receiving such demands.
Officers said a hacking group called Tsar Team was behind the theft and publication of the data.
In April, a group claiming to have carried out the theft sent the clinic a demand for 344,000 euros, calling it a "small penalty fee" for having vulnerable computer systems.
The perpetrators decided to publish the data when the clinic refused to pay, according to the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).
When the database was published on Tuesday, Lithuanian news site 15min reported that the group was demanding 113,500 euros for the full database, as "a lot of people have paid us to delete their data".
"It's extortion. We're talking about a serious crime," Andzejus Raginskis, Lithuanian Criminal Police Bureau's deputy chief, told reporters.
He warned that anyone who downloaded and stored the stolen data could be prosecuted and face a prison sentence of up to three years.
The clinic's website is advising people who receive ransom demands not to open them or click on any links contained in them, and to submit any messages they receive to the authorities for investigation.
But the England Under-21 international, 22, will be fined for comments he made on Twitter that appeared to criticise Jeremy Peace.
The Baggies chairman turned down two late bids for Berahino and criticised Spurs for trying to get him "cheaply".
Berahino will meet with West Brom manager Tony Pulis and other key club officials on Monday.
The forward was due to return to training on Friday but has been given extra time off.
Gordon Taylor, chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, says the players' union has been in touch with West Brom and Berahino's representatives and expects them to resolve their differences.
Spurs had two other bids for Berahino rejected in the summer.
The player also had a transfer request turned down and made his dismay public when it became clear he would not be moving to White Hart Lane.
In a tweet, he appeared to suggest he would not play for the Baggies under Peace's chairmanship.
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Peace has made it clear he feels Spurs are to blame in the matter, claiming he had spoken to Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy earlier in the summer to explain his club's stance.
"We have a key player who has been very unsettled by antics which were designed to get him out of our club cheaply," said Peace in a statement on the club's website on Tuesday.
"Those tactics have continued despite my making our position clear in my first conversation with Daniel Levy on this subject in mid-August.
"I said selling Saido so late in the window was not on our agenda.
"We are now left with the task of repairing the damage created by this unfortunate episode."
West Brom also said Tottenham's offer for Berahino was not enough - either the amount they had offered as an initial down-payment or the final total of £22.5m spread over five years.
Levy later issued a transfer dealings statement on Spurs' official website which appeared to explain the club's dealings over Berahino.
"We have never, as a club, spoken about another team's players and I am not about to do so now," it read.
But it continued: "There is hardly a transfer concluded across Europe which doesn't include staged payments. This is particularly so when significant amounts such as £20m-£30m are involved - players don't come cheaply these days.
"Secondly, we do not make anything personal. None of the proposals, discussions or negotiations we undertake involve any personal elements or ego - everything we do is in the interest of what is best for our club.
"Thirdly, we never make anything public, particularly in the best interests of the players involved. Making aspects such as transfer requests public is wholly disrespectful to a player."
Former West Brom striker Jason Roberts says he has some sympathy for Berahino.
"Whatever the communication has been with Berahino, he has thought the transfer will go through," Roberts told BBC World Service.
"It was an amazing reaction to go out publicly to say you will not play for the chairman again - that is a big call from the player.
"I feel some sympathy for Saido as he is in the middle of this but at the same time, it may be a misjudgement to come out and say he won't play for the chairman again."
BBC Sport spoke to Mishcon de Reya's James King about the Berahino saga and the potential fallout of strike action by the player.
He told us the following:
"Berahino won't face the inevitable disciplinary process until Monday when he'll meet leading executives at the club to discuss his expected fine and to see how they can get such a discontented player back onside.
"West Brom's postponement of the meeting is designed to draw some of the sting from the media's focus on this spectacular fall-out between Peace and Berahino.
"But Peace's relationship with the player is nowhere near the as crucial as the role Pulis will play in his reintegration.
"I understand Pulis was resigned to losing such a valuable but disillusioned player, but now he somehow has to talk Berahino round."
West Brom Supporters' Club chairman John Homer believes the club and player need to "take a step back" now and move forward - but it may need Berahino to "show contrition and apologise to the Albion fans".
He told BBC Radio 5 live: "It's always upsetting when a player comes out and says he doesn't want to play for the club and wants away, so that will alienate him with some supporters.
"Football supporters are fickle though and if in a fortnight's time if he were to play against Aston Villa at Villa Park and get the winning goal, we'd have a different viewpoint on the lad."
And referring to the Burundi-born players rise through the ranks and to the fringes of the England national team, he added: "It's a tremendous story and for it to go foul at this stage of his career is desperately sad. It's doing nothing but damaging his prospects."
PFA boss Gordon Taylor told BBC Sport: "Every difficult situation can be resolved. We get called in on a number of occasions where there are disputes between the players and the club and we're more than happy to try and help resolve this one.
"With social media, the players are young lads and we expect them to have old heads on young shoulders.
"I can't recommend any player refusing to play and I hope with the experienced management at the club the situation will be resolved. I would be surprised and disappointed if it wasn't.
"If he chooses not to play it will be difficult to get another club as he will lose his fitness and his form. He's clearly a very talented player with a big future."
For a recap of transfer deadline day, click here.
With the windows covered over to keep out the daylight, she could barely see her fellow dancers as they all got lost in the music at the alcohol-free gathering, in Melbourne, Australia.
Annie, 26, says she is normally too shy to dance in public, but that it is much easier to go for it when she knows that no-one is watching.
"There is no judgement, or need to feel uncomfortable," she says. "It was a great space to let loose."
Annie is one of thousands of people around the world who now meet regularly to dance together in near darkness (there is just enough light to prevent you from bumping into other participants), as part of a dance organisation called No Lights No Lycra.
It is part of a growing change in the world of dance classes for women, away from the formality of mirror-lined exercise studios, and pressures to get your moves correct and in time with everyone else.
Instead the emphasis is increasingly on unstructured fun, not taking yourself seriously, and the freedom to dance without any concern about how you look, or whether you should be losing any weight.
In addition to the success of No Lights No Lyrca, the movement has seen the rise of dance classes based solely upon the distinctive moves of US singer Beyonce, or the poses made by New York drag queens.
As the old saying goes, "dance like no-one is watching". That was what Melbourne friends Alice Glenn and Heidi Barrett, both 34, had in mind when they founded No Lights No Lycra in 2009.
"We were just tired of going to dance classes and trying to move the way everyone else was moving, and constantly being critical of ourselves," says Alice.
"People want to enjoy that freedom of moving just because it feels good, not because you look great."
A 2013 report said the fitness industry needed to cater more for young people who had rejected the health clubs of their parents' generation in favour of exercise regimes that place an emphasis on music and community relationships.
That was another motivation, adds Alice, who says that participants don't have "to take themselves too seriously".
While just five people attended the first No Lights No Lyrca session in the fashionable Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, within six months numbers hit 100 people a week.
"It all just went gangbusters," says Alice, especially after a friend started a franchise in Brooklyn that was covered in the New York Times.
No Lights No Lyrca now operates in 75 locations around the world, including Los Angeles and Hong Kong. Prices vary, although in Melbourne the cost-per-class is seven Australian dollars ($5.30; £4.30).
Franchises pay about 200 Australian dollars a year, plus a portion of their earnings for larger operations.
In Miami, Florida, Simone Sobers decided to launch a dance workout after she learned that women of colour had particularly high levels of obesity and heart disease.
"I wanted to use elements of our culture that we could easily connect with - music and dance," she says.
Simone's Boss Chick Dance Workout is a combination of styles - hip-hop, dance hall, afrobeat, and twerking. Classes are for women only, so that they can "let loose without the male gaze, and have a safe space to dance in a sexy way".
With just $100 in the bank, Simone started the classes back in 2013. It has now expanded to New York and Philadelphia, with classes costing between $14 and $25. She event staged a sold-out 21-city tour across the US.
Back in Melbourne, Liz Cahalan's company Bey Dance is devoted almost entirely to the spirit of the singer Beyonce.
A dancer by profession, Liz says she was inspired by her love of the music video for Beyonce's 2008 hit single Single Ladies.
The first Bey Dance studio opened last year in the Australian city, and has since expanded across the country to Perth and Adelaide.
Liz now employs 35 people to help teach the classes and maintain the business.
"It became about more than just a dance class," she says. "It became about teaching women that it is OK to have curves, to feel powerful about the way that you stand with your body."
Liz adds that she thinks the rise of classes such as Bey Dance and No Lights No Lycra was "one of those zeitgeist things". She says like-minded people became tired of feeling like they "couldn't dance because we weren't a certain body shape, that we didn't have a certain technique, or do ballet".
In London, Juliet Murrell got inspiration for her House of Voga dance classes from a 1980 documentary called Paris Is Burning that chronicled New York's drag scene.
The film showcased the "vogueing" style of dance popular with drag queens at the time, which involves brief pauses in movement to pose, as if for a camera.
Juliet's classes, which launched in 2013 combine vogueing moves with yoga.
"There's a focus on arm, gesture, body language and coordinated arm movements," she says of the classes, which have now expanded to Paris, Edinburgh and Barcelona.
"There's an increasing appetite for unique dance classes as people want to feel they're upping their skills and feeling great," adds Juliet. "It's exciting, it is like nothing they've done before."
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Three boys aged between five and nine were taken in by social services amid concerns over substance abuse, violence and neglect, a family court in Bournemouth heard.
The mother had seven children taken from her for similar reasons in 2006.
Some have been adopted, some placed into foster care and some placed with relatives, the court heard.
The mother, in her 40s, cannot be identified for legal reasons.
GPs have warned patients with coughs and colds to stay away from surgeries - with cases at a seasonal high.
There are concerns a lack of education on how to spot warning signs of sepsis could lead to people staying away.
An estimated 1,800 people in Wales die a year from sepsis, which can be mistaken for influenza early on.
Scientists at Cardiff University's Systems Immunity Research Institute (SIRU) believe education is crucial to make sure people get treatment in time to help save their lives.
Treating and preventing sepsis was the focus as Welsh weatherman Derek Brockway visited the team as he explored how his own father Cliff died of sepsis in 2015.
Early symptoms can be mistaken for influenza or other infections but without early treatment, sepsis can be fatal - causing shock and rapid organ failure - and every hour can count.
Dr Tom Connor, a microbiologist for SIRU and honorary consultant with Public Health Wales, said people should look out for warning signs including dizziness and shortness of breath.
"As far as public perception goes, we are told quite often not to bother the hospital, not to go to A&E with minor problems and it can be difficult to know what is a minor and what is a major problem," he told BBC Wales.
"In the case of sepsis and bacterial infections there are warning signs, that if you see them you should go to the doctor.
"You shouldn't be there thinking I'm going to be a martyr, I'm going to see if it clears up."
Dr Connor said elderly people may not know when they are ill and may not spot that they had an infection.
Part of his work alongside PHW is looking at educating people on how to spot the warning signs for blood infections, including GPs, care home staff and district nurses.
Dr Jane Fenton May, vice chairwoman of the Royal College of GPs in Wales, said people should monitor symptoms and seek advice if they were worried.
"It is a difficult call," said Dr May, who said waking up with a sore throat or cold was very different to the debilitating symptoms which could indicate sepsis.
"It is best to get advice rather than rock up to casualty, you may just end up sitting in a waiting room and deteriorating there," she said.
Dr David Bailey, deputy chairman of BMA Cymru Wales GP Committee, said educating people on whether to go to the pharmacist, doctors or A&E needed to be "high on the agenda".
About 1,200 patients a year are hospitalised with sepsis in the Cwm Taf health board area which manages services in Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taff.
The board has introduced "disposable sepsis boxes" which contain medicines and equipment needed to start the treatment of sepsis quickly.
Assistant director of operations Kath McGrath said the hospitals were currently working under "extreme pressure" levels, but if people suspected they had sepsis they should dial 999 and call for an ambulance.
"Our advice to patients is to always choose the most appropriate health care service for their needs," she said.
"This will help us ensure that patients with life-threatening injuries or illnesses such as sepsis can be treated as quickly as possible as soon as they arrive at the emergency department."
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board, which looks after the NHS in Swansea, Bridgend, Neath and Port Talbot, said it was not aware of any concerns of sepsis not being identified as a result of their doctors telling people to stay away from surgeries if they have coughs or colds.
"The information our doctors have been providing informs people of when they don't need to seek medical attention, when they should seek it, and, if they are unsure and need advice, to contact the 111 urgent care service," a spokeswoman said.
In north Wales, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said it regularly issued advice to the public but that people should seek further advice if they felt their symptoms were getting worse.
Hywel Dda University Health Board area, which covers Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire, said it was continuing to experience significant pressures and that it was working hard to alleviate it.
Aneurin Bevan, Cardiff & Vale and Powys health boards were also contacted for comment.
Terence Canning, Welsh director of the Sepsis Trust, said the key to fighting sepsis was educating people about spotting the signs.
"Some people will have sepsis and you will not need to take a blood test as they are so obviously ill: science will not help these people," he said.
"But there are some people that science can help if they are seen early."
The University of Warwick team put 55 elite players into medical MRI scanners and, to their surprise, found many had egg-shaped right hips while their left joints were the usual ball shape.
Whether golfing causes the deformity or not is unclear, they say in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
Almost a fifth of the 2015 Scottish Hydro Challenge players had hip pain.
Lead researcher Prof Damian Griffin said shape mismatch between the hips might explain some of the pain reported by the golfers.
Dr Andrew Murray, specialist sports doctor for the European golf tour, said: "Overall, we know golf can provide considerable health benefits, with likely improved longevity, and better physical and mental health. But golf puts huge forces through the hips every time a player swings the club."
When a golfer takes a swing at the ball, the two hips rotate in different directions and at different speeds.
The egg shape seen on some of the scans was visible in 16% of right hips - the rear hip during a swing in a right-handed player - and 4% of left hips - the front hip during the swing in a right-handed player - in the professional golfers.
The condition, known as cam rotation, reduces the natural range of movement of the hip.
Co-researcher Dr Edward Dickenson said: "Our findings have brought up new questions to be answered.
"What remains to be established is whether professional golfers develop these shapes because of the way they are using their hips or whether players with these hip shapes are more likely to become professional."
Inputting login details from a stolen database of 99 million, they found nearly 21 million of the usernames were also being used for Taobao accounts.
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Owner Alibaba advised customers to change their passwords, and Chinese police have now made arrests in connection with the attempted hack.
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Rob Cook's score inside two minutes was quickly cancelled out by Nev Edwards' try, before two Billy Twelvetrees penalties gave Gloucester a three-point half-time lead at Kingsholm.
Edwards, starting his first Premiership match, then edged Sharks ahead with a second try, but Kalamafoni crossed twice to restore the hosts' lead.
Danny Cipriani's penalty closed the gap to four points but Gloucester held on.
Both sides had endured inconsistent starts to the new season, winning two and losing three of their opening five Premiership matches prior to the contest.
But the Cherry and Whites, who boast the second best home record in Premiership history, were too strong for a Sharks side with only one win on the road in the last 12 months.
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When winger Edwards crossed to put Steve Diamond's side ahead in the second half it looked as if Sale might register a third victory of the campaign.
But, with Gloucester hooker Richard Hibbard in the sin bin, Cipriani turned down an easy kick at goal to add to the visitors' score and instead headed for the corner.
Sale's gamble did not come off though and to add to their frustration Kalamafoni scored two tries in quick succession to re-establish Gloucester's control.
Cipriani did land a penalty from in front of the posts with 11 minutes left to keep Sale's hopes alive, but the home side closed the game out to lift themselves up to sixth in the Premiership table.
Gloucester director of rugby David Humphreys:
"We are absolutely delighted with the win. The league table already shows that one or two wins take you up, and one or two losses take you down.
"It's a great league, it's tough, and we know how close the games are going to be. We are delighted to come away with a victory against what is a very good, well-organised Sale team.
"I thought we found that bit of a spark. We struggled over the last couple of Premiership games, but tonight was much better. We were able to get on the front foot, we played with some width and we showed some ambition.
"If you think back over the last 18 months, the one thing you can't fault in this team is character and hard work. They never give up."
Sale director of rugby Steve Diamond:
"We gave the ball away a bit too easily when we were in their 22, but credit to Gloucester, they didn't turn the ball over in the crucial stages.
"I thought Gloucester deserved the win tonight, but our last couple of games - the draw against Newcastle, and we should have beaten Harlequins away - you can't be nearly men all the time.
"We have just got to get the pressure situations sorted out in our team, kick our goals and kick field position when we get there.
"We know we are good with ball in hand - it's the basics that let us down. Even in the last three or four minutes, we knocked the ball on twice. If you can't convert your pressure into points, you get beaten."
Gloucester: Cook; Sharples, Meakes, Twelvetrees (capt), May; Hook, Heinz; McAllister, Hibbard, Afoa, Savage, Thrush, Moriarty, Kvesic, Kalamafoni.
Replacements: Trinder for Meakes (49), Laidlaw for Heinz (51), Wood for McAllister (49), Dawidiuk for Hibbard (56), Galarza for Savage (57), Rowan for Kalamafoni (65).
Not Used: N. Thomas, Purdy.
Sin Bin: Hibbard (44).
Sale: Haley; Edwards, James, Tuitupou, Addison; Cipriani, Stringer; Harrison, Taylor, Cobilas, Evans, Mills, Braid (capt), TJ Ioane, Beaumont.
Replacements: Cusiter for Stringer (65), Lewis-Roberts for Harrison (53), Briggs for Taylor (65), Mujati for V. Cobilas (54), Ostrikov for Mills (59), Seymour for Braid (53).
Not Used: Ford, Jennings.
Att: 13,000
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The Greyhound pub in Tinsley Green, near Crawley, is hosting 15 teams of six players from as far afield as the US, Algeria and Germany.
The Good Friday competition has been held there since 1932 and follows in the tradition of the game dating back to the 16th Century.
It was once one of the few sports that could be played during Lent.
The tournament's organiser Julia McCarthy-Fox said: "People come back every year because they like being part of traditional things and it's at a pub, so what's not to like?
"There is no bar as to who can play and who can't, there is no benefit to being older, younger, male or female, it's completely mixed.
"There aren't many sports like that with an even playing field so people can play in a family team, work team or any combination.
"And it's a knockout competition so it doesn't matter if they are good or bad as they will sift themselves out as the tournament progresses," she said.
"If you are playing it well however, there is quite a high skill level. It's like snooker without a cue, it's a very similar skill to get the spin on the marble.
"Sometimes it can get a bit rowdy by the end of the day but all in good fun."
Father Joe Young approached Allardyce in 1991 to offer him the management job at League of Ireland side Limerick.
The football-mad cleric, who was the club's chairman at the time, said he is "absolutely delighted" to see his man move into the international game.
"He believed in the field of dreams," Fr Young said.
Allardyce is expected to be confirmed as the new England manager on Thursday, leaving Sunderland after nine months in charge at the Stadium of Light.
He replaces Roy Hodgson, who quit after England's humiliation at the hands of Iceland at Euro 2016.
Fr Young said Allardyce's appointment is a "very emotional moment in my priesthood".
"I'm so happy - I said Mass for him this morning and I'll say Mass for him tomorrow morning," he added.
"God bless him because he is wonderful."
Fr Young took on the chairmanship at Limerick when the club had "absolutely nothing - just a simple ground, not even with a wall around it".
And he settled on bringing the then-36-year-old Allardyce to the club as player-manager in the summer of 1991 by compiling a list of names and "putting a pen in the paper, [like picking] a horse for the Grand National".
Allardyce's time at Limerick was a resounding success as he led the club into the Republic of Ireland's top flight after winning the first division.
"I feel that he believed in what we were trying to do in Limerick - help young people come through and believe there was more to life than the welfare system," the 62-year-old priest said.
"Until you include the excluded, how can we dream any more? Sam believed in that.
"He was a purpose-driven manager and I never experienced so much joy in the fact that he believed that if you don't bring them through with discipline, forget about it."
Allardyce left Limerick to return to England in 1992 as the club did not have the money needed to keep him, according to Fr Young.
In spite of that, memories of the big man still warm the priest's heart.
"I loved him in the dugout, he was so focused," he said.
"I believed in big Sam - he was absolutely brilliant and a maestro."
Councillors agreed to go out to tender to look for a company to run the arena rather than the council running it.
The project team can now prepare the contract documents needed for operator procurement to begin in March 2014.
This will be followed by a competition to design the new venue, and building contractor procurement. The arena is due to open in June 2017.
The 12,000 capacity venue would be located in the heart of the Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone.
The arena will be leased to a company that will pay a fixed annual rental, taking the risk on the level of income generated and sharing profits with the council above an agreed amount.
The operator would programme and maintain the venue with the council having to negotiate any input into the programme.
Bristol mayor George Ferguson said: "This is a vitally important decision for the arena, setting out the best way to make it a reality and ensuring it is run in the most cost effective and suitable manner for the city.
"I want to ensure an element of city control over the arena, but it would be unwise for us to take on the full running of the facility and the risks that brings.
"Instead, I'll be considering ways for it to be run by an experienced, professional operator to make the most of the arena and the opportunities it brings.
"Without revealing too much at this stage, we've had considerable informal interest following the business study, which is extremely encouraging in terms of getting the right operator and best value."
A full report will go to cabinet on 16 January outlining the funding arrangements for the arena before going to a full council decision as part of the council's budget on 18 February.
Neighbouring councils have already agreed to help solve a £27m funding shortfall in the £90m proposal.
Joe Ralls and Anthony Pilkington struck for Cardiff in their 2-2 draw at Fulham, the first goals scored by Cardiff players this season.
"We are still looking to do some business," Trollope told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
"We are still on the look out and we are still trying to make things happen before the window shuts."
The addition of a striker is understood to be a priority for Cardiff, who won 2-1 in midweek against Blackburn but incredibly had to rely on two own goals.
The Bluebirds have added forwards Frederic Gounongbe, Kenneth Zohore and Lex Immers and Wales duo Emyr Huws and Jazz Richards to their squad since Trollope's appointment.
Former Wales coach Trollope believes the transfer market will be busy in the remaining days, especially with no emergency loan window in place this season.
"It will be a busy few weeks for most teams I would imagine, especially with the emergency loan window being out," he said.
"You hope to do it [sign players] and get it sorted next week, it would lead to an easier life, but the movement of other clubs can dictate who is coming in and out.
"So I would imagine there will be some late action."
Trollope would not elaborate on whether he has money to spend, but did admit players could still depart the Cardiff City Stadium, following the sale of defender Fabio Da Silva.
"If you are talking finances you need to talk to the chief executive or to the chairman, but from my point of view we are looking to add," he said.
"There are a few players we are still open to offers for and if the right offers come in that suit all parties then we will look at them on their merits and see if that happens."
The violence on the southern island has left three members of the security forces dead, officials say.
Mr Duterte earlier declared martial law for 60 days on Mindanao, where Muslim rebel groups are seeking autonomy.
Some of the groups, such as the Maute, have pledged allegiance to so-called Islamic State (IS).
After announcing martial law on Tuesday, President Duterte, a Mindanao native, warned that he would be harsh in dealing with terrorism.
"If it would take a year to do it, then we'll do it. If it's over within a month, then I would be happy," he said in a video posted online by the government.
Mr Duterte cut short his visit to Russia to deal with the violence.
During his talks in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he also said the Philippines needed more modern weapons to fight IS militants and other militant groups.
Martial law allows the use of the military to enforce order and the detention of people without charge for long periods.
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.
This is only the second time martial law has been declared since the fall in 1986 of President Ferdinand Marcos.
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.
Mr Duterte had promised that finding a lasting peace on the island would be a top priority for his administration.
But the conflict is complex and deep-rooted, the BBC's Jonathan Head reports.
Solutions have eluded previous governments, and it is not clear that President Duterte's reliance on martial law will prove any more successful, our correspondent says.
Stories by Jonathan Buckley, Mark Haddon, Frances Leviston and Jeremy Page have also made the shortlist, which was announced on BBC Radio 4's Front Row earlier.
The award, which is in its 10th year, is open to writers resident in the UK.
The £15,000 prize is given in tandem with the Book Trust charity.
Mantel's controversial story was published in a collection of 10 short stories in September 2014.
Set four years after Margaret Thatcher became prime minister in 1979, Mantel's story imagines an IRA attempt on her life.
Lord Tebbit called it a "sick book from a sick mind" when it was announced it was to be broadcast as a Book at Bedtime on Radio 4.
But Mantel, a double Booker winner, dismissed such criticisms, saying her story had "the form of a debate".
"My title story... demonstrates how very easily history could have worked out in a different way," she told The Guardian .
"The story speaks for itself, and I stand behind it."
Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is nominated for his story Bunny, about a morbidly obese young man who makes an unlikely friend.
Poet Frances Leviston writes about mother-daughter tensions in her story Broderie Anglaise, while Jonathan Buckley, a novelist and former Rough Guides editor, tells of a psychic investigating a missing teenager in Briar Road.
In the fifth shortlisted story - Do It Now, Jump The Table - playwright and screenwriter Jeremy Page writes of a young man meeting his girlfriend's parents for the first time.
None of the five writers have been shortlisted for the award before.
There were 438 entries this year, and award judge Ian Rankin said it was "really tough to whittle the list down".
"The quality was matched by variety of approach and subject matter, leaving me in no doubt as to the continuing robust good health of the form," he said.
The winner of the award will be announced at a ceremony on 6 October that will be broadcast live on Front Row.
Previous winners include Julian Gough, James Lasdun, Lionel Shriver and Clare Wigfall.
The Gloucester player left the British and Irish Lions tour to New Zealand early because of a back injury.
Moriarty was injured in his only Lions appearance, the 13-7 win against New Zealand Provincial Barbarians.
"I don't have a time scale or date when I expect to be back to play," said the 23-year-old.
Wales face Australia, Georgia, New Zealand and South Africa in November.
"I am not sure when I will be back," said Moriarty, who will also be absent when Gloucester's season begins at home against Exeter on Friday, 1 September.
"I will take my time and hopefully the physios will be doing their best to get me back to full fitness soon."
Moriarty made the Lions tour after winning 17 caps for Wales, but was unable to press for a Test place because of the injury.
"I was disappointed to leave the tour early, but it was a great experience to be involved with that first game," he said.
"I just felt as if I could have offered the team a little more."
Moriarty says he underwent two scans to discover the nature of the injury and medical treatment failed to clear it up, forcing him to return home.
More than 500 graduating students are having their work showcased.
A special display of large-scale digital prints of work by all 102 fine art students is being staged at the nearby McLellan Galleries.
They are also being compiled into a book which is being sold to raise money for those who lost work in the fire.
The preview of the degree show on Thursday is a ticket-only event. The show opens to the public on Saturday.
It features work by graduating students across the School of Design and the Mackintosh School of Architecture.
The Architecture and Design show is taking place in the new Reid Building and the city's Glue Factory is hosting the Master of Fine Art show.
Fine art students - whose work was worst-affected by the fire - have each provided an image for a special exhibition of digital prints at the nearby McLellan Galleries.
Glasgow School of Art director, Professor Tom Inns, said: "It has been a particularly challenging time for our fine art students and this exhibition ensures that although they are unable to stage a degree show at this time, they are able to join with their fellow students across the campus in our annual showcase of creativity and innovation."
The show comes almost three weeks after 200 firefighters were involved in tackling the blaze at the Mackintosh building on 23 May.
They managed to salvage 90% of the structure of the A-listed building and save up to 70% of its contents.
A fund launched to raise cash for the restoration of the Mackintosh building has attracted millions of pounds in pledges.
The greenbelt development, which includes tennis facilities, is being promoted by Judy Murray in the face of strong local opposition.
Planning officials have recommended the application at Park of Keir be refused.
But the former Manchester United manager said Ms Murray had set out an "amazing vision" to help young people.
Councillors will vote on the planned development, between Dunblane and Bridge of Allan, on Tuesday.
The proposed development includes tennis and golf facilities along with a visitor centre and museum, all set in a new country park.
The plans also include luxury homes, which would help pay for the scheme.
Ms Murray said she wanted to leave a legacy to the success of her two sons, tennis players Andy and Jamie Murray, who both made huge contributions to Great Britain's Davis Cup win on Sunday.
She told the BBC: "For us as a family, it is all about legacy of what Jamie and Andy have achieved throughout their careers, none more so so than what they achieved at the weekend.
"Two brothers from a small town that has no track record of tennis taking on the world and winning."
But planning officers have recommended the application be refused because it is planned for greenbelt land.
The planners also said there was not enough affordable housing proposed and added the residential element was contrary to Scottish planning policy, because residents would have to travel for basic amenities and services.
Campaigners against the Park of Keir plan have said the loss of greenbelt land to the development is too high a price to pay.
Stirling councillor Mark Ruskell, from the Scottish Greens, said: "This is a hugely important piece of greenbelt for both the communities of Bridge of Allan and Dunblane.
"For 30 years these communities have fought development on this site. We've had 20 times the level of objection to development at Park of Keir, as opposed to letters of support."
But Sir Alex has now written to Stirling Council's provost, saying he hopes the council "takes the right decision".
He said in the letter: "I was immensely proud to be there when Andy Murray won Wimbledon.
"Judy Murray has not only helped achieve that great victory, she has set out an amazing vision for facilities that will help young people be active and love tennis with all of the passion that she does."
Sir Alex added that with the planned golf centre, Stirling would have its own "golden triangle" of sports facilities that would help give young people a "lifelong love of sport".
Stirling Council said that those for and against the proposals would be able to express their views at the formal hearing on Tuesday.
A spokeswoman said the conclusions of its planning officials were "reached on balance following a thorough analysis by planning officers of all aspects of the case.
"This is an officer recommendation and in line with council policy it will be for elected members on the planning panel to determine this application."
The route, which links Barking, Canary Wharf and Tower Hill to Westminster, will open less than a week before his term is set to end.
Mr Johnson told drivers the "end was in sight" for construction work. He said the first route, at Vauxhall, led to a 73% increase in cycling in the area.
The Green Party warned funding for cycling would halve in the next term.
London taxi drivers lost a court appeal in January to disrupt the plan.
The increase in the number of cyclists using the superhighway at Vauxhall was compared to before the route opened in November, the mayor said.
In total, the new route will span about 12 miles on traffic-free segregated tracks or streets with low levels of traffic, said City Hall.
Links to Southwark, Elephant and Castle and Blackfriars and Whitechapel, Bow, Stepney and Stratford should open at around the same time, it said.
Mr Johnson said a "noisy minority fought hard to stop it [the route] happening" but opinion polls and consultations had shown "ordinary Londoners" wanted the route.
On the impact for motorists, Mr Johnson added: "I am immensely encouraged by the evidence from Vauxhall showing that now the scheme there is finished, the flow of traffic in the area is returning to normal."
Darren Johnson, Green Party member of the London Assembly, said it was "fantastic" so many people felt safe cycling in Vauxhall since the route's introduction.
He added: "It is therefore incredibly concerning [that] London's cycling budget is set to fall by over half over the next Mayoral term, meaning there just won't be enough money to pay for more cycle superhighways."
The Green Party member said he had questioned the mayor about what would happen to the capital's cycling budget after 2017.
He said Mr Johnson told him between 2016 and 2017, Transport for London would spend £166m on cycling - which would drop to £68m between 2020 and 2021.
In November, The London Cycling Campaign welcomed the new route but acknowledged some cyclists had been "frustrated" with the pace of progress.
Federico Santander headed low into the bottom corner of the net for the opener in the 19th minute.
Andreas Cornelius added the second with a diving header from Peter Ankersen's cross five minutes before the interval.
Rasmus Falk fired into the bottom right-hand corner from 20 yards for a well-taken third in the 53rd minute.
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The outcome of the tie looks to be already decided going into next Tuesday's second leg in Denmark.
The Irish Premiership champions made a lively start and Declan Caddell headed over from Richard Clarke's cross.
The hosts created a number of further chances in the second half, with Gavin Whyte going close and substitute David Cushley posing a real threat in his first competitive appearance for Stephen Baxter's side.
The former Ballymena United forward forced Robin Olsen into a fingertip save with a half-volley, then fired over and also brought another fine stop from the visiting keeper with a late effort.
Santander could have scored another after the break but Sean O'Neill saved well.
Crusaders manager Stephen Baxter: "We were up against top European opposition littered with internationals of really high quality.
"Having said that, we competed in the game, created a number of chances against a really good team and asked their keeper to make a couple of smart saves.
"We were under a lot of pressure, as we knew we would be, but from our perspective we gained a lot in terms of fitness and our tactical approach to a lot of things."
Match ends, Crusaders FC 0, FC København 3.
Second Half ends, Crusaders FC 0, FC København 3.
Substitution, FC København. Youssef Toutouh replaces Kasper Kusk.
Substitution, Crusaders FC. Michael Gault replaces Matthew Snoddy.
Substitution, FC København. Bashkim Kadrii replaces Federico Santander.
Substitution, Crusaders FC. Andrew Mitchell replaces Declan Caddell.
Substitution, FC København. Jan Gregus replaces William Kvist.
Substitution, Crusaders FC. David Cushley replaces Richard Clarke.
Goal! Crusaders FC 0, FC København 3. Rasmus Falk Jensen (FC København) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner.
Second Half begins Crusaders FC 0, FC København 2.
First Half ends, Crusaders FC 0, FC København 2.
Goal! Crusaders FC 0, FC København 2. Andreas Cornelius (FC København) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner.
Declan Caddell (Crusaders FC) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Andreas Cornelius (FC København) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Crusaders FC 0, FC København 1. Federico Santander (FC København) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
One of the main treatments has become useless against the new strain of the sexually transmitted infection.
Twelve cases have been confirmed in Leeds and a further four have been reported in Macclesfield, Oldham and Scunthorpe.
However, there are likely to be more undiagnosed cases.
The strain in this outbreak is able to shrug off the antibiotic azithromycin, which is normally used alongside another drug, ceftriaxone.
Peter Greenhouse, a consultant in sexual health based in Bristol, told the BBC News website: "This azithromycin highly resistant outbreak is the first one that has triggered a national alert.
"It doesn't sound like an awful lot of people, but the implication is there's a lot more of this strain out there and we need to stamp it out as quickly as possible.
"If this becomes the predominant strain in the UK we're in big trouble, so we have to be really meticulous in making sure each of these individuals has all their contacts traced and treated."
The outbreak started in March.
The British Association for Sexual Health and HIV says all cases have been in heterosexuals and some have reported sexual partners from across England.
Dr Jan Clarke, the organisation's president, told the BBC: "It was sufficiently serious to alert our whole national chain of clinics that there is the possibility that we've got a very resistant strain of gonorrhoea.
"We are really skating on thin ice as far as treating gonorrhoea is concerned at the moment."
The disease is caused by the bacterium called Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
The infection is spread by unprotected vaginal, oral and anal sex.
Of those infected, about one in 10 heterosexual men and more than three-quarters of women, and men who have sex with men, have no easily recognisable symptoms.
But symptoms can include a thick green or yellow discharge from sexual organs, pain when urinating and bleeding between periods.
Untreated infection can lead to infertility, pelvic inflammatory disease and can be passed on to a child during pregnancy.
Gonorrhoea is the second most common sexually transmitted infection in England and cases are soaring.
The number of infections increased by 19% from 29,419 in 2013 to 34,958 the following year.
Dr Mike Gent from Public Health England said in a statement: "We can confirm investigations are under way.
"Those affected are being treated with an alternative antibiotic, but the resistance to first-line treatment remains a concern.
"The bacteria that cause gonorrhoea are known to mutate and develop new resistance, so we cannot afford to be complacent."
He urged people to practise safe sex including the use of condoms.
The outbreak in Leeds adds to growing concern that gonorrhoea is becoming untreatable.
In 2011, Japan reported a case of complete resistance to cephalosporin-class antibiotics, which included the main treatment ceftriaxone.
The five men and teenager are the last to be prosecuted as part of an 18-month investigation into a drug network from London targeting users in the city.
Cuckooing is when a drug dealer takes over the property of a vulnerable person in exchange for free drugs.
The gang also sent teenagers to manage the day-to-day operation.
The network, which ran between October 2015 and April 2016, was uncovered as part of a Hampshire police operation investigating dealers from cities including London and Liverpool, cuckooing across Hampshire, Dorset, Oxford and Berkshire.
All six members of the gang were charged with conspiracy to supply heroin and crack cocaine and pleaded guilty, except for the 16-year-old who was found guilty at trial. They were:
Southampton Crown Court heard Whitter and Morris recruited young teenagers to the network, including a boy who was just 14 when he started selling drugs on the streets of Southampton.
According to the HM Courts and Tribunal Service there have been 187 convictions of gang members linked to cuckooing in the south of England since 2015.
This is a crime which crosses all social boundaries. I met two people from very different backgrounds. Paul lives in a rundown flat in Southampton and buys crack every week using his benefit money. He's been cuckooed before and police fear he's at risk again.
Less than two miles away I met Holly. A previous high-flyer who was introduced to class A drugs by a boyfriend. She now allows her flat to be used for drug dealing and officers think she's fallen into prostitution.
Gangs have been targeting counties in the south because there's a ready supply of customers. A National Crime Agency report recently said more than half of the towns and cities targeted are "middle-class or affluent".
It also found that criminal rivals already present in our rural areas are easily subdued by the gangs from London and Liverpool who routinely use much greater levels of violence.
Forren, 29, arrives as cover for centre-back Shane Duffy who is set to miss the majority of the rest of the campaign with a broken metatarsal.
Capped 33 times by his country, he failed to make an appearance for Southampton after joining the club from Molde in Norway in January 2013.
He returned to Molde after Saints, who released him in January.
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The 28-year-old opening batsman joined up with Essex for eight T20 Blast matches and featured against Kent on Sunday, scoring seven runs.
"We wish him all the best and it would be appreciated if his privacy is respected," said an Essex statement.
His only previous spell in county cricket was at Nottinghamshire in 2011.
The all-rounder, 32, replaced Chris Gayle in 2010 and also led the team to the World T20 title in 2012.
"[The board is] looking to the future and I wish the new captain all the best," Sammy said in a video posted on his Facebook page.
West Indies play a two-match T20 series against India in Florida starting on 27 August.
"They've reviewed the captaincy of T20 and I won't be captain anymore, nor have my performances merited selection in the squad," he added.
"This is not me retiring from one-day or T20, it's just me thanking the fans and my players and the coaches I've worked with and West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) for letting me lead the side for the last six years."
Contacted by BBC Sport, the WICB said it could not confirm or deny Sammy's sacking.
In April, Sammy's side won their second World T20 by beating England in the final at Kolkata, with Carlos Brathwaite hitting the first four balls of the final over - bowled by Ben Stokes - for six.
Following the win, Sammy appeared to criticise the WICB, for which he was reprimanded by the International Cricket Council.
The announcement is seen as one of the last steps before a full peace deal is signed, which is expected within weeks.
Colombia's president and the Farc leader shook hands in celebration.
The longest-running insurgency in the Western Hemisphere has killed an estimated 220,000 people and displaced almost seven million.
The announcement in Havana caps formal peace talks that started three years ago in the Cuban capital.
The Farc in the 21st Century is a strange beast.
Gone is the bipolar vision of the Cold War, and gone too are most of the group's original intellectual architects, many killed in combat.
Today, somewhat anchorless, the rebels continue to go through motions of an armed insurgency but they know a new future is beckoning.
They remain primed for war - machine guns by their beds, handguns under their pillows, all night lookouts keeping watch for an enemy that no longer seems to be searching for them.
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But it does not mark the start of the ceasefire, which will only begin with the signing of a final accord.
Colombia's President, Juan Manuel Santos, has previously said he hopes to sign that accord by the end of July.
Thursday's announcement includes:
"Let this be the last day of the war," Farc leader Rodrigo Londono, known as Timochenko, said at the announcement.
Both sides agreed to let the courts rule whether a popular vote can be held in Colombia to endorse the deal, which was a promise made by Mr Santos.
The president said at the ceremony that this was a "historic day".
"We have reached the end of 50 years of death, attacks and pain. This is the end of the armed conflict with the Farc," he said.
The announcement of the Farc ceasefire dominated the headlines of the online editions of the main Colombian newspapers and other media outlets.
Centre-left newspaper El Espectador featured extensive coverage of the news of the agreement and a banner headline, which reads: "The guns went silent" along a striking image of two guerrilla fighters in action. It also covered the key points of the deal as well as the history of the conflict.
Conservative newspaper El Tiempo emphasised President Juan Manuel Santos's statement that the final agreement would be signed in Colombia, not Cuba.
Medellin-based newspaper El Colombiano featured a commentary by former President Alvaro Uribe, who remains sceptical about the prospects for peace, saying "the word peace is wounded."
One of the main national radio networks RCN ran a story citing Farc leader Timochenko saying: "We are going to do politics without arms."
Both sides still need to establish how the peace deal in its entirety will be implemented, verified and approved.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and leaders of Latin American countries also attended the ceremony.
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The agreement was welcomed elsewhere, with the EU's foreign representative Federica Mogherini calling it "a turning point in the Colombian peace process".
US Secretary of State John Kerry said that "although hard work remains to be done, the finish line is approaching and nearer now than it has ever been".
Talent agency WME-IMG confirmed its purchase of the mixed martial arts promotional company on Monday.
Founded in 1993, the UFC was bought for $2m (£1.55m) in 2001 by brothers Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta.
It calls itself the fastest-growing sports organisation in the world.
"No other sport compares to UFC," said Dana White, who will continue in his role as president of the UFC.
"Our goal has always been to put on the biggest and the best fights for our fans and to make this the biggest sport in the world. I'm looking forward to working with WME-IMG to continue to take this sport to the next level."
The UFC produces more than 40 live events each year and sells out some of the most prestigious arenas around the world.
Shows are broadcast in more than 156 countries and territories, to more than 1.1 billion households worldwide in 29 different languages.
The Fertittas will retain a passive minority interest in the organisation.
Gordon Brown had waited many years to take his bow at prime minister's questions.
Tony Blair had remarked on his successor's "clunking fist" and pundits wondered whether he would be able to land a knockout blow on David Cameron, who had impressed in his two years as opposition leader.
But some were already worried whether Mr Brown was quick enough on his feet to glide through the weekly Commons clash.
The encounter, taking place days after attempted suicide bombings in London and Glasgow, was dominated by security issues.
Mr Brown sought to strike a consensual note by saying all parties should "show unity in the face of terror" but the two leaders clashed over the need for identity cards and the banning of extremist groups.
The prime minister announced a number of security-related initiatives but was jeered by the opposition when, in response to one question, he said he had "only been in the job for five days".
Verdict: Tory MPs were jubilant after the session while Labour MPs, although less upbeat, said the match was a draw. Gordon Brown never did land that clunking blow during their three years of clashes before he resigned after losing the 2010 General Election.
David Cameron became the fifth Tory leader to take on Tony Blair at PMQs.
He began the exchanges with a question on schools, offering to support the "best bits" of Tony Blair's academies legislation, which he knew many Labour MPs were opposed to.
As Labour MPs tried to shout him down, he chided the party's chief whip Hilary Armstrong for "shouting like a child".
But what the session was really remembered for was his taunting of Mr Blair. To huge cheers from the Conservative benches, he gestured towards the prime minister and said: "He was the future once."
Verdict: Conservative-supporting papers loved his performance, saying he had wrong-footed Mr Blair but other papers were less sure, saying it was knockabout stuff and his inexperience might catch him out. Mr Cameron, who became PM after 2010 election, was said by commentators to have generally held his own against Blair and to have regularly outperformed Gordon Brown.
The new Tory leader was always regarded as a tough debater but how would he fare in the bearpit of PMQs?
Taking on Tony Blair, he accused the prime minister of running an incompetent and wasteful government and derided the PM's answers, saying at one point: "Two questions asked, neither answered: not a very good start I'm afraid."
Although the atmosphere was electric, the clash was largely nostalgic in flavour.
Mr Blair attacked Mr Howard's own record in government and his support for the poll tax but Mr Howard responded by saying he had a dossier on Mr Blair's policy inconsistencies which he did not need to "sex up" - a reference to the continuing row over the UK government's case for war in Iraq.
Verdict: This first performance was well received by Tory MPs, and by commentators, long frustrated over Iain Duncan Smith's efforts. Although Mr Howard continued to land some blows on Mr Blair - famously telling him "this grammar school boy will not take any lessons from that public school boy" - it did not help him get into power and he quit after the 2005 election.
After his surprise victory in the Tory leadership contest, Iain Duncan Smith's debut outing was eagerly awaited, although it took place in a sombre atmosphere, just weeks after the 9/11 attacks.
He opted to spread his six questions into two segments. The first three concerned the situation in Afghanistan, where he backed the UK-supported military action against the Taliban and urged Tony Blair to "see it through".
The second exchange, in which he attacked Labour's proposed NHS reforms, was far more heated.
Raising the case of a constituent who had died after spending nine hours on a hospital trolley, the Tory leader said all Labour's "promises of a better tomorrow" would sound "hollow" to their family and many others.
Mr Blair said such failings were "unacceptable" but hit out at the Tories for not supporting their investment in the NHS.
Verdict: This was seen as a low-key debut and things did not get much better for the Tory leader with commentators calling his performances wooden, and focusing on his tendency to develop a frog in his throat at key moments. He sought to flip the criticism, warning people not to underestimate the determination "of the quiet man" but he was toppled two years later, with his PM's questions performances said to be partly to blame.
A youthful William Hague faced an exceedingly tough task, taking on the leadership of a party which had just been battered at the polls and lost many of its big names.
At his first PMQs - now being held once a week - he seized on reports that a Labour MP had been threatened with expulsion from the party for campaigning against proposals for a Welsh Assembly.
He said this showed the "arrogant behaviour" of a government which could not tolerate "honest and open" debate.
New prime minister Tony Blair said the claims had been proved to be untrue and urged Mr Hague to withdraw them.
Verdict: Mr Hague's confident performance set the tone for his period as leader in which he regularly shone in Parliament. His humour and ability to think on his feet regularly boosted the morale of Conservative MPs. However, it was ultimately to no avail as the Conservatives were trounced at the 2001 election and he stepped down.
Tony Blair has spoken of the excruciating nerves he felt as prime minister ahead of the weekly session but when he was leader of the opposition, he often made it look like plain sailing.
Facing John Major for the first time, he attacked what he said were serious divisions at the top of the government over Europe, particularly over the single currency and whether a referendum would be needed before joining the euro.
A "divided government was a weak government", he told MPs.
Mr Major responded by saying that Labour would "slavishly follow" everything coming out of Brussels if it came to power.
Verdict: This set the tone for Tony Blair's confrontations with John Major in the final years of the Tory government. He regularly emerged on top, memorably accusing the prime minister on one occasion of being "weak, weak, weak". When he became PM in 1997 he changed the twice weekly 15 minute sessions into the single half hour clash it currently is. Mr Blair got a standing ovation from MPs when he finished his last PMQs in 2007.
John Smith faced his first PMQs soon after becoming opposition leader and in the wake of Labour's demoralising election defeat.
He called on the government to have an independent review before any further pit closures, suggesting Prime Minister John Major and Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine were at odds over the issue.
Ministers had nothing to "be afraid of" in doing so and if they declined to act, he called for the future of pits to be referred to a cross-party select committee.
In response, Mr Major said there would be a consultation on the future of "uneconomic" mines which had been earmarked for closure and said Labour's outrage was "bogus" as many mines had closed while it was in office.
Verdict: John Smith was well respected on all sides of the House of Commons for his intelligence and skills as an orator. His death in 1994 robbed Parliament of one of its best performers. His successor Tony Blair went on to win a landslide victory at the 1997 election.
John Major faced PM's questions on his second day as prime minister, having never done it before.
The session began in humorous fashion when, as Mr Major rose to answer his first question, Labour MP Dennis Skinner shouted "resign". Mr Kinnock then offered the new prime minister his "personal congratulations" on his election as leader.
The future of the poll tax dominated exchanges. Mr Kinnock said it would save a lot of "time and money" to just abolish it.
Mr Major steered a middle course, saying a thorough review of the controversial tax was the right action to take. But he also claimed that Labour's support for local rates would be more regressive.
Verdict: John Major's understated style was a striking contrast to both his predecessor and his opponent Neil Kinnock. Many Conservative MPs appreciated the more measured approach and this certainly helped him at the 1992 election. But it failed to halt the slide in his fortunes as he headed to defeat and resignation in 1997.
Seven men and two women were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and money laundering.
The Met said victims had their phone numbers masked in order to make it appear as though they were getting a legitimate call from their bank.
The fake numbers were then used to glean account details.
Money was then transferred into accounts under the suspects' control and withdrawn from ATMs across the UK, the Met said.
Police recovered a "significant amount of cash" through raids on 14 addresses in Ilford, Watford, Slough and Scotland.
Dongles, SIM cards, mobile phones and laptops were also seized.
The arrests followed a collaboration between the Met Police Service's Cyber Crime and Fraud Team and a number of other police forces including Police Scotland, West Yorkshire Police and Greater Manchester Police.
All the suspects arrested are currently in police custody.
Sinn Féin, of all parties, do not normally get bound up in selection dilemmas.
Looks like someone forgot to tell its members in Fermanagh and South Tyrone.
First they met in December and ditched the sitting MLA Phil Flanagan in favour of former MP and Stormont minister Michelle Gildernew, MLA Sean Lynch and Fermanagh councillor John Feely.
So far, so unsurprising.
However, after concerns were reportedly raised over "procedural errors" the party decided to re-run the whole selection process.
This time the sitting MLA, Bronwyn McGahan, put her name forward as well after announcing that she was stepping down and not standing in the original contest
It made no difference - she was not selected anyway.
But the real story, this time, neither was Michelle Gildernew selected, something which seemed to come as much a shock to the party hierarchy as herself - never mind those of us who watch and pretend to understand these things.
Back in, however, was Phil Flanagan along with Sean Lynch and councillor Feely.
So not only was there not a woman on the ticket - which goes against Sinn Féin policy, but all three candidates came from Fermanagh which seemed to show a somewhat reckless disregard for the South Tyrone part of the constituency.
Even before the meeting there had been a strong rumour the party wanted to move the former MP to neighbouring Mid-Ulster to replace the departing Martin McGuinness.
She quickly scotched that rumour in a tweet telling those who had been speculating "Mid-Ulster has excellent candidates to replace @M_McGuinness_SF and my heart's in #FST."
She also said she had been "blown away" by all the messages of support adding "don't be worrying about me, could be a blessing in disguise".
What she was not doing was hiding her disappointment and metaphorically drawing the curtains over an episode which was rapidly becoming a major embarrassment for Sinn Féin.
Senior figures hastily made it clear the matter was not over which brings us neatly to 19 February when a third selection convention will be held.
And messily four candidates will now be selected which should help create a space for the party's best-known figure in the constituency.
At least that is the obvious conclusion, but it is probably unwise to count too many chickens just yet.
Either way the damage has probably already been done.
Sinn Féin divisions in Fermanagh and South Tyrone have already been exposed and one of the party's most recognisable names has been undermined.
It is not the Sinn Féin way and many will continue to ask why.
University of Leicester academics said it was likely only a few servants and medical staff within the royal household were aware of his scoliosis.
Dr Mary Ann Lund said it was only after his death he earned his reputation as "Crookback Richard" and was portrayed with a withered arm.
The research has been published in the Medical Humanities journal.
Shakespeare depicted Richard as physically and mentally grotesque, an image of the king which has stuck.
His name was blackened by the new Tudor dynasty, Dr Lund said.
However, she said it was "highly likely Richard took care to control his public image" during his reign.
"Tailoring probably kept the signs of his scoliosis hidden to spectators outside the royal household of attendants, servants and medical staff who dressed, bathed and tended to the monarch's body.
"The body of a mediaeval monarch was always under scrutiny, and Richard III's was no exception," she said.
Dr Lund said it was the stripping of Richard's corpse at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 that first made his physical shape noticeable to many hundreds of witnesses.
She added there was "no mention" of Richard's scoliosis from during his lifetime, "perhaps out of respect to a reigning monarch", and that one account described him as "slim and lean, with fine boned limbs".
• Richard III was the last Yorkist King of England, this means he was the last member of the House of York family to be made king
• Richard had one of the shortest reigns in British history - just over 2 years, and he was the last English king to die in battle
• He was killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, which led to the end of the War of the Roses. This was fighting between the houses of Lancaster and York that lasted 30 years
• Richard III has been painted as a villain. It is said he killed his two nephews so he could take the throne and William Shakespeare wrote a play about him but some historians say this was propaganda and might have been unfair
Carl Askew, 47, was given a 32-week sentence, suspended for two years, after his tanker crashed into a crane driven by Michael Coleman, 50.
Mr Coleman's partner Wendy Ann Randal told Cardiff Crown Court she did not "bear malice to the driver".
Askew, of Gloucester, admitted causing death by careless driving.
Judge David Wynn Morgan said "it would be a hard hearted court" if it did not take into account the wishes of the victim's partner.
The court heard that Mr Coleman, of Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, had been driving his crane between Junction 32 and 33 on the M4 motorway on 2 November.
The vehicle was restricted to travelling at just 30mph (48km/h) and had been displaying the correct warning lights when the tanker collided with the rear of his vehicle at a speed of up to 56mph (90km/h).
The crane was forced off the road by the impact and overturned on an embankment.
Mr Coleman suffered traumatic head injuries and died at the scene.
Askew told police after the collision that he had sneezed at the moment of impact but could give no explanation as to why he had not seen the crane beforehand.
He said: "Before I could brake, the impact happened."
Mr Coleman's partner of 14 years told the court in a victim impact statement, which the judge described as "astonishing", that the couple had recently been on a holiday together which left her with "wonderful happy memories".
She said: "Since the accident, I feel lost without Mike, he was my everything.
"I know the driver didn't set out to kill Mike. It has left a massive desolation in myself and my children. I do get depressed, but I look at my family, remember and smile."
The court was told that Mr Coleman did not know at the time of his death that his daughter was pregnant and that he was to become a grandfather.
She asked in her statement for the court to consider not imposing an immediate custodial sentence.
In addition to the 32-week prison sentence, suspended for two years, he was disqualified from driving for five years and must carry out 250 hours of community work.
They include two former heads of the Secret Intelligence Service MI6 - Sir Richard Dearlove and Sir John Scarlett.
Former UK ambassador David Manning and UK special representative to Iraq Sir Jeremy Greenstock have given evidence in both public and private.
The Chilcot inquiry is examining the UK's involvement in the 2003 military action in Iraq and its aftermath.
When it was first announced by then-prime minister Gordon Brown in June 2009 he initially said it would be held behind closed doors for security reasons.
But later, after widespread criticism, he said some sessions should be in public and it was up to the chairman, Sir John Chilcot.
Sir John said at the time he felt it was "essential to hold as much of the proceedings of the inquiry as possible in public" - and most of the hearings have been in public.
But the inquiry confirmed on Thursday that it had heard from 35 witnesses in private. Among those known about are Mr Manning, Sir Jeremy and the man who ran the British operations during the conflict, General Sir John Reith.
A full transcript of Gen Sir John's evidence was later published with five words blanked out, which the inquiry said was on "national security" grounds.
Its chairman, Sir John Chilcott, said of the 35 witnesses: "These hearings have given the inquiry valuable evidence which could have not be heard in public session without damaging national security or international relations.
"They have supplemented the inquiry's understanding as it takes forward its public work."
The Dingwall-based Scottish Premiership outfit uses web hosting firm 123-reg.
The company, which hosts 1.7m sites in the UK, has said an error made during maintenance "effectively deleted" what was on some of its servers.
David O'Connor, of Ross County, said the issue came amid the club's build up to Sunday's game against Celtic.
He said: "Online is a crucial part of our ticket sales, selling merchandise and the website is where fans go to to reserve seats on buses and find match information."
Mr O'Connor said the website went down on Saturday and efforts were being made to restore services.
He said supporters could contact the club by phone - 01349 860860 - or visit the stadium to buy tickets.
But he added: "Coming to the ground is not easy for the fan who works nine to five. Our fan base is always widely spread out across the Highlands and it means supporters having to travel quite a distance to get to Dingwall."
Earlier this week, 123-reg started a "recovery process", but advised customers with their own data backup to rebuild their own websites.
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists study follows concerns about the safety of women and babies at units in Cumbria and North Lancashire.
The report urges the retention of four consultant-led units at Carlisle, Whitehaven, Barrow and Lancaster.
But it also acknowledges investment in staff and resources is required.
The report was commissioned by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in Cumbria and North Lancashire and comes in the wake of criticism of some maternity services
Dr David Rogers, medical director of NHS Cumbria CCG, said: "We know how important maternity services are for the local population and the preferred option is consistent with our intentions.
"However, these services need to be high quality, safe and sustainable and there is much work that needs to be done with both trusts to overcome the significant challenges that they face."
Dr Jeremy Rushmer, medical director at North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust, added: "We have been very clear about our concerns relating to the sustainability of maternity services and these concerns are clearly reflected within this report.
"This, alongside concerns raised by the chief inspector of hospitals last year, instigated this independent review process.
"We will now discuss the recommendations with our board and staff to understand their views."
He is obliged to call a fresh election if there is no resolution by Monday evening, which will mark seven days since Martin McGuinness resigned.
Mr McGuinness, from Sinn Féin, quit as deputy first minister in protest at the DUP's handling of the botched Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme.
RHI is set to run £490m over budget.
On Thursday night, Sinn Féin members met in Londonderry where they heard calls for Mr Brokenshire and the Northern Ireland Office to move immediately to a fresh election.
Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly told the meeting that the DUP's actions had undermined public confidence in the Stormont institutions.
Earlier on Thursday, Mr Brokenshire held talks with the political parties and Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Charlie Flanagan.
After the meetings, the secretary of state said "the clock is ticking down towards the start of next week" but admitted that a snap election was now "highly probable" as talks so far had failed to break the political deadlock.
Kenya's police chief Joseph Boinnet says the men are in "good health but traumatised", AFP news agency reports.
The officers were taken in an attack by the Islamist militants in north-eastern Garissa county in May 2013, close to the border with Somalia.
The Somalia-based group killed 148 people in an attack on Kenya's Garissa University College in April.
The officers were released on 25 June, but news of the operation was only made public on Thursday.
The two men were taken across the border to Somalia where they were repeatedly moved between different al-Shabab camps, AFP cites Mr Boinnet as saying.
He gave no details of how the men were freed, but thanked the "several security agencies which undertook this delicate rescue mission".
An al-Shabab spokesman quoted in pro-al-Shabab media said the officers were released because they had converted to Islam.
The al-Qaeda-linked group group has carried out numerous attacks in Kenya near the long porous border with Somalia.
It says it is at war with Kenya, and wants it to withdraw troops sent to Somalia in 2011 to help the weak government in Mogadishu fight the militants.
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It would be an example of coextinction, where one organism dies out because it depends on another doomed species.
Just a few millimetres long, the worms eat even tinier animals in the water or inside the crayfish gill chamber.
This symbiotic relationship stretches back at least 80 million years.
The new study maps out that shared history based on genetic analysis of 37 different species of spiny mountain crayfish and 33 varieties of their "temnocephalan" flatworm passengers.
Published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, it was a collaboration between Australian and UK scientists.
They compiled a detailed evolutionary tree of both groups of animals and integrated it with the species' geographical distribution.
This revealed a lengthy tale of shared evolution with an apparent starting date of 80-100 million years ago, as determined by a "molecular clock" calculation based on the steady accumulation of mutations.
At that time, Australia was about halfway through its gradual northward march to its current position on the globe. As the continent inched closer to the equator and steadily warmed up, the habitat of these creatures started to fragment and shrink.
Today, spiny mountain crayfish - a genus called Euastacus - live in dwindling patches of eastern Australia. In the warmer, northern part of their range they are restricted to lofty forest streams.
Those northern crayfish lineages, as well as being closest to extinction, tend to be the most distinctive in their physiology and their DNA. The worms show a very similar pattern.
Dr Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill, first author of the paper, studies evolutionary patterns at the University of Cambridge.
She told BBC News: "Overall what we found was that in the north, where the crayfish live in cool streams on the top of hills and mountains where little patches of high-altitude rainforest are left, they're very isolated. So the worms that live on them are specialised and only live on that crayfish, and there's very little opportunity for them to switch hosts.
"In the south, there's a slightly different picture, where there's been more switching around."
Currently, three-quarters of the 37 Euastacus crayfish species are known to be endangered. The scientists found that if all those crayfish species were to die out, some 19 of the 33 temnocephalans would also disappear - starting with those in the north.
They warn that such a sweeping coextinction is a genuine threat, particularly as modern-day climate change steepens the warming of Australia that has shaped and shrivelled the creatures' shared habitat over the millennia.
Forestry and other environmental changes add to the risk.
"In Australia, freshwater crayfish are large, diverse and active 'managers', recycling all sorts of organic material and working the sediments," said the study's senior author, Prof David Blair of James Cook University in Townsville, Australia.
"The temnocephalan worms associated only with these crayfish are also diverse, reflecting a long, shared history and offering a unique window on ancient symbioses. We now risk extinction of many of these partnerships, which will lead to degradation of their previous habitats and leave science the poorer."
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Twelve government soldiers and 20 IS fighters were killed, said the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
At least two civilians were also killed in IS rocket fire on government-controlled parts of the city, it added.
The jihadists have besieged government-held parts of the city, which borders Iraq, since early 2015.
IS already controls half of the city as well as most of the surrounding province, which shares the same name.
Deir al-Zour connects the militant group's de facto "capital" in Syria, Raqqa, to territory it controls in Iraq.
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The latest offensive comes amid a continuing ceasefire, brokered by Russia and Turkey last month, between government and rebel forces.
But the truce does not cover IS nor rival jihadist group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, which was known as al-Nusra Front until it broke off formal ties with al-Qaeda in July.
There are hopes the truce - which has mainly held despite some clashes - will lay the groundwork for peace talks planned for later this month in the Kazakh capital of Astana.
The umbrella group representing Syria's political and opposition factions, the High Negotiations Committee (HNC), voiced its support for the talks on Saturday.
"Concerning the forthcoming meeting in Astana, the (High Negotiations) Committee stresses its support to the military delegation... and expresses hope, that the meeting would reinforce the truce," it said in a statement.
Official invitations have yet to be issued for the Astana talks, but Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said Washington will be asked to attend.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said the city of Deir al-Zour had been hit by at least six explosions since Saturday morning.
Syrian government war planes hit back against IS positions, the state-run Sana news agency reported.
Rami Abdel Rahman, who runs the monitoring group, said Saturday's attack by IS was the "most violent" on the city in more than a year.
The jihadists are reportedly trying to cut off the main road linking the airport and the city in a bid to stop the government's supply lines.
Syrian and Russian aircraft have been carrying out regular air drops on the besieged area, where about 200,000 people live.
He steered the county to two National League titles in 2002 and 2004, as well as promotion in the Championship.
Derrick played over 200 matches for Glamorgan and New Zealand's Northern Districts as a seam bowler and lower-order batsman.
He worked for the Cricket Board of Wales until he was taken ill in August 2016, subsequently undergoing brain surgery and chemotherapy.
"JD embodied all that is good about cricket at both professional and club level. Glamorgan CCC, and Welsh cricket as a whole, has lost a great and loyal servant, and the game will be very much the poorer for his passing," said the county in a tribute statement.
Born in Cwmaman, Derrick made his senior county debut aged 20 and became a regular member of the first team, with his county career spanning the years 1983 to 1991.
He recorded a highest score of 78 not out and a best bowling performance of six for 54, and was handed his county cap in 1988.
Derrick moved into coaching and was involved with the first team in the late nineties, before taking over on a more permanent basis in 2002.
"When I finished playing, I wanted to help Glamorgan in any way the county needed me," he said at the time.
"I've never had a problem working where the county wants me."
His appointment quickly brought success as Glamorgan clinched the one-day National League title in 2002 and 2004, working with captain Steve James and his successor Robert Croft.
They also reached Twenty20 finals day in 2004 and were promoted to the First Division of the County Championship, but lasted just one season in the top flight.
Derrick was replaced as coach in 2006 but continued to work in Welsh cricket and play for his club Aberdare, as well as showing his expertise as a BBC Wales commentator.
He was appointed national performance director of the Cricket Board of Wales in 2010 and at the time of his illness, he was pursuing a hectic schedule developing future generations of Welsh talent.
He managed Wales's age-group sides for both boys and girls as well as the senior Wales women's side, attending matches throughout the summer and running nets through the winter.
A fundraising dinner organised by Glamorgan and the Professional Cricketers' Association in December of 2016 paid for modifications to his house, so that he could continue to live at home while undergoing chemotherapy.
The 50-year-old victim was found with stab wounds in Osmonde Close, Worthing, on Tuesday afternoon. A knife was found nearby.
Police said they arrested his lodger, Alan Knight, 51, in Lancashire overnight on suspicion of murder.
A police cordon in the Broadwater area is expected to remain until at least the weekend.
The dead man is still to be formally identified.
Members of the Barn Boxing Club nominated Rab Bannan for his unstinting work across more than four decades.
Bannan will compete against winners from other parts of the UK in Belfast for the overall honour at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year event.
"I love it and I live it," he said.
"Boxing is not about violence, it's a whole culture. You fall in love with it, you can't get away from it."
Bannan, who is in the club eight hours a day, five days a week and also on Saturday mornings during the boxing season, has developed numerous district, national and British champions - and world champions Lawrence Murphy and Ricky Burns.
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His coaching has produced more junior champions than any club in Europe and in the 1990s his fighters won nine national titles in a single championship event, a feat that has not been surpassed by any club since.
Colin Sharp, who helps to run the club, said that Bannan is seen as much more than a boxing coach in the community. He is recognised by councillors, police officers and the community at large as a positive influence on generations of young people in the town.
Sharp said: "The word legend is used a lot, but in this case it only comes close to describing the man who has dedicated more than 40 years of his life to the club, the sport and the local people of Coatbridge.
"Rab is more than a coach - he is a father figure to many, a social worker, role model and friend.
"He works tirelessly to educate kids to better themselves and use their energy positively, regardless of race, religion, colour or gender."
Bannan, pointing to the children surrounding him at the Barn club, told BBC Scotland: "The award shouldn't be given to me. I'm the past, these guys are the present.
"It's the laddies that make it and it's all the coaches who are the backbone of the club. We're a team."
Part of the Barn legend is that no-one knows Bannan's age.
"I like to keep myself fit," was all he would say on that front.
"I do two hours' training every day. I train to live.
"You've not just got to look after yourself for you - it's for the people who love you. You are entitled to do something about it.
"You don't have to come into a boxing club to actually fight; you can come in and learn how to look after yourself by using the fitness equipment and by listening to the trainer about a healthy lifestyle.
"I've had guys come in here who are on a self-destruct path. I tell them to tone it down and behave. Sometimes that can bring them on and they become active members of the club."
Ewan Angus, head of sport at BBC Scotland, said: "Congratulations to Rab. He is a thoroughly deserving winner of the award, not just for his expertise as a coach, but also for the support he has given out of the ring to so many local people over the years.
"The Unsung Hero Award aims to place the work of people like Rab firmly in the spotlight, demonstrating the valuable work they carry out encouraging people across the UK to take up sport.
"Good luck to Rab as he goes for overall UK award for Get Inspired Unsung Hero for 2015 at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards, which will be broadcast live on BBC One on Sunday 20 December from the SSE Arena in Belfast."
Christopher, Shane and Matthew Whiteley, from Hackenthorpe, Sheffield, were sentenced to 15, eight and seven years respectively.
The brothers were convicted of conspiracy to cause or incite child prostitution, after a trial at Sheffield Crown Court.
Christopher Whiteley was also sentenced for sex offences against other victims.
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The brothers' associate Amanda Spencer, who was found guilty of four child prostitution offences, was jailed for three years. That sentence will run consecutively with a 12-year jail term imposed in 2014 for similar offences.
Taleb Bapir, who was convicted of rape, was jailed for 10 years.
Jailing the group, Judge Peter Kelson said: "You succumbed to your greed for sexual satisfaction and financial gain.
"I have never in my professional life witnessed such broken humanity."
The jury heard the 15-year-old was given drink and drugs before being forced to have sex.
Prosecutor Peter Hampton said: "The Whiteley brothers would take [the girl] to the red light district [in Sheffield] where she would be prostituted.
"She would be forced to get in to cars.
"She would be driven to secluded areas where she would have sex for money. The brothers would charge £50.
"Her best guess is that this occurred on around 30 to 40 occasions."
He told the court other victims in the case were raped, abused and prostituted after meeting the Whiteley brothers and Spencer at Sheffield's former Castle Market.
Spencer took one girl to up to 50 properties and forced her to have sex with men, including Bapir, for money.
Judge Kelson told Spencer: "You knew how vulnerable she was but you didn't care.
"You knew what it was like to be exploited but you didn't care.
"You knew that she didn't want to do this but you didn't care.
"You sold her body."
Peter Mann, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "These defendants cynically targeted and sexually exploited young and vulnerable girls.
"The suffering the victims must have endured is hard to comprehend."
The convictions:
Christopher Whiteley, 23, of Weakland Crescent in Hackenthorpe, Sheffield: Found guilty of four counts of rape, one child prostitution offence, two counts of sexual assault on a child under 13 and one count of theft. Acquitted of seven counts of rape, one count of conspiracy to rape, one child prostitution offence. The jury were unable to reach verdicts on two counts of rape, one count of conspiracy to rape. He will face a retrial on one charge of rape.
Shane Whiteley, 30, also of Weakland Crescent: Found guilty of one child prostitution offence. Cleared of one child prostitution offence and one count of conspiracy to rape. The jury were unable to reach verdicts on one child prostitution offence and one count of conspiracy to rape. He will face a retrial on one child prostitution offence.
Matthew Whiteley, 25, also of Weakland Crescent: Convicted of one child prostitution offence. Acquitted of one child prostitution offence, one count of conspiracy to rape and one count of sexual activity with a child. The jury were unable to agree on one count of conspiracy to rape and one count of sexual activity with a child. He will face a retrial on one count of sexual activity with a child.
Amanda Spencer, 26, of Canklow Road, Rotherham: Guilty of four child prostitution offences. Cleared of seven counts of aiding and abetting rape and eight child prostitution offences. The jury were unable to reach a verdict on one count of aiding and abetting rape.
Taleb Bapir, 39, of Verdon Street, Sheffield: Found guilty of one count of rape.
He said it had always been his intention to leave the role at some point before the next election in 2016.
The announcement follows a poor showing for Plaid at last week's election when it lost four seats.
Former Plaid president Lord Elis-Thomas has said he would allow his name to go forward as a leadership candidate.
Speaking at Beaumaris in his Anglesey constituency, Mr Jones said it had been a great honour to lead the party over the past 11 years.
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I don't think anyone within or outside Plaid Cymru thought Ieuan Wyn Jones would be there to lead the party into the next assembly election in 2016.
What's interesting is that he felt the need to make these comments publicly. People would have said: 'Why does he need to do this?' It's maybe because there's some pressure from some parts of the party for an early contest and what he's doing basically is saying: 'Look, don't worry about it. I'm going but let's do it in an ordered way. Let's get the review of why we did so badly in the assembly elections out of the way first'.
So he's really trying to pre-empt any pressure for an early departure.
Dafydd Elis Thomas has put his hat in the ring. That maybe is an attempt to force an early contest.
There is a problem on Plaid Cymru's left wing in that many of their big beasts are out of the assembly at the moment. Helen Mary Jones lost in Llanelli, and Adam Price, the former MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, isn't in the assembly.
In terms of other names you've got two former ministers Alun Ffred Jones and Elin Jones, former MP Simon Thomas and some people are banking on a total newbie, Llyr Huws Gruffydd, the new North Wales AM. But an early contest would be a big test for him.
The timetable for his departure means Mr Jones will go some time in the next two-and-a-half years.
In a statement delivered in front of party colleagues, he said the "time was right" for him to make his plans clear.
He said it had been an honour to lead the party and to serve as deputy first minister in the coalition with Labour in the last assembly.
"I have also witnessed many historic and momentous events during that period, not least leading the party into government for the first time in its 86-year history and the referendum on law-making powers," he said.
Mr Jones was MP for Ynys Mon from 1987 to 2001 and has been the island's AM since the first assembly in 1999. He first took up the party leadership in 2000.
Last week's election saw Plaid slump to 11 seats, its worst tally since the assembly was established.
There has been criticism that the party's campaign was too negative by attacking its former coalition partners in Labour.
Mr Jones said the result was a "disappointment", adding: "As leader I take my share of the responsibility for those results.
"The party obviously needs time to reflect on the results, look long and hard at our message, our party structures and campaigning abilities."
Lord Elis-Thomas said if Plaid activists in his Dwyfor Meirionnydd constituency want his name to go forward as a candidate for the leadership he would give them a "straight answer".
"I am afraid that they have decided to ask me the question," he told BBC Radio Wales.
Lord Elis-Thomas, who was leader of Plaid between 1984 and 1991, will speak to party officials in Porthmadog on Friday night. He ended a 12-year stint as the assembly's presiding officer this week.
Mr Jones said he was confident Plaid would recover "stronger and better, provided we understand the need to change and modernise".
An immediate leadership election would not be in the party's interest because of the need to review the election result, he said.
He thanked his family for their support, including his wife Eirian - "a rock through it all" - and his three children and four grandchildren.
Former Plaid chairman John Dixon, who left the party earlier this year because he was unhappy with its direction, said Mr Jones has made the right decision to quit.
He told BBC Wales his departure was inevitable and that it will be a chance for the party to decide what it stands for.
Plaid Westminster leader Elfyn Llwyd said: "He has shown great commitment and dedication to the party over the years. Wales has come a long way and so has Plaid Cymru."
First Minister Carwyn Jones said: "I worked well with Ieuan Wyn Jones in the four years we were in government together and I wish him well in whatever he does next. I have always known Ieuan to be a decent man and his party will find him hard to replace."
The ban is set to begin on 1 July after two rival group claimed control of the country's association.
On 2 June, Sudan's Ministry of Justice ordered the Fifa-recognised SFA president Mutasim Gaafar Sir Elkhatim to be removed and replaced by Abdel Rahman Sir Elkatim.
Football's world governing body prohibits governmental interference in the running of a member association.
If the ban comes into place then Sudanese club Al Hilal Obeid would feel the effect immediately as they are due to play in the Confederation Cup on Saturday.
The country's two biggest clubs Al Hilal and Al Merreikh play on Friday in the African Champions League so would initially avoid the sanction.
In April, Abdel Rahman won SFA elections even though Fifa had previously stated that no elections should take place until late 2017.
After Mutasim Gaafar reported the matter to Fifa, claiming the elections were illegal, the governing body took action this week.
"The Bureau of the Fifa Council decided on 27 June that if the degree of the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Justice of Sudan of 2 June - giving the police the right to evacuate the SFA premises and hand it over to a self-proclaimed president of the SFA - has not been declared null or void by 30 June, the SFA will be automatically suspended with immediate effect," Fifa told the BBC in a statement.
"The suspension would be lifted once the decree of the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Justice of 2 June is declared null or void and the Board of Directors of the SFA with its President, Dr Mutasim Gaafar, is reinstated."
Dr Gaafar is also the President of the Council for East and Central African Football Association (Cecafa).
On 13 June, Fifa sent a delegation to Khartoum in an effort to reach a solution and met the two disputing groups and the Minister of Youth and Sport, Abdel-Karim Musa.
Yet the various parties failed to agree on the direction advised by the Fifa officials.
Kingfisher shares dropped 4.5% despite it posting a 20% rise in retail profit to £142m for the 13 weeks to 3 May.
The benchmark FTSE 100 index was up 4.09 points at 6,855.31.
Shares in power provider Aggreko were down 2.2% at £17.11. The company announced on Thursday that British Gas boss Chris Weston was to be its new chief executive.
Shares in Centrica - the owner of British Gas - slipped 0.,1% to 330.60p.
On the currency markets, the pound dipped 0.04%% against the dollar to $1.6705 and edged down 0.03% against the euro to 1.2291 euros.
Investigators allege firms paid inflated prices for Petrobras contracts and money was funnelled to the ruling Workers Party (PT) and its allies.
This has been denied by the party and President Dilma Rousseff.
The politicians' names were not released by prosecutor Rodrigo Janot.
The move takes Brazil's biggest corruption scandal, which has so far focussed on companies, into the political sphere.
The scandal has led Petrobras' shares to drop and the company has lost about $100bn (£65bn) in value since September, with the crisis casting a long shadow in South America's biggest country, the BBC's Julia Carneiro reports from Rio de Janeiro.
Mr Janot asked for 28 separate inquiries to be opened into the activities of politicians who allegedly benefitted from the alleged scheme.
"Those who must pay will pay. We're going to investigate. This will be a long process, we're just now beginning," he told reporters.
Last month, PT treasurer Joao Vaccari Neto was questioned over the alleged scheme and then released.
This followed an accusation by a former Petrobras executive that Mr Neto had diverted money from the company into the coffers of the party and its allies.
The PT later issued a statement, saying the accusations against him were unfounded lies and the party only received legal contributions.
President Rousseff has personally urged a thorough investigation.
She chaired the board of the company for seven years when much of the corruption is believed to have taken place.
Under Brazilian law, politicians and cabinet members can only be tried by the Supreme Court. It is made up of 10 judges, and an eleventh is expected to be appointed soon by Ms Rousseff.
The investigation into Petrobas - dubbed "Operation Carwash" - and any resulting trials are expected to take several years, our correspondent says.
Analysts say because the state-owned giant has not yet been able to say exactly how much money it has lost to corruption, no-one knows for sure how much its assets are really worth.
Petrobas is one of the largest oil businesses in the world with interests in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and production of 2.5 million barrels of oil per day.
It has 87,000 employees and is seen as Brazil's engineering success story, helping the country to maintain control over its oil and natural resources.
In December, prosecutors charged executives from six of the country's largest construction firms for allegedly forming a cartel and channelling kickbacks into a Petrobras scheme to pay politicians.
Houses would be built across 20 acres (eight hectares) of the Hendrefoilan site, around woodland and green space.
It is currently home to 1,644 students but the sale is part of a wider redevelopment at the university.
If approved, work could start in autumn 2015, following the completion of 892 student flats at Swansea's new £450m Bay Campus on Fabian Way.
Developer St Modwen intends to submit a planning application within the next six months.
The site is close to the university's main campus, Singleton Hospital, and is three miles away from Swansea city centre and Mumbles.
Swansea University pro-vice-chancellor Prof Iwan Davies said facilities, including a shop and student's union, would remain in use until students moved to the new campus.
The first phase of its science and innovation campus is currently being built and is expected to be completed by the summer of 2015.
The university estimates it contribute more than £3bn to the regional economy over the next 10 years and create thousands of jobs.
Plans include a research and testing facility operated in partnership with Rolls-Royce.
There will also be new teaching and research facilities for the university's engineering, business and economics, maths, and computer science departments as well as student residential accommodation.
The aid is part of a £2.7bn global agreement aimed at preventing millions of infant deaths.
Prime Minister David Cameron led a high-level summit where delegates committed to supporting a historic reduction in "under-nutrition."
Organisers of a rally in London said 45,000 people turned out calling for global leaders to end world hunger.
Meanwhile, UK church leaders have called on the G8 to tackle tax avoidance by firms working in developing countries.
As part of its G8 presidency, the event in central London aimed to get more funding from nations, companies and charities toward African countries' own nutrition plans.
The UK committed an additional £375m of core funding. The Department for International Development added that if other donors raised £560m, it would would match this at a rate of 2-1, which would see an extra £280m paid from 2013 to 2020.
Mr Cameron backed a target of saving 20 million children from chronic malnutrition.
Under-nutrition is a chronic lack of nutrients that can result in death, stunted growth and in a lower resistance to illnesses in later life.
It is the biggest underlying cause of death in under fives in the world, responsible for 8,000 child deaths each day.
International Development Secretary Justine Greening said under-nutrition was stopping children and countries from reaching their full potential, accounting for the loss of billions of dollars in productivity.
By Mark DoyleBBC International Development Correspondent
This meeting may highlight a potential difficulty in involving the private sector in charitable work.
At least three of the companies attending the summit make use of numerous tax havens - which aid agencies, and the Prime Minister himself, have spoken against.
The charity Action Aid, has published data showing that Unilever, Glaxo Smith Kline and Vodafone - all of which have extensive operations in the developing world - also have subsidiaries in numerous tax havens.
Action Aid campaigns for countries to pay more tax in developing countries.
The charity stressed that the use of tax havens did not in itself prove tax avoidance, but did highlight the extent to which multinational companies operate in places that provide tax advantages.
The three named companies all told the BBC they pay the taxes due in the countries in which they operate.
Vodafone said the Action Aid research was flawed and misleading.
The Prime Minister has said countering tax avoidance is a priority during this year's British Presidency of the G8 rich-country grouping.
"A strong and healthy workforce is vital if a country's economy is to prosper," she said.
"The commitments secured today will help transform the life chances of millions of children and pregnant women by ensuring they get the right nutrition at the right time, securing greater long-term economic growth and prosperity for all."
Mr Cameron acknowledged concerns as the country goes through a period of austerity, but said international aid was equivalent to "just over 1p" from every £1 of tax collected from the British taxpayer.
He insisted that Britain was "out in front" in reaching the target to give 0.7% of GDP because its people are concerned with trying to help those who are suffering in other countries.
"We accept the moral case for keeping our promises to the world's poorest even when we face challenges at home," he said.
"When people are dying, we don't believe in finding excuses. We believe in trying to do something about it."
Earlier he highlighted the public's generous response to appeals to disasters abroad.
"In short - it says something about the kind of people we are. And that makes me proud to be British," he said.
Meanwhile, the leaders of the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales have joined international charities in a campaign called "If...", warning that displacement of small farmers from their land, unfair terms of trade and tax avoidance all contribute to hunger among the poor.
Speakers at the Big If London rally included the Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams - who led a minute's silence - the Homeland actor David Harewood, film director Danny Boyle and a video message from David Beckham.
A colourful visual petition, made up of 250,000 spinning flowers, was also installed in Hyde Park, the charity Save the Children saying their petals represented the millions of children who die because of malnutrition each year.
In a video message, The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby urged campaigners to keep up the pressure on world leaders to tackle global hunger.
He told activists: "We've come to celebrate the opportunity we have to end hunger in our lifetimes.
"The only way that's going to happen is by mass movements of people, like yourselves, getting together."
Charity Action Aid published data last month showing that at least three of the companies attending the meeting with the prime minister, all of which have extensive operations in the developing world - Unilever, GlaxoSmithKline and Vodafone - have subsidiaries in numerous tax havens.
Action Aid campaigns for companies to pay more tax in developing countries.
The charity stressed that the use of tax havens did not in itself prove tax avoidance, but did highlight the extent to which multinational companies operated in places that provide tax advantages.
The three named companies all told the BBC they paid the taxes due in the countries in which they operate. Vodafone said the Action Aid research was flawed and misleading.
Mr Cameron has said countering tax avoidance is a priority during this year's British presidency of the G8 group of leading industrialised nations.
World hunger is expected to be a prominent issue when G8 leaders gather between 17-18 June in Lough Erne, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
L/Cpl Scott Hetherington, 22, died at Camp Taji, north of Baghdad, on 2 January, while training local forces fighting so-called Islamic State (IS).
The funeral, with full military honours, was held in his hometown of Middleton, Greater Manchester, earlier.
The father of one, who was nicknamed "Snowball", had been in Iraq for a month when he died.
His death was described by Minister of State for the Armed Forces Mike Penning as a "tragic accident". A Ministry of Defence investigation is under way.
The soldier's partner Savannah Brown, and his parents Anne and Jason Hetherington, walked behind the hearse bearing floral tributes.
Hundreds waited outside All Saints and Martyrs Church for the start of the service, as a guard of honour of his comrades from the 2nd Battalion Duke of Lancaster Regiment stood to attention.
Six soldiers from his unit acted as pall-bearers as his coffin, draped in the union flag, was taken into the church.
Fr Philip Miller read a short eulogy by the soldier's mother, who said she felt like she "could burst with pride".
She promised his young daughter, born in October, would "know her daddy, love her daddy and be proud of her daddy".
L/Cpl Hetherington is the first UK soldier to die in Iraq in almost eight years.
He was one of 150 soldiers from his battalion deployed to Iraq in Britain's effort to combat IS.
His battalion was providing protection to other British troops training the local security forces in infantry skills, weapons maintenance, medical, engineering and counter IED measures.
L/Cpl Hetherington was a member of Blenheim Company and was a vehicle commander in the Force Protection Platoon. His regiment is based at Weeton Barracks near Blackpool.
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Sweden won 1-0 against South Africa in the opener, before host nation Brazil beat China 3-0.
Plenty of empty seats could be seen in the 60,000 venue at kick-off, although more fans arrived before Brazil's game.
The football tournament has started two days before Friday's opening ceremony because of a packed schedule.
More than 11,000 athletes will compete in the first edition of the Olympic Games to be held in South America.
There are 42 Olympic sport disciplines, with 306 events over the course of 19 days of competition.
Football is the only sport that will be staged at venues across the country.
Sweden, who are ranked sixth in the world, secured the first win of the tournament when Nilla Fischer bundled in a second-half goal after a goalkeeping mistake.
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Brazil, who lost at the quarter-final stage of the London 2012 Games, were comfortable winners with goals from Monica, Andressa Alves and Cristiane.
Striker Marta - who did not add to her 102 goals in 104 caps - said: "Scoring three times against a team like China, with all the pressure we had, I think it's super-perfect."
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Canada's Janine Beckie scored after just 20 seconds against Australia, the fastest goal in Olympic women's football history, as they won 2-0 at the Corinthians Arena in Sao Paolo.
Germany, who finished third in 2000, 2004 and 2008, had no problems against Zimbabwe in their opening game, winning 6-1. At one point it was 2-1 but the African side tired towards the end of the match, conceding three goals in the final 16 minutes.
The USA, who are attempting to win a fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal, started their campaign with a 2-0 win over debutants New Zealand.
Fifa women's player of the year Carli Lloyd and Alex Morgan scored in each half at Mineirao stadium in Minas Gerais, as the US retained their unbeaten record in 2016.
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In the final match of the day, France cruised past Colombia 4-0. An own goal from Carolina Arias opened the scoring, followed by a header from Eugenie Le Sommer, and free-kicks from Camille Abily and Amel Majri.
The men's competition, which is contested by under-23 teams, starts on Thursday.
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Clive Wright earns about £100,000 a year as Conservative-led Shropshire Council's top official.
The council's leader told the 2016-7 budget meeting, at which a 4% council tax increase was agreed, the rise would be performance-related.
Although budget plans, including the rise, were made public last week, it was not discussed at the meeting.
Lib Dem leader Roger Evans, who voted against the budget plans, said he would have supported a "small rise" but had been given "no justification" for how the council had arrived at the 20% increase.
He said "the first he knew" about the rise was from local media. He said there were two paragraphs relating to the pay rise in the council's budget agenda.
Councillors approved the 2016-17 budget and agreed to "further develop" proposals for 2017-18 and 2018-19 at Thursday's meeting. The council tax rise means a £46 annual increase for a Band D property.
The authority has already made £40m of cuts over the past financial year.
Mr Evans said: "I'm surprised members weren't informed about it within the budget proposals at the meeting.
"The chief executive works hard and, when compared to other local authorities, he may well not be paid the same.
"But given the constraints Shropshire Council is running on and the budget cuts over the next two years... the Tories are talking about shutting swimming pools and leisure centres to balance the budget... I just plead to the public that I did not vote for it."
Mr Wright's salary is 55% lower than that of his predecessor, because of changes to the council's pay scale.
Council leader Malcolm Pate said the chief executive's salary would still be below average despite the increase and the authoority would not be able to fill the vacancy if he left.
He said it was important "to have the right person" running the council and the increase left him "still nearly 20% below the lowest paid county chief executive in the country".
The parties were at loggerheads, but over social and economic issues, not paramilitaries and the border.
Not so the current crisis, that has the feel of a 1990s time-warp about it.
IRA activity, guns and government and unmasking the true identity of supposed anti-drugs vigilantes - we have seen it all before.
Last time, the pressure on the moderate Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) led to its eclipse by the hardline Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
Now we have a reversal of the roles.
The consequences of UUP leader Mike Nesbitt's bold gambit in pulling his party out of government remain unclear - some electoral advantage, probably, bolstering the UUP's comeback.
But is the DUP big enough to soak up the pressure with elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly not due until the spring?
After initially talking about excluding Sinn Féin from power, the DUP - with First Minister Peter Robinson back from leave - is focusing on holding yet more "intensive talks".
Given the failure to implement the Stormont House deal, there is room for scepticism about what fresh negotiations will achieve regarding the status of the IRA.
Ideas in the ether include a return of the old Independent Monitoring Commission or the recall of some ex-IRA prisoners to jail.
Perhaps the renewed pressure on Sinn Féin over the IRA will change the party's calculations over the budgetary problems that have proved so hard to resolve.
Or perhaps post-Good Friday Agreement history will repeat itself and the power sharing coalition will prove unable to stagger on until next May's scheduled elections.
Sinn Féin's opponents in the Republic of Ireland have made the most of republicans' latest discomfiture, but the Irish government doesn't want to see a return to what Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan described as "car crash politics" at Stormont.
Equally, David Cameron is unlikely to relish having to devote time and energy to a resumption of direct rule.
But London and Dublin better have their contingency plans ready in case the next proposed round of talks proves ultimately as unproductive as other recent negotiations.
The 26-year-old Red Bull Salzburg player has been ruled out of the trip to Cardiff with a broken foot.
Damari has five goals in this campaign, making him joint top scorer in the section with Wales' Gareth Bale and Bosnia-Hercegovina striker Edin Dzeko.
Israel are third in Group B on nine points, five adrift of leaders Wales and two behind second placed Belgium.
Wales face Israel at home three days after playing away to Cyprus.
Wins in both those games could be enough to seal Wales' place at a major finals for the first time since 1958, with the top two sides in the pool qualifying for the finals in France.
Chris Coleman's side are likely to be without Liverpool midfielder Joe Allen for the two September fixtures because of a hamstring strain.
Net profits for January to March were 988m Swiss francs ($1.05bn; £678m), the bank said in a statement.
That was down about 5% compared with the same period a year ago, but above many analysts' expectations.
Last year, UBS was among several banks fined by regulators for attempting to manipulate the Libor rate.
It lost 1.9bn Swiss francs in the last quarter of 2012, and 2.2bn Swiss francs for the year as a whole. That included a 1.4bn-Swiss franc fine related to the Libor scandal.
Speaking to UK MPs earlier this year, UBS's investment bank chief Andrea Orcel said the bank had to work to recover its "honour" following the scandal.
The bank is also going through a significant restructuring of its business.
In a statement accompanying the results, chief executive Sergio Ermotti said that "while it is too early to declare victory, we have shown our business model works in practice".
Councillor Brigid Jones, member for children's services, also said the head would almost certainly have been suspended.
A government report recently highlighted that the trust paid its chief executive a second salary.
The DfE said it is satisfied the trust is responding positively to concerns.
The Education Funding Agency Investigation found that trust's chief executive, Liam Nolan, was paid an additional salary through a supply company.
The payments, at least £160,000 over two years, were not disclosed in financial statements, the report said and were on top of Mr Nolan's salary of £120,000 per year for his executive head teacher role.
Mr Nolan has since stepped down as CEO but remains as executive headteacher of the five schools which look after 2,400 pupils.
The trust, which runs five secondary schools in Birmingham, has been praised by the government in the past with David Cameron and then education minister Michael Grove attending the opening of Perry Beeches III in 2013.
An Ofsted report in June 2015 said it should go into special measures. The headteacher and governors resigned.
Ms Jones said if the school had been under city council control, governors would have been replaced with an executive board of expert governors and the head and anyone else implicated would almost certainly have been suspended.
"Perry Beeches answers directly to the government, so I think they should take this as seriously as we would have taken it, replace the governors, and get to work putting the schools right."
The DfE said:"We are currently working with Perry Beeches to ensure it addresses concerns raised and this remains our priority.
O'Neill, 19, made five appearances for Burnley in all competitions last season after joining from Brisbane Athletic.
The Australian then played 15 times on loan at Oldham, helping the Latics avoid relegation from League One.
"He will add things to our team that we need, he is athletic and well skilled," Fleetwood manager Uwe Rosler told the club website.
O'Neill joins strikers Conor McAleny and Jordy Hiwula, defenders Lewie Coyle and Harvey Rodgers and midfielder Kyle Dempsey in joining Fleetwood this summer.
He is the third Burnley player to be sent out on loan for the upcoming season, following Chris Long's move to Northampton Town and Alex Whitmore's switch to Bury.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Craig Mackey said 200 officers would be sifting through 15 tonnes of debris "until Christmas time".
Police also named 68-year-old Marjorie Vital as the latest victim of the west London fire to be identified.
She lived on the 19th floor with her son Ernie, who has not yet been found.
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Mr Mackey said the "extraordinary size of crime scene" meant the "only comparable advice" that could be found was from investigators who worked on the collapse of the World Trade Center in 2001.
He added: "Without wanting to be too graphic... the fire in some parts of that building [Grenfell] burned at over 1,000 degrees for a considerable period of time.
"So we are now working through, floor-by-floor, and it is literally a case of sifting and working through the debris - sadly, the remains - to try and desperately identify parts of people so we can reunite [them with their families]."
The senior officer said the tower block was "one of the most complex recovery operations we've seen".
About 255 people are said to have survived the blaze, which engulfed the 24-storey block in the early hours of 14 June.
On Wednesday evening Kensington and Chelsea Council's newly elected leader said 68 new homes for Grenfell Tower survivors would be identified and bought within the next two weeks, and an additional 31 homes would be acquired in the next few weeks.
Councillor Elizabeth Campbell was booed from the public gallery in the council's first full public meeting since the tower blaze.
Protesters shouted "resign" and "shame on you" as Ms Campbell was made council leader, succeeding Nicholas Paget-Brown, who resigned on 30 June.
She said she was "deeply sorry" for the "grief and trauma" caused by the blaze in west London.
The fractious meeting ended early after a female resident fell to the ground and was attended to by medics.
About 70 of the survivors attended the meeting after condemnation of the council's response.
The council has been accused of being slow to react on the ground and not doing enough to rehouse Grenfell Tower residents.
Many people in the public gallery at Kensington Town Hall were calling for the Conservative group that runs the council to resign and for new elections.
Having won the first leg 2-0, United joined Southampton in the final - to be played at Wembley on 26 February - with a 3-2 aggregate success.
But Mourinho refused to acknowledge Hull had scored a penalty during the second leg at the KCOM Stadium.
"I only saw two goals," said the Portuguese. "It was 1-1."
Hull went in front on the night through a penalty from Tom Huddlestone.
Replays showed two tussles in the area as the visitors defended a corner - Phil Jones tangling with Oumar Niasse, and Marcos Rojo briefly holding the shirt of Harry Maguire - and referee Jon Moss awarded the spot-kick.
United levelled through Paul Pogba, only for Niasse to give Hull victory.
Mourinho said: "I saw the Pogba goal and their goal was a fantastic goal - great action, great cross and the guy coming in at the far post. 1-1."
The defeat ended United's 17-match unbeaten run, and Mourinho's frustration was clear as he walked out of a television interview after about 30 seconds.
"I behaved on the bench, no sending-off, no punishment so no more words," Mourinho, on his 54th birthday, told Sky Sports.
"To speak about the performance, I have to speak about things I don't want to speak about because the game was totally under control - the game was dead.
"The game was totally under control and something happened to open the game."
Mourinho said he did not believe United would be favourites when they meet Southampton next month.
"It doesn't matter where we play," said Mourinho. "I don't think we are favourites against nobody."
Despite his frustration, Mourinho now has the chance to win the League Cup for a fourth time, equalling the record held by former United boss Sir Alex Ferguson and ex-Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough.
Southampton will be attempting to win just the second major trophy in their history, after beating Liverpool 2-0 on aggregate in the other semi-final.
Mourinho, who won the trophy in all three of his finals as Chelsea manager, added: "Wembley is Wembley. It is for professionals with passion for football.
"It has a special meaning, a special feeling. Of course I am happy to be there. Of course I am happy to bring many thousands of our fans because I think also for them it is something they will always remember."
Group profits rose 9.8% to ??759m in 2013, despite an "extremely challenging" first quarter, and a disappointing third quarter.
In the UK and Ireland B&Q's total sales rose slightly, to ??3.6bn, with Screwfix total sales up 17.6% to ??665m.
Kingfisher said prospects for the year to come were "bright" and it would return ??200m to shareholders this year.
The company said its performance had improved thanks to a combination of pricing, marketing, an expanded product range, and upgrades to its websites.
"Our prospects remain bright, giving us confidence to invest in the business and actively manage our portfolio," said chief executive Sir Ian Cheshire.
Kingfisher's most significant market is France where the economic backdrop "was generally soft", in line with the rest of Europe.
Kingfisher owns Brico Depot and Castorama in France, where sales were ??4.4bn.
Generally weak consumer confidence in France was reflected by a drop in like-for-like sales of 1.2%.
The company also said it intended to look for a strategic partner for B&Q China this year, and had already had expressions of interest.
Shares were up almost 5% in early trading on Tuesday after the results were published.
"The early share price spike is in reaction to better than expected profit numbers, accompanied by robust growth in key metrics such as earnings per share and a continuation of Kingfisher's progressive dividend policy," said Richard Hunter, head of equities at Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers.
"The company is running a tight ship and even before today's reaction, the share price had risen 41% over the last year, as compared to a 2% improvement for the wider FTSE 100," he added.
The service at Taylor High School on Friday 30 September was attended by the Bishop of Motherwell, Joseph Toal.
Some pupils did not take part and left the school. North Lanarkshire Council said the detentions were for truanting.
In June, a United Nations committee called for laws requiring compulsory attendance at school religious services to be scrapped.
About 50 senior pupils at Taylor High School, in New Stevenston, were disciplined after they turned up for school in the morning but were absent for the annual Patron's Day Mass in the afternoon.
The Mass was a memorial service for two teachers who had died earlier in the year and also celebrated Saint Teresa.
It is understood a letter was sent to the parents of pupils about a week before the service on 30 September indicating that all pupils were expected to attend and no concerns were raised with the school prior to the event.
Nicola Daley, acting head teacher at the Roman Catholic school, said: "Our entire school held its annual Patron's Day Mass on Friday September 30, with Bishop Joseph Toal as its principal celebrant.
"The theme for the celebration was Saint Teresa of Calcutta (formerly Mother Teresa) and highlighted her work with the poor.
"It was also a memorial service for two members of our staff who died in May 2016 after giving years of service to the school.
"Their invaluable contribution to the school community was highlighted during the service.
"Regrettably, a small number of pupils, who had attended school in the morning, opted to truant in the afternoon and miss the service.
"The pupils have been subject to school discipline as a consequence of their actions."
In May, the police force carried out 25% of required checks within the maximum 60 days, the worst figure out of 50 forces across a 10-month range.
It means delays for Dorset residents waiting to start a job that requires such a background check.
Dorset Police blamed staff turnover and an increase in applications.
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks are required for anyone working or volunteering with children and vulnerable adults.
The targets are for 85% of checks to be completed in 14 days, 90% in 18 days, 95% in 25 days and 100% of checks completed in 60 days.
Latest statistics from the DBS show Dorset Police failed to meet its 60 day target five times from July 2014 to May 2015.
Figures for April and May show Dorset met 33% and 25% of its target respectively - these are the lowest percentages the statistics have recorded out of 50 forces across its 10-month range.
The vast majority of forces completed all their targets, the figures show.
The DBS said it was "reliant on the police to carry out their checks within agreed timescales" and that most of the complaints it receives was to do with "turnaround times linked to poor police performance".
A Dorset Police spokesman said its DBS unit was "currently experiencing a delay in processing applications... caused in part by a turnover in staff and an increase in the volume of applications".
He added: "Dorset Police understands the frustration created by this delay and apologises to anyone inconvenienced."
Andrea Lewis, 51, was discovered at the home in Fairyland Road, Tonna, Neath, at about 08:00 GMT on 30 January.
Rhys Trevor Anthony Hobbs, 43, of Tonna, appeared at Swansea Crown Court on Friday charged with her murder.
He was remanded in custody until his next court hearing on 24 March.
A second man, 46, also arrested in connection with her death, has been released on police bail.
Jet has said the plane, carrying 154 passengers to Mumbai, came off the runway because of a technical failure.
But the exact details of what the accident are unclear, officials say.
December is the busiest month for Dabolim airport, located near the Goa state capital Panjim.
Television coverage depicted injured and traumatised passengers - a few on stretchers - in the dark.
The plane's front undercarriage and one of its wings appeared to have been damaged as it came to a halt supported only by its body frame and engine casings.
Most of the injured only seemed to have cuts and bruises, although some injuries were more serious.
"I fractured my leg," passenger Dinesh Kumar said. "The moment the plane started running on the runway, it slipped into the nearby field and there was smoke inside the flight."
Air travel is becoming increasingly popular in India, one of the world's fastest-growing economies.
Passenger numbers on internal flights increased by 21% in 2015 to more than 80 million, with the government predicting numbers to rise substantially over the next five years.
Jet Airways is India's second largest airline and flies on both domestic and international routes.
The emergency services were called to Penparc at about 13:00 BST on Sunday.
A Mid and West ambulance service spokeswoman said there were three patients, one of which was airlifted to Morriston Hospital and another taken to Glangwili Hospital.
The extent of their injuries is currently unknown.
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue was also in attendance.
All 20 clubs have been busy preparing with £500 million being spent on players so far during the summer transfer window.
Can Jose Mourinho and Chelsea's grip on the crown be released? Can Arsenal finally turn promise into a Premier League title? Can Brendan Rodgers rebuild Liverpool from the wreckage of that 6-1 humiliation at Stoke City on the final day of last season?
Newsround takes a look at how each of the Premier League clubs are shaping up ahead of Saturday's kick-off.
Last season's league position: 3rd
It has been many years since Arsenal were as positive as this going into a new season.
Lifting the Community Shield and making one major signing has convinced many that the Gunners can have a serious shot at lifting their first Premier League title since 2004.
The purchase of goalkeeper Petr Cech from rivals Chelsea has not only strengthened Arsenal's defence, but it's added a figure of authority, respect and success into the dressing room.
Some say Arsenal still need a world-class striker, to add to the skills of star player Alexis Sanchez, if they want to improve their chances of winning the league.
Last season: 17th
Manager Tim Sherwood had a tricky start to life at Aston Villa but he kept his side in the Premier League and also reached the FA Cup final, even though they were thrashed by Arsenal.
Three of his big players from last season, Tom Cleverley, captain Fabian Delph and the big danger Christian Benteke have all gone, leaving Sherwood with rebuilding to do.
Sherwood has spent a lot of money in the transfer window. He has bought strikers Jordan Ayew and Rudy Gestede, who will provide a big physical presence.
The big question is can Villa cope without Benteke's goals?
Last season: Promoted from Championship
It's Bournemouth's first season in the Premier League and many experts think that their exciting style of football could help them stay in the league.
The Cherries have bought Ivory Coast forward Max Gradel who Jose Mourinho said was good enough to play for Chelsea. He cost £7 million.
The side also broke their transfer record to sign Ipswich Town left-back Tyrone Mings for £8m.
Bournemouth, under the leadership of manager Eddie Howe, might just survive relegation.
Last season: Champions
The team to beat. The manager to beat. And Jose Mourinho already looks in the mood to take on all challengers.
No team has retained the Premier League title since Manchester United in 2008-09 but Mourinho will hope his side can end that streak.
They have made no big moves in the transfer window market but striker Radamel Falcao has come in on loan, after spending a pretty poor season with Manchester United.
Goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, defender John Terry, midfielders Nemanja Matic and Cesc Fabregas and striker Diego Costa will be important players for the Blues this season.
Last season: 10th
Alan Pardew did a magnificent job to get Palace to 10th last season and this ambitious manager will hope for as good again this season.
The signing of France international midfielder Yohan Cabaye from Paris Saint-Germain is the side's major signing of the summer costing the London club £13 million.
With Patrick Bamford in from Chelsea and Connor Wickham signed at £7 million from Sunderland there may be firepower to add to the creative skills of the powerful Yannick Bolasie.
No matter what happens, the fans at Selhurst Park will create an amazing and loud atmosphere, which opposing teams will fear playing in.
Last season: 11th
This is a big season for Everton manager Roberto Martinez and he'll be under pressure to do better.
The Toffees finished in the second half of the table in the last campaign and fans became increasingly frustrated with the the careful style of football on show.
The side haven't done much business this summer spending just over £4 million on players so far (the Premier League's lowest at the time of writing) to bring in Gerard Deulofeu and Tom Cleverley on a free.
Everton will rely heavily on striker Romelu Lukaku to win games but the Toffees still need a central defender, another striker and a playmaker.
Last season: 14th
Leicester City sacked their manager Nigel Pearson during the summer and in came coach Claudio Ranieri to take his place.
The Italian known as "The Tinkerman" for his constant team changes was sacked last year as manager of Greece, a forgettable four-month reign most famous for a home defeat by the Faroe Islands.
Time will tell - but many experts expect Leicester to be in and around the danger zone for most of the season.
Last season: 6th
After a disappointing 2014-15 season, Liverpool have been busy in the summer transfer window, adding the likes of James Milner, Nathaniel Clyne, Robert Firmino and Danny Ings to the squad.
But the fate of manager Brendan Rodgers could rest on the success of 24-year-old striker Christian Benteke, who joined from Aston Villa for £32.5 million.
If he scores plenty of goals then it will look rosy, but if the Belgian fails then his manager will be under even more pressure.
It'll also be interesting to see how Liverpool cope without the iconic presence of Steven Gerrard, who joined American side LA Galaxy in the summer.
Last season: 2nd
Manchester City will be out prove their doubters wrong after a poor defence of their Premier League title last season. But there's a lot of work to do.
The £49 million signing of Raheem Sterling grabbed the headlines - and do not bet against more exciting business that could send spirits soaring at Etihad Stadium.
Manager Manuel Pellegrini will be under pressure from the start with constant rumours in the press that he will be replaced by Bayern Munich's boss Pep Guardiola's next summer.
Last season: 4th
Louis van Gaal's job last season was to put the pieces back together after David Moyes's dreadful reign and get Manchester United back in the Champions League. Mission accomplished.
However, United will not be happy with the same result this time around.
After the expensive signings of Memphis Depay, Bastian Schweinsteiger and Morgan Schneiderlin - and every chance of another huge signing to come - Van Gaal needs and wants to be challenging for the title.
But how will they cope if world-class keeper David De Gea leaves? His future is still up in the air and United's defence will be much weaker without him.
Last season: 15th
It's all change at Newcastle.
After a bad second half to last season which nearly saw the team relegated, former England manager Steve McClaren has been given the task of rebuilding the squad
New players include Georginio Wijnaldum, signed for £14.5 million from Dutch team PSV Eindhoven, and £13 million forward Aleksandar Mitrovic.
Newcastle's defence, however, is still pretty dodgy and that could decide where the Magpies end up finishing in the league.
Last season: Promoted from Championship
Norwich City were promoted to the Premier League via a play-off final win against Middlesbrough at the end of last season.
New signing Youssouf Mulumbu will miss the start of the season after breaking a metatarsal bone in his foot. His manager Alex Neil has said the midfielder will need a few weeks to recover.
The Canaries have also signed winger Robbie Brady from Hull City and Liverpool defender Andre Wisdom has joined the club on a season-long loan.
Survival will be the aim but many are tipping Norwich to drop straight back down to the Championship.
Last season: 7th
Southampton have lost two key figures in England right-back Nathaniel Clyne to Liverpool and midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin to Manchester United.
But manager Ronald Koeman looks to have made some smart additions with Jordy Clasie from Dutch side Feyenoord, Juanmi from Spanish team Malaga, and Cedric Soares from Portugal's Sporting Lisbon.
The core of the team that performed so well last season is still around and guided by Koeman, there should be plenty to cheer about again at St Mary's this season.
Last season: 9th
Stoke finished in the top 10 last season and manager Mark Hughes will be hoping to maintain that position at the very least.
Hughes will hope striker Bojan returns stronger from a serious knee injury and former Barcelona player, Ibrahim Afellay, can recapture the form that once made him so admired.
Young English goalkeeper Jack Butland will be hoping to make his mark after the exit of Asmir Begovic to Chelsea.
The Potters will also hope for big things from Joselu, the striker brought in from German side Hannover 96 for £5.75 million.
Last season: 16th
Boss Dick Advocaat was in tears when they survived last season. He will hope not to be reduced to tears again but it is shaping up as another season of stress at the Stadium of Light.
Jeremain Lens, an £8.5 million signing from Dynamo Kiev will add danger but Younes Kaboul will make fans nervous. The former Spurs defender has talent - but also a lot of mistakes.
Advocaat still needs further attacking options, especially with striker Connor Wickham leaving for Crystal Palace.
Last season: 8th
Head coach Garry Monk will look to continue pushing his way up the top 10 in the Premier League table.
A key to his hopes will be how new signing Andre Ayew settles in.
He could form a deadly strike partnership with Bafetimbi Gomis.
This Swansea side looks a good mix of all the qualities needed to be in the top half again, led by one of the Premier League's talented young managers.
Last season: 5th
Manager Mauricio Pochettino's first year at Spurs will be remembered for the brilliance of Harry Kane and a run to the Capital One Cup final, where they lost to Chelsea.
Toby Alderweireld will prove an useful addition in defence but if Spurs really want to break into the top four places then more quality signings are needed to help Harry Kane in attack.
Also, any approaches from Manchester United for goalkeeper Hugo Lloris must be resisted.
Last season: Promoted from Championship
Quique Sanchez Flores is Watford's fifth manager in a year, replacing the man who got them promoted, Slavisa Jokanovic.
Flores will look forward to the challenge ahead but it is not an easy one.
New faces to the squad include Etienne Capoue from Spurs and Valon Behrami from German side Hamburg.
It's hard to see Watford surviving.
Last season: 13th
West Brom boss Tony Pulis did what he had to do last season and guided the Baggies to safety. Now he will want to build on that.
So much will depend on whether he can keep talented striker Saido Berahino this transfer window, with both Manchester City and Spurs linked with the player.
Pulis has been busy, though, bringing in striker Rickie Lambert from Liverpool, £8 million signing James Chester will help to boost West Brom's defence.
Last season: 12th
West Ham and new boss Slaven Bilic have started their season early due to their involvement in the Europa League, and should be match-sharp come the start of the Premier League campaign.
Bilic is being backed by West Ham co-owners David Sullivan and David Gold, with £10 million spent on Juventus defender Angelo Ogbonna.
Another £10.7 million has been spent on highly rated France international Dimitri Payet.
They will expect a good season ahead of the move to the Olympic Stadium.
About 2,500 state employees received the email, according to the state chief information security officer.
Around the world, people have reported getting multiple copies of the email, while others have received the message from trusted organisations.
One million Gmail users, which Google says is "fewer than 0.1%", were affected.
The cost to the Minnesota state government was mainly the result of employees dealing with the attack rather than carrying out their normal jobs, said state chief information security officer Christopher Buse.
"I estimated three minutes of time per employee… it may be much more than that in many cases," he told ABC News.
"It's important for people to understand not only that the attacks are happening but also to understand how costly they are."
Mr Buse said that the cost could have been much higher but Minnesota state government agencies generally did not use Gmail or Google Docs.
"Most of these scams are done using Office documents like Word and Excel spreadsheets", Ken Munro, of Pen Test Partners, told the BBC.
"But a lot of big companies have moved away from traditional office software packages, and an increasing number are moving towards using Google."
Besides the Minnesota state government, a large number of other Gmail users were affected.
Jacquelyn Piette, who is studying for an MBA at Boston College, tweeted that she had just received warning of the phishing scam when the message arrived in her inbox.
Users who received the email were told a contact of theirs had shared a document with them on Google Docs.
If they clicked on the "Open in Docs" button, they were taken to a genuine Google page that required them to log in with their account credentials.
Once logged in, a service called "Google Apps" would ask them for permission to access their email account data.
By agreeing to share their data, users were potentially giving the hackers access to their email account, contacts and online documents.
The malware used this access to send copies of the phishing email to everyone in the recipient's contacts list.
"As companies get better at security, scammers will start looking for connections between personal email accounts and professional accounts, which might sidestep some of the company's security," Mr Munro said.
He said that introducing "layers of separation" - such as not checking personal email on the office computer - could help prevent such phishing campaigns spreading.
"Companies could say they might not want you to check personal email on your work computer, but they don't mind you checking it on your mobile."
Google said it had stopped the attack "within approximately one hour" and fewer than 0.1% of its users had been affected - about one million people.
Those who did click on the link have been advised to log into their accounts and revoke access to Google Apps, then change their password.
The move, which has been agreed by the teams but still needs to be officially ratified, will mean the end of the complicated 'token' system.
Mercedes has dominated F1 since the introduction of turbo hybrid engines in 2014, winning the drivers' and constructors' championships for the past two seasons.
The hope is that freeing up development will allow rivals to catch up.
The 'token' system, which limited what can be done to engines and when, aimed to keep costs under control.
But senior figures feel it has introduced unnecessary complexity and restricted the ability of manufacturers to improve their engines.
When turbo hybrid engines were introduced, in-season development was banned altogether, and the changes that manufacturers were allowed to make over each winter were increasingly limited as the years went by.
Engines were divided up into 66 parts, with each part ascribed up to three tokens, depending on their influence on the performance of the engine.
Companies were given up to 32 tokens to develop their engines in 2015.
The original plan was for that number to drop to 25 for 2016 and to continue decreasing, down to three in 2019 and 2020.
But now the whole system has been scrapped for 2017.
The idea, from the same manufacturers who have now agreed to ditch it, attempted to prevent costs spiralling out of control.
But it had a number of flaws:
Various attempts to undermine the system began as soon as it became clear Mercedes had a significant advantage in 2014.
For 2015, restricted in-season development was permitted after Ferrari discovered a loophole in the regulations.
A compromise was also agreed to ensure new entrant Honda was given time to develop its engine.
For 2016, in-season development has again been allowed, while the number of tokens each manufacturer can use has been increased to 32.
But then it will change for 2017.
Drivers will still be limited to four engines per season.
The one restriction on development will be that new parts can only be fitted when a team changes one of six elements that make up a car's power-unit.
Those six elements are:
The 2016 season gets under way in Australia on 20 March.
The Met Office has issued a yellow "be aware" weather warning for parts of mid and south Wales, from 17: 50 until 23:55 BST on Tuesday.
Forecasters said it could lead to localised flooding in some places, with up to 30mm (1in) of rain in the space of an hour.
A further warning is in place for Wednesday, covering the whole of Wales.
A yellow warning is the lowest level, rising in severity through amber to red for the most severe weather.
The Met Office said some places covered by the warning could miss showers "altogether", but where the rain falls it will be heavy, and may lead to surface water flooding.
The areas covered by the warning on Tuesday are Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Carmarthenshire, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot, Newport, Pembrokeshire Rhondda Cynon Taff, Swansea, Torfaen and Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales and Powys in mid Wales.
The 30-year-old singer was arrested on 2 December, the morning after performing a gig at the Gorgeous club in Wolverhampton.
West Midlands Police said it was called to a hotel in the city at 07:45 GMT after a 20-year-old woman claimed she had been raped and sexually assaulted.
Another man, aged 29, was also arrested on suspicion of sexual assault.
Both men have been bailed until February, pending further inquiries, police said.
Mr Williams' management 10 Worlds Music, said in a statement: "All we wish to say at this time is that Oritse denies the allegations against him.
"The matter is in the hands of the police and it would be totally wrong for us to comment any further."
The singer enjoyed chart success with the JLS after featuring on the X-Factor in 2008.
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Healy's men are five points behind champions Crusaders in the two-horse race for the league crown.
After a major scare against strugglers Ballinamallard last time out, Healy wants a convincing display at Milltown.
"The boys are on a good run and are upbeat but it will be tough at Warrenpoint," said Healy.
"They are fighting for their lives and after beating Portadown they will want to go into their post-split fixtures on a high.
"It is still in Crusaders' hands as far as the title is concerned.
"They had a sizeable lead and we have managed to reduce that. It is all to play for."
Warrenpoint may still be bottom of the Premiership table, but Barry Gray's men have been on a fine run and, with four home games after the split, will fancy their chances of scrambling clear of the relegation places.
"We are happy to be going into the split games in touch with a number of teams," said Town boss Gray.
"We have a massive four weeks ahead of us.
"Linfield is obviously a huge game. They have had a couple of extra days to recover and it will be difficult to get anything out of the game."
It is a case of the top two playing the bottom two in the league on Tuesday, as leaders Crusaders face one-from-bottom Ballinamallard United.
Mallards boss Whitey Anderson will have been heartened by his team's unlucky 2-1 defeat at Linfield on Thursday and the Crues will be aware the trip to Fermanagh could prove tricky, having salvaged a 1-1 draw there with a late goal in October.
"We have to deal with the pressure as it comes along, as do Linfield," said Crues manager Stephen Baxter.
"Ballinamallard will be difficult, then we have the Irish Cup semi-final and after that it is Linfield.
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By mid-morning, the Dow Jones was up 93.2 points or 0.55% at 17,017.95.
The S&P 500 was 12.83 points or 0.64% higher at 2,007.07, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq index gained 44.41 points or 0.93% to 4,827.26.
Boeing was the biggest gainer on the Dow, adding 2.35% as it bounced back from losses suffered on Wednesday. | (Open): Wall Street's leading share indexes were all higher in early Thursday trade, showing signs of recovery after two days of losses. | 34,540,934 | 98 | 32 | false |
Nicola Sturgeon defended "right and proper" plans to put back legislation with a large number of consultation responses to consider.
Education was raised by all opposition parties during the weekly session of first minister's questions.
There were angry exchanges as the government was accused of "stalling".
The proposed legislation was originally meant to be published early in 2017, but Education Secretary John Swinney has now said it will be published "sometime during 2017" so he has time to "chew over" some 1,100 responses to a school governance review.
During first minister's questions, Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said education reform had been left on a "slow train".
She said: "A year and a half ago, the first minister staked her reputation on reforming Scotland's schools and what have we seen since then?
"We've seen literacy standards slipping, we've seen numeracy standards sliding, we've seen Curriculum for Excellence failing, and now we've seen her education secretary stalling.
"She keeps putting their referendum on the front foot but she's putting everyone else's child's education on the back burner. Hasn't her government got their priorities all wrong on this?"
Ms Sturgeon replied: "Every time Ruth Davidson stands up in this chamber all she manages to do is shoot herself in the foot. I want to talk about education and she just continually tries to shoe-horn in the mentions of independence and a referendum.
"We have had the consultation on governance reform. We have received over 1,000 responses to that consultation and it's right and proper that the education secretary considers all of those responses and then comes forward to parliament with our proposals on the way forward."
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale followed up the Tory leader's questions, prompting the first minister to refer to her as a "pound shop Ruth Davidson".
Ms Dugdale said: "It has been 10 months since the election, yet parents and teachers still remain in the dark about the SNP's plans for our schools. As we've just heard, the education secretary has kicked the consultation on how schools are run into the long grass.
"The first minister said that's just one part of her education reforms, and she's right. There's also the Education Bill, the very symbol of this government's apparent number one priority - it has been kicked into the long grass too.
"The SNP's power grab to centralise every school budget in the country, kicked into the long grass as well. And the roll out of national testing, which she also mentioned, has been delayed as well."
The first minister replied: "We're giving £120 million direct to head teachers in almost every single one of our schools across the country. Giving resources and the power to use those resources direct to head teachers.
"Only in the world of Scottish Labour could that be described as centralising education budgets. It is the exact opposition of centralising education budgets."
Green co-convener Patrick Harvie raised the case of a school support worker who was told to watch sitcom The Big Bang Theory as training for how to deal with a pupil with Asperger Syndrome.
He said Holyrood's education committee had heard "shocking" evidence of provisions for pupils with additional support needs.
Ms Sturgeon said the Big Bang Theory case was "completely unacceptable", adding: "Something like 95% of all children with additional support needs are taught in mainstream schools.
"We must not see the support that they need as just being support that they get from additional support teachers. Every single teacher working in our schools has a responsibility to provide the support that those young people need."
Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie asked Ms Sturgeon to "think again" about "national testing" and school league tables.
Ms Sturgeon said she did not support national testing or league tables, but "standardised testing" and the publication of data on a school by school basis.
Both she and Mr Rennie accused each other of being "100% wrong" about the subject, with the first minister accusing the Lib Dem leader of "trying to mislead people about standardised testing".
This drew a point of order from Lib Dem MSP Mike Rumbles, who accused Ms Sturgeon of using unparliamentarily language.
Presiding Officer Ken Macintosh said he did not consider the "misleading" jibe unparliamentarily, but reminded members to treat each other with respect. | The Scottish government has been accused of kicking education reform "into the long grass" after a delay to its Education Bill. | 39,140,190 | 999 | 28 | false |
A cross-party group of Nationalist and unionist MSPs have signed up to a formal pledge aimed at ending "unhelpful polarisation" in the political debate in Scotland and across the globe, writes The Scotsman.
The rising tension over President Donald Trump's determination to force North Korea to end its production of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles took a dramatic twist when a senior official in Pyongyang said his country could soon start weekly missile tests, reports The National.
The i newspaper also covers the story and writes that North Korea has warned it will launch a "pre-emptive nuclear strike" to deter an attack by US military forces.
The Times claims Europe is braced for a new migrant crisis after the newly victorious Turkish president indicated that he was preparing for a fight with Brussels by restoring the death penalty and demanding visa-free travel across the Continent.
Prince William has called for the end of the "stiff upper lip" culture, says the Scottish Daily Mail, after his brother Harry confessed that he struggled to cope with their mother's death.
The Scottish Daily Express also runs with the story and says that the Duke of Cambridge has said he wants his children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, to grow up feeling free to talk about their emotions.
The Daily Record writes that dozens of people who booked to have their weddings at Guthrie Castle may be affected by claims the venue was intentionally doubled-booked by a former member of staff.
The Courier also covers the story and says that couples who are set to marry at the Angus castle are being urged to contact the venue immediately to check their bookings.
Britain's "most wanted man" Harris Binotti is living under police noses near Govan police station in Glasgow in "defiance" of a global manhunt, reports The Scottish Sun.
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But food lovers in Cardiff will have to do just that if they want to dine at a planned new restaurant - it will be in a prison and will be run by offenders.
If given the go-ahead by planners, HMP Cardiff fine-dining eaterie will be set up by the Clink Charity to help prisoners gain qualifications.
Diners will be searched before being cooked for and served by the inmates.
They will also have to submit an inquiry form when booking a table, which is then vetted by security, and have to bring photographic identification and hand over their mobile phones when arriving at the restaurant.
The aim of the Clink Charity, which was started by professional chef Alberto Crisci, is to reduce re-offending rates of ex-offenders by training and placing graduates upon their release into the hospitality industry.
It already runs a Clink restaurant in Sutton, Surrey and is looking for sites for new prison restaurants.
Cardiff council's planning committee has received an application to turn the jail's former visitor centre - a detached building within the prison boundary - into a restaurant.
Prisoners would work in the restaurant as cooks, waiters and cleaners, gaining City and Guilds, NVQ's and BIC's qualifications.
They will serve three course meals of fresh Welsh produce grown at an organic farm at HMP Prescoed in Usk, Monmouthshire.
Tables, chairs and other items of furniture used in the dining room will be manufactured by prisoners and they will also contribute poetry and art for the walls.
The only real difference compared to more normal restaurants is that alcohol will be off the menu and the cutlery will be plastic.
The planning application said that the plan "aims to provide a genuine opportunity for re training and life changing skill sets to offenders".
"The Clink offers prisoners the chance to gain food preparation, front of house service and cleaning qualifications," it added.
"Also, it provides first hand valuable experience within an exciting, dynamic business environment."
It said that the reoffending rate in the first year of release from prison is estimated to be around 50%.
But Clink has reduced this reoffending rate amongst its graduates to 20%.
The first Clink restaurant in Sutton three years ago within the walls of HMP High Down has so far trained 85 prisoners.
A Prison Service spokesperson said: "Prisons should be places of hard work that address the root causes of offending behaviour and where prisoners pay their debt to society.
"Skills learned through schemes like this increase the likelihood of prisoners getting a job on release - which reduces the chances of them reoffending - and allows deductions from their wages to be used for victims' services."
Cardiff Prison is a category B local / training prison - for those who do not require maximum security, but for whom escape needs to be made very difficult - and has a capacity for over 780 male adult prisoners.
According to the Ministry of Justice website, the number of life-sentenced prisoners has increased to 96.
There were about 20 cancellations on the Liverpool Street to Stansted rail line after a tree fell on to overhead power lines near Bishop's Stortford.
Storm winds brought a tree down on to overhead wires which caught fire between Harpenden and St Albans.
This has led to disruption between Bedford and London St Pancras.
Thameslink, which runs this service, said disruption was likely to continue until midday.
Abellio Greater Anglia said its services to Stansted Airport and Cambridge had been hit by the storm.
The company added that a train fault had also led to a number of trains on the Liverpool Street to Norwich route in the morning being cancelled.
Abellio Greater Anglia currently runs the Greater Anglia franchise and runs services to Stansted Airport, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk, Hertfordshire and Suffolk.
23 January 2016 Last updated at 00:19 GMT
But negative attitudes towards disabled people, at least in the corporate world, are slowly beginning to change.
We hear from three employees with disabilities at India's Lemon Tree Hotels.
The group has hired people with speech and hearing impairments, physical disabilities and Down's syndrome in all 27 of its hotels across India.
It has also made sign language compulsory for all its employees.
Filmed/edited by Prem Boominathan, produced by Shilpa Kannan
And chancellor George Osborne said it was "another major step forward" for the UK as the western hub of Chinese finance.
But what does it actually mean? And what will change as a result of the deal? We answer five key questions.
It's how financial instruments such as shares, bonds and currencies are often traded. A clearing house essentially acts as the middleman between two different parties.
It makes it easier for the trades to take place by removing much of the risk. If one of the parties goes bust mid-transaction then the clearing house steps in to complete it.
To ensure it can do this, the clearing house takes assets from the parties seeking to trade which it uses as collateral for such an event.
"Because it makes sense," says Steven Barrow, head of G10 strategy at Standard Bank.
He points out that London is already the world's biggest market for global foreign exchange, which in total sees some $5 trillion exchanged every day.
London also already accounts for two thirds of all renminbi payments outside of China and Hong Kong, according to George Osborne,
Having a London-based clearing bank means European firms will be able to both make and receive renminbi payments in the western time zone, making such transactions easier, quicker and cheaper.
And choosing London as the base for the first clearing bank outside Asia for the Chinese currency, puts it in pole position to become the leading Western centre for offshore renminbi trading, and ahead of potential rivals such as New York, Paris and Frankfurt.
Initially not a lot. As Mr Barrow says this deal is "evolutionary not revolutionary".
"Imagine going to Spain and not being able to buy euros directly, but instead having to buy dollars and then convert those into euros," says Mr Barrow. "Trading directly will make things a lot easier."
It will also lower transaction costs between the two countries, and Simon Derrick, head of currency research at Bank of New York Mellon, says it should also lead to more deals.
"It will allow Chinese investors to invest elsewhere and mean UK investors can invest more freely in China," he says.
It will also enable the UK to benefit from China's rapidly expanding economic growth. It currently has an 11.5% share of the global export market. Standard Chartered expects this to double in size by 2020, meaning the importance of the renminbi will grow.
Ultimately, this,as Mr Osborne says, should create new jobs and further investment in the UK. "We need to make sure China's currency, as it emerges onto the world stage, is used and traded here as that will not only be good for China, but good for UK jobs and investment too," he says.
The new generation of leaders, who took the reins at the end of 2012, have made it clear that they want to reform China's financial system, and as part of this want to make it easier for China to invest abroad and for China to receive foreign investment.
"This announcement is symbolic of their new intentions. China's government is making it clear that it's open for business," says Mr Derrick.
Enabling direct foreign-exchange market deals between the renminbi and the British pound should increase bilateral trade.
This says Mr Derrick will allow Chinese markets to become more balanced, potentially ironing out local bubbles which exist in parts of China's property market.
Beng-Hong Lee, head of markets, China for Deutsche Bank, says being able to directly trade sterling and renminbi will improve transparency, and "help lay the foundation for the use of the renminbi as a new global currency".
And having a global currency will make it easier for China to both export and import, with more countries willing to accept renminbi-denominated deals.
Mr Derrick suggests a further underlying reason is to remove the exchange risk with the US dollar, saying China could be concerned that the Federal Reserve's printing of money to stimulate growth could devalue the dollar.
"It wants people in China to feel comfortable their currency won't be devalued," he says.
Actually, both names are perfectly good, but in slightly different ways.
"Renminbi" is the official name of the currency introduced by the Communist People's Republic of China at the time of its foundation in 1949. It means "the people's currency".
"Yuan" is the name of a unit of the renminbi currency. Something may cost one yuan or 10 yuan. It would not be correct to say that it cost 10 renminbi.
An analogy can be drawn with "pound sterling" (the official name of the British currency) and "pound" - a denomination of the pound sterling. Something may cost £1 or £10. It would not be correct to say that it cost 10 sterling.
The Brooklyn Zoo event at Lakota, in Stokes Croft, Bristol, invited people to pay homage to their favourite rapper with "murky face paint" and toy guns.
The club apologised saying it took "immediate steps" after its Twitter feed became "full of complaints".
The promoter has yet to respond but on its Facebook page has requested outfits are kept "appropriate".
The Dead Rappers Halloween Party was promoted by Brooklyn Zoo as a chance to "pay homage to your favourite rapper that ain't with us no more".
Clubbers were invited to "get involved" with "fake blud, hella bling, murky face paint 'n a toy gun".
Bristol University student Juliette Motamed said: "The 'murky paint' - are they implying black face or are they just explicitly saying it but trying not to get caught out?
"And who thinks "Dead Rappers" is an appropriate genre."
Chante Joseph tweeted Bristol City Council asking it to investigate the "racist Halloween event" and said she hoped "students dressed in black face" would not be allowed in.
While Damilola Odelola tweeted that "even if they're not [in black face], this is extremely racist".
But Lakota said it had not agreed the theme or the way it was promoted and apologised for "any offence that has been caused".
"It wasn't until we started receiving complaints that I took a look at the advertising and immediately got on the phone with the promoter," said Marti Burgess, Lakota's owner.
"The whole concept of people dressing up and painting their faces - we've been through that as a country and as a society - it's not appropriate."
The event is still due to go ahead as a Halloween Hip Hop Night and promoter Brooklyn Zoo has said on its Facebook page that "any outfit that's deemed offensive, racist or inappropriate in any way will not be granted entry at all".
He said he voluntarily went to a police station to accept the caution as "it was better than the alternative of this hanging over all of us for months".
Scotland Yard earlier confirmed that a 70-year-old man "accepted a caution for assault" on Monday afternoon.
Celebrity chef Ms Lawson has not commented.
According to London's Evening Standard, Mr Saatchi said: "Although Nigella made no complaint, I volunteered to go to Charing Cross station and take a police caution after a discussion with my lawyer because I thought it was better than the alternative of this hanging over all of us for months."
Mr Saatchi had reportedly said on Monday that the photos in the Sunday People showed "a playful tiff".
Announcing the caution late on Monday night, Scotland Yard said "officers from the community safety unit at Westminster were aware of the Sunday People article which was published on Sunday 16 June and carried out an investigation".
The photos were taken about a week ago in London, at Scott's restaurant in Mayfair.
Source: Gov.uk
The restaurant issued a statement, saying: "The staff and management at Scott's are aware of the reports in the media and would like to make it clear that they did not see the alleged incident nor were they alerted to it at the time."
In Monday's Evening Standard, Mr Saatchi said: "About a week ago, we were sitting outside a restaurant having an intense debate about the children, and I held Nigella's neck repeatedly while attempting to emphasise my point.
"There was no grip, it was a playful tiff.
"Nigella's tears were because we both hate arguing, not because she had been hurt.
"We had made up by the time we were home. The paparazzi were congregated outside our house after the story broke yesterday morning, so I told Nigella to take the kids off till the dust settled."
Mr Saatchi, a former advertising executive, and Ms Lawson have been married since 2003.
She has two children, Cosima and Bruno, from her marriage to journalist John Diamond, who died in 2001.
Ms Lawson's spokesman confirmed on Monday that she had left the family home on Sunday with her children, but did not say whether it was a permanent or temporary move.
The daughter of former Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson, Ms Lawson first began a restaurant column in The Spectator in 1985 and by the following year had become deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times.
She then went on to write the book How to Eat, followed by the award-winning book, How to be a Domestic Goddess.
Her television cookery programmes - including Nigella Bites and Nigella's Christmas Kitchen - have brought her international fame.
Clubs throughout the region have posted photos on Twitter to show the extent of the damage after the flooding which hit the county on Boxing Day.
Many pitches are completely underwater, with a major repair job required before teams can host games again.
Yorkshire, in conjunction with the England and Wales Cricket Board, say clubs who need help can apply for aid.
In a statement on its website, Yorkshire asks clubs to send information about what is insured, which damage is repairable, long-term issues and an estimate of the bill to fix them.
The ECB, which also provides advice and support for clubs affected, will help with the clean-up operation.
Many cricket clubs throughout Lancashire have also been hard-hit, after more than 200 flood warnings and alerts were issued in the aftermath of the heavy rain which hit northern England over Christmas.
Live flood updates from BBC News.
Abdulemam, known as the "Bahraini Blogger", had been sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges that he was part of a terrorist organisation.
He spent two years in hiding after a royal pardon was revoked.
Abdulemam escaped in a secret compartment of a car up a causeway that joins Bahrain to Saudi Arabia.
According to Atlantic Magazine, from there he was smuggled along the Gulf in a fisherman's boat to Kuwait.
He crossed into Iraq and took a regularly scheduled flight to London, where the magazine says he was granted asylum.
A source close to Abdulemam's family confirmed to the BBC that he had arrived in London.
Critical blogs
Abdulemam's troubles began when he started to write articles critical of the ruling Al Khalifa family.
The Al Khalifas are Sunni Muslim in a country with a Shia Muslim majority. Shia have long complained of discrimination.
Abdulemam worked as an IT specialist for the Bahraini airline Gulf Air. In his spare time he blogged.
But he was sacked from the airline after he was arrested in September 2010 and accused of being part of a terrorist organisation.
He was charged with spreading false information and linked to Bahraini opposition figures who had been arrested in August of that year.
Like Mr Abdulemam, all of the arrested men were Shia. Academics, a dentist, a geologist, and several clerics were among those held.
They all protested their innocence and were in fact pardoned by King Hamad and released in February 2011.
But following the crushing of the pro-democracy movement in March 2011, orders went out to re-arrest the men.
Ali Abdulemam went into hiding in Bahrain and managed to escape capture.
In an interview with the BBC in December 2010, his wife Jenan al-Oraibi told the BBC:
"Ali does not belong to any political party. He just writes his opinion. He has a free pen. That is exactly his crime. He has a free pen".
Mr Abdulemam's flight from the kingdom will cause the government there some embarrassment.
Along with other GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) countries, Bahrain has cracked down hard on internet activism.
Now one of its critics, a hero among online activists, has slipped out of their grasp.
The lorry overturned between junctions 12 and 11 of the London-bound M4 near Reading on Wednesday. The 49-year-old driver, from Essex, died at the scene.
Repair work was carried out through the night on the road and central reservation that had been damaged.
The closure meant some drivers were stuck in their cars in tailbacks for up to seven hours.
Anyone who witnessed the crash has been urged to contact police.
The 20-year-old will link up with the Republic of Ireland Under-21 squad for qualifiers against Italy and Slovenia.
It comes after an eye-catching brace for the U's against Barnet on Saturday.
"It's the third time I've gone away after scoring," he told BBC Radio Oxford. "But I'll be fully buzzing when I come back for the run-in."
Oxford-born O'Dowda was named runner-up for the Republic Under-21 player of the year award on Sunday behind Preston midfielder Alan Browne.
And he believes international experience has aided his development as a player.
"I spoke to the manager (Michael Appleton) when I last went and he said it's only going to benefit my game," O'Dowda said.
"Being with a different manager and a different team broadens your experience.
"There's a lot more one-touch passing involved in international football and there's a real structure of play in terms approaching the game."
Recent hacked emails are "consistent with the methods and motivation of Russia-directed efforts", the Department of Homeland Security said.
Data revealing discussions within the Democratic Party was hacked earlier this year.
Some states reported "probing" attempts made on "election-related" systems.
However, officials said those attempts could not be directly linked to the Russian government.
Russian officials told Interfax news agency the claims it was involved in the cyber attacks were "nonsense".
But a joint statement from the Department of Homeland Security and the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security said high-ranking officials at the Kremlin were almost certainly involved in the successful attacks.
"We believe, based on the scope and sensitivity of these efforts, that only Russia's senior-most officials could have authorized these activities," they said.
However, altering any actual ballots or election results would be "extremely difficult", they added, because of a decentralised system and multiple checks and balances.
A number of embarrassing emails have come to light during the 2016 election campaign.
In July, a hacker calling himself Guccifer 2.0 claimed responsibility for the release of documents from the Democratic Party.
Gigabytes of files including emails and other documents that revealed the inner workings of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) were taken.
At an early stage, many US officials linked the breach to Russia. At the time, Moscow denied any involvement and denounced the "poisonous anti-Russian" rhetoric from Washington.
The leaked emails appeared to show that Democratic Party officials were biased against Bernie Sanders in his primary race against Mrs Clinton.
The hack led to the resignation of the party chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and sparked protests at the national convention in Philadelphia.
Adam Schiff, a senior member of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, said he applauded the decision to publicly name Russia as the culprit.
"All of us should be gravely concerned when a foreign power like Russia seeks to undermine our democratic institutions," he said.
He called for co-operation with "our European allies" to develop a response.
Lee Parsons, 44, has also been charged with burglary after the attack on the 73-year-old guard at Stokes Forgings in Vine Street, Brierley Hill, on Sunday.
Mr Parsons, of Highgate Road, Holly Hall, Dudley, was remanded in custody at Dudley Magistrates' Court.
He is due at Wolverhampton Crown Court on 19 April.
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Since then, rockier times. From an initial share price of $38, Facebook's stock dipped to below $29 in May.
This week, there comes another huge test for the site as it releases the financial results for its first quarter of public trading.
The BBC has asked four key experts for their views on where Facebook's challenges lie in the coming months.
What do you think Facebook should do next? Send us your comments at the bottom of this page.
Jennifer Lynch is a staff attorney at the Electronics Frontier Foundation, a privacy campaign group. Ms Lynch is concerned about Facebook's recent takeover of a facial recognition company:
Facebook's acquisition of facial recognition software face.com is concerning from a privacy perspective for two reasons.
First, it is unclear what Facebook intends to do with the facial recognition data face.com collected. Face.com has stated that its database includes over 30 billion face prints.
If this data is combined with the facial scans from the 300 million images Facebook users upload every day, it would likely create the largest (and largest privately-owned) facial recognition database in the world.
The United States government regularly asks for copies of all photographs in which a user is tagged when it issues a warrant to Facebook. And government agencies in the States and abroad that are building out facial recognition databases have an interest in acquiring as many face images as possible.
Face.com and Facebook's combined data could become a honeypot for government if Facebook doesn't take steps to protect it properly.
Second, as Facebook expands the tools face.com developed to use mobile devices to collect images and identify people, the security of the data becomes a real issue.
Facebook must show it has adequate measures in place to protect both the integrity of the face recognition data and its users' accounts from hacking and fraud.
Ahead of going public, Facebook, itself, predicted it might struggle to make money from its mobile users who have been reluctant to engage with ads while on the go. If this is to ever change, argues independent app developer Malcolm Barclay, Facebook's mobile offering needs to improve greatly.
The existing app suffers from endless loading, refresh problems and feels more like using a website from the late 90's. To put it another way, it is like listening to a transistor radio. Rewriting it in a different programming language, Objective-C, will be more akin to surround sound, an experience people expect from their £400+ devices.
A rewrite in Objective-C is exactly what the Facebook app needs. Facebook's existing app is written mostly in HTML5.
It is a very promising and useful technology, but right now more suited to desktop web browsers. Objective-C is the native programming language of the iPhone. It can exploit all of its features, it is fast and has a tool kit of interface elements that users are familiar with.
So why did Facebook make the app in HTML5 in the first place? It was cheaper, HTML5 can run on many different devices (eg Android), hence it costs less to maintain and there's no need to make separate apps. I doubt Facebook really benefited from this - users certainly did not.
Last week Facebook purchased the developers at Acrylic, a tiny operation. Google did the same and acquired Sparrow, a very popular mail app for Mac & the iPhone - all of these apps are written in Objective-C.
Reports suggest that Facebook has already begun working on rebuilding their app from the bottom up. I hope this is the case - experience matters.
Graham Cluley is a security researcher and blogger with Sophos. He argues that Facebook needs to get a firmer grip on the third-party applications on its platform, perhaps taking a few cues from a familiar computing giant:
Want to see who has viewed your profile? There's a Facebook app for that. But you shouldn't be too quick to grant it permission to access your account.
Rogue Facebook apps, created by internet scammers and cybercriminals, want to access your personal data, and hope to make money by luring you into following links.
These apps run on the Facebook platform itself (don't confuse them with the apps you run on your computer or smartphone), and - if you allow them - have access to your profile, your personal info, your photos..
The result is that you don't know who you are sharing your information with, and who is going to access it. The apps can even present themselves as though they are entirely located on Facebook - even when hosted on third-party websites that could be under the control of any Tom, Dick and Harry.
Most chilling of all, rogue Facebook apps can actually post messages in your name - tricking your online friends into thinking that it's you spreading a link, which could be designed to infect their computers or steal further information.
Maybe Facebook should learn a lesson from Apple? Apple reviews all iPhone/iPad apps before they are allowed in the iOS App Store. That doesn't just stop yet another fart app, it also makes it harder for hackers to spread dangerous code via this route. Whatever Apple is doing, it seems to be doing it right.
Not everyone may like Apple's "walled garden" approach, but you cannot deny that it has kept the Apple iPhone a relatively safe place to be.
Maybe Facebook should consider something similar.
And maybe users need to think carefully about what data they upload to Facebook - that's the one sure way of ensuring it is never grabbed by a rogue app.
Many have speculated that Facebook is looking at creating its own device - the so-called "Buffy" phone. Carolina Milanesi, an analyst for Gartner, questions the logic behind any such predictions:
"Speculations about a possible Facebook phone have been on and off for the past couple of years.
After the first round of rumours we saw mobile phone maker HTC bring to market the HTC Salsa and the HTC ChaCha. Both had dedicated Facebook keys and both saw only modest sales.
So why would Facebook come out with its own phone? I struggle to see why it would.
Although social is a key part of today's mobile life for many consumers, only a sub-set of users would actually want a phone that totally centres on social networking.
Users would also not compromise on the specifications of the hardware, meaning that Facebook would have to bring to market a device comparable to a high-end Android phone in order to be taken seriously.
Manufacturing costs would likely be too high to be covered by advertising revenue.
The reality is that most consumers are perfectly happy with an app on their current phone. We believe that a deeper integration of Facebook on the current operating systems iOS, Android and Windows Phone will deliver a much wider addressable market to Facebook than not a dedicated phone. And what is social about if not the mass market?
If we put rumours aside for a second and we look at the facts, we know that Facebook is to be integrated more tightly with Apple's next mobile operating system, iOS 6. One has to wonder if Apple would have made such a decision if the possibility of a Facebook phone was actually on the horizon."
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Lina Magull hit the bar for Germany before Anja Mittag scored the winner just before half-time with a fine finish from 12 yards.
England threatened an equaliser after the break with Jordan Nobbs and Demi Stokes going close.
Jill Scott had a chance to score in stoppage time but fired over.
The Lionesses went into the game knowing a victory would give them a great chance of lifting the trophy following Saturday's defeat of hosts and world champions USA.
But Mark Sampson's team could find no way through after Mittag had scored her 50th international goal.
England, who lost 2-1 to France in their opening game, finished the tournament with one win and two defeats.
Their next game is a friendly against Italy at Port Vale (19:45 GMT) on Friday, 7 April.
Match ends, Germany 1, England 0.
Second Half ends, Germany 1, England 0.
Attempt saved. Alexandra Popp (Germany) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lena Petermann.
Offside, England. Karen Carney tries a through ball, but Toni Duggan is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Jill Scott (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Substitution, Germany. Pauline Bremer replaces Sara Däbritz.
Corner, Germany. Conceded by Demi Stokes.
Attempt blocked. Anna Blässe (Germany) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sara Däbritz.
Babett Peter (Germany) is shown the yellow card for dangerous play.
Dangerous play by Babett Peter (Germany).
Siobhan Chamberlain (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Lena Petermann (Germany) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Lucy Bronze (England).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Germany. Lena Petermann replaces Anja Mittag.
Delay in match Josephine Henning (Germany) because of an injury.
Josephine Henning (Germany) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Toni Duggan (England).
Offside, Germany. Anna Blässe tries a through ball, but Sara Doorsoun is caught offside.
Substitution, Germany. Sara Doorsoun replaces Lina Magull.
Foul by Verena Faißt (Germany).
Jill Scott (England) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Sara Däbritz (Germany) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Lina Magull.
Attempt saved. Demi Stokes (England) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, England. Conceded by Babett Peter.
Attempt blocked. Millie Bright (England) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Anja Mittag (Germany) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Anja Mittag (Germany).
Lucy Bronze (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Anja Mittag (Germany) header from the right side of the six yard box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Josephine Henning following a corner.
Attempt missed. Josephine Henning (Germany) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Dzsenifer Marozsán with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Germany. Conceded by Demi Stokes.
Attempt missed. Ellen White (England) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Karen Carney with a cross following a set piece situation.
Substitution, England. Jill Scott replaces Jade Moore.
Verena Faißt (Germany) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Verena Faißt (Germany).
Ellen White (England) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Kristin Demann (Germany) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Kristin Demann (Germany).
Karen Carney (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
But Doodlebug isn't the only animal who has a favourite teddy...
5. Pudsey the dog from Who Let The Dogs Out prefers to hang out with a teddy bear with his own name - Pudsey the bear from Children in Need.
4. A zookeeper at ZSL London Zoo is hand-rearing this baby sloth with the help of a soft toy she bought in a gift shop. Now it's a firm favourite.
3. Yooranah the koala joey, born at Edinburgh Zoo, likes to cuddle a stuffed toy koala whilst getting weighed.
2. Iggy the Blue Peter guide dog loves playing with cuddly toys when she hangs out back stage at CBBC.
1. Doodlebug the baby kangaroo sleeps next to this teddy and gives it cuddles.
The attack happened at Ardmonagh Parade and was reported to police shortly after 19:00 GMT on Friday.
The teenager has been taken to hospital for treatment, but his injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
Sinn Féin MLA Pat Sheehan said those who carried out the attack had "nothing to offer this community other than hurt and intimidation".
"Those responsible need to end these futile and reckless actions immediately," he added.
Police have appealed for anyone with information on the attack to contact them on the non-emergency number 101.
Ben Smith, 34, had completed 284 consecutive marathons in 284 days when he developed an umbilical hernia, in Aberdeen, on 10 June.
He set off from Inverness at 10:00 BST after medical care and following advice to "take time out and recuperate".
Mr Smith said he would use "everything in his power to be back on the road".
Since 1 September 2015, he had run 284 consecutive marathons in 284 days, covering 7,440.8 miles across 222 different locations across England, Wales and Scotland.
He said he would now need to cover an extra 2.5 miles a day for the next 106 days to make up for the time lost through injury - missing 10 days of running equates to 262 miles.
He said: "I was very upset the challenge had to be suspended especially when you think of all the hard work myself and the 401 team have put in over the last three years.
"Today I am feeling positive in both my mental and physical state and will no doubt use everything in my power to be back on the road."
He praised the "amazing" 401 team and said they would "deliver all the objectives we set out to do".
Mr Smith hopes to raise £250,000 for the anti-bullying charities, Stonewall and Kidscape.
The aim is to finish the run as planned on 5 October in Bristol.
Susan Bro said she refuses to speak to Mr Trump after hearing him equate counter-demonstrators, like her daughter, with white supremacists.
Her daughter, Heather Heyer, was killed on Saturday after a car ploughed through a crowd in Charlottesville.
She said she did not "want to be used for political agendas".
Mrs Bro told ABC New's Good Morning America television programme she missed a call from the White House, which appeared to have been made during her daughter's public memorial on Wednesday.
She added that she received three more "frantic messages" from Mr Trump's press team later in the day but was too exhausted from the funeral to talk.
It was when she saw a news clip of Mr Trump again blaming both sides for the violence that she changed her mind about speaking to the president.
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"It's not that I saw somebody else's tweets about him, I saw an actual clip of him at a press conference equating the protesters... with the [Ku Klux Klan] and the white supremacists," she said on Friday.
"You can't wash this one away by shaking my hand and saying, 'I'm sorry.' I'm not forgiving that."
A day earlier Mrs Bro told MSNBC she had received death threats after speaking out about her daughter's death and the president's comments.
Also on Friday, the mayor of Charlottesville, Mike Signer, called for Confederate statues to be removed from the city in order "to repudiate the pure evil that visited us here".
He called upon the state General Assembly to pass laws restricting openly carrying firearms during events, and upon the city to create a memorial to Ms Heyer.
Mr Trump drew outrage this week after reversing his condemnation of Saturday's far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which was supported by white supremacists and neo-Nazis protesting against the removal of a statue of Robert E Lee, a general who had fought for the pro-slavery Confederacy during the US Civil War.
Violent clashes between the rally's supporters and counter-protesters escalated when a car rammed into a crowd of anti-racist demonstrators, killing Ms Heyer and injuring nearly 20 others.
Mr Trump bowed to pressure on Monday to denounce far-right elements at the rally, but appeared to defend its organisers on Tuesday.
He condemned the suspect in the car-ramming incident, but said those who marched in defence of the statue had included "many fine people".
Mrs Bro said her daughter, a paralegal and Charlottesville resident, did not belong to any organised faction of demonstrators, but was "part of a group of human beings who cared to protest".
The president appeared to further his support for the organisers on Thursday when he weighed into a national debate about the removal of controversial statues, including some to leaders of the pro-slavery rebellion defeated in the US Civil War.
Critics say monuments to the Confederacy are racially offensive, but supporters say they are important symbols preserving Southern heritage.
In a series of tweets, Mr Trump said the "history and culture of our great country" was being "ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments".
Cities across the country have accelerated planned removals of controversial statues in the wake of the violent protests in Charlottesville.
A statue of Roger B Taney, the US Supreme Court justice who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision that upheld slavery and denied citizenship to African Americans, was quietly removed from the grounds of the Maryland State House early on Friday.
In the last three months of the year, they grew 0.3%, compared with the previous three months, according to the statistics agency Eurostat.
The 28 countries of the EU also grew 0.3% in the fourth quarter, to a GDP growth rate of 1.8% for the full year.
Growth slowed during 2015, suggesting that more action may be needed to stimulate economies from the European Central Bank (ECB).
"We continue to think that further monetary easing is required, with further policy rate cuts on the cards from March onwards," said Nick Kounis, economist at ABN Amro.
Eurostat also announced on Friday that industrial production had fallen 1% in December compared with the previous month, both for the eurozone and the EU.
Year on year, it fell 1.3% in the eurozone and 0.8% in the EU.
The biggest contraction in GDP came in Greece, where the economy shrank 0.6% in the fourth quarter, which was better than had been expected.
But the contraction in the third quarter turned out to have been bigger than previously thought, being revised from 0.9% to 1.4%.
Analysis: Andrew Walker, economics correspondent
Several eurozone governments following austerity policies have faced protests on the streets and at the ballot box.
But could it have been a little easier?
That is where Germany comes in. There certainly is a view that Germany has in effect made it harder than it need have been.
How so? Germany surely is the seat of eurozone financial prudence and virtue? Well, there is a case that those features of Germany are a problem for the others.
Read more from Andrew here
The German economy expanded by 0.3% in the final three months of 2015, to an annual rate of 1.7%.
The German statistics agency said that government spending was "markedly up", while household consumption rose slightly.
The figures follow surprisingly poor industrial production data for December.
"Slow but steady was the retrospective motto for 2015," said Thomas Gitzel, VP Bank group chief economist, saying the fourth quarter growth was "not exhilarating" but also not a reason to worry.
7 December 2015 Last updated at 13:19 GMT
Dr Dyfed Elis Gruffydd has disputed research, led by University College London (UCL), which found the bluestones came from outcrops at Carn Goedog and Craig Rhos-y-felin.
Following excavations, the team of archaeologists and geologists said the stones may have been first used in a local monument near the quarries and then dismantled and taken to Wiltshire.
But Dr Gruffydd said no evidence of human quarrying had been found at the sites.
Concentrix apologised for failures that have left some people with no benefits for up to two months.
The US firm has been accused of incorrectly withdrawing tax credits from many hundreds of claimants.
It was told in September that its HMRC contract would not be renewed.
Officials from HM Revenue and Customs told a committee of MPs that a breakdown in customer services at Concentrix, had resulted in only 10% of calls being answered on some days.
Thousands of people have had their tax credits stopped after Concentrix said they were making fraudulent claims - one woman was told she was in a relationship with a chain of newsagents, another with the philanthropist Joseph Rowntree, who died in 1925.
Claimants, in what was sometimes an emotional testimony, told the committee they had been forced to borrow money and go to food banks as a result of the problems.
The Work and Pensions Select Committee was told that of the 45,000 payments stopped, nearly 15,000 had appealed so far and that "90% - 95%" had been successful in overturning the decision.
HMRC officials said they first became concerned of problems at Concentrix in August when they started receiving reports that only 10% of calls were being answered within five minutes - the target was 90%.
Jon Thompson, chief executive of HMRC, said "a collapse in basic customer service" had occurred caused by too few staff being on hand, and that he'd personally taken the decision not to renew Concentrix's contract.
The firm was working with HMRC to reduce fraud and error in the tax credit system.
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"Everybody look in to Rachel. Rachel, look to the girls on the left. Give them a nod. Now look to the right. Confident! Are we happy to be doing it? Yes?
"Do it again."
Except this is Christopher Dean, with Jayne Torvill standing next to him. The finest British figure skaters of all time are here to fire up one of Britain's lowliest teams in Olympic sport.
Dean continues. "Stop just a second. What's that meant to be? A wave? But there's also a look, right?
Some of the things he said were really obvious. Like, 'just put your head up more'. Why didn't I do that before?
"Sorry - can I use the word - can it be more seductive?"
Dean has never seen rhythmic gymnastics in the flesh before. This hardly sets him apart. The sport, which involves teams competing with balls, hoops and ribbons, is little-known in Britain, which has never sent competitors to an Olympic Games.
Now, for London 2012, there is a narrow shaft of light. If the group of teenage girls in front of Dean can hit a certain score at their Olympic test event, in January, they will earn the right to compete at the Games as the host nation.
Like its sister sport of artistic gymnastics - the one practised by Beth Tweddle, Louis Smith et al - success in rhythmic gymnastics relies not only on executing your performance well, but doing so in a way that connects with the judges.
Torvill and Dean score Olympic gold
Torvill and Dean know a thing or two about that. Performing their Bolero routine at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, the duo earned perfect 6.0 scores for artistic impression from every judge and duly won gold.
"In the early days, we were criticised by the judges for not smiling, not performing," says Torvill, now 54. "You have to find a way to bring that out of yourself."
Dean, 53, adds: "This is the same as our sport, skating. It's subjective and what one person sees or likes, the other might not. What you have to do is win over the majority, and the judges."
Seventeen-year-old team member Jade Faulkner is soon sold on this, and on Dean in particular, whose charismatic pronouncements from the sidelines strike a chord.
"He has a lot of personality and he's fun to work with," says Faulkner.
"Some of the things he said were really obvious. Like, 'just put your head up more'. Why didn't I do that before? They were saying about keeping your eyes up and I really didn't notice they were so down, until today.
"Some things weren't really what the sport is used to, not what we do. But they're not outside the rules, so we'll take them on board. It's what we need to do to stand out."
Faulkner is one of seven teenagers in the British rhythmic gymnastics team, based at the University of Bath.
Their sport demands the skills of a Harlem Globetrotter and the flamboyant athleticism of a ballerina. It is often derided by casual spectators as a sport unworthy of the name, let alone an Olympic berth.
"When people say things like that we ignore them," says team captain Rachel Smith as she fixes her hair in the mirror before training begins.
"We train very hard, every day, and we want people to see this is actually a sport and it needs the funding."
GB Rhythmic Gymnastics team website
Olympic test event - official website
At the moment, there is barely any for these gymnasts. Four of them rent a house together in Bath using cash from their parents, who underwrite many other costs.
"It's always hard if you don't have the funding. But I can see this group are very driven and, obviously, they're not doing it for the money. That's great to see, these days," says Torvill.
Dean adds a note of realism. "By the time that we were heading to the 1984 Olympics, we wore the crown already and we had to act that. You had to be consistent, look strong, and deliver, taking on the persona that you are a champion already.
"It's hard before you become that. There's that leap to get to that point. The girls are a fledgling group and their goal is to get into the Olympics.
"They've not qualified yet. It's a big time ahead of them in their test event to actually get in and be a part of Team GB. So, fingers crossed."
Smith, at 18, already sees London 2012 as "the climax of my whole career". Britain did not come close to reaching this year's World Championships. Without a host nation place to aim for, their chances of qualifying for subsequent Games currently appear slim.
"This has been my dream since I was little," she says. "To go out there and prove that Britain, as a rhythmic gymnastics team, deserves to be up with everyone else.
"If we can qualify without the funding - struggle through it but still do it - and prove to our parents that we can do this, that the money has paid off… we'll make everyone proud."
The title contenders, Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel and Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton, were third and fifth, not setting times on the quickest tyre.
Force India's Sergio Perez had a sizeable accident after misjudging the tight section in the old town of Baku.
The Mexican bounced over the entry kerb and smashed into the wall on exit.
The impact, at Turns Eight and Nine, where the track heads uphill towards the medieval castle, tore off both right-hand wheels, the rear one becoming completely detached from the car, and sprayed the track with carbon-fibre debris.
The session was stopped for 10 minutes while the mess was cleared and the car removed from the track.
When it resumed, there was only six minutes remaining, and with a lap that is nearly two minutes long, there was only time for a maximum of two further laps, and there were no further improvements.
Vettel's lap time on softs effectively made him the de facto quickest in the session but the Red Bulls were surprisingly quick on a power track where they are not expecting to do well.
Verstappen was 0.47 seconds quicker than team-mate Daniel Ricciardo, with Vettel less than 0.1secs behind the Australian.
Hamilton also set his best time on the soft tyre and was just over half a second slower than Vettel.
Team-mate Valtteri Bottas did manage a quick lap on the super-softs but was 0.240secs slower than Hamilton's best time on softs.
The initial auguries are not that encouraging for Mercedes, who struggled in Russia in April on a track with many similarities to the Baku street circuit, but the session was not conclusive enough to be certain of what the times meant.
Perez ended the session fourth quickest, with team-mate Esteban Ocon seventh, and Williams' Felipe Massa in eighth ahead of Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen and Toro Rosso's Daniil Kvyat.
A number of drivers struggled with locking wheels into the tight right-angled corners that abound in Baku, including Renault's under-pressure Jolyon Palmer.
The Englishman twice ran wide at Turn One at the end of Baku's super-long straight and ended up only 18th fastest, 1.3secs slower than team-mate Nico Hulkenberg.
Current laws only allow public hire taxis, commonly known as black taxis, to be hailed on streets in the city.
All other taxis must be booked.
But from 31 May, that will change between midnight on Friday and Saturday nights until 06:00 the next morning.
All taxis will be able to stop for passengers who have waved them down.
The rule will apply within a two-mile radius of the city centre.
Environment Minister Mark H Durkan said he was "modernising and improving" taxi regulations by making the change.
"In effect, these changes will mean that people in the north will get a much better taxi service."
A spokesman for the Department of the Environment (DoE) said that the change was being made "because often demand outstrips supply".
But public hire taxi drivers are unhappy with the change.
Sean Beckett, of the Public Hire Coalition, said: "If this is just to clear the streets [of people], it's wrong.
"You must know that the clientele and the general public are getting into a legitimate taxi and not some renegade that doesn't have insurance, so on and so forth."
Alliance Party MLA Anna Lo said the move was long overdue, but added that the two-mile Belfast zone "could be confusing" for the public, and tourists in particular.
"In any big cities where taxis are an essential means of transport, people take it for granted they can hail them anywhere without having to book in advance or walk to a taxi rank," Ms Lo said.
"I hope this move will see such practice become the norm in Belfast."
The DoE is also introducing new roof signage that some taxis will be required to display, as well as a new test for taxi drivers.
Graham, 20, needs surgery after tearing the anterior cruciate and lateral collateral ligaments in his left knee when he fell awkwardly in Saturday's 3-1 home defeat by Cardiff City.
"Jordan is expected to be out for between nine and 12 months," said Wolves head coach Kenny Jackett.
"But he's young enough and good enough to come back stronger next season."
Phil Hayward, the head of Wolves' medical department, added: "He is to see a consultant towards the end of this week. It is probably too early to be talking about exact timescales.
"It was one of those almost freakish situations where he was caught slightly off balance and his knee went into a hyper-extended position and that is what did the damage."
Graham, signed from Aston Villa in January 2015, has made 12 consecutive appearances for Wolves following his return from a successful loan at League Two side Oxford United.
His current 18-month contract is set to expire at the end of the season.
Saturday's defeat ended a run of four successive league victories for Jackett's side, halting their climb back up the Championship table.
It was also the first game watched by owner Steve Morgan since he resigned as chairman and put the club up for sale on 28 September.
Morgan remains insistent that no progress has made on any potential sale.
"There's no real update on what's been said in the past," he told BBC Midlands Today. "We're not in firm talks with anybody."
The buyer is Wirefox, a Holywood, County Down, based property company headed by BJ Eastwood, grandson of the famous Belfast bookmaker.
The centre had been owned by Hermes Investment Management based in London.
CastleCourt opened in 1990 and at one point, before the property crash in 2007, was valued at £350m.
In a statement, Wirefox said it planned "significant capital expenditure in the complex", details of which would be announced later in the year.
Estate agents Savills, which was involved in the sale, said: "Despite the shock of Brexit and ongoing political uncertainty, the retail sector in Northern Ireland continues to perform strongly.
"We expect Wirefox to reap the benefits of this high-profile acquisition."
According to accounts, CastleCourt generates about £10m annually in rent from its scores of retail tenants, who include anchor store Debenhams.
Hermes has owned the centre since 2012.
South Yorkshire Police believe the 22-year-old fell critically ill in the Glossop Road area after taking MDMA.
She was taken to hospital in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Another woman, 20, is also in a serious condition after taking the drug on a separate night out.
A 23-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman, who were arrested, have been released while enquiries are ongoing.
Formal identification and a post mortem examination were yet to take place, police said.
It is not yet known whether the victims were known to each other. But police believe the two incidents are not connected.
Det Sgt Andy Shields said: "This is an upsetting development in the investigation and our thoughts are with the woman's family at this very sad time."
The force has appealed for any witnesses.
The precautionary measure was put in place following concern over the taste and smell of their mains supply.
The alert affects about 2,000 homes and businesses in parts of Carfin, Newarthill, Chapelhall, New Stevenston and Dalziel Park.
Scottish Water said it was investigating the issue.
It has advised people not to use boiled tap water, and to only mains water to flush toilets.
Bottled water was distributed to the affected properties overnight.
A Scottish Water spokeswoman said: "After receiving contacts from customers about the taste and smell of tap water, we investigated thoroughly and examined our network.
"We have advised customers in Carfin, Newarthill, Chapelhall, New Stevenston and Dalziel Park not to use their water for any purpose - other than flushing toilets - as a precautionary measure.
"We apologise for the inconvenience this has caused and we have been distributing bottled water to affected properties during the night."
She said teams had been out in the affected areas all night helping customers, with extra support also being given to elderly or disabled people, care homes and hospitals.
Scottish Water said further updates would be issued when more information becomes available, and affected residents will be told when their water is back to normal.
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The sensational headline-hogging allegations in Call Me Dave, motivated apparently by a sense of aggrievement at David Cameron's failure to give his lordship a decent government job in exchange for some handsome financial support for the party will undoubtedly be an ongoing source of amused chit-chat in the political salons and public saloons of Manchester at this year's party conference.
It seems likely, however, that real political debate may nonetheless take precedence, given the party's success in winning an overall parliamentary majority just months ago.
What perhaps should excite more public interest and attention, diverting though Lord Ashcroft's somewhat trivial revelations have been, are the circumstances in which sensational claims about public figures are publicised, sometimes without any supporting justification, let alone evidence.
Take, for example, the extraordinary swirl of rumours that emerged about the late Sir Edward Heath. These were puzzling and perplexing.
The allegation that the former prime minister may have been involved in child sex abuse has astonished the political world, raising perhaps as many questions about the behaviour of the police and the press in this "post-Savile" public atmosphere where fear of any kind of official cover-up exceeds all other considerations.
Now, in recent days, we learn that the police themselves admit that they have indeed made errors here.
What seems bizarre is that Sir Edward's life may now be recorded with more attention paid to this unlikely postscript than to the political legacy of a man who led the Conservative Party for 10 years and who was single-handedly responsible for the most momentous change in recent British history by taking the country into Europe.
The claims that have propelled Sir Edward's name on to the front pages have eclipsed the fact that it is 50 years since he won the leadership of his party, the first working-class meritocrat to do so in the party's modern history.
And this year also marks the 40th anniversary of his ignominious and unexpected defeat at the hands of Margaret Thatcher, the second party leader from humble origins, who had seen and learned from his example that the Conservative Party was changing and that social class no longer defined the ability of an individual to succeed in politics.
It was as much a surprise that Sir Edward won the 1970 general election as his initial election as leader.
He was a "One Nation" Tory in the Disraeli tradition who rejected the laissez-faire capitalism that Baroness Thatcher would enthusiastically endorse.
"What distinguishes man from animals is his desire and his ability to control and to shape his environment," was how he once defined his political philosophy.
An officer who had fought in World War Two and was decorated for his military achievements, he believed passionately in a united Europe.
It would be this cause, Britain's accession to the Common Market, as it was then known, which would underscore Sir Edward's place in history.
This is far from forgotten, of course, and not least because Conservative Party mainstream opinion has veered sharply away from the endorsement of Europe that was the acceptable Tory norm 40 years ago; to this extent Sir Edward is viewed by today's Conservative Euro sceptics not as hero, but villain.
What marked, marred and ultimately destroyed his government however, was nothing to do with Brussels, which was a contentious issue then only in the Labour Party.
It was, rather, his attempts to control the trades unions and prevent inflationary wage claims.
He embarked on a disastrous attempt to curb the unions' industrial muscle, with even less success than Barbara Castle in the previous Labour government, and he made the particular mistake of taking on the miners.
Sir Edward was an imperious man with a brusque, brook-no-argument manner.
That was as true in private meetings of the cabinet as in public meetings with other politicians, or even in social circumstances where he exhibited the diplomatic skills of a diplodocus.
The TUC leader of those days, Vic Feather, remarked that he "treats his ministers not as the headmaster treats his staff, but as the headmaster treats his sixth form".
This mistaken sense of being in the right was what led him, with the country riven by inflation and industrial strife, to call the February 1974 election on the question of "Who Runs Britain?"
When Labour won more seats than the Tories and Sir Edward failed to patch together a coalition with the Liberals, Harold Wilson got a second term at the head of a minority government.
When that became an overall Labour majority in October of the same year, Sir Edward was finished.
He lost two general elections and then the party leadership as a consequence primarily of ineptitude, but it was also the end of an era for the Conservatives, as Margaret Thatcher's election to succeed him demonstrated so dramatically in 1975.
"We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament" - October 1970 to the Conservative Party conference
"I am not a product of privilege. I am a product of opportunity" - 1974
"You mustn't expect prime ministers to enjoy themselves. If they do, they mustn't show it - the population would be horrified" - November, 1976
"Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement" - 1992
Profile of Sir Edward Heath
As the Conservatives moved into a more modern world than that exemplified by Sir Edward's post-war predecessors, Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Macmillan, Anthony Eden and Sir Winston Churchill, so it rejected the age of deference and unquestioning loyalty to the leader whoever it might be.
Sir Edward lost the leadership because of a complacency that hinted at arrogance and because his ineptitude meant he had lost the loyalty of the MPs on whom he depended for re-election.
Nothing of his record in the following 26 years in which he remained in public life is much to his credit.
He was an ever-present bulwark on the Commons back benches, a personal testimony to the principle of being a bad loser.
I was among the journalists he would invite to dinner at his home in Salisbury or at party conferences in order to annoy and embarrass Baroness Thatcher, showing the extent to which he revelled in repudiating her.
I sat next to him more than once and found him amiable in a rather chilly fashion. I was told by an aide that he rather liked me which was mildly alarming and made me somewhat unusual.
I can't say I reciprocated, but I feel sorry for him now.
Ten years after his death, his party has changed beyond recognition.
Little remains of his political approach - although others, Sir John Major and David Cameron, have laid claim to the One Nation philosophy.
British membership of Europe will be his lasting political testament.
It is David Cameron's responsibility now to deliver an answer to the question of whether that will be a legacy that lasts.
There are currently three in the county at Bournemouth, Poole and Weymouth.
Harbour View Crematorium is expected to open in the Purbecks in the autumn to relieve demand at Poole Crematorium.
Poole, which was built in the mid-1980s to alleviate pressure in Bournemouth, was 22 out of 281 in the UK last year in terms of demand, according to the Cremation Society.
It carried out 2,610 cremations in 2016.
Bournemouth came fifth with 3,300, while Weymouth was at 177 with 1,362 cremations.
The 70-acre (28-hectare) crematorium site at Harbour View includes an underground crematory, burial ground and chapel - to accommodate 100 people.
"Poole Crematorium opened in 1985 to assist with pressure on Bournemouth and now Poole needs assistance," said Steven Tapper, joint managing director at Tapper Funeral Service, which is developing the new site.
"Harbour View will take the pressure off Poole to enable it to offer more to residual families."
Poole Crematorium has not yet responded to a BBC request for comment.
Weymouth does not have as high demand due to a lower population in that area, he added.
Plans for Harbour View, which will service the Isle of Purbeck, central Dorset, including Blandford, and south-west Poole, were approved by Purbeck District Council last year.
The decision on whether to raise or cut rates is rarely simple. But it is especially tricky given that for almost seven years official rates in both countries have been so close to zero as makes no difference.
What matters is that there has never been any time in recorded history when the cost of money has been so cheap for so long.
And although in theory it should be seen as good news when rates rise, because it means that the central banks (who are after all paid well to know about these things) judge that our economies are getting back to health, we can't know for sure whether turning off life support is just what the doctor ordered, or will cause palpitations and even a cardiac arrest.
Which is why it is both a privilege and a heavy responsibility for Janet Yellen and her colleagues on the Fed's Open Market Committee to decide over the next couple of days whether or not to announce on Thursday that the era of almost free money is officially over.
For what it's worth, markets are betting that the Fed will delay a bit longer - because of uncertainties about the impact on the US economy of the pronounced economic slowdown in China and emerging economies.
But the Fed might, per contra, decide that what matters more is the relatively robust performance of the US economy - where jobs are being created at a relatively healthy rate, unemployment has nudged down to 5.1%, business investment is strong and growth estimates have been revised up.
They could conclude that, after months of warning that rates are to rise soon, if they delay any longer they will be trapped in some interminable monetary version of Beckett's Waiting for Godot - till they too are seen to be as ridiculous and hopeless as Vladimir and Estragon.
But if the Fed's members are indecisive, it is difficult not to sympathise.
In the opaque globalised financial world, they know that all sorts of bubbles and market distortions have been created and pumped up by the steroids of super-cheap dollar debt - but they can't be certain of the scale or even the precise location of these unhealthy imbalances.
The point is that because the dollar is the world's currency in a way that is true of no other, when US interest rates are low, companies, governments and even individuals have a huge incentive to borrow big sums in dollars.
This has indeed come to pass. Earlier this week the Bank for International Settlements, the central bankers' central bank, warned that the total amount of dollar loans to borrowers other than banks outside the US had risen since the beginning of 2009 by more than 50% to $9.6tn.
That is a huge amount of cheap credit poured into economies all over the world. It has fuelled investment by businesses. It has been used to buy properties and shares. And it has spurred growth and significant - perhaps excessive - rises in the price of assets.
And of this $9.6tn, more than $3tn had been borrowed by companies and other institutions in emerging economies.
So here is the vice squeezing the half of the global economy represented by emerging economies.
On the one hand, the fall in commodity prices and the slowdown in China is undermining their growth. On the other, the cost of servicing their dollar-denominated debts is rising, because the dollar is strengthening on the expectation that interest rates will rise.
And more than that, the tap of cheap dollar funding is gradually being turned off, which means that the flow of money to these economies has been cut - and by more than just the value of reduced dollar lending, because dollar loans often sit on balance sheets and in banks, and are used to make additional local-currency loans.
Here is the thing.
Even if the Fed has been shouting to the world that rates will rise soon, it cannot be certain that evasive prophylactic action has been taken from Brazil, to Turkey, South Africa and Malaysia. Accidents will happen on the fateful day that the target for Fed Funds rate is lifted, if only by a smidgeon.
And there is no market oracle who can be wholly confident these accidents will be small whoopsies rather than clanging calamities.
One more thing - psychology matters.
As Haldane of the Bank of England has pointed out, we all still bear the emotional scars of the 2008 financial and economic catastrophe.
Who knows quite how anxious we will feel when confronted with the harsh reality that interest rates can rise as well as fall?
The tally represents nearly 30% of winners in the 24 men's and women's races.
Last week the newspaper - along with German broadcaster ARD - revealed details from a leak of 12,000 blood test results from 5,000 athletes.
The latest revelations focus on what the Sunday Times calls "the alarming extent of suspected cheating by elite athletes in the six mass public marathons around the world."
London, Boston, Chicago, New York, Berlin and Tokyo are the races to which they refer.
Based on "an expert analysis", the newspaper claims:
The files belong to world governing body the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), but have been leaked by a whistle-blower.
London Marathon chief executive Nick Bitel said the IAAF has agreed to increase out-of-competition tests for athletes at the world's six major marathons, but criticised the organisation.
"We are disappointed when we have been doing more than anyone to fight doping in our sport," Bitel told BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek.
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"This is about the IAAF's failure to take effective action."
Two of the world's "foremost anti-doping experts", scientists Robin Parisotto and Michael Ashenden, have reviewed the data.
According to them, a third of the medals claimed in endurance events at World Championships and Olympics were won by athletes with abnormal or suspicious blood tests. It is claimed none of these athletes have been stripped of their medals. Parisotto said he had never seen such an abnormal set of blood values.
"So many athletes appear to have doped with impunity, and it is damning that the IAAF appears to have idly sat by and let this happen," he said.
The evidence is not proof of doping, but the revelations will raise more serious questions over whether the sport is doing enough to combat cheating ahead of the World Athletics Championships in Beijing later this month.
On Friday the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) announced that it would launch an "urgent" investigation into the allegations. The IAAF has agreed to hand its full database - seen by the BBC - to the anti-doping body.
In a statement, it said: "In sharing what we believe to be the database in question with the Independent Commission formed by Wada, the IAAF is comfortable that an independent, impartial assessment of the data and the follow-up action by the IAAF will now be made by the competent authority."
This week, the IAAF is set to strip a number of athletes of medals won over the last decade, the BBC understands. This retrospective action - or "delayed justice" - will be a result of the re-testing of old samples and analysis of blood passports.
However, the IAAF has condemned the leak, and insists that the two experts had "no knowledge whatsoever of the actions taken by the IAAF in following these suspicious profiles" and that their analysis "contains a number of seriously incorrect assertions".
It added: "Of most concern to us is that the two scientists continue to defend their statements that the IAAF did nothing to act on 'suspicious profiles'.
"If these scientists have evidence that the IAAF did not follow up suspicious samples, then they should immediately make this available to the Wada Commission.
"If they do not have evidence, then we urge that they refrain from making assertions of wrongdoing."
The IAAF also said that Ashenden and Parisotto "conveniently ignore the fact that more than 60 athletes have been sanctioned on the basis of abnormal blood values collected after 2009, and these athletes accrued 140 notable international medals, three world records, six world marathon majors wins, 13 other big city marathon wins before they were exposed by the IAAF as cheats".
The IAAF said that before the introduction in 2009 of the biological passport to monitor blood values, its testers had "systematically pursued" all results that were deemed "atypical" with immediate urine tests for EPO and then target-tested those athletes in and out of competition.
"We condemn the fact that two experienced scientists were naive enough to place themselves in a situation where their analysis of incomplete data is being used against athletes in the public domain," it said.
Since the introduction of the passport, the IAAF says it has "pursued more cases under the passport system than all other anti-doping organisations together", and is spending $2m a year on combating cheating. "As a percentage of overall annual budget this is the highest of any sport," it added.
There can be various reasons for abnormal blood samples other than performance-enhancing drugs. Illness, altitude training and pregnancy can all influence values.
The Sunday Times reports that eight British athletes - including Mo Farah and Jo Pavey - have published their blood test data "to show they are clean" with results falling within the normal expected range.
"I'm happy to do what it takes to prove I'm a clean athlete," said double Olympic champion Farah. "The decision to release my results is a personal one."
Pavey said: "It's nice to get it [her blood data] out there, as a clean athlete I've got no reason not to."
UK Athletics said it was "counselling caution" to athletes because "full transparency requires release of all of an athlete's testing history rather than incomplete data that has the possibility of being open to misinterpretation."
It added: "Athletes that have chosen to allow their results to be published have in many cases asked for guidance before agreeing to do so, in order to be better informed of any risks involved."
UK Anti-Doping said it has a "robust" Athlete Biological Passport system in place and is "confident" in its procedures.
On Friday a former winner of the London Marathon was stripped of her title for doping.
Russian Liliya Shobukhova, who won in 2010 and was runner-up in 2011, has had her results since 2009 annulled. The Sunday Times claims that she recorded "extreme blood scores" for nine years before the athletics authorities finally took action against her in 2014, and that marathon organisers were not told about the scores.
The show, which was a hit 2003 film starring Jack Black, is about a wannabe rock star who poses as a teacher, forming a band with his students to enter a music contest.
The Guardian said the musical had "lost its mojo" and was "innocuous".
The Hollywood Reporter, however, described it as a "crowd-pleaser".
"In terms of screen-to-stage remakes, this is neither the most imaginative nor the most pedestrian of them, falling somewhere in the respectable midrange," it said, praising the children in the show as "junior dynamos", adding: "The kids get the show's most poignant moments".
The New York Times said the musical would rejuvenate Lord Lloyd-Webber's career, saying while it was "unlikely" to restore him to the heights of Evita and Phantom of the Opera, it was his "friskiest in decades".
Speaking to the BBC, Lord Lloyd Webber insisted: "We've had some rave reviews here - neither Cats or Phantom did anything like this. The reviews here are ninety percent positive, it's the best set of reviews I've ever heard in America by far.
"I'd forgotten what it was to have a night like that in New York, I haven't had one like that for a long time."
The Guardian also praised the show's youngsters, saying: " The children are universally adorable and several of them are staggeringly accomplished musicians. It is an absolute treat to hear them."
But the newspaper was not entirely complimentary about Lord Lloyd-Webber or Lord Fellowes and his co-writer Glenn Slater.
"Lloyd Webber knows how to do this. Or he used to," it said. "Jesus Christ Superstar, for all its 70s noodling, remains a quintessential rock musical. Here any hard electric edges have been sanded away. Slater's lyrics are serviceable as is Fellowes's book, though it would be helped by more of his cutting wit."
Variety was more positive, saying it was an exuberant feel-good musical, praising Alex Brightman's "appealing brand of scruffy charm as [teacher] Dewey Finn", ending its review by saying: "Rock on, kids, rock on."
Lord Lloyd Webber said: "The universal feeling is that Alex has absolutely nailed it, he's just phenomenal, he's just a fantastic rock tenor, a great comedian but also brings great pathos to it as well.
"It's got a real message that, quite simply, music has the power to transforms peoples lives."
According to the LA Times, the show was "saved by the students" because it "squeaks by with the lowest of passing grades, but each and every young actor in the cast deserves to be on Broadway's honour role".
"'Rock' is surprisingly easy to swallow, in large part because everyone involved seems to be having such a fine time," it said.
Lord Lloyd-Webber announced after the show's opening that it is opening at the London Palladium in autumn 2016. Dates for the West End run will be confirmed in the New Year.
He said: "I am thrilled to announce that we are confirming a West End production of School of Rock - The Musical. We have had such a great time in the US staging the world premiere and now that we have opened on Broadway, I am delighted to be focusing on the next chapter in the show's journey."
The composer added that a National Company of School of Rock - The Musical will launch a US Tour in the autumn of 2017, playing coast-to-coast engagements across the US.
The monument, taken down in front of cheering protesters, will be stored for "safe keeping", UCT's council said.
Students have been campaigning for the removal of the statue of the 19th Century figure, unveiled in 1934.
Other monuments to colonial-era leaders have also been the target of protest in South Africa.
The BBC's Mohammed Allie told Focus On Africa radio that there was a "festive atmosphere" as students, academics, members of political parties and ordinary Cape Town residents came to witness a "historic moment for South Africa".
The crowd cheered as the statue was being lifted of its plinth. Once it was removed some students jumped on it and started hitting it with wooden sticks and covering the face with plastic.
At the scene: BBC's Mohammed Allie
When the crane removed the Cecil Rhodes statue, it was a huge victory for black South Africans fed up with a lack of education and job opportunities more than 20 years after apartheid ended.
"We finally got the white man to sit down and listen to us," said a student who had campaigned for it to be taken down. Some were chanting "one settler; one bullet" - a sign that anger could boil over if the lives of black people do not improve.
There was a mixed crowd watching - with many white academics and students also supporting its removal.
But the whole affair serves as a wake-up call to South Africans to tackle racial inequality. People point to the fact that at the University of Cape Town there are only five black South African-born professors.
Why South Africa should keep the statue
Rhodes - a controversial figure
Five other removed statues
The "Rhodes Must Fall" campaign began in March after activist Chumani Maxwele smeared excrement on the statue as a protest against Rhodes' racism and its legacy at UCT.
The protesters said that the statue had "great symbolic power" which glorified someone "who exploited black labour and stole land from indigenous people".
For the latest news, views and analysis see the BBC Africa Live page.
The campaign led to the university's 30-member council voting on Wednesday for the statue's removal.
The council defended the decision saying it had canvassed the views of students, academic staff, alumni and the public before coming to a conclusion.
"This is exactly how a university should work and we believe is an example to the country in dealing with heritage issues," it added.
The campaign has triggered attacks on other statues around the country seen as representing South Africa's racist past.
But it has also led to a backlash with some white South Africans rallying to protect the statues of the 19th Century president Paul Kruger in the capital Pretoria, and 17th Century colonialist Jan van Riebeeck in Cape Town.
Kruger, a contemporary of Rhodes, was an Afrikaner leader known for his opposition to the British in South Africa. Van Riebeeck was a Dutch coloniser who arrived in South Africa on 5 April 1652.
South Africa's leftwing Economic Freedom Fighters party has backed the campaign to remove the statues.
Government officials have condemned the attacks on statues, and say a decision on their future will be taken only after consulting all groups.
The East Lancashire Railway, which operates as a charity, is working to restore Bury Bolton Street Station, in Greater Manchester.
The money was paid in advance to Paperlinx, which was supplying roof glazing for a Victorian-style canopy.
However, the firm is now under the control of administrators Deloitte.
Deloitte said in a statement: "The administrators are looking into this payment and will report directly to the charity when they are able to provide an update."
The railway's general manager Andy Morris said "We're absolutely devastated by what's happened and we're still struggling to come to terms with what this will ultimately mean for the future of the canopy project.
"The sum of money involved is very substantial for a charity such as ours and it is particularly upsetting bearing in mind the funds were raised through donations and other benefaction.
"We shall be taking legal advice about what rights we have in circumstances such as this but at the moment it doesn't look very encouraging."
The East Lancashire Railway operated from 1844 to 1859 across the county.
A section of the original line between Bury and Rawtenstall, Lancashire, is now operated as a heritage railway, supported by a network of volunteers.
Chief executive Ross McEwan said the vote had been "a real hit to the bank" and would affect the government's sale of its remaining shares in the bank.
He said: "This will be a setback, let's be honest. I think at least a couple of years it will be pushed back."
RBS is still 73% owned by taxpayers after being bailed out eight years ago.
Speaking to LBC radio in London, Mr McEwan also reiterated that RBS would move its registered headquarters from Edinburgh, if Scotland votes to leave the UK in a second independence referendum.
But he added that it was effectively about "moving the plaque rather than any of our people".
RBS currently has 12,000 staff working north of the border.
After last month's EU referendum, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said a second independence vote was "highly likely".
Mr McEwan said it would be "interesting to see what Scotland do".
He said: "We'll work with the government up there. We've already had conversations with them about how you create certainty in these times. And we will be positioned to look after customers no matter what happens."
Mr McEwan said if Scotland was to vote for independence, there would have to be a split of the bank between customers in Scotland and those with its NatWest brand in the rest of the UK.
He indicated that the bank would be "ready with plans" should another independence referendum take place.
Mr McEwan said before the first referendum in 2014 that RBS would relocate its registered headquarters to London if Scotland voted to leave the UK.
He also said there was no intention to move operations or jobs.
Most of the money will help farmers deal with a cash crisis by cancelling or deferring tax payments. But some of the money will help restructure debts.
Farmers said they would assess the plan but several routes remain blocked.
They accuse supermarkets and the food industry of keeping prices low, forcing many of them into bankruptcy.
One farmers' union leader in Normandy called for the blockade around Caen to be suspended. But key road bridges in the region remained closed to traffic on Wednesday evening and elsewhere the government's intervention appeared to fall on deaf ears.
In the Loire Valley, some 100 protesters lifted their blockade near Chambord castle, but a union official said it was not because they were happy with the government's offer.
Farmers said they would blockade access to France's second city, Lyon, from Wednesday evening. More action was expected further south around Clermont-Ferrand on Thursday.
Traffic on the A1 motorway outside Lille in northern France was hit by protests from early on Wednesday.
In Brittany, some 200 farmers attacked a supermarket in Lannion late on Tuesday night, dumping manure at the entrance and setting alight to tyres.
Xavier Beulin of the FNSEA union said ministers were at least moving in the right direction.
"We've just accepted measures for Greece; I reckon we can do something for French farmers," Mr Beulin said, equating his members' struggle with the eurozone debt crisis.
Mr Beulin had earlier accused the government of adopting only "trivial measures", warning there was "a sort of exasperation and anger that's been escalating for weeks. This hasn't come out of nowhere".
Announcing a 24-point plan, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said:
"The demonstrations of the past days reflect the anguish and distress that we have seen for some time. We want to respond to this anguish," the prime minister said.
The Socialist government estimates that 10% of French farms could be facing bankruptcy.
Last month, ministers pushed the food industry to raise the prices paid to farms but Mr Foll said last week that pork producers were still being paid below the target price of €1.40 (£1) per kilo.
Dairy farmers say they are being paid €300 per tonne of milk and need at least €340 to break even.
"I solemnly call on industry and major suppliers to respect the increase in prices that they committed themselves to. There cannot be a frantic rush to low prices," Mr Valls told reporters.
Supermarkets and suppliers are being blamed for not passing on the recent price rises on meat and dairy products. But prices have been pushed down by foreign competition and reduced meat consumption.
A Russian ban on EU food imports and reduced Chinese demand have added to the problems.
A former deputy prime minister who became a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin, Nemtsov was shot dead in February 2015 just a few hundred metres from the Kremlin.
The defendants - all Chechens - were allegedly promised cash to kill him. All deny the charges.
His relatives fear whoever ordered the killing will never be found.
Nemtsov, who was 55, served as first deputy prime minister under President Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s.
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Profile of a fierce Putin critic
But after falling out of favour with Yeltsin's successor, Mr Putin, he became an outspoken opposition politician, attacking the government over the economy, corruption and its involvement in Ukraine's war.
On what was to be his last night alive he had been on a liberal radio station, calling on listeners to join a protest rally at the weekend.
He was shot in the back late at night crossing a bridge next to the Kremlin, Russia's parliament building, where he died on the spot.
The site is still marked with flowers in his memory.
President Putin called the murder "vile and cynical" and vowed that those responsible would be held to account.
The accused are said to have had Nemtsov under surveillance for months.
Russia has seen several killings of high-profile politicians and journalists.
But the country has a long history of prosecuting alleged hit-men and then failing to follow the chain of command upwards to discover who ordered the murder or why, our Moscow correspondent Sarah Rainsford says.
Isaiah Brown's first-half goal handed the division's bottom side just their second three points of the season.
The breakthrough came in the 24th-minute when Brown, a Chelsea loanee, collected Danny Ward's ball to surge through the QPR defence and fire home.
Millers' goalkeeper Lewis Price kept his side ahead, before Joe Newell should have killed the game off.
Rotherham's first victory in 112 days moves them to within eight points of Wigan, and 10 points off safety.
It was a thoroughly deserved win for caretaker boss Paul Warne's side as they created a host of chances and kept only their second clean sheet of the season.
Ian Holloway's QPR, who have now won just one of their last seven league matches in the Championship, fall to 18th place in the table and sit just three points off the drop zone.
Rotherham caretaker manager Paul Warne: "It's a better feeling, winning. For them to win gives me great pride, they left nothing on there, they should be proud of themselves.
"They are buzzing like we have won a cup final. I want good, proper, football players and they are a group of lads that have got a bit closer and I think that was shown in the performance.
"I think you could see at the final whistle how much it meant to everyone.
"It would have helped my heart rate no end if we would have got a second but it was nice to get the win."
QPR manager Ian Holloway: "It is very, very disappointing, but we have to take the positives.
"A goal has changed the course of the game, it gave them a lift and they held on to it far easier than I would have liked. I saw too many shoulders drop.
"It's early days to get what I want, unfortunately it's not going for them.
"When I look back at that I can't believe we didn't take a point. I am far more encouraged than I ever have been, I believe in what we are doing, these results are impostors."
Match ends, Rotherham United 1, Queens Park Rangers 0.
Second Half ends, Rotherham United 1, Queens Park Rangers 0.
Attempt missed. Sebastian Polter (Queens Park Rangers) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Massimo Luongo.
Substitution, Rotherham United. Stephen Kelly replaces Joe Newell.
Jake Bidwell (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lee Frecklington (Rotherham United).
Substitution, Queens Park Rangers. Pawel Wszolek replaces Tjaronn Chery.
Corner, Rotherham United. Conceded by Nedum Onuoha.
Attempt blocked. Jon Taylor (Rotherham United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Anthony Forde.
Attempt saved. Joe Newell (Rotherham United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Danny Ward.
Anthony Forde (Rotherham United) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Massimo Luongo (Queens Park Rangers).
Will Vaulks (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Rotherham United. Jon Taylor replaces Isaiah Brown because of an injury.
Substitution, Rotherham United. Will Vaulks replaces Tom Adeyemi because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Anthony Forde (Rotherham United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lee Frecklington.
Lee Frecklington (Rotherham United) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt saved. Richard Wood (Rotherham United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Anthony Forde with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Richard Wood (Rotherham United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Anthony Forde with a cross.
Corner, Rotherham United. Conceded by Alex Smithies.
Attempt saved. Joe Newell (Rotherham United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Anthony Forde.
Foul by Tjaronn Chery (Queens Park Rangers).
Lee Frecklington (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Joe Newell (Rotherham United) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is too high.
Danny Ward (Rotherham United) hits the left post with a left footed shot from the left side of the box. Assisted by Isaiah Brown.
Foul by Grant Hall (Queens Park Rangers).
Danny Ward (Rotherham United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Danny Ward (Rotherham United) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Lee Frecklington.
Sebastian Polter (Queens Park Rangers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Sebastian Polter (Queens Park Rangers).
Darnell Fisher (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Queens Park Rangers. Ben Gladwin replaces Sandro.
Corner, Queens Park Rangers. Conceded by Richard Wood.
Attempt blocked. Tjaronn Chery (Queens Park Rangers) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jordan Cousins.
Attempt blocked. Tjaronn Chery (Queens Park Rangers) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jordan Cousins.
Joel Lynch (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Ward (Rotherham United).
Attempt missed. Richard Wood (Rotherham United) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Anthony Forde with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Rotherham United. Conceded by Sandro.
Corner, Rotherham United. Conceded by Jake Bidwell.
The AH-64 Apache helicopter went down on Monday night on a road in Wonju, 50 miles (80km) east of the US Camp Humphrey's base, said the US Army.
The Army has not identified the dead crew members, but said they were both pilots - no other casualties or damage were reported.
The US has about 29,000 troops in South Korea under a security deal.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency said the cause of the crash was being investigated, but that officials believe it may have hit power lines.
Most decided to hold their fire when confronted by a home secretary armed with a weighty and complex set of powers. But there are likely to be further skirmishes as parliament considers the details of her proposals.
Theresa May's central argument is that the powers of the police and intelligence agencies need to be updated for the digital age, when criminals and terrorists are finding new means of communication.
The most contentious issue is who should authorise the interception of communications.
Her plan for the home secretary to approve warrants but then to require the approval of a judge seems to have appeased many of her critics. But there are still big concerns over the demand for internet companies to keep a record of which websites we use, even though they won't retain more details of our internet use.
The shadow home secretary Andy Burnham set the tone of the debate when he urged MPs to send a unified message that the proposals were "neither a snoopers' charter nor a plan for mass surveillance".
He said Theresa May had broadly got the balance right but there would be fears in Muslim communities that the powers could be used disproportionately.
Some of the home secretary's most dangerous critics are on her own side. David Davis, a former shadow home secretary, said the bill was a step in the right direction.
But he questioned who would appoint the judges who would sign the intercept warrants and raised concerns about the bulk retention of data.
One of Mrs May's former colleagues, the ex-Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson, had very different concerns.
Mr Paterson, who signed warrants when he was in office, said he believed such decisions should be taken by elected politicians and feared involving a judge would mean delays and complications on urgent cases.
The former Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg helped to kill off a previous bill which he called the "snoopers' charter" when he was in coalition with the Tories.
He said today's proposals were "much improved", but warned: "I have a feeling under the bonnet it still retains some of the flaws of its predecessor."
This is a draft bill and now faces detailed consideration in the Lords as well as the Commons. The home secretary is braced for further challenges but will be hugely relieved to have got through this critical session in the House largely unscathed.
The 31-year-old has played a bit-part role for United this season, coming on as a last-minute substitute in the Europa League final triumph over Ajax.
"There's lots of offers on the table, both in England and abroad," he said.
But United's all-time leading scorer with 253 goals said he would only move to former club Everton if he stayed in the Premier League.
It is understood Rooney does not want the issue to drag on until the final day of the transfer window on 31 August, and he will go away with his family to discuss and decide on his next course of action.
Rooney has ruled out playing for any other Premier League side apart from Everton, while Toffees manager Ronald Koeman and director of football Steve Walsh have both said publicly this season they would be interested in the player should he become available.
Rooney joined the Old Trafford club for £27m in 2004 and has gone on to play more than 550 games, breaking Sir Bobby Charlton's 44-year goalscoring record this season.
But he has only started 15 league games this term and failed to play in the EFL Cup final victory over Southampton at Wembley.
He is also England's all-time leading scorer with 53 goals, but has been left out of Gareth Southgate's latest squad for the World Cup qualifier against Scotland on 10 June and the friendly against France three days later.
"Of course you want to play," said Rooney. "You want to be on the pitch. I think a younger me would have been a lot more frustrated. I think I understand what's right and what's needed for the club, and I respect that.
"Obviously I am happy to be part of that [Europa League win] and in some way help the club win trophies, and that is the way it's been over the last 18 months and last year.
"That is a decision I have to make now, whether I want to continue doing that or go on and play more regular football."
BBC Sport's Simon Stone looks at the player's options:
As with John Terry at Chelsea, Rooney appears to have slowly been eased out of the first-team, without there being one single pressure point that signalled a change in Mourinho's thinking.
It felt like a poignant moment when Rooney waved to both ends of Old Trafford as he was given a standing ovation after being substituted two minutes from the end of Manchester United's final game of the Premier League season on Saturday.
Then, on an emotional night in Stockholm, he came on as a 90th-minute substitute to rapturous applause and was front and centre in the celebrations that followed United's Europa League final victory over Ajax. Was this really a final goodbye for the club's record goalscorer?
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Rooney announced in August 2016 that the 2018 World Cup would be his last international tournament - England are well placed to qualify, being four points clear at the top of the group having played half of their 10 games.
Already England's highest goalscorer, with 53, and most-capped outfield player with 119, if Rooney can force his way back into Southgate's plans for the finals in Russia, he would almost certainly eclipse Peter Shilton's overall record of 125 appearances.
In addition, he would become the first England international to have played at four World Cups and the first to have played in seven major tournaments.
Rooney is aware of the milestone and, having committed so much time to his England career since making his debut against Australia in February 2003, it would not be dismissed lightly.
But, after Southgate did not pick Rooney for the World Cup qualifier with Slovenia in October, he dropped the striker altogether for the matches against Lithuania and Germany in March.
So does this latest omission now take the England dimension out of Rooney's thinking altogether?
Rooney remains available for England and does not feel he has a right to be picked. And the international door cannot be regarded as completely closed yet.
Rooney only played one game between 1 February and 1 April because of injury. And Southgate has already shown that age is no barrier - he picked striker Jermain Defoe, who is three years older than the Manchester United man and had not played for England since November 2013, back in March.
Evidently, to be considered for selection, Rooney must be playing regularly and in form - according to Southgate, certainly more than just five starts in games with little at stake but pride.
It is also worth noting that the only player to play for England whilst being at a club outside Europe is David Beckham, who played 14 times between August 2007 and October 2009 while being at Major League Soccer outfit LA Galaxy and a further five times in 2009 when on loan from the Galaxy to AC Milan.
Beckham never played in a major tournament during his time with the Galaxy as England failed to qualify for Euro 2008 and he was ruled out of the 2010 World Cup after rupturing his Achilles tendon.
At the start of the season, United boss Jose Mourinho talked up Rooney as "my man", saying "the best is yet to come" from his captain. And immediately after the Ajax victory Mourinho was still insisting he would be "happy" for a "very important" Rooney to stay next season.
Rooney, 31, finished the campaign with a run of five Premier League starts - yet this was the first time since the very start of the season.
And that run of games came with Mourinho calling them "just matches we do not want to play" as he publically prioritised the Europa League campaign.
Before the Europa League semi-final against Celta Vigo at Old Trafford, it was interesting to see Rooney appear at the press conference.
Both club and player knew he would be asked about his future at United, with each side knowing the answer needed to be a political one to avoid the potential for negative headlines.
Rooney's answers were largely neutral. When pushed, he did say his preference would be to stay at United and play for them, but, under the circumstances, it would be difficult for him to suggest anything else.
Rooney accepts he is not going to start every game and moving on is not straightforward. It would be a wrench for him to leave a club he joined as a teenager in 2004.
He still has two seasons left on a contract worth £13m-a-year - which is difficult to see any club outside the top six in England matching, or even getting close.
Other than Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich, the same is also true on mainland Europe, while in the US - another suggested destination - the highest paid player in Major League Soccer is Brazilian forward Kaka, who earns $7.167m (£5.51m).
That's less of an issue for clubs in the Chinese Super League - according to documents released recently by Football Leaks, Argentina's Ezequiel Lavezzi is the game's biggest earner, on a wage of £798,000-a-week - £41.5m-a-year - at Hebei China Fortune. But even Chinese clubs are starting to reign in their spending.
From those figures, any move away from Old Trafford for Rooney, other than to China, could get complicated and raise the potential for United having to pay part of his contract to make a deal financially viable.
Rooney's long-time adviser Paul Stretford held talks with Chinese Super League club Tianjin Quanjian earlier in the season.
He travelled to China, where he has business interests through his Red Lantern digital media company, which has an office in Beijing, to see if he could complete a transfer prior to the Chinese Super League transfer deadline closing on 28 February.
Nothing could be concluded, but it is understood interest in signing Rooney in China is strong due to his high-profile and huge commercial value.
Chinese Super League clubs are allowed to pick three overseas players in their matchday squads, although they are allowed to sign four.
Currently, the only two clubs who do not have four overseas players are Jiangsu Suning, who have the same owners as Inter Milan, and Liaoning Whowin.
Is this realistic though for both parties? Rooney would potentially be the only Englishman in the league, far from home and China is introducing new rules discouraging spending on high-profile stars when their summer transfer window opens on 19 June.
Though they live in an exclusive part of Cheshire, Rooney and wife Coleen retain strong links to their Liverpool roots.
Their three children were born in the city, both sets of parents and extended family still live there. Leaving, undoubtedly, would be a wrench.
The MLS has worked for former England team-mates Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard, as well as Ashley Cole, who still plays for LA Galaxy. Former United team-mate Bastian Schweinsteiger is playing well for Chicago Fire, although the money is a lot less.
There are eight MLS teams who currently have space in their three-man 'Designated Player' roster.
Galaxy, whose big spending included the arrival of David Beckham, were prepared to make changes to their squad during the summer transfer window so they could sign Zlatan Ibrahimovic from Manchester United and make him the highest-paid player in MLS history.
However, it is understood they have no interest in signing Rooney as an alternative to the Swede, who will miss the remainder of the year after rupturing cruciate ligaments.
In June 2016, when Rooney announced a planned testimonial against his only other professional club - and the one he supported as a boy - Everton, Rooney made a significant statement.
He said: "Manchester United and Everton are the only clubs I have played for as a professional footballer. I am happy to say now that, whatever may happen in the future, I will never play for another Premier League club."
Rooney has never gone back on those words - and there has been no indication from anyone close to him that the position has changed.
But if he was drafting a testimonial statement now, would it be so definitive?
When he issued the statement, Rooney had come back from injury to start United's final eight games of the season, including the FA Cup final and semi-final, and was about to captain England at Euro 2016.
At that point there was no reason to believe he would be looking at moving - to Everton or anywhere else - until after the 2018 World Cup at the earliest.
Mourinho has said of Rooney, and other players, that he would not prevent him leaving United if that was what he wanted.
In February, manager Ronald Koeman said Rooney "would be welcome" at Everton.
Rooney remains one of the most marketable players in the game and his presence at Goodison Park would help open commercial doors Everton's ambitious owner Farhad Moshiri knows would be useful in his attempts to gatecrash the current top six.
Equally though, Koeman may not see the same value in signing a player who will be 32 in October and has been through so many demanding seasons at the highest level for club and country since making the last of his 77 Everton appearances against Manchester City in May 2004.
By sticking with his 'no-one but United and Everton in the Premier League' stance, Rooney would be closing off the likes of West Ham, West Brom and Stoke who have either bought experienced players to further their cause in the past, or have managers who are adept at doing so.
"I've got decisions to make now over the next few weeks, have a word with my family, and then I'll decide," Rooney said in the aftermath of Wednesday's Europa League final. "I think I just have to make a decision in terms of a football decision, and that's what I'll do."
The tourists will play three T20 internationals from 17-22 February.
Malinga, 33, has not played a competitive game since February 2016 when a knee injury ruled him out of the following month's World Twenty20.
He returned to training in September but suffered further setbacks.
A bout of dengue fever scuppered hopes that he might return for the limited-overs leg of Sri Lanka's recent tour of South Africa.
With an idiosyncratic, slingy bowling action capable of delivering a devastating yorker, Malinga made a huge impression on the international scene after his 2004 debut.
He helped Sri Lanka reach the finals of the 2007 and 2011 World Cups, and 2009 and 2012 World T20s, although they were losing finalists on each occasion.
Malinga took over as Sri Lanka's Twenty20 captain midway through the 2014 World T20 in Bangladesh, and lifted the trophy after they beat India in the final, but he stepped down as skipper last March.
He retired from Test cricket in 2011, citing a "long-standing degenerative condition" which left his right knee unable to stand up to the rigours of five-day cricket.
With captain Angelo Mathews still injured, Upul Tharanga will continue to lead the Sri Lanka side down under.
Sri Lanka T20 squad for Australia: Upul Tharanga (capt), Niroshan Dickwella (wk), Asela Gunaratna, Chamara Kapugedara, Nuwan Kulasekara, Lasith Malinga, Kusal Mendis, Dilshan Munaweera, Sachith Pathirana, Seekkuge Prasanna, Lakshan Sandakan, Vikum Sanjaya, Dasun Shanaka, Milinda Siriwardana, Isuru Udana.
O'Sullivan capitalised on some sloppy play from the Welshman to reach the semi-finals at the York Barbican.
"It's probably the worst I've seen him play when I've played him and he's still hammered me 6-2," said Williams.
England's O'Sullivan will now face Hong Kong's Marco Fu, who came from 5-2 down to beat Wales' Jamie Jones.
Williams, 41, had kept the five-time world champion back to 2-2 on Friday, but O'Sullivan closed out the win by taking four frames in a row.
"I've been poor all through [the tournament] and I've just managed to scrape through," Williams, who won the UK Championship in 1999 and 2002, told BBC Radio Wales after progressing to the last eight for the first time since 2010.
"I wouldn't say he [O'Sullivan] was up to gear - but he was dreadful.
"I used to get surprised at how bad I play, but I'm not any more. I let the conditions get to me a little bit.
"You can't play that badly and just expect to get anywhere near anyone."
O'Sullivan, a UK Championship winner on five occasions, said he "had too much" for his opponent.
The 40-year-old added: "It wasn't the greatest of performances but you have to do what you have to do.
"I am sure my game will get stronger. I am a fighter and will keep fighting."
Matthew Williams attacked Cerys Yemm, 22, at the Sirhowy Arms Hotel, Argoed, on 6 November 2014.
Williams, 34, died after he was Tasered four times by police who arrested him.
Gwent Coroner's Court in Newport heard on Thursday that Tasers were not thought to have caused his cardiac arrest.
Two consultant cardiologists, in statements, said it was induced by amphetamines Williams used along with stress caused by the attack on Miss Yemm, the struggle with police and undiagnosed relapsed schizophrenia.
Consultant pathologist Dr Stephen Leadbeatter, who carried out his post mortem examination, told the inquest the barbs from the first Taser had struck Williams on his nose and chest.
The jury was told there were 17 "slash type" cuts on his left arm and on his neck caused by a sharp object which could have been self-inflicted.
Dr Leadbeatter said wounds on his hand suggested he could have been holding a sharp object, like a ceramic bowl.
He gave Williams' cause of death as "sudden unexpected death following a struggle against restraint including discharge of a Taser in a man with a history of schizophrenia who had taken amphetamine and cannabis".
The inquest continues.
The group of MPs is putting pressure on the government ahead of its new plan for preventing suicides, which is expected in the New Year.
The number of deaths by suicide was 4,820 in England in 2015 - part of a UK-wide figure of 6,188.
The committee said support needed to be more accessible to those at risk.
One bereaved mother who gave evidence to the committee said: "My son wasn't hard to reach, it was the services that were hard to reach."
Angela Samata's partner, Mark, took his own life thirteen years ago. She says there was no warning or hint of what he intended to do.
"One minute you are talking to them on the phone and the next minute you are never going to speak to them again. The shock of that, your head kind of tricks you into thinking this can't be real."
She now heads a national charity supporting those affected by suicide. "If there's one thing I've learnt, above all else, it's that you have to talk about this. It's really important to talk."
The group of MPs called for the NHS to "embrace innovative approaches" such as online services.
The MPs' report also said GPs needed more training in spotting people at risk of suicide and that there should be more support after patients are discharged from psychiatric services.
Dr Sarah Wollaston, the committee's chair, said: "4,820 people are recorded as having died by suicide in England last year, but the true figure is likely to be higher.
"Suicide is preventable and much more can and should be done to support those at risk."
The group of MPs also attacked "irresponsible" reporting of suicide by the media that leads to "copycat behaviour" by those at risk of taking their own lives.
The government's revised suicide prevention strategy is due to be published in January.
However, the committee said government needed to do better than last time as "the government's 2012 suicide prevention strategy has been characterised by inadequate leadership, poor accountability and insufficient action".
A Department of Health spokeswoman said: "Every death by suicide is a tragedy and devastating for families, friends and communities.
"We are investing almost £1bn in providing mental health support in A&E and home-based crisis care and are currently updating our suicide prevention strategy, which we are confident will address many of the issues raised by the committee."
Ruth Sutherland, the chief executive of the Samaritans, said: "People are continuing to die and suicide prevention is still not being prioritised.
"Every six seconds someone contacts Samaritans for help.
"This report should serve as a wake-up call to the Government and we are delighted that our request for a clear implementation programme has been included in this report."
Ian Hulatt, from the Royal College of Nursing, said: "Any suicide is a profound individual tragedy.
"The NHS has a duty towards individuals and the community to improve care for people with known mental health problems, as well as those who may be at risk of developing them."
Marjorie Wallace from the mental health charity SANE said: "We believe at least one in three suicides could and should be prevented, and it is unforgiveable that we allow people to be sent to a lonely and preventable death. One of the most marked findings of our own research is that people experience suicidal exhaustion; they are left with no more energy to fight the daily battle with mental ill-health, and this is only reinforced with the lack of care being offered.
"There are fewer and fewer safe places for patients to go, and the one-on-one relationships they crave have been taken away by the fragmentation and cuts to services."
The Royal College of Psychiatrists called for more investment in staffing, saying: "If there was liaison psychiatry service in every A&E department available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, it would significantly reduce the time it takes from assessment to the point of being seen and save lives - but we need the staff in order to achieve this."
Their study of 3.6 million residents near Heathrow Airport suggested the risks were 10-20% higher in areas with the highest levels of aircraft noise.
The team's findings are published in the British Medical Journal.
They agreed with other experts that noise was not necessarily to blame and more work was needed.
Their work suggests a higher risk for both hospital admissions and deaths from stroke, heart and circulatory disease for the 2% of the study - about 70,000 people - who lived where the aircraft noise was loudest.
The lead author, Dr Anna Hansell, from Imperial College London, said: "The exact role that noise exposure may play in ill health is not well established.
"However, it is plausible that it might be contributing - for example, by raising blood pressure or by disturbing people's sleep."
"There's a 'startle reaction' to loud noise - if you're suddenly exposed to it, the heart rate and blood pressure increase.
"And aircraft noise can be annoying for some people, which can also affect their blood pressure, leading to illness.
"The relative importance of daytime and night-time noise from aircraft also needs to be investigated further."
The study used data about noise levels in 2001 from the Civil Aviation Authority, covering 12 London boroughs and nine districts outside of London where aircraft noise exceeds 50 decibels - about the volume of a normal conversation in a quiet room.
The authors say fewer people are now affected by the highest levels of noise (above 63 decibels) - despite more planes being in the skies - because of changes in aircraft design and flight plans.
The researchers - from Imperial and also King's College London - adjusted their work in an effort to eliminate other factors that might have a relationship with stroke and heart disease, such as deprivation, South Asian ethnicity and smoking-related illness.
They stressed that the higher risk of illness related to aircraft noise remained much less significant than the risks from lifestyle factors - including smoking, a lack of exercise or poor diet.
In an accompanying editorial, Prof Stephen Stansfeld, from Queen Mary University of London, said: "These results imply that the siting of airports and consequent exposure to aircraft noise may have direct effects on the health of the surrounding population.
"Planners need to take this into account when expanding airports in heavily populated areas or planning new airports."
The study covered 12 London boroughs in the centre and west of the capital - and nine council districts beyond London, including Windsor and Maidenhead, Slough and Wokingham.
Heathrow Airport's director of sustainability, Matt Gorman, said: "We are already taking significant steps to tackle the issue of noise.
"We are charging airlines more for noisier aircraft, offering insulation and double glazing to local residents and are working with noise campaigners to give people predictable periods of respite from noise.
"Together these measures have meant that the number of people affected by noise has fallen by 90% since the 1970s, despite the number of flights almost doubling."
A government spokesman said: "The number of people affected by high levels of noise around Heathrow has been falling for years due to improvements in aviation technology, better planning of flight paths and other factors. We would expect to see this trend continue."
A separate study, also published on Wednesday in the BMJ, demonstrates a higher rate of admission to hospital with cardiovascular problems for people living near 89 airports in the US.
Prof Kevin McConway, from the Open University, said: "Both of these studies are thorough and well-conducted. But, even taken together, they don't prove that aircraft noise actually causes heart disease and strokes.
"A major difficulty in interpreting what these studies tell us is that they are based on data for geographical areas, not for individual people."
Over the coming months, Public Health England will recruit experts to further examine the public health issues around exposure to noise.
After losing 1-0 at home to relegation-threatened Colchester on Tuesday night, City are now eight points off the top six with just seven games left.
Mowbray is not happy with a goal total of only four in their last eight games.
"We want to get out of this division, but it doesn't look like it's going to be this year," 52-year-old Mowbray told BBC Coventry and Warwickshire.
"It's because of our inability to score goals at the moment, but we've got a lot of pride and we'll keep going."
Coventry made a strong start to the season and were top of the table at the end of November, but results have dropped away and a record of only three wins so far in 2016 has left City with an uphill battle to regain a top-six spot.
"It's frustrating and disappointing because it feels like it's petering out," added Mowbray. "The next two games against Gillingham and Wigan will have a spark about them and, if we don't have an edge we'll get found out. We haven't enough goals. One's never enough. If you don't score, obviously you're not going to win."
The Sky Blues should have 19-goal top scorer Adam Armstrong available for Saturday's tip to Gillingham after a two-game absence because of England Under-19 duty - but he is without a goal for the Sky Blues in six matches.
Christopher Laskaris was found at St John's Close in Hyde Park, Leeds, on 17 November.
A 37-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman, both from Leeds, have been arrested, West Yorkshire Police said.
Mr Laskaris' family said the 24-year-old, who was known as Adam to his friends, was a "deeply loved" son and brother.
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In a statement they said: "Losing him has broken our hearts and words cannot express our pain. He was 24 years old and his future has been tragically cut short.
"We would appreciate privacy while we try to cope with our terrible loss."
The family also urged anyone with any information to contact West Yorkshire Police.
A senior party leader said Mr Gandhi would speak at a meeting of farmers in Delhi on 19 April.
Mr Gandhi's break from politics created a stir on social media and the BJP government accused him of "holidaying" while parliament was in session.
Mr Gandhi led his party to its worst performance in May's general election.
He took leave on 23 February because he wanted time to think, his party said.
The decision came days after his party failed to win a single seat in state polls in Delhi. Party officials had said he wanted to assess his role and the party's future.
Mr Gandhi will now appear on 19 April at a rally of farmers to protest against the government's controversial land acquisition bill, Congress leader Digvijay Singh said.
Opponents of the bill, including the Congress, say it will be bad for farmers.
Mr Gandhi, 44, is from the Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty that has dominated Indian politics for decades.
The Congress party has suffered a series of election setbacks since it lost power in May last year.
Some Congress leaders have suggested that Mr Gandhi formally take over from his mother, party president Sonia Gandhi.
Other say he remains aloof from party workers, and have called for his sister Priyanka Gandhi to take a more prominent role in politics.
However, Ms Gandhi has shown no inclination to join the party.
Shares in Twitter plunged 13.6% after the results were out.
Twitter had 310 million monthly users in the first quarter while revenue was $594.5m (£407.89m), which missed analyst expectations.
The company has for years struggled to generate profits from its large base of users.
Twitter's revenue forecast for the current quarter was given as between $590m and $610m, also short of what investors had been hoping for.
"These are troubling times for Twitter," says the BBC's North America technology correspondent, Dave Lee.
"The last time they'd brought out their quarterly results something quite extraordinary happened, they had actually lost users - which for a major social network is practically unheard of. This time they've gained some - but only 5 million active users extra per month.
"That's simply not enough growth to excite both investors and advertisers - they are instead going to look at other social networks like Snapchat and Facebook that are bringing them more results," he said.
To boost its stagnant user growth, Twitter has over the past months introduced a new user interface and and emphasized its live video offerings.
Yet with Facebook launching a similar product, Facebook Live, Twitter still has to prove that its turnaround plan will work.
More than 70 firefighters and other emergency crews are at the scene near Docks Road after the fire broke out just before 23:00 BST on Tuesday.
Mid and West Wales Fire Service have 10 fire appliances at the scene.
At its height, 21 appliances and more than 100 firefighters fought the fire with South Wales Fire and Rescue Service assisting colleagues.
Nobody is reported to have been hurt, but nearby residents have been advised to keep their windows and doors closed.
The incident has also led to road closures.
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Camp suffered the injury in the first half of the Millers' 2-1 Championship defeat by Leeds on 26 November.
The 32-year-old, who is out of contract at the end of the season, has made 60 appearances for the club since signing from Bournemouth in September 2015.
Managerless Rotherham are bottom of the Championship table, 12 points adrift of safety.
The pile-up happened between junctions nine and 10 on the northbound motorway in Oxfordshire on 14 February.
Oxfordshire coroner Darren Salter said at an inquest he would write to Highways England and ask it to investigate installing fog sensors.
But Highways England said a decision has not yet been made.
Robert Pilott, 65, of Woking, Surrey, died in the accident in which six other people were seriously injured and 55 had minor injuries.
In a statement Highways England said it received a letter about fog detection systems from the coroner last autumn.
It said: "We are now looking into the coroner's recommendations to improve safety at this location.
"Once we have completed our review, we will be in a position to make a decision and will keep people informed."
Former paramedic Graham White said it was known before the motorway opened that there could be problems with fog.
He said fog sensors "should have been put in as soon as they were available".
Highways England is currently upgrading the messaging signs along the M40 as part of a £1.7m project.
Richard Owen, operations director of Road Safety Analysis in Banbury, said fog detection systems could be installed at the same time.
He said: "If there are high numbers [of accidents in the fog] I think it would be a very good idea for them to invest in this new technology."
Major Jacques de Guélis was an agent of the highly secretive Special Operations Executive (SOE).
The unit was set up on the order of the then Prime Minister Winston Churchill to create a sabotage organisation which would "set Europe ablaze".
De Guélis went behind the lines in Nazi Europe a nerve-shredding three times.
He also organised contacts for Virginia Hall, a one-legged spy who would defy the odds to become the Gestapo's most wanted agent in the whole of France.
His bravery earned him a chestful of medals - including three Croix de Guerre from the French government - but his story has been largely forgotten.
Jacques Theodore Paul Marie Vaillant de Guélis was born on 6 April, 1907, in Cardiff to a French-born coal exporter, Raoul, and his wife, Marie.
When World War Two began, he was sent to France as part of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) as he spoke fluent French.
Evacuated from Dunkirk at the beginning of June 1940, he was asked to return to France a few days later to liaise with units which were still fighting or trying to escape.
On 22 June, the French signed an Armistice with Hitler and de Guélis fled south to live in hiding in Marseilles. Determined to get back to Britain, he climbed across the Pyrenees and into neutral Spain.
On 15 April, 1941, he was interviewed in London for a role in SOE by Lewis Gielgud, the brother of actor John Gielgud, who was impressed by de Guélis's faultless French and his knowledge of life in occupied France.
The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British secret service formed in 1940 to encourage underground resistance and sabotage in Nazi-occupied Europe and later South East Asia.
Its agents were trained in the arts of silent killing and laying explosives to destroy trains and communications lines.
It also dropped wireless operators into occupied territory to radio information and appeals for arms and supplies back to London.
SOE employed both men and women as agents and many, such as Violette Szabo, were caught and executed by the enemy.
Opposed by some in the establishment for its "ungentlemanly" behaviour, SOE was disbanded in 1946.
SOE's F Section was working to send wireless operators and saboteurs into France and its head, Maurice Buckmaster, tasked de Guélis with briefing them before their missions.
As de Guélis was a central figure in SOE there was reluctance, for security reasons, to use him as an agent. However, he was to be a special case.
A secret SOE memorandum noted that "[it was] felt that de Guélis's special qualifications and the unusual circumstances of the present case made it a suitable instance for exception".
The unusual circumstances were that SOE needed an exceptional man for a complex mission.
Its aims were threefold. Firstly, de Guélis had to search the area around the Rhône in south-eastern France to find suitable landing fields for RAF aircraft delivering agents and supplies to the French Resistance.
Secondly, he had to recruit potential agents and couriers. This was especially difficult, as approaching people would leave him open to betrayal.
Finally, he was to prepare the way for an American-born agent, Virginia Hall.
Jacques de Guélis parachuted into France on 6 August, 1941, and immediately began work to recruit agents, couriers and contacts.
Miss Hall then arrived in France on 23 August. SOE could not drop her by parachute as she had lost the lower part of her left leg in a pre-war shooting accident, so she sailed from Spain to the south coast of France on a fishing boat.
Despite the fact she wore an aluminium false leg - which she nicknamed "Cuthbert" - Miss Hall was to become a dynamic agent. The German secret police, the Gestapo, made the capture of what it called the "Limping Lady" a priority but it never caught up with her.
On 4 September, 1941, with his first mission complete, de Guélis was due to leave France for England, having arranged a pick-up on a remote field by a small Lysander aircraft. But he was delayed by a check of identity papers by the local gendarmerie and was running very late.
SOE historian MRD Foot wrote: "He could already hear the aircraft when he got near the ground. Jumping off his bicycle and through the nearest gate, he laid the [reception] lights out quickly - on the wrong field. [The pilot] put his aircraft down without trouble, but fouled an electric cable on taking off, and returned to Tangmere with several feet of copper wire round his undercarriage."
The success of Jacques de Guélis's first mission was brought to the attention of Britain's Minister of Economic Warfare, Hugh Dalton, who oversaw the SOE.
Mr Dalton saw to it that he was awarded an MBE (military division), recording in a note to the War Office that de Guélis's work in France "has been of great value to my organisation".
On 17 September, 1943, de Guélis landed in Corsica where an uprising was under way. He organised resistance groups and, in early October, the Germans withdrew from the island.
A month after D-Day, de Guélis parachuted into France to work with the underground forces of the Corrèze. He led local resistance groups in ambushes of German forces. They were then joined by a team of French SAS who helped in the area's liberation.
As Nazi Germany surrendered in May 1945, de Guélis arrived in Germany on an urgent mission to find captured agents and make sure they were not subjected to any last minute vengeance.
His investigations centred on a number of concentration camps, including Flossenburg in Bavaria. SOE agent Jack Agazarian and leading members of the German resistance to the Nazis - including Wilhelm Canaris, the head of German military intelligence - had been executed there only weeks earlier.
On 16 May, de Guélis's car was struck by a vehicle being driven by a German soldier who had worked at Flossenburg. De Guélis was badly hurt.
He was transported home to Britain but died in hospital at Lichfield on 7 August, 1945, four years and a day after his first heroic mission to France.
Was the crash a deliberate attempt to silence an investigation which would have fed information into the prosecution file for the Nuremburg trials? It is possible. Any evidence appears to have been lost in the chaos of post-war Germany.
The head of SOE, Brigadier Colin Gubbins, said de Guélis was an agent whose "ardour and efficiency" were "equalled by [his] personal courage".
De Guélis's wife, Beryl, had his body returned to his hometown of Cardiff for burial. It lies in the shade of a tree in a quiet corner of Cathays Cemetery.
A peaceful, unassuming resting place seems a fitting spot for a man whose most heroic deeds were carried out in the shadows of the secret war against Hitler.
Sherroll Foster took out an overdraft and loans to send £65,000 to a man in Ghana who she believed was her "soulmate".
The 65-year-old of Uxbridge then allowed other women to pay money into her account which she passed on.
Foster pleaded guilty to one count at Isleworth Crown Court.
She was ordered to pay £3,500 to one of the victims.
The ruse was carried out by a gang targeting women over the age of 60 who use dating websites.
Foster met a man called Mark Hamilton on a dating website in 2012 who convinced her he needed money to release £4m in gold deposits in Ghana.
She began sending him money in February 2013 and allowed other victims to pay money into her bank account, believing they were Hamilton's friends.
One sent £8,000 while another gave £19,000 before realising it was a scam and contacting Action Fraud.
A third victim paid £3,500 to Foster who transferred it to the scammers even though she had been arrested for fraud and money laundering and was on bail.
Det Con Mark Cresswell said the defendant had been "looking forward to a comfortable retirement" but "now faces financial ruin and extensive, long term debt".
"This may not be a unique tale, but it most certainly should be treated as a cautionary one," he said.
A Scotland Yard spokesperson said the people behind the scam had not been traced.
The 22-year-old revealed last month that he had an operation in October.
Fell saw a specialist earlier this week and will fly out to Perth on Monday to play for Mount Lawley.
"The results were all fine. I'm looking forward to playing some cricket again and it's great news that I can go away until the end of February," he said.
Fell has decided not to have chemotherapy, but instead have regular check-ups and he will be seen by doctors every month while he is in Western Australia.
He scored 1,084 Championship runs in 2015, making him the youngest batsman in county cricket to pass 1,000 runs for the season last summer, and subsequently signed a new three-year contract with Worcestershire.
The eight books have been written by Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris, who have also written for comedy show That Mitchell and Webb Look.
The titles include The Shed, The Wife, The Husband, The Hangover, Mindfulness, Dating and The Hipster.
The pair also wrote for Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe.
Brooker said: "This is such a good idea I'm currently experiencing all the physical sensations of anger because I didn't think of it, whereas Jason and Joel did."
Hazeley tweeted a quote from The Hipster, which said: "This is a hipster. He is childless, unaccountably wealthy, and always well turned out. He likes art, porridge, scarves, and anything reclaimed from French factories, like this dog rack."
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The books also include original Ladybird-style artwork to accompany the new text.
Ladybird is celebrating its 100th birthday this year.
The original hardback books, sold at 2/6d for almost 30 years, have become a nostalgic favourite in recent years for the children who have now grown up and are buying them for their own children.
And while the revival in interest in Ladybird has spawned a number of unauthorised parodies for adults on the internet, this is the first time official Ladybird books for adults will be published.
Craig Hall put the Wildcats ahead with a try after just 40 seconds, but once Wigan took the lead they never lost it and scored seven tries in total.
Wakefield only trailed 24-18 at half-time but missed chances to cut the gap.
And with Matty Smith scoring all of his six conversions, the visitors secured their first away win of the season.
It was the Warriors' third successive win and a ninth consecutive defeat for bottom-of-the-table Wakefield, who improved dramatically from the 80-0 drubbing by Warrington in their last Super League match.
The hosts made a dramatic start as Matt Ryan raced clear to set up a try for Hall, who also kicked the conversion.
The lead lasted only seven minutes until Dom Crosby scored his first try for more than two years and Smith made it 6-6 with the conversion.
Before the break, Wigan took control with further tries from Burgess and Dom Manfredi but replies from skipper Danny Kirmond and Pita Godinet, in his first start of 2015, kept Wakefield in touch.
Among all the tries, there were yellow cards for Wigan's Sam Powell and Tim Smith of Wakefield, who squared up to each other.
Dan Sarginson set up Burgess straight after the interval and his converted try gave Wigan a 12-point cushion for the third time in the evening.
But Godinet capitalised on an error by Taulima Tautai to set up Chris Riley to give the Wildcats hope.
However, Lee Mossop went over before Burgess completed his treble to wrap up the points.
To complete Wakefield's misery, they lost debutant Jordan Crowther, prop Ian Kirke and loose forward Danny Washbrook during the match.
Wakefield coach James Webster: "We definitely didn't get beaten on effort. We tried to get a foothold in the game but came up with crucial errors at crucial times.
"Even though we scored some points, we didn't build pressure, we never sat on their try-line. But it's a good learning curve for us.
"I came here looking for improvement and I got that. If we get the same improvement next week, we might get Saints.
Wigan coach Shaun Wane: "It was just a win. Defensively we were poor . We were decent with the ball but I'm a bit frustrated we weren't patient in the final third.
"It's not an easy place to come - St Helens only won by four - I've been coming here since 2010 and I've never given a positive talk in the dressing room afterwards.
"But I still expect a better performance than that. Mentally we just weren't there today. The positive is that we found a way to win."
Wakefield: Hall, Owen, Ryan, Lyne, Riley, Godinet, T. Smith, Scruton, McShane, Kavanagh, Washbrook, Kirmond, Crowther.
Replacements: Lauitiiti for McShane (33), Kirke for Kavanagh (29), Simon for Crowther (17), Scruton for Simon (50).
Substitutes: D. Smith.
Sin Bin: T. Smith (34).
Wigan: Hampshire, Manfredi, Gelling, Sarginson, Burgess, Williams, Smith, Mossop, McIlorum, Crosby, J. Tomkins, L. Farrell, Bateman.
Replacements: Clubb for Mossop (21), Powell for McIlorum (28), Flower for Crosby (19), Tautai for Bateman (30).
Sin Bin: Powell (34).
Att: 3,107
Ref: Robert Hicks (RFL).
About 1,500 check-in staff, baggage handlers and cargo crew at a number of UK airports have also called a 48-hour strike from 23 December in a pay row.
In addition, some cabin crew at British Airways have called walkouts, while Argos delivery drivers this week suspended a strike at the eleventh hour.
The unrest is all the more unusual because for the last 30 years strikes have been falling to record low levels in the UK.
"We've not seen much strike action really since the mid-1980s," says Dr Alf Crossman, an industrial relations specialist at the University of Sussex.
"Back then it was the great British disease. It was like the weather - something you put up with."
The number and size of walkouts has dropped sharply since the days of the Miners' Strike in 1984-85 and the Winter of Discontent in the late 1970s.
In comparison, last year the number of working days lost through strikes - 170,000 - was the second lowest on record.
"The level of action now pales into insignificance compared to the Winter of Discontent in 1978-79," says Prof Gregor Gall from the University of Bradford.
Then, a wave of crippling strikes spread across the country, leading ultimately to the collapse of the Labour government and the election of Margaret Thatcher.
"It's so difficult to draw real comparisons because so much has changed," agrees Dr Crossman.
Before the Thatcher administration, trade unions were more powerful, while the railways, British Airways and Royal Mail were all state-owned.
"We would not be talking about a Southern rail strike, it would be a nationwide rail strike," says Dr Crossman.
But there are also some parallels, experts say, such as stagnant wages for some workers, inflation edging back up, and the first fully Conservative government in almost 20 years.
"It feels like there's an undercurrent of discontent building," says Andy Cook, chief executive of Marshall-James, which advises firms on industrial relations.
"People are feeling the pinch," he says. "Average workers feel they're not being paid in line with profits and therefore are more willing to stand up."
When? Friday 16 December, Monday 19 December to Tuesday 20 December
Why? Unions say the dispute is about safety, but Southern and the government say it is political
When? Crown Post Office workers on Monday 19 December, Tuesday 20 December, and Saturday 24 December. Delivery drivers to rural Post Offices on Thursday 22 December and Friday 23 December
Why? Jobs, pensions and branch closures at Crown Post Offices - the larger branches usually located on High Streets
When? Sunday 25 December to Monday 26 December
Why? Pay for about 4,000 staff who joined after 2010 on "Mixed Fleet" contracts
When? Friday 23 December to Saturday 24 December
Why? A longstanding pay dispute - the Unite union says wages have not kept up with inflation
Trade unions are at pains to point out that all of these strikes are separate.
"The causes of recent strikes differ from strike to strike, ranging from safety on the railways to closures of post offices. Each dispute is specific to that workplace," says Frances O'Grady, general secretary of the TUC trade union body.
"Going on strike is always a last resort, especially for the hardworking staff who take pride in their work, and will lose pay while on strike," she adds.
Of the four strikes, only the British Airways one and the airport workers one are explicitly about pay.
Still, the level of industrial unrest is on the rise. The number of working days lost to strikes in the first 10 months of 2016 has already passed last year's total, largely because of the junior doctors' strike in April and the teachers' strike in July.
The unions do seem to be "flexing their muscles", Dr Crossman says.
In the background, there's also the Labour Party's closer relationship with trade unions under Jeremy Corbyn, and the implications of Unite general secretary Len McCluskey standing for re-election.
Companies are also less experienced at handling strikes, says Dr Crossman. "In 30 years of relative industrial peace, management have forgotten how to deal with industrial relations."
When it comes to Christmas walkouts, unions have to weigh the risk of negative publicity against the stronger bargaining position, particularly in sectors like travel and mail delivery where people rely on them more than usual.
With the Argos delivery drivers, the threat of strikes helped secure a pay deal - an example of the leverage trade unions can hold in the festive period.
"Would it have got traction if it was in August? Probably not," says Mr Cook.
At least the possible disruption to mail deliveries, and yet more delays for commuters on Southern, is due to industrial tensions and not the weather.
The unrest during the Winter of Discontent was exacerbated by blizzards and deep snow.
And with weather forecasts this year looking milder, that seems a more remote prospect for the Christmas of Discontent.
Due to the beach culture of the coastal cities such as Rio de Janeiro, and the sizzling heat of much of the country's weather, Brazilians often don't wear many clothes.
And with so much skin on display, it is not surprising that Brazilians - of both sexes - work hard at looking good.
So much so that the word "vanity" ("vaidade" in Portuguese), is generally not viewed as a negative thing when it applies to an excessive pride in your appearance.
For Brazilian women this means a tremendous pressure to look slim, beautiful and young. Which is easy enough if you feel you are slim, beautiful and young, but a bit more complicated if you are under-confident, or worried about getting older.
As a result of all this, Brazilian women spend 11 times more of their annual incomes on beauty products than British women, according to a 2014 study by research group Kantar.
Brazil also tops the global league tables for the number of women undergoing cosmetic plastic surgery.
It is in first place for both buttocks reshaping and "tummy tucks" - the removal of excess fat and skin from the abdomen. And Brazil is second only to the US when it comes to the number of breast alteration operations.
Yet despite all this pressure, there are Brazilian women moving in a different direction, such as Darcy Toledo, 42, and Jane Walter, 36, the founders of a photography business called the Nude Agency.
They want Brazil's women to feel beautiful, and sexy, without the need of having an unachievable body, or undergoing surgery.
Their company, which employs an all-female team of 10 photographers, make-up artists and fashion designers, offers "ordinary women" the chance to feel like a top fashion model for the day, and gain a portfolio of professionally taken "sensual" photographs.
The women can chose to be fully clothed, but most instead wear just lingerie, which they can pick from a large range that Nude Agency provides. Others decide to take off the lingerie.
Rather than building their own permanent studio, Ms Toldeo and Ms Walter instead hire upmarket hotel rooms. This more easily enables the Sao Paulo-based business to also do photo shoots in other cities, such as Rio, Recife, Porto Alegre and Curitiba.
The business was founded in 2006, and now typically receives two clients every day, who are more often women aged between 35 and 45. However, Nude Agency has had customers as old as 60.
Gabriela Martins, a 38 year old from Rio de Janeiro, says that getting a Nude Agency photo shoot boosted her confidence.
"I can tell you it was one of the best investments I ever made," she says. "There is no price for self esteem.
"I tell my friends, I want to look at those pictures when I'm 90, and remind myself of the happy life I had... I felt like a professional model."
Another customer, Juliana Santana, 31, from Salvador, agrees that the photo shoot made her feel better about herself.
"I used to have a complicated relationship with my body, so I never felt pretty enough to take pictures like that, but I decided to give it chance," says Ms Santa.
"When I finally got to make it, I just let myself go with the moment. Instead of thinking about the faults of my body my focus was on having a great time."
The photo shoots vary in price, ranging from 1,250 Brazilian reals ($442; £310) up to 5,250 reals, depending on the number of photos to be taken. Customers can also chose to have a mocked up fashion magazine, or get a calendar made.
Before the photo shoot a contract that assures the confidentiality of the pictures is signed. And photos stored on a CD can only be opened with a unique password.
Ms Walter and Ms Toledo both previously worked as graphic designers, but got the idea for the business after a mutual friend asked if they could photograph her.
Ms Toledo says: "When we started, most of the women were looking for a gift to surprise their partners. Today the majority are doing it for themselves."
She adds: "We help the client to chose the right outfit, and also work with the right poses and the light."
Another small business called Projecto Provador is doing something very similar.
It was founded in a shopping mall in the northern Brazilian city of Recife in 2009 by Mari Patriota.
Today the 32-year-old photographs 21 women in a typical week.
And instead of just taking photos at her home studio, she has recently started a travel side to the business, whereby women are flown to beach resorts, such as the Brazilian island of Fernando de Noronha, so they can do photo shoots by the sea, as well as having a holiday.
Ms Patriota says the general desire that Brazilians have to look good provides a wealth of opportunities for watchful entrepreneurs.
Carmen Silva Vaz, 50, of Recife, was recently photographed by Ms Patriota.
Ms Vaz says: "I was already a grandmother when I took my pictures. I thought I would not have the courage to dare doing something like this.
"I have seen some of Ms Patriota's pictures, and most of the women are young and really pretty. But she made me see that beauty is beyond that."
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The 45-year-old made the comments in an interview with NBC, which was aired last weekend.
Speaking before Friday's FA Cup third-round tie at West Ham, Guardiola said: "Maybe it was inappropriate to say I'm starting to say goodbye to my career.
"I'm not thinking that I'm going to retire."
Guardiola took over at Manchester City in the summer, after winning 14 trophies in four years at Spanish giants Barcelona and three successive Bundesliga titles with German club Bayern Munich.
"I said in the interview that I won't be a trainer when I'm 60. But I'm 45. I'm not going to retire in two or three years," he continued.
"I'm not going to train at 60 because I want to do something else in my life.
"I started playing football young and my career was on the pitch. I want to do something else in my life, but in the next three or four or five or six or seven years.
"I love my job and I'm in the perfect place to do my job especially here in England."
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Guardiola, whose side are fourth in the Premier League, gave an awkward post-match interview to BBC Sport after Monday's 2-1 win over Burnley.
And quotes from the Spaniard appeared in the national newspapers the following day, implying Manchester City are 10 years behind their local rivals Manchester United.
But Guardiola clarified his comments, saying: "When I said to compare the titles with Liverpool, Manchester United, Barcelona and Real Madrid, we are behind. If people don't understand that, I'm sorry.
"In the last five or six years Manchester City achieved more targets and got better and grew the most. It is one of the best clubs in the world by far.
"But in terms of just the titles, winning the Champions League, we are behind other clubs in the last 20 years.
"I never said this club is below the other ones. Of course we are going to fight until the end of the season for all the titles."
Ukraine's Security Service spokeswoman Olena Hitlianska was quoted as saying the move came at the request of the culture ministry.
The ministry had reportedly drafted a list of actors, musicians and other cultural figures who supported Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014.
Mr Depardieu, 66, has described Russia as a "great democracy".
In 2013, he received a Russian passport from President Vladimir Putin, after deciding to leave France to avoid paying higher taxes.
Last week, he was given a lesson in hand-scything by Belarus's President Alexander Lukashenko during a surprise visit.
Mr Lukashenko, once described by US officials as "Europe's last dictator", hosted Mr Depardieu at his residence near the capital Minsk.
The 22-year-old spent the second half of 2016-17 on loan at Burton Albion and the Brewers wanted him to return, but they could not agree terms with Fulham.
The former Luton and Southend loanee scored five times for Burton last term, plus twice for his parent club.
"He's been on our list for a long time," said head coach Lee Johnson.
He told BBC Radio Bristol: "I think he's found opportunities limited at Fulham, probably because of their playing style and them playing with one up front, but certainly in a two he gives us everything we want."
Bristol City are currently without Bosnia-Herzegovina striker Milan Djuric, who will be out for at least two months after having groin surgery on Tuesday.
Burton boss Nigel Clough told his club's website on Thursday: "Cauley is going elsewhere, with a possible permanent at the end of the season so Fulham prefer him to go there.
"We understand that and we move on to the next targets.
"There were a couple of deals that Fulham put to us and a lot of clubs are putting in clauses where if you don't play a certain amount of games you pay a hefty fee at the end.
"That's always a problem for us, but if another club come in they will always outbid us in the Championship."
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However, the Lowy Institute for International Policy report said the government's response could help lower the risk of an attack.
It suggested returning foreign fighters could be placed into deradicalisation programmes rather than jailed.
About 90 Australians are believed to have travelled to fight with IS.
Of those, at least 20 are reported to have been killed in the fighting.
On Tuesday, the father of a Melbourne man told broadcaster SBS he had been told his son had been killed in Syria. The Department of Foreign Affairs could not confirm the report.
Last September, the Australian government raised the national security level to "high", describing the threat posed by foreign fighters as its "number-one national security priority".
The report, written by Andrew Zammit, a researcher at Melbourne's Monash University, said the threat posed by returning fighters required a "wide-ranging counter-terrorist response that includes non-coercive measures".
He said Australia could learn lessons from European countries.
"Returned foreign fighters have been involved in many of the most serious jihadist plots in the West, including in Australia. Returnees from Syria have already engaged in terrorist plots in Europe, and the large number of Australians involved with groups such as IS and Jabhat al-Nusra raises well-founded fears of an increased threat at home", the report said.
"Australia needs a wide range of tools to tackle the foreign fighter threat, not least because imprisonment, while often necessary, is not a cure-all. An imprisoned jihadist can radicalise other prisoners, inspire supporters outside, and may emerge from prison no less extreme or dangerous", it added.
However, Mr Zammit argues the threat "may turn out to be less than feared".
"A range of factors will determine the threat, including Australia's response. While much of the responsibility will lie with the police and intelligence services, CVE (Countering Violent Extremism) measures need to be a core element of the response, as they have been in the past.
"Australia can learn valuable lessons from European countries, which are already using CVE measures to address the issue of foreign fighters, although any Australian approach must be carefully calibrated for the local context."
Mr Zammit said the government's "troubled relations" with Muslim communities meant that its efforts to counter violent extremism were "not off to the strongest of starts".
In March, Australian teenager Jake Bilardi was believed to have died while carrying out a suicide attack in Iraq. His father, John Bilardi, said his son had been a "prize" for IS.
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It's the second year that the singer has taken part in the 'Polar Plunge' event, which supports young athletes taking part in the Chicago's Special Olympics.
The lake wasn't as cold as it has been in some years, when organisers have previously had to break ice on the surface, but it was still a chilly 2.2 C.
The Nigerian, 25, initially moved to Vicarage Road on a season-long loan in July but has now agreed a contract until the summer of 2017.
Ighalo has scored in each of his last three Championship appearances for the Hornets, having failed to find the net in his first seven outings.
Watford lie second in the table and face Middlesbrough on Saturday.
The global watchdog's director-general, Yukiya Amano, said it would require €9.2m ($10.6m; £6.7m) per year.
The extra funding the IAEA had received for its current Iran operations would run out next month, he warned.
Iran has agreed to limit its sensitive nuclear activities in return for an end to crippling international sanctions.
The US says the deal will prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Iran stresses that its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes only.
Under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreed on 14 July, inspectors from the IAEA will continuously monitor Iran's declared nuclear sites and also verify that no fissile material is moved covertly to a secret location for a bomb.
Iran has also agreed to allow inspectors to access any site they deem suspicious.
On Tuesday, Mr Amano told a meeting of the IAEA's board of governors in Vienna that it currently received €800,000 ($916,000; £582,000) per month to monitor Iranian nuclear activities.
So far, the costs have been met through extra-budgetary contributions from member states, but that money will be exhausted by the end of September.
Mr Amano said the agency would require an additional €160,000 per month in the run-up to the implementation of the JCPOA, and would then need €9.2m per year for the duration of the 15-year deal.
Following the appeal, the US said it was "committed to working with all member states to ensure the agency has the resources it needs to verify Iran's nuclear-related commitments".
Mr Amano also told Tuesday's meeting that the "road-map" agreement the IAEA signed with Iran alongside the JCPOA to resolve concerns about the possible military dimensions of its nuclear programme was technically sound and did not compromise the agency's standards.
The IAEA has been criticised for disclosing the details of the road-map.
In the first figures released for two years, the Health Ministry said the number of women dying in childbirth was up by 65%, while child deaths were up 30%.
There has also been a jump in illnesses such as malaria and diphtheria.
The figures reflect the country's deep economic crisis which the opposition says the government has mismanaged.
President Nicolas Maduro says the health crisis is caused by medicines being hoarded to encourage a coup against him.
The country has the largest oil reserves in the world but the collapse of oil prices a few years ago led to a recession and a shortage of the foreign currency needed to import equipment, food and medicines.
Venezuelans face shortages of everything from food to vaccines.
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In a recent survey, three-quarters of Venezuelans say their health has plummeted, and that they are eating less than two meals a day. Many report losing an average of around 9 kilos (19 pounds).
In the health sector, large numbers of doctors have emigrated. A leading pharmaceutical association has said around 85% of medicines are in short supply.
Speaking to the Reuters news agency, a critic of the government's health policies, Dr Julio Castro, an infectious disease specialist said:
"The striking part is the turmoil in almost all categories that this bulletin addresses, with particularly significant increased in the infant and maternal health categories."
Many Venezuelans have trekked to the border with Brazil or Colombia to buy medicine there and seek treatment in public hospitals in neighbouring countries.
In Brazil, the state of Roraima declared a state of emergency to deal with thousands of Venezuelans seeking treatment by the public health service in small border towns.
It is not clear why Venezuela's Health Ministry published its figures now. It had stopped releasing figures after July 2015.
The country has been paralysed for over a month by almost-daily increasingly violent demonstrations against the government of Nicolas Maduro with protestors calling for elections.
About 300 people slept outdoors in Charlotte Square, Edinburgh on 15 December for the Social Bite CEO Sleepout.
Social Bite plans to have 10 purpose-built homes in Granton for up to 20 homeless people.
The fundraisers reached the £500,000 needed for the village.
A statement on social media on Tuesday revealed the total gathered was £564,545.
The statement continued: "This figure has exceeded our original target of £500,000 needed to build a village for homeless and vulnerable people in Scotland.
"The money will not only be put towards the physical build but also towards an intensive support structure for the residents to help them get back on their feet.
"Thank you to everyone involved for making the first steps on that journey with us by funding our village project."
Participants who included Olympic cycling veteran Sir Chris Hoy were served breakfast by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon following their night out under the stars.
Work is expected to begin on the project early next year, with the first residents moving in by the summer.
It will be run by Social Bite with the EDI Group and the City of Edinburgh Council.
Earlier this month, Josh Littlejohn, co-founder of Social Bite, received an MBE for services to social enterprise and entrepreneurship in Scotland.
The organisation has received backing from various high-profile figures including Leonardo di Caprio who stopped for lunch at Home, a Social Bite venture in Edinburgh's west end, in November.
His visit followed that of Hollywood star George Clooney to Social Bite's Rose Street branch in the city a year earlier.
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The 26-year-old Hull midfielder failed a drugs test in May 2015, almost a year after his newborn son Jake Junior died.
The Football Association decided not to ban him because of "the unique nature of circumstances" involved.
"It was a young human being who got lost in circumstances and didn't know how to react," he told Football Focus.
Livermore said he "almost felt relieved" at being caught.
"I put my hands behind my head and laid back in the manager's office," recalled the former Tottenham player. "He looked at me, saying this could be serious, this could be two years or four years banned. I didn't care."
Hull finished the 2013-14 Premier League season in 16th place, a year after winning promotion from the Championship. They were about to play Arsenal in the FA Cup final. Livermore's partner was also expecting their first son.
"It should have been the best weekend of my life," Livermore said in an interview with his former Spurs team-mate Jermaine Jenas, to be broadcast on BBC One from 12:00 BST on Saturday.
"It's what kids dream of. We were on a high that season, we'd already got safe and really we overachieved. What happened after, we weren't really expecting.
"The day after the final, my missus went into labour and from then it all sort of spiralled out of control.
"To lose a son in a scenario which should have been under control - and was under control at one point - makes it all harder to deal with.
"It should have been a glorious and happy time for everyone. It was tragic and very difficult to stomach. That is one place I wouldn't want anyone to be."
Livermore said the tragedy was even harder to deal with because it came at the end of the season, when he did not have the regular contact with the club that might have proved hugely beneficial.
"It's difficult," he said. "With your usual day-to-day life at the club, people can pick up on your behaviour, they'll know what's happened. But everyone I would normally turn to - my mum, my dad, my partner, my grandparents, whoever it may be - they were all affected like I was."
Livermore said he felt he needed to "be that rock for everyone else".
He added: "For the vast majority of time, I thought I did that relatively well. But you almost lie to yourself, tell yourself you're strong and you can get through."
Livermore was notified he had failed a drugs test towards the end of the following season, on 13 May 2015. It related to a urine sample given after a Premier League match against Crystal Palace on 25 April 2015.
"I was obviously nervous and it was starting to hit home that people were going to realise, but something needed to be done and sometimes God works in mysterious ways," Livermore said. "It was my get out of jail free card.
"My career didn't even come in to it. Football took the back seat. I was worried about how it would affect those around me... my mum, dad, nan, brother sister, nephew, manager. The drugs were irrelevant, they weren't the problem. I needed people to understand that it wasn't about a jumped-up footballer."
Livermore said he was glad he was found out.
"At least people knew the mental state I was in needed addressing," he said. "It was something a lot deeper that I needed to get off my chest. But whether you're too strong to talk about it or not strong enough, it didn't come out."
Steve Bruce, who was manager of Hull at the time, said he felt he let Livermore down by not realising he needed help.
"He was fantastic," said Livermore. "On top of all the pressure of being a football manager, you have 25 players, kids, men to look after. Being one of his senior ones, so to speak, if I tell him I'm OK, then I should be OK.
"It's only once it's happened that you realise who is there and who it would be beneficial to speak with.
"The FA and Professional Footballers' Association, once it all came out, have been nothing but supportive. That's something I would urge any young player with troubles to do... to go and talk to those people.
"The chairman of Hull, Assem Allam, was fantastic. He was very worried for my welfare. Then I started to get support from those close to me. My dad was a rock for me. A few close friends were also very, very close in that time."
Livermore was temporarily suspended following his positive test, but the FA decided he would not be banned. He returned to the Hull side in September 2015 and helped them win promotion from the Championship last season.
"When I got back to my team-mates, there weren't any words to be said," said Livermore. "It was more just, 'Give us a cuddle'. There couldn't have been any words more fitting.
"Walking onto the pitch when making my comeback was up there with one of the best football moments of my life.
"This club is a very special place. The fans were fantastic. Not just football fans, people you bump into at petrol stations with words of encouragement. Little things like that can give human beings a lift.
"I'm thankful we could return to the Premier League at the first attempt and I'm really enjoying my football. I think we all are here. I wasn't able to play with a smile on my face for a little while. Now it's come back."
It is the first country in Europe to publicly ban a form of dress some Muslims regard as a religious duty.
BBC News website readers in France have been sending in their reaction to this story. Here is a selection of their comments.
In my opinion, the law appears to be against individual liberties. I am a Muslim but I don't wear a head scarf as I think it's not faithful to my principles. However, this ban will certainly stigmatise Islam. This practice concerns a small number of Muslim women in France and in that way it appears extreme and unfair, because these women will tend to be confined at home most of the time. The consequences will be socially disastrous. Through this law you can see that Islam in France is perceived as a threat to French values and society. Sabrina, Lille, France
As a Muslim living in Paris, I'm so glad that this new law is here, for there has been a growing problem for some time now in Paris, with the radicalisation of young Muslims. Some of the more extreme Muslims have begun to use dress as a symbol or statement against French society. I feel that the extreme example of the Muslim faith works against all that Muslims in France stand for. That is, that we can live in harmony side by side with other religions and faiths. Jean Paul Baptiste, Paris, France
At last a law that protects the dignity and the human rights of women. This is not a racist law, it is a brave and progressive law that aims to put an end to the scandalous persecution of women in the Muslim community. I am not Sarkozy's biggest fan and I wish someone else was leading my country, but I support this law 100% as the plight of women having to wear this garment around the world really saddens me. Rachel Sword, Aix en Provence, France
I agree with this law. The women who walk around in public in the burqa, cause feelings of both fear, and pity. I have often heard that these women complain of being totally ignored by those around them - hardly surprising, really. Hiding your identity causes others to become wary and suspicious. Fiona Ricard, Gailhan, France
Despite being a human rights lawyer, I have mixed feelings about the law. Freedom of religion dictates that people should be able to manifest their faith how they wish, though it can be restricted by the state if there are strong reasons and it is proportionate. I think it should not be banned outright and that it is excessive, but it should perhaps be restricted in the case of employment or other areas of society. Whilst the state has to respect the diverse values of its population, immigrants also have to respect the values of the society they have chosen to live in - and France is a secular state. Andy, Strasbourg, France
Enacting a law to ban face covering veils in France is taking an approach that will polarise and entrench opinions. Very few Muslim women want to wear face veils, but telling them they can't will make them want to do so to protect what they see as an attack on their identity. Why take a line that will push Muslims (the majority of whom are not conservative) into a more polarised stance (unless of course it's to win a few votes)? Naveen Webber, Gex, France
I have been living in France for about six months now and the relative lack of political correctness is a refreshing change from UK. The veil ban is not a big issue here, more like a gentle re-assertion of French equality values. It definitely has nothing to do with a personal crusade by Sarkozy to win votes. Robin Marshall, Avignon, France
In his first general election event in Wales, Mr Corbyn visited Cardiff North - a seat Labour wants to recapture from the Conservatives.
The leader used the event to heap praise on the Welsh Government.
But Welsh Tory leader Andrew RT Davies claimed the Welsh Labour team would be "gritting its teeth" during the visit.
Mr Corbyn was joined by First Minister Carwyn Jones, as well as Cardiff North AM Julie Morgan.
Speaking on Whitchurch Common to a crowd of around 700, Mr Corbyn said: "I urge you to come with us on this journey of hope and excitement, not this journey of fear and misery which is all the Tories offer."
Mr Corbyn said the UK government was slicing the money from normal state schools for free and grammar schools.
He criticised the UK government for cutting the Welsh budget.
"In Wales it is different, because you've got a government that is determined to properly fund education and give every child an opportunity," he said.
Friday's event came after Mr Corbyn said children were being crammed "like sardines" into "super-sized" school classes in England, as Labour focused its general election campaign on education.
But the Tories called the comments "a massive own goal", saying the Labour-led Welsh Government had overseen increases in class sizes in Wales.
Education in Wales is devolved and Liberal Democrat Education Secretary Kirsty Williams has announced a £36m fund to reduce infant class sizes in Wales.
In the wideranging speech, Mr Corbyn said seven years of the Tory government and the earlier coalition had brought "greater poverty, greater insecurity, greater misery", and that Labour was the party of hope and opportunity.
He said Labour would maintain the triple-lock on pensions, while he claimed big firms would not be allowed "cosy" tax negotiations with HM Revenue and Customs.
Mr Corbyn was surrounded by a large crowd of well-wishers and supporters as he left the scene.
Welsh Labour leader Carwyn Jones said Labour would create a "fairer society" after 8 June.
"The time has come for change," he said.
But Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said: "After nearly two decades in government, Labour's record is a smorgasbord of failure evidenced by Wales having the worst-performing education system in the UK, the lowest take-home pay, and the longest hospital waiting times."
Jonathan Edwards, Carmarthenshire East and Dinefwr Plaid Cymru MP, said: "Given the current weakness and chaos plaguing Labour, the prospect of a UK Labour government is a complete fantasy."
Meanwhile, Rhondda MP Chris Bryant said he was "fully supporting" the leader, despite being a vocal critic when he was voted into the role.
Make no bones about it - it would have been a good boost for Mr Corbyn to see so many hundreds of his supporters turn out in Cardiff.
But it is not enough for him to rely on the votes of Labour supporters.
Take a place like Cardiff North, where the Conservatives have a got a majority of 2,137 votes.
It is those voters that it will need to attract, that will sometimes vote Labour, sometimes vote for the Conservatives.
The 23-year-old Eadie came through the club's academy and has made 96 competitive appearances for Bristol, scoring 28 tries.
He has also represented Scotland Under 18s and U20s and made his competitive debut for Bristol in 2010.
"Bristol Rugby is my hometown club so it's an incredibly proud moment every time I take the field," said Eadie.
And Bristol first-team coach Sean Holley revealed the club and fought off interest from Premiership club for the player.
"It's great news, he was a big player for us last year and has started the season well," Holley told BBC Bristol.
"It just goes to show the ambition of the club that both parties want to get round the table and sign up.
"He is a local lad, performing well and highly sought after by big clubs but he has chosen to stay at Bristol where we have a huge project going on and he has recognised that."
Walking around the various sites that make up the Sharjah Biennial, the classic line from the The Third Man springs to mind.
Orson Welles comments that 30 years of warfare, terror and bloodshed in medieval Italy produced the Renaissance; and 500 years of peace, democracy and brotherly love in Switzerland produced the cuckoo clock.
Although not all the works on display in the art-savvy emirate consciously embroil themselves with the social, military and political turmoil currently besetting the Arab world, those that do touch a raw nerve and are more relevant to the international, intellectual crowd who now attend the Sharjah Biennial.
Imran Qureshi's bloody Blessings Upon the Land of My Love - originally conceived as a result of slaughters in his homeland Pakistan - became more intense as the news of insurrection and overthrow of Arab tyrants gathered pace.
"I used more red paint," he explains. "And the scene of bloodshed grew more poignant."
It takes time to notice the intricate foliage almost lost among the splashes of crimson paint, which Qureshi refers to as shoots of hope.
Immediately outside the main museum a large missile projects provocatively into the sky.
According to Joanna Hadji Thomas, who created Lebanese Rocket Society: Elements for a Monument with her partner, Khalil Joreige, the first instinct is to interpret the piece as a weapon.
"Given the current situation people immediately connect it with war," she explains.
"It is ambiguous, but this is part of a series of works based on purely scientific experiments into space trajectory conducted by the Lebanese Rocket Society in the 1960s."
While many of the works benefit from being construed in light of current revolutions, it is uncanny that last year's call for entries specifically referred to the production of art as a subversive act and specified key words such as insurrection, corruption and disclosure.
Even more prescient was the funding of works by the Sharjah Art Foundation, which runs the Biennial, such as Manual for Treason, a box set of booklets - suggesting that the Biennial is far closer to the Arab street than the high-profile, hugely expensive museum projects for which the Gulf has been famed.
There was a surprising lack of politicised theatre at the biennial, the usual venue for comment.
But in the Calligraphy Museum, there is a a genuinely chilling experimental video work.
Face Scripting: What did the Building See? traces the 2010 killing of a Hamas official in neighbouring Dubai to Mossad.
Based on CCTV footage released by the Dubai police which was viewed across the globe, the piece examines the use of algorithmic technology to identify individuals from the blankness of crowds.
YouTube played a part in Moroccan Zakaria Ramhani's layered portrait of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Showing at the art fair in neighbouring Dubai, which coincided with the opening days of the Sharjah Biennial, the piece portrays the iconic Mubarak poster being torn down by a YouTube protester, who was in turn being ripped to shreds.
"It shows that one revolutionary is removed by the next who doesn't agree with his ideas," Ramhani explains.
"It can also be a symbol of my work which eventually will be destroyed."
Tunisian artists produced fun as well as serious comment on the Jasmine Revolution.
The-revolution-virus installation by Tunisian artists Rym Karoui had a political dimension, but avoided being didactic and raised a smile with its??bright red, plastic bugs.
It may not always be true that revolutions produce the best art, but in this case the Sharjah Biennial has metamorphosed into a global??event.
The current Arab revolutions have given the work of the artists on show, who no longer seem to look to the West for inspiration, a compelling urgency.
The Sharjah Biennial runs until 16 May 2011
The Belfast featherweight lost his WBA belt in January's defeat by Leo Santa Cruz and a third fight this summer between the pair has been ruled out.
"It needs to be a big fight and that's what it will be," said Frampton.
"It doesn't need to be a world title fight but I can't fight a mug - it needs to be a credible opponent and a few names are in the hat."
The WBA ended speculation of a third showdown with Santa Cruz in Belfast earlier this month by ordering the Mexican to defend his belt against Abner Mares.
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IBF champion Lee Selby is also not an option for the summer fight, with the Welshman set to defend his title against Jonathan Victor Barros.
"I'm pretty confident things are working behind the scenes and we're going to hear something very soon," added the 30-year-old.
"It will be a big fight at home, which is something I've always wanted. It will be the end of July or early August and I can't wait to get going."
According to The Sun, the TV host was suspended last week after a "row".
But the BBC did not confirm the story, merely saying he was "not currently in production" and that it "wouldn't comment on individual staff matters".
The Sun quoted Wonnacott as saying he was "not doing Bargain Hunt at the moment for personal reasons".
His last Twitter post was on Friday, when he uploaded a photo of himself outside the BBC's central London headquarters.
"Outside Broadcasting House in London today for a dawn (well not quite !) meeting," he told his followers.
The antiques expert's phone went unanswered when the BBC News website attempted to contact him on Wednesday, and the nature of his alleged "bust-up" with Bargain Hunt's production team is unclear.
Wonnacott, a former director of Sotheby's, has been the dapper host of the popular BBC One programme since 2003.
He was a contestant on last year's Strictly Come Dancing series and recently presented The Great Antiques Map of Britain on BBC Two.
Guest presenters have been recruited to shoot the remaining half of Bargain Hunt's current series, the BBC said.
At a meeting in Brussels on Thursday they agreed on a need to strengthen measures to "disrupt terrorist travel".
Checks would be carried out on "individuals enjoying the right of free movement" against anti-terrorism databases, a statement said.
EU travellers can often avoid extensive ID checks under the Schengen agreement.
The agreement abolished internal borders, enabling passport-free movement between 26 European countries. The United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland are not involved.
Spain had suggested that the agreement might have to be amended to permit more border checks on people suspected of having terrorist links.
But European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said the Commission saw no need to revise the Schengen rules for now.
It was agreed that more could be done under the existing framework to monitor travellers entering or leaving the Schengen zone without changing the agreement or undermining the right to free movement.
Countries would "proceed without delay to systematic and co-ordinated checks'' on anyone whose movements are flagged as suspicious by databases that use unspecified "common risk indicators", the statement said.
European Parliament President Martin Schulz endorsed tighter controls, but said there were red lines he and other lawmakers would refuse to cross.
He warned that rashly curtailing individual rights in the name of boosting public safety would play into the terrorists' hands by discrediting Western-style democracy.
EU governments want to prevent Europeans from going to fight with Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, fearing that they could carry out attacks after they return home.
At present, only about 30% of passports presented by travellers entering or leaving the Schengen area are checked electronically to see if they are lost, stolen or counterfeit, officials said.
The aim is to move that closer to 100%.
The leaders also called for police and judicial authorities to step up information sharing to prevent arms trafficking and money laundering and to effectively freeze assets used for financing terrorism.
Some of the measures still require approval by the European Parliament to go into effect.
Brazil were leading 2-0 when the floodlights suddenly went dark in the 74th minute of play.
The match had to be stopped for 22 minutes until some of the lighting went back on.
During the blackout, some Venezuelan fans chanted anti-government slogans and called for a recall referendum.
Officials have not said what the cause of the power cut at the Metropolitan Stadium in Merida was.
Earlier this year, power in much of Venezuela was rationed when a drought at the country's main hydroelectric power plant caused shortages.
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The rationing has since been lifted, but blackouts do still occur.
During the 22-minute pause in play, Venezuelans in the stadium could be heard chanting "Maduro out" and "recall referendum".
The chants came just hours before planned anti-government protests in which the opposition wants to call for a referendum to oust President Nicolas Maduro.
The opposition says the government is leaning on the electoral authorities to delay the referendum.
Listen to opposition leader Henrique Capriles speak about his plans
The timing of the referendum is key as it could decide whether the governing PSUV party could be removed from office or not.
If the referendum were to be held before 10 January 2017 - which marks four years since Mr Maduro came to office - and go against the president, new elections would be triggered.
If, however, the referendum is held after that date and if it were to go against the president, the vice-president would serve out Mr Maduro's term.
In order for the recall referendum to go ahead, the opposition will have to collect signatures from 20% of registered voters.
The electoral authorities have set aside three days, from 26 to 28 October, for the opposition to gather the signatures.
After play resumed, Brazil stayed in the lead and the match ended with a 2-0 victory for the visitors.
Nigeria and Arsenal Ladies striker Oshoala, who won the Caf award for the second time on Thursday, said: "We deserve more.
"The federations in every country have to do more for female football."
Oshoala, 22, has previously stated she feels the Nigerian women's team has been mistreated and disrespected.
In December the Super Falcons held a sit-in at a hotel in Abuja over outstanding payments after they had won the Women's Africa Cup of Nations that month.
They also protested outside parliament in Abuja before marching to President Buhari's villa.
The Nigerian Football Federation eventually paid the team two weeks after the protests began.
Oshoala told BBC Sport at the time: "This is a fight about the welfare of the team. It's about the way the team has been handled over the years."
And on Thursday she added: "The award is not for me, it is for all the female footballers in Africa, to speak for us.
"We know the federations can do better [to improve women's football].
"The men have been doing it for years and they have seen a lot of improvements in the game - if the females can get half of that it would definitely bring joy to a lot of girls and a lot of kids out there who feel they are hopeless right now."
The Sewol ferry was carrying 476 people when it went down. More than 300 died, most of them school students.
Lee Joon-seok was among 15 crew members on trial over the sinking, one of South Korea's worst maritime disasters.
Prosecutors charged him with homicide and called for the death penalty, but judges acquitted him on that charge.
Lee is in his late 60s, and he accepted in court that he would spend the rest of his days in jail, according to the BBC's Steve Evans in Gwangju.
The judges said that he was clearly not the only person responsible for the tragedy and they accepted that his negligence did not amount to an intent to kill.
The disaster was blamed on a combination of illegal redesigns, the overloading of cargo and the inexperience of the crew member steering the vessel.
Crew members did not secure cargo which moved when the vessel took a tight corner, toppling the ferry, and Lee was filmed leaving the sinking ship while many passengers remained inside.
During the trial, Lee apologised for abandoning them.
The chief engineer of the ferry, identified by his surname Park, was found guilty of murder and jailed for 30 years.
Thirteen other crew members were given jail sentences of up to 20 years on charges including abandonment and violating maritime law.
Relatives of victims were distraught at the verdict, with some weeping.
The AFP news agency reported that one woman screamed in the courtroom: "It's not fair. What about the lives of our children? They (the defendants) deserve worse than death."
Stephen Evans, BBC News, Gwangju
When the judgement was handed down, there were cries of anguish and anger from some of the bereaved families in court. They had wanted the verdict to be murder as a mark of the seriousness of the negligence committed by the people in charge of the ship.
One bereaved father said after the judgement that he was 30 years old, and that if he had to wait 30 years for the guilty ship's officers to come out of jail, he would - and he would go after them.
The case has been the focus of wider anger. The man who will never face trial is the owner of the company.
The Sewol had been altered to take more cargo and in the process been made less stable. As the authorities pursued him, the chairman of the operating company, Yoo byung-eun, fled and was later found dead in a field.
Just hours before the verdict, the South Korean government finally called off the search for bodies in the vessel, which sank on 16 April.
A total of 295 bodies have been retrieved by teams of divers but nine people remain unaccounted for.
The disaster triggered nationwide grief followed by outrage, and led to severe criticism of safety standards and of the government's handling of the rescue operation.
The South Korean coast guard is due to be disbanded and replaced with a new agency, after accusations that it did not act swiftly or aggressively enough to save lives.
At the end of the trial last month, Mr Lee said he had committed a crime for which he deserved to die - but denied that he had intended to sacrifice the lives of the passengers and asked not to be branded as a murderer.
The widespread outcry over the case had led to doubts over whether the crew would get a fair hearing.
A separate trial is taking place for employees of the firm that operated the ferry, Chonghaejin Marine Co.
The owner of the company and billionaire businessman Yoo Byung-eun disappeared after the disaster and was later found dead.
Meanwhile last week three of his relatives were jailed for embezzlement, while a French court is due to decide next month on whether to extradite Yoo's daughter on similar charges.
NAB said it was looking at all options for the future of the Clydesdale and Yorkshire banking division.
The news came as the Melbourne-based bank announced a fall in profits, due mainly to problems at its UK operation.
Chief executive Andrew Thorburn said: "We have an intention to exit the UK... What we are signalling is that's our intent, it is an absolute priority."
Together, Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank have more than 320 branches. Earlier this year NAB announced a plan to close around 30 branches and invest £45m in its UK business.
Net profit at Australia's fourth largest bank was down 1.1% to A$5.3bn (£3bn), but cash earnings, which strip out volatile items, fell 9.8% to $5.18bn in the year to September.
Mr Thorburn told reporters: "While our Australia and New Zealand franchises are in good shape, it is disappointing to record a full year result that includes $1.5bn after tax in UK conduct provisions and other impairments.
"Our clear focus is on our Australian and New Zealand franchises. In relation to exiting UK banking, this means we are now examining a broader range of options including those provided by public markets," said Mr Thorburn, who took over NAB in August.
He has already announced plans to offload the group's US operation Great Western Bank via a stock market listing.
NAB also announced profit figures for Clydesdale and Yorkshire. Annual pre-tax earnings rose by 90% to £203m, helped by a 49% drop in bad debts to £80m.
Last month the bank said that redress for Payment Protection Insurance mis-selling would cost £420m for the financial year just ended. That was up from £75m announced in August.
Clydesdale is also having to set aside £250m to repay businesses which were mis-sold complex financial products intended to protect against interest rate volatility.
The company has also been hit by bad property loans.
NAB bought Scotland-based Clydesdale Bank in 1987 and Yorkshire Bank in 1990.
NAB paid £420m for Scotland-based Clydesdale Bank 1987 and around £900m for the Yorkshire business in 1990.
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Minimum standards will be introduced later this year to weed out incompetent psychologists and other experts, the justice department said.
The courts will also be told to use fewer experts to save time and money.
The system has so far escaped scrutiny due to the secrecy surrounding family courts, critics say.
Lib Dem MP John Hemming, who campaigns for family law reform, said he "welcomed" the move.
He described the current lack of oversight of experts who were often responsible for life-changing decisions as an "absolute scandal".
Speaking in a Westminster Hall debate on Thursday, the Birmingham Yardley MP claimed some psychologists provided contradictory opinions depending on who was paying for their services or reached a verdict on whether someone was a fit parent without interviewing them.
"The idea that psychologists can come to conclusions about people and their merits as parents without even seeing them is an absurdity," he told MPs.
Justice Minister Jonathan Djanogly, responding for the government, said minimum standards would be introduced as part of wider reform of the family court system aimed at improving fairness and efficiency, including greater use of mediation.
"Expert evidence will continue to be important in some cases to ensure a fair and complete process," the justice minister told MPs, but he said the government was "working to ensure it is of high quality and that it is delivered promptly".
"The main elements will be to raise the threshold for a court to permit an expert to be instructed, where expert witness evidence must be necessary rather than reasonably required."
He said family courts had to be more conscious about the cost and time delays and urged them to "exercise better control on the questions put to the expert".
He added: "We recognise also that minimum standards are necessary for expert witnesses in the family courts and so we are working with the department of health, health regulators and the family justice council to establish minimum standards that judges should expect from all expert witnesses."
Experts can play a crucial role in family court cases, often commenting on whether parents have the ability to care for their children or have treatable psychological problems.
But a
report last November by the Family Justice Review
said there were "serious issues" with the quality of some psychological reports and the courts' reliance on them was causing "unacceptable" delays and harming the welfare of children.
Some 20% of psychologists used as experts were not deemed qualified, the review found, and 65% of expert reports were judged to be of poor or very poor quality.
The planned new rules on expert witnesses were welcomed by the British Psychological Society, which said it was important that "decisions reached by family courts are based on the best possible quality evidence".
"The BPS would be very pleased to engage with the Department of Justice to review the role of expert witnesses in this context and develop improved codes of practice and guidelines," said a spokesman.
The justice department is also working on plans to improve the transparency of the family court system, Mr Djanogly told MPs in Westminster Hall.
Jack Straw, justice secretary under the previous Labour government, relaxed restrictions on family court hearings to allow reporters to cover proceedings provided they did not name those involved.
But the next stage of the reform process, which would have allowed coverage of adoption hearings among other things, has been shelved by the coalition government after MPs found the legislation was drafted in a way that would increase, rather than reduce, secrecy.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: "The government believes that there is a need for greater transparency in the operation of the courts.
"But family proceedings involve parties who have a right to privacy, such as vulnerable children.
"We will look at the issue of media and public access to the family courts, and the release of information from them, afresh taking into account the findings of the recently published final report of the Family Courts Information Pilot.
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More than 50 bones were found after tourists found some of the remains in the isle's Massacre Cave last year.
Analysis by archaeologists at Historic Environment Scotland has dated the remains to the time of the killings.
About 400 islanders, who were members of the Macdonald clan, were murdered by a raiding party of Macleods from Skye.
The islanders had been hiding in the cave for three days when they were discovered.
Macleods blocked the narrow entrance to their hideout with heather and other vegetation before setting the material alight.
The Macdonalds were suffocated by smoke and their bodies left in the cave.
It is believed that the massacre happened in or around the year 1577.
The history and legends of Eigg in the Small Isles can at times read like George R R Martin's popular Game of Thrones fantasy series, or TV adaptation of his books.
Like Martin's tales, the island has stories of giants and episodes of bloody violence.
In 617AD, Christian pilgrim St Donnan was beheaded and his fellow monks murdered.
Legend tells of the killings were carried out by large female warriors who lived on the Sgurr, volcanic outcrop that dominates the skyline on Eigg.
Then in the 16th Century, there was the tit for tat violence of the Macdonald-Macleod clans feud.
It saw a chieftain's son beaten and left for dead in a small boat that is said to have drifted back to his home in Skye.
His father, Macleod of Dunvegan, swore to avenge this act, leading to the Eigg Massacre in a secluded cave.
Over following centuries, various parts of skeletons were taken away by souvenir hunters before the authorities later intervened at the request of islanders and all remains that could be found were interred in Eigg's graveyard.
But tourists visiting the cave in October found a number of bones. Archaeologists went on to recover a total of 53 bones.
Camille Dressler, a historian on Eigg, believes the new discovery may have followed a natural disturbance of soil which revealed the remains.
She hopes the bones, which are also to eventually be interred in the isle's graveyard, will stimulate new research of the massacre and the history around it.
She told BBC Radio Scotland that the killings happened during a long standing dispute between the Macdonalds of Clanranald and the Macleods of Dunvegan on Skye.
Hostilities were escalated by the arrival of a party of Macleods on a small island off Eigg during a storm.
Ms Dressler said: "They helped themselves to cattle and perhaps molested some of the girls looking after the cattle.
"So a party of Eigg Macdonalds crossed over to the island and dispatched the Macleods, reserving the worst fate for the first son of the chief of Macleod of Dunvegan by breaking his limbs and putting him adrift in a little boat without oars, condemning him to a slow and painful death.
"It is said he drifted all the way back to Dunvegan and the chief swore he would have his revenge on the people of Eigg."
A fleet of warriors was sent out from Skye but their galleys were spotted by a watchman on Eigg and the islanders fled the cave.
Its entrance was said to be hidden behind a waterfall.
When the raiders landed they only found an elderly woman who told them nothing of her fellow islanders' hiding place, said Ms Dressler.
Searches for the rest of the residents proved fruitless and the Macleods destroyed the Macdonalds' homes before setting off back to Skye.
It had started snowing and shortly after returning to sea the raiders spotted an islander, who had been sent out from the cave to check if the Macleods had left, against a snow-covered cliff face.
Ms Dressler said: "The Macleods immediately landed back on Eigg and followed the islander's foot prints in the snow to the cave."
The waterfall was diverted and the cave's entrance blocked with flammable material.
Ms Dressler said: "Macleod of Dunvegan hesitated at the last moment and decided the Macdonald's fate should be left to the judgement of God.
"If the wind blew inland from the sea he would have the material lit. If the wind blew from the land to the sea, it would not."
The wind blew in from the sea.
The remains of the massacred Macdonalds were found for years afterwards.
Hugh Miller, a 19th Century geologist, described seeing skulls covered in green mould and writer Sir Walter Scott also visited the Massacre Cave.
Victorian tourists took pieces of bones as souvenirs before all the remaining bones that could be found were buried in Eigg's graveyard at the request of concerned islanders.
Ms Dressler believes last year's discovery may have followed a natural disturbance of soil which revealed the bones to the modern day tourists.
She added: "Some people don't like to go into the cave because of the narrow entrance and they reflect on this as the place where so many people perished."
The bodies of Peter and Jean Tarsey, both 77, were found at their villa on Sunday, the Guardia Civil said.
A Spanish police spokeswoman said friends visited the couple, thought to be originally from west London, because they had not been seen for a few days.
The Foreign Office said it was "ready to provide consular assistance".
A Guardia Civil spokeswoman said: "They [the friends] found the door was open and there were no signs of a break-in.
"The couple, who had been living in Spain for 18 years, were found dead with gunshot wounds on the sofa.
"The Guardia Civil is now awaiting the results of post-mortem examinations and investigations continue."
Mr Tarsey was a former British Olympic diver who competed in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics for Great Britain and represented England at the Commonwealth Games in 1954 and 1958.
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If a million more disabled people could work, the UK economy alone would grow 1.7%, or £45bn ($64bn), says disability charity Scope.
Motor neuron disease affects 400,000 people worldwide, including renowned scientist Professor Stephen Hawking. Multiple sclerosis affects 2.3 million.
But neurons controlling eye movement are more resistant to degenerative diseases. This is also true of other parts of the face, like the cheek, which Prof Hawking uses to communicate.
US company LC Technologies has invented a device that enables people to control a computer using just their eyes.
Eyegaze Edge is the latest invention of the company, which was founded in 1988 by a group of engineers in a basement.
It solved the basic scientific problems then, but the early device was cumbersome and very expensive.
"We crammed it in back of a single-engine plane and took it around to towns where there was a need," says medical director Nancy Cleveland.
"Now, it fits in a suitcase in a commercial aircraft."
The technology behind Eyegaze is called Pupil Centre/Corneal Reflection, or PCCR. A tablet is set up in front of the user, with a small video camera underneath. A near-infrared LED (light-emitting diode) light illuminates the user's eye.
The camera then measures the distance between the centre of your pupil and the reflection of LED light on your cornea - the transparent bit of your eye at the front.
This tiny distance shifts as your gaze changes, and this enables a computer to work out exactly where you're looking.
"People have done all kinds of interesting jobs," says Ms Cleveland, "and all they had was the ability to move their eyes."
She says about 12 books have been written using the device.
A similar device is the HeadMouse Nano, recently developed by Texas-based Origin Instruments.
A camera tracks the movements of a reflective dot stuck to the user's forehead, and these motions control a computer cursor.
Selections are made using a "sip-puff" switch in the mouth, or by dwell time - how long the head stays in a certain position.
It requires slightly more motor ability in its users, but is cheaper.
"Lately, we've reduced size and power consumption," says Origin's vice president Mel Dashner, who worked on tracking devices for aircraft during the Cold War. "We're mainly riding the wave of cell phone technology like everybody else."
There are about 39 million blind people in the world, according to the World Health Organisation. But 90% have at least some level of light perception.
So Stephen Hicks, a neuroscientist at Oxford University, has developed "smart glasses" that accentuate the contrast between light and dark objects.
"We try to represent the world in simple and unambiguous real-time images," he says.
The nearest image is bright, whereas the rest of the field is black, and the the contrast between them is cranked up to maximum.
Mr Hicks started working on the glasses in 2010, with tech firm Epson providing the see-through computer displays.
He has since had additional help from the Royal National Institute for the Blind, and prize money from a Google Impact Challenge award.
The biggest challenge for him has been in keeping the weight down - if the glasses weigh more than 120g (4.2oz) wearers get headaches, he says.
So he has put the battery and processing unit into a handset, connected to the glasses by a small cable.
Technology can even help the 1.5 million people in the world who are deaf and blind. Helen Keller, most famously, was the first deafblind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree in 1904.
Deafblind people can communicate using tactical alphabets - pressing or pinching different parts of the hand represents different letters.
Now Nicholas Caporusso, from Bari in southern Italy, has developed a way of turning these movements and touches into electronic signals via a special glove.
Sensors in his dbGLOVE turn these alphabet tracings into computer text, and actuators trace the letters back onto the hand. This will enable deafblind people to operate computers and smartphones.
Mr Caporusso hopes the final device, which was developed with two partners from Finland - where Nokia has left a legacy of mobile phone inventiveness - will be ready early this year.
"The perfect match of Italian design and Finnish technology," Mr Caporusso calls it.
The biggest challenge was size, he says, as it is with many of these assistive technologies: "All these cables, actuators, and sensors are in a very small space."
Advances in 3D printing and bio-electronics are also helping replace missing limbs with prosthetics and give disabled people extra functionality.
For example, in 2014, Ontario-based Thalmic Labs released an armband called the Myo. It enables a person to control computer devices by reading the electricity produced by their skeletal muscles and then sending these signals wirelessly via Bluetooth to the device.
In December 2015, researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore adapted this armband to control a prosthetic limb.
Thalmic's chief executive, Stephen Lake, says Myo "slides right on the arm, with no surgery or skin prep, and provides much more reliable signals than you can get with electrodes."
The technology was originally developed to facilitate gesture-controlled presentations and has been used by DJs to control lighting displays.
And if such assistive technology can be used by non-disabled people, too, it can be made more cheaply to the benefit of all.
The writers took out a full page advert in Mexican newspaper El Universal to defend the right of all journalists to be free from fear and censorship.
The statement by the PEN International writers group was signed by 170 of the world's most acclaimed authors.
PEN says 67 journalists have been murdered in Mexico since 2000.
Among those signing the declaration "to the journalists and writers of Mexico" were Nobel laureates JM Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Toni Morrison, Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mario Vargas Llosa and Derek Walcott.
Other famous signatories included Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Ariel Dorfman and Salman Rushdie.
"We, writers from around the world, stand with you and all Mexican citizens who are calling for the killing, the impunity, the intimidation to stop," the newspaper advert said.
"These violations diminish us all and threaten the right of Mexican citizens to live lives both safe and free from censorship," it went on.
"We call on your government to apprehend and prosecute all who have silenced your colleagues and seek to silence you".
Mexico is considered one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists.
The majority of the killings have been linked to organised criminal gangs, with journalists targeted because of their coverage of drug-trafficking.
There is also widespread intimidation, and some media practice self-censorship to protect their staff.
If it is true that nice guys always come second, the New Zealander - who died on 3 August aged 73 - won the respect and admiration of the sport many times over...
Jeffrey Tawse, 52 and son James, 25, from Cardiff, charged one disabled man, 71, £64,500 to build a garden wall.
They pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud at the city's crown court after conning 15 people, aged 50 to 97.
Jeffrey Tawse, who also admitted money laundering was given six years and his son two years.
The pair operated across south Wales from Monmouthshire to Carmarthenshire using "aggressive sales tactics" to "intimidate" victims, the court heard.
One victim was a 71-year-old man who has short term memory loss after suffering a brain injury in a cycling accident.
The pair charged him £64,500 for a three-course brick wall around his front lawn, with police alerted after the victim withdrew £100,000 from his bank.
A chartered surveyor described their work as "truly appalling", saying it should have cost £600, but recommended the wall be demolished.
They offered other services, such as applying "weed proof sand" to driveways, but merely sprayed them with "sealant" that was salt water.
The court heard one victim said she did not want any work done but they began tending her driveway and demanded money.
In another case, they charged an 83-year-old woman £1,450 to repair her roof, but carried out no work on it at all.
In sentencing the pair, Judge David Wynn Morgan said: "You identify and prey on the vulnerable in the community in a deliberate, consistent, cold blooded way."
Scambuster Wales - a specialist team set up by Trading Standards - carried out a two-year investigation into the pair.
Team leader Andrew Bertie said he was "shocked" by what they discovered, describing their actions as "inexcusable".
Chairman of National Trading Standards, Lord Toby Harris, said the sentences "send out a clear message" to people who try to deceive people in "vulnerable situations".
The Visit Dallas DNA Pro Cycling rider finished the 22km course in 32 minutes 11.32 seconds, 19.62 seconds ahead of Hannah Barnes (Canyon-SRAM).
Rose, who won silver in 2016, said she was "over the moon" to be able to wear the national champion's jersey.
Katie Archibald finished third and 2016 champion Hayley Simmonds fourth.
Rose, from Gloucestershire, added: "It's not quite sunk in yet, but I'm really, really happy.
"I knew at about the halfway point that I was just up, so I was really gunning it on the second half of the course."
The Isle of Man's Anna Christian (Drops' Cycling) crossed the line in 34:13.77 to win the under-23 title and finish seventh overall.
Melissa Lowther (Team Breeze) finished second and Christian's team-mate Alice Barnes third.
Meanwhile, Scott Davies continued his dominance of the men's under-23 category by claiming his fourth straight victory.
Team Wiggins rider Davies finished nearly 50 seconds clear of nearest challenger Tom Bayliss (One Pro Cycling), with Charlie Tanfield (Brother NRG) third.
Davies said: "It's brilliant. I gave it my all and it's brilliant to do it for a fourth time."
It is the final time he can compete in the age group before stepping up to senior level.
But 60 years after the Korean war ended, veterans from both sides of the Irish border have been remembering the conflict and the terrible toll it took.
For three years from 1950, United Nations forces, including British and American contingents, fought North Korean and Chinese armies that had invaded South Korea.
Anthony Thorpe, a Dubliner, joined the Army while living in England, and served in Korea with the Ulster Rifles.
Now aged 85, he remembers Chinese soldiers coming at him in droves, the horrendous casualties, his lost comrades and the military medal, the MM, that he did not get.
"There was one chap who walked into a minefield and got he back of his legs blown off.
"I carried him out. As far as I know, the sergeant took him off my shoulder when I got out of the field. He got the MM and I got the stained shirt. It should have been the other way around but it wasn't to be," he says.
Soon to be 82-year-old former corporal Frank Gorman, from Tempo in County Fermanagh, served in Korea as a mechanic and engineer attached to the King's Own Scottish Borderers.
One of his abiding memories of the war is the weather, the heat in the summer and how the freezing cold of the winter affected both him and the trucks and machines he maintained.
He says: "The frost was that severe that if you didn't get your tea drank as you went along a sheet of ice would form over the top of it. That's my worst experience."
The Korean war is often referred to as the forgotten war by those who fought in it.
Among them is retired brigadier Brian Parritt who has written a memoir of his experiences called Chinese Hordes and Human Waves.
"It was such a long way away and it came so closely after the great battles of the Second World War. At three years it didn't last all that long. And it never made the impact in this country as we had economic problems recovering after a major war. So, it has slipped a bit from people's memories," he says.
But it has not slipped from the memories of the South Koreans who say they are grateful to the UN soldiers for their freedom.
While the closed, communist north endures famines and poverty under the rule of one family with nuclear ambitions, the south has become a modern democratic society and an economic power-house.
That's something the veterans who returned to Korea in April quickly discovered.
Canon Robert Jennings, who lives in County Wicklow, found it hard to believe how much its capital, Seoul, had changed.
He says: "There was nothing there except ruins when we left. But when I was back last April it was a magnificent beautiful city of skyscrapers, three-tier roads and the bullet train. We went on that at 200 miles an hour."
But that freedom and economic turnaround came with a terrible price.
An estimated 2.5 million people died in the war, including 5,000 British soldiers.
Before leaving his home Canon Jennings read for me the following lines of the Korean Lament by Mark McConnell, an Irish man who also fought in the war:
There's blood on the hills of Korea,
It's the blood of the freedom we love,
May our names live in glory forever,
And our souls rest in Heaven above,
And, boy, when you go back to Dublin and Belfast,
When this war is over and done,
Just think of the ones left behind you,
Out in the Korean sun.
Capita said it expected profits of at least £515m this year, down from its prediction in September of £535m-£555m which itself was a downgrade.
The company also said it would sell the majority of its Capita Asset Services division, as well as other assets.
Despite Capita's fall, the FTSE 100 index closed up 30 points at 6,932.
In the FTSE 250, shares in bookmakers were hit after MPs recommended that the maximum amount gamblers can stake on fixed-odds betting machines should be cut from £100 to £2.
Shares in William Hill dropped 7% and Ladbrokes Coral shares fell 4.5%.
Sports Direct shares were down 7.75% after the retailer reported a sharp fall in half-year profits.
Reported pre-tax profits fell 25% to £140.2m, with the company partly blaming the weak pound for the decline.
On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.49% against the dollar to $1.2564, and was 1.25% lower against the euro at €1.0618.
After forward Tal Ben Haim put Maccabi into the lead with a 21st-minute penalty, Stephen Kenny's men quickly hit back through an Eli Dasa own goal.
However, home skipper Dor Micha struck the knockout blow in the 37th minute.
As things turned out, Dundalk could not have gone through as AZ Alkmaar beat Zenit St Petersburg to finish second.
Dutch side AZ had gone in to the final round of group games a point above Dundalk and Tel Aviv, so their 3-1 win over group winners Zenit guaranteed their place in Monday's last-32 draw.
The result marked the end of an incredible European adventure for the club from County Louth, whose domestic season ended over a month ago.
They were just one round away from the group stages of the Champions League - losing to Legia Warsaw in the play-off - and then became the first Irish team to win points in the group stage of a European competition.
The only other Irish club to have reached the group stage of the Europa League were Shamrock Rovers in 2011-12, but they lost all six games.
Dundalk picked up four points from their opening two games, but then went on to lose their final four matches.
They made a bright start in Israel, suggesting they were capable of getting the result they needed, but after news filtered through that AZ had taken an unexpected lead in the Netherlands, it seemed that it was not going to be their night.
The League of Ireland champions did manage to cause a few early problems, especially a fizzing cross by Sean Gannon which was cleared frantically by the Maccabi defence.
Then came the first blow in the 19th minute. Dundalk defender Brian Gartland was caught in possession just outside his own box and the ball broke to Maccabi's Haris Medunjanin who went down under a challenge from Dundalk keeper Gary Rogers, who was booked.
There did not seem to be much contact, but that mattered little to Ben Haim, who beat Rogers to put his side 1-0 up.
Dundalk were back in business five minutes later. A low cross by Chris Shields led to the ball being turned into the net by Maccabi's Dasa, under pressure from Daryl Horgan.
But Maccabi struck for a second time to secure a 2-1 interval advantage, Dor Micha getting off a tame-looking shot that beat Rogers.
Match ends, Maccabi Tel Aviv 2, Dundalk 1.
Second Half ends, Maccabi Tel Aviv 2, Dundalk 1.
Attempt blocked. Vidar Orn Kjartansson (Maccabi Tel Aviv) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Dor Micha.
Attempt missed. Ciarán Kilduff (Dundalk) header from very close range is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Daryl Horgan with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Dundalk. Conceded by Gal Alberman.
Corner, Dundalk. Conceded by Omri Ben Harush.
Attempt blocked. David McMillan (Dundalk) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Dane Massey with a headed pass.
Attempt saved. Vidar Orn Kjartansson (Maccabi Tel Aviv) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Predrag Rajkovic.
Yossi Benayoun (Maccabi Tel Aviv) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Robbie Benson (Dundalk).
Foul by Omri Ben Harush (Maccabi Tel Aviv).
David McMillan (Dundalk) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Maccabi Tel Aviv. Eden Ben Basat replaces Tal Ben Haim II.
Attempt missed. Robbie Benson (Dundalk) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Chris Shields.
Substitution, Maccabi Tel Aviv. Yossi Benayoun replaces Nosa.
Offside, Maccabi Tel Aviv. Gal Alberman tries a through ball, but Nosa is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Ciarán Kilduff (Dundalk) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Patrick Barrett.
Substitution, Maccabi Tel Aviv. Gal Alberman replaces Eyal Golasa.
Substitution, Dundalk. Ciarán Kilduff replaces Patrick McEleney.
Foul by Haris Medunjanin (Maccabi Tel Aviv).
Stephen O'Donnell (Dundalk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Maccabi Tel Aviv. Conceded by Patrick Barrett.
Attempt saved. Haris Medunjanin (Maccabi Tel Aviv) left footed shot from more than 35 yards is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Dor Micha.
Daryl Horgan (Dundalk) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Eyal Golasa (Maccabi Tel Aviv) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Daryl Horgan (Dundalk).
Attempt missed. Vidar Orn Kjartansson (Maccabi Tel Aviv) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Haris Medunjanin following a corner.
Corner, Maccabi Tel Aviv. Conceded by Chris Shields.
Tal Ben Haim (Maccabi Tel Aviv) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ronan Finn (Dundalk).
Attempt blocked. Vidar Orn Kjartansson (Maccabi Tel Aviv) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Eli Dasa.
Attempt missed. Dor Micha (Maccabi Tel Aviv) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Tal Ben Haim II.
Foul by Eytan Tibi (Maccabi Tel Aviv).
Robbie Benson (Dundalk) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Dundalk. Stephen O'Donnell replaces Sean Gannon.
Attempt saved. Eli Dasa (Maccabi Tel Aviv) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Tal Ben Haim.
Corner, Maccabi Tel Aviv. Conceded by Patrick Barrett.
Attempt blocked. Eyal Golasa (Maccabi Tel Aviv) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Tal Ben Haim II (Maccabi Tel Aviv) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Nosa.
Attempt missed. Haris Medunjanin (Maccabi Tel Aviv) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Eyal Golasa.
Exxon Mobil reported it earned $4.2bn (£2.68bn) in the second quarter, which marked a drop of more than 50% from last year.
Profits increased in the company's chemical unit during the period, but that was not enough to offset the oil price drop.
Since last year, Brent crude oil prices have fallen more than 40%.
"Our quarterly results reflect the disparate impacts of the current commodity price environment, but also demonstrate the strength of our sound operations, superior project execution capabilities, as well as continued discipline in capital and expense management," said Rex Tillerson, Exxon Mobil's chairman and chief executive officer.
The massive drop in crude oil prices also weighed on results at oil producer, Chevron.
Second quarter profit fell 90% from last year, to $571m (£365m).
"Second quarter financial results were weak, reflecting a crude price decline of nearly 50% from a year ago," Chevron chief executive officer, John Watson, said.
"Our upstream businesses were particularly hard hit, as lower prices reduced revenues and triggered impairments and other charges," Mr Watson added. "Downstream operations continued to deliver strong financial performance, reflecting both high reliability and improved margin."
Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell announced yesterday it has shed 6,500 jobs as part of cost-cutting plans as it seeks to counter falling oil prices.
Amy Cluskey had part of her nose and upper lip ripped off during the attack.
The judge questioned why police had not told Lee Cluskey, 19, that Mooch was illegal after it killed a cat months before the August 2014 incident.
Cluskey, of Mount Pleasant, Waterloo, who pleaded guilty to possessing a fighting dog got a suspended jail term.
He also admitted a charge of having a dog dangerously out of control and was told his custodial sentence would be suspended for nine months.
The court heard he had contacted Merseyside Police following the incident with the cat.
In response the judge, Recorder Simon Medland QC, said: "Last year, I am very surprised the police did not realise this was in fact a pit bull terrier, which is a prohibited fighting dog.
"It has, to my lay eye, all the appearance of one. It seems a most odd conclusion they came to. The dog has not changed in the last 12 months."
He said an expert "very clearly" identified it as a pit bull breed.
"Quite why the police missed that in 2014 I don't know, but they did," the judge added, describing the information they gave to Cluskey as "duff".
He said Cluskey's remorse was genuine and "one could almost say palpable".
The court heard he told police he turned his back to get the dog's food when he heard his sister screaming.
"The dog had jumped up at her face and latched on," he said.
He prised its mouth open, struck it on the head with his elbow and pulled its tail before forcing it away and locking it in a bathroom.
His sister lost some of her gum and front teeth and underwent emergency surgery, spending a week in hospital and having a series of operations.
A Merseyside Police spokeswoman said: "We note the findings of the court case.
"An internal review of the police response to an animal attack in Bootle in August 2014 is to be conducted to establish the full facts of the matter.
"As such it would be inappropriate to comment any further at this time."
Junead Khan, 25, a supporter of so-called Islamic State (IS), was found guilty of preparing terrorist acts.
Khan had driven past RAF Lakenheath and other US bases on his delivery route, and had discussed staging a car crash and attacking a soldier with a knife.
He was also convicted of preparing to join IS in Syria. His uncle Shazib Khan was also convicted of the same charge.
In what police called a "chilling message" to a suspected IS member, Junead Khan described how he had missed an opportunity to kill US soldiers on his rounds as a delivery driver.
The message said: "When I saw these US soldiers on road it just looked simple but I had nothing on me or would've got into an accident with them and made them get out the car."
His contact replied: "That's what the brother done with Lee Rigby" - referring to the British solider murdered in Woolwich in 2013.
During the trial, the court heard Junead Khan had been identified under the government's anti-extremism programme - and had mocked it after police visited him in 2014.
He sent a message to his 23-year-old uncle, Shazib, also from Luton, saying he was laughing out loud because police left a card asking him to call them.
He later met with officers and afterwards sent a message saying: "Hopefully the last I hear from them."
Commenting after the verdicts, police said Junead Khan "repeatedly rejected police offers to help divert him from radicalism".
Officers working as part of Prevent - the government's drive to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism - visited him four times in 2014, the Metropolitan Police said.
But he refused help and became "more embroiled in extremism", and after his arrest police found material including "bomb making guides and terrorist propaganda".
Commander Dean Haydon, of the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command, said Junead Khan had done extensive research on how to make a bomb.
Police also recovered British and US flags stolen from a diner in Dunstable. These were "potentially to be used for a symbolic act during the terrorist attack", the Met said.
In July 2015, Junead Khan had an encrypted online conversation with Junaid Hussain, a British IS operative in Syria.
He was sent instructions on how to build a bomb and was told to use it against police if they arrived on the scene of his planned attack.
Days after this online conversation he carried out internet research into buying a large knife - but was then arrested at his workplace.
The following month Junaid Hussain was killed in a US missile strike - one of only a few British IS operatives who have been targeted in this way.
Hussain was a hacker and IS propagandist, and US military spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said he had the potential to "radicalise and inspire violence in foreign countries around the world".
Sue Hemming, head of the counter terrorism division of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "Through early detection and prosecution of these individuals more serious crimes have been avoided which could have had devastating consequences in the UK or Syria."
The verdicts came after a six-week trial at Kingston Crown Court.
The men were remanded in custody and will be sentenced on 13 May.
A study from RSPB Scotland proposes creating seven sites to be designated as Special Protection Areas (SPA) to protect key feeding areas.
It claims that the Scottish government is in danger of breaking conservation legislation if no action is taken.
The government is set to create a network of marine protected areas.
The SPA sites proposed by the wildlife charity include sandbanks located off the Firth of Forth, an area of the Pentland Firth and the sea north of St Kilda.
The recommended areas were first identified by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) and are considered vital feeding areas used by many tens of thousands of seabirds.
The original deadline to create SPAs to try to protect seabird numbers was created in the early 1980s and further strengthened by the Marine (Scotland) Act in 2010.
Although the government is set to designate 33 marine protected areas, the RSPB feel that not enough has been done and that this lack of action means that standards have not been met.
Figures from the Scottish government show that the population of seabird species has fallen since 1996.
Arctic skua have plummeted by 80%, Arctic tern by 72% and kittiwakes by 68%.
Stuart Housden, director of RSPB Scotland, said: "Scotland has a fantastic opportunity to show the world that we value our wildlife and natural environment.
"We are calling on the Scottish government to designate these seven areas as a first step to creating the full network needed to fulfil the requirements of EU and Scottish legislation."
He added: "With numerous proposed wind farm developments 'queuing up' in the areas that overlap key feeding sites for birds, we cannot wait any longer. The best feeding sites for seabirds must be given the protection the government's own scientists say they deserve. The time for action is now."
In addition to the seven proposed SPA sites, the RSPB will propose a second bank of sites later this year for additional protection for seabirds.
The Scottish government responded to the wildlife group's report by saying that it had a strong commitment to the conservation of seabirds.
A government spokesman said: "The Scottish government is committed to ensuring protection for our seabirds including the completion of work to identify marine Special Protection Areas under the EU Birds Directive. We are confident that completion of marine SPA designations will deliver adequate site protection for seabirds.
"We consulted on 33 Nature Conservation Marine Protected Areas (MPA) proposals which will provide valuable protection for our marine environment, including seabirds, in 2013."
He concluded: "Six of these would include national protection for black guillemot in the marine environment, while several of the other MPA proposals include protection for habitats or species such as sand eels that support seabirds."
Buster, an arms and explosive search dog, served in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Iraq, sniffing out bombs and weapons, before retiring in 2012
The springer spaniel passed away at his handler's home in Lincolnshire in 2015.
The memorial was unveiled in the garden at RAF Waddington during a short service.
Buster's handler, Flight Sergeant Will Barrow, said: "He undoubtedly saved lots of lives and the upshot of that is that there are also a lot of people that have still got their loved ones around.
"This is not about saying good bye to Buster with a memorial, it's more like saying hello forever."
His side emerge from the winter break bottom of the Premiership and without a win since late October as they begin 2017 with a Scottish Cup tie at Elgin City on Saturday.
There have been notable highs - Inverness are after all the only side to take a point off runaway Premiership leaders Celtic.
However, no-one could realistically suggest three wins from 21 games is a positive return.
Following defeat in their last outing, the 3-2 Highland derby loss to Ross County on New Year's Eve, Foran openly blamed himself saying: "For me the start in management 2016 has been poor.
"I'm letting the supporters down. I'm letting the board down. I'm letting the chairman down. That'll change. I'll get better and my team will get better."
It was refreshingly honest.
In an interview broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound on Tuesday, 36-year-old Foran maintained that stance but is adamant he, and his side, will do better.
"It was [former assistant manager] Maurice Malpas who told the team years ago, 'look at yourself first before you look to blame others', said Foran. "That's what I do now. I always look at myself.
"I'm the manager, I pick the team. Results aren't going right it's mainly down to me. These players have proved they're good enough so at the moment I'm not getting it right but I will get it right.
"Maybe I haven't been picking the right team enough. Maybe they're not getting the right direction. I'll go through it all but I take full responsibility.
"This season we're not good enough and I'm the new manager. We'll get it right."
As a player, Foran conceded he found it hard to accept defeat to a level that was "crazy." He's tempered that.
"You get older and wiser," he explained. "In my younger years I couldn't deal with defeat for three or four days after a game.
"I'd beat myself up too much. Other players would be in the shower after the game and couldn't care less. When I got older I started to deal with it better.
"Management is a different ball game. You're always thinking about football, you're always thinking how you can improve things. That's the way it is at the moment.
"The first defeat as a manager was hard to take. I was absolutely drained and slept for about two days.
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"I wouldn't say they're easier to deal with but I'm sleeping better. It's not life or death. This club means a lot to me but there's always someone worse off than you.
"It's testing times, challenging times but it's a challenge I'm up for and the players are up for it.
"I'm dedicated to the club. I'm dedicated to the city. I'm here for life, not two or three years. I want to be the longest-ever serving manager here."
Such loyalty in contemporary football is rare but seems a reciprocal arrangement with Inverness CT handing their former captain Foran a four-year contract on his appointment last summer.
There's little likelihood of a knee-jerk reaction at board level if things don't go well over the coming weeks.
So what's next? Former Motherwell and Dundee United striker Henri Anier has been recruited alongside Irish forward Dean Ebbe. Foran is also trying to add to his defence.
"Some players will look to me to lead them," added Foran. "Some of them might be a wee bit scared at the moment, where we're sitting.
"They're not showing it but maybe on the inside they are. I've got to lead from the front. I won't get too high, I won't get too low.
"We're seven [points] off the top six. Come the end of the season I fully expect we'll be mid-table in the top six.
"We need to start winning now. The first half of the season you're looking to get performances right, now it's all about results."
Mold Crown Court heard the gang brought class-A drugs into Mold, Flintshire, and rural areas for distribution on the streets.
The seven admitted drugs-related offences and were given jail terms ranging from five years to 18 months.
Head of the gang, Kevin McMullen, 30, of Muirhead Avenue, Liverpool, was jailed for five years and eight months.
Judge Geraint Walters described them as "an organised criminal enterprise".
The court heard the offences were carried out between February and August last year.
Judge Walters said evidence showed houses were used to store and then distribute drugs, and vehicles were hired to distance them from police attention.
They also had an array of weapons and balaclavas along with phones which were not easily traceable.
It was not known how many dangerous drugs were brought into the rural area but it was significant and its impact would be huge, Judge Walters added.
McMullen was also banned from driving for five years after he admitted two charges of dangerous driving following police pursuits.
Courier David McDonagh, 54, of Sedgemoor Road, Liverpool, was said to have played an active part and was jailed for four years.
The judge said he had not been deterred by a two-year sentence in 2010 for conspiring to supply cocaine.
Danny Burrows, 26, formerly of Maes-y-March, Mold, employed to sell drugs in the town, received two years consecutive to a prison sentence he is already serving for burglary and attempted robbery.
His mother Carol Burrows, 48, who allowed her flat in Maes Abad in Mold to be used by the drugs gang, was jailed for two years.
The youngest member of the gang, James Johnson, 21, originally from Liverpool, appearing on a link to Durham Prison, was jailed for three years.
Judge Walters said it must be served consecutive to a three year and nine month sentence he received in Glasgow in June for ferrying three kilos of heroin into Scotland.
All five had admitted conspiracy to supply heroin and crack cocaine.
Meanwhile Burrows' father Julian Williams, 45, of Ivy Crescent in Mold, admitted being concerned in the supply of drugs, and received 18 months.
Danielle Davies, 27, at the time of Rhyl Road, Rhuddlan - McMullin's partner who hired some of the cars and who stored weapons and balaclavas for him - also admitted being concerned in the supply of drugs and received two years.
Police who caught the gang under Operation Baste were commended by the judge for their diligence.
Cash seized would go to the police to help them in their work against criminal gangs, he added.
Stewart Cooney, 95, served with the Royal Artillery and died in a care home in Leeds last month.
Hundreds attended his funeral earlier, including Royal British Legion standard bearers, a piper and soldiers from his old regiment.
One organiser, Martyn Simpson, said: "We never let a brother go alone."
Other mourners included Army Reserve soldiers, a motorbike escort from the Royal British Legion Riders and members of the public.
All the seats inside the crematorium were taken and mourners left outside watched the service on television screens.
When the funeral was arranged it was believed Mr Cooney had no surviving relatives, however two women understood to be his sisters came forward after hearing of his death.
As the mourners stood outside the chapel awaiting Mr Cooney's final journey to Pudsey church, Barry Fretwell, president of Mirfield Royal British Legion, said: "It was incredibly heart-warming how people had responded".
Stacey Williams, carer at Carlton Lodge where Mr Cooney died, said he would have been overwhelmed by the turnout from strangers.
"He was the kind of man who just didn't expect that kind of thing."
Hundreds of people rallied round to ensure soldier Stewart Cooney got the send-off he deserved.
This tide of strangers stood together, united in effort to ensure Mr Cooney's passing was marked by more than just a gathering of social workers, care workers and a priest.
The hearse was escorted to the crematorium by dozens of motorbikers from the Royal British Legion - clad in leather, regimental numbers on their arms identifying them as former servicemen.
Recalling Troop Sergeant Major Cooney's military life, celebrant Lynda Gomersall described how he had served in many places including Egypt, Syria and Italy's battle of Monte Cassino. She spoke of his deep love for his wife 'Barnsley Betty' and his adopted son Niall.
Quiet laughter filled the chapel when she recounted his days at the nursing home, he was described as a "cheeky chappie" who "tried his luck with the ladies".
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Mr Simpson, who served in the RAF and is a Royal British Legion standard bearer, said having seen the online appeals he also helped spread the word and had been amazed by the response.
"It's a marvellous thing, I feel quite emotional. He served in World War Two and I don't know his history but anybody who served deserves this," he said.
Dougie Eastwood, who works for the company that runs Colton Lodges in which Mr Cooney died, started the appeal after he noticed Royal Artillery insignia in Mr Cooney's room.
Mr Eastwood, who also served in the Royal Artillery for 25 years, said: "He outlived his wife and son."
He added: " I got in touch with 269 Royal Artillery based in Leeds and it just went viral.
"I couldn't see his funeral only attended by a couple of care workers, a social worker and a priest.
"I'm quite happy he'll go the way an old soldier like him should do."
The Yorkshire Evening Post also appealed for mourners to attend the funeral.
Lynda Gomersall offered her services after seeing the appeal on Facebook. She spoke to Mr Cooney's carers and looked through old records to write the eulogy.
"I don't think anybody should go without recognition, especially soldiers," she said.
Jurors have been told victims were passed around a group of men at the Wrexham home of Gary Cooke, 64, in the 1980s.
Mr Cooke and six co-defendants deny a range of sex offences against boys aged 10 to 15. The trial began in April.
The jury started their deliberations on Friday. The judge asked them to resume on Monday.
The men were charged following an investigation by the National Crime Agency under Operation Pallial.
The homewares and fashion chain, famed for its colourful retro-themed patterns, reported a 20.2% rise in international sales to £55.3m in the year to the end of March, helping group sales to rise 2.4% to £118.5m.
The firm, which has 123 stores across Asia, said Japan was now its biggest market after the UK.
It opened 45 stores during the year.
The rapid rate of expansion means it now has 205 stores overall, with the majority (135) overseas.
It said the UK market, where sales fell 3%, was "challenging".
The report marks the first set of full year results since founder Cath Kidston stepped down from her role as creative director of the eponymous lifestyle label at the end of last year.
Chief executive Kenny Wilson, who took the helm in 2011 after moving on from Claire's Accessories, said it had been a year of "profound change" for the company with "unprecedented investment".
It put money into a new distribution centre in Asia as well as expanding into the Middle East, and bought 27 of its Japanese stores from its franchise partner.
The investments pushed its underlying profits down by 36% to £16m, compared with £25m for the same period a year ago
But Mr Wilson remained upbeat.
"I am very excited about the coming year and our plans to grow the business even further," he said.
The company, which started in London's Holland Park in 1993, is jointly controlled by private equity firm TA Associates and Hong Kong-based Baring Private Equity Asia, which bought a "substantial" stake in the business last year.
Ms Kidston has credited her English country childhood - she grew up in Hampshire - as the inspiration for her English heritage-inspired brand.
She has however admitted that the floral and polka dot patterns are not to everyone's taste, telling Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in 2011: "People either love it and want a little bit of it very much, or want to stab us."
The 26-year-old had been playing through a problem with his groin before tearing the muscle in the goalless draw at Cambridge on 28 March.
Skarz has appeared in 49 games for the U's in all competitions this season.
"We knew the risk of a rupture happening but we were hoping we could manage the situation," manager Michael Appleton told the club website.
"It got to a stage against Cambridge where he was struggling to turn and that was when we knew he needed to get it looked at."
The teenager has played a key role this season, scoring 10 goals including an extra-time winner in the Europa League quarter-final against Anderlecht.
"Rashford will be a brilliant centre forward, there is no doubt about that," Scholes told BBC Radio 5 live.
"His pace is incredible. He's almost the club's most important player now at the age of 19."
Rashford has played 49 games for United and England this season, having broken into his club's first-team last term.
Just four months into his first professional season in February 2016, he was selected for Euro 2016 by England manager Roy Hodgson.
Scholes, who played 718 games for United, feels Zlatan Ibrahimovic's knee injury will give Rashford the chance to impress up front for the Red Devils.
"What we saw against Anderlecht was raw pace, the excitement, skill and ability to fly past people as if they are not there," said the ex-England international.
"He probably needs to work on his composure with the chances he is getting, but if he stats putting his chances away - I am sure he will.
"He has always been a centre forward. When I saw him playing for the young United teams, he was scoring 30-40 goals a season. I know this lad can finish and score goals.
"I am just a little bit worried that he is so quick he may get shoved out wide, which is not a bad thing. You look at Cristiano Ronaldo's record and players like Neymar, he has that kind of ability. It is a lot to live up to but he has that in him. He can be a world star."
Ibrahimovic landed awkwardly late on in normal time against the Belgians, and the club are waiting to find out the extent of the injury.
The 35-year-old Swede joined the Old Trafford side on a one-year deal last summer, and has scored 28 goals in 46 games. But he is yet to agree an extension for next term.
In their last league game, Ibrahimovic was left on the bench, while Rashford scored in an impressive 2-0 victory over Premier League leaders Chelsea.
Scholes added: "Historically, United have 50 or 60 games and he has to play centre forward in the big games, that is because of his pace. Next year we will see two top centre forwards come in.
"When I think of Manchester United and forward players, I always think of three or four top forwards. When I was playing we had Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Teddy Sheringham, Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole. Rashford can be part of that.
"Zlatan is not the type of character to play 25-26 games against the weaker opposition, not against the top teams and that will hurt him. If they want to progress, that is what they will have to do in the big games."
Manager Jose Mourinho does not think Rashford should be selected for England Under-21s at this summer's European Championship.
The Portuguese said that "when a player reaches a certain level, it does not make a lot of sense to drop levels", but admitted "the power" is in the Football Association's hands over the decision.
Rashford already has eight senior England caps and the Portuguese compared the situation to Rashford being selected for United's under-23 team to win "say a derby against Manchester City".
"[Head of academy] Nicky Butt does not pick him to play that game. He could by age," added Mourinho.
In May 2016, Rashford signed a new contract worth £20,000-a-week at Old Trafford to keep him at the club until 2020.
Aidy Boothroyd's England U21 side have been drawn in a group alongside hosts Poland, Slovakia and Sweden for the tournament which runs from 16 to 30 June.
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The jawbone is 2.8 million years old: 450,000 years older than researchers believed human beings first lived.
It was found in the African country of Ethiopia, which is thought to be where humans first evolved.
The researchers say the discovery shows the most important change between apes and humans.
Until now, the oldest known human bones were from 2.35 million years ago.
Prof Brian Villmoare of the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, who led the study, believes the jawbone shows a clear link between our own kind and apes.
A 3.2 million-year-old ape, nicknamed "Lucy", was found in the same part of Africa 40 years ago, in 1974.
This jawbone has much smaller back teeth than "Lucy": one of the things that define us as human.
But Prof Chris Stringer of London's Natural History Museum says while this jawbone is an important find, on its own it's not enough to tell how human this creature was.
"These new studies leave us with an even more complex picture of early humans than we thought," he says.
"They challenge us to consider the very definition of what it is to be human. Are we defined by our small teeth and jaws, our large brain, our long legs, tool-making, or some combination of these traits?"
"Ground-breaking" news stories derived from the "Syria files" will be published over the next two months, Wikileaks said.
Its founder Julian Assange was quoted as saying the material was embarrassing - not only to Syria but its opponents.
The emails are said to date from August 2006 to March 2012.
Syrian authorities have been fighting an internal rebellion for some 16 months. Some 15,800 people have died, activists say.
Emails from the Syrian ministries of presidential affairs, foreign affairs, finance, information, transport and culture are all represented among the data to be released, Sarah Harrison from Wikileaks told reporters in London.
"The range of information extends from the intimate correspondence of the most senior [governing] Baath party figures to records of financial transfers sent from Syrian ministries to other nations," she said.
Mr Assange remains in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he is trying to avoid extradition to Sweden over accusations of rape and sexual assault.
But Ms Harrison quoted him as saying that this material "helps us not merely to criticise one group or another, but to understand their interests, actions and thoughts. It is only through understanding this conflict that we can hope to resolve it."
Some of the 2,434,899 emails would reveal, Wikileaks promises, "how the West and Western companies say one thing and do another".
News stories based on the emails will be published by news providers including US news agency Associated Press, Spain's Publico.es and Egypt's al-Masry al-Youm.
Some stories which have already appeared seem to concern communications between Syrian representatives and Western suppliers of equipment that could be used for military purposes.
The 81-year-old, who wrote the scores to numerous musicals including Follies and Sweeney Todd, will be awarded the Handel Medallion on 1 November.
The award is given by the City of New York for contribution to the city's intellectual and cultural life.
Previous recipients include Leonard Bernstein, John Lennon and choreographer Merce Cunningham.
Sondheim has won many theatre awards, including an Oscar for best song in 1990 for Sooner or Later from the film Dick Tracy.
Some of his best known works include West Side Story, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and A Little Night Music.
The Handel Medallion will be presented by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and actor Alec Baldwin at the Mayor's Awards for Arts and Culture ceremony at Alice Tully Hall.
The ceremony will also honour five other figures in the art world for their contributions, including Baryshnikov Arts Center director Mikhail Baryshnikov and artist Maya Lin.
Arts campaigner Alice Diamond, musician Jimmy Heath and the non-profit Theater Development Fund will also be recognised.
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Saturday's 4-2 defeat of Stoke was the Blues' 13th Premier League win in a row - equalling the record of successive victories in a single season set by Arsenal during the 2001-02 campaign.
"They are fantastic and we are proud," said Conte of his side's achievement.
When you have these type of players you can go to sleep happy
"But we must concentrate on the second part of the season."
He added: "Numbers are not important if you do not win the title."
Chelsea have a six-point lead at the top of the Premier League, with Liverpool, in second, beating Manchester City 1-0 in Saturday's late game.
Conte, who became Chelsea boss in the summer, acknowledged it would be "difficult" for his side to repeat their run, which began on 1 October.
"The first part of the season was incredible for us but the next half will be very hard for us," he said.
"We started the season as underdogs and now we have the light on us, we must know this and work more to find the right solution to try to win in every game."
Chelsea twice lost the lead to a gutsy Stoke side - after goals from Gary Cahill and Willian - before Willian's second and Diego Costa's late fourth ensured another three points for the Blues.
Conte praised his players for coping with the Potters' aerial and physical threat.
"They showed great character because it's not easy when you take the lead and concede, and do it again," he said.
"I was a player so I know this type of situation. You look at the clock and see you don't have much time to win the game.
"It's not easy because, after so many wins, you face teams who want to beat you for many reasons and we must know this.
When you have these type of players you can go to sleep happy."
Former Manchester United and Everton defender Phil Neville on BBC's Match of the Day
"This was probably the most difficult game Chelsea have had in their run. Stoke played really well and matched their system which might be the first time that's happened.
"From kick-off at 2-2, Chelsea ploughed men forward, Eden Hazard went for the jugular. Teams usually retreat but Chelsea don't. Teams can't live with their intensity. That comes from Antonio Conte. Sensational."
Former Newcastle striker Alan Shearer on BBC's Match of the Day
"Costa's goal today summed up his displays this season - it had aggression, power and a great finish. He was angry, but in the right way.
"He's the player of the season so far."
The baby bird flew into Ipswich police station after a door was left ajar.
Officers posted on Twitter: "In the warm weather we advise against leaving doors open to try and prevent intruders. We left ours open and had a little visitor."
An officer who looks after injured birds was drafted in to capture it.
People joked online that the officers were "gullible" for leaving the station door open.
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The funding comes from the Bellwin Scheme, which gives special financial assistance to councils facing extra costs due to disasters or emergencies.
Finance Secretary Derek Mackay said: "There's no doubt that Aberdeenshire was among the areas hit the hardest."
Aberdeenshire Council said it would be a "big help".
Ballater was one of the communities worst hit.
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The "truth commission" will be made up of five independent judges, none of whom will be from the two countries.
But an Israeli spokesman said the move was tantamount to "inviting a murderer to investigate his own killings".
The Argentine ambassador, Atilio Norberto Molteni, was also summoned by the Israeli foreign ministry.
Argentine courts have blamed Iran for the bombing of the cultural centre run by the Israeli-Argentine Mutual Association (Amia), which killed 85 people. Tehran has always denied any involvement.
If followed an attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires two years earlier.
Argentine prosecutors say the Amia attack was planned and financed by Iran, and carried out by the Lebanese Shia Islamist movement, Hezbollah.
In 2006, they sought the extradition of eight Iranians believed to have been involved, including Iran's current Defence Minister, Gen Ahmed Vahidi.
On Monday, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner called the agreement to set up a judicial commission "historic", saying it guaranteed "the right to due process of law, a fundamental principle of international criminal law".
However, the BBC's Wyre Davies in Jerusalem says that decision has both exasperated and angered the Israeli government and some Jewish groups in Argentina.
He says the Argentine ambassador in Tel Aviv was summoned on Tuesday for what was described as a "clarification talk".
Israeli officials said the commission would hinder rather than help the search for the culprits.
Correction 6 March 2013: Making clear it is some rather than all Jewish groups which criticised the proposed commission.
The injured teenager was found on Tagus Street, at the rear of Lodge Lane, Toxteth, at about 20:30 BST on Friday.
Merseyside Police said he was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead. His family have been informed.
It follows two gun attacks in Seaforth and Fazakerley where two men were hurt in "linked" attacks in their homes.
Both attacks happened within 25 minutes of each other on Thursday.
Armed police attended the Toxteth murder scene.
Chief Inspector Keith McLachlan said: "We are relentless in pursuing those who choose to bring firearms onto the streets of Merseyside.
"I am sure local people will be appalled that this has taken place in daylight hours.
"Information from the community will always be acted on, so help us remove those responsible and their weapons from the streets."
A post-mortem examination is due to take place.
Teaching union the EIS carried out a survey as part of its work on tackling the impact of poverty in schools.
About half (51%) of those questioned reported a rise in pupils coming to school without any food.
The survey also found an increase in those taking free school meals and attending breakfast clubs.
More than 300 primary and secondary teachers responded to the autumn survey by the country's largest teaching union.
One in five (19%) identified an increase in the number of incidents of children asking for food and even stealing food from other pupils.
The union reported a 22% increase in the number of post-P3 children taking free school meals and a 27% rise in attendance at breakfast clubs.
It also identified a 7% increase in the number of parents or guardians requesting referrals to local food banks.
EIS general secretary Larry Flanagan said: "The findings offer a stark warning of the deep and damaging impact of poverty and the politics of austerity on children and young people across the country."
On the issue of pupils' health and well-being, 71% of respondents reported an increase in the number of children displaying signs of mental-health problems including anxiety, stress and low mood.
About half (52%) noted an increase in headaches, lethargy and weight issues among pupils.
Mr Flanagan said: "The fact that teachers are reporting such very high increases in both mental and physical health issues in pupils is a huge concern and highlights the true cost of political choices that have driven more families into poverty and widened the gap between the rich and the poor."
The Scottish government said tackling inequalities was at the heart of its programme and as well as encouraging employers to pay the living wage, it is investing £296m over three years to protect people from the UK government's "welfare cuts and austerity agenda which are increasing the numbers of children living in poverty".
A spokesman added: "These findings are truly shocking. Quite simply, no child should be going to school hungry. This government is taking many positive actions to tackle the impacts of poverty on our children.
"It is now one year since we introduced our policy to provide free school meals for all P1-3 pupils and in that year, families of eligible children who have taken a free meal will have saved around £380.
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Oxford University Hospitals trust said 491,622 patients were treated in 2007 compared with 673,884 last year. Non-staff parking spaces remained at 730.
The hospital advises visitors leave an hour to park.
It said in a statement it was aware of the difficulties.
The number of staff members has increased from 10,773 to 12,676 over the same period, while the number of staff parking spaces has remained at 1,601.
Oxfordshire's NHS bosses have proposed moving further services to the John Radcliffe from the Horton General in Banbury, but a trust spokesman said about 90,000 diagnostic, outpatient and day-care appointments per year could move in the other direction, reducing parking problems.
The situation has been criticised by both the city and county councils, while the BBC has been told the situation has led to missed appointments and, in one case, an operation was cancelled.
One mother said she had been forced to carry her wheezing four-year-old son - later diagnosed with pneumonia - to the accident and emergency department after traffic jams meant they could not drive on to the site.
The data came from a Freedom of Information request to the trust and includes inpatients, outpatients and emergency department attendances.
Banbury MP Victoria Prentis said she was concerned about parking at the hospital and had raised it with health bosses.
She added: "With the future of services at the Horton under threat, it is very worrying that parking at the JR has not been adjusted to meet an increase in demand."
The trust said it has been working on a "masterplan" to tackle the "access and parking problems".
It added: "We are hoping to have some initial broad concepts for wider discussion in the early part of 2017.
"For the time being, we do encourage both staff and visitors to make use of alternative transport options including local park and ride services."
Oxford City Council leader Bob Price said: "The concentration of facilities at the John Radcliffe is only likely to increase rather than decrease."
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Dubbed "Russia's Facebook", VK allows users to upload music and videos but is accused of refusing to strike licensing deals with rights holders.
After months of delays, the case finally went before a judge at the St Petersburg and Leningrad region arbitration court. But this legal battle looks set to be a long one.
Although the labels originally filed separate actions, the court ruled that instead they will be heard as one consolidated case. A series of substantive hearings will begin on 8 September, and is expected to run into October.
The fact remains that after numerous warnings, the music industry has run out of patience with VK. As well as suing for £1m in damages, the labels want an order requiring VK to implement fingerprinting technology to delete copyrighted works and prevent them from being re-uploaded.
NFMI and IFPI are the local and global industry organisations working with the labels. "VK's music service, unlike others in Russia, is an unlicensed file-sharing service, designed for copyright infringement on a large scale," says Frances Moore, IFPI chief executive.
"We have repeatedly highlighted this problem over a long period of time. We have encouraged VK to cease its infringements and negotiate with record companies to become a licensed service. To date the company has taken no meaningful steps to tackle the problem."
VK has over 88 million users in Russia - and 143 million globally. It is the second most popular site in Russia and the 22nd most popular site worldwide.
VK's actions have been defended by founder Pavel Durov, known to support piracy and believe in the freedom of sharing.
There's little doubt that licensed digital music services in Russia, including local players Yandex, Trava and global services iTunes and Deezer, pay a price for the widespread piracy. According to IFPI, growth of licensed digital services in Russia is only $0.50 per capita; the European average is $8.40.
And while recorded music revenues in 2013 totalled 2.2bn Russian roubles ($61m; £36.4m), this figure could be even bigger. Russia has the potential to be a top 10 world market, but is currently ranked outside the top 20 international music markets.
As the largest social network in Russia, VK's unlicensed service is a significant factor in this under-performance.
"VK hurt competitors because they are not paying anyone for anything - you cannot compete with that," says Frances Moore.
IFPI is not alone in believing that VK is harming the Russian online music industry. In January, the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) identified VK as one of the most "notorious markets" for piracy for the fourth consecutive time.
Since 2000, Russia has been a mainstay on the USTR's "Priority Watch List" in its Special 301 Report, backed by industry claims of billions lost by US companies in software, music, and film piracy.
The USTR cannot do anything beyond identifying foreign countries that deny adequate and effective protection of intellectual property rights and seek to negotiate.
But it serves to demonstrate the scale of discontent on the world stage with Russia's lack of action on this issue.
Controversy and VK are never far apart. From offering a job to Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower, after he was granted temporary asylum in Russia, to allowing homophobic groups like Occupy Paedophilia to operate on its site. Occupy Paedophilia has been found to use VK to lure gay men to places where they would be attacked.
The lawsuits follow a particularly sensitive time for VK.
Mr Durov left the company and the country in April on acrimonious terms, amid alleged pressure from the site's Kremlin-linked owners after VK's ownership structure changed in 2013.
Mr Durov had previously refused to close down groups on VK organising protest marches against Russian President Vladimir Putin.
VK does not deny the similarities with Facebook. But the major difference between the two networks is their attitude towards copyright laws.
The music industry has challenged VK before. For instance, its vociferous piracy appetite was targeted in 2004-05 but became expensive and little was achieved.
Russia passed a strict anti-piracy law in August last year, regulating online distribution of films and TV series in Russia. Two other bills have since expanded the law to other types of content, including music, photos, books and software.
But not everyone has welcomed it. A potential outcome is the blocking of entire domains, even if only one page hosts illegal content.
The VK case highlights the widespread problem of music piracy in Russia.
A cursory trawl of Russian internet forums, questioning the last film or album purchase elicits an unsurprising response - why spend money on something you can get for free?
Income in Russia means a CD or a film costing about $10 is out of reach, so piracy - rarely recognised as that - is an added incentive to use sites like VK.
Joe Karaganis, an expert in media piracy, co-authored a report into media piracy in emerging economies. He says the concept of unauthorised copying as an illegal activity has been slow to emerge in Russia.
"Part of the problem is that 'piracy' is so entrenched in Russia's consumer culture," he explains. "After the fall of the Soviet Union, many western cultural goods were unavailable at any price, much less at prices most Russians could afford.
"As a result, many of the forms of unauthorised copying and collecting that were common in the Soviet era survived and grew, driven by market failure and cheap consumer tech, rather than official censorship."
Consequently, pirated CDs and videos flooded the market.
Mr Karaganis suggests the scale of damages being sought reflects an industry desire for VK to enter into a licensing deal.
"This case is not about an imminent threat to music revenues, but an attempt to create a foundation for the longer term. The damages claimed are miniscule - the labels want to cut a deal, effectively letting VK carry the risk," he says.
A deal would leave the record labels in the driving seat - controlling their releases and artists - and would afford VK the rights in Russia where perhaps they know the market better. So the artist would get more promotion together with a sizeable cash injection for the labels.
Whatever the outcome of the court case, record companies want to develop a thriving licensed music business in Russia. If successful, consumers will have access to music via different licensed channels and formats. And Russia will move ever closer to an open, competitive music market. | Three major record labels - Sony Music Russia, Universal Music Russia and Warner Music UK - were in court on Monday, suing Russian social media site VKontakte (VK) for "large-scale" music piracy. | 28,739,602 | 1,493 | 52 | false |
Murray, seeded sixth, recovered from losing a tense first set to win in four and reach his eighth Grand Slam final.
"I think the atmosphere in the team is really good and he also calmed down last night," Mauresmo told BBC Sport.
"Apart from that tension [in the first set], he was really composed; highly motivated in a good and positive way."
Tempers frayed in the early stages, with both players making heated comments on court and Murray's fiancee Kim Sears seen on camera in his player box apparently swearing.
Murray, 27, defended Sears, saying: "In the heat of the moment, you can say stuff that you regret."
He went on to attribute the edge around the contest to the pre-match focus on his former coach Dani Vallverdu.
The Venezuelan was in the opposition box for the first time after leaving Murray's team in November, and soon after accepting an offer from Berdych.
"Of course the situation is not happening every day and for the first Grand Slam of the season, at this stage of the tournament, playing against Tomas with Danny in the box, I guess it was very early for everyone and a little extra tension," said Mauresmo.
"Everyone calmed down after a while and the tennis on both sides was able to express itself."
After the match, Murray described the Frenchwoman as "brave" for accepting the role last June and becoming the first female coach of a high-profile male player in recent times, with a number of current and former players criticising the appointment.
"I'm very thankful for Amelie for doing that," he said. "I think that was a brave choice from her to do it and hopefully I can repay her in a few days."
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Mauresmo, 35, had preferred to remain quiet on the issue last year, saying: "I was aware of some things, probably not all the things that were said.
"I know where I want to go, I know what I want to do. I don't think reacting vocally to any comments is really the right way.
"I just keep doing the work, believing in what I think is the right track for Andy to be on, and we both agreed on which direction we should go. Now it's showing some good results."
Murray is one win away from his third Grand Slam title, and completing three legs of the career Grand Slam, with Novak Djokovic or Stan Wawrinka standing in his way on Sunday.
In his last three matches he has beaten 10th seed Grigor Dimitrov, Australian teenager Nick Kyrgios and seventh seed Berdych, mixing up his play throughout with a variety of pace, spins and angles.
"I think Amelie's done a great job with him, she's a very calming influence," Murray's mother Judy told BBC Sport.
"She's very thoughtful, as she was as a player. She listens well and involves Andy in everything that's going on.
"She's not one of those coaches who comes in and tries to impose themselves and tell you what to do all the time.
"I think she's had a great influence on him and it was great to see him recognising that." | Amelie Mauresmo praised the spirit in the Andy Murray camp after his dramatic win over Tomas Berdych at the Australian Open. | 31,052,975 | 729 | 33 | false |
Dr James Kew, 41, died instantly when he ran into the low-hanging cable on a public footpath across a field in Newport, Essex, in 2012.
The fault was reported to UK Power Networks earlier that day, but the company did not cut the power.
It admitted breaching health and safety laws and must pay £153,000 costs.
Dr Kew, of Ashdon, a director of biology at GlaxoSmithKline in Stevenage, was out with members of the Saffron Striders running club on 24 July.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard he ran into the 11,000 volt cable, which at its lowest point was just 4ft 9in (1.5m) above the ground.
It had fallen because a porcelain insulator securing it to a wooden pole had disintegrated, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said.
An inquest into his death in 2014 heard a couple had reported the cable earlier that day and had put a makeshift pile of sticks around it.
The HSE said UK Power Networks was aware of the location and could have immediately "de-energised" the network, but instead sent out an engineer.
Mr Kew was killed 20 minutes before the engineer arrived.
UK Power Networks said it had since changed its policy so that when similar issues are reported, power is turned off before technicians are sent out.
Barry Hatton, the company's director of asset management, said: "Ever since the tragic accident our thoughts have been with Dr Kew's family and friends and [we] are acutely aware of its permanent consequences for them.
"Safety is out top priority... we urge anyone who sees equipment they feel may be dangerous to call us immediately on 0800 316 3105."
The HSE said people who had witnessed Dr Kew's death had suffered severe trauma and stress-related illness.
Dr Kew's father, Jeremy, said his death was a great loss to the family and to medical research.
"I think it's a tremendous pity that the network controller did not think to ask [the caller] to remain on site to warn off any members of the public who were coming down the footpath.
"Sadly, they did not have sufficient protocols in place to deal with the situation that evening."
He urged UK Power Networks to make a generous donation to Action Duchenne, a muscular dystrophy charity which funds research that Dr Kew had been involved in.
The women, aged 18 and 35, were held in the early hours on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.
Magistrates have granted police extra time - until midday on Friday - to question a 53-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder.
He was arrested at the property in Dickens Avenue on Tuesday.
Police said he is known to the victims, named locally as Natasha Sadler-Ellis and Simon Gorecki, both from Canterbury.
Post-mortem examinations on the 47-year-old man and 40-year-old woman are taking place later. Their next of kin have been informed.
A 17-year-old boy and a man, aged 20, who were also injured, are thought to Ms Sadler-Ellis's sons.
Police said the teenager was now in a stable condition and conscious.
The man was released after treatment.
The Military Reaction Force was the subject of a Panorama programme.
Former members said the unit had shot people who may have been unarmed.
Last month families of people allegedly killed by the unit said they had been told former members who appeared on the programme had admitted no crimes.
However, in a statement on Tuesday, the police said: "The allegations of serious crime made against the MRF and the contents of the Panorama documentary are under investigation.
"Police have informed the PPS (Public Prosecution Service) of the proposed next steps and the Policing Board were briefed on Thursday 5 June."
The world number two started with a double bogey after hitting his opening tee shot out of bounds and found water three times in a three-over-par 75.
Day leads on six under, one clear of five players, including fellow Australian Adam Scott who is bidding for a third successive PGA Tour win.
Englishmen Justin Rose and Paul Casey are in early contention on four under.
They are among 10 players within two shots of PGA Championship winner Day, who only needed one putt on each of his last seven holes as he played the back nine in five-under 31.
The world number three's lead could have been bigger but a wild drive out of bounds on the ninth led to a double bogey, however he was content with his opening round.
"I drove it on a string, and played the par-fives in five under," said Day. "It was one of those days where everything kind of went well."
His compatriot Scott is aiming to become only the third player in 10 years - after McIlroy and Tiger Woods - to win three straight PGA Tour events.
Scott, who has had to change his putting style after anchored putters were outlawed at the start of this year, knocked in four par-saving putts - two from five feet, one from 10 and another from 12 in his 67.
"I didn't play my best golf tee to green, but I chipped and putted really well," he said.
Walton, 19, made four appearances for the Championship club last season, keeping two clean sheets.
"He has superb agility and mobility and is extremely comfortable in possession of the ball," Bury manager David Flitcroft told the club's website.
"Christian shows a great desire to keep the ball out of the net and maintains a strong presence within his area."
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The pair are both available for Saturday's FA Cup quarter-final against 12-times winners Arsenal.
Calder, 21, spent the first half of the season on loan at Doncaster, scoring once in 20 appearances.
Etheridge, 22, started his career at Derby and has made eight appearances for the League Two leaders this season.
They teased out the effects of the blade's sharpness, the tension applied to the ribbon and the speed it moves.
As the ribbon bends around the blade, its outermost side stretches and permanently deforms, producing curls.
Sharper blades and slower movement make tighter curls - but the pulling force has an ideal strength, above which the curls become less pronounced.
The UK-based team will present the study on Wednesday at the March Meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore; it also appeared last month in the journal PNAS.
In their experiments, a thin ribbon - made in this case from a transparent PVC film - was draped over a blade and a weight was hung from the end. The ribbon was then wound onto a cylinder in order to drag it across the blade.
The team measured the width of curls produced by different weights and winding speeds - and also created a mathematical model to show that these could be explained by predictable changes in the structure of the ribbon.
Senior author Anne Juel, from the University of Manchester, said it was fairly straightforward to understand why a slower movement produces greater curling:
"It takes a certain amount of time for the stress in the ribbon to relax, and the irreversible deformation to take place."
That relaxation - or "yield" - is what leaves the ribbon curled, because the outer side of the ribbon is permanently stretched compared to the side that was touching the blade.
Similarly, then, a sharper blade increases the stretch and the yield - making tighter curls.
But putting greater tension on the ribbon, with heavier weights, only increased curling up to a point.
This, Prof Juel explained, is because the deformation can spread too far into the ribbon:
"The first part that's going to start to yield is the outermost part of the ribbon, because that's the point where the stress is going to be highest. And then as you apply larger loads, the yield is going to infiltrate deeper and deeper inside the ribbon."
Eventually, with enough pulling power, the distortion of the ribbon's structure will cross the halfway point - which dampens the overall curling effect.
"So the tightest curl will be obtained when you manage to apply a load that will bring yield to exactly half the thickness of the ribbon," Prof Juel said.
And if you're wrapping a swag of presents with a few different kinds of ribbon, she added, that optimum tension will be a moving target.
"It has to be relative to the material properties of the ribbon. So it will be different for different ribbons."
Study co-author Buddhapriya Chakrabarti, of Durham University, presented some data on the same question at a previous APS meeting; Prof Juel said she and her colleagues at Manchester contacted Dr Chakrabarti when they realised they shared an interest in the problem.
Together, they have now published the first complete physical account of ribbon curling.
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The economist Jim O'Neill has been appointed by UK Prime Minister David Cameron to head a review on the issue.
In his first recommendations, he says the gap between spending on cancer and antibiotic research needs to be closed.
He has already warned that drug-resistant infections will kill an extra 10 million people a year by 2050.
That is more than currently die from cancer and Mr O'Neill says the global cost will spiral to $100tn (£63tn).
He points to the US where $26bn was spent on cancer research between 2010 and 2014.
In that period $14bn went to HIV, yet just $1.7bn was spend on antimicrobial resistance.
He has published a series of recommendations aimed at tackling resistance.
They are:
Mr O'Neill said: "I am calling on international funders to allocate money to a fund that can support blue sky science and incubate ideas.
"Antibiotics research is the poor relation to studying chronic diseases of the developed world but, without antibiotics, treating those diseases can be compromised too."
Many practices of modern medicine - from chemotherapy to surgery - are only made possible by antibiotics.
Dr Jeremy Farrar, the director of the Wellcome Trust medical charity, says: "The review's recommendations for action are steps that governments, funders and the research community can start acting on immediately, but there are also steps that we can take as individuals."
Prof Sir John Savill, the chief executive of the UK's Medical Research Council, said: "Picture a world where a cut finger could kill you, you don't have to look far - only 100 years ago, a quarter of all deaths were due to bacterial infections.
"We know there's no magic bullet to the antimicrobial resistance problem.
"Real change needs proper global investment. We need to act now."
Waberi's stance goes against the Council for East and Central African Football Associations (Cecafa) whose members, at an extraordinary meeting on 4 February in Gabon, agreed to give current President Issa Hayatou their support.
The Caf presidential elections will take place on 16 March in Ethiopia.
"We as Djibouti are in for change at Caf and our vote will go for Ahmad. We voted for change during the Fifa elections to bring in Gianni Infantino and we are also in for change now," Waberi told BBC Sport on Saturday.
When asked about the other 10 members of the Cecafa region, Waberi said he was confident "the majority are also backing a change."
Waberi is also contesting to become a Caf executive member from the Central East Zone.
Last Saturday, the Uganda FA President Moses Magogo - during Fifa President Gianni Infantino's visit to the country - said that his executive committee was yet to meet to pick which candidate to vote for.
Since then, Magogo has said they have met and have decided to keep their vote secret.
The Cecafa region has 11 members; Djibouti, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania, Rwanda, Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Kenya.
Ahmad, the Madagascar FA President, already has support from the Council of Southern African Football Associations (Cosafa) and from the Nigeria FA President, Amaju Pinnick, although other Nigerian FA members have criticised Pinnick's revelation.
Issa Hayatou, who has presided over African football since 1988, is seeking an eighth term.
The Cameroonian was re-elected unopposed during the last Caf presidential elections in 2013.
He had previously stated this term would be his last until a change of regulations altered his stance.
In 2015, Caf voted to change the statutes which previously stopped officials serving past the age of 70.
Aberdeen International Airport led the way with a year-on-year increase of 8.2%, to record 289,193 passengers.
Edinburgh saw 730,000 passengers use the airport in March - an increase of almost 5% compared to the same period in 2013.
Glasgow reported an increase of 4.1%, with almost 532,000 people travelling through the airport.
Aberdeen saw strong growth in its fixed-wing operation, which was up by 7.4%, while helicopter passengers increased by 12.9%.
Aberdeen Airport managing director Carol Benzie said: "There are a lot of exciting things happening at the airport at the moment and the energy that these have created is palpable.
"We are pressing ahead with work on the terminal redevelopment, we have seen two new air services take off in the last month alone, and we have been working hard on further route development."
Edinburgh Airport said domestic passenger numbers increased by 5.3% last month, while international passenger traffic was up 4.4%.
Airport chief executive Gordon Dewar said: "We enjoyed a busy March with good performances from domestic and international carriers.
"We also experienced our busiest departure day ever thanks to the thousands of French rugby fans leaving Edinburgh after the Six Nations."
Glasgow, where this week an Airbus A380 "super jumbo" operated by Emirates landed in Scotland for the first time, said its domestic traffic benefited from strong demand for London and regional services.
Its international passenger numbers were lifted by airlines such as KLM, Jet2.com and United, which all reported an increase in demand.
Glasgow's managing director, Amanda McMillan, said: "To be able announce further growth is extremely encouraging and rounds off what has been a historic week for Glasgow Airport and Scottish aviation.
"To have the A380 touch down on our runway was a remarkable and fitting way to celebrate 10 years of Glasgow Airport's successful partnership with Emirates which, yet again, demonstrated its commitment to Scotland."
So her decision to post pictures of herself on her Facebook page smiling and cultivating mushrooms in Thailand has drawn a great deal of comment - the post has already had more than 580,000 likes.
Of course, the photogenic Ms Yingluck attracts attention whatever she is doing. But is she sending a message with this latest post? On her T-shirt in the photo is written "Ordinary Life" in Thai.
A close aide told the BBC that Ms Yingluck now finds herself with little to do, and that she really enjoys growing organic vegetables, exercising and eating healthily.
But it also appears to signify a calm and deliberate retreat from politics, for which there is a strong tradition in Thailand when public figures are immersed in conflict. Her nemesis, Suthep Thuagsuban, who led the street protests that helped bring down her government, went to live in a Buddhist monastery after the coup.
Her controversial brother Thaksin, on the other hand, keeps jetting visibly around the world, and recently broke a long silence by accusing senior palace figures of conspiring to overthrow not just his government in 2006, but also Yingluck's last year.
Yingluck's Facebook post does suggest, though, that she wants to remain in the public eye. In it she thanks her supporters, and teasingly writes that there are "other stories" she will tell them next time.
Scottish comic actors Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill split their successful partnership when hit show Still Game finished its TV run in 2007.
However, they have announced a reunion for a live stage show that will run for four nights at the 12,000 seat arena in September and October 2014.
They say they are talking to the BBC about the show returning to TV screens.
Meetings are planned for next week, the pair said.
The four live shows will take place at the Hydro from 30 September to Friday 3 October next year.
Tickets will go on sale on Friday.
Forty four episodes of Still Game were broadcast over six series from 2002.
In the show, Keirnan and Hemphill played Jack Jarvis and Victor McDade, two foul-mouthed pensioners spending their days disreputably in the fictional Glasgow housing scheme of Craiglang.
They will be reunited with their friend Winston (Paul Riley), local busybody Isa (Jane McCarry), corner shop owner Navid (Sanjeev Kohli) and Boabby the barman at The Clansman (Gavin Mitchell) for their "exciting new venture".
Kiernan and Hemphill, still only 51 and 43, are much younger than the characters they portray, despite a decade having passed since they first donned their flat caps and cardigans.
The pair, who had previously had massive success with their sketch show Chewin the Fat, blamed the pressure of work for bringing their professional relationship and hit sitcom to an end.
Keirnan told BBC Scotland: "We'd done 10 years together. The two of us had been together longer than the Beatles and we were frazzled."
"It's been six long years of answering questions from people - Will you bring it back? Why is it not on telly anymore?"
He said he and Hemphill had both separately looked at the 12,00-seat Hydro and been "taunted" by the possibilities of performing there.
Keirnan said: "They built this place and we thought we'd be missing a trick if we did not have a stab at that big building.
"This volume of place did not exist when we were playing before."
Hemphill added: "We have never had a chance to bring Still Game fans together. We did Chewin the Fat at the Kings Theatre and it was a highlight for us."
The characters of Jack and Victor were created in 1997 and appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe as well as touring theatres around the UK and in Canada, where Hemphill had spent a large part of his childhood.
The characters were said to be based on Kiernan's uncle and Hemphill's grandfather.
The original stage production saw the three friends stranded in Victor's flat, where they discuss a range of topics from death to sex.
When Chewin' The Fat ended in 2002, Kiernan and Hemphill gave the irreverent oldies, who had been used in the sketch show, a new lease of life in their own sitcom.
The show proved so popular that top names such as Robbie Coltrane, Lorraine Kelly, and John McCririck made appearances.
However, the show ended at the top its game and there were report that the comedians had not spoken since their split.
Keirnan said the pair had "bumped into each other" from time to time.
"Our kids are at the same school and we live in the same area and it built gradually without us really noticing," says Keirnan.
"Eventually you come to the conclusion, if so many people are asking for it, why are we not doing it?"
Hemphill said the "reunion" was a new start for the characters and they hoped to do more with them after the shows.
"It would be great to be doing these characters in 10 or 15 years time," Hemphill says.
"There is no reason why we can't continue for years to come.
"The show is unique in the sense that we are young guys growing into our characters."
Keirnan agreed, saying: "It is a bit like Oor Wullie. He's eternally 10 and we are eternally 73, but with a little bit less make-up each year."
Former children's minister, Tory MP Tim Loughton, said the £438m reduction in spending was "disproportionate".
Youth workers warned that the long-term cost of the cuts would be "enormous".
But the Local Government Association said funding cuts meant there were "no easy choices" and spending on things like child protection came first.
The figures, released to BBC Radio 4's World at One after a Freedom of Information request to the Department for Education, outline the amount spent by local authorities on providing services like youth clubs and other out-of-school activities.
The spending also covers education for excluded pupils, teenage pregnancy services and drug and alcohol support programmes.
Figures from s251 budget statements. Some councils may fund youth services from other budgets
They show that, in real terms, the amount spent by councils fell from £1.2bn in 2010-11, to £791m in 2012-13.
The biggest cut in percentage terms was in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea which reduced its budget by 78%, or £5.1m, while Tower Hamlets cut spending by £9.4m - a 65% reduction.
Outside the capital, Tameside, Stoke-on-Trent and Warrington all cut spending by more than 70%.
The amount being spent increased in seven out of 152 areas, including Oldham and Hertfordshire.
Tory MP Tim Loughton, who was children's minister until September 2012, said "councils clearly are cutting youth services disproportionately".
He said a requirement that councils must provide "sufficient leisure-time activities" for teenagers, but only "so far as reasonably practicable", meant youth services were a "soft touch".
"Because they don't have to statutorily provide youth services they have too often been at the top of the queue when cuts come along," he said.
Mr Loughton also described a decision to move responsibility for young people from the Department for Education to the Cabinet Office as a "retrograde step".
He said youth policy "should be back in the Department for Education where you've got that clear interface with what young people do in schools".
Fiona Black, chief executive of the National Youth Agency - the national body for youth work, said the cuts will lead to problems in the long term.
She said: "We're going to see more young people in the criminal justice system, more young people who perhaps aren't engaging in education. The cost of that to taxpayers is enormous compared to the very small investment in youth services."
But David Simmonds, who chairs the Local Government Association's children and young people's board, said councils faced "no easy choices".
Some councils, he said, "have been badly affected by the level of reductions in government funding and that's meant we've seen some areas where the level of funding going into youth services has gone down really quite substantially".
He added that councils had to prioritise some services over others.
Mr Simmonds said: "The government has made some decisions about how to respond to the overall austerity situation.
"Councils are faced with rapidly rising demand, in particular for child protection services. So in order to fund that we need to look at the things that have a less direct and less immediate impact on the lives of children and young people."
Update 2 April 2014: Kensington and Chelsea points out that the reduction in its funding is because youth services have been spun off in a free-standing staff mutual which is funded separately.
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A total of 188 MPs voted to sack Mr Essid, with only three supporting him.
Mr Essid, who has been in office less than two years, has faced criticism for what his opponents say is his failure to push through economic reforms.
President Beji Caid Essebsi last month called for a national unity government to break months of economic turmoil.
Unemployment has worsened since the 2011 revolution, when President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was ousted. More than a third of young people in Tunisia are without work.
Tunisia's uprising was the first of the Arab Spring, and often hailed as the most successful with the country now functioning as a parliamentary democracy.
The confidence vote came after a month of wrangling over the fate of the prime minister, following pressure on him from the country's president to resign. Mr Essid refused to step down, citing respect for the constitutional process and instead called on the Tunisian parliament to decide his fate.
In the end, an overwhelming majority of MPs voted to oust him from office. Most lawmakers accused him of failing to deliver on economic reforms needed to ease the country's high unemployment rates.
In June, the Tunisian president proposed the formation of a new unity government, arguing that the country needed a leadership that could carry out bold reforms.
But some observers believe that the vote is also a consequence of the prime minister's detachment from party politics. Mr Essid recently accused leading parties of trying to pressure him into making changes to the cabinet, which he says he refused to comply with. It is not clear who will succeed him at this time, but parliament will start negotiations over the matter on Monday.
Lawro's opponent for this weekend's Premier League games is actor Ed Skrein, star of Game of Thrones and new superhero movie Deadpool.
Skrein is a Liverpool fan and told BBC Sport: "I should support Arsenal because I grew up in north London but my auntie and my cousins are to blame for me picking Liverpool instead in about 1987.
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"I grew up through the golden years for Arsenal and Manchester United under Arsene Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson, which was tough, but I love my team when they're losing as well as when they're winning.
"I am very excited about Jurgen Klopp being Liverpool manager. When he was appointed I spoke to my brother and said 'this is something that is going to be this romantic whirlwind'. It feels like it is all going to end in tears but we will enjoy every minute of it."
You can hear more of Ed's tales of following the Reds on the BBC Sport website.
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A 21-year-old and a 19-year-old are being held on suspicion of the murder of Marcel Addai in Hoxton.
Marcel was stabbed in the chest on 4 September after being chased through St John's Estate in Pitfield Street. He died at the scene.
Police believe witnesses have yet to come forward. Marcel's family have appealed for help.
"These people must come forward to prevent another family going through the pain we are all now suffering," they said in a statement.
A three-week suspension rules them out of Sunday's quarter-final against Australia and the semi-final and final should the Scots progress.
Both players had denied committing an act of foul play, while a team spokesman said they were "disappointed by the outcome".
The players have 48 hours to appeal.
Scotland say they "will consider carefully the full written judgement before making a decision".
Details of the specific incidents have yet to be made clear publicly. But Australian citing commissioner Scott Nowland had accused hooker Ford of breaching rules on dangerous tackles, while lock Gray was alleged to have committed an illegal tip tackle during the 36-33 win that clinched Scotland's place in the last eight.
In his judgement, judicial officer Christopher Quinlan pointed out that rugby's governing body had highlighted that "tackles involving a player being lifted off the ground and tipped horizontally and were then either forced or dropped to the ground … must be dealt with severely by match officials and all those involved in the disciplinary process".
World Rugby said the English QC had "deemed the act of foul play merited a low-end entry point, namely four weeks" but had added one week in an attempt to deter this type of dangerous foul play.
However, the suspensions had been reduced by two weeks because of the players' expressions of regret at the hearing, their "exemplary characters and excellent disciplinary records".
Hooker Ford and lock Gray will complete their suspensions at their clubs, Edinburgh and Glasgow Warriors respectively, should Scotland exit the tournament before the final.
Scotland coach Nathan Hines had said earlier: "I didn't pick up on it. It was only until the citing commissioner picked up on it and issued his report."
The citing commissioner involved in the case is Australian and one journalist asked Hines whether he was concerned at that given Scotland face Australia at the weekend.
"He is neutral isn't he?" he said. "He's very professional. He's there to do a job and he thinks he's seen something.
"World Rugby put him there because they are happy with his neutrality."
Australian flanker David Pocock is clear to play in the last-eight match at Twickenham if he can overcome a calf injury.
He was given a warning for putting his knee into the midriff of Wales hooker Scott Baldwin during Saturday's Pool A decider.
Guildford council refused the scheme for Wisley Airfield with 14 objections including transport, air quality and its impact on the green belt.
Wisley Action Group said the scheme had insoluble problems and it was delighted it had been refused.
Developer Wisley Property Investments said it could resolve the issues.
The plan for the airfield, which has been disused since the 1970s, includes 2,068 homes, a school, care home, shops, eight travellers' pitches and floodlit sports facilities.
Helen Jefferies, of Wisley Action Group, said its classification as a brownfield site was misleading, because only about 24% was previously built on.
Residents also say the development would swamp Ockham village, which has 159 households.
The airfield has been earmarked for housing in the new Guildford local plan but councillor Matt Furnis said this did not mean developers got a free ride.
"They have to work through the issues," he said.
"But we do have to deliver housing in the South East. Guildford is a challenging area and some tough decisions do have to be made."
Mike Murray, for Wisley Property Investments, said it was normal for councils and applicants to take their time to get developments right.
"We haven't decided on our next steps but for sure we think we can resolve the issues in the refusal," he said.
"Thee biggest one is about transport.
"Highways England are also working up a road investment strategy for junction 10 of the M25, so this is all very current."
The body of 47-year-old Senga Closs, of Elmbank Avenue, Viewpark, was found on Saturday.
The arrested man is expected to appear at Hamilton Sheriff Court on Monday.
Scientists intensely analysed people on controlled diets by inspecting every morsel of food, minute of exercise and breath taken.
Both diets, analysed by the National Institutes of Health, led to fat loss when calories were cut, but people lost more when they reduced fat intake.
Experts say the most effective diet is one people can stick to.
It has been argued that restricting carbs is the best way to get rid of a "spare tyre" as it alters the body's metabolism.
The theory goes that fewer carbohydrates lead to lower levels of insulin, which in turn lead to fat being released from the body's stores.
"All of those things do happen with carb reduction and you do lose body fat, but not as much as when you cut out the fat," said lead researchers Dr Kevin Hall, from the US-based National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
In the study, 19 obese people were initially given 2,700 calories a day.
Then, over a period of two weeks they tried diets which cut their calorie intake by a third, either by reducing carbohydrates or fat.
The team analysed the amount of oxygen and carbon dioxide being breathed out and the amount of nitrogen in participants' urine to calculate precisely the chemical processes taking place inside the body.
The results published in Cell Metabolism showed that after six days on each diet, those reducing fat intake lost an average 463g of body fat - 80% more than those cutting down on carbs, whose average loss was 245g.
Dr Hall said there was no "metabolic" reason to chose a low-carb diet.
However, studies suggest that in the real world, where diets are less strictly controlled, people may lose more weight by reducing carbohydrate intake.
Dr Hall told the BBC News website: "If it's easier to stick to one diet than another, and to ideally do it permanently, then you should choose that diet.
"But if a low-fat diet is better for you, then you are not going to be at a metabolic disadvantage."
He is now analysing brain scans of the participants to see how the diets affect how rewarding food is.
Doctors Susan Roberts and Sai Das, from Tufts University, said in a commentary that the debate around diets was a source of "intense controversy".
They said the study had "debunked" many of the claims that low-carbohydrate diets were better, but the long-term impact was still unclear.
They added: "The most important message for now is probably that some carbohydrates are all right, especially the healthy whole-grain low-glycaemic-index variety."
Prof Susan Jebb, from the University of Oxford, said: "The investigators rightly conclude that the best diet for weight loss is the diet you can stick to.
"All diets 'work' if you stick to an eating plan that cuts calories, whether from fat or carbohydrate, but sticking to a diet is easier said than done, especially given the prolonged time it takes to lose weight."
Stevie Coombes dog Tara was given two blood transfusions after being bitten on the face by an adder in Aberfoyle.
Tara's mother Tess is currently being trained by Trossachs Search and Rescue (SAR) in Balfron, Stirlingshire.
Mr Coombes said he feared he would lose Tara after her condition deteriorated following the incident on 13 July.
Tara has accompanied Tess on her training sessions with the aim of being trained in the future.
Mr Coombes, a trainee dog handler and first-responder with Trossachs SAR, said he had earlier let the two dogs out of his truck for ten minutes at a golf course in Aberfoyle.
He said: "She (Tara) was a wee bit lethargic.
"I got her in the house and she started drooling and I could see her face swelling and I knew she'd been bitten by an adder.
"I instantly phoned the vet in Doune and said I'll be there in 20 minutes.
"The vets were brilliant, by the time I got there they already had anti-venom on the way."
After administering anti-venom, the vet recommended transferring Tara to the Vets Now animal hospital in Glasgow.
Mr Coombes said: "That turned out to be the best call. The hospital got her blood pressure sorted and got her stable.
"I went to see her and an hour later they phoned to say she was going downhill.
"They were going to have to start a blood transfusion because the venom affects the clotting of the blood."
Mr Coombes returned later that day to be told Tara needed a second blood transfusion.
He said: "When they told me they were having the second transfusion, I genuinely didn't think it was going to get her back.
"I thought I would lose her, so for myself and the family and the kids, it was quite an emotional few days."
The following day Mr Coombes was told Tara's blood and vital signs had returned to normal.
He said: "Since then she's been absolutely fine, it's remarkable.
"She's really inquisitive, she's into everything, which is probably what caused the problem.
"In the country if you're letting your dogs run off the lead, it's just one of these things.
"The snake is just minding its own business in its own habitat."
In 2012 those tensions erupted into deadly communal violence, and since then there have been sporadic clashes.
The state was again in the spotlight earlier this year when thousands of Rohingya were found stranded on boats in the Andaman Sea trying to leave Rakhine for Malaysia.
As Myanmar looks towards landmark national elections in November, the rising Buddhist nationalism in Rakhine has made it one of the more politically unpredictable regions.
The problems in Rakhine state stem from decades of armed violence, extreme poverty and underdevelopment.
Like other minorities, the Rakhine ethnic group face economic marginalisation and discrimination by the state.
The Rohingya, meanwhile - who make up a third of the population of Rakhine state - are denied full citizenship.
In Myanmar, they are widely referred to as Bengali - they are considered migrants from Bangladesh, though they have been in Myanmar for generations.
The United Nations describes them as a "persecuted religious and linguistic minority".
Tensions spilled over into inter-communal violence in 2012 around the state capital, Sittwe, sparked by the rape and murder of a Buddhist woman.
More than 200 people died and about 140,000 people - mainly Rohingya - were made homeless.
Many now live in camps with no or limited access to food, healthcare or education. Some Rohingya have turned to people smugglers to get them to Malaysia.
After Thailand and Malaysia increased scrutiny of areas where people smugglers operate in 2015, thousands of Rohingya were abandoned at sea by the traffickers.
This brought global attention to the Myanmar government's treatment of the Rohingya.
Earlier this year, the Rohingya were stripped of their right to vote or register as candidates for the elections.
The Arakan National Part (ANP), a party of ethnic Rakhine Buddhists which was formed last year, lobbied hard for that change.
Analysts say both national parties, the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) and the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) face an uphill battle in the elections against the ANP in most of the state constituencies.
The NLD is viewed as sympathetic to the Rohingya - even though its leader Aung San Suu Kyi has steered clear of speaking out about the treatment of Rohingya.
Konta, seeded 11th, won 6-3 6-3 and goes on to face Spanish seventh seed Carla Suarez Navarro in round three.
Another victory would see the 25-year-old Briton match last year's run to the quarter-finals in Wuhan, China.
Konta remains on course to face Germany's Angelique Kerber in the last eight after the world number one beat Kristina Mladenovic 6-7 (4-7) 6-1 6-4.
Kerber will play Petra Kvitova in the third round following the Czech 14th seed's 6-3 6-1 win over Elina Svitolina.
"I was trying to find my rhythm because I was not playing my best in the first set," said Kerber, who was playing her first match as number one after receiving a bye in the first round.
Sixth seed Venus Williams and eighth seed Madison Keys also made it through to the last 16.
Konta maintained her bid for a place at the season-ending WTA Finals with a confident performance against Zhang, the world number 38.
The Briton broke twice in each set, hitting eight aces along the way as she repeated her win over the Chinese player in the Australian Open quarter-finals.
Konta began the week lying 10th in the race to qualify for the WTA Finals in Singapore, and now gets the chance to close the gap on Suarez Navarro, who currently occupies the eighth and final place.
"I don't think we actually ever played against each other on the tour yet. That's always fun. Something different, something new," said Konta.
"We've practised together a few times. She's an incredibly talented player, a very good player. I'm really looking forward to being on court with her."
At the Tashkent Open, British number three Naomi Broady beat Switzerland's Amra Sadikovic 6-4 7-5 in the first round.
Broady, seeded eighth, will play Russia's world number 104 Irina Khromacheva next.
Kieran Dorian knew the women from his school days in Dundee and became obsessed with them individually over the course of four years.
In a separate incident, he spat blood at the officer's feet after making sexually offensive remarks towards her.
Dorian, 20, will be sentenced in January.
Dundee Sheriff Court was told he went to one woman's door at 03:00 and stayed there until 07:00 before insisting he walk her to work.
Dorian later put a "rambling, nonsensical" love letter through the woman's door on Christmas Eve.
The court heard he sent another woman a video of himself scrolling through her Twitter feed.
Referring to the police assault, depute fiscal Eilidh Robertson said the officer was working on the Safezone bus parked near Dundee's nightclubs.
Dorian approached the bus with a head wound before jumping up and down and swearing at staff.
Miss Robertson said: "He made offensive remarks to the officer and made sexual comments to her.
"He then threatened to rape her.
"The accused then gathered up spit and blood in his mouth and spat it at the officer's feet.
"He later made further sexual remarks, including about the officer's mother."
Dorian, of Broughty Ferry, Dundee, admitted four stalking charges committed between October 2011 and May 2015.
He also admitted charges of assault and behaving in a threatening and abusive manner.
Dorian also admitted making lewd sexual comments to two 13-year-olds in the queue at a McDonald's restaurant in Dundee on 30 July before sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl on the same date.
Sheriff Alastair Carmichael deferred sentence until January for Dorian to engage with social workers and released him on bail.
He said: "The way you behaved puts you in the territory for a custodial sentence.
"The question is if other options are available or not.
"The way you behave over this next six weeks will influence my final decision."
Senior judge Lord Bonomy will lead the review focusing on whether current laws give enough protection to foxes and other wild mammals.
Written evidence will be accepted from February until the end of March.
Environment minister Aileen McLeod said she was "delighted" that the "very experienced" former High Court judge had agreed to lead the review.
She said: "Scotland led the way in addressing animal welfare concerns with legislation in 2002, and we remain committed to ensuring the highest levels of welfare for our wild animals.
"The aim of this review is to ensure current legislation is providing the necessary level of protection for foxes and other wild mammals, while at the same time allowing effective and humane control of these animals where needed.
"I am sure everyone with an interest in the protection of wild mammals will want to engage with Lord Bonomy, and I would encourage them to do so."
The hunting of foxes with hounds was banned in Scotland under the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act, passed in 2002.
However, hunts are still allowed to use dogs to flush out foxes and chase them toward guns.
Animal charity OneKind said the existing legislation left too many "loopholes" and had done nothing to dent the popularity of hunting in Scotland.
Director Harry Huyton said: "The law which was intended to end this barbaric practice has sadly failed due to a number of loopholes which have rendered it totally ineffective.
"Fox-hunting is supposedly banned in Scotland, yet if you were to attend any meet in Scotland today it would be perfectly clear that little has changed since the law came into force in 2002."
Hunting has also been discussed at Westminster, with UK government sports minister Tracey Crouch describing it as a "pursuit from the past", and saying it should be "consigned to history".
A vote on relaxing hunting laws in England and Wales was shelved earlier in the year after SNP MPs indicated they would vote against it.
A survey for the Countryside Alliance has suggested about 250,000 people will go to a hunt on Boxing Day.
They had been called to Deptford High Street on Friday night after people were spotted entering a disused bank.
Police discovered an unlicensed music event was about to take place and tried to stop it. They said they were "rushed" by a "violent" large crowd.
Five officers were injured, with three taken to hospital for treatment.
Lewisham police tweeted that officers had also been spat at.
Two men and a woman were arrested and taken to a south London police station where they remain in custody, Scotland Yard said.
The directive also bans the use of mobile phones near examination centres.
Cheating cases in secondary schools rose by up to 70% last year, leading to arrests and the cancellation of results for 5,000 students.
More than 1.5 million children will start writing examinations next week.
The BBC's Dickens Olewe says many children use clipboards as a flat base for writing on as desks are often uneven.
But the ministry believes that some pupils cheat by writing notes on them to help them answer questions.
It also says geometry instruments will now have to be carried in a "clear see-through bag".
In July, Education Minister Fred Matiang'i blamed "cheats" for being behind a wave of arson attacks - more than 100 secondary schools were burnt down by pupils.
He said that students who were angry with the government's plans to end cheating were behind the attacks.
Mr Matiang'i has blamed a "cartel", including teachers, for being behind exam cheating.
Earlier this year, the national examinations board was disbanded, some senior managers fired and nearly 200 people, including teachers and police officers, were arrested and charged over exam malpractices.
A education ministry statement says the new rules will "seal loopholes that have previously enabled students to cheat".
Other measure that have been introduced to clamp down on cheating include putting head teachers in charge of exam administration at their schools, "to make them accountable".
Examination papers are being stored at several central locations under 24-hour armed police surveillance where access will be limited to prevent "leakage".
According to Kenya's private Daily Nation newspaper, a total of 577,338 children at primary schools and 952,473 students at secondary schools will be writing examinations from 1 November for about a month.
Only teachers and students involved in examinations are to be allowed on school premises during that time, the education ministry said.
Rangers have won two and drawn two of Caixinha's four games in charge, including an impressive 3-0 win over Aberdeen at Pittdorie last weekend.
The Portuguese has put an emphasis on a more aggressive approach in the attacking third.
"It's a better, quicker, direct style of play which all the forward boys are going to enjoy," Waghorn said.
"I think at times we did try and overplay (under Warburton). The manager wants us, when we play through lines to stay through lines, and attack the box as quickly as we can.
"As a striker it is nice to know we are going to be getting the ball in the box and get chances."
After a blistering start to the season during which he scored five goals in four games, Waghorn's hot streak was halted after he was sidelined with a hamstring problem.
He admits he struggled to rediscover his best form on his return to action, but feels he can find his scoring touch again under Caixinha.
"I was disappointed with how I performed in the first half of the season," the former Wigan striker explained.
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"I think I could have done a lot better when I got my chance. For one reason or other I didn't take it.
"But that's in the past now. I am pleased that I am playing, getting a run of games, and hopefully I can stay in the side for the new manager."
Waghorn says the whole squad has been given a lift by Caixinha's arrival and the players are responding to the new manager's methods.
"It's been challenging in different ways but the boys have bought into it very well," the 27-year-old added.
"The training methods, the style, how he wants to approach games, the analysis of other teams, has been different to what we are used to, but I've loved every minute of it.
"I have enjoyed the hard work and I think it has shown at the weekend how we defend as a team now as well as attacking as a team.
"We have changed a lot, little things that we have worked on the training pitch, but it's for the right reasons and hopefully it's good for a change going forward."
Eight people remain missing in northeast Texas and southwest Arkansas.
The storm, according to the National Weather Service, likely produced a tornado that hit Van Zandt County and the city of Van on Sunday evening.
Officials said on Monday the two people died when a twister hit a trailer park in Nashville, Arkansas.
The storm hit Van - a town of about 2,000 people - only days after a tornado tore through Eastland county, Texas, on Saturday. One person was killed and another was seriously injured.
Chuck Allen, the Van Zandt County fire marshal, said at a news conference on Monday that about 30 percent of the city was damaged in the storm.
"Damages range from completely destroyed homes, damaged homes, to trees and power lines down," Mr. Allen said.
About 50 people were staying in a church shelter on Sunday night and the American Red Cross has set up a shelter in Van.
Utility companies have started restoring power and road and bridge crews began working to open streets and highways to allow for first responder access, he said.
Floods from the storms caused also damage across Texas on Sunday.
A 40-foot-wide sinkhole opened in Granbury, Texas, on Monday morning. The sinkhole consumed the parking lot of a Brookshire's supermarket and damaged water and sewer lines.
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The hosts dominated early on but Ayr went in front when Gary Harkins evaded Falkirk keeper Danny Rogers to smash home from a tight angle.
Myles Hippolyte went close and John Baird missed a penalty before Peter Grant's powerful header levelled it.
Falkirk pressed hard for a winner but Tony Gallacher's header hit the bar.
They remain six points clear in fourth place, but are now three points behind Morton in third.
Falkirk had two early chances to take the lead, Hippolyte blasting over from six yards after good build-up play involving Mark Kerr and Bob McHugh, before Baird's left-foot strike was parried by Greg Fleming and Tom Taiwo's follow-up effort was blocked.
Harkins had a half-chance at the back post for the visitors from a Brian Gilmour free-kick from the right, but his effort from a tight angle was well saved by Danny Rogers.
But after 24 minutes Harkins found a way past the Bairns keeper to give the Honest Men the breakthrough.
Kevin Nisbet's head-flick caused hesitation in the home defence and Harkins pounced to round Rogers and blast home from the angle of the six-yard box.
Baird and McHugh both went close for Falkirk before an equaliser eventually arrived in dramatic circumstances in first-half stoppage time.
Falkirk were awarded a penalty after Scott McKenna bundled McHugh to the ground, but Baird's spot-kick was superbly saved by Greg Fleming, who turned it round his right-hand post.
But from the resultant corner kick, Kerr's delivery found Grant, who rose highest to send a powerful header into the net.
Nisbet twice came close to nudging Ayr back in front after the interval. He was thwarted by Rogers after a powerful run and shot before curling an effort inches wide of the target.
Bairns boss Peter Houston changed his main strikers, bringing on Lee Miller and Scott Shepherd for McHugh and Baird as he searched for a winner.
A late flurry almost produced it as Kerr had a shot cleared off the line before fellow full-back Gallacher watched his header come back off the crossbar.
Falkirk boss Peter Houston: "The frustrating thing for me is we are giving cheap goals away. We should win the first header and then Gary Harkins runs off of Peter Grant and that can't happen. It was the same last week we tippy-tappied about our box and we had to come from behind then.
"We keep shooting ourselves in the foot. We get back into it before half time and then probably upped the tempo and dominated the second half, although Ayr are always dangerous on the counter attack. But it just wouldn't go in for us today. Fleming made a few good saves but that's a game we should be looking to win at home."
Ayr United manager Ian McCall: "Falkirk have aspirations to finish in the top two or three, but I think we fully merited the draw.
"We're a bit disappointed with the goal we conceded. It was a penalty and the goalie made a great save from the penalty but then we switch off. To save a penalty and lose a goal like that we're gutted!
"I think the draw was probably fair and it was a good point for us."
Match ends, Falkirk 1, Ayr United 1.
Second Half ends, Falkirk 1, Ayr United 1.
Foul by David McCracken (Falkirk).
Gary Harkins (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Lee Miller (Falkirk) header from very close range is saved in the top right corner.
Attempt blocked. Mark Kerr (Falkirk) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Ayr United. Alan Forrest replaces Kevin Nisbet.
Attempt missed. Michael Rose (Ayr United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Corner, Ayr United. Conceded by Tony Gallacher.
Corner, Falkirk. Conceded by Scott McKenna.
Attempt saved. Gary Harkins (Ayr United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. James Craigen (Falkirk) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Aaron Muirhead (Falkirk) is shown the yellow card.
Aaron Muirhead (Falkirk) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Nicky Devlin (Ayr United).
Attempt blocked. Michael Rose (Ayr United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Falkirk. Conceded by Patrick Boyle.
Substitution, Ayr United. Michael Rose replaces Brian Gilmour.
Attempt missed. Craig Sibbald (Falkirk) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Attempt missed. Kevin Nisbet (Ayr United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Attempt saved. Kevin Nisbet (Ayr United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Falkirk. Scott Shepherd replaces John Baird.
Ross Docherty (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Craigen (Falkirk).
Foul by Mark Kerr (Falkirk).
Robbie Crawford (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Falkirk. Lee Miller replaces Robert McHugh.
Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Nicky Devlin (Ayr United).
Attempt missed. John Baird (Falkirk) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt missed. Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Kevin Nisbet (Ayr United).
Hand ball by David McCracken (Falkirk).
Substitution, Falkirk. James Craigen replaces Tom Taiwo because of an injury.
Foul by Robert McHugh (Falkirk).
Patrick Boyle (Ayr United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Conrad Balatoni (Ayr United) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Corner, Ayr United. Conceded by Tony Gallacher.
He said it would be as inappropriate as it had been for international firms to visit South Africa during apartheid.
But Cape Town Opera's managing director said the company was reluctant to take the political stand of shunning cultural ties with Israel.
An Israel government spokesman told the BBC such boycotts did not aid peace.
The opera's production of Porgy and Bess will be performed in Tel Aviv next month.
In his letter the archbishop, who retired from public life earlier this month, said it would be wrong for the Cape Town singers to perform "in a society founded on discriminatory laws and racial exclusivity".
He said the tour should be postponed "until both Israeli and Palestinian opera lovers of the region have equal opportunity and unfettered access to attend performances".
"Only the thickest-skinned South Africans would be comfortable performing before an audience that excluded residents living, for example, in an occupied West Bank village 30 minutes from Tel Aviv.
"To perform Porgy and Bess, with its universal message of non-discrimination, in the present state of Israel, is unconscionable."
Israeli government spokesman Andy David said boycotts were not the way forward and cultural tours were the best way to bring peace in the violent region.
"Cultural relations sending messages of peace and co-operation - that's the only way to promote peace," he told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.
Mr David also dismissed any comparison between apartheid South Africa and Israel.
"There are no discriminatory laws in Israel, there are no racial issues in Israel - we have Arabs in the government."
The spokesman added that he felt that the archbishop's comments were "one-sided" and were a cause for concern.
"I think that people from the opera who never visited Israel are listening to vicious propaganda against my country."
Cape Town Opera's managing director said he believed in the "transformative power of the arts".
"I am proud that our artists, when travelling abroad, act as ambassadors and exemplars of the free society that has been achieved in democratic South Africa," Michael Williams said in a statement.
He said the company was "reluctant to adopt the essentially political position of disengagement from cultural ties with Israel or with Palestine".
Mr Williams said was aware of the possibility of being seen as partisan, so has ongoing negotiations to perform within the Arab world.
"In particular, Cape Town Opera welcomes the opportunity to perform within Palestine as well," he said.
The production of the Gershwin opera has "much which should provide food for thought for audiences in Israel", he added.
The 20-year-old was attacked near the Burns statue on the High Street at about 02:20.
He was taken by ambulance to Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary, where staff said his condition was stable.
Police said two men aged 20 and 27 have been arrested in connection with the incident and a report would be sent to the procurator fiscal.
A large section of the area around the Burns statue was cordoned off earlier while police investigated the assault.
Iain John Provan, 64, and Elizabeth Allan, 63, both of Barrhead, and John Leonard Stern, 71, of Bearsden, died in the crash on Saturday.
Mr Stern's family said his death was "tragic" but he had "died watching the sport that he loved".
Relatives of Mr Provan thanked everyone who had tried to assist him after the "tragic incident".
A statement from Mr Stern's family said: "Len was a special uncle who was well-loved by the family.
"His death is really tragic but he died watching the sport that he loved.
"Our thoughts are with the driver and his family during this difficult time."
Mr Provan's family also released a short statement.
"The family would like to thank race officials, members of the public and the emergency services for their assistance following yesterday's tragic incident," it said.
"We would also like to thank everyone for their kind thoughts and ask that our privacy be respected at this very difficult time."
Meanwhile, police are seeking video footage from members of the public after the fatal crash.
They have appealed for witnesses to come forward, especially anyone with "video footage or photographs".
The fatal accident took place at about 16:00 on Saturday at Little Swinton, near Coldstream.
Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland visited the crash site on Monday and Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill received a briefing from police officers.
Mr MacAskill said he would make a statement to the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday to update MSPs on the investigation into the crashes.
He added: "I'll be making clear to parliament the discussions that we have had with the police and with Scottish Borders Council and our current reflections.
"But obviously there is police investigation ongoing and it is for the Crown to decide what further action could be taken, including the potential of a fatal accident inquiry."
Witness Tommy Tait, from East Lothian, told the BBC he was standing next to the three people who died. He claimed they had been moved to that location by the race marshals.
"The place we were standing at, we got told to shift by the marshals because it wasn't safe," he said.
"We went across to where they told us to go and we turned around and said to them 'if we stand there, there's more chance of us getting hurt'.
"And about seven cars in that's when the incident happened. The car came down over the bridge and lost control."
Another witness, Colin Gracey, who has watched the rally for years from the same spot close to where the crash happened, said the experience was "traumatic".
The 46-year-old teacher lives in nearby Swinton and was there with his family, including three children.
He said: "We went down there, as we've been doing for about 17 years, to the same place we watch it from just up from the bridge.
"I think it was the seventh car coming through and it just veered very sharply after taking the bridge and it went right into the field hitting the people who were stood there.
"It was shocking."
He described the crash as "like a bowling ball hitting skittles".
Two hours before the fatal crash another car in the rally left the road and hit five people, one woman and four men, near Crosshall Farm on the Eccles stage of the competition.
Three of the men were taken to Borders General Hospital but one was then moved to an intensive care unit in Edinburgh.
The remaining two spectators were treated for minor injuries.
In a statement following the crash, rally organisers said: "Our thoughts are especially with those who have lost family members and to the families of the injured spectators.
"All members of the organising team are in shock and are co-operating fully with Police Scotland to establish the facts."
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Jim and Anne McQuire, from Cumbernauld, were among the 38 people shot dead at a resort near Sousse two weeks ago.
A funeral service has been held at Abronhill church, where the couple had been well-known members of the congregation.
Their son Stuart said they would be "sorely missed."
In a family statement, he added: "They were a couple devoted to each other and who lived to enjoy life.
"They spent their lives contributing so much to the community. Through their many interests they made many friends and helped many causes within and outwith the church.
"On behalf of myself and the family, I would like to thank everyone for their kind words, cards and messages. It is overwhelming the support we have had and that so many people have been touched by these tragic circumstances."
Mrs McQuire, who was 63, sang and played guitar at Abronhill church while her 66-year-old husband helped hundreds of young people over many years as captain of the 5th Cumbernauld Boys Brigade company.
The couple were cremated at Daldowie Crematorium in a private ceremony following the church service.
The minister at Abronhill, the Reverend Joyce Keyes, who led the funeral service, described Mr and Mrs McQuire as "kind, thoughtful and unassuming people".
She said: "We are going to miss them tremendously for the things they did. More importantly, we are going to miss them as people. They were really good to have around, and that is what we will miss most.
"The BB was the main focus, but all of the youth work - they were very thoughtful of young people and their needs, and how they could help them.
"I can't begin to imagine how many families have been affected in this community by the passing of Jim and Anne."
Thirty of the 38 victims of the attack on 26 June were British. Three Irish nationals, two Germans, one Belgian, one Portuguese and one Russian also died.
They were killed when Tunisian student Seifeddine Rezgui opened fire at tourists on sunloungers outside the five-star Hotel Rui Imperial Marhaba.
Rezgui, who is believed to have been helped by a number of other people, was shot dead by police.
On Wednesday, all British nationals were urged to leave Tunisia because "a further terrorist attack is highly likely".
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The 655-acre Hickling Broad estate will pass to Norfolk Wildlife Trust.
It is home to the bittern, one of the UK's rarest birds, and was put on the open market in September 2016.
Brendon Joyce, the trust's chief executive, said: "In our hands we know it's safe. We know it will be managed well not only for wildlife but for all the people that enjoy it."
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The trust paid £2.5m in total, the biggest land purchase in its 90-year history
It will own 1,400 acres at Hickling Broad, about 60% of the total area in one of the most wildlife-rich wetlands in the UK.
The flagship reserve's wetland habitats have already been restored by Norfolk Wildlife Trust.
It offers a year-round haven for threatened wildlife such as swallowtail butterflies, marsh harriers, Norfolk hawker dragonflies and the bittern.
About £100,000 of the target was raised by the general public within the first three weeks of the appeal.
The trust has also been helped in the purchase with a £1m loan by the Garfield Weston Foundation and £500,000 from trust reserves.
Mr Joyce said: "We hadn't realised the extent to which it's seen as such a special place in the hearts and minds of so many people in Norfolk but also elsewhere.
"We had a lot of donations from outside of the county as well."
The Stones made a fast start and were ahead after only six minutes when Joe Pigott fired home from the edge of the box.
Daggers duo Scott Doe and Fejiri Okenabirhie had attempts saved as the first half drew to a close before Pigott saw a goal disallowed midway through the second period.
Bobby-Joe Taylor hit the bar with a free-kick but the visitors, who had Stuart Lewis sent off late on, sealed the points courtesy of Delano Sam-Yorke's goal five minutes from time.
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Match ends, Dagenham and Redbridge 0, Maidstone United 2.
Second Half ends, Dagenham and Redbridge 0, Maidstone United 2.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Yemi Odubade replaces Joe Pigott.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Jake McCarthy replaces Jack Paxman.
Goal! Dagenham and Redbridge 0, Maidstone United 2. Delano Sam-Yorke (Maidstone United).
Seth Nana Ofori-Twumasi (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Ray Grant replaces Jordan Maguire-Drew.
Second yellow card to Stuart Lewis (Maidstone United) for a bad foul.
Andre Boucaud (Dagenham and Redbridge) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Sam Ling replaces Craig Robson.
Mark Cousins (Dagenham and Redbridge) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Bobby-Joe Taylor replaces Jamar Loza.
Frankie Raymond (Dagenham and Redbridge) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Paul Benson replaces Jake Sheppard.
Second Half begins Dagenham and Redbridge 0, Maidstone United 1.
First Half ends, Dagenham and Redbridge 0, Maidstone United 1.
Stuart Lewis (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Dagenham and Redbridge 0, Maidstone United 1. Joe Pigott (Maidstone United).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
They hope to raise £900,000 through a community shares issue to help finance the project at Lael, near Ullapool.
The effort, being led by Lochbroom Community Renewables, has collected £25,000 so far.
Water from the Allt a' Mhuilinn burn, which flows through woodland into the River Broom, would power the scheme.
The shares issue for the project, called BroomPower, closes in August.
Jamala's song 1944 is about the tragedy that befell her great-grandmother, when the dictator sent 240,000 Tatars on crowded trains to barren Central Asia.
Thousands died during the journey or starved to death after they arrived.
The lyrics begin: "They come to your house, they kill you all and say: 'We're not guilty'."
Memories of those events were revived by Russia's seizure of Crimea in 2014. Although 1944 does not directly comment on that issue, former Eurovision winner Ruslana commented: "This song... is precisely what we are all suffering in Ukraine today."
"This song really is about my family," said Jamala, whose great-grandmother was in her mid-20s when she, her four sons and daughter were deported - after Stalin accused the Tatars of collaborating with the Nazis.
One of the children died during the journey to Central Asia.
"I needed that song to free myself, to release the memory of my great-grandmother, the memory of that girl who has no grave," Jamala told the AFP news agency last week.
She added that she had entered Eurovision because she wanted people to hear a song written "in a state of helplessness" after Russia's seizure of her land.
Speaking to Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) the 32-year-old said that she is thinking of her family members in current-day Crimea when she sings 1944.
"Now the Crimean Tatars are on occupied territory and it is very hard for them," she said.
"They are under tremendous pressure. Some have disappeared without a trace. And that is terrifying. I would not want to see history repeat itself."​
Eurovision rules prohibit songs with politically loaded lyrics. In 2009, Georgia's disco-funk song We Don't Wanna Put In, was excluded for poking fun at Vladimir Putin. The song was selected as the country's entry less than a year after Russia and Georgia went to war over the region of South Ossetia.
Ukraine's 2005 entrant Green Jolly was also told to rework the lyrics of its song, Razom Nas Bahato, which was an anthem of the previous year's Orange Revolution protests.
This year's edition of the Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Stockholm in May.
The UK will select its entry in a live vote on BBC Four this Friday, 26 February.
Tim Wilson has decided not to stand in South Northamptonshire after David Coburn MEP compared Humza Yousaf to convicted terrorist Abu Hamza.
Mr Coburn has apologised for the remarks, saying it was a "joke".
A spokesman for UKIP said Mr Wilson had failed to emphasise local issues in his general election campaign.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage said Mr Coburn's remarks were a "joke in poor taste" but he would not be taking any action against him.
But Mr Wilson said he was disillusioned with the party over the "racist jibes" and has decided to stand down.
He told BBC Scotland he was appalled by Mr Coburn's comments about Mr Yousaf and frustrated by the inaction of the party's leadership on the issue.
He said David Coburn had produced "what I can only describe as an Islamaphobic insult, and that's simply not acceptable".
Mr Wilson added: "Of course he went on and apologised. I think, frankly, that if you are in a position of power you have to be able to control what ideas emerge from your head and how they get to your mouth and, in fact, you shouldn't have those ideas in the first place.
"But the real issue is that when Mr Farage was asked what he thought about this he dismissed this as a joke.
"I don't think this is a joke. I think this is something very serious. It may not be that this man intended to cause offence but we aren't interested in what his intentions are. We are interested in the effect what he says has on other people and the effect is catastrophic, it's appalling and I've resigned."
In his resignation letter, Mr Wilson said he had been "systematically gagged by the party whip" and forbidden to speak about Islam favourably.
A spokesman for UKIP said Mr Wilson had failed to put more emphasis on local issues in his campaign.
He said: "Whilst we had initially been optimistic about Tim Wilson's abilities as a candidate, it became obvious in recent weeks that he was out of his depth in representing our party in the way we would expect.
"Mr Wilson had clearly misunderstood the expectations that UKIP place on all of its candidates. Principal amongst those is focusing on issues that are relevant to local voters. UKIP put huge emphasis on local issues and Mr Wilson was unwilling to follow UKIP guidelines in this respect."
Last week MSPs at the Scottish Parliament unanimously condemned the remarks made by Mr Coburn during a newspaper interview.
MSPs were debating a motion celebrating Scotland's diverse communities.
The president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, condemned the remarks, saying they were "not worthy of any elected member".
But a spokesman for the president said he could not act on remarks made outside parliament.
The move comes just days after another candidate, Jonathan Stanley, quit in protest at the "racist filth" in UKIP. Mr Stanley, who was due to stand in the Cumbrian seat of Westmorland and Lonsdale, was the party's former head of policy in Scotland.
The frontrunner for the Republican nomination for the November election was speaking to the New York Times.
Mr Trump said he would consider pulling out troops from Japan and South Korea if they did not pay the US more.
He said he might stop buying oil from Saudi Arabia if it did not send troops to fight so-called Islamic State.
Mr Trump insisted he was "not isolationist" but "America First".
He said: "We have been disrespected, mocked, and ripped off for many, many years by people that were smarter, shrewder, tougher.
"We were the big bully, but we were not smartly led. And we were the big bully who was the big, stupid bully and we were systematically ripped off by everybody."
The thrust of Mr Trump's interview concerned the economic cost of US foreign policy.
Mr Trump cited the US debt - "soon to be $21tn" (£14.8tn) - and linked it to the fact the US "defended the world".
"No matter who it is, we defend everybody. When in doubt, come to the United States. We'll defend you. In some cases free of charge."
He said that China had rebuilt itself from money that has "drained out of the United States".
"They've done it through monetary manipulation, by devaluations. And very sophisticated. I mean, they're grand chess players at devaluation."
He added: "I like China very much, I like Chinese people. I respect the Chinese leaders, but you know China's been taking advantage of us for many, many years and we can't allow it to go on."
Mr Trump also cited Japan, South Korea, and nations in the Middle East as not paying their way.
Mr Trump said the US was "not being properly reimbursed" for protecting Saudi Arabia.
"Without us, Saudi Arabia wouldn't exist for very long. It would be, you know, a catastrophic failure without our protection.
"They're a money machine... and yet they don't reimburse us the way we should be reimbursed."
He also cited Nato, saying it was "obsolete" as the main international threat now was terrorism.
"Nato is something that at the time was excellent. Today, it has to be changed."
The US, he added, bore "far too much of the cost of Nato".
Mr Trump expressed a similar view about the US funding of the United Nations.
He said: "We get nothing out of the United Nations. They don't respect us, they don't do what we want, and yet we fund them disproportionately again."
Mr Trump also referred to the criticism he had received for calling Brussels a "hellhole waiting to explode" but said that, after the deadly attacks on Tuesday, he had been proved right.
He spoke of the arrest before the attacks of key suspect Salah Abdeslam.
Mr Trump, who has said he supports the use of some methods of torture in some cases, said that if Belgian authorities had "immediately subjected him to very serious interrogation - very, very serious - you might have stopped the bombing".
Mr Trump also touched on Mexico, having previously accused Mexican immigrants in the United States of being criminals and rapists, and vowing to build a wall on the border.
He said US jobs were being lost to Mexico "and it has to be stopped".
Many Mexicans have been outraged by Mr Trump's stance. On Saturday, an effigy of him was burned in Mexico City on Saturday in a twist on the Easter "Burning of Judas" tradition.
The forward has decided to move on after the Giants were unable to make promises of increased ice time for Peacock in the new Elite League season.
Peacock lies second in all time goals and points scored for the Giants.
He helped Belfast win the play-off title in 2010 and league titles in the 2011-12 and 2013-14 seasons.
It was designed by scientists from Harvard Microbotics Laboratory and is about the same size as a ten pence coin.
The robots are special because they use something called 'electrostatic adhesion' to perch on the ceiling.
That's the same thing that happens when you rub a balloon on your jumper and it sticks to walls.
Perching on things allows the robots to save their energy on longer journeys.
Scientists think these robots could be used to help search and rescue teams get to hard to reach places after a natural disaster.
This got us thinking about some of the other incredible animal-inspired robots we've met on Newsround...
Scientists are turning to the animal world for inspiration for their latest robot designs.
We sent Ricky to check out some of those robots that have been made with a helping hand from the animal kingdom.
He discovered robots which have been inspired by ants, bulls, cheetahs and even fleas!
These tiny robots can carry up to 2,000 times their own body weight, that's the same amount of power as a human pulling along a blue whale!
The scientists from Stanford University who invented them, were inspired by the way that certain animals move.
They looked at the way a gecko's feet allow it to stick to surfaces, and how an ant's feet can help it to carry up to 100 times its own body weight.
Cam Neville looked out from the truck and caught a glimpse of burning red lines leading to a location called Hellfire Pass.
It was his first night volunteering with the local fire brigade, and the Australian photographer felt anxious. What was he about to encounter?
"Certainly I had a flutter of nervousness," he told the BBC. "Growing up in England, I'd never seen anything quite like that."
He did not get near the blaze that night, but since then he has encountered others.
Australia depends an army of volunteers to protect its sprawling country from devastating bushfires.
Mr Neville signed up to join them on Queensland's Gold Coast hinterland, believing it was the only way he could take photographs from the front line.
The inspiration behind his award-nominated picture series Into the Fire was simple: to capture first-hand experiences of men and women fighting fires. This was something TV news rarely offered, he thought.
"I really wanted to know who these people were," Mr Neville said. "I think I really needed to experience what they all went through as well."
Mr Neville grew up in Brighton before moving to Australia and settling in south-east Queensland.
"Where we live there are houses that back onto very dense bush," he said. "The fire threat is very real."
Initially he carried two DSLR cameras with bulky lenses, but it quickly proved impractical. Now Mr Neville uses a single camera with a 25mm lens.
He takes shots in quiet moments between fighting fires.
The photographer says the project has also brought him practical skills and new friendships.
"I've learned that it's an incredibly complicated and dangerous business - fighting fires of any type or size - because it's unpredictable," he said.
His admiration for his colleagues has only grown.
"The call goes out and people answer," Mr Neville said. "They never know what they're going to."
The little robot is visible in new images downloaded from the Rosetta probe in orbit around the icy dirt-ball 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
European Space Agency (Esa) officials say there is no doubt about the identification - "it's as clear as day", one told the BBC.
Philae was dropped on to the comet by Rosetta in 2014 but fell silent 60 hours later when its battery ran flat.
Although it relayed pictures and data about its location to Earth, the lander's actual resting place was a mystery.
It was assumed Philae had bounced into a dark ditch on touchdown - an analysis now borne out by the latest pictures, which were acquired from a distance of 2.7km from the duck-shaped icy body.
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The images from Rosetta's high-resolution Osiris camera were downlinked to Earth late on Sunday night, and have only just been processed.
Philae is seen wedged against a large over-hang. Its 1m-wide box shape and legs are unmistakable, however.
Rosetta had previously surveyed this location - dubbed Abydos - without success.
"Candidate detections" were made but none were very convincing.
The difference today is a closer-in perspective and a change in the seasons on the comet, which means the hiding place is now better illuminated.
The discovery comes just a few weeks before controllers plan to crash-land Rosetta itself on to the comet to formally end its investigation of 67P.
Although there is no hope of reviving the lander - some of its equipment will have been broken in the cold of space - simply knowing its precise resting place will help scientists make better sense of the data it returned during its three days of operation back in 2014.
"It was very important to find Philae before the mission ended, to understand the context of its in-situ scientific measurements," said Prof Mark McCaughrean, Esa's senior science advisor.
"But it was probably just as important to provide some emotional closure for the millions who have been following both Philae and Rosetta through the trials and tribulations of their exploration of this remarkable remnant of the birth of our Solar System.
"And there's one big final adventure to come on 30 September as Rosetta itself descends to the comet, doing unique science close-up before the mission ends for good," he told BBC News.
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Weaknesses in outdated systems could allow attackers to make ships disappear from tracking systems - or even make it look like a large fleet was incoming.
Researchers at Trend Micro said their findings showed the danger of using legacy systems designed when security was not an issue.
But one vessel-tracking specialist said spoof attempts could be easily spotted.
Lloyd's List Intelligence's Ian Trowbridge said that in addition to the vulnerable technology - known as the Automatic Identification System (AIS) - other measures could be used to identify marine activity.
"The spoofing would immediately be identified by [Lloyd's List Intelligence] as a warp vessel," he said, "providing unexplained position reports outside of the vessel's speed/distance capability and thus subject to further investigation and validation."
The AIS system is used to track the whereabouts of ships travelling across the world's oceans.
For ships over a certain size, having AIS fitted is mandatory under international maritime law.
Small leisure boats and fishing vessels - for which it is optional - can purchase a transponder for as low as £600, making AIS significantly cheaper than alternative location systems.
It is designed to transmit data about a ship's position, as well as other relevant information, so that movements can be seen by other boats as well as relevant authorities on shore.
One other use is to alert nearby ships when a man or woman is overboard - an alert that can easily be spoofed, says Trend Micro's Rik Ferguson.
"It boils down to the fact that the protocol was never designed with security in mind," he told the BBC.
"There's no validity checking of what's being put up there."
Using equipment bought for 700 euros (£600), the researchers were able to intercept signals and make vessels appear on the tracking system, even though they did not exist.
In one example, the team was able to make it look as if a ship's route had spelled out the word "pwned" - hacker slang for "owned".
The information broadcast by AIS is public - but when the system was first put in use, in the early 1990s, the technology required to receive the information was prohibitively expensive for those not directly involved in the industry.
But now, a typical internet connection can be used to see the locations of boats, as well as an indicator of what type of cargo they may be carrying.
There has been speculation that Somali pirates have been making use of the system.
"It has long been thought that the pirates are basically using AIS as a shopping list," Mr Ferguson said, "seeing what's coming into local waters, and what cargo it may have."
However, Lloyd's List Intelligence noted that captains are permitted to disable AIS if they feel their crew could be endangered by it.
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Trimble and Payne, who plays at full-back, are fit again after missing the defeat by Glasgow while skipper Best comes in for Rob Herring at hooker.
Second row Pete Browne and number eight Roger Wilson replace injured forwards Alan O'Connor and Nick Williams.
Shane O'Leary is handed his first Pro12 start for Connacht at fly-half.
Connacht coach Pat Lam has selected the former Grenoble half-back after AJ MacGinty became the third number 10 to be ruled out by injury for the westerners.
USA international McGinty, who will play for Premiership club Sale next season, is likely to be ruled out for four weeks with a shoulder injury sustained in Saturday's win over Leinster in Galway.
Jack Carty remains on the sidelines after having his spleen removed in February while Craig Ronaldson is out for another three weeks because of an ankle injury.
O'Leary, 23, has made only one Connacht start, which came in a European Challenge Cup game, since joining the club from the French outfit in the summer of 2014.
His eight appearances off the bench include six Pro12 games.
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Ulster lock O'Connor sustained a shoulder injury in last weekend's disappointing reverse at Scotstoun and is in danger of missing the remainder of the season.
Williams suffered a recurrence of a nagging shoulder problem, and also a groin injury, in the defeat by the defending Pro12 champions.
Stuart Olding and Darren Cave drop to the bench but Irish international Iain Henderson makes his first home appearance since December.
In the absence of Tiernan O'Halloran, who suffered a quad injury in training this week, Robbie Henshaw will line out at full-back for Connacht, while scrum-half John Cooney, on his return from injury, takes over from Kieran Marmion who is also out with a minor quad injury.
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Up front, Rodney Ah You comes in for the injured Nathan White while Andrew Browne forms a new second row partnership with Aly Muldowney.
Captain John Muldoon moves to blindside flanker in a back row with Academy player James Connolly and Eoin McKeon, man-of-the-match in last week's victory at the Sportsground.
Ireland international Ultan Dillane comes onto the bench for his first Connacht game since his involvement in the Six Nations.
Connacht go into Friday's game with a four-point lead in the table, while Pat Lam's side are 12 points ahead of fifth-placed Ulster.
Ulster: J Payne; A Trimble, L Marshall, S McCloskey, C Gilroy; P Jackson, R Pienaar; C Black, R Best (capt), R Lutton; P Browne, F van der Merwe; I Henderson, C Henry, R Wilson.
Replacements: R Herring, K McCall, B Ross, R Diack, S Reidy, P Marshall, S Olding, D Cave.
Connacht: R Henshaw; N Adeolokun, B Aki, P Robb, M Healy; S O'Leary, J Cooney; D Buckley, T McCartney, R Ah You; A Browne, A Muldowney; J Muldoon (capt), J Connolly, E McKeon.
Replacements: D Heffernan, R Loughney, F Bealham, U Dillane, S O'Brien, C Blade, C Brennan, D Poolman.
The current economic climate presents significant challenges to all businesses, but is also a catalyst for innovation across many industries.
As consumers change the way they behave, they will push industries in unforeseen directions.
For our market sector, the response to such trends centres on attitudes to car ownership and the impact of smartphone technology.
The West has had a love affair with the car since the 1950s, but in the richest cities and especially in their centres, car ownership and use is declining.
Over the last 20 years, more and more people are living in cities, so the density of the city centres has been increasing rapidly. People now prefer to live in multi-use areas that combine residential, office, shopping and schools in close proximity.
In London, 40% of households do not own a car, according to a 2012 report by Transport for London.
The decline in car ownership is particularly evident in the capital's fall in multi-car households, which dropped from 21% in 2001 to 17% in 2007.
Instead of the traditional focus on cars and driving, people are mixing and matching their transport choices - using what they need when they need it - and the radical advances in technology are making such "smart mobility" possible.
Mobile apps can make travelling by different modes of transport seamless. It is now easy to combine air, rail and car travel in new ways to reach a destination.
Londoners can access Boris bikes, the Tube, rail networks, taxis, car sharing schemes, car rental and even hire practical vans for visits to B&Q - all via their smartphones.
Both car ownership and vehicle-kilometres driven in cities in developed countries may be reaching saturation, or even be on the wane, according to a recent report by the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
People no longer automatically associate mobility with owning a car.
Instead, many of them want access to as many transport options as possible.
It is vital for companies in the motor industry, whether carmakers or rental car firms, to keep in step with and respond to these changing trends around smart mobility.
Car ownership, with all the costs involved, is not necessarily the right model for city dwellers any longer.
In the mature European market in particular, we are seeing multi-car households cut back to own just one car.
This has increased demand for solutions such as hourly car sharing schemes, as well as for a far wider range of cars for hire at all price points.
Car sharing is particularly attractive to younger consumers, whose attitude to ownership has been compared to dating.
People get to try out different cars, different lifestyles, and different identities. For them, owning a car feels like being tied down.
The ownership shift is made possible by the widespread availability of smartphone technology and mobile apps.
Accessibility is now 24/7 and everything can be done on the mobile phone or a tablet. Find a vehicle nearby, reserve it, pay for it, change destinations and drop-offs, and access guides and navigation.
Smartphone apps also now enable users to find a taxi in less-trafficked parts of the city, thereby increasing utilisation of the taxi fleet, or they can use their handsets to find parking places and walking routes.
Such spontaneity means travel and transport providers have to be increasingly flexible and reactive to their consumers' needs.
We cannot expect loyalty; we have to earn it.
Speed of response and customer service is what sets businesses apart, as people base their decisions upon ease and value.
Amidst all this technology, it is vital that customers can still interact with companies directly and face-to-face.
Convenience must also be balanced with a good customer experience. Companies simply cannot afford to lose that human element.
As car ownership continues to decline in many Western cities, we will see a higher adoption of electric vehicles - including both bicycles and cars, city-centric cars and other forms of compact motorised vehicles not yet seen.
Electric mobility has a critical role to play in achieving the goal of sustainable transport, and we - along with others in the motor industry - have a responsibility to help reduce emissions.
Electric vehicle adoption has started slowly as infrastructure of charging networks are still being built up.
But as these networks reach critical density, the rate of uptake will pick up.
China in particular has focused its strategic plan on using electric vehicles as way to provide a cleaner, more sustainable transport option.
Shenzhen stands out as a city that has deployed several hundred all-electric taxis, all-electric municipal buses and a charging station network.
In London, meanwhile, electric taxis are expected to be trialled in 2013. It has been claimed this could eliminate 20% of the capital's exhaust pollution caused by its 22,000 black cabs.
In Rome, holiday-makers and commuters travelling into the city by train can now continue their journey using electric vehicles based at the two main stations at a cost of just 8 euros ($10.60; £6.50) an hour. We see this model spreading throughout Europe.
We, and some of our rivals, are partnering with city authorities and electric infrastructure providers worldwide to make electric vehicles in cities a viable option.
This is already happening in London, Oxford and Paris.
Hiring alternative fuel cars without having to worry about infrastructure is a great way of making people more comfortable with this technology and tackling worries such as range anxiety.
Many city mayors are implementing car sharing and electric vehicle schemes for these purposes, while we see more corporations asking for electric and petrol-electric hybrid models in their fleets to support their corporate sustainability targets.
Innovation, whether in terms of embracing new technologies or tapping into consumer trends, or both, is critical in many market sectors to drive a successful future in a still uncertain economy.
In my industry, we need to adapt to new modes and patterns of transportation. Sustainable mobility needs to also offer choice, convenience, flexibility and value.
This is why we are focused on smart mobility; you need to be smart in the current market to remain competitive.
Michel Taride is president of Hertz International and executive vice president of Hertz Corporation.
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The county's fire service said crews had been pumping water out of homes in Market Drayton and one near Whitchurch.
Diksmuide Drive in Ellesmere has also been flooded and a farmer had to rescue a flock of sheep stuck in flood water in Oswestry, the fire service said.
Dave Throup from the Environment Agency tweeted that flood barriers were due to go up in Frankswell on Monday.
The agency has issued a number of warnings for rivers in the county including the Vyrnwy at Melverley and Maesbrook.
Battlefield Link Road in Shrewsbury and the A41 at Bletchley near Market Drayton have been closed due to flooding.
Mary Dhonau, from the Flood Protection Association, said the ground is already water-logged and recent flood victims must accept it may happen again.
She said: "It's just awful and my heart goes out to the people that are at risk of flooding, having been flooded myself.
"I cannot emphasise how horrible it is to have your home violated by filthy, foul smelling water."
The Environment Agency has published a live floods map.
Ireland team manager Paul Dean said on Monday that the British & Irish Lions fly-half was "back running and will be monitored this week".
Sexton missed the Murrayfield game because of a calf injury.
The Irish do not appear to have picked up any major new injuries in Saturday's surprise 27-22 defeat.
Dean said that prop Tadhg Furlong sustained a bruised shoulder in the Murrayfield contest but will still be able to train fully this week.
Ireland coach Joe Schmidt said last Thursday that Sexton had an "outside chance" of playing in Rome while he was more hopeful that Donnacha Ryan (knee) and Andrew Trimble (groin) might be available for the Stadio Olimpico game.
Schmidt also indicated last week that Munster flanker Peter O'Mahony was "highly unlikely" to play in Rome after a hamstring injury ruled him out of the Murrayfield game.
Munster lock Ryan's absence saw Ulster's Iain Henderson partnering Devin Toner in the second row.
Sexton's replacement Paddy Jackson scored a second-half try in Ireland's weekend defeat and was rated as one of the team's better performers in Edinburgh.
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Referring to Schmidt's post-match revelation that Ireland had been 10 minutes late arriving at Murrayfield, Dean said that Scottish police had diverted the team coach away from its intended route.
"We took a different route, enforced by the police. The circumstances were out of our control but we don't feel it contributed to the performance on the day," said the Ireland team manager.
Ireland centre Robbie Henshaw said the delay "wasn't the norm" but refused to use the issue as an excuse for the team's poor first-half performance.
"When we first got to the dressing room, we had 25 minutes to the warm-up - usually it is 45 minutes in the Aviva," said the Leinster player.
"That would have been a change for some of the lads. It was a change in set-up.
"We're not making excuses - we were primed and ready to perform from three trainings during the week.
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"We knew what was going to come at us. There are no excuses for the slow start."
Despite Ireland's defeat, Henshaw believes the team's championship hopes remain very much alive.
"There is confidence we can still win the championship based on what we did in November. This is an incredible group and we know we can still win it."
Henshaw added that the Ireland squad had had a group review of the game on Sunday night before individual sessions on Monday morning.
"It was very frustrating and we're looking forward to putting it right this weekend," added the former Connacht player.
"It comes down to how we started. We felt flat as a group in the game. We gave them time and space on the ball and they punished us in the wider channels.
"Our spacing was narrow and when we got it spot on. They didn't get a chance after we fixed it."
The 28-year-old, who won the Dubai Desert Classic earlier this month, carded a six-under 65 to end the day behind Australian leader Nathan Holman.
Willett has climbed to 13th in the world rankings from 134th in June 2014.
He is joined in a six-way share of second by compatriot Tommy Fleetwood and Frenchman Alexander Levy.
Willett is also third in Europe's rankings ahead of September's Ryder Cup meeting with the United States after top-five finishes at the Nedbank Golf Challenge,World Tour Championship and HSBC Champions events in the last four months.
But he says that he tried to put his recent run of good form out of his mind as he picked up seven shots over the final 11 holes to climb up the leaderboard at Kuala Lumpur's Royal Selangor Golf Club.
"It is always easy to come to a tournament after you've won and put pressure on yourself to go out and do it again. I've done that before and it kind of kills you," he said.
"So I came here, tried to do the same things, kept working hard and tried to hit the same shots. And it seemed to work for me today."
The 29-year-old joined the National League club as a free agent in September and signed a short-term deal in November, set to expire in January.
The ex-Plymouth and Crawley man, who previously made 38 appearances in all competitions for Leeds, has started 14 league games for Guiseley this term.
The Lions are 23rd in the table, four points below 20th-placed Maidstone.
Gloucester's Hook, 30, has 81 Wales caps and toured South Africa with the 2009 British and Irish Lions.
But he was initially omitted from Wales' 2015 World Cup plans before being called in as a replacement.
"I am under no illusion it's getting tougher and tougher every year for me. But I will keep on battling on and am always available," said Hook.
He helped Wales win Grand Slams under Warren Gatland in 2008 and 2012, also contributing to the 2013 Six Nations title win.
However, Hook has seen former Ospreys rival and team-mate Dan Biggar become established as Wales' first-choice fly-half.
Rhys Priestland was also preferred to Hook at the 2015 World Cup only for a glut of back division injuries to prompt Wales to call for Hook.
Wales also picked Bristol fly-half Matthew Morgan for the tournament and called in Cardiff Blues' New Zealand-born player Gareth Anscombe as it went on.
Former Scarlet Priestland is now on an 18-month sabbatical from international duty after joining Bath.
BBC Radio Wales asked Hook if he felt Priestland's decision could boost his hopes of playing in the 2016 Six Nations.
Ex-Neath fly-half Hook replied: "I don't know what the coaches are thinking, but there's obviously a lot of young boys coming through as well.
"So I haven't had a lot of feedback from the coaches in that respect, but like I say, I'm always available."
The research looked at 1,000 patients diagnosed with cancer at 12 A&E departments in London and Essex.
A quarter of them did not live beyond two months of diagnosis, and on average they did not survive for six months.
The study's author said it "hammers home" the importance of early diagnosis.
Researchers from London Cancer, a network of care providers and academics, found people diagnosed in an emergency tend to have cancer that has spread around the body and also often have cancers that are harder to treat.
Average survival was less than six months for the overall group of patients, with only 36% still alive one year after diagnosis.
Half of all patients under 65 had died by 14 months. For older patients aged 65 to 75, half had died five months after diagnosis, while only 25% were alive beyond a year.
For those aged over 75, half had died after three months, with only a quarter surviving past one year.
Study author, UCL's Professor Kathy Pritchard-Jones, said: "These shocking figures hammer home what we already know to be true: early diagnosis can make a huge difference in your chances of surviving cancer.
"Around a quarter of all cancer cases are being diagnosed following presentation in A&E and the vast majority of these are already at a late stage, when treatment options are limited and survival is poorer."
Harpal Kumar, Cancer Research UK's chief executive, said: "Too many people are still diagnosed in hospital A&E departments and that must change."
The decision follows publication of a report by an independent commission asked to examine the Act.
There had been concerns within government "sensitive information" was being inadequately protected, while campaigners feared an attempt to curb powers to hold public bodies transparently to account.
When it was appointed, the government's Freedom of Information Commission was derided by some as an "establishment stitch-up" that would inevitably lead to tough curbs on the public's right to know what its rulers are doing.
In fact the Commission's report has surprised many, being more sympathetic to greater openness than expected, while also backing some changes that would help public authorities to keep some material secret.
And at least one proposal it did make to restrict FOI - bolstering the legal basis for ministers' rights to veto disclosure - has already been rejected by the government.
This has left openness campaigners with some powerful feelings of relief. So, despite the fact that David Cameron thinks FOI "furs up" the process of government, and the Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood objects to its "chilling effects", why have those who want to restrain FOI been disappointed?
There is the zeitgeist of our time, which lauds openness - exemplified in ministerial rhetoric about "being the most transparent government in the world".
There is also the strong pressure applied by FOI supporters - notably the dedicated and tightly argued lobbying by the Campaign for Freedom of Information, the numbers mobilised through the website 38 Degrees, and the powerful publicity of the media, such as the Daily Mail.
And there is the fact that the government would probably find it difficult to get restrictive change through Parliament. Its small majority in the Commons could easily be overturned as some Tory MPs like David Davis have already made it clear they would oppose constraints on FOI. In the Lords the government has no majority at all.
Yes, that in its lengthy and detailed report the Commission shows it was swayed by the evidence about how FOI actually works in practice.
It is not yet clear how the government will respond to all the Commission's recommendations. The Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock says: "We will not make any legal changes to FOI", so that would appear to rule out any legislation.
This would mean that many of the Commission's ideas - both some promoting secrecy and others promoting openness - would not be implemented. Any change would then be limited to government guidance.
In which case the Freedom of Information Act would be left, as the Commission puts it, pretty much in its current state of "working well".
The Freedom of Information Act has not been popular at the heart of government.
The act gives the public the right to obtain much of the information held by public authorities and is regarded by many in positions of power as somewhere on a scale from pointless nuisance to deeply infuriating and much worse.
This is true both of politicians and officials.
Last year Prime Minister David Cameron described FOI as being one of the "clutteration" and "buggeration" factors that impeded the process of governing.
In 2012, he told a committee of MPs it was an "endless discovery process that furs up the whole of government" - although he quickly added: "Don't worry, we are not making any proposals to change it."
The Cabinet Secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, in a rare public appearance, told a seminar last year FOI, while "positive" overall, had led to extra costs and "chilling effects" - the term used to argue officials were now less likely to provide frank opinions and record honest discussion.
Against this background, the trigger was a judgement from the Supreme Court last March in the dispute involving the Prince of Wales' correspondence with ministers, where he had advocated particular causes.
The court backed the Guardian's case these letters should be released.
In doing so, the court made it much harder for the government to use the "ministerial veto", the "backstop provision" that allows it to overrule instructions from the Information Commissioner or the Information Rights Tribunal that material should be disclosed.
The commission's core aim was to review whether "sensitive information" and policy material needed greater protection from disclosure.
It was also authorised to examine whether FOI places an excessive "burden" on public authorities.
Some local councils have complained about the cost of dealing with FOI requests, particularly trivial ones and those that come from the media or businesses.
The public protests from local government about FOI have tended to focus on this issue of the "administrative burden", in contrast to concerns expressed at central government level, which are not about cost but mainly about protecting policy discussion.
The commission's role relates to the UK-wide act, which covers England, Wales, Northern Ireland and UK-wide public bodies.
There is a separate, although similar, Freedom of Information Act for Scotland.
Freedom of information campaigners argued at first that the review was too narrowly focused, only on restrictions to FOI, when it should also have been asked to consider ways the act could be extended.
The membership of the commission was also strongly criticised for being limited to people with a one-sided experience of FOI - that of being on the receiving end of requests rather than making them.
Former Treasury permanent secretary Lord Burns chairs the commission.
Other members included Ofcom head Dame Patricia Hodgson and two former Home Secretaries, Lord Howard and Jack Straw.
The original announcement said the commission, created in July 2015, would report by November.
In the wake of the fuss over its composition, it then decided to issue a consultation document and take evidence, and it fell badly behind its initial timetable.
In October last year, the commission was widely ridiculed after it gave a briefing to a select invited group of journalists, which it insisted was off-the-record, while the unidentifiable anonymous source there stated: "Our aim is to be as open as possible."
Since then, the commission has changed its approach, posting on its website minutes of its meetings, research papers it has commissioned and some of the evidence it has received.
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The world number one lost 7-6 (7-4) 6-2 to Thompson, a late replacement for the injured Aljaz Bedene.
It is the first time since 2012 that Britain's Murray has lost his opening match at Queen's Club.
Second seed Stan Wawrinka and third seed Milos Raonic also lost their first-round matches.
However, it was Murray's straight-set defeat that left the crowd packed into the new 10,000-capacity Centre Court stunned.
"It's a big blow, for sure," said Murray.
"It has happened in the past where guys haven't done well here and gone on to do well at Wimbledon.
"There is no guarantee that I won't do well at Wimbledon, but it certainly would have helped to have had more matches.
"He played better than me. I didn't create loads of chances. I didn't return particularly well. He served big. He served well."
Australian Thompson, a lucky loser who lost in qualifying and only made the first round after Briton Bedene withdrew because of a wrist injury, played superbly.
The 23-year-old from Sydney sealed the most famous victory of his career with an ace after one hour and 43 minutes.
"Andy's the world number one. I've looked up to him and that's definitely the biggest win of my career," Thompson said.
"I took each point at a time. I didn't expect it to be winning in straight sets.
"I was sitting around yesterday hoping to get a match. Here I am, I got in the draw and I was so lucky to be here."
Murray, 31, could not find any rhythm, dropping serve twice in the second set and failing to convert the three break points which came his way as his forehand in particular let him down.
The defeat was the Scot's first at the tournament since 2014 and ended a 14-match winning streak on grass stretching back to 2015.
Both his Wimbledon titles, in 2013 and 2016, followed victories at Queen's Club.
Murray had to adjust his game plan after the late change in opponent, and hot, blustery conditions were not ideal, but the five-time champion was still surprisingly out of form.
Thompson had not won an ATP main-draw match in 2016 but reached the final of the lower level Surbiton Challenger on grass last week, and was sharp from the outset.
He denied Murray a single break point in the first set, failing to convert three chances of his won in game two, and then recovered from 3-1 down in the tie-break.
A Murray double-fault changed the momentum and the Briton could only tamely guide a backhand smash into the net on set point.
The comeback appeared on when Murray moved 0-40 up at the start of the second set, but Thompson played his way out of trouble without any nerves and went on to dominate.
Murray's forehand gave up the first break of serve at 4-2 and Thompson made sure with a second successive break before serving out the match.
A final tally of 26 errors to nine winners illustrated Murray's lack of form.
Peter Fleming, seven-time Grand Slam doubles champion on BBC Two
Andy clearly doesn't feel comfortable hitting a tennis ball and that's what he's been great at throughout his career.
What Jordan Thompson did so well was chase balls down and made very few unforced errors. Andy, after a few unforced errors, really just didn't want to do it.
John Lloyd, former GB Davis Cup captain on BBC Two
Andy looked unsure and looked unbalanced. He was hooking his forehands and was all over the place. He was looking at his box and was getting very negative. It was poor by his standards.
There was no physical presence. "I'm number one in the world and you're not beating me" - that was not there. But I think he'll be fine - there's no reason to panic whatsoever.
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Murray's exit means there is no British interest left in the draw at Queen's after all five home players suffered first-round defeats.
After British number two Kyle Edmund lost on Monday, James Ward, Cameron Norrie and Liam Broady were also beaten on Tuesday.
Ward, 30, was playing only his third match since an eight-month absence with a knee injury, but lost 6-2 6-2 to France's world number 87 Julien Benneteau.
Norrie, 21, also received a wildcard - as the leading player on the US college circuit - but he was beaten 6-1 6-4 by American Sam Querrey, the 2010 champion.
Broady, 23, lost 6-4 6-4 against France's Jeremy Chardy after replacing the injured Pierre-Hugues Herbert as a lucky loser from qualifying.
Jonathan Hall, a former RSPCA inspector, said it was easier to catch a feral cat than deter parents from parking illegally near schools.
He likened it to "a game of cat and mouse" with parents determined to ignore officers and risk a ticket.
Mr Hall has emailed east Cambridgeshire residents asking them to park considerately or walk with children.
The Littleport-based officer used the force's e-cops system, where residents sign up for community messages and alerts, to discuss problems with school parking.
He said feral cats had been the most dangerous creatures he had dealt with in his former career with the animal charity.
However, parents parking illegally near schools to drop-off or pick-up their children could be equally "vicious".
"When challenged, the parent will be become an angry creature, wailing and hissing their annoyance at being challenged over their dangerous parking," Mr Hall said.
"The parent stares out from their metal box, with a look of pure hate. A look upon their face saying, 'I would splat you with one swipe of my paw (if it was not illegal)'.
"Never mind the moggies, it is the mothers who bare their claws these days."
Mr Hall reminded parents that PCSOs patrolled areas near schools to "prevent accidents", and parking on double yellow lines was likely to result in a ticket.
"If you should park on a yellow line, and get a ticket, please don't climb the wall," he added.
The drugs are understood to have been hidden in farm machinery on board a ship which docked in the city.
Gardaí and revenue officers recovered the stash on Friday in a joint operation against organised crime.
Garda assistant commissioner John O'Driscoll said: "We are all about achieving results and this, in anyone's estimation, is a great result."
The investigation resulted in the identification and interception of 1,873 kilos (4,129 lbs) of herbal cannabis.
Investigations are continuing both in the Republic of Ireland and internationally.
The assistant commissioner said "the business of organised crime will be impacted" by the seizure.
He listed a string of recent operations, including the seizure of firearms from groups "intent on killing each other" in an apparent reference to recent gangland killings in the city.
Gardaí recently confiscated 18 cars in another blow against the underworld.
Assistant commissioner O'Driscoll added: "All of these actions together combine to have a significant impact on organised crime."
Emily Fox, from Bath, pleaded guilty at St Albans Crown Court to four counts of sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl while in a position of trust.
The offences took place in 2012-13, when Fox, 26, was a teacher at the Royal Masonic School for Girls in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.
Fox was released on bail and is due to return for sentencing on 5 September.
Fox, of Alfred Street, is not allowed to attend the school or have contact with anyone aged under 16.
She will also be added to the sex offenders register.
The Royal Masonic School for Girls was founded in 1788 in east London to teach the daughters of Freemasons.
It moved to its current site in 1934 and has a mixture of day and boarding pupils.
It follows reports earlier in the week that a man from Londonderry joined rebel forces in the country.
The BBC understands the enquiries follow searches at a house in Melmore Gardens in Creggan on Thursday night.
It is believed mobile phones were removed from the house.
Henry Peverill, 72, had his lifelong collection taken during a burglary at his Banbury home in March 2014.
The watches surfaced in August when a man tried to sell them to a Cash Converters shop in Coventry.
Police seized the timepieces and later arrested and charged a 28-year-old man with handling stolen goods.
Officers were able to trace the watches back to Mr Peverill after a faint "OX" postcode was revealed on one of the watches using ultra-violet equipment.
Scott Sheldon, a builder from Whoberley, Coventry, was given a 16-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months after he pleaded guilty to handling stolen goods at Coventry Magistrates' Court.
The West Brom boss, whose side were beaten by Swansea City on the final day, welcomed the Swans' Premier League survival and Cardiff's hosting of the Champions League final on 3 June.
But he believes Wales' capital city team must return to the top-flight.
"We need to get Cardiff back in the Premier League," said Pulis.
Cardiff City were promoted to the Premier League as Championship winners in 2013, but were relegated after only a season in English football's top flight.
Born in Newport, Pulis attended Cardiff City games as a youngster, and despite the Bluebirds enduring a torrid 2013-14 campaign he says the club must get back to the Premier League if Wales is to truly establish itself as a footballing nation.
The 59-year-old said having the Champions League final, between Real Madrid and Juventus in Cardiff, would be a fantastic occasion.
"I think it's important that people realise that Cardiff is the capital city," Pulis added.
"It's lovely having Swansea there and they have definitely out-performed Cardiff over the years, but we need to get that city and that football club back into the Premier League.
"It (the Champions League final) is wonderful for the country. To have two giants of European football is absolutely fantastic. Cardiff is now a fantastic city with wonderful facilities.
"The supporters from Italy and Spain, as long as they behave themselves, will have a wonderful time in the city. Not just watching the game, but they will be welcome with open arms by countrymen who are known for their hospitality and celebration."
Pulis saw his West Brom side pegged back by Swansea at the Liberty Stadium on the final day of the Premier League campaign.
Despite taking the lead through a a Jonny Evans header, Paul Clement's men finished the season on a high thanks to goals from from Jordan Ayew and striker Fernando Llorente.
Pulis said he was pleased to see West Brom end up finishing 10th in the table, but was critical of his side's defending and finishing at the Liberty Stadium.
"I was disappointed. I thought at times we controlled the game and had fantastic opportunities," Pulis added.
"But the last third of the season has highlighted that we need to defend better and when we go forward, take our chances. The first goal they scored was a third division goal. We need a leader, a voice, within the back-four.
"We've played well in games, but we've ended up not taking our chances and giving silly goals away which has cost us.
"We are disappointed because we've over-achieved this season and we should have over-achieved by more. Finishing 10th is a fantastic achievement by everyone at the club."
The Imperial War Museum in Duxford, Cambridgeshire is asking people to go through its website of images of the USAAF's time in Britain during the war - and share memories and information.
The photo is one of 5,000 collected by aviation historian Roger A Freeman.
The girls have been named as Janet Townsend and Tess and Gloria Grant.
The photograph shows the girls playing with a large ball at RAF Attlebridge at a party to mark the 466th Bombardment Group's 100th mission.
Staff from the American Air Museum website used the snap at events to publicise the project, which it hopes will create a digital record of US air force's time in Britain during World War Two.
The museum's public relations manager Esther Blaine said Pauline Souther got in touch after one of the events.
"She grew up in the UK and had moved to the States when she married," said Ms Blaine.
"She told us that her mother had been at the same party as the girls and that the girls were from the nearby village of Hockering in Norfolk."
Project staff are now trying to trace Janet, Tess and Gloria and their families to help record the history of the air base.
By 1944, the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) employed 450,000 Americans in Britain and the majority of them were not fighter pilots or bomber crew.
It is hoped the project will reveal the largely untold stories of the USAAF bakery, laundry and catering teams which supported the airbases.
Staff are also asking people to share with them any family photographs which include WW2 US airmen and women during their time in the UK.
Ceredigion councillors said all signs at the planned Aberystwyth branch should be bilingual in Welsh and English.
But superstore bosses said "Foodhall" was a brand name and not translated anywhere.
M&S said it would review the planning committee's decision and respond.
It has withdrawn "Foodhall" from the application so the other signs could be granted permission and a decision on that sign will be made at a later date.
Paul Hinge, a member of the committee, said he agreed "Marks and Spencer" should not be translated but all other signs should.
"Their brand name can't be changed or you could go and say Cafe Nero or Starbucks should be in Welsh. That doesn't happen.
"But food hall, clothing, toilets, that should all be translated into Welsh."
M&S said it would translate non-brand signs, but that Foodhall was part of its brand.
Mr Hinge said: "No, I'm not happy with that. Food hall is food hall.
"If they can provide proof of the fact that they have not translated it anywhere else then we can look at the matter again."
Aberystwyth town council objected to the signage application, and planning chairman Jeff Smith said: "Marks and Spencer of course is a brand, and hence doesn't need translation, but signs such as 'food hall' are clearly a description of the goods offered and should be bilingual with Welsh at the top or on the left."
An M&S spokeswoman said: "The term Foodhall is part of our brand signage and is not translated in any of our stores, in Wales or overseas.
"We've worked closely with the Welsh Language Commissioner to offer bilingual signage and service in all our stores across Wales, including adapting name badges so customers can easily identify our Welsh-speaking colleagues."
BBC Wales News' readers on Facebook had different opinions over whether the council should stick to its guns.
Gareth King wrote that people should be grateful to have the branch open when M&S were closing other stores, while Donna Marie Hanlon argued if road signs and driving licence addresses could be translated, so should store signs.
Adam Jones said as long as there was no danger of M&S pulling out of the deal because of the row, there was no harm in insisting the sign was translated. But Joanne Marshall said the bigger picture needed to be looked at.
Glasgow City, who have won 10 Scottish titles in a row, launched a purple and white kit featuring the words "You can't be what you can't see".
Club manager Laura Montgomery said more women on sports pages would create role models for the next generation.
She said female athletes were too often consigned to media lifestyle sections.
In a 2014 TEDx talk, Ms Montgomery said: "Quite simply you can't be what you can't see without visible role models.
"How do girls grow up thinking they can be anything other than sexualised objects, which is how the media currently portrays women."
She said she wanted to inspire future generation of women to be active, healthy and to work hard to achieve their dreams.
Ms Montgomery set up Glasgow City Football Club in 1998 with Carol Anne Stewart.
She said the pair were ridiculed when they pledged to create the best team in Scotland and one of the best teams in Europe.
It is now the most successful Scottish women's team of all time.
She said youth players were supported by the first team and also trained alongside them.
"Every single youth player that we have absolutely idolizes all our first team players and that's because they want to be what they can see," she said.
The strip was launched with a promotional video featuring players Leanne Ross and Jo Love.
The club pointed to Women in Sport statistics which suggested that women's sport makes up 7% of all sports media coverage in the UK.
As a result, it said commercial investment in women's sport was lacking, with women's sport sponsorship accounting for 0.4% of total sports sponsorship between 2011 and 2013.
Sajid Raza, 43, who set up Kings Science Academy in Bradford, and his sister Shabana Hussain, 40, made payments from Department for Education grants into their own bank accounts.
A third defendant, Daud Khan, 44, facilitated the fraud. The three were convicted following a trial in August.
Raza was jailed for five years, Hussain for six months and Khan 14 months.
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Passing sentence at Leeds Crown Court, Judge Christopher Batty said: "The three of you were convicted by the jury of a number of counts relating to your dishonest dealings with public money during the periods when you were setting up the Kings Science Academy and, in your case Sajid Raza and Daud Khan, also in the first 15 months of its operation."
He said free schools were set up to educate children, not to be a vehicle for making money.
During the trial, the court heard Raza and Hussain, a teacher at the school, diverted money intended to be used to establish the school into their own accounts.
The money was used by Raza to offset his personal financial difficulties. His rental properties were by August 2013 making a loss of £10,000 a year.
Khan, who was the school's financial director, did not receive any cash but the court was told the money could not have been diverted without his agreement.
Fraudulent invoices for fees and services were also produced.
Raza was found guilty of four counts of fraud, three counts of false accounting and two counts of obtaining money by deception.
Hussain was convicted of one count of fraud and one count of obtaining property by deception.
Khan was found guilty of two counts of fraud and three counts of false accounting.
The academy was one of the first free schools to open, in September 2011, and was praised by then Prime Minister David Cameron when he visited in 2012.
It has since become part of the Dixons academy group.
Joetta Shumba, 25, died in an Audi that was in collision with a lorry, which overturned, on 24 January.
Martin Grant, 29, of Jacey Road, Birmingham, has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving, and is due at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.
Road closures were put in place as emergency crews cleared up at the scene.
In a message posted on Twitter, the 27-year-old said she and African singer Angelique Kidjo "made and sang our own edits" whilst recording Band Aid 30.
She added: "Unfortunately, none of these made the final cut."
Later in the post, Emeli apologised "if the lyrics of the song have caused offence".
Some of the lyrics have been rewritten for the new recording of Do They Know It's Christmas? to reflect the track raising money for Ebola-hit west Africa.
The virus has killed more than 5,000 people in the current outbreak, including 1,267 in Sierra Leone.
But several African artists have claimed the song actually reinforces negative stereotypes of Africa.
Earlier this week, Band Aid organiser Bob Geldof explained British-Ghanaian rapper Fuse ODG didn't feature on the new version of the track because he "felt awkward" and didn't agree with the message of the song.
Sande's message follows Geldof telling Newsbeat that he had told the rapper he could "change whatever words you like".
The 63-year-old, who also organised previous versions of the charity single in 1984 and 2004, said: "His [Fuse ODG's] thing was you had to be positive about Africa, but then you have Angelique Kidjo and Emeli Sande who were on the same attitude and I said 'there's the world's press, tell them about your point of view'.
"If there's a line you can't sing, change it and he said he just felt awkward."
His comments came after Fuse ODG explained that he pulled out of recording because he feels the track is a "quick fix" to a bigger problem.
Despite voicing her frustration about the lyrics on the track Emeli Sande, who referenced her Zambian heritage in the message, did say that the new version of the track "came from a place of pure and respectful intent".
She added that it had been a long time since she had "heard a man speak with such passion and sincerity" as Geldof when he spoke to the group of artists during the recording session.
Other acts to appear on the track include Ellie Goulding, Jessie Ware, Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith.
Within two days of being released, the track has become fastest-selling single of 2014 and is on course to be number one in this Sunday's top 40 having sold copies 206,000.
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Southern Water pleaded guilty to breaching its Environmental Permit at Foreness Point pumping station.
The Environment Agency said defective pumps led to several sewage discharges between January and June 2011.
Southern Water apologised and said it was struggling to deal with the amount of water arriving at Foreness Point in stormy weather.
Canterbury Crown Court was told the company frequently failed to notify the Environment Agency or the local food authority of the sewage discharges into the sea.
One of the breaches was on Easter Sunday 2011, when sewage was discharged on to the beach.
The Environment Agency said investigation into separate sewage leaks last year were still ongoing.
More than 20 beaches in Thanet had to be closed over the Queen's Diamond Jubilee bank holiday weekend from 4 until 12 June.
Green Party councillor Ian Driver was on a scrutiny panel of Thanet Council which looked into the 2012 pollution incidents.
He said the £200,000 fine was too low.
"Last year Southern Water made profits of £331m so a £200,000 fine is hardly a deterrent considering the damage they caused," he said.
"There is the obvious environmental damage and the risk to health - that's a very serious issue.
"There's also huge damage to the local economy. People stop coming because they don't think the beaches are safe, so local traders lose money."
Southern Water said the majority of beaches in the Margate area continued to meet Blue Flag and European quality standards.
Director Geoff Loader said the fine should be taken in context with the £1.7m the company had spent addressing "extremely complex" issues at the pumping station.
"We have done some short-term improvements and we have some more things to do at a cost of £500,000," he said.
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The Centre for Deaf People, a charity, sold its premises to pay off a pension deficit.
Trustee Sandra Smith said deaf people in Bristol "needed a new base".
Plans for the new centre include recruiting a fundraiser, a book keeper and setting up a website.
The original centre was established in 1962 and became a focal meeting point for Bristol's deaf community - complete with its own skittle alley.
Ms Smith said: "We do need a new base, where people know that they can come and meet - especially for young people".
She added it was not just about "alleviating the loneliness" but about somewhere people could go who "were all the same".
Six years ago the charity ran into difficulties when they had their core funding cut by the council.
Former trustees and management, who are no longer involved in the charity, said they were "devastated to hear about the closure of the centre".
The firm said production capacity at its Kidsgrove facility in Staffordshire outweighed demand and would be closing by the end of March.
Some workers may be able to move to other locations, a spokesman said.
Unite said it suspected the firm wants to move work to Berlin, something the firm has denied. The union said it had "serious questions" about the closure of a "profitable" site.
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"This news is a cruel blow for these dedicated workers and will have an adverse impact on the local economy and the wider supply chain," said regional officer, Zoe Mayou.
"We don't think that the management has explained in a coherent fashion why this plant needs to close next spring, with production ceasing in December."
Drives and converters to produce electricity are made at the plant. The company confirmed 232 jobs would be affected.
The union will meet workers on Thursday to discuss the next steps.
In a statement, the firm said: "We are committed to our customers and are working to ensure there will be no disruption to production deliveries and service support now and in the future.
"Employees are the heart of our business, and we recognize this is difficult for our workers and their families."
Staff will begin leaving from 28 October until March.
Kidsgrove MP Ruth Smeeth said she was "disappointed" by the "heartbreaking" news and would work with Staffordshire and Newcastle councils to bring a new employer to the site.
General Electric employs around 22,000 people in the UK at 60 sites.
The system is designed to see money transferred within a few hours into people's accounts.
The problem had a knock-on effect for customers of other banks.
However the bank said that as of 17:00 on Monday the problem had been resolved.
"We are aware of an issue that affected some faster payments earlier today, and apologise to customers that were affected," said a bank spokeswoman.
"All other payment services were unaffected, ensuring that customers could continue to process the significant majority of transactions."
A spokeswoman for the Payments Council, which oversees UK payments strategy, said the problem had been with Lloyds Banking Group, which had not been able to send or receive customers' faster payments.
"This is the system that is used to process telephone, internet and standing order payments," she said.
"This is not an issue for the central Faster Payments System, or any systems processing other types of payments, which continue to operate as normal."
Lloyds said that all of its other payment services had been unaffected by the problem, and that customers could still process the "significant majority" of their transactions.
Under the scheme, launched in May 2008, money moved between two participating banks should clear within 24 hours.
The Faster Payments System was set up because bank customers found it frustrating that transferring cash from one account to another at a different bank took several days.
The problem seems to have originated at the weekend.
Some bank customers had reported waiting for money, including wages, to be transferred into their accounts, and now not knowing when the payments would arrive.
Bob Iger didn't name the film, but it was thought to be Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.
But now Iger has told Yahoo Finance: "To our knowledge we were not hacked."
"We decided to take [the threat] seriously but not react in the manner in which the person who was threatening us had required."
But, he added: "We don't believe that it was real and nothing has happened."
Iger had told employees earlier this month that the hackers had demanded the ransom in bitcoin and that they would release the film online in a series of 20-minute chunks unless it was paid.
The Disney boss was keen to stress how technology has benefitted Disney but also said it also presented significant challenges to the film industry.
"In today's world, cyber security is a front burner issue," he said.
"We like to view technology more friend than foe... [but] it is also a disruptor."
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The incident happened in Cupar Road, Guardbridge, near St Andrews, at about 10:30 on Saturday.
Emergency services were called to the scene where a number of parked cars and a garden wall were badly damaged.
Police said a man was treated for minor injuries and inquiries were continuing into how the crash happened.
A force spokesman said: "At around 10.30am police received a report of a road collision involving an HGV and a number of parked cars in Cupar Road, Guardbridge.
"One person was treated for minor injuries and inquiries are ongoing."
The petrol bomb was thrown at a house in Alfred Street Place at about 03:45 BST on Friday.
A window in the house was smashed and scorch damage caused to an exterior wall.
"This attack has caused a great deal of shock to the family involved and the wider community of Ballymena," DUP MLA Paul Frew said.
"Thankfully nobody was injured in this attack, but we could have a very different story emerging from this area today."
Police have appealed for anyone with any information about the attack to contact them.
In the West Bank, several traditional Palestinian industries are still utilising historical techniques fine-tuned through generations - but once flourishing industries, such as shoemaking in Hebron or olive oil soap production in Nablus, are barely surviving, with a fraction of their former workforces.
Photographer Rich Wiles has been documenting these industries, some of which may not survive much longer in the current political and economic climate.
The 26-year-old was out of contract at the end of the season but his new deal ties him to the club until 2019.
Former Exeter trainee Norwood moved to Rovers from Forest Green in July 2015 and has netted 30 goals since then.
"I've enjoyed playing here for the last year or so and the fans have been great to me, so it didn't take long to agree a new deal," he told the club website.
Wales and Sheffield United striker Evans, 23, was convicted by a jury at Caernarfon Crown Court.
Both he and Port Vale defender Mr McDonald, also 23, had denied rape at a Premier Inn near Rhyl, Denbighshire.
The men admitted having sex with the woman on 30 May 2011, but said it was consensual.
Court proceedings were disrupted after Mr McDonald was acquitted, prompting a brief adjournment.
Mr McDonald, of Crewe, Cheshire, looked elated when his not guilty verdict was delivered, and family and friends shouted: "Yes, yes".
One man left the public gallery and could be heard screaming outside the court.
Judge Merfyn Hughes QC rose and the public gallery was cleared.
Mr McDonald remained in the dock with Evans, 23, of Penistone, South Yorkshire, who held his head in his hands and cried.
Mr McDonald hugged Evans and the two footballers banged heads together.
When the judge returned to the court, the jury foreman gave the guilty verdict against Evans.
The Sheffield United centre forward threw the headphones he was using to follow the trial on the floor and then looked shocked.
In sentencing him to five years in prison the judge said: "The complainant was 19 years of age and was extremely intoxicated.
"CCTV footage shows, in my view, the extent of her intoxication when she stumbled into your friend.
"As the jury have found, she was in no condition to have sexual intercourse.
"When you arrived at the hotel, you must have realised that."
He told Evans that he might have been used to receiving attention from women in the past due to his success as a footballer, but this case was "very different".
The judge said the sentence took into account that there had been no force involved and the complainant received no injuries.
He also said the complainant was not "targeted" and the attack had not been "premeditated".
"You have thrown away the successful career in which you were involved," he told Evans before sending him down.
During the trial, the jury saw video interviews in which the woman, now 20, said she could not remember what happened and feared her drinks were spiked.
She could not remember travelling to the hotel, but woke up in a double bed.
"My clothes were scattered around on the floor," she said.
"I just didn't know how I got there, if I had gone there with anyone. I was confused and dazed."
The court heard that Evans, whose mother lives in Rhyl, had invited Mr McDonald and others for a bank holiday night out in the seaside town on 29 May.
Because there was not enough space at Evans' mother's house, he booked Mr McDonald in to the hotel.
The court heard that Mr McDonald met the woman and took her back to the hotel room, sending a text to Evans stating he had "got a bird".
During Evans' evidence, he told the jury he had gone to the hotel, let himself in to Mr McDonald's room and watched his friend and the woman having sex.
It was claimed Mr McDonald asked if his friend could "get involved", to which the woman said yes.
The prosecution claimed that while the attack happened, Jack Higgins, an "associate" of the footballers, and Ryan Roberts, Evans' brother, watched through a window.
The court heard the defendants had known each other since they were aged 10 and shared accommodation when they played for Manchester City's youth academy.
Evans, a striker, has scored 35 goals for League One club Sheffield United this season and has 13 caps for Wales.
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Captain Jamie Heaslip scored the opener as he became Ireland's most capped back-row forward.
Darren Cave, Keith Earls, Simon Zebo and Felix Jones also crossed with Wales replying through Richard Hibbard, Justin Tipuric and Alex Cuthbert.
The only downside for the Irish was an injury to flanker Tommy O'Donnell.
Munster's O'Donnell will have a scan on an injured hip after being carried off on a stretcher late in the match.
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Ulster wing Andrew Trimble, playing for the first time since October 2014, limped off with a foot strain in the first half, and Wales captain Scott Williams was taken off as a precaution with a calf strain.
The result will see Ireland move to second in World Rugby's rankings, overtaking South Africa.
And it leaves Wales coach Warren Gatland and Ireland's Joe Schmidt with very different headaches as they reduce their respective squads ahead of their next warm-up matches.
Welsh players hoping to impress had an uncomfortable afternoon behind a pack which was outplayed by a more experienced Irish eight.
Up to 10 of them will be cut from the squad in the next week, with Schmidt due to shed seven from Ireland's before they play Scotland next week.
Wales face the Irish again in Dublin on 29 August.
The last time these teams met Wales beat Ireland 23-16 in one of the best matches seen at the Millennium Stadium, with the Welsh victory built on a remorseless defensive effort.
There could not have been a greater contrast as Ireland's more streetwise side took advantage of gaps around the fringes of the Welsh rucks and scrums, with Eoin Redden, Heaslip and Earls in particular showing the benefit of their experience.
Wales were outpaced and out-thought, with Ireland sharper in everything they did and quick to take advantage of Welsh handling errors which were not in short supply.
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An initial period of Welsh pressure was followed by half an hour of total Irish dominance which resulted in three tries before Wales replied with Hibbard's touchdown after a clever lineout move involving Dominic Day and Justin Tipuric.
Eli Walker's acrobatics almost resulted in another Welsh try before the interval, but Wales' good finish to the first half was tempered by the fact Ireland themselves butchered two glorious scoring chances, and Scott Williams needed to pull-off a last-gasp cover tackle to stop Trimble scoring after a 70-yard break out.
The Welsh revival was short lived as replacement Zebo dived over from close range after Welsh flanker Ross Moriarty was yellow carded for a high tackle on the Munster winger.
Full-back Felix Jones rounded off a fine move before Wales finally clicked, but with the match already lost.
Tipuric capped a fine showing by rounding off a flowing move and Cuthbert scored in added time.
But with just over a month to go before the World Cup kicks off, Ireland will be the far happier camp.
Wales: Amos, Cuthbert, Tyler Morgan, Scott Williams (Matthew Morgan 58), Walker, Hook (Anscombe 50), Phillips (Lloyd Williams 50), Smith (Rob Evans 51), Hibbard (Dacey 51), Jarvis (Andrews 59), Ball (King 59), Day, Moriarty, Tipuric, Baker (Taulupe Faletau 42).
Ireland: Jones, Trimble (Zebo 35), Earls (Marmion 68), Cave, McFadden, Jackson, Reddan (Madigan 68), Jack McGrath (Kilcoyne 52), Strauss (Best 63), Ross (Bent 58), Henderson, Ryan. (Tuohy 51), Murphy, O'Donnell, Heaslip (Henry 55).
Attendance: 74,000
Referee: Glen Jackson (New Zealand).
The Scottish Borders Walking Festival takes place in Peebles this year between 3 and 9 September.
It will be held in Hawick in 2018; Ettrick, Yarrow and Selkirk the following year and Jedburgh and Ancrum in 2020.
The annual event, established in 1995, is said to bring "significant economic benefits" to the region.
Scottish Borders Council's Countryside Access Team is tasked with ensuring the festival takes place each year.
It invites expressions of interest from all of the area's community councils.
Six communities responded to the call for hosts for 2018 to 2020 and the three successful bids have now been confirmed.
Mae stori'r adeilad yn bennod bwysig yn hanes y Gymru fodern, ond mae'n cael ei drawsnewid ar hyn o bryd gyda chynlluniau i agor gwesty, bwytai, bar a chanolfan treftadaeth o dan yr enw 'The Exchange Hotel'.
Dyma olwg ar sut mae'r adeilad wedi newid dros y blynyddoedd, a beth yw'r cynlluniau ar gyfer y dyfodol.
The Coal Exchange building in Cardiff Bay was once one of the most important buildings in Wales.
Its story is important in the industrial history of Wales, and the iconic building iscurrently being redeveloped with plans to open a hotel, restaurants, bars and a heritage centre under the new name The Exchange Hotel.
Here's a look at how the building has changed over the years, and the plans forits future.
Ar ddiwedd y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg, Caerdydd oedd prif borthladd glo y byd ac oherwydd bod cymaint o fusnes yn mynd drwy'r bae fe agorwyd y Gyfnewidfa Lo yn 1886.
At the end of the nineteenth century, Cardiff was the coal capital of the world andwith so much trade coming through Cardiff Bay the Coal Exchange was opened in 1886.
Yma, ar ddechrau'r ugeinfed ganrif, cafodd y cytundeb masnachol cyntaf gwerth £1m ei arwyddo. Roedd y cytundeb yn ymwneud â gwerthu 2,500 o dunelli o lo i gwmni yn Ffrainc.
It was in this building at the start of the twentieth century that the first £1m trade deal was signed, with 2,500 tonnes of coal being sold to a company in France.
Roedd 10,000 o bobl y diwrnod yn masnachu yn y gyfnewidfa, ac ar un adeg roedd prisiau glo'r byd yn cael eu dyfarnu yma.
There were 10,000 people trading in the building every day, and at one time the price of the world's coal was determined here.
Caeodd y Gyfnewidfa Lo yn 1958, gydag allforio glo yn dod i ben yn 1964. Roedd cynlluniau i gartrefu'r Cynulliad Cenedlaethol yma ond fe bleidleisiodd Cymru yn erbyn datganoli yn 1979. Roedd hefyd bwriad i osod pencadlys S4C yma pan sefydlwyd y sianel yn 1983.
The Coal Exchange was closed in 1958, with the exporting of coal ending in the mid 1960s. There were plans for the Welsh Assembly to be homed here, but the Welsh electorate voted against devolution in 1979. There were also plans for S4C headquarters to be based here in 1983.
Fel rhan o'r gwaith i adnewyddu'r adeilad, bydd ystafell newydd yn cael ei chreu yn agos i'r to a fydd yn dal dros 200 o bobl gyda bar a lle bwyta yno.
As part of the restoration worka new room will be created above the main hall with a dining area and bar holding over 200 people.
Mae'r brif neuadd wedi cynnal nifer o gyngherddau gan enwau mawr fel Manic Street Preachers, Arctic Monkeys, Van Morrison a Biffy Clyro. Mae ffilmiau a rhaglenni teledu wedi'u ffilmio yn yr adeilad hefyd, fel Dr Who, Sherlock, Stella, Casualty a chystadleuaeth Miss Wales.
The main hall as been used to stage concerts for big names such as the Manic Street Preachers, Artic Monkeys, Van Morrison and Biffy Clyro. Television programmes and various shows have also used the venue, such as Dr Who, Sherlock, Stella, Casualty and the Miss Wales finals.
Roedd Banc Barclays wedi ei leoli yng nghefn yr adeilad ar un adeg, ac roedd yn cael ei rentu fel swyddfeydd i gwmnïau. Ond dinistriwyd rhan yma'r adeilad mewn tân yn yr 1980au. Mae cynlluniau i leoli un o'r bariau newydd yma wedi i'r gwaith o adnewyddu gael ei gwblhau.
A bar will be situated at the back of the building whereBarclays Bank and other offices once were. This part of the building was destroyed in a fire in the 1980s. A bar will be located here after the renovation is complete.
Mae'r cyntedd yn dechrau cymryd siâp. Y cam nesaf fydd adnewyddu'r lloriau.
Progress is being made in the lobby area, with new flooring coming as part of the new developments.
Mae disgwyl y bydd y datblygwyr newydd yn talu dros £40m i adnewyddu'r adeilad.
It's expected that the developers will spend over £40m on the project.
Mae rhannau o'r llawr cyntaf yn agos i'w cwblhau.
Parts of the first floor are nearing completion.
Bydd 40 o ystafelloedd gwely yn rhan o'r gwesty wedi i'r gwaith adnewyddu gael ei gwblhau.
There will be 40 bedrooms in the building by the time the restoration is complete.
Mae disgwyl i'r ystafelloedd gwely gael eu henwi ar ôl enwogion o Gymru, gyda Roald Dahl a Tom Jones wedi eu clustnodi yn barod.
It's expected that the rooms will be named after famous Welsh people including Roald Dahl and Tom Jones.
Yn y gorffennol cafodd y llawr isaf ei orchuddio yn dilyn gwaith adnewyddu. Yma bydd y ganolfan dreftadaeth am hanes yr adeilad a'r diwydiannau trwm yng Nghymru yn cael ei leoli.
The heritage centrelooking at the history of the building and the trade industry of Cardiff Bay will be located on the ground floor.
Y gwaith o ailgynllunio'r fynedfa.
Work is well underway to transform the entrance to the building.
Darlun arlunydd o'r gwaith wedi ei gwblhau.
An artist illustration of the final plans for the Exchange Hotel.
Mae disgwyl i'r gwaith gael ei gwblhau erbyn diwedd 2018.
It's expected that the work will be finished by the end of 2018.
Strong gusts meant the Irish Ferries high speed crossings from Holyhead to Dublin at 11:50 and 17:15 GMT were scrapped.
Also cancelled were the 08:45 and 14:30 GMT high speed service between Dublin and Holyhead.
The Met Office said the weather in the north west of Wales would become "drier and brighter" on Tuesday afternoon.
Passengers from the high speed ferries are being transferred to cruise ferry sailings instead, Irish Ferries said on its website.
Stena Line services to and from Anglesey have not been affected.
HM Coastguard at Holyhead said they had experienced "occasional" gale force 8 gusts but the winds appeared to be easing and they had not had any reports of people getting into difficulty in the sea.
The 2 Sisters Food Group is proposing to move the retail packing department from its St Merryn operation in south Wales to its site in Cornwall.
"It is the only way our business can survive and prosper for the longer term," a statement from St Merryn said.
The Welsh Government and the local MP are in talks with the company.
St Merryn, which was taken over by 2 Sisters Food Group in 2013, packs steaks and chops at the Merthyr site it has run since 1999.
The Welsh Government and Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney MP Gerald Jones are to work with company directors during a 45-day consultation period.
"In total there are about 1,000 staff at the plant, so we are talking about a third of the workforce," said Mr Jones.
"It's a large well-established employer and this a devastating blow to the local community if this change goes through.
"If you think about Merthyr Tydfil and the wider community, some of the areas of depravation, to lose this amount of jobs would be a huge blow."
The plant received £1.2m of support in May 2010 for processing equipment from the Welsh Government's single investment fund before the operation was taken over by 2 Sisters.
That such a long-established company is set to lose a third of its workforce in Merthyr is a terrible blow for the staff, but it also has a knock-on impact in the wider economy which will affect many others.
The town has had a series of positive announcements recently as its regeneration strategy seemed to be paying dividends.
Two-hundred-and-fifty highly skilled jobs were created by General Dynamics at its tank assembly plant and exhaust maker, Tenneco Walker, took on 200 people.
Trago Mills has also started work on a retail centre that will employ 400 people.
The news of 350 job losses at 2 Sisters is a blow to the progress that was being made.
"The announcement made this afternoon gives significant cause for concern for those staff working in the company's retail packing operation in Merthyr Tydfil," said Economy Secretary Ken Skates.
St Merryn Foods, which currently employs 1,100 staff at the site on Penygarnddu Industrial Estate, confirmed the job losses were part of a "wider strategic review" and could happen as early as January.
"We do not take the decision to launch this review lightly, but it is the only way our business can survive and prosper for the longer term," the statement said.
"Regrettably, the red meat sector in the UK faces many serious challenges including declining markets, falling volumes, higher input costs and a fiercely competitive retail landscape.
"This extremely difficult environment means the packing operation at Merthyr, which includes the packing of steaks and chops, is no longer sustainable.
"Our main focus now is to begin discussions with our colleagues to explore every available option to mitigate the potential loss of this function, which will include seeking relocation and redeployment opportunities elsewhere in the group.
"This decision does not impact our beef and lamb slaughter and cutting operations and these will continue to operate as usual at Merthyr Tydfil. The site will continue to employ up to 700 colleagues."
Nick Ireland, food union Usdaw's divisional officer, said: "This proposal will be devastating news for the loyal and hardworking staff at the Merthyr Tydfil site, especially so in the run up to Christmas.
"Usdaw will be doing everything we can during the 45 day consultation process to look in detail at the proposals with a view to safeguarding jobs, maximising future employment at the Merthyr Tydfil site and securing the best deal possible for staff."
According to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Seymour Hersh, the US raid that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was not a secret, risky US action, it was a joint operation between the US and Pakistani military intelligence.
The allegation has many in the US - and Pakistan - crying foul, and pointing to what they see as insufficient attribution and questionable conclusions throughout Hersh's lengthy piece.
"The notion that the operation that killed Osama Bin Laden was anything but a unilateral US mission is patently false," said White House spokesperson Ned Price, adding that the piece was riddled with "inaccuracies and baseless assertions".
At the heart of Hersh's article is the allegation that, starting in 2006, Bin Laden was under Pakistani control, kept in Abbottabad with the financial assistance of Saudi Arabia.
Hersh says high-level Pakistani officials consented to allow the US to conduct its "raid" on the compound - a de facto assassination - after the US found out about Bin Laden's whereabouts through a source in Pakistani intelligence (and not, as reported, after interrogation of al-Qaeda detainees and extensive investigation into a Bin Laden courier).
A deal was then struck that included allowing the US to set up detailed surveillance of the area, obtaining DNA evidence confirming Bin Laden's identity and even providing a Pakistani agent to help guide the operation - in exchange for continued US financial support of the nation's intelligence service and its leaders.
As part of the agreement, according to Hersh, the US would hold off on announcing Bin Laden's death for a week, and then only say that he was killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan. Mr Obama double-crossed the Pakistanis, however, after one of the US helicopters crashed during the operation and the White House feared they could not contain the story.
Instead Mr Obama spoke to the nation that night, announcing that US Navy special forces had conducted a daring attack based on months of secret intelligence-gathering, without the knowledge of the Pakistanis, concluding in a firefight in which Bin Laden - and other militants - were killed.
In the following days, further details - sometimes conflicting and later disavowed - leaked out from the White House, angering US special forces commanders and defence officials.
"The White House's story might have been written by Lewis Carroll," Hersh writes in the latest issue of the London Review of Books, referencing the author of Alice in Wonderland.
His piece ends with a broad-based condemnation of the Obama administration's foreign policy operation.
"High-level lying nevertheless remains the modus operandi of US policy, along with secret prisons, drone attacks, Special Forces night raids, bypassing the chain of command and cutting out those who might say no," he writes.
Word of Hersh's story spread quickly, dominating political conversation on social media and repeatedly crashing the London Review of Books' website due to the heavy volume of traffic.
It also didn't take long before some of Hersh's fellow journalists began questioning the story, most notably Max Fisher of Vox and Peter Bergen of CNN. The critiques fall into a few major categories:
• Unreliable sources. Much of Hersh's article is based on the claims of unnamed intelligence officials in the US and Pakistan, none of whom were directly involved in the operation. The only named source, Asad Durrani, served in the Pakistani military intelligence more than two decades ago and says only that "former colleagues" of his back up Hersh's claims. Durrani was later contacted by CNN's Bergen, and he would only say that Hersh's account was "plausible".
• Contradictory claims. Hersh disregards the fact that two of the Navy Seals involved in the attack on Bin Laden's compound have come out with details of the raid that directly contradict his account. Bergen, who visited the compound after the operation, writes that there was clear evidence of a protracted firefight, as the location was "littered almost everywhere with broken glass and several areas of it were sprayed with bullet holes".
• Unrealistic conclusions. Why would the Saudis support a man who wanted to overthrow the Saudi monarchy? Why, if US support for Pakistan was part of the bargain, did US-Pakistani relations deteriorate in the years after the raid? If the US and Pakistan were co-operating, was a staged raid really the simplest possible way to ensure that Bin Laden was killed?
As is often the case with conspiracy theories, perhaps the sharpest criticism of Mr Hersh's narrative is that it relies on a large cast of characters operating effectively while maintaining universal secrecy. Vox's Fisher accuses Hersh - who won a Pulitzer in 1970 for exposing the My Lai massacre of Vietnamese civilians at the hands of US soldiers - of producing a growing number of difficult-to-believe exposes based on tenuous evidence.
In the last three years, for example, he has penned pieces alleging the George W Bush administration trained Iranian militants in Nevada and that Turkey was behind chemical weapons attacks in Syria.
"Maybe there really is a vast shadow world of complex and diabolical conspiracies, executed brilliantly by international networks of government masterminds," Fisher writes. "And maybe Hersh and his handful of anonymous former senior officials really are alone in glimpsing this world and its terrifying secrets. Or maybe there's a simpler explanation."
Meanwhile, conservative commentators in the US, who have long chafed at some of Hersh's accusations about US actions during the Bush administration, celebrated the criticism - while noting what they saw as the key motivating factor.
"When Seymour Hersh manufactures crazy against Obama, suddenly he's a crank, not an elder statesman," tweets Breitbart's John Nolte. "With Bush he was a media GOD."
In a television interview on Monday, Hersh tried to turn the tables, saying that the US account of the operation is the one that's unbelievable.
"Twenty-four or 25 guys go in to the middle of Pakistan, take out a guy with no air cover, no protection, no security, with no trouble - are you kidding me?" he said.
"Look, I'm sorry it goes against the grain," he added. "I've been doing this my entire life, and all I can tell you is I understand the consequences."
There's a bit of internet shorthand, frequently used on Twitter, to preface an allegation that seems explosive but questionable: "Whoa if true".
It seems the reaction to Hersh's piece so far has included a lot of "whoa" - but with a heavy emphasis on the caveat, "if true".
Sannino quit two weeks ago with the Hornets second in the Championship and was replaced by Oscar Garcia.
"He worked in a very old school, Italian way. It can be a big contrast to English football," Ekstrand, 25, told BBC Three Counties Radio.
"Other than that, he was a great manager for me."
Sannino's departure came after he appeared to experience a backlash from players, personified by winger Lloyd Dyer's decision to shout at the manager after scoring in a 2-0 win over Rotherham.
Sannino, who was in charge for eight months after taking over from Gianfranco Zola, has since said the Watford players had "little desire to think about tactics".
"With every manager there are always some parts of the squad that are less happy," said Swede Ekstrand.
"I can only speak for me personally and I had nothing against Sannino. I had a good time with him.
"Zola was very modern and wanted to play with pace and flow, and maybe Sannino was a bit more technical. Managers are not the same - sometimes you succeed, sometimes not."
Former Brighton boss Garcia finds himself in the unusual position of taking over a side that are near the top of the table.
He takes charge of his first game at Charlton on Saturday, after a week disturbed by international call-ups.
"I think it's easier for him to come in now," said Ekstrand.
"We are happy to have him here. We have to try and get along as quickly as possible and continue to get as many points as we can.
"Little by little he is telling us about his ideas of the game. But he can't come in and change everything - it will be piece by piece."
The Donegal GAA County Board met to discuss and vote on the option of granting a long-term deal for the county boss in Ballybofey on Monday.
Gallagher had completed two years of his initial three-year term.
Donegal lost to Tyrone in the Ulster SFC final in July and then went down to Dublin in the quarter-finals of the All-Ireland series in August.
Gallagher, who succeeded All-Ireland winning manager Jim McGuinness in the job, is understood to have made the case to extend his stay to a special review committee last week.
The Executive Committee then brought forward their proposal to club delegates, who debated the matter on Monday evening.
With senior players Eamon McGee and Colm McFadden having retired, the former St Gall's clubman faces undertaking a rebuilding process.
A number of players such as captain Michael Murphy and Ryan McHugh have spoken out in support of their manager in recent weeks.
Ond i nodi Sul y Tadau, mae Cymru Fyw yn dathlu tadau Cymru gyda detholiad o ddyfyniadau gan dadau a'u plant o'n cyfres o erthyglau teuluol dan y teitl Yr Ifanc a Ŵyr.
Y tad:
"Dwi wedi trio magu fy mhlant i fod yn pwy bynnag maen nhw eisiau bod a ddim yn adlewyrchiad o'r hyn ydw i neu Anya. Dwi'n gredwr cryf yn hynny.
"Fe fyddai wastad yn dweud mai tair 'C' rydych chi ei angen i fagu plant - eu Cael nhw, eu Caru nhw a - hyn sy'n bwysig - eu Cefnogi nhw. Mae bywyd yn rhoi cyfle ichi ddarganfod pwy rydych chi eisiau bod ac mae'n bwysig cymryd y cyfle."
Y mab:
"Dydi o erioed wedi bod yn siomedig ynddon ni fel plant. Dyna un peth amdano fo, mae o'n un o'n ffans mwya' ni ac yn berson cefnogol ofnadwy.
"Dwi'n mwynhau cael paned ac eistedd i lawr a sgwrsio efo fo, mae'n 'neud i fi chwerthin - dwi'n licio hongian allan efo fo, mae'n foi ffyni!"
Y tad:
"Un o'r pethau wna'i byth ddod drosto yn iawn oedd ei siom ynof fi wedi imi orfod cyfaddef nad oeddwn wedi bod yn hollol strêt efo hi am fodolaeth Siôn Corn, a hithau wedi bod yn rhedeg ymgyrch yn erbyn yr anghredinwyr yn Ysgol y Gelli, Caernarfon.
"Er ei bod hi wedi symud i ffwrdd, dwi'n teimlo ein bod ni'n dal yr un mor agos os nad yn agosach at ein gilydd.
"Dwi'n falch iawn ohoni ac o bopeth mae hi wedi'i gyflawni, ac yn falch iawn ein bod ni'n ffrindiau da yn ogystal â thad a merch."
Y ferch:
"Dydi perthynas Dad a fi heb newid lot dros y blynyddoedd. 'Da ni unai'n ffraeo fel brawd a chwaer neu'n cael lot o hwyl.
"Mae'n rhaid i mi gyfaddef, do'n i ddim yn teenager oedd yn neis iawn efo'i rhieni. Dechreuodd Dad fy ngalw'n Mari Enfield ar ôl y cymeriad afiach o sulky hwnnw gan Harry Enfield - Kevin.
"Dwi'n cofio gwylltio Dad gymaint unwaith 'nath o ddechra' rhedeg ar fy ôl i fyny'r grisia; yn lwcus i fi, dydi o ddim yn ffit iawn!
"Mae o wastad wedi pwysleisio pa mor bwysig ydy bod yn chi'ch hun, a mae honno wedi bod yn wers werthfawr iawn."
Y tad:
"Buom yn eithriadol ffodus mewn tri phlentyn, a Dylan yw'r un canol.
"Un o'i wendidau mawr yw ei deyrngarwch unllygeidiog i Fanceinion Unedig, a hynny o'i blentyndod.
"Un tro aethom â'r tri, a Dylan tua'r pump oed, i weld mannau hanesyddol Môn. O fewn i eglwys Penmynydd, yn pwyso ar wal ger yr allor, yr oedd baner ac arni'r llythrennau MU yn fawr. Ni ddeallodd Dylan mai baner y Mother's Union oedd hon. Dim ond un MU oedd ar ei feddwl, a mynegodd ei lawenydd ar unwaith fod saint Penmynydd yn gefnogwyr Man U."
Y mab:
"Pan fyddem yn mynd ar deithiau hir yn y car, draw i Blas yn Rhos i weld Taid a Nain, neu i Gastellnewydd Emlyn i weld Datcu a Mamgu, yr hyn oedd yn byrhau'r daith i dri phlentyn ifanc oedd straeon Dat.
"Roedden nhw'n llawn dychymyg, ac yn para digon i'n cadw'n llawn cyffro o Gaernarfon i Synod Inn neu o Fethesda i Gorwen.
"Mae'n siŵr fod cariad at eiriau wedi dechrau datblygu yn ystod y teithiau hynny,"
Y tad:
"Mae lot o rieni yn ceisio chwarae eu bywydau chwaraeon drwy eu plant ond oedd dim eisiau imi wneud 'na achos o'n i 'di cael digon o lwyddiant fy hunan.
"Ond mae'r ffaith fod y ddau grwt wedi gwneud yn dda yn rhoi pleser mawr imi er nad oedd yn unrhyw fath o darged. Rwy' jyst yn hapus eu bod nhw'n mwynhau, yn gwneud yn dda ac yn cadw i ddysgu.
"Os rwbeth roedd gen i fwy o falchder pan enillodd Lloyd ei gap cynta' na phan ges i fy nghap cynta'. Mae llwyddiant eich plant yn bwysicach na'ch llwyddiant chi'ch hunan..."
Y mab:
"'Nath Dad ddim gwthio ni mewn i rygbi o gwbl.
"Ro'n i tua 17 oed pan nes i sylweddoli beth oedd Dad wedi ei wneud gyda'i yrfa achos pan o'n i'n tyfu lan o'n i jyst yn edrych lan ato fe fel unrhyw blentyn arall.
"Dyna pryd nes i ddechre fod eisiau mynd ymlaen gyda rygbi a dyna pryd nes i ddechre gofyn cwestiynau i Dad am ei yrfa a dysgu mwy.
"Wy'n cofio Dad yn smyglo ni mewn i'r stadiwm weithiau a falle bod ni'n ca'l e mewn i bach o drwbl ar y pryd! Ond fi'n credu bod e wedi bod yn rhywbeth pwysig iawn i fi a Tom [y brawd]."
Y tad:
"'Toes 'na fawr o chwarae pêl-droed yn perthyn imi ond roedd gen i ddiddordeb mewn gweld y plant wrthi... roeddan ni'n mynd o gwmpas efo nhw ar ddydd Sadwrn yn y fan i wahanol lefydd ar ddechrau'r gynghrair iau sydd wedi tyfu yn Sir Fôn erbyn hyn.
"Roeddan ni'n odiaeth o falch yn yr Euros.
"Dwi'n meddwl mai be' oedd wedi rhoi'r balchder mwyaf oedd ein bod ni wedi cael clywed cymaint o Gymraeg yno."
Y mab:
"Roedd o'n gweithio'n galed - rhaid i rywun motivatio ei hun pan mae'n gweithio iddo fo'i hun ac mae'n siŵr mai ei gymhelliant mwyaf oedd rhoi bwyd ar y bwrdd, mor sylfaenol â hynny.
"Dwi wedi cael ambell i sgwrs efo Dad ynglŷn â'r tebygrwydd rhwng sgiliau hyfforddi a llefaru.
"Yn lle dweud 'dyma sut dwi isho i chdi ddweud y frawddeg yma' roedd WH a Dad yn trio ei dynnu allan ohona i. Roedd o'n fwy am gyfleu'r teimlad - 'dyma be' rwyt ti'n ei deimlo, dyma be' ydan ni'n drio'i dd'eud, sut fysa chdi'n ei dd'eud o?'
"Mae hynny'n union 'run fath a be' dwi'n ei wneud mewn pêl-droed."
Trading Standards officers say that tens of thousands of users are falling victim to such scams, which begin when they ask for help with a printer error.
The fraudsters claim to offer "printer helplines", which consumers are fooled into contacting.
Typically, users then allow scammers remote access to their computers.
In some cases the fraudsters steal information - such as bank account details - or demand money to hand back control.
They appear credible by claiming to have links with well-known computer and printer brands.
In one case, they tried to charge a victim £700.
Another user was told that their online identity had been corrupted and all their passwords had been stolen. The "fee" to correct it was £200.
"This printer helpline scam scam is particularly pernicious because it encourages victims to unknowingly contact the fraudsters of their own accord," said Mike Andrews, lead co-ordinator of the National Trading Standards eCrime team.
"While victims expect they will receive help with their printer problems, they have in fact been lured into a trap, and find themselves at risking of losing money or important personal information and also have their computer security compromised."
In 2016 there were more than 32,000 such cases of computer service fraud, according to Action Fraud, which is a 47% rise since 2014.
"I would urge people to be particularly vigilant about this scam," said Lord Harris, chair of National Trading Standards.
"If you are seeking help for printer issues you should always use the official printer helpline details provided when you bought the product or consult the official website of the manufacturer for helpline details."
James Johnston's Facebook video about the incident at the Fort Shopping Centre in the east of Glasgow has been watched more than 800,000 times.
The 27-year-old told the Kaye Adams programme the men had been rude and ignorant and made him feel "rotten".
He said the reaction to the video had been "absolutely fantastic".
James, from Bellshill in Lanarkshire, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis three years ago.
In the video he is visibly upset as he describes how the men laughed as he tried to pick up his phone from the ground.
James told the Kaye Adams programme it all began when he was rushing to the toilet at the shopping centre and he overtook the men.
He said: "I can't walk in a straight line because of the MS. I'm walking as fast as I can and I feel as though my legs are actually going to give way."
James said he was aware that he "staggers" when he walks and it makes him look drunk.
He said he was used to people staring and his main aim was to reach the toilet in time.
"There is nothing more demeaning than wetting yourself, especially at 27," he said.
When he walked out of the cubicle one of the men he had seen before walked into the toilet, but James ignored him.
"I walked out into the lobby outside the toilets and this guy was looking at his phone and I noticed him looking at me," he said.
"He had a disgusted look on his face."
James tried to phone his partner but she didn't answer. He then saw his step-daughter outside a shop and he tried to get her attention but dropped his phone.
Because he has very little sensation in his fingers he had trouble picking it up.
"These two same guys, one of them stepped over the phone and went 'oops' and the two of them sniggered.
"Fair enough, they didn't know I had got a disability but at the same time, manners don't cost anything."
James said: "I usually just ignore it but this was the straw broke the camel's back. You get used to the stares but you should not need to.
"What they did was rude and ignorant."
He says he posted the Facebook video to raise awareness and to shame the two men, who he hopes might see it.
"It's trying to get across to people don't judge a book by its cover," he said.
"It made me feel less human. I just felt rotten.
"We left the Fort after that. I just said I don't want to be here."
When he got home he posted the video expecting to get a few hundred views.
"It has gone nuts," he says.
"I'm overwhelmed by it because I really didn't expect the feedback that I have got.
"About 99.9% has been absolutely fantastic. There are a couple of people who maybe are ignorant."
Before he was diagnosed with MS, James used to drive buses.
He said finding out he had the condition was "heartbreaking" and admits that he had been ignorant about MS before he was diagnosed.
But he said having the condition was bad enough without the stigma that came with it.
Rebecca Duff from the MS Society: "Unfortunately James's story is not unique.
"We did a survey last year around stigma and about half of the people we surveyed had been accused of being drunk. They'd also been challenged about parking in a disabled parking bay.
"A lot of symptoms of MS are maybe not visible. It is not always about a wheelchair."
James said he was trying to remain independent and last year went to Cuba on his own for a holiday.
"I'm living my life more now than I was three years ago," he said.
Tom Watson said Mr Osborne would be expected to seek to influence ministers on media policy in his new role, and urged Mr Hancock to excuse himself from any matters relating to the Standard.
Mr Osborne has faced calls to quit as an MP after he accepted the editorship.
But he insists he can do both jobs.
In a letter to the minister of state for digital and culture, Mr Watson pointed to the long-standing personal and professional relationship Mr Hancock had enjoyed with Mr Osborne.
"It is a matter of public record that your first job in politics, in 2005, was as an economic advisor to Mr Osborne, who was then the shadow chancellor," he wrote.
"You later became Mr Osborne's chief of staff. These roles and the contacts you will have made through holding them, were no doubt helpful to you as you successfully sought selection as Conservative parliamentary candidate for West Suffolk, the constituency you have represented as an MP since 2010."
Mr Watson stressed that there was "no secret, and no shame, in a Conservative MP being a loyal ally of his former boss and powerful patron" - but he warned that as a minister he will now have responsibility for policy areas in which Mr Osborne and his new employer have a commercial interest.
Politics and journalism
He argued that, as the Standard's editor, Mr Osborne "can be expected to seek to influence ministers on media policy in line with his views and the views of his paper's proprietor Mr Alexander Lebedev, both in the pages of the newspaper and in meetings with ministers.
"You would be one of the chief targets of any such attempts to influence media policy," he said.
"Your long-standing relationship with Mr Osborne means that any ministerial decisions you make from now on which affect media policy will be subject to accusations of a conflict of interest which it will be difficult for you to disprove."
Mr Osborne's new job has caused controversy after he said he intends to combine the editorship role with that of representing his Cheshire constituency of Tatton - 190 miles from the capital.
But in an open letter to his constituents, Mr Osborne said: "There is a long tradition of politics and journalism mixing. One of the greatest newspaper editors ever, CP Scott, combined editing the Manchester Guardian with being an MP.
"In our age, politicians from Iain Macleod and Richard Crossman to, of course, Boris Johnson have combined the role of editor and Member of Parliament," the Knutsford Guardian reported.
Buick, on Highlands Queen, was adjudged to have caused the fall of Pierre-Charles Boudet's mount Armande.
He was subsequently disqualified from his ninth-placed finish and put last.
Stewards banned Godolphin jockey Buick for the automatic 15 days for causing the fall and an extra 15 days for being offensive to the officials.
Boudet and Armande were not thought to be seriously injured.
Buick, 27, has said he will appeal against the original 15-day suspension, which is due to begin on 3 July.
If he is unsuccessful in his appeal he will miss meetings including the Irish Oaks, Newmarket's July meeting, the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot and Glorious Goodwood.
La Cressonniere, ridden by Cristian Demuro, completed a Classic double for trainer Jean-Claude Rouget as she followed up her French 1,000 Guineas victory in a rough contest with plenty of bumping.
Ballydoyle, ridden by Ryan Moore, suffered a bump early on and could not recover to challenge, finishing sixth behind Aidan O'Brien stablemate Coolmore.
It was a fifth win from five races for the 11-4 favourite La Cressonniere, with Left Hand second and Volta third.
Earlier in June, Rouget won the French Derby with Almanzor and he landed Royal Ascot's Coronation Stakes on Friday with Qemah.
Tom Scudamore's mount, trained by Colin Tizzard, was barely troubled in the three-mile staying hurdle on day three of the Festival.
The even-money favourite got away from his closest rival Alpha Des Obeaux (8-1) approaching the last.
He powered up the hill to win by seven lengths with Bobs Worth (33-1) a distant third.
It gave Scudamore his ninth Festival success and his second of 2016 and was the only English-trained horse to win in the seven races on St Patrick's Day.
"I've spent my whole life running around in these races, nearly getting there, and finally I've got a horse like this," he said. "It's unbelievable, I never realised it could be so easy.
"I always had lots of confidence in my fella, once we jumped the last it was all over. That was fantastic, what a racehorse. I think it's fair to say he's the best I've sat on."
BBC racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght:
For jump racing, Cheltenham is all about crowning champions. Some winners ooze quality more than others, but Thistlecrack was magnificent, stalking the leaders before easing into the lead when asked and quickly putting the race to bed.
Colin Tizzard spoke of not having to be part of a "big battalion" to find a superstar, and that was not lost on anybody.
Of course Willie Mullins is doing great things, but it's important too that the smaller outfits like Tizzard's get a look-in. Tomorrow they take on Mullins and Co in the Gold Cup with Cue Card.
Earlier, Vautour (evens) landed a comfortable win in the Ryanair Chase - one of three wins on St Patrick's Day for jockey Ruby Walsh - who passed the 50-winner mark at the Festival - and trainer Willie Mullins.
The pair combined to take the opening race of the day, the JLT Novices Chase, with Black Hercules (4-1) to give Walsh his half-century of winners and they later landed the Trull House Stud Mares' Novices' Hurdle courtesy of the 8-11 favourite Limini who kept up her unbeaten record
Vautour had been due to run in Friday's Gold Cup but bypassed that one to land his third Cheltenham Festival win in a row.
Road To Riches tried to challenge but once Walsh got his mount into gear as they turned from home, he looked impressive.
He went on to win by six lengths with stable-mate Valseur Lido (11-1) grabbing second from Road To Riches (7-1).
"If you were watching him at home I'm not sure you'd even have run him in the Ryanair," said Walsh.
"He worked half all right on Saturday morning, I wouldn't say he worked well. If you'd watched him up until then - I'd written him off in my mind, but Willie gets it right doesn't he?"
While Black Hercules had to battle hard against rivals Bristol De Mai and L'Ami Serge to win by three lengths in their encounter, Limini, like Vautour owned by banker Rich Ricci, showed a great turn of pace up the hill to emerge victorious by four and a half lengths from outsider Dusky Legend (50-1) with Bloody Mary (7-1) third
"She's a very talented filly, all we had to do was iron out her jumping but she schooled really well the last fortnight, very slick," said Walsh.
"There was never a moment's worry. She travelled well and jumped well. If she'd got beat it wouldn't have made sense as she's been working with some good horses.
"Stamina wasn't an issue. We told everyone for the last six weeks and she was just a shade of odds-on."
Jockey Davy Russell made up for his disappointment after being unseated from Zabana at the start of the opening race of the day when Mall Dini (14-1) took the Pertemps Network Handicap Hurdle Final to give trainer Patrick Kelly his first Festival success.
In a tightly contested finish the winner came out on top by three-quarters of a length from Arpege D'Alene (14-1) with the unlucky If In Doubt (10-1) a head away in third and top-weight Taglietelle (14-1) fourth.
"He's still a novice, all credit goes to Pat Kelly. What a man, not many people know him, he's a very shrewd man from Galway," said a delighted Russell.
"The tongue strap has definitely helped him, he was overdoing things a bit and not breathing properly. It's all Pat Kelly's doing. He knew what the horse wanted. He's a genius."
There was yet more Irish success in the day's other two races, as Bryan Cooper, who will ride the well-fancied Don Cossack in Friday's Gold Cup, gained his first win of the week when Empire of Dirt (16-1) won the Brown Advisory & Merriebelle Stable Plate for trainer Colm Murphy.
Then, in the final race of the day, the Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup for amateur riders, Jamie Codd claimed his fourth victory in the race on board the Gordon Elliott-trained Cause of Causes (9-2).
Like-for like fourth quarter revenue in the US, McDonald's biggest market, fell by 1.3% compared with late 2015 when it launched its all day breakfast.
While total global sales grew in the fourth quarter and full year, menu changes have eaten into growth.
Analyst Neil Saunders said instead of it pulling new customers into McDonalds, people had been switching to cheaper meals, including the breakfast.
Under president and chief executive Steve Easterbrook, McDonald's has been working on revitalising the business, which had been suffering under falling sales.
Mr Easterbrook said on Monday: "Throughout 2016, we worked diligently to lay the groundwork for our long-term future. We focused on driving changes in our menu, restaurants and technology to deliver an enhanced McDonald's experience for our customers around the world."
Mr Saunders, chief executive of retail research business, Conlumino, said: "In our view, as much as menu change was right, one of the impacts of the all day breakfast options has been to provide diners with cheaper options. Many have exploited this and average transaction values for lunch and dinner have fallen as a consequence, something that has put a dampener on overall growth.
"In this regard, putting to one side the initial uplift in interest when all day breakfast was launched, the initiative seems to have ultimately created quite a lot of menu choice switching rather than driving new customers to stores."
Operating profit in North America for the three months to December also fell, down 11%, although the previous year's profit was flattered by a gain on the sale of a restaurant property.
In other regions, growth was stronger. International comparable sales for the final quarter rose 2.8% led by the UK, while in McDonald's high growth markets revenue jumped by 4.7% helped in particular by China.
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Stuart Kerner, 44, from Kent, conducted an affair with the girl, then 16, at Bexleyheath Academy, south-east London.
Handing Kerner a suspended sentence, Judge Joanna Greenberg QC said the victim had become "obsessed" with him.
The judge told Kerner: "Her friends described her, accurately in my view, as stalking you."
A charity, Enough Abuse UK, said the sentence was unduly lenient.
The judge added: "If grooming is the right word to use, it was she who groomed you, (and) you gave in to temptation."
The married teacher, who was also the vice-principal at the school, received an 18-month sentence, suspended for 18 months.
Kerner, of Aylesford, was found guilty by a jury last month of two counts of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust.
During the case at Inner London Crown Court, jurors were told what started out as a schoolgirl crush turned into an 18-month affair, which was discovered in 2013.
It was said Kerner took the girl's virginity on a yoga mat in an empty room at Bexleyheath Academy, the same week his wife had a miscarriage.
Kerner later drove the teenager to her home where the pair kissed and cuddled and had sex, the court heard.
Judge Greenberg said Kerner was "emotionally fragile" due to complications with his wife's pregnancy.
She added that this did not excuse his behaviour, but said it did help explain why someone with an "exemplary" character would commit such offences.
Kerner, who denied all the charges he faced, was cleared of four counts of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust and two counts of sexual activity with a child that related to alleged behaviour when the victim was only 15.
Judge Greenberg said she believed the victim was "intelligent and manipulative" and "showed no compunction" about lying when it suited her.
However, the judge also said the victim was a vulnerable girl.
She told Kercher: "The law demands that you are the responsible adult and that you show restraint, and we know that you failed to."
He was placed on the sex offenders' register indefinitely and barred from working with children, also indefinitely.
In a video interview with police, the schoolgirl said: "It felt special. But, I dunno, it wasn't really. And admitting that does kind of hurt."
Marilyn Hawes, a former teacher and founder of the charity Enough Abuse UK which provides support for abuse victims, said the judge had been unduly lenient in her sentencing.
She said: "She was still a pupil and she had a right, as did the parents or her carer, to expect she would be secure and safe in those hours in school with someone who had been given that trust, and it was a total breach of trust.
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Protesters erupted into jeers at a rally against a carbon tax, hosted by the right-wing Rebel media group.
"Lock her up" was frequently chanted by Donald Trump supporters in reference to Hillary Clinton during the US election.
Mrs Clinton was under FBI investigation over her emails but Ms Notley has not faced any criminal probe.
But the New Democratic Party leader has been subject to threats of violence since her election in 2015.
The crowds began shouting the phrase outside the province's legislature on Saturday at a rally over the provincial government's planned carbon tax.
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The rally was organised by Rebel Media, an online news and right-wing opinion outlet.
Conservative leadership hopeful Chris Alexander, who was criticising Ms Notley in a speech when the shouting began, said he was "shocked" and mortified" by the chant.
But Mr Alexander has since come under fire for not immediately intervening at the rally.
A video of the incident appeared to show Mr Alexander cracking a smile and gesturing with his finger when the chanting began.
The former immigration minister told a CBC News programme he did not interrupt because he was "trying to find a moment to interject with what I thought was the real conclusion of what this discussion was".
He added he wanted to change the chant to "vote her out".
Interim Conservative Leader Rona Ambrose condemned the incident as "inappropriate and unoriginal".
"We don't lock people up in Canada for bad policy, we vote them out," she said.
"I don't know what to say - it's people acting like idiots."
Conservative Party Leadership Candidate Deepak Obhrai also weighed in on the rise of intolerance trickling into Canadian politics.
"We're witnessing Trump-style politics invading Canada," Mr Obhrai, a Calgary-area MP said.
"It is the responsibility of event organisers that they distance themselves from hate-mongering and insults. Otherwise we all lose."
Protesters invoked a slogan often shouted by supporters of president-elect Trump, who accused Mrs Clinton of criminal wrongdoing in her use of a private email account while at the State Department.
An FBI investigation concluded that while she was "extremely careless", her actions did not warrant criminal prosecution.
Still, the phrase became a rallying cry for many Trump supporters.
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Pictures of their bodies have been shown on state TV and police have asked for the public's help to identify them.
Malian and international troops stormed the Radisson Blu hotel to free guests and staff being held hostage.
Three different Islamist groups have said they carried out the attack.
Warning: Pictures of the bodies in the state TV appeal, seen lower down in this article, may be upsetting for some readers.
Investigators have yet to determine the number and nationality of the gunmen.
However, Islamist group al-Murabitoun, which first claimed responsibility for the attack, has issued a new audio recording identifying the two gunmen, reports say.
They were named as Abdel Hakim al-Ansari and Moadh al-Ansari.
One security source in Mali earlier told the BBC that officials believed that the two dead gunmen had been speaking English during the attack.
The police found a suitcase with grenades in the hotel lobby and were following up "several leads" linked to "objects" left by the gunmen, a Malian police source has told the AFP news agency.
Ahead of the three days of national mourning declared by Mali, the chairman of the West African regional bloc Ecowas, Senegal's President Macky Sall, visited Bamako to show support.
He said on Sunday: "Mali will never be alone in this fight, we are all committed because we are all involved."
Senegal, Mauritania and Guinea are also observing the mourning, which started on Monday.
This list has been provided to the BBC by a security source in Mali
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and its affiliate, al-Murabitoun, have both said they were responsible for the attack.
The Macina Liberation Front (MLF) which has been blamed for attacks in southern Mali, has also said its fighters carried it out.
Security remains tight around major hotels in Bamako.
Gunmen entered the hotel on Friday morning, shooting and driving their vehicle through a security barrier, one eyewitness said.
Most of the hotel guests and staff were freed hours later when Malian special forces, French special forces and off-duty US servicemen stormed the hotel to end the siege.
The MLF is a new jihadist group operating in central and southern Mali.
It is led by the radical Muslim cleric Amadou Kouffa, a strong proponent of strict Islamic law in Mali.
His group draws most of its support from the Fulani ethnic group, who are found across the Sahel.
Mr Kouffa is a close ally of Tuareg jihadist Iyad ag Ghali, who leads the powerful jihadist group Ansar Dine.
A Human Rights Watch report said the MLF militants had carried out serious abuses in parts of central Mali since January and killed at least five people they accused of being aligned to the government.
The group has attacked police and military particularly in the Mopti region, most recently killing three soldiers in Tenenkou in August.
The Malian military recently arrested Alaye Bocari, a man they say was a key MLF financier and Mr Kouffa's right-hand man.
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Fury, 28, has dealt with depression and lost his boxing licence since beating Wladimir Klitschko in November 2015.
In a wide-ranging interview, Fury said he will shed eight stone in weight and remove the "fraud from the division".
"Joshua is a big man with a puncher's chance and has no footwork, no speed or stamina," Fury told BBC 5 live boxing.
"He is what you call a boxer's dream. I've had 18 months out and ballooned up to 26 stone. I could come back with no comeback fights and still box rings around that body builder."
Fury says he will be back fighting in July, on the undercard of a show at London's Copper Box Arena, if his licence is reinstated by the British Boxing Board of Control.
The BBBofC removed the fighter's licence in October 2016 eight days after he admitted taking cocaine to help him deal with depression.
The sport's British governing body says it would need a "full consultant's report" in considering their position, but the 28-year-old's camp is confident the matter will be worked out.
Fury, who refers to himself as the 'Gypsy King', also faces a UK Anti-Doping hearing on Monday relating to a failed test in June of last year.
He insists he is not "desperate" to return to the sport but wants to meet Joshua, who beat Klitschko on Saturday to unify the IBF and WBA titles before immediately referencing a future bout with Fury.
Fury has sparred with Joshua in the past and added: "I always said Wladimir would be my easiest fight. Now I change the goal posts, AJ will be my easiest fight.
"I've never been more confident or serious when I say something, I will play with Joshua like a cat with a ball of wool - hands behind my back, making a right mug of him.
"We are in the business of sweet science. Sweet science does not consist of a body beautiful, iron pumping big fella. It's feinting, jabbing, moving, gliding around the ring, that's the sweet science."
Fury believes he will take at least eight months to return to 18-and-a-half stone - roughly a stone heavier than he weighed in at prior to his shock win over Klitschko - and is currently in Marbella training.
He said he "enjoyed every minute" of the Joshua-Klitschko Wembley Stadium fight, but admitted concern, stating "silly things" Joshua did could have led to a defeat which would have "cost us millions" in scuppering the chances of a future match-up.
Undefeated Fury also believes the result underlines the lack of credit he received for toppling Klitschko to land three of the four heavyweight titles at the same age as Joshua - 27.
He added: "Joshua was supposed to walk right through him as he was old and useless supposedly, but it didn't work like that did it? Klitschko's been out of the ring 18 months and had a 50-50 fight with a so-called killer. I will rip the fraud from the division.
"You get two types of people in boxing, the outlaw and the Mr Nice. I am the outlaw so people love to hate me. That's my personality, love me or hate me you still have to watch me, it works. I've been through depression, life and death positions, and turned it all around."
The 60-year-old man from Poland suffered life-threatening injuries after the lorry left the London-bound carriageway on Saturday.
Kent Police said he was taken to hospital but died later. His next-of-kin have been told.
Two motorists were fined for "obstructing the hard shoulder" while emergency services dealt with the incident between junctions 11 and 10.
You might think that they would want to boast about it, but in this case it's secret and you're not meant to know.
Since 2011 the Secret Intelligence Service, otherwise known as MI6, has cut its carbon dioxide emissions and shifted from being in the worst category for energy efficiency to rating better than would be typical for its kind of building.
This is disclosed in the organisation's official Display Energy Certificate, which I reveal here. Until recently this document was publicly available on the internet, despite this being contrary to the relevant regulations, but it has now been removed.
The certificate states the address for the MI6 headquarters at Vauxhall Cross in central London. It gives "GCB" as the occupier of the building. This stands for Government Communications Bureau, which is sometimes used as a cover name for MI6.
The document shows that since 2011 the building's energy rating has improved from 166, a very low score which would put it in the least efficient grouping, to a much better 88. Carbon dioxide emissions have fallen by around 10%, but it doesn't use any renewable sources of energy.
This change has been achieved in a building which must doubtless contain complex arrays of sophisticated electronic equipment.
Public buildings are required to display energy performance certificates with details of their energy efficiency, in line with a European Union directive. Generally the certificates should also be published on the website of the non-domestic energy performance register, to maximise transparency and enable public scrutiny.
However some buildings are meant to be excluded from this public register. This includes those belonging to the security agencies (as well as prisons, and those used by the armed forces and the royal family).
The GCB/MI6 certificate was however available on the register until recently to anyone who searched for it using the building's postcode. After I discovered this, saved a copy and sought a comment from the service on its impressive improvements in efficiency, the document was taken down. And no comment of any kind has been forthcoming.
If you now search the register using its reference number, you receive a message that the information for that number "has been cancelled".
The register also includes copies of reports from energy inspectors who advise building owners on how to improve efficiency.
The advisory report for MI6 also refers to the Government Communications Bureau. It specifies the building type as "Covered Car Park; Fitness And Health Centre; General Office; Restaurant".
Presumably this indicates that the building's facilities include a staff canteen, gym and car park, but the term "general office" is a suitably anonymous account of the top secret work that goes on inside.
The energy assessor's recommendations in 2011 included changes to the air conditioning system, lighting levels and power-saving settings on computers - as well as encouraging staff to make less use of the lifts.
This report has also now been removed from the register website and is described as "cancelled". But it's good to know the nation's spies are taking the stairs and switching off the lights before they go home.
This all raises the question as to whether security bodies should be entirely excluded from the system for scrutiny of the energy efficiency records of public authorities. Although intelligence agencies are not covered by the Freedom of Information Act, they are subject to the Environmental Information Regulations which can allow access to environmental information about them when this is considered to be in the public interest.
The BBC has been engaged in a separate long-running case seeking to persuade the government that the entire energy efficiency dataset should be made publicly available in one go, to make it easier to compare different buildings and carry out a national analysis of all the data. This has yet to be resolved.
The British Christmas Tree Growers Association does not gather official data but it estimates we purchase between 6 million and 8 million real Christmas trees every year in the UK, making it an industry worth hundreds of millions of pounds.
And Scotland is a large producer, with ideal soil, good weather conditions and an abundance of open space providing an ideal grounding for growth.
At Edenmill Farm, at the foot of the Campsie Hills, near Blanefield in Stirlingshire, thousands of Christmas trees are planted, nurtured and cut down each year.
Managing director Mark Gibson realised that Christmas trees would complement his landscaping and horticultural business by giving the 60-strong staff more to do in the winter time.
He said: "In late November we can start looking at harvesting. December-time we can start looking at retailing, and in January, February, and March we can start looking at pruning and planting. So it keeps everybody busy all year round. It's perfect."
But like the Scotch Whisky industry, the Christmas tree business requires patience.
A typical Nordman Fir (the most popular type of Christmas tree) has a life cycle of about 10 years, so it is a long-term investment for a grower.
During that time, the Nordman and Fraser Firs, Scots Pine and Norway Spruce trees found in Scotland go through a regime of fertilisation, pruning, and shaping, before being labelled, harvested and wrapped in netting to be sold.
Edenmill Farm is one of many sending Scottish Christmas trees to customers down south.
Mark Gibson explained why they grow so well here.
He said: "We have perfect soil, which is really light and fluffy.
"We also have rock six inches under the ground, which really stops the taproot of the Nordman Fir growing which gives it a better shape, because it doesn't grow quickly, and doesn't grow really tall and thin.
"We get enough rain, and we get a bit of sunshine. So the trees are really happy."
After the Christmas lights are switched off and the baubles are put away, trees which are disposed of responsibly can end up being chipped and turned into material for woodland paths or compost.
Back on the land where they came from, the 10-year cycle begins all over again.
Police said the remains were found at Dale Avenue, off Bogelshole Road, close to the River Clyde, on Tuesday.
The location, behind the former Hoover factory, has been cordoned off while forensic teams carry out a search of the area and further examine the body.
Officers are trying to establish the identity of the person and the circumstances surrounding their death.
South Yorkshire Police, which carried out the search in Sunningdale on Thursday, did not say what this information related to.
Police said the allegation involved a boy under 16.
Sir Cliff, 73, has said the allegation is "completely false".
In a statement issued on Thursday, he said: "For many months I have been aware of allegations against me of historic impropriety which have been circulating online.
"The allegations are completely false. Up until now I have chosen not to dignify the false allegations with a response, as it would just give them more oxygen."
He said he would "co-operate fully" if the police wanted to speak to him.
The BBC understands the allegation relates to an alleged assault at an event featuring US preacher Billy Graham at Bramall Lane in Sheffield in 1985.
In a statement, South Yorkshire Police (SYP) said it had not alerted the media to the search in advance.
It said: "When a media outlet contacted SYP with information about an investigation, we took the decision to work with them in order to protect the integrity of that investigation.
"Since the search took place, a number of people have contacted the police to provide information and we must acknowledge that the media played a part in that, for which we are grateful."
In his statement, Sir Cliff said the police had searched his home "without notice, except it would appear to the press".
Earlier, Jonathan Munro, the BBC's head of newsgathering, wrote on Twitter that South Yorkshire Police had not been the source of the story.
But the Fraser of Allander Institute said the Scottish economy would be "cushioned" from the likely impact compared with the rest of the UK.
A report suggested that Brexit could lead to more migration to Scotland from other parts of the UK.
Prime Minister Theresa May has insisted Scotland and the UK could "get a better deal abroad" after leaving the EU.
Holyrood's Europe committee convener Joan McAlpine said the outlook was "grim", and warned there could be a "huge constitutional crisis" if Holyrood was not consulted about the "Great Repeal Bill", which severs ties between the EU and the UK.
The report from the Fraser of Allander Institute examines a series of potential post-Brexit scenarios. These range from an "optimistic" model similar to Norway's relationship with the EU to a "pessimistic" one based on a so-called "hard Brexit" outside the single market, based on World Trade Organisation rules.
The group said the most optimistic outlook would see Scottish GDP drop by 2% within 10 years, causing the loss of 30,000 jobs. The most pessimistic model would see GDP 5% lower within a decade, with 80,000 fewer jobs in the economy.
Prof Graeme Roy, director of the Strathclyde University institute, said the "detailed assessment" had found Brexit was likely to have "a significant negative impact on the Scottish economy".
However, the report noted that "throughout all scenarios, the estimated negative impact of Brexit on the rest of the UK is greater than it is on Scotland, in terms of GDP, employment and other measures".
This is because the rest of the UK's economy has greater exposure to EU trade than Scotland's, while the financial relationship between Scotland and the rest of the UK dampens certain effects.
The report notes that "to a degree this acts to cushion the impacts on the Scottish economy", adding the "shock" of Brexit could "induce net migration into Scotland from the rest of the UK".
The prime minister has insisted Brexit will "enhance" Scotland's standing in the world rather than diminish it.
Mrs May said the coming negotiations were "an exciting chance to forge a new role in the world", and said Scotland's financial expertise, shipbuilding prowess and food and drink could be global leaders.
But Ms McAlpine said the report "paints a grim picture" of the economy a decade on from Brexit.
The SNP MSP said: "Our committee has already found that maintaining access to the single market is key for business and industry in Scotland. If the UK government leads us into a 'hard' Brexit, the evidence presented in this report indicates that there could be disastrous consequences for jobs, exports and production."
But the Scottish Conservatives said the report meant "the SNP's go-to excuse for Scottish economic under-performance has been completely blown out of the water".
Economy spokesman Dean Lockhart said: "No-one doubts the impact of Brexit will be challenging on a range of levels. However, this report also makes clear that the impact on Scotland will be comparatively less than the rest of the UK.
"That should focus minds in the Scottish government to work hard to get a positive result for Scotland in the negotiations, and not merely whine from the sidelines."
Scottish Labour meanwhile said the report showed up the danger of a "hard Brexit".
MSP Jackie Baillie said: "This report shows the cost of the Tories' reckless Brexit gamble, and how vital it is that Scotland, and indeed the whole UK, retains access to the single market.
"When Theresa May hinted at a hard Brexit earlier this week, sterling crashed to a 31-year low. Even the most blinkered of Brexiteers cannot ignore the huge risk this poses to our economy."
And Scottish Greens MSP Ross Greer said: "Every avenue must be explored to keep Scotland in Europe and protect the right to free movement and that has to include a referendum on independence.
"In the meantime I urge the Scottish government to look carefully at what support can be offered to protect vulnerable sectors of our economy and those who will suffer if this drop in wages becomes reality."
Ms McAlpine has also told BBC Scotland there could be a "huge constitutional crisis" if Holyrood was not consulted over the Great Repeal Bill.
There has been debate over whether Holyrood will have a say on the legislation that severs the ties between the UK and the EU, via the legislative consent system.
She said: "I would have thought there has to be a legislative consent motion (LCM), because it impacts on so many areas of Scottish law.
"I think there's a huge lack of understanding about the devolution settlement. The Sewell convention means that if there's a bill in the Westminster parliament which impacts on devolved areas, it has to get the consent of the Scottish Parliament.
"Clearly this impacts on devolved areas - and the decision on the LCM as I understand it is made here, by the presiding officer."
Asked what would happen if this was contested by Westminster, Ms McAlpine said: "We would be in unprecedented constitutional territory. It's our decision, our judgement whether it goes to the Scottish parliament and then the Scottish parliament votes on it democratically.
"There would be a huge constitutional crisis."
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has previously said Scotland would be "integrally involved" in the process, but that "there is no veto for the Scottish parliament".
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James Gray's first-half score was allowed despite Armagh keeper John Connolly having the ball knocked out his grasp by Glenavon's Rhys Marshall.
Greg Moorhouse's penalty made it 2-0 to the Premiership side.
"The referee has admitted he got it wrong. It is hard to take, but what can you do," said keeper Connolly.
"We were well in the game - it was close.
"For a game like that to be changed in that way, well I have to be careful about what I say, but it was shocking."
Former Northern Ireland Under-21 striker Gray, who recently joined Glenavon club from Southport, said he had expected referee Arnold Hunter to stop play.
"I saw the ball rolling out to me and was going to knock it back to the keeper," said Gray.
"But the referee did not blow so I did when every striker would do - you put the ball in the net and ask questions later."
The seven Premiership teams in the last 16 all made it through to the quarter-finals.
League Cup finalists Ballymena United went behind away to Championship opposition when David Rainey fired H&W Welders into the lead.
But United debutant Kevin Braniff's equaliser forced extra-time and David Jeffrey's men took the lead through Tony Kane with Braniff making it 3-1 with his second goal.
Portadown, bottom of the Premiership, were trailing to an early goal scored by Loughgall's Peter Campbell but Shea McGerrigan and Tiernan Mulvenna clinched a 2-1 win for Niall Currie's visitors.
Second-half goals by David Cushley and Jordan Forsythe saw Premiership leaders Crusaders win 2-0 against Championship side PSNI who had keeper Jordan Williamson sent off late in the game.
Linfield, who have won the cup a record 42 times, progressed to the last eight by beating Institute, Cameron Stewart and Andrew Waterworth getting the goals at Drumahoe.
Institute's Aaron Harkin was sent-off as he picked up a second yellow for dissent after referee Ian McNab controversially disallowed a Mark Scoltock header which would have made it 1-1.
Jamie McGonigle's early goal was enough to give Coleraine a 1-0 home win over Tobermore United.
There will be one non-Premiership side in the quarter-finals as Championship leaders saw off Crewe United 5-0.
Conor McMenamin, Stephen Murray, Philip Donnelly, Liam McKenna and Curtis Dempster scored for Matt Tipton's side.
Real and Atletico are banned from registering players in the next two transfer windows after losing an appeal against their own punishments.
Fifa has given the Spanish FA six months to improve its transfer system.
It has strict rules restricting Under-18 players moving to foreign clubs.
Fifa's investigation concerned youth players who played for Atletico between 2007 and 2014, and Real from 2005 to 2014 with the clubs respectively fined £622,000 and £249,000 for breaching rules.
Barcelona were banned from registering players for two transfer windows in April 2014, but bought Arda Turan and Aleix Vidal in 2015, finally registering them to make them eligible to play when their suspension was lifted in January 2016.
Real and Atletico are banned from registering new players until January 2018.
The 32-year-old was a member of England's World Cup squad that finished third in Canada earlier this year.
She had a spell on loan at Notts County last season and left Arsenal Ladies at the end of the campaign.
Her arrival follows Thursday's signing of Sophie Ingle and she told the club website: "This is a fantastic move for me and I cannot wait to get started."
Reds manager Scott Rogers said: "This is a really important signing for the club - Siobhan is an England international whose experience will be crucial next season."
Back then, Ofili incorporated elephant dung and cut-outs from porn mags in his paintings, which upset Mayor Giuliani considerably (and the current President who called Ofili's painting, Holy Virgin Mary, "absolutely gross") when Saatchi took his Sensation show to NYC in 1999.
Nowadays, the Mancunian artist lives and works in Trinidad and produces lyrical paintings full of myth and mysticism, infused with the spirits of Henri Matisse and William Blake. El Greco-like elongations have taken the place of porn, the turquoise of the Caribbean Sea now as present as was once elephant dung.
I like his new work. I don't think he's lost form, just moved on. The core of what he does is the same, which is to mix pop culture and art history. From a technical point of view it seems to me that his sensitivity to colour has developed, and his line is more assured. The effect of moving from a modern metropolis to a rural island culture has clearly had a big impact on how he perceives and represents the world.
All of which can be seen in his latest work, a large-scale tapestry called The Caged Bird's Song (a riff on Maya Angelou's book, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings) currently hanging at the National Gallery in London, before taking up permanent residence at the Clothworkers' Company - the London Livery Company that commissioned it.
It is arranged as a triptych, with the two side panels featuring standing figures pulling back curtains to reveal a mythical world. The male figure on the right holds a cage in which a songbird is perched, while the woman on the left has a sprig of black berries clasped between her fingers drooping in anticipation of being eaten by the bird.
The central panel has two lovers sitting by a rock in front of the sea. The man plays his guitar, while the woman drinks a green potion funnelling down from a tree above her head. If she looked up she would spot a man with a bow tie (based on the footballer Mario Balotelli) hiding in the branches, pouring the elixir she is knocking back.
The tapestry was hand-woven by Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh, whose weavers have done a magnificent job in transposing Ofili's small watercolour painting into an enormous woollen wall-hanging. Had it been a single weaver working on the project and not four or five, it would have taken sixteen years to complete (it took just over three years).
The detail is remarkable, as is the weavers' ability to capture the fluidity of a watercolour painting in wool. For the viewer, the tapestry is a celebration of nature and love. But it is also a very real celebration of a craft skill that is sadly dying out in the UK.
According to Peter Langley of The Clothworkers' Company, there are only two professional hand-weaving tapestry studios left in the UK. It'd be great if this artwork were the catalyst for a weaving renaissance.
Chris Ofili - Weaving Magic runs at the National Gallery in London from 26 April to 28 August 2017.
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A 27-year-old woman was walking in the town at about 03:45 on Sunday when she was forced into a wooded area and attacked.
The suspect was described as being about 20 years old, 5ft 7in tall, of very slim build with short, dark hair.
He was wearing tight-fitted jeans and a shiny black hooded top.
Police believe he may have been thrown out of a local nightclub before the attack.
Officers have appealed for anyone who was in the area at the time of the assault to come forward.
Chief Insp Kenny Simpson said: "Thankfully, offences of this nature are rare however this does not lessen the trauma experienced by a victim and family.
"Police Scotland is committed to keeping people safe and treats all reports of sexual offences with the utmost seriousness.
"Police patrols have now been stepped up in Dalkeith and surrounding area to provide a reassuring presence in the community."
The Spaniard, 28, began seven points behind Italian Valentino Rossi, who had to start at the back of the grid as a penalty for clashing with Spain's Marc Marquez in the previous race.
Seven-time MotoGP champion Rossi, 36, would have won his first title since 2009 with a second-place finish.
But he was fourth as Lorenzo led from pole to win his seventh race of 2015.
Britain's Cal Crutchlow began at the very back of the grid after suffering mechanical difficulties shortly before the start, but Rossi was only one place above him and launched a thrilling charge through the field.
He gained 11 places on the first lap alone and reached fourth place with 18 of the 30 laps remaining.
The charismatic Italian could make no further progress but could still have won the title had the Hondas of Marquez and Dani Pedrosa both passed Lorenzo.
Both were closing but their battle for second allowed Lorenzo some precious breathing space and he calmly took the chequered flag.
"I was under a lot of pressure, the rear tyre was destroyed," said Spaniard Lorenzo, who was surprisingly subjected to boos from sections of his home crowd. He has now won five world championships in total - three in MotoGP and two racing in the 250cc category.
"I just tried to focus and go as fast as possible, the bike was moving around so much. I was praying to finish the race. Now I am five-times world champion, it is easy to say but hard to do. I am very proud. This is a world title for Spain!"
Marquez, 22, who relinquished his world title, finished second in the race.
He said: "I was preparing an attack for the last few laps but when Dani went past me I lost time.
"I tried to take Jorge in the last corner but there was a lot of risk and I nearly lost the front. Second place is not the best way to end the season but next year we will fight for the championship again."
Rossi was furious with Marquez after the race, claiming that the Spanish rider went out of his way to prevent the Italian from winning the title.
"Today was embarrassing for everybody," he said.
"It was unbelievable, the behaviour of Marquez is something very bad for everything, especially for the sport.
"It is something that nobody expects, because a Honda rider that made a Yamaha rider win and give the maximum just to push out his team-mate is something that nobody expects and I think it is very, very bad news.
"Anyway, it is like this, we have to accept it."
Valencia result:
1. Jorge Lorenzo (Spain) Yamaha 45:59.364
2. Marc Marquez (Spain) Honda 45:59.627
3. Dani Pedrosa (Spain) Honda 46:00.018
4. Valentino Rossi (Italy) Yamaha 46:19.153
5. Pol Espargaro (Spain) Yamaha 46:25.368
6. Bradley Smith (Britain) Yamaha 46:28.199
7. Andrea Dovizioso (Italy) Ducati 46:28.250
8. Aleix Espargaro (Spain) Suzuki 46:33.586
9. Cal Crutchlow (Britain) Honda 46:35.288
10. Danilo Petrucci (Italy) Ducati 46:38.943
Final standings:
1. Jorge Lorenzo (Spain) Yamaha 330
2. Valentino Rossi (Italy) Yamaha 325
3. Marc Marquez (Spain) Honda 242
4. Dani Pedrosa (Spain) Honda 206
5. Andrea Iannone (Italy) Ducati 188
6. Bradley Smith (Britain) Yamaha 181
7. Andrea Dovizioso (Italy) Ducati 162
8. Cal Crutchlow (Britain) Honda 125
9. Pol Espargaro (Spain) Yamaha 114
10. Danilo Petrucci (Italy) Ducati 113
It had urged Greece to submit fresh plans after its people rejected a draft bailout in a referendum.
Greece said it had proposed a few changes and that it wanted a deal based on "the mandate of the referendum".
The lack of a new plan angered some eurozone members, with Germany saying there was "still no basis" for talks.
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The Greek side gave a presentation on Tuesday at a eurozone finance ministers' meeting, which preceded the leaders' summit. However, there was no new written plan.
The Greek government said: "Today's Eurogroup was not supposed to take decisions but rather prepare for the summit."
It said proposals it had made last week were still on the table with a "few changes" and they would be discussed later on Tuesday and on Wednesday.
Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem said Greece would be sending a new letter requesting short-term support from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), a pot of money set up in 2012 to fund eurozone members in financial difficulties.
He said the Eurogroup would discuss this on Wednesday but that creditors would have to look at Greece's finances and debt sustainability to see "if we can formally start the negotiations".
All 19 eurozone members would have to agree to an ESM loan. As a vote would also have to be passed in the German parliament, Greece would need an emergency bridging loan in the coming days to tide it over.
New Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos insisted there had been "progress" in the talks.
Greek PM Alexis Tsipras met German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande separately before the leaders' summit.
Analysis: Robert Peston, BBC economics editor
Alexis Tsipras stands by the letters he sent a week ago to the country's creditors setting out the €30bn of additional loans the country needs over the next three years to pay maturing debts, amending the creditors proposed pension and VAT reforms, and asking for investment from the pool of money created by Jean-Claude Juncker, European Commission president.
Mr Tsipras also wants a writedown of the country's massive debts - equivalent to 180% of GDP or national income - and a resumption by the European Central Bank of life-or-death emergency lending to banks.
Or to put it another way, very little of substance has changed in the Greek position over the last few days.
Which is why German Chancellor Angela Merkel is not exuding optimism that a way can be found to avert the catastrophe of the collapse of Greece's banking system, and its exit from the euro.
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The result of the referendum had sparked fears of a Greek exit from the eurozone and the lack of a new written plan was criticised by some in the group.
Mrs Merkel said as she arrived for the leaders' summit: "We still do not have the basis for negotiations... it is not a question of weeks anymore, but a question of a few days."
Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said the leaders' summit was looking like a "waste of time".
His Dutch counterpart, Mark Rutte, said: "It is really up to the Greek government to come up with far-reaching proposals. If they don't do that, then I think it will be over quickly."
Analysis: Gavin Lee, BBC News, Europe reporter
The first full day at work for Greek finance minister, Euclid Tsakalotos, and he's already found out what it's like to slip-up with the paparazzi. Mr Tsakalotos was photographed with scribbled notes in hand, face-side up - private notes now open to public scrutiny on social media.
The scribbled notes - written in English, conveniently for the press - may not be legible enough to make full sense of his opening gambit but they certainly reveal the tone. The words 'no triumphalism' can be deciphered, attention is drawn to 'AT' - presumably Alexis Tsipras' message on the night of the referendum, and there's also reference to the proposals being rejected "mostly on viability grounds".
There may be graphologists already studying his writing to get a sense of the man now a key player in determining the future of Greece. In the interim, Mr Tsakalotos may now be scribbling: "Note to self: keep cards close to chest."
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Mr Hollande and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi have been more hopeful of a deal.
But Mr Hollande said Greece had to make "serious, credible proposals", adding: "We need speed. It's this week that the decisions have to be taken."
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Mr Tsipras will address the European Parliament on Wednesday, a Greek government source said.
He has been reported to want Greece's vast €323bn ($356bn; £228bn) debt to be cut by up to 30%, with a 20-year grace period.
Germany has warned against any unconditional write-off of Greece's debt, amid fears it would destroy the single currency.
Greece's teetering banks have been shut since the last international bailout programme expired last Tuesday. One minister, George Katrougalos, said they were unlikely to reopen this week.
The European Central Bank (ECB) is maintaining its pressure on the banks, refusing to increase emergency lending and ordering them to provide more security for existing emergency loans.
Capital controls have been imposed, with people unable to withdraw more than €60 a day from cash machines.
The European Commission - one of the "troika" of creditors along with the IMF and the ECB - wants Athens to raise taxes and slash welfare spending to meet its debt obligations.
Greece's Syriza-led left-wing government, which was elected in January on an anti-austerity platform, said creditors had tried to use fear to put pressure on Greeks.
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Celine Dookhran's body was found at an address in Coombe Lane West, in Kingston Upon Thames, on Wednesday.
Prosecutors allege Mujahid Arshid, 33, murdered the teenager - who was of Indian Muslim heritage - for being in a relationship with an Arab Muslim.
One user on Facebook said: "RIP Celine. Such a beautiful, intelligent soul."
Ms Dookhran, who was born in Wandsworth and grew up in south London, had a passion for make-up and offered cosmetic advice to her followers on social media.
Her social media messages included posts about religious holidays and fasting during Ramadan.
The last tweet, posted eight days before her death, said "Alhamdulillah [praise God] for everything that's all I can say".
Following the news of her death, one of her Twitter followers said: "Innalillahe wainna ilaye rajeeon ["We belong to Allah and to Him we shall return."]
"RIP Celine, You did not deserve what has happened, May Allah grant you a place in Paradise. Inshallah."
While another user posted: "RIP Celine, you were very beautiful and you will never be forgotten."
Mr Arshid is also accused of the kidnap, rape and attempted murder of a woman in her 20s.
The second woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, had earlier been treated for stab or slash wounds at a south London hospital.
Vincent Tappu, 28, from Acton, west London, is also charged with kidnapping both women.
A post-mortem examination revealed the cause of Ms Dookhran's death was a neck wound.
The men have been remanded in custody.
Mr Arshid, of no fixed address, is scheduled to appear at the Old Bailey on 26 July.
Both defendants will appear at the same court on 21 August.
It is alleged that from the 93rd minute through to 30 minutes after the game, Brown's language and/or behaviour was abusive and/or insulting and/or improper on five separate occasions.
The Shrimpers lost the game following Ryan Lowe's 94th-minute penalty.
Brown has until 18:00 BST on 16 May to respond to the charge.
The former Hull and Preston boss said after the match that assistant referee Barry Gordon should be "struck off" for his role in awarding the late spot-kick for a handball by Sam McQueen.
Stephen O'Brien warned that up 200,000 vulnerable civilians were living under "virtual state of siege".
Houthi fighters were stopping aid lorries at checkpoints and allowing in only very limited assistance, he said.
Government forces, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, have been battling the rebels for control of Taiz for months.
At least 5,700 people have been killed, almost half of them civilians, since the conflict in Yemen escalated in March, when the coalition launched an air campaign after the Houthis forced President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi to flee the country.
Taiz, about 205km (123 miles) south of the rebel-held capital Sanaa, has suffered huge destruction since fighting in the city intensified in September.
Mr O'Brien, the UN's under-secretary for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief co-ordinator, said some 200,000 civilians trapped there were in dire need of drinking water, food, medical treatment, and other life-saving assistance and protection.
Civilian neighbourhoods, medical facilities and other premises around the city were continually hit by shelling, while checkpoints were preventing people from moving to safer areas and seeking assistance.
"Houthi and [allied] popular committees are blocking supply routes and continue to obstruct the delivery of urgently needed humanitarian aid and supplies into Taiz city," Mr O'Brien said.
"Despite repeated attempts by UN agencies and our humanitarian partners to negotiate access and reach people, our trucks have remained stuck at checkpoints and only very limited assistance has been allowed in," he added.
Mr O'Brien was alarmed by reports that some of the aid destined for Taiz had been diverted away from the people for whom it was intended, which he said was "unacceptable".
He also warned that those hospitals still functioning in Taiz were overwhelmed with wounded patients and faced severe shortages of doctors and nurses, essential medicines and fuel.
Lisa Shearer, 27, had been reported missing after leaving an address in Buckhaven, Fife, on Wednesday afternoon.
She and the children were traced in the Glenrothes area at about 20:50.
Police had appealed for help in finding Ms Shearer and her sons, aged four, one and a one-month-old baby.
Officers later said they would like to thank everyone who shared and supported their appeal for information.
"[Europe] has no need for outside advice to tell it what it has to do," Mr Hollande said.
Mr Trump had accused German Chancellor Angela Merkel of "a catastrophic mistake" in allowing mass migration.
Mrs Merkel said the EU should decide for itself and US State Secretary John Kerry questioned Mr Trump's remark.
"I thought, frankly, it was inappropriate for a president-elect of the United States to be stepping into the politics of other countries in a quite direct manner," he told CNN.
"He'll have to speak for that. As of Friday [when Mr Trump is inaugurated as president] he's responsible for that relationship."
Mr Trump also caused alarm among Nato leaders by saying the alliance was "obsolete", and he threatened German car makers with high import tariffs if they moved production to Mexico.
In an interview for UK and German press, Mr Trump said the EU had become "basically a vehicle for Germany".
Referring to the German chancellor's response to an influx of refugees and other irregular migrants in 2015, when more than a million people were accepted, he said: "I think she made one very catastrophic mistake and that was taking all of these illegals..."
Mrs Merkel responded by saying the EU had to take responsibility for itself. "We Europeans have our fate in our own hands," she said in Berlin.
In Paris, Mr Hollande said the EU was "ready to pursue transatlantic cooperation" but it would be based on "its interests and values".
He spoke as he was decorating the outgoing US Ambassador, Jane Hartley, with the Legion of Honour.
Another French Socialist politician, Mr Hollande's former Prime Minister Manuel Valls, said Mr Trump's remarks constituted a "declaration of war on Europe".
Mr Valls is trailing his party rivals in the race to stand for president in French elections later this year.
The far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen, a Trump admirer, is expected to do well in the first round.
Mr Trump linked the migrant issue with Brexit, suggesting it was a reason UK voters had opted to leave the EU.
He promised a quick trade deal between the US and the UK but a European Commission spokeswoman reiterated that the UK would not be allowed to engage in formal talks involving a trade deal with the US until 2019, after leaving the EU.
Elsewhere in his interview, Mr Trump
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.
12 May 2015 Last updated at 11:43 BST
Tom Brady, who's the quarter back for the New England Patriots, will miss the first four games of next season.
His team have also been fined a million dollars for their part in the scandal.
It all goes back to an NFL semi-final game in February when Brady and the Patriots were accused of intentionally letting the air out of the balls to gain an advantage over their opponents, the Indianapolis Colts.
The deflate-gate row overshadowed the build up to the Superbowl, American football's biggest game, which Brady's team eventually won.
Watch Jenny's report from the time when she went to meet an American football team n the UK to find out more.
A ten-week trial at Liverpool Crown Court heard that five girls were groomed for sex and "shared" by nine men from Heywood and Rochdale.
The men plied the girls, some as young as 13, with drink and drugs before forcing them to have sex.
However, while the arrest and charging of the men - eight from Pakistan and one from Afghanistan - could have been an end to the problem, it was when their trial hit the headlines that more trouble began.
In February, a gang of about 100 youths gathered outside the Tasty Bites takeaway in Heywood, which had been mentioned in court as being at the centre of the grooming ring.
What followed was a violent and verbal attack which police said was "misjudged and against innocent members of the community".
Windows were smashed even though the business was, by then, under new management, who have renamed the takeaway.
But new owner, Mushtaq Ahmed, said people were outside "knocking on the windows shouting abusive words - 'we want rapists out, we want this out, we want that out.'
"They were calling us various names as well," he said. "Most of them knew that we had nothing to do with it."
Publicity around the trial - which involved 11 defendants, two of whom have been cleared by the jury - also prompted demonstrations by far-right groups, both outside the court and in Heywood.
Police insist the grooming was sexually, not racially-motivated, and the girls were targeted because they were vulnerable not because they are white.
Despite this, far-right protesters staged a demonstration in the town almost every week during the trial, eager to exploit any racial tensions.
The BNP's Nick Griffin even came to Heywood in an attempt to recruit new members.
Stephen Campbell runs a taxi firm that employs nearly 80 drivers, some of whom have given up work through fear of being targeted by demonstrators.
"The staff don't feel safe coming to work anymore," he said.
"The drivers are driving around and they're always worrying who's getting in the car next.
"The job totals are down. We've had drivers leaving because they're too scared to work in Heywood. It's generally been bad for business."
Imam Irfan Chishti, from Rochdale Council of Mosques, said he was "sickened" by the case.
"It was very shocking to see fellow British Muslims brought to court for this kind of horrific offence," he said.
"But I'm glad to see that all segments of the Rochdale community have spoken out about it."
Rochdale Council has been tackling the problem of grooming by running an education programme warning schoolchildren of the dangers of child sexual exploitation.
So far, 10,000 high school students have taken part.
Emily Nickson, who runs the sessions, said: "The content of the session is around sexual exploitation - what it is, who it might happen to, who might be a perpetrator.
"We look at online risks and how to keep them safe using social networking sites. We explain young people's rights and we talk about the law in terms of sexual consent.
"It's not a new subject, they already know about it, but we want to make them aware of the actual facts and how to keep themselves safe and less vulnerable."
The sessions are already paying off. One teenager who took part realised that her cousin was being groomed.
"She was being given bracelets and rings and all sorts of jewellery," she said.
"After the talk she thought about it twice and thought it was the wrong thing to do, so she walked away from it."
It's too early to say whether the problem of child exploitation has been removed.
But the town is determined to move on with a positive message.
"Heywood has always been a welcoming community," said Father Paul Daly, a Roman Catholic priest from the Salford Diocese.
"We've got people of different races, people from different parts of the world, people from different faiths.
"It's always been a harmonious community and I think some of what we've seen came as quite a shock really to the people of Heywood themselves.
"Probably it's made us stronger because of that."
Prosecutors are expected to decide based on the hearing whether they will seek an arrest warrant for Mr Lee.
The firm is accused of giving donations to non-profit foundations run by a confidante of President Park Geun-hye in exchange for political favours.
"I will once again tell the truth," Mr Lee told reporters before the hearing.
The Samsung chief had already been questioned with several other company executives in January but a subsequent court ruling decided there was insufficient grounds for an arrest.
Yet during the past weeks investigators reviewed the case and decided there were new aspects that required further questioning.
The claims against the company revolve around a merger between the electronics giant's construction arm, Samsung C&T, and an affiliate firm, Cheil Industries.
The prosecution alleges that Samsung gave 2.8m euros ($3.1m; £2.5m) to a company co-owned by Park confidante Choi Soon-sil and her daughter, in return for political support for the deal.
The scandal led to President Park being impeached last December.
Lee Jae-yong, also known as Jay Y. Lee, first gave evidence in front of a parliamentary hearing in December last year. Since January he has been treated as an official suspect in the case.
At the parliamentary hearing, Samsung admitted giving a total of 20.4bn won (£16m; $17.46m) to the two foundations, but denied seeking favours in return.
And Mr Lee also confirmed the firm gave a horse and money to help the equestrian career of Ms Choi's daughter, Chung Yoo-ra, something he said he now regretted.
Mr Lee is currently vice-chairman of Samsung Electronics. But since his father, Lee Kun-hee, suffered a heart attack in 2014, he is considered de facto boss of the entire Samsung Group conglomerate.
- Grandson of Samsung founder Lee Byung-chul, son of current chairman Lee Kun-hee.
- Aged 48, he's spent his entire career in the company and is vice chairman of Samsung Electronics.
- Last year was nominated to join the board of Samsung Electronics - an appointment confirmed on 27 October.
- Widely expected to take overall control of Samsung once his 74-year-old father steps down.
- Critics say his position on the board is due to his birth, not his business experience.
Politicians voted on 9 December to impeach President Park over the scandal - a decision South Korea's constitutional court has six months to uphold or overturn.
Until then she remains formally president but stripped of her powers, which are handed to the prime minister, a presidential appointee.
Ms Choi is on trial for charges including corruption and coercion.
Ms Park's position began to unravel in October last year when details of her friendship with Ms Choi began to emerge.
They included revelations that the president had allowed her old friend - who holds no government role - to edit political speeches.
Since then, hundreds of thousands of protestors have gathered every weekend in Seoul to demand Ms Park stands down.
Ms Park denies wrongdoing but has apologised for the way she managed her relationship with Ms Choi, who also denies committing criminal offences.
The male driver was on Glasgow Road at about 19:15 on Tuesday when a snowball broke the windscreen of his car.
The youths involved were aged between 14 and 16-years-old.
Police said the incident was "really dangerous", and appealed for witnesses to come forward.
Jonathan Heimes raised hundreds of thousands of euros for charity before he died from cancer, aged 26.
The Merck-Stadion am Boellenfalltor will be known as the Jonathan-Heimes Stadion am Boellenfalltor for the duration of the 2016-17 season.
"Everyone who identifies with us identifies with Jonathan," said club captain Aytac Sulu.
Darmstadt, who played in the third division of German football until 2014, finished 14th in the Bundesliga last season, following back-to-back promotions.
"Jonathan was a strong companion of Darmstadt success," said club president Rudiger Fritsch. "Despite his illness, Jonathan has repeatedly given the team a lot of energy."
Heimes' father Martin said the club and its sponsors had made a "great gesture".
SV Darmstadt's first game at their newly named stadium is Saturday's Bundesliga meeting with Eintracht Frankfurt (14:30 BST).
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The crash happened on the B4271 in Llanrhidian just before 19:30 BST on Monday.
Police, paramedics and the Welsh Air Ambulance were called to the scene.
South Wales Police is investigating.
Muirhead's team beat Sweden 6-4 on Sunday to take bronze in Beijing, with Canada beating Russia to win gold.
It was their second major bronze of the season, after also finishing third at the European Championships.
"As a team I know we are capable of a lot more but we have made a lot of changes this year," Muirhead said.
"We have got a new team coach, a new team dynamics coach, we have made a change with one of our players, so we didn't expect too much. In any sport you are going to go down slightly when you make those changes before you are going to rise to the top.
"Overall we are disappointed we are not at the top of the podium but I am pleased with the bronze medal.
"It was a tough week and I think bronze is fair to be honest. Canada were leaps and bounds ahead of the rest, and Russia also, so I think we would be punching above our weight if we wanted more than we got.
"We played really hard to get our bronze, the girls were fantastic and we really came together. We probably had the best seven ends we have played all season to get that bronze medal, so we are really pleased."
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Team Muirhead parted company at the end of last season with former coach Dave Hay - under whom they won the World Championships in 2013 and Olympic bronze in 2014.
They also replaced Sarah Reid with Lauren Gray as lead, and brought in Canadian Glenn Howard, a four-time world champion, as a tactical coach.
Along with third Anna Sloan and second Vicki Adams, Muirhead and Gray will turn their attention to preparing for next year's Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, which take place from 9-25 February.
"The Olympics are not far away now," Muirhead told BBC Scotland. "We have got a spot there because of us getting a medal at the European Championships and getting a medal here at the Worlds. So we are pleased to be the team that is going to represent Great Britain at the Games.
"Overall we have learned a lot this week. It has been tough but I think we have deserved what we have got."
They said they wanted to "make it clear that every Disclosure song we've put our names to has been written by us".
Songwriter Katie Farrah Sopher claims that the band's tracks White Noise, Latch and You and Me feature words taken from her personal songbook.
Sopher is claiming a reported £200,000 in damages for the tracks.
According to the Mail on Sunday she is accusing ex-boyfriend Sean Sawyers of stealing the songbook and selling lyrics to music industry contacts.
The songwriter also claims the book features lyrical content inspired by a "toxic" relationship with Sawyers.
Disclosure's statement continued: "We sometimes write lyrics and melodies alongside whoever the featured singer may be (i.e. Sam, Eliza etc) and the great Mr. Jimmy Napes, but that is it.
"When we do, we always make sure everyone gets proper credit.
"We take great pride in our self sufficiency, our work and the way we work, and it's incredibly frustrating when someone tries to take that away from us, by claiming we stole even one word or one note of our music from anyone."
Disclosure, brothers Guy Lawrence and Howard Lawrence, said they would much rather "be working on more music than commenting on these types of things".
"So, just to be clear, all allegations made against us to do with this subject are completely false, as anyone we have ever worked with will back up.
"We didn't get into this industry to steal other people's ideas and we haven't - we are musicians, artists and producers."
The Lawrence brothers ended their post with a comment about their next album.
"In better news… Album 2 is niiiiicely underway!"
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Ms Sturgeon said she wanted a vote to be held between the autumn of 2018 and the spring of the following year.
That would coincide with the expected conclusion of the UK's Brexit negotiations.
The Scottish first minister said the move was needed to protect Scottish interests in the wake of the UK voting to leave the EU.
She will ask the Scottish Parliament next Tuesday to request a Section 30 order from Westminster.
The order would be needed to allow a fresh legally-binding referendum on independence to be held.
Prime Minister Theresa May has so far avoided saying whether or not she would grant permission.
Responding to Ms Sturgeon's announcement, Mrs May said a second independence referendum would set Scotland on course for "uncertainty and division" and insisted that the majority of people in Scotland did not want another vote on the issue.
She added: "The tunnel vision that SNP has shown today is deeply regrettable.
"Instead of playing politics with the future of our country, the Scottish government should focus on delivering good government and public services for the people of Scotland. Politics is not a game."
But speaking at her official Bute House residence in Edinburgh, Ms Sturgeon said the people of Scotland must be offered a choice between a "hard Brexit" and becoming an independent country.
The Scottish government has published proposals which it says would allow Scotland to remain a member of the European single market even if the rest of the UK leaves, which Mrs May has said it will.
Several questions now arise? Does Nicola Sturgeon have a mandate for today's decision? She says yes, unquestionably. In defence of this, she says that the SNP won the last Holyrood election with a record share of the constituency vote.
Against that, rivals say the SNP did not retain their overall majority at Holyrood. Countering that again, it might be noted that there is a majority at Holyrood for independence, including the Greens. As will be demonstrated next week when those two parties vote together to urge a Section 30 transfer from Westminster.
Which brings us to Question Two. Section 30 refers to the portion of the 1998 Scotland Act, the Holyrood founding statute, which permits the transfer of other powers from the reserved section to the devolved criterion.
It has been used, for example, to transfer control over issues like rail transport to Holyrood. It was used, most significantly, to transfer power to hold the 2014 referendum, with agreement over the wording of questions and the timing of the plebiscite.
Will the UK government agree to a transfer this time around? Not without detailed examination and negotiation.
Read more from Brian here.
The first minister said the UK government had not "moved even an inch in pursuit of compromise and agreement" since the Brexit referendum, which saw Scotland vote by 62% to 38% in favour of Remain while the UK as a whole voted to leave by 52% to 48%.
On Monday evening, the House of Lords passed the Brexit bill, paving the way for the government to trigger Article 50 so the UK can leave the EU.
Peers backed down over the issues of EU residency rights and a meaningful vote on the final Brexit deal after their objections were overturned by MPs.
Ms Sturgeon said Scotland stood at a "hugely important crossroads", and insisted she would continue to attempt to reach a compromise with the UK government.
But she added: "I will take the steps necessary now to make sure that Scotland will have a choice at the end of this process.
"A choice of whether to follow the UK to a hard Brexit, or to become an independent country able to secure a real partnership of equals with the rest of the UK and our own relationship with Europe."
Ms Sturgeon continued: "The Scottish government's mandate for offering this choice is beyond doubt.
"So next week I will seek the approval of the Scottish Parliament to open discussions with the UK government on the details of a Section 30 order - the procedure that will enable the Scottish Parliament to legislate for an independence referendum."
Ms Sturgeon said it was "important that Scotland is able to exercise the right to choose our own future at a time when the options are clearer than they are now, but before it is too late to decide on our own path."
She said that the detailed arrangements for a referendum - including its timing - should be for the Scottish Parliament to decide.
But she said it was important to be "frank about the challenges we face and clear about the opportunities independence will give us to secure our relationship with Europe, build a stronger and more sustainable economy and create a fairer society."
The UK and Holyrood governments are set for a battle royale over timing over a potential vote.
But the question first is whether or not the prime minster is willing to grant a vote. Under the law, Westminster has to grant the referendum; it's not just down to the Scottish government.
I'm told Number 10 had carefully worked out "countermoves" depending on what the first minister's message was this week.
Now Sturgeon has made the first big move, it's down to the other side to respond.
But arguably we have just entered into the most complicated, most fraught, most fundamental period of political uncertainty for our country in a very long time.
Sturgeon's announcement confirms that it is not just our place in the EU that is changing, but the relationships between our own nations that are at question too.
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Ms Sturgeon will rely on the pro-independence Scottish Greens to give her plans majority support in the Scottish Parliament.
Patrick Harvie, the party's co-convener, welcomed the announcement and confirmed the Greens would vote in favour of seeking a Section 30 order.
He added: "The people of Scotland deserve a choice between Hard Brexit Britain and putting our own future in our own hands".
But Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said Ms Sturgeon had been "utterly irresponsible" and had "given up acting as first minister for all of Scotland".
She added people "do not want to go back to the division" of a referendum and that Ms Sturgeon had promised 2014 would be a "once in a generation" poll.
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said Scotland was "already divided enough" and "we do not want to be divided again, but that is exactly what another independence referendum would do."
But the party's UK leader, Jeremy Corbyn, confirmed that his MPs would not attempt to block a request for a Section 30 order.
Mr Corbyn said: "Labour believes it would be wrong to hold another (referendum) so soon and Scottish Labour will oppose it in the Scottish Parliament.
"If, however, the Scottish Parliament votes for one, Labour will not block that democratic decision at Westminster.
"If there is another referendum, Labour will oppose independence because it is not in the interests of any part of the country to break up the UK."
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said Ms Sturgeon's SNP had been "working towards this announcement for months" and were "determined to contrive a way to ignore their promise that 2014 was 'once in a generation'."
He added that there was "no wide public support for a new and divisive referendum".
The upbeat message emerged during a special Brexit debate at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday.
"As an industry we are born problem solvers," said Robbie Allen of Creative Scotland, adding that there was "time to plan" for the "bump in the road".
Isabel Davis, of the British Film Institute, said "nothing changes" until after what would be a long process.
Ms Davis, head of international at the BFI, explained that it had set up a "screen task force" to look at threats and opportunities presented by the result of June's EU referendum.
She said the film industry was keen to preserve its relationship with Europe and that no changes were imminent during the exit process.
"We are talking about a period of time that is going to be rather extended," she said.
"This is a very complicated process, it's a marriage that is going to take quite a lot of time to untangle.
"In the meantime, the key message is nothing changes whatsoever. Until those negotiations are concluded, we are exactly as we have always been."
Her assessment was echoed by Oscar-nominated producer Paul Webster, whose credits include The English Patient and Shakespeare in Love.
"I still wake up every morning thinking [the referendum result] was a bad dream," said Mr Webster, who owns Shoebox Films in partnership with director Joe Wright and producer Guy Heeley.
He pointed out that tax credits for film-making and international co-productions would be unaffected by Brexit.
"As a producer about 80% involves working with American companies," he said. "But independent film does rely heavily on European partners - that's the area of key concern."
He said he'd not noticed any change in the amount of private equity being used to fund films.
"We live in a global economy, where there's an enormous amount of money washing around," he noted.
"Europe is not our only partner," added Mr Allen, as the Brexit debate drew to a close.
"It's going to be a bump in the road but it's a bump in the road we can see coming. There's time to plan."
The Toronto Film Festival runs from 8-18 September.
Chief executive of Birmingham's Perry Beeches Academy Trust Liam Nolan is stepping aside so the trust "can move forward", staff have been told.
Two free schools due to be set up by the trust have been "paused".
The Education Funding Agency criticised the trust in March for "significant weakness in financial management".
Information from a whistleblower prompted the agency investigation, which found an additional salary of £160,000 was paid to Mr Nolan, over two years, through a third-party agreement - on top of his £120,000-a-year salary.
It was issued with a financial notice to improve.
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The Department for Education said interim governance arrangements to ensure the schools' management had been put in place. The existing governing body is reported to be stepping down.
The academy and free school trust, which has also been praised by Education Secretary Nicky Morgan and her predecessor Michael Gove, runs five schools and looks after 2,400 pupils.
Mr Nolan told staff in a message, that he had resigned "to allow... necessary changes required to move the trust forward".
He had "thoroughly enjoyed his time at Perry Beeches since joining in 2007". It said he "would like it known that... it has been a privilege to work alongside colleagues, families and young people in the schools".
It added that Mr Nolan "would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for the enormous support during his time at Perry Beeches" and to wish everyone "the very best" for the future.
A statement by the academies trust said it had created "a new executive board which includes head teachers from all the schools to ensure no distraction from the core business of educating its pupils and helping them reach their full potential".
It added: "A new Transition Board of Trustees has been put in place to continue with governance responsibilities and work closely with the DfE and Education Funding Agency
"The trust has been working closely with the EFA in relations to concerns surrounding Governance and Financial Irregularities following last years investigation and Financial Notice to Improve. An Action Plan has been put in place with the support of the EFA to address all concerns."
Two planned free schools, Perry Beeches Primary I and Perry Beeches VI, have been placed on "pause" by education minister Lord Nash.
The DfE said in a statement: "Our priority is ensuring the education of pupils is not disrupted.
"Perry Beeches Academy Trust (PBAT) has already put in place interim governance arrangements to ensure the ongoing leadership and management of the schools are not affected.
"The Regional Schools Commissioner, Pank Patel, is working with the trust to secure future, permanent, governance arrangements. It would be inappropriate to discuss matters regarding the future of PBAT and its schools at this stage."
The development comes just a few days after the government withdrew its plans to require all schools to become academies.
Conservative backbench MPs, councillors and opposition politicians had campaigned against the plan. Head teachers and education establishment figures also criticised the notion that schools would be forced to make the change in management structure.
In March, the academy chain was told to pay back £118,000 in government funding.
The trust claimed about £2.8m from the EFA for free school meals, but only kept limited records of its entitlements.
An EFA report said this was a breach of government guidelines. The trust said it was a genuine administrative error.
The five-time Grand Slam winner, 28, revealed on Monday she tested positive for meldonium in January.
"I do feel sorry [for] her, but it's normal to accept that under these circumstances the player has to suffer certain consequences," Djokovic said.
Russian Sharapova will be provisionally suspended from 12 March.
Earlier this week, world number two Andy Murray said Sharapova "must accept responsibility" for failing the test, while women's world number one Serena Williams said her rival had shown "a lot of courage".
Former world number one Sharapova says she has been taking the drug, which was added to the World Anti-Doping Agency's banned list on 1 January, for health reasons for the past 10 years.
"As a friend, I really hope that she will find the best possible way," world number one Djokovic added.
"I thought she was very courageous and it was very human and brave of her to go out and take the responsibility and say what has happened. She did admit that she made a mistake with her team."
Eleven-time Grand Slam-winner Djokovic also said too many tennis players rely on medication to feel healthy.
"I feel like in the sport in general that there is maybe a conviction with many athletes that maybe medication and certain substances can make you feel healthy or make you feel better," he said.
"I don't believe in that kind of short term process. I believe in long term balance and harmonious health and well-being that is achieved from different aspects.
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It followed a referendum in May, when the Republic of Ireland became the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote.
From Monday onwards, registrars will be able to register same-sex marriages.
Also, the marriages of same-sex couples who were legally married abroad will be automatically recognised by the state.
Same-sex couples who have already applied to register a civil partnership will be able to convert this into a marriage application.
People who are already in a civil partnership will also be able to get married within days, if they give notice of their intentions to the registrar.
However, no new applications for civil partnerships will be accepted after 16 November.
Civil partnership will only be available for a limited time for those couples who have already submitted their applications before the legislation comes into effect.
Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald signed the commencement order for the Marriage Act 2015 in Dublin Castle on Tuesday.
She said the new law would have a "profound symbolic importance" and a "real and tangible impact" on same-sex couples' family life.
"The Irish people blazed a trail on 22 May 2015 when they became the first sovereign people to choose marriage equality by popular vote," she said.
"They determined that Ireland should be characterised by solidarity and inclusiveness. They have reaffirmed the importance of marriage and family for our society."
In May's referendum, 62.1% people voted yes, while 37.9% voted no.
The Swedish title was one of 19 films competing for the prestigious Palme d'Or, in the 70th year of the festival on the French Riviera.
Prizes also went to British filmmaker Lynne Ramsay and director Sofia Coppola.
But juror Jessica Chastain said she was shocked at the way many of the films she saw at Cannes portrayed women.
Chastain, star of The Help said it was "disturbing" to see the way women were depicted on screen, saying: "The one thing I really took away from this experience was how the world views women. There are some exceptions, but for the most part I was surprised with the representation of female characters on the screen in these films.
"I hope when we include more female story-tellers we will have more of the women that I recognise in my day-to-day life, ones that are proactive, have their own agency and don't just react to the men around them - they have their own point of view."
Toni Erdmann director Maren Ade, who also sat on the jury, agreed more female directors were needed, adding: "We're missing a lot of stories they might tell."
Palme d'Or: The Square
Grand Prix: BPM (Beats per Minute)
Jury prize: Andrey Zvyagintsev, Loveless
70th anniversary award: Nicole Kidman
Best director: Sofia Coppola, The Beguiled
Best actress: Diane Kruger, In the Fade
Best actor: Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here
Best screenplay: Joint winners Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou for The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and Lynne Ramsay for You Were Never Really Here
Camera d'Or (best debut film): Leonor Serraille, Jeune Femme
Short film prize: A Gentle Night, Qiu Yang
Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, who chaired the jury, said the winning film was a rich and "completely contemporary" tale about "the dictatorship of being politically correct".
The director of Julieta and All About My Mother said the festival was "the birth of a lot of wonderful movies" and that he had been "completely mesmerised" by some of the films in competition.
But he appeared emotional when discussing how much he had loved Grand Prix winner BPM, which tells the story of activist group Act Up and the lack of government support for Aids sufferers in the 1990s.
"They are real heroes who saved many lives," he said, his voice breaking.
BPM had been a favourite to win the Palme d'Or, alongside bleak Russian family drama Loveless and heist thriller Good Time, with The Square an outsider.
Jury members also included Men in Black star Will Smith, South Korean director Park Chan-wook, Chinese star Fan Bingbing, Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, French actress and writer Agnes Jaoui and composer Gabriel Yared.
British filmmaker Lynne Ramsay was the joint winner of best screenplay for You Were Never Really Here, for which Joaquin Phoenix was named best actor. It tells the story of a private contractor sent to rescue a young girl from a paedophile ring, and Ramsay said it had been a "labour of love", and that "to be recognised for the writing is great".
The best director award went to Sofia Coppola for The Beguiled, a drama about an injured soldier taken in by a girls' boarding school during the American Civil War - only the second time the prize has gone to a woman.
It stars Nicole Kidman as the headmistress and the Australian actress was given a 70th anniversary award to mark the fact she had three films and one TV series shown at this year's festival.
The Square stars Claes Bang with British actor Dominic West and Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss in supporting roles. While it received good reviews, it was not tipped to win the main prize.
After winning, Ostlund said: "I think my first reaction was 'oh my God, how fantastic'. I mean I hugged the main actor that I've been working with almost for two years now. We have been struggling together and it was a very, very happy ending of that work of course."
The Square focuses on Bang's character Christian as the gallery he runs prepares for a new exhibition in the gallery's courtyard in which members of the public can stand and ask for help. Meanwhile, his private life starts to unravel after he is mugged and seeks the return of his belongings in an unorthodox way.
It received four stars from the Daily Telegraph's Robbie Collin, who said that while it is a "slow burn", it has a "cumulative force that can't be resisted", while Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian gave it the same score, calling it "thrillingly weird".
The Swedish director was previously best known for Force Majeure, about a family ski trip rocked by a father's selfish reaction to an avalanche.
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The presidential candidate had until midnight to repay the money, but said she had no intention of doing so.
The parliament says she wrongly used the funds to pay an aide at the National Front's headquarters in Paris.
She says she is the victim of a politically motivated vendetta.
If she does not repay the money, the parliament could now respond by withholding as much as half of her salary and allowances, which her opponents say total almost €11,000 a month.
Ms Le Pen is one of the front-runners in the French presidential election to be held in April and May. If she wins, she has promised a Brexit-style referendum on France's membership of the EU.
Polls suggest that she will make it to the run-off where she is likely to face conservative candidate Francois Fillon or centrist Emmanuel Macron.
"I will not submit to the persecution, a unilateral decision taken by political opponents... without proof and without waiting for a judgement from the court action I have started," she told Reuters news agency on Tuesday.
The money the European Parliament wants returned was used to pay the salary of Catherine Griset, a close friend of Ms Le Pen as well as her cabinet director.
The funds were conditional on Ms Griset spending most of her working time in Brussels or Strasbourg.
However, the parliament says most of her time was instead spent working in the National Front's headquarters in Paris. The party will face a second demand for 41,554 euros in wages paid to her bodyguard.
The far-right leader also tried to distance herself from financial allegations overshadowing Republican candidate Francois Fillon, who has vigorously denied that his wife was paid 834,000 euros for fake jobs.
Asked if she would pay back the money, Marine Le Pen told AFP: "To pay the money back, I'd have had to have received the funds, but my name isn't Francois Fillon."
Quite apart from her refusal to pay back the funds, the FN leader might struggle to find the money. Her party has been unable to raise funds from French banks and has had to seek financing abroad.
In 2014, the FN received a €9m loan from Russian lender First Czech-Russian Bank, which collapsed last year.
Sisu had claimed the council's £14m loan to Arena Coventry Limited (ACL), the previous operator of the Ricoh, was an illicit use of public funds.
But the Court of Appeal said there was not a good legal reason to challenge the original judgement.
Sisu said it would apply for another hearing in a bid to continue the fight.
In July, Mr Justice Hickinbottom found Sisu had, from April 2012, refused to pay rent "deliberately to distress ACL's financial position, with a view to driving down the value of ACL and thus the price of a share in it."
Coventry City Council gave ACL, at the time jointly owned by the authority and a charitable trust, the loan so it could pay off debts.
A Coventry City Council spokesman said: "We have always been confident we had a strong case and we're pleased the application, from Sisu-related companies for leave to appeal against Mr Justice Hickinbottom's High Court judgement, has been refused."
Premiership rugby team Wasps took over ACL last November.
Orange CEO Stephane Richard went to Jerusalem and met PM Benjamin Netanyahu to "clear up the confusion".
He had earlier said he wanted to end an agreement with an Israeli partner which operates in the occupied West Bank.
The comments were strongly criticised in Israel as supporting a boycott.
"It's no secret that what you said last week was interpreted by many as an attack on Israel," Mr Netanyahu told Mr Richard on Friday.
The prime minister said his government sought "real and secure peace with our neighbours the Palestinians", but that could not be achieved "by boycotts or threats of boycotts".
Reuters and the Times of Israel reported that Mr Netanyahu had instructed the Israeli ambassador to Paris not to accept a request by Mr Richard to meet in France.
Mr Richard said his comments had been taken out of context.
"I have been profoundly and personally distressed to observe the results of the misunderstanding and the distortion of my recent statements," said Mr Richard.
"I deeply regret the impact resulting from the context and interpretation of those statements."
The CEO had said in a meeting in Cairo last week that he would pull out of Israel "tomorrow morning" if contracts allowed, adding it was important to build trust with Arab countries.
Orange's Israeli affiliate, Partner Communications, controls close to 28% of Israel's mobile market.
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign group - that Israel says works to "delegitimise" the state of Israel - had also previously called on Orange to sever its ties with Partner because of work it carries out in settlements.
Israel's settlements in the occupied territories are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.
The French government has a 13.45% stake in Orange. Last week French President Francois Hollande said he did not support a boycott of Israel and wanted to improve ties between the two countries.
Ajax moved to the brink of a first European final in 21 years with a 4-1 first-leg win in Amsterdam last week.
Lyon have averaged over four goals per game in their Europa League home matches this season.
"There's an hour and a half to overcome our deficit," said Genesio, whose side are fourth in Ligue 1.
Two goals from on-loan Chelsea striker Bertrand Traore, plus efforts from Kasper Dolberg and Amin Younes have put the Dutch side in command ahead of Thursday's return leg.
But Lyon, who have never reached a major European final, were given hope after France midfielder Mathieu Valbuena curled in an away goal.
The winners will play either Manchester United or Celta Vigo, who trail 1-0 to the Premier League side, in the 24 May final in Stockholm.
Genesio believes his side's 3-2 league victory over Nantes on Sunday showed they are capable of pulling off a comeback against Ajax.
"We'll have to create chances and take them, but also remain calm and organised when we lose the ball," added Genesio.
"We have to remember that we scored three goals on Sunday. And if we score three against Ajax, we could go through."
The money will go to 57 organisations, including The Pat Finucane Centre, Youth Action and Corrymeela.
Healing Through Remembering and Community Relations in Schools will also benefit.
Charlie Flanagan said the funding reflects his department's commitment to supporting peace in Northern Ireland.
"The Reconciliation Fund has been in existence since 1982 and since that time over €46m (£39m) has been granted to over 1,900 projects, supporting organisations across the community and voluntary sector," he said.
"These groups are working to build meaningful links between all communities and traditions on the island and address the issues, including sectarianism, which still impact on the lives of so many people."
VAR was used in awarding Sydney FC a penalty in a 1-1 draw against Wellington Phoenix.
Bobo scored the spot-kick, which came about after the VAR official alerted the referee to a handball by centre-back Marco Rossi from a corner.
Phoenix claimed a foul on Rossi had led to the offence.
Wellington equalised late on through former Celtic striker Michael McGlinchey, who is a New Zealand international.
VAR was first in place for Melbourne City's 1-0 win over Adelaide United on Saturday, but was not needed.
The technology can only review incidents relating to goals, red cards, mistaken identities and penalties.
As part of Fifa's ongoing testing, VARs will be involved for the remaining two rounds of the regular Australian season plus the three weeks of finals.
World governing body Fifa's president Gianni Infantino is keen to employ the system during the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
VAR technology was used to correct two decisions as Spain beat France in a friendly last month, previously having been used in France's 3-1 friendly win in Italy last September.
It could be used in English football as early as August, bringing forward the start of a planned trial by several months.
The Football Association had initially said the technology could be trialled in the FA Cup in January 2018, but could now begin in the EFL Cup first round.
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The visitors hit the post early on through Jordan Chapell's shot and then opened the scoring when Danny O'Brien latched on to Ryan Lloyd's cross.
Ryan Astles doubled the lead from John Rooney's cross but Ross Hannah missed a penalty after a foul on Chapell.
Hannah made up for his miss and gifted Chester their third with a close-range finish following Sam Hughes' set-up.
The visitors moved up to 16th place in the table while Altrincham lie just three points above 21st-placed Halifax, who also have a game in hand.
The appointment followed David Thorburn's decision to stand down after almost four years in the role.
With almost three decades of international banking experience, Mr Duffy, 53, has held a number of key senior roles.
He joins from Allied Irish Banks, where he has been chief executive since December 2011.
Parent company National Australia Bank (NAB) said late last year that it was looking for ways to exit the UK, where it also owns Yorkshire Bank, after several years of poor performance.
The UK business has been hit with high charges to compensate customers for Payment Protection Insurance mis-selling.
In October, NAB announced it was looking at all options for the future of the Clydesdale and Yorkshire banking division.
Those options could include a sale or initial public offering of the business.
Mr Duffy was a former CEO of Standard Bank International with responsibility for operations in the UK, Europe, Latin America and Asia.
He was also previously head of Global Wholesale Banking Network with ING Group and president and chief executive officer of the ING wholesale franchises in the United States and Latin America.
He has been invited to join the boards of Clydesdale Bank PLC and National Australia Group Europe Limited as an executive director.
It is anticipated that, subject to regulatory approval, he will be in the post within the next few months.
Clydesdale Bank board chairman Jim Pettigrew said: "David is a highly effective and motivational leader with a wealth of international banking experience and a strong track record in retail banking.
"In the past three years with AIB, he has delivered an impressive programme of positive change which has been built around the needs of customers.
"A passionate and genuine customer champion, David's broad-based skills, leadership, energy and strategic vision will be invaluable as we move into the next phase of our development."
NAB Group chief executive, Andrew Thorburn, added: "David is uniquely qualified to meet the challenges and opportunities of this important role, particularly as we are examining the broader range of options we announced in October 2014 to accelerate NAB's exit from the UK Banking business."
The newborn child was discovered on 29 January 2016 on land near Imperial Park, Coedkernew.
He had been wrapped in a white towel and placed in a black leather-style bag.
Despite numerous appeals, Gwent Police has still not been able to identify the baby's mother.
Officers said the towel, which had the words "St Annes" hand-written along its edge, came from St Anne's Hospice in Newport.
They have asked if anyone can connect the towel or the bag with a woman or girl who may have been upset, anxious or acting strangely this time last year and who may be doing so again around the anniversary of the birth.
Det Insp Judith Roberts said: "This must be an incredibly distressing time for the mother.
"The anniversary may bring back painful memories and we want to ensure that she is offered the right support.
"Anyone with information is urged to get in touch. If you want to speak with us confidentially or anonymously, that can be arranged."
Anyone with information is asked to call Gwent Police on 101 or contact the force via direct message on Facebook.
The former president, 89, acknowledged his advanced age but said Cuban communist concepts were still valid and the Cuban people "will be victorious".
It was earlier announced that Cuba's President, Raul Castro, would remain party chief for another five years.
Raul Castro, who himself is 84, is due to step down as president in 2018.
But in Cuba the role of Party secretary is considered just as powerful as president, so his announcement that he had been re-elected for another five years was significant.
Some have interpreted Fidel Castro's speech as a goodbye to the Cuban Communist Party faithful. Whether he intended it to be is another matter, but it certainly contained references to his own mortality not previously heard from him.
"I'll soon be 90" the former president told the congress, "something I'd never imagined." His longevity wasn't through effort, he said, but was rather "a whim of fate".
"Soon I'll be like all the others," he said, "to all our turn must come." State television showed at least one person in the audience of loyalists wiping tears from their eyes.
But being Fidel Castro, any admission of fallibility or weakness was immediately followed by a statement of defiance: "The ideas of Cuban Communists will remain as proof on this planet that if they are worked at with fervour and dignity, they can produce the material and cultural goods that human beings need."
Fidel Castro's speech at the five-yearly congress has been interpreted by some analysts as valedictory, but the Castro dominance in Cuban politics looks set to continue for some time yet.
Raul Castro proposed at the weekend that 60 should become the maximum age for joining the Party's central committee. Cuba has an ageing leadership - Mr Castro's deputy in the Party, Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, is 85.
But he also said that there should be a five-year transition period before that comes into force.
He will continue as Party leader until 2021, a move which the BBC's correspondent in Cuba, Will Grant, says will disappoint many Cubans who had hoped that the recent thaw in relations with Washington might also usher in a new generation of reformers in the Communist Party.
Singer Al Green, actress Lily Tomlin and ballet dancer Patricia McBride will also receive the decorations at a White House reception on 7 December.
The movie star said the honour added to being "a fortunate man, in that I love the work I do".
Figures who have influenced US culture through the arts are awarded annually.
It is relatively rare for a British artist, such as Sting, to be recognised. He likened it to receiving an artistic knighthood in the UK.
He told the BBC: "It was very unexpected. I'm thrilled. I'm only the 18th British person to receive it, along with Cary Grant and Julie Andrews.
"I'm definitely the first Geordie ever to get it," said the singer, who was born in Wallsend.
Green, one of the defining voices of Memphis soul, said that his career had been "a funny voyage", while Tomlin, whose screen credits include 9 to 5 and The West Wing, said she was "astounded" to find out that she will be honoured.
McBride, now 72, became the New York City Ballet's youngest principal dancer at the age of 18, a position she held for 28 years.
Kennedy Center chairman David M Rubenstein said the honours "celebrate five extraordinary individuals who have spent their lives elevating the cultural vibrancy of our nation and the world.
"Al Green's iconic voice stirs our souls in a style that is all his own; Tom Hanks has a versatility that ranks him among the greatest actors of any generation.
"One of the world's greatest ballerinas, Patricia McBride, continues to carry forward her legacy for future generations; Sting's unique voice and memorable songwriting have entertained audiences for decades.
"And from the days of her early television and theatrical appearances, Lily Tomlin has made us laugh and continues to amaze us with her acting talent and quick wit," he added.
The five award-winners will be received by President and Mrs Obama before a star-studded gala, which will be subsequently broadcast on US television.
Three others who were in the trailer escaped uninjured, local media report.
In Florida, a 70-year-old man was found dead after flooding. A woman in Georgia was the sixth reported death from the storms.
Bad weather has been battering the US south, leaving thousands without power in Louisiana and Mississippi on Monday.
The car of the Florida man, William Patrick Corley, was found partially submerged near the Shoal River in Mossy Head.
The local sheriff's office said Mr Corley's death was being investigated, but no foul play was suspected.
The National Weather Service has identified storms in central Mississippi near Mendenhall and Mount Olive as tornadoes, based in part on radar signatures.
Both squalls had damaged homes and farm buildings.
More rain warnings were in place for Tuesday, affecting southern Alabama, southwest Georgia and Florida.
But by late morning, the worst of the weather appeared to have passed over as the weather system headed for the Atlantic Ocean.
Southern Alabama and Mississippi have received over eight inches (20cm) of rain since Saturday.
In Louisiana, the Beauregard and Allen areas sustained fairly serious damage, while wind also caused destruction in Houston and throughout East Texas.
The UK-based Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) said it assisted in the removal of 31,266 pages last year, compared with 13,182 in 2013.
It said in many cases, each address contained more than one photo or video.
The figures do not necessarily indicate that illegal activity is increasing.
Instead, they may simply reflect that the charity recently began taking a proactive approach, seeking out child abuse imagery rather than just acting on others' reports.
It was able to do this after the UK's four biggest internet service providers committed an extra £1m over four years to fund its efforts.
If the material is hosted overseas, the organisation notifies local authorities and then chases up complaints until the material is removed.
"Our ability to actively seek out child sexual abuse imagery created a significant step-change in the effectiveness of the IWF," said chief executive Susie Hargreaves.
The body's annual report says:
The IWF said image-hosting platforms that create a specific web address link when a file is uploaded were the most common type of misused service it had encountered, accounting for about 63% of the offending pages detected.
Such systems typically create what appears to be a random string of numbers and digits as the address, making it harder to trace those sharing extreme material.
One expert suggested this might have contributed to their appeal.
"The paedophiles are looking for ways to make it more difficult for law enforcement to detect them sharing child abuse imagery," said Prof Alan Woodward, who advises Europol on the issue.
"There is a lot of research being done on automatically detecting the images themselves and what keywords to look for in related text.
"But if the paedophiles are sharing what is effectively a signpost - written in code that is in no way related to the nature of material linked to online - then there is much less chance of identifying either those sharing such extreme material or where it is located, in order that it can be removed."
The web has any number of photo-sharing, or "image hosting" sites. They are legal, mostly free and easy to use.
Register, log on, upload and you have your own private collection of images. Only people you select can view them and only once you've sent them a link. No one else will know what is in your collection.
The link is just a line of code that reveals nothing. And that is where the problem lies. Paedophiles are becoming increasingly aware that known images of abuse can be tracked and traced if shared conventionally: each image has a unique hash value that can trigger red flags for both email providers and law enforcement.
A line of code or URL directing a user to a private collection on an "image hosting" site is anonymous and triggers no alerts.
The IWF figures seem to back up the theory that paedophiles are increasingly turning to these sites. In 2013 analysts found 5,594 such URLs - a figure that had risen to 19,710 by the following year.
Indeed, that accounts for almost two thirds of all links to obscene material identified by the IWF. Criminals are in effect hiding in plain view on entirely legitimate websites.
In the first two decades of his rule Libya became the world's pariah, as the flamboyant colonel used his country's oil wealth to support groups such as the Irish Republican Army and the Palestine Liberation Organisation.
Western enmity towards Libya reached a peak in 1988 when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Scotland killing 270 people. It would be 15 years before Libya admitted responsibility.
Eventually it was his own people, helped by Western military effort who rose up and finally removed him from power.
Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi was born into a Bedouin family on 7 June 1942, near the Libyan city of Sirte.
As a teenager, he became an admirer of the Egyptian leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser, whose brand of Arab Nationalism struck a chord with the young Gaddafi.
He first hatched plans to topple the monarchy of King Idris, while at military college, and received further army training in Britain.
As Captain Gaddafi, he returned to the Libyan city of Benghazi and, on 1 Sep 1969, launched a bloodless coup while the king was receiving medical treatment in Turkey.
Gaddafi became chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council which was set up to run the country - one of his first acts was to expel his country's Italian population.
Like Nasser, he did not promote himself to the rank of General, as is the custom of most military dictators, but remained a Colonel throughout his rule. This fitted in with his idea of Libya being "ruled by the people".
He laid out his political philosophy in the 1970s in his Green Book, which charted a home-grown alternative to both socialism and capitalism, combined with aspects of Islam.
His rule blended Arab nationalism with a socialist welfare state and popular democracy, although the democracy did not allow for any challenge to his own position as leader.
While small business were allowed to remain in private hands, the state ran the big organisations, including the oil industry.
No-one doubted that he exercised total control, and was ruthless in dealing with anyone who stepped out of line and opposed him.
Gaddafi believed in a union of Arab states and set out to extend Libya's influence throughout the region.
He began by trying to merge Libya with Egypt and Syria but disagreement over the conditions rendered it impossible. A similar arrangement with Tunisia also floundered.
The Muammar Gaddafi story
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Gaddafi's strong support for the Palestine Liberation Organisation also harmed his relations with Egypt which had reached a peace deal with Israel.
He sent Libyan forces into the neighbouring country of Chad in 1973 in order to occupy the disputed Aouzou Strip. Eventually this led to a full-scale Libyan invasion and a war that only ended in 1987.
In 1977 he invented a system called the "Jamahiriya" or "state of the masses", in which power is meant to be held by thousands of "peoples' committees".
His committees called for the assassination of Libyan dissidents living abroad and, during the 1980s, sent hit squads to murder them.
Gaddafi's regime was accused of serious human rights abuses
Libya had a law forbidding group activity based on a political ideology opposed to Gaddafi's revolution.
Campaign group Human Rights Watch claimed the regime has imprisoned hundreds of people and sentenced some to death. Torture and disappearances have also been reported.
By the early 1980s Gaddafi's support for a diverse collection of revolutionary groups brought him into conflict with the West
The UK broke off relations with Libya in 1984, after the killing of Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan Embassy in London.
Two years later, the United States bombed Tripoli and Benghazi as a reprisal for alleged Libyan involvement in the bombing of a Berlin nightclub used by American military personnel.
Libya was reportedly a major financier of the "Black September" Palestinian group that was responsible, among others, for the kidnap and killing of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, as well as becoming a supplier of weapons to the IRA.
The Lockerbie bombing eventually triggered a change in the relationship between Gaddafi's regime and the west, although it was 11 years before Gaddafi agreed to hand over the two Libyan nationals who had been indicted for the crime.
Anxious for foreign investment as the price of oil fell, Gaddafi renounced terrorism. A compensation deal for the families of the Lockerbie victims was agreed and UN sanctions on Libya were lifted.
Months later, Gaddafi's regime abandoned efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction, triggering a fuller rapprochement with the West.
American sanctions were also lifted and Libya was reported to be helping western intelligence services in their fight against al-Qaeda
In a climate of rapprochement, then UK Prime Minister Tony Blair went to Libya to meet Gaddafi in a Bedouin tent on the outskirts of Tripoli in 2004.
However, some in the West questioned this new relationship. And in parts of the Arab world, Gaddafi was criticised for cosying up to his old adversaries.
Gaddafi's eccentricity was legendary: He had a bodyguard of woman soldiers, and an almost narcissistic interest in his wardrobe. On one occasion reporters called to a news conference found him ploughing a field.
A tent was also used to receive visitors in Libya, where Gaddafi sat through meetings or interviews swishing the air with a horsehair or palm leaf fly-swatter.
There was also growing unrest among ordinary Libyans who claimed reforms were slow in coming and said they were not benefiting from Libya's wealth. Many public services remained poor and corruption was rife.
That unrest boiled over in 2011 when, spurred on by the toppling of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, and Tunisia's Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, demonstrators took to the streets demanding the end of the Gaddafi regime.
Security forces, including African mercenaries hired by Gaddafi, clashed with anti-government protesters with reports the Libyan air force jets had bombed opposition areas. Hundreds of people were reported to have been killed.
This prompted the UN Security Council to authorise the use of force and Nato countries immediately started bombing loyalist positions.
Gradually, with Nato help, the rag-tag opposition forces advanced across the country, seized the capital, Tripoli, in August and set up a transitional government.
Gaddafi remained at large until 20 October, when he was finally located and killed in his home town of Sirte.
After all his bluster and bravado the longest serving leader in both Africa and the Arab world met an ignominious end.
Keiron Simpson fell around 20ft (6m) from the top of the disused Habergham High School in Burnley at about 21:45 BST on Saturday, police said.
The teenager, who had been with with friends, was taken to Royal Manchester Children's Hospital suffering from a fractured skull and internal injuries.
Lancashire Police believes at this stage that it was a "tragic accident".
Det Insp Alisa Wilson said: "This young man has suffered serious injuries and while detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding the fall, at this stage there is nothing to suggest this was anything other than a tragic accident."
Ruth England, the head teacher at Shuttleworth College in Padiham, where Kieron is a pupil, said it was a "very upsetting incident" which has "shocked all of us in the school".
"We have been in touch with Kieron's family to offer our support and let them know that we are all thinking of them and sending our very best wishes for a speedy recovery for Kieron."
The festival allows cinema exhibitors to get a first look at new films as studios and actors present footage from their most-hyped forthcoming projects.
This week, the first scenes from the eagerly-anticipated Fifty Shades of Grey adaptation were unveiled.
The new Hobbit, X-Men and The Amazing Spider-Man films were also teased.
A behind-the-scenes clip of The Hobbit: There and Back Again, which is due in December, showed Orlando Bloom saying to director Peter Jackson, "the better end'', to which Jackson replies, "the happy end.''
Sony Pictures debuted 30 minutes of 3D footage from The Amazing Spider-Man 2, starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone - including scenes explaining the death of Peter Parker's parents.
They also introduced Max Dillon who becomes Electro - played by Jamie Foxx; and Harry Osborn who becomes the Green Goblin - played by Dane DeHaan.
Jupiter Ascending, the new sci-fi fantasy adventure from the Wachowski siblings Andy and Lana, who created The Matrix trilogy, was also unveiled.
Mila Kunis joined her co-star Channing Tatum to promote the film in which Tatum plays a "genetically engineered human and wolf".
"People always say that they're tired of seeing old movies remade and comic book movies made," said Tatum.
"This is a completely-out-of-the-Wachowskis'-brain type of a crazy film," he added.
Other films included Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and The Fault of Our Stars, based on John Green's best-selling tearjerker about two young people with cancer who fall in love.
Its star Shailene Woodley was handed the female star of tomorrow award.
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg were awarded a prize for comedy filmmakers of the year after unveiling scenes from their new film The Interview, which stars Rogen and James Franco as two friends asked to assassinate Kim Jong Un, leader of North Korea.
Cameron Diaz and Leslie Mann - who was named comedy star of the year - attended the convention to promote their forthcoming film The Other Woman.
Due in US cinemas at the end of next month, it sees Diaz's character discover her boyfriend is actually married to Mann's character, before the pair team up to seek revenge.
A very pregnant Barrymore and Adam Sandler were handed the awards for male and female star of the year, after attending the festival to promote Blended.
The comedy about two families who embark on a trip to Africa reunites the pair who previously starred in 50 First Dates and The Wedding Singer.
A first look at Fifty Shades of Grey, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson and starring Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan as Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, suggested it may focus more on the romance than the erotic element of EL James' best-selling novel.
Exhibitors were shown scenes featuring Grey whisking Steel off her feet with a joyride in his helicopter and a fancy make-over.
Johnny Depp presented clips of his new sci-fi drama Transcendence, in which he plays a terminally ill scientist-turned-unruly computer system, alongside British actress Rebecca Hall, Kate Mara and Paul Bettany.
Members of the GMB union have voted overwhelmingly to reject proposals for changes to the terms and conditions for frontline staff.
More than 98% of ballot papers returned opposed the council's proposals after a three-week consultative ballot.
The council has said no decisions have yet been made on the options, which are still at the consultation stage.
The union has described the plans as ''unacceptable, unfair and unsustainable''. The vote opens the way for a second ballot on whether to take industrial action.
Twitter had 320 million average active monthly users, up from 316 million the previous quarter, below investor hopes.
The social networking site reported revenues of $569m, up 58% from $361m during the same period last year.
The company's shares fell 11% after the results announcement.
Competition among social network providers has stepped up.
Advertising revenue was $513m for the period, an increase of 58% from $361m over the prior year.
"We've simplified our roadmap and organization around a few big bets," wrote chief executive Jack Dorsey, "across Twitter, Periscope, and Vine that we believe represent our largest opportunities for growth."
The company also lowered its forecast for fourth quarter revenue to a range between $695 and $710.
This was the company's first quarter with Jack Dorsey serving as permanent head, after his return as interim chief executive in June. Dorsey a co-founder of Twitter left in 2008 and founded electronic payment services Square.
Last quarter he took a critical stance to the potential profitability of some Twitter products.
Since Dorsey's return Twitter has laid off more then 300 members of staff and said it plans to use the saving from these cuts to invest in priority products but did not say which products.
Twitter has launched several new commercial partnerships with Bigcommerce, Demandware, and Shopify. The website also launched new advertising tools targeting events and editing several ad campaigns at once.
During tonight's first World Series baseball match - between the Kansas City Royals and the New York Mets - millions of viewers will see an advert from Twitter promoting its 'Moments' feature.
The ad campaign will run into 2016, and is yet another attempt by Twitter to help normal people (i.e. not media geeks, politicians or trolls) find some kind of continued use for Twitter.
Moments, Twitter chief exec Jack Dorsey hopes, will make it much easier for users to follow events. "You don't have to do any of the work," he said.
Baseball is a sport that loves its statistics. So here's a couple about Twitter right now: 307 million monthly active users, with just 3 million added since June.
That's terrible, and they know it. Big money ads alone won't be enough to change that.
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The company has been going for more than 30 years and is one of the biggest employers in the area.
Its new butchery facility at Cross Hands, Carmarthenshire, has been operating for just over a year and skills are a prime focus.
Staff are trained on the premises but also study at training centres as part of their NVQ qualifications.
Castell Howell now employs 600 people across the business and last year it had sales of £94m.
When the company started its boning line in 2008, the shortage of skilled butchers meant it recruited from eastern Europe.
Migrant workers make up about 5% of the workforce and they are now used in a buddy system to pass skills down to a new generation.
They include 19-year-old apprentice Dewi Davies, from Whitland, who has been working at Castell Howell for three years.
He has already finished third in a Welsh young butchers' competition.
"I just want to develop my skills as a butcher - because it's a trade you can go anywhere with. I just want to keep developing and getting better," he said.
In recruitment, Castell Howell start with an assessment of literacy and numeracy levels and then their school leavers go towards NVQs.
Edward Morgan, butchery director, said skills were vital but fitting in with the rest of the workforce was also essential.
"It's vitally important for all our staff to have the right attitude and if that's right they can build on that with training," he said.
"In Carmarthenshire, there are some large players in the meat industry and there are some skills gaps there but it's incumbent on all companies to take the initiative to train their workers to their requirements."
Middle managers also attend leadership courses at Trinity St David's University.
Castell Howell is now setting up a butchery academy with a local training provider.
MEASURING THE SKILLS GAP
37,200 vacancies
11,600 hard-to-fill vacancies
31% of applicants lack basic numerical skills
23% of applicants lack manual dexterity
47% of applicants lack customer handling skills
A 10-year skills strategy was launched by the Welsh Government in 2014, part of which includes measuring skills performance.
This will include monitoring any changes in the level of investment made by employers in the skills of their workforce.
The latest UK Employer Skills Survey, published in January, showed skill shortages have increased in Wales to 23% of all vacancies.
There were particular problems recruiting machine operators.
But employers reported a reduction in the skills gap of their workforce as a whole. More (50%) were also offering off-the-job training than before.
Two thirds of Welsh workers (66%) were given some training in the last year, but 49% of companies wanted to give more than they did.
However, the survey - which involved more than 200 Welsh companies - showed the challenges ahead.
While computer skills were less of an issue, more applicants for jobs in Wales lacked skills such as basic numeracy, manual dexterity, customer handling skills and the reading and writing of basic instructions than the UK as a whole.
Many small businesses argued it was easier for the bigger companies to absorb the costs of training, but Mr Morgan said the time invested in it was important whatever the size of the company.
"If we train a percentage of our workforce, we lose the same amount of time with them as a small business would.
"But we see it as an investment and every hour spent in the classroom goes towards improving productivity."
In the end, both large and small firms will be looking to see how the parties are offering to help them improve their skill levels and training in the next assembly.
It used to be a rare thing for a brand new artist to debut at the top spot. Whigfield was the first to do it 20 years ago with Saturday Night.
But in 2014, Sam Smith, Ella Henderson and 5 Seconds of Summer all achieved the feat.
It reflects changes in the way fans consume music. Downloads and streaming can give songs a big first-week boost.
But many of the "new" acts who hit number one had also built up a fanbase by guesting on other people's songs first.
Sam Smith, for example, had already scored a number one as a featured artist on Naughty Boy's track La La La before he launched his solo career.
Official Charts Company boss Martin Talbot said the onslaught of new artists kept the charts "fresher than ever".
Mr Probz had the biggest-selling debut single of the year, selling 815,000 copies, while Kiesza's Hideaway was the fastest-selling debut of the year, racking up 135,000 sales in its first week.
This year the Official Charts Company - who compile the UK charts - began including streaming from sites like Spotify, Deezer in the chart.
Radio 1 and 1Xtra's Head of Music, George Ergatoudis, told Newsbeat earlier in the year: "I think there is a real correlation there, that streaming is starting to grow and it's starting to eat into download sales."
Sam Smith was guest vocalist on 2013 Number 1 La La La by Naughty Boy, but Money On My Mind was his first release as a featured artist.
Speaking to Zane Lowe the winner of the BBC's Sound of 2014 admitted to being scared when his debut single came out.
He said: "I didn't want people to think that song was a cheap shot because it sounded like a hit. Before I give you my most personal piece of work, I'm giving you this to dance and I'm giving you this as therapy."
Ella Henderson told Newsbeat she was really nervous about releasing Ghost but had spent so long working on her sound she was proud of whatever she brought out.
The former X Factor contestant said: "It is exciting to hear what people have to say about me who haven't watched X Factor and don't know me. My music is very different to what I did on the show."
Ella's album Chapter One also debuted at number one and she was nominated for Best British Solo Artist and Best British Breakthrough at the Radio 1 Teen Awards.
Alice Levine became the first ever Radio 1 presenter to hit the top spot with a number one single.
She was part of Gareth Malone's All Star Choir who released a cover of Avicii's Wake Me Up to raise money for Children in Need.
The Official Chart Show on Radio 1 is on Sundays from 4pm.
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The Board of Control for Cricket in India invited applications for the role in May but subsequently "endorsed an extension" to his one-year contract.
Captain Virat Kohli denied reports of a row with former India skipper Kumble, 46, before the start of this month's Champions Trophy.
India were beaten by rivals Pakistan in the final on Sunday.
Former leg-spinner Kumble, who played 132 Tests and 271 one-day internationals was appointed coach in June 2016 on a contract that expired after the Champions Trophy.
During his time in charge, India won 12 and lost one of the 17 Tests they played, and claimed ODI series win over New Zealand and England.
India play a five-match ODI series and a T20 in the West Indies starting on Friday.
"As a lad, he used to come to me ask how I'd make him taller. I used to say, 'Greig, I can't make you taller, but I can make you wider and broader like a pocket battleship'.
"Over the years when I've seen him up at Murrayfield, he always comes and says hello and I think, 'Yeah, you've become a pocket battleship, my son. Well done'."
You want to talk about long roads? Well, here you are. Before Saturday's win over Ireland, Laidlaw had played 25 Six Nations games and had won only five - three of them against Italy. In five years of championship rugby the only games he won that he wasn't expected to win was Ireland in 2013 and France 2016. Everything else, bar those Italy matches, were a mixture of disappointment and angst. Mostly angst.
Despite what happened on Saturday - a hit job on one of the world's best teams - you could drag the Scotland captain to the highest rooftop and yet his feet would still be planted on the ground. He's measured, focused, hard-bitten. Excited, for sure, but cool at the same time. It's one win, he says. Just one win.
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You'd need to eat up a lot of road to find somebody who cares more about rugby than Laidlaw. It's a game that's thrilled him and tormented him. As captain of Scotland he's taken more than his share of blows - the late sucker-punch against Italy at Murrayfield in Vern Cotter's first year, the shut-your-eyes despair of the World Cup quarter-final against Australia and then the repeat in the autumn that made you wonder if Scotland would ever develop that killer instinct, that capacity to close out games that they've done enough to win.
And then Argentina came - a test passed. Peace-time rugby, though. "I'd agree with that," he says. "From November to the Six Nations is a different beast. If that (the Ireland comeback on Saturday) had happened to us before, we probably would have lost that game. The record tells you that.
"We believe we're changing but we're not shouting about that. The key is to back it up. It's the next step for this team."
International players talk about the little moment of solitude after a major victory, the scene in the quiet of the dressing room where they sit with their team-mates, spent but happy, and there's nothing that can compare with it. It doesn't last long. The reality of another upcoming battle barges in on their thoughts soon enough, but in those carefree minutes before the mind starts to race again, it's bliss. And that's how it was on Saturday.
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"You sit back in your seat, take a breath and think, 'Oh, happy days'. It's just relief and then it's enjoyment and you get to experience it for a small time and then it's France. You're thinking about what's next. And that's the way it should be.
"We know we're not successful on the back of one game, but this team is learning to adapt to different situations. We're learning how to win tight games. As captain, I'm learning that we're resilient, I'm learning that there are more players round about me now that I can turn to for leadership."
Laidlaw spoke of many players but reserved comment for the two props, the 24-year-old loosehead, Allan Dell and the 21-year-old tighthead, Zander Fagerson. They had a torrid time in what few scrums there were on Saturday, but their work in the loose was outstanding.
"They're strong, strong boys. It was a good Irish scrum but we fixed it. And their work around the field, we're not playing with extra back-rows, but it's not far off it. Delly is excellent around the field. He gives lots of extra things.
"Zander? For a young lad to have to play for 80 minutes and still be getting off the line and making tackles and carrying right to the end is a credit to him."
Anybody who has ever played for Joe Schmidt will tell you about his obsession with detail. If one of his players goes to the toilet, Joe will tell you how long they were in there and how quick their line speed off the bowl was, to the millisecond.
A narrative is built up around successful teams. We hear about their cosmic preparation because we want to know how winning teams are created. We don't tend to ask how the others do it. But the others, Scotland, are every bit as obsessive. It's just that the light isn't shone as brightly upon them.
It's not often that Schmidt gets out-analysed, but he did on Saturday. And it was his big mate, Cotter, and his wider coaching team who orchestrated it. The work they put in, the detail they went into, was key.
The vibe after the weekend was that Scotland may have taken inspiration from how Argentina beat Ireland at the World Cup, exposing their narrowness in defence at the breakdown and then stripping them out-wide.
They didn't. The focus was largely on the two games they played against New Zealand in the autumn - the historic victory in Chicago and the honourable defeat in Dublin.
"We tried to understand why New Zealand lost the first one and why they won the second one. They were the two main ones we looked at it.
"New Zealand made a lot of errors in America and Ireland made minimal errors. When you're playing against this Irish team you can't be loose. You just can't be. They're a fantastic team, but we studied them really hard.
"We looked at their backline and felt we were bigger and stronger, especially in the centre with Alex (Dunbar) and Huw (Jones). Garry Ringrose is not the biggest guy and we really felt we could power-up in the backs and run lines into Paddy Jackson and we did that and they tightened up a little bit, so we were able to subtly shift the ball wide. They came back at us, but we hung in there and dug it out. I thought we deserved to win."
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We drag Laidlaw back to Saturday, but France is his focus now. He's moving there in the summer - Clermont's new scrum-half. That's Clermont - second in the Top 14 right now, first seed in the Champions Cup quarter-finals and supplier of six of the French starting team that played England last weekend.
How's Laidlaw's French? "Un peu. It's going in my right ear and out my left, but I'm trying."
In France's attempt to better themselves we see something of Scotland - big games lost that they might have won. Their last three games under Guy Noves? A two-point loss to Australia, a five-point loss to the All Blacks and, last Saturday, a three-point loss to England.
"They're getting better," says Laidlaw. "Mark my words, this is a very dangerous rugby team and we can't be loose. If you're loose against this lot, they sniff it. We need to play a really smart game.
"No matter where you look they've got strength up front (the relentless captain Guilhem Guirado of Toulon at hooker, the terrific new La Rochelle blindside Kevin Gourdon and Northampton's force of nature Louis Picamoles) and real danger out wide on the wings. Clever players in around nine and 10 as well.
"You can't just run straight into the French. You run straight into the defence then you get slow ball and slow ball is hard to play off. Be smart around the attack, get quick ball, move them around. We'll be fitter than them. They fade. The Top 14 is definitely slower. Speaking to Richie (Gray of Toulouse), it's a slower competition, so we need speed in the play and we need skill to be able to do that."
This issue of France's fitness is an interesting one. In the last year the French have played 11 Tests - four wins and seven losses - and have failed to out-score their opponents in the second half in eight of them.
Scotland haven't won at Stade de France since 1999, of course. They've had their chances, though. In 2001 they were within a converted try until the last kick, in 2005 they led until three minutes from the end, in 2009 there was only six points in it with nine minutes left and in 2015 Scotland trailed by just four points with 77 minutes on the clock.
"We understand where we came from and we understand where we are now. It's always about the next game. We're going over there confident but we know what France are capable of. They're going to start winning very soon."
The challenge is to delay the renaissance for one week longer.
Proposed changes to the company pension scheme could see workers retiring at 65 instead of 60.
But Tata said it was committed to offering "still very competitive" pension arrangements.
It employs 7,000 people in Port Talbot, Llanwern in Newport, Shotton in Deeside, and Trostre, Carmarthenshire.
Tata also has plants at Scunthorpe, Rotherham, Hartlepool and Redcar.
Steel unions Community, GMB and Ucatt said traditionally, because of the demands of the job, it was not uncommon for workers to take early retirement but under the proposals this would go and they would have to work until they were 65.
The company said the scheme was facing a financial shortfall, mainly due to people living longer.
It has been consulting with about 17,000 workers about replacing it with a "more balanced solution" of a defined contribution scheme.
A spokesman said: "We will consider employees' views before making a final decision. Tata Steel remains open to unconditional talks with the unions to find resolutions to the very substantial challenges facing the pension scheme."
Roy Rickhuss, general secretary of Community, said: "This is not a situation we wanted to find ourselves in. The unions were prepared to discuss changes that resolved the challenges faced by the scheme but Tata rejected that constructive offer."
Dave Hulse, national officer for steel at GMB said: "Our members are determined to stand up for their pensions and they will now have the opportunity to show their resolve by voting for strike action."
Unite is expected to follow suit in sending out ballot papers.
Jurgen Klopp's side were protecting a two-goal lead from the first leg at Anfield but Anthony Martial's 32nd-minute penalty offered United brief hope after he was fouled by Nathaniel Clyne.
Jesse Lingard and Juan Mata had missed clear opportunities for United but Liverpool were also a threat as David de Gea saved superbly from Coutinho while Daniel Sturridge hit the bar with a free-kick and Jordan Henderson missed an open goal.
The away goal Liverpool threatened, and which left United needing four on the night, came right on half-time when Coutinho beat Guillermo Varela with ease before lifting a near-post finish past De Gea.
It ended the game as a contest with United unable to rouse themselves again as Liverpool completed the formalities to win the first European meeting between the two clubs.
Sadly, the final stages of the match were marred by clashes between supporters near the Liverpool corner of the ground - and it remains to be seen if Uefa take any action.
Manchester United, in the first half at least, played with a pace, and showed a spirit and endeavour, that has rarely been displayed at Old Trafford this season - but the task was too much.
And that was down to the lamentable performance at Anfield last Thursday when Liverpool dominated every facet of the first leg to secure a two-goal lead that could actually have been much more.
It left United vulnerable to one goal from Liverpool that would leave them needing four, and so it proved when Coutinho's brilliant dribble provided that crucial away strike.
United, from that point on, looked like the team they have been for most of this season - pedestrian, uninspired and struggling to illuminate an Old Trafford stage that has suffered much this season.
And there was suffering in hearing songs of celebration from 3,000 Liverpool fans tucked away in one corner of the stadium as their arch-rivals celebrated victory in the first European meeting between the two sides and a place in the last eight of the Europa League.
It was also further evidence that, for all those who still feel United might be better off without Wayne Rooney, that this team still misses him very badly as he was reduced to watching the game from the stands with his son as the England captain recovers from a knee injury.
Liverpool are progressing rapidly under Klopp, who is putting his imprint on the side six months after he succeeded sacked Brendan Rodgers.
And some of the old European anticipation will be rising at Anfield as they contemplate Friday's quarter-final draw.
Time for some perspective, though, and a warning that Klopp is embarking on a rebuilding programme that will not be a quick fix.
There are still some tasty potential opponents lying in wait, none more so than Klopp's old club Borussia Dortmund, tournament favourites and impressive winners against Tottenham over two legs.
The notion of Klopp facing Dortmund is an enticing one and he would be guaranteed a rapturous reception at the club he took to two Bundesliga titles and the Champions League final.
And that is before you even get to Sevilla, winners in the past two seasons and who cruised into the last eight against FC Basel.
This was another disappointing night in a disappointing season for Manchester United - and there will be extra pain in losing a European tie to such fierce adversaries.
If there is some comfort, it can be gained in the performances of young strike duo Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial.
Rashford, just 18, never gave up at any point, chasing lost causes endlessly while trying to provide United's lost spark.
Martial, 20, tormented Clyne with his pace in the first half to earn - and score - the penalty that gave United some hope.
They are small crumbs of comfort on a miserable night for United but they need all the hope they can get after this.
Liverpool's on-field celebrations were marred by trouble in the stands in the closing minutes and after the final whistle.
BBC Radio 5 live commentator Ian Dennis had a clear view of the disturbances in the crowd and said he saw fighting and seats being ripped out.
"Punches are being traded by rival supporters," he said.
"I have seen three red seats from the Liverpool section being thrown into the Manchester United fans.
"There are about 10 Liverpool supporters sat on the front row of the top tier and there is a human wall of police officers in luminous clothing protecting the Liverpool fans sat in the Manchester United end.
"Uefa will take action - mark my words."
Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal: "I am not angry, I am not frustrated. I was very proud of my players.
"They gave everything and I was very pleased the fans recognised that. They applauded after the match despite us being out - that was remarkable I think.
"I hope Man City is the catalyst. We have to beat City and we have a chance to still qualify (for the Champions League)."
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: "They got a penalty - it was a penalty - and Phil had a genius moment.
"I love it two minutes before half-time because he twice reacted quicker than his opponent.
"It was the most unexpected that he could do in a situation like this."
Manchester United will travel to the Etihad for a Premier League derby against neighbours Manchester City on Sunday, the same day as Liverpool play Southampton.
Match ends, Manchester United 1, Liverpool 1.
Second Half ends, Manchester United 1, Liverpool 1.
Attempt saved. Divock Origi (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Christian Benteke.
Attempt saved. Divock Origi (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Christian Benteke.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Matteo Darmian.
Attempt missed. Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Marouane Fellaini following a corner.
Attempt missed. Matteo Darmian (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left following a corner.
Attempt missed. Bastian Schweinsteiger (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by James Milner.
Substitution, Liverpool. Christian Benteke replaces Roberto Firmino.
Attempt missed. Daley Blind (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a set piece situation.
Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Roberto Firmino (Liverpool).
Foul by Chris Smalling (Manchester United).
Divock Origi (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Bastian Schweinsteiger (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Bastian Schweinsteiger (Manchester United).
Adam Lallana (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Offside, Liverpool. Mamadou Sakho tries a through ball, but Roberto Firmino is caught offside.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by David de Gea.
Attempt saved. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Adam Lallana.
Attempt saved. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Emre Can.
Attempt missed. Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.
Substitution, Liverpool. Joe Allen replaces Jordan Henderson.
Substitution, Manchester United. Bastian Schweinsteiger replaces Michael Carrick.
Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mamadou Sakho (Liverpool).
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Matteo Darmian.
Substitution, Liverpool. Divock Origi replaces Daniel Sturridge.
Foul by Antonio Valencia (Manchester United).
Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Milner (Liverpool).
Attempt missed. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Jesse Lingard.
Substitution, Manchester United. Matteo Darmian replaces Marcos Rojo.
Attempt missed. Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right misses to the right. Assisted by Philippe Coutinho.
Attempt saved. Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Michael Carrick with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Juan Mata.
Ashley Coe was working on a new solar plant for British Solar Renewables in Devon when a digger operating beneath the overhead cable caused the accident.
He suffered a serious brain injury and two other workers were also hurt, Exeter Crown Court heard.
Sub contractor Pascon was fined £35,000 for failing to manage the work safely.
Mr Coe was working for Walsall-based Pascon when the incident happened in March 2013 at Knockworthy Farm near Huntshaw.
The digger which struck the 33,000 volt cables was reversing while laying a cable in a trench and Mr Coe was helping to control the drum when he suffered the shock.
British Solar Renewables, of Butleigh, Somerset, admitted breaching the construction, design and management regulations by failing to ensure the safety of power cables.
Pascon admitted failing to plan, manage and monitor construction work adequately.
The court was told Mr Coe was left with mobility problems which prevented him from working again. Fellow workers Malcolm Stewart and Andrew Capper suffered less serious injuries.
Simon Morgan, prosecuting, said the cables should have been protected by fencing, goal posts, and bunting to prevent vehicles operating beneath them and a banksman should have been used to ensure safe movement of plant.
BSR were fined £250,000 with £72,000 costs and Pascon were fined £35,000 with £25,000 costs.
Women in Football said its language expert is certain Mourinho used abusive language towards a woman, contrary to the verdict of the FA's chosen expert.
"It's another example of the FA failing to tackle discrimination," it said.
"We are concerned by the serious flaws in the process of such investigations."
The FA studied footage from the 2-2 draw with Swansea on 8 August after a member of the public made a complaint.
It said it was "satisfied the words used do not constitute discriminatory language under FA rules".
Carneiro and head physio Jon Fearn were criticised by Mourinho for treating Eden Hazard with the side a man down.
The club doctor, 42, had her role downgraded before she decided to leave the club.
The Women in Football statement said: "Our own language expert made it abundantly clear that the abusive words used by Mr Mourinho on the touchline that day were specifically directed towards a woman, as indicated by the grammar of his sentence.
"Other Portuguese speakers we contacted in gathering evidence also emphasised this point. We therefore find it extraordinary that any expert or Portuguese speaker would report otherwise."
The FA said it had appointed an independent academic expert in Portuguese linguistics to analyse the footage of the incident, which included the audio recording.
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About 9.5 million adults a week tuned in between April and June compared with 10.4 million during the same period in 2015, audience trackers Rajar said.
Radio 1 said the figures were "only part of the picture" and that its digital platforms had grown.
But the station now has its smallest radio audience since 2003.
Breakfast host Nick Grimshaw has 5.4 million listeners per week - down 400,000 year-on-year but unchanged from the first three months of 2016.
Radio 1 controller Ben Cooper said: "Rajars are only part of the picture for Radio 1, and our listeners should be seen alongside increases on our YouTube channel as it goes past one billion views and our growing social media platforms with over 8.5 million users.
"To focus solely on Rajars is similar to looking at how many newspapers have been sold without looking at their online presence or national influence."
A million listeners is a big drop. However, quarterly radio listening figures have a habit of bouncing around.
Look over the long term and what's surprising is that in an era of huge technological change, radio listening has stayed so stable overall.
In March 2006, Radio 1 had a weekly reach of 9.9 million listeners aged over 15. In March 2016, it had 9.9 million.
However, there are trends hidden in the figures.
Read the full analysis.
Radio 1's target audience is 15-29 year olds, and the station's on-air decline comes as separate research confirms young people are listening to less radio overall.
According to an annual survey of media habits published by broadcast regulator Ofcom on Thursday, 16 to 24-year-olds spent 29% of their audio listening time tuning in to live radio in 2015.
That is much lower than the average of 71% for all adults.
And the average time spent listening to the radio every week by 15-24s has fallen by five hours in the past decade, from 20 hours in 2005 to fewer than 15 hours last year.
Meanwhile, Radio 4 and 6 Music both enjoyed record ratings from April to June.
According to Rajar, 6 Music had 2.27 million listeners per week, just ahead of Radio 3, which enjoyed a five-year high with 2.2 million.
Radio 4 attracted more than 11.5 million adults - up from 10.6 million a week over the same period last year.
The station's Today programme also boasted what it described as a "Brexit boost", taking it to a record 7.4 million people per week.
"Rather than simply wanting a quick fix on the headlines as they wake up, our discerning listeners turn to Today to hear some of the best journalism and interviewing in the world, giving them a deeper understanding of the stories of the day," Radio 4 controller Gwyneth Williams said.
Other speech stations also prospered:
Among the music stations to perform well between April and June were Capital, Smooth and Classic FM.
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Thomas Bailey, 37, and Paul Oliver, 45, carried out surveillance on vehicles delivering cash but were themselves being spied on in a police surveillance operation.
They were arrested after a raid on a Tynemouth pub.
The judge at Newcastle Crown Court sentenced them both to 14 years.
The hearing heard that in January 2014 the pair targeted a post office in Cullercoats but were unsuccessful.
A week later they raided one in North Shields, escaping with £9,500 and threatening to "blow the head off" a witness.
In August 2014 they used crowbars to smash their way into the Salutation Inn during an early morning robbery, forcing a woman inside to hand over £21,000 from the safe.
Police were by that time bugging their vehicles as the pair spied on security vans, but were not expecting the pub attack.
Oliver, of Watch House Close, North Shields, was found guilty of three counts of conspiracy to burgle, three counts of conspiracy to rob, robbery, possession of a firearm and ammunition.
Bailey, of Falstaff Road, North Shields was found guilty of the same charges.
Det Ch Insp Paul Milner of Northumbria Police said: "They used extremely sophisticated surveillance equipment to carry out their surveillance of the security drivers.
"They used a fleet of vehicles bearing false number plates they produced themselves from a stolen number plate making machine they had earlier stolen in a burglary.
"However, little did they know whilst they were conducting their surveillance we were conducting our own surveillance on them and were watching their movements."
A third man and two women were sentenced alongside Oliver and Bailey.
Mark Templeton, 46, of North Parade, Whitley Bay, was convicted with robbery at the Salutation Inn and jailed for seven years.
Joanne Oliver, 42, of Verne Road, North Shields was given a 15-month sentence suspended for two years after being found guilty of witness intimidation.
Melissa Bailey, 32, of Penman Place, North Shields, pleaded guilty to assisting an offender and handling a stolen number plate making machine. She was sentenced to 15 months suspended for two years.
The album, Cantate Domino, includes music written for the Sistine Chapel Choir by Palestrina, Lassus and Victoria during the Renaissance.
It also features two Gregorian chants and a world-premiere recording of the original version of Allegri's Miserere.
The pieces are sung in Latin, as the composers intended.
The chapel is in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope, in Vatican City, Rome. The recording took place using a specially-built studio constructed by Deutsche Grammophon, with the mixing desk in an ante-chamber.
Musical dignitaries including Italian opera singer Cecilia Bartoli and Italian choirmaster Roberto Gabbiani attended the recordings.
The chapel is also home to the Papal conclaves, the meetings of the College of Cardinals held when they elect a new Pope.
Grammy-nominated producer Anna Barry described it as an "overwhelming privilege" to record there, among the frescoes of Michelangelo.
The choir has 20 adult singers and 30 boy choristers.
One of the male singers, Mark Spyropoulos, is the first British full-time member of the choir, which is directed by Massimo Palombella.
Palombella said: "After an intensive period of study and scholarship of the sacred music in the Renaissance and its aesthetic pertinence, we have arrived at the point of making the first commercial recording, in this remarkable building.
The Pope will receive the very first copy of the album, which is released on 25 September.
A total of 284 crimes were recorded in 2014/15, up from 255 in 2013/14, according to the annual wildlife crime report.
But environmental organisations said it was clear only a small proportion of offences were being detected.
They were giving evidence to Holyrood's environment committee.
Ian Thomson, of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, told the committee that the annual wildlife crime report now contained a "greater level of information" and "more clarity" than it had done in previous years.
But he added: "What we are dealing with is only a proportion of what is actually going on, ie the tip of the iceberg."
Mr Thomson highlighted a case where a man was seen shooting two buzzards but 11 more were found hidden down rabbit holes in a follow-up search by police.
He said: "There are numerous cases where evidence is found concealed or partially concealed."
Mr Thomson also highlighted a study undertaken in the north of Scotland which showed 41 red kites had been found illegally poisoned.
However, population modelling indicated that this only represented a quarter of what the actual number of poisoned birds would have been.
Pressed by committee convener Graeme Dey on whether he was arguing that there was a "colossal problem" that is not being identified, Mr Thomson said: "Absolutely."
Peter Charleston, of the Bat Conservation Trust, agreed that the report did not present the full picture on wildlife crimes.
"We are aware of a number of investigations undertaken by Police Scotland, none of which resulted in crimes being recorded," he said.
"We have no difficulty with that. The problem as far as we are concerned with reporting on crimes rather than incidents is that for bat persecution or bat crime there are many opportunities to prevent crime, probably more so than in most areas of wildlife crime."
He said there is "excellent preventative work undertaken and the extent of that work does not feature in the report".
His girlfriend, who was with him at the time, raised the alarm with the coastguard just after 02:30 BST on Saturday.
The man had fallen down between two boulders and was semi-conscious during the rescue.
He was taken to Antrim Area Hospital with suspected spinal injuries and later discharged.
Paddy McLaughlin from the Red Bay RNLI said it took the team more than an hour to get the man to safety.
"It was a pretty miserable night, with strong winds and it was raining very hard," said Mr McLaughlin.
"He is a very lucky man.
"With the help of the coastguard we were able to get the man safely into the lifeboat and onto the stretcher."
It is unclear if Mr Amaral, who denies the charges, agreed to a plea bargain to testify against other suspects.
He will be allowed to resume his duties in the Senate while Congress assesses impeachment proceedings against him.
The investigation relates to the state oil company, Petrobras.
Mr Amaral became the first sitting senator arrested in Brazilian history.
He is a former leader of the governing Workers Party.
Judge Teori Zavascki has ruled, however, that Mr Amaral will need to remain at home every night and at weekends.
The senator had been secretly recorded allegedly discussing plans to help a detained official flee the country in return for not implicating Mr Amaral in a major corruption scandal at Petrobras.
The official, Nestor Cervero, was accused of masterminding the corruption scheme. He signed a plea bargain agreement with prosecutors.
The party has distanced itself from the senator since his arrest, which was requested by the Supreme Court and approved by a Senate vote in November.
The executive committee suspended him in December and recommended his expulsion.
Workers Party president Rui Falcao said at the time he was "perplexed by the facts" that led to the arrest.
"None of the acts attributed to the senator is connected to his activities for the party," Mr Falcao said in a statement.
"For that reason, the Workers Party does not feel obliged to lend him any solidarity."
One of Brazil's richest men, banker Andre Esteves, was arrested as part of the same operation.
Mr Esteves, Brazil's 13th richest man, worth an estimated $2.5bn (£1.7bn), also denies the charges against him.
The Petrobras scandal has damaged the popularity of President Dilma Rousseff, who was sworn in to a second four-year term in January 2015.
Ms Rousseff is not implicated in the corruption scheme, but she was head of Petrobras during the years when much of the alleged corruption is believed to have taken place.
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The Jets begin their 50-over campaign with a trip to Northants on Saturday, having won the trophy against Warwickshire at Lord's last September.
It was the second success at the famous old ground for Durham, who won the Friends Provident Trophy in 2007.
"We've a similar squad, if we can build momentum we'll be unstoppable," Stoneman told BBC Look North.
Durham have struggled with their batting in the four-day game. They have picked up just 19 batting bonus points from 11 County Championship matches - the third lowest total in Division One.
"We haven't been on fire with the bat," Stoneman added.
"Hopefully once we get settled into the One-Day Cup, we can put some big scores on the board and look to defend that with the ball.
"It's something that has worked well for us in the past and we hope we will be doing that again this year."
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Success in the competition last year was particularly special for veteran Paul Collingwood who, since retiring from England duty in 2013, has been involved in winning a County Championship title and one-day silverware.
The 39-year-old - who captained England to victory in the 2010 Twenty20 World Cup - said that Durham's One-Day Cup success is among his greatest achievements.
"It was certainly right up there," he said.
"Just getting to a Lord's final and all the atmosphere and occasion, it was great to be back."
Reaching the final again is the target for Collingwood.
"We've got the skill levels, and the team has a lot of all-rounders and we can adapt to situations," he added.
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One of the stars of Durham's cup run last year was Australian all-rounder John Hastings, but he missed the final because he was committed to playing for Chennai Super Kings in the T20 Champions League.
Hastings, 29, rejoined Jon Lewis' side for the 2015 season and can play in the final of they make it this time.
"I was very proud of the way the lads went about it last year," he said. "It was a tight and tough tussle with overhead conditions and rain about but the boys got the job done.
"I did ask my franchise if I could do it, but they declined.
"I hope that this year we can get there. I will be available for the final this year so I hope we can do it."
Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Libya should "expedite the end" of the Australian defence lawyer's detention.
She is one of four International Criminal Court's (ICC) staff detained in Zintan town last week.
Reports say local people became suspicious of documents she tried to pass to Saif al-Islam.
"I am very concerned about the detention of Ms Taylor," Ms Gillard told reporters. "We are calling on the Libyan government to expedite the end of Ms Taylor's detention."
Australia's Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr said he raised Ms Taylor's case with Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Muhammad Aziz.
He said that Mr Aziz confirmed in a phone call that Ms Taylor was being detained in Zintan pending further inquiry.
"An ICC team is in Libya to engage directly with authorities on the matter," he added.
Ms Taylor's parents released a statement, saying that they did not wish to publicly comment on the situation and asked media to respect their privacy.
"Our thoughts, at this time, are very much with our daughter, Melinda, and her colleagues," they said.
The ICC delegation had travelled to Libya on 6 June to meet Saif al-Islam Gaddafi in Zintan.
Members of the brigade holding Saif al-Islam say the ICC team were carrying documents, including a letter from a former confidante of his who is now in Egypt, about 135km (85 miles) south-west of Tripoli.
Saif al-Islam, who was captured last November by militiamen as he tried to flee the country, has been indicted by the ICC for crimes against humanity.
Libya's interim government has so far refused to hand him over for trial in the Netherlands - the seat of the ICC. Libya has insisted he should be tried by a Libyan court.
Aubameyang, 26, had been linked with a move to a number of European clubs including Premier League side Arsenal.
The Gabon international, who joined from St Etienne, netted 16 goals in 33 Bundesliga appearances last season.
"Every part of me wants to be here and I have never wanted to leave," he told the club's website.
The SNP-led debate on the refugee crisis ended in a vote on motion which had the backing of Labour, the Lib Dems, Plaid Cymru and the SDLP.
Tory ministers said Britain was doing more than most nations to help those fleeing the Syrian conflict.
The government won the vote by a majority of 52, with MPs voting 331 to 259.
It was the second debate on the issue in the past two days.
The SNP said it had used its first Opposition Day debate to again raise the issue because the response from the UK government had been "woefully inadequate".
They welcomed Prime Minister David Cameron's commitment to accept up to 20,000 refugees from camps over the next five years but called on ministers to publish a report next month detailing how that number could be increased and encompassing refugees already in Europe .
At the start of the debate, the SNP's Westminster leader Angus Robertson told MPs that the government needed to accommodate refugees from the Syrian conflict "as quickly as possible".
However, International Development Secretary Justine Greening told MPs that since "day one" Britain had been at the forefront of responses to the crisis.
She also called on other countries to step-up their efforts in supporting longer-term UN work to deal with crises such as that seen in Syria.
Leading the chamber debate, Mr Robertson said: "My mail bag has been crammed-packed with people of good will, firstly calling for the government to do more and secondly giving concrete offers of help and assistance."
He added: "These offers of help are being made domestically and internationally.
"The government should go away and work with the English local government association, the Scottish government, Welsh government, the authorities in Northern Ireland, with churches and others to accommodate as quickly as possible - this is a life or death issue and we should get on with it."
Labour's Hilary Benn said that he very much welcomed the spirit in which the SNP had sought all-party support.
He added: "It is right that the House is debating how Britain should respond to this crisis - it has been described as the largest movement of refugees since the end of the second world war.
"But what is the reality? The reality is, it is mothers and fathers and children, brothers and sisters forced by bloody conflict to leave their homes. Their schools have been destroyed their relatives have been killed.
"They flee from the land from which they were born to seek help from the kindness of strangers.
"Everything they have and knew has been destroyed. They see no hope, no future and no life. And deep down every single one of us in this chamber today understands because it is exactly what we would do if those we loved were confronted by the same horror."
The minister, Ms Greening, said she recognised that there were "no easy answers" on how to deal with the refugee crisis.
However, she added: "Since day one, Britain has been at the forefront of the response and we have evolved our response as this complex crisis has evolved.
"Britain has done, and will continue to do, a huge amount to help the Syrians caught up in this crisis.
"And of course our priority has been to stop the senseless deaths of refugees and migrants making the perilous journeys and indeed our assets, including Royal Navy ships, have played their part in the European response that has helped rescue over 6,700 people in the Mediterranean.
"We are also working alongside other European partners to tackle those criminal gangs and trafficking networks that profit from this human misery."
Closing the debate for the SNP, foreign affairs spokesman Alex Salmond said refugees should be seen as people who could do great things for Britain, just as refugees from the Holocaust had achieved much in the country.
He said: "Although this debate hasn't been guilty of dehumanising language and surprisingly, because many people speaking in this debate pointed out that they were the sons, daughters, grandchildren of immigrants or refugees themselves, not enough has been said about what an opportunity this is.
"This is not a burden, a problem, and a drag.
"This is an opportunity and every family, every child, every human being that we contribute to saving is an opportunity to do great things for this country in the same way as the refugees who were saved from the death camps have done great things for this country."
That this House recognises the funding the Government has committed to the humanitarian initiatives to provide sanctuary in camps for refugees across the Middle East; calls for a greater international effort through the United Nations to secure the position of such displaced people; recognises that the Government has committed to accepting 20,000 vulnerable people from camps in Syria over the next five years but calls for a Government report to be laid before the House by 12 October 2015 detailing how that number can be increased, encompassing refugees already in Europe and including a plan for the remainder of this year to reflect the overwhelming urgency of this humanitarian crisis; further notes that refugees arriving in European Union territory also have a moral and legal right to be treated properly; and, given the pressure on Southern European countries, further calls for the UK to play its full and proper role, in conjunction with European partners, in providing sanctuary to our fellow human beings.
The accident happened shortly after 17:00 on the A93 near Dinnet.
Two injured people were treated at the scene and one was then flown to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary by air ambulance for treatment.
The Scottish Ambulance Service said their vehicle was responding to a 999 call when the accident happened but did not have a patient aboard.
Another ambulance was sent to deal with that call.
Marine is to step up production at its processing plant in Rosyth after being picked by Sainsbury's to supply fresh and smoked salmon.
It will take over Young's Seafood's contract with Sainsbury's in November.
Norwegian-owned Marine said it would increase its Rosyth workforce from 90 to about 350 over the next year.
Until now, the Rosyth plant, which opened in 2014, has focused on products under the Marine Harvest brand - Harbour Salmon Co.
The Sainsbury's deal will see volumes at the plant increase five-fold.
Fears have been expressed for jobs at Young's seafood factory in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, after its parent company lost out in the tender.
In a statement, Sainsbury's said: "We have been carrying out a thorough review of our Scottish salmon suppliers to ensure we can offer our customers the best products possible.
"As a result of the supplier tender, we have given advance notice to Young's Seafood that they will no longer pack and process salmon products for us.
"Marine Harvest, our Scottish farmed salmon supplier, will take this business on which will be carried out at its new factory in Rosyth, Scotland.
"However Young's will continue to supply us with fish, including cod and haddock."
Andy Stapley, managing director of Marine Harvest Consumer Products, said: "This is excellent news for the company as well as for Rosyth and will mean significant expansion for the plant and more local jobs for the area.
"This latest contract builds on the strong relationship Marine Harvest has established with Sainsbury's over many years and is part of the company's strategy to manage the entire food production process from farm to fork."
Police closed the M4 eastbound carriageway at Llandarcy for five hours following the incident at about 05:00 BST on Saturday.
The man, driving a white Vauxhall Corsa which hit the nearside barrier, was declared dead at the scene.
Two passengers were taken to Swansea's Morriston Hospital and treated for minor injuries.
The driver appeared to lose control of the bus in the central Dikimevi area of the city, ploughing into commuters before eventually coming to a halt further down the street.
Ankara governor Mehmet Kiliclar said Thursday's crash also caused several injuries.
Emergency workers had to pull the dead and injured from under the bus.
Turkish media said the driver's brakes had failed as he approached the bus stop at around 13:00 (10:00 GMT).
Eyewitnesses said that after the bus had struck the queue at the bus stop it continued for more than 70m (230ft), hitting people and parked cars.
Opinions of the gulls range from them being brutish birds to a beautiful species needing our protection.
There have been numerous run-ins with people - and their pets - in the past, often when the gulls feel threatened, are protecting their young or scavenging for food.
The latest victim is Yorkshire terrier Roo, attacked by gulls in a garden in Newquay.
His owner, Emily Vincent, said it resembled a murder scene.
But Roo is only the latest canine to be killed by gulls while a tortoise called Stig has also been fatally attacked in Liskeard.
In May this year the Exeter Express and Echo reported the case of Bella, a Chihuahua puppy pecked to death in her owner's back garden.
Bella's owner Nikki Wayne told the paper the birds, which were regularly perched on her roof, had made previous attempts to get to the dog, with her vet warning her to always accompany Bella outside.
And earlier this month tourist Natalie Jones captured the moment a gull tried to steal a pasty from her hand while she was holidaying in St Ives.
Noise from nesting gulls caused a problem at Furness General Hospital, with patients complaining of being kept awake.
And businessman Archie Workman planned to paint the roof of his office in Ulverston red, to deter the birds from landing there after repeated problems with droppings and gulls ripping open bin bags.
In June, BBC Radio Cymru reporter Anna-Marie Robinson was interviewing a man on a park bench about gulls in Caernarfon, Gwynedd when one stole his sandwich.
She was following up on the case of Margaret Parry from Moelfre on Anglesey who was attacked by a seagull which felt its chick had been threatened.
Ms Parry said she was left with a deep cut on her face that needed to be glued at hospital.
She also needed a tetanus injection and suffered headaches for three days.
Cathie Kelly launched a lawsuit in March 2014 after she stumbled on steps as she tried to escape a "terrifying" dive-bombing bird in Greenock.
Ms Kelly said the gull was screaming as it flew at her face.
And gulls have also been a problem in Liverpool with pianist Paul Lewis being forced to pull out of a concert after a swooping seagull caused him to injure his hand.
In Bristol a group of gulls delayed the opening of a restaurant by attacking the builders.
One victim in Folkestone likened an attack to something out of Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds while postal deliveries to a road in Cornwall were suspended after a worker was attacked.
Keith Lee called for action after being attacked three times by gulls while walking in Hull and residents of the Roundway area of Devizes in Wiltshire set up a petition due to dive-bombing problems.
Grahame Madge, a spokesman for the RSPB, said he has full sympathy for those affected by gulls but such incidents are rare.
The birds need to be carefully treated, he said, as they are on a "list of concern".
More are nesting in urban areas, but the number of herring gulls in the UK has dropped by 50% in 30 years, due in part to a decline in the fishing industry.
Mr Madge said buildings replicate natural nesting places as they provide good vantage points, take off spots and an abundance of food.
He said they are protective parents and will attack if they feel their young are threatened, and are also quick-witted and cheeky enough to take food from people's hands.
Mr Madge said: "They are not intending be a menace."
The US singer also confirmed they are called Sir Carter and Rumi - which had been rumoured after she and husband Jay-Z filed a trademark for the names.
The picture showed the 35-year-old mother-of-three and the twins draped in a purple floral sheet, while she wore a blue veil.
It clocked up more than two million likes on Instagram in an hour.
Beyonce wrote: "Sir Carter and Rumi 1 month today", with a string of emojis of prayer hands and a woman, man, little girl and two babies.
As well as the twins, Beyonce and rapper Jay-Z are also parents to five-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy.
The style of the image, in which Beyonce stands in a garden barefoot in front of a floral archway, echoes the photoshoot she used to announce her pregnancy on the network. That post, in February, became the most-liked in the history of Instagram.
Jay-Z's real name is of course Shawn Carter. Beyonce wrote that their babies' names are "Sir Carter and Rumi". So is Sir Carter actually Sir Carter Carter? Or does Rumi just have one name?
Beyonce's mum Tina cleared things up a little, posting a message saying: "hello Sir Carter and Rumi Carter" and also confirmed their genders: "Boy and girl what a blessing."
Beyonce and Jay-Z aren't the first couple to choose some sort of grandiose honorific as a forename - Kim and Kanye have little Saint, Michael Jackson's eldest son is Prince, and Jackson's brother Jermaine named a son, er, Jermajesty.
Rumi, meanwhile, is a popular Japanese girl's name but some people have suggested Rumi may be named after the 13th Century Persian poet.
The world had been eagerly awaiting the first glimpse of the babies ever since American media reported the Lemonade singer had given birth last month.
But neither she nor Jay-Z had confirmed any details of the twins until now.
Her father Mathew Knowles had tweeted on 18 June, saying: "They're here!" and "Happy birthday to the twins" - but the timing of Beyonce's post suggest they were actually born on 13 June.
It's no surprise that fans were quick to share their thoughts on the picture.
BBC Radio 1 DJ Clara Amfo wrote on Twitter: "Soooo extra and I LOVE it."
But dad Lee Simpson reacted to the picture by tweeting: "Our 1st photo was in Jessops with me in the background eating a packet of quavers."
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The dogs were seized in March as part of an operation against owners who failed to comply with rules allowing them to be kept.
The owners took legal action, claiming officers had no authority to take the pets because they had no court order.
A High Court judge agreed, ruling that Merseyside Police had acted unlawfully.
The hearing in Manchester was told magistrates were the only people who had the right to order the dogs' destruction.
The ruling, which came following a judicial review of the force's actions, could allow the owners to claim compensation.
James Parry, a solicitor acting on behalf of the owners, said: "There's nothing that can be done to bring these dogs back.
"However, what this case does do is to prevent Merseyside Police, or any other police force in England and Wales from continuing to embark on this sort of unlawful action."
Dogs banned under the Dangerous Dog Act can be exempted from the law if their owners satisfy certain conditions.
The destroyed pets, described as "pitbull type dogs", belonged to owners who had not complied with some of those conditions, such as failing to renew insurance.
Merseyside's Assistant Chief Constable Andy Ward said the force had acted in "good faith".
"We believed the dogs in breach of the ongoing requirements of the exemption represented a danger to public safety," he said.
He said it was in the public interest for the law to be clarified, and the force has "noted" the ruling.
In Northern Ireland, patients and staff had been coping with similar problems throughout the year, and most of the previous year.
It came to a head in January of this year when BBC News NI revealed that an emergency incident had been declared in the Belfast Health Trust.
Too many patients and not enough staff brought a department to breaking point.
It also brought the issue to a head within the Belfast Health Trust and the Department of Health.
Patient safety and dignity were highlighted, and staff said they could no longer work under such difficult circumstances.
A BBC Spotlight NI investigation revealed that waiting to see a doctor in the Royal Victoria Hospital's (RVH) emergency department may have been a contributing factor in five patients deaths.
Leaked copies of serious adverse incident reports revealed how seriously ill patients were not seen within acceptable timeframes.
The incident, and adverse publicity, triggered a number of independent reviews including from England's former chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson.
That report is due to be with the department by 31 December.
Health cuts finally met their Waterloo with news that the five health trusts had to make savings across the board.
Hard-hitting, they would mean fewer home-care packages for the vulnerable, while waiting lists for elective procedures, such as knee and hip operations, were soaring.
The measures, described as temporary, included closing over 100 hospital beds and wards at the weekend. Fewer bank and agency nurses would also be employed.
People power overturned some decisions, including a reversal to close Bangor's minor injuries unit.
Also, a consultation on the future of Dalriada Hospital in Ballycastle hung in the balance after a Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patient won her judicial review over the decision to close the MS unit.
While the health unions remained steadfast in their challenge to cuts and those at the helm, there were considerable changes in those people in charge.
In September, a DUP reshuffle meant goodbye Edwin Poots and hello Jim Wells. The new minister told the BBC he would not abandon his religious principles when making policy on issues like abortion and alcohol.
While the Department of Justice is carrying out a consultation on the first matter, another one has begun regarding setting a baseline price below which alcohol cannot be sold.
The chief executive of the Belfast Health Trust resigned in March. Nine months later and the post has yet to be filled. Instead, in an unprecedented move, the chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride is temporarily performing the two roles.
Tony Stevens stepped down as medical director of the Belfast Health Trust to take the helm in the Northern Trust.
The Chief Executive of the Health and Social Care Board, John Compton, retired, with Valerie Watts returning home from Scotland to take up the post.
Another important issue in 2014 was the future of paediatric cardiac services at the RVH.
A well-fought public campaign resulted in the service being moved to Dublin.
There was much disappointment about part of the service at the RVH closing, but a majority of parents were happy their fight had resulted in the development of an all-Ireland service as opposed to it moving entirely to England.
2014 was another year when whistleblowers and the organisation Patients First made a difference to the health service.
After a BBC series on the treatment of elderly residents in local care homes, the Commissioner for Older People called for tougher measures to be taken to ensure elderly people in homes were protected from cruelty and abuse.
The emerging names and personalities of 2014 included Una Crudden.
Una worked tirelessly to raise awareness of ovarian cancer. While she lost her own fight against the disease in December, she won her campaign for better understanding and publicity around the issue.
Women in Northern Ireland and elsewhere should be grateful for her tireless efforts.
Residential care homes got a temporary reprieve, but, like other services, some tough decisions will have to be made on their future in 2015.
Prof Philip Lamey was struck off the dental register. The sanction was imposed by the General Dental Council that had earlier found him guilty of more than 100 charges of misconduct. Following a late diagnosis of cancer four Belfast Health Trust patients died.
So, as we head into 2015, the big question is can Jim Wells be the man to deliver? Or will the public remind him and others that, with an election looming, cuts to services will not win votes.
2014 has been a busy year. Looking forward to 2015, there will be many hoping that the cancer drugs fund makes lots of loud noises in Northern Ireland while Ebola remains quiet somewhere in the background.
The safety expert, who claimed he was bullied by a Stormont department, took a grievance case against his boss at Sport NI over the way his complaints were handled.
At the heart of the Casement Park controversy are concerns over safety.
Could the 38,000-capacity stadium be evacuated safely in an emergency?
Safety expert Paul Scott has been arguing that it cannot. He claims attempts were made to bully him into changing his mind.
Last month, he made his concerns public. The Department of Culture, Arts and Lesiure (DCAL), immediately announced an investigation.
However, there has also been a separate investigation into complaints that Mr Scott made about how his boss at Sport NI handled his concerns.
According to documents given to MLAs last month, he won a grievance case against Sport NI chief executive Antoinette McKeown.
In December, Mr Scott wrote to the board of Sport NI, telling them in detail about one meeting to discuss Casement where, he said, he and he and a colleague had been "met with a barrage of abuse from DCAL".
Then, he wrote formally to Ms McKeown and referred to having "raised concerns about the pressure being asserted on me to approve the proposals for Casement Park".
However, he was not happy with how she dealt with the matter and told her: "I do not believe that you have handled my complaint appropriately" and subsequently launched a formal grievance procedure.
The investigation into his complaint concluded that it was "valid" and that his grievance had been upheld.
In response, Kevin McAdam from the union, Unite, representing Ms McKeown and speaking on her behalf said: "Antoinette McKeown believes she acted in good faith, in the proper manner with the structures that are in Sport NI.
"Had she been allowed to manage as expected, then the organisation would be in a healthier, better place now.
"She has given a matter of record as to how she dealt with it and the organisation itself has said no action is required."
Mr McAdam also confirmed that Ms McKeown is currently suspended from her role.
"Antoinette is currently the chief executive officer, she is currently under suspension pending investigation into leadership issues, not necessarily related to her, but to the organisation in general," he said.
The stadium project has been plagued by difficulties, so much so that there are doubts over whether it will ever be built.
One of the big issues surrounds the emergency exits.
The design of the stadium needs to be able to cope with more than 30,000 people being able to get out quickly and safely, that would include ensuring that areas like turnstiles do not become over-crowded and dangerous.
The GAA is working on a new planning application. It has also denied any of its representatives were involved in bullying.
At the same time, DCAL said its investigation into Mr Scott's allegations of bullying continues.
It is expected to be completed next month.
#InternationalWomensDay has been the most tweeted hashtag for most of the day on Twitter. Here is a look at some of the most striking images and quotes.
Many organisations took the opportunity to thank their female workforce:
Malala Yousafzai was celebrated, having become a powerful role model for young women after she showed huge courage in demanding an education while living under Taliban rule in Pakistan.
Oxford's Bodleian Library tweeted an image from an old board game - Suffragetto - to remind us of the women in Britain who began the campaign over a century ago to improve the rights and conditions for women.
Many sent empowering messages to women around the world:
This picture of various "Wonder Women" was popular on Twitter. This tweet was sent by Venezuelan footballer Fernando Gabriel Amorebieta who is currently playing for London club Fulham:
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The UN says it's a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities.
The theme of this year's day is "Planet 50-50 by 2030" - aiming to achieve global equality in areas such as education and end all forms of discrimination.
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The ladies team of Everton football club in north-west England had a message for all the women of Liverpool and Merseyside:
And English rail operator Northern Rail used the opportunity to prove trains are not just for the boys:
This position was in defiance of the clear stance adopted by the Information Commissioner Christopher Graham, who had already ruled that all emails sent on government business could fall under FOI, whether an official or private account was used.
The Department's arguments had been widely derided by those with knowledge of information law, and presumably it dropped its appeal after realising that it was hopeless to pursue this long-standing dispute any further.
The DfE's difficulties with implementing the FOI Act were re-emphasized last week, when the latest statistics on the performance of government departments were released.
In the latest quarter it had the worst record out of all departments in England for responding to FOI requests within the legal time limit, managing this in only 74% of cases. Some other departments such as Health had a 100% score.
So it's not surprising that the Department for Education has today been put under special monitoring by the Information Commissioner's Office because of its inadequate record on FOI. This is a bit like the ICO's equivalent of schools being placed in special measures following a critical inspection by Ofsted. The ICO increases its checks on poorly performing authorities until it is satisfied that their procedures have improved.
Three other public authorities have also been targeted today by the ICO for close monitoring due to their unsatisfactory handling of FOI applications. They are the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister in Northern Ireland (OFMDPM), and Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council.
The DWP was another department which ranked badly in the latest central government statistics, only meeting the legal deadline for 83% of requests.
The OFMDPM has also suffered a recent reversal in a high-profile FOI legal battle, eventually being forced to disclose details behind the decision to exempt Roman Catholic schools in Northern Ireland from fair employment legislation.
The Office has been severely criticised for its recent performance on FOI.
The DfE, DWP and Wirral Council have been subject to special monitoring from the ICO in the past.
The Information Commissioner Chris Graham says: "It is particularly disappointing to see that the advances previously made by the Department for Education, the Department for Work and Pensions, and Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council - which were introduced following concerns after previous rounds of monitoring - have not been continued.
"This is not good enough and we expect these authorities to take the necessary measures to ensure that they are meeting their obligations under the Freedom of Information Act."
The body of Kelda Henderson, 36, was recovered at a Fife quarry where she had failed to surface.
Emergency services were alerted to the incident at Prestonhill Quarry in Inverkeithing at about 21:20 on Sunday.
Her body was recovered at 10:30 on Monday. The head teacher of George Heriot's in Edinburgh paid tribute to the mother-of-one.
Cameron Wyllie, the school's principal, in a letter to parents, said: "Kelda was an immensely talented, compassionate and vibrant person who loved teaching drama, and who has inspired a love of her subject in many young people over the years.
"Those of us at school are very shocked. I know you will all include her son Josh, and her parents, in your thoughts."
Police inquiries are currently ongoing to confirm the full circumstances surrounding the incident.
Insp Ian Stephen, of Police Scotland, said: "This is a tragic incident and our thoughts are with Kelda's family and friends as they come to terms with this terrible loss.
"We are supporting Kelda's family at this time through specially-trained officers.
"Inquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances surrounding this incident. I would like to thank the officers, public and partner agencies who assisted with our search."
In August 2014, Cameron Lancaster, 18, from Burntisland, died at the same quarry while John McKay, 18, from Kirkcaldy, also lost his life there in June 2015.
Last August, a diving training club - Forth Diver Training - was launched at the site by two ex-forces diving instructors to provide diver training courses.
The charity project was formed after the diving community, who have used the site for many years, was invited to work alongside Fife Council and the emergency services to look at ways of improving water safety awareness.
Although the format has changed over the years, and the number of participants have sky-rocketed, the principle has remained the same: Every country submits a song, then battles it out to be crowned the most popular.
With the 2015 edition nearly upon us, we take a trip down memory lane and speak to some of the former winners and runners-up to find out how Eurovision changed their lives.
Germany scored its first victory 33 years ago, when 17-year-old Nicole won by a clear 61 votes as the UK hosted Eurovision in Harrogate, Yorkshire.
A Little Peace went on to become a big hit in many countries including the UK, where it became the 500th number one single in the charts.
"I remember '82 very well, it was a great day for me," says Nicole. "I was the last one who went on stage. It was wonderful.
"But the most important victory (was) that a German girl gets 12 points from Israel with a song about peace. I got an invitation from the Israeli government to go to Tel Aviv to sing in front of the soldiers. So I went. I was sitting on a chair outside the barracks [when] suddenly they came out, very young people with their weapons, and sat down in front of me on the hill. And when I started singing A Little Peace, something happened I will never forget in my life. They put down their weapons, took each other by the hand and listened to me for three minutes. It was such a great moment.
"The weirdest question I get asked is how many times have you sung this song? And I say, not often enough. Look around the world, what's going on, in Syria, Ukraine. I won't get tired of singing this song as long as I know deep in the hearts of all mankind is the wish for peace."
Canadian Natasha St-Pier wasn't even aware of the Eurovision Song Contest when she was asked to represent France in 2001. She scored a very respectable 142 points in Copenhagen.
"I remember how stressed and nervous I was... My awful red dress and an awful hair-do!" she laughs.
"I was really young at that time, people could do whatever they wanted to with my image.
"I sang in half French, half English. Whose decision was it? I don't know, I was 18, I couldn't even decide if my make-up was going to be red or pink.
"I always thought to have an international career you had to sing in English but after Eurovision, I could sing in French in as many countries as I wanted.
"I have good memories of Copenhagen, the energy - but the three minutes my performance lasted? I have no memories at all!"
The famous four-piece brought home the Eurovision crown 39 years ago and went on to score a number one hit in 33 different countries.
Nicky Stevens recalls: "The one thing that really sticks in my mind is how we constantly rehearsed because of our dance routine. When we opened that song, we all had our backs to the audience and Martin had to turn round first and sing his lead and I'm always so grateful I didn't have to sing that lead!
"In the early days we went through checkpoint Charlie. We've been to Czechoslovakia, Berlin, it was very exciting. And we thoroughly enjoyed it. The one lovely thing about the success of the Eurovision is the countries then invite you to come and perform.
Martin Lee adds: "There are 40 countries this year, all together in harmony. Where are the politicians? They should be doing that."
Loreen stormed to Eurovision victory in Azerbaijan with 372 points for her upbeat dance track Euphoria.
"I didn't realise I'd won until much later. I said to my producer: 'When do we get the people's votes?' and he said: 'You already won, get up there!'
"The whole experience was so wonderful, the people of Azerbaijan, too.
"I'm a huge fan (of Eurovision). It's so accepting of minorities, of different types of music and people. It's serious to me - it's disrespectful to say it's a joke. We're all creators."
Conchita, the self-styled 'bearded lady', took top spot in last year's contest in Copenhagen, and will be hosting the green room this year in Vienna.
"Two weeks after the win, my dad called me up - [my parents] have a little hotel in Austria - and said 'thank you'. Because of me, there were so many tourists in their hotel!
"I get lots of messages. From gay teenagers saying 'now I've got the strength to come out of the closet', to a lady who's been in an office for years, she watched Eurovision and decided to be a bearded lady so she could quit her job and do something she really loved.
"If she'd asked me before, I'd have said, 'Don't quit your job, get a great hobby!' But she wrote to me after [she'd quit] and said she was very happy.
"I'm just representing myself. I am what I am. If this is inspiring for anyone, that's a huge honour."
At their 40th attempt, Finland finally took top honours at Eurovision when Lordi stomped to victory with Hard Rock, Hallelujah.
"Eurovision is not a heavy metal competition, we were the wrong band in the wrong place at the right time," says their frontman, who still goes by the name of Mr Lordi.
"I don't have a competitive nature at all. Whenever we hit the stage, we own it, whether it's three minutes in Eurovision or 90 minutes for our own show.
"My life didn't change at all, I'm still the same dude, the band are still doing the same thing before Eurovision and after.
"The only change was the awareness of the band. One night we got such huge media exposure. That is really special and uncommon for any band in our genre. There are not many heavy metal bands that are known around Europe. In our genre, that's quite special."
Johnny became the first person to win twice at Eurovision - but after struggling to be taken seriously in the UK, he moved to Germany.
"The Eurovision I grew up with was a gateway... the way for someone like myself to land a career that spans outside of Ireland.
"When I went into it, it really wasn't about fame. But I didn't think about winning, what I thought about was making the people proud.
"[Shay] Healy [who wrote What's another Year?] said to me: 'Well, you can't have sung it better than you've sung it now', and that made me happy. Then I knew I could go home.
"But you weren't taken seriously by the UK - the establishment, not the people. In '87, there were ads on the underground with artists they wouldn't play, and they included Whitney Houston, Michael Bolton, myself… Why bang your head against a wall? Germany welcomed me with with open arms. I've sold something in the region of 16m records.
"I never got that involved [in Eurovision afterwards]. I've always found it a bit embarrassing, it's as if people think I'm a fountain of knowledge on Eurovision.
"The night of Eurovision is not about the old farts like me, it's about the winner and Conchita handing over the crown. To be seen hanging on the coat tails of Eurovision would be embarrassing for me as an artist. I think it would be the wrong thing for me to do."
Sonia was a well-known act from the Stock, Aitken and Waterman stable prior to her Eurovision adventure 22 years ago. She is presenting a show on Radio 2's Eurovision pop-up station this year called The Winner Isn't.
"I had a ball. I went with my boyfriend [now husband] and my sister [who sang backing vocals]. A real family affair. I was signed to Simon Cowell at the time, so he came out for a few days. I felt so proud to be asked.
"Every single year I do the festivals around Eurovision... I got Sandy in the West End in Grease after Eurovision. My gay following is unbelievable since the contest.
"But I was completely and utterly devastated [at coming second]. I was saying, 'don't drink the champagne, we'll have to get up and sing again', I was so convinced! We came so, so close.
"Everyone else was out celebrating and I was in my own room with a bowl of soup consoling myself!"
The Eurovision Song Contest 2015 takes place in Vienna, Austria, on Saturday 23 May. The semi-finals can be seen live on BBC Three on Tuesday 19 and Thursday 21 of May at 20:00BST. The grand final will be broadcast live on BBC One and BBC Radio 2. A pop-up digital radio service celebrating all things Eurovision will also run on BBC Radio 2 between Thursday 21 and Sunday 24 May.
It said the UK withdrawal from the EU provides the opportunity to boost Holyrood's revenue-raising powers.
A portion of VAT revenues was assigned to the Scottish Parliament as part of a package of new powers.
But EU law does not allow a member state to vary rates within its own boundaries, preventing full control from being devolved.
The UK government said there were no plans to change the VAT controls due to be devolved to Holyrood.
The independent think-tank has sent a submission to the Scottish Parliament's European and External Relations Committee inquiry into Scotland's relationship with the EU, arguing there is now a case for VAT to be devolved in full.
Reform Scotland's director Geoff Mawdsley said there was no reason why the UK government could not devolve VAT in full to the Scottish Parliament once the UK has formally left the EU.
He added: "With income tax being the only major tax to be devolved under the current proposed settlement, over two-thirds of all tax revenue raised by Holyrood will be from that single source.
"This over-reliance on income tax means that there is little scope to effect real reform and create a better environment for economic growth. The devolution of VAT would enable Holyrood to raise a sum roughly equivalent to that of income tax.
"Crucially, it would broaden the range of devolved taxes, which would present a better opportunity for tax reform and mean that the Scottish Parliament would be responsible for raising 63% of the money that it spends.
A UK government spokesman said: "Under the Scotland Act 2016, the Scottish government will be assigned a share of the VAT raised in Scotland and there are no plans to change that.
"The Act delivers in full the UK government's promises of further devolution and will make Holyrood one of the most powerful devolved parliaments in the world.
"Holyrood is gaining wide-ranging new tax powers, including control of income tax rates and thresholds."
George Blackstock said he was held down and assaulted with a goalkeeper's glove smeared with Deep Heat - a type of muscular pain relief ointment.
Mr Blackstock, 44, is seeking damages for loss of earnings of nearly £170,000 against the footballer and the club.
Mr Fox and Stoke City deny all the allegations.
Preston County Court heard Mr Blackstock's claim that he was twice given the punishment - known as "the glove" - during the 1980s.
He said that after the alleged assaults Mr Fox said: "That will teach you a lesson."
Mr Fox told the court he "could not remember" Mr Blackstock, who left his Belfast home after scouts spotted his talent at the age of 15.
The court had heard that at least three other apprentices described the practice happening to them for such infringements as wearing someone else's boots or putting on the wrong studs.
But Mr Fox denied that the glove abuse had taken place, saying: "That's what story they have come up with."
He said if he had seen the practice taking place, he would have "stopped it and said something".
Mr Fox's representative has said Mr Blackstock was "willing to lie for financial gain".
Mr Blackstock's claim of £170,000 is on the basis that he would have played at least at Conference level for five years after leaving the club but for the alleged assaults.
He says he suffers from post-traumatic stress because of what happened.
The company, which has more than 2,000 staff, initially said 350 jobs would be cut, but that number has since been reduced.
Bosses said the firm would help affected staff find other employment.
Union Unite said it was a "very bad day" and it was working to "reduce the number of compulsory job losses".
Dave Springbett, from Unite, said: "The fact the union and management together have managed to protect the number of compulsory redundancies by a big margin is good news, but that shouldn't take away from the drastic effect it's going to have on some workers."
In a statement, the firm said: "For those staff members who are affected by this process, the company is to establish an out-placement service designed to assist in securing future employment.
"Princess Yachts is now looking ahead to a successful and prosperous 2016."
The firm marked 50 years in business last year.
The move follows the three-year suspended prison term he was given in December for online comments critical of Communist Party rule.
Mr Pu was involved in high-profile freedom of speech cases and defended dissident writers and activists, including the artist, Ai Weiwei.
Some 200 lawyers and activists have been held or questioned in a crackdown.
As a result of his conviction, Pu Zhiqiang said he expected to lose his lawyer's licence. He posted the official notice informing him of that fact online.
"I want my friends in the legal community to know I am no longer a lawyer.
"It's inevitable the justice bureau was going to act," he told BBC Chinese.
The BBC's John Sudworth in Beijing says Mr Pu has long been a thorn in the side of the Chinese authorities and carried on a prolific, often humorous, social media critique of Communist Party rule.
His trial over just seven of those comments could have resulted in up to eight years in jail.
To the surprise and relief of his many supporters, the sentence was suspended - but the conviction and consequent loss of his legal licence will still serve as a stern warning to other vocal critics of the government, our correspondent says.
Police admitted they would not meet a 10 July deadline to disclose files to the court.
Coroner Brian Sherrard said he knew the development would cause "regret and distress" to her family.
He questioned whether the police was diverting sufficient resources to the task.
The process of security vetting 70 case files has been further complicated by the prospect of the PSNI applying for Public Interest Immunity (PII) on three of the files, which would prevent their contents being made public
Fifteen-year-old Arlene, from Castlederg, County Tyrone, went missing in August 1994 after a night out at a disco in Bundoran, County Donegal.
Her body has never been found.
The inquest had been due to run at the start of September, almost eight years after the first preliminary hearing was held.
However, this was dependent on the PSNI completing disclosure of the case files by 10 July.
A barrister for the PSNI told the preliminary hearing: "They will be really pushed to have this done by the end of September."
The coroner said it was with regret that he had to re-list the case for 2 November, and issued the PSNI with a new disclosure date of the end of August.
He asked the barrister: "Is there anything that can be done from a resources perspective that can speed this up?"
The barrister replied: "I just don't see it happening unless someone else comes in to give assistance to those working on it. And resources, I'm told, are not available."
Confirming that the start date would have to be moved back, Mr Sherrard said: "This is a matter of some regret to me and I know it will be a matter of some regret and distress to everyone concerned, in particular to the family of Miss Arkinson.
"Nevertheless we have to be realistic and pragmatic."
Two patients who were thought to have the Mers condition have tested negative.
They were isolated for treatment and the hospital said there was "no significant risk to public health".
Mers is passed to people in close contact and is similar to the Sars virus.
Patients who would usually travel to the Manchester Royal Infirmary were diverted to hospitals in South Manchester and Salford and the North Manchester General Hospital.
The Manchester Royal said its children's A&E department remained open throughout.
This Is For My Girls was written by Diane Warren - whose previous credits include I Don't Want To Miss A Thing and Un-Break My Heart.
She described the song - a strident, girl power anthem - as "We Are the World meets Lady Marmalade".
Obama released the single ahead of her keynote speech at the SXSW festival.
She will talk about her Let Girls Learn initiative, which is aimed at boosting education rates amongst adolescent girls around the world.
Several of the performers on the track, including Missy Elliott and Diane Warren, will then join her on a panel about the initiative, as well as Sophia Bush and Queen Latifah, who will moderate the discussion.
This Is For My Girls combines jazzy horn stabs with a propulsive drum beat, giving the song a militaristic feel.
The lyrics mostly comprise generic statements of empowerment - "Don't take nothing from nobody"; "It's all about respect"; "Stand strong forever" - which have been a standard component of female-fronted R&B since the turn of the millennium.
Other vocalists featured on the track include Janelle Monae, Glee actress Lea Michele, Disney star Zendaya, 16-year-old Motown artist Jadagrace, and Beyonce proteges Chloe & Halle.
All of the artists waived their fees, meaning proceeds will go directly to the Let Girls Learn campaign.
"We haven't had an anthem like this in a while," Warren told Billboard.
"I envisioned the record being with all these different women, never just one girl singing on it.
"With Kelly Rowland on it, it's almost like an updated Destiny's Child record. I think it can be a huge worldwide anthem. I hope it becomes that."
The single is available exclusively on iTunes, while Obama's speech at the SXSW festival will be streamed live on makers.com from 16:00 GMT.
In 2012 the country passed the Right to Education act which guarantees free and compulsory education for all children until the age of 14.
However, some of the "facts" that have been found in textbooks around the country have given rise to speculation over what exactly passes for "education" in India.
Glaring mistakes, downright lies and embellishments in textbooks are often featured in local media. A trend that is all the more worrying, given that India's education system promotes rote learning at the cost of analytical thinking.
The BBC's Ayeshea Perera looks at five of the most outrageous excerpts from Indian textbooks that have made headlines in recent times:
A teacher in the central Indian state of Chhatisgarh recently complained about a textbook for 15-year-olds in the state, which said that unemployment levels had risen post independence because women have begun working in various sectors.
When contacted by the Times of India newspaper, the director of the state council for educational research and training told the newspaper: "It's a matter of debate. It was a writer's view out of his experience. Now, it is the teacher's job how they explain things to the students and ask the students for their view whether they agreed to it or not."
A national textbook for 11-year-old students created uproar in 2012 when it was discovered that it said that people who eat meat "easily cheat, tell lies, forget promises, are dishonest and tell bad words, steal, fight and turn to violence and commit sex crimes".
Later, the director of the Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE) told the NDTV news channel that school books used across the country are not monitored for content.
In 2006, it was discovered that a textbook for 14-year-olds in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan compared housewives to donkeys.
"A donkey is like a housewife. It has to toil all day and, like her, may even have to give up food and water. In fact, the donkey is a shade better, for while the housewife may sometimes complain and walk off to her parents' home, you'll never catch the donkey being disloyal to his master," the Times of India quoted the Hindi language textbook as saying.
An official told the newspaper that the comparison had been made in "good humour".
In what can only be described as a complete distortion of history, a social science textbook believed to have been taught to 50,000 students in the western Indian state of Gujarat declared that Japan had launched a nuclear attack on the US during World War Two.
Officials said the textbooks, which also got the date of Mahatma Gandhi's assassination wrong, would be corrected. However, officials had also said that the textbooks currently in circulation would not be recalled.
Don't be too shocked if you find students from the west Indian state of Maharashtra telling you that the "Sewage Canal" is one of the most important shipping lanes in the world. That is how the Suez Canal has been spelled in an English language textbook in the state.
The book, meant for 15-year-olds also spelled "Gandhi" as "Gandi", and got a number of important Indian historical dates completely wrong. The NDTV website which reported the errors said that it had not been able to contact the officials responsible for the textbooks.
Cartoons by BBC Hindi's Kirtish Bhatt
They are represented by tiny filaments, knobs and tubes in Canadian rocks dated to be up to 4.28 billion years old.
That is a time not long after the planet's formation and hundreds of millions of years before what is currently accepted as evidence for the most ancient life yet found on Earth.
The researchers report their investigation in the journal Nature.
As with all such claims about ancient life, the study is contentious. But the team believes it can answer any doubts.
The scientists' putative microbes from Quebec are one-tenth the width of a human hair and contain significant quantities of haematite - a form of iron oxide or "rust".
Matthew Dodd, who analysed the structures at University College London, UK, claimed the discovery would shed new light on the origins of life.
"This discovery answers the biggest questions mankind has asked itself - which are: where do we come from and why we are here?
"It is very humbling to have the oldest known lifeforms in your hands and being able to look at them and analyse them," he told BBC News.
The fossil structures were encased in quartz layers in the so-called Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt (NSB).
The NSB is a chunk of ancient ocean floor. It contains some of the oldest volcanic and sedimentary rocks known to science.
The team looked at sections of rock that were likely laid down in a system of hydrothermal vents - fissures on the seabed from which heated, mineral-rich waters spew up from below.
Today, such vents are known to be important habitats for microbes. And Dr Dominic Papineau, also from UCL, who discovered the fossils in Quebec, thinks this kind of setting was very probably also the cradle for lifeforms between 3.77 and 4.28 billion years ago (the upper and lower age estimates for the NSB rocks).
He described how he felt when he realised the significance of the material on which he was working: "I thought to myself 'we've got it, we've got the oldest fossils on the planet'.
"It relates to our origins. For intelligent life to evolve to a level of consciousness, to a point where it traces back its history to understand its own origin - that's inspirational."
Any claim for the earliest life on Earth attracts scepticism. That is understandable. It is often hard to prove that certain structures could not also have been produced by non-biological processes.
In addition, analysis is complicated because the rocks in question have often undergone alteration.
The NSB, for example, has been squeezed and heated through geological time
At present, perhaps the oldest acknowledged evidence of life on the planet is found in 3.48-billion-year-old rocks in Western Australia.
This material is said to show remnants of stromatolites - mounds of sediment formed of mineral grains glued together by ancient bacteria.
An even older claim for stromatolite traces was made in August last year. The team behind that finding said their fossil evidence was 3.70 billion years old.
Nonetheless, the UCL researchers and their colleagues say they have worked extremely hard to demonstrate the greater antiquity for their structures.
Dr Papineau does concede though that the idea of metabolising micro-organisms using oxygen so soon after the Earth's formation will surprise many geologists.
"They would not consider that there were organisms breathing oxygen at this time. It brings back the production of oxygen on the Earth's surface, albeit by tiny amounts, to the beginning of the sedimentary record," he said.
Prof Nicola McLoughlin from Rhodes University, South Africa, was not connected with the research.
She commended the scholarship but felt the data presented by the UCL-led team fell short.
"The morphology of these argued iron-oxidising filaments from Northern Canada is not convincing," she told BBC News.
"In recent deposits we see spectacular twisted stalks, often arranged in layers, but in the highly metamorphosed rocks of the Nuvvuagittuq belt the filaments are much simpler in shape.
"The associated textural and geochemical evidence of graphite in carbonate rosettes and magnetite-haematite granules is careful work, but provides only suggestive evidence for microbial activity; it does not strengthen the case for the biogenicity of the filaments."
She also said the maximum age of the rocks had proven to be very controversial, and that the true age was more likely to be closer to the 3.77-billion-year age.
Part of the interest in ancient life is in the implication it has for organisms elsewhere in the Solar System.
"These (NTB) organisms come from a time when we believe Mars had liquid water on its surface and a similar atmosphere to Earth at that time," said Mr Dodd.
"So, if we have lifeforms originating and evolving on Earth at this time then we may very well have had life beginning on Mars."
If that is the case then, according to Dr Papineau, recent Nasa rover missions to the Martian surface may have been looking for signs of life in the wrong places.
He said that the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER), Spirit and Opportunity, and the more recent Curiosity robot mission had overlooked areas that might have had rocks produced by hydrothermal vents.
"On the surface of Mars there have been missed opportunities. The MER Opportunity in 2003 found promising formations but there was no analysis. And the Spirit rover went straight past another near the Comanche outcrop in Gusev crater."
The suggestion that life had already arisen "just" a few hundred million years after the Earth had formed is intriguing in light of debates about whether life on Earth was a rare accident or whether biology is a common outcome given the right conditions.
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A hearing on Tuesday will decide what punishment the club will receive over crowd trouble after a Greek Cup semi-final first leg defeat by AEK Athens.
The Piraeus club are six points clear of PAOK with one match left, but they could still get a six-point deduction.
If that were to happen, PAOK would go top if they won their last match of the season and Olympiakos lost theirs.
PAOK, who have won the league just twice before, the most recent time in 1985, have the better head-to-head record.
Goals from ex-Chelsea winger Marko Marin, Manuel Da Costa, two from Alberto de la Bella and an Alejandro Dominguez penalty earned a 5-0 home win over Giannina on Sunday.
"It has been a strange season but in the end we're the champions and that's what matters," Olympiakos coach Takis Lemonis said after the game.
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Control over VAT should be devolved to Holyrood after Brexit, according to think-tank Reform Scotland.
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A former Stoke City trainee has told a court he was abused by then-goalkeeper Peter Fox for "serving cold tea" and "calling a bad decision on the pitch".
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Luxury yacht builder Princess Yachts will cut 172 jobs following a large-scale restructuring of its headquarters in Plymouth.
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One of China's best known human rights lawyers, Pu Zhiqiang, has had his licence to practice law revoked.
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A long-delayed inquest into the disappearance of County Tyrone teenager Arlene Arkinson has been postponed again until November.
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Mississippi students had urged for the removal of the flag from campus because of its associations with slavery.
The university chancellor ordered the flag to be lowered and said it was being sent to the archives.
It has been the state's flag since 1894, and residents opted to keep the flag during a 2001 state-wide vote.
The student body senate voted to request removal of the flag, then was joined by two other student groups in the call.
"The University of Mississippi community came to the realisation years ago that the Confederate battle flag did not represent many of our core values, such as civility and respect for others," said chancellor Morris Stocks.
The murder of nine parishioners at a historical black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in June renewed a debate about the place of the flag in US culture.
The suspect, Dylann Roof, has appeared in many photos holding the flag.
A month after the tragedy, the flag was removed from South Carolina's capitol grounds.
The Confederate battle flag became a potent symbol for the southern states fighting the Civil War as they sought to break away from the union.
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The broadcaster has received 185 complaints since the first episode aired on BBC One on Monday, with some claiming it was a "tasteless depiction of Islam".
Complaints have risen overnight, but the BBC said it has evidence of a lobbying campaign.
The six-part series follows a Muslim community worker in Birmingham.
It was created by British Muslim, Adil Ray, who also stars in the show.
Other members of the cast include My Family star Kris Marshall as a mosque manager and Shobu Kapoor, who played Gita in EastEnders, as Mrs Khan.
The media watchdog, Ofcom, said it received in the region of 20 complaints about the programme.
One viewer who complained to the BBC said the show "insulted" and "ridiculed" Islam.
"We feel though as if this show has crossed the line and we expected a comedy show but now we have witnessed a mocking show," said the viewer.
Another wrote that the content was "bigoted" and "offensive".
But others, commenting on a BBC messageboard following Monday night's broadcast defended the show.
Referring to a scene in which a teenage daughter hastily changed her attire before her father entered the room, one said: "People are reading too much into Citizen Khan, especially the hijab thing, it happens!"
Comedian Humza Arshad, star of the hit internet comedy Diary of a Badman, told the BBC's Asian Network that he felt some of the jokes went "a bit too far".
"I wasn't offended but I think some other people might be. For example, the scene with the Quran. Personally I'd play it safe. Some people might complain about it - I've got similar feedback myself by the audience, the Muslim community is one of the most sensitive communities out there."
Former Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain, Yousuf Bhailok, said the show was "the best thing the BBC has done recently".
"It is good to change the stereotyped image of Muslims always being serious and shouting that has appeared so often in the media," he said.
"There is great humour among Muslims. I am glad it has been made."
Independent reviews of the show have been mixed, with the website, Asian Image saying it split opinion.
"Asians will easily identify with the over-emotional Mrs Khan, the daughter who lives a double life and the sensitive Amjad," said reviewer Amjad Malik
"It was stereo-typical because in many respects that is what comedy is about.
"The jokes were a little poor in parts but I sense the criticism is a little unfair."
Arifa Akbar, writing in The Independent, said it wasn't a bad comedy, "it just wasn't new".
"Comedy doesn't have a duty to represent real people, but it does need to be funny, and while a family comedy requires a broad appeal, this is no reason to unspool recycled jokes that worked a treat 40 years ago," said Akbar.
The criticism was echoed in the Daily Star, which added: "The show's weakness isn't so much that it's a niche comedy but the fact that its style feels incredibly dated, like an old-fashioned studio sitcom from 20-odd years back."
Meanwhile, a review in The Guardian described the sitcom as "un-bold" and "safe".
The BBC said the first episode of Citizen Khan was watched by 3.6 million viewers, which it described as a "very positive start".
A spokeswoman said: "We're delighted that so many people enjoyed this new comedy and we have received a number of appreciations from members of the Muslim community and beyond in praise of the show and for creator Adil Ray, who like the family portrayed, is a British Pakistani Muslim.
"Alongside these appreciations, a small percentage of viewers have complained to the BBC regarding the show's portrayal of the Muslim community.
"New comedy always provokes differing reactions from the audience and as with all sitcoms the characters are comic creations and not meant to be representative of the community as a whole," she added.
Mayor of Weymouth and Portland, Councillor Richard Kosior, will now have to use a his own car, or hire a taxi or limousine and driver, depending on the type of engagement he attends.
It comes after former mayor Christine James chose not to use the service and instead opted for her own transport.
The annual cost of running a car and providing a chauffeur was £21,000.
However, providing alternative transport for the last financial year was about £3,100, the borough council's scrutiny and performance committee said.
"Therefore there is the potential to make a significant budget saving in this area," a committee report said.
Mr Kosior, who was elected mayor on 19 May, said: "In these days of austerity and council cuts we can't be seen to be squandering money on chauffeuring me to various functions."
Hired taxis or cars would bear the coat of arms of the borough "for that sense of occasion", he added.
He said he had asked for a review in six months to ensure the new format was still saving cash.
The Madrid club's 2-1 loss took their chances of avoiding relegation out of their hands.
La Liga is investigating, as is routine with significant fluctuation in odds.
All their players, coach Paco Jemez and president Raul Martin Presa attended a news conference to defend the club.
Several newspaper reports claim some Rayo players are suspected of losing the game on purpose - with the odds on Sociedad winning wildly varying in the week leading up to the game.
But a club statement read: "In no instance will we allow the honour, integrity and professionalism of all members of our squad to be doubted, nor will we allow these reports to stain the good name of the club, the players or the fans."
You asked about the accent of the Staffordshire Potteries and how it came about.
You also wanted to know when tunnels were built under the city of Coventry and if any maps exist.
And you were curious about where to go to research Shropshire families before 1600. Here is how we answered your questions.
English language scholars say that the Potteries dialect derives down from Anglo-Saxon Old English.
For example the local word "nesh", meaning soft, tender, or to easily get cold is derived from the early English, "nesc, nescenes".
The local word "slat", meaning to throw, is from the old English "slath", meaning moved.
Steve Birks is a potter and chronicler of the Stoke-on-Trent area. He wrote this article for the BBC on the history of the Potteries dialect.
"The fact that there used to be two main occupations in north Staffordshire - the pits or the pots - meant that people of these specific social classes spent most of their days in close proximity with people with the same way of speaking," he wrote. "This helped to reinforce and preserve the dialect."
The tunnels house the hidden River Sherbourne, which was covered by city centre development in the 1960s, and this BBC article details the history.
Work is currently under way to uncover and showcase the river as part of a city centre development scheme.
The plans include maps and computer generated images of how the city will look once parts of the tunnels are removed to reveal the river.
Shropshire Archives holds the records for the whole county including Telford. But Shropshire Council told us pre-1600s research could be difficult because there are no parish registers before 1538.
The council has produced a series of online guides, including one giving advice on how to research early family history.
It also publishes a hard copy of the "family history guide" which lists the different types of records it holds.
Another place to try is the Shropshire Family History Society's help desk at the Shropshire Archives on Castle Gates in Shrewsbury.
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The Insatiable, Inflatable Candylion brings the magical world of Pixel Valley to life in the production - part musical theatre, part gig.
Gruff tells BBC Wales' arts and media correspondent Huw Thomas about the challenge.
The production is on at the SSE Swalec Stadium until 2 January.
The Amaq news agency said Shishani was killed in combat in the town of Shirqat, south of Mosul in Iraq.
The Pentagon said in March he had died from injuries sustained in a US air strike in north-eastern Syria.
Shishani's real name was Tarkhan Batirashvili but he was also known as Omar the Chechen.
The red-bearded jihadist was said to be a close military adviser to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The confirmation came on the Amaq website, which IS regularly uses to issue news and which had denied the Pentagon's claims in March.
Amaq said he died trying to repel forces campaigning to retake the city of Mosul.
It did not specify when, but the statement conflicts with the US claims made in March.
It said its strike on 4 March had taken place near the north-eastern town of Shaddadi, where Shishani had reportedly been sent to bolster local IS forces.
Last year, the US offered a $5m (£3.5m) reward for Shishani.
It said he had held numerous senior military positions within the group, including "minister of war".
I've been tracking his path from the start of the whitewash series down under to today and there have been plenty of bumps along the way.
His style of captaincy came under relentless fire as he was accused of being reactive rather than proactive and his batting form suffered badly as a result. It has been a rough time but what has always shone through is his resilience.
I suggested to Cook at Lord's that the constant scrutiny over his captaincy may have actually helped him to become better.
He disagreed, but I think it's still a valid question, given the incredible improvement we have seen in this series.
He has led this team brilliantly and totally out-thought his Australia counterpart Michael Clarke, who has long been considered one of most innovative captains in world cricket.
His field placings and bowling changes have been sharp, and at times he has been ruthless.
On Saturday, for example, it was some call not to open the bowling with Stuart Broad, who had the opportunity to complete a 10-wicket match haul at his home ground to win the Ashes.
Instead, Cook chose to go with Mark Wood and Ben Stokes, who had used the conditions so well on Friday, and the decision paid off as England took the last three Australia wickets inside 39 minutes.
The three-day victory completed a staggering turnaround, not only for Cook, but for a team that looked so listless during that heavy defeat by West Indies in Barbados in May.
That set off a chain of events that saw Peter Moores and Paul Downton fired and Kevin Pietersen launch a bid for a recall before Andrew Strauss put paid to that possibility on his first day as England director of cricket.
It certainly did not feel like the ideal platform for an Ashes-winning summer.
I think England have a lot to thank New Zealand for. They came here and played attacking, positive cricket and England have tried to emulate them.
They have thrown off the shackles and played the type of attacking cricket that wins you matches - and series.
It is amazing how quickly the wheel turns. Only 18 months ago, Australia looked invincible, but suddenly Clarke is quitting and it looks like several others may also be retiring or set to lose their places.
England, on the other hand, look a settled unit, with Jimmy Anderson possibly the only player whose longevity you would question.
Joe Root is blossoming into a top-class international batsman. It can only be a good thing that it will now be some time before he gets burdened by the captaincy.
That four England bowlers took six wickets or more in successive Test innings suggests the seam attack is also in good order.
Ben Stokes bowled brilliantly here, swinging the ball both ways at pace, while Mark Wood looked at his best as he claimed the final two wickets. When you add in Anderson, Broad and Steven Finn, it's a healthy state of affairs.
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The two areas of concern are the spinner and the opening batsman, as coach Trevor Bayliss has identified.
To have any chance against Pakistan in the autumn tour in the United Arab Emirates, England will need a front-line spinner taking wickets, so it may be that Moeen Ali moves up to open and Adil Rashid is brought in.
That is a question for another day. For now, England should reflect on what they have done and how they have done it.
They have talked a lot about unity and they certainly seem a genuinely contented bunch of players.
Under huge pressure they did not buckle. They showed great resilience to overcome the horrors of Lord's and bounce back at Edgbaston and Trent Bridge.
Their celebrations are richly deserved.
Jonathan Agnew was speaking to BBC Sport's Sam Sheringham
The tiny crustacean, measuring less than 1cm long, was found by researchers in Herefordshire.
It has been named Cascolus Ravitis, the first word a Latin rendering of the Old English equivalent to Attenborough.
Ravitis is a reference to Roman name for Leicester, where Sir David lived on the city's university campus.
The fossil was given its name by researchers from the universities of Oxford, Leicester, Yale and Imperial College London.
Sir David said: "The biggest compliment that a biologist or palaeontologist can pay to another one is to name a fossil in his honour and I take this as a very great compliment."
The fossil is the latest in a long list of species and objects to be named after the famous naturalist and broadcaster.
Others include:
Sir David, who turned 90 in May last year, grew up on the campus of the former University College Leicester where his father Frederick was the principal.
Lead researcher Prof David Siveter, from the University of Leicester, said Sir David had inspired his interest in natural history.
He said one of the reasons Sir David became a great naturalist was by collecting Jurassic rock fossils in the Leicester countryside.
The newly discovered creature is a tiny arthropod - a group of animals that includes modern insects, spiders, shrimp, and crayfish.
Prof Siviter said the fossil found in the rocks had been "frozen in time" by volcanic ash.
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Would it be the president of the largely ethnic-Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) and ethnic-Croat Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina? Or perhaps the president of the majority ethnic-Serb Republika Srpska?
Admittedly, there is officially only one head of state on any given day. But there are three members of the presidency, one for each of the country's major ethnic groups, who take it in turns to hold that title, with each serving an eight-month term.
Keeping track of Bosnia's presidents is simple compared with remembering its prime ministers. There are 14 of those.
This arrangement was put in place by the Dayton Peace Agreement which ended the Bosnian conflict in 1995, carefully balancing the ambitions and fears of each of the ethnic groups. But what worked to end a war two decades ago seems to be holding the country back now.
Average wages are less than €400 ($488; £314) a month and those in work may be the lucky ones. Bosnia has the highest youth unemployment rate in the world, with six out of 10 young people unable to find a job.
Bosnians of all ethnicities know who to blame: the politicians. They stand accused of nepotism, corruption and botching privatisations - while picking up salaries around four times the local average.
Meanwhile, important decisions that need to be made - on the economy, healthcare, even birth certificates - languish in limbo because the ethnic leaders find it hard to agree on anything.
And yet the man currently serving as Bosnia's head of state says the current arrangement has a lot going for it.
"Any of the sides could try to use a change of Dayton to try to achieve war goals - and I'm against that," says Mladen Ivanic, the founder of the Party of Democratic Progress who won the Serb seat on the presidency in last October's elections.
"Serbs would try to achieve an independent Republika Srpska. Bosniaks would like a single government, president and parliament. Croats would try to achieve a third ethnic entity. And then we would be lost."
Although a veteran in Bosnian politics, Mr Ivanic is a newcomer to the presidency and a more moderate figure than the previous Serb representative. He says he is willing to work with his Bosniak and Croat counterparts to try to improve life for all the country's people.
"My emphasis during the election campaign was to put aside the big ideological issues where we disagree and put on the table reforms on which we can agree."
But Bosnians have rarely seen politicians agree on anything - except perhaps their privileges - since the end of the conflict.
Riots and protests in February 2014 emphasised the level of their discontent - and there were widespread calls for international players to intervene.
Indeed, the international high representative has the power to do just that. When Paddy Ashdown held the post, he sacked scores of officials, becoming known as the "viceroy" of Bosnia in the process.
The incumbent, Valentin Inzko, has favoured a hands-off approach but says that may change.
"The politicians know that after the protests it cannot just be business as usual," he says.
"We should be more prescriptive. Bosnian people expect much more from the international community."
Every day protesters arrive outside the presidency building in Sarajevo to hang up banners urging the European Union to step in - warning of further civil unrest if action is not taken.
After October's elections, Brussels adopted an Anglo-German plan to use the carrot of EU assistance to encourage Bosnia's politicians to make economic and social reforms.
Previously the EU had insisted that Bosnia would have to first change its constitution so that ethnic groups other than Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs could hold public office.
"We had been asking them to start with that constitution problem, but now we are looking to focus on urgent areas where there is consensus before going on to the constitution issue," says British ambassador Edward Ferguson.
"This is a low-income country where people struggle to get by. Justice is sometimes less than it should be. These are things which strike people very personally."
The prize on offer is a Stabilisation and Association Agreement - a step towards EU membership which would give Bosnia access to funds and expertise from Brussels and tariff-free access to some EU markets.
Critics have suggested that this approach does not go far enough - and that dealing with the same group of political leaders who have failed Bosnia for 20 years is a reward for incompetence.
But at least one of the country's presidents is excited by the prospect of EU membership.
"We have to be in there," says Mr Ivanic.
"It is not ideal - but we have to be part of something larger so this internal game doesn't continue."
Then his eyes twinkle.
If Serbs are united with other Serbs as part of the EU then, he argues, all reasons for war will disappear.
Kasungu Aerodrome, in central Malawi, will be used as a test site for aerial scouting in crisis situations, delivering supplies and using drones to boost internet connectivity.
Universities and other partners will also have access to the site.
The project will run until 2018.
Rwanda also launched a commercial drone delivery service last year to deliver medical supplies.
The project, in partnership with US company Zipline, has cut delivery of medical supplies to minutes instead of hours.
Unicef says it is working globally with a number of governments and private sector partners to explore how drones can be used in humanitarian and development missions.
The UAVs will have a range of 40km (24 miles).
Unicef says its projects adhere to a strict set of innovation principles and it is committed to sharing its knowledge with the fledging drone community.
It says that the project was launched after a successful test flight last year to deliver dried blood for early infant diagnosis of HIV in hospitals in Malawi.
The organisation also used camera-equipped drones to assess the needs of people cut off during a flood.
Unicef's Malawi Representative Johannes Wedenig said that poor infrastructure in the country made UAVs relevant and cost-effective:
"With UAVs we can easily fly over the affected area and see clearly what the impact has been on the ground. This is cheaper and better resolution than satellite images."
Malawi's Department of Civil Aviation has given permission and specifications for operating delivery drones in the air corridor. They include:
• Maximum distance of 80km (50 miles)
• Altitude limit at 400 metres above ground
• The corridor will run for 1-2 years.
For drone enthusiasts and campaigners, this development is another important step in the right direction.
After years of opposing the commercial and civilian use of drones, African governments are slowly allowing the integration of UAVs in the airspace.
The Malawi air corridor project is a close copy of an idea proposed to the Kenyan government by a Swiss polytechnic about four years ago to operate a drone delivery service called Flying Donkey.
The plan was to operate fixed-wing drones, carrying a payload of up to 20 kg (44lbs), in sparsely populated and infrastructure poor northern Kenya to supplement the postal services.
The project did not take off because the authorities saw it as a threat to security.
While there are legitimate concerns about privacy and safety, the absence of progressive drone laws to regulate the industry means African countries have been missing out on the multi-billion dollar industry.
Malawi now joins Rwanda, South Africa and Mauritius on the list of countries leading cutting-edge research on drone use to address real-life challenges.
Whereas Xi Jinping's welcome at the World Economic Forum was one usually afforded visiting rock gods, the reaction to Mrs May was rather more polite.
Chilly, even.
Now, the Prime Minister won't worry too much about that.
Yes, she wants to send a message that Britain is open for business and wants a mutually profitable relationship with the European Union. Even if many leaders of the EU are not sure that is actually possible.
But she also wants to send another message back to the UK: I'm visiting the home of the global elites, maybe, but I'm here to warn businesses, not simply celebrate them.
The PM said she backed globalisation and free trade, although not at any cost. And certainly not at the cost of those that feel the rich "play by a different set of rules" - pointing out that trust in business among those on lower incomes languishes at 35%.
Business leaders I spoke to after her speech know that Mrs May is not a fundamentalist when it comes to free markets. Yes, they work, but they need to be controlled.
One cabinet minister told me recently, that the PM was very comfortable with the "interventionist" tag.
We will hear more about that when Mrs May announces the government's industrial strategy next week.
One chief executive of a global resources business worth many billions of pounds said that there was an understanding that the PM had been dealt "a pretty tough hand". An exit from the EU she did not back. And the rise of a new and questioning culture of the very tenets of the globalised economic order built since the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
"We need to get behind her," the chief executive said.
"The decision has been made, Britain needs to be a success. Whatever you thought before the referendum, that has all changed now."
So, although Mrs May's message was on the tough side for business, many firms know that the PM is the only game in town.
And as there is no alternative - to Brexit, to the rising anger of those that feel left behind - many businesses now understand that it's time to change or, as Mrs May made clear today, have that change foisted upon you by the state.
STV News Tonight will be broadcast on a renamed STV2 channel every week night at 19:00 from Glasgow.
It will use STV's resources from across Scotland backed up by ITV's international and UK news teams.
The broadcaster said it would be the first time all news coverage relevant to Scottish viewers would be brought together in a single programme.
STV News Tonight will be the flagship news programme on STV's city network.
In addition to Glasgow and Edinburgh, three new licences - Aberdeen, Ayr and Dundee - will be added in early 2017 with the network of services rebranded as STV2.
Bobby Hain, director of channels at STV, said: "We're committed to delivering choice for our consumers and we believe there is an appetite for a nightly news programme that combines Scottish, UK and international news.
"STV News Tonight will be produced and presented live from Glasgow, drawing on the newsgathering resources of both STV News across Scotland and ITV News worldwide.
"We're building on the success of the existing STV News output that reflects the lives of audiences in Scotland.
"Our existing Channel 3 news service is localised from studios in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow with seven bulletins daily. Our city TV service offers hourly updates.
"STV News Tonight will complement the existing schedule of bulletins with an editorial brief that is fresh and distinctive."
Analysis by Jamie McIvor, BBC Scotland correspondent
The two existing STV local stations typically attract about 40,000 viewers every day, although viewing figures for individual programmes are modest. STV Glasgow is already breaking even.
When STV was awarded the licences, the company specifically said the new stations would "not be an STV2".
Long-term campaigners for local TV may see STV's latest move as confirmation of what they argued might happen if any established company was given local TV licences.
Although they may not dispute the merit of STV's operation, they might argue that the offering is closer to traditional regional television - or Scottish national TV - than the radical local TV some wanted.
Supporters would point to the local output from each city, the learning opportunities provided to university students and the opportunities for local advertisers, some of whom might not be able to afford to advertise on the company's main channel.
The former UK culture secretary Jeremy Hunt championed local TV - he argued it could play a role in strengthening local democracy.
Some of the stations set up by new companies in other parts of the UK have struggled - whereas there is no doubt that STV's have had a far smoother ride.
The development will be watched with interest as the BBC continues to examine the possibility of a "Scottish Six" - an hour-long programme on BBC1 Scotland covering Scottish, UK and world news which would replace the current set-up of half an hour of network news from London followed by Reporting Scotland.
There are no plans for significant changes to the news programmes on STV's main channel.
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League Two Clyde, the lowest-placed club left in the competition, took the lead when David Gormley swept home from 10 yards.
Sean Higgins' low effort almost put the Bully Wee 2-0 ahead, but it came back off the post.
Ayr, who also hit the woodwork in the first half, levelled when Cairney's strike found the bottom corner.
The replay will be at Broadwood Stadium in Cumbernauld on Tuesday.
That Clyde have another chance owes much to their teenage goalkeeper Connor Quinn.
The 18-year-old former Livingston player was only signed midweek as a stand-in for the suspended John Gibson and, within two minutes, was pushing a Gary Harkins effort wide of the post.
Quinn went on to repel good shots from Craig McGuffie and Declan McDaid before watching Nicky Devlin's strike hit the inside of the post, bounce along the line and away off the other post.
After the break, former Ayr forward Gormley followed up his hat-trick in the previous round with his 10th goal of the season.
The ball broke to the former Auchinleck Talbot man just inside the box and his right-footed finish went beyond Greg Fleming and into the back of the net.
Higgins' 20-yard drive cannoned back off the post as the forward - one of four former Ayr players in the starting line-up - went close again before the hosts levelled.
Brian Gilmour's corner was only half-cleared and Cairney pounced at the edge of the box to chest down and score.
Visiting goalkeeper Quinn then prevent Cairney from curling his second into the top-right corner.
Ayr manager Ian McCall: "We had a lot of chances in the first half and their young goalie did very well.
"Clyde got their goal and we showed a bit of courage to come back from that.
"After that, we had a couple of great chances to win the game - Darryl Meggatt knows he should have scored and Paul Cairney shouldn't have allowed the goalie the chance to save it.
"It's a missed opportunity for us, but we're still in the cup.
"We could have done without the game this Tuesday because we play Dumbarton a week today - which is a pretty big game for us."
Clyde manager Barry Ferguson: "Obviously we're delighted still to be in the hat, but we're just disappointed we didn't win the game.
"But we'll look forward to the replay on Tuesday. I would rather play games than train, but I'm not going to see the guys until six o'clock on Tuesday.
"Ayr have got a lot of good players and they're in the Championship. We came here to win the game and we were close to winning it.
"I'm delighted for Connor Quinn. It's never easy for a young boy.
"I like his attitude and he's desperate to try and learn. I was happy with his performance.
"He's got a good appetite to learn and that's something you don't always see these days."
Match ends, Ayr United 1, Clyde 1.
Second Half ends, Ayr United 1, Clyde 1.
Matthew Flynn (Clyde) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Daryll Meggatt (Ayr United).
Foul by Conrad Balatoni (Ayr United).
Ross Perry (Clyde) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Ayr United. Conceded by David Gormley.
Corner, Ayr United. Conceded by Conor Quinn.
Attempt saved. Paul Cairney (Ayr United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner.
Ross Docherty (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aaron Millar (Clyde).
Attempt missed. Alan Forrest (Ayr United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Foul by Brian Gilmour (Ayr United).
David Gormley (Clyde) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Clyde. Aaron Millar replaces Peter MacDonald.
Daryll Meggatt (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David Gormley (Clyde).
Foul by Daryll Meggatt (Ayr United).
David Gormley (Clyde) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Ayr United. Conceded by Philip Johnston.
Gary Harkins (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Matthew Flynn (Clyde).
Paul Cairney (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Peter MacDonald (Clyde).
Attempt missed. Daryll Meggatt (Ayr United) header from very close range misses to the left.
Corner, Ayr United. Conceded by Martin McNiff.
Corner, Ayr United. Conceded by Ross Perry.
Substitution, Clyde. Matthew Flynn replaces Scott Ferguson.
Attempt missed. Ross Docherty (Ayr United) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Alan Forrest (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ewan McNeil (Clyde).
Goal! Ayr United 1, Clyde 1. Paul Cairney (Ayr United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Corner, Ayr United. Conceded by Philip Johnston.
Substitution, Ayr United. Alan Forrest replaces Craig McGuffie.
Sean Higgins (Clyde) hits the left post with a right footed shot from outside the box.
Corner, Ayr United. Conceded by Chris Smith.
Corner, Ayr United. Conceded by David Gormley.
Corner, Ayr United. Conceded by Scott McLaughlin.
Attempt blocked. Gary Harkins (Ayr United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Sean Higgins (Clyde) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
The firm will build its new DBX model at a plant in St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, from 2020 and will employ 750 highly-skilled workers.
Work to build reception areas, offices and a staff restaurant has already started at site.
Carwyn Jones said he was delighted the land sale was complete and the firm had chosen to do business in Wales.
The first minister added: "Aston Martin's move here is fantastic news for the Vale of Glamorgan and surrounding areas, and will provide a real boost to the local economy, resulting in thousands of high quality jobs both within Aston Martin and the wider supply chain."
Aston Martin's chief executive Andy Palmer said: "The exchanging of this contract, giving us first access to the St Athan facility, is a milestone in our 103-year history.
"Work now starts in earnest to turn our plans into reality."
The second phase of work will start next April when the company will gain access to the three Ministry of Defence "super hangars" that will house the new manufacturing plant.
Secretary of State for Wales Alun Cairns MP said: "Aston Martin choosing Wales sends a clear message to leading global companies around the world that Wales is open for business.
"We have created the ideal conditions for economic growth, which helped attract this unique and innovative car manufacturer to South Wales. Today's announcement reflects the excellent infrastructure, a world class talent pool and businesses that have the confidence to expand in Wales."
It turns out the source was their own kitchen microwaves.
PhD student Emily Petroff made the discovery at the Parkes telescope, after noticing that the signals were only received during business hours.
The rays, known as "perytons", were emitted when impatient staff opened the microwave door prematurely.
Although discovered in January the revelation has only come to light after Ms Petroff published her paper, "Identifying the source of perytons at the Parkes radio telescope."
She concluded that "tests revealed that peryton events can be generated under the right set of circumstances with on-site microwave ovens....and can account for bimodal DM distribution of the known perytons."
Or in layman's terms, as Ms Petroff told ABC News: "It turns out that you can generate these particular local signals by opening the door of the microwave to stop the microwave, and that produces these weird bursts that we're seeing at Parkes."
"It was kind of a surprise to all of us," she added.
The visitors opened the scoring at Highbury Stadium when Matt Done fired past Cod Army goalkeeper Chris Maxwell.
Ash Hunter headed in Victor Nirennold's cross to level for the hosts, before Marcus Nilsson flicked in Jimmy Ryan's free-kick to give Fleetwood the lead.
However, Nick Haughton was sent off for two yellow cards, before Adams netted after Matt Flynn was fouled in the box.
There was a lengthy delay before Adams took his spot-kick after Maxwell was struck by an object thrown from the crowd and required treatment to a facial cut, just above his eye.
Fleetwood Town manager Steven Pressley told BBC Radio Lancashire:
"We were faced with every type of adversity there could have been, We had to patch up a back four that was already patched up and then we lost a further player,
"And I was really disappointed with the officiating. Some of the decisions were extremely poor, summed up by the referee's response to Chris Maxwell, after he had been hit by the object, that it was his own fault, which is totally unacceptable.
"In the light of that, my players did magnificently. It wasn't an inspiring performance in terms of football, but we showed so much determination.
"Coming on top of our wins at Coventry and at home to Gillingham, we'd just done enough to win then, in the end, a controversial penalty has cost us dearly."
But those years have been tough going for Katherine Garrett-Cox at Alliance Trust, as she's spent much of that time under siege by activist shareholders.
Her departure looked all but inevitable. She was forced to concede ground and board places to Elliott Partners hedge fund.
She then lost her seat on the board, her business and investment strategies were dumped, and her ally and chairwoman Karin Forseke was ousted.
With all that, the nickname she carries without evident relish, Katherine the Great, wasn't looking as apt as once it did.
Lord Robert Smith of Kelvin moved in to the chair only a few weeks ago. Alliance Trust insiders said he had until July to see whether the Dundee asset manager could meet expectations of returns and efficiency, or hand over its funds to a bigger player.
The new chairman was described as 'agnostic' on that question and told colleagues that he was not attracted to the job if it merely involved wielding the hatchet on the chief executive.
Lord Smith has previous. Made famous for his chairing roles of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games and the cross-party devolution commission that bore his name, he first hit the headlines as the man who infamously ousted "superwoman" Nicola Horlick from her City of London high flyer post. That was 19 years ago.
In exiting, Garrett-Cox has stressed how she has served shareholders with a view to the long-term, and reflecting the Alliance Trust heritage across generations of investors.
The implication is that others might have rather more short-term horizons. Elliott Partners has a habit of getting in, getting ruthless and getting out fast.
For those from the Garrett-Cox regime who remain at the Dundee headquarters, it's not clear who could lead the fight to retain its asset management role.
That July deadline for the test of her strategy may have just been made redundant.
Aberdeen Asset Management is one of those waiting for opportunity to beckon for a big new asset management mandate from Dundee.
The activist shareholder's partner and chief operating officer, Bradley Singer, will become a non-executive director with immediate effect.
ValueAct owns a 10.8% stake in Rolls-Royce, which has issued a string of profit warnings in recent months.
The fund had been pressing the company for a seat on the board.
Profits at the world's second-largest maker of aircraft engines are set to halve this year after falling by 16% for 2015 on difficult trading in its civil aerospace unit. The company's marine engine business was also hit by declining demand from oil and gas customers.
Ian Davis, Rolls-Royce chairman, said Mr Singer had experience of public companies during "periods of change, growth and significant financial outperformance, particularly in the US where Rolls-Royce has important business interests and a significant shareholder base".
He added: "This appointment will not trigger a particular strategic review. There are no changes to our plan to maintain the broad structure of the company."
ValueAct usually makes about three to four new investments a year and has a reported $3.3bn (£2.2bn) stake in Microsoft.
It says it took significant stakes in companies it believed were "fundamentally undervalued" for a variety of reasons.
"These conditions can often result in fundamentally 'good' businesses that are available at depressed valuations," ValueAct said.
Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, said Rolls-Royce had "embraced ValueAct," and that the appointment gave the investor a "voice in how the company implements its turnaround plan".
"From the company's perspective there's no public friction, from the investors' perspective they're being listened to," he added.
"That's the way in which they prefer to work. Although the activists have a reputation for being a bit rough and tumble, they would prefer to work behind the scenes and be suggestivist rather than activist."
Shares in Rolls-Royce have fallen by 27% over the past 12 months and were down 1.2% at 675p in morning trading in London.
Founded in 1884, Rolls-Royce was separated from the luxury car brand of the same name in the 1970s when it was under state ownership before becoming one of the UK's most prominent engineering companies.
She polled 186,661 of the votes in the first round of counting, ahead of the Conservative David Burgess- Joyce who totalled 54,000.
As she had secured more than 50% of the vote initially, there was no need for a second count.
In total, Ms Kennedy had secured 61.76% of the vote.
She said she looked forward to working "with all of the communities of Merseyside to make sure we maintain a safe and happy place to live and work."
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Tyler the Creator performed on the second day, with a set which looked like an oversized bedroom, complete with a giant bed, chair and desk.
The 24-year-old played tracks from his new album, Cherry Bomb.
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It will now go to the White House for the president's signature, and will buy Congress time to reach a deal to fund the government until September.
It came just hours before a funding deadline expired, threatening a second government shutdown in four years.
Republicans were forced to make several concessions, the latest on funding for so-called Obamacare.
A government shutdown would close national parks and monuments, lay off federal employees and delay tax refund payments.
The last shutdown, in 2013, lasted for 17 days.
The bill gives lawmakers until 5 May to work out their differences on $1 trillion (£770bn) of funding until 30 September.
Without the extension, federal agencies would have run out of money by midnight on Friday (04:00 GMT Saturday).
A shutdown would most probably have triggered abrupt layoffs of hundreds of thousands of federal government workers until funding resumes.
There have been a number of key disputes.
One was Mr Trump's proposal to erect a wall on the US-Mexico border. He had to yield to Democratic demands not to include funding for it in the spending bill.
Another was Obamacare, formally known as the Affordable Care Act.
Mr Trump made scrapping it a key campaign pledge but he failed in an earlier attempt to get his own health plan through Congress.
Congressional Republicans had hoped to revive their health legislation this week, but delayed a vote after they were unable to secure enough support for its passage.
They also wanted to include cuts to a key part of Obamacare in the budget deal but have now withdrawn that.
Democrats had refused to support the bill unless it allowed for an Obamacare provision that paid health insurance companies to help keep medical costs down for low-income Americans.
It is also not clear whether the Republicans will be able to increase defence spending without also raising investment in other domestic programmes.
Mr Trump has proposed $30bn in extra funds for the Pentagon for the rest of this fiscal year.
The resolution will also extend healthcare benefits for retired union coal miners through to 5 May. Those benefits would have expired on Friday as well.
The sweeping spending package combines 11 unfinished spending bills into a single "omnibus" bill, becoming the first bipartisan legislation under Mr Trump's presidency.
Duncan James Waterhouse, 45, from Keswick, committed the crimes over six years ending in February this year.
His offences involved four children and included sexual activity with a child and making a child watch sexual activity.
Carlisle Crown Court heard his crimes had "shattered" one child's future and left another as "merely a shell".
Judge Peter Davies said Waterhouse's behaviour "was corrupt, and the corruptness was yours".
A five-year extended licence period was attached to the sentence and Waterhouse must will be on the sex offenders' register indefinitely.
He must also abide by the strict terms of an indefinite sexual harm prevention order and will be barred from working with children and vulnerable adults.
Det Con Paul Scougal from Cumbria Police said Waterhouse was a "predatory paedophile whose actions were utterly perverse and deplorable".
Waterhouse admitted 12 counts of intentionally touching an underage child, four of causing an underage child to look at an image of a person engaging in sexual activity, two counts of causing an underage child to watch a person engaging in sexual activity and two charges of engaging in non-penetrative sexual activity with an underage child.
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Premier said it had turned down the unsolicited 52p-a-share offer on the grounds that it "substantially undervalued the company and its prospects".
Premier owns many UK household brands including Mr Kipling, Homepride, Oxo and Bisto.
McCormick describes its products as "saving your world from boring food".
Premier's chairman, David Beever, said: "McCormick's proposal represents an attempt to capture the upside value embedded in Premier's business that rightfully belongs to Premier's shareholders.
"The proposal fails to recognise the value of Premier's performance to date and prospects for the future, including the strategic plans we have to accelerate growth."
At the same time, Premier announced that it was entering into a co-operation agreement with Japanese instant noodle firm Nissin.
Under the deal, Premier will be able to distribute Nissin's products in the UK, while making its own products more widely available in key overseas markets.
The 36-year-old was airlifted to hospital after he and an 18-year-old man got into difficulty in the River Garry near Invergarry, south of Loch Ness.
Police Scotland said the older man died in Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, following the incident at around 12.30pm on Thursday
The younger man was discharged. Next of kin have been informed, police added.
Police, ambulance, fire crews, the coastguard and a Royal Navy search and rescue helicopter were involved in the operation to help the pair.
The S&P fell 392.4 points to 16,514, a 2.3% fall. The Dow Jones fell 47.1 points - 2.37% - to 1,943, its worst four-day start to a year in decades.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq sank 146.3 points - 3% - to 4,689.4.
Apple slid 4.2%, Amazon 3.9%, Facebook 4.9%, and Google parent Alphabet 2.3%.
Banking shares also fell, led by Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, both 5% down.
Risers included Macy's, up 2.1% after the retailer unveiled a plan to save $400m through job cuts and store closures following a disappointing holiday shopping season.
Walgreens Boots Alliance advanced 1.9% as the pharmacy chain lifted its full-year forecast after first-quarter earnings bested analyst expectation
Speaking on BBC's Ask the Leader, Mr Farage said UKIP could emulate the SNP, which has risen in the polls since Scotland rejected independence.
And he told Today he could see "no circumstances" in which a deal could be done with Labour, given its opposition to a referendum on EU membership.
But he suggested he could back a Conservative-Lib Dem coalition.
He told the Radio 4 programme: "I won't help Labour. I can't help Labour. There are no circumstances, given that Miliband has turned his back on a referendum."
Analysis: UKIP campaign correspondent Robin Brant
Nigel Farage is toning down expectations. Or so it seems. Maybe it's a canny ploy in the hope that next week UKIP will then exceed predictions. Or maybe he thinks things are dipping as vote day approaches.
On Radio 4 this morning he conceded support had weakened in some areas, although crucially not the target seats the party is really hoping to win. Then there's the "2020 horizon" strategy. It's been much talked about by those at the top of UKIP as the real aim.
But Nigel Farage has given it more prominence in public in recent weeks, including today. On the one hand it reveals a genuine depth in what UKIP is trying to do. But the fact that some of the talk in the final week of the 2015 campaign is about the 2020 campaign reveals that the dream in the aftermath of last year's sensational by-election wins of dozens of MPs has faded.
But, and it's an important but, the benchmark for UKIP is how it did last time. The party got just over 3% of the vote at the last general election. It looks almost certain to exceed that this time.
Mr Farage said he did not want his party to go into coalition.
But he said he would support a "confidence and supply" deal - in which a party is supported through budget and confidence votes - with a Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition.
"If we have, arithmetically, a position where we can have influence on the basis of confidence and supply, we would do that provided we could get a full, free and fair referendum for this country," he said.
On Thursday night, Mr Farage was one of six leaders facing questions in a series of programmes.
Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron, Labour leader Ed Miliband and the Lib Dems' Nick Clegg took part in a special edition of Question Time, while the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon and Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood were also questioned as part of the night's programming.
The first question Mr Farage faced was about leaving the European Union. UKIP says it wants a referendum on the UK's membership as soon as possible with equal spending limits and only British citizens able to vote.
Mr Cameron has promised an in/out vote by 2017 if he is prime minister.
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Asked by a student in the audience whether his party would be "flawed" if Britain voted to stay in the EU, Mr Farage said: "If it's a full, free and fair referendum I would accept the result.
"Would it make UKIP redundant? No, because just look at what's happened in Scotland. The Scottish rejected their independence referendum but yet the SNP have gone to remarkable heights since then."
Mr Farage said he loved Europe but said it had been "hijacked" by the European Union.
The audience for the programme, filmed in Birmingham, was made up of 25% of people who said they would vote UKIP at the election, with the remainder divided between supporters of the other parties and people who are undecided.
The UKIP leader was also asked about UKIP's pledge to spend 2% of GDP on defence. He said the world was more uncertain than it had been since the fall of the Berlin Wall and compared the spending to a home insurance policy.
UKIP MPs would make defence spending "a major issue" in Parliament, he said.
The Conservatives and Labour have not said they will meet the 2% Nato target beyond 2016.
On his plans to cut the foreign aid budget to fund the spending pledge, he said there were currently "huge barriers" stopping African nations selling agricultural products to the EU.
"We rape and pillage the fisheries off the west coast of Africa," he added.
"We are behaving in a neo-colonial way to Africa and we assuage our consciences by giving a bit of foreign aid that in nearly every case goes to the wrong people."
Responding to another question about the NHS, Mr Farage said he wanted the service to be "run publicly but properly".
He said there were more people in the country and "we now have fewer GPs per capita than any other country in Europe".
There were two ways of making sure people who turned up for healthcare were eligible, he said - "one is that we would all have to have a health card. Effectively, it would be like an identity card...
"The other option is actually to make sure that anybody that applies for a visa or a work permit before they come into the country proves they've got healthcare".
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The video, which was leaked to US celebrity website TMZ, showed Solange lashing out at Jay Z in a lift after the Met Gala on 5 May.
"Jay and Solange each assume their share of responsibility for what has occurred," said a joint statement.
"They both have apologized to each other and we have moved forward as a united family."
The hotel employee who leaked the footage has been identified and dismissed, it emerged on Thursday.
New York's Standard Hotel said it was "shocked and disappointed" by the leak and said it would it would hand over "all available information to criminal authorities".
The employee was dismissed for "breaching the security policies of the hotel and recording the confidential CCTV video," it added.
The three-minute video shows Solange - herself an R&B singer - enter the lift with Jay Z, Beyonce and their entourage.
She then confronts the rapper, whose wife stands by without interfering.
A bodyguard holds Solange back, although she again tries to kick Jay Z. There is no audio on the recording.
The full statement was released by the family to the Associated Press.
It reads: "As a result of the public release of the elevator security footage from Monday, May 5th, there has been a great deal of speculation about what triggered the unfortunate incident.
"But the most important thing is that our family has worked through it. Jay and Solange each assume their share of responsibility for what has occurred.
"They both acknowledge their role in this private matter that has played out in the public. They both have apologized to each other and we have moved forward as a united family.
"The reports of Solange being intoxicated or displaying erratic behaviour throughout that evening are simply false.
"At the end of the day, families have problems and we're no different. We love each other and above all we are family. We've put this behind us and hope everyone else will do the same."
Southampton defender Stephens smashed in on his home ground to bring up a 27th home win in a row for Aidy Boothroyd's side.
England had not beaten Italy at this level since 1997 but were deserved winners in an entertaining game.
Leicester's Demarai Gray and Chelsea midfielder Lewis Baker also scored.
England's last defeat came against Italy in June 2015, which ended their European Championship campaign.
Both sides have qualified for the U21 Euro 2017 tournament, which will be held in Poland next summer.
England took the lead when John Swift's cut back was stabbed clear but only to Gray, who side-footed home.
Italy levelled when Swift gave the ball away, Andrea Conti ran at Brendan Galloway and his cross was deflected up over Angus Gunn and in.
Federico di Francesco then tapped Italy ahead from a corner before Baker hit a low equaliser after a one-two with Will Hughes.
And in stoppage time Stephens converted after Calum Chambers' header was pushed out.
Interim England Under-21 manager Aidy Boothroyd:
"We have managed to qualify six times on the spin, what we have to do now is do as well at the tournament. That's the holy grail, isn't it?
"If we can do that then we will be in a good place.
"We learnt a lot about ourselves. We learnt we have plenty of character and can score goals from all over the pitch. We hit the crossbar and the post and we had an appeal for a penalty we thought we should have had (when Demarai Gray went down in the first half).
"I'm not saying it was all rosy because it wasn't; we showed there are a lot of things we still need to work on defensively, but overall we are delighted to play such a major nation and get a result like that."
Match ends, England U21 3, Italy U21 2.
Second Half ends, England U21 3, Italy U21 2.
Goal! England U21 3, Italy U21 2. Jack Stephens (England U21) right footed shot from very close range to the top left corner following a corner.
Attempt saved. Calum Chambers (England U21) header from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Ward-Prowse with a cross.
Corner, England U21. Conceded by Michele Somma.
Substitution, Italy U21. Leonardo Capezzi replaces Lorenzo Pellegrini.
Duncan Watmore (England U21) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Bryan Cristante (Italy U21).
Vittorio Parigini (Italy U21) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Isaac Hayden (England U21) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Vittorio Parigini (Italy U21).
Nathaniel Chalobah (England U21) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Alberto Cerri (Italy U21).
Bryan Cristante (Italy U21) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Will Hughes (England U21) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Bryan Cristante (Italy U21).
Foul by Nathaniel Chalobah (England U21).
Alberto Grassi (Italy U21) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Hand ball by Vittorio Parigini (Italy U21).
Attempt blocked. Tammy Abraham (England U21) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is blocked. Assisted by Will Hughes.
Brendan Galloway (England U21) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Luca Garritano (Italy U21).
Attempt missed. Alberto Cerri (Italy U21) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Lorenzo Pellegrini with a cross.
Hand ball by Will Hughes (England U21).
Substitution, England U21. Tammy Abraham replaces Lewis Baker.
Substitution, Italy U21. Bryan Cristante replaces Marco Benassi.
Substitution, Italy U21. Luca Garritano replaces Federico Ricci.
Substitution, England U21. Duncan Watmore replaces Demarai Gray.
Hand ball by Federico Ricci (Italy U21).
Nathan Redmond (England U21) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Michele Somma (Italy U21).
Corner, Italy U21. Conceded by Isaac Hayden.
Nathaniel Chalobah (England U21) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alberto Grassi (Italy U21).
Substitution, Italy U21. Alberto Grassi replaces Luca Mazzitelli.
Substitution, Italy U21. Alberto Cerri replaces Mattia Caldara.
Substitution, Italy U21. Michele Somma replaces Andrea Petagna.
Goal! England U21 2, Italy U21 2. Lewis Baker (England U21) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Will Hughes.
Will Hughes (England U21) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Isaac Hayden with a cross.
Foul by Calum Chambers (England U21).
The Cobblers opened the scoring after four minutes when Diamond headed in from Danny Rose's corner.
Joe Piggott could have levelled for the Hatters but he failed to convert Pelly Ruddock's cross from close-range.
Marquis capped an excellent Northampton move by latching onto John-Joe O'Toole's delivery, before Sam Hoskins struck the post for the home side.
Chris Wilder's side were presented with the League Two trophy on the pitch at Sixfields after the final whistle.
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Deputy First Minister John Swinney said he had accepted Ms O'Brien's resignation after starting the formal procedure to remove her from her post.
However, Ms O'Brien insisted she had "done nothing wrong", complaining of government interference in the probe.
Her fellow panellist Prof Michael Lamb quit the inquiry over similar concerns.
Ms O'Brien's resignation leaves the inquiry, which concerns historical allegations of child abuse in Scotland, with only one panel member. It is scheduled to last four years, but has been criticised by survivors of abuse.
In her resignation letter, the chairwoman said the government had "sought to micro-manage and control the inquiry", and had "undermined" her and threatened to sack her when she resisted.
Mr Swinney said Ms O'Brien had "revealed views" which child abuse trauma experts had judged to "indicate a belief system that is incompatible with the post of chair of such an inquiry".
Ms O'Brien did not contest that she made the comments, but maintained they were "acceptable in the context in which they were made".
Complaints were lodged due to two comments Ms O'Brien made during a training session for inquiry team members.
One concerned her recounting the experiences of a child sex abuse victim in a manner which was claimed "potentially breached confidentiality".
Child abuse expert Dr Claire Fyvie said that even if this was meant to "lighten the mood", it was "wholly inappropriate" and "demonstrates a shocking level of misjudgement".
Dr Fyvie is head of service at the Rivers Centre for Traumatic Stress, which was initially a short-term partner of the inquiry.
However, the centre did not submit a tender to support the inquiry long-term, with Dr Fyvie saying the role of an expert advisor was "redundant", as Ms O'Brien appeared to be making decisions "unilaterally", "with no regard to the advice of professional colleagues or external advisors".
In her resignation letter, Ms O'Brien insisted that she had "done nothing wrong", insisting that she would "never underestimate the gravity of child abuse".
With regards to the training event comment, she said she had "accurately reported, without endorsing, what a survivor had said to me about their attitude to their own abuse".
She said: "Since you have approached the dismissal of a chair so casually, on the basis of misunderstanding and inaccurate allegations about my 'attitudes and beliefs', I have no confidence that you would not try to dismiss me again another time, even if you decide against dismissal now.
"This compromises my ability to carry out my duty to ask questions and reach conclusions fearlessly.
"In short, I cannot reassure the public that this inquiry will be conduced independently of government. My trust that the Scottish government will actually respect the independence of the inquiry has gone - you have therefore left me with no alternative but to resign."
Education secretary Mr Swinney said the comments had "raised serious concerns", and "lacked any context in which they could be seen as acceptable".
He added: "What's more, these actions had the potential to cause the loss of confidence of survivors - the very people at the heart of the inquiry."
Mr Swinney has referred the matter to the Scottish Parliament's education and skills committee to be investigated.
The minister said: "Given the severity of those concerns, I felt I had a duty to initiate statutory proceedings which could have led to the removal of the chair from post. Ms O'Brien's resignation clearly now means that process has not been concluded and frees me to now share the facts of the case with parliament.
"I am happy for a committee of parliament to consider this matter and any claims made by the chair.
"This government absolutely rejects any charges of interference in the independence of the inquiry. The issues that concern the government are about having a robust independent inquiry that can operate without fear or favour, fulfilling our responsibilities set out in the Inquiries Act and ensuring that the chair's departure has as little impact as possible on the progress of the work needed."
Mr Swinney, who is to meet survivors on Thursday, said he would take "urgent steps" to appoint a new chair for the inquiry.
The two resignations leave the panel with just one member, Glenn Houston.
Scottish Conservative MSP Liz Smith said what was of "paramount importance" was to restore public trust and "to that end we welcome the announcement by Mr Swinney to permit parliamentary scrutiny of his actions".
Scottish Labour education spokesman Iain Gray said the "collapse of the inquiry into crisis" meant "we are letting survivors of child abuse down yet again".
He said: "When parliament returns the education committee must carry out an investigation into how this mess was allowed to develop."
Ross Greer, Scottish Green MSP, believed that there needed to be "urgent but careful progress" in appointing new members of the inquiry.
He said: "This issue has support from across the political spectrum and we owe it to survivors of abuse to make sure the inquiry is carried out."
Ten "space capsule" units have just come on the market in the western Sai Ying Pun district, offering a total of 24sq ft (2.2 sq m) of living space for HK$5,100 ($658; £538) a month.
The listing on a local real estate platform says each pod comes with a television, air-conditioning and a memory foam mattress.
But despite such mod-cons, many netizens are enraged, describing the capsule as a glorified coffin and the landlord as unscrupulous.
The listing first appeared on Sunday. The leaseholder, surnamed Wang, boasts it has special lights which "create the feeling of being in space".
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BBC News contacted Mr Wang, who said he's the husband of Ms Wang.
He told BBC News they are only subletting the "space capsules", which are crammed into a 960-sq ft flat; they are not seeking big profits but just to share the rent with others.
A kitchen and a toilet will be shared among occupants.
Mr Wang also dismissed fire safety concerns, saying: "The buildings department states that no registration is required if fewer than 12 people live in the same flat."
He added that fire-resistant materials are used for the capsules.
Ms Wang is asking for HK$5,100 per month for each pod. She offers discounted rates for people who rent the pod for more than three months.
If every bed is rented, Ms Wang will be able to fetch more than $HK51,000 in a month at maximum.
An 800-sq ft flat in the same building listed on the same website asks for a monthly rent of HK$24,500.
"Space capsule" pods are not entirely new. In Japan, "space capsule" hotels are popular for travellers who want to cut expenses on accommodation. However, this listing in Hong Kong requires a minimum stay of one month.
The building is 48 years old, according to property agency website Centadata. But there is likely to be a great demand, as the neighbourhood is close to the central business district and the University of Hong Kong.
A similar "space capsule" flat in Sham Shui Po is also listed on Airbnb, but Mr Wang said they had nothing to do with that property.
Partitioned flats and cage homes are not novelties in Hong Kong, but netizens react to the "space capsules" with incredulity and fury.
"This is not a space capsule. This is sleeping in a coffin before your death," said Facebook user Ralf Cheung.
Jeri Lee said: "It has a fancy name 'space capsule', but this is nothing but an enlarged dog house. Asking for HK$5,100 has gone too far."
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Willis, 26, won 7-5 7-5 against Martin, a player ranked 226 places higher at 148 in the world.
He will next face fellow Briton Liam Broady, with three wins required to qualify for the main draw next week.
Willis won six matches last year to get through qualifying, then reached round two before losing to Roger Federer.
Twelve months on, he was the centre of attention on the opening day of qualifying at Roehampton, with his match scheduled on the new televised show court.
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Asked if he felt any pressure amid all the interest surrounding him, Willis said: "I'm not putting any on myself."
He added: "It feels very different. Last year, I came here and no-one really knew what was going on, I was happy to be here.
"I'm happy to be here again, obviously, but after what I did last year, doing less could be disappointing."
Willis became the surprise star of week one at last year's Wimbledon, after coming through the pre-qualifying and qualifying competitions ranked 772nd, before finally ending his run against Federer on Centre Court.
He has since married wife Jennifer and become a father to Martha, both of whom were courtside to watch him on Monday.
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Despite injury problems, he has moved up to 374th in the world, but still required a wildcard to get into the qualifying event.
His grass-court skills came to the fore once again as he saw off Martin with breaks in the 11th game of each set, serve-and-volleying his way to a straight-set win without dropping serve.
"I enjoy playing on grass, I like playing in front of the home crowd," said Willis. "I like playing tennis, that's about it.
"You just have to focus on the tennis ball. I've been knuckling down and training quite hard."
Broady, 23, will take on good friend Willis for the eighth time and only the second on grass.
"It's obviously a fantastic opportunity for us both playing wildcards in the second round of qualifying," said Broady, who beat Canadian Frank Dancevic 6-2 6-3.
"There will probably be more people rooting for Marcus. He's a loveable guy and fantastic to watch."
British teenager Jay Clarke was an early winner on day one - the 18-year-old from Derby seeing off El Salvador's world number 232 Marcelo Arevalo 6-3 6-4.
Clarke, ranked 360th, recently spent time with the British Davis Cup squad and was invited to practise with Andy Murray at the French Open.
"The first few times you step on court with them, it's big thing, but you get used to it," said Clarke.
"I'm just taking it day by day here because a lot can happen."
Alex Ward, ranked 854th, was another British winner with a 1-6 7-5 6-3 victory over Belarusian seventh seed Egor Gerasimov, the world number 163.
The bank is making the additional provision after the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) set a deadline of August 2019 for making new PPI complaints.
The FCA also said that some customers may have new grounds to complain.
Since the PPI scandal broke, Lloyds has set aside total compensation of £17bn.
The relatively high sum of £350m to cover the additional two months added to the deadline follows the FCA's announcement earlier this month that some bank customers could claim if they were not made aware of commission being paid when they were sold PPI.
It follows a Supreme Court judgment in November 2014 - what is known as the Plevin decision - that extended the definition of mis-selling for PPI.
The court agreed that the bank's failure to tell customers that it was receiving a large commission for sales was unfair.
The FCA has decided that compensation will be calculated if commission of more than 50% was paid.
Anyone who has had complaints rejected will receive a letter explaining that they could have new grounds for a claim.
In a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Lloyds said the additional £350m provision will be reflected in the its results for the first quarter which will be announced on 27 April, and has no impact on guidance.
Royal Bank of Scotland, which set aside £601m for PPI claims in its most recent financial year, declined to comment on future provisions. Barclays also declined to comment.
PPI claims have been falling and in its most recent annual results, Lloyds' PPI provisions fell to £1bn compared to £4bn in 2015. Pre-tax profit rose from £1.6bn to £4.2bn.
Shares in Lloyds rose 0.7% to 69p.
"Biafra will live forever. Nothing will stop us," was the gist of their anthem in the Igbo language.
They were not exactly belting it out and instead of hoisting the flag up a pole, it was tied to a metal gate. But there is good reason for discretion - in the eyes of the authorities the gathering is illegal.
On 5 November, 100 men and women were arrested as they marched peacefully through the city's streets after raising the Biafran flag.
They were all imprisoned and accused of treason but then released when the charges were dropped. It appears the government is determined to ensure any agitation for secession is not allowed to gather momentum.
Forty-two years after the end of the devastating civil war in which government troops fought and defeated Biafran secessionists, the dream of independence has not completely died.
"No amount of threats or arrests will stop us from pursuing our freedom - self-determination for Biafrans," said Edeson Samuel, national chairman of the Biafran Zionist Movement (BZM).
"We were forced into this unholy marriage but we don't have the same culture as the northerners. Our religion and culture are quite different from the northerners," he told the BBC.
The group broke away from the better-known Movement For The Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (Massob).
The 1967-70 civil war threatened to tear apart the young Nigerian nation. Ethnic tensions were high in the mid 1960s. The military had seized power and economic hardship was biting.
With the perception that they were pushing to dominate all sectors of society - from business to the civil service - and while they were prominent in the military, the Igbo people were attacked.
Thousands were killed, especially during the clashes between northerners, who are mostly Muslim, and Igbos. To save their lives, Igbos fled en masse back "home" to the east.
"People used to meet fuel tanker drivers who allowed them to hide inside the tankers - some survived that way," remembers Igwe Anthony Ojukwu, the traditional ruler of Ogui Nike in Enugu State.
"As we were licking our wounds… it dawned on us that we could not just stay at home as they would come and fight us and that would mean... extinction," he said, adding that this prompted the move to declare Biafra independent.
Today on the streets of Enugu you can hear songs about the war. Booming out from a stall selling CDs and DVDs I heard a song praising the late Chief Emeka Ojukwu - the man who raised the Biafran flag in 1967 and was the leader of the breakaway nation that existed for 31 troubled months.
"It was very terrifying. In the market place you hear a bang and you find limbs flying, people lying dead and others running helter-skelter," said war veteran Chief Nduka Eya, recalling the aerial bombardment by the Nigerian forces.
At his home he showed me the small card he was given after the Biafrans surrendered. It reads: "Clearance certificate for members of armed forces of defunct Biafra."
"Naturally when you lose a war it can be very depressing but what can you do? We took it. But history shows Biafra is defunct out of surrender," said Chief Nduka Eya who is now the secretary general of Ohaneze Ndigbo, an umbrella group representing Igbos around the world.
In the bottom right-hand corner of the card is Olusegun Obasanjo's signature. The man who later became the president of Nigeria played a major role in the civil war, fighting on the federal government side.
Although no-one knows the true number, more than one million people died in the war - some from the fighting but many more from the resulting famine in the east.
In an effort to repair the bruised nation, the Nigerian head of state General Yakubu Gowan spoke of "No Victor, No Vanquished" and also promoted a policy of Reconciliation, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation.
But to this day, many Igbos complain that they were punished economically after the war and still speak of being marginalised. The fact that no Nigerian president has come from the east is a source of much rancour.
The prospect of an independent Igboland now seems impossible, especially as secessionists would want the area's lucrative oil fields.
While those publicly clamouring for independence are a very small minority, it is not hard to find young people who feel they would be better off as a separate nation. This ought to be of great concern to the government of Nigeria.
"If this present government does not have the solution for us upcoming youth here, I'd rather the nation breaks," said one young man playing football in Enugu near a statue referred to as "The Unknown Soldier" holding a gun aloft.
"We are willing to fight for our rights. Without sacrifice there will be nothing like freedom. We have to pay the price if we want independence and we are ready to do that again," he added.
"Islams (sic) don't want the east to rule the country and our opportunities and rights are denied so we are better off as an independent Biafra sovereign nation. Nothing is impossible," another man in his 20s added.
The renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe recently released his memoirs of the war entitled "There Was a Country." The book includes an insight into what life was like for his family fleeing the city of Lagos and heading east.
His account has angered some - especially non-Igbos - and has caused a stir in the Nigerian media as well as on the internet where there are plenty of reminders that ethnic divisions still run deep.
Towards the end of his book Achebe asks: "Why has the war not been discussed, or taught to the young, over 40 years after its end?
"Are we perpetually doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past because we are too stubborn to learn from them?"
Today Nigeria faces massive security challenges - top of the list being the Islamist insurgency in the north that many Nigerians believe is being fuelled by politicians.
Many would argue that some of the root causes of the civil war were also triggers of the rebellion in the north as well as the militancy in the Niger Delta.
"Three words - injustice, inequality and unfair play," says Chief Nduka Eya who, like Achebe, believes it is essential for young Nigerians to learn about the war.
"If you think education is expensive try ignorance," he says.
"Ignorance is a very damaging disease. Our boys and girls need to know what actually happened. 'Why did my father go to war?' Someone in the north will ask: 'Why did we go to fight them?'"
Sitting on his throne and holding his ox tail staff of office, Igwe Anthony Ojukwu calls for the war to be studied in schools.
"The experience of Biafra should be shared so that people outside Biafra will know when they are cheated and when they should start to fight for their own destiny," says the traditional ruler.
"The risk of not studying Biafra is that we will continue to subdue the subdueables no matter how justified they are in their demands. We will continue to live a life where the stronger animal kills the other," he says, although he stresses that he is against further efforts to secede.
"I think it is important that Nigeria stays together. Those who are singing for disintegration are doing so for selfish ends."
Forty-two years after the war, a beer has just been launched in eastern Nigeria. The choice of name, "Hero", and the logo on the bottle of a rising sun similar to the one on the Biafran flag were no accident.
These days "Bring me a Hero" is a popular call in the bars of Enugu where people have not entirely given up on the dream of raising a glass to "independence".
20 February 2017 Last updated at 09:12 GMT
It's the first time the sport has been held in the country, with 60 teams taking part.
It's based on the Chinese sport of dragon boat racing - but instead of taking place on water, it's on ice.
The game was invented so people from colder areas could still enjoy dragon boat races during the winter.
Mrs Foster was speaking after she and Mrs O'Neill attended a Brexit meeting with Prime Minister Theresa May.
Mrs O'Neill said she was the only politician at the meeting representing the "democratic will" of the people of Northern Ireland to remain in the EU.
She said she argued that NI should have "special status" in the EU.
Mrs O'Neill said she had spoken to James Brokenshire and Theresa May about Mr Brokenshire's remarks on legacy investigations at the weekend, and told them that the secretary of state had "disrespected the views of families who have been bereaved by state violence".
Mr Brokenshire said inquiries into killings during the Troubles are "disproportionately" focused on the police and the army.
"I took the opportunity to relay to James Brokenshire how disappointed I was at his comments, about how they were not acceptable, that clearly he disrespected the views of all those families that have been bereaved by state violence," Mrs O'Neill said.
"I think that clearly that there was insensitivity in terms of James Brokenshire's comments, the timing of them, given that we're in the weekend of Bloody Sunday anniversary, so it was wholly unhelpful.
"Clearly we need to deal with the legacy issue if we're going to move forward as society."
Mrs Foster said Monday's meeting of the Joint Ministerial Committee was originally meant to be held in Belfast, but had to be switched to Cardiff because of the collapse of the assembly.
An assembly election is to be held on 2 March after the Northern Ireland Executive collapsed over the botched Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme.
Asked if she thought a JMC meeting would be held in Belfast, she said: "Yes it will, absolutely."
Mrs Foster said she and Mrs O'Neill would "have to work together, because if the people of Northern Ireland decide that Sinn Féin and the DUP are the two largest parties then we have to move forward and we have to get the institutions up and running again as soon as possible".
The JMC is designed to keep the UK's devolved regions informed about Brexit and it is made up of leaders and ministers from the devolved governments in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Mrs May is now in Dublin later to meet Taoiseach Enda Kenny, with Brexit also on the agenda for their talks.
Mrs O'Neill attended the Brexit discussions in her capacity as health minister, while Mrs Foster was also present although she is no longer first minister.
Sinn Féin accused the DUP leader of being in denial about losing her ministerial job.
But the DUP replied that Sinn Féin should check the law that enables Mrs Foster to continue to carry out some of her ministerial functions.
Ahead of the discussions, Mrs O'Neill said the government had "ignored the views of the majority of the people" in Northern Ireland on Brexit.
While the UK as a whole voted to leave the EU in last June's referendum, 56% of people in Northern Ireland wanted to remain inside the union.
Police were called to the Galleria, at the junction of Bon Accord Street and Langstane Place, at 00:10 on Friday.
The man who died has been named as Craig Grant, from Aberdeenshire.
Police Scotland said three men - two aged 32 and one aged 21 - had been arrested in connection with the death.
Officers earlier urged people to come forward if they had mobile phone footage of the incident.
Ch Insp Richard Craig had said: "We are aware that this area would have been busy at the time with a number of people in the area.
"We are appealing for anyone who may have seen the incident to come forward. We are also aware that people may have captured the incident or the aftermath of it on their mobile phones and we would urgently appeal for them to come forward as soon as possible.
"An inquiry team has been set up involving divisional and specialist resources to establish the full circumstances surrounding the death.
"We would like to thank the community for being patient while police carry out enquiries in the area."
Webb, 50, has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges connected with world football's governing body.
He is under house arrest in New York after securing the $10m (£6.4m) bail.
Among the items Webb put up as bond were 11 luxury watches - including a Cartier Roadster - three cars and his wife's diamond wedding ring.
According to an order filed on Monday setting the conditions for his release, the vehicles were a 2015 Ferrari, a 2014 Range Rover and a 2003 Mercedes-Benz.
Webb, from the Cayman Islands, also provided a $400,000 (£256,000) account in the name of his wife, Dr Kendra Gamble-Webb.
He is accused of accepting bribes worth millions of dollars in connection with the sale of marketing rights and was detained in Switzerland in May, along with six football officials.
On Monday, Fifa announced a programme of reforms to address accusations of corruption within the organisation.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani joined the mourners in the city of Lahore amid tight security.
Mr Taseer, one of Pakistan's most outspoken liberal politicians, was shot on Tuesday by a bodyguard angered by his opposition to blasphemy laws.
Although many have condemned the assassination, some religious leaders have praised the governor's killer.
The governor - a senior member of the governing Pakistan People's Party (PPP) - had recently angered Islamists by appealing for a Christian woman, sentenced to death for blasphemy, to be pardoned.
Mr Gilani has declared three days of national mourning and appealed for calm.
The bodyguard, Malik Mumtaz Hussein Qadri, 26, was showered with rose petals by supporters as he appeared in court in Islamabad on Wednesday.
Mr Gilani and thousands of supporters of the PPP attended funeral prayers at Governor's House in Lahore.
Mr Taseer's coffin was then taken by helicopter to a graveyard in a military zone.
Security was intense and the city virtually shut down.
By M Ilyas KhanBBC News, Islamabad
The assassination of Governor Salman Taseer appears to have raised the level of threat against liberal voices in Pakistan.
While many religious leaders have publicly justified the murder, the liberal sections of society have been more cautious in condemning it. This is due to the rising tendency in society to silence voices of religious dissent by force, a tendency promoted by militant groups and condoned by religious forces active in the political sphere.
Even within the clerical community, many liberal voices have been silenced. Some have been blown up in suicide attacks, others have migrated. In a country where religious politicians have never won an election, this policy of intimidation has expanded their influence. They often distance themselves from acts of militancy but still try to justify them.
For example, they often condemn suicide attacks by militants on civilian targets, but qualify the act as caused by "anger over excesses being committed against Muslims by Western powers". Following Mr Taseer's assassination, they mostly did the same: condemning the act but justifying the killer who "acted in defence of the dignity of the Prophet". As is evident from Mr Taseer's assassination, any counter-argument can invoke a decree of death.
The assassination has drawn condemnation from around the world.
However, some Pakistani religious leaders have praised the governor's killer and called for a boycott of the ceremonies in Lahore, says the BBC's Orla Guerin in Islamabad.
One small religious party, the Jamaat-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat Pakistan, warned that anyone who expressed grief over the assassination could suffer the same fate.
"No Muslim should attend the funeral or even try to pray for Salman Taseer or even express any kind of regret or sympathy over the incident," the party said in a statement.
It said anyone who expressed sympathy over the death of a blasphemer was also committing blasphemy.
The Pakistani Taliban - Tehreek Taliban - also said anyone offering prayers for Mr Taseer would be guilty of blasphemy.
Speaking to the BBC, its deputy chief, Ehsanullah Ehsan, also warned religious scholars not to change their stance on blasphemy laws.
The bodyguard Malik Mumtaz Hussein Qadri was detained immediately after the shooting at Kohsar Market in Islamabad. He confessed to the murder, said Pakistan's interior minister, Rehman Malik.
At his first court appearance in Islamabad the guard was showered with rose petals by sympathetic lawyers and hugged by other supporters.
He was remanded in police custody and is due back in court on Thursday on charges of murder and terrorism.
After leaving court he stood next to an armoured police van wearing a garland of flowers given by a supporter and shouted "God is great".
Police are now questioning the rest of Mr Taseer's security detail and are also carrying out an inquiry into the governor's security arrangements.
"We will investigate whether it was an individual act or there is some organisation behind it," Mr Malik told a news conference.
The BBC's M Ilyas Khan says the questions being asked at the moment are whether the killer acted alone and why other members of Mr Taseer's security team did not try to prevent the assassination.
There are few credible explanations as to why the guard was able to empty two magazines of his sub-machine gun at the governor without being shot by his colleagues, our correspondent says.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were among those who condemned the killing.
Pakistan's high commissioner to London, Wajid Shamshul Hassan, told the BBC's Newshour programme that Pakistan would not allow itself to "be held hostage by a minority of [radical] religious people".
"We will be tough on them. Unless we get rid of such people in our society... you can't feel that justice will be done."
Mr Taseer had called for a pardon for Pakistani Christian woman, Asia Bibi, who was sentenced to death for insulting the Prophet Muhammad during an argument with other farmhands in a Punjab village in June 2009. She denies the charge.
Critics say the blasphemy law has been used to persecute minority faiths in Pakistan and is exploited by people with personal grudges.
Pakistan's government last week distanced itself from a private member's bill which seeks to amend the law by abolishing its mandatory death sentence.
The death of Mr Taseer - a close associate of President Asif Ali Zardari - is the most high-profile assassination in Pakistan since former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was killed in December 2007.
The PPP-led government has been under considerable threat in recent times. One of its coalition partners walked out at the weekend.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is withholding the latest tranche of its $11.3bn loan to Islamabad, while petrol prices have increased sharply and chronic fuel shortages are causing unrest.
Pakistan is also under pressure from the US to move against militants in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.
India's ranking on broadband penetration dropped to 131 in 2014 - lower by six places since the last year - according to a Unesco report covering 189 countries and titled "The State of Broadband 2015".
On mobile broadband subscriptions, India also slipped significantly as it stood at 155 in 2014 compared to 113 in 2013, far below neighbouring Sri Lanka and Nepal, which were ranked 126 and 115 respectively.
The country has also climbed down by five places to 80 among 133 developing countries, despite some progress in terms of individual use of the internet, the report says.
The findings underline the challenge that Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces in realising his government's "Digital India" project, which aims to universalise mobile and internet access across the country.
The 2015 report, released just ahead of the UN Sustainable Development Goals Summit on 26 September, emphasises the concerns of experts over the achievability of the "Digital India" initiative.
The project aims to reduce the "digital divide" by providing high-speed internet connectivity to the farthest corners of the country by 2019. It also speaks of "empowering" over 68% of India's population, living in rural areas.
Analysts have voiced doubts over the viability of these aims, arguing that they cannot be fulfilled without due attention to critical shortcomings in infrastructure.
The project envisages a 6,000km-long National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) to connect cities, towns and 150,000 postal offices by December 2016 at an estimated cost of over $18bn.
Osama Manzar, founder-director of the Digital Empowerment Foundation, in an article on the Mint website laments the lack of investment pledges by telecommunication firms towards building the network.
"It is on record that not a single telecom operator or industry house has signed up to partner the NOFN programme, despite the Department of Telecommunications inviting them several times," he says.
The NOFN project is far behind schedule and is unlikely to be completed on time.
A particular obstacle is posed by the challenges of laying such an underground network in insurgency-affected states like Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Indian-administered Kashmir, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.
A lack of agreement between the central and state governments does not help, and compounding the mix are illiteracy, poverty and a shortage of skilled manpower.
The "Digital India" project aims to promote e-education in over 250,000 government schools and e-governance in about 250,000 village councils via internet connections. However, most schools in villages and towns face a severe shortage of qualified computer trainers.
According to recent government data, 36% of the 884 million people in rural areas are illiterate, and among the 64% who are literate, only 5.4% have completed high school.
And rural electrification continues to be an area of major concern.
India is a large market for mobile telephony, but it does not fare well on considerations of internet speed via mobile devices.
A recent Deloitte report said the total number of internet users in the country was 254m in September 2014, and of these, 235m users were accessing the internet through mobile devices.
The research suggests that there are 439,000 mobile network towers nationwide, but only 700 can actually support 3G or 4G data use.
Statistics show that despite having the third-largest population of internet users in the world, India stands at 52nd place in terms of internet speed. It has an average speed of 1.5 to 2 mbps, while developed Asian countries like South Korea and Japan enjoy speeds of 14.2 and 11.7 mbps respectively.
The latest UN report, therefore, only underlines the already formidable challenges faced by the "Digital India" project.
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The government says the action is needed to help tackle bovine TB, a disease of cattle that can be spread by badgers.
Campaigners against the cull say the policy will have no impact on bovine TB, and could lead to local populations of badgers being wiped out.
A: The trials took place in areas where there were a high number of TB infections in cattle to assess whether badgers could be culled humanely, safely and effectively.
The precise areas where badgers were shot by trained marksmen was not revealed.
One area was in West Somerset and the other in and around West Gloucestershire.
A third area, in Dorset, was prepared in reserve but there was no culling last year.
The cull aimed to kill at least 70% of badgers across areas about the size of the Isle of Wight in each zone.
A: The pilots do not look at scientific data. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will review:
On the basis of the report by an independent panel - expected in March - ministers will make a decision about whether or not to extend the pilots to other areas of England.
A: Scientific evidence suggests sustained culls of badgers under controlled conditions could reduce TB in local cattle by 12-16% after four years of annual culls, and five years of follow-up, although it could be lower and it could be higher.
The randomised badger culling trial in England found that killing badgers disrupted their social groups, with surviving animals moving out to establish new groups, taking TB with them.
This perturbation effect led to an increase in cases of bovine TB outside of the cull zone, although the impact diminished over time.
The pilot culls attempted to use borders such as rivers and motorways to reduce the risk of badgers spreading TB to neighbouring areas, but this approach has not been fully tested.
The randomised badger culling trial trapped badgers in cages for the cull, while the main method planned for Gloucestershire and Somerset was free shooting, although cage trapping and shooting was also used.
Any deviation from methods used in the original trial will decrease or increase the expected impact on bovine TB, according to scientists.
A: Bovine tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease of cattle. It presents a serious problem for the cattle industry, causing financial and personal hardship for farmers.
The disease is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis), which can also infect and cause TB in badgers, deer and other mammals.
Cattle are regularly tested for TB and destroyed if they test positive.
Q: Why are badgers implicated in spreading TB?
A: Scientific evidence has shown that bovine TB can be transmitted from cattle to cattle; from badgers to cattle and cattle to badgers; and from badger to badger.
Badgers are thought to pass on the disease to cattle through their urine, faeces or through droplet infection, in the farmyard or in cattle pastures.
However, it is not clear how big a role badgers play in the spread of bovine TB since the cows can also pass the disease on to other members of the herd.
According to computer modelling studies, herd-to-herd transmission of bovine TB in cattle accounts for 94% of cases.
Scientific evidence from the randomised badger culling trials found around 6% of infected cattle catch TB directly from badgers.
The figure rises to about 50%, when cattle infected by badgers pass it on to other herds, say scientists.
A: TB has cost the taxpayer in England £500m to control the disease in the last 10 years.
According to Defra, each pilot cull will cost about £100,000 a year, with these costs met by farmers who want badgers killed on their land.
This figure does not include policing costs, which have been estimated at £500,000 per area per year, according to a written answer to parliament.
According to Mary Creagh, shadow secretary of state for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, other costs include:
A wildlife charity has estimated the costs of the pilot culls to be more than £4,000 per badger killed.
Most of the shooting was thought to have been carried out at dusk or at night, since the animals are largely nocturnal. There are two main methods used to shoot badgers: searching over an area with a spotlight and rifle; or placing bait at a fixed point, then lying in wait for the badger.
This requires a team of two or three people: the shooter, a spotter and a potential third person to drive a vehicle or act as an additional safety lookout.
Shooting must be avoided if the teams are near rights of ways, or close to rural dwellings in order to prevent accidental injury to the public.
To comply with humane standards, the person using the firearm must try to kill the animal quickly with the first shot. This means being able to locate the heart-lung area of the badger's body and be confident of a "clean" kill up to a range of 50-70m.
But there are problems in shooting animals at distance in the dark. Coloured filters can be used with spotlights to reduce a badger's awareness of the spotlight, allowing teams to approach more closely, or take more time on a shot. But they also reduce visibility for the shooter. Night vision sights can be used if certain conditions are met.
Officials accept that second shots may sometimes be necessary. Though it is practical to select a site near a badger sett, the shooting must not take place so close to the entrance (at least 30m away) that a wounded badger can retreat inside before a follow-up shot can be taken.
Licensed operators must pass a Defra-approved marksmanship course and must have received training on humane shooting. There are restrictions on firearms and ammunition.
Q: What is happening in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland?
A: Scotland is classified as free of TB. The Welsh Assembly Government has chosen to vaccinate badgers, with trials underway in North Pembrokeshire.
Northern Ireland is conducting research into an eradication programme involving vaccination and selected culling of badgers with signs of TB infection.
The Republic of Ireland has been culling badgers since the 1980s.
Q: Can badgers or cows be vaccinated?
A: There is a vaccine for badgers - the BCG jab, which has been used by a number of wildlife and conservation bodies in England, including the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, the RSPB, the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust and the National Trust.
Badger vaccination is underway in Wales and the Republic of Ireland, and there are plans to introduce it in Northern Ireland.
Cattle can also be vaccinated with the BCG vaccine. Vaccination of cattle against TB is currently prohibited by EU legislation, mainly because BCG vaccination of cattle can interfere with the tuberculin skin test, the main diagnostic test for TB.
Vaccination is not effective in badgers or cattle that are infected with TB.
In Wales, the cost of vaccinating each badger is put at £662.
The unreleased movie follows a clown who is sent to a concentration camp and told to lead children to their deaths.
Lewis, who has died at the age of 91, gave his copy of the film to the US Library of Congress.
In 2015, the library confirmed it would be shown to scholars and members of the public - but not before June 2024.
Some, however, are not prepared to wait that long.
"RIP jerry lewis, release 'the day the clown cried' immediately," wrote one Twitter user on Sunday.
"Is it horrible that my first thought upon hearing about Jerry Lewis's death is 'now they can release The Day The Clown Cried'?" asked Paul DeBruler.
Lewis directed the 1972 film and played the leading role - a clown who is arrested in Nazi Germany for drunkenly defaming Hitler.
The character is then thrown into a concentration camp, where he is beaten and forced to lead children into gas chambers.
Lewis kept what is believed to be the only copy locked in a private vault before donating it to the Library of Congress.
US comedian Harry Shearer, one of only a handful of people known to have seen the film, said he was "stunned" by how bad it was.
In 1992, he said: "This movie is so drastically wrong, its pathos and its comedy are so wildly misplaced, that you could not, in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve on what it really is."
The film's release was initially blocked by co-writer Joan O'Brien, according to the Lewis biography King of Comedy by Shawn Levy.
Later, Lewis himself didn't want the film to be shown, at least not in his lifetime, and rarely spoke about it.
On one of the few occasions he broke his silence, he said it was "bad, bad, bad" and would "never be seen".
"I was ashamed of the work and I was grateful I had the power to contain it all and never let anyone see it," he said in 2013.
"It could have been wonderful but I slipped up - I didn't quite get it."
"It ain't finished," he said in another interview in 2009. "No one's ever gonna see it.
"After I'm gone, who knows what's going to happen? [But] I think I have the legalese necessary to keep it where it is."
Last year, images from the film featured in a BBC documentary titled The Story of The Day the Clown Cried, and clips have emerged on YouTube.
Various purported versions of the script have been circulated online, inspiring both live readings and video re-enactments.
Lewis was famous around the world for his partnership with Dean Martin, his fund-raising for muscular dystrophy and his numerous hit comedies.
For all his attempts to keep it under wraps, though, his infamous Holocaust drama remains a source of continued fascination and debate.
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Rai is married to actor Abhishek, Mr Bachchan's son. This will be the couple's first baby.
Often called the "queen of Bollywood", Rai, 37, married Bachchan in 2007, forging the ultimate Bollywood dynasty.
She first charmed the nation at just 21, winning Miss World in 1994. She has acted in several Hollywood films too.
"News news news!! I am going to become a grandfather. Aishwarya expecting. So happy and thrilled," Mr Bachchan tweeted on Tuesday night.
The actor later wrote that he had received "2,843 tweets in the first half hour" and that he was "overwhelmed with wishes and blessings".
It's not yet known when the baby is due.
Rai was the first Indian actress to sit on the Cannes jury in 2003. She has also appeared on the cover of Time magazine as the global face of Indian cinema.
Because of her popularity in India and outside, she has long been the face of cosmetic giant Loreal and high-end Longines watches.
The Liberty Stadium erupted as Fernando Llorente's early header gave the hosts a precious lead.
The match hinged on a remarkable minute of second-half action, as Stoke's Marko Arnautovic blasted a penalty high over the bar moments before Tom Carroll's deflected long-range strike doubled Swansea's lead.
That sparked further joyous celebrations, although they were tempered by relegation rivals Hull's win over Watford, which kept the Swans in the Premier League's bottom three.
Swansea remain 18th in the table, two points adrift of Hull and safety, but a first victory since March will give them a much-needed lift with four games to go.
Paul Clement had described this match as "must win", adding that this was the club's most important fixture since the Championship play-off final they won in 2011.
An alarming decline had seen Swansea lose five of their past six Premier League matches, having won five of their first eight following Clement's appointment in January.
His players appeared to respond to the severity of the situation, feeding off a fervently atmospheric Liberty Stadium as they harassed Stoke in a frenetic start to the game.
Llorente fanned the flames of optimism with his goal, drifting away from some uncharacteristically slack marking by Ryan Shawcross to nod in virtually unopposed.
But although they enjoyed more possession, Swansea struggled to create further chances as the game became a little disjointed.
Clement seemed intent on holding on to the slender lead as he replaced striker Llorente with centre-back Mike van der Hoorn, and there was a moment when it seemed the Swans might regret removing their top scorer.
Arnautovic, albeit in an offside position, was allowed to square the ball to Xherdan Shaqiri, who was tripped by Federico Fernandez, prompting referee Michael Oliver to point to the spot.
But Arnautovic skied his penalty and, seconds later, it proved to be a costly miss as Carroll's powerful 25-yard effort deflected off former Swansea midfielder Joe Allen and over Jack Butland into the Stoke goal.
Sitting 11th in the table and comfortably clear of any relegation threat, Stoke might have appeared to be the archetypal team with nothing to play for.
However, they had disproven that theory in their previous outing, ending a four-game losing streak with a 3-1 victory over Hull, Swansea's chief rivals in their bid for survival.
Mark Hughes' side initially seemed rattled by their opponents' high-octane opening at the Liberty, but they eventually composed themselves and created some good scoring opportunities.
Saido Berahino squandered two of them, heading wide and straight at Lukasz Fabianski from promising positions.
Following the 60 seconds in which Arnautovic missed his penalty and Carroll scored Swansea's second, Stoke seemed to lose heart, succumbing to an eighth defeat from their last 10 fixtures on the road.
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Swansea manager Paul Clement: "I thought it was a must-win game and Hull have won and it was absolutely right.
"If the gap had gone to five points with four to play, the task would have been very difficult.
"Nothing changed between us and Hull but what has changed is we have got momentum now. We played terrific. We rode our luck but overall deserved to win and can look forward."
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Stoke manager Mark Hughes: "We made it difficult for ourselves. If you are away you have got to make sure you are in the game and don't concede early and that is what we did.
"We hadn't got going. At 1-0 for the most part we were OK but clearly the game has changed on missing the penalty - if we could get back on terms, who knows?
"We need to be better at managing the game and affecting the opposition."
Stoke host West Ham on Saturday 29 April (15:00 BST kick-off) while Swansea travel to Old Trafford to play Manchester United on Sunday 30 April (12:00 BST kick-off).
Match ends, Swansea City 2, Stoke City 0.
Second Half ends, Swansea City 2, Stoke City 0.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Stephen Kingsley.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Gylfi Sigurdsson.
Corner, Swansea City. Conceded by Mame Biram Diouf.
Foul by Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City).
Stephen Kingsley (Swansea City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Peter Crouch (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Peter Crouch (Stoke City).
Mike van der Hoorn (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Bruno Martins Indi (Stoke City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Joe Allen following a corner.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Kyle Naughton.
Corner, Swansea City. Conceded by Bruno Martins Indi.
Substitution, Swansea City. Borja Bastón replaces Leon Britton.
Foul by Peter Crouch (Stoke City).
Alfie Mawson (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Stoke City. Mame Biram Diouf replaces Marko Arnautovic.
Offside, Stoke City. Peter Crouch tries a through ball, but Marko Arnautovic is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Ki Sung-yueng (Swansea City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right.
Corner, Swansea City. Conceded by Geoff Cameron.
Attempt blocked. Gylfi Sigurdsson (Swansea City) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked. Assisted by Tom Carroll.
Substitution, Stoke City. Ramadan Sobhi replaces Saido Berahino.
Foul by Bruno Martins Indi (Stoke City).
Ki Sung-yueng (Swansea City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Swansea City. Conceded by Jack Butland.
Attempt saved. Jordan Ayew (Swansea City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ki Sung-yueng.
Ryan Shawcross (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mike van der Hoorn (Swansea City).
Corner, Swansea City. Conceded by Erik Pieters.
Corner, Swansea City. Conceded by Jack Butland.
Attempt saved. Tom Carroll (Swansea City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Leon Britton.
Goal! Swansea City 2, Stoke City 0. Tom Carroll (Swansea City) left footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Jordan Ayew.
Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Marko Arnautovic (Stoke City) right footed shot is too high. Marko Arnautovic should be disappointed.
Penalty Stoke City. Xherdan Shaqiri draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Federico Fernández (Swansea City) after a foul in the penalty area.
Jordan Ayew (Swansea City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Erik Pieters (Stoke City).
Corner, Swansea City. Conceded by Geoff Cameron.
Attempt blocked. Federico Fernández (Swansea City) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked.
Bruno Martins Indi (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
19 December 2016 Last updated at 10:24 GMT
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Timm van Gugten took 5-52 to pass 50 Championship wickets for the season as Leicestershire were bowled out for 96 in just 29.3 overs before lunch.
Teenager Kiran Carlson top-scored for Glamorgan with an unbeaten 74, but three wickets each from Neil Dexter and Clint McKay saw them all out for 199.
Leicestershire reached a relatively sedate 78-0 in their second innings.
Leicestershire batsman Ned Eckersley told BBC Radio Leicester:
"It was a bizarre day of cricket and definitely wasn't forecast at the start, the pitch was a little bit soft but fine.
"I'm at a loss to explain it. For our first innings a few of us, myself included, will be disappointed in the manner of the dismissals.
"But in all fairness and credit to us, to comeback from being bowled out for 96 and bowl them out, to have that fight and keep taking wickets like we did, was very impressive.
"We have given ourselves a chance of winning the game going into day two."
Glamorgan batsman Kiran Carlson told BBC Wales Sport:
"It was quite a tough wicket to get started on and that showed with a lot of people getting out early but, as soon as you got in, it flattened out a little bit as you saw with their openers at the end of the day.
"We need to come back again strongly, if we take a few quick wickets early we can make inroads in the afternoon.
"It's nice to follow up my hundred at Chelmsford and do well again in the last game of the season.
"Timm van der Gugten has been on fire the whole season, he's missed a couple of four-day games and still managed to take 50 wickets, so that's brilliant."
Nuraini Noor, also known by her stage name Tuti, was recently unveiled as one of 14 contestants in the latest season of Asia's Next Top Model.
The news triggered online comments from Malaysians saying it was wrong for a Muslim woman to take part.
However, Ms Noor told the BBC she respected everyone's opinions, but did not like to put labels on anything.
"What really separates us is not skin colour nor religion. It's opportunity," she told the BBC via email.
Malaysia is known to be a moderate Muslim country, but has seen rising religious sentiment in recent years.
Ms Noor is said to be the show's first ethnic Malay participant. Malays make up the majority of Malaysia's population and are mostly Muslim.
The critical comments reportedly began surfacing online shortly after organisers unveiled the contestants in February, with some calling for her withdrawal.
The show is the Asian spin-off of popular US television show America's Next Top Model, and will begin airing across the region on 9 March.
"For me, this programme [is] not for us Muslim[s], we have rules!" said one commenter on the show's Facebook page.
"This is not a matter of pride for Malay people, who are mainly Muslim. Furthermore in this event people are told to wear clothes that are not proper, and can be touched by boys," said another Facebook user in comments reported by The Malay Mail.
But other Malaysians have defended her saying they were glad she was representing their country.
"Different people have different point[s] of view and I am not in control of that. I respect each and everyone's opinion," Ms Noor said.
"I don't like to put labels on anything. I'm a citizen of the world. I'm that kind of girl who chase[s] her dreams."
The 24-year-old said she did not face such controversy in the past when she took part and won modelling competitions in Malaysia.
As a Muslim model, "that really depends on how you approach the task. You need to be open to the producers, photographer, stylist and everyone involved on issues such as this and the sensitivities attached to it."
"At the end of the day, the ultimate goal is to produce good photos and to fulfil your brief and that's what I intend to do every time," she said.
Malaysia has seen a rise in religious sentiment in recent years.
Last year religious authorities condemned an incident where Korean pop stars were seen hugging girls onstage, while a satirical video poking fun at an Islamic party prompted death threats as well as a police investigation.
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World number 216 Ward - who had radically defied expectations in reaching the semis - started nervously as the Frenchman broke with ease.
Though Ward found a groove to break in the second set, Tsonga clawed it back.
He then edged the tie-break 9-7 as Ward failed to convert a set point.
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The smooth-serving 24-year-old Londoner, determined throughout despite playing four demanding sets of tennis within the previous 24 hours, earned the chance to level with a superb volleyed return.
But Tsonga saved it with nerveless second serve in a match when Ward's position outside the elite was finally exposed, but only just, against a player of real class.
Though Ward misses out on a dream all-British final, it is likely his world ranking will rise to around the 176 mark.
"It's obviously been a fantastic week for me - my best so far," he told BBC Sport.
"I just hope to build on it from here on in. It's great being at home when everyone's on your side - it does help a lot - I came into this tournament just hoping to play well in the first round.
"But the more I won, the more I believed in myself, and this game is all about confidence. I will take that now into Eastbourne next week. Today was a great match and I just missed out, but it's onwards and upwards from here."
Ward can take real heart from forcing Tsonga to fight all the way for his win after his wobbly start allowed the heavy-serving Frenchman, who delivered aces with ease, to move 3-0 up.
After holding, Ward did earn two break points in the next game but Tsonga's powerful serve got him out of trouble on both occasions - and he went on to clinch the opening set.
Tsonga wasted two break points in the first match of the second set, sending a forehand wide before being denied by the net cord.
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Growing in confidence, Ward held before moving 15-40 up after two double faults from Tsonga - who conceded the break of serve with a limp return into the net, firing up the Queen's crowd.
But with Ward serving for a 5-2 lead, Tsonga found his way back into the set after putting away a second break point with an overhead to get back on serve before a tense tie-break.
The Briton saved match point at 5-6 in a topsy-turvy affair - before earning one of his own.
Tsonga saved that with a strong second serve down the middle, and wrapped up the win to book a final with Murray.
Mae'r pianydd Iwan Llywelyn Jones hefyd yn teimlo bod angen gwthio'r ffiniau, a bod yn "fwy mentrus" o ran y dewisiadau cerddorol.
Yn wreiddiol o Ynys Môn, dywedodd Mr Jones y byddai'n hoffi gweld cerddoriaeth yn cael ei berfformio mewn mwy o ieithoedd, neu roi cyfleoedd i gyfansoddwyr ifanc.
Mewn ymateb dywedodd Elen Elis, trefnydd yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol fod yr ŵyl yn "bodoli i hyrwyddo'r iaith Gymraeg a diwylliant Cymru".
Yn siarad ar BBC Radio Cymru, dywedodd Mr Jones: "Weithiau dwi'n teimlo falle bod angen i ni edrych ar rywbeth bach mwy mentrus, fel y cyfansoddwyr ifanc neu'r cyfansoddwyr canol oed, cyfansoddwyr sy'n byw yng Nghymru ac yn mentro ar y ffiniau o gerddoriaeth.
"Cerddoriaeth sy'n ymestynnol ac yn heriol i'r cyhoedd. Fyswn i'n licio os fysa na fwy o lwyfan i hynny yn yr Eisteddfod."
Cafodd Mr Jones ei fagu yn Ynys Môn gan dderbyn ei addysg ym Mhrifysgol Rhydychen a'r Coleg Cerdd Brenhinol yn Llundain, lle enillodd sawl ysgoloriaeth a gwobr am ei berfformiadau a'i ysgolheictod academaidd.
Mae wedi cyflwyno datganiadau unawdol yn neuaddau cyngerdd enwoca'r byd, fel Wigmore Hall, Neuadd Dewi Sant, y Tŷ Opera yn Sydney, a'r Gewandhaus yn Leipzig.
Dywedodd hefyd yr hoffai ymestyn allan i'r byd ac edrych ar wahodd diwylliannau eraill draw i'r Brifwyl.
Ychwanegodd bod "angen bod bach yn ddewr", gan awgrymu bod diffyg deunydd fel operau yn y Gymraeg yn golygu bod angen llacio rhywfaint ar reol yr iaith Gymraeg yn ei farn o.
"Mae'n rhaid i gantorion fod yn fwy mentrus a dysgu yn yr iaith wreiddiol i gael y briodas 'na rhwng y geiriau a'r gerddoriaeth yn gyflawn," meddai.
"Fel offerynwyr mi allwn ni chwarae rhywbeth, does 'na ddim iaith."
Ychwanegodd ei fod yn bwysig creu "gŵyl sy'n dangos Cymru ar ei orau, mae'r Gymraeg yn ganolog a hwnna ydy'r peth pwysig, ond dydy o ddim y dechrau a'r diwedd".
"Mae'n rhaid i ni feddwl ymhellach draw, tu allan i'r bocs."
Wrth ymateb i'r sylwadau ar raglen Post Cyntaf BBC Radio Cymru dywedodd Elen Elis ei bod hi'n "bwysig ein bod ni'n browd o'r iaith Gymraeg".
"Rydan ni'r Eisteddfod yn bodoli i hyrwyddo'r iaith. Mae'n rhan o'n cyfansoddiad ni," meddai.
"Mae'r rheol iaith yn bodoli, pam wnawn ni ddim dathlu hynny? 'Dan ni'n bodoli i hyrwyddo'r iaith Gymraeg a diwylliant Cymru."
Ychwanegodd fod yr ŵyl wedi ceisio "gwthio'r ffiniau yn artistig dros y blynyddoedd", a bod gwyliau eraill fel Eisteddfod Ryngwladol Llangollen yn cynnig llwyfan i hyrwyddo diwylliannau a pherfformio mewn ieithoedd eraill.
Officials have sent out letters to 550 clients offering them a blood test.
The studio traded as Blue Voodoo, Sun Tattoo Studio and Flesh Wound at two premises at Commercial Street, Newport, between May 2013 and January 2015.
The warning has been issued by Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.
The people who suffered skin infections all needed hospital treatment and some had reconstructive surgery, according to Dr Gill Richardson, director of public health for the health board.
She said the connection was spotted by a "diligent" junior doctor who treated four of them.
The health board said the confirmed cases could also indicate a low risk of transmission of Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C and an extremely low risk of HIV transmission for all clients of these premises.
A blood test to check for all three has been offered to people who had a piercing or tattoo.
Officials stressed that the risk of picking up any blood borne infections through piercing or tattooing is "very small".
In a news conference on Wednesday, health officials said the registered business is subject to ongoing investigations by Newport council's environmental health team and has ceased trading.
A series of clinics with specialist nurses have been set up in the health board area for people who receive a letter.
A helpline has been set up for others who had a piercing or tattoo at the business but do not receive a letter by Friday to get in touch.
Dr Brendan Mason, consultant epidemiologist for Public Health Wales, said no cases of HIV transmission from tattooing or piercing have been documented worldwide.
The 20-year-old broke a metatarsal in the 21st-minute of the Magpies' 2-0 win against League Two side Cheltenham Town in the EFL Cup second round.
The former Bristol City trainee has played five games for Newcastle so far this season, starting twice.
Aarons, who joined from the Robins in 2014, recently signed a new five-year contract at St James' Park.
The Magpies have also announced that England Under-19 midfielder Adam Armstrong, 19, has signed a new four-year deal.
Officers found Lola living in "hugely inappropriate conditions" in a house in Blaenymaes, Swansea.
She was running loose in the living room with a cage and a UV lamp in the corner, along with a dog she would often try to attack.
She now lives at a wildlife centre with other monkeys. RSPCA wants a ban on keeping primates as pets in Wales.
RSPCA Inspector, Neill Manley, said: "Sadly, some people like the idea of keeping a monkey as a pet, but this is another example of how unsuitable they are.
"Marmosets have very complex and specialist needs, which it would be practically impossible to meet in a domestic house such as this one.
"A Staffie-type dog also lived at this Blaenymaes home, and we heard how the monkey sometimes would try and bite the dog, which further highlights how these just weren't the right conditions."
He said the owners had sought advice from a vet on keeping the animal but he said a house was not the right environment for the highly intelligent and social primate to be living in.
Charlie Skinner, RSPCA campaigns assistant, said estimates showed there were more than 120 privately-owned monkeys living in homes in Wales.
He added 15 European countries had already introduced bans on keeping them as pets and it was time "for action in Wales".
William Christie, 29, and Christopher Smith, 26, demanded that Michael McMann tell him where a safe was.
The pair, who have been jailed, also stole three children's piggy banks while ransacking the house at about 02:00 on 22 November 2015.
Judge Lord Boyd jailed Christie, from Elgin, for four years and Smith, from Keith, for four and a half years.
The High Court in Glasgow heard that the pair also swung a claw hammer towards Mr McMann, 46, who punched one of the men in the face before fleeing the house to ring police.
A 13-year-old child was asleep in the house at the time.
Mr McMann was staying at his friend Craig McDonald's house that night while Mr McDonald was out working as a taxi driver.
Christie and Smith - who have a number of previous convictions for similar offences - admitted forcing their way into the house, assaulting Mr McMann and stealing three piggy banks.
Lord Boyd told them: "This was a positive assault on Mr McMann, fortunately there was no physical injury.
"But this was a frightening experience for him and has also affected the 13-year-old boy who was asleep at the time."
Advocate depute Paul Brown, prosecuting, said Mr McMann had been woken up by someone pulling his sleep apnoea mask away from his face and shouting, "Where's the safe?".
He said: "As he uttered the words, the male affected a Polish accent.
"Mr McMann then saw a second male enter the room. He was also shouting, "where's the safe?" and was also affecting a Polish accent.
"The complainer sat up in bed. He saw that the second male was holding a claw hammer in his right hand, which he was swinging in an aggressive manner."
After hearing what had happened, Mr McDonald returned home and noticed that three piggy banks - one containing silver coins and the other two containing coppers - were missing.
The court heard that Mr McDonald did have a safe in his house containing takings from his taxi business.
When he checked the safe he saw it was undisturbed and undiscovered and told police he could not think of anybody suspicious who knew about it.
Christie and Smith had been seen driving around in a silver Subaru wearing balaclavas.
Both accused were found hiding in undergrowth near the silver car and were "extremely hostile".
When interviewed, they both refused to answer questions.
It was said on their behalf that they thought the house was empty when they entered it.
Gardaà (Irish police) say the man, in his 50s, "suffered apparent gunshot wounds".
Emergency services were called to a home on the city's North Circular Road at around 20:30 GMT, and the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
No arrests have been made.
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A low-scoring match saw the pair share the first two frames before the Australian opened up a 4-1 lead.
England's world number 14 Carter pulled it back to 4-3, but the 2012 Masters champion won the next before clinching victory with a 117 break.
Earlier, Marco Fu beat Judd Trump 6-5 in a thrilling final-frame decider.
Hong Kong's Fu had fallen 3-0 and 4-2 behind, but recovered to make breaks of 80 and 102 in the last two frames.
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Englishman Trump started brightly with breaks of 102, 87 and 67, and further runs of 79 and 112 took him one away from victory, before Fu fought back.
Fu, runner-up in 2010, faces Northern Ireland's Mark Allen in the next round at Alexandra Palace on Thursday.
A high-class encounter saw the pair make 14 breaks over 50 in the best-of-11 match.
Fu's victory was the third first-round match to go to a decider following O'Sullivan's win over Liang Wenbo and Allen's victory over John Higgins.
"I have done it the hard way," he told BBC Sport. "I missed three balls and was 3-0 down. I just tried to concentrate on the good things I had been doing.
"Maybe there was a few nerves at the start. No matter how many tournaments you have won, this is an extra buzz."
Last month, Fu was 4-1 down before winning eight frames in a row to beat Higgins in the Scottish Open final to claim the third ranking title of his career.
Fu added: "When I am in good form, I handle the mistakes better now. I feel stronger when I miss a few balls, it does not matter to me, I can keep going."
1991 world champion John Parrott on BBC Two
I feel sorry for Judd, he did not have a single chance in the final frame but Marco took those last few balls well.
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The Briton, 27, will defend the WBO title he won in 2015 when he faces the American in London on 16 September.
The fight is a week after Gennady Golovkin's bout with Saul Alvarez in Las Vegas, where the division's three other titles will be on the line.
"If Bill comes through, we are pushing hard for the winner," said Warren.
"If Golovkin wins, I hope we can do that fight in December. If Canelo wins, it could be in the new year. Bill has to go out there and prove a point. There is a lot on the line."
Saunders is undefeated in 24 professional bouts but has defended his world title just once and has not fought since December.
He was due to face Avtandil Khurtsidze in July but that fight was postponed when the Georgian was arrested.
Saunders says he will be in "the best shape of my life" when he meets 30-year-old Monroe Jr at the Copper Box Arena.
The American has two defeats - one a sixth-round stoppage against Golovkin - from 23 fights.
"I think it is going to be a very close fight but I already have the mental edge over him," said Saunders. "He said he was done against Golovkin and that's not what a warrior would do. I'd rather get knocked out cold than quit."
Monroe Jr said: "I gave a good account of myself against Golovkin but I will admit that I got caught up in the moment.
"Billy Joe has had a lot of luxuries throughout his career that I haven't had. All of his fights have been in his own backyard. He hasn't had to go into the lion's den to prove himself." | Billy Joe Saunders must "prove a point" in beating Willie Monroe Jr if he wants to unify the middleweight division, says promoter Frank Warren. | 40,640,745 | 416 | 40 | false |
The accident happened at an unmanned level crossing in Mau district.
The passenger train rammed into the bus, dragging it down the track. Early reports said 25 people were injured.
There are nearly 15,000 unmanned crossings on Indian railways and hundreds of people are killed on these crossings every year.
Reports say the bus, carrying more than 20 primary school children, was crossing the tracks when a train bound for the holy city of Varanasi hit it early on Thursday.
"It was quite foggy in the morning when the incident took place," Mau's information officer Jitendra Pratap Singh told the AFP news agency.
"Five children have been killed and 13 others, including the driver, are injured. The injured are being treated in the district hospital."
In July at least 18 children were killed along with their driver when a school bus was hit by a train in the state of Telangana.
Safety standards on India's massive state-run railway network, which operates 9,000 passenger trains and carries some 23 million passengers every day, has been an ongoing concern amid a spate of accidents.
Global GDP is now expected to grow by 2.9%, down from 3% forecast in September, but will hit 3.3% in 2016.
The OECD said trade had dropped to levels perilously close to those "associated with global recession".
Worldwide trade growth is forecast at 2% this year, down from 3.4% in 2014.
Catherine Mann, the OECD chief economist, said: "This is deeply concerning. Robust trade and global growth go hand in hand."
Calling world trade a "bellwether for global output", she said sluggishness in Europe had now been replaced by weak growth in emerging markets.
China, the world's largest trader of goods, seemed to be "at the heart of this" as its economic slowdown had hit other Asian economies and commodity exporters, she said.
The OECD has repeatedly cut its 2015 global growth outlook from the 3.7% it initially forecast last November.
But in its bi-annual outlook, the organisation said stimulus measures in China and other countries would help the world economy speed up next year, before accelerating to 3.6% in 2017.
"Policy actions are already being implemented that will help to address the weak underlying trends," Ms Mann said.
Last month, China's central bank cut interest rates for the sixth time in nearly a year, while the ruling Communist party has also ratcheted up infrastructure spending.
However, the OECD expects Chinese authorities will still miss their economic targets, with GDP growth forecast to cool to 6.2% in 2017.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has said China must keep annual growth at 6.5% in the next five years to hit the country's goal of doubling 2010 GDP and household income by 2020.
The OECD called for the US Federal Reserve to go ahead with its first rate hike since the financial crisis as a recovery gains steam in the United States and Europe.
Expectations of a rise in US interest rates next month have soared following strong employment figures from October.
UK economic growth is projected to continue at a "robust pace", with GDP growing 2.4% this year and in 2016, before dropping slightly to 2.3% in 2017.
The 27-year-old took an indefinite break from the game in May to deal with anxiety issues.
Her inclusion does not mean a definite return to the game in 2017, when England will host the World Cup.
Bowlers Alex Hartley and Beth Langston get contracts for the first time, but Rebecca Grundy misses out.
Left-arm spinner Grundy is one of three players omitted from the 2015 list, along with retired pair Charlotte Edwards and Lydia Greenway.
The deals with the England and Wales Cricket Board include an unspecified pay rise, while seam bowler Langston is the first and only recipient of a new level of "rookie" contract.
"In order to ensure that professional cricket continues to be an attractive career option for talented female athletes, it's important that we continue to properly invest in our players," said England and Wales Cricket Board director of women's cricket Clare Connor.
"The pay increase and introduction of two-year contracts will give our players greater financial security and ensure they can be fully focused on the challenges that lie ahead."
Though it is still not clear when or if Taylor will return to playing, the awarding of a contract provides her with a salary, along with the facilities, coaching and support staff available to rest of the squad.
For a time, her anxiety issues prevented her from going to some public places. Earlier in December, she posted on social media that she had gone to a shopping centre for the first time since April.
A return by Taylor, regarded as one of the world's best batters and the first woman to play first-grade men's cricket in Australia, in time for the World Cup would be a boost for England, who have not won an international trophy since 2009.
"Sarah is doing really well with her return to cricket plan after taking some time away from the game for health reasons," said England coach Mark Robinson.
"Her aim has always been to be back playing and available for selection for the World Cup next summer, and we'll continue to offer her the support she needs to achieve that goal."
Left-arm spinner Hartley, 23, is rewarded for taking 13 wickets in the 3-2 series win in the West Indies in October - and England record.
Langston, 24, returned to the England side after a three-year absence in the 4-0 series victory in Sri Lanka in November.
Full list of centrally contracted professionals: Tammy Beaumont, Katherine Brunt, Kate Cross, Georgia Elwiss, Natasha Farrant, Jenny Gunn, Alex Hartley, Danielle Hazell, Amy Jones, Heather Knight (capt), Beth Langston (rookie contract), Laura Marsh, Natalie Sciver, Anya Shrubsole, Sarah Taylor, Lauren Winfield, Fran Wilson, Danielle Wyatt.
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Mansfield could have been down to ten men after just five minutes when goalkeeper Scott Shearer handled the ball outside the area.
Shearer rushed from his goal to close down Kevin Dawson and clearly used his hand to stop the midfielder's shot, yet after much deliberation referee Chris Sarginson only produced a yellow card.
Matty Dolan forced a sharp save from the resulting free-kick, which along with Ben Whiteman and Chris Hamilton efforts at the other end was one of only three shots on target in the first half.
Whiteman had the best chance yet to open the scoring on 55 minutes, his first shot producing a low save from Artur Krysiak and the second brilliantly blocked by Bevis Mugabi with the goalkeeper stranded.
The visitors applied the most pressure late on as Krysiak made another good block, but it ended in a goalless draw.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Yeovil Town 0, Mansfield Town 0.
Second Half ends, Yeovil Town 0, Mansfield Town 0.
Corner, Mansfield Town. Conceded by Liam Shephard.
Attempt missed. Tom Eaves (Yeovil Town) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Francois Zoko (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Joel Byrom (Mansfield Town).
Foul by Francois Zoko (Yeovil Town).
Rhys Bennett (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Liam Shephard (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alfie Potter (Mansfield Town).
Hand ball by Ryan Dickson (Yeovil Town).
Francois Zoko (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Krystian Pearce (Mansfield Town).
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Brandon Goodship replaces Ben Whitfield.
Substitution, Mansfield Town. Alfie Potter replaces Shaquile Coulthirst.
Attempt missed. Tom Eaves (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Foul by Matthew Dolan (Yeovil Town).
Jamie McGuire (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tom Eaves (Yeovil Town).
Pat Hoban (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Pat Hoban (Mansfield Town) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Francois Zoko (Yeovil Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Francois Zoko (Yeovil Town).
Lee Collins (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Alex Lacey (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Pat Hoban (Mansfield Town).
Attempt missed. Tom Eaves (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt saved. Krystian Pearce (Mansfield Town) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Mansfield Town. Pat Hoban replaces Alexander MacDonald.
Corner, Mansfield Town. Conceded by Liam Shephard.
Kevin Dawson (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Rhys Bennett (Mansfield Town).
Foul by Kevin Dawson (Yeovil Town).
Alexander MacDonald (Mansfield Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Tom Eaves replaces Shayon Harrison.
Hand ball by Jamie McGuire (Mansfield Town).
Matthew Dolan (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jamie McGuire (Mansfield Town).
Alex Lacey (Yeovil Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Alex Lacey (Yeovil Town).
Sophie, from Yorkshire, says girls should not be put off the ring - or other hobbies - even if it means they receive abuse on social media.
"People inbox us and say, 'You shouldn't be doing it, it's a boy's sport'," she said.
Girls are more likely to be harassed on social media than boys, according to a recent survey of 11-18 year olds.
Sophie said that she and other girls in her boxing club had been bullied by social media trolls - people who leave upsetting and abusive messages online.
"It's purely because we're girls and 'should' be wearing make-up and stuff," she said. "People started bullying me over it because of the way I dress."
Sophie admitted she has "deleted quite a lot of photos off Facebook" when people left negative comments about her wearing tracksuits in and outside the boxing ring.
Nearly half of girls in the UK say they have experienced abuse online, according to a study of 1,002 people aged 11 to 18.
This could be an upsetting message from a stranger, a bullying comment from a social media "friend", or an image being shared without their consent.
Children's charity Plan International UK, which commissioned the survey, found that 48% of girls and 40% of boys had been harassed online.
Sophie said girls get "treated a lot differently on social media than lads".
"People don't like that because I do wear quite a lot of boys trackies and tops and stuff like that," she said. Speaking of her local boxing club, she added: "We post quite a lot of our photos on Facebook."
The recent success of Olympic champion boxer Nicola Adams and has in part helped shift attitudes towards girls and women boxing.
"Us girls we do quite a lot of boxing," Sophie said. "More of us like to push ourselves to the limit that we can."
But 15-year-old Ambrin, from London, says girls are often left to "protect themselves" against social media bullies.
She says she's modified her behaviour to try to avoid online abuse.
"I was always very careful if I was going to share a political opinion, I would do it under an account that didn't have my name," she said.
She uses Snapchat and used to use Instagram - but stopped after someone in her school also set up an account threatening to post nude pictures of girls in her year.
"The school couldn't really do much about it because they didn't know who was posting them," she said.
Tanya Barron, Plan International UK's chief executive, said girls risked "losing their voices" if they avoided posting pictures or comments because of fear of being bullied.
The survey found that 73% of girls and 59% of boys had chosen not to post pictures or comments for this reason.
"Girls are self-censoring on social media for fear of backlash from others," Ms Barron said.
She says children should be allowed to express themselves - whether that is through their sport, or because they have an opinion - without feeling threatened.
"We're calling on every one to stand up for girls online, calling out abuse when we see it and encouraging a space in which girls can find their voice," she said.
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A 46-year-old man from Billericay was found hurt at a house in Sudburys Farm Road, Little Burstead, on 30 July.
He was taken to a hospital in London but has since died, Essex Police said.
A 59-year-old man from Billericay and a 53-year-old man from Basildon who were arrested will remain on police bail until 4 September, the force added.
During a police appeal on Thursday, Det Insp Anne Cameron said there was a separate house fire on Blind Lane which was believed to be linked to the man being found hurt.
She appealed for anyone with information to come forward.
Cardiff council has announced the initiative to ensure short-distance fares are being accepted, in the wake of three sex attacks in the city.
The city's taxi association has denied claims some drivers have turned people away for short-distance taxi trips.
Trading Standards Officers will pose as the mystery shoppers, the council said.
Residents, visitors and commuters have been advised to use the taxi ranks at Greyfriers Road and Lower St Mary Street on Thursday night.
Councillor Jacqueline Parry, licensing committee chairwoman, said: "I read with interest the recent media reports on taxi drivers and claims that people are being refused because the fare is too short.
"We take these matters very seriously. Taxi drivers should be ambassadors to our city and complaints will be investigated.
"If you are getting a taxi from a taxi rank, the light is on, and the fare starts and ends within Cardiff, the driver has to take you home and must use the meter. It is as simple as that."
Police said a grey Rover car collided with a silver Citroen Despatch on the A70, near to Roodlea Golf Course, Coylton, at about 01:10 on Sunday.
The 21-year-old woman who was driving the Rover, and her 29-year-old male passenger, died at the scene.
The driver and passenger of the Citroen are in a stable condition at Ayr Hospital. Police Scotland have appealed for witnesses.
Jubilant fans spilled out onto the streets on Monday night after the historic victory - and thousands more have since flocked to the city.
One street was brought to a standstill as the team arrived for a celebratory lunch at an Italian restaurant.
Shelves in the club shop were left bare as hundreds of fans rushed to buy mementoes.
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Some fans have attributed Leicester's miraculous season to Richard III being laid to rest after his remains were discovered in a car park in the city.
But a spokesman for Leicester Cathedral, where the king was reinterred, said: "In the end it's down to exceptional playing by an exceptional team, in a remarkable city."
A spoof Richard III account tweeted: "One has looked. And checked. And double checked. And it genuinely is true. Leicester City Football Club = Premiership Champions! #lcfc"
Jamie Vardy lookalike Lee Chapman, who works as a postman, sprinted on his morning round so he could get to the King Power Stadium to celebrate.
The team coach then arrived at the stadium and he was spotted by Leicester players - who invited him on board to celebrate.
Leicester City Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby said a major official celebration is planned, with the details expected to be announced later this week.
"Obviously we are going to be partying for the next two weeks at least," he said.
"I know the football club and the city council authorities have been working together to work out some celebrations that will enable the supporters and the city to come together and to celebrate this success.
"I'm leaving that to the football club to announce. It will be big, how's that for a clue?"
Agent, Carl Force was part of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) investigation into the black market website Silk Road.
Silk Road allowed its users to buy and sell illicit good including drugs and weapons anonymously using Bitcoin.
Force pled guilty to extortion, money laundering and obstruction of justice.
Force was posing as a drug dealer with connections to hit men to establish contact with Silk Road's founder, Ross Ulbricht. His code name for the assignment was "Nob".
Once he reached Ulbricht, Force sold him information about the investigation.
Ulbricht is a serving life sentence for conspiracy to traffic narcotics, money laundering and computer hacking, all associated with his creation of Silk Road.
The judge in the case said Force's "betrayal of public trust is quite simply breathtaking".
A former Secret Service agent who was also charged pleaded guilty and will be sentenced separately in December.
Bitcoin is digital currency not controlled by any government. Users can buy and sell goods using a unique code that allows users to remain anonymous, something that has made Bitcoin a popular choice for funding criminal activity.
The 29-year-old has spoken out about his battle with anxiety and urged others suffering with mental health issues to seek help.
He said he has battled the problem since his mother died in 2015 and now wants to share his experiences.
"If I can help just one person it will make the world a better place."
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Arnold was part of the Lincoln City side that reached last season's FA Cup quarter-final and were crowned National League champions, securing promotion to League Two as a result.
Off the pitch, however, he was struggling to cope with anxiety and panic attacks.
"Some people think footballers are robots who do not feel the same things as other human beings," he said.
"You feel almost like you are the only one going through it and I felt like that last season.
"I would go in to training everyday and have to put a smile on my face, be a lad, but I would go home and have these battles that I was suffering with."
Arnold is now having counselling and learning neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) techniques in order to control his anxiety.
He said he hoped the event would help encourage others to open up about their issues.
"I spoke openly about my anxiety and since then people have gravitated towards me.
"People have come out of the woodwork and I think it's fantastic.
"I've been put in touch with a guy who has really helped me and I want to pass that information on."
Mike Martin, from mental health support network Shine, welcomed Arnold's efforts to raise the profile of mental health.
"Having people in the public eye talking about their issues definitely encourages people to tell somebody what they are going through themselves," he said.
The walkout is in protest over the dismissal of two nurses involved in a violent struggle with a patient.
Kevin Gregson and Peter Hilton were sacked despite using "reasonable force" against the unidentified patient, said the Prison Officers' Association (POA).
But Mersey Care Trust, which runs Ashworth, said the evidence meant sacking the pair was its only option.
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The dispute at the unit, one of three high security hospitals in England and Wales, began at 07:00 GMT.
Steve Gillan, the POA's general secretary, said: "I believe the general public will be outraged and extremely sympathetic to Mr Hilton and Mr Gregson, who were merely responding to a violent act in which the patient had headbutted a colleague and was spitting at staff during the incident.
"The actions of restraint were reasonable and the patient came to no harm, unlike the nurses. Whilst there should always be a duty of care towards patients the same must apply to staff."
The trust said it was "disappointed" by the union's decision to strike before the case is heard at an independent employment tribunal.
"We do not believe this is in the best interests of our patients, our carers, our staff and the communities we serve," it said in a statement.
Referring to the nurses' case the trust said it cares for "some of the most complex and vulnerable adults in a hospital setting".
"[And we] have an international and award-winning reputation for doing so," it said.
"This means our staff are highly trained... We never dismiss staff lightly.
"In the light of the evidence we felt we had no other course of action open to us than to dismiss two staff members."
The other high-security psychiatric hospitals in England and Wales are Rampton in Nottinghamshire and Broadmoor in Berkshire.
Joanne Mjadzelics, 39, from Doncaster, had denied seven charges at Cardiff Crown Court.
She claimed she had encouraged the singer - serving 35 years for child sex offences - to send the images in order to expose his criminality.
She told how she gave evidence to police at least five times but they failed to act for four years.
Speaking through tears on the steps, she said: "This was a vicious prosecution."
She added: "I shouldn't have even been here - just for doing the police's job that they couldn't be arsed to do.
"Do I regret meeting him? Yes, I regret meeting him but if I hadn't met him then no-one would have reported him so I guess I can't regret anything because I was the one who kept going back and going back and reporting and reporting."
Ms Mjadzelics reported Watkins to police and social services in 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012 to raise the alarm over his child sex crimes.
"They did nothing," Ms Mjadzelics told reporters on Wednesday. "I feel like this is the end of a long seven years of trying to get the police to do something about him."
Ms Mjadzelics was accused of joining in the sexual fantasies of singer Watkins and sharing indecent images before he was jailed for 35 years for trying to rape a baby.
But the mother-of-one, a former sex trade worker and special constable, said she only continued the relationship to gather evidence against Watkins while the prosecution claimed she was obsessed with him and would have done anything to please him.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission has three independent investigations ongoing focused on the response of South Wales Police, Bedfordshire Police and South Yorkshire Police to allegations that Watkins was abusing children.
The police watchdog has concerns his celebrity status delayed him being brought to justice.
IPCC Commissioner Jan Williams said: "There is understandably significant public interest in determining exactly what steps were taken by police in response to the allegations made against Ian Watkins, and whether he could have been brought to justice sooner."
During Ms Mjadzelics' eight-day trial the court heard how she had contacted social workers to report Watkins for 'inappropriate conduct with a child'.
An investigation followed but officers wrote off Ms Mjadzelics as a "nuisance" harassing the rock star.
Police records show that although Ms Mjadzelics was interviewed after making initial allegations in 2008, the fact there were no identifiable victims - and concerns had been raised by Mjadzelics' sister about her mental health - meant no further action was taken.
She was written off as a "disgruntled ex-partner".
Defence barrister Michael Wolkind said: "The police failed to protect babies from Watkins and mothers who donated their babies to him."
He was referring to the two women, both mothers, who were jailed alongside Watkins for their part in his sexual abuse of young children.
Ms Mjadzelics' solicitor Dale Harris said after the verdict: "It was like some Orwellian nightmare where the truth about Watkins became lies and the unsubstantiated rumour about Miss Mjadzelics became fact.
"Time and time again she reported Watkins and time and time again she was ignored."
She told the jury she repeatedly went to the police and Watkins' family about his paedophile activities but was not believed until 2012.
When she messaged the Lostprophets' website asking for information about buying tickets Joanne Mjadzelics was shocked to get a response directly from the lead singer of the band.
The email from Ian Watkins in 2006 was the first of many, as the pair struck up a relationship which would play itself out largely through text messages, internet phone calls and emails.
Watkins quickly suggested they meet and they started a sexual relationship.
Ms Mjadezlics admitted at her trial she was initially "totally in love" with the singer, and would have done anything for him.
Within months she had a tattoo of the initials of his full name - IDKW - on her back, a "big mistake" which she has since had changed.
The pair continued their on-off relationship with trysts in London, Cardiff, Leeds and Los Angeles - although Ms Mjadezlics told the court she was disgusted by Watkins' sexual interest in children and boasts of sex with underage fans. She said she was trying to gather evidence against him.
Ms Mjadzelics denied four charges of possessing indecent images of children, two charges of distributing images and a charge of encouraging and assisting the distribution of an indecent image of a child.
The 11-strong jury of six women and five men took more than 14 hours to clear her of all seven charges.
Deputy Chief Constable for South Wales Police, Matt Jukes, said: "During the trial, police actions prior to the most recent investigation were discussed.
"In 2012 South Wales Police initiated its own review into the sequence of events prior to the arrest of Ian Watkins. We identified that there were issues of concern and voluntarily referred the matter to the Independent Police Complaints Commission who is currently carrying out an investigation into these issues."
Catrin Attwell, Senior Crown Prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service Cymru-Wales Complex Casework Unit said: "Our role is to consider the evidence gathered by police investigations and decide whether there is a realistic prospect of a conviction in court.
"Given the ongoing Independent Police Complaints Commission Investigation relating to complaints made by Ms Mjadzelics, it would be inappropriate to comment further at this time."
Chris Clark tweeted: "Been trying to get out of bluewater car park for 2 hours - only moved 20 metres."
Callum Saunders tweeted: "Got in the car an hr ago to leave bluewater car park an still haven't turned the ignition on."
Bluewater apologised for the delays and said it had a team to monitor traffic.
Kent Police said the delays had been caused by a broken-down vehicle at Bluewater and the "sheer volume of traffic" at the shopping centre.
Nick Howard was shopping with his mother, who has a lung condition, and said she was affected by the build-up of exhaust fumes in the car park.
He told the BBC: "We decided to leave about five o'clock and we waited for about 20 minutes just to get off the top floor of the car park.
"We gave up because it just wasn't moving, so we re-parked and went back in for an hour."
Mr Howard said that when he tried to leave again the site was gridlocked.
He said it took almost an hour to get out of the multi-storey car park and a further 30 minutes to leave the site and get on to the M2.
"The exhaust fumes were so heavy. My mum was coughing and it was very unpleasant."
In a statement, Bluewater said: "While the traffic in surrounding areas, including the M25, is out of Bluewater's control, we have a dedicated control team who are continually monitoring the roads and car parks around the centre 24/7.
"We apologise for any inconvenience caused."
Three peers and an MP have been accused of being prepared to break the rules on lobbying in Parliament.
MP Patrick Mercer resigned the Conservative whip after claims by BBC's Panorama that he broke Parliament's lobbying rules by accepting £4,000 to lobby for business interests in Fiji.
Mr Mercer, who was approached by a fake company set up by the programme, denies wrongdoing, saying he took the money for consultancy work outside Parliament and has referred himself to the Parliamentary standards commissioner.
Separately, two Labour peers have been suspended and one Ulster Unionist member of the House of Lords has resigned the whip after allegedly agreeing to do parliamentary work for payment in contravention of the rules. Lord Cunningham, Lord Mackenzie of Framwellgate and Lord Laird all deny any wrongdoing.
Lobbying in order to influence political decisions is widely regarded as a legitimate part of the democratic process. Lobbyists are firms or individuals that are paid to influence such decisions.
They are often former politicians or ex-civil servants who have developed personal contacts with those in power.
Alternatively, individuals. firms, charities and other groups can lobby on their own, without paying professional lobbyists.
There has long been concern that, if unregulated, lobbyists will begin to wield an unhealthy level of influence over political decision-making. This, it is argued, could mean the corruption of peers and MPs and undermine democracy.
Before the 2010 election, future Prime Minister David Cameron said lobbying was "the next big scandal waiting to happen".
The coalition agreement, which set out the government's programme in 2010, said: "We will regulate lobbying through introducing a statutory register of lobbyists and ensuring greater transparency."
However, the policy has not yet made it into the government's legislative programme. There was no mention of it in the last Queen's Speech, but ministers say they are consulting on plans.
Cabinet Minister Francis Maude has hinted that a new law could be introduced within the next year.
All MPs, including ministers, are subject to a code of conduct when it comes to their outside interests and dealings.
They have to register their financial interests, including remunerated employment outside Parliament.
They are allowed to work as a consultant or be paid for advice.
However, they are forbidden from acting as a "paid advocate" - taking payment for speaking in the House; asking a parliamentary question, tabling a motion, introducing a bill or tabling or moving an amendment to a motion or bill or urging colleagues or ministers to do so.
They can:
They must:
In addition, ministers must comply with guidelines when they leave office:
The House of Lords Code of Conduct, which says peers must show "selflessness", "openness" and "accountability", states they have to:
It also advises that peers "should be especially cautious in deciding whether to speak or vote in relation to interests that are direct, pecuniary and shared by few others".
Peers, unlike MPs, are paid expenses rather than a salary, and are allowed to give general advice and act as consultants if this does not influence their behaviour.
It is the job of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards to look into complaints against MPs. The commissioner reports to the Committee on Standards, which then decides on a course of action to take against an MP, including recommending suspension from the Commons, if this is necessary.
MPs vote on whether to implement the recommendations.
For peers, the House of Lords Commissioner for Standards looks at allegations. The report goes to the Sub-Committee on Lords' Conduct, which reviews the findings and can recommend a punishment to the Committee for Privileges and Conduct. Peers have a right of appeal against this.
The final decision on punishment is made by the House of Lords as a whole.
The party's Scotland leader said the PM "needs someone else to win seats for him in Scotland - beat Labour for him".
Mr Murphy said if current polls were repeated on election day, Labour and the SNP would end up working together - in opposition to the Conservatives.
The Conservatives say Labour are trying to get into power on the SNP's coat tails. The SNP say only they can ensure Scottish influence over Westminster.
The Lib Dems' Scottish leader, Willie Rennie, told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme the UK needs Liberal Democrats in government to prevent the bigger parties "veering off to the left and right".
The leaders of the major parties in Scotland were speaking out as an opinion poll released on Tuesday cut the SNP's lead over Labour in a large number of seats.
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'We're the underdogs'
Mr Murphy accused the SNP of "playing the role of David Cameron's little helpers" because the Conservative leader "knows he can't win in Scotland".
Using a football analogy, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "In Scotland we are behind in the opinion polls - yes, we're the underdogs - but the first ball's just been kicked in this campaign.
"We're nowhere near half time, let alone the final whistle - we can turn this round. There are polls today that show that in 40 seats in Scotland, we're not 17% behind, we're 6% behind. We're within striking distance.
"We've got a lot of work to do and we even know that improved poll this morning - if it was repeated on election day - we'd lose a lot of seats. The SNP would be really pleased, but David Cameron would be absolutely delighted."
The Conservatives' leader in Scotland, Ruth Davidson said it was "absolutely possible" the SNP could end up with a majority of Scottish seats.
'Progressive change'
She told BBC Radio 4's Today she would prefer not to enter into any coalition deals if the Conservatives fail to win a majority, preferring a minority Conservative government, she said.
"I think probably, on balance, would that be my preference. If the numbers work? Then yes, probably it would," she told Today.
The battle between the SNP and Labour for the general election has been an increasingly tense one since the independence referendum last autumn.
With the polls suggesting many traditional Labour supporters have switched to the SNP, leading figures in the party have said they would be keen on working with, and influencing a Labour government - and also said they would oppose any Conservative government.
Leader Nicola Sturgeon said recently: "The bottom line here is, if Scotland wants to have that influence, that power, that clout in Westminster, then the only way to get it is to vote SNP.
"Scotland's experience of Westminster politics up until now is either that we have to put up with Tory governments we didn't vote for or we get Labour governments that end up implementing Tory policies.
"If there's real SNP strength in the House of Commons we can influence progressive change."
A 1,000 m (3,200 ft) exclusion zone was put in place at West Beach at Burry Port after the device was spotted on Monday morning.
Members of the Royal Navy bomb disposal team were called to deal with the mine, which was found by council rangers.
Dyfed-Powys Police tweeted on Monday evening to say the device had been blown up and the beach had reopened.
The evacuation of the town, near the capital Damascus, is expected to begin on Friday. Syrian Red Crescent vehicles are poised to enter the town.
Residents have faced near-constant bombardment and shortages of food, water and power.
Civilians received their first supplies in four years only in June.
It comes as US Secretary of State John Kerry hold talks on Syria with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Geneva.
They are meeting in a bid to broker a temporary ceasefire in the city of Aleppo, where fighting between government and rebel forces has escalated in recent weeks, leaving hundreds dead.
Under the terms of the Darayya deal, 700 armed men will leave for the rebel-controlled city of Idlib while 4,000 civilians will move to government shelters, Syrian state media reported.
We are at Darayya main entrance near al-Basil roundabout. This area is just 7km (5 miles) from the Syrian capital, Damascus.
Buses and ambulances are on standby to start the evacuation. We are now waiting for the green light to begin the implementation of the operation as agreed by the two sides.
Darayya has a strategic position - given its proximity to Daraa Road, it is not far from the capital and from the Mazzeh military airport, too. The armed opposition had used the town as a connection hub between western and eastern Ghouta, Damascus.
Darayya saw some of the first protests against the Syrian government, an uprising that transformed into a full-blown civil conflict.
The withdrawal of the rebels only a few miles from Damascus is a boost for President Bashar al-Assad, analysts say.
"We are being forced to leave, but our condition has deteriorated to the point of being unbearable," Hussam Ayash, an activist in the town, told the Associated Press news agency.
"We withstood for four years but we couldn't any longer."
Meanwhile a monitoring group said 11 children had been killed in a barrel bomb attack by government forces in a rebel-held neighbourhood of Aleppo.
They were among 15 people killed in the incident, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Russian and American teams in Geneva, involving military officials and diplomats, have been able to reach agreement on most details of a possible deal. It's up to John Kerry and Sergei Lavrov to try to close the last difficult gaps. One of the most sensitive issues is said to be the grounding of Syria's warplanes.
Western sources say senior US defence officials are deeply sceptical, if not resistant, to closer military co-operation with Moscow. But achieving progress in Syria, especially in the battle against so-called Islamic State, is one of the White House's key goals. So John Kerry continues his determined diplomacy to reach some kind of deal with Russia.
But today's evacuation in Darayya which involves the surrender of rebel forces, underlines the Syrian government's long-held view that the road to peace goes through local Syrian deals, largely on its terms.
The UN says Russia, who has been supporting the Syrian government in its offensives, has agreed to a 48-hour pause in Aleppo to allow in much-needed aid.
But the organisation added it was still waiting for agreement from other parties fighting on the ground.
In another development, the US has urged "strong and swift action" after a UN investigation concluded that Syria used chemical weapons against its own people.
Take Greece. The embattled country's economy has shrunk by 25% since 2008, youth unemployment stands at 50%, while total debts are pushing €323bn (£234bn).
Enlightening as these numbers are, they tell you little about the extreme hardships suffered by many living in the country.
And it's not just casual onlookers that can become detached.
As Prof Simon Johnson from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), says: "When economic policymakers get together, it gets very abstract and the human dimension can be forgotten."
But the human consequences of financial crises are very real. Some are obvious - people lose their jobs and therefore their income, they can lose their home, watch their money become worthless in the face of rampant inflation or see their life savings wiped out.
Others are less so. "There are a number of health issues, primarily stemming from stress, a feeling of not being in control of your life and feeling powerless [to influence events around you]," says Prof Johnson.
"This affects people's health in a number of ways, such as excessive drinking, and can lead to a fall in life expectancy."
Indeed studies have shown an increase in suicide rates, in alcohol-related deaths and in mental health issues in countries hit by economic crises.
And the people who are hit hardest are invariably the poor.
"Better educated, [richer] people are more able to cope - they may see a fall in their paper wealth, but their prospects remain largely unchanged. The poor find it much harder to find a new job - they get hit really hard," says Prof Johnson.
"Inequality is compounded by financial crises."
Here, we speak to three people whose lives have been turned upside down by various financial crises across the world.
Indonesia 1997-1999
The wider Asian financial crisis started in Thailand.
The devaluation of the Thai baht in July sparked a chain of devaluations across South East Asia. Indonesia was one of the worst affected countries, and was forced to ask the IMF and World Bank for help after the rupiah quickly fell to an all-time low.
At the peak of the crisis, prices for basic foods shot up by as much as 80%, with Indonesians, fearing food shortages, clearing store shelves of staple goods. The crisis sparked nationwide protests that forced President Suharto to resign after 32 years in power.
Purnomo is 54 years old. He is from the city of Yogyakarta in Java, but lives and works in Utan Kayu, East Jakarta, selling chicken noodle soup by the roadside. He remembers the crisis all too well.
"About two years before before the economic crisis, I decided to set up a chicken noodle soup street stall.
"I was working at a batik textile factory at the time, and I wanted to increase my income so that I could pay for my two children's education. It was going well and we were making money. Chicken noodle soup is relatively easy to make and there was a demand for it.
"But when the Asian economic crisis started to hit Indonesia, it became very hard to keep our little store open. The price of everything went up dramatically. The price of wheat that made our noodles soared. Back then we used kerosene instead of gas for our stove and the price of kerosene became too much for us.
"It was frightening because as one of the 'little people' I didn't understand what was happening. I was forced to close down the stall.
"I felt incredibly vulnerable during the crisis because I didn't have an education. The powerful people were making decisions that we weren't part of. We saved money by eating very simple and cheap food at home. We never ate meat during those years.
"It wasn't until the presidency of Suslio Bambang Yudhoyono in 2004 that the Indonesian economy started to recover and I decided to quit my day job and open my roadside chicken noodle soup stall again.
"The thing that I am most proud of is that even during the hard years of the economic crisis I was still able to keep my two children in school. I said to them the most important thing is your education. Both my children have graduated from university now. My daughter is a French language teacher at an international school and my son works in aviation. I am very proud of them."
Argentina 1998-2002
Argentina is a country with a turbulent history of economic crises. The 1998-2002 period was one of the hardest in its history, the economy shrank by almost 30%. At that time, bank deposits were frozen, the country defaulted on its debts and Argentina's currency, the peso, depreciated dramatically against the US dollar. All sectors of society were affected.
Jose Juan Fernandez Reguera is 66 and is president of Losada, a publishing house founded in 1938.
"With humour, I can say that we are the kings of the financial crisis in Argentina, because we passed through all kinds of money problems, but finally stayed afloat."
He will never forget the 1998 crisis.
"In just a few short months, sales of books fell sharply, the price of inputs tripled and importing books became very expensive.
"With the Argentine peso you could buy a US dollar. All of a sudden, you needed three to four pesos to buy a dollar, and this in a country where the dollar still rules.
"The 'corralito' [freezing bank accounts and forcing those with dollars to convert their accounts into devalued pesos] was terrible. There was an economic crisis, but also a mental one, as a consequence. The mood of the people was on the floor.
"The situation made me very sad. In front of my library there are two banks, and it was heartbreaking to see the despair of people taking out their savings.
"Equally the uncertainty of not knowing what would happen to my business was very difficult to cope with. I tried to hide the situation from my employees but it was hard, really hard."
"Argentines did not trust the banks and we had no access to credit - the crisis greatly affected my business."
The revival of the economy five years after the crisis began, together with the reading culture of the Argentines, meant the book industry finally recovered.
In fact, Mr Fernandez Reguera has just bought a new publishing house called Aique.
"With subsidies and other measures, the government sent money to the street. People increased their standard of living and consumption.
"I remain confident in this country and I believe that behind every crisis there is an opportunity. When everyone takes two steps back, I take one forward."
Cyprus 2012 -
An overblown government sector and a stubborn refusal to reform, together with overexposed and mismanaged banks, led to Cyprus asking international lenders for financial assistance in early 2013. The EU, European Central Bank and IMF agreed to a €10bn (£7bn; $11bn) bail-out package but set strict conditions, including a one-off 48% levy on deposits over €100,000 held at the country's two biggest banks.
Pambos Charalambous, a 39-year old prison guard, and his 36-year old wife Helena were struggling to get their life in order at a time everything around them was collapsing. They got married in 2012 and, like many newlyweds, immediately set out to buy a place of their own.
With a combined income of €3,000 a month and state housing aid on the way, the couple was looking at a bright future. They bought a three-bedroom house in the outskirts of the capital Nicosia for €166,000 and started paying off the loan.
Everything changed in late 2013, when the government went into full austerity mode.
"We didn't know what was going to happen. How could we have known? We were not economists. The government didn't even know," says Pambos.
Following the deposit levy, struggling banks imposed far stricter conditions on housing loans, and soon enough the property market plummeted.
Economic growth went into reverse and many businesses had to cut back on staff and slash salaries to make up for huge loses in revenue. One of the victims was Helena, who lost her job, while Pambos saw his salary reduced by almost a third.
Soon welfare benefits also fell victim to austerity, including the housing aid upon which the couple was counting and was assured they would receive. Stricter lending criteria were then imposed, adding in a stroke €70,000 to newlyweds' debts.
"You feel helpless, angry, trapped," says Pambos. "I mean, it wasn't our fault the economy crashed. We weren't in this situation because we were lazy. We were in this mess because the fat cats wanted to line their pockets, no matter who they trampled on."
In the space of one year, Pambos found himself with a €162,000 bank debt instead of the €100,000 he had planned for, and with less than half the money coming in to service it.
"When I stopped paying, the bank notices came pouring in but there was nothing I could do. It's either pay daily expenses or service the loan and starve."
They have tried to sell the house but in the past two years have received not a single offer.
Unable to cope, Pambos made headlines recently when he announced on Facebook he was raffling off his home. Authorities soon put a stop to it and now he is working with a lawyer to find a way to press ahead with the sale.
"If I can't do this, we are done for. I will lose my house, thrown out in the streets and still have to pay the bank. This is my last chance".
Venancio Lopez, of Tunisie Voyages, told British Embassy officials that he did not want an "army of police" frightening holidaymakers in Tunisia.
Islamist gunman Seifeddine Rezgui killed a total of 38 people in 2015 at the Riu Imperial Marhaba, near Sousse.
The attack was the deadliest on Britons since the 7 July 2005 London bombings.
Mr Lopez told the inquest: "If security is too evident, they feel uncomfortable in the street."
It was decided to bring in 400 extra police officers and ensure they patrol the beaches, the inquest was told.
It heard how holiday bosses had considered a crisis training exercise for staff set at a hotel in Sousse a year before the beach attack.
Security became a key issue following a terror attack at Tunisia's Bardo National Museum in March 2015.
Two months later, Mr Lopez met the British Embassy officials to give them a list of points which he wanted raised with Tunisian authorities, including the matter of police security.
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'No armed guards' at Tunisia attack hotel
Tunisia attack rescuers 'wasted time'
Security in the resorts, and how visible it should be, was discussed, said Mr Lopez, managing director of Tunisie Voyages - a subsidiary of travel company TUI.
In his statement to the inquest, he said: "We wanted to increase the security in general but we didn't want tourists to be scared by seeing an army of police."
The inquest heard that it was decided that as well as more police officers, hotels should have metal detectors and staff should monitor CCTV.
Andrew Ritchie QC, representing victims' families, said a statement from another witness suggested that it was the responsibility of Mr Lopez to "deliver a holiday that exceeded expectations".
He asked Mr Lopez why TUI UK sent him to meetings about security, suggesting he was sent because he was the only person there.
Mr Lopez said he had not been asked by TUI UK to visit the Imperial Marhaba hotel to see if improvements to security had been made between March and the day of the attack.
In his statement, Mr Lopez said security guards at hotels used by his firm were never armed, and he believed that arming them was against the law.
But Mr Ritchie said the coroner had advice from a legal firm which said it was, in fact, possible.
The inquest also heard from TUI area manager Paul Summerell who had considered organising a "crisis" training exercise for staff in the event of an incident like the beach attack.
It was to be a real-life scenario staged in a Sousse hotel in June 2014 - a year before the attack.
The inquest heard that Mr Summerell had consulted with the British Embassy on what might be a realistic scenario.
"We wanted a realistic training exercise for a crisis scenario," he told the inquest.
The inquest heard about a letter Mr Summerell had sent to a senior colleague a month later about increased terrorist activity in the Sousse area.
He wrote that he did not want it made "public knowledge" to staff as it might cause alarm, and urged his colleague to "react reassuringly" if staff said anything.
Asked about making changes to security arrangements in Tunisian hotels, Mr Summerell said they would only take instruction from the authorities,
"Control" is a "good word" in relation to how things worked in Tunisia, he said.
During the third day of the hearing, the inquest heard Imperial Marhaba was fitted with only six cameras, compared to others nearby which had as many as 49.
The hotel's guards had no vocational qualifications, did not carry walkie-talkies and had no control room in which to monitor CCTV. The hotel did not have a lock-down procedure, the court was told.
At the time of the attack, one lone guard was watching two open gates leading from the hotel to the beach, the hearing was told.
The inquest into the deaths of 30 Britons killed in the June 2015 attack is being held at London's Royal Courts of Justice. It is expected to take about seven weeks.
The government has applied for some details to be kept private because of national security concerns.
The inquest continues.
The Scots, presently under Anna Signeul, were under strength because of injuries for the warm-up friendly ahead of his summer's Euro 2017 finals.
"The ranking positions we're increasing all the time and it really is in a good place," said Kerr.
"So let's see what the Euros bring for us and hopefully we can build on that."
Kerr, manager of Stirling University's men's team in the Scottish Lowland League, will inherit the national squad in June after Signeul ends her term in charge at the finals in the Netherlands.
And former Kilmarnock, Doncaster Rovers Belles, and Hibernian defender Kerr, who ended her playing career with Spartans in 2010, remains enthusiastic that Scottish women's football is heading in the right direction and the national team are currently 21st in the world rankings.
"The standard has certainly increased since I stopped playing, that's for sure," said the 47-year-old.
"They are more professional, they are better educated in terms of their whole holistic approach of becoming elite athletes and I think it's great so many of our national team players are playing in a professional environment."
Kerr managed women's teams at Kilmarnock, Hibs, Spartans, Scotland Under-19s and Arsenal before becoming the first woman to take control of a British senior men's team in 2014.
"The difference between female players and male players, it's the dynamics that are perhaps different, but we still have the aspirations of getting to the very, very top level, but it's all about hard work," said the Scot, whose current side lie fourth in the tier below the Scottish Professional Football League.
Kerr admitted that it would be "really challenging" to continue Scotland's rise up the world rankings but thought "it's a great time to take over" and that they were capable of progressing from a Euros group containing England, Portugal and Spain.
"It's an absolute honour, it's a privilege, I'm extremely proud," she said.
"As you can imagine, as a young kid growing up playing football, and especially as a young girl, I had dreams of representing my country and I was really fortunate to do that.
"But to actually get the opportunity to lead the women's national team is a dream come true for me."
Scottish FA performance director Malky Mackay said Kerr was the stand-out candidate to take over from Signeul, who is quitting to take over the Finnish national team.
"Anna and the team will plan for everything between now and going to the Euros and in the Euros, so Shelley will be going in a watching basis only," he explained.
"Shelley will concentrate on everything after the Euros."
The waves first washed over his glass bubble, then swallowed it, with underwater cameras capturing the slow slide down.
Officially, the dive was designed to view an ancient shipwreck on the seabed.
But it was also about demonstrating who is boss here now. Vladimir Putin is spending three days in Crimea with a whole delegation of senior Russian politicians and business figures in tow.
Kiev has condemned the visit as an attempt to whip up tensions, and underlined that Crimea's only possible future was back with Ukraine.
So when Vladimir Putin docked for a moment in Sevastopol, I put that point to him.
"The future of Crimea was determined by the people who live on this land," the president replied on the quayside, stony-faced and unequivocal.
"They voted to be united with Russia. That's it. Full stop."
The results of a hastily-called vote on joining Russia did show overwhelming support in Crimea for annexation.
But the March 2014 referendum that Moscow hailed as the people's choice, was held with armed men on the streets and in clear violation of Ukraine's constitution.
As a result, the US and Europe imposed economic sanctions on Russia, and Crimea's annexation is formally recognised by next to no-one.
Still, there is no doubt that the majority here are strongly sympathetic to Moscow. And, for Russians, "returning" the region from Ukraine, after its "loss" in Soviet times, was a very popular cause.
So Moscow has begun pouring in funds to back up its political claim on the peninsula, and to show it cares.
The children splashing in the sea and doing press-up contests at the Artek children's camp are already benefiting from that.
The sprawling complex cut into the hills was the biggest and most prestigious pioneer camp in Soviet times: a dream destination for the young. Many Russian ex-Artekovites welcomed its "homecoming" with nostalgia.
The main canteen, sports halls and swimming pool have already been renovated and millions more roubles have been allocated. But Russia is confident its money will not be lost.
"For those who invest here, [Crimea's status] has been decided," says director Alexei Kasprzhak.
As the linchpin of the local economy, the tourist sector is also due a cash injection.
Crimea's grey pebble beaches have always attracted Ukrainians, primarily.
Now they have largely stopped travelling here, Russia has been busy promoting the peninsula as the "patriotic choice" for a holiday.
"We decided to come as soon as Crimea was ours again," Olga explains, adding that she and her son usually holiday in Bulgaria.
"But we wanted to be among the first here," she says, though like many she has been shocked by the high prices and admits they are unlikely to come back.
"We can't afford Soviet resorts anymore!" Olga laughs.
For locals too, the price hike under Russian rule has taken some adjustment, although salaries have also grown.
But they say many of the other practical problems of living under sanctions are being addressed now.
"People had to make the transition, and it was total chaos," hostel owner Natalia Kyrychenko recalls, describing the difficulties of life in a territory that most of the world does not recognise.
"Gradually, normal service is being resumed."
Most of her savings have finally been returned from a former Ukrainian bank; she has a new, Russian phone number and - with MasterCard working here once again - she can get back to online shopping.
"I am sure Crimea will be recognised and this situation won't go on for long," Natalia says, hopefully.
But other businesses have been hit much harder by the new reality.
Dmitry Semyonov used to sell wooden souvenir flasks and honey pots, mainly to buyers in the EU.
With that key market off-limits, production in his former tractor-repair shop has all but stopped. He calls the annexation a "catastrophe".
"We were pulled out of Ukraine, but we didn't really join Russia," Dmitry says.
"We've just been left dangling. When it happened, they said don't worry, the Russian market will open for you. But just sticking on a 'made in Crimea' label gives you no preferences."
So Dmitry and his wife have made the hardest choice of their life, to leave. An ethnic Russian, he plans to move his business to Ukraine, but that is not the only thing he is worried about.
"I don't even want to imagine how things will end here. But I don't want to be part of it. The fuse has been lit. We just don't know how long it will be before the situation explodes," the businessman warns.
For all Vladimir Putin's efforts to draw a line under the Crimea question then, it remains far from resolved. His actions here have stirred up a storm that is not abating.
In the item on 3 February hosts Phillip Schofield and Christine Bleakley looked at bondage equipment and sex toys with "sex expert" Annabelle Knight.
Ofcom said it received 120 complaints about the item, which was inspired by the film Fifty Shades of Grey.
Product demonstrations with scantily clad models featured in the piece.
A "Bondage for Beginners" segment examined products including an eye mask, a "feather spanker" and a crystal-encrusted vibrator.
ITV said it would be responding to Ofcom. "This Morning is a lifestyle programme that covers a diverse range of human interest topics," said a spokesperson for the show, which is broadcast at 10:30 on weekdays.
"The programme has dealt with advice on sexual matters many times in the past, and a suitable announcement was given at the start.
"Many of our items spark debate and we welcome feedback from our viewers about our content."
The regulator is also investigating a scene on ITV's Emmerdale involving a character being sexually assaulted, which drew 47 complaints following its broadcast on Thursday.
On Sunday, a BBC Test Match Special selection panel of Jonathan Agnew, Vic Marks, Simon Mann, Alison Mitchell and Stephen Brenkley, the Independent's cricket correspondent, convened to pick their team of the tournament.
There was plenty of deliberation, and a fair bit of disagreement, but here is their final XI.
Runs: 166, Average: 55.33, Strike Rate: 158.09
Hales makes the cut on the strength of one innings - but what an innings it was. The Nottinghamshire opener smashed an unbeaten 116 off 64 balls to drive England to a six-wicket win over eventual champions Sri Lanka in the group stage. The tabloids dubbed it a 'Hales Storm' while captain Stuart Broad called it one of the best innings he had seen.
Runs: 200, Average: 40.00, Strike Rate: 123.45
A consistent performer at the top of the order for India, with only one failure in six innings. He scored back-to-back fifties in the group-stage wins over West Indies and Bangladesh and frequently flourished alongside Virat Kohli.
Runs: 319, Average: 106.33, Strike Rate: 129.14
Player of the tournament by a distance, Kohli mixed grace and timing with moments of explosive power. He scored four half-centuries in total and led a superb run chase with an unbeaten 72 against South Africa in the semi-final, only to be let down by his team-mates in the final when he scored 77 of his team's 130 runs.
Runs: 129, Average: 32.25, Strike Rate: 163.29
Relieved of wicketkeeping duties, De Villiers was a demon in the field and produced one of the innings of the tournament against England. His 69 off 28 balls featured some incredible pieces of improvisation, including a reverse sweep to the boundary off a 92mph delivery from Chris Jordan, and proved the difference between the teams as South Africa reached the last four at England's expense.
Runs: 147, Average: 36.75, Strike Rate: 210.00
"The Big Show" lived up to his nickname with some thrilling batting in an otherwise lacklustre Australia side. He struck 12 sixes in only four innings and top-scored with 74 off 33 balls against Pakistan. He also proved his all-round qualities with some handy spells of off-spin.
Runs: 101, Average: 101.00, Strike Rate: 224.44
The ultimate finisher, West Indies' smiling assassin scorched 101 runs at a barely believable strike rate of 224.44. His finest hour came against Australia when he made James Faulkner pay for his pre-match outburst against the Windies by cracking consecutive sixes to complete a six-wicket win with two balls to spare.
Runs: 50, Average: 50, SR: 125.00, Catches: 3, Stumpings: 3
The Indian skipper chipped in with a couple of twenties with the bat, but was hardly needed as Sharma and Kohli did most of India's donkey work in a cruise through the group stage. But he marshalled his troops with characteristic authority in the field and was sharp and decisive behind the stumps.
Wickets: 12, Average: 11.27, Economy Rate: 5.65
A key performer in the tournament's most miserly bowling attack, Ashwin was man of the match against Australia, when he took 4-11 and bowled the dangerous Maxwell with a perfect carrom ball. Fought a losing battle in the final when India were let down by their batsmen, and by the time he was clubbed for the winning six by Thisara Perera, the game had gone.
Wickets: 11, Average: 10.27, Economy Rate: 5.65
Badree was at the forefront of a leg-spinning renaissance in the tournament, along with Amit Mishra and Imran Tahir, and had an influence on every Windies match. He finished joint-second in the wicket charts with Ashwin, taking four against Bangladesh and 3-10 in the 84-run demolition of Pakistan that took West Indies to the semi-finals.
Wickets: 6, Average: 15.33, Economy Rate: 4.60
Two West Indies bowlers in the team of the tournament and both of them are spinners - how times have changed. Narine further enhanced his status as a T20 phenomenon as he tied down opposition batsmen with his extraordinary variety of deliveries. Despite frequently bowling in the six-over powerplay and towards the death, his economy rate of 4.60 was comfortably the best in the tournament.
Wickets: 5, Average: 22.00, Economy Rate: 6.11
An essential part of Sri Lanka's beautifully balanced attack, Malinga ended up captaining his team to the title after Dinesh Chandimal was banned and subsequently dropped himself. As a bowler, he burst into life in the semi-finals when he bowled Windies openers Chris Gayle and Devon Smith in the space of four balls. Delivered yorkers to order at the death and helped restrict India to an under-par 130 in the final.
Wickets: 9, Average, 17.00, Economy Rate: 7.98
The South Africa paceman delivered the over of the tournament to beat New Zealand but was significantly more expensive than Malinga thereafter. He conceded 44 runs against England and 36 in 3.1 overs against India in the semi-final when he proved powerless to stop Kohli steering India into the showpiece.
The official ICC men's team of the tournament contained eight of the XI chosen by TMS. It was (in batting order):
Rohit Sharma (India), Stephan Myburgh (Netherlands), Virat Kohli (India), JP Duminy (South Africa), Glenn Maxwell (Australia), Mahendra Dhoni (India, capt & wk), Darren Sammy (West Indies), Ravichandran Ashwin (India), Dale Steyn (South Africa), Samuel Badree (West Indies), Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka). 12th man: Krishmar Santokie (West Indies).
The ICC team of the women's tournament was (in batting order):
Suzie Bates (New Zealand), Charlotte Edwards (England, capt), Meg Lanning (Australia), Sarah Taylor (England, wk), Stafanie Taylor (West Indies), Deandra Dottin (West Indies), Ellyse Perry (Australia), Natalie Sciver (England), Salma Khatun (Bangladesh), Poonam Yadav (India), Anya Shrubsole (England).
Former Wales midfielder Trollope, 43, had been part of Slade's coaching team since February 2015.
Slade was removed as manager of the Championship club at the end of the season and has taken up a new role as head of football, in which he will oversee scouting, among other duties.
"We have to be ambitious and create a belief within the club," Trollope said.
"The target is the play-offs and hopefully promotion."
Trollope, in his new role in charge of the first-team, will not report to predecessor Slade.
Cardiff missed out on the Championship play-offs after winning just once in the final seven games of the season and eventually finished eighth.
"There are areas that need addressing within the team and we will be looking to add quality and also the right people," added Trollope.
"I had no reservations, it is a good club with a good fan base.
"Every coach has own philosophies and way of doing things. I have clear ideas what I want. I will bring my own style to that. Anyone who knows me will know that."
Malaysian businessman Vincent Tan is prioritising style and promotion.
In a statement on the club's website he said: "I believe Paul will improve the team in several areas. In particular, I hope he will lead the team to play an attractive style of football that Cardiff City fans love.
"We hope that under Paul's leadership, Cardiff City will return to the Premier League.
"I'd like to thank him for what he's done for us so far whilst wishing him the best of luck for the future. He has our full support."
Trollope, who spent five years as manager of Bristol Rovers, is a member of Chris Coleman's Wales coaching team.
He confirmed he will continue in his role at this summer's European Championship finals in France next month.
"I don't see it as any sort of hindrance for preparation for new season [with Cardiff]," he said.
"I will discuss the viability of continuing with Wales after the Euros."
The ex-Derby County and Fulham player was first-team coach at Birmingham and Norwich before joining Cardiff midway through the 2014-15 season.
Slade had been in charge at Cardiff City Stadium since October 2014, leaving Leyton Orient to succeed Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
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"You want charisma? Excitement? Tension? Best look elsewhere," suggests an article in Politico.
"If there's one thing the rest of the world can't get enough of, it's British people explaining to them that they're wrong. And no-one more so than American conservatives, who are only too eager to hear from the mother country about how they should be running things."
That, at least, appeared to be the theory behind the Westminster debate, Politico adds.
Under the headline, "Trump threatens to abandon Scotland deal as UK debates banning him" Fox News writes that "the combative US presidential candidate counter-punched by threatening to walk away from a lucrative deal in Scotland".
It quotes Sarah Malone, executive Vice-President for Trump International Golf Links, Scotland, as saying that "the real-estate magnate, if barred, would abandon plans for an additional $1.1bn investment in Scotland's golf-and-leisure industry".
The Times (subscription) says that politicians of all parties united to condemn Mr Trump, who is probably the first US presidential candidate to have been labelled a "wazzock" by a serving British politician.
It says that Mr Trump's remarks about a possible Muslim travel ban to the US - and his comments that Britain is struggling with radicalised Muslims - caused so much offence that 570,000 people signed a petition calling for him to be barred from Britain, where his business empire includes two golf resorts in Scotland.
"His comments outraged MPs too," The Times says, "and in an extraordinary display of unanimity on Monday night, politicians from all sides seemed intent on outdoing each other as they searched for the most wounding response."
Under the headline "British Have a Go at Trump but Shy Away From a Ban", The New York Times says that although Mr Trump was roundly condemned by British MPs using "language that could have been lifted from his Twitter feed", they nevertheless backed away from the idea of barring him from entering the country - a move which it points out in any case can only be carried out by Home Secretary Theresa May.
It says that Monday's debate touched on a range of issues, including whether Mr Trump had breached the limits of free speech, and whether he was being treated differently from others with similar views because of his wealth and his prominence.
The Guardian says that the majority of parliamentarians from both left and right dismissed the idea of banning the businessman and star of The Apprentice in the US, with one MP saying it would fuel his publicity machine and give him the "halo of victimhood".
It quotes opposition Home Office minister Jack Dromey as saying that Mr Trump could "push vulnerable young people who believe in the victimhood promoted by Islamic State further into extremism".
Letting someone into the country who demonises Muslims would be "damaging, it would be dangerous, it would be deeply divisive", Mr Dromey was quoted as saying, adding: "I don't think Donald Trump should be let within 1,000 miles of our shores."
The Daily Telegraph carries the views of a wide range of politicians who spoke during the debate:
Under the headline "Donald Trump gets pummelled by the British", The Washington Post says that while the debate did not produce any binding decisions, "it did give British lawmakers an unusual chance to weigh in directly on US politics".
The paper quotes Conservative backbencher Edward Leigh, who argued that those who want to shut down a demagogue may be guilty of demagoguery themselves. "If we only allow freedom of speech for those we agree with, is that free speech at all?"
The Independent quotes Conservative MP Adam Holloway as saying that Britain should "apologise to the people of the United States" for the petition to ban Mr Trump. It quotes Mr Holloway as saying the debate on whether to ban him from British shores "makes Britain look totalitarian". It says that MPs were divided over dealing with his offensive views by banning him or by "giving him the chance to express them in order to expose them to ridicule".
The Huffington Post also highlights this argument, pointing out that many MPs "took the approach that Mr Trump should be subjected to the full force of media scrutiny and the satire of comedians".
The Los Angeles Times says the debate on Monday was "unusual and passionate" and provided a rare opportunity for Members of Parliament to share their views about the billionaire tycoon-turned-politician. It said that "well-versed arguments for and against were voiced from all sides of the political spectrum". It says that while some urged the government to use of its power to deny entry to people who are considered not "conducive to the public good" others said he should be invited to Britain "to see what life is really like".
The San Francisco Chronicle says that if Mr Trump does ever make it to Britain, he will have no shortage of things to do. "Labour legislator Naz Shah was one of several lawmakers who invited Trump to visit their constituencies to see Britain's multi-ethnic society first-hand," it says. "[Ms] Shah said she would take him to a curry restaurant in her home city of Bradford."
Finally The Financial Times says that apart from the diplomatic discomfort any ban might cause Mr Trump were he actually to enter the White House, "many MPs concluded that banning him would be counterproductive and - well - not very British".
DC Thomson said printing would end with a special edition released on the comic's 75th anniversary on 4 December.
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However, the Dundee-based company insisted it would not be the end of The Dandy or its characters.
It said it had "exciting" online plans after sales slumped to 8,000 a week from a high of two million in the 50s.
The Dandy, which launched in 1937, has featured characters such as Bananaman, Korky the Cat, Cuddles and Dimples, and Beryl the Peril, along with Desperate Dan.
As well as issuing a special edition for the final print run, the comic will also include a reprint of the first edition of The Dandy.
DC Thomson's Ellis Watson said the company wanted to ensure the comic would be popular with future generations.
Mr Watson explained: "We're counting down 110 days until the big 75th anniversary bash and we're working on some tremendously exciting things.
"Dan has certainly not eaten his last cow pie. All of The Dandy's characters are just 110 days away from a new lease of life."
A book celebrating the 75th anniversary of The Dandy was launched at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this week and the comic will also feature in exhibitions at the National Library of Scotland and the Cartoon Museum.
A bronze statue of Desperate Dan stands in Dundee city centre, alongside Minnie the Minx, from The Dandy's sister title The Beano.
The former Udinese boss watched his new team beat Watford after his appointment at the Liberty Stadium on Monday.
He will take charge of the Swans for the first time at Everton on Sunday.
"I let them [Udinese] know I would have liked to work at Watford, even in the Championship, but other managers were hired," the 60-year-old told Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport.
"Given their results, which include promotion and their good form in the Premier League, they made the right decision."
Guidolin left his last managerial post with Udinese in May 2014 and took up a position as technical supervisor for the Pozzo family, who own Udinese, Granada and Watford.
The 60-year-old Italian said he had received offers to manage again in Italy, but held out for a chance abroad.
"I preferred to wait as I wanted to experience something outside of Italy, and in the end I was rewarded," he said.
"I knew it wouldn't be easy as I'm not well-known internationally, but my agent Frank Trimboli did a great job in getting me this opportunity with Swansea."
Guidolin has appointed former Chelsea midfielder Gabriele Ambrosetti as a coach and will also work alongside Alan Curtis, who had been interim manager since Garry Monk's departure last month.
"The initial signs are encouraging. I was impressed by how cordial everyone was," added Guidolin.
"The first half against Watford was our best performance in some time. I have been following Swansea for the past month and I am convinced we have a great base to work from.
"I will try to implement my work on things that make a big difference like focus, concentration and intensity while trying to get them to play good football."
Guidolin cited the stress of the job when he left his post at Udinese, and he added: "It is my strength, and my weakness. Stress can help you, but it can also hurt you.
"When your job occupies your entire day, the results eventually come and that is the secret to my career. However, at the same time, the struggle drains you."
The 35-year-old is Millers boss Kenny Jackett's first signing since taking over the Championship's bottom club on 21 October, replacing Alan Stubbs.
He has also played for Russian side Lokomotiv Moscow, French club Lille and on loan at Bristol City last season.
League One Bolton Wanderers revealed he was training with them on Friday.
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Blackwell had surgery to reduce swelling on his brain after returning to sparring in November.
The 26-year-old Englishman retired earlier this year after being placed in an induced coma following a fight with Chris Eubank Jr.
A British Boxing Board of Control hearing into the unsanctioned sparring session will be held in January.
"This is the start of a long old process. It is going to be a long road to recovery," Gary Lockett, Blackwell's former trainer, told BBC Wales Sport.
"But at this point I think we are winning. It is more than we hoped for."
Blackwell woke from his coma on Friday, 16 December. He will now undergo a period of physiotherapy and will require an operation in 2017.
"We've been hoping he would get to this stage but didn't think it would be for another few months yet," Blackwell's father, John, told the Wiltshire Times.
"There's still a long road ahead, though, and he'll need another operation sometime next year to replace the part of his skull which is missing, but we're just so happy to see him smiling again."
An initial BBBofC investigation found Blackwell was involved in a gym sparring session with a licensed boxer on 22 November.
The boxer who sparred with Blackwell, Hasan Karkardi, and the trainer who oversaw the session, Liam Wilkins, have been suspended for their roles in the incident.
His former promoter, Frank Warren, described the circumstances that led to Blackwell's injuries as "total madness", and called for all those involved to have their licences revoked.
In a post on Facebook, the girlfriend of Blackwell's brother, Chantelle Spong, said his family had been told at one point that the boxer "would be paralysed or he would never wake up".
She wrote: "A few days ago we had the Christmas miracle we've been wanting so badly to happen...We walked into the hospital expecting to see Nick staring blankly at us, but instead he was watching telly and really trying to get words out to talk to people."
On his decision to take part in the sparring session, she said: "We don't know what was going through Nick's mind at the time but we do know boxing was Nick's life and full time job for 10 years, it was all he ever knew and it got ripped away from him.
"If Nick thought for one second that he didn't feel 100% we know in our hearts he would have never stepped foot in that ring to spar.
"His family and friends are his world and we know he never wanted us to go through this again, but he genuinely thought he was at full health."
"Merry Christmas to the Blackwell family who have been truly amazing these past few weeks. I couldn't think of a family more deserving to be happy than you lot."
Lockett believes Blackwell's love for the sport played a part in his decision to spar again and says other boxers make the same decision and put their health at risk.
"Nick has been a fool for what he has done, but we won't stop caring about him because of that," he said.
"The worrying thing is that Nick is not the only boxer who has retired with a head injury who ends up sparring again.
"There are others out there. You get more confident again after feeling good, following a spell away from the ring and they can't let boxing go."
Doug Beattie served three tours in Afghanistan in 2006, 2008 and 2010-11. Originally from Portadown in Northern Ireland, he became a soldier in 1982
Mr Beattie was reflecting on his time in Afghanistan ahead of a service in St Paul's Cathedral attended by the Queen on Friday to mark the end of combat operations in the country.
The former Royal Irish Regiment soldier said while many believed the conflict was about dropping bombs on an unseen enemy, the truth was radically different.
"War is brutal, it really is carnage - it's medieval sometimes," he said.
"I think people sitting back in their living rooms, or in pubs and clubs, think we live in a high-tech world where soldiers don't really see the enemy they're fighting.
"What I found in 2006 when I was involved in a 14-day battle in Garmsir is that this is about man against man.
"I never really thought that at the age of 40 I would have to thrust a bayonet through another person and yet I had to do that in September 2006 and I watched a man die at the end of my rifle."
Another experience that brought home the reality of war for him was the death of a young Afghan girl who had been fatally injured by a coalition mortar bomb.
"When you talk about what are your feelings at the end of a conflict such as Afghanistan and you say to people I'm filled with great sadness, I'm filled with great pride, but I'm also filled with great shame," he said.
"That shame is because of people like that young Afghan girl who was carried to me - this beautiful little thing who was only six years of age whose skin had been punctured by British mortar bombs.
"We though we could help her, but sadly within 24 hours this girl was dead. Her name was Shabia, I will never forget that name, it's imprinted on me and it just reminds me of how brutal war is."
He admits that after his first tour of duty in Afghanistan, adjusting to normal life when he returned home was difficult.
"I left the battlefield and within 24 or 48 hours, I was sitting at home having a glass of wine having had no decompression whatsoever," he said.
"I suddenly went into a mode where I was having problems dealing with what I had done and what I had seen."
He said that by his second and third tours, the army was better equipped to help people with the after-effects of conflict.
In terms of preparedness for what they would face in Afghanistan, he said: "We did receive a wide range of training and not just military training, but cultural training and political training so we had a degree of understanding of what was going on in Afghanistan and certainly Helmand Province.
"But I don't think we necessarily had that depth of knowledge that we really needed."
He added: "It made life difficult because you were learning as you went along."
Mr Beattie said while he had a complicated mixture of feelings about his combat duty in Afghanistan, he looked back on it with a sense of pride.
"We are proud of what we did, I am proud of what I did and more so, I'm proud of the young men and the young women who stood with me, some who will never return, some who returned with life-changing injuries, some with serious mental issues," he said.
However, he said he had found there was a conflicting response back home in Northern Ireland to the Army's role in Afghanistan.
"We cannot stand up united together with pride and say, 'this is what I've done' because part of this community will not allow us to do that," he said.
"It is difficult when you have those in the nationalist/republican community who say, 'You're a British soldier, you're a child murderer'.
"Then you have those in the unionist/loyalist community saying, 'No it doesn't matter what you did, you're a soldier and we'll support you'.
"The reality sits within me and that reality is the sense of sadness, that sense of shame, that sense of pride.
"I don't need anybody to tell me that I'm a child killer and I don't need anyone to tell me, 'I will support you regardless'."
First Minister Carwyn Jones has travelled to South America to attend celebrations in Patagonia.
The first wave of settlers sailed on the converted tea clipper Mimosa from Liverpool to Puerto Madryn in 1865, arriving on 28 July after a two-month journey that cost £12 per head.
Led by Rev Michael D Jones they had set out to create a new colony where they could preserve their culture, language, and Protestant nonconformist religion, free from English influence.
Jones - a radical nonconformist minister - chose a remote location because he believed that Welsh people who emigrated to English-speaking parts of the world, like the US, were too easily assimilated and lost their customs, language and religion.
The first migrants expected a fertile promised land, but arrived to find a desolate, windswept semi-desert with little shelter or food. After many difficult years battling drought, flash floods, hunger, crop failures and bureaucracy they eventually irrigated the land and established several towns near the Atlantic coast - 800 miles (1,300km) south of Buenos Aires - and 400 miles west at the foot of the Andes.
Announcing his visit earlier this year, Carwyn Jones said: "As a nation, we are very proud of the strong links that we share with the settlements in Patagonia."
Celebrations in Argentina are centred around the annual Gŵyl y Glaniad (Festival of Landing) in Puerto Madryn on 28 July, which includes a re-enactment of the 153 settlers disembarking the Mimosa via a small boat.
The event also includes a ceremonial exchange of gifts between the Welsh and the indigenous Tehuelche communities. The Welsh colonists befriended the local Tehuelche people, who are credited with helping the settlers survive the early years by passing on skills like hunting, and bartering meat for Welsh bread.
The Welsh hymn Calon Lân will be sung in Welsh and Spanish, followed by both national anthems, and flowers will be laid on the grave of another settlement leader Lewis Jones, after whom the town of Trelew is named.
In the afternoon, a traditional tea is being served in local Welsh chapels.
In the Andes region, a ceremony is being held at a monument to the Mimosa in Trevelin, followed by the unveiling of a sign declaring the town to be twinned with Cardigan in Ceredigion.
Events such as concerts, shows and banquets will be held in the town, and the neighbouring Welsh-founded community of Esquel, throughout the week.
A competition will be held in Trelew for the best 'black cake', or cacen ddu - a fusion of the traditional Welsh bara brith and Christmas cake. Black cake has become a symbol of Welsh Patagonia after the early settlers created it to help sustain them during floods or food shortages.
In Wales, exhibitions dedicated to the pioneers are being held at Bangor University and the National Library of Wales, in Aberystwyth.
The National Youth Choir of Wales launched its Patagonia 150 celebrations last week with concerts in Cardiff Bay and Llandaff Cathedral.
The choir - which has been working on a Latin American repertoire with Buenos Aires composer Camilo Santostefano, as well as studying Welsh music with John S Davies - will be touring Argentina in October.
Clwyd Theatr Cymru began performing a specially created production called Mimosa, telling the story of the settlers quest, in May and June. This month a company of young Welsh and Argentina performers joined the team to tour in both Wales and Patagonia.
There will be a special annual dinner of the Wales-Argentina Society in Caernarfon, and celebrations in Aberystwyth, which is twinned with Esquel.
In November, comedian Rhod Gilbert and Manic Street Preachers members James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore are taking part in a six-day charity hike to mark the anniversary by following on the footsteps of the Welsh pioneers. They will be part of a group trek that includes a climb up Craig Goch, from where the settlers saw Cwm Hyfryd (the valley) for the first time.
The event, plus a second trek being led by former Welsh rugby international player Shane Williams, will raise funds for Cardiff's Velindre Cancer Centre.
In the same month there will also be a special annual eisteddfod in Trelew, Argentina.
The anniversary of Mimosa's departure from Liverpool was marked in May with the unveiling of a red dragon monument at the city's Princess Dock.
Christopher Hampton was concerned the play's references to a fictional attack on Parliament would be in poor taste.
He said: "I said to Simon Callow, quite seriously, maybe we should change it."
Yet Callow, who directed the revival at London's Trafalgar Studios, said it was "important" the play be staged as originally seen.
"Christopher was perfectly willing to tone it down," said the actor and director after the play's opening night on Thursday.
"But I think it's very important there's this big shock in the play, that the characters then completely dismiss."
Set in Oxford in the early 1970s, The Philanthropist depicts a group of self-absorbed academics who have little interest in the wider world.
The play begins with news that a man armed with a machine-gun has killed the prime minister inside the House of Commons, along with a number of his front bench colleagues.
"The play is about how insulated and cocooned you can be in certain parts of life," said Hampton, who won an Academy Award for writing 1988 film Dangerous Liaisons.
"Therefore, I wanted to have bizarre things going on in the outside world."
Simon Bird, who plays lead character Philip, said it had been "shocking and jarring" for a real-life attack to occur "just down the road" from the play's West End home.
"The content of the play is bizarrely topical," said the star of Channel 4 sitcoms The Inbetweeners and Friday Night Dinner.
"It takes place in the backdrop of terrorist attacks and political turmoil, which makes it feel like it was written yesterday."
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He then entered the grounds of the Palace of Westminster and fatally stabbed a police officer before being shot dead.
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The Trafalgar Studios, formerly known as the Whitehall Theatre, are located a short distance away from where the events of 22 March took place.
Last seen in London in 2005, The Philanthropist has traditionally been staged with actors considerably older than the characters they are playing.
The late Alec McCowen played Philip in the original Royal Court production, while Matthew Broderick took the role when it was revived on Broadway in 2009.
"The characters are between 25 and 33, yet in the past they've always cast very skilled actors in their 40s," said Hampton.
"This production is different because the cast are the correct age. In a curious way, it feels much more like the play I wrote."
Bird's co-stars include Matt Berry from Channel 4's Toast of London, model turned actress Lily Cole and Call the Midwife cast member Charlotte Ritchie.
It was recently revealed that Call the Midwife is to have its first regular black character - a West Indian nurse whom Ritchie predicted would be "a very good addition to the cast."
The Philanthropist runs at the Trafalgar Studios until 22 July.
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The young Sunderland fan was diagnosed with neuroblastoma in 2013, and has won widespread admiration for the way he has dealt with the cancer.
"We're thrilled to be coming to Aintree and really appreciate everything everyone is doing for Bradley and us," said his mother Gemma.
"He's very excited about the big day."
Bradley led the England football team out at Wembley alongside striker and friend Jermain Defoe before last month's World Cup qualifier against Lithuania.
Jockey Club Racecourses has created the honorary Aintree berth and even his own set of colours - on paper in the racecard - to support Bradley's campaign to raise awareness and funds.
A maximum field of 40 runners will line up for the big race, with the final line-up announced on Thursday morning.
In the graphic, Bradley's red and white silks match those of his beloved Sunderland.
His age is listed and his date of birth, 17 May, is given in place of the weight a horse carries (17-5).
The 'form figures' of five wins (11111) are designed to show he is unbeaten at every turn, while his five-star rating confirms he is very highly regarded.
Also featured are the team behind Bradley: his father Carl and mother Gemma, and both sets of grandparents, Howard and Marie, and Dave and Christine.
His jockey is listed as his older brother, Kieran, while Defoe is in the slot normally reserved for the trainer.
England play the hosts and Germany twice each, in preparation for June's World League Semi-Final in London.
Rio Olympian Sam Ward could win his 50th international cap and Chris Griffiths returns from injury.
The 21-strong group also includes nine uncapped players, with places for U21s stars Jack Turner and Peter Scott.
Captain Barry Middleton, Adam Dixon and Mark Gleghorne will be rested after competing in the Hockey India League while Harry Martin is unavailable because of club commitments with Rotterdam.
Crutchley said: "The trip is a great opportunity to expose the new squad to international matches early in the cycle.
"With matches against Germany and South Africa it provides an ideal opportunity to start our preparations for the World League Semi-Final and Europeans later in the year."
Full squad: James Albery, Ollie Willars (Beeston), David Ames, George Pinner, Sam Ward (Holcombe), Liam Ansell, Brendan Creed, Harry Gibson, David Goodfield, (Surbiton), Tom Carson (Reading), Chris Griffiths (East Grinstead), Jonty Griffiths, Ed Horler, Luke Taylor (Loughborough Students), Mikey Hoare, Phil Roper, Ian Sloan, Henry Weir (Wimbledon), Liam Sanford (Team Bath Buccaneers and RAF), Peter Scott (Team Bath Buccaneers), Jack Turner (University of Durham).
The man in question is 31-year-old Oisin Hanrahan, the boss and co-founder of fast-growing New York-based business Handy.
Via its website and mobile app, Handy allows members of the public to easily book pre-vetted cleaners or handymen and women.
If you need a plumber, or even just someone to assemble some flat-pack furniture for you, all you need to do is fill in an electronic form, describing what needs doing, when you want it done, and where you live.
Handy will then quote you a price, and you pay there and then.
Then at the time you want the job done, a Handy registered and approved tradesman or woman will arrive at your home.
Set up in 2012, Mr Hanrahan and his co-founder Umang Dua, 28, came up with the idea when they were flatmates in Boston.
Both were studying at Harvard Business School, and they were struggling to find someone they could trust to clean their messy student apartment, or do any repair work.
Handy is today available in 25 cities in the US, and two in Canada. And last year it launched in the UK, in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and Brighton.
Now turning over $108m (£71m) a year, Handy is being used by hundreds of thousands of customers, and has more than 5,000 service professionals on its books.
Its rapid expansion has been made possible thanks to $45m of venture capital investment, and a deliberate policy of becoming the biggest such provider as quickly as possible, so as to see off any rivals offering a similar service.
Other competitors, such as UK business Mopp, have been bought up.
"How do you make sure that customers love the platform? It is really about the availability [of the cleaners and handymen]," says Mr Hanrahan.
"You have to become the biggest, as this gives you the most service professionals."
Born and bred in Dublin, Mr Hanrahan opened his first business while studying economics at the city's prestigious Trinity University.
Using money he had saved by working for a year between school and university, he decided to launch his own property development company.
The Irish housing market was booming at the time, but Mr Hanrahan realised that he could make bigger profits if he looked abroad.
So instead of buying apartments in Dublin, Cork or Limerick, he starting purchasing them in Budapest, the capital of Hungary.
Mr Hanrahan would then get the properties redeveloped, before selling them on at a significantly higher price.
This meant that while his student friends were enjoying the nightlife of Dublin every weekend, he was often flying to Budapest.
"My university friends thought it was madness... but by the end in Budapest I was employing 35 to 40 people."
However, in 2008 Mr Hanrahan sold his Hungarian property business, as the impact of the global financial crisis meant he could no longer get the cheap loans that had fuelled its growth.
Instead, after graduating from Trinity he did a masters in finance and private equity at the London School of Economics. Following a short period working for a venture capital firm in the City of London, he was accepted by Harvard Business School to do its celebrated MBA (master of business administration) course.
After one year, Mr Hanrahan and Mr Dua, who comes from India and holds the chief operating officer title, dropped out to set up Handy in the summer of 2012.
Mr Hanrahan says he knew that speed was of the essence: "Every entrepreneur always feels a sense of urgency whether real or in his own head.
"And for us, it did feel like a moment in time, the time when people were increasingly moving away from buying [household] services in an old-fashioned way, to buying them via the internet or mobile."
Realising they had to be quick, so as to beat other start-ups with the same sort of business model, they aimed to get to market as soon as possible.
Within weeks they had secured $50,000 of funding from a venture capital firm impressed by the idea, and a further $2m followed in September 2012.
Initially based in Boston, they soon moved their headquarters to New York, as Mr Hanrahan felt it was important to be based in the US's largest city and marketplace.
After some targeted advertising, the first few hundred tradesmen and women signed up, and customers soon followed in ever increasing numbers.
A roll-out to other US and Canadian cities then followed as the months progressed, as did further rounds of funding.
Now with more than 200 technical and administrative staff on its books, Handy pre-checks each and every cleaner, tradesman and woman that signs up.
Each has to first complete an online application form, before a telephone interview, and then an interview in person. Handy also does a background check to ensure they don't have any criminal records.
The service professionals can then pick jobs from Handy's website, on a first come, first served basis, with Handy taking a 20% cut of the money.
After a job has been done, the customer is asked to give feedback to Handy, and to give the trade professional a score out of 10. Any who receive consistently low scores are removed from the service.
At the same time, the professionals can report any customers who are rude or abusive.
While Handy's model is easy to copy, Mr Hanrahan says the sky is the limit for the business, as it conveniently meets the needs of millions of people - how to find a decent, trustworthy tradesman.
He says: "We are working on an idea which has a trillion dollar marketplace, and that is a very rare thing."
Five directors, including chief executive Kevin Hart, were removed at a meeting of shareholders called by Monaco-based private equity firm Crown Ocean Capital (COC).
A resolution calling for the removal of chairman Billy Allan was defeated.
Mr Allan and chief operating officer David Clarkson will keep their posts.
Two nominees put forward by COC - Christopher Ashworth and Eli Chahin - were appointed to the board with immediate effect.
Africa-focused Bowleven said all resolutions proposed at the general meeting would have been defeated "by a significant margin" without votes cast by COC and its nominees.
The board had urged shareholders to vote against the resolutions, arguing they were "not in the interests of all shareholders".
COC had been calling for a change in direction by the company. Among other things, it demanded that Bowleven focus on maximising value from its Etinde interest in Cameroon and not devote any resources to new projects or acquisitions.
Mr Hart joined the Bowleven board in November 2006, having been finance director at Cairn Energy for more than eight years.
Before that, he was a senior associate director with Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Group, specialising in oil and gas sector mergers and acquisitions.
They arrived arrived at Banna Strand on 21 April 1916 in a German U-boat as part of a plan to land guns and ammunition for the rising.
Casement was later tried, found guilty of treason and executed.
President Michael D Higgins delivered the keynote address at the strand and lay a wreath.
He said that Casement always thought of himself as an Ulsterman and that "none of the leaders of 1916 has excited as much controversy just before their death and ever since.
"Casement was undoubtedly a complex personality, and he was centrally involved in one of the most contentious episodes of the Irish revolutionary period".
Roger Casement, who spent his youth in County Antrim, was a human rights activist and former senior British diplomat, turned Irish nationalist.
His reports on the exploitation of rubbery slavery in the Congo and Brazil resulted in his being awarded a knighthood.
During World War 1 he travelled to Germany and attempted to recruit an Irish Brigade from Irish prisoners of war and arranged a shipment of weapons.
Twenty thousand guns were lost when the German cargo ship, Aud, was intercepted by the Royal Navy and scuttled in Cork Harbour.
The ceremony also marked the role of Robert Monteith and Daniel Bailey, who accompanied Casement on his mission.
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Within seconds of the announcement of Muhammad Ali's death in the early hours of the morning, the boxer's name was trending on social media around the globe.
Presidents, politicians, musicians, athletes and celebrities paid their respects to the former heavyweight champion.
This is the story of how the world reacted to the death of Ali, referred to by many as simply 'The Greatest'.
One million tweets have been posted on Twitter since the death of boxing legend Muhammad Ali was announced.
The term #RIPMuhammadAli was the top trending term worldwide on Twitter and so far has been used in over 850,000 tweets at a rate of nearly a thousand a minute.
Tweets began being sent at around 05:00 BST and reached a peak at 13:10 BST with 75,000 tweets sent in that hour alone.
Apart from his name, other trending terms include #thegreatest, #ripali, #ripchamp, and #goat (greatest of all time).
The UK and the US were the most tweeted from locations.
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The team of scientists - led by the University of Aberdeen and Cornell University in America - believe the subspecies of the European common vole was brought over by farmers.
They say it is found nowhere else on the UK mainland or islands.
The Belgium findings are described by the research team as a "totally unexpected result".
Prof Keith Dobney, one of the co-directors of the research, said: "The extensive archaeological record from Orkney has produced thousands of their [voles] bones and teeth, suggesting that they most likely arrived with early farmers or through Neolithic maritime trade and exchange networks.
"Where in Europe they came from and exactly when they were introduced has been a mystery for decades, but new genetic techniques and direct dating of their bones have finally allowed us to answer these questions."
Dr Natalia Martinkova who carried out the genetic studies on living common voles from continental Europe and Orkney, said: "Although our modern DNA results did not reveal exact genetic matches with any populations we sampled across continental Europe, the closest were from populations living today on the coast of Belgium, the likely origin for the original Orkney populations."
The findings are published in Molecular Ecology.
Tests reported in the journal Nature found the resulting drug, lugdunin, could treat superbug infections.
The researchers, at the University of Tubingen in Germany, say the human body is an untapped source of new drugs.
The last new class of the drugs to reach patients was discovered in the 1980s.
Nearly all antibiotics were discovered in soil bacteria, but the University of Tubingen research team turned to the human body.
Our bodies might not look like a battlefield, but on a microscopic level a struggle for space and food is taking place between rival species of bacteria.
One of the weapons they have long been suspected of using is antibiotics.
Among the bugs that like to invade the nose is Staphylococcus aureus, including the dreaded superbug strain MRSA.
It is found in the noses of 30% of people.
But why not everyone?
The scientists discovered that people with the rival bug Staphylococcus lugdunensis in their nostrils were less likely to have S. aureus.
The German team used various strains of genetically-modified S. lugdunensis to work out the crucial piece of genetic code that allowed it to win the fight to live among your nose hairs.
They eventually pinpointed a single crucial gene that contained the instructions for building a new antibiotic, which they named lugdunin.
Tests on mice showed lugdunin could treat superbug infections on the skin including MRSA, as well as Enterococcus infections.
One of the researchers, Dr Bernhard Krismer, said: "Some of the animals were completely clear, no single cell of the bacterium was detectable.
"Others were reduced, but still contained some bacteria and we also saw that the compound penetrated the tissue and acted on the deeper layer of the skin."
It will take years of testing before lugdunin could reach patients and it may not prove to be successful.
But new antibiotics are desperately needed as doctors face the growing challenge of infections that resist current drugs and could become untreatable.
Fellow researcher Prof Andreas Peschel said the body could be mined for new antibiotics.
"Lugdunin may be the first example of such an antibiotic, we have started a screening programme," he said.
And he even believes that people could one day be infected with genetically-modified bacteria to fight their infections.
He argued: "By introducing the lugdunin genes into a completely innocuous bacterial species we hope to develop a new preventive concept of antibiotics that can eradicate pathogens."
Prof Kim Lewis and Dr Philip Strandwitz, from the antimicrobial discovery centre at Northeastern University in the US, commented: "It may seem surprising that a member of the human microbiota - the community of bacteria that inhabits the body - produces an antibiotic.
"However, the microbiota is composed of more than a thousand species, many of which compete for space and nutrients, and the selective pressure to eliminate bacterial neighbours is high."
Prof Colin Garner, the head of Antibiotic Research UK, told the BBC: "Altering the balance of bacteria in our bodies through the production of natural antibiotics could eventually be exploited to fight off bacterial infections.
"It is possible that this report will be the first of many demonstrating that bacteria in our bodies can produce novel antibiotics with new chemical structures.
"Alongside a report that men with beards have fewer pathogens including MRSA on their faces than clean-shaven men, it seems the paper identifying lugdunin should be viewed alongside facial hair as a preventer of infection."
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The teams kick-off pre-season at Barcelona in Spain on 27 February before returning for a second session in March.
All the teams have now revealed their 2017 driver line-ups.
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Monday, 27 February - Thursday, 2 March 2017
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There will be live BBC Sport text commentary on all eight days of the two tests.
Dorothea Weber, from Jersey, hid Hedwig Bercu who was being hunted by the Germans in the Nazi-controlled island.
The pair survived for 18 months on her rations and by fishing at night.
She has been recognised as one of the Righteous Among the Nations by the Yad Vashem, Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.
Before the German occupation, which started on 30 June 1940, fewer than 100 Jews lived in the Channel Islands and most left before it began.
In 1942 three Jewish women from Guernsey were deported to France and were later interned, with all three dying in Auschwitz's gas chambers.
Hedwig Bercu was one of only a handful of registered Jews in Jersey and went into hiding after being reported for smuggling petrol coupons.
She faked her suicide at St Aubin's Bay leaving a note and a pile of clothes on the beach, however, the German authorities were not convinced and continued to search for her.
Cambridge University academic Gilly Carr has campaigned for Dorothea Weber's bravery to be recognised and said she was "thrilled" and the news was "great for Jersey".
Righteous Among Nations
Ms Weber is the second Channel Islander to receive the honour - Albert Bedane was awarded it in 2000 for sheltering Dutch Jewish woman Mary Richardson.
Although his house at 45 Roseville Street no longer exists, a plaque was unveiled on the site to celebrate his remarkable story.
Jon Carter, director of Jersey Heritage, said he hoped they could do something similar to mark Dorothea's actions.
He praised the work of Dr Carr and other academics as making a "significant change" in the occupation story.
Mr Carter said they had "done a great deal to shift the focus of the occupation narrative onto the victims of nazism" rather than the military occupation.
He said it was great for "a lot of untold stories like this one" to be brought into the public eye.
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John Bracewell's side will need to top their four-team group, which also contains Netherlands and Oman, if they are to progress to the Super 10 stage.
The Super 10 will be played alongside the women's event from 15-28 March.
Ireland's women have been drawn in Group A alongside Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and Sri Lanka.
Aaron Hamilton's side open their campaign against New Zealand on 18 March, followed by a game against Sri Lanka two days later, with both matches taking place in Mohali.
South Africa will provide a tough test for the Irish side in Chennai on 23 March, followed by their final group game against the Australians in New Delhi on 26 March.
In the men's competition, Ireland will face hosts India, holders Australia, New Zealand and Pakistan if they reach the Super 10 stage.
The winners of the second qualifying group, which comprises Scotland, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan and Hong Kong, will face England, Sri Lanka, South Africa and West Indies.
Ireland will be based in Dharamsala and open their campaign against Oman on 9 March, followed by what might prove to be the group decider against Bangladesh two days later.
Ireland's final group game against Netherlands takes place on 13 March.
The university says the job losses have to happen for it to be a world-leading institution and will offer voluntary severance wherever possible.
But the University and College Union (UCU) said the university was in "a strong financial position".
Academics and support staff are both under threat.
A university spokesman said cuts would be made to staff in the biology, medicine, health, business and humanities departments.
He said it was hoped compulsory redundancies would be avoided, and the organisation wanted to "improve the quality of our research and student experience in some areas and ensure financial sustainability".
"We have detailed plans for significant growth in funds from a range of activities, but we will also need to make cost savings," he added.
UCU general secretary Sally Hunt said the university had blamed the cuts on financial instability caused by "recent government policy changes and Brexit as an excuse to make short-term cuts that will cause long-term damage".
The UCU said the university's financial statement for the year ending July 2016 revealed it had reserves totalling £1.5bn.
More than 12,000 people work at the university, including almost 7,000 academic and research staff.
Union members are to meet on Friday to hold talks about the proposed cuts.
Seven-year-old Nanga gave birth to a healthy male cub on 6 June, named Milo, but died after being taken ill on Tuesday.
Zookeepers said the cub will be hand-reared and monitored 24 hours a day for the next 14 weeks.
Director Derek Grove said everyone at the zoo was "devastated" over Nanga's death.
He added: "We're thankful that Nanga was alive long enough to provide the first important feeds for the cub, which has put it in great stead."
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A post-mortem on Nanga is due to be carried out later.
The zoo confirmed Milo is not set to be on show "for the next few weeks".
Dudley Zoo has two other male snow leopards, Makalu and Margaash, with the latter set to move to a zoo in Darjeeling, India, within a fortnight.
Whatever the answer, the report could not have rocked Pakistan like it did if it was not for the fact that Axact, a software company, was planning to launch a multi-platform print and electronic media group called Bol (Speak Up).
This now seems to have been compromised.
In a damning report on 17 May, the New York Times revealed what it called "a vast education empire" of hundreds of American universities and schools offering online degrees in various disciplines.
The strange thing about it was that all the "glossy and assured" websites of these institutions - at least 370 in number - existed only "as stock photos on computer servers", the report claimed.
The one real thing about this internet empire "is the tens of millions of dollars in estimated revenue it gleans each year from many thousands of people around the world, all paid to a secretive Pakistani software company", the report said.
Axact has denied the allegations. The company's CEO, Shoaib Sheikh, in a message posted on video sharing website Dailymotion called it a conspiracy "to break our resolve, to derail Bol, to shut down Axact".
The message, titled "Shoaib Sheikh's last message before getting arrested", was posted on Tuesday, hours before he was taken in by the Federal Investigation Agency.
Speaking in Urdu, Mr Sheikh said: "They say we sell fake degrees and diplomas, but we only offer an educational platform, which integrates with our partners… If those partners own universities which are legitimate entities within their respective jurisdictions, then it is perfectly legitimate for us to manage their call centre services, their chat services and their document management services."
But despite the denials, the ground appears to be slipping from under Axact's impressive multi-storey office building in Karachi's upscale Defence area.
One apparent factor is the scale of the alleged fraud.
"There have long been rumours in IT and business circles about Axact's business model and quite how it was able to generate massive amounts of cash that the company appeared to be making," says a Dawn newspaper editorial on 22 May.
It further says: "No plausible explanations were offered by the company, and it routinely dismissed the allegations as nothing more than rivals' jealousies. Clearly, that status-quo is no longer tenable."
With the arrest of the five top executives of Axact, the apparent insinuation at the time appears to be that the multi-million rupee Bol empire is being funded by the fake degree scam.
But while investigations into this scam may be a top priority with the FIA, all eyes are on what happens to Bol.
The minute the NYT report hit the stands on 17 May, Pakistani TV channels went into overdrive in an apparent bid to drag down Bol, a menacing looking potential rival that Axact bosses said would change Pakistan's media landscape.
It was an uneasy reminder of the convulsive media wars of last year when most news channels ganged up to drag down Geo TV.
These wars are in turn a throwback to the lawyers' movement of 2007, when the media and protesters ganged together in common cause to weaken, and subsequently oust military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf.
Flushed with that power, the electronic media spawned larger-than-life talk show hosts with immense clout in political and military circles, often assuming the role of power brokers and arbiters of disputes.
More than two years ago some of these star journalists started to leave their channels and seemingly pass into oblivion.
They were actually gathering at Bol - a high profile print and electronic media arm of Axact which had not yet gone on air.
But despite being off camera, they were being looked after very well.
Those in the leading roles were offered hefty salaries, houses, cars and fringe benefits that included fees for gyms, swimming clubs, medical cover and retirement support.
Nearly all of the more than 2,000 members of staff that Bol had hired until last week drew salaries that were three to four times greater than those holding equivalent positions elsewhere.
These staffers manned Bol's various TV channels (news, documentaries, entertainment etc), Urdu and English language newspapers, and Urdu and English language websites.
The momentum set by investigations into the fake degree scam finally caught up with Bol on Saturday when President and Editor-in-Chief of Axact's media group, Kamran Khan, tweeted he was quitting.
This triggered turmoil and confusion, and many more announced they were leaving.
Some of them said they were doing it for "principles", others said they had been blinded by the glitter and now realised the dark side of it, but few said they were quitting because they feared a financial crunch.
But this is what most of them are being criticised for on social media now.
All of those who have quit so far are "star" journalists, who were placed in leadership roles. Most of them were instrumental in poaching 2,000 subordinate staff from rival media houses to fill positions such as desk editors, camera crew and support staff.
So while they have jumped the ship, they are seen by many as having abandoned their crew to an uncertain fate.
Mhairi Convy, 18, and 20-year-old Laura Stewart, died in hospital following the incident in North Hanover Street, on 17 December 2010.
The driver, William Payne, 53, was later charged with causing their deaths while driving uninsured but the case was dropped by prosecutors.
The FAI will be begin in February.
An initial preliminary hearing will take place at Glasgow Sheriff Court next month before a full inquiry is expected to start in February.
Ms Convy, of Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire, and Ms Stewart, of Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, were accounts students at the former Central College of Commerce.
The friends were on a free period when they headed towards the city centre to do some Christmas shopping.
It was reported at the time that they were fatally injured after being struck by a 4x4 Range Rover which mounted the kerb.
Both students died of their injuries at the city's Royal Infirmary.
The jihadist group Islamic State (IS) has said it was behind the attack, which targeted a crowded shopping centre in the Karrada district, where people were enjoying a night out after breaking their daily fast for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Among those identified on social media as a victim was Adel al-Jaf, a young dancer also known as Adel Euro. The New York-based choreographer Jonathan Hollander told the BBC that the world had lost "an extraordinary, talented, creative artist".
Over the past two years, Mr Hollander and his Battery Dance company had mentored Jaf online. "Though he said he was a hip-hop and break-dancer, he said he really wanted to expand his repertoire," Mr Hollander said. "He wanted to learn from us and learn about contemporary dance and do ballet."
Battery Dance said Jaf had "spread his love for dance to others in Baghdad, starting a dance academy, and providing a creative outlet for other artists at-risk". He had just completed his law degree and planned to come to the US to continue his dance studies, the company added.
Zulfikar Oraibi, the son of former Iraqi footballer Ghanim Oraibi who played in the 1986 World Cup, was also reportedly killed in the bombing. The Alghad Press news website published a photo it said showed Ghanim sitting next to Zulfikar's grave.
Another young man, named Issa al-Obaidi, had been buying clothes for the Islamic festival of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, when he was caught up in the blast, according to a post on his Facebook page.
The owner of a shop close to where the bomb went off told the New York Times he had asked two friends who owned clothing stores near his, Saif and Abdullah, to watch his business on Saturday night and that they had been killed. "I could not recognise their bodies," Abdul Kareem Hadi said. "[IS] says: 'We kill Shia,' but I lost my dearest friends to me in this explosion, and they were Sunnis."
Adnan Abu Altman was another victim identified on social media. He had graduated from law school at Al-Mansour University College only days before the bombing. He was in Karrada with his father Safaa, who was reportedly also killed, and his brother Ali, who is missing, according to the New Arab website.
Photographs of two families believed to have been killed in the attack were also posted online. Raqia Hassan, her brother Hadi and their father Hassan Ali were said to have been buying clothes at the time of the attack, while Amr Mustanik was reportedly in the area with his wife and daughter.
Many people also posted photos and video of what some described as the "zaffa (wedding procession) of a martyr". They showed men carrying a coffin, draped in an Iraqi flag, down a street in Karrada, led by drummers. The name of the victim was not given.
The Lord's outfit only lost two first-class game this year but finished 68 points behind champions Yorkshire.
"We only got 29 batting points, and one from the last four games of the season, which isn't good enough," Scott told BBC London 94.9.
"If individuals look at their performances over the year, a few will say they have scope for improvement."
Middlesex were the only side to beat Yorkshire in Division One this year, as the White Rose county set a record of 11 top-flight victories.
"We have a lot to be proud of in the Championship and winning the epic game at Lord's against Yorkshire was probably the highlight," said Scott.
"With Nick Compton the only one going past 1,000 runs and James Harris the only one past 50 wickets, there is improvement for most to be made next year.
"I am sure the club can be proud of what we have achieved this year and be excited about how far we can go in our quest to win a trophy next year."
Middlesex ended the campaign with a loss at Worcestershire, with Scott describing their defeat by an innings and 128 runs as a "bitter note".
"It will take a couple of weeks of reflection to understand what went wrong," he said.
"It was by far our worst performance of the season as we were outplayed.
"We made a decision in August not to have an overseas player for the last month of the season and generally we coped and won cricket matches. It caught up with us."
A leaked 2012 review found staff did not feel Slade House, Oxford, was safe and that it was dirty and difficult to track the care of patients at the unit.
Connor Sparrowhawk, 18, died at the site in July 2013.
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust said a post-review plan had not been completed before his death.
An inquest jury found in October that neglect contributed to Mr Sparrowhawk's death.
Dr Sara Ryan, his mother, said she would be asking police to open an investigation.
She said the leaked documents were the "missing piece" for a corporate manslaughter charge, and described seeing the 2012 report as "devastating".
"Numerous things were wrong that were clearly important failings. To think that was known about… is awful, shocking, and harrowing," she said.
"There's so many failings within the failings."
The internal review involved staff carrying out a mock Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection.
Staff described safety as either "medium" or "low", while others were "very clear" that it was not safe.
There was also a "lack of clarity" around care plans, risk assessments and risk management, and a "gap" between information stored on its electronic system and on paper.
In addition, the review found evidence of "difficulty in maintaining an acceptable level of cleanliness".
The report was undertaken while the trust - which covers Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire - was in the process of taking over the unit from the Ridgeway Partnership.
Visits by the CQC in 2013 said it needed "urgent" action to make it safer. It has since been closed.
Gail Hanrahan, from Oxford Family Support Network, said the details that had emerged were "heartbreaking" and "incredibly sad".
She added: "The fact that they were flagged up almost a year before Connor died… words fail really, it's just devastating."
The trust said the findings in the review were "circulated to an internal meeting and discussed as part of our governance process".
It said they also contributed to a larger report in October 2012 and that an action plan was put in place.
"However, the trust fully accepts that these had not all been completed at the time of Connor's death," it added.
The company, which reported a profit of £13.7m in 2014, said it had faced "challenging" market conditions.
Full-year revenue for the Edinburgh-based firm fell from £126m in 2014 to just over £100m last year.
Its harvest of fish also fell, from 30,200 tonnes to 25,600 tonnes.
There was a significant impact to the final figures from a £3.6m cut in the "fair value" placed on fish stocks.
Before taking that into account, profit per kilo was down from 37p to only 16p.
In the final quarter of the year, profit per kilo was only 7p - although the figures improved on a big loss for July to September.
The company's results statement explained that salmon prices reached record levels in Norwegian currency towards the end of the year. But with a sharp weakening in the krone's value against sterling, that advantage was weakened.
The Scottish Salmon Company was set back by its boats needing unplanned maintenance, and by stormy weather, which made harvesting impossible on 16 days between October and December.
It also faced "isolated incidents of mortality on specific sites", but did not give details.
The results emphasised the challenge of fish health and quality of produce.
The company, which said fish health continued to be "a priority for the company and the sector", is taking part in a project to farm "cleaner fish" or wrasse, which eat sea lice when introduced to salmon cages.
The Scottish Salmon Company is held up by Scottish Enterprise as a successful exporter, making 42% of its sales to 24 foreign countries.
That is heavily weighted to Europe, with 38% of overall sales, or £38.7m.
North American exports fell to less than 2% of sales - down from £4.2m to £1.7m - while the "rest of world" accounted for £355,000.
Managing director Craig Anderson said: "When reflecting on 2015, it is important to see how we have handled a series of challenging circumstances during the year.
"We have put strong foundations in place over the past few years that have enabled us to demonstrate the stability of the business."
The 23-year-old's move beats Sporting's sales of Cristiano Ronaldo (£12.24m) and Nani (£25m) to Manchester United.
It is also the second-biggest move out of Portugal, marginally behind the fee Monaco paid Porto for Colombian James Rodriguez in 2013.
Inter remain in talks over signing Brazilian Gabriel Barbosa from Santos.
Erick Thohir, Inter's president, said: "Mario is a very important player, who we have followed for a long time and who would enforce an already competitive squad."
Midfielder Mario made 171 appearances for Sporting and played in every game of Portugal's Euro 2016 triumph, when they beat France 1-0 in the final.
Critics call Anishinabe Wakiagun a place of death, but to its 45 residents, one of whom has been here 11 years, it is more like a lifeline.
One resident of the People's House wheels a bicycle down an upstairs corridor, cursing as he goes.
A few doors along, drinking buddies get rowdy over a bottle of cherry vodka. And downstairs, a sign on the outside security door warns against bringing firearms inside.
The Minneapolis area's three wet houses vary in approach but all share one common - and controversial - feature: within these walls, no-one stops you drinking.
There are rules. Drinking has to be in the privacy of your room. Don't abuse the staff. And mouthwash, which contains high concentrations of alcohol and is a cheap favourite among chronic alcoholics, is banned.
But if you want to drink yourself into a stupor, or even to death, then go ahead.
While some have, most do not, says Michael Goze, chief executive officer of American Indian Community Development Corp, which runs the centre.
According to People's House research, its residents indulge in fewer, shorter binges between stays than alcoholics who have not spent time at the centre. (The average stay is 21 months, the centre says).
The centre says it saves the county more than $500,000 (£312,441) per year by reducing detox admissions, emergency room visits and jail bookings.
But Mr Goze says the centre reinforces a more fundamental point: you don't have to be sober to have a home.
"There's a lot of subsidised housing throughout the city," he says.
"Are there rules about whether people drink or don't drink? There are not."
At Wakiagun (the name is Ojibwe), residents are well fed and have access to on-site medical advice.
Jesse Beaulieu, 28, says it represents the difference between life and death.
"If I wasn't here right now," he says, "I wouldn't be alive."
Death and alcohol have shaped Mr Beaulieu's life since he was a child.
His mother died of cirrhosis of the liver in 2004. His aunt, also an alcoholic, died of exposure on waste ground behind a drug store. His brother found her body and committed suicide. Mr Beaulieu threw himself off a bridge in an attempt to follow suit.
He says he is trying hard to shake the habit, but it's hard. Temptation literally comes knocking on the door most evenings, in the shape of fellow residents looking for someone to drink with.
"Sometimes," he admits, "I just crave it."
But there lies the challenge of the wet house. Unlike other, more prescriptive treatments, it gives you choices.
For Joe Mihalik, an alcoholic since age 18, that is what matters.
"When someone tells me I can't do something, I'm going to do everything in my power to do that," Mr Mihalik, now 54, says.
"That's kind of vanquished here. They're saying 'go ahead and drink', and all of a sudden the options fall in my lap."
The People's House doesn't provide alcohol - residents must buy their own.
It is not hard to find them on the nearby streets, scraping together a few dollars by holding up "homeless" or "hungry" signs at traffic intersections, or collecting cans for recycling.
A couple of residents, most of whom are Native Americans, make decorative dream catchers and sell them on the street or at craft fairs.
Wet houses are not without their critics. Hennepin County Commissioner Jeff Johnson finds the whole concept deeply flawed.
"We really do enable behaviour that is destroying these people's lives," he says. "And we have the taxpayers' help with that. And I just think that's wrong."
In difficult economic times, Mr Johnson says, tax dollars should go towards cures, not indulgence.
Mr Mihalik disagrees.
"I've been in and out of 12 treatments," he says.
"I can sit at the head of the class. I can graduate with flying colours. But I'm drinking two weeks after I graduate. Alcoholism is terminal. It's not curable."
Mr Mihalik has been in wet houses for the past six years and thinks he may just be ready to move on. He looks healthier and more determined than most residents of the People's House.
Jesse Beaulieu is still some way behind. But as he sits in the safety of his own room, drawing and writing poetry, and occasionally falling off the wagon, he's working on his demons.
"My life is now on the brink," he writes in a poem entitled One Last Drink.
"Do I let my boat float or sink?
"I don't care what anyone thinks.
"I got to answer the question: do I take one last drink?"
The Swedish boat, skippered by Briton Sam Davies, won the eighth and penultimate 647-mile stage, from Lisbon to Lorient, by more than 48 minutes.
Team SCA are the only all-female crew in the current race, and the first to compete for 10 years.
With one leg of the seven-team race remaining, they are in sixth place, with Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing leading.
Briton Ian Walker skippers the Abu Dhabi crew, who have all but secured overall victory.
Their third place in the eighth leg took them eight points clear at the top of the standings and only a serious breach of the rules can now stop them winning.
Only four female crews have competed in the race's 41-year history, and Team SCA's victory was the first since Tracy Edwards' Maiden won two legs in 1989-90.
"It's going to be huge for us," said skipper Davies, whose winning time was three days 13 hours 11 minutes 11 seconds.
"We've had a mountain to climb to get here. The conditions might have been man breaking but they were not women breaking.
"It feels great to have held that lead in the conditions we had. It was not easy in the Bay of Biscay but I am proud of how we sailed.
"It was pretty violent onboard. We had a tough 36 hours across there. If I chose one leg to win it would be this one coming into Lorient, so I am doubly happy."
Team SCA are less experienced than their male rivals - just two of the crew have previously competed in the race - while their 12-woman team has three extra members compared with the male crews, a concession to the physicality of sailing's toughest race.
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Jeffrey Skilling presided over Enron when it became embroiled in one of the biggest corporate frauds in US history.
In return for the more lenient sentence, Skilling, who has been in prison since 2006, has agreed to stop appealing against his conviction.
Thousands of workers lost their jobs and retirement savings when energy firm Enron collapsed in 2001.
The company's implosion came amid revelations executives had covered up the shoddy state of its finances with accounting trickery and shady business deals.
The agreement between Skilling and federal prosecutors also allows more than $40m (£26m) seized from him to be distributed to the victims of the Enron fraud.
His prison term is now set to expire in December 2020.
He was able to push for a sentence reduction after an appeals court ruled in 2009 that a sentencing guideline had not been correctly applied in the original trial.
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Austin opened the scoring with a controversial penalty after Costa Nhamoinesu was harshly adjudged to have handled while challenging the striker.
Dusan Tadic had to be ushered away after arguing about who should take the penalty but celebrated with Austin.
Austin's header made it 2-0 before Jay Rodriguez added a late third.
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Puel has endured a frustrating start to his managerial reign at Southampton after two draws and two defeats, including Saturday's last-minute loss at Arsenal.
But this was a highly satisfactory night for the Frenchman as the Saints secured a comfortable Group K win with Austin, who has started just one league game this season, causing chaos with his pace and accurate finishing.
The 27-year-old looked like a player with a point to prove as he scored twice in 22 first-half minutes, the first a controversial penalty awarded after Nhamoinesu was ruled to have handled while challenging Austin on the edge of the area.
German referee Manuel Grafe originally awarded a corner only to change his mind and point to the spot.
More drama was to follow as Austin's team-mate Tadic had to be guided away by captain Virgil van Dijk after arguing over who should take the kick.
Austin duly scored from the spot before the former QPR striker headed his second from the edge of the six-yard area after Cuco Martina's clever cross.
Having scored the winner at Manchester United last January, Austin has now found the net on both his Premier League and Europa League debuts for Southampton.
Sparta Prague offered very little threat in a match which at times resembled a training game.
The Czech visitors forced just one save from Fraser Forster, who beat away substitute David Lafata's first-time effort when the score was 2-0.
Puel made seven changes to the side that started against Arsenal yet there was an intensity and a desire as his fringe players left him with plenty to ponder.
Tadic and Austin were lively throughout while Shane Long capped an impressive individual display by setting up substitute Rodriguez to turn home Saints' third from close range.
The win takes Southampton top of the group ahead of their trip to Israel to face Hapoel Be'er Sheva, who won 2-0 away at Inter Milan, on 29 September.
Southampton striker Charlie Austin on taking the penalty: "As a centre-forward I think I should take the penalties. I've come here full of confidence, even though I've not scored.
"I put the ball on the spot and luckily it gave us a 1-0 lead. I think it was a bit silly from me and Dusan, but I'll take the penalties in future."
Southampton boss Claude Puel on the argument over the penalty: "They can discuss together; if all the time you put the ball in the goal it's OK. For me it's not important."
On the performance: "It was a great performance. We played a very good team of technical players. It was difficult but the penalty at the start of the game helped us on to good things."
Will this win kick-start Southampton's season? We'll soon find out. They entertain Swansea City at St Mary's on Sunday (14:15 BST).
Match ends, Southampton 3, Sparta Prague 0.
Second Half ends, Southampton 3, Sparta Prague 0.
Goal! Southampton 3, Sparta Prague 0. Jay Rodriguez (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Shane Long.
Foul by Shane Long (Southampton).
Vaclav Kadlec (Sparta Prague) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Shane Long (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Matt Targett.
Matej Pulkrab (Sparta Prague) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Matej Pulkrab (Sparta Prague).
Offside, Southampton. Virgil van Dijk tries a through ball, but Shane Long is caught offside.
James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Vyacheslav Karavayev (Sparta Prague).
Foul by James Ward-Prowse (Southampton).
Michal Sacek (Sparta Prague) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Virgil van Dijk (Southampton) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Maya Yoshida with a headed pass following a corner.
Attempt blocked. Jay Rodriguez (Southampton) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by James Ward-Prowse with a cross.
Substitution, Southampton. Steven Davis replaces Oriol Romeu.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Martin Frydek.
Foul by Oriol Romeu (Southampton).
Matej Pulkrab (Sparta Prague) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Oriol Romeu (Southampton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Oriol Romeu (Southampton).
Michal Sacek (Sparta Prague) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Southampton. Jay Rodriguez replaces Charlie Austin.
Shane Long (Southampton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Costa Nhamoinesu (Sparta Prague).
James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David Lafata (Sparta Prague).
Substitution, Sparta Prague. Matej Pulkrab replaces Josef Sural.
Offside, Southampton. Nathan Redmond tries a through ball, but Shane Long is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Nathan Redmond.
Foul by Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Southampton).
Michal Sacek (Sparta Prague) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Nathan Redmond.
Attempt blocked. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Nathan Redmond.
Substitution, Southampton. Nathan Redmond replaces Dusan Tadic.
Vaclav Kadlec (Sparta Prague) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Matt Targett (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Vaclav Kadlec (Sparta Prague).
Attempt saved. David Lafata (Sparta Prague) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Plans for urban development and slum demolition have been a violently contested issue in Port Harcourt.
Amnesty is warning that continued development may leave as many as 200,000 people homeless.
Sprawling and chaotic, the city of Port Harcourt is Nigeria's oil capital in the Niger Delta.
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Its shanty towns and slums are home to tens of thousands of people all scraping a living in a city pumping billions of dollars worth of oil.
In 2009, the Rivers State government began plans to rebuild parts of the city.
They are demolishing slums on the waterfront as part of the "Greater Port Harcourt master plan".
Forced evictions regularly spark demonstrations there and police have even fired live rounds at protesters. Several civilians have been killed.
The local government hopes to develop the area to create jobs, stimulate the local economy and build better roads - all of it urgently needed.
They hope to build an eight-screen cinema, a shopping mall and hotels.
They are following a buy-out scheme, paying those who own the properties to move.
But most of the residents on the waterfront are poor tenants who get no compensation and have nowhere to go.
Many of them now sleep outdoors under bridges and in the streets.
Amnesty is now warning that as many as 200,000 people could end up homeless if alternative housing is not found for them.
"These planned demolitions are likely to plunge hundreds of thousands of Nigeria's most vulnerable citizens further into poverty," said the group's Africa deputy programme director, Tawanda Hondora.
"The government should halt the waterfront evictions until they ensure they comply with international human rights standards."
The court heard the men wanted to kill people in revenge for Jyllands-Posten's publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in 2005.
The four were all Muslims resident in Sweden. Police said they were arrested just hours before the foiled attack.
All the men had denied charges of terrorism against them.
The Copenhagen-based newspaper's publication of the cartoons of Muhammad sparked protests in Muslim countries.
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Munir Awad, Omar Abdallah Aboelazm and Munir Ben Mohamed Dhahri, a Tunisian citizen, were picked up by police on 29 December 2010 at a flat near Copenhagen.
Sabhi Ben Mohamed Zalouti was arrested a day later after crossing into Sweden, then extradited back to Denmark.
Swedish and Danish intelligence officials tracked the men - who all lived in Sweden but were either born or had parents born in Tunisia, Egypt and Lebanon - for a number of months ahead of the arrests.
A machine-gun with a silencer, a pistol and 108 bullets, and rolls of duct tape were among items found in the men's possession when they were arrested.
The indictment said the men had deliberately planned to frighten the population of Denmark.
Prosecutors said that they had intended to kill "an unknown number" of people during the attack, which had been due to take place on the same day as a sporting award ceremony attended by Crown Prince Frederik.
Denmark remains a target for Islamist militants almost seven years since Jyllands-Posten published 12 cartoons showing the Prophet Muhammad in a variety of humorous or satirical situations.
One showed Muhammad carrying a lit bomb on his head decorated with the Muslim declaration of faith instead of a turban.
Many Muslims said the cartoons were extremely and deliberately offensive. Some also saw them as an attack on their faith and culture designed to sow hatred. Islamic tradition prohibits images of God, Muhammad and all major figures of the Christian and Jewish traditions.
At the time, Danish flags were burned and embassies were attacked.
Jyllands-Posten eventually apologised but that did not stop a number of attacks in connection with the cartoons.
One man broke into the house of one of the cartoonists and tried to kill him with an axe, while another bungled an attempt to bomb the newspaper's offices.
The tablet app is free, but must be paired with a new version of the publisher's add-on Traptanium Portal base to access the whole game.
As with other titles in the series, extra content and powers are unlocked by placing Skylanders toys on the base.
The US publisher pioneered the "toys-to-life" genre in 2011.
Since then, the franchise's games and figurines have generated more than $2bn (£1.2bn) worth of sales.
But the company is now facing growing competition from Disney's Infinity game, which is about to release Marvel playsets featuring characters that appeared in its Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy movies.
Lego and Nintendo have also announced plans to release their own "smart toys", which will interact with their respective video game franchises.
Activision said the iPad, Android and Kindle Fire versions of Skylanders Trap Team would offer the same contents and level of graphics found on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game when they are all released in October.
"This looks like a really smart move, both in terms of strengthening the Skylanders brand against rivals and also for the way it targets the young market that is predominantly gaming on tablet devices," commented Guy Cocker, a video games writer for Wired and T3 magazines.
"It's good that existing toys work with the tablets, but having to buy another portal is asking quite a lot of parents who've probably already bought other versions.
"Skylanders is a great game, but I worry about how much it costs parents over time."
Skylanders figurines feature radio-frequency identification chips in their stands, which allow them to interact with the portal, which acts as a RFID reader/writer.
In addition to unlocking in-game content, the figurines can also be used to store data. This allows players to save progress, take the toy to a friend's home, and then continue playing using a separate device.
The tablet version of the portal connects to the touchscreen computers via Bluetooth, unlike the console versions that use a USB cable or special dongle.
The new base also includes a detachable games pad designed for the size of a child's hands to allow them precision control.
But the title can also be played using touch controls that appear on the tablets' screens when the game pad is turned off.
The portal will be sold as part of a starter pack costing £65 that also includes two Skylanders toys and two "traps", which can be used to capture in-game enemies that can subsequently be played with.
A further two characters are built into the app, so that it can be used even when not connected to the base.
However, parents are likely to come under pressure to buy more figurines to open up extra areas in the game and add powers.
Skylanders Trap Team introduces more than 50 new playable characters bringing the total to more than 225, each costing £9 or more.
The toys have proved to be a valuable commodity to Activision.
The California-based company announced in February that it had sold 175 million figures.
Earlier this month, it boasted that its Swap Force line-up of Skylanders characters were outselling Hasbro's Transformers and Star Wars toys as well as all other ranges of action figures in North America.
Extending the series to tablets offers the firm the opportunity to boost sales further.
"We know we have a huge audience of kids that are gaming almost exclusively on tablets," Paul Reiche, president and co-founder of Toys for Bob - the studio that developed the game - told the BBC.
"I feel like this is a legitimate audience for us to address. We really wanted to make sure that we could invest and give a complete 'triple-A' [big budget] choice that is one-to-one with our consoles."
This is not, however, the first Skylanders game for mobile devices.
Activision has released three prior titles that allowed players to unlock content by typing in a code included in the toys' packaging, paying in-app fees or using an earlier Bluetooth portal for iOS devices that Activision says is incompatible with the forthcoming release.
However, these games were more shallow than the console releases and were marketed as spin-offs.
One industry watcher noted that this was the first time players would not need a console to play one of the series' core titles.
"It might be considerably more expensive than a normal tablet game - with the starter pack price - but it could be seen as a bargain by parents who now don't have to buy a new games console for their kid," said Rik Henderson, senior editor at the tech reviews site Pocket-lint.
"It's portable too, so could keep younger kids entertained on holidays. And because [most tablets have] HDMI or screen mirroring technologies, they can also play the game on a big screen anyway."
Darragh Cullen is managing director of Edge Innovate, Coalisland, which designs and makes machinery for the recycling and quarrying industries.
He told the BBC's Inside Business programme more needs to be done to prepare pupils for the workplace.
He said students should be educated for "real jobs in the real world".
"If we are trying to sell our products on the world stage and we're competing with the best in the world, and we're telling our customers that we're the best, then surely we should have the best people," Mr Cullen said.
"To have the best people, it's no accident, we need to have an education system that gives us the best people."
He added: "If we need an education system where we're educating people for real jobs, in the real world, then we have a bit of a mountain to climb."
Darragh Cullen's interview will be broadcast on Inside Business on BBC Radio Ulster at 13:30 BST on Sunday 14 June 2015.
Qatar Football Association vice-president Mohannadi was banned by Fifa's ethics watchdog for his failure to cooperate with an inquiry into an unnamed third party.
But in a hearing last week, the committee upheld his appeal and lifted the sanctions imposed on him.
It also revoked a 20,000 Swiss franc fine levied against him.
In a statement issued on Thursday, Fifa's appeal committee said the "evidence available was not sufficient to establish to the appropriate standard" that Mohannadi had violated football's world governing body's code of ethics.
Mohannadi was also barred from standing as an Asian Football Confederation delegate to the Fifa Council at an AFC Congress.
It is unclear whether his appeal victory has come too late to get him back on the ballot for next month's election in Bahrain of four AFC members to the Fifa Council.
Mr Rancadore, 65, known as The Professor, won his extradition battle after a judge ruled prison conditions in Italy would breach his human rights.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) failed to lodge an appeal against the ruling within the time limit.
Mr Rancadore was granted unconditional bail at Westminster Magistrates' Court.
At the hearing District Judge Quentin Purdy said: "You're free to go as far as this court is concerned."
A consent order for the appeal to be withdrawn is waiting to be heard at the High Court, the hearing heard.
Mr Rancadore was arrested in August after evading Italian authorities for 20 years.
Speaking after the hearing, Mr Rancadore's wife Anne said she was "relieved to have her husband home" and that they were "normal people".
"My husband really hasn't done anything wrong. He's not what he's been portrayed as," she said.
"I want to be able to go into Sainsbury's and not be pointed at."
Mr Rancadore moved to London from his native Sicily in 1994 with his wife and two children.
He was found guilty of Mafia association and extortion in Italy in 1999 and given a seven-year jail term.
Mr Rancadore adopted the alias Marc Skinner, using the maiden name of his British-born wife's mother.
The BBC's legal correspondent Clive Coleman said that following the ruling the CPS had seven days to lodge an appeal at the High Court and serve papers to Mr Rancadore's lawyers, but it failed to serve the papers on time.
He added the Italian authorities must now either accept that Mr Rancadore will not be extradited or begin fresh extradition proceedings.
The Hemerdon tungsten mine on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon will exploit what is said to be the world's fourth-largest deposit of the metal.
Australian owners Wolf Minerals hope to produce about 3,000 tonnes of tungsten and tin per year.
The opening coincides with a fall in the world tungsten price, but bosses claim the price will recover.
Robin Shail, from the Camborne School of Mines, said: "It's important regionally and nationally. We have a world-class resource based here in the south west.
"This mine site is going to be responsible for between 3-4% of tungsten production worldwide."
Russell Clark, managing director of the company, said: "When the world is developing and growing it's consuming tungsten and it needs supply.
Mr Clark said: "Metal prices go through cycles and this mine will be here for the next 10 to 15 years.
"We're very confident the price will come back and when it does this project will be in a prime spot."
He said the price had "eaten into our margins" but would recover as tungsten was an element "that can't be substituted".
About 200 people are employed at the mine, with many of the senior team from Cornwall's Camborne School of Mines.
Mr Clark's outlook is underpinned by the mine's relatively low operating costs.
It is an open-pit operation because at Hemerdon, near Plymouth, the mineral lies close to the surface.
The price of the metal tends to move in cycles and if it stays low, or falls farther, Wolf Minerals believe other tungsten producers worldwide with higher costs will cease production, reducing supplies of the mineral and encouraging the price to go back up.
The price of tungsten was about $400 for a 10kg unit in November 2013, but it has since dropped to about $200 a unit.
The recent decline has been linked to a fall in Chinese industrial activity.
Workers at a finance firm in Henan province were said to have been told they must apply for a "place on the birth-planning schedule" - and only if they had been employed for over a year.
Those who became pregnant without approval may be penalised.
The plan has been heavily criticised on social networks and in the media.
A commentator in the state-run China Youth Daily said the company regarded its workers as "tools on the production line" rather than human beings, the AFP news agency reports.
Employees are also unhappy, with one complaining that it was impossible to guarantee that a pregnancy would follow the schedule set by the company.
The firm, in Jiaozuo, in the central province of Henan, has recently hired a lot of young women and is said to have been concerned that they would all go on maternity leave at the same time.
A representative of the firm admitted that it had circulated the plan to staff, according to news portal The Paper, quoted by the AFP news agency.
However, the representative reportedly said the plan was only a draft that was intended to invite comment from employees.
The plan distributed by the firm suggested that only married female workers who had been with the company for more than a year would be allowed to conceive - and only within a specific period.
"The employee must strictly stick to the birth plan once it is approved," the statement said.
Employees who became pregnant in violation of the plan, and in a way that affected their work, risked a fine of 1,000 yuan (£102; $161), the statement said. They may also have to forfeit year-end bonuses and promotion or awards.
Communist China enforces strict family planning policies, famously restricting couples to having only one child.
"Extremism has led to this bloodshed," Sunni Imam Waleed al Ali said in a sermon at Kuwait's grand mosque.
Sunni and Shia worshippers stood side by side at the mosque, each praying according to their own traditions.
Last week's attack was the bloodiest on the country's Shia minority in recent history.
The Islamic State group - which regards Shia Muslims as heretics - said it was behind the attack.
Among those attending prayers at the grand mosque on Friday was Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah.
"This prayer is a prayer of unity," said Shia member of parliament Adnan Abdulsamad.
"This heinous crime only brings us further strength and tolerance. Thank God it made our enemies fools. Were they under the illusion that with this crime they would create discord?"
Authorities in Kuwait have tightened security in the wake of the attack, and detained dozens of people.
They said the bomber was a Saudi citizen who flew into the country hours before carrying out the attack.
Kuwait has one of the biggest Shia communities in the region, but any sectarian friction has so far been less visible than in Saudi Arabia or Bahrain.
In Bahrain on Friday, joint prayers were held in Diraz, a Shia village west of Manama.
Justice and Islamic Affairs Minister Sheikh Khaled bin Ali Al-Khalifa said they were a show of "unity in the face of those plotting against the Arab and Islamic world".
AfD had booked the Hofbraeukeller for an address by party leader Frauke Petry to hundreds of supporters.
But the beer hall cancelled the booking after the party agreed a policy that Islam was "not part of Germany".
Landlord Ricky Steinberg said he feared protests outside the venue.
He said that under the terms of the contract he was entitled to call off Friday evening's meeting on grounds of security. "I could really do without the hullaballoo," he was quoted as saying.
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But the Munich district court ruled on Thursday that the beer hall was tied to the rental contract. AfD officials said they had already paid a €6,100 (£4,800; $7,000) deposit for the event.
AfD officials have suggested that the beer hall was leant on by the mainstream political parties to ban the event. They argued that they had offered to provide the venue with security and insisted that no protest against the meeting had been planned.
Mr Steinberg has run the Hofbraeukeller for almost 20 years and it has been widely used by mainstream parties in the past, including Bavaria's centre-right CSU and the centre-left SPD.
However, its historical connection to Adolf Hitler is particularly relevant in Germany now, with the AfD adopting policies that are synonymous with the far right.
Hitler gave his first political speech at the Hofbraeukeller in September 1919.
The AfD's founder, economics professor Bernd Lucke, resigned in July 2015 as the movement - originally focused on pulling Germany out of the euro - moved farther to the right.
The new leader, Frauke Petry, said in January this year that police should have the right to shoot at migrants "if necessary", to prevent illegal border crossings.
Then, on 1 May, an AfD conference adopted a ban on minarets, the Muslim call to prayer and the full-face veil, with a motion that said Islam was "not part of Germany".
While the AfD has gradually embraced right-wing, populist policies, it is also forging ahead in opinion polls.
Latest polls suggest it commands 15% of the vote, five points behind the centre-left SPD.
Remains of the unknown soldiers were found in 2008 and 2010 in a farmer's field near the town of Ypres.
Two of the men were from the King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment and two from the Lancashire Fusiliers. The regiments of the other two men are not known.
The Ministry of Defence said it had not been possible to trace any relatives.
The men were killed in battle in October 1914, the MoD said.
It is thought they were given field burials at the time. Their bodies were found in the Comines-Warneton area, just south of Ypres.
They will be reinterred during a funeral service at the nearby Prowse Point Military Cemetery, where more than 200 UK and Commonwealth servicemen are buried.
The service will include the hymns Jerusalem and I vow to thee my country, and a reading by the British ambassador to Belgium, Alison Rose.
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The final will be played at Stade de France, where the home nation were playing Germany in a friendly eight months ago when the first explosions were heard at the start of a night that ended with 130 dead and hundreds more injured.
France reached the final with a 2-0 victory over World Cup holders Germany in Marseille on Thursday and are favourites to beat Portugal, who ended the hopes of Wales by beating Chris Coleman's side in Lyon 24 hours earlier.
If France win, it will be their first major tournament triumph since Euro 2000. Portugal have never lifted the trophy, losing to Greece in the Euro 2004 final on home soil in Lisbon.
French sports daily L'Equipe captured the mood of the nation the morning after the win against Germany with the headline "L'Extase" (The Ecstasy) after using "L'Horreur" (The Horror) on 14 November after the Paris attacks.
Didier Deschamps' side will hope to finish the job on Sunday but face the major threat of Portugal's Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored one goal and made another as Wales' adventure in France came to its conclusion.
Tottenham goalkeeper Lloris explained the significance of the final when he said: "The French people really needed to escape in this competition and sport has this strength to bring people together.
"You can see that because we are currently experiencing it. We still have one step to take, though, if we are to finish this tournament in a good way."
Lloris, 29, added: "We have had some tough times, with tragic events and events off the field, but we are proud to be on the pitch and really feel the French population behind us."
Antoine Griezmann's two goals against Germany put him well clear as Euro 2016's top scorer with six and the firm favourite to win the tournament's Golden Boot.
He has been the crucial influence for France, also scoring the two second-half goals that took them out of trouble after they trailed 1-0 to the Republic of Ireland at half-time in their last-16 tie.
The 25-year-old will once again carry the hopes of a nation on Sunday, but coach Deschamps is confident the Atletico Madrid forward can shoulder that burden of responsibility.
"Griezmann is a good team player, he is not just an individual player," said the 47-year-old manager. "He had a very busy season which ended with the Champions League final for his club against Real Madrid.
"He had to digest that and I tried to give him a bit of a break in our first three games - but he is a very talented, clinical player and that is important for the France team."
Portugal will be hoping to end their reputation as international football's nearly men, having come close to the major prizes but never claiming any.
As well as reaching that Euro 2004 final, they also lost out in the World Cup semi-final in 2006, the quarter-finals at Euro 2008 and the semi-finals at Euro 2012. They also lost to eventual winners England in the 1966 World Cup semi-final.
Their bid to buck the trend has been boosted by the return of Real Madrid defender Pepe, who has overcome a thigh complaint that ruled him out of the semi-final victory against Wales.
"I feel great. I am fully fit and can be chosen to play," he said. "We want to write our names down in history and we believe that we can play well.
"Tomorrow we will have 11 million people, 11 players - plus three who will come on later on - and everyone will want to write their name in the history books and the history of Portuguese football."
The match also sees Pepe reunited with English referee Mark Clattenburg, who also took charge of the Champions League final between Real and Atletico Madrid in May.
On that occasion, Clattenburg awarded a penalty against Pepe and was also caught on camera looking unimpressed by the defender's theatrics.
"Tomorrow there will be three teams on the pitch - three teams who are privileged to be there," Pepe said. "Two will be playing for a prize and the third team, the referees, will try to do their best.
"I think this referee is maybe among the two or three best referees in the world and it was no accident that he was present at the final of the Champions League.
"The game tomorrow is recognition of his work and his quality as a professional referee. And I think - I hope - the linesmen, referees and everyone has an easy night and that they can work peacefully."
On the pitch, Uefa's analysis of the tournament can tell us that 107 goals have been scored in 50 matches so far, that there have been 195 yellow cards shown and that 5.8% of the offside decisions made - roughly one in 20 - have been wrong.
But there are equally fascinating facts and figures to be found in the tournament off the field too, and BBC Sport has been through the numbers to pull out some of the best.
A total of 2.4 million fans got tickets for the tournament's 51 matches - an average of about 7,000 spectators per game. There were no fewer than 11.2 million requests for tickets, with the top three countries for applications as follows:
It was the 2006 World Cup in Germany that really popularised the idea of the fan park - where supporters without tickets for a particular game can gather to watch on television.
There have been 10 official fan zones in France for Euro 2016, and the numbers show the extent to which they have allowed supporters to enjoy the atmosphere of the tournament:
A total of 2,000 people have been involved in producing more than 3,500 hours of television content for audiences around the world during the tournament - and the culmination of all that work will be Sunday's final in Paris.
The match between France and Portugal will be filmed by no fewer than 51 cameras, including:
So who is going to win on Sunday? The stars have been out on social media sharing their thoughts and predictions.
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Echoing the famous phrase used by Mario Draghi to shore up the eurozone, the investor and philanthropist says that rather than fretting about Greece, European leaders should be focusing on the crisis unfolding in a country that shares the same values as the rest of Europe.
"Here is a country that wants to be European, is sacrificing lives for that principle, and yet Europe is ignoring it. Europe needs to wake up before it's too late," he told the BBC's In the Balance programme.
Russia's annexation of Crimea a year ago, and its continued support for armed rebels in eastern Ukraine, has devastated Ukraine's economy.
Its GDP [gross domestic product] shrank by 7% in 2014 and is expected to fall by another 5% this year.
Ukraine's currency has collapsed - losing more than half its value against the dollar. That has boosted the cost of imports and seen inflation soar to more than 20%.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has already provided $17bn (£11bn) in financial aid, but much more is needed says Mr Soros.
His scheme involves delivering $50bn in financial aid.
He says the EU's balance of payments assistance facility, offered in the past to Hungary and Romania, had $47bn in unused funds. A financial stability mechanism, used in Portugal and Ireland, has $16bn.
However, he acknowledged existing regulations would need to be modified to make these funds available for a non-EU country like Ukraine.
George Soros says he will add $1bn of his own money through his Open Society Foundations, which was formed in 1979 and has focused on promoting democracy in former Communist countries in central and eastern Europe.
His critics say his plan requires more generosity to be shown to a country outside the EU than is being shown to a eurozone country like Greece.
He describes the situation in Greece as "a long-festering wound that was mishandled from the beginning. Now there is a lot of bad blood and the best you can hope for is to muddle through".
He believes Greece's economy is on a downward spiral and that the chance of it staying in the eurozone is now no more than 50/50.
But he warns against making the same mistake with Ukraine.
"We must not drip-feed Ukraine, but allow it to flourish," he says. "That is what is needed to turn the tables on Putin who is the aggressor".
He argues that the appetite for radical reform in Ukraine is much greater than in Greece.
His conclusions amount to a dire warning.
"If Europe doesn't help, Ukrainian blood currently being spilt will become European blood.
"If Russia tries to divide the Baltics, who have large Russian-speaking populations but are also members of Nato, then Nato will be obliged to defend them.
"It is much more serious than people realise."
Speaking in his London home, George Soros also had a word of caution for the UK. He, of course, was partly responsible for ensuring the UK did not join the eurozone.
His hedge fund's attacks on the value of the pound in 1992 saw the UK crash out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism - a precursor to the euro.
However, he clearly thinks he did the UK a favour and has this warning: "The UK has the best of both worlds - access to the single market and its own currency.
"It would be foolish to throw that away."
Barnum-Bobb spent three months on loan with the Exiles during the 2015-16 season and played in 14 games.
The 20-year-old, who started his career at Watford, was released by Cardiff at the end of the 2015-16 season, having made only two League Cup appearances in two years with the Bluebirds.
He becomes County manager Warren Feeney's ninth signing of the summer.
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The defender, 21, returned to action at the weekend after his injury in a Champions League game last September.
"When I had my first game on Saturday, I felt so emotional," said Shaw. "It's the best feeling ever.
"There was a fear of how long it was going to take or whether I would play again. Now I am looking forward to pre-season and getting fully fit."
Shaw, who broke his leg against Dutch side PSV Eindhoven, played the first 45 minutes of Saturday's 2-0 victory over Wigan.
An England international, he became Britain's most expensive teenage footballer when, at the age of 19, he joined United from Premier League rivals Southampton for around £30m in June 2014.
He was a regular in United's team last season and played in both of England's Euro 2016 qualifiers shortly before he was injured.
According to Freedom of Information responses from local authorities, the average cost of an adult cremation has risen by just over a third.
The cost of new anti-pollution equipment and larger coffins have been blamed for the increase.
Neath Port Talbot, Rhondda Cynon Taf and Bridgend councils saw the biggest rise.
Not all councils have a crematorium under their control.
More than 170 UK local councils each run at least one crematorium. In other areas they are operated by private firms.
The average adult cremation costs £640 in the UK, but critics say crematoria are being run inefficiently.
Bridgend - £425, up 45% to £615
Cardiff - £432, up 19% to £515
Swansea - £435, up 33% to £580
Conwy - £430, up 28% to £552
Gwynedd - £382.30, up 37% to £523
Neath Port Talbot - £385, up 52% to £585
Pembrokeshire - £439, up 28% to £564
Rhondda Cynon Taf - £420, up 49% to £626
Wrexham - £455, up 42% to £646
The unrivalled dominance of the conservative Popular Party (PP) and the Socialists (PSOE), who have alternated in power for 32 years, always with parliamentary majorities, is over.
The ball is in the PP's court. Protocol dictates that the party that wins the most votes has the right to try to form a government. But the key word there is "try".
On paper at least the PP will struggle, because during the election campaign so many parties ruled out going into government with it.
It is the PP's worst election result since 1989. Its share of the vote fell from 45% in 2011 to 29% this time.
Even if you add the PP's seats to those won by the new liberal party Ciudadanos (Citizens), with which it has some common ground - mainly on the economy - such an alliance would still be 13 seats short of 176 - the majority needed to govern.
A key player in the process will be Spain's King Felipe, who has only been on the throne for 18 months following the abdication of his father.
The king will oversee the process and ask a party leader, probably incumbent Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, to attempt to form another government.
But if Mr Rajoy cannot get enough other parties to join him, then in theory the king should turn to another leader, probably the Socialists' Pedro Sanchez.
His PSOE came second with 22% - that is, 90 seats in parliament.
It was the PSOE's worst result since Spain's transition to democracy at the end of the 1970s.
Compromise and co-operation, so fundamental in that transition, but generally absent from political discourse since, will have to become the new watchwords of Spanish politics.
The PSOE could team up with the anti-austerity party Podemos ("We can") which, standing at its first-ever general election, came an impressive third, fractionally behind the Socialists with 21%.
But Spain's electoral system favours the traditional parties, so Podemos's 21% translates into 69 seats.
Even if Podemos is open to a deal with the PSOE, and Spain's former Communist party (United Left), then this coalition of the left would need either the support of Ciudadanos or of a Basque nationalist party and Catalan pro-independence parties to reach a majority.
The latter would possibly demand a referendum in Catalonia on independence from Spain, as part of a deal. Podemos promised that in its election manifesto, but the PSOE remains opposed.
In either scenario - a PP-led government, or PSOE-led - long, complicated negotiations will be necessary.
The new parties would surely demand radical changes in the way Spain is governed and in economic policy, before risking being a junior partner in any government.
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Podemos won by a distance in Catalonia, won the most votes in the Basque Country and came second in Madrid.
The party was formed from the "occupy" protest of the so-called Indignados ("indignant ones") at the end of 2011. The grassroots movement, known in Spain as 15-M, involved people camping out for weeks in Madrid's main square in protest against the economic crisis.
It tapped into the widespread dissatisfaction among a large, mainly young chunk of Spain that is fed up with the traditional way of doing politics, and the corruption scandals which have tarnished the old parties.
Podemos consolidated its success at regional elections in May this year, when its allies took control in Madrid, Barcelona, Zaragoza and Cadiz.
Podemos's success is also a message to EU leaders: that many Spaniards want the politics of austerity to change.
The fact that so many Spaniards are worse off now than they were four years ago was a big factor in the way many cast their vote.
Ironically the relatively new liberal party Ciudadanos, which sells itself as a "centrist" force, could play a key role in negotiations - even though it fell short of expectations in this election. It won 40 seats.
However, the clock is ticking. Spain has two months to form a new government.
If no leader can put together the necessary number of deputies in parliament then Spain could face fresh elections.
That is a realistic possibility.
Spanish politics used to be predictable. For outsiders the dominance of the PP and PSOE made things almost boring.
Overnight the landscape has shifted and things are infinitely more unpredictable, because a lot of Spaniards voted for new parties and for change.
Since its transition to democracy Spain has always had deep divisions under the surface. The political split is now wide open.
Police are currently at the scene in the Ard Na Smoll area of Dungiven following the discovery of a suspicious object.
A number of homes have been evacuated. Insp Michael McDonnell said the alert will continue for a number of hours.
There are no further details at this stage.
The epicentre of the quake struck the city of Cushing, about 50 miles (80km) north-east of Oklahoma City, at 19:44 local time (01:44 GMT Monday).
Tremors were felt as far away as Texas, and schools have closed in Cushing.
Authorities in Cushing reported that at least 40 buildings were damaged. No one was seriously injured.
Photographs posted on Twitter showed debris scattered alongside commercial buildings in the city.
There have been 19 earthquakes in Oklahoma in the past week, according to data provided by the US Geological Survey.
In September, a magnitude 5.6 quake in the state fuelled concerns that seismic activity in the area was connected to energy production.
In 2013, scientists linked the underground injection of oil drilling wastewater to a magnitude-5.7 earthquake that struck Oklahoma in 2011.
Cushing, which has a population of about 7,900, is home to one of the largest oil storage facilities in the US. No damage was reported there.
The two-day summit is taking place in the capital, Phnom Penh.
Foreign ministers of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, meeting ahead of their heads of state, have expressed concern over Pyongyang's plans to launch a rocket in April.
They also gave Sunday's ''orderly'' vote in Burma a strong endorsement.
Asean agreed last November that Burma could take the chair of the regional bloc in 2014.
The leaders of the country's military-backed civilian government allowed foreign observers for the 1 April poll for the first time, extending the invitation to Asean, as well as representatives from the European Union and United States.
Indonesia's Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said the poll was "an opportunity for Myanmar [Burma] to make the reform process even more irreversible".
Asean leaders have long adopted a light touch towards Burma's military government while other countries imposed sanctions, says the BBC's Guy Delauney in Phnom Penh.
They will be keen to acclaim the weekend's elections and other recent reforms as vindication of their stance, says our correspondent.
North Korea's planned rocket launch between 12 to 16 April - which it says will put a satellite in orbit to mark the centenary of late leader Kim Il-sung's birth - has also emerged as a key issue for the summit.
The US says the launch will be a disguised long-range missile test that breaches UN resolutions.
On Sunday, the Philippines lodged protests with Pyongyang's representatives at the United Nations, in China, one of North Korea's closest allies, and at Asean.
US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said that the rocket path will be between Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Another geopolitical issue likely to surface is the tension with China over the disputed South China Sea region. China has overlapping territorial claims with several Asean members - the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei.
Chinese President Hu Jintao visited Phnom Penh over the weekend, prior to the summit. The host country's close relationship with Beijing may cause awkward moments if the South China Sea issue comes up, says our correspondent.
Asean was set up on 8 August 1967 by founder members Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore. Brunei joined in 1984, followed by Vietnam in 1995, Laos and Burma in 1997 and Cambodia in 1999.
The summit's main agenda on Tuesday is its goal of becoming a EU-like bloc by 2015. Asean Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan said the group is ''on track" to meet the deadline.
The emergency services were called to a flat in the town at about 05:00, where a man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Another man was found to have non life-threatening injuries at the address, in Victoria Road, and was taken to hospital.
Officers want to hear from anyone who saw any suspicious activity in the area between 04:00 and 05:00.
Det Ch Insp Keith Hardie of Police Scotland's Major Investigation Team said: "We're confident that this man has died in suspicious circumstances and a thorough investigation is currently underway.
"As part of our inquiries we continue to ask anyone who has information which may be relevant to come forward.
"Specifically, anyone who may have seen suspicious behaviour in the Victoria Road area between 4am and 5am is urged to get in touch as soon as possible."
Insp Graeme Neill of Kirkcaldy Police Station added: "Local officers are supporting the Major Investigation Team and will be conducting inquiries in the community as part of this.
"Although there is not believed to be any risk to the wider public, there will be an increase in high visibility patrols in the area over the forthcoming days."
The scheme follows a decision by the city council's Licensing and Regulatory Committee.
Under the terms of their licence, private hire cars can only pick-up passengers through a pre-arranged booking.
Only taxi drivers, those who drive 'black cabs', can legitimately respond to being hailed in the street.
There is evidence of private hire drivers randomly picking up passengers without pre-booking, which council bosses say creates a significant risk to passenger safety.
No central record of these journeys will exist, which would invalidate drivers insurance in the event of an accident.
In the first six months of this year, over half of the complaints about private hire drivers that were considered by the Licensing and Regulatory Committee were about pirating.
In all cases this led to drivers having their licences suspended, sometimes for up to six months at a time for repeat offenders.
Chairman of the Licensing and Regulatory Committee, Councillor Frank Docherty said: "Pirate drivers put passenger safety at risk. Like the pirates of old, these drivers are only interested in making a quick buck and to hell with the consequences.
"The council has a very active taxi enforcement team, but they can't be everywhere all at once. Unfortunately the drivers who end up in front of the committee may only be the tip of the iceberg.
"Introducing the mystery shopper scheme will protect both passengers and the legitimate drivers who play fairly and squarely by the rules."
Police Scotland told the committee there were incidents involving unlicensed journeys that had led to incidents where passengers had complained of substantial fraud or even sexual assault.
The proposal for a mystery shopper scheme was passed unanimously at today's meeting of the Licensing and Regulatory Committee.
The archaeological officer at Scottish Borders Council and Historic Scotland originally opposed the extension to Glenfin Quarry near Cockburnspath.
Amendments to the Kinegar Quarries scheme have now seen them withdraw their opposition.
Planning officers had recommended approval with a string of conditions.
The proposals would increase the size of the current quarry by more than 50% to more than 34 hectares.
The site lies between the Berwick Coast Special Landscape Area (SLA) and the Lammermuir Hills SLA, however, it does not fall within either of them.
The Ewieside hill fort lies immediately to the western corner of the site.
There were concerns with original plans that the "understanding and appreciation" of the fort would be "heavily degraded".
However, those objections have now been withdrawn on condition that the site is fully restored once the quarry works are finished.
Scottish Borders Council was advised to give the scheme the green light but with 29 separate conditions attached.
Hill forts are one of the most prominent types of prehistoric monument across many parts the UK and mainly date back to the Iron Age.
Police said on Friday that he was among a group of men who caught five amphibians at a reservoir near the city of Daejeon in March.
Believing the animals were bullfrogs, the men cooked and ate them at a restaurant days later.
The 57-year-old man began vomiting soon after and was rushed to a hospital, where he died the next morning.
Police said bufotenin, a chemical commonly found in toad toxin, was found in the leftovers of the meal.
They said that among the five animals they had caught, some were in fact toads which looked identical to bullfrogs, reported Yonhap news agency.
The man's friends showed similar poisoning symptoms but survived.
The BBC's South Korea correspondent Stephen Evans says bullfrogs are a delicacy in some parts of rural South Korea.
Some species of toads secrete venom through their skin when agitated or when they sense they are in danger.
Bufotenin can be fatal when ingested in large amounts. But it is also a natural psychedelic, giving rise to a sub culture where some lick toads in an attempt to achieve a hallucinogenic high.
"The circumstances we find ourselves in have left the board of directors with very little choice but to make a change," read a club statement.
Former Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp is favourite to take over at Loftus Road.
But Redknapp told BBC Sport fans would have to "wait and see" if he is the new boss, adding that he had received no personal contact from QPR.
The club said they are "working actively to put a new managerial structure in place as soon as possible".
Assistant manager Mark Bowen and coach Eddie Niedzwiecki will take charge against Manchester United on Saturday.
"This time last week QPR owner Tony Fernandes was Tweeting 'for the one millionth time' that manager Mark Hughes would not be sacked.
"Fernandes has been a constant shield for the man he appointed in January - but eventually there was no protection for Hughes from the sort of results he had overseen.
"It will be a personal blow to Fernandes after investing so much personally and financially in Hughes but failure to record a single Premier League win this season has forced him to push the button.
"The arrival of Harry Redknapp looks a formality - but what will he make of the assortment of hired hands assembled by Hughes during a chaotic summer at Loftus Road?"
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"This decision has been taken after careful consideration by the board of directors, following numerous meetings over the last few days," the statement added.
"The board of directors wish to thank Mark for his commitment, hard work and dedication in his 10 months in charge.
"Mark has shown integrity and professionalism throughout his time."
The Hoops only managed to preserve their Premier League status on the final day of last season. After securing survival in May Hughes said: "There is no way we will be in this situation again in my time here."
But, despite a massive overhaul during the summer, the team have continued to struggle.
The arrivals at QPR have included keeper Julio Cesar, defender Jose Bosingwa, midfielders Esteban Granero, Park Ji-sung and Stephane Mbia, as well as strikers Djibril Cisse and Bobby Zamora.
But the poor form continued and Hughes, 49, led his side to just four points from their opening 12 games, including eight defeats.
QPR chairman Tony Fernandes had continually backed Hughes but has finally run out of patience with the former Wales, Blackburn and Manchester City boss.
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Former QPR winger Richard Langley, who spent eight years at the club across two spells, told BBC Radio 5 live's Victoria Derbyshire: "The frustration has been brewing, but the main thing is he has had such a talented squad but results have not been coming.
"It is difficult to understand why they have not won. But, for me, the most outstanding thing is that they have not been playing as a team. There seems to have been little fire from the manager."
Redknapp, refused to be drawn when asked on Saturday's edition of Match of the Day about the possibility of replacing Hughes.
The 65-year-old took over at Tottenham in October 2008 when, like QPR now, they were bottom of the Premier League.
He led them on their first Champions League campaign in 2010-11 and achieved a fourth-place finish in his final season in charge.
Redknapp returned to League One side Bournemouth, the team he managed for nine years from 1983 to 1992, in an advisory capacity in September but it is thought he is no longer at the club.
He had been living in the southern Spanish town of Mojacar, where he ran a bar.
A statement from the local town hall said he had died surrounded by friends. It did not reveal the cause of death.
Goody was sentenced to 30 years for his part in the 1963 robbery - one of the most notorious in British history.
On 8 August 1963 a gang masterminded by Bruce Reynolds stopped the Glasgow to London Euston overnight mail train as it passed through the Buckinghamshire countryside close to Cheddington.
The train was driven a mile-and-a-half to Bridego Bridge, where the gang unloaded more than £2.6m in used notes - worth about £46m today.
But they were later captured and 12 were jailed for a total of more than 300 years.
Train driver Jack Mills was struck over the head during the robbery and never worked again. He died in 1970.
More than one of the gang broke out of prison, including Ronnie Biggs, who spent over 30 years on the run before he finally returned to Britain in 2001 to face arrest. Biggs died in 2013 aged 84.
Reynolds, who served 10 years in jail, also died in 2013 aged 81.
Goody, who had been a hairdresser before the heist, was sentenced to 30 years but released in 1975, setting up his Spanish bar four years later.
The victim suffered serious facial injuries in the incident in the Moray town's High Street on the night of Saturday 19 November last year.
Det Con Scott Mackay said: "Identification is required for the three men depicted.
"I would appeal to anyone who has any knowledge of this incident to come forward."
The national emergency co-ordination group said a further 230 properties were under threat while 130 houses have been marooned.
Met Éireann has issued a yellow warning for Cork and Kerry with up to 40mm of rain forecast to fall there on Sunday and into the evening.
Local authorities in many counties are monitoring river levels.
The Clonmel Flood Response team took the decision to evacuate homes in the Kilganey area of Clonmel in County Tipperary because of the high water level in the River Suir.
Brendan McGrath, from the national emergency co-ordination group, said the situation in Clonmel was "very much on a knife edge".
"The critical level there is four metres, the river, the last report I had was 3.79 metres, so again that is being monitored," he said.
"There are contingency arrangements in place."
Flood alerts remain in place in some regions close to rivers, including the Shannon and Suir.
Flood defences have been strengthened in Fermoy and Mallow in Cork and in other areas of the country.
The Irish defence forces are assisting in the flood prevention operations and have been helping some residents to operate pumps to prevent more flooding at their homes.
About 110 members have been deployed across the Republic of Ireland to help with relief efforts, with more on standby.
A scheme for supporters to buy shares in the club achieved its target two days ahead of deadline.
Organisers of The Big Bath City Bid are now urging investors to help raise a further £50,000 to repay creditors and build capital.
A new board of directors, mostly appointed by fans, will be selected.
Nick Blofeld, from The Big Bath City Bid, who will be elected as club chairman, said: "If we can improve performance both on and off the pitch, then it's a very exciting time."
Now fans have taken a majority stake in Bath City, the plans are to give the club greater financial security, invest in the playing team and redevelop Twerton Park.
The Big Bath City Bid was launched in 2015, backed by film director and Bath City supporter Ken Loach, and ex-Manchester United striker Eric Cantona.
One of these is that it has more 3D printed components than any other aircraft, about 1,000 on a plane that has only just gone into service.
Meanwhile, Raytheon has 3D parts on its missiles, while makers of drones are increasingly using them. And United Launch Alliance - a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing - has the parts on the rockets it sends into space.
No longer is 3D a novelty manufacturing process. It's going mainstream, underlined by the number of 3D-related firms at the Paris show and conference briefings being held on the sidelines.
And it has the potential to transform the aerospace industry's global supply chain and cost structure, producing parts faster, and which are lighter and mean less waste. It may also mean companies bringing more production back in-house.
The 3D components on the A350 XWB are mostly widgets and brackets, formed by fusing layer upon layer of resins in machines that replicate computer-generated 3D models. (Metals and even glass can also be used).
So, we're talking about small routine parts here, rather than large structures - at the moment.
But don't dismiss the significance that 3D printing is playing, says Ian Risk, Airbus Group's head of innovations in the UK, where the aerospace giant makes aircraft wings.
"These components contribute a huge amount to the manufacturing process. Often, it's the fiddly parts that create delays in production," he said.
The size of the component being made is limited by the size of the printing machine.
Mr Risk doubts there will ever be a machine big enough to turn out a whole airframe. "But we are looking at wider applications," he said. "The scale of what we do will increase."
3D printing's biggest supporters talk of a future world in which machines will be sited at key locations across the globe, churning out components when needed - not stored in a factory somewhere awaiting delivery to factories.
Say, for example, an A380 super-jumbo is flying into Singapore and needs a new part. In our digitally connected world, a machine could be programmed to start printing even before the aircraft lands.
It sounds good in theory, and Mr Risk says that "agile manufacturing" will certainly reshape the industry's global supply chain and reduce lead times.
But there are plenty of hurdles, especially the issue of transmitting secure data across the world, he said.
While the holy grail of on-demand supply may be a little way off, John Schmidt, US-based managing director of aerospace and defence at consultancy Accenture, says printing is reducing lead times from months to weeks.
He says it's too far early to call the end of traditional manufacturing - machining, casting and injection moulding. But the technology and scale of 3D printing will inevitably improve, so it's only a matter of time before a tipping point is reached.
3D parts reduce weight on aircraft, and so improve fuel efficiency, he says. And making one 3D part often replaces the need to combine several smaller parts, reducing the need to carry inventory.
Part of a cooling system used by rocket maker ULA now uses 16 parts, where before it was 140. ULA also says it has cut costs on its latest Atlas rocket by $1m using 3D.
Mr Schmidt added: "3D is also ideal for industries with short production runs - like aerospace - as it maximises the cost advantages of smaller production runs." It also reduces waste, as the component is built up rather than cut from a block of material.
He predicts that one of the most significant impacts could be on aircraft design, especially as 3D offers the promise to produce more complex shapes. "It opens options to be innovative in ways that do not exist now; to build something the first time and at the right time," he said.
And wouldn't that be good news for plane makers, whose big industrial projects are frequently plagued by production delays and cost-overruns.
The US-Israeli company Stratasys makes 3D machines and supplies materials and composites used to build components.
Director Scott Sevcik predicts that within 10 years, about 40-50% of aircraft components will use printed materials. It's about 4% now. In 20 years, the vast majority of parts will have some form of 3D printed contribution.
The thermoplastic material that Stratasys supplied for ULA's rockets can operate in extreme heat and cold, as well as under intense vibration and speed. As with 3D components used in civil aircraft, they have to go through rigorous regulatory approval.
Mr Sevcik said the ULA parts are for interior use, but that if tests on Stratasys' plastic, called Ultem, go to plan then 3D parts could be used on the exterior of unmanned rockets with a couple of years.
"It is very hard now to think of anything that won't be printable at some point in the future," he said, given advances in technology and material science.
"It's hard to say, but I agree a bit," said Tottenham defender Rose.
"I don't want to say it's a mess, but it's not nice for English football."
Allardyce left his role after being exposed for telling undercover reporters posing as businessmen how to "get around" player transfer rules.
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Allardyce took over from Roy Hodgson in the aftermath of England's embarrassing Euro 2016 exit at the hands of Iceland.
The former Sunderland boss won his one and only game in charge - a 1-0 World Cup qualifying victory over Slovakia - before his sudden exit.
At the time, Shearer, who scored 30 goals in 63 games for his country, said England had hit rock bottom with Allardyce's departure.
"I didn't think England could stoop any lower from what happened in the summer at the Euros," he told BBC Sport.
"Now here we are, a laughing stock of world football."
Gareth Southgate, who has been England Under-21 boss, will take charge of the senior side for four games, starting with World Cup qualifiers against Malta at Wembley on 8 October and in Slovenia three days later.
"I hope the next England manager will be one for the long term and help us to improve a bit in tournaments," added Rose.
"Everyone - the players, the manager and all the staff - we've got to take it on ourselves to try to lift the opinion of English football over the next few games."
Rose, who played in the win over Slovakia last month, said he had texted Allardyce to thank him for selecting him and to wish him the best for the future.
"He was brilliant when he was there," added Rose. "He was such a good laugh, really approachable and he allowed us to play as well." | Charlie Austin scored twice as Southampton secured their first win under manager Claude Puel by beating Sparta Prague in the Europa League.
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Geraldine Oakley said as her relationship with Malcolm Webster developed she began to suspect he may have killed his wife, Claire Morris.
Mr Webster denies murdering Ms Morris by intentionally crashing their car in Aberdeenshire and setting it on fire.
He also denies fraudulently obtaining insurance policies after his wife died.
Ms Oakley told the High Court in Glasgow she first met Mr Webster, from Guildford in Surrey, in 1993 or 1994, when she was a computer manager at NHS Grampian.
The jury was told they were friends prior to Ms Morris's death in the crash on Kingoodie's Auchenhuive to Tarves Road.
Ms Oakley was on holiday when it happened and said the first she became aware of it when she met Mr Webster, who was wearing a medical collar round his neck.
She said: "He put his hands over mine and said there had been an accident and Claire had died. I told him to call me if he needed to talk."
The court heard the pair went out for coffee and Mr Webster invited Ms Oakley to his home near Oldmeldrum.
Prosecutor Derek Ogg QC asked Ms Oakley: "Did it seem there was a relationship in the offing?" She replied: "Malcolm seemed keen to progress the relationship."
She told the court that on 3 September, 1994 - the anniversary of his wedding to Ms Morris - Mr Webster phoned her saying he did not want to be alone, and she invited him to her home near Cruden Bay.
Ms Oakley said: "He [Malcolm Webster] was entertaining. He made a joke and we ended up kissing."
She added: "He ended up staying the night with me in my room."
The 50-year-old said she became worried when Mr Webster began to question her about whether a second autopsy was to be carried out on Ms Morris.
In a statement to police, she said: "Malcolm was obsessed by this at the time and I considered speaking to consultant pathologist Dr James Grieve, but I never did."
Mr Ogg asked: "What was your conversation going to be about?" Ms Oakley said: "I thought that Malcolm might have killed his wife."
The court heard their sexual relationship was kept secret.
Ms Oakley will be cross-examined by defence QC Edgar Prais on Monday as the trial is not sitting on Friday.
The court also heard from crash reconstruction expert Stephen Jowitt, who had previously said he believed it was "highly likely" the crash was staged.
He was asked by Mr Prais: "You were working from photographs and witnesses statements?"
Mr Jowitt replied: "Yes. My conclusions stand and fall by these."
Mr Prais then put it to Mr Jowitt that few people were able to give accurate indications of either time or distance and he agreed with this.
Mr Webster also denies trying to kill his second wife Felicity Drumm in New Zealand in 1999, to cash in on their life insurance
He is also alleged to have formed a fraudulent scheme between 2004 and 2008 to enter into a bigamous marriage with Simone Banerjee to get access to her estate in Oban, which he denies.
The trial, before judge Lord Bannatyne, continues on Monday.
The Lionesses made a dream start with two goals in three minutes as Jodie Taylor, making her first World Cup start nine weeks after knee surgery, capitalised on Lauren Sesselmann's blunder.
Lucy Bronze then headed in Fara Williams' free-kick to double the advantage.
England goalkeeper Karen Bardsley continued her mixed World Cup when she gifted Christine Sinclair a goal three minutes before the break.
But in a second half in which Mark Sampson's side became disjointed, England held on for a famous win that sparked joyous celebrations at the final whistle.
England had already broken new ground by winning their first World Cup knockout game in the last 16, when they beat Norway.
But the result means Welshman Sampson has guided a senior England side, men's or women's, to a World Cup semi-final for the first time since 1990.
As in their final group game win over Colombia, England started fast and then dug deep to keep Canada out as they matched the victory they inflicted over John Herdman's side in this year's Cyprus Cup.
Although they did not reach the heights of their second-round win over Norway, they will now travel to Edmonton to face a team they beat in the group stages of the last World Cup before Japan went on to lift the trophy.
England's preparations were disrupted shortly before the game when vice-captain Jordan Nobbs posted an update on social media to say her World Cup was over because of a hamstring injury - although the Football Association denied the story was true.
But it had little effect on England, as 29-year-old Taylor showed signs of her growing status just 10 months after making her debut by robbing Sesselmann and drilling low past hosts' goalkeeper Erin McLeod for her first World Cup goal.
The nightmare continued for Canada when England won a free-kick deep in Canadian territory.
Williams picked out Bronze at the back post, and the right-back managed to loop her header over McLeod and in off the crossbar.
England's goals came against the run of play - Melissa Tancredi guilty of being wasteful for Canada - and Katie Chapman almost added to England's tally when her header clipped the top of the crossbar.
Sinclair was then presented with a chance to get Canada back in the match when Bardsley, who was also at fault when she conceded late on against Mexico, could not gather Ashley Lawrence's centre and Canada's record goalscorer converted from close range.
Bardsley's game came to a premature end when she departed five minutes into the second half with what looked like a swollen eye and was replaced by Siobhan Chamberlain.
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But it did not disrupt England.
Taylor was denied a second when McLeod brilliantly tipped her curling effort wide.
With the game becoming scrappy, it felt like another England mistake might lead to a Canada equaliser.
But after Sophie Schmidt fired over seven minutes from the end, the Lionesses remained resolute and roared wildly as the hosts were eliminated in front of 54,027 fans.
Seven soldiers died on Thursday when their patrol was hit near the Line of Control, the de facto border with Pakistan. Rescuers found four more bodies on Friday morning.
In a separate incident, a nearby army post was buried by snow, killing three soldiers.
Indian and Pakistani troops die in Kashmir avalanches most winters.
Heavy snow has caused chaos across the region, blocking roads and railways.
The two avalanches that killed the soldiers happened in the remote Gurez area.
Seven soldiers were saved but army spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia told reporters that bad weather, including heavy snowfall, had hampered rescue efforts.
The AFP news agency quoted him as saying that no one else was missing.
On Wednesday, four members of the same family were also killed by snowfall in the same area.
Last year, 10 Indian soldiers were killed in an avalanche on Siachen glacier, the world's highest battlefield.
One of them was rescued after being buried in snow for six days but later died in hospital.
A huge manhunt is underway for Joaquin Guzman, who got out of his cell on Saturday through a 1.5km-long tunnel.
Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said officials at the prison must have helped his escape.
Three senior prison officials, including the director of the Altiplano jail, have been dismissed.
It has emerged that Guzman fled despite wearing a monitoring bracelet and being subject to 24-hour surveillance.
"There will be no rest for this criminal," said Mr Osorio Chong,
On Monday, he visited the prison and the nearby area for the first time since Guzman's escape.
The interior minister arrived by helicopter at the Altiplano compound, about 90km (55 miles) west of Mexico City, along with a group of congressmen and National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubrido.
Mr Osorio Chong is in charge of the operation in the absence of President Enrique Pena Nieto, who is on a planned visit to France for that country's Bastille Day celebrations on Tuesday.
Security has been reinforced across Mexico. Flights from nearby Toluca airport were suspended and checkpoints have been set up.
Guatemala also increased checks along its northern border with Mexico in response to the news that Guzman had escaped. It was there he was captured in 1993.
Guzman was sent to a top-security jail in Mexico, Puente Grande, but broke out in 2001, reportedly hidden in a laundry cart after bribing officials.
In the following years, he expanded the reach of his organisation, says the BBC's Juan Paullier in Mexico City.
Analysts are warning that the same could happen again, if Guzman's escape triggers conflicts with other cartels keen to protect their patches.
Dozens of prison guards are being questioned at the Altiplano prison to find out how he could escape this time.
Video footage showed Guzman entering the shower area in his cell at 20:52 local time on Saturday (01:52 GMT Sunday).
The tunnel linked the shower area to a house built over the past year across maize fields near the prison.
The tunnel, which measures 1.7m by 70cm, would have allowed Guzman, who is known as El Chapo or Shorty, to comfortably walk upright.
It had ventilation and lights and guards also found a motorcycle which they believe was used to transport earth removed as the tunnel was dug.
Inside the building near the prison, officials found a bed and a kitchen, suggesting those who dug the tunnel could have spent days at a time there.
A calculation based on the height, width and extension of the tunnel estimates that the earth removed would have filled 379 lorries, said Reforma newspaper.
President Pena Nieto called Guzman's escape "an affront to the state" and ordered a full investigation.
Guzman's personal fortune is estimated at $1bn (£640m).
Yeovil chairman John Fry said they may not be able to fund the Ladies if plans to re-develop Huish Park are rejected.
Sherwood sought to reassure fans of the Ladies team's financial independence.
"Sometimes as a little sister, a big brother can say something he didn't mean - this is what a family is like but be rest assured, our destiny is in our own hands," he told BBC Sport.
"Nothing is begged or borrowed from the men's programme. We control our own destiny. No-one else controls it.
"We are an independent club - we have our financial structures, we have our own board. We have our own coaching staff.
"We are very proud to be part of Yeovil Town Football club because it is a massive football club in the south west.
"But I can assure every single one of our fans that our destiny is in our own hands and that's the way it will stay."
Sherwood's side are top of Women's Super League Two with three matches remaining and host promotion-rivals Everton on Sunday.
Medway NHS Foundation Trust has made "substantial improvements", the Care Quality Commission (CQC) said.
Medway Maritime was one of 11 hospitals branded "inadequate" after Sir Bruce Keogh's review of hospitals in 2013.
Previous inspections had highlighted concerns over patient safety, organisation and governance.
BBC South East health correspondent Mark Norman said the hospital had spent 41 months in special measures, rather than the 12 months originally expected.
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Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt said: "Some of the problems at Medway were deeply entrenched - which makes the achievement all the greater."
Chief inspector of hospitals, Prof Sir Mike Richards, checked the trust over five days at the end of last year.
In his inspection report, he said: "There is no doubt that substantial improvements have been made. The leadership team is now fully established and there is a strong sense of forward momentum."
As part of addressing its problems, the hospital took up a successful buddying arrangement with Guys' and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, and is now "good" for effectiveness, care and leadership.
It still "requires improvement" for safety and responsiveness.
Lesley Dwyer, chief executive of the trust, said: "I am so pleased the improvements we are all so proud of have been recognised. This is a great tribute to our dedicated staff and the fantastic job they do day in, day out.
"We acknowledge there is, of course, more to do. We have every reason to believe that we can build on this momentum and continue to improve."
When the hospital's chief executive stood up in front of a packed staff canteen and said the words "out of special measures" there were cheers, there was relief and even a few tears of joy.
Four and a half thousand people work for the trust; one of their senior staff told me they have endured four years of being told they were no good at their job.
Yes, the Care Quality Commission has some ongoing concerns, but when I first interviewed Lesley Dwyer almost two years ago she said she thought her biggest difficulty would be engaging the staff and reigniting a sense of believe in them.
She would appear to have done that. The CQC highlighted the "commitments and hard work of the staff" in achieving this turnaround.
There were some elements of "outstanding" practice at the trust, the inspection noted.
The neonatal unit's breast-feeding at discharge rate has soared while a new bereavement suite for families experiencing a still birth, critical care services and the treatment of patients experiencing broken hips were all highly praised.
The CQC is to return to check further improvements have been made.
Its experts say that a new approach is necessary to tackle England's lagging cancer survival rates.
The guidelines suggest all GPs order certain tests directly, side-stepping referrals to specialists first, to speed up access to treatment.
Charities say they support the changes but warn that more funds are needed.
Doctors have long agreed that the sooner most cancers are diagnosed, the greater the chance of survival.
But according to experts from the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE), although the situation is improving, thousands of lives are lost each year because tumours are being diagnosed too late.
The new guidelines make wide-ranging changes to previous recommendations, to encourage GPs to think of cancer sooner and lower the threshold at which people are given cancer tests.
For the first time the guidance focuses on key symptoms, rather than encouraging GPs to consider first which cancer a patient may have and then to cross check it with the symptoms.
The recommendations also say all GPs across England should be able to order some cancer tests directly, without waiting for an appointment with a specialist.
For example in certain cases, GPs will now be able to access CT scans and internal examinations such as endoscopies, without a specialist referral.
NICE hopes this will allow patients to get investigations more quickly and take the pressure off specialists' time.
The committee has produced information to help patients spot the most common signs of cancer so they can seek medical advice quickly.
And the guidance encourages doctors to put "safety nets" in place to ensure difficult cases are not missed.
Patients whose symptoms are worrying but do not currently suggest cancer, for example, should be given follow-up appointments or advice on when to come back.
Professor Mark Baker of NICE told the BBC the new policy would save a "tangible number" of lives.
"Throughout the history of European cancer statistics Britain has lagged behind the best European countries," he said.
"The main reason for that is that people tend to present with a cancer at a more advanced stage.
"This guideline specifically addresses that shortfall. We estimate it will [save] about 5,000 lives a year," he added.
Sara Hiom, from Cancer Research UK, said: "We know the strain the NHS is already under and the number of people diagnosed with cancer is increasing - further investment is essential in order to support this much needed shift in investigative testing. "
She added: "Research would indicate we do fewer diagnostic tests in this country than comparable countries, but there are a lack of workforce, perhaps a lack of kit, to do those tests, so patients may be missing out because there are delays, backlogs or bottlenecks and this really does need to be addressed."
NICE has produced its guidelines for England. They will also be taken into account in Wales and Northern Ireland.
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The two groups are normally at odds on policy, but both agree that the rail project is a bad use of public money, and likely to over-run its budget.
The projected price for HS2 is £56bn, but the Taxpayers' Alliance speculates that the final cost could reach £90bn.
The government says the line is needed to increase network capacity - and insists it will be built on budget.
The first phase of the railway is due to open in December 2026, with trains to travel at high speed between London and Birmingham before continuing on the existing West Coast Main Line.
The Department for Transport says the project will cut Birmingham-London journey times from 1hr 21min to 49min.
MPs are expected to give the scheme the final seal of approval this week when it returns to the Commons from the Lords.
But the libertarian lobby group says government-managed large infrastructure projects have a poor record of being delivered on budget, with one project in the USA overrunning by 190%.
In the UK, the Jubilee line extension was forecast to cost £2.1 billion, but the bill rose to £3.5bn, partly because of huge cost overruns during construction. Channel Tunnel costs swelled by 80%.
John O'Connell, chief executive of the Taxpayers' Alliance, said: "All the evidence shows that big government projects are delivered way over budget and almost never to deadline, so to allocate tens of billions of taxpayers' money to this white elephant is a big mistake."
In a 2014 paper, Bent Flyvbjerg, Professor of Major Programme Management at Oxford University, laid out what he called the iron law of megaprojects: "Over budget, over time, over and over again."
Friends of the Earth, who support high-speed rail when it diverts people from flying, say HS2 is the wrong scheme.
They complain it doesn't join up to HS1 - the line that joins London to the continent - so doesn't provide the possibility of getting on a train in the North and getting off in Brussels or Paris.
Craig Bennett, FoE's director, told BBC News: "We think the money would be much better spent on a range of much smaller sustainable transport infrastructure projects to deliver real improvements to regular commuters and other train travellers over a far quicker timescale."
"Big infrastructure rarely delivers on its promises. That's why we think Hinkley C nuclear station is also a waste of money.
"For the Hinkley subsidy, you could fund the mother of all national energy efficiency retrofit programmes for millions of homes. That would deliver carbon savings far quicker, would make a real improvement to peoples' lives."
The former Chancellor George Osborne kick-started the drive towards major projects as a way of creating jobs. HS2 is widely supported by councils in the North of England and has received backing by MPs across the parties.
The Department for Transport said: "HS2 will become the backbone of our national rail network - creating more seats for passengers, supporting growth and regeneration and helping us build an economy that works for all.
"We are keeping a tough grip on costs and the project is on time and on budget at £55.7bn."
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The fictional death announcement was for "Dear Father Christmas, born 12 December 1788", said to have died on 3 December in Nordkapp, Norway's northernmost point.
The funeral was to be held on 28 December at the "North Pole Chapel".
Norway's second-biggest selling newspaper blamed an error in its internal procedures.
"Aftenposten has strict guidelines for both the content and use of symbols in our obituaries. This ad is a violation of these and should never have been published," it said in a statement (in Norwegian).
"We will find out what has happened," it added.
Aftenposten said it had removed the classified advertisement from its website after it was made aware of its error.
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About 250 boats set off from Greenock and arrived at Pacific Quay to be greeted by crowds along the shoreline.
The flotilla, the largest ever seen on the Clyde, was organised by the Royal Yachting Association Scotland.
Huge, cheering crowds turned out to see small ships, leisure yachts, clippers and working boats take part.
A special viewing place to watch the passing boats was set up at the Riverside Museum in Glasgow.
Meanwhile, Police Scotland said it would mount its biggest-ever operation in Glasgow over the weekend to help the city cope with expected massive crowds.
There were reports of delays on the park and ride at Eurocentral.
It is one of the sites being used by thousands of spectators heading to Ibrox Stadium for the Games rugby sevens.
People took to social media to vent their anger saying they had been waiting for more than an hour with not enough buses to transport them to the venue.
The flotilla is one of many events taking place across Glasgow to mark the Games.
About 280,000 people were expected in the city on Saturday as events take place at eight different venues, as well as the Barry Buddon Shooting Centre in Carnoustie.
Police Scotland are in charge of the £90m security operation and have said this weekend will be their largest ever operation in the city.
The force will not say how many officers are being deployed but have admitted forces from outwith Scotland are helping with specialist tasks.
These include carrying out searches at Games venues.
Police are also on duty at Games events in Edinburgh and Carnoustie and around areas hosting the cultural programme of 2014 festival.
The developers, Elm Village company Ltd, aim to refurbish listed buildings at Foyle Street and Shipquay Place.
The proposed hotel will also include bar and restaurant facilities. Derry City and Strabane District Council approved the plans on Wednesday.
Local councillors and business leaders have welcomed the plans.
City centre manager Jim Roddy said Derry needs to be able to cater for an increase in tourism.
"It's a growth industry in our city providing much needed jobs and I think this is a great news story.
"The city centre hotel managers that I speak to tell me they are already breaking records even more than 2013.
"All you need to do is walk around the centre on any day and see the amount of tourists that are coming here."
Boutique hotels tend to be smaller and more design focused than standard accommodation.
Minister James Brokenshire said the gap could "largely be accounted for by short-term EU migration to the UK".
But Tory MP and EU Leave campaigner John Redwood said the NI numbers were "closer to the truth" on immigration.
And he warned the difference between the two figures had "really big implications" for public services.
Short-term migration - where people stay in the UK for less than a year - is not taken into account in the government's headline net migration statistics.
But former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith said "you can't dismiss" it.
"They come in, they do hotbedding in bed and breakfasts and things like that, they then take jobs at much lower rates," he told the BBC News channel.
"This has forced the salaries of people in low-skilled and semi-skilled jobs down so they have suffered directly as a result of uncontrolled borders with short-term migration.
"I'm astonished that a government, my government, can sit here and say we had a pledge to bring down migration to tens of thousands but it's all right then because it doesn't matter how many people come in as long as they don't stay more than 52 weeks."
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Mr Duncan Smith and others campaigning to leave the EU argue the UK cannot control levels of migration from Europe - which have risen sharply in the past decade - while remaining a member and abiding by the EU's rules on the free movement of people.
Immigration minister James Brokenshire told MPs the government remained committed to getting net migration - the difference between those entering and leaving the country - below 100,000 a year.
He said the curbs secured by Prime Minister David Cameron on welfare payments to new arrivals would help - and he claimed short-term migrants do not put pressure on public services because they leave after a year.
The minister said: "National Insurance numbers can be obtained by anyone working in the UK for just a few weeks and the ONS explains clearly why the number of National Insurance registrations should not be compared with migration figures, because they measure entirely different things.
"Short-term migrants have never been included in the long-term migration statistics which are governed by UN definitions.
"We have always had short-term migrants who do not get picked up in the long-term statistics but short-term migration will not have an impact on population growth and population pressures, as they by definition leave the UK within 12 months arriving."
BBC Assistant Political Editor Norman Smith said "there is a real row brewing" over the figures and one pro-Leave Tory MP had told him "the letters demanding Mr Cameron's resignation were already going in to the chairman of the 1922 Committee" - the powerful committee of backbench Tory MPs.
HM Revenue and Customs have, meanwhile, released estimates that recently arrived EU immigrants have contributed more than five times more in tax than they have received in benefits.
The analysis looked at the contributions made by workers from the European Economic Area, the 28 EU member states plus Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway, who had come to the UK between 2010 and 2014.
According to the HMRC, this group of migrants paid £3.1bn in income tax and National Insurance in the tax year to April 2014. At the same time, they claimed £556m in benefits - making a net contribution to the economy of more than £2.5bn.
Norman Smith said the figures were certain to be seized on by supporters of the Remain campaign to counter claims of "benefit tourism" and warnings by Brexit campaigners about the cost of immigration.
Almost every adult resident in the UK is given a unique code, made up of letters and numbers, that they keep for life. People born in Britain are allocated a National Insurance shortly before their 16th birthday.
It is meant to ensure tax and National Insurance contributions are properly recorded against their name. It also enables access to the social security system.
Everyone coming to the UK to work must apply for a National Insurance number.
The ONS says the International Passenger Survey, a questionnaire given to people at random as they arrive at air and sea ports, which asks people how long they intend to stay, remains the best way of estimating immigration.
Its newly-published analysis examined differences between the estimates of long-term international migration to Britain and the registration of National Insurance numbers to foreign nationals.
The analysis suggests there were 1,004,000 "long-term" migrants to the UK from the EU between June 2011 and June 2015.
But other figures for the same period show 2,234,000 National Insurance numbers were allocated to EU nationals - a gap of 1.2 million.
When short-term migration is factored in the gap is much smaller, and is in fact higher in some years, although the full data is not available for the period.
The ONS analysis says there has been a sizeable gap between the passenger survey estimates for long-term immigration and the National Insurance figures since 2006.
"This difference is likely to reflect visitors who may be in the country for less than one month who may need a NI number to work or use the opportunity to apply for one," it says.
"It may also reflect those short-term migrants that come to accompany and join relatives and friends."
The number of National Insurance numbers issued to Bulgarians and Romanians has jumped from below 50,000 to more than 200,000 since work restrictions on people from those countries were lifted in 2014.
The ONS said it did not have enough data to understand whether this was being driven by short-term migration and some of the increase might be accounted for Bulgarian and Romanian citizens already in the UK applying for NI numbers, and some people might change their mind about how long they planned to stay.
The "actual" short term migration figure from the passenger survey for this period will not be published until 2017, it said.
Economist Jonathan Portes - who first requested the information - said it was clear a rise in short-term migration was a big factor but the statistics have still "under-counted EU migration to the UK".
"The government have finally published some of its figures, which they have been keeping concealed for a while," he told the BBC News channel.
The figures shed more light on immigration in the UK, he added, but they were still based on "imperfect" estimates because "we don't count people in and out of the country".
"We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts and prayers," said the 81-year-old's daughter Melissa.
Rivers was taken ill on Thursday at an outpatient centre in the Yorkville neighbourhood of Manhattan.
The comic is understood to have stopped breathing during surgery and was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
According to unconfirmed reports, the performer's heart had stopped beating during the procedure.
Before being admitted to hospital, Rivers had been due to appear on Friday at a theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey.
The veteran performer and outspoken fashion critic has won both fans and detractors with her acerbic remarks and waspish sideswipes at the rich and famous.
News of her condition prompted a deluge of get well wishes from members of that community, among them Star Trek actor Zachary Quinto and singer Courtney Love.
"I want to thank everyone for the overwhelming love and support for my mother," said Melissa Rivers in a statement.
The man, from Havant in Hampshire, was killed by an elephant he had been trying to photograph while on a jungle tour in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, police officers told the BBC.
The Foreign Office named him as Colin Manvell and said it was providing consular assistance to his family.
Police said he and two guides had illegally entered a sectioned-off area, reported the BBC's Natalia Antelava.
Officers said the lone animal had charged the men and hit the British man on the head with its trunk. The guides - who managed to escape the elephant - would be arrested, the police added.
Our Delhi correspondent said the area - which lies on the border between the southern states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu - is popular among tourists and home to large wildlife reserves.
Such incidents are rare, but resorts operating in the area are often criticised for disturbing animals and driving tourists to parts of the jungle that are not designated for safari tours, she said.
Meanwhile, the Times of India reported that police had not yet inspected the area of the Masinagudi National Park where the man, who is thought to have been 67 years old, was killed.
He is believed to have arrived in India from London.
He was treated at the local Masinagudi Hospital before being moved to Gudalur Government Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead, the Times said.
Mr Manvell, a retired geography teacher at Warblington School in Havant, also worked at the town's Avenue Tennis and Squash Club.
Paula Fuge, of Portsmouth Tennis Academy, who knew Mr Manvell, said: "He was a lovely guy.
"He has always been a part of the tennis scene, he's really nice, he was always there for the kids.
"I didn't believe it when I heard what had happened, you never expect that to happen."
Headteacher Julia Vincent said: "Mr Manvell retired from head of geography at Warblington School a number of years ago. Although I did not know him personally, he was well-known to the school community and has kindly donated a trophy for academic achievement in geography.
"We were saddened to hear of this tragic accident and our thoughts and prayers go out to his friends and family at this sad time."
The singer's success with Crazy Stupid Love puts her alongside Geri Halliwell and Rita Ora.
Her song features Tinie Tempah, who appears on the fifth chart-topper of his career.
Ed Sheeran continued his reign at the top of the album chart with X, which has now been top for five weeks.
The singer-songwriter now has the longest-running number one album since Adele's 21, which spent 11 consecutive weeks in the top spot back in 2011.
His collection has now sold in excess of 400,000 copies in the UK alone, while it has also been a hit in the US, going straight to the top of the chart.
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Dolly Parton's collection Blue Smoke - The Best Of was at two, while Sam Smith's In The Lonely Hour took the third spot in the album rundown.
La Roux entered at six with her second album Trouble In Paradise.
Cole, who is set to resume her place as a judge on The X Factor, said: "It feels great to be back but even more special to have achieved my fourth number one. So exciting!"
The singer first achieved the feat five years ago with her hit Fight For This Love, following up with Promise This in 2010 and Call My Name in 2012.
She also had four number one singles as part of Girls Aloud and as part of the ensemble that covered REM's Everybody Hurts for the Helping Haiti charity.
Crazy Stupid Love achieved a combined sales of 118,000, stopping Canadian act Magic! in their tracks at number two with their debut Rude, which is currently topping the US chart.
Ella Henderson's Ghost was at three, with George Ezra's Budapest and Ariana Grande's Problem rounding out the top five.
The 30-year-old has signed a two-year deal with the Royals and will complete his switch from the Dutch Eredivisie club on 1 July.
"I believe that he is the type of player we need in the squad," Reading boss Jaap Stam told the club website.
"He is physically strong enough for the Championship, is technically strong and he has a winner's mentality."
Van den Berg, who has previously had spells at Go Ahead Eagles, MVV Alcides and PEC Zwolle, is Reading's second signing of the summer.
Compatriot Danzell Gravenberch agreed a move to Reading last month.
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Mr Elop got 24.2m euros ($33.5m; £20m) - 30% more than the initial figure.
A large part of that was awarded in Nokia shares, which have risen after the sale of the unit was agreed.
When first reported, the pay-off had sparked angry reactions in Finland, not least because Nokia's business declined under the leadership of Mr Elop.
The country's economy minister, Jan Vapaavuori, had reportedly said at the time that he found it "difficult to understand the merits of this bonus".
Mr Elop, a Canadian, became the first non-Finn to run the company when he took charge in September 2010.
Over the next three years, Nokia's fortunes plummeted as it was hurt by growing competition from rivals such as Apple and Samsung.
The company was eventually displaced by Samsung as the world's biggest mobile phone maker in 2012.
As its sales declined, its share price also dropped - falling by more than half between September 2010 and 2013.
Nokia eventually sold the handset business to Mircosoft last year for for 5.44bn euros ($7.5bn; £4.5bn). The deal was completed last week.
However, Nokia has said that Mr Elop was entitled to the pay-off as part of his contract.
The company said that 70% of the pay-off was funded by Microsoft.
Fourth-quarter sales were 8% lower than a year earlier at £6.19bn. GSK also reported pre-tax profits of £2.97bn for 2014, down from £6.6bn a year earlier.
GSK said that it expected to regain market share in respiratory medicine.
The company added it expected adverse "headwinds" in the first half of 2015 but a better second half of the year.
GSK hopes a deal with Novartis - which involves swapping assets and combining their consumer health units - will help to revive its fortunes.
Novartis is to acquire GSK's cancer drugs business and sell its vaccines division, excluding the flu unit, to GSK.
The deal is due to close in the first half of 2015. GSK said it expected £4bn of net proceeds from the dealt to be returned to shareholders this year.
GSK is also considering floating its HIV unit ViiV Healthcare. "We continue to evaluate options for a potential IPO of a minority stake in this business and expect to provide an update to shareholders at the Q2 2015 results," the company said.
Following the release of its results, GSK shares rose 1.6% to 1476p.
Mountaineers said the Hillary Step may have fallen victim to Nepal's devastating 2015 earthquake.
The near-vertical 12m (39ft) rocky outcrop stood on the mountain's southeast ridge, and was the last great challenge before the top.
It was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, who was the first to scale it in 1953.
British mountaineer Tim Mosedale confirmed the news of the Step's demise on Facebook after reaching the summit on 16 May.
Speaking to the BBC, he said the loss of the Step was "the end of an era".
"It is associated with the history of Everest, and it is a great shame a piece of mountaineering folklore has disappeared," Mr Mosedale said.
Back in May 2016, pictures posted by the American Himalayan Foundation appeared to show that the Hillary Step had changed shape.
But thanks to the snowfall, it was hard to tell for sure. This year, with less snow, it was clear the Step had gone.
"It was reported last year, and indeed I climbed it last year, but we weren't sure for certain that 'The Step' had gone because the area was blasted with snow," Mr Mosedale wrote on Facebook.
He concluded: "This year, however, I can report that the chunk of rock named 'The Hillary Step' is definitely not there any more."
Mr Mosedale, who is due to go back up Everest later this month, said he believed the Step was most likely a victim of Nepal's 2015 earthquake.
"It could well just be gravity, but I would suspect the earthquake was the cause," he told the BBC.
Mountaineers claim the snow-covered slope will be much easier to climb than the notorious rock-face, but have warned that it could create a bottleneck.
It is a serious worry for those already battling low oxygen and frostbite conditions at the top of the world.
Speaking to the BBC in 2012, British mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington said getting stuck near the Step could be fatal.
"If it's a perfectly fine day, it doesn't really matter too much if you are delayed for say, an hour and a half, two hours on the Hillary Step, which is just short of the summit.
"If the weather is breaking up, that two-and-a-half hour wait can be a matter of life and death."
The routes up Everest from Nepal and Tibet are already very hazardous, the BBC's Richard Galpin reports. Four climbers were killed on Sunday, he says.
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The visitors seemed on course for an unlikely victory when John Baird's excellent finish stunned Easter Road.
Former Hibs midfielder Tom Taiwo had been dismissed for a crunching first-half challenge on John McGinn.
The Bairns held firm until Hanlon connected with a floated McGinn delivery in the closing stages.
Hibs had further chances through McGinn and Grant Holt but were left frustrated at failing to overcome their depleted opponents.
Earlier, Craig Sibbald volleyed off target after Myles Hippolyte's pass came over his shoulder with only Ross Laidlaw to beat.
However, the tone of the match changed when Taiwo and McGinn went in for a robust challenge.
Taiwo appeared to dive in recklessly in catching his opposing midfielder and referee John Beaton produced a red card.
It became a contest of the irresistible force versus the immovable object as Hibs dominated possession and territory.
McGinn, Holt and Andrew Shinnie all went close but Falkirk frustrated their hosts.
Martin Boyle did find the net but was deemed offside and Hibs team-mate Fraser Fyvie was inches away with a shot across goalkeeper Danny Rogers.
Liam Fontaine had a glorious chance after Aaron Muirhead had denied him a clear header. But with the ball falling kindly just four yards out, the Hibs defender lacked composure and thrashing wide.
Falkirk's desire and organisation was impressive, as was the sucker punch of their goal.
Baird showed tremendous industry and guile to win a corner, then hooked home superbly to hand his side the chance of a sensational win.
Hibs' pressure was eventually rewarded when Hanlon rose to nod home but they could not find a winner, despite the best efforts of McGinn, who was twice denied by Rogers, and Holt, who came very close.
Hibernian head coach Neil Lennon: "We had total domination as you'd expect with 10 men. We should've won the game and they've scored from one corner.
"That's my frustration really, not the amount of goals we haven't scored, but the fact we conceded from a corner where we just lose our discipline. Three players going for the one ball; you don't defend like that.
"We showed enough character to get back into the game and on another day we'd have won the game comfortably. It's frustrating, but we're a point clear at the top of the league.
"I think it was a sending off; it's a two-foot challenge, his studs were up and he was late. I maybe need to see it again, but I wasn't surprised to see a red card."
Falkirk manager Peter Houston: "We saw footage of the sending off at half-time and I've asked referee John Beaton to look at it again.
"My opinion - and I wouldn't tell lies - is that John McGinn sort of goes in with two feet, and Tom goes in, and it was just a coming together. Tom wasn't off the ground and I think it was a very, very harsh sending off.
"I thought we'd started the match quite well, it was quite open and I think it changed the whole focus of the game. We then had to try to defend and sneak something.
"We're disappointed in some ways that we never took three points but, if I'm honest, I'm happy to take a point."
Match ends, Hibernian 1, Falkirk 1.
Second Half ends, Hibernian 1, Falkirk 1.
Attempt missed. Paul Hanlon (Hibernian) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Aaron Muirhead.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Danny Rogers.
Attempt saved. Alex Harris (Hibernian) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Aaron Muirhead (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lewis Stevenson (Hibernian).
Dylan McGeouch (Hibernian) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by John Rankin (Falkirk).
Foul by Dylan McGeouch (Hibernian).
John Rankin (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Falkirk. Peter Grant replaces Myles Hippolyte.
Substitution, Falkirk. Robert McHugh replaces Lee Miller.
Attempt missed. Grant Holt (Hibernian) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Danny Rogers.
John McGinn (Hibernian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk).
Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk) is shown the yellow card.
Fraser Fyvie (Hibernian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk).
Goal! Hibernian 1, Falkirk 1. Paul Hanlon (Hibernian) header from the right side of the six yard box to the top left corner. Assisted by John McGinn.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Aaron Muirhead.
Foul by Jason Cummings (Hibernian).
Aaron Muirhead (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Paul Hanlon (Hibernian) header from the right side of the six yard box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Luca Gasparotto.
Substitution, Hibernian. Dylan McGeouch replaces Andrew Shinnie.
Goal! Hibernian 0, Falkirk 1. John Baird (Falkirk) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner.
Corner, Falkirk. Conceded by John McGinn.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by David McCracken.
Attempt blocked. Martin Boyle (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Alex Harris (Hibernian).
Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Myles Hippolyte.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Aaron Muirhead.
Substitution, Hibernian. Alex Harris replaces Liam Fontaine.
Substitution, Hibernian. Jason Cummings replaces David Gray.
Attempt missed. John McGinn (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Luke Leahy.
He was giving evidence to the Northern Ireland Affairs committee in Westminster.
It is investigating the On the Run letters scheme.
Mr Paterson faced criticism from a number of Northern Ireland MPs.
The investigation by the cross-party committee was set up after the case against John Downey, who was accused of the IRA's Hyde Park bombing, collapsed.
North Down Independent MP Lady Hermon and the East Belfast MP Naomi Long wanted to know why Mr Paterson had not informed the Northern Ireland Executive, and in particular, the Justice Minister David Ford about the letters scheme.
Lady Hermon asked Owen Paterson if it was "a good idea to keep him in the dark".
Ms Long suggested that it would have been a "courtesy" to inform Mr Ford about the letters.
Mr Paterson said he only became aware of the letters scheme when he became Northern Ireland secretary back in 2010.
In response to why he never discussed the issue with Mr Ford he replied: "His name was never mentioned. This was treated as a matter of national security. So, no it never arose."
The former secretary of state said the letters were handled by the Northern Ireland Office and he considered handing the issue over to the Northern Ireland justice department.
Mr Paterson also confirmed that he had told Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn Féin, that he was considering such a move, but he said he did not discuss the issue with Mr Ford.
Mr Paterson denied that the letters scheme was secret and he said the letters were "routine" and the scheme was "in its final stages when I came in [into office]".
The former cabinet minister also told MPs "this was a pretty routine operation by the time I turned up".
The Upper Bann DUP MP David Simpson questioned whether senior police officers knew about the scheme.
He said the letters had "inflicted pain and torture to the victims".
The South Belfast MP Alasdair McDonnell said he felt the Northern Ireland parties with the exception of Sinn Féin had been kept in the dark about the letters.
The SDLP MP said politicians did "not genuinely know" about the letters and he criticised the "secrecy around" them.
The Northern Ireland Affairs committee will hold more evidence sessions in the coming weeks.
On Tuesday, the Northern Ireland secretary repeated her warning over of the status of the OTR letters.
About 200 republicans were told they were not wanted by police in a scheme that only came to light when one letter caused an IRA bomb trial to collapse.
Theresa Villiers has told the House of Commons the "recipients should cease to place any reliance on those letters".
The letters were sent to scores of republicans who were suspected of, but who had never been charged with paramilitary crimes carried out during the Troubles.
The On the Runs scheme came to international attention earlier this year, after it caused an IRA murder trial to collapse at the Old Bailey in London.
County Donegal man John Downey had been charged over the 1982 Hyde Park bombing, that killed four soldiers.
Mr Downey, who was convicted of IRA membership in the 1970s, had denied murdering Roy Bright, Dennis Daly, Simon Tipper and Geoffrey Young and conspiring to cause an explosion.
His lawyers successfully argued his prosecution was an abuse of process, citing a government letter he received in 2007, telling him he was not wanted by any UK police force.
The details contained in the letter were incorrect, as Mr Downey was still being sought by the Met.
The unusual items, which have been loaned to a Bristol gallery by private collectors, date from the 1690s.
An urn-shaped grinder, a memorial grater adorned with a photo of a dead child, and one built into a walking stick are among the exhibits.
Curator Stephen Grey-Harris said the majority had never been seen in public.
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Match of the Day presenter and England legend Gary Lineker reckons it should become a bank holiday.
On Twitter Joey Barton described it as being like "Christmas eve for football fans".
But is it always exciting?
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Everyone remembers the thrill of deadline day in January 2011, right?
Fernando Torres famously moved to Chelsea for £50m and Andy Carroll cost Liverpool £35m - despite having made just 41 Premier League appearances.
It's fair to say that neither of those moves ended up being a resounding success.
Luis Suarez, who also moved in the January window, certainly did the business for Liverpool but he was the exception rather than the rule.
Since that breathless day of big money moves things have quietened right down.
The highlight of deadline day in 2013 was probably Christopher Samba joining QPR, in 2014 it was arguably Kim Kallstrom going to the Emirates.
Many fans would argue those aren't names worthy of a national holiday, despite what Lineker says.
But surely the sheer volume of transfers makes up for the questionable quality of individual deals done?
Well it seems that isn't entirely accurate either.
According to Omar Chaudhuri, a data analyst with 21st club, only 74 deals have been completed on the final day of the window in the last four years.
Bear in mind, many of those players will be youngsters unlikely to ever play in the first team and the figure drops even further.
In terms of minutes played by the new signings, a quarter of new players fail to play even 20% of minutes.
It seems most clubs now realise the really good deals are done way before the deadline, when agents don't have the chance to inflate prices to a ludicrous degree.
Frankly even the speculation about who could potentially be moving was tame this year.
Fans on Twitter expressed their disappointment that there weren't more red herrings being bandied around on social media.
Perhaps most people are cottoning on that transfer deadline day is largely hype, not quite worthy of the attention it receives.
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The 17-year-old boy from Sheerness, who was arrested on Saturday, is due before Medway Magistrates' Court
Police have identified the victim as Trevor Hadlow. He was found dead at a property in Capstone Road, Gillingham, last Tuesday.
In a statement, Mr Hadlow's family said he would be "missed by many".
"Trevor was quite a character, who enjoyed the outdoor life," they added.
"He was always willing to help out friends and neighbours."
The teenager accused of his killing, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is also accused of attempted grievous bodily harm with intent and dangerous driving, in connection with a separate incident in High Street, Eastchurch, on 8 July.
The 32-year-old has played 49 games since joining from National Rugby League side Newcastle Knights in 2016.
"Although we have had a tough year, I am confident that we will be able to perform at a high standard for the remainder of season," Houston said.
"I've enjoyed my time here and am excited for what we can achieve."
The Grade-II listed Airman's Cross at Airman's Corner is being removed as a roundabout is built to manage traffic diverted by the closure of the A344.
The memorial will then be re-sited in the grounds of the new Stonehenge visitor centre soon to be built nearby.
Work starts next month and the centre is expected to open in Autumn 2013.
English Heritage's Loraine Knowles, said: "We are glad that Airman's Cross will have a safer permanent home at the new visitor centre where many more people will be able to get close to it in future and learn about this aspect of local history.
The memorial commemorates the site of an early military aviation accident on 5th July 1912, in which Capt Eustace Loraine and his passenger Staff Sgt Richard Wilson became the first members of the newly formed Royal Flying Corps to die while on duty.
Wiltshire Council granted Listed Building Consent for the relocation of the memorial, in January 2010.
It is being put into safe storage at Perham Down Barracks on Monday.
The Royal Engineers, based at Tidworth, will be working closely with the project's archaeological contractor, Wessex Archaeology, to protect the cross during the move.
Police were called to reports of a stabbing on High Street, Wealdstone, shortly before 19:00 GMT as commuters made their way home on Monday.
The man was rushed to hospital but died in the early hours of the morning. No arrests have been made.
Road closures are still in place as forensics teams continue to inspect the scene of the attack.
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Most of the high-profile work on self-driving cars has come out of the United States, where Google and Tesla have been testing their technology.
Oxford-based Oxbotica took the BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones for a drive and told him that the technology would be tested in a public trial in London this year.
Richard Bull, 32, died when his iPhone charger made contact with the water at his home in Ealing, west London.
A coroner ruled his death was accidental and plans to send a report to Apple about taking action to prevent future deaths.
Safety campaigners have warned about the dangers of charging mobiles near water following the inquest.
Mr Bull is believed to have plugged his charger into an extension cord from the hallway and rested it on his chest while using the phone, the Sun reports.
He suffered severe burns on his chest, arm and hand when the charger touched the water and died on 11 December, the newspaper said.
Assistant coroner Dr Sean Cummings, who conducted the inquest at West London Coroner's Court on Wednesday, is to write a prevention of future death report to send to Apple.
Charity Electrical Safety First said the death highlighted some of the dangers of having electrical appliances around water.
Product safety manager Steve Curtler said people would not get electrocuted from a mobile appliance such as a laptop or mobile phone if it was not being charged.
Such devices typically have a low voltage of 5V to 20V so "you probably wouldn't feel it" if they came into contact with water, he added.
However, connecting a mobile phone to a charger plugged into the mains electricity supply increases the risk of harm.
"Although the cable that is plugged in to your phone is 5V, somewhere along the line it's plugged into the electricity supply and you're reliant on that cable and a transformer to make sure you don't get into contact with the main voltage," said Mr Curtler.
He said cheap, non-branded chargers may not offer such protection, but even with genuine chargers you are still taking an unnecessary risk.
"You're wet, which conducts electricity a lot better; you're in the bath with no clothes on, so skin resistance is less. You're vulnerable in the bathroom."
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (Rospa) warns against using any electrical appliance in the bathroom.
Public health adviser Sheila Merrill said: "People need to be aware of taking an electrical appliance into the bathroom.
"The advice has always been given with regard to hairdryers and radios - not to use in the bathroom.
"If you have got any appliance attached to the mains electricity circuit, you have to be aware there is a danger there.
"You're risking death. Electricity and water don't mix, but particularly with phones, people probably don't always think about it.
"It's not advisable to use them while they're plugged in, particularly in a bathroom situation."
She said Rospa did not see this type of accident on a "regular basis" and most mobile phone manufacturers cover the electric shock risk in their safety handling support advice.
However, with a lot of mobile phones the advice does not come with the instructions you receive in your hand, she added.
Apple did not respond to requests for a comment.
An independent panel of government advisers says health professionals should take every opportunity to discuss diet, exercise, smoking and drinking habits.
Ministers have backed the proposal from the NHS Future Forum to "make every contact count".
But the Royal College of GPs says the move could drive some patients away.
The recommendation is part of a series of papers from the panel of independent experts. Their first report last year outlined changes to the Health and Social Care Bill.
They are now setting out their conclusions on four other areas - public health, information, improving links between services and education and training.
The paper on public health states that everyone has a responsibility for their own health, but it also contends that the NHS is responsible for helping people to improve their health and well-being.
It goes on to argue that healthcare professionals should use every contact to do this, whatever their area of expertise or the initial purpose of the discussion.
The report points out that each day in England GPs and practice nurses see over 800,000 people, dentists see over 250,000 NHS patients, and 1.6 million people visit a pharmacy.
"There are millions of opportunities every day for the NHS to help to improve people's health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities, but to take this opportunity it needs a different view of how to use its contacts with the public."
In particular, the report emphasises the importance of the four main lifestyle risk factors - diet, physical activity, alcohol and tobacco.
For example, it suggests that collecting medication from a pharmacy is a chance to offer help on cutting down on alcohol, or that a routine dental check-up could be used to discuss smoking.
The paper says to emphasise the importance of this responsibility, the government should seek to include it in the NHS Constitution.
The coalition government has accepted the forum's recommendations.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said: "The NHS Future Forum has again provided invaluable feedback and advice on what the NHS needs to do to improve results and put the NHS truly on the side of patients."
However Dr Clare Gerada, of the Royal College of GPs, says raising lifestyle risks routinely with patients, even if they are unrelated to their illness, could be counter-productive.
"We already look for opportunities to offer advice, but the idea that every consultation will have to address these four concerns may deter patients from coming in the first place. The discussion must be based on the patient's agenda, and we should prise open these other issues only if it feels appropriate."
Dr John Ashton, the director of public health in Cumbria, also criticised the initiative.
"The general point of making every contact count is a good idea, and has been the basis of what GPs have been trained to do for thirty years. But the problem is they're making it the centrepiece of public health, whereas it is the wider conditions that actually shape health and behaviour, including taxation, education and improving self-esteem."
But Professor Lindsey Davies, the president of the Faculty of Public Health, backed the plan.
"We don't want healthcare professionals to be telling off ill people. Professionals do need to think holistically about the needs of the person in front of them and taking appropriate opportunities to help them get healthier - and stay that way."
Bedford Street Developments, a joint venture between Cookstown developer McAleer and Rushe and Dublin-based Dunloe Ewart, built the offices in 2005.
They were developed as a Public Private Partnership (PPP) with Invest NI.
The PPP is held in a company called MRDE Ltd and that firm's accounts suggest Invest NI paid about £4.7m in rent in 2011.
Other tenants of 100,000 sq ft development are the Public Prosecution Service and the Northern Ireland Law Commission.
The agent selling the premises, Osborne King, said it expects to achieve a price of more than £40m.
MRDE Ltd is owned by Bedford Street Developments which is controlled by the owners of McAleer and Rushe and a firm called Dunloe House (NI).
Dunloe House (NI) was formerly associated with the troubled Dublin developer Liam Carroll, though he resigned as a director in October.
The accounts of Bedford Street Developments state that its funders include the Irish government's National Asset Management Agency (Nama).
The accounts add that the firm entered into a five year agreement with Nama in 2011 which includes a gradual sale of properties and repayment of debt.
Stephen Surphlis, Property Director at McAleer and Rushe, said the sale was "part of our planned strategy aimed at exiting certain investment properties within our portfolio."
He added that investors would be interested in the PPP "by virtue of the government-backed nature of their return."
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The Dutchman was a penalty shoot-out hero when Aberdeen beat Celtic in 1990.
"In my house I've got a picture of after I saved the penalty and sometimes you look at it and think it was like yesterday," Snelders told BBC Scotland.
"But then you think it's 15 years ago, then 20, then 25 and now 27 years. It's already gone on too long and it's time for Aberdeen to win that cup again."
Since the 1990 under Alex Smith, Aberdeen have twice been Scottish Cup runners-up, losing to Rangers in 1993 and 2000.
The League Cup has been a happier hunting ground for the Dons of late and current manager Derek McInnes guided his men to glory in that competition in 2014.
The 1990 Scottish Cup final was the first to be settled by penalty kicks, replacing the previous format of a replay in the event of a draw.
It had finished 0-0 at the end of full-time and extra-time between Aberdeen and Celtic, with Brian Irvine eventually sealing the Dons' 9-8 victory on spot-kicks after Snelders had saved from Anton Rogan.
If Irvine had missed it would have been the turn of the two goalkeepers to take penalties.
"Most of the penalties were hit quite well and I remember Pat Bonner going past me near the end and he was saying 'we are next!'," said Snelders.
"I didn't really have a philosophy. Nowadays you study penalties but in those days you didn't do that. The only theory I had was that a right-footer would shoot across his standing leg and a left-footer would do the same - especially with defenders. Luckily that theory went well for the final penalty."
Snelders, who spent eight years at Pittodrie, had made a deliberate attempt to rouse the Dons fans for inspiration before Rogan stepped forward.
"I remembered when Graham Watson took his penalty, on the halfway line the Celtic players were winding the Celtic end up," he recalled.
"I did the same as they did with our crowd. Aberdeen had 25,000 supporters there and they were in the goal behind me. The noise was immense and it was a nice one-two combination with the fans.
"You have a lot of moments in football but this was something you remember for the rest of your life. It was my best moment in football. A game that goes to such a climax and having a big say in the outcome was a great feeling.
"There was quite a story in Holland because they broadcast the game live. But at that time they only had the satellite at a certain time and they didn't calculate that it might go to extra-time and penalties.
"So in Holland, my mum was watching the game and just before the final penalties, it went to a different programme and they didn't know the score. Later in the hotel I had to phone her to tell her that we won it!"
Snelders, now 53, went on to sign for Rangers before returning to the Netherlands, where he is now a coach at FC Twente. But he regularly returns to the north-east of Scotland to speak or attend special football events in Aberdeen.
Recently he met a Dons fan who was lucky enough to grab a special memento from that glorious Hampden victory in 1990.
"My gloves went into the crowd," said Snelders.
"It's quite funny, I remember a photo with the guy who caught one. I met him at Andrew Considine's testimonial dinner.
"We were staying in a hotel in Aberdeen and this guy came along to tell me that he caught one of the gloves. He said at that time he was offered £500 to sell it but he kept it as a big souvenir.
"I don't know who's got the other one!"
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Sehwag, who won the World Cup with India in 2011, played 104 Tests, 251 one-day and 19 Twenty20 internationals.
He scored 8,586 Test runs at an average of 49.34 and is the only Indian to score an international triple century.
"Cricket has been my life," Sehwag, who scored 8,273 ODI runs at 35.05, said in a statement. "I did it my way."
He will continue to play first-class cricket, saying he "still has the hunger inside", and will try to help young players coming through.
Sehwag, who had a spell with Leicestershire in 2003, has not played for India since 2013.
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Test cricket's record runscorer Sachin Tendulkar, who retired in 2013, said Sehwag had been a joy to watch and play with.
Tendulkar, who made 15,921 Test runs, told the BBC World Service programme Stumped: "I would say I was in the best seat when he was batting. The non-striker's end was the best view.
"I liked his mindset, extremely positive, he always backed himself to play big shots and never changed his game. The form varies but I liked his approach. He was fantastic, a true champion and I thoroughly enjoyed having him in the team."
Tendulkar played 93 of his 200 Test matches alongside Sehwag and added: "He was always full of humour, occasionally singing songs.
"He didn't like getting tense or stressed, but he would occupy himself singing songs. Playing with him was a rollercoaster ride. You didn't know what to expect and what was round the corner."
MS Dhoni, who captained India to their World Cup victory in 2011, compared Sehwag to West Indies batting legend Sir Viv Richards.
"Didn't see Viv Richards bat in person but I can proudly say I have witnessed Virender Sehwag tearing apart the best bowling attacks," Dhoni wrote on Twitter.
The new code of conduct means journalists can apply for permits to record proceedings in the chamber.
It brings the Isle of Man into line with the rest of the British Isles 27 years after the first House of Commons speech was televised in 1989.
House of Keys and Tynwald sittings are currently broadcast live on Manx Radio.
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He told the BBC: "It is quite legitimate to have people come and film as part of access to parliament. It is important and I think it is more widely recognised now than it ever has been.
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The tourists lost 30-15 in the opening Test at Eden Park on Saturday.
Woodward, whose Lions side suffered a 3-0 whitewash by the All Blacks in 2005, says Warren Gatland's team need to dominate possession rather than trying to play a box-kicking game.
"The All Blacks are totally beatable," said Woodward, 61.
"But you have got to dominate possession and if you don't they are so talented, so good, so physical, you are going to get beat."
England's World Cup-winning coach told BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek: "We didn't lose the game based on selection.
"What happens in the UK, you box kick, the opposition get it, play a couple of phases and normally kick the ball back.
"You box kick down here, the All Blacks catch it and you don't get the ball back."
The Lions face the Hurricanes on Tuesday, before Saturday's second Test against the All Blacks in Wellington (both 08:35 BST kick-offs).
Referees will be asked by Gatland to clamp down on what he considers the All Blacks' harassment of Conor Murray's kicking game.
He said New Zealand dived "blindly" at Murray's standing leg whenever he launched a box kick in Saturday's defeat.
France's Jerome Garces will referee this Saturday's second Test, and Gatland said he will raise the issue in meetings with the officials later this week.
"There were a couple of times from Conor Murray where there was a charge down where someone dived at his legs," said Gatland.
"I thought that was a little bit dangerous, and after he's kicked he's been pushed a few times, and pushed to the ground."
Munster claimed Glasgow targeted Murray's standing leg during the Irish province's 14-12 Champions Cup win at Scotstoun on 14 January.
Woodward, who toured New Zealand as a Lions player in 1983, was impressed with Gatland's attacking line-up and said defeat by "one of the best sporting teams in the world" should be put in perspective.
He highlighted the performance of full-back Liam Williams and wingers Elliot Daly and Anthony Watson, adding that scrum-half Conor Murray's use of the ball - making a game-high 11 kicks from hand - was down to the "team plan".
"When we ran from deep and had the confidence to keep the ball in hand, we played really well," added Woodward.
"I just don't want to see us kick the ball away."
Woodward called New Zealand lock Brodie Retallick's performance on Saturday "one of the best I've ever seen", adding that the Lions need to match the All Blacks like for like in the remaining Tests.
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Nazanin Aghlani still has no confirmation of her mother Sakineh Afrasehabi's fate but is convinced she could not have survived.
Describing her family's anguish, she said: "We're not all right. We can accept death but being burnt alive?"
Mrs Aghlani said her mother had been registered as disabled and the family had been worried about her ability to escape her home in an emergency.
She claims repeated attempts to have her re-housed in more appropriate accommodation had failed.
"This property was not suitable for a disabled person," she said.
"She was put in a death trap. They should have thought of how she'd escape in a fire."
Mrs Afrasehabi, who was partially sighted and could not walk very far, also had diabetes and high blood pressure.
She moved to Grenfell Tower last year after trying for a long time to move from her previous home, in Ladbroke Grove, because she had been struggling to manage the 40 steps needed to access her flat.
"She'd waited 17 years to get a transfer, and then they put her that high up," Mrs Aghlani said.
A spokesman for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council said: "We do not make direct offers of properties above 4th floor level in lifted blocks in the cases of people with disability access needs.
"However, through the council's choice-based letting system, Home Connections, housing applicants are able to choose to bid on lifted properties located on higher floors."
Mrs Aghlani said she was offered flats on only the higher floors of tower blocks and claims the council told her: "we have too many disabled people."
She said she had sought legal advice on behalf of her mother who had been told she had not been near the top of the waiting list.
"My mum was forced to take anything that came along," she said.
"I had bid for so many one-bed flats for my mum, but we were refused anything and everything.
"She was getting so ill that she had no choice but to bid for Grenfell. I didn't want her to go, but she said she had no choice. "
On the afternoon before the fire, Mrs Aghlani visited her mother for a family get-together and left at about 19:30.
After the fire broke out, a friend came to help Mrs Afrasehabi and her sister, Fatima Afrasiabi, who was still with her, to get to their flat on the 23rd floor to get away from the smoke.
Mrs Aghlani said the friend was one of a family of seven who had lived together in the property.
At some point, firefighters told them to stay inside the flat, but a couple of the family managed to push past and get out.
"My mum couldn't have done that. She could hardly walk," she said.
"My brother was on the phone with them. She said her goodbyes to him over the phone.
"My aunt Fatima who was staying overnight at my mum's was crying for help and for someone to rescue them."
Mrs Aghlani has had to describe what dress fabric and rings her mother was wearing to the police in the hope she may be identified at some point.
"What's happened was so avoidable," she said.
"Those who have escaped the fire have lost everything - they don't have their homes, but they haven't lost their lives like my mum."
Interview by Sherie Ryder, BBC UGC and Social Media team
It tells the true story of the American prisoners of war (PoWs) captured by the North Vietnamese. For years the imprisoned US servicemen were mentally and physically tortured.
Everett Alvarez, a former US Navy pilot who was held captive for eight and half years, was one of the film's advisers.
Meeting him today, it's hard to equate the agonising scenes in the movie with the impeccably dressed 76-year-old.
After retiring from the navy in 1980, Mr Alvarez went on to enjoy a high-profile government career.
And for the past 26 years he has owned and run two successful IT and management consultancy businesses, including his current company, Alvarez & Associates.
But Mr Alvarez insists that his experience of being a PoW, horrific though it was, taught him invaluable lessons that he has applied to his life and work.
"It's about character," he says. "Character is the all-encompassing description of a person's moral sense of ethics, of responsibility, of commitment, of loyalty. It's a sense of personal integrity and honour.
"That's what's helped me, and I think it's also led to the personality of the company [Alvarez & Associates]."
In 1964, Mr Alvarez, the grandson of Mexican immigrants, was a 26-year-old Navy pilot based on the USS Constellation aircraft carrier in the South China Sea.
On 5 August he was part of a bombing mission over North Vietnam sent in retaliation after a reported North Vietnamese attack a day earlier on two US destroyers.
The alleged attack (whether it actually took place was subsequently questioned) was known as the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and marked the start of a significant escalation of US military action in the Vietnam War.
Mr Alvarez's plane was hit and he ejected safely, only to be captured and taken to Hoa Lo Prison in North Vietnam's capital Hanoi, which American PoWs went on to sarcastically nickname the Hanoi Hilton, after the international hotel chain.
"Getting accustomed to captivity was difficult because I didn't know what to do," says Mr Alvarez, who was the prison's first US inmate. "The question was: how should I conduct myself?"
He decided on a course of resistance, refusing to aid the enemy even when their demands seemed relatively innocuous.
That resolve brought Mr Alvarez several times to the point of physical and mental breakdown, but he survived thanks to the mutual support of the other prisoners who communicated with each other by tapping on the prison walls.
"We had a philosophy that you didn't ever let your fellows down," he says. "If they couldn't take care of themselves you took care of them because you knew darned well they would do the same.
"And we had a goal. We were determined to come home with our personal integrity, our reputation, and with our honour."
In 1973 Mr Alvarez and all other PoWs were released after the US agreed to withdraw its forces from South Vietnam.
Mr Alvarez was awarded several military medals, and upon his return to the US became an overnight celebrity, which helped him form important political contacts.
When he retired from the Navy in 1980 - after reaching the rank of commander - he was asked to join the administration of then-US President, Ronald Reagan.
Still keen to serve his country, Mr Alvarez accepted the job of deputy director of the US Peace Corps, and then as deputy administrator of the Veterans Administration, which provides healthcare to former military personnel.
For five years he also took night classes to obtain a law degree.
"I came out of that prisoner of war camp after eight and a half years wanting to catch up," says Mr Alvarez.
"My whole life since then has been pursuing those dreams that I thought about as I was sitting in those cells. I've never looked back, always looked forward."
In 1988 Mr Alvarez left the Reagan administration to launch his first business, a management consultancy in Virginia.
Drawing on his eight years with the government, and the knowledge he had built up of public contracts, he decided he had the expertise to launch a company to bid for and win work with government departments.
In setting up the firm Mr Alvarez was helped by a government aid programme for disabled veterans. The years of torture and malnourishment had left him with nerve damage, and arthritis linked to the broken bones and other injuries he suffered.
In 2003 he sold this first business and a year later launched Alvarez & Associates.
In addition to management consultancy work the company manages IT contracts for the US government, and employs 28 people, many of whom, like Mr Alvarez himself, are military veterans.
It recorded $180m (£110m) in revenues last year, and Mr Alvarez says it is doing "comfortably."
Throughout his business career Mr Alvarez has drawn on his experience of government contracts. His advice to young entrepreneurs is to equally discover their own niche or area of expertise and to fully embrace it.
"You must also have a real interest in the thing you want to build your business on - understand your passion and be willing to take a risk," he says.
"If you don't truly believe in yourself and in the product, don't go for it. You have to be passionate about what it is you want to do."
In spite of the high-profile government positions, and the respect he's earned for surviving his ordeal (only one other American was held for longer), Mr Alvarez says he doesn't take success for granted.
"I still have to prove myself, so they [the customers] trust we can do a good job," he says. "It's still dependent on personal relationships.
"No matter how technical business becomes, depending on automation and technology, it still takes personal relationships to be successful.
Marios Aristotelous, 44, was in a vehicle which overturned, also earlier killing Andreas Sofocleous, 49.
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades expressed his "great sorrow".
Greece, the UK and Israel have contributed aircraft to fight the blaze raging in the Troodos mountains. France and Italy are expected to do so too.
Cypriot police have warned holidaymakers that Canadair planes will be refilling with water in the resort area of Larnaca Bay.
The water-dropping planes resumed their efforts to quench the blaze on Tuesday morning, the Cyprus Mail quoted Forestry Department spokesman Andreas Christou as saying.
"Forces are deployed around the perimeter of the fire," he said.
"The main fronts [of the fire] are active, but because there is no wind we are making a great effort to extinguish the fronts," he said - though thick smoke was complicating the task.
Some 10 sq km (3.9 sq miles) of forest have burned so far, the department estimated. Police suspect it was started by a 12-year-old boy playing with a cigarette lighter.
Cyprus frequently suffers forest fires during its hot summer months, but these are believed to be the first firefighter deaths for years.
President Anastasiades said the state would "stand by" the relatives of those killed.
The announcement by Education Secretary Justine Greening will help to create 600,000 more places by 2021.
Extra places are needed to keep pace with a rising school-age population - and to create places in a new wave of grammar schools.
But head teachers say the money for buildings does nothing for the "black hole" in day-to-day running costs.
This announcement on school places draws upon funding from the 2015 spending review.
There will be £980m for extra school places, including an expansion in selective schools.
Speaking last week, the education secretary promised a "new model" for grammars and said local communities would have a "choice over how selection works".
There will be £1.4bn to improve the condition of schools, with 1,500 school building projects to be funded.
But a recent report from the National Audit Office said that it would cost £6.7bn to get all schools in England into an acceptable state of repair.
Last week the public accounts committee published a hard-hitting report accusing the Department for Education of failing to recognise the seriousness of funding problems for schools.
Head teachers have been warning of having to cut staff because of budget shortages.
The National Association of Head Teachers said budgets were at "breaking point" and that the announcements over extra places failed to address funding problems for basic running costs, such as staffing.
"This is money that was already allocated to building new places and so it does nothing to help fill the £3bn black hole in day-to-day school spending," said the NAHT's leader Russell Hobby.
Education Secretary Justine Greening said: "This £2.4bn investment, together with our proposals to create more good school places, will help ensure every young person has the opportunity to fulfil their potential."
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Former FA chairman David Bernstein said it was time for drastic action against football's world governing body.
"England on its own cannot influence this," he said. "If we tried something like that, we'd be laughed at."
He says a World Cup would be weakened without Europe's top teams and that a boycott would have public backing.
"If I was at the FA now, I would do everything I could to encourage other nations within Uefa - and there are some who would definitely be on side, others may be not - to take this line," he added.
"At some stage, you have to walk the walk, stop talking and do something."
Bernstein said he also wanted Fifa president Sepp Blatter to step down but described him as "formidable, very shrewd, very smart", conceding it would "not be easy" to bring his reign to an end.
In an exclusive interview, the 71-year-old also said:
Bernstein chose to speak out after a report into the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups cleared Russia and Qatar of wrongdoing but was critical of England, accusing the FA of flouting bid rules in its attempt to win the right to stage the 2018 event.
Yet less than four hours of the document's release, it was questioned by Michael Garcia, the man who conducted the two-year investigation into corruption claims.
The furore surrounding the report is the latest controversy to hit football's world governing body, which has been riddled with allegations of corruption in recent times.
Now Bernstein, who led the FA for three years from January 2011, wants Fifa to change its ways or face a challenge it finds impossible to ignore.
When asked again if he was calling for the FA to unite with Uefa to boycott Fifa and the World Cup, he replied: "Unless it (Fifa) could achieve the reforms that would bring Fifa back into the respectable world community, yes I would.
"It sounds drastic, but, frankly, this has gone on for years now. It's not improving, it's going from bad to worse to worse."
He said there were 54 countries within Uefa and described Germany, Spain, Italy, France and Holland as "all powerful".
He added: "You can't hold a serious World Cup without them. They have the power to influence if they have the will."
Similar views have been expressed by German Football League president Reinhard Rauball, who suggested Uefa could leave Fifa if the findings of the two-year investigation into corruption claims are not published in full.
As for criticism of England by the Fifa report, Bernstein accused football's world governing body of trying to deflect attention from its own failings.
"I don't think much to these accusations," he said. "I don't think we should get away from the real issue. The real issue is Fifa governance and trying to achieve real change. But it won't happen easily."
"Fifa is sort of a totalitarian set-up. Bits of it remind me of the old Soviet empire. People don't speak out and if they do they get quashed."
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Bernstein also described the decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, where blistering summer temperatures means the event could be switched to winter, "as one of the most ludicrous decisions in the history of sport".
He added: "You might as well have chosen Iceland in the winter. It was like an Alice in Wonderland sort of decision. The attempt to change the timing is also absolutely wrong."
He felt the decision to choose Qatar as 2022 hosts could come under further scrutiny.
"There's also a background of political, social and employment issues that keep emerging and I think there's a danger that Fifa and football might be embarrassed by what emerges in the coming years," said the former Manchester City chairman.
"It's certainly not sour grapes. England didn't lose to Qatar, we lost to Russia. Qatar is clearly a totally unsuitable place to hold a World Cup."
Bernstein also revealed he has quit Fifa's anti-discrimination taskforce He described it as "ineffectual" and wishes to end his ties with Fifa.
Explaining his decision to leave the taskforce, which was introduced in 2013, Bernstein said: "I've resigned for two reasons.
"Firstly, the body has been pretty ineffectual. I've been on it for more than a year and we only had one meeting. Secondly, because frankly I don't wish to be personally associated with Fifa any further.
"Fifa sets up these things - and we've seen it with their regulation - that look good in theory but don't seem to do very much in practice."
The union rejected a pay-increase offer of 2.5% on Wednesday.
Finlay Spratt called the offer "a disgrace".
Prison officers are not legally permitted to strike and the Northern Ireland Prison Service (NIPS) has urged the POA to reconsider the pay offer.
Acting NIPS Director General Phil Wragg said: "The overall pay settlement of 2.5% is the best pay deal anywhere in the public sector.
"It represents over £1.2m in additional funding.
"The award is significantly higher than for others who are paid from the public purse and recognises the unique role prison officers play with the 23% increase in the Supplementary Risk Allowance.
"We believe this pay package is very good in the current economic climate and we would urge the respective staff association to reconsider it against a pay restraint of 1% for other public employees."
The package includes a 23% uplift of the Supplementary Risk Allowance from £2,000 to £2,460 and a consolidated increase for staff on lower pay scales.
It also represents a 1% non-consolidated, non-pensionable payment for staff on single points and band maximum and includes retrospective payments to staff backdated to April where appropriate.
Jayne Senior was honoured for services to child protection in the town.
She helped reveal a pattern of exploitation that saw large numbers of children and young people groomed, gang raped and tortured by groups of men.
The former youth worker said it "totally exonerated everything that went before".
Mrs Senior said: "I am saddened for the reasons that I got listed but it is an opportunity to keep raising awareness of the girls that were abused.
"It is an exoneration for telling the truth and also for all the victims who were telling the truth."
Mrs Senior, a youth worker, helped to set up an outreach service, Risky Business, to work with young people being abused through prostitution in the town.
By the late 1990s, it had identified vulnerable girls and young women on the streets who reported they were being abused.
Mrs Senior previously said there was enough information to launch a criminal investigation "in the early 2000s".
But it later emerged some of the information had gone missing.
The 2014 Jay report found at least 1,400 children were subjected to appalling sexual exploitation in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013.
Mrs Senior was elected as Labour councillor for Valley ward in Rotherham in May.
She said: "I want to be part of the solution to make the town safe for all children."
She was among 1,149 people to be acclaimed in the birthday honours.
Kent Police are piecing together the pair's last movements and have discovered they were in London on 22 December and in Dover on Boxing Day.
Three bodies were found at the bottom of the cliffs on New Year's Day.
The third was a 45-year-old man from Manchester whose death is not connected to the others.
None of the deaths is being treated as suspicious.
Det Sgt Stuart Ward said the man and woman were believed to be twins, aged 59, from the Elton area of Cheshire.
He said officers were keen to establish whether they were staying locally.
"We have already contacted local hotels but are now asking owners of guest houses, bed and breakfasts and pubs to contact us," he said.
Police also want to hear from anyone who saw the pair, who were wearing dark, wet weather clothing, at the top of Langdon Cliffs between Boxing Day and New Year's Day.
The 45-year-old man who died has been formally identified and his family informed, police said. The other two have not yet been named.
Rescue teams including coastguards and a lifeboat found the bodies during a search on New Year's Day.
But in September 2013, the process of switching became a lot less painful.
That was when Britain's 50m current account holders were first able to move their bank account to another provider within seven days.
It followed a recommendation from the Independent Commission on Banking, which said there should be more competition in the market.
So how easy is it to switch? What can go wrong? And what guarantees do you have if your bank makes a mistake?
How common is switching?
Before the 7 day switching service started, around a million people switched bank accounts every year. In the first two years of the service, 2.25m switched. But the number of switches declined by 14% between 2014 and 2015.
Where do we bank at the moment?
The big four High Street banks have a 77% share of the market, according to the Competition and Markets Authority. Lloyds Banking Group (which includes Halifax and Bank of Scotland) is the largest bank in the UK, with 27% of all current accounts. Both Barclays and RBS (which includes Nat West) have 18%, and HSBC has 12%, according to Cass Business School.
How can I switch?
You can contact your new bank, or choose a new one via www.simplerworld.co.uk. Once you have switched, payments in or out of your old account will be automatically re-directed for a period of 13 months, to cover once-a-year payments. So your employer, for example, will be notified, and payments will be automatically switched to your new account. No one whom you pay, or who pays you, will have to take any action.
So how long will switching take?
Once your new bank has acknowledged your application, the switching will take seven working days. Or the switch can happen on a date of your choosing.
Do I have to notify my old bank?
No, you only need notify the new bank. It will tell your old bank, and transfer all your direct debits and standing orders automatically. You will be given a new bank account number, and a new sort code.
What happens if I miss a payment as a result of the switch?
If anything goes wrong, and you miss a payment, your new bank will refund the charges, and make good any direct debits that did not go through.
Can I still switch if I am overdrawn?
This is down to your new bank. Depending on the size of your overdraft, they will chose whether to still accept you. They might increase (or decrease) the overdraft charges.
Which banks can I switch to?
Forty banks are now participating in the switching scheme. Lloyds is the largest bank taking part. The Reliance Bank, part of the Salvation Army, is the smallest. New entrants into the market include Metro and Marks and Spencer. Tesco entered the market early in 2014. Virgin has also launched an account. Two building societies are taking part: Nationwide and the Cumberland.
The 41-year-old, a five-time winner at the Crucible, was beaten 13-10 by Ding Junhui in a captivating quarter-final.
O'Sullivan was "disappointed" to lose but insisted he enjoyed the tournament and playing in a "fantastic match".
He said: "I love what I do so why would I not do it? The real love is getting your cue out of the case."
But O'Sullivan's season and tournament have been characterised by controversy.
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Following his first-round win over Gary Wilson, he claimed to have been bullied by snooker bosses, an accusation strongly denied by World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn.
O'Sullivan's gripes with the sport's authorities date back to January when he publicly criticised a referee and swore at a photographer during the Masters.
That Masters victory was the only tournament win for O'Sullivan this season, although he has made three ranking event finals.
At the Crucible, only Steve Davis, a six-time world champion, and Stephen Hendry, a seven-time winner, have more titles.
And one more ranking-event success would also see him move second on the all-time list with 29, seven behind Hendry.
He said: "I have had the best year of my life and have not won many tournaments, and I think 'how does that relate?'
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"But I have never been one for chasing records and I won't stop playing because I am not winning tournaments. I will keep playing because I love playing."
The continued growth of the game in the Far East has also presented O'Sullivan with more opportunities.
"I do a lot of exhibitions," he added. "I like to entertain and put on a good show and I like to enjoy myself. In a world where everything is so serious I like to make it fun.
"China has great offers coming through. I hope to spend a lot of time playing in events. I see myself spending more time in China than I do here."
Meanwhile, Hearn - who said O'Sullivan's claims of "bullying and intimidating" were words that were "alien" to him - announced an increase in tour prize money for next season, going up up £12m from the current £10m, with an aim to reach the £20m mark.
The winner of the 2017 World Championship will receive £375,000. That will rise to £425,000 in 2018 and £500,000 the following year.
Hearn also said entry fees for playing in ranking tournaments would be abolished for tour players.
Holy Trinity Church in Rothwell, Northamptonshire - home to one of only two 13th Century crypts in the UK - contains the remains of 2,500 people.
Radio carbon dating found some skulls were older than first thought.
But scientists from the University of Sheffield, who "assumed the ossuary was a medieval thing", were also surprised to find bones from the last century.
"It seems people continued to put skulls and bones down here, not only into the post-medieval period but even as late as around 1900," Dr Lizzie Craig-Atkins said.
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The Holy Trinity crypt is just one of two 13th Century sites in the UK, with the other being at St Leonard's in Hythe, Kent.
Testing on five skull samples was carried out by scientists at the University of Sheffield, using facilities based at the Queen's University in Belfast.
The process, which took weeks to complete, involved the bone samples being crushed, chemically separated and freeze dried before graphite was extracted.
Professor Paula Reimer, from the University of Belfast, said: "We know what the rate of change of the amount of radio carbon is, so we measure what is still in the sample and from that we can calculate how long it has been since death."
Dr Crangle said the bones, which legend said belonged to soldiers or plague victims, would actually have been the remains of local people placed in the crypt by their families.
"They were deliberately built so people could be prayed for. They were built to protect the dead, and were built to be visited," she said.
Researchers now plan to gather further samples to gather a fuller picture of when bodies found in the crypt were laid to rest.
The departure lounge was evacuated at about 12:00 BST because of a technical problem with one of the scanning machines.
Passengers have since been told they can return to get their luggage rechecked, but to expect some delays.
An airport spokesman said there was no threat to passenger safety.
Officials said the problem was spotted "within a matter of minutes", but that a re-screening process was "necessary in order to ensure security compliance".
Six flights were delayed for up to two hours due to the removal and re-screening of passengers.
The cause of the airport scanner failure is being investigated.
Councillors refused the application for land off Turners Hill Road despite a recommendation by Mid Sussex council officers that it should be granted.
Turners Hill Parish Council chairwoman Thelma Mason said the site was next to Tulley's Farm entertainment complex.
"It wasn't the ideal position for people in mourning," she said.
The parish council and other objectors also complained about the repositioning of an ancient hedgerow and possible contamination of surface water flowing into the River Medway.
The council received five letters of support welcoming the plans as a sustainable asset to the community, which addressed a shortage of burial facilities.
Despite Charlton dominating early possession, it was the visitors who had the better of the chances in the first half.
Striker Devante Cole had two efforts kept out by the legs of Addicks stopper Declan Rudd before the Norwich loanee tipped over a Cian Bolger header.
However, it was Charlton who took the lead through a close-range Ricky Holmes finish following superb work from midfielder Jake Forster-Caskey with 37 minutes gone.
After the break Fleetwood searched for an equaliser and went close as Rudd denied Cole again just after the hour.
Uwe Rosler's men continued to press forward, with substitute David Ball clipping an effort onto the roof of the net while Charlton striker Tony Watt blazed over inside the penalty area after 77 minutes.
Ten minutes of added time was given and Fleetwood took advantage, with Amari'i Bell firing home from Kyle Dempsey's corner in the 94th minute.
Moments later, Charlton were reduced to 10 men as Nathan Byrne saw red for a foul on Ball before Fleetwood substitute Ashley Hunter struck the post as neither side managed to find the winner.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Charlton Athletic 1, Fleetwood Town 1.
Second Half ends, Charlton Athletic 1, Fleetwood Town 1.
Attempt missed. Ashley Hunter (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
David Ball (Fleetwood Town) hits the left post with a left footed shot from the right side of the box.
Nathan Byrne (Charlton Athletic) is shown the red card.
Foul by Nathan Byrne (Charlton Athletic).
David Ball (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Ashley Eastham (Fleetwood Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Tony Watt (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ashley Eastham (Fleetwood Town).
Goal! Charlton Athletic 1, Fleetwood Town 1. Amari'i Bell (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner following a corner.
Corner, Fleetwood Town. Conceded by Declan Rudd.
Corner, Fleetwood Town. Conceded by Johnnie Jackson.
Ezri Konsa Ngoyo (Charlton Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Chris Solly (Charlton Athletic).
Devante Cole (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Cameron Brannagan (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left following a corner.
Attempt blocked. Bobby Grant (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Fleetwood Town. Conceded by Patrick Bauer.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Jorge Teixeira replaces Jake Forster-Caskey.
Ashley Hunter (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Johnnie Jackson (Charlton Athletic).
Joe Aribo (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kyle Dempsey (Fleetwood Town).
Attempt missed. David Ball (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Fleetwood Town. Conceded by Johnnie Jackson.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Lee Novak replaces Ricky Holmes.
Attempt missed. Tony Watt (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high following a set piece situation.
Tony Watt (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ben Davies (Fleetwood Town).
Attempt missed. David Ball (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is high and wide to the left.
Attempt blocked. David Ball (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Charlton Athletic. Conceded by Ashley Eastham.
Attempt blocked. Tony Watt (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Fleetwood Town. Cameron Brannagan replaces Conor McLaughlin because of an injury.
Ricky Holmes (Charlton Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ricky Holmes (Charlton Athletic).
Conor McLaughlin (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Ricky Holmes (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt blocked. Patrick Bauer (Charlton Athletic) header from the centre of the box is blocked.
There have also been calls for Rural Affairs Minister Elin Jones to resign following the ruling.
The appeal court halted the assembly government's planned cull of around 1,500 badgers to try to stop TB in cattle on Tuesday.
The Badger Trust appealed against the cull questioning its effectiveness.
Three judges announced the trust's appeal against a judicial review which had backed the cull was successful and quashed the order.
Lord Justice Pill said the assembly government was wrong to make an order for the whole of Wales when it consulted on the basis of a Intensive Action Pilot Area (IAPA) which only supported a cull on evidence within the IAPA
Dairy farmer Brian Walters, vice president of the Farmers' Union of Wales, said the decision would have a huge impact on farming.
"The fact it's not happening now in north Pembrokeshire I think is a major disaster for the industry in the whole of Wales," he said.
"In my area and to the west in the cull area, we were looking forward to having some sort of control of the disease and the wildlife... we have incidents of one in every seven badgers with TB on them and comparing that with cattle with one out of 140 cattle with TB."
Stephen James, NFU Cymru's deputy president, said increasing cattle controls while doing nothing to prevent TB in badgers would cause the disease to spread and "wreck the lives of a growing number of farming families".
But Tina Sacco, a farmer in Pembrokeshire, did not support the cull and believes a vaccination programme would be a better option.
"One thing we do know is that a cull has been proved over a 40-year period never to have worked - that's why we're back where we are now," she said.
"Vaccination programmes have been used throughout the world to conquer all sorts of diseases in both man and animals."
Meanwhile Liberal Democrat AM Peter Black, who was a leading campaigner against the proposed badger cull in the Welsh Assembly, said he believed Rural Minister Elin Jones had "mishandled" the cull "from the start".
"Not only did she get the order itself wrong, leading to this decision [in the appeal court], but she also embarked on a course of action in defiance of all the scientific evidence," he said.
But First Minister Carwyn Jones has supported his minister, saying that the defeat in the courts did not reflect poorly on her.
"It's important that we deal with TB in Wales because it's a problem that is growing," he said.
Under the cull, badgers were to be trapped in cages and shot.
Anti-cull protesters, led by the Badger Trust, argued it had not yet been scientifically proven that badgers are implicated in the transmission of TB within cattle and it doubts a cull would help eradicate the disease.
The 35-year-old was a free agent after leaving the Sky Blues at the end of last season, having scored four goals in 25 appearances.
Since moving to British football in 2009 with the Baggies, Fortune has scored 38 goals in 248 games.
Fortune is available to make his debut against Peterborough on Saturday.
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Supporters made their discontent clear before, during and after Sunday's 2-0 win at home to Middlesbrough.
"I can understand the protests. I understand the situation," Riga told BBC Radio London.
"But they have to understand that I just want to do my job. I hope there is no animosity between us."
The Addicks are next to bottom of the Championship table and have been plagued by problems on and off the pitch in recent seasons.
Beating Boro boosted their hopes of staying up, but the match was overshadowed by protests both in and outside The Valley.
A coffin was brought to the ground by supporters unhappy with the way Roland Duchatelet and chief executive Katrien Meire are running the club.
And the start of the game was then disrupted when beach balls were thrown onto the pitch, and whistles blown in the crowd later caused confusion for players.
There was also a pitch invasion by a small number of fans after the first goal, others left the ground in the 74th minute to mark the number of goals the team have conceded this season.
There was then a demonstration outside the stadium after the match.
Riga, who is in his second spell in charge, insisted the fans still have a vital role to play as his side battle against the drop.
"I just hope the fans can make the difference (in terms) of what I bring to bring to the team," he said.
"Particularly in England, when the game starts the players are focused on what they have to do on the pitch."
Stafford Hospital, which was renamed County Hospital, was at the centre of a £6m public inquiry into care failings.
Overnight closures at the hospital began in 2011.
The Liberal Democrats said Westminster should not tell local areas how to run hospitals. UKIP said the timing of the pledge would leave a "bad taste".
Labour said the Conservatives were attempting to "pre-empt" their plans for the A&E at the hospital.
The Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust, which ran the hospital, went into administration in April 2013. The hospital is now run by a new trust.
Campaigners from Support Stafford Hospital Group camped on fields opposite the hospital from July until January as a protest over the removal of services.
Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt made a "commitment to the people of Stafford" on a visit to the town.
"I would only ever agree to something that is clinically safe - however, it is the ambition of a future Conservative government to bring back 24 hour A&E," he said.
Responding to Mr Hunt's comments, Phil Bennion, former Liberal Democrat MEP in Staffordshire, said: "We want healthcare that's high quality, local, and available to everyone who needs it.
"But we also don't believe that Westminster should tell local areas how to run their hospitals and wider healthcare provision - especially if the resources needed aren't made available."
A UKIP spokesman said: "The Tories have had years to sort this out, and then to make a promise not two weeks from election will taste very bad for the people of Staffordshire."
The Labour party accused Mr Hunt of making a "desperate dash to Stafford to pre-empt [the] release of Labour's fully costed, timetabled plan for restoration of services at Stafford Hospital".
Under the accords, India will buy 42 Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jets and 71 Mil Mi-17 helicopters.
Mr Putin held talks with Indian PM Manmohan Singh during his visit.
Moscow has long been Delhi's main weapons supplier but has lost out on several major deals to Western companies in recent years.
Trade between Russia and India is currently worth about $10bn (£6bn) a year, but has been growing more slowly recently.
Ahead of the visit, Mr Putin said that he wanted to increase bilateral trade to $20bn by 2015.
Monday's talks between Mr Putin and Mr Singh also included the security situation in the region, including Afghanistan.
"India and Russia share the objective of a stable, united, democratic and prosperous Afghanistan, free from extremism," Mr Singh was quoted as telling Reuters news agency after the talks.
In an article in India's Hindu newspaper, Mr Putin described as a "historic step" the declaration of strategic partnership between the two countries signed in 2000.
The Russian leader also said that the military co-operation between the two nations has reached an "unprecedented level".
Russia's currently accounts for some 70% of India's arms purchases, the BBC's Sanjoy Majumder in Delhi reports.
But India has recently signed a number of big defence contracts with the US and other countries, including France and Israel, our correspondent says.
Russia is concerned, he adds, that its traditional position as India's main arms supplier could be under threat.
Fishguard and District Round Table members are travelling to the broadcaster's birth place in Limerick in Ireland on Tuesday, before cycling home to Pembrokeshire.
Sir Terry died in January, aged 77.
He was life president of the charity and had hosted the annual telethon every year from its first appearance in 1980 to 2015.
A round table spokesman said of the fundraiser: "We felt this would be a great tribute to a man who has given so much to the Children in Need charity."
The group will cycle the 125 miles from Limerick to Rosslare Harbour over two days, before boarding the ferry back to Fishguard.
On the ferry they will use an exercise bike to cover the 55 miles (88 km) at sea.
Project Brave is the product of a Scottish FA working party.
And some clubs are unhappy at the suggestion that only eight would be given elite academy status.
"I am optimistic that solutions will be found for some aspects," said group member MacGregor, who stressed that work continues on the blueprint.
"Any criticism of it is a bit premature as there's a bit of mileage to go before it is finalised.
"A lot of good work has gone into it, there was a lot of good people involved and most of it I agree with."
Following its examination, Project Brave suggests:
Project Brave was initiated in April by Brian McClair, who left his role as SFA performance director three months later and is yet to be replaced, in a bid to improve the quality of players available to the national squad.
The proposals have already been sent back to the group for further examination by Scottish Premiership clubs, while Championship representatives are due to have their own discussions this week.
However, questions over funding for club academies have left some clubs wanting further examination.
"It has been criteria-based," said MacGregor about current rules governing funding of academies.
"But the focus should be performance-based to reward success."
The SFA says it will reveal further details once the proposal has reached the stage of being approved by its board.
Although there is no specific timescale for its publication, a shortlist has been drawn up for the appointment of a new performance director and that process is nearing a conclusion.
Responding to the report, Gary Naysmith, the former Scotland left-back who is now East Fife manager, echoed the thoughts of other managers who have told BBC Scotland that they would welcome a change to second-string arrangements.
"I don't think the Under-20 Development League works," he said. "I've watched them and I don't think it's competitive enough.
"Thinking back to reserve games I've played, it was brilliant.
"You would have players who were out of favour, players who were coming back from injury and that progressed you on.
"The under-20s is false. They are all trying to play out from the back, the goalie is passing it to a player on the edge of the area, but that doesn't prepare them for when they come to a team like mine on loan - it's like they are caught in the headlights."
Websites will be legally required to install age verification controls by April 2018 as part of a move to make the internet safer for children.
Users may be asked to provide credit card details, as gambling websites do.
Companies breaking the rules set out in the Digital Economy Act face being blocked by their internet provider.
Under the plans, firms supplying payment and other services to the pornography websites could be notified about any breach.
A regulatory body will be asked to oversee and enforce the new rules.
It is thought this could be the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) which already sets age limits for films.
The BBFC used to rate the suitability of computer games for certain ages but Pan European Game Information (PEGI) now does this.
Digital minister Matt Hancock will formally begin the process, which was the subject of a 2016 consultation during David Cameron's government, in a written statement to the Commons later.
Mr Hancock said: "All this means that while we can enjoy the freedom of the web, the UK will have the most robust internet child protection measures of any country in the world."
Will Gardner from internet safety charity Childnet said: "Steps like this to help restrict access, alongside the provision of free parental controls and education, are key."
An NSPCC report in 2016 said online pornography could damage a child's development and decision-making and had been seen by 65% of 15-16 year olds and 48% of 11-16 year olds.
The study found 28% of children may have stumbled across pornography while browsing, while 19% had searched for it deliberately.
The BBC's former economics editor launched Peston on Sunday with guests including chancellor George Osborne and documentary maker Louis Theroux.
Writing in The Guardian, John Crace said the show's changes of tone "felt a bit amateur hour".
Ben Lawrence in The Telegraph felt Peston "looked uncomfortable".
Peston left the BBC earlier this year to become ITV News's political editor.
But it has been his solo Sunday show that has been much-anticipated, with conjecture over whether it could rival the Andrew Marr Sunday morning politics show on BBC One.
Marr's show, which goes out an hour earlier, included interviews with Prince Harry and justice secretary Michael Gove.
Peston's other debut guests included Tony Blair's former aide Alastair Campbell and former employment minister Esther McVey.
Lawrence said the show "did not start well" and highlighted the relaxed set and style.
"Fans of daytime TV may have found much to admire in the pastel-shaded set, but it jarred horribly with the serious journalistic tone," he said.
He noted the laid-back approach extended to Peston's own appearance, which included an open-necked shirt and "that lank haircut beloved of arts undergraduates".
Meanwhile, despite the lack of ceremony, Lawrence said Peston's discomfort was evident in the way he "whizzed through the show's topics while evoking the false bonhomie of a warm-up act".
The discomfort, he said, was contagious, with Campbell sporting "a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp" and McVey dropping her croissant.
Meanwhile Crace also chose to be tongue-in-cheek about Peston's "much-hyped Nicky Clarke haircut" and the "CBeebies atmosphere" of the show.
But while Peston seemed near to "hyper-ventilating" with nerves ahead of the first commercial break, things were completely different on the show's return, he said.
"Suddenly the whole show began to - if not make sense - at least click into gear," he said.
Having been lulled into a sense of security before the break, Mr Osborne was not ready for Peston suddenly "going for the jugular" over the economy, said Crace.
"Osborne tried to rescue the situation but could only dig himself in deeper by resorting to platitudes.
"By the end he couldn't wait to get out of the Peston's playpen."
Also writing in The Guardian, Mark Lawson was won over by Peston's obvious nerves, which showed a "touching vulnerability that may have usefully undercut, for some viewers, the allegations of arrogance that have sometimes haunted the broadcaster".
He also focused on the differences to Marr's show, pointing out the contrast of Peston's audience-friendly touches to Marr's serious "button-holed" approach.
These touches included a "book club" and a digital screen, to display messages such as tweets, nicknamed "Screeny McScreenface".
In the end, Lawson was not totally satisfied or displeased by Peston's show and chose to ponder on its future.
"Although Peston and Marr are not going head-to-head, there must still be a question over whether Sunday morning can sustain two news overviews," he said.
"Despite showing promising signs, amid inevitable first-morning nerves, of being lively and likable, Peston on Sunday risks winning the energy medal but losing the ratings war to the tie-knotted, old technology Marr."
Quentin Letts in the Daily Mail seemed to agree.
Letts was scathing of the relaxed elements to Peston's show, including the "glasses of orange juice and a bowl of croissants which, as ever, went uneaten" and the set's "funky glass desk".
But overall he concluded: "On the day, Marr's editorial content outperformed Peston but Pesto himself was arguably the more fascinating compere."
And turning away from the professional commentators, the Radio Times asked the audience what it had thought of the show.
Recalling Peston had previously told the listings magazine he "wanted to interview politicians in a new, revealing way", it asked readers on Monday: "Did he fail, or do exactly what he set out to do?"
Hannah Skeggs was happy, tweeting: "Like Peston on Sunday format. Live feedback combined with calm interview style = cup of tea Sunday viewing."
Tony Colville agreed but found it hard to take the show entirely seriously: "Peston is a great way to wake up on a Sunday with a hangover. Awkward George interview, heckling quietly from the back."
Matthew McEvoy went further, joking: "Disappointed that Peston on Sunday is a political show. I was looking forward to seeing some Italian cooking."
Meanwhile, deputy Labour leader Tom Watson seemed impressed and angling to be invited on as a guest.
"Like the studio look of Peston on Sunday, particularly the big chair for the fuller figure."
Bannaras Hussain, 35, of Bridge Close, Goole, faces 22 offences against girls under 16 spanning four years between 1998 and 2002.
His brother Sageer Hussain, 29, of the same address, has been summoned to court in July for four counts of rape in 2003 of a girl under 16.
Bannaras Hussain is due before Rotherham magistrates on Wednesday.
South Yorkshire Police said the charges were the result of Operation Clover, a joint investigation in partnership with Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
Bannaras Hussain faces charges including three counts of rape, four counts of aiding and abetting rape, nine counts of indecent assault, two counts of assault and four counts of procuring a woman for prostitution.
Senior Investigating Officer Martin Tate said: "This is a complex and protracted investigation with a vast amount of work still to do.
"Eleven other men remain on bail in connection with this investigation.
"I want to continue to encourage victims of all sexual crime to come forward."
International team-mate and namesake Fara also scored three on her Liverpool debut in a 5-0 win over Aston Villa.
In the all-Super League encounters, last season's runners-up Chelsea lost 1-0 to Lincoln while Bristol Academy won 2-0 at Doncaster Belles.
Arsenal's tip to Nottingham Forest and Everton's tie at Oxford were postponed.
In the two ties not involving WSL teams, Premier League high-flyers Sunderland and Leeds United both reached the last eight.
The Cup holders won comfortably enough in the end, but they did not have it all their own way against their Premier League hosts.
Williams headed in the 18th-minute opener, but Cardiff equalised through a superb 25-yard strike by midfielder Paige Stewart nine minutes before half-time.
Williams restored the visitors' lead with another header in the 54th minute.
But it then took the WSL team until nine minutes from time to wrap up the victory when the striker completed her hat-trick with a close range shot.
Lincoln edged a hard-fought tie and deserved their narrow victory.
Precious Hamilton and Carla Cantrell both went close in the first half.
And it was a 57th-minute Cantrell corner that led to England winger Jess Clarke heading the only goal of the game.
Cantrell then had a shot tipped on to the bar by goalkeeper Nicola Davies as the home side looked for a decisive second.
But four minutes from time they had to thank goalkeeper Karen Bardsley for preventing an equaliser with a block from England team-mate Eni Aluko.
It was the Fara Williams show as Liverpool swept aside Premier League side Villa.
The England midfielder, signed from Merseyside rivals Everton in the close season, struck home from 25 yards after just eight minutes.
A 34th-minute Louise Fors penalty doubled the lead, and five minutes later Williams almost scored again with a lob that hit the bar.
But another chip, in the 57th minute, brought the midfielder her second goal.
Striker Natasha Dowie, like Williams a close season signing from Everton, slid in the fourth after 74 minutes.
And 13 minutes from time Williams raced clear to complete her hat-trick.
A terrific 35th-minute strike by captain Corinne Yorston gave Bristol the lead at a rain-soaked Keepmoat Stadium.
And the visitors almost doubled their lead when Spanish striker Laura del Rio hit the bar five minutes before the interval.
Striker Ann-Marie Heatherson forced in what proved to be the 55th-minute clincher when goalkeeper Nicola Hobbs dropped the ball at her feet.
Sunderland striker Sophie Williams played a key role in her team's victory like her namesakes at Birmingham and Liverpool.
She crossed for strike partner Beth Mead to head the opener after 33 minutes.
Eight minutes later Williams increased the lead with an excellent angled drive.
And in the 53rd minute, she crossed again for Mead to score her second with a simple tap-in.
Captain Steph Bannon completed the scoring with a 56th-minute header.
Two early goals set Premier League Leeds on the road to victory against their Southern Division opponents.
Striker Carey Huegett gave the home side a sixth-minute lead that was doubled 10 minutes later by defender Emma Lipman.
A 68th-minute Huegett penalty effectively put the game beyond Yeovil.
And 14 minutes from time, defender Hayley Sharp finished off the visitors with the fourth.
Cy Sullivan, 26, raped his 42-year-old victim on 27 November 2009.
DNA was recovered but there was no match in the national database.
But a routine swab was taken when he was charged with assaulting a bouncer in October 2015 and it matched the DNA found at Greyfriars Churchyard.
Sullivan, from Shetland, claimed he and his victim had consensual sex, but a jury convicted him of raping her while she was so intoxicated she could not have given consent.
He was jailed for five years.
At the High Court in Glasgow judge Lady Rae told Sullivan: "You raped a lady almost twice your age. You took advantage of her intoxicated state.
"She has been left seriously traumatised by what you did and with having to relive what she remembered, and the shame and embarrassment she felt when she was discovered by police in the state of undress that you left her in. She was a stranger to you."
The court heard that the victim was found by police wandering half naked in the cemetery in a confused and drunken state.
She described what happened to her as "a living nightmare."
In evidence, she said she had travelled from her home in the Highlands to attend a conference in Edinburgh and decided to visit the grave of Greyfriars Bobby.
The woman said she had drunk at least eight glasses of wine. A police officer who saw her hours later at 05:00 described her as 'intoxicated."
The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was asked by prosecutor Ian Wallace: "Do you remember leaving Greyfriars pub," and she said: "No. I remember coming round in the graveyard and there was a police lady.
"I was frozen and I was disorientated. I tried for some time to find my way out.
"It was like something happened and I had just come round. It was awful. I just felt awful, embarrassed. I had no clothing on my bottom half."
The woman told the jurors that she had no memory of what happened after she left the pub until the police found her.
She was asked if she had any recollection of anyone having sex with her and replied: "No."
Mr Wallace then said: "Did you want to have sex with anyone that night," and the victim said: "Definitely not."
Sullivan told the court he had bought the woman a drink and then afterwards had sex with her. He claimed that she appeared fine to him and not drunk.
Sullivan was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in May this year and was taken into court in a wheelchair before walking a few feet to the dock using crutches.
His defence counsel David Nicolson said: "His family maintain their support of him, particularly his partner of three years.
"He has a good work record and has only one previous conviction."
Lady Rae placed Sullivan on the sex offenders' register.
Jeremiah Emmanuel, who is awarded the British Empire Medal, began volunteering aged just four.
At 13 he set up One Big Community to help young people find solutions to violence in their communities.
He said the death of his friend, not far from his home in Brixton, south London, had been "a call to action".
Too many local people had been affected by stabbings and shootings, he said.
Through One Big Community he organises social media debates and live events to connect young people with decision makers in the police, schools, politics and the media.
At 13 he already had almost 10 years of experience as a volunteer.
He says his mother, a youth worker, inspired him to get involved in community projects.
He had sung in hospitals as a member of a youth choir, been involved in youth politics as a member of the Youth Parliament, and by 13 was deputy young mayor of Lambeth.
Later, he also successfully pitched the idea of a youth council to Radio 1 and Radio 1Xtra.
All of this work gave him lots of useful contacts.
"I just literally called people, asked them to get involved.
"Initially I wasn't clear exactly what I wanted to do - it was moulded as I went on with it."
Jeremiah, who is a colour sergeant with the Army Cadet Force, is also running a campaign to have first aid taught in all secondary schools in England after he helped save the life of another young man who was attacked with a knife in his area late at night.
He says he received a massive amount of first aid training with the cadets and used it to stop the bleeding and treat the victim for shock until the ambulance arrived.
He and the victim are working together on the first aid lessons campaign.
"These are really really important skills that young people should learn," he said.
Jeremiah, who is applying to university this year from St Francis Xavier 6th Form College in Balham, described the British Empire Medal, for services to young people and the community in London, as an amazing honour.
He told the BBC he had been "so shocked" when he learned of the accolade.
He hopes the medal will be a boost for his campaigns and encourage other young people to get involved.
"I think it's so important for young people to have a voice. We are the future and I think a lot of people forget that sometimes, especially when it comes to working on the things that affect us from politics [in] our everyday lives.
"So hopefully a 17-year-old receiving a Queen's honour can be an inspiration to other young people to wake up and say, 'Today I can bring a change in my community.'"
Almost three quarters of the awards go to people who have undertaken work in their local communities, while 10% are for work in education, including 26 head teachers.
In addition, the Rt Hon Baroness Warnock becomes a Companion of Honour for services to charity and to children with special educational needs; Helen Fraser, until recently chief executive of the Girls Day School Trust, becomes a dame; and Justine Roberts, co-founder and chief executive of Mumsnet and Gransnet, is made a CBE.
Midfielder Danny Williams returns from suspension but James McPake and Julen Etxabeguren are long term absentees.
Hamilton defender Giannis Skondras is free to play after successfully appealing against the red card picked up against Ross County last week.
Darian MacKinnon returns from a ban but Ali Crawford is suspended and Grant Gillespie is injured.
Accies nudged out of the relegation play-off place last weekend and are just one point behind the hosts.
Dundee manager Paul Hartley: "If I start being edgy and down then it spreads to the players.
"We were positive after the Hearts game and training has been really upbeat all week. I know what it's like and I feel for the players, especially because it is not a good run that we are on.
"We know we have to start winning games of football. It is a must and it must start on Saturday."
Hamilton Academical manager Martin Canning: "It is similar to the last time we played Dundee.
"They were bottom of the league with six points, they hadn't won in so many games and came here and won 1-0 and managed to get themselves right back up the table.
"I don't think you can look too much into form because every game means so much, there is so much pressure on every game, it changes drastically.
"You can't think that, because they have lost five or six, they are going to lose again.
"I am pretty sure they will be desperate to turn it round and they will see it as a big opportunity for them.
"But it is a massive game again for us. They are all huge between now and the end of the season."
Paul McCaroll, 49, was fatally injured in the overnight incident in Westmuir Street.
Police Scotland said a 45-year-old man had been arrested and was being detained in police custody.
A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal. The man is expected to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Friday.
The 2016 election presents the party with a rare opportunity to pull off a historic hat-trick.
America's political geography gives the Democrats an enormous advantage.
So, too, does the country's changing demography, because constituencies that favour the Democrats are growing in electoral influence.
Despite the Republicans' current strength in congressional and gubernatorial politics - presently, the GOP holds the House of Representatives and the Senate, along with 31 governors' mansions - the party is weak in presidential politics.
It has lost four of the past six presidential elections. In five of those, the Democrats have won the popular vote.
The "blue wall" is especially advantageous.
That is the name given to the 18 states, as well as the District of Columbia, that have voted Democrat in every presidential election since Bill Clinton's first victory in 1992.
California (55), Connecticut (7), Delaware (3), Hawai'i (4), Illinois (20), Maine (4), Maryland (10), Massachusetts (11), Michigan (16), Minnesota (10), New Jersey (14), New York (29), Oregon (7), Pennsylvania (20), Rhode Island (4), Vermont (3), Washington (12), Washington DC (3), Wisconsin (10).
What makes the blue wall such a towering edifice is the size of its building blocks: some of the country's most populous states, like California, New York, Illinois, Michigan and New Jersey.
To win the Electoral College, the institution that elects the president on a state-by-state basis, the victorious candidate requires 270 votes.
For the past six elections, the states that make up the blue wall have yielded 242, just 28 short of the target.
The Republicans have a wall of their own: 13 states that have voted for the GOP's presidential candidate in the past six elections.
But those states amount for only 102 Electoral College votes between them.
To some, then, the "Red wall" looks more like a flimsy picket fence.
Alabama (9), Alaska (3), Idaho (4), Kansas (6), Mississippi (6), Nebraska (5), North Dakota (3), Oklahoma (7), South Carolina (9), South Dakota (3), Texas (38), Utah (6), Wyoming (3).
The Blue Wall is by no means insurmountable.
Though it held firm at the 2000 and 2004 elections, George W Bush emerged the victor.
Many of these blue states, like New Jersey, Massachusetts and Illinois, have Republican governors, and the GOP has not given up hope of turning them red.
Pennsylvania, with its 20 Electoral College votes, is particularly high on the their target list.
But the wall does grant the Democrats an inbuilt advantage in the Electoral College.
Just consider this statistic. Since 1992, the Republicans have achieved an average of 211 Electoral College votes. The Democrats' average is 327.
Demographics also appear to favour the Democrats: the support they are now receiving from minorities, Millennials (voters under 30) and women.
The Democrats have opened up a huge lead among minority voters, a growing and increasingly important part of the electorate.
At the last presidential election, 71% of Latinos voted for Barack Obama, up from 67% in 2008. Some 73% of Asian-Americans also voted Democrat, along with 93% of African-Americans.
Younger voters, who tend to be more liberal-minded on issues like same-sex marriage and immigration, are also leaning towards the Democrats.
Some two-thirds of Millennials voted for Obama in 2012.
A majority of women have also favoured the Democrats in recent presidential elections. Fifty-five per cent of women voted for Obama in 2012, while the figure for unmarried women was even higher at 67%, partly because the Republican Party has become associated with restrictions on abortion.
Obviously all is not lost for the GOP, not least because the party has demographic advantages of its own.
In 2012, 59% of white voters plumbed for Mitt Romney. Among the so-called silent generation, those born between 1925 and 1945, the Republicans have a lead of 47% to 43%. But America is becoming less white, and that presents problems for the Republicans.
Their prime strategy since the civil rights era of the 1960s, after all, has been to target white voters, regardless of their income levels.
Next year, the GOP will be hoping that the so-called "Obama coalition" of minorities, Millennials and women, does not become the "Hillary Coalition," if, as expected, she wins the Democratic presidential nomination.
Black voters will not turn out in such high numbers for Hillary, they reckon.
The GOP also hopes to make inroads into a Latino vote deterred from backing Republicans because of the party's tough line on immigration.
Party strategists believe there is truth in Ronald Reagan's famous observation: "Latinos are Republicans. They just don't know it yet."
As for the Millennials, a string of recent polls suggest that their support for the Democrats is waning - although a survey conducted in April by the Harvard Institute of Politics suggested that 55% of voters under the age of 30 would prefer the White House to remain in Democratic hands.
There are Democrats who believe that the Hillary coalition could be even more formidable than the Obama coalition.
Campaigning to become America's first female president, she will hope to attract higher levels of support from white women, more than half of whom voted Republican in 2012.
She might attract more male white voters than Obama.
Yet Democrats run the risk of over-confidence, a mistake made by Republicans following the back-to-back victories of George W Bush.
In those heady days, strategists like Karl Rove spoke assuredly of an emergent permanent Republican majority, only to see Obama score two victories.
More recently, GOP morale has been boosted by the work of the political journalist John Judis, who predicted at the start of the century an "emerging Democratic majority".
In January, Judis penned a revisionist essay headlined "The Emerging Republican Advantage," which argued that the Republican triumph at last November's congressional mid-term elections was "the latest manifestation of a resurgent Republican coalition".
The Republicans were even more dominant among white voters, he observed, which was problematic for the Democrats because they still required between 36% and 40% of the white working-class vote to win the presidential election.
But it is always a mistake to equate strength in congressional politics with success in presidential politics.
Often the party with a lock on Capitol Hill has suffered a near lockout at the White House.
Between 1968 and 1992, for instance, the Democrats dominated the House of Representatives.
For that entire era, a Democrat sat in the powerful speaker's chair.
But during that era, the Democrats won just one presidential election, when Jimmy Carter edged out Gerald Ford in 1976.
The electorate that votes in congressional elections is different in size and make-up to that which turns out in presidential polls.
History suggests it will be hard to win three consecutive victories.
Since the war, the Republicans have only managed it once, when George Herbert Walker Bush followed Ronald Reagan into the White House.
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George Osborne is not just standing up to make a few tweaks to public spending here and there, not just to make a political statement, but to set out the size and shape of the state for the next five years, in a time when money is tight and he has little room for manoeuvre.
The government wants to show the country it has a clear mission, and a determination to balance the books in an effective and coherent way.
That means making choices and deciding priorities.
Ministers in the majority Conservative government believe their ability to set priorities ought to be both a strength and an opportunity.
This won't be a Spending Review, they say, that displays an attitude of cutting a little bit here and there, moving money around the balance sheet to try to smooth out the pain.
Instead they see it as a programme of strategic cuts that, while difficult, add up to something: a country where work is rewarded, where anyone who wants to get on is helped to do so, and where the state has a careful approach to spending taxpayers' money, using it judiciously where it helps and not being afraid to scrape it back where it does not.
But choosing priorities - not just protecting but substantially increasing spending on areas like health, significant new spending on house building including billions going directly to house builders to encourage them to get spades into the ground, and retaining what many see as generous welfare payments to the older generations - inevitably means others will lose out.
No minister would argue that doesn't cause political pain.
This spending review will mean, for example, some police officers disappearing from forces around the country, some families taking hits to their incomes through changes to welfare, or some grants to business being cut back.
Each cut will be analysed in public, just as it has in recent weeks been argued over in private.
And with each saving comes a political risk.
As the chancellor knows from bitter experience, the details in statements like these can blow up unpredictably into political problems.
Rebels to the government's planned cuts to tax credits are hopeful of pretty substantial changes. Speculation in Westminster suggests pulling back cuts of more than £1,000 a year to some families' incomes to £300 or £400.
The actual details are being kept tightly under wraps.
But be in no doubt, the decisions the chancellor has made in recent weeks will be felt around the country.
He faces an economic test of trying to stick to his own rules on spending - not just getting the books back into balance but into surplus by the end of the Parliament.
It is a political test too.
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After a very shaky few weeks for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour, it is not certain they'll be able to do that.
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Prince William and Catherine's second baby will become fourth in line to the throne, behind older brother Prince George, who was born in July 2013.
Photographs during the duchess's official engagements over the past few months have captured the course of her pregnancy, as seen in the images below.
Wilton Lodge Park stretches across 107 acres on the western edge of Hawick and is currently undergoing a £3.64m facelift.
It is also home to the historic museum and, as part of the regeneration, the Park Gallery has been created in the building.
The new space will now house the permanent exhibition about the park.
It traces how the grounds of Wilton Lodge moved from private to public hands, becoming the well-used park it is today.
The display also recalls historic events which have taken place in the park, it looks at local wildlife and at how people have enjoyed the space in the past.
The Park Gallery will be formally opened by councillor Vicky Davidson on Sunday. It follows the official unveiling of a new park bandstand last month.
Ms Davidson said: "There is a great deal of local pride invested in Wilton Lodge Park and the new gallery is designed to reflect this and encourage this same pride in future generations.
"The Park Gallery is the second element in the Wilton Lodge Park regeneration project to be completed, following the opening of the new bandstand.
"It is designed to strengthen the connection between the museum and park and encourage visitors to extend their stay and explore the park."
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Sometimes they might have a guitar and a microphone, and of course there's people dancing.
They might be busting some moves to the latest Rihanna or Little Mix, but this particular street performer has gone for a slightly less well-known song.
He chose the theme tune from the BBC News.
One thing is for sure, it is certainly an original choice.
Energy officials say existing electric heaters - or geysers - will be phased out over the next five years.
They hope to save up to 400 megawatts of electricity - equivalent to the output of an electrical power plant.
Blackouts have dogged Zimbabwe, despite the fact that 60% of the population have no access to electricity.
This has also hampered investment in what is an already fragile economy, the BBC's Karen Allen reports.
Officials from the state-owned Zimbabwe Electricity Distribution and Transmission Company say the government is expected to publish new regulations by the end of the year.
It is estimated that there are up to 300,000 geysers across the country, with water heating accounting for some 40% of households' electricity bills.
"The country may achieve a power saving in the range of 300 megawatts to 400 megawatts, which in itself is a virtual power plant," Energy Minister Samuel Undenge was quoted as saying by Reuters.
"Solar water heaters (will) become mandatory at every new house before connection to the grid," he added.
Zimbabwe's power generation is currently less than 50% of its peak demand, forcing local businesses to use costly generators.
The government has blamed the shortages on low water levels at the Kariba Dam, bordering Zambia, which generates hydroelectric power, the BBC's southern Africa correspondent Karen Allen reports from Johannesburg.
But officials also concede that a massive lack of investment in the energy sector over the decades is now taking its toll.
Emergency crews were called to the Mighty Deerstalker event in the Scottish Borders after the woman became unwell just before 18:00 on Saturday.
The 48-year-old was taken to Borders General Hospital in Melrose but did not survive.
The 10-mile (16km) event, billed as the UK's biggest night race, was being held at Innerleithen in Tweeddale.
Two thousand people took part in Saturday's event, which began at 17:30.
A spokesman for organisers Rat Race Adventure Sports, said: "We are extremely saddened to confirm that a participant in our Mighty Deerstalker event passed away yesterday.
"The participant became unwell at 17:56, approximately one mile into the event, close to our event control station and at the location of one of our safety marshals.
"A member of our medical team was on the scene within three minutes as we implemented our response protocols.
"They were assisted by an off-duty paramedic until the arrival of the Scottish Ambulance Service."
The spokesman said the company would offer its "full assistance" to the authorities.
He added: "Our heartfelt thoughts and condolences are with the family and friends of the deceased."
The event, now in its 11th year, sees hundreds of participants tackle off-road terrain while wearing head torches.
On its website, the organisers state: "The Mighty Deerstalker is as tough as it gets: hills, mud, swamp, darkness, rivers, obstacles and always devilishly vague on the true distance, this event never disappoints but it often hurts."
Race competitors set off in stages before following a waymarked course.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "Police in the Scottish Borders responded to a report of a woman having taken unwell during a sporting event near to Traquair House, Innerleithen at 18.15 on Saturday 11 March.
"The 48-year-old was treated by the Scottish Ambulance Service and was taken to Borders General Hospital. However, she passed away while en route.
"Inquiries are continuing, however there appear to be no suspicious circumstances surrounding this death and a report will be sent to the procurator fiscal."
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Maddie Hinch was the hero, saving three penalties and making a number of other brilliant stops during the game.
Caia van Maasakker struck twice to put the world and Olympic champions in control at the Olympic Park.
But England netted twice in the final quarter through Sophie Bray and Lily Owsley to force the shootout.
The hosts struggled in the first half and were grateful to Hinch, who was named goalkeeper of the tournament at the World League semi-finals earlier this year.
Great Britain won that competition too, but England rode their luck at times on Sunday - the Netherlands having 22 shots on goal to England's seven, a reward for their dominance of possession (65%).
However, their fightback from 2-0 down was extraordinary - both Bray and Owsley scoring from close range at the end of well-worked penalty corners to deny the Dutch.
That seized the initiative for Danny Kerry's side, who scored three of their four penalties while the Dutch only beat Hinch once.
Holcombe keeper Hinch, 26, checked her hand-written notes on the pitch before facing the Dutch penalty-takers - and it paid dividends.
"I am renowned as a being a bit of a geek on penalties but as soon as it was the shootout it was my turn to step up," she said. "This team has had so many highs and lows but we deserve this."
Meanwhile, captain Kate Richardson-Walsh, 35, said it was a dream to lift the trophy.
"My whole career I have wanted to stand on top of the podium," the Mancunian said. "I wanted to stay in my kit the whole night and now I can do it.
"I was thinking 'don't be another Commonwealths (silver), another European Championships (silver)' but this team is learning.
"It was not pretty and we made it hard but we did it. With 15 minutes left we just had to keep believing. It was our day, things that normally sneak past went in."
To complete a memorable afternoon, England forward Alex Danson picked up the player of the tournament award.
It followed the death of a 52-year-old woman in a property in the town in Feburary this year.
The Police Investigation and Review Commissioner looked at the initial police response in the hours leading up to the incident.
The findings have now been submitted to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) for consideration.
"I shudder to think what it would have been like without music," says Sasha Baldwin, mother to three teenage sons who are all dyslexic.
Luke, 17, plays the violin and guitar. Patrick, 15, plays the piano, organ and trumpet while Robert, 14, is a gifted French horn player. They all sing too.
Yet at primary school they struggled from early on as dyslexia manifested itself in different ways in each of them.
"Luke had difficulties learning how to read, Patrick had problems with short-term memory and couldn't remember instructions from school or telephone numbers and Robert had real problems with personal organisation and retaining information, as well as reading," Sasha says.
The North Yorkshire school they attended recognised their learning difficulties and enlisted the help of educational psychologists to support them.
But Sasha, who now lives in Perthshire, realised that music could provide a valuable outlet for their development and she encouraged the boys to start learning the piano aged five.
Although they were enthusiastic, they all had issues with reading music.
"Robert had to give up the piano after a year as he couldn't read two lines of music simultaneously and became very frustrated," Sasha says.
So he took up the horn instead, an unusual instrument for a five-year-old, but it suited him because he only had to read one line of music.
Robert is gifted, his mother says, and music has played a huge role in helping him to achieve.
His two brothers have won places as choristers at the choir of St John's College, Cambridge and all three have been invited to play with the National Schools Symphony Orchestra.
Aged 10, their school report said the boys were going to struggle to cope with exams - but they are now predicted to get A* in GCSEs.
Dr John Rack, a psychologist and head of research, development and policy at the charity Dyslexia Action, says that people with dyslexia can often do well at creative subjects.
"But we don't know if dyslexia gives you a special advantage or whether dyslexic people go in a different direction and develop alternative talents."
Dyslexia doesn't automatically mean you'll be creative or successful, he warns.
"You shouldn't feel bad if you're not creative."
Teresa Bliss, an educational psychologist who works to help children and young people who are experiencing problems in school, says she is convinced that music can have an impact on children with dyslexia.
"Children and young people with dyslexia are often easily distracted and lacking in concentration.
"Music offers training in many of the areas where dyslexics typically experience difficulties such as understanding rhythm, sequencing, organisation, motor co-ordination, memory and concentration."
Dr Rack believes music has a more logical structure than language which means it can appeal to people with dyslexia.
"Dyslexics find it easier to learn to respond through action than through speaking or words. They can struggle to remember names, for example, but give them a task and they can make associations very well.
"Their fingers know how to play the notes, but can't always say what they are."
The key thing, dyslexics are told, is to find something you are good at and put lots of effort into it.
Reading and writing can be difficult but dyslexia affects children in many different ways, none of which are related to their level of intelligence.
However, it is the most common learning difficulty in schools, with some children needing long-term support.
Dr Rack says being dyslexic is not something to get stressed and worried about.
"It only becomes a problem if people deny it or if there's a failure to recognise the effects of it.
"Just say you're different, not faulty."
Sasha Baldwin says that music has been a great discipline for her three dyslexic sons.
"They have all improved massively. The oldest one is flying now. He reads very fast and doesn't need any extra time in exams.
"It's been a great lesson in life to practise their instrument. They would not have got this far academically without music," she says.
Campaigners want to turn the building, in Clifton, Bristol, into a one-stop shop for a host of everyday items.
The Friends of Clifton Centre and Library (FOCCAL) told the Bristol Post the project would benefit people with limited space at home.
They hope turning the service into a "library of things" will protect it from future cost-cutting measures.
Clifton library - which recently had its hours cut - also hosts craft sessions and relaxation classes.
Councillor Paula O'Rourke said people had told her they wanted to keep the library open but they realised it had to move with the times.
"In the 1930s libraries used to lend out pictures so people that couldn't afford them could put them up on their walls," the Green councillor for Clifton said.
"Then they started loaning books, videos, CDs and DVDs so now we thought in the future we could look at a library of things.
"People don't always have the space for garden tools, power washers, hammers or travel cots in small flats," she added.
Ms O'Rourke said she also hoped people would volunteer to help run writing workshops, craft classes or just organise board game sessions for the elderly or lonely with cheap tea and coffee for sale.
FOCCAL was set up in response to previous plans to shut seven of the city's libraries in an attempt to save £1.1m.
But after public consultation the plans were revisited and a compromise reached with reduced opening hours.
And in truth, Celtic and Ajax could be forgiven for thinking they were looking in a mirror when doing so given the nature of their respective seasons.
Where they have prospered domestically - both top their tables with just one defeat - they have floundered in Europe as they await a first Europa League win of the season.
It is an issue both managers need to address urgently if they are not to be afflicted with an early exit.
During the dark times after back-to-back defeats to Molde, Celtic manager Ronny Deila will have searched for chinks of light.
And shining brighter than anything will be that they will meet a Dutch side they should have beaten first time round.
Lasse Schone returned to haunt Celtic with a late leveller, almost two years after scoring a winner against them in a Champions League tie.
Emilio Izaguirre's sending off that night didn't help, but two points were carelessly whipped away from under the nose of Deila.
Ajax's continental form hasn't exactly been inspiring in recent times either, they have failed to win away from home in Europe since a 3-0 hammering of Legia Warsaw in last season's last 32.
Both of these former European Cup winners want to be scrapping for a more substantial prize than second place in a Europa League group and, like Deila, Frank de Boer craves progress.
However, unlike Deila, De Boer is not under as much duress to qualify according to his former Netherlands international team-mate Andy van der Meyde.
"They want to win the game but I don't think he's under pressure," van der Meyde told BBC Scotland.
"He's done a good job at Ajax, he's won a lot of championships and has a lot of respect from the supporters. They have trust in him.
"We all know that it's difficult now to play in Europe, but the club are back at the top of the Dutch league now and if they keep this young team together they will get back to the Champions League."
Former Everton winger Van der Meyde - who played in Ajax's Champions League qualifying defeat to Celtic in 2001 - admits he is surprised by the fact the two clubs occupy the basement spots in Group A.
"I didn't expect that," he added. "I thought when I first saw the group that they both had to go through."
Celtic's cause is not helped by the revelation that captain Scott Brown is out for months, something that added to Deila's original midfield headache with Nir Bitton and Stefan Johansen suspended.
However, Ajax arrived in Scotland with injury problems of their own.
The talented Anwar El Ghazi will be missing along with his Dutch Under-21 colleague Daley Sinkgraven - both of whom started in September's 2-2 draw with the Scottish champions.
Surprise group leaders Molde have already qualified with Fenerbache in pole-position for second spot.
And both know that a win for the Turks would mean elimination for any losers at Celtic Park or indeed both with a draw.
With that in mind, Van der Meyde believes the inexperienced visitors will come to attack and ensure they take it into the last week.
He was also generous in his comparison with his side that featured the likes of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Rafael van der Vaart and Wesley Sneijder.
"Ajax always has to play for the three points and I expect them to go there and play for the win," he said.
"This is a young team but you can see they are hungry. As a player of Ajax you have to win but you also have to play good football.
"They miss a little bit of experience although they have some with [Johnny] Heitinga and [Joel] Veltman, who is still young.
"I think this is a team like we had when I was playing for Ajax, a young team with a lot of talent.
"It will be difficult because I also played one time against Celtic and it's a lovely stadium with lovely supporters and it's difficult to play there."
The hit-and-run happened as the 41-year-old woman was walking with her adult son in Mossland Road, near Atholl Avenue, at about 17:35 on Tuesday.
A burgundy Vauxhall Astra went out of control, mounted the pavement and hit a road sign before hitting the woman.
She is in a stable condition in hospital. Her son was not injured.
Police said the woman is being treated for her injuries at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
Insp Lorraine Lorimer said: "At this time, officers are checking CCTV in the area to identify those responsible and would appeal for anyone who either witnessed the crash or who has any information that will assist officers with their enquiries to get in touch."
The 55-year-old Montana Republican will oversee more than 20% of US federal land, including national parks such as Yellowstone and Yosemite.
Mr Zinke, a first-term lawmaker, was an early Trump supporter who endorsed the New York property mogul in May.
"America is the most beautiful country in the world and he is going to help keep it that way," Mr Trump said.
"As a former Navy SEAL, he has incredible leadership skills and an attitude of doing whatever it takes to win", Mr Trump continued.
He added that "he has built one of the strongest track records on championing regulatory relief, forest management, responsible energy development and public land issues".
Mr Zinke is the fourth military veteran to receive a post in Mr Trump's cabinet. He spent 23 years in the Navy where he served in Kosovo, Iraq and elsewhere.
Retired US Army three-star Lt Gen Michael Flynn is national security adviser, retired General James Mattis has been picked to lead the Defence Department and John Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general, was selected to run Homeland Security.
In a statement released by the Trump transition team, Mr Zinke said: "As someone who grew up in a logging and rail town and hiking in Glacier National Park, I am honored and humbled to be asked to serve Montana and America as Secretary of Interior.
"I look forward to making the Department of Interior and America great again. May God bless Montana, God bless America and God bless the troops who defend her."
As a member of the House of Representatives subcommittee on natural resources, Mr Zinke voted for legislation that would soften environmental protections on public land.
It is unclear if he supports opening up federal lands to more drilling and mining, which Mr Trump has pledged to do in his administration.
But Mr Zinke has bucked his party on the issue of privatisation or transfer of public lands to states, which he believes should remain under federal control.
He resigned as a delegate to the Republican nominating convention in July after the party platform called for giving states control over federal lands.
Public land makes up more than 30% of the state of Montana, according to the Montana Wilderness Association.
Mr Zinke shares that sentiment with the president-elect, who also said he thinks the government should retain ownership of public lands.
The Sierra Club, an environmental advocacy group, slammed the nomination, saying "in nominating Representative Zinke, President-elect Trump has once again chosen someone unsuited for the job at hand".
"Zinke is firmly in the past, clinging to plans to mine, drill and log public lands to benefit corporate polluters, supporting dangerous and dirty projects like the Keystone XL pipeline, and opposing efforts to clean up our air," the group wrote, urging senators to oppose the nomination.
The Department of the Interior, which employs more than 70,000 people, also manages the Bureau of Indian Affairs and tribal policy.
The department assisted in President Barack Obama's push to tackle climate change by curbing fossil fuel development in some areas.
The toddler had been taken to hospital after the crash, in a side road between the venue and the Ice House Apartments shortly after 08:00 BST on Saturday.
Nottinghamshire Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward.
It is thought the girl had been on her way to a religious convention at the arena with her family.
A birdie on the last gave Fichardt the tournament, reduced to three rounds because of bad weather.
Waring, 32, shared the lead with Fichardt going into Sunday and shot a three-under-par 69 to the victor's 68.
Waring and 38-year-old Manley, both seeking a maiden European Tour victory, qualify for July's Open Championship.
Previously, scientists had identified a huge impact crater in the Gulf of Mexico as the event that spelled doom for the dinosaurs.
Now evidence for a second impact in Ukraine has been uncovered.
This raises the possibility that the Earth may have been bombarded by a whole shower of space rocks.
The new findings are published in the journal Geology by a team lead by Professor David Jolley of Aberdeen University, UK.
When first proposed in 1980, the idea that an asteroid or comet impact had killed off the dinosaurs proved hugely controversial. Later, the discovery of the Chicxulub Crater in the Gulf of Mexico was hailed as "the smoking gun" that confirmed the theory.
Double trouble
The discovery of a second impact crater suggests that the dinosaurs were driven to extinction by a "double whammy" rather than a single strike.
The Boltysh Crater in Ukraine was first reported in 2002. However, until now it was uncertain exactly how the timing of this event related to the Chicxulub impact.
In the current study, scientists examined the "pollen and spores" of fossil plants in the layers of mud that infilled the crater. They found that immediately after the impact, ferns quickly colonised the devastated landscape.
Ferns have an amazing ability to bounce back after catastrophe. Layers full of fern spores - dubbed "fern spikes" - are considered to be a good "markers" of past impact events.
However, there was an unexpected discovery in store for the scientists.
They located a second "fern spike" in a layer one metre above the first, suggesting another later impact event.
Professor Simon Kelley of the Open University, UK, who was co-author on the study, said: "We interpret this second layer as the aftermath of the Chicxulub impact."
This shows that the Boltysh and Chicxulub impacts did not happen at exactly the same time. They struck several thousand years apart, the length of time between the two "fern spikes".
Uncertain cause
Professor Kelley continued: "It is quite possible that in the future we will find evidence for more impact events."
Rather than being wiped out by a single hit, the researchers think that dinosaurs may have fallen victim to a shower of space rocks raining down over thousands of years.
What might have caused this bombardment is highly uncertain.
Professor Monica Grady, a meteorite expert at the Open University who was not involved in the current study, said: "One possibility might be the collison of Near Earth Objects."
Recently, Nasa launched a program dubbed "Spaceguard". It aims to monitor such Near Earth Objects as an early warning system of possible future collisons.
"I have hemorrhaged [sic] my vocal cord again," she wrote on Instagram.
"I will need to cancel the remainder of my tour and get surgery to finally fix this once and for all."
The All About That Bass star, who had been due to round off her MTrain tour with a string of dates in August and September, told her fans she was "devastated, scared and so sorry".
She added: "I am determined to do what it takes to get better and come back around stronger than ever."
She is not the only singer to have suffered voice problems in recent months. Sam Smith and Jess Glynne are among other recording stars to have had vocal cord issues.
The Barcelona defender's running verbal battle with most of the Real Madrid squad continued in Japan on Wednesday as he refused to back down after igniting yet another row, this time with Bernabeu duo Alvaro Arbeloa and Sergio Ramos.
We all know there's little love lost between Barca and Madrid, but no figure on the pitch seems to embody the rivalry more closely than Pique.
Right now, he's almost 6,500 miles away in Yokohama, where Barca enter the Club World Cup at the semi-final stage on Thursday, but Real are seemingly very much on his mind.
He has been booed by Spain supporters angry at his anti-Madrid stance, he's been told to grow up and to show more respect. But will Pique change his ways? Here's the story so far.
Picture the scene. You're celebrating winning the league title, an occasion to savour. But for Pique, this is an opportunity to score points against your bitter rivals.
"We are the best team in the world! Thanks to all and thanks to Kevin Roldan... everything started with you," he told the club's buoyant fans.
Don't get the reference? Back in February, Colombian pop star Roldan performed at Cristiano Ronaldo's 30th birthday party - and posted some pictures on social media.
So far, so normal perhaps. But the big problems started when the press pointed out Real had been beaten 4-0 by city rivals Atletico just hours before...
Over the months that followed, there was meltdown in the Spanish capital - and Barcelona went on to win the league, Copa del Rey and Champions League.
The Roldan comments didn't exactly endear Pique to the Madrid fans around Spain. And there are quite a lot of them.
So many in fact that when Pique next turned out for the national team in a friendly against Costa Rica in June, sections of the home crowd jeered and whistled him.
After Spain supporters repeated the trick in September, Pique was sticking to his guns. "I don't regret anything that I have said and I would repeat it a thousand times and more," he said.
"I am like that. I feel very good, on both a personal and sporting level. Yesterday I went mushroom picking. I am a happy man."
Football, eh? Sometimes you just have no idea what to expect. Who could have said Real Madrid would be thrown out of this season's Spanish cup for fielding an ineligible player?
Rafael Benitez's side picked the suspended Denis Cheryshev for the first leg of their last-32 tie with Cadiz and - despite appeals - they are out of a competition they have won 19 times.
You can probably guess who saw the funny side.
Pique's tweet in reaction - shown above - didn't have a single word. Instead, he let the emojis do the talking.
For Arbeloa, this was the final straw. The Madrid full-back hit back at Pique, claiming he was "obsessed" with the club from the capital.
Pique's reaction? Raising the stakes to word play.
"Arbeloa insulting me? He said he is my friend, but he's not, he's just someone I know," Pique replied.
And so to the latest episode in this bubbling saga. Speaking in a news conference on Wednesday, Pique had more questions to answer.
Two more Real Madrid figures had added their voices to those calling on the 28-year-old to show more respect.
"Forget about your complexes and respect your elders," former Real and QPR midfielder Esteban Granero, now at Real Sociedad, told Pique.
Real captain Ramos also jumped to Arbeloa's defence with this pearl of wisdom: "Lack of respect for one's peers is an enemy which works against good atmosphere. Pique should have a bit of respect for Real Madrid."
The reply? Pique seemed to hold his tongue and go on a bit of a charm offensive.
"The role of Sergio Ramos is normal for a captain. He is the Real Madrid captain and a great captain. He came out to defend his team-mate and I honestly admire him for that," he said.
Maybe, then, there are signs of this row being put to bed. Until the next time that is.
Real and Barca meet again on 3 April at the Nou Camp. So there's lots of time for there to be plenty more fireworks before then.
The clash comes after four soldiers and four policemen were gunned down by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) militants over the past two days.
Those attacks took place in the city of Quetta, Balochistan, an area plagued by infighting between Sunnis and Shias.
Pakistan's military is engaged in a long-running battle against the group.
Khan Wasey, a spokesman for the Pakistani paramilitary Frontier Corps, said: "Three terrorists belonging to LeJ have been killed in an armed clash with Frontier Corps and intelligence personnel."
Balochistan chief minister Sananullah Zehri condemned the killings by the LeJ saying "strict actions" would be launched against terrorists and their supporters.
The LeJ is a Sunni Muslim extremist group originating from the Punjab province. They are supported by the Taliban and carry out attacks throughout Balochistan and along the Afghan border.
Balochistan is Pakistan's poorest and least developed province, and the military there has been accused of torture, kidnapping, and extrajudicial killing of separatists.
Ethnic Baluch activists say the military has also greatly restricted freedom of movement.
Sales volumes jumped 2.3% in April from the month before, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said, and were 4% higher than a year earlier.
April's rebound contrasted with March, when sales saw the biggest fall in seven years.
"Anecdotal evidence from retailers suggests that good weather contributed to growth," the ONS said.
The stronger-than-expected rise in sales pushed the value of the pound above $1.30 to its highest level since September last year.
David Cheetham, chief markets analyst at XTB, said the figures would "go some way to allay the fears of a slowdown in consumer spending following last month's sharp drop".
Due to recent rises in inflation, the amount spent in shops and online was 6.2% higher in the three months to April compared with a year ago - the biggest rise in 15 years.
The ONS did not say whether inflation pressures would continues to affect sales during the rest of the year. "We need a longer series to properly determine a pattern," it said.
The retail sales figures come a day after separate ONS figures indicated that wages were rising slower than inflation for first time since mid-2014.
Keith Richardson, managing director retail sector at Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking, said the retail figures were "welcome news, but it's too early to think that the tide is turning after a dismal first quarter".
Alex Marsh, managing director of Close Brothers Retail Finance, said its data indicated "a particular increase in sales in the furniture sector, which was driven by [Easter] Bank Holiday Monday shopping".
However, he added that inflationary pressures meant shoppers could struggle to buy big ticket items, such as white goods, without stores offering more credit.
Chris Williamson, chief business economist at IHS Markit, also urged caution, noting that the underlying three-month trend showed sales were up by just 0.3%.
"With the exception of the first three months of this year, that's the weakest trend rate since the third quarter of 2014," he said.
April delivered a boost for retail. We've already had the British Retail Consortium's survey, which saw the strongest sales numbers for years. But the industry body put much of that rise down to the timing of Easter, which was later this year than last.
Shops tend to sell more stuff during the Easter break. The ONS's figures are seasonally adjusted, which means that the timing of Easter shouldn't have been a factor in its own survey this morning. It said warm weather helped deliver growth. The big question is whether this pace of spending can continue.
The squeeze on consumers is now on, with average real wages falling. And it's not getting any easier for retailers either as they deal with the consequences of the fall in the pound and how much of the associated extra costs they'll have to pass on to consumers.
The London 2012 Olympic bronze medallist finished third in Sunday's 10m individual platform, with China's Aisen Chen and Qiu Bo first and second.
Daley, 21, and Dan Goodfellow, 19, took silver in Saturday's 10m synchronised behind China's Lin Yue and Chen Aisen.
Tonia Couch and Lois Toulson won their third medal of 2016 with bronze in the women's 10m synchronised.
The central government has already approved the reef dumping plan, which is linked to a major port expansion.
But the decision has proved hugely controversial, prompting stringent criticism from environmentalists.
The Queensland government said its plan to dispose of the sediment on land would "create a win-win situation".
"It will protect the unique values of the Great Barrier Reef and allow for the staged development of the important port of Abbot Point," State Premier Campbell Newman said in a statement.
Several companies want to use the Abbot Point port to export coal reserves from the Galilee Basin area in central Queensland. Late last year, the government approved an application for the coal terminal to be expanded.
Dredging is needed to allow bigger ships into the port, and earlier this year a plan to dump three million cubic metres of dredged sediment in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park area was approved.
But scientists have warned the sediment could smother or poison coral, further damaging a reef already hit by climate change and other factors. The plan was also facing a legal challenge from a Queensland environmental group.
The Queensland government said that under its proposal, the dredged material could be dumped onshore at an existing site within the Abbot Point State Development Area.
The state government would now apply to the federal government for permission to dispose of the dredged material on land, it said.
"We will now ask Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt to fast-track approval of our strategy under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 to ensure dredging for the expansion of Abbot Point can begin on schedule," Minister for State Development and Planning Jeff Seeney said.
Dredging is due to begin in 2015.
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral structure, rich in marine life.
It is a Unesco-listed World Heritage Site, but in recent years the UN body has warned that it could be put on its World Heritage in Danger list because of its worsening condition.
In August, a five-yearly report by the marine park authority said that the outlook for the reef was poor despite conservation efforts, with further deterioration expected in coming years.
Climate change remained the biggest threat to the site, the report said, but poor water quality from land-based run-off, coastal development and fishing also posed challenges.
London-born David Ezekiel, 60, moved to South Africa 35 years ago, but went missing last week.
The grandfather-of-two, who lived alone and has brothers in Hertfordshire, had been the subject of a social media campaign to try and find out what had happened to him.
Family sources have now said his body has been found.
A former chef, Mr Ezekiel more recently ran a handyman business.
It is thought he drove out of his gated community in Johannesburg, in a convoy with two other vehicles, to try to do a car deal.
Katherine Soper won the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting with Wish List, about young carers dealing with benefit cuts.
She will receive a £16,000 cheque and a residency at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre, where the Bruntwood Prize ceremony took place on Tuesday.
All 1,938 of this year's entries were submitted anonymously.
Soper, 24, said: "It is a huge vote of confidence. Anyone who knows me and knows that I write will know that I suffer a lot of confidence issues with my work."
Her winning script tells the story of Tasmin, who cares for her housebound brother Dean and takes on a zero-hours factory contract after his benefits are cut.
She also meets a young man who "seems to offer her a different option", Soper said.
"Wish List is about work and our attitudes to work and our attitudes to the unemployed," she said.
"There are fleeting moments of hope in the play as well, and it's about love in lots of ways. It's about human kindness and how deep that can go, even in the most inhumane of systems."
Former National Theatre artistic director Sir Nicholas Hytner chaired the judging panel and described Wish List as a "really important play".
"It's a big play, beautifully written about small lives, which because of the skill of the playwright become magnificent lives," he said.
"Katherine is very young and at the beginning of her career, and if this is the quality she's able to deliver at this stage in her career I expect her to have a long, distinguished and exciting career."
Soper wrote Wish List as her dissertation play at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
She will be back at work at Penhaligon's perfumers on Regent Street, where she has worked for two years, on Wednesday. "I do that part time, and the rest of the time I try and write," she said.
Writers of all levels of experience were invited to submit new and unperformed scripts for the prize.
Four further judges' awards were given to:
The Bruntwood Prize is handed out every two years and this marks its 10th anniversary.
Previous winners and runners-up include Anna Jordan, whose play Yen was staged at the Royal Exchange earlier this year; and Alistair McDowall, whose Pomona is currently playing there.
The Scottish Police Authority and HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland will, in parallel, scrutinise different areas.
The HMICS' review will include an examination of how the firearms officers are deployed on regular patrols and tasks.
The appearance of armed officers on routine tasks has sparked a row.
Some politicians have criticised the deployment of specialist firearms officers on regular patrols, particularly in the Highlands and Islands, an area with a low crime rate.
Highland Council has also raised concerns after officers carrying handguns were seen on routine patrols in Inverness.
Police Scotland and the Scottish government said the deployment of firearms officers offered better protection to the public.
Deputy Chief Constable Iain Livingstone said the force welcomed the reviews.
The HMICS will hold what it calls an assurance review to independently assess the current practices for the issue and carrying of firearms by armed response vehicle crews.
It aims to provide assurance that Police Scotland's approach is compliant with guidance, procedures and recognised best practice.
Following discussions with the SPA, the inspectorate said it had agreed to broaden the terms of the review to include consideration of how armed officers are deployed on regular patrols and tasks.
The HMICS will also look at what impact this has on communities.
The SPA has announced that it is setting up a scrutiny inquiry to consider the public impact of Police Scotland's decision around firearms deployment.
The scrutiny inquiry team will be chaired by SPA member Iain Whyte.
Derek Penman, HM Inspector of Constabulary in Scotland, said: "This assurance role was requested by Police Scotland, but this will be an independent review with the remit and scope that we have assessed is necessary to fulfil our objective to add value and strengthen public confidence in policing.
"Engagement with the SPA has informed the scope of our work, and I am confident that our review will support the SPA in its wider scrutiny of armed policing."
Mr Penman added: "I believe this is a positive example of how different parts of the governance and scrutiny landscape in Scottish policing can work together in a complementary way with Police Scotland to improve outcomes for the public."
Mr Whyte said: "SPA has acknowledged that the issue of armed policing is a contentious one, and that we would keep this issue under review.
"One of the principles of good governance is that the public voice is appropriately heard within decision-making."
Senior officer Mr Livingstone said only trained officers were allowed to carry a sidearm and a Taser.
He said: "We welcome confirmation of the review by HMICS and the Scottish Police Authority following our request to the inspectorate for an independent assessment of the standing authority decision process.
"As part of this, HMICS will attend the next firearms monitoring group in September where the standing firearms authority will be reviewed."
He added: "Following this review and if a decision is made that the authority should remain in place, we will commission further work to consider alternative options for the carrying of weapons by armed officers.
"Police Scotland will also review the operational guidance provided to officers regarding the functions they perform when not engaged in firearms duties and consider how we may improve our engagement with communities."
Green MSP Patrick Harvie said the reviews were "a welcome response to the growing public and political pressure".
He added: "The police do need to deploy firearms in response to serious incidents, but the sight of armed police on our streets while carrying out routine duties has alarmed many Scots and we deserve to know why it happened and why our communities were not consulted."
The Scottish Liberal Democrats Alison McInnes said the decision was "a victory for local communities".
But Scottish Labour's Graeme Pearson the scrutiny had come "very late in the day".
The man was taken to hospital with chest injuries after falling during a performance of the Windsor theme park's Pirates of Skeleton Bay show on Wednesday.
The Sun newspaper reported he had fallen several metres to the ground.
Legoland Windsor Resort said it was in touch with the man's family who said he was "recovering well".
South Central Ambulance Service confirmed it was called at 13:24 BST after a man in his 20s had fallen and suffered chest injuries.
Thames Valley air ambulance, an ambulance and an emergency response vehicle were sent to the attraction and the man was taken to Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital.
An investigation is underway, a Legoland spokeswoman said.
The artwork is planned for the Corn Exchange entertainment venue where Barrett, who died in 2006 aged 60, played his last live show in 1972.
Cambridge City Council is expected to approve the £10,000 funding.
Cambridge Live, which runs the venue, said the design - to be decided - would reflect Barrett's "genius".
Neil Jones, operations director for Cambridge Live, said: "Our starting point would be not to have a plaque or a bust, but something that would befit the creative genius of Syd Barrett and we are still working on the full form it would take."
Roger Keith Barrett, known as Syd, was Pink Floyd's main songwriter during their first flush of success in 1967, but he parted company with the band in 1968 at the time of their second album A Saucerful of Secrets.
He issued two solo albums and formed a short-lived band called Stars, which appeared at the Corn Exchange in 1972, before withdrawing from public life and living in Cambridge until his death.
Barrett had been an student at Camberwell School of Art in London prior to forming Pink Floyd.
His sister, Rosemary Breen, said: "We welcome this opportunity to commemorate Roger.
"He was bright, funny, quirky and witty and was an artist - not just in terms of music or paintings - but in a much wider sense.
"We look forward to working with Cambridge Live to create a lasting memory of an inspiring man."
The city council is due to fund the project using Section 106 money provided by developers for community facilities.
It is hoped the installation will be unveiled in sometime next year.
Six-month-old Ruby-Grace Gaunt, her mother Amy Smith and her friend Edward Green, both 17, died in the blaze in North Street, Langley Mill, in June.
Peter Eyre, 44, and sons Simon, 24, and Anthony, 22, all of Sandiacre, will spend at least 32, 26 and 23 years respectively in prison.
They started the fire as an act of revenge, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
The trio were found guilty of three counts of murder after a month-long trial.
Judge Mrs Justice Sue Carr QC told the men she was sure the intention was to kill.
She said the fire must have been "truly terrifying" for the young people as they tried to escape.
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"I am not sure on the evidence that you knew at the time that a baby was present in the flat," said the judge.
"There was, however, undoubtedly real mental and physical suffering in the awful minutes before these young people and a baby died."
She said Peter Eyre used his sons to satisfy his "desire for vengeance and a sense of self-importance".
"You have repeatedly lied and tried to bully your way out of your criminal responsibility...going so far as to seek to lay all the blame on your sons and your sons alone," Judge Carr told Peter Eyre.
During the case, the court was told the "catalyst" for the attack was a dispute over a stolen moped, which had been allegedly taken by another of Peter Eyre's sons.
The moped belonged to Miss Smith's boyfriend, Shaun Gaunt, 18, who escaped from the fire alongside a friend with the help of neighbours.
The prosecution said following a confrontation with Mr Gaunt and his friends, Peter, Simon and Anthony Eyre drove to Langley Mill, and while Peter waited in his black Skoda, his sons poured petrol outside the front door of the block of flats where Mr Gaunt lived.
The door was the only means of entry and exit, the court heard.
Ruby-Grace was found in her dead mother's arms on a landing, while Mr Green was found dead near the front door.
The court was told firefighters did not initially see Mr Green lying at the foot of the stairs as the smoke was so thick.
During his evidence, Peter Eyre denied being part of any plan to kill anyone or start a fire.
Shaun Smith, representing Peter Eyre, described the blaze as a "foolish revenge attack gone terribly wrong".
Peter Joyce, defending Simon Eyre, asked the judge to take into account Peter Eyre's "powerful influence" over his sons.
Mrs Justice Carr told Anthony Eyre - who admitted manslaughter before the trial - he had "at least in part" chose to tell the truth as to his criminal involvement.
Dona Parry-Jones, senior crown prosecutor at CPS East Midlands, said the "mindless attack" had taken the lives of three people who had done nothing to the defendants.
"The Eyres set out to target Mr Gaunt, but it was Amy, Ruby-Grace and Edward who died instead," she said.
"This was a tragic, needless waste of three young lives. We cannot underestimate the devastation this has left on the families and friends of the three victims. "
Relatives paid tribute to Ruby-Grace, Miss Smith and Mr Green following the sentencing hearing.
Carleen Gaunt - Ruby-Grace's grandmother - said the baby was due to have surgery as she had a hole in her heart.
"[Ruby] was so lovely - I loved her to bits," she said. "Shaun is never going to forget Amy and Ruby or his friend Ed."
Mrs Gaunt added her disbelief that Peter, Simon and Anthony Eyre could be "so cruel" to target a flat with "only one way in and one way out".
Only two Scots - backs Stuart Hogg and Tommy Seymour - made the initial squad for the trip to New Zealand.
Lions boss Warren Gatland has since drafted in Scotland captain Greig Laidlaw when England scrum-half Ben Youngs withdrew from the tour.
"I would hope we'd have call-ups for the Lions," Townsend said.
The former Glasgow Warriors head coach is preparing to embark on his first tour in charge of the national team, taking on Italy in Singapore, Australia in Sydney, then Fiji in Suva on consecutive Saturdays in June.
"I think it's unlikely there's not going to be any injuries on the Lions tour," Townsend added. "I hope there aren't any [injuries], but that's what's happened in previous tours.
"Given the fact that a number of our players must have been close to selection - our players are playing Test matches around the same time - I would imagine or hope we can have a couple more."
Townsend, who guided Glasgow to their first ever major honour in 2015 by clinching the Pro12 title, denies the prospect of a Lions call-up will provide his players with added motivation on tour.
"Obviously there would have been disappointment, but that would have been six weeks ago when the [Lions] squad was announced," said Townsend, who was part of the 1997 Lions tour.
"They've worked hard, they can't wait to play, they're all putting their hands up for selection for the Italy game. And as a tour, I think they're all excited about the prospect of going to three different places with three different challenges."
Scotland have been drawn against Six Nations rivals Ireland and tournament hosts Japan in pool A of the 2019 Rugby World Cup.
Townsend says their June fixtures will provide ideal preparation for the global showpiece.
"The different styles of opposition will mean we have to play different rugby, or react to different types of rugby from the opposition," he said.
"So that's going to improve the players, and it's also going to have a lot of relevance to the World Cup. On paper, we could be playing a European team and a Polynesian team in addition to Japan and Ireland.
"On this tour, playing Italy, who have a big set-piece focus, Australia, who have a very fluid attacking game, then a Polynesian team like Fiji, which could be a number of things, but will certainly be counter-attacking rugby and running rugby, it'll be a real test for the whole squad, especially the forwards early on.
"We've taken a squad of 34 in the knowledge that there might be call-ups for the Lions, there might be injuries, but there's no guarantee everyone in that 34 is going to play Test match rugby. Players have to work hard to get that opportunity and then go out and grab it."
Townsend also revealed back-row David Denton, who has agreed a move from Bath to Worcester Warriors, narrowly missed out on selection for the tour.
Denton, 27, has 35 Scotland caps, but endured an injury-plagued 2016-17 campaign.
"He came back at the end of the season and played four or five games," Townsend said. "Each game you can tell he's getting better, closer to match fitness.
"Then he picked up another injury that kept him out of the last three or four games of the season. He was very close to selection.
"So first of all, it's great that he's back from injury. And if he can have a good pre-season and start strongly at Worcester that'll get him back in the mix, and if he's playing regular rugby that's a bonus for us."
It is not where you would expect to find the main offices of a country's ruling political party.
But left-wing Syriza still has its headquarters nearby, in a show of solidarity with the poor and the vulnerable that it pledged to protect when it came to power.
The sun is beating down, and as eurozone finance ministers discuss the Greek government proposals in Brussels, people here seem to be feeling the heat.
Vasilis Papadopoulos, 24, backed Syriza in Sunday's referendum and voted "No".
But with further austerity measures lined up in the government's latest offer, he has decided it is time to leave his country.
The 24-year-old accountant has applied for a university course in the UK because "I have the feeling that nothing is changing here".
He says he does not regret voting "No", but that he now has to "live with the consequences".
And the consequences so far seem to be a different package of spending cuts and tax hikes.
"I read the terms," he says. "They are really harsh."
The proposals got the backing of the Greek parliament in the early hours of Saturday, although some Syriza members voted against the plan or abstained.
Experts say this left Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras under pressure over his parliamentary majority, and a government reshuffle is likely on Monday.
Isabella Drakopoulou, a waitress who lives in Omonia, says she hopes Greece will get a better deal after Sunday's referendum result, but she is not convinced these proposals will deliver it.
"I think everyone is expecting it to be hard," she says.
"Maybe if all the hard things come now, after 10 years it will get better here."
But so far Isabella, 24, has only seen things getting worse in this area, amid crumbling public healthcare and social services.
"The drug abuse here is getting out control," she says.
"Living in Athens, it makes me sad to see people in such terrible situations."
Whatever the outcome in Brussels, Syriza will have to bring the result back here to Athens.
And then the politicians will have to deal with the destitution on their doorstep.
American Kevin King and Australian Timothy Weekes were professors at the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul.
They were abducted in August from their vehicle outside the university by gunmen in security forces uniforms.
Later that month US forces in Afghanistan failed in an attempt to rescue the men, the Pentagon said.
In the video, which purports to have been shot on 1 January and was posted online, the men say they have been kept "in good condition".
But they appeal to US President-elect Donald Trump to offer a prisoner swap for their release, saying they will be killed if he does not negotiate.
The US state department declined to comment on the video or confirm its authenticity, other than to "condemn" hostage-taking.
Australia's foreign ministry said the "Australian government has been working closely with other governments to secure the release of an Australian man kidnapped in Afghanistan in August 2016," but declined to comment further "in the interests of his own safety and well-being".
The American University of Afghanistan said it was saddened by the video, and called for the men to be freed immediately.
In an another development, the US military said an investigation had determined that 33 civilians were killed, and 27 wounded, in a joint US-Afghan military operation in November during which US troops fired on Afghan homes in the province of Kunduz.
"US forces returned fire in self-defence at Taliban who were using civilian houses as firing positions," a US military statement said.
Afghan special forces with US support were targeting Taliban leaders in Boz village, but called in air support when they were fired on from surrounding civilian buildings and began to take casualties, the statement said.
After the operation there were angry protests from civilians, who brought bodies of some of the dead to the governor's office in Kunduz city. A New York Times reporter counted 14 children among the dead. One man said he had lost seven members of his family.
The Cardiff Blues player has not yet been ruled out of the World Cup or Wales' warm-up matches against Ireland on 29 August and Italy on 5 September.
Wales head coach Warren Gatland selects his final 31-man squad on 31 August.
A Welsh Rugby Union spokesman said: "Gareth did pick up an ankle injury in training last week and he is continuing to be assessed at the moment."
New Zealand-born Anscombe made his Wales debut as a second-half replacement during the World Cup warm-up defeat to Ireland.
That display was enough to see the 24-year-old survive Gatland's first reduction of his squad, from 46 to 38 players.
One of Anscombe's rivals for the fly-half berths, James Hook, was among those to be discarded.
He is now vying with Dan Biggar, Rhys Priestland and Matthew Morgan for a place in Gatland's final selection.
Anscombe, whose mother is Welsh, joined Cardiff Blues from Super 15 side Waikato Chiefs in July 2014.
A motion by the party to that end is to be voted on at a special meeting of the council on Wednesday evening.
The motion has been proposed by Sinn Féin councillor Jim McVeigh.
It comes weeks after a Belfast apartment building was damaged by an eleventh night bonfire held on council-owned land.
Dozens of windows were cracked, and the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) had to dampen the building because of its proximity to the Sandy Row site.
Bonfire material was later removed from a bonfire site in the New Lodge area of north Belfast because of safety concerns.
Meanwhile, in Londonderry concerns are growing over the collection of material for a bonfire in the Bogside.
Large crowds of nationalists gathered to watch the 20-ft (6m) bonfire burn near the bottom of the Lecky Road flyover last 15 August.
It caused disruption to traffic and resulted in a major clean-up operation and there was widespread condemnation after a pipe bomb was thrown at a police vehicle near the area.
Bonfires are traditionally lit in loyalist areas on 11 July, marking the Twelfth of July commemorations.
So-called anti-internment bonfires are also lit in republican areas in August to mark the anniversary of the introduction in Northern Ireland of internment without trial in 1971.
The Belfast city council motion states: "This council gives permission to our council officers to remove bonfire materials or employ contractors to facilitate the removal of bonfire materials from council sites and other sites, which belong to statutory agencies and those which are in private ownership."
DUP councillor Lee Reynolds said that a bonfire review was completed six months ago and another review and investigation is under way.
"This is an attempt to bounce the council into a bad policy without committee scrutiny, without full advice from officers, to compel other agencies to act outside their powers and to prejudice the review and investigation," he said.
Belfast City Council had previously announced an investigation into its storage of thousands of wooden pallets intended for local bonfires.
Alliance councillor Michael Long said his party supported the motion, added that nationalist bonfires as well as unionist ones were "causing problems".
"It's interesting that we have bonfires where there have potentially been unionist-type symbols, that have been burnt, which unionists have complained about," he said.
"They are now trying to block the removal of material from those bonfires when republicans are happy for it to be done...
"For residents in nationalist areas to have their will go ahead, we have to have this meeting, which is ridiculous, because all we need is for unionists to stand up and do what they're supposed to."
SDLP councillor Tim Attwood said there has been a "consistent consensus that we do not want bonfires in nationalist areas".
"This is a practical issue," he said. "There has in the past been the ability to clear wood, which is what we want to do on this occasion.
"Unfortunately unionists haven't given consent to that, which is why we need the meeting."
Mt Attwood also made an assurance that if threats were made to contractors removing wood from council sites, the PSNI would be involved to ensure their safety.
Gen Wilson Alulema said he wanted all 42,000 officers to take the test.
Under new anti-corruption efforts, officers will also have to declare their assets so investigators can spot illicit payments more easily.
President Rafael Correa ordered a modernisation of the force after a police mutiny last September.
Thousands of police demonstrated against cuts to their benefits as part of a government austerity drive.
The protests turned violent and President Correa had to be rescued by the military after being tear-gassed and held for several hours in a hospital.
He described the events as an attempted coup and vowed to purge the police.
Since then, his administration has taken administrative control of the force.
Gen Alulema said he hoped the government would give senior police officers the power to sack those linked to corruption.
The general complained that 300 agents who had been suspended from their duties over corruption allegations had been re-instated by judges, who argued there had been judicial irregularities.
"Those judges don't understand the gravity of their decisions," Gen Alulema said.
He also announced that incentives would be offered to officers who denounce corrupt colleagues.
That could be the outcome of a government consultation on strict new drone safety rules.
There could also be tougher penalties for anyone who flies a drone in a no-fly zone, with the possibility of a new criminal offence of misuse of a drone.
Drone use has become widespread in the past few years, with drones available cheaply in high street shops.
The government says drones have enormous economic potential and are already being used by everyone from the emergency services and conservation groups to energy and transport firms.
But the Aviation Minister, Lord Ahmad, said while the vast majority of drone users were law-abiding, "some are not aware of the rules or choose to break them putting public safety, privacy and security at risk".
There are already strict regulations for all drone users.
Any drone with a camera cannot be flown within 50 metres of buildings, vehicles, people or over large crowds.
Anyone using a drone for commercial purposes has to register with the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
But now leisure users may have to register their drones and perhaps undertake a test similar to the driving theory test.
This will apply to any drone weighing over 250g (0.55lb) - which covers just about anything more than a toy.
Simon Dale, of the FPV group for drone pilots, is unhappy about any plan to make leisure users register.
"It will impact the safe and sensible drone fliers and will not affect criminals or terrorists," he said.
Drone users could have to pay a hefty fee, Mr Dale fears: "Setting up a drone equivalent of the DVLA is likely to be costly."
Leisure drone user Peter Galbavy said the regulations were already too complex and badly framed.
"What really annoys me is the different rules for drones with or without cameras," he said.
"It's nothing to do with privacy - it's an assumption that the drone will be much heavier and can drop on people's heads - which is no longer true."
But concerns about safety have risen.
Jonathan Nicholson, from the Civil Aviation Authority, said: "We do see a rise in the number of near misses reported by airline pilots, and we have had complaints from members of the public about drones being flown too close to them, which the police receive."
He urged users to familiarise themselves with the CAA's Drone Code.
The government says the drone industry could be worth billions by 2025.
But ministers believe it will only be a success if it is done safely, and with the consent of the public.
The UK's proposed safety test is just one of a flurry of drone-related developments in recent days. Others include:
In the 1970 general election, all bar one had predicted the wrong result and their performance in the two 1974 general elections was charitably described as "unhappy".
Why then should we be interested in the latest poll conducted by NatCen and published in the British Social Attitudes (BSA) series? The answer is that here we are dealing with the quality end of polling.
The underperforming polls in the 2015 general election were conducted quickly over a few days and by telephone or via the internet. The BSA poll on attitudes to Europe was conducted face-to-face with 3,000 respondents between July and early November 2015.
Professor John Curtice, who presents the findings, is also able to draw on a great treasury of past data that the BSA has accumulated in its annual surveys stretching back three decades.
The survey suggests that 60% favoured continuing EU membership, compared with 30% who favoured withdrawal. A strong lead, but half the 60% lead for staying registered in 1991. And support for remaining is not unqualified: the survey also found that 43% preferred a looser relationship with the EU than at present - a view shared by 43% of Scots as well.
What are the main pressure points in our current relationship with the EU? The BSA highlights four from the evidence they have gathered:
The survey also suggests that there is also a deeper issue at play in all this. When asked 'How much do you agree or disagree that being a member of the European Union is undermining Britain's distinctive identity?' some 47% agreed, compared with 30% who disagreed.
For many concerned about our national identity, the issue of EU migrants plays an important part in their judgement; 57% of respondents believed immigration would be lower if Britain did leave the EU.
Much of this would seem to offer very fertile territory for those advocating the UK's departure from the European Union. However, this is where things begin to get more complicated. In the face of these significant concerns, why do the same respondents give a 30-point majority to continuing membership? It seems clear that even large dollops of scepticism are not sufficient to persuade enough people that Britain should actually leave the EU.
The missing ingredient in all this appears to be the economy. As the report states: "For scepticism to translate into support for withdrawal, voters need also to be convinced of the economic case for leaving. And at present most are not."
Indeed, only 24% believe that Britain's economy would be better off if Britain left the EU, while as many as 40% feel it would be worse off.
It seems to me that the real battleground in the 2016 EU referendum campaign, the territory where the battle will be won or lost, is to be found in two key statistics identified in the report.
It says: "Only two in five (40%) of those who believe that the EU is undermining Britain's identity but who are not convinced that the economy would be better say that they wish to withdraw from the EU. But that figure is at least double (82%) amongst those whose cultural concern is married with a belief in the economic benefits of withdrawal."
Concerns about the future of the economy played a significant part in the 1975 European referendum as well. In 2016, it seems it may be another case of déjà vu all over again. For scepticism to translate into support for withdrawal, voters need also to be convinced of the economic case for leaving. And at present most are not.
Cardiff council is consulting on changes for primary and secondary schools in the Canton and Llandaff areas of the city.
If given the go-ahead, it would affect those applying for places for the September 2017 school year.
But parents have started a campaign and petition to oppose the plans.
The council said projections for the coming years showed demand for some schools would be higher than places available, while at others it would be less.
However, a group of parents have set up the campaign group Fitzalan 4 Canton to oppose the changes, saying it would impact on communities.
Sharon Parry, whose daughter Rosie, 10, had expected to follow her two older sisters to Fitzalan, said: "We're aware Cardiff council is facing a huge challenge because of a rapidly changing demographic and I understand you have to move and change and adapt.
"But this isn't a simple process of moving numbers around.
"You have to look at the impact for the children, for the community and for the schools involved."
Caroline Evans, who has two sons at Fitzalan, and a third son who will move there in September, said she was "really concerned" about the impact on the school.
"The school has a really good cultural mix - and I think that is what makes the school so important," she said.
"Removing the two of the closest primary schools from the catchment area seems ridiculous. I think a lot of parents feel that way."
Councillor Sarah Merry, cabinet member for education, said the council must continually review catchment areas to ensure it meets the changing demand for education.
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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.
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The Scots finished the penultimate day of their four-day match on 52-3 with seven second-innings wickets remaining.
Kyle Coetzer, Hamish Gardiner and Matt Machan all failed to breach 10 runs but Preston Mommsen and Richie Berrington are undefeated on 18 and 16 not out.
Michael Rippon top-scored for the Dutch in their second innings with 37 as they were bowled out for 123.
The Netherlands posted 210 in their first innings and bowled out their opponents for 133 to lead the contest by 77 runs.
Scotland battled back and Josh Davey took three wickets - including Ben Cooper and Roelof van der Merwe without scoring - while Safyaan Sharif (2-8) and Richie Berrington (2-7) also impressed.
But the Scots struggled to build on their lifeline as they chased their victory target of 201.
Coetzer only managed eight runs before being caught out by Van der Merwe, who soon trapped Gardiner lbw for seven. Machan fared even worse, scoring just three before Wesley Barresi caught him out to leave Scotland 18-3.
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Donor Arron Banks said he was "extremely shocked and disappointed" that Peter Bone and Tom Pursglove had profited from Grassroots Out.
He called on them to pay the money to a "smaller Brexit" campaign.
But in a joint statement, the MPs said employing them was "clearly the most cost-effective way" of campaigning.
The payments were revealed in the register of members' interests.
Grassroots Out was founded in December by Mr Bone and Mr Pursglove, with backing from UKIP leader Nigel Farage and, later, Labour MP Kate Hoey.
It came close to being designated the official Leave campaign by the Electoral Commission, but lost out to Vote Leave.
Mr Bone's accountancy firm PWB received a total of £21,750 from Grassroots Out in the first four months of this year, according to his entry in the register of members' interests.
That was made up of two payments for accountancy services, of £17,500 and £2,500, at a rate of £42 an hour, and a £1,750 director's fee.
Mr Pursglove charged Grassroots Out a total of £19,250 - £17,500 for 450 hours' work as chief executive - between 16 December and 31 March - and £1,750 in director's fees, according to his entry.
In a statement, Arron Banks, who says he has given £4m of his own money to his Leave.EU campaign, a group which also funded Grassroots Out, criticised the pair.
The statement said: "Leave.EU has raised £9m to fight the Brexit cause, £5m personally from Arron Banks, £4m from other donations including over 5,000 individuals.
"We are extremely shocked and disappointed to discover that two elected individuals have treated the GO Brexit campaign as a business, not a cause, and would urge them to do the honourable thing and donate the sum directly to a smaller Brexit group."
But the MPs said some individuals "had jumped to conclusions without being in full possession of the facts".
"Of all the major EU referendum campaigns, we have the cheapest and most efficient structure in place and our administrative and running costs are by far the lowest," they said.
Using the two MPs had allowed Grassroots Out to "keep costs to a minimum, allowing us to spend the maximum amount on campaigning", rather than hiring outside expertise, they added.
They said they had "properly" made the declaration in the Register of Members' Interests adding: "It must also be clarified that both Peter Bone MP and Tom Pursglove MP have made donations to Grassroots Out Ltd that exceed the level of the payments received.
"These donations will be listed in the official return made to the Electoral Commission. Neither Peter Bone MP, or Tom Pursglove MP, have made any financial gain from this arrangement."
The government should have monitored the impact more closely and needed to work harder to reduce the effects, the Joint Committee on Human Rights said.
It said the coalition had made some progress on recognising children's rights in law and policy but more still needed to be done.
The government said poverty was at its lowest level since the 1980s.
The committee's chairman, Labour MP Hywel Francis, said the government's adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child had resulted in improvements for children "in many areas" over the course of this Parliament.
But he added: "The momentum set in train in 2010 has slowed considerably."
The committee's report said child poverty should be regarded as a breach of human rights and urged the government to commit to ending it by 2020.
"We hope the new government will renew that commitment and that our successor committee will monitor how children's rights are fully taken into account in new law and policy," Mr Francis said.
The report points to evidence from the UK's four children's commissioners, concluding: "We are in a nation where more children will be poor, hungry and cold, not fewer, by 2016-17 if something is not done."
The committee recommends the commissioner for England should be given the power to take up individual cases on behalf of children, to bring the role into line with the equivalent posts in other parts of the UK.
It also notes that while the number of children involved in the youth justice system in England and Wales has fallen, the number held in custody is still the highest in Western Europe.
And it says regulations about the use of force on children in custody "cannot be considered compatible with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child".
Legal aid is another area of concern for the committee, with reforms to the system described as "a significant black mark" on the government's human rights record during the second half of this Parliament.
It calls on the government to look again at the changes and to "undo some of the harm they have caused to children".
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said: "The government has taken decisive action to tackle the root causes of poverty - including worklessness, low earnings and a poor education. The reality is, inequality has fallen and poverty in this country is at the lowest level since the mid 1980s.
"There are now 300,000 fewer children in relative poverty than in 2010, and there are also record numbers of people in work, with more people than ever before with the security of a regular wage."
The 32-year-old was dropped for the third Test against South Africa after allegedly insulting Test captain Andrew Strauss in texts to the tourists.
Pietersen apologised for the messages, admitting they were "provocative".
England team director Andy Flower said: "There's unresolved issues of trust and respect which have to be resolved."
"It shouldn't have got to this. Pietersen and Strauss could have gone down to the pub and had a beer and feed, and if they had to punch the absolute whatever out of each other, then so be it.
"If you have to get it out of your system then do it. Then come back and put your arm around each other and walk out and play together.
"There are faults on both sides. I think there is a bit too much ego at the ECB. There is no give and take or compromise."
Pietersen had been expected to meet Strauss this week to discuss the matter but speaking after his side's defeat by South Africa in the third Test on Monday, the England captain said that as far as he was concerned that would not be the case.
Strauss suggested the issues surrounding Pietersen "will take a while to be resolved", adding "we'll be looking to do that away from the public eye as much as possible in the coming weeks".
England coach Flower told BBC Sport: "When we have time we will begin resolving these issues one way or another. This is not just an issue between the player and the captain, there are bigger issues at heart.
"The text issues have to be investigated so that we know what situation we are dealing with. We are aware of some of the content but we have to understand the content to move on in a proper, healthy fashion."
Asked if a decision had been made on whether to offer Pietersen a new central contract, Flower added: "We have to deal with some of these other issues before a decision can be made on central contracts and who gets offered them."
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England Twenty20 captain Stuart Broad has been left out of the one-day series against South Africa to rest ahead of the World Twenty20.
England play five one-day internationals against the Proteas - the first on 24 August in Cardiff - and three Twenty20s before they commence the defence of their World Twenty20 crown in Sri Lanka.
"Stuart Broad has an important period coming up leading our T20 side and with a three-match series followed closely by the ICC World T20 we feel a two-week break from cricket is in the best interests of both Stuart and the team," national selector Geoff Miller said.
Pietersen retired from both one-day and Twenty20 internationals in May, but made himself available for all formats in a surprise U-turn on 11 August.
Despite being man of the match in the second Test against South Africa the off-field controversy led to him being dropped for the third Test, and he was on Sunday.
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The big-hitting right-hander averages 41.84 in one-day internationals with a strike rate of 86.76, while in T20s he averages 37.93 with a strike rate of 141.51.
He was named player of the tournament as England won the last World Twenty20 in 2010, averaging 62 from his six innings.
Luke Wright and Michael Lumb, who were both part of the side that won the World Twenty20 in 2010, return to the T20 squad for the first time since June 2011.
Also in the 15-man T20 squad is Danny Briggs, who has a solitary ODI cap for England but has yet to represent his country in the shortest form of the game.
Ravi Bopara, who has not played for England since pulling out of the squad for the second Test against South Africa for personal reasons, is included in the ODI and T20 parties.
The Essex all-rounder will play for Gloucestershire in the one-day tour game against South Africa at Bristol on Wednesday.
England NatWest ODI Series squad: Alastair Cook (Essex) (captain), James Anderson (Lancashire), Jonny Bairstow (Yorkshire), Ian Bell (Warwickshire), Ravi Bopara (Essex), Tim Bresnan (Yorkshire), Jade Dernbach (Surrey), Steven Finn (Middlesex), Craig Kieswetter (Somerset), Eoin Morgan (Middlesex), Samit Patel (Nottinghamshire), Graeme Swann (Nottinghamshire), Jonathan Trott (Warwickshire), Chris Woakes (Warwickshire).
England squad for ICC World T20: Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire) (captain), Jonny Bairstow (Yorkshire), Ravi Bopara (Essex), Tim Bresnan (Yorkshire), Danny Briggs (Hampshire), Jos Buttler (Somerset), Jade Dernbach (Surrey), Steven Finn (Middlesex), Alex Hales (Nottinghamshire), Craig Kieswetter (Somerset), Michael Lumb, Nottinghamshire), Eoin Morgan (Middlesex), Samit Patel (Nottinghamshire), Graeme Swann (Nottinghamshire), Luke Wright (Sussex).
Michelle Bennett, from Berwick, was a passenger in a silver Suzuki Ignis which overturned on the B6350, near Redden Farm, at about 16:15 on Friday.
Another female passenger remains in a serious but stable condition in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
The female driver and a further two passengers, a man and a woman, were taken to Borders General Hospital.
However, police said their injuries were not thought to be life threatening.
No other vehicles were involved in the incident.
Police said inquiries were continuing and appealed for any witnesses to get in touch.
Andrew MacGregor Marshall said about 20 police officers confiscated "evidence" at his wife's family home in Bangkok.
His wife was asked to go to the police station but not charged with any crime.
The military, which took power in 2014, has increasingly enforced strict and wide-ranging lese majeste laws which forbid any criticism of the monarchy.
Mr Marshall, who is currently not in Thailand, is the author of A Kingdom in Crisis which is banned in Thailand.
He recently shared what purported to be unflattering photographs of Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, 63, which were originally published by German tabloid Bild.
He also wrote a lengthy post speculating on the royal succession, discussion of which is also prohibited under the lese majeste laws.
The widely loved and revered Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej is in frail health.
On Friday, Mr Marshall said on Facebook his wife Noppawan "Ploy" Bunluesilp, who is a Thai citizen, was visiting Bangkok with their three-year-old son.
He said she was formerly a journalist for Reuters and NBC but currently not working.
"My wife and her family are not involved in my journalism and they should not be harassed by the Thai authorities."
He posted pictures of the items he said were confiscated by police which included passports, an iPad, and iPhone and a flash drive.
Department of Justice officials have filed legal notices announcing their intention to challenge the block.
The 6 March order placed a 90-day ban on people from six mainly Muslim nations and a longer ban on refugees.
But judges in Maryland and Hawaii questioned the legality of the ban, which critics say is discriminatory.
Their blocking rulings earlier this week were warmly welcomed by civil liberties groups and rights campaigners.
They argued that the temporary ban on people from six predominantly Muslim countries - Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen - was a violation of the First Amendment, which guarantees religious freedom.
President Trump insists the move is to stop terrorists from entering the US and has complained of "unprecedented judicial overreach".
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said the government would "vigorously defend" the president's latest executive order.
Brian Sandells' body was found after firefighters spent five hours bringing the massive blaze at the Kard Bar, on Cross Street, under control on Tuesday.
Northumbria Police said the 81-year-old's remains had now been identified. A force spokesman said detectives were still probing the cause of the blaze.
Mr Sandells was one of the first traders to stock the cult comic Viz.
He lived in a flat above the card and memorabilia shop.
More than 50 firefighters were at the scene at the height of the blaze and thick smoke caused the closure of Westgate Road, Clayton Road and Cross Street.
The irreverent magazine Viz was founded by Chris Donald, in Newcastle, in 1979.
Mr Donald, who is now a presenter for BBC Newcastle, paid tribute and said Mr Sandells, a former graphic artist, used to give him tips on how to improve the publication.
He said: "Brian had found out about the comic and had seen people reading it and he asked if he could stock it.
"So I had to go and see him and he gave me a bit of a business lecture there and then on what could be improved in the comic.
"It was just on the presentation side of things as he been involved in graphic design when he'd been doing his national service."
He also said Mr Sandells helped get the comic off the ground and promote it.
He added: "He was the first person to ever advertise in Viz - he asked if he could put an advert in the comic.
"I was once going through the attic of the shop with him and he said to me: 'Do you want any of these posters to give away with your comic? Unfortunately I don't have any smaller - they might be a bit big.'
"I said: 'That will make it even funnier Brian if we cut them in half and give them half an Osmond's poster - just their legs.'
"So we did that - guillotined them and put them in the comic."
Across Leicestershire and Rutland, only the city came out in favour of remaining in the union with the county following national trends.
Mr Vaz said it was "a terrible day for Britain and a terrible day for the EU".
North West Leicestershire MP Andrew Bridgen said the country would continue to do business with Europe.
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Leicestershire reflected much of the country with 54.49% of voters opting to leave the EU.
The biggest margin was in Hinckley and Bosworth where 60.3% voted to leave while Melton Mowbray had the largest turnout with 81.3%.
Leicester was the only place to vote in favour of the EU - with 51.1% voting remain - but it also had the lowest turnout at 65%.
In the early hours, the strength of the Leave vote in Leicestershire was a surprise. But as the whole result emerged it's about the norm.
But who would've thought of it in the usually conservative (and Conservative) Leicestershire?
Northwest Leicestershire turning out and voting Leave in such numbers, only two days after a Boris Johnson visit, might not be so surprising.
But a similar pattern of behaviour from the likes of Oadby and Wigston and Melton? That will give local politicians a feast for thought.
Labour MP Mr Vaz said the Leicester result was a big shock and proved the Remain campaign had not been good enough.
"This is a crushing, crushing decision. It's a terrible day for Britain, and a terrible day for Europe with immense consequences."
"In 1,000 years I would never have believed the British people would have voted in this way and they have done so - I think emotionally rather than looking at the facts. It will be catastrophic," he added.
But he said the will of the electorate had to be respected and called for an emergency meeting with EU heads of state.
Bizarrely, bookmakers are giving 100/1 odds for former Labour leadership hopeful Liz Kendall, MP for Leicester West, to become the next leader of the Conservatives after David Cameron steps down.
Meanwhile, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has told the Loughborough Echo she would "seriously consider" running to become the next Prime Minister.
The bookies have the Conservative MP for Loughborough as an outside bet for the top job at around 33/1.
Alan Duncan, Tory MP for Rutland, is 100/1 for the job, they say.
Boris Johnson and Theresa May are currently the bookies' favourites.
Conservative Mr Bridgen, who campaigned to leave, said that the short term volatility of the markets followed a steep rise in the pound shortly after the polls closed.
"Markets will sort themselves out and all the risk will be priced in very, very quickly," he said. "We will still do business with our European allies and the rest of the world.
"People will go to work today, and go to work tomorrow and the economy will continue."
The body was found in August 1974 at Cockley Cley, near Swaffham in Norfolk.
Norfolk Police have used modern techniques for a second post-mortem examination of the remains.
Det Ch Insp Andy Guy said: "It is absolutely possible we could use the DNA recovered to link the woman to a living family member."
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The first post-mortem examination, which took place the day the body was discovered on a heath, concluded she was aged between 23 and 35.
The dead woman was found wearing a 1969 Marks & Spencer pink nightdress and was wrapped up in a plastic sheet secured with ropes.
The force's main line of inquiry is that she could have been a woman who worked as an escort known as The Duchess in Great Yarmouth.
The Duchess, who detectives said was well-known locally, was believed to be from Denmark, but suddenly disappeared.
The latest examination suggests the dead woman originated from an area of central Europe encompassing Denmark, Germany, Austria and northern Italy.
Det Ch Insp Guy said the results of the second post-mortem examination "could provide a breakthrough".
"With the advances we have made in recent years in science, we are now able to look at the case in more microscopic detail and we now have her full DNA profile," he said.
"The second examination also showed her pelvic girdle had widened, which is a bodily change in expectant mothers to allow childbirth to take place.
"I believe if we identify the victim we can identify her murderer."
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The Edinburgh Piano Company has supplied concert pianos to many musicians, including Frank Sinatra, Luciano Pavarotti and Van Morrison.
The company's owner has decided to retire, prompting the sale of the entire stock.
About 90 pianos, ranging from £300 to an estimated £35,000, will be available to buy on Sunday.
The company was started up in the early 1980s by James Cameron, who came to the Scottish capital to study musical instrument technology.
He began to buy and sell old pianos, often carrying them up and down the stairs from his basement flat.
The business moved premises, eventually occupying a former car showroom and warehouse in the city's Joppa Road area, where the sale is taking place on Sunday 14 February.
Mr Cameron, 73, said: "As I cleared my desk I came across a drawer full of backstage passes covering many years of hiring our pianos for concerts, events, festivals and theatres.
"I remember Frank Sinatra at Ibrox Stadium back in 1990 when we provided a Bosendorfer Imperial grand, and then there was Pavarotti at the SECC with our Bosendorfer 275, and tours with Evelyn Glennie round the Highlands and Islands of Scotland with a little Steinway.
"I'm looking forward to retiring, I enjoyed the piano business very much for many years but there comes a time when you want to move on and do something else.
"There's more or less 90 pianos left. We just kept the stock up and kept the business going and then finally I decided to retire. There was nobody else prepared to take on the business - it's a big commitment."
Sean McIlroy, director of specialist auctioneers Piano Auctions Limited, said: "For us, this is really different - it's going to be a very special sale.
"Normally, you wouldn't have a piano dealer retiring and selling his entire stock by auction. What we have got here is beginner pianos from £300 right the way up to professional instruments at £30,000 to £40,000.
"There are many, many great makes here as well as everyday pianos for beginners, so there is something here for everyone.
"We've had interest from as far afield as China, America, Israel and across Europe, as well as piano dealers in the UK and a lot of private buyers looking for that perfect instrument for themselves."
Federal Judge James Robart ruled against government lawyers' claims that US states did not have the standing to challenge Mr Trump's executive order.
Last week's move by Mr Trump triggered mass protests and has resulted in confusion at US airports.
The State Department says 60,000 visas have since been revoked.
Mr Trump's executive order brought in a suspension of the US Refugee Admissions Programme for 120 days.
There is also an indefinite ban on Syrian refugees. Anyone arriving from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen faces a 90-day visa suspension.
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The lawsuit against President Trump's ban was initially filed by Washington state, with Minnesota joining later.
Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson has described the ban as illegal and unconstitutional, because it discriminates against people on the ground of their religion.
The ruling is a major challenge to the Trump administration, and means that nationals from the seven countries are now able - in theory - to apply for US visas, the BBC's David Willis in Washington DC reports.
The administration can appeal against the verdict.
President Trump has argued that his directive is aimed at protecting America.
He said visas would once again be issued once "the most secure policies" were in place, and denied it was a Muslim ban.
A number of state attorney generals have said the order is unconstitutional. Several federal judges have temporarily halted the deportation of visa holders, but the Seattle ruling is the first to be applicable nationwide.
Courts in at least four other states - Virginia, New York, Massachusetts and Michigan - are hearing cases challenging Mr Trump's executive order.
Earlier on Friday, a judge in Boston declined to extend a temporary ban that prohibited the detention or removal of foreigners legally authorised to come to America.
The ban - which only applied to Massachusetts - is due to expire on 5 February.
Sushma Swaraj tweeted that Amazon should issue an "unconditional apology" and withdraw the "insulting" products.
Failing this, she said India would rescind current visas for Amazon officials and not grant any more.
Amazon said it had removed the doormats from its site.
In a series of tweets, Ms Swaraj asked the Indian High Commission in Canada to take up the issue with Amazon after it was brought to her attention by another Twitter user.
"Amazon must tender unconditional apology. They must withdraw all products insulting our national flag immediately," she said.
"If this is not done forthwith, we will not grant Indian visa to any Amazon official. We will also rescind the Visas issued earlier.
The doormats, which were being sold by a third-party and described as "personalised durable machine-washable indoor/outdoor items", were removed from the site on Wednesday.
"The item is no longer available for sale on the site," an Amazon spokeswoman said in an email.
Amazon sells doormats featuring flags of other countries but in India desecration of the flag is punishable with fines and imprisonment.
Last June Amazon found itself in a similar controversy over sales of doormats illustrating Hindu gods.
The row comes as Flipkart, India's biggest online retailer, is involved in a fierce battle with Amazon over market share.
On paper it is easy: agriculture employs less than half a million people; financial services more than a million. Farming adds £8.5bn to the value of the UK economy, financial services £120bn.
Their Brexit concerns are very different. Agriculture is worried about potential average tariffs of 22.5% on meat imposed on non-EU countries and needs access to low-skilled labour to harvest and process food.
Finance is worried that foreign banks based in the UK will lose the right to sell their services throughout the EU from their substantial London operations.
When it comes to Brexit - which one do you prioritise? Neither - at least not according to the employers' group the CBI.
In its most comprehensive surveys of the post-Brexit needs of its members, it is urging the government to take a "whole economy" approach to negotiations. The success or failure of some sectors have knock-on effects for others. Energy and environmental regulations impact construction, housing manufacturing and other sectors.
Faced with this matrix of interconnected industries, the CBI is recommending some common principles to guide the government's hand. They include barrier-free access to our largest trading partner; a flexible approach to allow access to skills and labour; and a focus on global economic relationships with UK business interests at its heart.
It also endorses a smooth transition through the EU exit, which has become common code for an early agreement on a transitional period to avoid sleep-walking over a trade and regulation cliff-edge.
That all sounds like common sense - but it also sounds vague.
Once outside the EU, the UK will have to make some precise and delicate decisions.
One of the potential benefits of being outside the union is our ability to do new trade deals on our own terms. But that is when the toughest choices between different industries will have to be made.
For example, we may want to gain better access to New Zealand or South America for our world-beating financial services. In return, New Zealand and Argentina, say, may want to send more of its plentiful lamb and beef to the UK - something presently capped by an EU import quota to protect European farmers.
At that point, the finance or farming question may become less hypothetical than it seems at the moment.
One of Theresa May's key challenges will be delivering on a promise to deliver an economy that works for all. Delivering a post-Brexit economy that works for all businesses promises to be just as challenging.
The former Hearts boss has lost just one game since replacing Allan Johnston in early February.
And, last week, new chairman Jim Mann said Locke was in "prime position to be a contender" for the position.
"The board have kept me in the loop and my agent is in talks, so hopefully I'll get my future sorted out by the end of the week," Locke told BBC Scotland.
"These things always take time and the club has had a lot of applicants for the post."
Locke, who spent seven years as a player at Rugby Park, arrived as Johnston's assistant at the start of the season.
"I love it here and it's certainly a club I believe is on the up," he added.
"I know about the plans behind the scenes, which Jim and [director] Billy Bowie are involved in. They are trying to move the club in the right direction."
Locke was tight-lipped on speculation linking Kris Boyd with a return to the club for a third spell.
The striker scored 22 goals for Killie last season but has struggled for form since moving on to Rangers.
"It would be wrong of me to comment on any players at other clubs," said Locke. "The main thing for me is to get my own future sorted out then everything else will take care of itself.
"I'm looking at players all the time but it's hard because we'll be competing with other clubs for the same faces.
"Ask any manager, they want to work with people they trust.
"But I'm well aware the club is still in a precarious situation financially, so we know it's going to be a rigid budget."
It comes a week after the social network announced steps of its own to remove terrorist-related content from its site.
The UK Online Civil Courage Initiative's initial partners include Imams Online and the Jo Cox Foundation.
Facebook has faced criticism for being slow to react to terrorist propaganda on its platforms.
"The recent terror attacks in London and Manchester - like violence anywhere - are absolutely heartbreaking," said Facebook's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg.
"No-one should have to live in fear of terrorism - and we all have a part to play in stopping violent extremism from spreading.
"We know we have more to do - but through our platform, our partners and our community we will continue to learn to keep violence and extremism off Facebook."
In recent months, governments across Europe have been pushing for technology companies to take more action to prevent online platforms from being used to spread extremist propaganda.
In particular, security services have criticised Facebook, Twitter and Google for relying too much on other people to report inappropriate content, rather than spotting it themselves.
In April, Germany passed a bill to fine social networks up to €50m (£44m) if they failed to give users the option to report hate speech and fake news, or if they refused to remove illegal content flagged as either images of child sexual abuse or inciting terrorism.
Following the London Bridge terror attack, UK PM Theresa May announced that new international agreements needed to be introduced to regulate the internet in order to "deprive the extremists of their safe spaces online".
And last week in Paris, Mrs May and French President Emmanuel Macron launched a joint campaign to look at how they could make the internet safe, including making companies legally liable if they refused to remove certain content.
Similar initiatives to counter hate speech were launched in Germany in January 2016 and in France in March 2017.
They have held training workshops with more than 100 anti-hate and anti-extremism organisations across Europe, and reached 3.5 million people online through its Facebook page.
In the UK, people are being encouraged to visit the UK OCCI Facebook page, to share stories, content and ideas, and use the hashtag #civilcourage.
Brendan Cox, the widower of murdered MP Jo Cox and the founder of the Jo Cox Foundation, has welcomed the move.
"This is a valuable and much needed initiative from Facebook in helping to tackle extremism," he said.
"Anything that helps push the extremists even further to the margins is greatly welcome. Social media platforms have a particular responsibility to address hate speech that has too often been allowed to flourish online.
"It is critical that efforts are taken by all online service providers and social networks to bring our communities closer together and to further crack down on those that spread violence and hatred online."
The Grade-1 listed Wentworth Woodhouse, near Rotherham, is larger than Buckingham Palace.
Clifford Newbold, who bought it in 1999, died in April and his family has announced the "reluctant decision" to sell the property.
According to campaign group Save Britain's Heritage, an estimated £42m needs to be spent on repairs.
In a statement, the family said they wanted "someone to carry on our work and see the house in safe hands".
Restoration work was under way in the house but has been hampered by subsidence caused by mining, the statement added.
Wentworth Woodhouse is described as "one of the finest Georgian houses in England" by Savills, the agency handling the sale.
Save Britain's Heritage has previously said that English Heritage surveys showed £42m was needed to be spent on the house over the next 15 years for repairs and subsidence damage.
Wentworth Woodhouse, which is open to the public, sits in 82 acres of grounds and the earliest wing of the house was started in 1725.
The Palladian-style east wing has a front that extends for 606 ft (184m).
Mining in the area was a key source of income to help with running costs for the house's former owners.
The interiors of the house are the work of three patrons - the First and Second Marquess of Rockingham and the Fourth Earl Fitzwilliam.
The history of Wentworth Woodhouse and the nearby village of Wentworth is linked with three aristocratic families, the Wentworths, Watsons and Fitzwilliams.
McAuley's previous deal was due to expire at the end of the month.
The Northern Ireland international, 35, who joined the Baggies on a free transfer from Ipswich Town in 2011, lost his place at the start of last season under Alan Irvine.
But he became a regular in the starting line-up again in the second half of the campaign under Tony Pulis.
McAuley returned to Albion's training ground on Monday to sign the new deal after playing for Northern Ireland in Saturday's Euro 2016 qualifier against Romania, which ended 0-0.
Wright beat Daryl Gurney 11-5 to seal his place in his third straight UK Open final after losing in 2015 and 2016.
The 46-year-old Scotsman finished on the bull in an 85 checkout to beat Price and take the £70,000 prize money.
Despite Price throwing four 180s and the highest checkout (117), Wright won the final three legs to seal victory.
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"The fans have given me fantastic support, not just this year but also for the last two years," said Suffolk-based Wright.
"I don't want to put a downer on it, we had no Michael van Gerwen here and no Phil Taylor, but I still had the pressure of being favourite when you had Gary Anderson, Adrian Lewis and all the other fantastic players in the tournament.
"It was a lot of pressure and I was happy just to get to the final, three years on the trot in one of the hardest tournaments. To win it is brilliant."
Former Cross Keys hooker Price reached his first major televised PDC final since leaving his career as a professional rugby player in 2014 and pulled from 8-3 down to 8-6 to put the pressure on Wright before the final interval.
The colourful Scot's victory was the first time that a player has won their first major PDC televised tournament since Michael van Gerwen clinched the 2012 World Grand Prix.
Reigning champion Van Gerwen did not compete in the tournament, which he won by beating Wright in 2015 and 2016, after failing to recover from a back injury.
The militants launched the attack with suicide bombings at the town's checkpoints, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based monitoring group.
It said the capture of the town links IS-held Palmyra with the Qalamun area.
Separately, the US launched its first drone strike against IS from Turkey.
A Pentagon spokesman did not give any further details about the strike, which reportedly took place on Monday.
Turkey last month said it would allow US aircraft to use its southern Incirlik airbase to attack IS in Syria, potentially speeding up air strikes against the militants.
Al-Qaryatain was captured in the militants' first major offensive since May, when they seized the historic town of Palmyra, famed for its Roman-style ruins.
The town is thought to have a mixed population of around 40,000 people, including Sunni Muslims and Christians, as well as thousands of people who have fled fighting elsewhere in the country.
According to the SOHR, the capture of the town could help IS move fighters and material between Palmyra and territory that it controls in Qalamun, to the west.
Scores of pro-government and IS fighters are said to have been killed in the battle for the town.
More than 230,000 Syrians have died in the civil war, which began after anti-government protests in March 2011.
Rebel groups that were originally fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad have also been battling each other in an increasingly complex and bloody conflict.
The former UK PM said later he believed there was a "common desire" to make Northern Ireland a "special case" in Brexit negotiations.
An open border had done a "tremendous amount" for UK and Irish trade and must be safeguarded "as much as possible".
The British and Irish governments have both said they do not want a return to customs posts on the border.
When, as part of Brexit, the UK leaves the EU's customs union there will have to be some from of customs enforcement.
The EU's negotiating guidelines call for a "flexible and creative" approach to the customs issue but no solid plans have yet been advanced by either the EU or the UK.
The EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier has told a joint session of the Irish houses of parliament in Dublin that the Irish border issue would be one of his three priorities in negotiations but emphasised that there would have to be some form of customs controls between NI and the Republic after Brexit.
Mr Blair, who was UK prime minister during the Northern Ireland peace process, was in Wicklow, Ireland to address a meeting of MEPs from the European People's Party - the largest group in the European Parliament.
Speaking to RTE Radio before the meeting, Mr Blair said: "It really would be a disaster to have a hard border."
But following the EPP meeting later he stressed that he believed there was a "common desire" to treat Northern Ireland as a "special case".
He said he was "extremely anxious" to ensure Brexit did not damage the Good Friday Agreement - of which he was one of the architects.
"At the moment we have a common travel area where people can travel freely between south and north ... on the island of Ireland. This is vital to maintain."
"I think whatever disagreements I have with the British government over Brexit more generally, I think there is a real consensus across the British political system that we must do everything we possibly can to keep the present situation between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland ... as similar to what we have at the moment as we possibly can."
Mr Barnier, who has been meeting business people in the Irish border region on Friday, told reporters he wanted to find solutions "without rebuilding any kind of hard border" and to protect and preserve the Good Friday agreement. "But we have to find a solution which is compatible with the single market".
He said Brexit negotiations would be "very complex and difficult". "This negotiation will not be only financial, legal or technical. In my view it will first [be] human, social and economic," he said.
BBC Northern Ireland's economics and business editor John Campbell said the free movement of goods was likely to be a key area of negotiations - and agricultural food companies in particular were extremely concerned about the potential for tariffs which could wreck their business.
The 26-year-old England World Cup player quit rugby union to return to his former club in rugby league.
The deal was confirmed on 5 November but the Rabbitohs must release players in order to register Burgess, who helped them win the NRL title in 2014.
"The Rabbitohs look forward to the confirmation of Sam's contract in the coming weeks," said a club spokesman.
Hooker Isaac Luke has already left Sydney to join New Zealand Warriors and Glenn Stewart has joined Super League side Catalans Dragons.
On Thursday Souths also confirmed they were releasing Australia international Dylan Walker.
The 21-year-old requested an exit after ending up in hospital after taking an overdose of painkillers.
Walker and winger Aaron Gray were fined by Souths.
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Former Bradford Bulls prop Burgess left Australia in November 2014 to switch codes and join Premiership side Bath on a three-year deal.
He made his England debut only nine months later and was included in Stuart Lancaster's squad for the World Cup ahead of more experienced back Luther Burrell.
Burgess had been used as a flanker for his club, but was played as a centre by Lancaster - a move that drew criticism as England failed to get out of the group stage.
The player asked to leave Bath after the tournament, citing family reasons, and rejoined the Rabbitohs, where he will link up again with his brothers, twins Tom and George.
South Sydney's first game of 2016 season is at Allianz Stadium on 6 March against Sydney Roosters, whose assistant coach is England rugby league boss Steve McNamara.
As early as Thursday morning it will announce it has now put nearly $10bn in the kitty to pay a monster fine from the US Department of Justice.
It relates to the bank's role in the selling of risky mortgages - the so called subprime crisis - which was at the epicentre of the financial crisis.
This will plunge RBS, 72% owned by the taxpayer, further into the red.
It will make 2016 the ninth year in a row that RBS has lost money.
To be clear, this is not unexpected, nor is it a final settlement. The urgency to settle once and for all which existed around the beginning of this month (before the change of the guard in the US administration with a Trump presidency) has eased as a new administration and a new attorney general are now in place.
Guesses on the final bill from the US vary widely from $12bn-$20bn. If this $10bn did prove to be enough for the final bill, that would be considered a good result.
It remains to be seen whether the new US administration takes a tougher or more lenient approach to misconduct by European banks.
Barclays recently walked away from negotiations, preferring to fight the top US lawman in court, rather than pay what the bank considered a fine that was disproportionate to its involvement in the subprime market.
For RBS it is yet another of the "big bumps in the road" that chief executive Ross McEwan has previously warned lie between the RBS of the last nine years and the RBS he hopes it will one day be. Exclude the fines, and RBS is churning out a £1bn profit every three months.
But the sins of the past are grave, as are the penalties. The bank has paid well over £50bn worth since the financial crisis - more than the £45bn the UK taxpayer put in way back when.
RBS and the taxpayer will hope that as painful as this is, it is one step closer to the light at the end of the tunnel.
The raid happened at Scotmid in North Deeside Road, in the Aberdeen suburb of Bieldside, in the early hours.
Police are already looking into four similar incidents in the north east of Scotland.
Bank cash machines in New Deer, Oldmeldrum, Inverurie and Dyce have been targeted.
Police have not commented on reports explosives may have been involved in some of the incidents.
A police spokeswoman said: "Police were called to an incident at Scotmid on North Deeside Road at around 4am today.
"The premises has been broken into and inquiries are ongoing."
A Scotmid spokesman told BBC Scotland an alarm had been set off at the front of the shop, and the safe at the back of the ATM had been targeted.
He said: "Thankfully no staff members were involved."
The spokesman said it was being investigated whether any money was stolen, but no other stock appeared to have been taken.
It was hoped the shop would reopen when police inquiries were complete.
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board is consulting on plans to withdraw consultant-led maternity care at one of three district hospitals.
Earlier plans to downgrade services at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, were sent back to the drawing board after public outcry.
The proposed changes stem from a shortage of doctors.
Health bosses still favour downgrading services at the hospital and earlier this month the board agreed to start a fresh public consultation on those plans and others.
Alternatives include withdrawing doctor-led maternity care at hospitals in Bangor or Wrexham, or they could agree to make no changes meaning consultant-led care would remain at all three hospitals.
Those against the plans say expectant mothers who need care from doctors would be put at greater risk by having to travel further for treatment.
The British Medical Association and politicians have also previously criticised the health board for not seeking the views of staff and the public in drawing up its plans.
A final decision is expected in November.
O'Flaherty finished behind English duo Gemma Steel and Jenny Spink in Dublin.
Defending women's champion Fionnuala McCormack was a late withdrawal from Sunday's race because of a hip niggle.
Mullingar's Mark Christie won the men's race in a respectable 29 minutes and 30 seconds, leaving him ahead of England's Graham Rush (29.41) and Irish Olympic athlete Mick Clohisey (29.44).
The event also doubled up as the Irish championship for the 10km road race distance so O'Flaherty and Christie lifted the national titles.
As the Irish men packed well with Sergiu Ciobanu fourth in 30:20 and Kevin Dooney (30:38) sixth, the home nation pipped England by 40 seconds in the team match, which was decided by the aggregate times of the four scorers in both races.
Ireland's combined time was three hours, 15 minutes and 29 seconds and the team element gave the event added excitement even after the first three had crossed the line in both races.
The team success earned the Irish the Sean Kyle Cup, competed for in memory of the highly respected Ballymena & Antrim coach, who died in November 2015.
Kyle formed a remarkable coaching partnership at the club with his wife, the three-time Olympian Maeve Kyle and event organiser Gareth Turnbull came up with the idea last year of marking the Ballymena & Antrim stalwart's contribution to the sport by staging the team event.
Newcastle athlete O'Flaherty stayed with former European Cross Country champion Steel and Spink for the opening 5km in the Phoenix Park before the English duo broke clear.
Steel crossed the line in 34:15 which left her nine seconds ahead of Spink, with Rio Olympics steeplechase competitor O'Flaherty a further 14 seconds back in third.
The women's top six was completed by three more Irish athletes as Claire McCarthy (34:47) was followed by Laura O'Shaughnessy [35:04] and City of Derry's Catherine Whoriskey (35:55).
McCormack was forced to withdraw because of injury on Sunday morning.
With a series of races, including junior events, taking place, over 8,000 runners were in action at the Phoenix Park.
Researchers from several countries, including the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and the UK, tracked 1,900 people, aged between 14 and 24, over a 10-year period.
BBC News website readers from around the world have been getting in touch with their views on these latest findings linked to the controversial drug.
You will find that any data supposedly "proving" that cannabis use leads to schizophrenia or psychosis are of the "cherry picked" variety.
The prohibitionist lobby have been playing this card every few years since the 1920s and, even if it were true, this would be another strong reason why cannabis possession and supply should be legal and regulated, so that quality and supply could be monitored and use by young children eliminated.
I'm now 49-years-old and have been taking cannabis for more than 30 years. If I can find a good, clean source, then I won't turn it down.
I started taking it as a teenager for pain relief. I had undergone a traumatic episode in my life and suffered extreme muscle damage.
My friends told me it was good medically, so I thought it might help me.
I'm not addicted though. I don't climb the walls if I don't get any.
I have a great interest in cannabis and have tried to carry out as much research as possible into the scientific facts surrounding it without being influenced by the pro or anti lobby.
I have had negative effects but only when I have taken doctored cannabis, which has been mixed with things like horse tranquiliser. That is why I try to only use the pure stuff.
When I saw this study, my first reaction was "oh god". If you have any mental illness and you use drugs and alcohol, then it is likely to have an effect, but to say it causes psychosis - that's wrong.
I don't drink but I do take cannabis, however, I would tell children not to dabble - in the same way they shouldn't with other substances.
I smoked cannabis a couple of times when I was 24-years-old. I used to hang around with some people who regularly took it.
I used to work with my father and my brother in the butchery business but after I started taking cannabis I started showing signs of psychosis.
I was diagnosed with schizophrenia and had to spend some time in hospital.
I'm now 55-years-old and those few drags I took when I was younger definitely changed my life and made it go rapidly downhill.
I directly attribute my illness to the cannabis.
After I started taking it, I asked my mum at the family business if I could have a holiday as I'd been working rather hard, it was then I started hearing voices and became delusional.
My mum went to the doctor who asked me if I wanted to go into hospital. Initially I declined but about a month later, I agreed.
I've now been on medication for most of my life and would advise people not to dabble in cannabis.
I am fine now, but I am dead against the thought of taking anything that's harmful to the body.
I have worked as a drug advisor in the educational field for more than 20 years and the rubbish spouted about cannabis needs to stop.
Cannabis, like all psychoactive substances, will act as a catalyst for any pre disposition to a psychiatric or psychotic episode.
As it is usually taken in conjunction with other drugs especially alcohol, it cannot be easily concluded that cannabis alone is the culprit.
The fact that it remains illegal is probably a more relevant indicator as to why it is singled out.
People with a dual diagnosis - who have mental illnesses and take cannabis - how can you distinguish which one they got first?
In my own personal experiences, I know about four or five people who had "cannabis-related episodes" but they were also drinking at the time - so it was difficult to say what caused or contributed to it.
Each person is different, and the way psychoactive substances affect people also varies.
The other thing is that cannabis can sometimes help mental and physical problems. It can benefit certain types of auto-immune diseases.
I'm not pro or anti, but think these studies need to be considered in context.
I smoked cannabis for approximately 25 years and towards the end I felt like I was hanging onto sanity by my fingernails. Some of the worse symptoms included voices in the night, a constant dread of death, suicidal thoughts and intense mood swings. I never thought I would kick the habit until one day I was attacked by someone out side a supermarket due to my psychotic ramblings. This person probably saved my life or a least my sanity. Dominic, Luton, UK
I have been a user of of cannabis for the past 17 years and it has never stopped me from building a good professional career with qualifications and a senior post within a large multi national organisation. I think people forget that these studies can be easily directed at similar "drugs" like alcohol and cigarettes which although are publicised as being bad for your health are completely legal. It's easy to turn around and blame someone's personal failures in life on the fact they smoke cannabis, but in reality the person probably already suffers from some form of psychosis or is plain lazy to begin with. We should stop using this as an excuse and do the right thing which is to decriminalize cannabis, this would make it much safer for the millions of people that use it recreationally. Beavis, Birmingham, UK
I spent many years playing in bands in an environment where cannabis use is pretty much the norm. All it ever did for me was send me to sleep. My observation, for what it's worth: if you're not paranoid when you start smoking dope, you sure will be after you've been at it for a couple of years. David Ballantyne, Raleigh, US
I spent my student years smoking pot and thinking it was not only harmless but it made me more creative (if anything it made me more lazy). But then I gave up as I realised you can't lead a successful life and smoke cannabis. But for years I believed that it was non-addictive and should be legalised. Now I work for a rehab clinic and have been doing some research into drugs. I still believe it's not addictive but I was told by people working in rehab that about 10% of dope smokers end up with psychosis, and one expert I spoke to in London said that "cannabis is the drug that creates the most problems for psychiatrists". Rupert Wolfe Murray, Bucharest, Romania
I blame my son's suicide at the age 19 on cannabis use, he used it from the age of 14. I believe that cannabis use affected him badly, causing erratic behaviour and subsequent mental illness. Janine Gray, Caloundra, Australia
The former Down boss has been the Erne County's manager since succeeding Peter Canavan in November 2013.
Fermanagh failed to win a Championship match this year and were relegated to Division Three of the league.
After losing to Armagh in the first round of the All-Ireland qualifiers, McGrath said his management team would take time to consider their future.
On Wednesday night, Fermanagh revealed their manager was remaining in charge and had received the backing of the county board.
Fermanagh lost to Monaghan in the preliminary round of this year's Ulster Championship, followed by that qualifier defeat at the Athletic Grounds.
McGrath accepted 2017 had been the worst of his four-year spell as Fermanagh manager.
However, the veteran boss has his backers who believe he has done a creditable job, including taking the Erne county to the All-Ireland quarter-finals two years ago.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) carried out an "extraordinary review" of the system in July.
It followed moves by Bangor University to withdraw midwifery students from Glan Clwyd Hospital, and concerns flagged by Health Inspectorate Wales.
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said it had developed an action plan.
Prof Angela Hopkins, executive director of nursing and midwifery at the health board, said: "Most of the recommendations made in the NMC reports have already been addressed."
The review by the NMC examined how closely rules on supervising midwives across north Wales were being followed.
But the investigators found on two measures the midwife services were falling short:
Jackie Smith, NMC chief executive and registrar, said: "The reports from our extraordinary review show that there are serious concerns around the nursing and midwifery education programmes.
"We need to be assured that our standards for education and for the supervision of midwives are being met, and that the public's safety is protected.
"It is essential that all the relevant organisations collaborate to address the issues raised by the review. We will work closely with Bangor University, Health Inspectorate Wales and other stakeholders to improve the situation and strengthen public protection."
Prof Hopkins said: "We would like to reassure our patients regarding the quality and standard of education for student nurses and midwives in north Wales, and to advise that issues raised regarding the supervision of midwives have been fully addressed."
The investigation was prompted by escalating concerns at the health board about how maternity services might be reorganised.
Officials wanted to remove consultant-led care from Glan Clwyd Hospital at Bodelwyddan in Denbighshire - but that faced being overturned by a judicial review.
It led Health Inspectorate Wales to flag the issue to the NMC in June, just weeks before the entire health board was put into special measures by the Welsh government.
At the same time, according to the report published on Monday, Bangor University withdrew midwifery students from Glan Clwyd due to "an unsuitable practice learning environment due to the unprofessional behaviours and attitudes of some clinicians".
The university said it had been working with the health board to address issues raised by the extraordinary review and stated that the situation "had improved since the report was written in July".
"We are now focussing on the remaining areas that need attention, but in the meantime students can be assured that the high standard of their education will be safeguarded," said Prof Jo Rycroft-Malone, who heads Bangor's School of Healthcare Sciences.
The NMC review also contained some criticism of the work of Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW) as the body responsible in Wales for safeguarding standards of supervision and training.
But on Monday, HIW said all standards set by the NMC and recommendations made in report have now been met.
Just one councillor out of seven voted against revised plans for the former Aquarena site in Worthing at a heated public meeting on Thursday night.
Developer Roffey Homes said the £45m tower would become a landmark building and would help to regenerate the area.
However, more than 2,000 residents had signed a petition against it, saying it was too tall and "out of place".
The revised proposal follows the refusal of planning permission in September 2015 for a 21-storey tower on the site.
The new plans are for a shorter building - 15 stories, providing 141 homes, commercial space and a public cafe.
Dozens of residents attended the meeting to express their anxiety over the plans.
Liberal Democrat Hazel Thorpe cited public opposition and told the meeting it was not doing enough to solve the town's housing problems.
However, Conservative Councillor Edward Crouch supported the proposals.
"The economic, housing benefits and additional use of this land outweighs the harm," he said.
After the vote, Mike Anderson of Save Worthing Seafront, said he was disappointed but accepted it had been decided.
"The issue really is only about the height of the tower. It is inconsistent with the rest of Worthing, it doesn't fit in," he said.
Daniel Humphreys, leader of Worthing Borough Council, called it "a step forward for Worthing".
"There is a great housing need in Worthing. We've got some fantastic businesses that need houses for workers to live in," he said.
Ben Cheal, managing director of Roffey Homes, said: "Change is hard to accept for people but then [buildings] become regarded as cherished contributions to the townscape."
Evans, 27, has been training with Pompey since leaving Fleetwood Town at the end of the 2014-15 season, having scored 12 goals in 106 appearances for the League One club.
"The aim is promotion - it's as simple as that," the former Macclesfield and Bradford man told the club website.
"It's an honour to be at this club, but I've come here for success and I'm confident we are capable of that."
Evans was offered a contract by Fleetwood at the end of last season but decided to leave Highbury.
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Etienne Capoue volleyed the Hornets into the lead - their fastest Premier League goal - before Roberto Pereyra curled in a second after 12 minutes.
Leicester pulled one back when Riyad Mahrez converted a penalty after Miguel Britos' clumsy foul on Jamie Vardy.
But the Foxes could not score again and remain without an away league victory this season.
Leicester become only the third reigning top-flight champions, after Leeds in 1992 and Blackburn in 1995, to start a Premier League season without a win from their opening six away games.
Watford had been embarrassed 6-1 at Liverpool in their last match and boss Walter Mazzarri demanded an improved performance.
But even he could not have expected the blistering start they made as they went ahead in the opening minute.
Leicester midfielder Danny Drinkwater, who had missed England's matches against Scotland and Spain with a rib injury, gave the ball away and that enabled Pereyra to sprint down the left wing before his cross was flicked on by Troy Deeney, with Capoue volleying past Ron-Robert Zieler.
Pereyra doubled the advantage shortly after, cutting inside Drinkwater on the edge of the penalty area and curling the ball into the corner.
Leicester fought back with a penalty after only 14 minutes, but were frustrated and denied by a resolute home defence as the hosts held on for the win.
Leicester won the league title for the first time in their history last season but looked a pale shadow of that side at Vicarage Road.
Defensively vulnerable and lacking a cutting edge up front, the Foxes slipped to their sixth league defeat of the season, double the amount they had throughout the entire 2015-16 campaign.
One huge concern for Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri would be the form of centre-forward Vardy. Before the game Ranieri said he expected to see a "new Vardy" after he scored in England's 2-2 draw with Spain at Wembley on Tuesday.
However, apart from winning a penalty, which was more down to the reckless challenge from Britos, Vardy looked unlikely to end a goal drought that now stretches to 13 club games.
His only attempt came late on when he shot harmlessly wide and the Foxes need him to rediscover the form that saw him score 24 Premier League goals last season.
This result extends a strange, but worrying quirk for Leicester fans - of their side failing to win any of the five matches they have played immediately before a Champions League game.
They remain 14th in the Premier League, but are only two points above the relegation zone, despite impressing in Europe's premier competition.
With 10 points from four Champions League games and without a goal conceded, Leicester are top of Group G and only need two points from their last two games to advance into the last 16. The first of those comes on Tuesday when they entertain Belgian side Club Brugge.
A concern for the Foxes would be that record signing Islam Slimani, who scored the winner in a 1-0 win over Porto, missed the Watford game with what was described as a "slight groin injury".
Watford manager Walter Mazzarri told BBC Sport: "We got the win and I'm very happy. We played the football that I like my team to play and this time we were good enough to score.
"The way Roberto Pereyra played, not just the goal he scored, he ran the whole game and I am very happy with him.
"It was not easy, we know they are a good team. It was our fault with the penalty, in the last 15 or 20 minutes Leicester pressed a lot and we had to concentrate."
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Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri told BBC Sport: "I said to my players 'well done' as they tried to do everything. At the beginning we were losing 2-0, but we got back in the match.
"Of course Watford defended very well. We tried to do our best, the second half was intense but we did not created good chances.
"Their two goals made the match. Our performance was good, the spirit was good and I am positive. When you play with this spirit, I'm positive."
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Leicester are in action again on Tuesday as they host Club Brugge in the Champions League. A win for the Foxes will take them into the last 16 of the competition.
They next play in the Premier League on Saturday, 26 November when they entertain Middlesbrough, with Watford in action the following day with a home league game against Stoke.
Match ends, Watford 2, Leicester City 1.
Second Half ends, Watford 2, Leicester City 1.
Attempt missed. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Wes Morgan.
Jeffrey Schlupp (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adlène Guédioura (Watford).
Foul by Danny Simpson (Leicester City).
Roberto Pereyra (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Robert Huth (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stefano Okaka (Watford).
Substitution, Watford. Stefano Okaka replaces Troy Deeney.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Daryl Janmaat.
Substitution, Watford. Adlène Guédioura replaces Nordin Amrabat.
Attempt missed. Nordin Amrabat (Watford) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Etienne Capoue with a headed pass.
Attempt missed. Daryl Janmaat (Watford) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Nordin Amrabat.
Demarai Gray (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Demarai Gray (Leicester City).
Juan Zuñiga (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Wes Morgan (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Troy Deeney (Watford).
Attempt saved. Robert Huth (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Ahmed Musa (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.
Attempt blocked. Wes Morgan (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Leicester City. Ahmed Musa replaces Marc Albrighton.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Etienne Capoue.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Juan Zuñiga.
Foul by Robert Huth (Leicester City).
Miguel Britos (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Younes Kaboul.
Attempt missed. Nordin Amrabat (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Etienne Capoue.
Foul by Wes Morgan (Leicester City).
Troy Deeney (Watford) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Sebastian Prödl (Watford) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Etienne Capoue with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Watford. Conceded by Marc Albrighton.
Foul by Demarai Gray (Leicester City).
Valon Behrami (Watford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Daniel Amartey (Leicester City).
Roberto Pereyra (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Leicester City. Demarai Gray replaces Shinji Okazaki.
Substitution, Leicester City. Jeffrey Schlupp replaces Christian Fuchs.
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The event was run over two legs and Gerard Kinghan won the first race from fellow Kawasaki rider Sheils, with Alastair Kirk third.
Sheils took the victory in race two, coming home ahead of Kirk and Crumlin's Stephen Thompson on a BMW, followed by Kinghan in fourth.
William Dunlop was a double Supersport 600cc winner on his CD Racing Yamaha.
Jamie Patterson finished runner-up in race one and Robert Kennedy second in race two.
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The incident happened at Kilgallioch wind farm, which straddles the border between Dumfries and Galloway and South Ayrshire, early last Friday.
An investigation has been launched by developer Scottish Power Renewables and turbine manufacturer Gamesa.
The 96-turbine site is currently under construction and due to be fully connected to the grid later this year.
A spokeswoman for Scottish Power Renewables said: "We are currently investigating an incident relating to an installed turbine at Kilgallioch wind farm during the early hours of Friday 13 January.
"The turbine was not yet operational and no one was in the vicinity at the time."
Spanish firm Gamesa confirmed that they were also involved in the investigation.
A spokeswoman said: "We are currently investigating - jointly with the owner of the wind farm - the root-cause of this incident."
Scottish Power Renewables has previously said Kilgallioch wind farm would be the second largest in the UK once completed.
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Food crime is the deliberate manipulation, substitution, mislabelling or fraud in relation to food.
Food Standards Scotland (FSS) and Crimestoppers have created the free Scottish Food Crime Hotline.
People will be able to call in their suspicions anonymously.
The new service will aid the FSS's Scottish Food Crime and Incidents Unit, established following the 2013 discovery that horse meat was being passed off as beef in frozen foods.
The unit gathers intelligence, along with other agencies, to target food fraudsters who cost the UK food and drink industry an estimated £1.17bn annually.
Members of the public will also be able to report concerns using a non-traceable online form.
Geoff Ogle, FSS chief executive, said: "Consumers have a right to know that the food they are buying and eating is both safe and authentic. Food crime is damaging for the public and the industry, eroding trust and value.
"The launch of the free Scottish Food Crime Hotline is one of a number of steps FSS is taking to address the problem in Scotland.
"We hope it will raise awareness of the issue of food crime and give consumers a trusted point of contact to report concerns in complete anonymity.
"The intelligence we receive will be invaluable in advancing our work with Police Scotland and other agencies to hold to account those who put consumer safety at risk for financial gain."
Public health minister Aileen Campbell said: "Scotland is known the world over for the quality of its food and drink.
"This initiative is a practical and powerful way to tackle the problem of food crime. I would encourage both consumers and industry to make use of the hotline or online reporting form to anonymously share any concerns and help us stamp out fraudulent practices."
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The veterinarian, on the run for 10 years, is wanted by US authorities for extradition on drugs charges.
He had been in charge of a veterinary clinic in the Colombian city of Medellin in which police found a number of puppies with bags of liquid heroin implanted into their stomachs.
He was detained in north-western Spain.
Colombian police found the Labrador and Rottweiler puppies with the drug implants in 2005 in a Medellin veterinary clinic.
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The 36-year-old, who has played 16 Tests, 41 one-day internationals and 16 T20s, replaces Australia seamer Ben Hilfenhaus as their overseas player.
"Imran has played lots of cricket in England," said Notts director of cricket Mick Newell.
"We know how effective international-class spinners can be during the business end of a county season."
Pakistan-born Tahir has taken 43 Test wickets at an average of 46.39, 72 ODI wickets at 21.54 and 25 T20 wickets at 14.68.
Notts will be his fifth English county after spells with Hampshire, Warwickshire, Yorkshire and Middlesex.
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Northamptonshire Police released CCTV footage showing the vehicles, including a Cumbrian coach, making illegal U-turns at Junction 18 near Crick.
It shows them heading the wrong way down a slip road to get off the M1.
The drivers had been approaching a queue caused by a serious accident at Junction 19 on Sunday 5 July.
It was recorded just before 21:00 BST.
PC Dave Lee, of the force's tactical roads policing unit, said: "These people were behaving ridiculously.
"People joining the motorway aren't expecting other vehicles to be coming towards them.
"These drivers were not only putting their own lives at risk, they were risking the lives of everyone heading down that slip road."
Officers are now investigating the footage so action can be taken against the drivers who performed the illegal U-turns.
Wigton-based coach company Reays confirmed the driver who performed the U-turn has resigned.
The girl was living at a boarding school in the Kharkiv region for orphans and children from broken homes.
Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov reported the case on Facebook, with photos of the 52-year-old teacher and girl. He said police had been monitoring them for four months.
Mr Avakov said the buyer hinted that the girl's organs would be removed.
The buyer inquired about the girl's health and paid the teacher 1,000 hryvnia (£31; $39) for photos of the girl and her medical records, Mr Avakov said.
Ukrainian media have named the suspect as Galina Kovalenko. She teaches the Ukrainian and Russian languages, and literature, and has more than 20 years' teaching experience, they report.
There has been no statement yet from the teacher.
Mr Avakov said "Galina [Kovalenko] worked for nearly a year on her 'business plan' for selling the 13-year-old girl", whom she had singled out as vulnerable.
"They got this seller 'red-handed' - when she took the girl out of the boarding school, brought her to the buyers and received money," Mr Avakov said.
If found guilty, the teacher could be jailed for up to 12 years. Mr Avakov is personally handling the case.
There have been previous reports of criminal gangs preying on destitute people in eastern Europe to harvest their organs. The trade in organs can be highly lucrative.
In 2013, an EU-led court in Kosovo found five people guilty in connection with a human organ-trafficking ring. The five were accused of carrying out dozens of illegal transplants at the Medicus Clinic in the capital, Pristina.
The line has been run by Greater Anglia since 2012 and the company renewed the franchise in August.
The deal fulfils the "long-standing objective of running the franchise as a 60:40 joint venture", according to Abellio MD Dominic Booth.
The rail union RMT has criticised the sale of Britain's rail network.
News of the sale first emerged in January, shortly after the sale of the c2c franchise to Trenitalia.
The RMT said it stands by comments made in January by the union's general secretary, Mick Cash, who warned that Britain's rail network was being sold off like it was a "dodgy car boot sale".
"The checks and balances for both passengers and the taxpayer, which the DfT claims are enshrined in its multi-million pound franchising programme, are clearly lacking when the winning bidder can simply walk away, share out its responsibilities and choose its replacement whenever it sees fit," he said.
Abellio, which will still be in overall control of the franchise, said the deal will result in a £1.4bn investment over nine years, with new trains and average journey times reduced by 10%.
Mitsui, which has been contacted by the BBC, are the first Japanese company to have taken a stake in a British train operator and will "have a presence on the board".
A DfT spokesperson said: "This was a commercial decision for Abellio. The government approved this partial sale once both parties satisfied us that passengers would benefit from it."
Cressing Road has been the club's home from its Essex League days, but they have wanted a new ground since 2004.
They hoped to be part of the proposed Panfield Lane development, but Harding says this seems to have collapsed.
"If we don't get some form of support from Braintree Council soon, we'll find the club going backwards at an alarming rate," Harding told BBC Essex.
"We have been trying to work with Braintree Council for 12 or 13 years and at this moment I don't think we've any progress at all.
"That's a real shame. You look at the progress the football club has made and it's a success story for the town. We were within touching distance of the Football League last season."
Harding said Cressing Road was "home", but that the club hoped to use any proceeds from a sale of the ground towards a new stadium.
A Braintree District Council spokesperson said: "We've been in discussions with the football club for some time to see if we could help them in their pursuit to create a new stadium.
"Despite trying to find a suitable solution which was right for the football club, the community as a whole and taxpayers, we regret that we've not been able to find a way forward.
"While it remains an important local asset, as a council we have a responsibility to invest taxpayers' money wisely and prioritise according to need, for example the health investments we have recently announced."
The 27-year-old Parisian has signed a deal tying him to Vale until 23 December, having been without a club since his release by Swindon Town at the end of last season.
"He's got pedigree," said Vale interim boss Rob Page. "When we found out he was available, we had him in training.
"He has proven he can score goals and hurt teams at a higher level than us."
N'Guessan could make his Vale debut in Saturday's home game against Leyton Orient.
Page has now made five signings since being appointed interim manager, as successor to Micky Adams just over a month ago.
Defenders Stephane Zubar (Bournemouth), Reiss Greenidge (West Bromwich Albion) and Remi Streete (Newcastle United) have all signed on loan, along with striker Harry Panayiotou (Leicester City).
But only Zubar, now suspended for three games after being sent off for retaliating at Joe Garner in the defeat at Preston, has so far figured.
Having taken over when Vale were lying 23rd in the League One table, Page's side have climbed five places to 18th, having lost just twice in six matches.
Williams has made 14 appearances for League One side Southend, but has yet to start a game for the senior team.
The 21-year-old ended last season on loan at National League South side Chelmsford City, having previously also spent time at Welling
He could make his Boreham Wood debut when they travel to face Torquay United in the league on Saturday.
The 32-year-old, who made the last of his 20 international appearances in a one-day international against Sri Lanka in 2013, was the Division Two side's players' player of the year in 2015.
He was Northants' leading Championship wicket-taker with 57 at an average of 27.14, while scoring 391 runs.
Kleinveldt also helped the county finish runners-up in the T20 Blast.
Northants head coach David Ripley told the club website: "Rory will play an important role next season.
"He is respected by the rest of the squad and helped push us over the line in a few games this year and was our leading wicket-taker.
"He was voted as our County Championship player of the year and players' player too which shows just how popular he is in the changing room. We are looking forward to having him back."
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Animals with crocodile-like features walked the Earth around 245 million years ago, which is before dinosaurs appeared.
New fossils discovered by scientists in Tanzania, Africa, two years ago help show that the Teleocrater creature walked on four legs.
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The body of Steven Fretwell, 47, was found at an address on Kingswood Avenue in Dinnington on Sunday 18 December.
A post-mortem examination found Mr Fretwell died of multiple injuries, said South Yorkshire Police.
The men, aged 21, 28 and 35, have all been charged with murder and are due to appear before Sheffield Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.
Nathan Kieran Fensome, 28, from Dinnington, Ashley Grant Fensome, 21, also from Dinnington and Barry Scott Plant, 35, from Wath have all been remanded into custody, said police.
The pair, aged 46 and 25, were detained by Port of Dover police on Monday after the attack on board P&O's Spirit Of France ship.
They remain in custody while officers continue to investigate.
P&O said the allegation led to a delay in travellers disembarking the ferry, which can carry up to 1,750 passengers.
A spokesman added: "As is our standard practice, disembarkation from the ship was unfortunately delayed for 45 minutes while officers arrived to meet the individuals involved.
"We would like to apologise sincerely to the other passengers for any inconvenience this may have caused to their onward journeys."
A Port of Dover Police statement said: "We were called on Monday 13 February to a report of an assault on a cross-Channel ferry.
"Officers attended and two men, one aged 46 and one aged 25, were arrested on suspicion of sexual assault. They are currently in custody."
In a separate incident on the same sailing, a small fire broke out below decks during routine maintenance work.
It extinguished by the crew within two minutes and no passengers were in danger.
The Pentagon has acknowledged that the clinic was targeted by mistake, but no personnel will face criminal charges.
The Associated Press reported that the sanctions, which were not made public, were mostly administrative.
Some received formal reprimands while others were suspended from duty.
Both officers and enlisted personnel were disciplined, but no generals were punished.
A spokeswoman for MSF said the medical charity would not comment until the Pentagon made the details public.
The disciplinary action was the result of a Pentagon investigation into the attack. A report on that investigation is expected to be made public next week.
In October, a US gunship fired on the hospital in the city of Kunduz. Taliban fighters had recently retaken the city after US-led forces drove them out in 2001.
Afghan officials said the building had been taken over by Taliban fighters, but no evidence has been found to back those claims.
MSF said the incident constituted "violations of the rules of war". The hospital was destroyed and MSF pulled out of Kunduz after the attack.
Army Gen John Campbell, the top US commander in Afghanistan at the time, called the incident a "tragic but avoidable accident caused primarily by human error".
US President Barack Obama apologised for the air strike, which was one of the deadliest attacks on civilians in the 15-year Afghan conflict.
Pools beat Leyton Orient 2-0 to go six games unbeaten in League Two and have kept a clean sheet in their last four.
Hignett's side are 14 points clear of 23rd-placed York City with have two games in hand, and only need eight more to be certain of staying up.
"I've said to them, let's see how high we can go and how far we can push ourselves," he told BBC Tees.
"While we're on this run and while we've kept four clean sheets, we'll keep going and see if we can break records."
Since his arrival on 10 February, Hignett has steered Pools from 22nd in the League Two table to their current position of 17th.
"We have moved up a few places which is nice and gives everyone a lift. When you play well and win games but you're not moving in the table, it's hard," he said.
"We've got to carry on doing what we're doing because the way we're playing and the system we're using will win you games."
Hignett has played the same starting XI in Hartlepool's last four games and will resist the urge to ring the changes even when safety is guaranteed.
"They have earned the right to play, they know what they are doing, they look defensively sound," he added.
"Since I've been here we've drummed into them that we're a team, we're altogether no matter what happens with setbacks, it doesn't matter."
The City of Edinburgh Council said it was unexpectedly left short of 10 drivers. This led to a backlog of refuse due to be collected in some areas.
In a briefing to councillors, it was revealed senior staff with appropriate licences have been drafted in.
The rate of pay for agency staff has also been increased.
Collections will be carried out over the weekend in a bid to clear the backlog.
A City of Edinburgh Council spokeswoman said: "An unexpected shortage of agency drivers has resulted in a reduction in waste collections made in some areas recently - we apologise for any inconvenience caused to residents.
"We have been working with our recruitment agency and will have successfully filled all vacant positions by the beginning of next week.
"In addition, we have temporarily moved some drivers from our cleansing team in the interim.
"We are also carrying out additional weekend collections to reduce the delay."
The Dutch centre-back, who signed from Celtic in the summer for £13m, headed in at the near post to give the Saints an 11th minute lead.
Dusan Tadic made it 2-0 after the break when his attempted cross went in off Ki Sung-yueng before Sadio Mane slotted in the third from inside the area.
Gylfi Sigurdsson scored a penalty for the Swans in the 83rd minute.
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Referee Roger East pointed to the spot after Jose Fonte had pulled down Neil Taylor, although Swans forward Eder put the ball in the net unaware the whistle had been blown.
Southampton's second league win of the season sees them move to nine points, level with the Swans who have now not won in three.
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It was a day when everything clicked for Southampton's front men.
Graziano Pelle failed to add to his four goals this season, but he was integral to his side's success. The 6ft 4in Italian was a nuisance in the air, winning 50% of a team-high eight aerial duels, and was the pick of the Southampton XI when it came to passing stats - making 31 in the opposition half.
Of course it was his contribution to the goals that made the biggest impact. His first was a lovely lofted ball for Tadic, whose intended square pass for Mane was deflected in.
And he had a big hand in Mane's goal when his strike came off the boot of defender Ashley Williams and arrived at the feet of the impressive Mane, who produced a delightfully composed finish.
Perhaps not quite, because the team performed well, they just lacked someone to provide a clinical finish.
Striker Bafetimbi Gomis, who has scored four in the league so far this season, went missing before he was found and substituted at half-time. His contribution? Seven passes in total, no efforts on goal and what is now his obligatory stray into an offside position.
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Fellow attacking player Andre Ayew was busy, but not so much in the final third as he was involved in a team-high 17 duels in midfield - almost twice as many as his team-mates.
Gylfi Sigurdsson impressed in flashes and of course scored the penalty that gave the Swans a glimmer. Although that is all it was.
Perhaps Garry Monk needs to rethink his attacking strategy because there was not much support for either lone striker - Gomis and substitute Eder.
Swansea boss Garry Monk:
"We have not been up to scratch in the last two away games. We were not focused enough and possibly made too many mistakes today.
"They punished us and we never recovered from that. All three goals were disappointing. It was poor decision-making and individual errors. It's not good enough for the standard we have set here at the club.
"We pushed to try to get back. We got the goal then had a couple of chances to make it 3-2. It's difficult to assess straight after the game what went wrong."
Southampton manager Ronald Koeman:
"It was not a very good performance today. The way we played is not the level we expect. But we were much more clinical today than normally. That was the difference between Swansea and Southampton.
"You need good communication in the team but we had some problems - they were allowed four or five good shots from outside the area.
"At 3-0 up we should have dominated more in the last 30 minutes. We were too much in mind to defend the result rather than go and score more. I like to win and play good football."
Southampton have a tricky test at Stamford Bridge for next Saturday's evening game against Chelsea. Swansea will look to get back in the winning habit at home to Tottenham next Sunday.
Match ends, Southampton 3, Swansea City 1.
Second Half ends, Southampton 3, Swansea City 1.
Attempt missed. Graziano Pellè (Southampton) left footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Juanmi.
Offside, Swansea City. Gylfi Sigurdsson tries a through ball, but Ashley Williams is caught offside.
Foul by Federico Fernández (Swansea City).
Graziano Pellè (Southampton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. André Ayew (Swansea City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Eder (Swansea City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Oriol Romeu (Southampton).
Substitution, Southampton. Juanmi replaces Sadio Mané.
Goal! Southampton 3, Swansea City 1. Gylfi Sigurdsson (Swansea City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.
Jose Fonte (Southampton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Penalty Swansea City. Neil Taylor draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Jose Fonte (Southampton) after a foul in the penalty area.
Oriol Romeu (Southampton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Eder (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Oriol Romeu (Southampton).
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Federico Fernández.
Substitution, Swansea City. Leon Britton replaces Jonjo Shelvey.
Foul by André Ayew (Swansea City).
Maarten Stekelenburg (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Southampton. Sadio Mané tries a through ball, but Graziano Pellè is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Sadio Mané (Southampton) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.
Jonjo Shelvey (Swansea City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jonjo Shelvey (Swansea City).
Virgil van Dijk (Southampton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Eder (Swansea City).
James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Oriol Romeu (Southampton) header from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Jay Rodriguez (Southampton) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Graziano Pellè.
Substitution, Southampton. Jay Rodriguez replaces Dusan Tadic.
Foul by Eder (Swansea City).
Sadio Mané (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Jonjo Shelvey (Swansea City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Neil Taylor.
Attempt blocked. Sadio Mané (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Dusan Tadic with a cross.
Jefferson Montero (Swansea City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Cédric Soares (Southampton).
Attempt missed. André Ayew (Swansea City) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Gylfi Sigurdsson.
Attempt saved. Graziano Pellè (Southampton) header from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Dusan Tadic with a cross.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Neil Taylor.
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At Euro 2016, there were violent clashes between Russian and English supporters in Marseille.
A BBC documentary last month revealed trouble is planned for next year's World Cup.
Russia will issue the cards which will be needed to enter the stadiums and can be used as a visa to enter the country.
"What we can be sure of is that this will be a festival of football and there is no place in such festivals of football for those that are not here to support the sport or support the game," said Colin Smith, director of competitions for football's governing body Fifa, on a visit to the country on Thursday.
Russia were fined and given a suspended disqualification by Uefa after their fans were involved in violence during Euro 2016.
Fifa president Gianni Infantino says he is "not at all concerned" by the threat of hooliganism at next year's tournament.
The Confederations Cup begins in June and will be played in four of the 11 World Cup host cities. It will feature eight teams, including the hosts and World Cup champions Germany.
Two horses, Joey and Topthorn, along with a goose and a pair of crows will be auctioned, in the only time a full set of original puppets will be made available.
Eight sets of puppets were made for the production, three of which are being preserved for future shows.
The puppets are being sold in aid of the Handspring Trust, a charity for puppet theatre arts.
They were designed and made for the production by the Handspring Puppet Company.
The play is the National Theatre's most successful play, having had a seven-year run in the West End and toured to 10 countries.
Based on Michael Morpurgo's 1982 novel, it has been seen by more than seven million people around the world.
The play tells of a farmer's boy, Albert, whose horse, Joey, is sold to the cavalry during World War One and shipped to France.
The first War Horse puppet was acquired in 2013 by London's Victoria and Albert Museum.
The sale will take place at Bonhams in London on 13 September.
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The ambitious bid would see matches played on both sides of the Irish border, taking in both rugby union and gaelic games venues.
Ireland has been mulling over the idea for over a year, looking to replicate the successful 2011 New Zealand event.
Varadkar will seek approval from cabinet colleagues on Tuesday.
"It's probably the biggest event a country like Ireland could do, we're too small for the Olympics and the Fifa World Cup and for that reason it would engender enormous national pride," Varadkar told an International Rugby Board conference.
"The second thing is that even during the very difficult times of the Troubles, rugby in Ireland was a unifying sport.
"For us in Ireland, it would just be a symbol of how far we've come from the bad times to the better times now."
South Africa, hosts of the hugely symbolic 1995 rugby World Cup and 2010 soccer World Cup, have also indicated that they plan to make a bid.
France, hosts as recently as 2007, have also expressed an interest in the 2023 edition.
Dublin has been working with the Northern Ireland executive on the proposal and also has the backing of Ireland's Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), meaning it can use stadiums like the 82,300-capacity Croke Park.
Alongside Croke Park, there are another 10 gaelic grounds as big or bigger than the second-largest rugby stadium in the country, Munster's Thomond Park, although many will need major renovation to stage an international tournament.
In addition to Croke Park and Belfast's Casement Park, the other GAA grounds which would be part of the IRFU's bid are Pairc Ui Chaoimh, the Limerick Gaelic Grounds, Fitzgerald Stadium in Killarney and Galway's Pearse Stadium.
The GAA had to ask its members earlier this year to allow the stadiums to be opened up to other sports which it had previously done eight years ago.
In 2005 the GAA changed its rules to permit rugby and soccer to be played at Croke Park while the old Lansdowne Road was being upgraded.
Varadkar said it could potentially boost the ailing economy by as much as 800 million euros ($1.1 billion) with hundreds of thousands of fans coming to the country.
The World Cup will be hosted by England in 2015 and then Japan in 2019, the first time the tournament will be staged outside either Europe or the southern hemisphere powerhouses of New Zealand, South Africa and Australia.
"We see this is as having great potential for Ireland as an island and for the sport itself," said Irish Rugby Football Union Chief Executive Philip Browne, who has been working on the bid since 2011 alongside the two governments.
Cordina dominated from the opening bell of his super-featherweight contest halt the Russian inside a round.
It followed a fourth-round stoppage against Jose Aguilar on his professional debut on 22 April.
Cordina fought for Team GB at the Rio Olympics and was a bronze medallist at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
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The 34-year-old, who will compete for Ireland in the Rio Olympic Games next month, came home in a time of 0:58:23.
That left her one minute and 20 seconds behind American Kate Zaferes, who secured her first career victory, ahead of Rachel Klamer and Gwen Jorgensen.
Reid's performance equals her best result of the season as she was also 17th in Leeds on 11 June.
She was 40th in her first appearance in the series this year at Cape Town and was subsequently 48th in Yokohama and 21st in Stockholm.
The Derry woman lies 38th in the overall standings, with further rounds in Edmonton and Cozumel to come in September.
Reid missed the opening two rounds of the 2016 series in Abu Dhabi and the Gold Coast because of illness.
Lynette McKendry had inflammatory breast cancer in one breast and a different form of cancer in the other.
She had a double mastectomy in February and is on a phased return to work.
Mrs McKendry works for the Department of Justice and said it has fully supported her, but others have not been so lucky with other employers.
"I know of one girl whose line manager did not contact her for the entire six months she was off," she told BBC News NI.
"Then they were on the phone every two weeks asking her when she was coming back to work.
"I found that even when I was off colleagues were regularly in contact, they visited me so then I didn't feel so isolated from the workplace."
Mrs McKendry has chosen to work between home and the office, and said her employer and line manager had been excellent.
"I think it's critical that the employer is there to support the employee during their time off, as well as trying to get them back into work either during or after their treatment is finished.
"If the support isn't there then it can be a lot more traumatic."
She had tried hard to normalise an extremely difficult situation, said Mrs McKendry.
"I am trying to keep everything as normal as possible for the kids, for my husband and for me," she said.
There are currently more than 20,000 people aged 15 to 64 living in Northern Ireland with cancer and, according to Macmillan Cancer Support, people are often forced to leave work.
Paula Kealey, from the charity, said there needed to be greater awareness among employers about dealing with cancer.
"Almost half of people here living with cancer have to make significant changes to their working life after diagnosis, with some having to leave their jobs completely," said Ms Kealey.
"Employers have an obligation to do the right thing under the Disability Discrimination Act, which protects people who have cancer from discrimination at work.
"We are urging employers to have the conversation and to have flexibility."
Mrs McKendry's boss, Alison McIlveen, said: "We have a responsibility to do what we can and see how we can support people back into the workplace.
"It's important that we help them to normalise their lives and at the same time do our best to mitigate the impact it has on the business.
"For larger companies or employers that is easier than for smaller companies."
Brexit Secretary David Davis will ask for an interim period as part of the negotiations with Brussels.
A series of papers is being published this week.
On Wednesday, the UK government will set out its ideas for the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Slowly detail is emerging of what life could be like after Brexit.
Three ideas are mooted.
One proposal suggests a customs arrangement in which the UK would manage a new customs border with the EU.
Another proposes a new partnership with the EU, which would negate the need for a customs border.
The other suggestion is a temporary customs union.
That would allow the UK to develop procedures and put in place appropriate technology and also give businesses more time to adjust.
A third round of negotiations is due to take place in Brussels at the end of the month.
A spokesperson for the Irish government said it welcomed "indications that the UK is providing more clarity on its thinking".
"The UK's position paper on future EU-UK customs arrangements will be analysed in detail along with our EU partners," the spokesperson said.
"The paper is directed at the EU as a whole and will need careful consideration by the commission and all 27 EU member states."
Earlier this week, the chancellor and the international trade secretary said the UK definitely would leave both the customs union and the single market when it exits the EU in March 2019.
In a joint Sunday Telegraph article, Philip Hammond and Liam Fox said a "time-limited" transition period would "further our national interest and give business greater certainty" - but warned it would not stop Brexit.
Earlier this month, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar called for "unique solutions" to preserve the relationship between the UK and the European Union after Brexit.
On his first official visit to Northern Ireland, he raised the possibility of a bilateral UK-EU customs union.
The taoiseach described Brexit as "the challenge of this generation".
In response, the UK government said it wanted a special partnership with the EU, including an "ambitious free trade agreement and a customs agreement".
By now, most public Christmas trees have been erected and the lights switched on. But not everyone is happy.
Trees in Cardiff, Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot and Carmarthenshire have all drawn criticism, either for their size or the railings around them.
Cardiff council apologised when its £30,000 tree fell short of expectations.
The council said it had ordered a pre-decorated 40m - or 131ft - tree from China for outside Cardiff Castle.
But when it went up it was revealed to be just 12m (40ft).
A council spokesman said: "We apologise to everyone who was expecting a bigger tree and are cutting the person responsible down to size."
Commenting on Facebook, Doreen Richings said it looked like a "Ferrero Rocher tower", while Adele Morgan Parry said it was an "absolute monstrosity."
Helen Davies said she could not believe how "cheap and trashy it looked" and that she would "prefer no tree at all."
Size was not so much of an issue with Caldicot's tree in Monmouthshire, rather its direction.
Dylan Griffiths owns a tattoo business opposite the tree and was concerned "a gust of wind would send it through his window, or worse on top of somebody".
He said the tree "made him chuckle" because of how little effort appeared to have gone in to it.
Posting on Facebook, he said: "I'm sorry but I can't stop laughing at this abomination."
Caldicot Town Council said it had not received any complaints about the tree, but confirmed it would be replaced.
A spokesman said: "Following a routine inspection, it was identified that the tree had tilted and town council agreed to get the tree replaced.
"This has been arranged and will take place as soon as possible."
In Neath, residents have taken it upon themselves to improve the town's Christmas tree.
After seeing this year's offering by Neath Town Council, local resident Darren Bromham-Nichols organised a collection of Christmas decorations, but was told they could not be put on the tree for health and safety reasons.
Instead volunteers plan to decorate the metal railings around it on Saturday.
Speaking of the tree, Mr Bromham-Nichols said: "There's no excuse.
"I understand there are budget cuts, but you have to make the best of what you've got.
"The fence around it looks like something from Guantanamo Bay, and it has understandably let to some negative comments, which puts the town in a bad light.
"We are a beautiful, historical market town and although the council has fallen short, I want to encourage people in to shop and support the traders."
Neath Town Council has been asked for a comment.
At 10m (33ft), Llanelli's tree is bigger than last year, but some residents are still suffering from tree envy.
Joanne Yeo from Llanelli said: "The tree is pitiful and the people of Llanelli deserve better, much better.
"For a town of our size, the tree is simply inadequate. Carmarthen has beautiful, full, larger trees."
Llanelli AM Lee Waters said: "There's already a widely held view that Carmarthen gets a better deal than Llanelli, and it doesn't help when something as daft as this happens.
"This isn't the first time that our tree is the poor relation. I don't understand why they don't just buy the same tree for every town."
Carmarthenshire council's executive board member for leisure services, Cllr Meryl Gravell, said the authority had received "positive comments" about Llanelli's Christmas tree.
She said: "The Christmas tree is an annual addition to the naturally growing trees in Spring Gardens that carry the main display lights.
"Fencing around the base that has been the subject of criticism this year is required for health and safety reasons because it is not naturally growing and does not have the stability of roots."
The claim: The six strongest pro-Leave constituencies and the six strongest pro-Remain constituencies all have Labour MPs.
Reality Check verdict: The best estimates available suggest that two of the six most pro-Remain constituencies have SNP MPs, while three of the six most pro-Leave constituencies have Conservative MPs.
The EU referendum vote nationwide was close, with 48.1% voting Remain and 51.9% Leave.
But Remain voters tended to be clustered in big cities and in Scotland and Northern Ireland, while the Leave vote was more evenly spread.
This means that while a small majority of the country voted Leave, a large majority of the country's 650 parliamentary constituencies did so.
The votes in June were counted by council, of which there are far fewer - about 400.
This is because cities tend to have one council but several Westminster constituencies.
This means in most cases we cannot say exactly how each parliamentary constituency voted.
However, Chris Hanretty, an academic at the University of East Anglia, has used the results for local authorities to make detailed estimates for each constituency.
These are based on other things we know about the area, such as age, education, ethnicity and income, and how strongly those factors correlate with a vote for Brexit in the places where we know the vote at constituency level for sure.
Mr Hanretty estimates that most constituencies where Remain support was the highest did indeed vote Labour in 2015, although Glasgow North and Edinburgh North, both represented by the SNP, are exceptions.
But that's not the picture in the areas that most passionately backed Leave.
The Brexit vote was strongest in parts of eastern England, especially Lincolnshire, which backed the Conservatives in 2015.
Mr Hanretty estimates that Conservative-held Boston and Skegness was the constituency with the highest Leave vote.
It covers the Boston council area, which recorded the strongest vote to leave the EU of any local authority, and part of East Lindsey, another overwhelmingly pro-Brexit area.
It's true that some places where Leave support was strongest voted Labour in 2015, such as Doncaster North, Ed Miliband's constituency. But the Leave vote was highest in Conservative parts of eastern England.
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Environment Secretary Liz Truss, Lib Dem ex-energy secretary Sir Ed Davey and Green Party MP Caroline Lucas also signed a declaration saying the EU was "central" to tackling climate change.
But pro-Leave Marine Environment Minister George Eustice said quitting the EU would give the UK a stronger voice internationally.
The UK's EU referendum is on 23 June.
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The campaign to stay in the EU described the pamphlet signed by the four politicians as an "unprecedented partnership".
It accuses Leave campaigners of a "cavalier ignorance" about the environment.
This issue covers energy availability and environmental protections.
The "added clout" of other EU members allows issues such as illegally logged timber and commercial whaling to be tackled, they say, adding that the "global environment" will be under threat if the UK votes to leave.
EU membership also supports jobs in the "green economy" in the UK, they said.
Labour MP and Vote Leave co-chairwoman Gisela Stuart said the pro-EU campaign was "descending into absurdity".
"It seems there is no good in the world that they cannot somehow attribute to the EU and no imagined disaster they cannot predict if we vote leave," she said.
Mr Eustice said the EU had "systematically undermined the UK's place on international wildlife conventions" and said the country could "regain its voice" by leaving.
Simon Phillips, 28, is a dual French and British citizen, who was sitting with his girlfriend outside La Belle Equipe bar in the rue de Charonne in the 11th district, when two men opened fire on the terrace of the cafe.
Here, he describes what he witnessed on Friday and how it has affected those caught up in the attacks.
"What we experienced were scenes of war. Endless bullets were sprayed by the gunmen. It was complete and utter chaos. The noise of the bullets outweighed those of screams and sirens afterwards.
My girlfriend and I had to act dead so as not to be shot. The injuries some people there sustained were horrific.
There was a lady next to me who had clearly been shot. I was covered in her blood. I was looking at her trying to see if she was alive or dead - trying to balance discretion and survival.
She looked like she may have died. She lost a lot of blood.
I had to check to see if I had been shot as I had so much blood all over me, but it was from that woman.
When you're that close to death, you're thinking 'this is it, this is how I'm going to die'.
It felt like the shooting went on for ages. People were using tables as shields to try and protect themselves.
After the shooting stopped, my girlfriend and I tried to help people. People were crying and screaming and there was so much blood. When the emergency services arrived, we just watched in disbelief.
There were people lying wounded all around me and shattered glass everywhere. Lots of them were dead and injured.
We have been massively in shock and needed a few days before we could talk about it. We have had sleepless nights since. My muscles were so tensed up during the attacks that they have really ached since.
We feel extremely lucky to be alive, but we will need some advice or help to deal with it. I have been having nightmares and flashbacks since.
They were horrific scenes of distress to witness. We're all in the same boat, everyone who was there.
I was happy to leave Paris and get back to London and I've never said that before.
I live between the two cities. I've got dual nationality and I consider the area where the attack happened as my local area in Paris.
But the tension and stress level in the city since the attacks is so high. No one is comfortable. Everyone is in a state of high alert.
I'm not sure if I want to travel anywhere any time soon. When you've been in that position, you don't want to be in it again."
Interview by Stephen Fottrell.
The Gulf state has made little progress on improving migrant workers' rights, despite promises to do so, according to the rights group Amnesty International.
Qatar disputes the claims and says improvements have been made.
Here, we speak to three construction workers who have worked on sites in Qatar recently. They describe the conditions there as "pathetic" and "oppressive".
"I came to Qatar from Kenya last June to work on the construction sites here.
I got the work through an agency. I was paid $350 (£223) a month when I got here, which was a lot less than I was promised. I also spent a lot to get here - over $1,000.
I worked at sites building government schools near [the capital] Doha from June to November last year. There are a lot of infrastructure projects going on here, alongside the World Cup venues.
The main site that I worked on was not a good environment. The majority of the workers are uneducated, and the companies take advantage of them, so they cannot negotiate.
They just become helpers and are badly paid. Many just end up accepting it, as they cannot go back to their home countries, because they are supporting their families.
I am sending money back to my family. They are all looking to me, but I can't tell them what it is like here, or they would tell me to come home.
When I arrived, I was told that I would be working as an electrician, even though I am not trained, which is dangerous. I got an electric shock on the site once, but thankfully I was OK.
Conditions on the sites are very bad. You work all day out in the open in extreme heat. You start at 04:00 and work all day. There is no cold drinking water on the site, just hot water. It is very oppressive.
No-one will listen if you complain. We once went on strike because we weren't paid for a month. We were eventually paid, but the management didn't care about our complaints.
Life in Qatar is very expensive. The accommodation is provided through the company, but food and general living expenses make it hard to save anything. I try to send home what I can.
As for the accommodation, I would describe the conditions as pathetic. In the first place I stayed, Al Khor, there were 10 people to one small room, with five bunk beds and nowhere to put anything. The toilets were outside. It was all very inadequate and uncomfortable.
You also have to hand over your passport on arrival, so you can't leave. You feel trapped, like a prisoner.
I am now staying in a place called Industrial - where most of the migrant workers live. The hygiene here is very poor.
There are five to a room, which is a bit better, but it is not hygienic. I now work in a mall in sales after being allowed to leave my job at the construction sites. It is a bit better, but still not great.
Life is very hard here. I would like to see the lives of migrant workers here change. It's just a sacrifice now. There need to be improvements made to safety, salaries and accommodation."
"I am a truck driver working on the site of a new port project near Doha. I came here from Ghana a year and a half ago.
Honestly speaking, we are suffering badly at the hands of our employers, especially in the summer time, as it is now.
It is 40-50C here during the day, but there is no air conditioning in our vehicles, and we are breathing sandy air. At times the dust and sand flows in the air like snow.
There is nobody to fight for us. For almost two months now, my company has refused to pay our salaries. Our company is killing us because they don't want to give us the little reward we deserve.
My salary of $550 a month is very low for a driver like me. We have no days off to rest. This not only applies to me - it is the same with every worker at my company.
I start at 05:00 and work until 19:00, with two hours of transportation to the site and back each day.
Qatar has a labour office, but if you report your company, they will definitely send you back to your country. So everyone is too scared to report any problems.
I'm an orphan from a poor home. I couldn't finish my secondary school education.
I have been living in cabins in camps, separated by plywood. Almost all of the workers staying in these camps, are poor and come from countries in Africa and Asia, like Nepal, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. We all experience the same problems.
About 15-20% of the workers here have achieved some quality of living standard, with a good salary, due to their educational background, or they have been able to get work through good foreign companies.
But for the rest of us, the payment of salaries is a real headache.
How I wish I could save enough money to leave here to get to Europe or the US.
That's my ambition, because in Ghana, even graduates don't have work, so imagine how hard it is for people like me who had to drop out of school."
"I worked on one of the World Cup sites in Doha at the end of March. I left after two weeks, because the conditions were an absolute disgrace.
I work as a pipe fitter and supervisor and have been on construction sites all over the world. These were the worst conditions I've ever seen on any site.
Most of the workers at the site where I worked were Indian. They are treated very badly, and the conditions in which they live and work are terrible.
There is no drinking water available, there is no air conditioning in their cabins - and this was in 45C heat. They have filthy sanitation, and the food is dished out like in the Oliver Twist movie.
However, what's even worse is the on-site safety, or lack of it. It does not exist, and my friends and I, who went to work there together, were horrified at the risks taken every day on the site.
We were told that before we started there, one Indian worker had been killed.
The site was run totally by Indians, and they were treating their own people very, very badly.
But the upper management did not seem to care. They were just turning a blind all to it all. We were told by English managers that if we didn't like it to leave, so we did.
There were also other Brits, along with myself, who were treated just as badly.
We were paid a lot more than the Indian workers - they were on about $50 a week, and we were on closer to $33 an hour - but we were still ripped off because we left early."
Nottingham's Clinical Commissioning Groups said some services could be delivered in a "community setting".
Heather Peacock, from West Bridgford, who went into coma following the crash in 2015, said this would be a mistake.
Dr James Hopkinson, clinical lead at one CCG, said the measures were about getting "best value" for patients.
Ms Peacock was in a coma for eight weeks following the accident on 1 April which, along with her brain injury, left her with limited movement down her left side.
The 24-year-old, who has been receiving care at Nottingham's City Hospital, said the part of the proposals involved providing only 16 weeks of outpatient care for people with brain injuries.
"I'm very worried about future patients... I want everyone to get the amount of great care and support that I received," she said.
"I've been going back to outpatients for a year now and it has only been in the last few weeks that I have improved quite dramatically."
Seven hospital-based services, including neurology assessment and brain injury care, could be affected if the proposals go ahead.
The local CCG groups said those services based at Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) could be delivered in the community, closer to patients' homes.
Dr Hopkinson said: "We're aiming to ensure all those services are fit for purpose and meets the patients' needs and give the best value for money for the public and taxpayer."
The Health Service Journal said it had seen a leaked document to staff that said 13 services would be decommissioned by the CCGs this year.
One of its senior journalists, Shaun Lintern, said it referred an additional 17 services, which are not mentioned in the online consultation, but would be "redesigned".
He said many were to be finished and signed off by July which was "extremely ambitious."
Warriors' tie against Racing 92 was postponed on Saturday in the wake of events in the French capital.
England face France in a football friendly at Wembley on Tuesday and Blair believes it will be an emotional evening in London.
"Sport is something that brings people together, brings countries together," said 34-year-old Blair.
"From my experience of playing in France, when there is something to play for and emotion involved, that's when a team really gets behind each other.
"I hope the English supporters and French supporters really enjoy the game and get behind both teams."
Blair revealed the squad was "100% behind the decision" to postpone the game after a "distressing" evening in Paris.
The Warriors now need to refocus for Saturday's Champions Cup fixture against Northampton Saints at Scotstoun.
"Being there, we were very aware of what was happening and we need to be respectful to the people of Paris," explained Blair, who played in France with Brive.
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"But, from a sporting point of view, we need to try to move on as quickly as possible.
"People deal with these situations in different ways but one of the personality traits of top sportsmen is being able to 'park' things like that to concentrate on the matter in hand.
"It's like making a mistake on the pitch, you park that mistake and focus on what your job is.
"I'm aware that it sounds bad comparing something like that with what happened in Paris but I'm just trying to share an example of how you park an incident.
"You ask someone else and they might have it on their mind. The guys that I have spoken to are probably comfortable in dealing with their emotions.
"We now start with a home game against Northampton in front of a sold-out ground and everyone is looking forward to getting stuck in."
After going four games without a goal, Darren Way's side were clinical against a poor home side and should have won by a greater margin.
The Glovers took the lead through substitute Matt Butcher, who scored with a superb left-foot volley in first-half injury-time.
Butcher had only been on the field for a matter of minutes when the ball came to him on the edge of the Morecambe area and he unleashed a superb dipping volley that gave goalkeeper Barry Roche no chance as it crept under the crossbar.
Morecambe levelled eight minutes into the second half when Everton loanee Antony Evans scored for the second successive game as he stroked home a loose ball from six yards after Artur Kysiak had saved Paul Mullin's initial effort.
Way's side bounced back and added a second after 65 minutes through Alex Lacey. Ben Whitfield was the spark with a superb run and cross from the left-hand side that the Morecambe defence failed to clear and as the ball rebounded to the far post, Lacey was in the right place at the right time to put the ball over the line from close range.
The visitors then added a third seven minutes later when a left-wing corner was met by Bevis Mugabi who timed his run perfectly into the box to head past Roche from six yards.
Yeovil had golden chances to extend their advantage as Francois Zoko forced another fine save from Roche before missing an open goal after a shot from Kevin Dawson hit a post and bounced back into his path.
Whitfield blotted his copybook by dragging a shot wide from 12 yards when he should have done better and Tom Eaves wasted a similar opportunity when found again by the excellent Whitfield.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Morecambe 1, Yeovil Town 3.
Second Half ends, Morecambe 1, Yeovil Town 3.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Michael Duckworth.
Attempt blocked. Francois Zoko (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is blocked.
Paul Mullin (Morecambe) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Francois Zoko (Yeovil Town).
Foul by Ryan Edwards (Morecambe).
Matthew Dolan (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Peter Murphy (Morecambe).
Tom Eaves (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Paul Mullin (Morecambe) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Morecambe. Conceded by Liam Shephard.
Peter Murphy (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Matthew Dolan (Yeovil Town).
Attempt missed. Ben Whitfield (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Matt Butcher (Yeovil Town) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Foul by Paul Mullin (Morecambe).
Bevis Mugabi (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Tom Eaves (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Tom Eaves (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Matt Butcher (Yeovil Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Lee Molyneux (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Matt Butcher (Yeovil Town).
Attempt saved. Matthew Dolan (Yeovil Town) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.
Paul Mullin (Morecambe) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Matthew Dolan (Yeovil Town).
Substitution, Morecambe. Rhys Turner replaces Antony Evans.
Substitution, Morecambe. Luke Jordan replaces Kevin Ellison.
Attempt missed. Ben Whitfield (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Foul by Tom Eaves (Yeovil Town).
Alex Whitmore (Morecambe) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Francois Zoko (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Matthew Dolan (Yeovil Town) hits the right post with a right footed shot from outside the box.
Kevin Ellison (Morecambe) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Liam Shephard (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kevin Ellison (Morecambe).
Goal! Morecambe 1, Yeovil Town 3. Bevis Mugabi (Yeovil Town) header from very close range to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Ben Whitfield with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Barry Roche.
Attempt saved. Francois Zoko (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Foul by Liam Shephard (Yeovil Town).
The number of cases being lodged has risen dramatically and many of those include trademark disputes.
A case at the general court, which upholds European Union (EU) rules, can now take nearly four years to be heard.
One of those caught up in the backlog is David Kremer, president of Rubik's Brand Limited.
He has been involved in a battle dating back to 2006 to register the famous Rubik cube shape as a trademark.
"Clearly we thought it would be a relatively straightforward matter to decide whether or not a trademark was valid," he said.
"Obviously it's frustrating. If we'd had a clear, concise judgement that it was valid in, say, one or two years, we would have had a much more straightforward job in protecting the market and we would have sold more cubes.
"Pirate cubes are now being sold which can be dangerous, with sharp edges and so on."
Trademark cases have increased by 50% from around 200 to 300 a year.
The Rubik mark was first registered in 1999 but was challenged in 2006 by a German toy manufacturer.
The general court ruled in favour of David Kremer at the end of last year, but the German company appealed to the European Court of Justice.
"It seems however long you think it will take, it will take twice as long as that," Mr Kremer told Radio 4's You and Yours.
"You have to laugh about it. You can't put your business on hold; you just have to soldier on doing the best you can."
Five other companies have now registered claims for damages against the ECJ because of the delays in settling cases.
They include businesses in the Netherlands and France found guilty and fined for running cartels. If successful, compensation payouts could total £20m.
Christopher Fretwell from the ECJ said: "Regardless of the company or the person's behaviour, they have the right to have their case dealt with within a reasonable time.
"If not, they could be entitled to compensation. Clearly it is not good for a court to be sued for the length of time it is taking to deal with cases and this money comes out of the EU's budget, which is paid for by the taxpayer."
The court now wants to double the number of judges over the next four years to 56, at an extra cost of £10m a year.
In 2011, 12 more judges were supposed to have been appointed, but this never happened because the EU could not agree which countries they should come from.
The European Parliament now has to approve the new proposal.
Mrs Obama made her last late-night TV appearance as first lady on Jimmy Fallon's NBC show on Wednesday.
She has said Wonder is her favourite singer, and he was brought on to serenade her on Fallon's Tonight Show.
He sang Isn't She Lovely and My Cherie Amour, changing the words to "My Michelle Amour".
He also changed other lyrics in the song, with "How I wish that you were mine" becoming "You'll always be first lady in our life".
Mrs Obama has been in the White House with her husband Barack for eight years. Incoming President Donald Trump will be inaugurated on 20 January.
Wonder began his appearance on The Tonight Show by saying: "I love you, Michelle," before launching into Isn't She Lovely, during which he changed the chorus at one point to: "Michelle is lovely."
During the programme, Mrs Obama also played Catchphrase with comedians Dave Chapelle and Jerry Seinfeld, and surprised members of the public who were recording farewell messages to her.
Mrs Obama has been a regular visitor to The Tonight Show and the host's previous programme Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
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"Another important step in clearing up the mess left by the financial crisis," he tweeted at just after 7am.
The government had just announced that £13bn of former Northern Rock mortgages had been sold to the US investment firm Cerberus.
TSB announced shortly afterwards that it had bought £3.4bn of those mortgages from Cerberus.
In total, about 120,000 mortgage holders - who used to be customers of Northern Rock - now find themselves back in private sector hands.
The government has made it clear that the terms and conditions for those mortgages will not change.
Given the roller coaster ride those customers have been on since 2007, that must come as a relief.
As the Treasury slowly unwinds its stake in Northern Rock - held through a wholly owned subsidiary called Northern Rock Asset Resolution - the question "is the taxpayer getting their money back?" becomes more pertinent.
It is worth taking that question in a number of parts.
First, the direct injection of cash at the time of the bank's collapse to buy up the shares totalled £1.4bn, according to Treasury officials.
The "good bit" of Northern Rock - the accounts that were performing well - was later sold to Virgin Money for £1bn.
And the rest of the government's stake in Northern Rock Asset Management is now valued at more than £4bn.
So, on paper at least, the government is ahead.
Northern Rock also received a £29bn loan which is being paid back by what is known as UK Asset Resolution, the government-owned business that is running what remains of the failed assets of Northern Rock and Bradford and Bingley, which also went bust.
Just over £8bn of that loan is still outstanding.
But, the "costs" of the banking collapse go far wider than the direct financial help.
There is the wider economic cost of the recession that followed the banking crisis.
And the government and the Bank of England spent hundreds of billions of pounds providing insurance and cheap funding to the whole banking sector, which allowed the financial system to keep operating.
Northern Rock was one beneficiary of that.
In April, the National Audit Office estimated that the "peak support" received by Northern Rock from the government totalled £60bn.
It said that £25bn of that sum was still outstanding.
Even with today's sale, which brings that figure down substantially, the government still has some way to go to ensuring the taxpayer "gets their money back".
And, of course, that's not including any interest payments normally attached to loans and bailouts.
Sadly, these were not normal times.
Eleven Supreme Court judges unanimously rejected the Welsh Government's argument for AMs to be consulted before the UK government triggers Article 50 and formal divorce talks with the European Union.
The judges said the Sewel convention, although important for harmonious relationships between Westminster and devolved governments, is not a matter for the judiciary.
And it said that relations with the EU are a matter for the UK government.
But the Welsh Counsel General Mick Antoniw was clear as he emerged from the court:
"It's certainly a victory because it does two things. Firstly it upholds the sovereignty of parliament in terms of the government having now to bring a Bill to parliament on Brexit, which opens an opportunity to engage through the Sewel convention.
"We've never argued for a veto and the court made that point in terms of Sewel but what it did do was stress the importance of the Sewel convention as a process of engagement and I think that gives us strong comfort in terms of the arguments we made in the court being accepted by the Supreme Court today."
Under the Sewel convention, Westminster doesn't normally legislate in devolved areas without the consent of AMs. But if the judges have ruled that relations with the EU are reserved to the UK government, will the convention apply?
Although they may be no legal compulsion to consult AMs, MSPs or MLAs, politically they will be consulted, even if there is frustration in Cardiff, Belfast and Edinburgh at the nature of that consultation.
Brexit Secretary David Davis told MPs: "The Supreme Court has ruled clearly in the government's favour on the roles of the devolved legislatures in invoking Article 50.
"But while this provides welcome clarity, it in no way diminishes our commitment to work closely with the people and administrations of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland as we move forward with our withdrawal from the European Union."
Roberto Firmino's rebound and Daniel Sturridge's header gave the visitors a commanding 2-0 lead at half-time.
Bournemouth rallied after the break but Joshua King's stoppage-time strike came too late for a comeback.
The result lifts Liverpool up to eighth place in the Premier League table, while the Cherries remain 13th.
Liverpool made 10 changes from Thursday's momentous Europa League win over Borussia Dortmund as manager Jurgen Klopp named an inexperienced side.
The fringe players repaid the German's faith with an accomplished performance which preserved their record of having never lost against Bournemouth.
Liverpool still have a slim hope of finishing in the top four but winning the Europa League is their likeliest route to Champions League qualification - and Klopp's selection suggested he agrees.
Wales goalkeeper Danny Ward made his club debut and young defender Connor Randall was given a first Premier League start.
Jordon Ibe and his fellow winger, the less experienced Sheyi Ojo, shone as the Reds' youngsters seized control of the first half.
However, it was two established first-team players who made the most telling contributions.
Top scorer Firmino opened the scoring from a rebound after Artur Boruc had saved Sturridge's audacious backheel, before the England striker headed in Ibe's free-kick just before half-time.
A European hangover is an ailment which has undermined Liverpool's Premier League campaign.
Their victory against Stoke on 10 April was only the second time in eight attempts that Klopp's side had won after a Europa League fixture this season.
However, this mature display suggests the Reds are capable of finishing the campaign strongly on both fronts.
With six games left in the Premier League, Klopp now faces a balancing act between Liverpool's domestic commitments and a Europa League semi-final against Villarreal.
Given Leicester's extraordinary title challenge, Bournemouth's first Premier League campaign has somewhat passed under the radar.
A run of four wins from their previous six games had Eddie Howe's side targeting a top-half finish, though this defeat is a setback to those hopes.
Bournemouth were competitive throughout against Liverpool, testing Ward on numerous occasions in the second half.
Their perseverance was rewarded with King's low strike in added time, even if the goal was ultimately in vain.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp told BBC Sport: "They've never played together. They could have defended better, played a bit more football in the first half - but it was really, really good.
"Danny Ward was brilliant. Let the self-confidence grow of goalkeepers, they're normal human beings."
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Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe: "The goal came too late for us. We felt in the second half had we got that goal earlier it would have made an interesting end to the game.
"We were missing that spark, especially in the first half. You have to give Liverpool credit."
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A lawyer for the city said Ferguson's insurance company had paid $1.5m (£1.2m).
Michael Brown Sr and Lesley McSpadden sued the city and police force for wrongful death compensation.
The judge called the sum "fair and reasonable for this wrongful death claim".
The city's insurance could have paid a maximum of $3m, according to the St Louis Post-Dispatch. The money will be split between the parents and their lawyers.
US District Judge E Richard Webber authorised the payment on Tuesday, but ordered the figure to be kept sealed.
"Disclosure of the terms of the settlement agreement could jeopardise the safety of individuals involved in this matter, whether as witnesses, parties, or investigator," the judge wrote.
He added that the figure "provides for a reasonable amount" for legal fees and expenses incurred by the family.
However, state law requires that the figure be released, leading to city attorney Apollo Carey's disclosure on Friday morning.
The lawsuit filed by the parents in 2014 claimed that their son's death was due to a police culture of pervasive hostility towards African-Americans, the St Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
They claimed Officer Darren Wilson used excessive and unreasonable force when he shot and killed Michael Brown on 9 August 2014.
The death led to riots and intermittent protests, and helped spawn the Black Lives Matter social justice movement.
A jury declined to indict Mr Wilson, who has since left the police force, after finding there was sufficient evidence to prove he had been attacked by Michael Brown.
Saturday's 3-0 first-leg loss has left them with an uphill battle on Thursday.
No side has overturned a three-goal first-leg deficit to make a final in the 29-year history of the play-offs.
"It makes it such an uphill task but it's one which we can climb and I truly believe that," Whitney told BBC Sport.
"But I need to know the players believe that. We need a colossal performance. But it's no good in me having this belief and incredible optimism if they don't have it."
Walsall will start on Thursday with a minimum target of knowing that they have to score three times, regardless of whatever else might happen on the night.
They may feel perturbed that it is now over a year since they beat any team by three goals or more at Bescot - the 5-0 win over Crawley in April 2015.
Whitney's side are also up against a Barnsley side who have leaked just five goals in their last 12 eight games, keeping eight clean sheets in that time.
But they have produced some stunning shows on the road this term, notably the 4-0 early season win at Blackpool, the 4-1 victory at Chesterfield in March, Whitney's first game in charge, and the 5-0 final-day win at Port Vale.
"We have had performances this season where we have been unplayable," said Whitney. "One of those performances has got to come on Thursday night. We have got to rise to the challenge.
"The rewards are much, much greater if you can come back from something like that. I need players who play with pride. Every challenge has to mean something."
While no English play-off tie has ever been turned round from a three-goal deficit, Walsall boss Whitney only has to point to some of the more famous moments of past football history to prove that coming back from three goals down can be done:
1. Vicarage Road 1980 . . . Watford 7-1 Southampton
After winning 4-0 in their League Cup second round against Watford at The Dell, Southampton put out a weakened side in the return, even leaving out the then England captain Kevin Keegan. Watford got it back to 5-1 to take the tie to extra time, before scoring twice more to win 7-5 on aggregate.
2. Istanbul 2005 . . . AC Milan 3-3 Liverpool
Trailing 3-0 to AC Milan at half-time, a Steven Gerrard-inspired Liverpool scored three times in five minutes to peg it back to 3-3 with still half an hour to go at the Ataturk Stadium. The Reds then held their nerve through extra time to win 3-2 on penalties, for an English record fifth European Cup triumph.
3. St James' Park 2011 . . . Newcastle 4-4 Arsenal
Having gone 4-0 down to Arsenal inside 19 minutes, Joey Barton looked like he had only grabbed a consolation goal when he scored the first of his two penalties with 22 minutes left. After Leon Best had pulled another one back, Barton converted a second spot kick before Cheik Tiote's long-range equaliser with three minutes left.
4. Madejski Stadium 2012 . . . Reading 5-7 Arsenal
Arsenal looked down and out in their League Cup fourth-round tie at Reading, trailing 4-0 inside 37 minutes. Having got one back by half-time, Olivier Giroud's 64th-minute goal was followed by two in a minute late on to level at 4-4 - and the Gunners scored three more in extra time, Theo Walcott competing a hat-trick.
5. Anfield 2016 . . . Liverpool 4-3 Borussia Dortmund
After drawing 1-1 in Dortmund, Liverpool trailed 2-0 nine minutes into their Europa League quarter-final second leg. Now needing to score three times, they got one back only to concede again, to stand 4-2 down on aggregate with 24 minutes left. But they scored three more, the last a minute into injury time, to win 5-4.
It comes a year after officials opened an investigation into how the blue and gold braided beard came to be detached and then hastily glued back on.
The accused face charges of negligence and violating professional standards.
The 3,000-year-old artefact is one of Cairo's biggest tourist attractions.
Conservators at the Egyptian Museum had given differing accounts of the circumstances of the beard becoming detached.
One suggestion was that it had been knocked off accidentally, another that it had been removed after becoming loose.
Prosecutors said workers then "recklessly" tried to cover up the mistake, using large amounts of inappropriate glue in an effort to fix it.
In all, they made four attempts to reattach the beard, on the later three occasions also trying to remove evidence of their earlier failed efforts.
One report, in the Daily News Egypt, quoted prosecutors as saying: "Ignoring all scientific methods of restoration, the suspects tried to conceal their crime by using sharp metal tools to remove parts of the glue that became visible, thus damaging the 3,000-year-old piece without a moment of conscience."
Those due to face trial include a former director of the museum and a former director of restoration.
Last October, a team of conservators led by German experts began work to remove the damage and reattach the beard professionally.
Following successful restoration, the mask was put back on public display in December.
Police were called to Cairngorm Drive at about 15:.15 on Monday after the schoolboy was hit by a green Kawasaki motorbike.
The child was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
Jake Henry, 18, appeared in private at the city's sheriff court on Wednesday in connection with the incident.
He is alleged to have caused serious injury by driving dangerously, without insurance and without a licence.
He is also accused of failing to report an accident to the police and failing to identify himself to officers as the driver of a vehicle.
The teenager also faces a charge of acting in a threatening and abusive manner.
Mr Henry, of Aberdeen, made no plea and no declaration and his case was continued for further examination.
He was released on bail pending a further court appearance.
The tournament has been expanded to 24 teams and will last almost a month, with record crowds expected and every game shown live on the BBC for the first time.
Here, we look at the some of the personalities and plotlines to watch out for over the next four weeks.
It is four years since diehard Newcastle fan John Herdman and former AFC Wimbledon defender Tony Readings last stood on the touchline together at a Women's World Cup.
Then, Herdman was head coach of New Zealand and Readings was his assistant, but when the two 39-year-olds walk out in Edmonton on 11 June they will be rivals.
In 2011, Herdman swapped the Football Ferns for the Maple Leaf of Canada and Readings stepped into his old boss's shoes.
Fate has thrown the two sides together in Group A and Consett-born Herdman was delighted when he heard the draw.
The former Sunderland youth coach flourished with New Zealand, taking them to two Women's World Cups and the Olympics after becoming head coach in 2006.
Herdman began well after switching to Canada, picking the Canucks up after a disastrous 2011 World Cup to win Pan American Games gold and Olympic bronze.
Readings, who initially moved to New Zealand to play for North Shore United, made his tournament debut as Herdman's assistant and since stepping up has taken his Haka-dancing Ferns to their first Olympic quarter finals.
New Zealand have yet to reach the knockout stages of a World Cup, though, so Readings will make history if he gets the Ferns, ranked 17th, out of a group that also includes debutants Netherlands (12th) and tournament regulars China (16th).
Success for Canada, ranked joint-eighth with North Korea, is nothing less than the world title. Herdman believes it is possible, and the home nation will certainly be willing the Englishman on.
Taking over as head coach of a national side weeks before they are due to make a bid to qualify for a major tournament is brave.
But Thais were grateful that former assistant women's coach Nuengruethai Sathongwien accepted the challenge when she secured her nation's first place at a senior World Cup, men's or women's.
The first female head coach of Thailand's women delivered when her side beat rivals Vietnam 2-1 in a play-off for the last of five Asian places on offer.
It was a pressured match in Ho Chi Minh City, but star midfielder Kanjana Sung-Ngoen kept her composure to score two goals and a ticket to Canada 2015.
That victory ensured women's football dominated the media spotlight in this football-mad country in the weeks that followed the squad's return to Thailand.
Indeed, when they touched down in Bangkok the players were presented with garlands of flowers, serenaded by drum-banging fans and swamped by television crews, photographers and journalists.
The women were front-page news and many have gone on to become role models to boot - their talismanic player Sung-Ngoen receiving Facebook messages from girls inspired to take up the sport.
Thais will watch with interest to see if the sister of one of their more familiar role models, striker Teerasil Dangda, gets playing time in Canada.
Taneekarn Dangda, whose brother once trialled with Manchester City and played in La Liga, was on the bench against Vietnam.
The 22-year-old has some way to go before she can rival her brother's average of a goal every two games for his country.
But she and Thailand, ranked 29th in the world, will reach a World Cup before him.
Ivory Coast, ranked 67th, have no such bragging rights over their men, but they made history when they booked their place in Canada via the play-offs.
It will take even greater efforts to beat the world's top side Germany and 11th-ranked Norway, the clear favourites to progress.
When it comes to legends, the women's game has several, but when World Cup holders Japan defend their title in Canada, their squad will include one of the greatest.
Delicately featured but tough as old boots, free-scoring 5ft 4in midfielder Homare Sawa made her debut in this competition in 1995.
Twenty years on, Sawa will be at the party again, joining Brazil's Formiga as the only players to be picked for six consecutive finals.
Injuries meant it was touch and go for 36-year-old Sawa this time and she was included in the squad despite not having played for the Nadeshiko since May 2014.
Coach Norio Sasaki had watched the former women's world player of the year return for club side INAC Kobe Leonessa, though, and knows the difference Japan's number 10 makes.
"With Sawa's essence added, the team becomes more powerful," he said of the player who won the Golden Ball and Boot as she captained a humble and much-admired Japan side to the world title in 2011.
Sawa, who has twice played professionally in the United States, said she almost cried after being included in the squad for Canada.
The veteran swiftly repaid her coach by scoring in a warm-up win over New Zealand, her 83rd goal in 198 appearances.
The Asian Football Confederation Hall of Fame inductee will play a crucial role as world number four side Japan face debutants Switzerland, ranked 19th, Ecuador (48th) and Cameroon (53rd).
They call it the 'Group of Death' because it features three top-10 ranked nations and African champions Nigeria, but at least guitar-playing Sweden head coach Pia Sundhage might lighten the mood with a burst of song.
Team dinners, interviews, even the gala Fifa ceremony when she was crowned 2012 women's coach of the year; no matter the situation, Sundhage sings.
It was Bob Dylan's 'If Not For You' at the Ballon d'Or, Simon & Garfunkel's 'Feelin' Groovy' for the press at the 2011 World Cup when she was USA boss. All was not so great in the end - the USA lost to Japan on penalties in the final.
In 2012, however, they beat the Nadeshiko at Wembley to win a second Olympic title under her. It was fitting; in 1989 Sundhage scored for Sweden at the old Wembley, the first woman to do so.
The 55-year-old left Team USA shortly after London 2012 to become head coach of Sweden and a nation rejoiced at the return of a former striking legend who hit 71 goals in 146 appearances, including the winner to beat England to the 1984 European title.
World number five side Sweden meet the USA on 12 June and among the many familiar faces for Sundhage will be the Americans' new head coach, English-born Jill Ellis.
The 48-year-old former college player was once Sundhage's USA assistant, but their friendship will take a back seat in Canada; the world number two side are under pressure to win the title in their neighbour's back yard.
Both coaches will need to be on song, though, with world number 10 side Australia and 33rd-ranked Nigeria, featuring 2015 BBC Women's Footballer of the Year Asisat Oshoala, completing the group.
They call her "Ji Messi" in her homeland but now the world can judge whether South Korea starlet Ji So-Yun is worthy of comparison with the Barcelona legend.
On 9 June 18th-ranked side South Korea play their first World Cup match since 2003.
The stage is set for the battle of the number 10s, with Ji in the Taeguk Ladies' corner and superstar Marta in seventh-ranked Brazil's.
If awards are a guide, five-time world player of the year Marta will trump four-time Korea player of the year Ji.
But Emma Hayes, Ji's manager at Women's Super League side Chelsea Ladies, believes the PFA player of 2015 can hold her own.
"The world will see at this tournament what a top talent she is," says Hayes.
The youngest woman to score for her country (aged 15), Ji had been playing for top Japan side INAC Kobe Leonessa before Hayes snapped her up.
It was a canny move - the 5ft 2in tall 24-year-old is a family girl at heart but she settled immediately at Chelsea and was instrumental in the Blues' agonisingly close title tilt of 2014.
Ji, who honed her early skills playing football with boys, is on form again this season and scored to seal Chelsea's place in August's showpiece FA Women's Cup final at Wembley.
"One moment, one goal, and that's what the best players do," says Hayes. "She needs to be more tenacious defensively to become a complete player, but she's a fantastic learner."
Arsenal Ladies supporters, meanwhile, will be looking out for their own overseas import in Group E, Natalia Pablos, playing for 14th-ranked Spain, who make their debut along with Costa Rica (37th).
As grudge games go, England's opener against France on 9 June will be one of the most bitter.
In the last four years, Les Bleus have been the architects of the Three Lionesses' biggest tournament heartaches.
Chief among them was the crushing 2011 World Cup quarter-final penalty shootout defeat.
Equally humbling was the 3-0 Euro 2013 group stage annihilation that sent England home and effectively ended Hope Powell's 15-year tenure as manager.
Rewind to 2002 and you find France ending England's hopes of even reaching the World Cup after play-off wins home and away.
England's most capped player Fara Williams was there, once saying of the away tie in St Etienne: "Their fans were jumping on cages when they beat us. It was horrible."
It was formative, though, because as a consequence Powell called for - and won - resources for her team, such as conditioning experts, a psychologist and technical analysts.
Four years later England were fit for purpose, avenging 2002 by pipping France to a spot at the 2007 Women's World Cup courtesy of a tense 1-1 draw in Rennes.
That was the first time England had qualified in 12 years; they are now ranked sixth in the world and entering their third consecutive finals.
Head coach Mark Sampson, whose England lost to France in the 2014 Cyprus Cup final, needs his players to kick on in Canada and get beyond the quarters for the first time.
The Welshman admits that overcoming a world number three side that is ever improving under former France goalkeeper Philippe Bergeroo will be "a real tough challenge".
His players are ready. "I know all eyes are on France," says defender Alex Scott. "But these are the games you want to be in, so bring it on."
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Stephen Garrett scored the game's only goal with a low left-foot shot into the bottom corner in the 39th minute.
Andy Mitchell grabbed an 89th-minute winner as Dungannon Swifts defeated Glenavon 1-0 at Mourneview Park.
Adam Lecky claimed a hat-trick as Ballinamallard United drew 3-3 at Ards, with all six goals coming in a frantic 20-minute period in the second half.
Ards had coach John Bailie in charge for the game as manager Niall Currie watched from the side of the pitch, having been heavily linked with the managerial vacancy at Portadown.
Lecky blasted a right-foot shot past Aaron Hogg three minutes after the interval but Craig McMillen levelled three minutes later after his initial effort was palmed out by James McGrath.
Lecky's neat finish restored the Mallards' lead but Emmett Friars equalised again with a free header from a McMillen corner.
There was a hint of an own goal as the Fermanagh side took the lead for a third time but Lecky indicated that he scrambled the ball home to complete his treble.
Michael Ruddy restored parity with a 68th-minute penalty after Joe McKinney had been fouled by Ross Taheny to earn his side a point.
Gavin Dykes's outfit, who had failed to pick up a point in their previous six league outings, move above Carrick Rangers on goal difference into 10th spot in the table.
Garrett's seventh goal of the season proved enough to make it four league victories in a row for Cliftonville, taking advantage of some poor defending by the home side.
The Bannsiders had the better of the early openings but Jordan Allan squandered a good opportunity and then the same player headed against the woodwork.
The Reds wasted a gilt-edged chance to extend their lead before half-time, but Chris Johns dived to push away James Knowles' penalty after Steven Douglas had brought down David McDaid from behind inside the area.
It was a second successive league defeat for Coleraine, whose manager left out James McLaughlin, Neil McCafferty and Lyndon Kane because they are one booking away from missing the League Cup semi-final with Ballymena United on 13 December.
Cliftonville manager Gerard Lyttle: "I thought we were very solid defensively and if we keep clean sheets, we have players who can score goals.
"If we had been a wee bit more clinical with our chances in the second half, we could have been two or three to the good, but I am absolutely delighted with the effort, commitment and workrate from the boys."
Coleraine manager Oran Kearney: "Games are judged on goals scored and we weren't in top gear tonight.
"There were parts of our game that weren't quite there and I hoped we would have created a bit more. At times we were toothless to be fair."
Glenavon had lost just once in their last 13 games in all competitions before entertaining a Dungannon side who boasted just one win in their last eight matches.
In the first half, Greg Moorhouse saw his header well saved by Andy Coleman and Andy Hall's half volley from inside the area was deflected behind for a corner.
Jamie Glackin had a shot well saved by Jonny Tuffey, while the Lurgan Blues keeper also denied Mitchell, turning his close range effort behind for a corner.
Mitchell tucked home the winner at the back post from four yards out after meeting a right-wing Cormac Burke cross.
The win saw the Stangmore Park club move ahead of Glentoran into seventh position prior to Saturday's top-flight fixtures.
"I thought we deserved a point but credit to Dungannon - they kept going until the last minute and they got their goal. We got hit with a sucker punch near the end," said Glenavon manager Gary Hamilton.
Sue and Joe Davis from County Meath in the Republic of Ireland were so worried they posted their own video to correct the claim.
Their son, Daniel, was wrongly alleged to have broken into the home of an elderly woman on Halloween night.
The teen who posted the prank claim appeared in the video to apologise.
The boy's father also took part in the recording and apologised on his son's behalf.
The video, posted on 2 November, has been viewed more than 350,000 times.
The prank post wrongly alleged that Daniel Davis had been involved in a break-in and the assault of an elderly woman in Kinnegad on Halloween night and asked people to report sightings to Trim Garda (police) station.
No such incident ever occurred, police confirmed.
Speaking to Radio Ulster, Mrs Davis said: "I thought [Daniel] could have got a hiding, you don't know what sort of situation there could be - that he could get murdered, you just don't know."
She said she was optimistic the video would improve the situation.
"I'm a very positive person and I hope it did improve things.
"Obviously it's not going to change everything in life but hopefully it's put that awareness out there."
She said young people carrying out such pranks did not realise the effect they could have on people.
"I just think they shouldn't do it, they don't realise what the impact is, they don't realise that they could be causing someone to get a hiding, get murdered - they're causing a threat to the person that they're putting that out about.
"They're also defaming their character for the rest of their lives, that maybe if they get a job or whatever and somebody looks for them on Google, that might affect them in later life."
Speaking in her follow-up video, a distraught Mrs Davis said: "I just want you to see how severe it is, that a child can be slated in a situation that he didn't actually do anything wrong.
"And just to let you know how worried as a parent I am at the moment, because I'm afraid something is going to happen to him."
She added: "I just want us to get a message out there to people that's actually going to impact the silliness of kids putting up stuff like this."
Her husband said: "It's been shared all over Facebook and I've actually received phone calls with threats on his life, so if anyone else is thinking about putting anything 'funny' on Facebook, just think about it before you put it up."
On the eve of Sunday's anniversary, several hundred marched through the town in his honour, led by his father.
The shooting of the 18-year-old by white police officer Darren Wilson sparked demonstrations across America.
Along with killings of unarmed black men elsewhere in the US, it also fuelled a national protest movement against racial bias by the police.
Activists and religious figures from across the country are among those who have gathered this weekend in Ferguson, a suburb of St Louis, Missouri.
Saturday's rally was peaceful and heavily policed.
Some of those marching shouted: "Hands up, don't shoot", and "We do this for who? We do this for Mike Brown."
Mr Brown's father, also called Michael, said: "Some families got justice through Michael Brown's legacy, and that helped them. But I'm still trying to get through."
On Sunday, a march is planned from the site of the shooting to a local church.
Participants are expected to observe a 4.5 minute silence to reflect the approximately four-and-a-half hours that Mr Brown's body lay in the street.
The protests, which sometimes involved violent clashes between demonstrators and police, continued in Ferguson for weeks after the killing.
The protest movement gained fresh impetus in November, when a grand jury decided not to charge Mr Wilson.
How shooting sparked national protests
Mr Wilson, who argued that he was acting in self-defence, resigned from the police force in November.
In March, a justice department investigation found evidence of widespread racial bias in the Ferguson police department.
The report led to several high profile resignations, including the chief of police.
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of people arrested are African Americans, whereas only:
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96% of people arrested for outstanding municipal warrants are African American
95% of "Manner of walking in roadway" charges were against black people
90% of documented force was against African Americans
30% of searches of white suspects resulted in a contraband finding - compared with 24% of black suspects
The "Black Lives Matter" movement that emerged in the wake of Mr Brown's death has focused attention on the troubled relationship between black communities and police forces in a number of US states.
Another police shooting of an unarmed black man took place on Friday.
College football player Christian Taylor, 19, was shot dead after police were called to a possible burglary at a car dealership in Arlington, Texas.
Officer Brad Miller, who had never before fired his weapon in the line of duty, has been placed on administrative leave.
Within a roughly 30-metre radius of Michael's grave there are at least 15 homicide victims. The youngest was a 15-year-old. Most of them were shot. There are also deaths by suicide, cancer, car accidents, but for those under the age of 30, the predominant cause of death is homicide.
Buried beside Michael Brown
The highest number of registrations was on the day itself, with 147,000 people registering online after Theresa May fired the election starting gun, along with 3,364 paper forms being submitted.
This was the biggest total recorded for a single day since the EU referendum campaign in 2016.
And the number of young people registering is the highest of any age group.
Although numbers have begun to drop off, there are still significant numbers of voters making sure they can have their say at the ballot box.
On Wednesday, 83,000 registered, both online and on paper, with a further 62,400 on Thursday and 52,700 on Friday.
There had already been a steady stream of voters signing up ahead of the local elections being held on 4 May.
A spike in the numbers on 7 April, which saw 84,600 people register in one day, has been attributed to a Facebook reminder that went out to users across the UK.
The next highest day was 12 April, when 30,700 registered - a day before the registration deadline for the local elections.
But on 16 April, two days before the general election was announced and after the deadline had passed for the locals, the number was down to just 5,661.
After campaigning to get more people registered in time for the last general election in 2015 and the EU referendum in 2016, the Electoral Commission said the deadline to register was "a significant motivating factor", with a spokeswoman adding: "A large number of people apply to register in the days immediately before and on the deadline itself."
The biggest group getting their applications in to vote during this surge is young people.
Rachael Farrington, university student and founder of Voting Counts - a campaign to encourage voters to register - said the general election was a chance for young people to have their say.
"I think it is so easy to fall into the habit of not voting," she said on her blog. "Many don't really see how politics affects them or their lives on a day to day basis.
"To this I'd say think about what you care about, is it the education of yourself or children, the local community spaces, healthcare, or jobs in your local community?
"Usually, whatever issue it is that you care about is influenced by politics in some way, so you should at least vote so that you have a say in making sure that issue is dealt with in a way you see fit."
On the day the general election was called, 57,987 people under 25 registered to vote - more than any other age group. The second largest group was people aged between 25 and 34, with a further 51,341 registering.
The number of new registrations declined the older people got:
The previous Facebook-related spike on 7 April actually saw the 25-to-34 group with the most registrations - 31,211 people - but this was followed in second by the under-25s, with 22,138 registrations.
Just 3,175 people 65 or over registered on that day.
Emma Hartley, head of campaigns at the Electoral Commission, said: "It's really encouraging that so many young people have registered to vote recently, as our research shows that along with students and recent home movers, they are particularly less likely to be registered."
But with another month until voter registration closes, there is more to be done to get people to their polling stations on 8 June.
Mariam Inayat Waseem, trustee and director of the British Youth Council and a student at Newcastle University, said: "You only have to go onto social media to see how politically engaged young people are, but they are not involved in traditional ways.
"Young people feel disillusioned. Decisions about their futures are being made by people without them being part of the conversation.
"These decisions being taken by politicians are going to affect us, the young people, way more than they will those people who are implementing them, so we need to go out and vote and make our voices heard."
The deadline to register for the general election of 2017 is 22 May.
"I immediately said yes for one reason and one reason only… Netflix rhymes with Wet Chicks," joked the star of Happy Gilmore and The Wedding Singer.
Netflix's members will have exclusive access to the four films.
The multiple movie deal follows the site's announcement it is to release its first feature-length film, a sequel to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
In a statement, Netflix called Sandler "a unique and prolific comic voice" and "one of the world's top film stars".
"Let the streaming begin!" said the 48-year-old, who will shortly be seen as a philandering husband in Jason Reitman's film Men, Women and Children.
The former Saturday Night Live star's other films include The Waterboy, Grown Ups, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry and the critically acclaimed Punch-Drunk Love.
"People love Adam's films and often watch them again and again," said Netflix's Ted Sarandos. "His appeal spans across viewers of all ages... not just in the US but all over the world."
Founded in 1997 as a postal DVD rental service, Netflix has more than 50 million subscribers in more than 40 countries.
The firm already produces its own TV programmes, notably the politically-themed House of Cards and prison drama Orange is the New Black.
The 26-year-old will join Ulster following the Super Rugby season with the Southern Kings franchise.
The loosehead prop had a recent stint in France with Montpellier after playing provincial rugby in his homeland.
"Schalk is a talented player who I've been really impressed by," said Ulster director of rugby Les Kiss.
Van der Merwe earned 25 Super Rugby caps for the Lions in 2014 and 2015.
"He was the cornerstone of the Lions scrum that dominated for a couple of Super Rugby seasons," added Kiss.
"In addition to his excellent scrummaging, he will give us some much-needed physicality in the loose, and this will be a major plus for us in the seasons ahead.
"He has a hard edge and he's determined to work hard to nail down a starting place here at Ulster.
"His arrival will give us much improved depth at loosehead, with Kyle McCall, Andy Warwick and Callum Black also on the books.
"As we've seen this season, injuries, particularly in the front row, mean that at times we're required to delve deep into our pool of resources."
He may be chief executive of the German domestic appliance company Miele, he may have factories to oversee, meetings to go to, and pricing strategies to discuss, but a Miele customer from the UK has written to him personally to inquire about a replacement part for his vacuum cleaner and Mr Miele is eager to help him.
But the vacuum cleaner broke six years ago and it was already nearly 30 years old then. He thinks he can find a replacement for the cleaner's broken door, but not unfortunately in the correct colour, which he finds disappointing.
It's not clear whether he is sharing this detail to explain away his tardiness, or to illustrate the company's evangelical devotion to keeping their products working in perpetuity.
But it's a strategy that on the surface makes no sense. Wouldn't Miele make more money if people replaced their appliances just a little more frequently?
Mr Miele says that's not the way they think.
"We like the appliances to last, because not everyone wants to change all their things every day," he says.
Fortunately Miele doesn't only sell vacuum cleaners. A customer impressed with his vacuum cleaner can come back for a washing machine, a tumble dryer, a cooker, or a coffee machine. It's brand loyalty the company is after.
And as they like to point out at Miele, no-one enjoys reading a new instruction manual.
"People like to change their mobile phones more often, or TV sets maybe, but not your washing machine or tumble dryer. It's a replacement market we're in," says Mr Miele.
It's a strategy, readily associated with German manufacturing, from hi-fi to industrial machinery, build quality products that last, and you'll win over customers in the long run.
And it is working for Miele. Despite the fact that a typical Miele machine costs around twice the mid-market standard one, sales are growing year-on-year.
But recent trends are making those customers a little harder to win over and keep.
Like a BMW on the drive or a Hermes handbag, kitchen appliances are becoming increasingly about aspiration. You can blame celebrity chefs, or the revival of the kitchen-diner. Or put it down to the growth of middle class spending power.
As the latest hi-tech features migrate from our phones to our homes, machines that were previously merely functional, have become a fashion statement, from American-style fridge-freezers to your at-home barista station.
Competition is hotting up. Both fellow German brands like Bosch and Siemens and far eastern ones, such as Samsung, are targeting the kind of well-heeled customer Miele holds dear.
With so many new features on offer customers may be tempted to upgrade more often after all.
And the quality of less expensive brands is catching up. While it might seem as though your appliances are constantly failing and needing replacing, Anthony Williams at market research company, GfK, says the trend is actually for improving durability.
"Evidence suggests manufacturers are putting in money to ensure good build quality," he says.
"There are so many standards that now have to be adhered to, particularly for hi-tech products, by the nature of the product they have to make sure the [manufacturing] environment is very carefully monitored."
Mr Miele refuses to be cowed by these challenges.
From the time when his great-grandfather developed the company's first washing machine out of a butter churn, their strategy has been to focus on durability.
In demonstration, Mr Miele takes a one euro coin and hammers the front of a brand new washing machine with it. It is a hard currency still, he quips. Yet it leaves no mark on the machine's enamel surface.
Here at Miele's Gutersloh headquarters, washing machines operate around the clock to check they can withstand the equivalent of 20 years of use. And walking across the factory floor we pass a shift worker employed to rub a ladies nylon stocking around every drum the company produces to check for snagging.
The backbone to this rigorous quality control, though, is maintaining a tight-knit operation.
"We have a lot of our production concentrated in Germany, more than 90%" says Mr Miele.
"With our own factory it's of course much easier to control the quality because we talk to our own people, and if something goes wrong they can react very fast." They don't outsource any components.
None of this means a Miele machine is cheap to produce.
Yet the management has come under no pressure from its shareholders to switch production overseas, or to chase more customers by moving downmarket. That's because the firm is still owned and run by the two families that first established it.
Mr Miele splits his role with a co-chief executive Reinhard Zinkann - the great-grandson of the other of the company's original founders.
Mr Zinkann says filial devotion to the Miele cause has brought them a long way.
"If two partners know from the very beginning that they are in a marriage that cannot be divorced, because if they divorce then it will be the end of the company, then that is very helpful."
And, unlike some other privately-owned German brands, so far they've managed to avoid high-profile fall-outs at the top. Mr Zinkann says in the 24 years he's been at Miele every management and every shareholder decision has in the end been taken unanimously.
It's all quintessentially German - family-owned, a long-term perspective, engineering prowess and attention to detail.
But if in the past that might have been seen purely as a strength, after the recent scandal at Volkswagen, "brand Germany" looks suddenly vulnerable.
Tosson El Noshokaty, from the Berlin branding consultancy, Prophet, thinks this will present a new challenge to the company.
"No one would have expected a German brand to be the Lance Armstrong of the motor industry," he says, and that undermines any company, from Leica to Heckler & Koch, that trades on the country's reputation for engineering prowess.
"Miele is really playing out German engineering, as a core essence of their brand," he says.
"Their story is German engineering perfection," he says. "That's why you'll have these side effects."
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Left-wing incumbent Hugo Chavez, first elected in 1998, is being challenged by opposition leader Henrique Capriles.
Mr Chavez wants to continue what he calls his socialist revolution while Mr Capriles has promised to restore economic growth.
Almost 19 million Venezuelans are eligible to vote in the election.
Turnout has been high and voting was extended beyond the official closing time of 18:00 (22:30 GMT) at some polling stations where big queues formed.
Mr Chavez - who is seeking a fourth term in office - was diagnosed with cancer last year but says he has now fully recovered.
By Sarah GraingerBBC News, Caracas
Long queues had formed at polling stations in Caracas before the sun had risen. One man told me he'd come straight from his night shift to vote. The queues lengthened as the day went on, with many eager to cast their vote in what is likely to be the tightest presidential election race here for over a decade.
Venezuela's computerised voting system is meant to be quick and efficient. But electoral officials say they are prepared to keep some voting centres open if there are still queues at 18:00 local time (22:30 GMT), when the voting is due to stop.
With everyone focused on the elections, the city is extremely quiet, with few cars on the roads. The sale of alcohol is banned during elections but as the day winds up, supporters on both sides will be getting ready to celebrate their possible victory.
As he cast his ballot in Caracas, Mr Chavez said the results of the elections should be respected.
"Let's support the results and let's support the people and let's support this democracy and the Venezuelan republic will continue on its path of growth," he said.
Mr Capriles also voted in Caracas, saying that no matter what the outcome, Mr Chavez was the first person he would call once the results were announced.
A colourful and often controversial figure on the international stage, President Chavez, 58, has nationalised key sectors of the economy.
Venezuela is a major oil producer and high oil prices over the past decade have allowed his government to fund health-care, education programmes and social housing.
He says he needs another term to complete his "Bolivarian Revolution" towards socialism.
However, Mr Capriles, 40, and the opposition say the president's policies have led to bureaucracy, inefficiency and shortages.
They also accuse Mr Chavez of authoritarianism, and of suppressing the judiciary and silencing critics in the media.
BBC Mundo correspondents in the capital Caracas say Chavez loyalists have been using trumpets to sound a "wake-up" call for voters.
Mr Capriles' supporters were also banging pots in the street in what they called their "goodbye song" for Mr Chavez, our correspondents say.
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Defence Minister Henry Rangel Silva said the armed forces had identified some groups planning to cause public disturbances but said violence was "unlikely", the state news agency AVN reported.
He also warned those who he said may be thinking of stirring up trouble that troops were on stand-by to quell any disturbances.
Queues formed early outside schools used as polling stations.
Gerardo Montemarano, who was already waiting to vote when the polls opened, brought a chair with him. "I knew there was going to be a long queue," he told the BBC.
About 100,000 Venezuelans, including about 2,000 in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, are registered to vote at diplomatic outposts around the world.
Hundreds of opposition supporters gathered outside the consulate in central London as expatriates cast their ballots.
"I don't support this government," said voter Rebecca Anaya. "I am here because I cannot live in that country. The security situation is the worst thing in the world."
Both candidates have been using social media to urge voters to cast their ballots.
A week before the election, three opposition activists were killed during a campaign rally, while four people were injured in a shooting during a voting rehearsal in September.
From Saturday evening to Monday evening, the sale of alcohol has been banned and only the security forces will be allowed to carry arms.
Newport council has applied for Heritage Lottery funding for repairs, maintenance and a bigger visitor centre.
The charity that helps run it hopes it could lead to extended opening hours - attracting 40,000 visitors a year.
The council's heritage officer said the work would secure the bridge's future.
The money is needed to carry out repairs to the Grade I-listed structure and restore its Edwardian gondola back to its former glory as parts of the original have been removed.
The council also wants to create a bigger and better visitor centre with improved facilities, which The Friends of the Newport Transporter Bridge (FONTB) charity hopes could include more parking and a cafe.
Work to strengthen a bridge on the east approach to the Transporter Bridge could also be carried out, as well maintenance on cables which strengthen the upper boom between the two towers.
The bridge attracts more than 20,000 people from all over the world every year and is open from 29 March to 1 October.
David Hando, chairman of FONTB which runs the visitor centre, said the aim was to improve the tourist experience in a bid to double that figure.
"The preservation of the bridge is the most important thing but then to get a new more workable visitors centre would be ideal so that we can do our work properly," he said.
Mike Lewis, Newport council's museums and heritage officer, said if the council was successful in getting funding, the project would mean no major work would be needed for another 30 years.
He said: "The bridge is of a structure - it's metal, it's in an aggressive environment, it's always rusting, it just never stops, so every so often we have to invest in repairs and maintenance beyond the norm and this is what this project is about, really.
"It's about making sure this bridge is available for our children to go and visit and see."
Opened in 1906, the bridge was built at the request of steelworks owner John Lysaght, who wanted workers living on the Pill side of the River Usk to be able to get to the factory on the side quickly.
A gondola, suspended from cables attached to a high level boom, transports cars, cyclists and pedestrians across the water.
Thirty-one-year-old Pierce Boykin was arrested on Monday and charged with a number of offences including aggravated assault and attempted murder.
An unidentified 27-year-old man is seriously ill in hospital with wounds to his arms and side.
The attack happened outside a bar in Philadelphia after an argument.
Another man, Devon Pickett, was killed in the same incident.
"The gentleman who is in custody is only charged with the stabbing of the male who is in critical condition," a Philadelphia police spokeswoman said.
"It is still an active investigation, our homicide unit is still working the case."
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Ekrem Dumanli, editor-in-chief of Zaman, was among eight suspects freed after being held on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government.
Four others, including a TV station boss, have been kept in custody.
It comes as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cracks down on supporters of Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen.
The raids at the weekend took place a year after corruption allegations against allies of Mr Erdogan emerged. He said it was a plot orchestrated by Mr Gulen's supporters to topple him - something Mr Gulen denies.
The chairman of Samanyolu TV, Hidayet Karaca, was among those detained. A court in Istanbul ordered on Friday that he and three others continue to be held.
Samanyolu TV is among the media organisations with close ties to Mr Gulen, the spiritual leader of the Hizmet movement and a rival of Mr Erdogan.
Some 23 people - including journalists, producers and scriptwriters - were arrested during the raids on accusations of forming an illegal organisation and trying to seize control of the state.
Critics say the police operation is an attempt to silence free press.
Turkish media reports said on Friday that a warrant had been issued for the arrest of Mr Gulen.
Earlier this year there were moves to extradite him from the US, where he has lived in self-imposed exile since 1999.
Richard Carey said he was disappointed the relationship between some senior medical staff and senior management appeared to have broken down.
His departure date is being finalised.
It follows NHS Grampian chairman Bill Howatson announcing his resignation just over two weeks ago.
Malcolm Wright, chief executive of NHS Education for Scotland, has been appointed as the interim chief executive.
Accident and emergency consultants have been warning staffing shortages at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary could put patients at risk.
In a letter to staff, Mr Carey said: "Recent months in NHS Grampian have not been easy.
"It is clear that a cohort of senior medical staff no longer have confidence in the leadership of the organisation, both at board and executive level.
"This has been a source of great disappointment to me. When confidence and trust break down it is difficult to move forward collaboratively.
"I have reflected very carefully on what would be best for the organisation going forward and have reluctantly decided that the time is right for someone else to take over as chief executive.
"This has been a difficult decision to take but I hope it is the right one."
Health Secretary Alex Neil said: "I would also like to thank Richard Carey for the years of dedicated service he has provided to NHS Scotland and wish him well for the future."
In September, casualty consultants raised concern about staffing shortages at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, with one medic describing the situation as a "perfect storm".
It was the second time doctors had voiced concern, after saying in June they would not be able to provide the safe care of patients because of staffing levels.
At the time NHS Grampian bosses said they were working hard to resolve the situation.
Alastair Cook (176) and Matt Prior (91) kept England alive on day four, but when they both fell to Pragyan Ojha, the tourists were on the way to defeat.
England were bowled out for 406 before lunch as Ojha finished with 4-120.
Set 77 to win, India lost Virender Sehwag, but Cheteshwar Pujara took them to victory inside 16 overs.
"The best team won. India's batsmen applied themselves better and they've had two spinners who have bowled well, while their seamers also bowled better than ours. History shows they're a tough nut to crack in their own conditions."
Pujara, opening in place of the absent Gautam Gambhir, added 41 to his first-innings double century as he and Sehwag raced towards their modest target.
Sehwag was well held by Kevin Pietersen at long-on off Graeme Swann, leaving Virat Kohli to drive Swann down the ground and seal England's seventh loss in 12 Tests this year.
The home side fully deserved their lead in the four-match series, having had the better of all but two sessions in the match, while England must improve in all departments when the second Test in Mumbai begins on Friday.
The efforts of Cook and Prior, who shared a sixth-wicket stand of 157, just about kept England competitive after their first-innings collapse to 191 all out.
Between them, the captain and wicketkeeper scored 356 runs in the match, while the rest of England's frontline top seven - Pietersen, Nick Compton, Jonathan Trott, Ian Bell and Samit Patel - managed only 114.
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The failure of the majority of England's top order had echoes of the 3-0 Test series defeat by Pakistan and the failed defence of the World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka, when they struggled to deal with high-quality spin on slow, Asian pitches.
The visitors can at least take heart from the way Cook and Prior dealt with India's slow bowlers in the second innings - Ravichandran Ashwin went 54 overs without taking a wicket - but 13 England wickets in the match fell to spin.
That fact seems to suggest that England's selection of only one frontline spinner in Swann was a mistake, while the pace trio of James Anderson, Tim Bresnan and Stuart Broad failed to find any of the reverse swing exploited by Indian pair Zaheer Khan and Umesh Yadav.
Cook's men can justifiably argue that their bowlers created chances - four catches were missed on a first day when India racked up 323-4 - but this highlights that fielding is another area that requires improvement.
One enforced change will be made, with Bell returning home for the birth of his child, while left-arm spinner Monty Panesar and pace bowler Steven Finn - if fully recovered from a thigh injury - could come into the reckoning.
Whatever tweaks England make to their attack, this match was lost by their first-innings batting.
Cook and Prior saved them from an innings defeat on the fourth day and needed to do the bulk of the work on day five if the tourists were to avoid defeat.
They survived the first half an hour, only for Prior to miss out on a deserved century when, playing back, he tamely patted a return catch to left-armer Ojha.
Cook had defied India for more than four sessions on his way to the highest score by an England batsman following on, but his resistance was broken four overs after Prior fell by one that turned and kept low.
England's demise was only a matter of time, especially with Broad offering a leading edge back to Yadav.
The counter-attacking Swann was bowled attempting to reverse-sweep Ashwin, before Bresnan drove Zaheer to cover.
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It means that she can now be selected to represent Great Britain at international climbing competitions this year.
Anya, who is one of the youngest members of the GB development team, will also get specialist training as part of the squad.
Climbing will be included as a sport at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Two militants carried out the "commando" attack, the IS-affiliated news agency Amaq said. Authorities said the death toll had risen to 33.
The blast, which struck the Jawadia mosque, coincided with evening prayers at around 20:00 local time (15:30 GMT).
Both attackers - a suicide bomber and a militant armed with a firearm - died.
Amaq made the announcement on Wednesday using the messaging app Telegram.
Authorities in Herat said that a further 66 people were injured in the attack. Militants threw grenades when they stormed the packed mosque in the predominantly Shia Muslim area.
Herat, close to the border with Iran, is considered one of Afghanistan's more peaceful cities.
On Wednesday, protesters chanted anti-IS slogans as they carried victims' coffins through the streets of Herat, AFP news agency reported.
Demonstrators chanted "death to Daesh [IS]" and "down with fundamentalism" as the coffins were placed near the Jawadia mosque.
A spokesman for the Taliban, which has struck Shia mosques in the country before, earlier condemned the attack in a text message sent to reporters.
The incident took place one day after a battle at the Iraqi embassy in the capital, Kabul, which also saw gunmen launch an assault following a suicide explosion. IS said it had carried out that attack.
Areas dominated by Shia Muslims in Afghanistan have been hit by attacks repeatedly in the past year, by both IS and the Taliban.
Many of the casualties have been civilians, with injury numbers rising for the past five years as attacks increased.
In May, a huge bombing in the centre of Kabul killed more than 150 people, the deadliest militant attack in the country since US-led forces ousted the Taliban from power in 2001. It is not clear what the intended target was.
Full-back Hogg, 25, withdrew from the British and Irish Lions tour prematurely with a facial injury, and has also had an underlying shoulder problem operated on.
Lock and Glasgow team-mate Gray, 23, had surgery on a wrist injury after returning from Scotland's June tour.
Both are doubts for Scotland's three autumn internationals in November.
The pair will also miss the opening rounds of the Pro12, and the European Champions Cup.
Warriors winger Ratu Tagive is also sidelined for between six and nine months after rupturing his Achilles during pre-season training.
The 26-year-old is on a partnership contract with Currie Chieftains in the top tier of Scotland's amateur game.
Chiefs head coach Dave Rennie succeeds Gregor Townsend as Warriors boss ahead of the coming season, after his commitments in New Zealand have been fulfilled.
As a consultant in geriatric medicine, he is an unlikely addition to the Moor Park Health and Leisure Centre, where schoolchildren queue for swimming lessons and people grab coffees between Zumba lessons.
"Moving out of the hospital and into the community is the best thing I've done as a consultant."
Dr Weatherburn works on the Fylde Coast, an NHS Vanguard area. The local health service here is pioneering a new model of working, which could become a blueprint for the rest of the NHS.
Blackpool and Fylde suffer from many of the problems that plague the NHS nationally. With constantly increasing demand and a shortfall in supply, the local services have been under considerable strain for years.
Add to that a higher than average elderly population, which is set to double by 2030, and the local health service begins to look unsustainable.
"It's about 3% of our population that use about 50% of the resources," says Dr Tony Naughton, the head of the clinical commissioning group in Fylde.
As a part-time GP, he understands the need for an accurate diagnosis so their first innovation was to use patient data to work out who was actually using the services.
They were predominantly elderly and tended to suffer from more than one long-term condition. Rather than waiting for these patients to arrive at A&E, the Fylde Coast district set up the Extensive Care system, targeting resources on actively trying to keep them healthier.
Rather than providing temporary fixes every time a patient is in hospital, this model takes a more holistic approach.
"These patients were going off to see a kidney specialist and then a diabetic specialist and then a heart specialist. They had a career in attending hospital, whereas this service wraps all of those outpatients appointments together and looks at each person as an individual, rather than as a heart or as a kidney."
Dr Naughton explains that to make this more joined up system work, it was taken out of the rigid departmental structure of the hospital and placed firmly in the community.
Dr Weatherburn, at his clinic in the leisure centre, believes the benefits are obvious. "I definitely know my patients much better now."
While in hospital, he would have had about 10 minutes to assess a patient's most urgent needs. Now every patient who is referred to them receives a thorough two-hour assessment with a group of medics, who then hold a meeting to come up with a co-ordinated treatment plan for each one.
This system uses welfare workers as well as medics to manage each patients needs.
"Somebody may come in with a chest infection, but that maybe because they're not eating properly or they have a damp house. Now, I can't write a prescription for a dry house, but I can put them in touch with someone who can help with their housing problem," explains Dr Naughton.
The welfare workers spend more time with the patients, helping them with broader social issues and finding ways of managing their illnesses at home. Their job is really to empower patients to take control of their own health.
Dr Weatherburn says it is working. "It's often the little things that made the big difference. It's not the big medical interventions and fancy tests, it's helping with loneliness, and helping the carers and families as well."
This may sound expensive, but the scheme should pay for itself. The new welfare workers are not medically trained so employment costs are lower, but their intervention can solve underlying problems which keep people coming back to A&E.
The results are certainly impressive. After a year-and-a-half of trialling the scheme, the Fylde Coast has already seen 13% fewer attendances at A&E, and 23-24% fewer outpatient attendances.
When Lily Greenwood's husband, Peter, left hospital after suffering from a stroke, they were referred to the Extensive Care service.
"The doctor sent us here. We didn't want to come, but it's been the best thing ever."
Although Lily wasn't the patient, the team's approach of looking at every aspect of the patient's well-being, meant that attention turned to 80-year-old Lily too, as Peter's sole carer. The team helped her to take control.
"It took its toll on me at the beginning, but now, I just feel that with coming here, we can cope with it."
The team filled in all the forms that Lily had been baffled by, they helped her to apply for the extra benefits she was entitled to and, most importantly, they helped her to manage her husband's condition.
They even introduced her to local support groups for carers so that she no longer feels alone or overwhelmed.
"The nurses to me are friends. They have time for you. We're a lot happier now. I feel I can cope with Peter now."
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Given their success in reducing pressure on A&E departments, Blackpool and Fylde applied a similarly local, holistic model of care to a broader section of the population.
Every neighbourhood received its own dedicated team of therapists, nurses and welfare workers who could treat patients at home in order to reduce the pressures on GP surgeries.
"It's a cultural change. We don't just do the therapy and rush to the next appointment, we think about a patient's overall well-being."
Lucy Leonard is part of a neighbourhood team in Blackpool. Having been an occupational therapist for 17 years, she knows the NHS is notoriously resistant to change. Yet, she insists, this system is being embraced by patients and practitioners alike.
"Sometimes people can feel a bit frightened and threatened by change, especially when they worry about their professional identity and being asked to do new roles, but really, it's just about putting the patient at the heart of what we do."
This system has been a success on the Fylde Coast, and the principles could be replicated across the country. By investing in a more holistic approach, not only has the pressure on hospitals and GP surgeries been eased but, vitally, people are healthier and better able to manage their health too.
Wiltshire Police was called to Mead Way in the Peatmoor area at about 13:30 BST.
No-one was injured and officers have closed the road northbound from Mead roundabout.
Motorists have been told to expect delays while the money is cleared from the carriageway and the truck is made safe.
Their posters bore the slogan "More Votes. More Seats. More Influence. More for Northern Ireland".
When David Cameron won his majority, that strategy was quietly forgotten.
But that's the position the 10 newly returned DUP MPs are in, despite leader Arlene Foster predicting it did "not look likely" at the campaign outset.
An arrangement with a Labour-led Rainbow Coalition is a non-starter. Senior DUP figures have made clear their antipathy towards Jeremy Corbyn because of his historic links with Sinn Féin.
Theresa May - or whoever succeeds her - would be a far more plausible partner for the DUP, which is pro-Brexit and right of centre on many issues.
DUP sources say it is too early to predict whether they might consider a formal coalition or a more informal "confidence and supply" arrangement. But what would they want in return for such support?
The Democratic Unionist Party is the largest political party in Northern Ireland.
It was the most Euro-sceptic party in the UK before the ascent of UKIP.
It opposes same-sex marriage, and is anti-abortion.
DUP MPs have been consistently critical of Jeremy Corbyn, particularly for his past links with Sinn Féin and his stance on security.
But they have made positive comments about Theresa May's leadership of the Conservative Party.
The DUP based its Westminster campaign around a call to defend the union, saying unionists had to turn out to rebut republican demands for a referendum on Irish unity.
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On Brexit, the DUP want the border with the Irish Republic to be as "seamless and frictionless" as possible, and they reject the Special EU status championed by Sinn Féin, which they regard as watering down Northern Ireland's Britishness.
Other clues to what the DUP might demand can be gleaned from their manifesto, which includes retaining the "triple lock" on pensions, cutting VAT for tourism businesses, abolishing Air Passenger Duty, and reviewing the price of ferries between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.
The DUP's 10 MPs - a gain of two since the last election - are the fruit of a polarisation in politics in Northern Ireland.
The party had a difficult Northern Ireland Assembly election in March, when Sinn Féin made substantial gains.
This election was to some extent a return match and the DUP was able to rally its supporters in order to ensure Sinn Féin did not become the biggest party in Northern Ireland.
Sinn Féin has done well, winning a record seven seats. The casualties were the two smaller, more moderate nationalist and unionist parties - the SDLP and the Ulster Unionists - who have been wiped off the map.
The Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has reiterated that his new MPs will not abandon their abstentionism - the party's MPs do not take their seats in Westminster.
That means there will be no Irish nationalist voice in the House of Commons chamber as the forthcoming Brexit negotiations unfold.
The fact that the seven Sinn Féin MPs won't take their seats will also have an impact on the arithmetic of the hung parliament, reducing the winning post from 326 to something more like 322 seats.
So ironically Sinn Féin might, by staying away, make the management of the new parliament a little easier for the DUP and the Conservatives.
At Stormont, the seat of the Northern Ireland Assembly, there is no power-sharing executive because of a stand off between the DUP and Sinn Féin, which has remained unresolved since the start of this year.
Talks were due to get going after this election, with the aim of restoring power sharing within the next three weeks.
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Policy expert Anna Brychan, ATL teaching union director Philip Dixon and David Reynolds, professor of education at Southampton University and a Welsh government adviser, were taking part in the BBC's How Wales Works education debate.
It is hoped the new curriculum, based on an independent review by Prof Graham Donaldson of Glasgow University, can be made available to teachers by 2018.
The aim is to drastically improve standards, after Wales fell significantly behind the rest of the UK in key subjects.
Prof Reynolds said the changes would certainly involve asking a lot from teachers, and recommended learning from other countries.
"To expect it of our teachers, especially when we did not necessarily build capacity amongst our teachers - thus the low Pisa scores - to expect suddenly them to do it from scratch, to re-invent wheels, would be a pity," he said.
"I'd get the wheels from other countries, I'd get the wheels from research, I'd try and resource our professionals to get the optimum outputs and I do worry that that is not being done to a big enough degree."
Mr Dixon warned against expecting a quick transformation.
"It's too big an ask if you want to put a very tight time frame on it, and to say that this is going to be done and dusted in less than three years and then rolled out completely within six," he said.
"It's taken us nigh on ten years to get the Foundation Phase [for primary school pupils] up and running, and reduce some of the variability and getting some good things back on that.
"We need to do this well, we need to do it once, and my worry is we're going to do it quickly and then end up with something which is not at all what so many people and so much of the excitement about the Donaldson reforms have been about."
Ms Brychan said there was much excitement about, and support for, bringing in the new curriculum, but "nervousness" about the "very short time frame".
"The schools that are involved in developing the curriculum are enthusiastic and eager to do this, but they are going to have to do it alongside the day job of making sure that their current complement of pupils get through the current system," she said.
"I think support for them, and the support around the development of that, is going to be a critical, critical thing."
The discussion, chaired by Arwyn Jones, also covered the Foundation Phase - click here to listen.
Faisal Arefin Dipon, 43, was killed at his office in the city centre, hours after another publisher and two secular writers were injured in an attack.
A local affiliate of al-Qaeda said it carried out the attacks.
There has been a series of attacks on secularists since blogger Avijit Roy was hacked to death in February.
Both publishers targeted on Saturday published Roy's work.
Mr Dipon was found dead at the Jagriti Prokashoni publishing house, in his third-floor office.
"I saw him lying upside down and in a massive pool of blood. They slaughtered his neck. He is dead," his father, the writer Abul Kashem Fazlul Haq, said, quoted by AFP.
Earlier on Saturday, armed men burst into the offices of publisher Ahmedur Rashid Tutul.
They stabbed Mr Tutul and two writers who were with him, locked them in an office and fled the scene, police said.
The three men were rushed to hospital, and at least one of them is in a critical condition.
The two writers were named by police as Ranadeep Basu and Tareque Rahim.
Ansar al-Islam, al-Qaeda's Bangladeshi affiliate, posted messages online saying it had carried out Saturday's attacks.
Roy, a US citizen of Bangladeshi origin and critic of radical Islamism, was murdered in February by suspected Islamists. His wife and fellow blogger Bonya Ahmed was badly injured in the attack.
Three other bloggers have since been killed.
The 20mm coin was spotted in receding floodwaters in 2012, but the owner kept the details private until now.
It has been verified by the British Museum and is understood to be a Carthaginian coin, minted around Sardinia in 300-264 BC.
Several similar examples have been recorded but only from the coastline.
On one side of the coin is an image of Tanit - a Punic and Phoenician goddess - and on the reverse is a horse's head.
Its owner wishes to remain anonymous but has allowed it to be included in a history project in Saltford, where the coin was found.
Project organiser Phil Harding said: "[The coin] predates the Great Wall of China, it predates the Roman Empire, it predates the birth of Jesus Christ, it predates Alfred the Great - it's just fantastic."
Dr Sam Moorhead, who recorded it for the British Museum, said it could have been struck at one of several mints in the Punic Empire, including Carthage and cities in Sardinia.
"It is certainly one of the earliest coins found in Britain," he said, adding other examples had been found from Cornwall, around the south coast to Kent, and up the east coast to Lincolnshire.
"It has been argued for a long time that these coins reflect trade with the Mediterranean, probably often via Gaul.
"The main commodity that Britain had which was wanted by the Carthaginians and others was tin, found in Cornwall and Devon.
"The Saltford coin does suggest that there was maritime activity up the Bristol Channel as well and we can imagine traders entering the River Severn."
Mr Figueredo, 83, was one of seven officials arrested in Switzerland in May at the request of US prosecutors.
But while he has been fighting extradition to the US he agreed to face charges in Uruguay.
The former footballer was also once a vice-president of the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol).
Mr Figueredo was among 14 Fifa executives and associates accused of corruption by the US earlier this year.
He is accused of receiving bribes worth millions of dollars connected to Copa America tournaments.
A local prosecutor, Juan Gomez, has told AFP agency he will face charges of racketeering and money laundering when he makes an initial court appearance.
The Swiss authorities approved requests from both the US and Uruguay for his extradition.
This week saw Fifa president Sepp Blatter and the man once tipped to succeed him, Uefa boss Michel Platini, both banned from football-related activities for eight years following an ethics investigation.
Officers were called to a shooting in Lordship Lane, Wood Green, in the north of the city at about 17:45 BST.
An air ambulance crew treated the man at the scene but he was declared dead at about 19:00 BST. The woman has been taken to a hospital in east London.
No arrests have been made and Lordship Lane has been closed between Winkfield Road and Perth Road.
The male victim has yet to be officially identified and police were working with the family to inform relatives, Scotland Yard said.
A spokesman said the woman was believed to be in a critical but stable condition.
Christine Proctor noticed her six-year-old Labrador was behaving oddly after a walk in Ecton Brook playing fields in Northampton on Sunday.
Major was taken to an out-of-hours vet who confirmed the dog had eaten the drug and put him on a drip.
Mrs Proctor, 57, who has had to pay £350 in vet fees, said: "He is getting better but he is still dazed."
She added: "Initially he was was so frightened, he was hiding in the corner, then he was sensitive to touch and he couldn't control his bladder.
"It was horrible to see him like that."
Mrs Proctor, who is disabled and lives in sheltered housing, had to borrow the money to pay for Major's medical care.
She said: "He has had £350 of treatments and he will have to have more tests to make sure he is rid of it - I would warn any dog owner to be careful."
If Major had been a smaller dog the drugs could have killed him.
Vet Anna Holden, of Swanspool Veterinary Practice in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire said that dog owners should be vigilant.
"Dogs are very sensitive to drugs it can affect them very badly - in some cases it can lead to death.
"With cannabis dogs get hyper, they become very weak then they go into a coma state, it is traumatic for them."
The study analysed just under 1,400 calls trying to persuade people to take part in phone surveys.
Those who spoke very fast, did not pause or were too animated were least successful.
A UK language expert said it showed "it's not about what you say, but how you say it".
The University of Michigan Institute of Social Research study used recordings of introductory calls made by 100 male and female telephone interviewers at the institute.
They looked at the interviewers' speech rates, fluency, and pitch, and then at how successful they were in convincing people to participate in the survey.
Those who spoke at a rate of around 3.5 words per second (moderately fast) were much more successful at convincing people to take part than those who spoke very fast or very slowly.
The researchers, led by Jose Benki, an expert in the psychology of language, said people who speak too quickly are often seen as "out to pull the wool over our eyes", while those who talk very slow are seen as "not too bright or overly pedantic".
The study, funded by the US National Science Foundation and presented to the American Association for Public Opinion Research, also found people thought too much variation in pitch "sounds artificial" and "like people are trying too hard".
Finally, the team found interviewers who paused frequently - around four or five times a minute - were more successful than those who were fluent.
The team suggested the second group sounded "too scripted".
Dr Rachael-Anne Knight, senior lecturer in phonetics at London's City University, said prosody - the rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech - was key to how what people say is received.
"These features can give us a great deal of information, including how the speaker is feeling at the time and how they feel towards us, the listener.
"For example, we have all experienced situations where someone's words could have been taken a number of different ways, but their tone has offended us, hence when people remark 'it's not what he said, it's the way that he said it'.
"Speakers aren't always aware of the different ways in which their prosody can affect their message, so this research is useful in that it identifies some practical ways in which people trying to get others to participate in telephone surveys might improve their success rates.
"It might also have applications to the service industries, and potentially to all kinds of real-life situations".
Former Australia batsman Di Venuto, 42, replaced Graham Ford at the Oval in February and helped his side reach the final of the One-Day Cup last season.
Meanwhile, ex-Surrey and England player Vikram Solanki has been appointed as an assistant coach.
The 40-year-old, who retired in 2015, captained Surrey's second team last season as a designated non-batsman.
Former England and Glamorgan coach Rob Ahmun has also joined the club, working as head of strength and conditioning.
"The addition of Vik and Rob further strengthens the quality of our management and coaching staff," director of cricket Alec Stewart said.
Stephen Power, from Cardiff, is thought to be one of the first trauma patients in the world to have 3D printing used at every stage of the procedure.
Doctors at Morriston Hospital, Swansea, had to break his cheekbones again before rebuilding his face.
Mr Power said the operation had been "life-changing".
The UK has become one of the world's pioneers in using 3D technology in surgery, with advances also being made by teams in London and Newcastle.
While printed implants have previously been used to help correct congenital conditions, this operation used custom-printed models, guides, plates and implants to repair impact injuries months after they were sustained.
Despite wearing a crash helmet Mr Power, 29, suffered multiple trauma injuries in the accident in 2012, which left him in hospital for four months.
"I broke both cheekbones, top jaw, my nose and fractured my skull," he said.
"I can't remember the accident - I remember five minutes before and then waking up in the hospital a few months later."
In order to try to restore the symmetry of his face, the surgical team used CT scans to create and print a symmetrical 3D model of Mr Power's skull, followed by cutting guides and plates printed to match.
Maxillofacial surgeon Adrian Sugar says the 3D printing took away the guesswork that can be problematic in reconstructive work.
"I think it's incomparable - the results are in a different league from anything we've done before," he said.
"What this does is it allows us to be much more precise. Everybody now is starting to think in this way - guesswork is not good enough."
The procedure took eight hours to complete, with the team first having to refracture the cheekbones with the cutting guides before remodelling the face.
A medical-grade titanium implant, printed in Belgium, was then used to hold the bones in their new shape.
Looking at the results of the surgery, Mr Power says he feels transformed - with his face now much closer in shape to how it was before the accident.
"It is totally life-changing," he said.
"I could see the difference straightaway the day I woke up from the surgery."
Having used a hat and glasses to mask his injuries before the operation, Mr Power has said he already feels more confident.
"I'm hoping I won't have to disguise myself - I won't have to hide away," he said.
"I'll be able to do day-to-day things, go and see people, walk in the street, even go to any public areas."
The project was the work of the Centre for Applied Reconstructive Technologies in Surgery (Cartis), which is a collaboration between the team in Swansea and scientists at Cardiff Metropolitan University.
Design engineer Sean Peel has said the latest advance should encourage greater use of 3D printing in the NHS.
"It tends to be used for individual really complicated cases as it stands, in quite a convoluted, long-winded design process," he said.
"The next victory will be to get this process and technique used more widely as the costs fall and as the design tools improve."
Mr Power's operation is currently being featured in an exhibition at the Science Museum in London, called 3D Printing: The Future.
Up until now we've only had media leaks to go on, plus rebuttals from the White House.
But on Thursday Mr Comey goes on the record before the Senate Intelligence Committee with his version of events.
His opening statement puts a sharper focus on discrepancies between his and the White House's accounts of their meetings.
What Comey statement says: "The President said, 'I need loyalty, I expect loyalty.' I didn't move, speak, or change my facial expression in any way during the awkward silence that followed. We simply looked at each other in silence."
What Trump says: He was asked in a Fox News interview on 12 May if he asked Mr Comey for loyalty, and responded: "No, I didn't, but I don't think it would be a bad question to ask. I think loyalty to the country, loyalty to the US, is important. You know, it depends on how you define loyalty, number one. Number two, I don't know how it got out there because I didn't ask that question."
What Comey's statement says: He alleges Mr Trump asked him to drop investigation into then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. "[Trump] said, 'I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.' I replied only that 'he is a good guy.'"
What the White House says: Denies Mr Trump asked for the inquiry to be dropped, but the House committee asked the FBI for relevant memos.
What the Trump administration said: Mr Trump said he was told by the director "on three separate occasions" that he was not being investigated by the FBI.
What Comey's statement says: He backs the president's account: "I discussed with the FBI's leadership team whether I should be prepared to assure President-Elect Trump that we were not investigating him personally. That was true; we did not have an open counter-intelligence case on him." Mr Comey says he repeated that assurance in two subsequent meetings.
What media leaks said: Mr Comey reportedly told Attorney General Jeff Sessions that he did not want to be left alone with the president.
What Comey's statement said: "I took the opportunity to implore the Attorney General to prevent any future direct communication between the President and me."
A number of fire engines have been deployed to West Nile Street to deal with the incident in a basement next to Vroni's wine bar.
Part of the road has been cordoned off and some businesses in the area have been evacuated.
The injured person had suffered an electric shock, according to the emergency services.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said they were still dealing with a small fire, and that the large number of fire engines present was so that crews could be easily rotated in the small space where the blaze broke out.
It said rapid progress could be made if there was better communication and collaboration between researchers and public health and land-use officials.
A global research project was recently launched to examine the impact of urban policies on human health and wellbeing.
The findings have been published in the journal Ecosystem Services.
"This is something that had held my interest for some time, that is the condition of the general environment and human wellbeing in the broadest sense," explained co-author Paul Sandifer, former chief science advisor for the National Ocean Service at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa).
Helping hand
"I have long had a feeling of that there were connections between exposure to the natural environment and improved physiological and psychological health."
Dr Sandifer said he and his fellow co-authors decided if it was possible to "tease out" peer-reviewed examples of "biodiversity providing advantages for human health".
"If there was, how we might usefully categorise those relationships - what were the characteristics and mechanisms that brought about that change," he told BBC News.
One of the main challenges the team faced was attempting to identify key literature from a vast quantity of different sources.
"A little bit comes out in landscape literature, a little bit comes out in psychology literature, a little bit comes out in ecological or city planning publications but rarely are these things put together and assesses what one could do with the knowledge from around the scientific sphere," explained Dr Sandifer, who has recently retired from his Noaa post.
"One of the main findings of the review for me and for my colleagues was the huge amount of information indicating mostly positive health responses of some kind - mainly psychological," he observed.
"Among the vast array of research, there are a number of carefully crafted studies that truly demonstrate cause and effect.
"These carefully define the characteristics of biodiversity or nature that might be of interest and what the effect might be on mental or physiological wellbeing or health. Finally, they looked at what the process was in which that possible effect might be mediated.
Patchy landscape
"The one area we identified where there was a fair amount of new evidence was the study of microbiota and its influence on inflammatory diseases.
For example, a study in 2012 suggested a lack of exposure to a "natural environment" could be resulting in more urban dwellers developing allergies and asthma.
Finnish scientists said certain bacteria, shown to be beneficial for human health, were found in greater abundance in non-urban surroundings.
But Dr Sandifer said his team's review found that there was still "a lot left to be done" even in this field of research.
He added that there was a considerable amount of research looking at the difference between good and bad green spaces in urban areas but almost no data at all when it came to marine or coastal environments.
"Probably the one area where rapid progress could be made is improving communication and collaboration between land-use and city planners, people involved in public health - both research and application, and their connection to ecological science.
"Ecologists are within their field and rarely reach outside it. Biomedical researchers, it seems, rarely have the time to reach out. There is a gap between the two where we really need to do a much better job of communicating.
But there were signs of progress in the right direction, he suggested: "The American Public Health Association has a new policy recognising the value of nature."
But he added: "This needs to be international - the UK, such as the University of Exeter's European Centre for Environment and Human Health, has done a vast amount of research on the value of green spaces."
At the end of 2014, a global scientific research programme was launched in China to examine the unintended consequences of urban policies on human health and wellbeing.
The Urban Health & Wellbeing Programme aimed to better understand what made a "healthy urban environment".
Dr Sandifer concluded: "The communication links is the first step to getting well-rounded policies and getting the value of nature out to wider communities, such as policymakers, than it does at the moment.
"I think that would then drive the availability of resources to do more studies."
Union representatives met ScotRail management, Transport Minister Derek MacKay, and Transport Scotland officials over the issue.
The RMT said about 40% of the ScotRail fleet should be fitted with controlled emission tanks by April 2016.
The remainder are due to be fully fitted by December 2017.
RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said: "The fact the programme for the elimination of the filthy, disgusting and dangerous practice of dumping sewage on our railways is further advanced in Scotland is 100% down to the hard work and campaigning over several years by representatives, members and officials of RMT.
"Network Rail in Scotland are also in the process of arranging briefings to frontline maintenance staff and offering vaccinations to reduce the risk to staff from untreated human excrement which is another important development resulting from the RMT campaign.
"If real targets can be laid down for ending the scandal of sewage on our railways in Scotland then they can be achieved across the whole network."
The government is planning to increase fixed penalty fines from £100 to £150, as well as increasing the number of penalty points drivers receive.
Penalty points would rise from three to four - and from three to six for drivers of large vehicles such as HGVs.
Motoring groups broadly welcomed the news, but some questioned whether the plans would be an effective deterrent.
The proposals, which are part of the government's Road Safety Plan, are aimed at targeting those who repeatedly offend. A consultation will be held on the plans in 2016.
Most first-time offenders will still be offered an educational course to help them change their behaviour.
The larger increase in the penalty points proposed for HGV drivers reflects the fact that accidents involving large vehicles can be much more severe, a government spokesman said.
The proposals follows a previous increase in the fixed penalty for using a hand-held mobile phone while driving, from £60 in 2013 to £100.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said: "Using a mobile phone at the wheel is reckless and costs lives - I want to see it become a social taboo like not wearing a seatbelt.
"The message is clear: keep your hands on the wheel, not your phone. If you keep taking calls while at the wheel, you could end up being banned from the road."
The use of a mobile phone was a contributing factor in 21 fatal accidents and 84 serious accidents in 2014, the government said.
A total of 1,775 people were killed and 22,807 people were seriously injured in reported road accidents in 2014, government figures showed.
Suzette Davenport from the National Police Chiefs Council said the organisation fully supported the crackdown and was determined to keep all road users safe.
"Drivers must continue to be aware not only of the risks posed by being distracted by mobile phones while in control of a car but the serious penalties which they will face if they are caught," she said.
But Tim Shallcross from the Institute of Advanced Motorists said evidence shows previous increases in fines did not change driving behaviour.
"The Department for Transport's own research this year showed that when they doubled the penalty from £50 to £100 in 2013 it made no discernible difference whatsoever," he said.
"What deters people from using mobile phones is the fear of being caught and, frankly, with fewer police on the roads that possibility is becoming less and less."
Nazan Fennell's 13-year-old daughter Hope was killed in 2011 when she was hit by a lorry on her way home from school.
The driver of the HGV was texting behind the wheel at the time of the crash.
She told the BBC: "Hope was trapped under the wheels at the front of the vehicle for about 20 minutes and nobody could help because of the size of the vehicle. She was only little - it was just terrible.
"None of those texts of calls are really worth someone's life - especially a child's."
Other motoring organisations broadly approved of the measures.
David Bizley, the RAC's chief engineer, said: "There is still a surprising number of motorists who think it is acceptable to take a short call with a hand-held mobile whilst driving - it isn't, and is a real danger.
"Our report on motoring this year showed motorists are increasingly worried about other drivers being distracted by mobile phones whilst at the wheel."
Edmund King, president of the AA, said the majority of drivers "will welcome" the proposals.
"This epidemic of hand-held mobile phone use while driving has already cost lives.
"Three quarters of drivers see others using mobile phones on some or most journeys, with one quarter seeing it on every journey, according to our polls," he added.
Football's world governing body has written to the Premier League club "to seek clarification on the deal".
It is believed to concern who was involved in the £89.3m transfer, and how much money was paid to them.
A United spokesman said: "We do not comment on individual contracts. Fifa have had the documents since the transfer was concluded in August."
Pogba is in his second spell at Old Trafford, having left the club for Juventus for £1.5m in 2012.
The France international first joined United from French side Le Havre in acrimonious circumstances in 2009.
He returned to the club last summer for a world-record fee of 105m euros.
United also agreed to pay Juventus 5m euros (£4.5m) in performance-related bonuses, and other costs, including 5m euros if Pogba signs a new contract.
When they confirmed the transfer, Juventus said the "economic effect" to their club was "about 72.6m euros".
The filing could come next week in both Japan and the US, where it has a subsidiary and is seeking a buyer.
Shares of Takata were temporarily suspended on the Tokyo stock exchange because of the news.
Takata faces billions of dollars in liabilities over the recall.
So far about 100 million Takata airbags, which can rupture with deadly force and spray shrapnel at passengers, have been recalled globally.
The faulty airbags have been linked to at least a dozen deaths and more than 100 injuries worldwide.
Japan's Nikkei newspaper estimates the firm faces liabilities exceeding 1 trillion yen ($9bn; £7bn).
Takata has not commented on the reports in Japan, from sources close to the case, of imminent bankruptcy.
The company is said to be in talks about a potential deal with US auto parts maker Key Safety Systems. The latter may buy some of its assets under a restructuring plan.
In January, Takata agreed to pay $1bn in penalties in the US for concealing dangerous defects in its exploding airbags. It also pleaded guilty to a single criminal charge.
The firm paid a $25m fine, $125m to people injured by the airbags and $850m to carmakers that used them. But it still faces the possibility of more lawsuits.
Most major carmakers, including General Motors and Volkswagen, have been affected.
Honda Motor, which as Takata's biggest customer is one of the worst affected, started recalling their popular Accord and Civic models in 2008 because of the airbags.
Against all odds, the west African nation contested Gabon 2017 - despite having won a total of just four competitive qualifiers in their history prior to the tournament.
"When we called people to the national team before, many said they weren't coming - because we never qualify," Manuel Nascimento told BBC Sport.
"Since we qualified, those playing in England, Portugal, France are all now ready to come and join our national team.
"This is going to bring good results because uniting people brings only good results."
One of the world's poorest countries, Guinea-Bissau made light of political instability, poor sports infrastructure and a disastrous qualifying record to edge out 2012 champions Zambia, Kenya and Congo in Group E.
Home-and-away victories over Kenya paved the way before a stunning 3-2 home victory over Zambia in June 2016 - despite a player strike over allowances in the run-up and with a 96th-minute winner - achieved the most unlikely of qualifications.
"I can tell you we worked very hard and as I always say, things are difficult but not impossible," Nascimento added.
"When I arrived at the federation for the first time, I said I would take Guinea-Bissau to the Nations Cup. Those that didn't believe said I was crazy and that I didn't know what I was talking about.
"Later they came to apologise and to say I did something good, and I will continue to do it as long as I am president of the federation."
That is a moot point since Nascimento told the BBC last week that he would resign if then Confederation of African Football president Issa Hayatou failed to win re-election in Addis Ababa. He didn't but Nascimento has stayed.
At the Nations Cup itself, Guinea-Bissau picked up a point against hosts Gabon in the opening game of the tournament - with an injury-time goal earning a 1-1 draw - before suffering narrow defeats to eventual champions Cameroon (1-2) and semi-finalists Burkina Faso (0-2).
Nascimento says the quality in a side largely made up of players from Portugal's lower-tier sides, and which includes several former Portugal youth internationals, is such that the team nicknamed the Djurtus (Wild Dogs) should be going even further.
"I always said Guinea-Bissau should be in the quarter-finals given the talents we have but one thing caused us not to reach that moment of glory - a lack of experience," said Nascimento, before asserting that his side will qualify for the 2019 finals.
"I can guarantee you that at the next tournament in Cameroon, in 2019, you will see our perfection, talent and (improved) results.
"After repairing the mistakes that we made in Gabon, you will see us differently. We will be more courageous, with more energy, perfection and creativity. We are looking to challenge the big teams - because we have to dream."
Locals say a three-day party ensued for three days following the historic Nations Cup qualification - while the opening draw against Gabon sparked wild celebrations and, also, tragedy.
"The day we succeeded to score against Gabon, four people died," said Nascimento. "They were happy but weren't in control and suffered accidents which led to their deaths."
On Saturday, Guinea-Bissau play their first game since the finals - a friendly against South Africa in Durban - which Nascimento says he is largely funding out of his own pocket since the government lacks the funds to send the team across the continent.
And on the question of money, he is hoping that increased funds from football's world governing body Fifa may help improve what Nascimento describes as limited infrastructure.
"I have to be sincere - our facilities are very poor," he freely admits.
"We only have two stadiums. The other 'stadiums' are just normal fields. Now we need to create more constructive cooperation to see exactly what Fifa can do for us.
"We are going to play South Africa now and after that, we will plan some more."
The English League One club are understood to have offered £100,000 up front, with add-ons which could have taken the deal to £200,000.
But Kilmarnock's board rejected what Charlton have indicated will be their final offer for the 25-year-old, who is in the final year of his contract.
"It is fantastic news for me," said Lee Clark after their loss to Motherwell.
The manager told BBC Scotland: "Josh was honest enough to say he didn't feel right for today's game, and when you have a player of his quality out of the squad, it has a big effect.
"The board has spoken to Josh, who has said that if the club have turned down the offer, he will give everything for as long as he is here. Whether that is until the end of the August window, or the end of his contract, we will see.
"But I am hoping to have him in the group next week for the Hamilton game."
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The Ayrshire club turned down a slightly smaller bid from Oldham for the player earlier in the week.
Magennis, who featured as a substitute in all of Northern Ireland's games at Euro 2016, was Killie's top scorer last season with 13 goals.
Manxman Cavendish was pipped by German Greipel, Peter Sagan and Swiss Fabian Cancellara, who took the yellow jersey.
Froome placed seventh on stage two, four seconds ahead of Alberto Contador in 13th and one minute 28 seconds ahead of Vincenzo Nibali and Nairo Quintana.
Team Sky's Froome, champion in 2013, is up to 10th in the overall standings.
Spanish two-time winner Contador, Italy's defending champion Nibali and Colombian Quintana have been billed as Froome's main rivals for overall victory at this year's race.
But over an unpredictable 166km along the Dutch coast, the 30-year-old was able to stake an early claim on the yellow jersey as high winds split the peloton.
"I'm really thankful to my team-mates for keeping me in front, especially when that split happened," Froome said.
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"It was chaos out there for a few minutes, with the storm, with the winds. One second Nibali was next to me so I couldn't believe it when he was distanced."
Czech time trial champion Jan Barta was the first of four breakaway riders past the day's intermediate checkpoint, where John Degenkolb got out of his saddle to take fifth and three more points than Cavendish, who rolled over in eighth.
By the time the peloton reached within 60km of the stage finish, where high winds had been blowing all afternoon, the breakaway was caught and teams organised themselves in protection of their key riders as conditions worsened.
Quintana and Nibali were just two of dozens of riders distanced by crosswinds, while Froome's team-mate Geraint Thomas was involved in a minor crash.
The Welshman recovered to finish 12th and move up to fifth overall ahead of Monday's third stage from Antwerp to Huy, where he will have an outside chance of victory himself.
"During the storm it was hard enough to see where you were going," Thomas told ITV. "I didn't realise the gap was as big as a minute and a half. It's perfect, I wouldn't turn that down."
For Lotto-Soudal's Greipel, it was an eighth Tour de France stage victory, while Cavendish of Etixx-Quick Step is still searching for his 26th.
Had Cavendish held on for third place his team-mate Tony Martin would have taken the yellow jersey, but the 30-year-old appeared to run out of energy just before the line.
"The day Cancellara beats me in a sprint I've gone too long. I've gassed it," Cavendish said.
"I think Mark [Renshaw] went too early and kind of left me hanging. We died. It's disappointing, Tony's disappointed."
1 Andre Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal 3hrs 29mins 03secs
2 Peter Sagan (Svk) Tinkoff-Saxo Same time
3 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Trek Factory Racing
4 Mark Cavendish (GB) Etixx - Quick-Step
5 Daniel Oss (Ita) BMC Racing Team
6 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team
7 Christopher Froome (GB) Team Sky
8 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin
9 Tony Martin (Ger) Etixx - Quick-Step
10 Warren Barguil (Fra) Team Giant-Alpecin
1 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Trek Factory Racing 3hrs 44mins 01sec
2 Tony Martin (Ger) Etixx - Quick-Step +3secs
3 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin +6secs
4 Peter Sagan (Svk) Tinkoff-Saxo +33secs
5 Geraint Thomas (GB) Team Sky +35secs
6 Daniel Oss (Ita) BMC Racing Team +42secs
7 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Etixx - Quick-Step Same time
8 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team +44secs
9 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team +48secs
10 Chris Froome (GB) Team Sky Same time
14 Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff-Saxo +01min 00secs
20 Ian Stannard (GB) Team Sky +01min 20secs
21 Mark Cavendish (GB) Etixx - Quick-Step +01min 24secs
29 Alex Dowsett (GB) Movistar +02mins 02secs
33 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana +2mins 9secs
44 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar +2mins 27secs
96 Stephen Cummings (GB) MTN - Qhubeka +05mins 34secs
108 Simon Yates (GB) Orica GreenEdge +05mins 48secs
123 Peter Kennaugh (GB) Team Sky +06mins 10secs
137 Adam Yates (GB) Orica GreenEdge +06mins 20secs
139 Luke Rowe (GB) Team Sky +06mins 21secs
Mr Beckenbauer is being investigated along with three other members of the competition's organising committee.
The four are suspected of fraud, criminal mismanagement, money laundering and misappropriation.
Mr Beckenbauer, who headed the bid in 2000, has previously denied corruption.
"Today I was interviewed as part of a long scheduled hearing by the Swiss federal prosecutor," Mr Beckenbauer, 71, said, adding: "I answered his questions."
The former Germany captain said he would not share more details of the case "out of respect for the prosecutor's office".
The Swiss attorney general's office told the Associated Press news agency that Mr Beckenbauer had been "co-operative".
The investigation into allegations that four members of the 2006 World Cup organising committee were involved in fraud and money laundering began in 2015.
The other three suspects under criminal investigation are former presidents of the German Football Association (DFB) Wolfgang Niersbach and Theo Zwanziger, and former secretary-general of the DFB Horst Rudolf Schmidt.
Tax authorities raided the DFB headquarters after it emerged that a secret payment of 6.7m euros (£4.6m; $7.2m) was made to Fifa in 2005.
The case first made headlines in October 2015, when German news magazine Der Spiegel accused Germany of using a secret slush fund to buy Fifa votes in support of its bid to host the 2006 World Cup.
The money allegedly came from the late Robert Louis-Dreyfus, who in 2000 was head of German sportswear giant Adidas.
It was allegedly provided at the request of Mr Beckenbauer, who led the committee seeking to secure Germany's right to host the event.
He has previously admitted to making errors in relation to the bid but has denied deliberate wrongdoing.
Mr Beckenbauer played his first World Cup for West Germany in 1966 in England and captained the team to victory as hosts at the 1974 tournament.
The former defender went on to manage French side Marseille and German giants Bayern Munich.
The party said electronic voting in the Scottish Parliament - which allows MSPs to vote without leaving their seats - takes "just a matter of seconds".
But it can take 15 to 20 minutes for up to 650 MPs to funnel through the lobbies during divisions in the House of Commons.
The SNP said it was now time to ditch the "antiquated Westminster tradition".
SNP MP Hannah Bardell said the time "wasted" during divisions would have been "much better spent representing our constituents and tackling the issues that impact on their lives".
The Scottish Parliament has used electronic voting since it was reconvened in 1999. A similar system is also used in the Welsh Assembly.
Ms Bardell said: "Electronic voting has been shown to work in Scotland, Wales and in parliaments around the world.
"But the House of Common's reluctance to modernise its outmoded procedures is part of the reason that parliament is far from family friendly and continues to be considered alien and remote by the public."
Ms Bardell said the UK Parliament could get through much more business if it chose to "live in the 21st century, not the 17th".
The Livingston MP added: "As we move towards the start of 2016, it's well and truly time to create a modern parliament that is fit for a modern democracy."
The UK Parliament website states that proposals to adopt an electronic means of voting have been been considered in the past.
But it says alternative to the present system did not appear to command any great support among MPs.
It adds: "Many members view the procedure of voting in person through the lobbies as an essential opportunity to speak to or lobby senior colleagues".
The Bluebirds were second from bottom when Warnock took charge in October.
But Tuesday's remarkable 4-3 win away at Derby lifted Cardiff up to 12th place in the Championship table, 13 points clear of the relegation zone and 13 points adrift of the top six.
"This is the same group of players," Warnock told BBC Wales Sport.
"I don't think they realise yet how good they can be. It is amazing what you can do really - this is why I am in football so long, to get the best out of what you have is fantastic.
"We played against the teams who have spent millions and yet we compete with them. That is what its all about."
Warnock has said he will meet Cardiff chairman Mehmet Dalman to discuss his future after Saturday's home game against Rotherham.
The 68-year-old has previously stated he would like to challenge for promotion with the Bluebirds.
But asked about his upcoming talks with Dalman, the ex-Sheffield United and Crystal Palace boss preferred to focus on the fixture against his former side Rotherham.
"It'll probably be a horrible game on Saturday - it's all about trying to get the three points," said Warnock.
"It does not matter how we play on Saturday because they will not give anything. I have been there, they are a good group of lads. We have to get our minds on that.
"It's nice to get the points. Eight points and we are safe and we move on. We have gone to two difficult places in the last three days and we have stood up and been counted."
Instead scientists have found that clapping is contagious, and the length of an ovation is influenced by how other members of the crowd behave.
They say it takes a few people to start clapping for applause to spread through a group, and then just one or two individuals to stop for it to die out.
The Swedish study is published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
Lead author Dr Richard Mann, from the University of Uppsala, said: "You can get quite different lengths of applause - even if you have the same quality of performance. This is purely coming form the dynamics of the people in the crowd."
Chain reaction
The research was carried out by studying video footage of groups of undergraduates as they watched a presentation.
The scientists found that it took just one or two people to put their hands together for a ripple of applause to spread through the crowd.
These claps sparked a chain reaction, where, spurred on by the noise, other audience members joined in.
"The pressure comes from the volume of clapping in the room rather than what your neighbour sitting next to you is doing," explained Dr Mann.
But the performance that had been witnessed - no matter how brilliant - had little effect on the duration of the noisy acclaim.
In fact, the researchers found the duration of applause varied greatly.
Dr Mann told BBC News: "In one case an audience might clap on average 10 times per person. Another time they might clap three times as long.
"And all that comes from is that you have this social pressure to start (clapping), but once you've started there's an equally strong social pressure not to stop, until someone initiates that stopping."
The scientists believe that clapping is a form of "social contagion", which reveals how how ideas and actions gain and lose momentum.
Studying this, they say, could shed light on other areas, such as how trends come in and go out of fashion or how ideas spread on the internet.
Dr Mann said: "Here we tested whether you are more driven by the total number of people in the room or the people sitting next to you.
"And the equivalent on Facebook or Twitter would be whether you are more likely to join in a trend if you see lots of people in the wider world mentioning it or if just your closer friends mention it."
Paul Maguire was one of 18 members who quit in North Antrim last month.
He alleged Mr McKay was forced to resign as an MLA over claims he "coached" a loyalist blogger who gave evidence to a Stormont inquiry.
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams said the party wants to engage with former members in the hope they will return.
Paul Maguire, a member of Mid and East Antrim Borough Council and a former chairman of Sinn Féin in North Antrim, said the party knows the 18 members who resigned were "significant" in the local party.
He told BBC One's The View programme: "There are people left but they would be more card-carrying members than activists.
"I know there has been one further resignation and from what I can hear, or what I'm told, there will be more to follow."
"I would find it impossible to think that Daithí McKay would or could be brought back into the party because of the way in which he was made resign and the attitude from the Cúige (Sinn Féin's Ulster Council) since his resignation.
"I'm aware of communication between the Cúige and Daithí McKay since and it hasn't been at all pleasant.
"I can't read Daithí McKay's mind. He resigned because he was made resign. He's suspended by the party.
"There's an inquiry going on at the moment. I can't see that being a meaningful inquiry. I think it's just a box-ticking exercise."
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams told The View it was "always a negative" when people left the party.
"We are going to engage with every single one of those former members," he said.
"We hope that they will reflect and that they will come back into the party.
"At least one has already done so. I hope others will do so."
In a statement, the party dismissed the claims as "nonsense".
"Daithí McKay resigned and stated clearly that his contact with Jamie Bryson was 'inappropriate' and 'wrong'," Sinn Féin said.
"That was Daithí's decision and was the correct decision."
Daithí McKay has not commented publicly since his resignation as an MLA last month.
The former North Antrim MLA resigned after claims he and another Sinn Féin member "coached" loyalist blogger Jamie Bryson before he gave evidence to a Stormont inquiry, chaired by Mr McKay, into the National Asset Management Agency (Nama) scandal.
The allegations followed leaked Twitter messages between Mr Bryson, Mr McKay and Sinn Féin member Thomas O'Hara.
Mr McKay said he accepted the messages were "inappropriate, ill-advised and wrong".
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In June 2013, bells at St Mary's in Bramshott fell silent after plans were unveiled to bring forward services from 11:15 to 09:15.
Campanologists said that as the bells were pealed 30 minutes before the service, villagers would be disturbed.
A later service time of 09:30 has now been agreed, which means the bells will ring again, the church warden said.
The church posted a message on its website saying a special communion service would be held on 3 January to mark the return of the bell ringing team.
The bells in the village church were a gift from the widow of Boris Karloff, the actor best known for playing Frankenstein's monster.
He lived in the village until his death in 1969, aged 81.
Bird, who was assistant head coach last season, replaces Mo'onia Gerrard, who stepped down at the end of the 2017 campaign, their first in Superleague.
"She's got a wealth of experience as a coach, with Hertfordshire Mavericks previously," said Severn Stars co-founding director Dr Anita Navin.
"We're pleased Sam will take the helm. It's continuity. Our players know her."
Navin told BBC Hereford & Worcester: "We've been through a rigorous process. Sometimes it's harder being an internal candidate than external but Sam's experience as head coach was what shone through."
Bird, who works as a solicitor for the Metropolitan Police, is also a national selector and England's mid-court technical coach.
In her 11 years with Hertfordshire Mavericks, they twice finished top of the Superleague table.
Severn Stars co-founding director Dr Anita Navin was talking to BBC Hereford & Worcester's Dan Wheeler.
The ex-PM told the BBC that Brexit was a bigger issue than party allegiance for the general election on 8 June.
He said the Tories were likely to win but a big Labour vote could constrain the PM, whose "unreasonable" policy was being driven by her party's right wing.
And he said he felt so passionately about Brexit he was "almost motivated" to re-enter British politics himself.
Mr Blair stepped down from frontline politics in 2007 but has become more politically active in recent months, setting up a think tank in London to make the case for the centre ground and for continued EU membership.
He told the BBC that the opinion polls suggested Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives were on course for a landslide victory and he "wasn't totally sure" what Labour's position was on Brexit.
Speaking to Radio 4's World This Weekend, he said that voters need to know where candidates stood on leaving the EU.
He described Theresa May as "very sensible" and "a perfectly decent person" but said her policy on leaving the EU was "not reasonable" and that it was driven by the right wing of her party.
He said: "The point is whether I'm Labour or I'm not Labour - even if there's Conservatives or Liberal Democrats - I will work with anyone to get this argument across in the country."
He pledged to put pressure on candidates in each constituency to force them to declare where they stood on the mandate Mrs May should have when negotiating the terms of Britain's exit from the EU.
And he said he was supporting a campaign, also backed by anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller, to fund candidates who want to see another, "final" vote on the exit deal.
Mr Blair said he feared that winning a large majority would effectively hand Theresa May "a blank cheque for Brexit at any costs", which was not in the interests of the country.
Although he has previously ruled out standing for Parliament again after an absence of 10 years, Mr Blair said:
"I look at the British political scene at the moment and I actually almost feel motivated to go right back into it," he added. "We're just allowing ourselves to be hijacked by what is actually quite a small group of people with a strong ideology."
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In a tweet posted just after midnight Mr Trump wrote "despite the constant negative press covfefe".
The tweet stayed up all night, trending worldwide to much merriment.
Asked by a reporter if people should be concerned, Mr Spicer said, "No, the president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant."
Mr Trump, who presumably had meant to write "press coverage" and failed to finish his sentence, later deleted it and, acknowledging the jokes, wrote, "Who can figure out the true meaning of "covfefe" ??? Enjoy!"
That follow-up appeared at 06:09 (10:00 GMT) on Wednesday, more than six hours after the original message (posted at 00:06).
"Do you think that people should be concerned that the president posted something of an incoherent tweet last night and that it then stayed up for hours?" a reporter asked Mr Spicer.
"Er, no," he replied.
"Why did it stay up so long? Is nobody watching this?" he was asked.
"No," Mr Spicer said before giving his cryptic explanation.
Others at the briefing simply asked, "What does 'covfefe' mean?" and "What is 'covfefe'?" without getting an answer.
Mr Trump has continued tweeting from his personal account since becoming president in January, arguing that it helps him speak directly to Americans.
Aside from the frequently controversial content, the account is known for its spelling mistakes such as "unpresidented" for "unprecedented", and "honered" for "honored", as this Business Insider article recalls.
But few Trumpisms have spread like "covfefe"...
Beyond Twitter, rail operator Eurostar got in on the joke, suggesting passengers might enjoy a "covfefe" (and even a coffee too).
Hillary Clinton, who fought and lost the election against Mr Trump, joked in a speech to the annual Code Conference in California: "I thought it was a hidden message to the Russians."
Mae'r Goruchaf Lys wedi dyfarnu bod yn rhaid i ASau bleidleisio dros danio Erthygl 50, fyddai'n dechrau'r broses o adael yr UE.
Fe wnaeth AS arall Llafur, Jo Stevens, ymddiswyddo fel llefarydd y blaid ar Gymru ddydd Gwener, ac mae hi'n bwriadu mynd yn erbyn gorchymyn yr arweinydd Jeremy Corbyn i gefnogi'r mesur.
Ond dywedodd AS Aberafan, Stephen Kinnock y dylai aelodau'r blaid gefnogi'r mesur a dechrau'r broses o adael yr UE.
"Fe wnes i ymgyrchu yn angerddol i aros, ac rwy'n gefnogwr brwd o Ewrop," meddai wrth raglen Sunday Supplement BBC Radio Wales.
"Rydw i'n teimlo y byddai'r DU yn well pe bai'n aros mor agos â phosib at ein partneriaid Ewropeaidd."
Er hyn, fe wnaeth yr ardal y mae Mr Kinnock yn ei gynrychioli - fel rhan o Gastell-nedd Port Talbot - bleidleisio o 56.8% i adael yr UE yn y refferendwm ym mis Mehefin.
Dywedodd ei fod yn parchu safbwynt Ms Stevens, ond ei fod yn credu mai'r peth cywir i'w wneud yw cefnogi'r mesur i adael yr undeb.
Ychwanegodd bod hyn nid yn unig oherwydd bod ei ardal ef wedi pleidleisio dros adael, ond bod y 52% o'r DU gyfan wedi gwneud hefyd.
"Rydyn ni wedi cymryd risg enfawr gyda dyfodol ein gwlad trwy bleidleisio i adael," meddai Mr Kinnock.
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Mr Torres, better known as Fritanga (Fry-up), was detained minutes after getting married in a lavish ceremony on a Caribbean island on Sunday.
Police say he is an influential member of the Urabenos gang, which controls much of the drug trafficking in northern Colombia.
A US court has asked for Mr Torres to be extradited on drugs charges.
Police said they surprised Fritanga on the Caribbean island of Mucura moments after he had married his girlfriend and as he was preparing to host a party for 150 guests.
Police said Fritanga had spared no expense, inviting soap-opera stars and entertainers to the festivities, scheduled to last for a week.
They estimated the cost of the party at $1.41m (£900,000).
Alive and kicking
A video released by the police shows Fritanga's wife, a model, hugging him and sobbing as officers lead him away.
Police are heard telling guests to lie on the floor and keep their heads down as the arrest is made.
The video also shows Fritanga being shown a photocopy of his ID card by police and jokingly saying that he has trouble recognising it as he has not used it for a few years.
Official documents later showed Mr Torres was listed as deceased.
His death certificate said he had died of natural causes in the capital, Bogota, on 2 December 2010.
Police are investigating the notary who asked for the death certificate to be issued.
Prosecutors accuse Fritanga of being a leading member of the Urabenos, a criminal gang made up of former paramilitaries which controls much of the drug- and arms-trafficking in northern Colombia.
Earlier this year, the gang offered a reward for the killing of police officers in revenge for the arrest of their leader, Juan de Dios Usuga.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has made the fight against gangs such as the Urabenos one of his government's priorities.
Winnall converted from the spot with seven minutes left after Tareiq Holmes-Dennis fouled Adam Hammill.
The Tykes led when Winnall headed in Conor Hourihane's corner in first-half stoppage time.
Curtis Main levelled from close range, but Winnall's cool spot-kick secured the victory.
A head injury to Brian Wilson, who came on as a first-half substitute, saw nine minutes of first-half stoppage time.
Barnsley are three points behind sixth-placed Walsall, who won their first match in three league games, while Oldham remain only two points clear of the relegation places.
Threats were posted on Facebook to "kill as many people as possible" at Montgomery High School in Blackpool on Monday.
Lancashire Police dismissed the threat as "not credible".
A person claiming to have written the post has since apologised on the Blackpool Gazette website, saying it was "a gigantic mistake".
In the original post, made during the school holidays, the Facebook user praised people who killed students in the US, and wrote on the school's page: "Nobody talks to me or notices me except when they're calling me a nerd and pushing me around."
Responding to one student, they commented: "You think it's a joke? You'll see bullets, bodies, and blood."
Later, a long apology appeared on the Gazette's website, saying: "I am a bullied student at Montgomery, I did start the threats but they are NOT genuine; I simply wanted to shock the school into handling the bullies."
Describing their actions as "the stupidest decision I've ever made", the author, who claimed to be 15 years old, continued: "I just wanted to do something about the bullies because all other channels of communication were ignored.
"I thought scaring the bullies and the teachers would simply sort out the bullying problem and then everyone would just move on; I was incredibly wrong."
Lancashire Police has confirmed the apparent confession is one of the lines of inquiry in their investigation.
The school, which said more than 1,000 of its 1,375 pupils did not attend on Monday, added it was "unable to comment" on the apparent confession as it did not want to "compromise what is an extensive ongoing police investigation".
On its website, principal Tony Nicholson wrote there had been a "much higher attendance" on Tuesday.
Up to three armed men took hostages in the town near the border with Belgium, reports said.
One of the hostage takers was killed during the police operation, according to local officials.
The incident was not related to the security situation in France following the 13 November attacks in Paris.
Local authorities said the hostages were now in a "secure place"; at least one suspect had been arrested, according to reports.
Local media said the incident took place at around 19:00 local time (18:00 GMT), and an area of the town was cordoned off.
It is not clear how many people were held hostage.
Gunshots were fired, according to local residents.
The armed men had been planning a robbery targeting a banker, reports say.
Hayley Court claimed she was asked to encourage the media to report evidence favourable to the police, including that fans were partly to blame.
She said she was told to "get the media together and tell them what to write".
The force has said Ms Court's claims were "not substantiated".
A spokesman for the Independent Police Complaints Commission said: "Following an assessment of the available evidence, the IPCC has decided to conduct an independent investigation into this matter."
Ms Court claimed she felt trapped when she realised she had been given an "impossible job" that was "wholly unethical".
"It seemed to me to be more about how we could share the blame," she said.
"If South Yorkshire Police was going to be found partly responsible for what happened then all the other interested parties should be found partly responsible as well.
"If that meant perpetuating comments about fans being drunk, if that meant perpetuating comments about fans forcing gates then that was how they were going to do it."
Ninety-six football fans died in the 1989 disaster, which unfolded during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
A jury at the inquests concluded the fans had been unlawfully killed.
They also criticised SYP's planning for the match, and highlighted a catalogue of failures by senior officers on the day.
The stadium was also said to have contained "defects" that contributed to the disaster, and Sheffield Wednesday FC and South Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service were criticised.
The supporters were exonerated of any blame.
SYP's chief constable David Crompton was suspended the day after the inquests concluded because there had been an "erosion of trust".
The 32-year-old former Sheffield Wednesday man has played 262 times for the club and helped them gain promotion to the Championship in 2015.
It follows news that long-term keeper David Martin is also leaving, while captain Dean Lewington said earlier this month his future is undecided.
"I shall now be seeking a new challenge elsewhere," Potter said.
"I would like to say a huge thank-you to the fans, who have been nothing but fantastic to myself and my family during my time here."
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Rosberg took his second pole in a row and third of the year as Hamilton was slower on his first flying lap and then made a mistake on his second.
Hamilton never looked comfortable on the Sochi track, and was outpaced throughout by his main title rival.
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Williams's Valtteri Bottas beat Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel for third.
Bottas was 0.799 seconds off Rosberg with Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen fifth ahead of Force India's Nico Hulkenberg.
It was an impressive performance by Rosberg, who was also fastest in a final practice session truncated by a huge crash involving Toro Rosso's Carlos Sainz.
The Spaniard, whose car ended up underneath barriers at Turn 13 after he lost control at one of the fastest parts of the track, was taken to hospital, where it was found he was unhurt but is being kept in overnight for observation.
Hamilton pulled into the pits with two minutes of qualifying still to go after running wide at Turn 13 on his second flying lap trying to make up the gap to his team-mate.
It was only the third time in 15 races Rosberg had beaten him in qualifying.
"I'm very happy," Rosberg said. "It's been a difficult weekend because we didn't get much practice but qualifying worked out really well. It felt comfortable and I got some good laps in."
Hamilton, who won in Russia last year after starting second, said: "Difficult weekend for everyone. Nico did a great job in his lap."
He added he was "perfectly happy with the balance" of his car and it was "not such a bad race" to start in second.
Hamilton heads into the race 48 points ahead of Rosberg in the championship with a maximum of 125 points still available.
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The top 10 was completed by Hulkenberg's team-mate Sergio Perez, Lotus's Romain Grosjean, Toro Rosso's Max Verstappen and Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo.
It was another eye-catching performance by Verstappen, the 18-year-old Dutchman beating both cars of senior team Red Bull just hours after team-mate Sainz's crash.
Verstappen prevented Red Bull's Daniil Kvyat from getting into the top 10 shoot-out at the Russian's home grand prix by just 0.095secs.
Kvyat was 0.209secs slower in the second session than team-mate Ricciardo.
Bottas's team-mate Felipe Massa was only 15th after being caught in traffic and then making a mistake and running wide.
Fernando Alonso had a disappointing qualifying on the occasion of his 250th grand prix meeting, knocked out in the first session and qualifying 16th.
Ahead of team-mate Button by 0.15secs on their first laps, Alonso was 0.405secs slower on their second runs, although his position was irrelevant as he will drop to the back of the grid as a result of a 35-place penalty for using too many engine components.
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Button said the race would be "one of the most difficult" for McLaren because of the shortfall in hybrid boost from the Honda engine. This also causes the team fuel consumption problems, the Englishman said.
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It comes as a government commissioned maths review found too many teenagers dropped maths after GCSE, harming their job prospects and the wider economy.
The cash, from existing budgets, will help more students take a maths A-level or core maths qualification, say ministers.
Better maths skills were "vital", said Education Minister Nick Gibb.
In most advanced countries, all young people continue to study maths beyond the age of 16 - but England "remains unusual" because this is not the case, says the review, by Prof Sir Adrian Smith, vice-chancellor of the University of London.
And among teenagers with good GCSE grades, almost three-quarters "choose not to study mathematics beyond this level".
"England was the only country in a 2013 sample of developed economies where young adults performed no better than older adults in numeracy proficiency," the review says.
And lack of maths proficiency can leave university students anxious and unconfident about any maths or statistics required in their courses and limit young people's career prospects at every level.
If more sixth-formers took maths, it "could deliver significant payback for individuals, for the economy and in increased productivity", said Prof Smith.
The review says "as an urgent and immediate measure", the government should put money into AS- and A-levels in maths and into the government's core maths qualification, introduced in 2015 with the aim of increasing the number of sixth-formers studying the subject.
"Core maths plugs a critical gap" for students going on to higher education or higher technical study with a mathematical element, the report says.
But the subject has suffered from too little funding and a lack of awareness, with the result that uptake has been too low.
The government says the cash, to be paid in two £8m chunks from April next year, will be used to:
"The government is determined to give all young people the world-class education they need to fulfil their potential," said Mr Gibb in a written ministerial statement setting out the plan.
"This includes providing opportunities to develop the mathematical and quantitative knowledge and skills appropriate to their chosen careers.
"In an increasingly technological world, this will be vital to ensuring that our future workforce will be productive and competitive in the global marketplace."
Frank Kelly, chairman of the Royal Society Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education, said better funding for post-16 maths was key.
"Mathematics skills are necessary to a wide variety of disciplines, and we welcome the government's recognition of their importance and commitment to improving opportunities in schools and colleges."
Chris Linton, president of the Institute of Mathematics, said: "The UK lags well behind the rest of the developed world in the number of students studying mathematics post-16, and Sir Adrian's report provides clear evidence that this needs to be reversed."
Mike Ellicock, chief executive of National Numeracy, said the current system "abjectly fails to equip far too many young people adequately for their future lives and the world of work".
Families and individuals enjoyed the hazy sunshine and strong breezes at West Mersea Beach in Essex.
Forecasters are predicting that after a cool night with fog patches in Norfolk and Suffolk, Monday will be sunny again.
But the highest temperatures will be inland until skies cloud over later in the day.
The boy had to be freed from the metal device by a fire crew at Torquay Museum on Thursday afternoon and was taken to hospital.
Its director said the trap was in a closed position and setting it would have taken "a considerable effort".
Basil Greenwood said he believed it had been "tampered with" and the museum has now been assessed as safe.
"It's called a spring trap and they were used in Victorian times for catching large animals," Mr Greenwood said.
Devon Fire and Rescue Service said it was called to the museum at 15:30 BST to free the child and attended for more than an hour.
Mr Greenwood said he believed the boy's hand had been punctured and he had been discharged from hospital.
"I believe the child was the innocent party in this," he continued.
"Somehow, this object was made into a dangerous state and I do not believe that would have been the child.
"It is very heavy and would have taken two strong individuals to set it."
He said there was a possibility that the boy tripped and hit the trap, although the circumstances remained a mystery and CCTV was being reviewed.
The figures, requested by the Scottish Tories, showed that £33.2m was spent settling 13,000 claims from 2007-2012.
The party said it suggested there was a "compensation culture" which was "spiralling out of control".
The council umbrella body Cosla accused the party of "opportunistic council bashing".
Its president, Councillor David O'Neill, said local authorities only paid compensation when instructed to do so by their lawyers.
The Conservatives' local government spokeswoman, Margaret Mitchell, said it was "neither sensible nor sustainable" for local authorities to be spending millions on compensation payments when public finances were being squeezed.
She said the payments were made over incidents ranging from the "very serious to the utterly ridiculous".
Settlements included a man in Edinburgh who claimed £170,000 because a firework blew up in his hand and a woman in Clackmannanshire who claimed £40 because grass-cutters damaged her garden gnomes.
A dog owner in East Dunbartonshire received £57 from the council after their pet's paws were covered in tar and a cyclist in Edinburgh was given £4,000 after being knocked off their bike by overhanging branches.
Of the local authorities which responded, Falkirk Council has paid out most, at about £6.7m, while claims cost Fife Council more than £5.2m over the period.
Edinburgh City Council spent just over £3.2m but at Glasgow City Council - Scotland's largest local authority - the cost was £665,000.
Across Scotland, the majority of claims involved vehicle accidents, trips on pavements or potholes and problems with council housing.
Ms Mitchell said: "It is right when someone is injured, has their property damaged or is inconvenienced through no fault of their own, councils should pay up quickly and efficiently.
"However, the sheer amount of cash involved here really points to the compensation culture in which we live spiralling out of control.
"Councils must be given the appropriate legal support when people make spurious claims. Clearly, with budgets tight, it is neither sensible nor sustainable to be spending millions of pounds every year on incidents which, in many cases, are entirely avoidable."
The Conservatives claimed the true figure could be even higher as seven of Scotland's 32 councils did not respond to the request.
But Cllr O'Neill said: "The Conservative Party have certainly chosen to have Scotland's councils in their sights over the festive period. Here we have more opportunistic council bashing from them.
"They should perhaps remember that councils are made up of all political parties and as they returned an increased number of councillors in the May elections, they are having a pop at themselves to a large extent.
"The bottom line is that in the modern world we now occupy, there is far more of a compensation culture and people are often actively encouraged to pursue claims through no-win no-fee lawyers.
"However, that said, councils only pay compensation when they have been instructed to legally. They do not pay it willy-nilly and to suggest otherwise is both wrong and misleading."
Shots had enjoyed an eight-match unbeaten run prior to their 4-0 defeat against Forest Green on Tuesday and they got back on track thanks to second-half goals from Shamir Fenelon and Scott Rendell.
The hosts broke the deadlock in the 64th minute when Cheye Alexander played in Fenelon and he found the bottom corner from 15 yards, before Rendell headed in Jim Kellerman's cross from close range to seal the win in the 82nd minute.
Solihull had scored four goals in each of their last two matches but created very little as their five-match unbeaten run was ended.
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Match ends, Aldershot Town 2, Solihull Moors 0.
Second Half ends, Aldershot Town 2, Solihull Moors 0.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Idris Kanu replaces Bernard Mensah.
Goal! Aldershot Town 2, Solihull Moors 0. Scott Rendell (Aldershot Town).
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Darryl Knights replaces Omari Sterling-James.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Jim Kellerman replaces Charlie Walker.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Andy Brown replaces Jamey Osborne.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Harry White replaces Akwasi Asante.
Goal! Aldershot Town 1, Solihull Moors 0. Shamir Fenelon (Aldershot Town).
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Shamir Fenelon replaces Iffy Allen.
Jake Gallagher (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half begins Aldershot Town 0, Solihull Moors 0.
First Half ends, Aldershot Town 0, Solihull Moors 0.
Ryan Beswick (Solihull Moors) is shown the yellow card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The woman was taken ill on a flight from the US to Nigeria via Heathrow.
It comes as a group of MPs have urged the government to take "urgent action" to recover more money for treating foreign patients.
A Public Accounts Committee report says the system for recouping costs from overseas patients is "chaotic".
The case of the Nigerian woman is thought to be one of the NHS's biggest unpaid bills for an overseas patient.
The woman, who is included in the BBC One programme Hospital, was due to give birth in the US, where she has family, but had been turned away for not having the right hospital paperwork.
She was taken ill on her flight home to Nigeria and ended up in St Mary's A&E, which covers Heathrow after her flight stopped over at the airport.
Priscilla was three months away from her due date.
She gave birth to one baby who died and she and her three children were all placed in intensive care.
Another of her children died on Saturday and her two surviving children remain in intensive care which costs £20,000 a week per child.
Priscilla was released from hospital after six weeks and is being supported by a charity as she has no family in the UK and admits she has no ability to pay the bill.
The NHS Imperial College Trust which includes St Mary's spent £4m on overseas patients last year and managed to recoup £1.6m.
Treatment given in A&E departments is free to all, however, once you are admitted, even as an emergency, overseas visitors are chargeable.
In October, it was revealed the government was expected to fall short of its target of recovering £500m a year from overseas visitors and the Department of Health "refined" its target for 2017-18 to £346m.
Chairwoman of the Public Accounts Committee Meg Hillier attacked the government's "failure to get a grip" as "simply unacceptable".
The Department of Health said it would be announcing "further steps very shortly to recover up to £500m a year".
Ms Hillier, MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch, said the NHS was missing out on "vital funds".
"The public rightly expects the government to enforce the rules, and more can and should be done to recover money," she said.
The report calls on the Department of Health to publish an action plan by June, "setting out specific actions, milestones and performance measures for increasing the amount recovered from overseas visitors".
Responding to the PAC report, a Department of Health official said: "This government was the first to put measures in place to make sure the NHS recoups money from people who are not eligible for free care.
"Some hospitals are already doing great work, and the amount of income identified has more than trebled in three years, to £289m.
"However, there is more to be done to make sure that if people are not eligible for free care, they pay for it.
"We will be announcing further steps very shortly to recover up to £500m a year by the middle of this Parliament."
Hospital trusts in England are legally obliged to check whether patients are eligible for free non-emergency NHS treatment and to recover any costs.
The report identifies the biggest challenge to recovering costs as the lack of a single easy way to prove whether patients are entitled to healthcare.
The committee notes that while some trusts are now requiring patients to prove their identity by showing passports and utility bills, these documents do not demonstrate entitlement to free NHS care.
Some patients, such as refugees and those applying for asylum, are exempt from charges.
The report says the Department of Health should build on existing systems, such as the NHS number and electronic patient record.
There are currently large variations between trusts in the amounts they charge and the debts they recover from overseas patients.
The committee says that trusts' performances should be shared and there should be intervention if a trust is falling short.
And while GP appointments are free to everyone, the report says GPs could do more to help and the government should give clear guidelines on what is expected of them.
Dr Mark Porter council chairman for the British Medical Association, said: "It is important that those accessing NHS service are eligible to do so and that we recover the costs for treating overseas visitors.
"The systems to do this need to be practical, economic and efficient and must not jeopardise access to healthcare for those who need it.
"Any charging systems should not prevent sick and vulnerable patients receiving necessary care, otherwise there may be serious consequences for their health and that of the public in general."
The latest Markit/CIPS service sector purchasing managers' index (PMI) fell to 55.6 last month from 57.4 in July.
Although the figure remained above 50, indicating expansion, it was the weakest reading since May 2013.
Markit estimated the UK economy would grow by 0.5% in the third quarter of 2015, down from growth of 0.7% in the previous three months.
Earlier this week, a survey of the manufacturing sector also found growth slowing, although the construction sector recorded a slight pick-up in activity.
"Even after allowing for usual seasonal influences, August saw an unexpectedly sharp slowing in the pace of economic growth," said Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit.
"The services PMI came in well below even the most pessimistic of economists' forecasts and follows disappointing news of a stagnation in the manufacturing sector earlier in the week."
The Markit survey said the slowdown in the sector was mainly due to the slowest increase in new business since April 2013.
Employment growth picked up from July, but it was still the second weakest reading since March 2014.
The survey found little evidence of price pressures in the sector, and Mr Williamson said this "suggests the inflation outlook is benign and is therefore likely to help tip the argument towards postponing any rate hikes until the wider global economic picture becomes clearer".
The data comes a week before the latest meeting of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, which sets UK interest rates.
UK CPI inflation was 0.1% in July and looks unlikely to rise in the foreseeable future, which has led some economists to push back their expectations for a rate rise to the middle of next year.
Surveys published earlier this week also indicated the weakest growth for more than two years at Chinese and US factories, as well as a softening in China's services sector.
Separately, the Bank of England said net lending to small businesses by banks and building societies taking part in its Funding for Lending scheme reached £490m in the three months to the end of June, compared with £400m a year earlier.
Launched in 2012, the scheme is designed to provide lenders with cheap access to finance to improve lending in the wider economy. They have drawn down £61.4bn of funding from the scheme since it launched.
The biggest net lenders to small businesses during the period were Lloyds Banking Group, which lent £527m, and Aldermore, which lent £127m.
The Bank said the improvement in net lending reflected a relaxation of credit conditions and growing confidence in the economy.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence says staff are either too overstretched or undertrained to provide for patients who are seriously dehydrated and need to be on a drip.
It is launching draft guidelines to remedy this.
A confidential inquiry found many patients received either too little or too much fluid, which can be fatal.
Data gathered by the National Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths (NCEPOD) suggests as many as one in five patients on intravenous (IV) fluids have complications or die because of inappropriate administration.
The NCEPOD says inexperienced junior doctors are being left to provide care.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) says as well as a lack of training in IV fluid management, professionals may be overworked and unable to give patients the attention they need.
And experts often disagree on which IV fluids are best, leading to wide variation in practice.
Prof Mark Baker, director of the Centre for Clinical Practice at NICE, said: "Current pressures on the NHS and the people who work within it can mean staff without the right knowledge or training are sometimes left to look after people who may need intravenous fluid therapy - when fluids must be administered through a drip.
"Making sure someone has the right level of fluid in their body is fundamental to good, basic care but this isn't always happening. There can be serious consequences if the wrong amount or composition of IV fluids is prescribed."
If a person receives too much or too little fluid this can lead to problems such as fluid in the lungs, dangerously raised or lowered levels of potassium, sodium or nutrients such as glucose, and in some cases, heart failure.
NCEPOD chief executive Dr Marisa Mason said: "NCEPOD welcomes the new guideline on fluid management, which has addressed the concerns that we have highlighted in several of our reports during the last 10 years.
"The NICE single guideline is a positive move that will support healthcare staff provide good quality care to patients in need of intravenous fluid therapy."
Rashid took three wickets on the second day of the third Test against India to take his tally for the series to 16, more than any other bowler.
"He's found that he belongs here," Vaughan, who was critical of England's spinners during the second Test, told Test Match Special.
"He looks himself in the mirror and says, 'I can play Test cricket'."
Rashid managed 15 wickets in his previous five Tests but in taking 16 in three against India he has taken the most in a series by an England leg-spinner since Doug Wright's 23 against Australia in 1946-47.
"It's nice to have those stats but stats don't mean that much to me," Rashid, 28, told BBC Sport. "I don't look that far ahead, who is leading or isn't leading, I just try to do my job.
"Sometimes you don't bowl that good a ball, you get a wicket. Sometimes you bowl jaffas, they get wickets. That's part and parcel of cricket and being a leg-spinner."
The Yorkshireman's 3-81 helped England fight back in Mohali as India were reduced from 148-2 to 204-6.
Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja then combined to take India to 271-6, 12 runs behind England's 283.
"England's bowling was excellent," said Vaughan. "This England attack is an attack that any captain in the world would want."
Rashid said: "It's fairly interesting at the moment but fairly poised. We stuck by our plans and got rewards.
"As a group and as a team we had the belief that if we stick to our plans and what we were doing things will change and happen. We're still confident."
The European Union - another critic - "better choose purgatory, hell is filled up", Mr Duterte said.
The remarks came as the US and the Philippines began joint military exercises. The US said there was a "strong alliance" with the Philippines.
Mr Duterte's drugs war has caused thousands of extrajudicial killings.
In a speech to local officials and business executives Mr Duterte said he was disappointed with the US for criticising the Philippines' tactics to combat the drug trade. He also described Washington as an unreliable ally.
"Instead of helping us, the first to criticise is this state department, so you can go to hell, Mr Obama, you can go to hell."
Later on Tuesday he warned: "Eventually I might, in my time, I will break up with America. I would rather go to Russia and to China.''
Mr Duterte also revealed that the US had refused to sell weapons to Manila, but added that he would be able to buy them elsewhere.
"If you don't want to sell arms, I'll go to Russia. I sent the generals to Russia and Russia said, 'Do not worry, we have everything you need, we'll give it to you'.
"And as for China, they said, 'Just come over and sign and everything will be delivered'," President Duterte said.
In response to his comments, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said: "This is an alliance that is robust and that benefits both of our countries. The diplomatic lines of communication between the United States and the Philippines remain open.
"Even as we protect this strong alliance, the administration and the United States of America will not hesitate to raise our concerns about extra-judicial killings.
"We have not yet received any sort of formal communication using those channels from the Filipino government about making substantial changes to our bilateral relationship."
The Philippines, once a colony of the US, has a longstanding defence relationship with Washington.
But Mr Duterte said last week these would be the last joint military exercises while he is in office, although later his defence secretary said there was no official order yet to that effect.
He also said he would review a defence pact signed two years ago with the US that would see more US troops sent to the Philippines.
The pact is seen as vital for the US to counter China's activities in the South China Sea.
The eight-day military drills involve 1,100 American troops and 400 Filipino military personnel, and are taking place on northern Luzon island.
They are aimed at improving readiness to respond to crises and deepening historic ties, the US military said.
Relations were strained last month when the US cancelled a bilateral meeting after Mr Duterte used insulting language to refer to the US president.
Defence Minister Raul Jungmann said the soldiers and national guard officers would stay until calm was restored.
Criminals ran amok in the south-eastern city after police stopped patrolling on Saturday in a row over pay.
Brazilian TV has broadcast scenes of looting, shootings and carjackings.
Banks, schools and public health centres remained closed on Tuesday, as were most shops.
Buses returned to the streets but officials said services would stop by the evening.
"The armed forces are on the streets," Mr Jungmann said after talks with officials in Espirito Santo state.
"We are determined to restore peace, order and tranquillity in Vitoria and wherever else necessary."
The troops have been caught up in clashes between residents opposed to the strike and relatives of the striking officers protesting outside police barracks.
The relatives have rallied in front of police stations because the military police officers themselves are barred from protesting.
The officers are demanding better pay, including extra pay for night work and danger money.
Brazilian media said about 70 people had been killed since the strike began.
Balfour Beatty, which purchased it in 2008, said its strategy had changed and it wanted to end its involvement in running regional airports.
Staff were told the news on Thursday and management said it was too soon to comment about any potential redundancies as a result of the sale.
Blackpool Airport said it would be sold as a going concern and it was "business as usual" and flights would continue.
The airport said: "It's too soon to comment on any redundancies, the size and the shape of the company would be determined by new owners."
There are about 110 staff employed at the airport.
Last year, 235,000 passengers used the airport.
The England forward, 20 has rejected a new £100,000-a-week contract, and denied being a "money-grabber" in a BBC Sport interview last month.
Sterling told Brendan Rodgers he wants to go before the Chelsea game on 10 May and will now meet the Reds manager and chief executive Ian Ayre on Friday.
It is understood Liverpool want to keep Sterling, whose deal ends in 2017.
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Should he be made available, Manchester City remain the frontrunners for his signature but Arsenal and a number of leading European clubs have also expressed an interest.
While Liverpool insist they will not sell for any price this summer, their resolve may be tested by an offer in the region of £35m.
Sterling - whose current contract is worth £35,000 a week - said in an interview on 1 April that he "talks about winning trophies" rather than money.
Former Reds defender and BBC Sport pundit Mark Lawrenson said at the time that Sterling had put himself "under pressure" with his comments.
Liverpool's last piece of silverware came in 2012, when they won the League Cup, and they have missed out on Champions League qualification for next season.
Rodgers has previously said: "Liverpool are one of the superpowers of football and if the owners don't want to sell, they don't have to."
Speaking on Friday, captain Steven Gerrard told Sterling to stay and play for a coach who "believes in him".
"I think there is no-one better for him than Brendan Rodgers," said Gerrard, who will join MLS side LA Galaxy this summer after 17 years at Anfield.
"The danger for younger players is they want it all too soon and go to another club and just become a number."
Former Liverpool midfielder Ray Houghton: "Supporters are coming to the end of their tether with Raheem, he still hasn't learnt.
"The club could take a real stance, but it's not advisable. The best thing is to let him go and invest the £40m-£50m in players that want to come to the club."
Ex-Everton midfielder Kevin Kilbane on BBC Radio 5 live: "It shows the changing face of football, it is very much manufactured. I think it lacks a lot of class.
"If Sterling does not want to stay at Liverpool, fair enough, there may be underlying reasons why he does not want to stay. But surely the negotiations, especially with a lad who has a lot to prove and a long way to go in the game, can be done behind closed doors, in a way that best suits everyone."
Former Reds defender Jamie Carragher said Sterling is "not some flash young kid", but added the thought of him "taking on" Liverpool over contract negotiations annoyed him "to the pit of my stomach".
"You keep your mouth shut and get on with playing football.
Speaking on Sky Sports, he said: "Raheem Sterling will obviously move on at some stage, he doesn't want to be at the club and this looks like a tactic to force the club's hand.
"Liverpool had a chance to win a trophy this season in the FA Cup semi-final against Aston Villa - where was Sterling? Trophies don't get handed out, you've got to earn them. You've got to deliver in big games and he hasn't done that yet."
Ex-Manchester United defender Gary Neville added: "Liverpool haven't handled contracts well at all in the past 18 months."
The balloon came down at about 07:30 BST near the B573 at Earls Barton, Northamptonshire. Eyewitnesses reported seeing sparks as it passed an electricity pylon.
The 22-year old female passenger who suffered burns was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
The 64-year-old male pilot was not injured, police have said.
One eyewitness, Ian, said the balloon came close to a car-boot sale in Earls Barton.
He said: "We were at the car boot this morning at Whites Nursery and a hot-air balloon came over and there was a lady and gentleman - they were waving at everyone.
"It suddenly disappeared over towards the trees and then burst into flames and over towards the ground."
Wendy Rousell, the secretary of the British Balloon and Airship Club, said incidents such as this were "very rare in the UK".
"There are 20 balloons in Northamptonshire and they can fly all over the county when weather permits, and this morning's conditions were perfect."
Police have handed the inquiry to the Air Accidents Investigation Branch.
At the scene: BBC Northampton reporter Kris Holland
The balloon came down near a car-boot sale at Whites Nurseries in Earls Barton and those who saw it say they saw blue sparks as it hit power cables.
I've been told that after this, the balloon was seen to catch fire and plummet around 100ft through the air into the field.
Some eyewitnesses said the pair were throwing gas canisters out of the balloon's basket as it crashed.
23 February 2017 Last updated at 07:22 GMT
It's all because of something you might have heard mentioned a lot recently: Brexit.
Across the whole of the UK most people voted to leave the EU, but in Scotland, most people wanted to stay in it.
Jenny went to Glasgow to find out what kids there think now the UK is leaving the EU.
Women's triathlon will be the first gold medal to be won on the Games' opening day - Thursday, 5 April 2018.
The men's and women's 100m finals are on day five, while the rugby sevens will bring events to a close on 15 April 2018.
The Gold Coast is a coastal city in the Australian state of Queensland.
The BBC was awarded the UK broadcast rights for the 2018 Commonwealth Games last year.
In March, Durban was stripped of the right to host the 2022 event.
Birmingham, Liverpool, London and Manchester have expressed interest in replacing the South African city - and officials have said they would consider a joint UK bid.
Full schedule available here
A first-half goal from former Celtic striker Morten Rasmussen secured a 2-1 aggregate win - and with it a place in Friday's group stage draw.
The Saints saw an early Jose Fonte effort cleared off the line but were then punished by Rasmussen's angled shot following a Jay Rodriguez error.
Southampton rarely looked like getting an away goal to force extra time.
After finishing seventh in the Premier League last season, this was a disappointing end to Southampton's first entry into Europe since 2004.
Ronald Koeman's side eased past Dutch club Vitesse Arnhem in their first qualifying round but did not convince against Midtjylland in the first leg, drawing 1-1 at St Mary's.
And apart from Fortune's early chance and a blocked shot from James Ward-Prowse, they carried little threat on Thursday.
Rasmussen accepted a pass from Kristian Bach Bak to turn sharply and hit the 28th-minute winner after Rodriguez had been caught in possession.
Relive Southampton's Europa League exit.
The Dutchman could do little wrong in his first season in charge as he defied the doubters following the sale of some of Southampton's biggest names - including Rickie Lambert, Adam Lallana, and Dejan Lovren - to lead Southampton into Europe.
But second-season syndrome now looks a real threat with Southampton again selling over the summer with key midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin and defender Nathaniel Clyne both leaving.
The Saints are yet to win in the Premier League and will now have to get over the disappointment of their early Europa League exit.
Last season, Hull were knocked out in Europa League qualifying and went on to be relegated. Southampton are a long way from that prospect but Koeman's managerial acumen will now be tested.
The Saints could do with the transfer window shutting without any further exits.
Midfield powerhouse Victor Wanyama has been linked with Tottenham and forward Sadio Mane with Manchester United.
Neither played in Denmark and both were missed.
The Saints can't afford to lose any more of their key players and need to strengthen. A move for Celtic defender Virgil van Dijk could happen now that the Scots are out of the Champions League.
Southampton manager Ronald Koeman, speaking to BT Sport: "In both games we were the better team, we had the most chances. We scored a goal at home that was disallowed and tonight we need a penalty for a handball from the free-kick.
"We worked very hard but sometimes you need good decisions. We didn't have that. In my opinion that makes the result.
"Sadio Mane wasn't 100% and it will be a long season. I didn't take that risk to put him in. We need him for more games."
Southampton are at home to Norwich on Sunday and could do with a first Premier League win just to settle things down ahead of the international break.
The bodies of Tim Newton, 27, and Rachel Slater, 24, who both lived in Bradford, were found on the north face of Ben Nevis on 23 March.
The experienced climbers had been missing since 15 February.
A "celebration of life" service will be held for friends and family in the Leicester area on 16 April.
A statement from his family said they wanted to "say a huge thank you to all of the people… [who] extended kind wishes and prayer.
"The kind words since Tim and Rachel were found have been much appreciated. The support of so many people has meant so much."
The family also thanked the mountain rescue teams for their "relentless hard work and support".
Ms Slater was a graduate of Manchester University and employed as an environmental consultant near Bradford.
She spent some time living and climbing in Canada, where her parents are still based.
Mr Newton, originally from Leicester, studied physics at Manchester and Leeds universities.
He joined Hinckley Mountaineering Club in Leicestershire in 2010 before he moved away to university, with fellow climbers there calling him a "natural".
Staff trawled through 1,000 rubbish bags looking for the 90-year-old pet after using the bin lorry's GPS to track him to the waste facility.
Zuma is now recuperating at home with owner Sarah Joiner in central London.
She praised the "amazing teamwork" that brought Zuma back home.
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Ms Joiner, a life-long Westminster resident and The MS Trust volunteer, said: "Thank you is never going to be enough. There was no nonsense about it, just enormous good will in finding him."
The 56-year-old, who has Multiple Sclerosis, has owned Zuma - short for Montezuma - for 40 years.
The male spurred tortoise, originally from the Mediterranean, is now recovering from his bumps and bruises at home.
Lynn Davis from Veolia, the company that operates the waste treatment facility where Zuma was found, said: "I'm delighted that we were able to find Zuma and return him to Mrs Joiner unharmed, he really has survived against the odds.
"This was certainly a different way to spend a Friday afternoon and I'm just relieved we were successful."
The part-timers from Luxembourg visit Pittodrie in the first-leg and McInnes still has "one or two wee concerns" with his forwards.
"If we didn't feel the need to involve [McGinn], we'd tell him to stay away and get some sun," the manager said.
"But he's our player and we've got an important game."
Striker Adam Rooney has taken part in every pre-season training session and played all three friendly matches as he continues his recovery from a thigh injury suffered in February.
Miles Storey signed from Swindon Town as a free agent having spent last season on loan at Inverness Caledonian Thistle, but he will not join the club officially until Friday and will not feature in the first round.
McGinn flew back to Aberdeen from France on Tuesday following Northern Ireland's exit from the Euro 2016 finals and took part in a training session in the afternoon.
"We're delighted to get him back," McInnes said.
"We wanted Niall to get the best experience possible from the Euros and the fact that he's managed to contribute, score and be part of a successful campaign is brilliant for him, but delighted at the same time to get him back.
"We've got one or two wee concerns in the forward areas and we don't have Miles Storey. We need Niall back.
"We're still working our way through with Adam Rooney, but he's been a long time out and that's always a concern.
"Johnny Hayes missed the game, as did Kenny McLean, on Sunday. They trained today and hopefully no reaction so they're in the squad for Thursday."
Fola Esch only have four professionals in their 24-man squad, which also contains four players from the youth squad who are 17.
Their leading scorer is Luxembourg international Stefano Bensi, who scored 21 goals in 31 games last season.
Many of their players work outside football, though, with one of the goalkeepers completing his shift as a postman before catching the flight to Scotland.
McInnes is aware of their strengths and weaknesses, having had them scouted as extensively as possible, and insists his players will be ready for their first competitive game of the season.
"We've got a tough opponent and we've got to make sure that we're thoroughly professional," he said.
"Their outstanding result against Zagreb last year in the Champions League qualifiers, drawing 1-1, going down to 10 men, shows you what they're capable of.
"They've got a very set way of playing, they've got good consistency of selection, they've brought one or two players in, but there's a familiarity about their personnel.
"They're good technically, they've got a good shape, they know what they're doing, they've got goals in them and a presence up top, a bit of pace in behind, and good experience and physicality."
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He told BBC News NI's Mark Simpson he had enjoyed a warm welcome during his extended Christmas visit.
Research by BBC Radio London has revealed that 28 boroughs out of the 33 intend to add up to 3% to help pay for adult social care.
But 24 of those local authorities will also add on between 1% and 1.99% to the council's part of the tax to pay for other council services.
And 13 of those boroughs are opting for the maximum increase allowed of 4.99%.
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They include Labour-run Camden where council tax on a Band D property will rise by an average of £1.04 a week, and the Conservative-run Royal Borough of Kingston, which will see it increase by £1.35 a week.
Havering is planning an increase of 3.5% for the social care precept and core council tax combined - which will also add an additional 1.04p a week onto a Band D council tax bill.
The north-east London borough says it has mounting budget pressures. It now spends almost £1m a year on clearing up fly-tipping alone, when two years ago that cost was £400,000.
It also has a growing school-aged and elderly population which is adding to its costs.
The leader of Havering Council, Conservative Councillor Roger Ramsey, said: "We built into our budget a £2m increase both for elderly adults and for children's services and this year, even with that, we overspent by £2m in each.
"What with that and the reduction in our government grant of £8m, we are put in a very difficult position."
Professor Tony Travers of the London School of Economics said: "I think what we're witnessing this coming year is councils being encouraged by the government to push up council tax a bit to pay for social care, and deciding that that gives them cover to push up their own share of the council tax within the rules as much as they can because their own budgets are under pressure anyway."
But a spokesperson for the Department for Communities & Local Government said: "Whilst local authorities - like all public bodies - have had to find efficiency savings, our historic four year funding settlement gives them the certainty they need to plan ahead with almost £200bn available to provide the services that local people want."
While most London boroughs will raise council tax this year, four of them intend to freeze it.
They include the City of London, Hammersmith & Fulham (Lab), Hillingdon (Con) and Newham (Lab).
Newham said it had been able to freeze council tax thanks to efficiency measures, like turning some council services into small businesses.
The Shared Lives service, for example, is a not-for-profit business run by former council staff that matches vulnerable people with carers who they move in with.
As well as saving cash, those behind the idea claimed it made it less likely vulnerable people would end up back in the care system in the future, therefore reducing the pressure on the council's adult social care system.
Council taxpayers in every borough - including those that intend to freeze council tax - will see a small increase in their bills because the mayor of London will increase City Hall's share to help pay for policing.
It will add 8p a week onto the average band D council tax bill across London.
The vehicles were being sold in Greater Manchester via at least three accounts on the website after having their details switched with legitimate cars.
Among the victims was a retired police officer who lost £17,000 buying a Mercedes from a seller in Rochdale.
Greater Manchester Police has declined to confirm whether it is investigating.
Former police officer Graham Murray lost his money after buying a Mercedes C-class in Rochdale two months ago, leaving him "devastated".
He said he reported the case to police and has questioned why the fraudulent eBay sellers have not yet been caught.
"The police have known about this gang since January," he said.
"As a former police officer I'm absolutely disgusted. How can you have any trust in the police."
Car cloning is often used as a method to sell stolen cars.
The vehicle is given the identity of another, similar legitimate car, including licence plates, chassis numbers and accompanying documentation.
It means even if the buyer runs an online background check, the details will appear correct.
Mr Murray, from Dumfries, said the seller had asked for cash on collection, rather than the more usual method of receiving a secure payment via eBay.
The 57-year-old later discovered the vehicle's details had been altered, before police confirmed he had bought a stolen car.
He said: "It was £17,000 just gone, and I knew there was little or no chance of getting this money back, ever."
Another victim, Gordon Alexander, from Forfar in Tayside, bought a cloned BMW for £18,300 in January.
Mr Alexander, a garage owner, won the auction and collected it from an address in Rochdale.
He realised he had been conned after the car was taken to a BMW garage for a service the next day.
"I was absolutely gobsmacked. I've worked hard for my money," he said.
"I've worked every day, and for someone to just take £18,300. They are the scum of the earth. I'm gutted."
Mr Alexander said he was told by police that the BMW had been returned to its original owner in Bury.
An eBay spokesman said the company was yet to be contacted by Greater Manchester Police.
He confirmed the accounts in question had been closed down and added: "Cash on collection is very unusual and we would ask buyers to always pay via the platform when purchasing."
A reporter from BBC Radio Manchester was able to win an auction for a cloned Vauxhall Mokka for £9,600 from one of the suspicious accounts last week.
A car of the same make and model with the same registration plate was then discovered up for sale at a Vauxhall garage in Wales.
The BBC has also informed police of its findings.
An AA spokesman said: "Remarkably, it's quite easy for sophisticated criminals to do all of this, so it's become a real industry. Somebody is making a lot of money."
Yorkshire Ambulance Service had warned they warned it could be overwhelmed on Saturday and Sunday, when wintry weather hit the region.
It said the most serious calls were up almost 30% on last year.
Dr David Macklin, director of operations at the ambulance service, said extra staff and volunteers were drafted in to cope with the demand.
He said compared with 2013, there were over 7,000 more calls to the NHS non-emergency number 111.
The ambulance service covers about 6,000 square miles across the Yorkshire and Humber region, and serves more than five million people.
It said before Christmas it was "very busy" and predicted that because GP practices and NHS services closed over Christmas, they would get "an even higher volume of calls for seasonal illnesses and incidents".
According to the ambulance service:
Dr Macklin said the increase in 999 calls was likely to last into the early part of next year.
Lindsey Kushner QC said women were entitled to "drink themselves into the ground" but their "disinhibited behaviour" could put them in danger.
Judge Kushner made the courtroom plea as she jailed a man for six years who raped a girl he met in a Burger King in Manchester city centre last year.
But, Rape Crisis slammed her comments as "outrageous" and "misguided".
Yvonne Traynor, chief executive of Rape Crisis South East, said: "As a judge and a woman she should know better.
"The only person who is responsible for rape, is the rapist.
"Women are yet again being blamed for rape."
The judge spoke out as she retired from the criminal bench.
Judge Kushner, 64, said "as a woman judge" it would "be remiss" if she did not beg women to protect themselves from predatory men who ''gravitate'' towards drunken females.
The mother of two, who has sat as a senior circuit judge since 2002, said judges have been criticised for "putting more emphasis on what girls should and shouldn't do than on the act and the blame to be apportioned to rapists".
"There is absolutely no excuse and a woman can do with her body what she wants and a man will have to adjust his behaviour accordingly," she said.
But she said she does not "think it's wrong for a judge to beg woman to take actions to protect themselves".
Judge Kushner's plea to women to protect themselves was strongly - but carefully - worded: she was emphatically not blaming them for an attack but warning them that when drunk they're more vulnerable.
Other judges who've stepped into this tricky territory haven't always framed their remarks so delicately.
Judge Mary Jane Mowat's comment in 2014 that "the rape conviction statistics will not improve until women stop getting so drunk" was designed to highlight a point Judge Kushner also made - that victims are less likely to believed if they've had a lot of alcohol - but she made it sound as though women were responsible for rapists getting off.
But even more insensitive was the comment made by Mr Justice Leonard in 1987 when he declared that the trauma suffered by Ealing vicarage rape victim Jill Saward "had not been so great". He later apologised.
Judge Kushner said "potential defendants to rape" target girls who have been drinking because they are "more likely to agree as they are more disinhibited, even if they don't agree they are less likely to fight a man with evil intentions off".
She said a woman would be less likely to report a rape "because she was drunk or cannot remember what happened or feels ashamed to deal with it".
"Or, if push comes to shove, a girl who has been drunk is less likely to be believed than one who is sober at the time," she said.
"It should not be like that but it does happen and we see it time and time again."
She said women "are entitled to do what they like" but asked them to "please be aware there are men out there who gravitate towards a woman who might be more vulnerable than others".
"That's my final line, in my final criminal trial, and my final sentence," she concluded.
Judge Kushner jailed factory worker Ricardo Rodrigues-Fortes-Gomes, 19, after Manchester Crown Court heard he ignored his 18-year-old victim's screams as he attacked her on a canal bank.
A witness heard the teenager, who had been drinking lager and vodka as well as inhaling the party drug amyl nitrite, begging Rodrigues-Fortes-Gomes to stop.
Kiwi Gatland said "half a dozen players are in contention" to lead the squad, which will be named on 19 April.
"The captaincy is a great honour, but whoever the captain is there'll be no guarantee he plays," said Gatland.
However, one of his Lions predecessors, Sir Clive Woodward, believes the captain must be a "certain pick".
"You need one person who is going to be in the Test team without a shadow of a doubt - a Brian O'Driscoll, a Martin Johnson, a Lawrence Dallaglio type of figure," Woodward said on BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek programme.
Woodward, whose Lions side were beaten 3-0 on the previous tour visit to New Zealand in 2005, highlighted Wales flanker Sam Warburton as a stand-out candidate with the Welshman still the youngest captain in British and Irish Lions history after he was chosen by Gatland in 2013.
"Personally I have always been a huge fan of Sam Warburton," Woodward continued.
"He knows Warren well, he's been a successful Lions captain already. Would he be in the starting team? Absolutely, the first name on the sheet."
But Gatland reinforced that his squad decisions will come down to form and he refused to be drawn on suggestions of Warburton being given the role for a second time.
"The captain's form has to be good enough," he said on Sportsweek. "I think whoever that person is has to rise to that, the message to that person is it's a great honour to captain the Lions but your form has to be good enough to be selected for the Tests."
On Warburton he added: "He's a different captain to some other players. He leads by example. He doesn't say a lot but he has that experience.
"He's one of the guys in contention, definitely. In my mind there's probably half a dozen people in contention."
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Eloise Dixon, her partner and their three children were driving in Angra dos Reis on Sunday, when their car was approached by an armed group, Brazilian newspaper O Globo reported.
She was shot twice, once in the abdomen, but is recovering in hospital.
Ms Dixon's family were unhurt, the paper added.
O Globo said the family had apparently been searching for water to buy in Angra dos Reis - a coastal resort about 90 miles (145 km) from Rio de Janeiro.
According to the O Dia newspaper, they ended up in the Agua Santa - or holy water - community because of a difficulty in understanding the language.
The slum area is known to have drug traffickers.
Authorities told O Globo the family were shot at after they were told to leave their car by armed men but did not understand the request.
One bullet was aimed at the head of Ms Dixon, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, but missed, while two others hit her in the abdomen. Neither of them hit any vital organs.
The director of the hospital where she was treated, Rodrigo Mucheli, told Brazilian media: "The projectile passed through the abdomen and fortunately did not hit the big vessels. She was really lucky."
Ms Dixon, from south-east London, is now reportedly in a stable condition after she underwent two hours of surgery.
A UK Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are assisting the family of a British woman who has been hospitalised in Angra dos Reis, Brazil.
"Our staff remain in contact with the local authorities."
By Katy Watson, BBC South America correspondent
Angra dos Reis, the place that Eloise Dixon was shot, is a jumping-off point for some of Brazil's most famous tourist destinations. It's where tourists catch ferries to head to the beaches of Ilha Grande and not far away is the popular colonial town of Paraty.
But while most tourists would feel safe in those parts, this shooting just shows how easy it is to get caught up in troubles.
Agua Santa is a favela, or slum. A poor neighbourhood that would have probably started informally but then integrated into the main city. They are often controlled by drugs gangs so tourists are not advised to go in without a local resident or guide.
This shooting of Eloise Dixon isn't the first. There have been similar incidents in the city of Rio, with tourists following instructions from mobile apps and straying into favela territory with fatal consequences. | Colombian police have released further details of the arrest of Camilo Torres on suspicion of drug trafficking.
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Windows were also smashed during the attack at a house on the Belfast Road on Wednesday afternoon, which was reported shortly before 14:30 BST.
Two men were arrested in the area a short time later.
Police have appealed for information about the incident.
The 23-year-old centre-back, who has made 30 appearances since joining from Shrewsbury in 2015, will remain at the Amex Stadium until the summer of 2020.
"Connor has made great progress in his first year and earned his new deal," Albion boss Chris Hughton said.
"He thoroughly deserves it and I've no doubt he has a very bright future ahead with us."
The sirens are usually used to warn of extreme weather events such as tornadoes.
"All 156 sirens in the city were activated last night - it does appear at this time that it was a hack," a spokeswoman for the city told reporters.
The noise "woke up a lot of people", she added.
The sirens were activated at 23:42 local time (04:42 GMT) on Friday and lasted for about 90 minutes.
Some posted footage online in which the sirens can clearly be heard.
Technicians for the Office of Emergency Management were eventually able to shut the warning system down and find what they said was evidence that the siren system had been hacked.
"We do believe that the hack came from the Dallas area," a city statement said.
Last year, someone hacked into a number of traffic signs in Dallas and used them to publish jokes. There has been no suggestion that the same people were involved in the sirens incident.
Howells, 25, scored 31 goals in 334 appearances for Luton where he played under Daggers manager John Still.
He moved on to Eastleigh last summer but his contract was terminated earlier this month.
Sheppard, 19, has arrived from Championship club Reading, where is yet to make his first-team debut.
The Scot signed a professional contract with the Royals in 2015 and has previously had loan spells at Hayes & Yeading and Eastbourne.
Meanwhile, the club has confirmed that a proposal by a consortium of existing directors to invest £1.3m in the club has been approved by members.
The new board will be led by Paul Gwinn as non-executive chairman and with the aim of achieving "the one main goal of a sustainable club, delivering success on and off the pitch".
A University of Cambridge team has used liquid crystals in place of ink to print tiny dots on a surface covered with a special coating.
Once the coating dries, the dots become lasers, the researchers wrote in the journal Soft Matter.
A laser is a directed form of light of a specific range of colours.
They have well-defined wavelengths, whereas sunlight or the light from a bulb have a very broad wavelength range and consist of many colours.
Lasers can be produced via a variety of methods, one of them using liquid crystals (LCs), familiar from liquid crystal displays or LCDs, such as some computer monitors or flat-screen TVs.
To make a laser, molecules in a LC material have to be aligned in a certain way. To do so, liquid crystal is usually poured between two glass plates covered with a specific coating that makes the molecules align in a particular manner.
But the recent work uses standard ink-jet printing and a polymer solution film - with the polymer being similar to regular white glue used in arts and crafts - to align the molecules.
"Until now, no one has been able to print lasers; the materials typically used to make lasers only work on certain surfaces and after extensive, and expensive, manufacturing processes," Damian Gardiner of Cambridge University, one of the team members, told the BBC.
"A laser requires three things to work: a cavity, or space between two mirrors so light can bounce back and forth, a 'gain' medium to increase the amount of light, and energy.
"Our laser uses the special optical properties of the LC to get rid of the mirrors, and a dye is added to give gain.
"However, the key thing is that it is a liquid system - and can therefore be inkjet-printed, very inexpensively."
The scientists printed hundreds of small liquid crystal dots onto a wet film, and as the film dries, the molecules in LC align and the dots turn into individual lasers.
One of the potential uses could be "smart wallpaper" in museums, said Mr Gardiner's colleague, W-K Hsiao.
"You can produce hundreds and thousands of small lasers in one step, using technology not very different to the one you use to print letters and holiday photos at home," he said.
"The lasers can be used for various display and lighting applications, or they can encode information and turn any surface into a 'smart surface'.
"If you print a museum wallpaper with laser dots inside, blind people who walk around the museum with a low-power scanner can this way know which room they're in, what exhibition is displayed, and where they have to turn to find an emergency exit."
In the past, researchers have used other non-traditional ways to create laser light - for instance, by using a living cell.
Modern applications of lasers range from DVD players, surgical equipment and supermarket scanners to industrial machinery and the latest Nasa rover, Curiosity, which uses lasers to probe the Mars surface.
"I've toured this festival for years, never disappointed," he told the BBC. "You can always count on me.
"I'm basically at the stage where they need to make me headline this thing - because they ain't had no British rappers headline this festival."
As if to prove his point, the star drew huge crowds to his set on The West Holts stage on Friday.
Running through hits including Fix U, Look Sharp, Bonkers and new single Space, he provided a raucous counterpart to Radiohead's more cerebral set on the Pyramid Stage.
Dizzee's appearance put him at the top of the bill on the festival's third-biggest stage, and grime collective Boy Better Know will headline the second-biggest Other Stage on Sunday.
But the star asked why US rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West had been made main stage headliners ahead of their British counterparts.
"I've been on the main stage, but I need to headline the whole ting," he said.
"I've got 15 years of bangers. I'm confident I would tear it up."
However, he was careful not to be critical of Glastonbury, where he has delivered crowd-pleasing sets for more than a decade.
"It's the biggest festival you could do," he said. "It's a privilege."
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Identity parades were held by police investigating missing ewes to reunite them with their rightful owners.
Charles Raine, known as Neville, 66, and his nephew Phillip Raine, 46, were found guilty by a jury at Teesside Crown Court of conspiracy to use criminal property.
Phillip Raine's partner Shirley Straughan, 41, was cleared.
Det Insp Paul Phillips said the 16 farmers who lost sheep had been "absolutely dignified, patient and a credit to their profession".
He added: "Then we have Neville and Phillip Raine, who have destroyed their own reputation and almost been parasites the way they have fed off other farmers around them."
The animals went missing between 2010 and 2013.
More than 115 were identified as coming from farms in County Durham, North Yorkshire and Cumbria, despite usual markers being removed.
Neville and Phillip Raine operated two farms in the Bowes area of County Durham, close to the A66.
They were granted bail and will be sentenced in the new year.
Judge Tony Briggs warned them "all sentencing options including custody" were possible.
This was a question Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian to travel into space, often faced from admirers at home after he returned to Earth in 1984.
"I would say, no, I hadn't met God," he says.
More than three decades later, fact and fiction blur easily with his modern-day fans when they meet Mr Sharma, 68.
"Now many young mothers introduce me to their kids and tell them, 'this uncle has been to the Moon!'".
But Mr Sharma can never forget the hysteria after he returned from space. He criss-crossed the country and lived in hotels and guest houses. He posed for pictures and gave speeches. Elderly women blessed him; fans tore his clothes and sought autographs. Politicians paraded him in their constituencies for votes; and authorities sent him on holiday to a national park in searing 45C (113F) temperatures.
"It was completely over the top. It left me irritated and tired. I had to keep a smile on my face all the time," he recounts.
Mr Sharma wears his achievements and fame lightly. He joined India's air force at 21 and began flying supersonic jet fighters. He had flown 21 missions in the 1971 war with Pakistan before his 23rd birthday. By 25, he was a test pilot. He travelled into space at 35, the first Indian and the 128th human to do so.
"I had pretty much done it all before I went into space. So when the opportunity came, I went along. It was that simple."
What is easily forgotten is that Mr Sharma's feat was possibly the only silver lining in what was one of independent India's worst years ever.
1984 saw the Indian army storm the Golden Temple in Punjab to flush out Sikh separatists and the revenge killing of prime minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards.
The anti-Sikh riots, the country's worst religious rioting after Partition, convulsed Delhi. And, before the year had ended, thousands of people in the city of Bhopal had been killed after toxic gases leaked from a chemical factory, the world's worst industrial accident.
In a wounded nation, a young pilot shone as an unlikely beacon of hope.
Mrs Gandhi was pushing for an Indian in space before the 1984 general elections, and dialled her closest ally and space race leader, the Soviet Union, for help. The latter asked for a list of candidates.
Mr Sharma was picked to undergo a battery of gruelling tests from a reported shortlist of some 50 fighter pilots. Among other things, he was locked up by the air force in a room with artificial lights at an aerospace facility in Bangalore for 72 hours to test for "latent claustrophobia". In the end, two of them were selected for the final training in Russia.
More than a year before the launch, Mr Sharma and Ravish Malhotra travelled to Star City, a high-security cosmonaut-training facility some 70km (43 miles) from Moscow, to train for space flight as there were no such facilities at home.
It was bitterly cold. He trudged in the snow from one building to another - "It was very Dr Zhivago".
He had to learn Russian quickly as most of the training was in that language. Six to seven hours of language classes every day meant that he had mastered enough Russian in three months. He was put on a carefully controlled diet of local food, capped at 3,200 calories a day. Olympic trainers tested him for strength, speed and endurance, and how his chest stood up to punishing G-forces.
Midway through the training, he was told he was the chosen one, and Mr Malhotra would serve as backup.
"It wasn't such a big deal, it wasn't very tough," says Mr Sharma, modesty.
But many, like science writer Pallava Bagla, believe Mr Sharma's feat was a "huge leap of faith".
"He came from a country which didn't have a space programme. He didn't dream of becoming an astronaut. But he travelled to an alien environment, endured a harsh climate, learnt a new language, and trained hard. He's a real hero."
On 3 April, a Soviet rocket carrying Mr Sharma and two Russian astronauts, Yuri Malyshev, 42, and Gennadi Strekalov, 43, left Earth from a spaceport in the then Soviet republic of Kazakhstan.
"The take-off was boringly routine. We were over-trained by that point," Mr Sharma recounts.
"I was the 128th human in space. So I didn't really sweat about it."
Two years later, in 1986, the Challenger space shuttle broke apart over a minute after its launch, killing all seven US astronauts in flight. Mr Sharma is now among the more than 500 fortunate people who have travelled into space since Yuri Gagarin's single orbit of Earth in 1961.
The media gushed how the joint flight was the high noon of the Soviet Union-India friendship. Soviet news agency Tass filed a report saying Mr Sharma's mother, a teacher, had developed a "general interest" in the Soviet Union after her son was chosen for the flight in 1982. "The mission," says Mr Sharma, "was scientific in content, but with a political end at home."
Tragically, Mrs Gandhi would be murdered within eight months, and her son, Rajiv, would sweep the polls at the end of the year on a sympathy wave for his mother. The space flight wasn't needed to fetch votes for the ruling Congress party.
Mr Sharma and his fellow astronauts spent nearly eight days in space: grainy TV images from the time show the three men, in grey jumpsuits, floating around in the Salyut 7 space station, and conducting experiments.
He became the first human to practice yoga in space - using a harness to stop him from floating around - to find out whether it could better prepare crews adapt for the effects of gravity. He spoke to his family once on a live link with 2,500 people in the audience in a Moscow auditorium.
When Mrs Gandhi asked Mr Sharma, on a hazy live link, how India looked from space, he delivered a line in Hindi which would have easily become a viral tweet today.
"Sare Jahan Se Acha [The best in the world]", he said, quoting from a famous poem by Mohammad Iqbal, which he had recited every day in school after the national anthem.
"It was top of recall. There was nothing jingoistic about it. India does look so picturesque from space," Mr Sharma told me.
"You've got this huge coastline, the lovely blue ocean on three sides. Then there are the dry plateaus, forests, river plains, golden sands of the desert. The majestic Himalayas looked purple because sunlight cannot get into the valleys. Then there were snow capped mountains. We've got everything."
The New York Times presciently wrote that "India is not likely to have its own manned space programme for a long time, if ever, and Mr Sharma's flight may well be the last by an Indian for a long time." Thirty-three years later, Mr Sharma remains the only Indian to travel to space.
India plans to put a citizen into space using an Indian rocket from Indian soil one day. It has already developed a space flight suit for potential astronauts, and successfully tested a crew module dummy flight in the atmosphere. But money is scarce, the home-made launch rocket has to be made flight-ready, astronauts have to be trained and launch facilities built or upgraded.
After his space flight, Mr Sharma returned to his life as a jet pilot. He flew Jaguars, and the India designed fighter jet Tejas. Then he switched gears, working as the chief operating officer of a Boston-based company which made software for manufacturing planes, tanks and submarines.
Eight years ago, the space hero retired and built himself his dream home, with sloping roofs, solar-heated bathrooms, harvested rainwater, handmade bricks excavated from the plot, and a sunlit study stacked with his favourite books and music. He lives with his interior designer wife, Madhu, and their pet dog, Kali. A Bollywood biopic is "in the works", with star Aamir Khan rumoured to play the astronaut.
Would you like to return to space again? I ask.
"I would love to," he says, looking out to the hills from his sprawling balcony.
"But this time I would like to go as a tourist and savour the beauty of Earth. There was too much work when I went up there."
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Conservative Margo Stewart came narrowly ahead of Gwyneth Petrie of the SNP in the Huntly, Strathbogie and Howe of Alford vote.
The turnout was 34.5%.
It came after the death of Joanna Strathdee of the SNP and the resignation of Alastair Ross of the Lib Dems due to health reasons.
Margo Stewart got 1,469 votes, which was 36 ahead of Gwyneth Petrie on 1,433. They were followed by Lib Dem Daniel Millican with 928, Labour's Sarah Flavell on 196 and Derek Scott of the Scottish Libertarian Party with 20 votes.
Michel Barnier told reporters that "time will be short" for negotiations because the proposed deal needed to be ratified as part of the two year process set to be triggered in March.
He said the UK could not "cherry pick" on issues such as the single market.
Earlier, UK Prime Minister Theresa May told the BBC she was aiming for a "red, white and blue Brexit" for the UK.
Speaking at a press conference in Brussels, Mr Barnier said a taskforce of 30 people had been set up to make sure the EU would "be ready" when Article 50 was called.
"Time will be short," he said. "It is clear the period for actual negotiations will be shorter than two years.
"At the beginning, the two years included the time for the council to set guidelines and to authorise negotiations. At the end, the agreement must of course be approved by the Council and European Parliament. Finally the UK will have to approve the agreement - all within the two year period.
"All in all there will be less than 18 months to negotiate. That is short. Should the UK notify by the end of March as Prime Minister Theresa May said she would, it is safe to say negotiations could start a few weeks later and an Article 50 deal reached by October 2018."
Mr Barnier, making his first public speech on the issue, was appointed to the post of chief Brexit negotiator on 1 October this year by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, who said he "wanted an experienced politician for this difficult job".
The chief negotiator said he had spent time speaking to European member governments and said the Brexit negotiations had been informed by four main principles.
These included the "determination for unity" and a pledge to not start negotiations before being officially notified by the UK of its desire to leave, via the triggering of Article 50.
He also said: "Being a member of EU comes with rights and benefits. Third countries (non members as the UK will be after Brexit) can never have the same rights and benefits since they are not subject to the same obligations.
"The single market and its four freedoms (which includes freedom of movement) are indivisible. Cherry picking is not an option."
The BBC's Europe correspondent Damian Grammaticas asked Mr Barnier if the UK "paying in" to stay in the single market was a possibility after Brexit Secretary David Davis said last week the government "would consider it".
"There is access to the single market, but this is accompanied by predetermined, very specific contribution to the EU budget," said the chief negotiator.
"That is one of the models that already exists and that is one of the closest models there is to the EU without being a member."
But Mr Barnier added there were various options and until Article 50 had been called, there was little more he could say.
"It is up to the UK to tell us what they have in mind, then it is up to us at the 27 [member states] to say what we are prepared to conceive of."
Mr Barnier said he "didn't like to speculate very much" on what the future relationship between the EU and the UK would be, but it was time to "keep calm and negotiate".
"The sooner, the better," he added. "We all have a common interest in not prolonging the lack of certainty and we for our part need to concentrate on the European agenda on this new page that we will be writing in the history in the construction of the EU.
"There will be rebalancing but my conviction remains the same. Europe has to be the bedrock on which European citizens can lean in order to push ahead and construct the EU further for their safety, security, defence and prosperity."
"It is much better to show solidarity than to stand alone."
Analysis - Damian Grammaticas, BBC Europe correspondent
The EU appears to be signalling loud and clear what is on offer to the UK - and what isn't.
This isn't the EU playing hardball. That's to misread the EU's cues. And it isn't new. EU leaders have reiterated the same principles ever since the UK referendum.
From their point of view, their position is logical and consistent. EU leaders believe they have built the world's most integrated single market. They don't want to unpick parts of it for one nation that is leaving. Preserving their union is their priority.
So, Michel Barnier made clear that the UK cannot expect better terms outside the EU than inside. UK talk of getting a special deal that privileges the car industry or the City of London may not to be acceptable to the EU. As for paying to get access to the Single Market, that's possible Mr Barnier hinted - if, like Norway, you accept the EU's rules.
But 'cherry-picking' won't happen, he said. Importantly too, he indicated, a Brexit deal will cover the exit terms.
The UK's future relationship with the EU will, in all likelihood, have to be settled later, once the UK is out of the EU and has the status of a third country. It's not about driving a hard bargain. The EU is signalling it has its rules and principles, and isn't offering to change them.
Downing Street said it was sticking to its timetable despite the speech from Mr Barnier.
The prime minister's official spokesman said: "In terms of how long the negotiations actually take place, clearly that is a matter that will resolve itself as a result of the negotiations."
He said that the position of the rest of the EU on the timetable was a "matter for them".
But on the 18-month timetable, he said: "It is the first I have heard of it."
Mrs May said getting the right deal for British people would benefit the EU.
Speaking to the BBC's deputy political editor John Pienaar - before Mr Barnier's comments - on her two-day trip to Bahrain, Theresa May said: "People talk about the sort of Brexit that there is going to be. Is it hard or soft? Is it grey or white?
"Actually we want a red, white and blue Brexit; that is the right Brexit for the UK, the right deal for the UK. I believe that a deal that is right for the UK will also be a deal that is right for the EU."
On the issue of revealing more of those plans to Parliament, the prime minister said she still wanted "to keep some cards close to my chest".
But Mrs May said regardless of the outcome of this week's Supreme Court case - on whether the government can trigger Article 50 alone or need parliamentary approval - she would "deliver on the vote of the British people."
Hilary Benn, chairman of the Brexit Select Committee and Labour MP, believes talk of an 18-month time limit will add extra pressure.
He told BBC News: "It means there is going to be a very short time from the triggering of Article 50 to negotiate the divorce arrangements and crucially what our new relationship with Europe is going to be once we have left, when it comes to trade and the single market.
"What I think he has said reinforces the argument that I have been making that we are going to need transitional arrangements [around the negotiations]."
Mr Barnier said a short term agreement "could have some point" in helping move towards a final deal.
But Boris Johnson said 18 months is "ample time" for the UK to negotiate with the EU.
Speaking as he arrived at a NATO meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels, the Foreign Secretary said: "With a fair wind and everybody acting in a positive and compromising mood, as I'm sure they will, we can get a great deal for the UK and for the rest of Europe".
When in charge of regional policy, Mr Barnier said he worked on a programme supporting Northern Ireland and the Good Friday agreement.
When asked by The Irish Times whether he would dismiss the idea of a hard border being put in place post-Brexit, he would not commit either way.
"The UK decision to leave the EU will have consequences, in particular perhaps for what are the EU's external borders today," he said.
"All I can say at this moment in time is I am personally extremely aware of this particular topic. We will throughout these negotiations with the UK and of course with Ireland, do our utmost to uphold the success of the Good Friday Agreement and of course retain the dialogue there."
A former EU commissioner, Mr Barnier led the EU's banking reforms and was dubbed "the most dangerous man in Europe" by some in the financial services industry.
But after he championed capping bankers' bonuses, he won respect as a tough but even-handed negotiator.
Mr Barnier has refused to take part in any pre-negotiations before Article 50 is triggered, but he did meet Brexit Secretary David Davis for coffee last month.
Speaking in November in Brussels, he said: "Don't ask me to tell you what will be at the end of the road, we haven't begun to walk yet."
Steve Easton, from Surrey, was overcome by a sneezing fit and "a very uncomfortable sensation" before he felt something make its way into his left nostril and slowly unfurl itself.
After he retrieved it, Mr Easton was unable to work out what it was until he phoned his mother, Pat.
She knew instantly it was a rubber sucker lost more than 40 years ago.
Mr Easton was at home in Camberley playing a game on the internet when it happened.
"It was a very strange sensation so I retrieved it to examine it," he said.
The rubber sucker became an object of curiosity that he carried around with him because people were so interested, but has since been thrown out.
Mr Easton said he had grown up being able to smell and blow his nose and added: "It doesn't feel any different. Nothing has changed as far as I'm concerned."
"It's the length of time," he said. "I'm not the first person this has happened to, but 43 years - it's quite out there isn't it?"
Mrs Easton, 77, who lives in Buckinghamshire, had taken Steve to hospital at the age of seven or eight, suspecting he had swallowed the sucker from the dart.
She said she had worried about it for years and was just glad it was out.
"I don't know what he did - you know what children are - whether he put it in his mouth, but he swallowed it.
"I was really worried so I took him to hospital and they X-rayed him and checked everything and they couldn't find it."
She said she had never known whether he had got rid of it naturally or whether it was still inside him.
"All these years later, it suddenly shot out," she said.
Continuing NHS Healthcare can cover all the care costs of people with complex ongoing illnesses.
Health Minister Mark Drakeford promised claims would be managed promptly, after criticism of a backlog of cases.
Claimants now have until 1 October to register for costs incurred between 1 August 2013 and 30 September 2014.
For those found to be eligible, all care needs - including nursing home costs of up to £40,000 a year - are met by the NHS.
It is not means-tested and the funds are potentially available to anyone over the age of 18.
Local health boards are responsible for ruling on claims and paying the bill.
More than £50m in wrongly-paid care home fees and interest has already been returned to families in Wales, often after a lengthy delay.
Mr Drakeford said: "Health boards will provide free advice to individuals should they wish to make a claim and they will also complete the necessary work on their behalf."
He added: "These claims will be managed in a robust and timely manner.
"We are also working with health boards to ensure staff get it right first time to minimise the number of people who are unnecessarily paying for continuing healthcare."
People wishing to register a claim should contact their local health board.
Ian McGaw, 26, from Galston, went berserk as they tried to arrest him for throwing a firework into a play park in the East Ayrshire town.
Kilmarnock Sheriff Court heard how he hurled five PCs around "like rag dolls" after being sprayed with CS gas and was so powerful he buckled his handcuffs.
Dean Stevenson, 19, who also attacked police, was jailed for two years.
McGaw admitted culpable and reckless conduct by throwing a firework, punching and kicking two officers, assaulting PC Robert McMeeking to the danger of his life and resisting arrest.
Stevenson, who is also from Galston, admitted punching a female officer on the head and assaulting PC McMeeking to the danger of his life.
The court heard how police went to a house in Galston, in October last year, after fireworks had been thrown in a local play park.
As officers confronted a group of males inside, McGaw showed signs of building aggression and two officers attempted to handcuff him.
McGaw managed to pick up a police sergeant and throw him through a closed door into the next room.
Stephanie MacDonald, prosecuting, said: "The sergeant got up and saw five officers being treated, as he described it, like rag dolls."
McGaw dropped to his knees after being sprayed twice with CS gas, while Stevenson punched an officer in the face.
Ms MacDonald added: "McGaw got back on his feet and lunged towards PC Robert McMeeking, grabbed him by the throat with both hands and squeezed his windpipe with both thumbs.
"He was held against a wall and lifted off his feet. The officer estimated he was not breathing for 20-30 seconds and described losing the feeling in his arms and legs."
PC McMeeking passed out and was freed by a colleague, but McGaw spat on him while being restrained.
PC McMeeking was then kicked on the head by Stevenson, while the latter was being handcuffed.
Ms MacDonald said the pair were put in a van and taken to Kilmarnock police office, where McGaw's cuffs were removed and "found to be buckled and unserviceable due to the struggle".
The court was told that PC McMeeking had since suffered loss of vision which had been linked to post-traumatic stress disorder.
Sheriff Alistair Watson said the "terrible and sustained attack on police officers" was so serious he had considered sending it to the High Court for sentencing.
He told McGaw: "You are a man with a history of violence and quite obvious size and strength which you used to press home this attack on the officers, and in particular PC McMeeking.
"The effects on him will be long-lasting, that's obvious to all. The attack was life-threatening and you show no remorse for what you have done."
Sheriff Watson said the sentence should reflect McGaw's "significant risk to the public" and ordered that he be supervised for two years after his release.
He told Stevenson his part in the attack had caused PC McMeeking to lose consciousness, although he had shown remorse and written a letter to the court.
The incident was the second time McGaw had been jailed over a violent confrontation with police.
In 2006, when he was 18, he and co-accused Christopher Quigley, 19, were jailed for a total of seven years after barricading themselves in their burning house and attacking riot police.
A recalculation using current exchange rates put South Africa on top because the rand has strengthened against the dollar.
Nigeria's currency has fallen sharply since a peg to the dollar was dropped.
But BBC Africa Business Report editor Matthew Davies says both economies could be on the brink of recession.
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Nigeria rebased its economy in 2014 to include previously uncounted industries like telecoms, information technology, music, online sales, airlines, and film production.
Most countries do rebasing, updating the measure of the size of the economy, at least every three years or so, but Nigeria had not updated the components in its GDP base year since 1990.
On the basis of these numbers, there's not a lot between the two. South Africa's economy is worth around $301bn (£232bn) and Nigeria comes in at $296bn.
The exercise in calculating the numbers using last year's IMF figures and this year's currency exchange numbers, technically puts South Africa back on top.
But look behind the league table and the light-hearted jostling about who has the largest economy in Africa and things, economically speaking, are a little bleaker.
Both economies contracted in the first quarter. Another contraction and they'll both be in recession.
Nigeria is almost entirely dependent on its oil exports. And as the price of oil slumps so does the flow of petrodollars coming into the country's coffers. South Africa's economy is more diverse.
Indeed, after Nigeria knocked it off the top spot two years ago, we started describing it as "Africa's most industrialised economy", rather than Africa second-largest economy.
But economic growth is unlikely to make it above 1% in South Africa this year and many, including the country's Reserve Bank, are forecasting it at zero.
Unemployment remains stubbornly high and a credit rating review is looming at the end of the year.
If the whole "largest economy in Africa" competition was a horse race, the two leading contenders would be virtually neck and neck.
But they wouldn't be galloping, they'd be trotting at best. And looking increasingly tired and in need of sustenance.
Clarence Edwards, 26, was found outside the RBase club on Charles Street in the early hours of Sunday.
He was taken to hospital but died later of his injuries.
Four other men, two aged 22, and two aged 26 and 37, have been bailed pending further enquiries.
Mr Edwards was jailed for his role in the 2011 death of John Lee Barrett.
One of 12 men jailed over that death, he was convicted of violent disorder and sentenced to two-and-a-half years in March 2013.
And, as these Merlin Premier League stickers chronicling Gerrard's career will attest, nothing has changed in the subsequent years.
Number two in the barber's chair, number one in the heart of modern-day Liverpool fans.
Stickers courtesy of www.toppsfootball.co.uk
When Steven Gerrard replaced Vegard Heggem with a minute to go of a 2-0 victory over Blackburn on 29 November 1998, few Liverpudlians could have predicted the future the fresh-faced 18-year-old would have.
Arsenal legend Thierry Henry quizzed Patrick Vieira on their way down the Anfield tunnel after a defeat: "Who was that kid in midfield?" Gerrard was shown his first red card against Everton and netted his first goal against Sheffield Wednesday.
Gerrard, who was given the number 17 shirt having previously worn 28, was named the Professional Footballers' Association's Young Player of the Year, PFA Fans' Player of the Year, was chosen in the PFA Team of the Year and won the FA Cup, League Cup and Uefa Cup.
The Whiston-born player won the Uefa Super Cup as Liverpool finished runners-up domestically for the first time in over a decade and his England career took off as he scored the second goal in a 5-1 win over Germany.
As Sami Hyypia struggled for form, Gerrard took on the club captaincy. "Now he is 23 and he is ready, there has been a maturing in his game and his personality," said Gerard Houllier, then the Liverpool boss.
"For the first time in my career I've thought about the possibility of moving on," said Gerrard at the end of the season as Rafael Benitez moved into Anfield and Chelsea tried to lure the midfielder to Stamford Bridge.
Gerrard lifted the most famous trophy in club football to conclude one of the most dramatic nights in Liverpool's history, was named Uefa Club Footballer of the Year yet still came close to leaving Anfield.
Gerrard's last-minute 30-yard strike to force extra time against West Ham in the FA Cup final will light up highlight reels for decades to come. Gerrard, then 25, also became the first Liverpool player since John Barnes in 1988 to be voted the PFA Players' Player of the Year.
Gerrard experienced defeat in the Champions League final by AC Milan but Liverpool finished third in the Premier League as he made the fifth of his eight appearances in the PFA Team of the Year.
The Liverpool number eight found himself in a new role just off striker Fernando Torres and both players were nominated for the PFA Player of the Year award. Off the field, Gerrard became a Member of the Order of the British Empire.
In his most prolific season Gerrard managed a first Premier League hat-trick in a win over Aston Villa in March 2009 and got closer to a league title than ever before - losing out by four points to Manchester United - as he won the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year.
After a summer in which a jury at Liverpool Crown Court found Gerrard not guilty of affray, Liverpool struggled as Benitez left at the end of the season, though their 29-year-old captain became one of just 13 men to pass 500 appearances for the club.
In a season in which Gerrard captained his country, Liverpool's team needed surgery and so did he, with a groin problem ending his season in March as Liverpool swapped manager Roy Hodgson for Kenny Dalglish.
After turning down a summer move to Bayern Munich, Gerrard lifted the club's first trophy in six years - the League Cup - and scored a hat-trick against local rivals Everton on his 400th Premier League appearance.
New Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers got to work on re-building the club and Gerrard was at the centre of his work, playing 36 times in the league as the club finished seventh.
"It's probably been the worst three months of my life," Gerrard said after the slip which handed Demba Ba a Chelsea goal, Manchester City the initiative in the title race and ruined hopes of a first Liverpool title in 24 years.
His sending off after 38 seconds of coming on against Manchester United as a substitute in March 2015 was the behaviour of a man overcome by frustration, while his late winner to beat Queens Park Rangers in May was the act of a leader and match-winner Liverpool fans will never forget.
Thousands gathered at the college on Saturday, with about 100 taking part in a run to commemorate the victims.
Prayers and candlelight vigils will be held later in Garissa and in the capital Nairobi, where President Uhuru Kenyatta expected to attend.
Four al-Shabab militants shot students in their dormitories before rounding up and killing dozens more.
It was the deadliest attack in Kenya since al-Qaeda's bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi in 1998, which killed 213 people.
Al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab, which is based in neighbouring Somalia, has carried out a number of attacks against Kenyan targets.
The group says it is retaliating for acts by Kenya's security forces, which are part of the African Union's mission in Somalia against al-Shabab.
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The participants in the commemorative run wore T-shirts bearing peace slogans.
One of the organisers of the run, Ali Awdoll, told the BBC that the attack had made a lasting impression on the residents of Garissa.
"As we try to mourn the innocent lives, it's like it happened yesterday. The images of the dead bodies keep on playing in my mind. It was really a traumatising experience."
He said the runners were participating as "a gesture of the peace and humanity that we lost... there is no 'we' and 'they' in this whole thing - we are humanity and we all have one common enemy - the terrorists are our common enemy".
Garissa Township MP Aden Duale was one of those taking part.
He said: "Together as a country, from the north to the south to the west to east, from the Muslims to Christians... together we must fight all forms of terror."
Security is tight in and around the college in Garissa, 365km (225 miles) north-east of the capital.
This is in stark contrast to the time of the attack, when only two guards were on duty, despite official warnings that an attack on an institution of higher learning was likely.
The four gunmen were killed during the siege but it took 16 hours for anti-terrorism forces to bring the attack to an end.
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
The sites in question are part of the Cornwall-based Morleigh Group, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) said.
Clinton House in St Austell was closed by the owner earlier this month due to safeguarding concerns.
The Morleigh Group said staff had been removed and a "thorough review" had been carried out.
The council apologised to residents and said what had been uncovered was "shocking and utterly unacceptable".
The other homes involved are St Theresa's in Callington, Elmsleigh in Par and Collamere in Lostwithiel.
The CQC said all four would be downgraded in inspection reports due to be made public next week following a "significant deterioration in the standards of care".
The concerns relate to bad management, staffing levels, the poor management of medication and people not being treated with dignity and respect. The allegations are not thought to involve physical abuse.
The CQC has investigated Morleigh Group care homes 22 times in the last two years and said owners had "squandered" the opportunity to put things right.
Cornwall Council said further action would be taken once it had official confirmation from the CQC.
Trevor Doughty, from the council, said: "We would never make placements in care homes rated 'inadequate'."
He said concerns raised about Clinton House were mostly upheld. All 32 residents will be moved by November 25.
Council investigations into the other three homes should be completed within days.
Mr Doughty added: "I am sorry that the standard of care provided by Morleigh Group has fallen far short of what residents, their relatives and the general public have a right to expect."
Christine Stewart, whose 85-year-old mother Sylvia lived at Clinton House, first raised concerns about the home in 2013.
She said: "It really is a scandal that things have been allowed to get to this stage."
Devon and Cornwall Police confirmed it was involved in a multi-agency investigation and that no arrests had been made.
Malcolm Shabazz, 29, succumbed in hospital to multiple injuries he suffered on Thursday.
Mexico's attorney general's office said an investigation into the incident was under way.
The US state department said that it was in contact with the family and offering appropriate assistance.
Shabazz was discovered with fatal wounds at Plaza Garibaldi, a popular tourist area packed with bars and restaurants, in the early hours of Thursday, officials said.
Miguel Suarez, a union activist who was travelling with Shabazz, said they had been in the country as part of their efforts to advocate more rights for Mexican construction workers in the US.
Mr Suarez said he and Shabazz were invited to a bar on Wednesday night by a woman.
The bar owner later demanded they pay $1,200 (£780) for drinks and female companionship, according to Mr Suarez.
He said that he escaped as a fight broke out, before returning to find Shabazz seriously injured on the ground outside the bar.
Mr Suarez said he took Shabazz to a hospital where he died of "blunt-force injuries".
Shabazz was the son of one of Malcolm X's six daughters, Qubilah Shabazz.
When he was 12, he was involved in a fire that killed his grandmother Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X.
He was convicted of manslaughter and arson and sentenced to time in a juvenile detention centre.
Malcolm X, a black power activist and prominent figure in the militant Nation of Islam movement, was shot dead at a political rally in New York on 21 February 1965.
12 January 2016 Last updated at 17:06 GMT
Abraham Lincoln spoke of the need to free slaves. The longest-serving president, Franklin D Roosevelt outlined four essential human freedoms - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear - to make a case for more global involvement as World War 2 raged in Europe.
Richard Nixon tried to use the State of the Union to dismiss the importance of Watergate but his successor, Gerald Ford, spoke of the poor state of the nation thanks to Watergate and its fallout.
Presidents Clinton and Bush have used it as an opportunity not only to outline their plans for the future but to reflect on the true state of the nation as they see it.
On Tuesday night, Barack Obama will deliver his final State of the Union to the US.
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Planned surgery was put on hold and a "major incident" was declared at Addenbrooke's Hospital on Friday.
Part of the hospital's basement, where sterilisation equipment is kept, was flooded following torrential rain.
A spokesman said the hospital was still in a "critical" condition. Cambridgeshire Fire Service received 54 emergency calls related to flooding between 00:00 and 05:00 BST on Friday.
A spokesman for Cambridge University Hospitals, which runs Addenbrooke's, said: "We have stood down from major incident mode... but the situation remains critical.
"The position of our sterile services department is improving and has allowed us to undertake some prioritised surgery.
"As a result we can now receive major trauma, vascular and surgery patients, which has enabled us to deescalate from 'major incident' status."
The spokesman apologised to people who had operations cancelled and said the hospital expected to be back to normal later in the week.
Elite troops entered the compound on Friday in an attempt to secure the area in the last major IS stronghold in Iraq.
It comes amid reports that Iraqi forces have reached a second bridge in the city.
The latest phase of a push to retake Mosul was launched last month.
Friday's operation to capture the University, in the eastern part of the city, has seen government forces gain control of several buildings in the area, local media report.
The complex has been used by IS militants as a base. Iraqi officials have also said that the group has used the site's chemistry laboratories to produce chemical weapons.
Meanwhile, the Iraqi military said in a statement that troops had reached al-Hurriya, or Freedom, Bridge, after inflicting "heavy losses" on IS militants.
Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF) have now, according to reports, taken the east sides of two of the five main bridges across the Tigris rive, after reaching the southernmost Fourth Bridge just days ago.
The bridges, which provide a link from Mosul's north and south, were targeted by coalition air strikes in October with the aim of limiting the ability of IS to resupply or reinforce their positions in the east.
The strikes caused sufficient damage to the bridges but they were purposely not destroyed in order for them to be repaired more easily after the city's recapture, analysts said.
Since the offensive to recapture Mosul was relaunched two weeks ago, government forces have made swift progress on the eastern side of the city.
The campaign began in October but got off to a slow start in the face of tough IS defence and counter-attacks.
Criminals used customer details gained from "an unknown source" to try to access accounts between Wednesday and Thursday, the company said.
The telecommunications giant said 1,827 customers had their accounts accessed, with criminals potentially gaining their names and some bank details.
But it insisted its systems had not been breached.
Vodafone said its investigation and "mitigating actions" meant only a "handful" of customers had been subject to any fraudulent attempts to use their data.
It comes just over a week after the phone and broadband provider TalkTalk was subjected to a cyber attack in which personal and banking details may have been accessed by hackers.
Vodafone said its security protocols had been "fundamentally effective", but the criminals had potentially gained customers' names, their mobile phone numbers, bank sort codes and the last four digits of their bank account numbers.
Vodafone says it has notified the 1,827 affected customers and there is no need for other customers to be concerned.
Those who are affected should:
The company said the details could not be used to access customers' bank accounts but the information meant they could be at risk of fraud or phishing attempts - the practice of sending emails purporting to be from reputable companies.
The BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones said the email addresses and passwords criminals used to try to access Vodafone accounts appeared to have been bought on the dark web.
A Vodafone spokesman said the affected Vodafone accounts had been blocked and their banks notified.
The National Crime Agency, the Information Commissioner's Office and Ofcom have been notified of the incident, Vodafone added.
An NCA spokeswoman said: "The NCA can confirm that we have been contacted by Vodafone in relation to a compromise of customer data, and we are in dialogue with the company.
"Anyone who thinks they have been subject to attempted or successful fraud, or other online crime, should report it to action fraud at www.actionfraud.police.uk."
The price of copper hit a one-month low after a report showed that Chinese metal imports slowed sharply in November.
BHP Billiton closed down 1.6%, Rio Tinto fell 1% and Anglo American slipped 0.7%.
However, the FTSE 100 managed a modest gain towards the end of the session, rising 0.3% to 7,064.
"Some of the mining stocks, the amount they've jumped from the lows this year, they've probably out-done the bounce in the metals prices," said Jasper Lawler, senior market analyst at London Capital Group.
He said that next year shares in mining firms will be "exposed", if metal demand does not recover and supply does not fall as much as thought.
The best performer on the FTSE 100 was the business consultant group DCC, which rose more than 3%.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was edging lower on Thursday, but still remains within striking distance of 20,000.
The pound dipped 0.47% against the dollar to $1.2296. It was 0.77% lower against the euro at €1.176.
The 23-year-old only played his first game of the season in November after a hamstring injury, but has scored six tries in his last three appearances.
"He's all action, isn't he - with his hair flowing around everywhere," skills coach Pellow told BBC Radio Devon.
"He plays with his heart on his sleeve and that shows in his carries - those players will get the crowd behind you."
Campagnaro, who has also played on the wing, was challenged by Pellow in November to replicate his international form at Sandy Park.
He has 25 caps for the Azzurri, and is one of only three Exeter players likely to be involved in the Six Nations' opening weekend.
"It is disappointing that we are going to lose him, but at the same time this is what we want from the club - we want international players to be playing here," Pellow added.
"He's been really strong - earlier on in the season he had a few injuries, but he's come back in and he's backed up performances."
Gareth Williams, 48, admitted 31 charges including nine of voyeurism and 20 of making indecent photos last May.
The Ysgol Glantaf teacher was caught in an international police operation.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) will examine whether the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre acted quickly enough.
The evidence led to Project Spade, an investigation into child abuse images that were shared around the world.
This led to the conviction of Williams who was subsequently jailed for five years, later cut to four.
Police found recordings he made at the school where he taught and at other properties.
CEOP, now part of the National Crime Agency (NCA), had information on him some months before he committed many of his offences.
"The public are rightly concerned about the safety of the most vulnerable members of society and issues concerning the protection of children," said IPCC commissioner Carl Gumsley.
"IPCC investigators will be examining closely the actions taken by CEOP and NCA officers and staff over a 16-month period to determine if they acted appropriately and promptly as well as looking at any possible organisational failings."
Among the most habitable alien worlds were Saturn's moon Titan and the exoplanet Gliese 581g - thought to reside some 20.5 light-years away in the constellation Libra.
The international team devised two rating systems to assess the probability of hosting alien life.
They have published their results in the journal Astrobiology.
In their paper, the authors propose two different indices: an Earth Similarity Index (ESI) and a Planetary Habitability Index (PHI).
"The first question is whether Earth-like conditions can be found on other worlds, since we know empirically that those conditions could harbour life," said co-author Dr Dirk Schulze-Makuch from Washington State University, US.
"The second question is whether conditions exist on exoplanets that suggest the possibility of other forms of life, whether known to us or not."
As the name suggests, the ESI rates planets and moons on how Earth-like they are, taking into account such factors as size, density and distance from the parent star.
The PHI looks at a different set of factors, such as whether the world has a rocky or frozen surface, whether it has an atmosphere or a magnetic field.
It also considers the energy available to any organisms, either through light from a parent star or via a process called tidal flexing, in which gravitational interactions with another object can heat a planet or moon internally.
And finally, the PHI takes into account chemistry - such as whether organic compounds are present - and whether liquid solvents might be available for vital chemical reactions.
The maximum value for the Earth Similarity Index was 1.00 - for Earth, unsurprisingly. The highest scores beyond our solar system were for Gliese 581g (whose existence is doubted by some astronomers), with 0.89, and another exoplanet orbiting the same star - Gliese 581d, with an ESI value of 0.74.
The Gliese 581 system has been well studied by astronomers and comprises four - possibly five - planets orbiting a red dwarf star.
HD 69830 d, a Neptune-sized exoplanet orbiting a different star in the constellation Puppis, also scored highly (0.60). It is thought to lie in the so-called Goldilocks Zone - the region around its parent star where surface temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold for life.
The highly rated worlds from our own solar system were Mars, with a value of 0.70, and Mercury, with 0.60.
The Planet Habitability Index produced different results. The top finisher here was Saturn's moon Titan, which scored 0.64, followed by Mars (0.59) and Jupiter's moon Europa (0.47), which is thought to host a subsurface water ocean heated by tidal flexing.
The highest scoring exoplanets were, again Gliese 581g (0.49) and Gliese 581d (0.43).
In recent years, the search for potentially habitable planets outside our solar system has stepped up several gears. Nasa's Kepler space telescope, launched into orbit in 2009, has found more than 1,000 candidate planets so far.
Future telescopes may even be able to detect so-called biomarkers in the light emitted by distant planets, such as the presence of chlorophyll, a key pigment in plants.
The ploughshare tortoises were handed to Chester Zoo in 2012 after being confiscated by Hong Kong customs officials in 2009.
Regarded as the most threatened species of tortoise, say zoo bosses, they are native to Madagascar.
Dr Gerardo Garcia, of the zoo, said they were the "jewel in the crown of the reptile world".
Prized for their distinctive gold and black shells, they fetch "exceptionally high prices on the international black market", a spokesman said.
Efforts to steal the animals are so relentless there may only be 500 left, making it one of the rarest animals in the world, he added.
Dr Garcia said there was a "very real possibility the species could be lost forever due to illegal trafficking for the exotic pet trade".
"Most of these illegally exported tortoises are sold in markets in South East Asia," he explained.
The quartet were part of a shipment of 13 being smuggled from Madagascar and will form part of the European Breeding Programme for the species.
They are going on display at the zoo to raise awareness of the illegal exotic pet trade.
Worth £15bn ($19bn) a year, it is the fourth biggest international crime after drugs, arms and human trafficking, a zoo spokesman said.
The notorious Paragraph 175 of the penal code was eventually relaxed in 1969, but not before 50,000 men were convicted.
Many were sent to jail and some took their own lives because of the stigma.
Justice Minister Heiko Maas said it was a flagrant injustice and those still alive would be given compensation.
The German government's decision comes months after the UK said it was pardoning 65,000 gay and bisexual men who were convicted under the Sexual Offences Act that criminalised private homosexual acts in England and Wales until 1967 and later in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Alan Turing law: Thousands to be pardoned
The cabinet decided on Wednesday to back a bill annulling the sentences and handing compensation to all those affected.
If the law is passed, every man convicted who is still alive will receive a €3,000 (£2,600; $3,240) lump sum plus a further €1,500 for each year spent in jail.
Only 5,000 men are thought to be eligible for compensation as most have since died.
Condemning the convictions as the "crimes of the state", the justice minister said the men's rehabilitation was long overdue.
"It was only because of their love of men and their sexual identity that they were persecuted, punished and outlawed by the German state," said Mr Maas.
The law prohibiting "sexual acts contrary to nature" first appeared in Germany's criminal code in 1871 shortly after the country was unified.
Unsuccessful attempts were made to repeal it under the Weimar Republic, but under the Nazis it was tightened in 1935 to criminalise "lewd and lascivious acts" between men. Tens of thousands of homosexuals were imprisoned and many died in concentration camps.
The article remained part of the criminal code in East and West Germany. In the East it was removed in 1968 and in the West it was relaxed before being finally repealed by the unified German government in 1994.
Between 1949 and 1969 50,000 men were prosecuted and there were a further 14,000 cases until 1994.
Wolfgang Lauinger, now 98, was persecuted first by the Nazis and then held in prison uncharged for several months in 1950 by the West German authorities.
"I still believe they used old Gestapo files," he said of his post-war interrogators in a 2016 interview.
Alan Turing was both a renowned mathematician and World War Two codebreaker when he was convicted of gross indecency in 1952 for having sex with a man. He lost his job, was chemically castrated and two years later took his life aged 42.
He was finally pardoned in 2013.
In January 2017, the UK government granted a posthumous pardon under the "Turing law" to an estimated 50,000 men convicted of having consensual homosexual sex.
Some 15,000 are still alive but have to apply to have their conviction removed under a "disregard process". No compensation is involved.
Universal, Sony, Warner Bros and other labels launched legal action against the German operator of YouTube-mp3.org in a federal court in Los Angeles.
They are seeking damages from the company and its owner that include $150,000 (£115,000) for every alleged instance of piracy.
The defendants have yet to respond to the claims.
According to the legal papers, users can turn YouTube videos into permanent audio files and store them on their computer with a few simple mouse clicks.
The record labels claim that "tens, or even hundreds, of millions of tracks are illegally copied and distributed by stream-ripping services each month" and that YouTube-mp3.org is the "chief offender", with more than 60 million users per month.
As part of their evidence, the labels submitted the names of more than 300 songs that, they allege, have been converted and downloaded by users of the service.
They include Meghan Trainor's All About That Bass, One Direction's Story Of My Life and Sia's Chandelier.
"Stream ripping has become a major threat to the music industry, functioning as an unlawful substitute for the purchase of recorded music and the purchase of subscriptions to authorised streaming services," the labels said.
As well as suing for damages, the music industry is asking for a court order that would forbid web hosts, advertisers and other third parties from facilitating access to youtube-mp3.org.
"This site is raking in millions on the backs of artists, songwriters and labels," said the Recording Industry Association of America's president, Cary Sherman, in a statement.
"It should not be so easy to engage in this activity in the first place, and no stream ripping site should appear at the top of any search result or app chart."
The BPI, which represents UK record labels, has also put YouTube-mp3.org on formal notice of intended legal action in the UK if it does not cease infringing copyright.
"It's time to stop illegal sites like this building huge fortunes by ripping off artists and labels," said the BPI's chief executive, Geoff Taylor.
"Fans have access now to a fantastic range of legal music streaming services, but they can only exist if we take action to tackle the online black market.
"We hope that responsible advertisers, search engines and hosting providers will also reflect on the ethics of supporting sites that enrich themselves by defrauding creators."
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Prosecutors claimed two men made a 140-mile road trip to leave explosives concealed in a fire extinguisher among undergrowth close to the venue.
The alleged plan was to later move the device to the Waterfoot Hotel.
Details emerged as bail was refused to one of two men accused of bringing the bomb parts across the Irish border.
Darren Poleon, 41, of Drumbaragh in Kells, County Meath, is charged with preparing an act of terrorism.
He is also charged with conspiracy to cause an explosion, and possessing an improvised explosive device with intent to endanger life or cause damage to property.
Co-accused Brian Walsh, 34, of Dunshaughlin in County Meath, is charged with the same offences.
A prosecution lawyer said the pair were in a car stopped by police in Omagh three days before the bomb was discovered.
They claimed to be in Northern Ireland to buy an engine, the court heard.
Officers found a rucksack, bolt cutters, walkie-talkies, binoculars, a head torch, toy gun, latex gloves, wigs and a fake beard inside the vehicle.
At that stage the two men were arrested on suspicion of going equipped for theft, but later released on bail.
However, this changed after the explosives were found on 9 October, the prosecution barrister said.
"The police view is the device was at a transit location - it was to be moved closer or within the hotel prior to the PSNI recruitment event to take place the following day," she said.
Examination of the satellite navigation system in the car the two men were in revealed it travelled from County Meath to the "destination" at a roundabout near the Waterfoot Hotel, the court heard.
It also contained an address for Belfast Metropolitan College, where a similar police meeting was to be held, the prosecutor said.
The barrister said a reservation at the hotel for the night before the police event was made using Mr Poleon's name, but no one turned up for the booking.
A defence lawyer said the case against his client was "replete with speculation", with no DNA or fingerprint evidence linking him to the scene of the bomb find.
He also disputed allegations about the sat nav and hotel reservation.
Arguing that that the device could have been left in the undergrowth a month previously, he added: "It's a very weak circumstantial case."
Items found in Mr Poleon's car were only Halloween garments, a plastic cowboy gun and a child's walkie-talkie belonging to his son, he said.
However, the judge refused bail, saying there was prima facie evidence of involvement in a "very sophisticated and clearly terrorist-type operation.
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More than 130 people have died in the last two weeks as part of a conflict between the police and the gang, known as First Command of the Capital (PCC).
Many attacks on officers are believed to be arranged from inside prison by jailed gang members.
BBC Brasil has seen a document by a group of prosecutors calling for PCC leaders to be moved to other jails.
They say Sao Paulo's prison system does not have the capacity to isolate such dangerous inmates and they should be transferred to federal prisons.
But the issue is a sensitive one, correspondents say.
The last time they tried to move jailed gang leaders, in 2006, the PCC unleashed a wave of violence and riots that led to the deaths of almost 500 people.
Some of Sao Paulo's poorer districts have remained shut and businesses have been closing early as the conflict between police and the PCC has escalated. Buses have also been burned and transport disrupted.
In the latest violence, nine people were killed in a five-hour period on Thursday evening, the BBC's Gary Duffy reports from Sao Paulo.
A senior law officer told the BBC he believes civilians are being killed in revenge attacks by some police officers.
More than 90 officers have been killed in the city since the beginning of the year.
Earlier in the week, the authorities unveiled plans to tackle the situation.
They included creating a new police agency and stepping up security and surveillance at ports, airports and highways, which are used to smuggle drugs into the city.
Sao Paulo Governor Geraldo Alckmin said inmates suspected of ordering attacks on police officers would be moved to maximum security prisons under federal control, from where they would be unable to communicate with their hit men.
The authorities believe that, even in prison, the gang leaders are capable of controlling members, issuing orders by mobile phones and directing the sale of drugs, purchase of arms, and murders of both rival gang members and security officials.
The man regarded as the PCC leader, Marcos Herbas Camacho, also known as Marcola, and a dozen criminals who make up the rest of the gang's command structure are currently held in jails in Sao Paulo state.
The authorities moved one prisoner, from the lower level of the PCC leadership, to a jail in the north of Brazil on Thursday, and another 18 members of the gang are expected to be transferred to other jails in November.
But the prosecutors, in their letter, argued that only with the transfer of Marcola and the second tier of the leadership to jails outside of Sao Paulo can the powerful criminal faction be taken apart.
The authorities are thought to be uneasy about accepting such advice for fear of provoking an escalation in violence, our correspondent reports.
At least 204 are believed to have been shot dead by militants during clashes with Iraqi security forces in the Shifa district last Thursday and Saturday.
The UN said it had noted a "significant escalation" in such killings.
There are also reports of between 50 and 80 civilians being killed in an air strike on the Zanjili area on 31 May.
Pro-government forces launched an offensive to retake Mosul in October with the support of a US-led multinational coalition.
They managed to take full control of the eastern half of Mosul in January and started an assault on the west the following month.
Fewer than 1,000 militants are now besieged in IS-controlled parts of the Old City and several adjoining northern districts, along with some 100,000 civilians.
The UN Human Rights office said it had documented IS "use of civilians as human shields and its slaughter of those attempting to flee" since the start of the operation, but that recent reports indicated "a significant escalation in such killings".
On 26 May, militants reportedly shot at civilians trying to flee Shifa, killing 27 people, including 14 women and five children.
Another 163 civilians were allegedly shot dead next to a Pepsi factory in the same district last Thursday. Their bodies were reportedly left on the street for days.
And on Saturday, IS reportedly shot and killed at least 41 civilians as they attempted to flee Shifa towards Iraqi security forces locations.
That day, Reuters news agency journalists saw the bodies of dozens of civilians lying along a road leading out of Zanjili.
"Shooting children as they try to run to safety with their families - there are no words of condemnation strong enough for such despicable acts," UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad al-Hussein said.
"I call on the Iraqi authorities to ensure that those who are responsible for these horrors are held accountable and brought to justice in line with international human rights laws and standards. The victims of such terrible crimes must not be forgotten."
Mr Zeid also called on the Iraqi security forces and their coalition partners to ensure that their operations fully complied with international humanitarian law and that all possible measures were taken to avoid the loss of civilian lives.
In March, a coalition air strike on a building in western Mosul killed more than 100 Iraqi civilians by inadvertently setting off a large amount of explosives that IS militants had placed there, a US military investigation concluded last month.
The UN says at least 2,174 civilians have been killed and 1,516 injured across Nineveh province since the start of the Mosul offensive almost eight months ago.
More than 800,000 people - about a third of the pre-war population of Mosul - have been displaced over the same period, including 633,000 from the west of the city.
One of the four guards rescued has died and two others are seriously injured.
The inmates took control of the compound after family visiting hours on Sunday, killing two guards and shooting another one.
Officials say the Etapa II centre in the capital, Guatemala City, is controlled by the notorious 18th Street Gang, active across Central America.
The inmates set mattresses alight and climbed the roof of the detention centre on Sunday. Some tried to escape.
Among their demands was that fellow gang members held at other jails be transferred to Etapa II.
They also want the right to cook their own meals or to have food brought in from outside.
Witnesses said inmates from the 18th Street Gang threatened to kill members of rival gang Paisas if they refused to take part in the riot.
Members of violent street gangs make up the bulk of Guatemala's prison population and deadly conflict inside prison walls is not uncommon.
The incident comes less than two weeks after 40 girls died in a fire at a state-run children's shelter, also near Guatemala City.
That fire, too, is believed to have started when a mattress was set alight.
The two cases have highlighted the poor state of children's and youth services in Guatemala, activists say.
The victory extended the Giants' winning run to nine games, the hosts having defeated the same opposition 3-0 at the same venue on Thursday.
Belfast led led 2-0 after the first period but extended their lead to a remarkable 8-1 in the second period.
Edinburgh restored some pride by scoring five goals in the third period.
Paralympic champion Bethany Firth was guest of honour at the SSE Arena, performing the ceremonial puck drop before the action got underway.
The Giants got off to a good start, taking the lead in the 13th minute as James Desmarais scored from close range.
The home side doubled their advantage with little over a minute to go in the first period as Chris Higgins finished neatly past Jordan Marr in the Capitals goal for his 15th goal of the season.
The Giants were 4-0 up within three minutes of play restarting, as Blair Riley and Alex Foster added to their side's total.
Taylor MacDougall then pulled one back for the beleaguered visitors but within seconds it was 5-1 as Desmarais grabbed his second score of the night.
Belfast notched up half a dozen with a brave finish from Steve Saviano, diverting home a rebound at full stretch before sliding into the wall behind the goal, an effort from which he thankfully emerged unscathed.
Edinburgh were being carved open by now, Alex Foster getting his second goal of the night and Blair Riley adding an eighth before the second intermission.
The Capitals showed some fight in the third period, in particular the Russian players in their line-up, pulling it back to 8-4 through a couple of goals from Yevgeni Fyodorov, either side of Pavel Vorobaev's score.
Belfast then got a ninth through Matt Towe to kill off any notion of a comeback, before Jared Staal got the visitors' fifth of the night and Michael D'Orazio scored with just over a minute to go.
James Bassos says he had to contort his body to avoid contact with his fellow passenger during a 14-hour flight from the United Arab Emirates to Sydney.
He said the journey resulted in a back injury and is claiming $227,000 (£106,000) in damages.
Etihad insisted it would continue to oppose the case.
"Mr Bassos will finally face a medical assessment in December 2015," the company said in a statement.
"We believe that the matter will proceed to an early conclusion."
Etihad had attempted to get the lawsuit, which was filed in 2012, thrown out of court.
But a judge refused its request on Thursday and ordered Mr Bassos to undergo a medical assessment.
The 38-year-old designer from Brisbane claimed he had to twist his body to avoid touching the "grossly overweight" passenger, who was encroaching on his seat.
After five hours of pain and discomfort, he asked to be moved, but was told the flight was full, he said.
He was eventually allowed to sit in a crew seat at the back of the aircraft, but had to return to his original spot for landing.
Etihad said it was common for customers to be seated next to overweight passengers on a fully booked flight.
Mr Bassos claims he still suffers back pain and his sleep and concentration have been adversely affected.
He is suing for medical expenses and loss of earnings.
The 27-year-old was out of favour under Westley and was transfer listed at his own request in January.
Since Westley's sacking, Randall has returned under caretaker boss Mike Flynn and was an unused substitute in the last two games.
"I thought Graham Westley treated me quite unfairly," he said.
"I'm happy to be back and hopefully I can contribute to Newport staying up."
Ex-Arsenal player Randall, who joined Newport on a two-year contract in May 2016, last played for the Exiles on 21 January in the 0-0 draw away to former club Barnet
County have won two of their three games since Flynn took charge, although they are seven points adrift of safety in League Two
Randall said there was a "good vibe" under Flynn and is looking forward to be involved in the side's bid to escape relegation.
"I've been off for a few weeks and got to get my sharpness back," Randall added.
"Everyone seems a lot happier and there's a lot more energy around the boys.
"We feel confident now that we're going to put up a really good fight and we've got enough energy to run around, which I think we struggled with."
The 43-year-old replaces Alan Kernaghan, who departs the Bees along with first-team coach Peter Farrell.
Former Everton and Rangers defender Weir was sacked by the Blades in October after just 13 games in charge.
"There will be an undoubted benefit for the staff and players to have someone of David's quality here with us," Brentford manager Mark Warburton said.
Weir, who also had spells at Falkirk and Hearts and won 69 caps for Scotland during his playing days, was previously on the coaching staff at Everton before his short spell at Bramall Lane.
"He had an outstanding playing career, working under some great coaches, and has a wealth of coaching experience," Warburton added.
"In conversations with David, he recognises the progress that has been made at Brentford and is excited to join us."
Warburton, who was appointed Brentford manager last week after Uwe Rosler left Griffin Park to take charge at Wigan, says it is essential he puts his "own fingerprint" on the squad and coaching staff.
Farrell arrived in west London in the summer of 2011 when Rosler was appointed while Alan Kernaghan joined the League One club February 2012.
"I need to introduce people I have a close working relationship with to help take the club to the next level," Warburton told the club website.
"Peter and Alan have worked tirelessly over the past two seasons and have made an essential contribution to taking the club forward.
"I would like to thank Peter and Alan for their contribution and wish them all the best for their future careers."
It will be the fourth edition of the five-stage event, which opens in Daventry, Northamptonshire and will conclude in London on Sunday, 11 June.
All 15 Women's World Tour teams will compete, including British former world champion Deignan's Boels-Dolmans squad.
"It is about expecting the unexpected in this race," said the 28-year-old.
"You can't ever lose focus here because there is always something around the next corner. I am prepared for anything."
Riders are set to face the longest and hardest edition of the Women's Tour to date, with Wednesday's stage one of the three that are longer than 140km.
"It has developed into a race that everybody targets," added Deignan. "I am not very good at stage races normally. Having the home crowd and a very strong team helped me achieve that victory last year."
On Sunday, the capital will host the finale for the first time in the race's history, with a 62km race set to culminate in a sprint finish on Regent Street St James's.
Deignan's Dutch team-mate Anna van der Breggen, the reigning Olympic and European road race champion, is also targeting a strong race.
"We don't have many stages races and those that we do have been on the calendar for many years, so it's really cool to have this new event develop at such a high level," she added.
The new North Stand, which enabled an attendance of 2,929, was officially opened before kick-off.
Sutton's Roarie Deacon went closest to breaking the deadlock in a goalless first half, hitting the bar in the second minute with a shot from outside the box.
Jamie Coyle's own goal put the visitors ahead after 51 minutes.
Jamar Loza equalised from the spot on 68 minutes as Will Puddy got a glove on the shot but to no avail.
Maidstone hit the bar late on but it ended all-square.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Maidstone United 1, Sutton United 1.
Second Half ends, Maidstone United 1, Sutton United 1.
Reece Prestedge (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Yemi Odubade replaces Jack Paxman.
Substitution, Sutton United. Jack Jebb replaces Gomis.
Goal! Maidstone United 1, Sutton United 1. Jamar Loza (Maidstone United) converts the penalty with a.
Substitution, Sutton United. Maxime Biamou replaces Roarie Deacon.
Substitution, Sutton United. Daniel Spence replaces Simon Downer.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Alex Flisher replaces George Oakley.
Dean Beckwith (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card.
Own Goal by Jamie Coyle, Maidstone United. Maidstone United 0, Sutton United 1.
Second Half begins Maidstone United 0, Sutton United 0.
First Half ends, Maidstone United 0, Sutton United 0.
Simon Downer (Sutton United) is shown the yellow card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The midfielder, who damaged ligaments in Thursday's Europa League quarter-final draw at Borussia Dortmund, has been ruled out for six to eight weeks.
England's first Euro 2016 game is on 11 June, nine weeks away.
Manager Roy Hodgson, who names his 23-man squad on 12 May, is reluctant to include players who are not match fit.
"I wouldn't be happy to really take players with us in the hope that they will become fit during the tournament," he has said.
Henderson, 25, started six of England's 10 Euro qualifying games, as well as the friendly win over Germany in March.
Liverpool, who have eight Premier League matches remaining this season, host Dortmund in the Europa League last-eight second leg on 14 April.
England face Russia in their first group game at Euro 2016, followed by Wales on 16 June and Slovakia on 20 June.
In atrocious conditions, Falcons survived Guy Mercer's early try to open up the lead through Rob Vickers' score and Craig Willis' eight-point haul.
Rhys Priestland kicked Bath back in front but Willis' brace of penalties ensured four precious points.
The win lifts Falcons off the foot of the Premiership.
Bath's tumble down the table after last season's flying run to the Premiership final has been a perplexing one, as they named a strong side with a particularly strong bench for this trip to the north east, but they have failed to find their form this season.
Omens did bode well for Mike Ford's side, who had won their previous 10 visits, but despite an early breakthrough, they struggled to match the intensity shown by the Falcons under the drizzle and wind.
In fact the scoreline might have been greater had Willis not passed up three penalty goal chances in the first half.
Amid the rain and gloomy skies, Mercer rolled over for Bath after a line-out drive to give the visitors an early advantage, but Vickers crossed after strong Falcons pressure to gain the lead.
Henry Thomas was sent to the sin-bin as Bath failed to keep their discipline and Willis' kick gave the hosts a cushion at the break - although it could have been a greater tally had a try not been chalked off by the TMO.
Priestland and Willis then traded penalties in a gritty second period, with the latter coming out on top with two late efforts to lift the Kingston Park crowd.
Newcastle director of rugby Dean Richards:
"It's a great start to the year. I thought we deserved the win.
"Okay, we missed a few points, but we came up with the goods and deserved it.
"The boys stuck to their guns and it's probably the first time this season we've done that.
"Now we need to take that into the game at London Irish and build on it."
Bath head coach Mike Ford:
"Credit to Newcastle - they defended really well but our players really need to have a look at themselves and question whether they were really ready to play.
"It was wet and windy, but then it often is here. We have to look forward but we also have to be truthful and it's all about responsibility and you cannot just expect to turn up and win.
"The players are back in on Tuesday and I expect them to hold up their hands, talk about it and then move on."
Newcastle: Hammersley; Tait, Harris, Socino, M Watson; Willis, Young; Vickers, McGuigan, Welsh, Wilson, Robinson, Hogg, Welch (capt), Latu.
Replacements: Lawson, Rogers, Ryan, Botha, Clever, Dawson, Catterick, B Agulla.
Bath: Homer; H Agulla, Joseph, Devoto, Banahan; Priestland, Matawalu; Auterac, Batty, Thomas, Garvey, Ewels, Houston, Mercer (capt), Denton.
Replacements: Dunn, Lahiff, Wilson, Day, Louw, Evans, Ford, A Watson.
Sin-bin: Thomas
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Project Daedalus aimed to help selected inmates at Feltham Young Offenders' Institution get a job or go back to school after they were released.
A preliminary report into the project, to be released on Thursday, found that only half of inmates did this.
Boris Johnson insisted it had made progress.
He said it looked like there had been a "substantial reduction in reoffending".
But the report found that only half of inmates went into education, training or employment after release, and just one in six stayed in such an occupation for six months.
Project Daedalus cost nearly £2.5m, which mainly came from a European fund.
But when that money ends, so will the programme.
Prisons Minister Crispin Blunt revealed the scheme will not continue after May and said the mayor now wants to set up a new initiative.
That will be focused on London as a whole and also targeted at younger boys on remand, as well as some convicted of crimes.
Tottenham MP David Lammy, who has visited the Feltham unit and supported the project, is angry it has not delivered what was hoped.
He said: "We're being told that the money has dried up, it's been cancelled and it hasn't been evaluated. That's unacceptable.
"A few years ago this was the flagship - you can't just discard it quietly, you've got to explain why you've decided to destroy it."
Central to the project were resettlement brokers, charity workers who helped inmates adjust to the outside.
Many prisoners said they made a "positive contribution" but there have been too few spread too thinly across London.
And critics said the payment-by-results model meant not enough money was paid upfront to improve this.
Roger Graef, a criminologist, said: "If we don't spend money early on in trying to prevent crime or to avoid people going back to crime, they will go back to crime.
"The money needs to be there right from the beginning and all the way through if they're going to get the kind of support that will change their lives."
Mayor of London Boris Johnson said: "It's looking like there has been a substantial reduction in reoffending.
"Even if its not as much as we initially hoped for it's good progress.
"I think people will say if you can spend some money turning people around, stopping them reoffending, that's a good way forward."
The official reoffending rate for inmates involved in the programme will not be known until summer.
22 September 2016 Last updated at 13:16 BST
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Natural Resources Wales (NRW) is investigating the tree felling in Blackwood where about 200 hedgerow beech trees were cut down.
Action of this kind requires a licence, but NRW said none had been given.
Jim Hepburn of NRW said: "This is a devastating case which will have a terrible impact on the local environment".
The trees would have been about 150-200 years old and standing up to 49ft (15m tall).
Mr Hepburn said they provided valuable habitat for wildlife.
NRW is investigating and said it would "take the necessary action against those responsible".
Ciara Breen was 17 when she was last seen at her home at Bachelor's Walk in Dundalk in the early hours of 13 February 1997.
Officers began searching land in Dundalk on Tuesday.
They have been focusing on an area called Balmer's Bog, a marshland just off the Ardee Road.
An extensive police investigation at the time of Ciara's disappearance failed to locate her.
Last year, two witnesses came forward with potential sightings of her.
Police also received two anonymous letters with information about the case.
A man in his 50s was arrested in April and later released without charge in connection with Ciara's disappearance.
On Tuesday, police said they were acting on information they had received following recent appeals for information.
Residents have told the BBC they were forced from their homes by Taliban fighters pushing into the city.
Afghan army reinforcements have arrived and air strikes have targeted militant positions.
Tarin Kot is the latest provincial capital in the sights of the insurgents.
Last month the Taliban closed in on another southern city, Lashkar Gah and in 2015 they briefly captured the capital of Kunduz province in the north.
Sabir Meenawal, a local resident in Tarin Kot, told the BBC that "armed Taliban came to his house at around 10am".
"They asked us to leave. A lot of other families like mine have been forced to leave their houses," he said, adding that fighters used residential buildings to fire on troops.
The governor and police chief of Uruzgan moved to an Afghan military base at the airport, apparently for a security meeting.
There has been fighting at various government compounds, including Tarin Kot prison which is thought to house 400 inmates, many of them suspected Taliban.
An Afghan defence ministry spokesman said that reinforcements have arrived in Tarin Kot and that Afghan airstrikes were launched against the militants with Nato assistance.
The reinforcements were reported to include units led by General Abdul Raziq, the prominent police chief of Kandahar.
There have been claims that some government forces abandoned defensive positions around Tarin Kot. Provincial police chief Wais Samim told AFP news agency that some of the city's defences had fallen without a fight.
"Some policemen retreated from their outposts. Some people here deliberately want the enemy to succeed," he told AFP.
The Taliban have been threatening Tarin Kot for months.
Uruzgan is one of the leading poppy cultivating provinces in Afghanistan and is strategically important as it borders the key southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar.
Over 1,000 Australian troops were stationed in Tarin Kot between 2005 and 2013, before handing security responsibility to Afghan forces.
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Supt Mark McEwan outlined a number of incidents in recent months that demonstrated the threat.
He said that from September 2014 there had been 15 bomb incidents in the Derry City & Strabane District council area.
They included seven attacks on the police.
In early August, a mortar bomb was found at Strabane cemetery and detectives believe it was an attempt to lure police officers to their death.
Supt McEwan, the police district commander for the area, said there had also been 15 shootings since September 2014, six of which were paramilitary-style attacks in which he said the victims suffered "life-changing injuries".
He also revealed that after forensic analysis it had been established that a suspected assault rifle found in the Ballycolman estate following the cemetery mortar bomb find was actually a replica firearm.
Supt McEwan said the officers under his command came from all parts of the community and were dedicated to keeping people safe.
"Because they have chosen that for a career, there is an element within this community who feel that it's OK to try to mount attacks to kill or seriously injure these people," he said.
"In doing so they have no regard for the safety of other members of the community and in fact totally disregard that safety, whether it's about lives or, indeed in terms of disrupting community life or causing fear and intimidation."
He appealed for people in the community to come forward with information about the dissidents.
"Is this the type of activity that people within our community want to tolerate?" he said.
"I don't believe it is."
It proved a debut Derby victory for 31-year-old Beggy, who was given the suspension in Australia in 2014 after a positive test for cocaine.
The outsider came from deep to beat much-fancied stablemate Cliffs of Moher and 7-2 favourite Cracksman.
"It's brilliant, I can't describe it," Beggy told BBC Radio 5 live.
He added: "I got into a bit of trouble in Australia and made a mistake. It is something that I've got to put behind me. I was knocked down then and had to pick myself up and come back fighting, and today I think I've proved that."
With only two horses behind him with three furlongs to run, Beggy led Wings of Eagles on a late charge to beat Cliffs Of Moher in the dying strides. Cracksman, ridden by Frankie Dettori, was third.
"I dreamed of it when I was fairly young. I had nearly given it up," added Beggy.
"Fair play to Aidan O'Brien - it doesn't matter what price you are riding when you are riding for Aidan in a big race."
The result had looked like going with the form book as Cliffs Of Moher (5-1) just got the better of the two Frankel colts, Cracksman and Eminent, inside the final furlong.
But that was not taking into account Wings Of Eagles - the son of 2011 Derby winner Pour Moi - who provided O'Brien with a sixth Derby winner.
"It means the world," added Beggy. "I'll go down in history because I've won the Derby."
It was Beggy's first run in the Derby and trainer O'Brien was full of praise for his jockey.
"He's a brilliant rider, a world-class rider," O'Brien told BBC Radio 5 live. "We're very lucky to have him."
BBC Sport horse racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght
We said that any one of about 10 or 12 might win and though Wings Of Eagles was maybe quite low down that list, he was definitely on it after a promising second at Chester.
If one's honest, the presence of Paddy Beggy on board didn't gain the horse any extra followers because although he's doing well, he's seen as batting down the order for Team O'Brien.
But, along with the winner who swept by his rivals in great style, Beggy was star of this show, clearly delighted to win, but also immensely grateful to O'Brien who's supported him as he's rebuilt his career after the drugs ban.
There were barely one and a half lengths between the first four - there is probably no superstar there, but all four are good solid performers.
Alonzo Knowles hacked email accounts, from the Bahamas, to steal the images and scripts, which he tried to sell.
Knowles used viruses and fake security notifications to obtain passwords.
He was caught when he travelled to the US to sell stolen scripts not knowing that he was meeting undercover police officers.
The US Department of Justice said Knowles had had a list of the email addresses and phone numbers of 130 celebrities, including actors, musicians and others, that he sought to steal from.
Knowles stole 25 unreleased film and TV show scripts as well as banking details and intimate images and videos.
In December 2015, law enforcement agencies were alerted to his hacking campaign by a radio show presenter who Knowles approached trying to sell one of the stolen scripts.
When contacted by undercover agents, Knowles boasted he had many more scripts to offer worth "hundreds of thousands of dollars".
One stolen script was for a biographical film about rapper Tupac Shakur, who died in 1996, called All Eyez on Me.
The sentence for hacking the accounts was more than double the usual amount, said Judge Paul Engelmayer, because Knowles had been shown to be "devoid of remorse".
Emails Knowles sent while in prison that were read in court revealed his plan to write a book exposing more of the secrets he stole.
This, said the judge, showed he was a "clear and present danger" who would probably commit the same crime again.
"You have some obvious facility for computers," said Judge Engelmayer. "But you chose to use your gifts for dark and lawless ends."
6 May 2016 Last updated at 15:06 BST
The Conservatives are now the second largest party on 31, with Labour dropping to third place with 24 seats
The Scottish Greens are the fourth largest party with six seats, ahead of the Liberal Democrats who won five.
The SNP would have needed 65 seats to be a majority government. It managed this in 2011 despite Scotland's voting system being designed to prevent a single party having overall control.
With all the constituency and list votes counted, David Henderson looks at Scotland's political map in 2016.
The killer last went before the Mental Health Review Tribunal in Manchester in 2013.
But he lost his bid to be moved from a secure hospital to a Scottish prison.
The 79-year-old had asked to be moved to a prison so he could not be force-fed, and where he could be allowed to die if he wishes.
But Ashworth Hospital in Merseyside said Brady had chronic mental illness and needed continued care at the secure unit.
Brady, who now uses the name Ian Stewart-Brady, refused to take part in a further review scheduled for September last year because his solicitor Robin Makin could no longer represent him.
The High Court case was triggered when a bid to appoint Mr Makin as Brady's representative was blocked because his solicitors' firm, E Rex Makin & Co, is not a member of the Law Society's mental health panel.
Under legal aid rules, only members are entitled to a publicly funded contract in the mental health law category.
Brady's legal team is seeking permission to apply for a full judicial review, insisting the case is "totally unique".
They say Brady is "terminally ill" and has been bedridden for the last few years with emphysema.
Brady and Myra Hindley, who died in prison in 2002, murdered five children between 1963 and 1965 in Greater Manchester.
Four of the victims were buried on Saddleworth Moor in the Pennines.
Brady was jailed for three murders in 1966 and has been at Ashworth since 1985. He and Hindley later confessed to another two murders.
In the High Court hearing, Mr Justice Morris said he is likely to give an oral judgment on Brady's application for permission to seek a judicial review on Friday.
The six-year-old Sunderland fan died on Friday following a fight with neuroblastoma - a rare type of cancer.
The club's former striker struck up a close friendship with the avid Black Cats fan and club mascot in the months before his death.
A tweet by the 34-year-old described Bradley as a "little superstar".
It said the youngster's "courage and bravery will inspire me for the rest of my life".
He wrote: "Goodbye my friend, gonna miss you lots. I feel so blessed God brought u into my life and had some amazing moments with u and for that I'm so grateful".
Bradley, from Blackhall Colliery, County Durham, was diagnosed with the disease when he was 18 months old. He underwent treatment and was in remission, but relapsed last year.
His plight touched the lives of many, and well-wishers raised more than £700,000 in 2016 to pay for him to be given antibody treatment in New York.
But medics then found his cancer had grown and his family was informed his illness was terminal.
His death was confirmed on social media by his parents.
The posting read: "My brave boy has went with the angels today.
"He was our little superhero and put the biggest fight up but he was needed else where. There are no words to describe how heart broken we are."
Tributes have poured in to the football fan, including one from his beloved club which said: "Bradley captured the hearts and minds of everyone."
The England football squad, for which Bradley was also a mascot, tweeted: "There's only one Bradley Lowery."
The case was removed from the Grand Union Canal near Delamere Terrace in Little Venice, with police called at about 14:30 BST on Sunday.
Officers said it was too early to say how long it had been in the water.
No arrests have been made and a post-mortem examination is due to take place later. Detectives are trying to identify the woman.
Police have been speaking to nearby houseboat residents to try to establish a sequence of events in the area on Friday and Saturday.
Natasha Widowson, 23, who lives on a boat near where the body was found, said: "We heard the body was found by some walkers passing by.
"Police told us there had been an accident and no-one was allowed to go past the bridge."
A Met Police spokesman said detectives from homicide and major crime command are investigating.
The 24-year-old has played in 66 T20 games and 36 one-day matches, taking 72 wickets and scoring almost 1,000 runs across the two formats.
"I'm delighted to have signed. I can't wait to get on the pitch with this group of talented girls," she said.
"Hopefully I can add to the spin and batting department and help push for the Championship."
Wyatt's arrival will add to Sussex's bowling options following the loss of Holly Colvin, who retired at the end of last season.
Sussex director of women's cricket Charlotte Burton said: "It is fantastic news that Danni will be joining. She is a talented all-rounder who will strengthen all departments for us and will be a great addition with the ball, having lost Holly to retirement."
Wellbeing Scotland said it would give survivors a chance to confidentially name the person or people who abused them.
The helpline will run for a month as a pilot project.
The charity said it brought forward the launch following the latest allegations of abuse in football, revealed in a BBC Scotland investigation.
In the documentary, broadcast on Monday, former players spoke of abuse they allege they suffered at the hands of former coaches.
New alleged victims of the founder of Celtic Boys' Club, Jim Torbett, came forward to claim he sexually abused them during the 1980s and 90s. He "vehemently denies" the allegations.
The investigation also revealed new claims about former Hibernian and Rangers coach Gordon Neely, who died in 2014.
The helpline set up by Wellbeing Scotland, which used to operate as Open Secret, is not football or sport-specific. It is for anyone who has suffered historic abuse.
Chief executive Janine Rennie said: "Whilst we recognise that this confidential third party reporting process does not provide detailed enough information to allow an investigation into that individual's experience, what it does do is allow Police Scotland to identify if perpetrators have been named by more than one individual, which can support their investigations into alleged perpetrators, particularly in the investigation of cases of institutional and organised child abuse."
Callers who do not wish to leave their own details will not be required to do so and the helpline will be staffed by experienced counsellors, the charity said. Ongoing support will also be offered if it is sought.
The charity said it recognised that many victims can feel anxious about disclosing their experiences because of a lack of knowledge about where to access support, fears over confidentiality and a fear of repercussions.
"The information passed on is purely information on perpetrators with no pressure on the individual survivor to make a full statement unless they feel they have made an informed choice to do so," Ms Rennie said.
"For any individuals who choose to report their own experiences, support is provided by Wellbeing Scotland throughout the process." :
The line can be accessed on 0800 121 6027.
It will be the first time Robshaw, 30, will captain England since standing down after exiting the 2015 World Cup.
"Chris will look after the forwards and defence, George the backs and attack," said England coach Eddie Jones.
"With so many younger players there we need co-captains rather than just one guy responsible for everything."
Bath-bound flanker Sam Underhill will make his England bow, with Saracens' Nick Isiekwe and Charlie Ewels paired at lock. Leicester prop Ellis Genge will pack down with Worcester's Jack Singleton and Harlequins' Will Collier.
Saracens full-back Alex Goode will line-up against England after being added to the Barbarians squad on Tuesday.
The 29-year-old, who made the last of his 21 England Test appearances against Fiji in November, said: "It will be odd, I will probably be humming along to the anthem.
"I'm not giving up at all. It's a dream to play for England."
Mike Brown (Harlequins, 60 caps), Nathan Earle (Saracens, uncapped), Sam James (Sale Sharks, uncapped), Alex Lozowski (Saracens, uncapped), Jonny May (Gloucester, 25 caps), George Ford (Bath, 35 caps), Danny Care (Harlequins, 71 caps), Ellis Genge (Leicester Tigers, 1 cap), Jack Singleton (Worcester Warriors, uncapped). Will Collier (Harlequins, uncapped), Charlie Ewels (Bath, 3 caps), Nick Isiekwe (Saracens, uncapped), Chris Robshaw (Harlequins, 55 caps), Sam Underhill (Bath, uncapped), Josh Beaumont (Sale Sharks, uncapped).
Replacements:
George McGuigan (Leicester Tigers, uncapped), Ross Harrison (Sale Sharks, uncapped), Jamal Ford-Robinson (Bristol, uncapped), Tom Ellis (Bath, uncapped), Ben Curry (Sale Sharks, uncapped), Mark Wilson (Newcastle Falcons, uncapped), Richard Wigglesworth (Saracens, 27 caps), Mike Haley (Sale Sharks, uncapped)
Alex Goode (Saracens & England), Horacio Agulla (Castres & Argentina), Adam Ashley-Cooper (Bordeaux Begles & Australia), Yann David (Toulouse and France), Kahn Fotuali'i (Bath Rugby & Samoa), Robbie Freuan (Bath Rugby), Rory Kockott (Castres & France), Ian Madigan (Bordeaux Begles & Ireland), Timoci Nagusa (Montpellier & Fiji), Waisea Nayacalavu (Stade Francais & Fiji), Ruan Pienaar (Ulster & South Africa), David Smith (Castres), Frans Steyn (Montpellier & South Africa), Patricio Albacete (Toulouse & Argentina), Steffon Armitage (Pau & England), Schalk Brits (Saracens & South Africa), Thierry Dusautoir (Toulouse & France), Corey Flynn (Star RFC & New Zealand), Ben Franks (London Irish & New Zealand), Gillian Galan (Toulouse), Richard Hibbard (Gloucester & Wales), Facundo Isa (Lyon & Argentina), Census Johnston (Toulouse & Samoa), Mikheil Nariashvili (Montpellier & Georgia), WP Nel (Edinburgh & Scotland), Mike Ross (Leinster & Ireland), Joe Tekori (Toulouse & Samoa), Jeremy Thrush (Gloucester & New Zealand).
Oscar, a Turkish Van cat, attracted police attention when he scratched and bit a neighbour in Wingrave in May.
The five-year-old recently went missing and was later found 34 miles away in Northampton.
Owner Caroline Hughes said she "didn't like to think how he got there" but would keep Oscar indoors temporarily.
Oscar gained his reputation after a series of clashes with cats and dogs in the village, Ms Hughes said.
But his fame spread when a local newspaper reported the pet had disappeared after being "under curfew" for the neighbour attack.
After being missing for about three weeks, a cat sitter in Northampton found the cat trying to eat her charges' food. She took him to a vet and found his microchip.
"I was incredibly relieved," said Ms Hughes, who has two other cats.
"I was just beside myself when Oscar went missing, without him the house was black.
"He's just got so much personality. I feel he's got a bit of a bad press."
She said people in the village had helped in the search for Oscar but added it was a mystery as to how the pet got to Northampton.
"I don't like to think how he got there, I hope it was a delivery van," she said.
She said Oscar had lashed out when a neighbour tried to pick him up.
"I think it's not what he's [Oscar's] used to, so he was scared and scratched and bit him," she said.
"I never saw the full extent of what happened but I got a visit from police."
She said that for now, she would keep Oscar indoors to restore village harmony and give him a herbal remedy she hopes will calm him.
Iftikhar Ahmed, 52 and Farzana Ahmed, 49, of Warrington, deny the murder of 17-year-old Shafilea, whose remains were found in Cumbria in February 2004.
At the start of their trial at Chester Crown Court, the jury heard Alesha Ahmed witnessed the killing.
The prosecution alleges the couple killed their daughter because she was Westernised and refused to obey them.
Andrew Edis QC said the couple believed Shafilea's conduct was bringing shame on the family.
Opening the case against them, he said: "The defendants, having spent the best part of 12 months trying to really crush her, realised they were never going to be able to succeed and finally killed her because her conduct dishonoured the family, bringing shame on them."
He said they embarked on a "campaign of domestic violence to force her to conform".
He said the case had taken a long time to be brought to trial because it was not until August 2010 that a witness to the crime came forward.
"This witness is Alesha Ahmed, Shafilea's younger sister," he said.
The court heard how Alesha had kept quiet for seven years and only told police after she was arrested for taking part in a robbery at her parents' home in Liverpool Road, Warrington.
Mr Edis said Alesha witnessed the killing of her sister by their parents "acting together".
"This evidence was the final piece of the puzzle which the police had been trying to solve for many years."
The court was told that Shafilea had been abused by her parents in the year before her disappearance.
Mr Edis said: "She was a thoroughly Westernised young British girl of Pakistani origin. Her parents had standards which she was reluctant to follow."
The court heard Shafilea was taken to Pakistan by her family in 2003 in an attempt to force her into a marriage.
Mr Edis said she drank bleach on the trip as her parents tried to bully her into an arranged marriage.
The defendants later claimed Shafilea drank the bleach by mistake, thinking it was mouthwash.
When she was brought back to the UK she was treated at Warrington Hospital where she spoke to a fellow patient called Foisa Aslam.
Ms Aslam later told police that she asked Shafilea why she drank the bleach.
Shafilea replied: "You don't know what they did to me there."
The court heard that Shafilea told Ms Aslam that the Ahmeds had accepted a rishta (or formal offer of marriage) for her.
Mr Edis said: "That was why she said she drank the bleach."
The court heard police placed a listening device in the home of the Ahmeds in November 2003 when Shafilea was still believed to be missing.
Mr Edis said in conversations with her other children, Mrs Ahmed can be heard warning them not to say anything at school.
Mrs Ahmed was also recorded saying: "If the slightest thing comes out of your mouth, we will be stuck in real trouble. Remember that."
Shafilea disappeared from the family home in Great Sankey, Warrington, in September 2003.
Her body was found by workmen on the banks of the River Kent, near Kendal, six months later.
The trial continues.
Manager Lee Clark signed 17 players during the summer, 13 from clubs in Redcar-born Jones' English homeland.
The 22-year-old joined Kilmarnock after being released by Middlesbrough, where his girlfriend has remained.
"It's hard being away from your family, but you just have to look to the next game," said the midfielder.
"It's been easier with everyone in the same boat. There are not many lads who were here last year."
Several players live in the same apartment building close to Rugby Park, with Jones sharing with Jonathan Burn, the defender on loan from Middlesbrough but presently sidelined through injury.
Kilmarnock have three more outings in a seven-game run of fixtures during December - against St Johnstone on Friday, Hearts on 27 December and Partick Thistle on New Year's Eve - before Jones can experience for the first time a January winter break.
The Premiership sides do not return to action until the Scottish Cup fourth round on 21 January.
"We have had no time to get home because of all the games, but you have to live with it and it's not the worst job in the world at the end of the day," said Jones, who has made 21 appearances so far.
"We're always dead close to each another and we all just chill out together.
"I was sharing an apartment with Jonny Burn, but he's gone back to Boro and I'm by myself.
"I am looking forward to the rest and spending some time with my family, but I'm just concentrating on the football."
Jones, who failed to make a first-team appearance with Boro, had loan spells with Hartlepool United and Cambridge United before joining Kilmarnock and is delighted to be featuring regularly in the starting line-up.
"At the start, I was in and out of the team, but I've been in now for about 10 games, so I am really enjoying playing every week," he said.
"It is a lot easier to settle when you are playing all the time because you are focused on the next game.
"I needed first-team football. I am 22 now, so that's the best thing and I am getting it."
Jones believes that working under Clark has improved him as a footballer already.
"Off the ball, the gaffer has helped me massively," he explained. "I think, before, I just never used to concentrate off the ball.
"Saturday, I didn't have my best game on the ball, but I worked really hard off it. That is where I have improved in the last few months."
The former Scottish Socialist Party leader was awarded £200,000 in 2006 when he won a case against the News of the World newspaper.
The tabloid printed allegations about his private life which included claims he visited a swingers club.
News Group, which owned the paper, wants the verdict "struck down".
On the second day of the appeal hearing at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, Mr Sheridan said the evidence News Group Newspapers was going to present was illegally and criminally obtained.
He said there was a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Mr Sheridan has always denied the paper's allegations that he was a swinger and cheated on his wife.
The politician, who was a Glasgow regional list MSP for eight years from 1999, was awarded compensation after winning the defamation trial in 2006.
However, in 2010 he was found guilty of perjury while giving evidence during the earlier case and jailed for three years.
He was freed from prison after serving just over a year of his sentence.
At the Court of Session, Mr Sheridan told judges Lady Paton, Lord Drummond Young and Lord McGhie: "The motion should be dismissed due to the inadmissibility of the evidence.
"The evidence was illegally and indeed criminally obtained as was most of the evidence which was relied on in the perjury proceedings.
"This evidence which the defenders seek to rely upon should not be admitted in this court."
He said Fiona McGuire, the source of the original News of the World story in 2003, now accepted that her story was "completely fabricated."
Mr Sheridan said this showed that the decision of the jury in the 2006 trial was correct.
He added: "This motion for a new trial should be dismissed."
The court heard that the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission was looking at the circumstances surrounding Mr Sheridan's conviction.
News Group Newspapers, which was previously News International, owned the now-defunct News of the World until it closed in 2011.
In submissions to the latest hearing, Alastair Duncan QC, representing the newspaper group, said that because Mr Sheridan was convicted of perjury, the decision of the defamation jury should be set aside.
He told the court that evidence had emerged which would have made it impossible for the original jury to say that the politician was the victim of defamation.
The hearing continues.
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The 21-year-old hit 34 fours and 27 sixes in a National Club Championship match against Caldy.
It is one of the highest one-day scores in history.
"From 100 onwards, I was just trying to whack every ball for six," he told BBC Sport. "When I got into the high 200s and into the 300s, I realised something quite special could happen."
Nantwich made 579-7 before bowling out Caldy for 79 to win by 500 runs.
Livingstone, who is on Lancashire's staff but is yet to play a first-team match, was almost bowled third ball but hit the next delivery for six.
"The wicket was a bit slow and after the fourth ball disappeared I thought I might as well just give it a crack," he said.
"I was just trying to hit almost every ball for six and luckily a few came out of the middle.
"It is all a bit surreal. It hasn't sunk in yet but it is a very proud day and luckily my mum and dad were there to see it."
Livingstone, who made 204 off 242 balls in Lancashire's final second XI game last season against Yorkshire, added: "I have got training with Lancashire at 10 o'clock in the morning, so I will be having an early night.
"But sometime in the near future, I will definitely be having a few drinks to celebrate."
As a respected religious scholar, he is generally held in high regard in Taliban political and military circles.
He was one of the few religious scholars who had gained the esteem of the Taliban's founding leader and spiritual head, Mullah Mohammad Omar.
Both Mullah Omar and his successor, Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, sought his advice and his fatwas on issues related to war and peace.
Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada served as head of the Taliban courts, before his appointment on 31 July as one of the two deputy heads of the former Taliban leader Mullah Mansour.
Mullah Mansour was killed in the first known US drone attack in Pakistan's Balochistan province on 21 May.
As Mullah Mansour was mostly hidden from public view and not attending meetings openly for security reasons, it was down to the man who ended up succeeding him to handle the day-to-day running of the group.
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He was more visible than Mullah Mansour's other deputy, Sirajuddin Haqqani, who was mostly busy with military affairs and is commonly known as the head of the Haqqani Network.
For many people, Mawlawi Hibatullah was the face of the group. As Mullah Mansour's deputy and representative, he also regularly met people to collect pledges of allegiance for Mullah Mansour.
Mawlawi Hibatullah does not have any military experience, but he is known as someone equipped with good skills of communication and persuasion.
He also had an instrumental role in negotiating a ceasefire with the Taliban's splinter group in late December 2015 and early January.
The Taliban had been proud of their cohesion. But this unity was shattered when the death of Mullah Omar was announced in July 2015.
The emergence of the splinter group which opposed the election of Mullah Mansour as the new leader, and the infighting that followed, was unprecedented.
The appointment of Mawlawi Hibatullah is mostly aimed at removing differences within the group and dealing with factionalism.
One faction within the Taliban wanted Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, the eldest son of Mullah Omar, to take over.
He is believed to be about 27 and reportedly graduated from a religious seminary (madrassah) in the Pakistani city of Karachi about two years ago.
Mullah Yaqoob was appointed by Mullah Mansour in April 2016 as the movement's military commander in 15 out of Afghanistan's 34 provinces, as well as a member of the group's powerful decision making body, the Leadership Council.
As he did not have enough experience to be the overall leader, Mullah Yaqoob has now been appointed as one of the two deputies.
There were also reports that Sirajuddin Haqqani might become the new leader of the Taliban.
But for some, he has been a controversial figure and is not thought to be familiar enough with the insurgency landscape and dynamics in the south of Afghanistan.
Sirajuddin Haqqani, who had been appointed a deputy by Mullah Mansour, remains in the same position.
Mawlawi Hibatullah's religious background complements the Taliban's claim to be a religious movement.
Like the two previous Taliban leaders, Mawlawi Hibatullah also hails from the group's heartland, Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar.
He belongs to the Noorzai tribe of the Pashtuns from Panjwai district in Kandahar.
The head of the Taliban's splinter group, Mullah Mohammad Rasool, is also a member of Noorzai tribe.
The Taliban expect that his religious and tribal background as well as his links with Kandahar will not only increase his legitimacy but also help him to keep the group united and motivated.
But those hopes dimmed within hours of his appointment with the spokesman of the splinter group saying it would not accept him as the new leader and arguing that he had been chosen by a small group of Taliban leaders, rather than by the wider rank and file.
Like Mullah Mansoor, Mawlawi Hibatullah's biggest challenge will be ensuring the group's cohesion while dealing with multiple challenges simultaneously. These include countering the so-called Islamic State group (IS) in Afghanistan, continuing the war against the Afghan government and its international allies and fighting the Taliban splinter group.
In the short term, it will be difficult for Mullah Hibatullah to change the overall direction of the Taliban.
After the way Mullah Mansour was killed, and the manner in which his death was welcomed by US and Afghan officials, many in the Taliban are now talking of revenge rather than peace.
Activists said warplanes had bombed a fuel market in Abu Dhuhour in Idlib province, straining a partial truce that began on 27 February.
The attack was described as a "massacre" by the co-ordinator of the opposition High Negotiations Committee.
Riad Hijab said such incidents would inform the HNC's decision on whether to attend peace talks in Geneva.
UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura wants the talks to resume later this week.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, warned that the death toll from the air strike in Abu Dhuhour was likely to rise.
It added that it was too early to tell if the casualties were civilians or armed combatants because their bodies were burned beyond recognition.
The Local Co-ordination Committees, an opposition activist network, said they were all civilians.
In a conference call with journalists, Mr Hijab condemned what he called "a massacre committed by the air forces of the Russians and the regime".
There was no immediate comment from the government, which has said it is respecting the truce.
But Russia, which has been conducting air strikes against President Bashar al-Assad's opponents since September, said on Monday that it had continued to target the jihadist groups Islamic State (IS) and the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front in line with the agreement on the cessation of hostilities.
Mr Hijab said mainstream rebel groups, some of which are part of an alliance with al-Nusra that controls much of Idlib province, had also been bombed by Russian jets in the past nine days.
The HNC, he added, would consult rebel commanders and other opposition leaders about whether to attend the UN-brokered talks aimed at negotiating a political settlement to the conflict in Syria.
"It will be before the end of this week. There will be a clear decision about this."
Mr Hijab also complained that the government had neither released any detainees nor allowed the flow of aid to besieged opposition-controlled areas to increase in line with the truce deal.
Also on Monday, activists said al-Nusra fighters had broken up a protest against President Assad by opposition supporters in the city of Idlib, threatening to open fire if they did not disperse.
The Syrian Observatory reported that members of al-Nusra and an allied Islamist group, Jund al-Aqsa, had attacked government forced near the village of al-Ais in the neighbouring province of Aleppo.
Meanwhile, the UN's humanitarian co-ordinator in Syria told the BBC that the truce was beginning to make some positive differences in the lives of civilians who were desperately weary of the conflict.
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Mayweather, 40, has won all 49 of his professional bouts, but has not boxed since September 2015 and came out of retirement to fight the Irishman.
The 29-year-old mixed martial arts fighter has not boxed professionally.
"He's looking forward to ending the fight early, I'm looking forward to ending the fight early - it won't go the distance," said Mayweather.
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"It's not really watching fight tapes, it's about knowing the person you're facing across the ring from you," added Mayweather.
"You want to know what they like to eat, what they're doing when they're not in camp."
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Here are five more takeouts from the bill...
For all the ominous rumblings that vast armies of guerrilla pro-EU Conservative MPs were poised to ambush and annihilate the Article 50 Bill, the government majority never came under serious threat in any of the votes at committee stage or third reading (and, of course, there was a thumping majority at second reading, too).
The only time the government whips needed more than the fingers of one hand to count the rebels came on the "meaningful vote amendment" put by Labour, with the aim of ensuring that Parliament was not presented with a Hobson's Choice between accepting whatever deal had been negotiated by the government, or leaving the EU and trading with it on World Trade Organisation terms.
Seven Tories broke ranks on that issue - but others were prepared to accept the assurances offered by the Brexit Minister David Jones, which were just enough to splinter the evidently fragile unity in the Tory Remain camp.
The former Euro-rebels (the new Brexit establishment) scoffed at their performance…."soft, complacent, effete, useless, leverage-denying dolts" was the verdict of one.
Another veteran Brexiteer mused that they were mostly novice plotters, lacking the case hardening acquired from years of backbench conspiracy.
On this showing the government whips have little to fear.
Looking for a quiet spot to record an interview last week, I opened a committee room door and found myself staring into the alarmed faces of the entire Labour Remain faction, in plenary session.
The tableau reminded me of those 17th Century prints of the Gunpowder Plot….but what is quite clear is that the Labour Remainers are a cohesive organised group in a way that their Conservative opposite numbers can only envy.
Of course, they've had plenty of practice, because most have been opponents of their current leadership from day one, and there is more than a whiff of anti-Corbynism in their activities. But now Labour has a party within a party, capable of out-organising the official frontbench, which is considerably less experienced - and the fault-line is there for all to see.
The government's acceptance of a parliamentary vote on the final Brexit deal does, potentially, set up a very big parliamentary moment, two years or so down the road, when that deal is done - and people love to pencil in the date for a hoped-for parliamentary Armageddon.
But, but, but...
First, it may be a semi-final deal, with the formal exit package from the EU and some package of transitional measures, while negotiations for the final post-divorce trade arrangements rumble on, which would rather take the heat out of proceedings.
Secondly, the can keeps getting kicked down the road. There were warnings that Remainers would derail the Brexit Bill at second reading, then it was going to be amended to jelly at committee; now it's Europhile peers who're supposed to wield the dagger….
Or maybe the Empire will strike back when the Great Repeal Bill, the next big Brexit measure, hits the Commons. People keep talking up battles ahead, which then keep fizzling out.
Of course, no-one knows what the political and economic backdrop will be, when the Brexit vote comes, but I'm increasingly wary of oft-repeated, oft-disproved predictions that next time it really will be a proper battle.
While the not-so-grand conflict between Brexiteers and Remainers has dominated the headlines (in England at least), the SNP has been playing its usual smart tactical game, to dramatise its message that the Scottish government's plan to remain inside the EU single market is being ignored by Westminster.
Their MPs are quite happy to clash with ministers and deputy speakers to highlight their grievances - and SNP MPs have become adept at generating little social media moments which convey their position better than any speech.
Their whistling of the EU anthem, Beethoven's Ode to Joy, in the Commons Chamber was a case in point…. It was a bit wacky, a breach of stuffy Westminster protocol, eye-catching, ear-catching and captured in a YouTube minute - with a rebuke from the Deputy Speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, for dessert.
What's not to like, when your narrative is precisely that Westminster is archaic and forever shutting out the Scottish viewpoint? And the SNP shadow leader of the House is threatening to sing Flower of Scotland next time….be afraid; be very afraid.
Conservative MPs are already thundering out their warnings to the House of Lords not to mess with the Brexit bill.
Their lordships are reacting with a trace of rather Gallic ennui. They're used to being threatened, to the point of being slightly bored by it.
And there are peers on the red benches who're aiming amendments at the bill. Labour plans to have another pop at passing their "meaningful vote" amendment; the Joint Committee on Human Rights' proposal to guarantee the status of EU nationals resident in the UK may fly once more, and the Lib Dems will certainly want to propose a second referendum, more in the hope of positioning themselves as the party of Remain than in the expectation of getting it through.
But even if a rainbow coalition of peers - Labour, Lib Dems, Pro-EU Tories and crossbenchers - was assembled to amend the bill, I doubt the House could nerve itself to insist on its amendments, if they were once struck down by MPs.
So while they would certainly have annoyed ministers, they would not have delayed the bill by more than a couple of days.
And it is a reasonable calculation to make, that with Brexit in full swing, ministers simply couldn't afford the parliamentary time to push through full-blooded, contested Lords reform.
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The two sides had set up a 23 March deadline to sign a final agreement, but negotiations in Cuba have stalled in past months.
Chief Colombian government negotiator Humberto de la Calle that there was no point in rushing into a bad agreement.
Both sides said they would strive to reach a deal by the end of the year.
The Farc (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) said that, despite the differences, they remained committed to finding a peaceful solution to more than five decades of conflict.
Peace talks have been held in Havana since November 2012.
"We have to inform the public that at the moment there are still important differences with the Farc," said Mr De la Calle.
"From the government's perspective, any agreement we reach must be a good agreement, the best possible for the Colombians," he said in Havana.
The government and the rebels had announced earlier this month that they would miss the 23 March deadline.
Both sides have reached agreement on several issues, including land reform, justice for the victims of the conflict and the involvement of the rebels with drug trafficking.
But there are still serious disagreements over the disarmament of the Marxist rebels.
"There can't be any doubt about the [Farc's] decision to decommission and destroy their weapons, to close non-conventional arms factories and commit not to buy new weapons," said Mr De la Calle.
Once an agreement is reached, it will need to be approved by the Colombian people in a referendum.
President Juan Manuel Santos says he is confident Colombians will back the deal, which will bring the rebels into the legal political process.
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Tapuai, 27, was due to stay with the Perth-based Super Rugby outfit for another year, but Western Force agreed to release him from his contract.
Welshman Allinson, 28, joined London Irish from Cardiff Blues in 2010.
"We're a bit light at scrum-half due to the autumn internationals and injury," director of rugby Todd Blackadder said.
London Irish director of rugby Nick Kennedy added: "This is a great opportunity for Darren to get some game time in the Premiership, with Bath's injury situation in that position."
Discussing former Brisbane City and Queensland Reds player Tapuai, Bath boss Blackadder continued: "He's a really good all-rounder, which will be a great boost for us.
"His experience will bring a new way of looking at things, and will really help develop our young midfield players. "
Western Force head coach Dave Wessels told their website: "Bath made a fantastic offer to Ben. That provided an opportunity to free up some money in the salary cap for us to explore a few other options."
Long before the conflict began, many Syrians complained about high unemployment, widespread corruption, a lack of political freedom and state repression under President Bashar al-Assad, who succeeded his father, Hafez, in 2000.
In March 2011, pro-democracy demonstrations inspired by the Arab Spring erupted in the southern city of Deraa. The government's use of deadly force to crush the dissent soon triggered nationwide protests demanding the president's resignation.
As the unrest spread, the crackdown intensified. Opposition supporters began to take up arms, first to defend themselves and later to expel security forces from their local areas. Mr Assad vowed to crush "foreign-backed terrorism" and restore state control.
The violence rapidly escalated and the country descended into civil war as hundreds of rebel brigades were formed to battle government forces for control of the country.
In essence, it has become more than just a battle between those for or against Mr Assad.
A key factor has been the intervention of regional and world powers, including Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United States. Their military, financial and political support for the government and opposition has contributed directly to the intensification and continuation of the fighting, and turned Syria into a proxy battleground.
External powers have also been accused of fostering sectarianism in what was a broadly secular state, pitching the country's Sunni majority against the president's Shia Alawite sect. Such divisions have encouraged both sides to commit atrocities that have not only caused loss of life but also torn apart communities, hardened positions and dimmed hopes for a political settlement.
Jihadist groups have also seized on the divisions, and their rise has added a further dimension to the war. Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, which was known as al-Nusra Front until it announced it was breaking off formal ties with al-Qaeda in July 2016, is part of a powerful rebel alliance that controls much of the north-western province of Idlib.
Meanwhile, so-called Islamic State (IS), which controls large swathes of northern and eastern Syria, is battling government forces, rebel brigades and Kurdish groups, as well as facing air strikes by Russia and a US-led multinational coalition.
Thousands of Shia militiamen from Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen say they are fighting alongside the Syrian army to protect holy sites.
Russia, for whom President Assad's survival is critical to maintaining its interests in Syria, launched an air campaign in September 2015 with the aim of "stabilising" the government after a series of defeats. Moscow stressed that it would target only "terrorists", but activists said its strikes mainly hit Western-backed rebel groups.
Six months later, having turned the tide of the war in his ally's favour, President Vladimir Putin ordered the "main part" of Russia's forces to withdraw, saying their mission had "on the whole" been accomplished. However, intense Russian air and missile strikes went on to play a major role in the government's siege of rebel-held eastern Aleppo, which fell in December 2016.
Shia power Iran is believed to be spending billions of dollars a year to bolster the Alawite-dominated government, providing military advisers and subsidised weapons, as well as lines of credit and oil transfers. It is also widely reported to have deployed hundreds of combat troops in Syria.
Mr Assad is Iran's closest Arab ally and Syria is the main transit point for Iranian weapons shipments to the Lebanese Shia Islamist movement Hezbollah, which has sent thousands of fighters to support government forces.
The US, which says President Assad is responsible for widespread atrocities and must step down, has provided only limited military assistance to "moderate" rebels, fearful that advanced weapons might end up in the hands of jihadists. Since September 2014, the US has conducted air strikes on IS in Syria, but it has not intentionally attacked government forces.
Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia, which is seeking to counter the influence of its rival Iran, has been a major provider of military and financial assistance to the rebels, including those with Islamist ideologies.
Turkey is another staunch supporter of the rebels, but it has also sought to contain US-backed Kurdish Popular Protection Units (YPG) fighters who are battling IS in northern Syria, accusing the YPG of being an extension of the banned Turkish Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
In August 2016, Turkish troops backed a rebel offensive to drive IS militants out of one of the last remaining stretches of the Syrian side of the border not controlled by the Kurds.
The UN says at least 250,000 people have been killed in the past five years. However, the organisation stopped updating its figures in August 2015. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, put the death toll at 310,000 in December 2016, while a think-tank estimated in February 2016 that the conflict had caused 470,000 deaths, either directly or indirectly.
More than 4.8 million people - most of them women and children - have fled Syria. Neighbouring Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey have struggled to cope with one of the largest refugee exoduses in recent history.
About 10% of Syrian refugees have sought safety in Europe, sowing political divisions as countries argue over sharing the burden. A further 6.3 million people are internally displaced inside Syria.
The UN estimates it will need $3.4bn (£2.7bn) to help the 13.5 million people who will require some form of humanitarian assistance inside Syria in 2017. More than 7 million people are affected by food insecurity and 1.75 million children are out of school.
The warring parties have compounded the problems by refusing humanitarian agencies access to many of those in need. Some 4.9 million people live in besieged or hard-to-reach areas.
With neither side able to inflict a decisive defeat on the other, the international community long ago concluded that only a political solution could end the conflict. The UN Security Council has called for the implementation of the 2012 Geneva Communique, which envisages a transitional governing body with full executive powers "formed on the basis of mutual consent".
Peace talks in early 2014, known as Geneva II, broke down after only two rounds, with the UN blaming the Syrian government's refusal to discuss opposition demands.
A year later, the conflict with IS lent fresh impetus to the search for a political solution in Syria. The US and Russia persuaded representatives of the warring parties to attend "proximity talks" in Geneva in January 2016 to discuss a Security Council-endorsed road map for peace, including a ceasefire and a transitional period ending with elections.
The first round broke down while still in the "preparatory" phase, as government forces launched an offensive around Aleppo. The talks resumed in March 2016, after the US and Russia brokered a nationwide "cessation of hostilities". But they collapsed the following month as fighting intensified.
The fall of Aleppo means the government now controls Syria's four biggest cities. But large parts of the country are still held by other armed groups.
Rebel fighters and allied jihadists are estimated to control about 15% of Syrian territory, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
US officials said in early December 2016 that there were 50,000 or more "moderate" rebels, concentrated in the north-western province of Idlib and the western Aleppo countryside.
Rebels also control smaller areas in the central province of Homs, the southern provinces of Deraa and Quneitra, and the eastern Ghouta agricultural belt outside Damascus.
Kurdish forces, who say they support neither the government nor the opposition, meanwhile control much of Syria's border with Turkey, as well as a large part of the country's north-east.
And although they have suffered extensive losses in the past two years, IS militants still hold large parts of central and northern Syria, including the city of Raqqa.
The impoverished country has been in turmoil for months since the rebels took over the capital, Sanaa, after bursting out of their northern stronghold.
With pressure on Aden increasing, ordinary Yemenis there are left worrying about the future, as they told the BBC's Jeannie Assad.
Sumaya Al-Mashgari, is 24 years old, and a university student. She is an intern at a local TV station, covering social and political issues
Awad Alhagan, from Abyan in the south of the country, is a displaced Yemeni living with his family in a deserted school in Aden
Abduallah Naggi, an elementary school principal in Aden, says the situation is very frightening
The prime minister also played down the chances of an early general election, saying the next one "should" take place as scheduled in 2020.
The government is appealing against the High Court's decision that MPs and peers should vote on triggering Brexit.
Mrs May said judges should "specify how" the vote might happen, if ministers are defeated again.
The High Court ruled last Thursday that Parliament should have a say before the UK invokes Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty - which triggers up to two years of formal EU withdrawal talks.
Labour has said it will not attempt to delay or scupper this process.
But the government argues that a parliamentary vote is not necessary as it already has powers to decide when negotiations with the EU should start. The Supreme Court is expected to hear its appeal early next month.
Speaking to BBC Business Editor Simon Jack on a trade visit to India, Mrs May said: "I'm clear that I expect to be able to trigger Article 50 by the end of March next year. That's what I've said consistently and I continue to work on that basis."
She added: "We believe the government has got strong legal arguments. We'll be putting those arguments to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court will make its judgement."
There is some debate about whether a vote at Westminster on invoking Article 50 would require a full Act of Parliament, or whether it could happen much more speedily by MPs and peers agreeing to a resolution - a written motion - instead.
Asked about this, Mrs May suggested that she would expect the court to set out which of the two options would be required.
She said: "If it were the case that the Supreme Court were to uphold the view of the High Court, then the judgement would set out what the details were."
In recent days, the idea of an early election has been raised, but Mrs May said: "I've been clear the next general election should be in 2020.
"The government is getting on with the job in delivering what people voted for on 23 June which was for Britain to leave the European Union. We're going to put that in to practice."
In June's UK-wide referendum, voters opted by 51.9% to 48.1% in favour of leaving the EU.
Earlier on Monday, Brexit Secretary David Davis gave the government's official response to the High Court's ruling, telling MPs the referendum result "must be respected and delivered".
He added: "There must be no attempt to remain inside the EU now, attempting it behind the back door or a second referendum."
For Labour, shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said Parliament had to have a vote on the issue, as it was "sovereign" and, because of this, "that scrutiny matters". However, his party would not "frustrate" the process of invoking Article 50, he added.
He told MPs the government's approach was "unravelling" in an "ugly way", adding: "We saw a series of appalling personal attacks on the judges, including the suggestion that they were 'enemies of the people'." This was a reference to a headline used in the Daily Mail on Friday - the day after the High Court's decision.
Mr Davis insisted that "we believe in and value the independence of our judiciary", but defended the freedom of the press. "Both these things underpin our democracy," he said.
Suzanne Evans, one of the three candidates for the UKIP leadership contest, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that judges could be "subject to some kind of democratic control" following the High Court's decision.
She did not want to undermine "their judicial independence", but added: "I suppose that in this case, we have had a situation where we have judges committed to stay in the European Union...
"I'm questioning the legitimacy of this particular case. We know that the legal profession threw a collective hissy fit when we voted to leave."
Scotland's Brexit minister, the SNP's Michael Russell, said he could not imagine any circumstances in which his party's MPs would vote in favour of triggering Article 50.
Police believed the shooting deaths late on Thursday stemmed from a dispute about a family business.
The three male victims were brothers from Morocco and the fourth victim was their mother. The final victim was the wife of one of the men, police said.
Four other people fled the home during the standoff, police said.
Police used a megaphone to try to communicate with the occupants of the home, addressing the family in Arabic.
The Arizona Republic reported that one neighbour said the family owned a transportation service, but another referred to them as "invisible" until Thursday.
The standoff in the residential neighbourhood was shown live on TV with SWAT teams and other police agencies converging on the area.
"Our dispatcher could hear shots fired in the background while that call was coming in,'' police spokesman Sgt Trent Crump said. "A caller had been able to escape the home at that point, get out and start to give us information."
The 32-year-old was last at Championship side Rotherham, for whom he made 22 appearances.
He started his career at Portsmouth and has spent time at Exeter City, Bournemouth, Stoke City and Sheffield Wednesday.
Buxton is available for Wanderers' season opener against Sheffield United on Saturday.
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Dyfed-Powys Police has arrested a man on suspicion of murder following an incident at Temple Street, Llandrindod Wells, in the early hours of Sunday.
The dead's man family has been informed.
Detectives want to speak to anybody in the area around Temple Street between 23:00 BST on Saturday and 04:15 on Sunday.
A senior figure involved in funding talks with the charity told BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith: "We were all over-ridden by Number 10."
Kids Company has told the government it will close its services on Wednesday evening.
It got £3m from ministers a week ago.
The source suggested officials and ministers at the Department for Education had repeatedly expressed opposition to continued funding for the charity because of concerns about its performance and management.
It is suggested such concerns were expressed as far back as 2012.
But, the source added: "She was a good news story for the Conservative Party. It was a case of glamour over substance."
Kids Company said closure speculation was "dangerous and irresponsible".
The Cabinet Office said it would not comment on whether the charity would close.
The family of Ella Tomlinson, 14, of Leominster, had to raise £140,000 for the trip and operation.
Her father Steve said: "She's already been signed off, which is great news. I'm proud to bits of her."
Ella's family made the decision to travel for the surgery after St George's hospitals trust, in south London, put the procedures on hold.
The NHS trust, which had previously performed vertebral body tethering (VBT), said health advisory group NICE was looking into it more and apologised for any distress.
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Ella has scoliosis, an abnormal twisting of the spine which is usually noticed by a change in appearance of the back, or one shoulder or hip being more prominent than the other.
Mr Tomlinson said: "The [US doctors] are extremely pleased with her. They say it's one of the best operations they have done.
"She is in agony at times but she can walk. The aim is to keep her walking, little by little, so she gets better and better. It's a long, long journey but she's incredible.
"[We've been] resigned to the fact that we've had to cash pensions and remortgage in order to raise the money [for the operation]."
"But there's no option... She has to have it [this operation] before April or May when her spine stiffens up with age and she's no longer... able to have it."
Ella had previously said: "I just want it done, out the way, so I can get back to having a normal life."
The 46-year-old will sign a four-year contract it is reported will earn him between £1.5m and £2m per year.
Southgate, who had a four-game stint as interim manager following Sam Allardyce's departure, was interviewed last week by a five-person panel.
The decision to appoint the former England Under-21 coach as permanent boss will be ratified at a Football Association board meeting.
England won two World Cup qualifiers - 2-0 against Malta and 3-0 against Scotland - and drew 0-0 in Slovenia during Southgate's short spell in interim charge.
They also drew 2-2 with Spain in a friendly.
Wednesday's FA board meeting is also likely to dedicate a large amount of time to discussing football's historical sexual abuse scandal and safeguarding measures in the sport.
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That dream is closer to becoming a reality thanks to rapid advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), or drone, technology.
Ol Pejeta Conservancy, a Kenyan 90,000-acre reserve specialising in protecting white and black rhinos, has teamed up with San Francisco-based tech company Airware, which develops drone autopilot systems.
"With the blessing of the Kenya Wildlife Service we did 10 days of testing," Robert Breare, Ol Pejeta's chief commercial officer, told the BBC.
Rangers at the base could operate the drone via two laptops, one showing a map tracking the flight path, the other showing the UAV's point of view through a high-definition camera.
Can drones tackle wildlife poaching?
Thermal imaging cameras meant the drone could also fly at night, with the operators clearly differentiating the shapes of animals.
They could even see how the elephants' trunks changed temperature as they sucked up water from a trough.
With a wingspan of less than a metre, the catapult-launched drone flew at an altitude of about 500 feet.
"You hardly see or notice it," he says. "We don't want to startle the wildlife... or the tourists."
Jonathan Downey, Airware's chief executive, says: "At one point during testing a tractor severed the ethernet cable so we lost all communications with the aircraft.
"It was able to work this out then fly back to base. When it didn't receive any further instructions it landed by itself."
Mr Breare envisages drones complementing, rather than replacing, the sniffer dogs and teams of armed, GPS-tagged rangers connected by a digital radio system.
But while this trial was deemed a success, both parties acknowledge that much more work needs to be done.
"The operating and autopilot systems worked flawlessly and were easy to operate," says Mr Breare, "but finding an airframe that was robust enough for the environment proved difficult."
Rangers need all the help they can get in the fight against poachers.
Killing elephants for their tusks and rhinos for their horns has become an illicit multi-million dollar business, with demand particularly high in Asia.
And the trade is threatening Africa's lucrative wildlife tourism industry.
"South Africa's Kruger National Park is ground zero for poachers," says Crawford Allan, spokesman for the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) crime technology project. "There are 12 gangs in there at any time. It's almost like a war zone."
"With a kilo of rhino horn selling for around $60,000 (£35,000), a big specimen can fetch $250,000," says Mr Breare.
"Security is a very significant part of our operating budget and this has escalated over the last two years because of increases in the price of ivory and rhino horn.
"We estimate we've had to spend an additional $2m to protect the rhino that we have," he told the BBC.
But drones are not the whole answer, most experts agree.
"They're not a silver bullet," says Mr Breare. "Trying to find the small shape of a poacher in a 90,000-acre park is still difficult, even with high-spec night time and thermal imaging."
Mr Downey also admits that developing an airframe that is both light and strong enough to withstand Africa's rugged landscapes is still a challenge, especially when cost will be an issue for many game reserves.
While the "brains" of the drone weigh just 100g, the batteries required to power it for long-duration surveillance missions are heavy, meaning the airframe has to be bigger, and therefore more costly.
Smaller, cheaper drones come with a typical battery life of 30-90 minutes, but large game reserves "really need drones that can fly for six to eight hours," says Mr Breare.
Airware's Mr Downey estimates that drones for anti-poaching will ultimately cost $50,000-$70,000.
Higher-specification long-range drones can cost upwards of $250,000.
There is also further development needed around software that can automatically detect different animal species and count them, Mr Downey says.
On an African plain in the dead of night, poachers can remain invisible to rangers just 100m away.
So hand-launched drones with night vision can provide a very useful extra pair of eyes, says Scott "LB" Williams, founder and director of the Reserve Protection Agency (RPA), a not-for-profit technology consultancy.
But even when the poachers have been located, GPS-tracked rangers still have the dangerous task of arresting or seeing off the gangs who are often heavily armed and funded by organised crime syndicates.
About 1,000 rangers have been killed over the last 10 years trying to protect wildlife, the Game Rangers Association of Africa estimates.
So the RPA has been experimenting with integrating a range of technologies on the Amakhala game reserve in South Africa's Eastern Cape.
"We've designed our own tracking tag incorporating RFID [radio-frequency identification] technology and attached it to animals, rangers, vehicles, weapons and trees," says Mr Williams.
"We're putting up three large towers to pick up the tag signals and creating a kind of cyber canopy. The UAV is just one layer of the onion, not the whole solution."
The WWF's crime technology project has also been trying out this approach after receiving $5m (£3m) of funding from technology giant Google.
"Our ultimate finding was that UAVs by themselves were pointless," says WWF's Crawford Allan.
"The first thing you do need on the ground is well-equipped, well-trained rangers to react to the data coming in. Other systems - such as tagging and tracking of animals - used in combination with UAV tech makes much more sense."
The WWF, like the RPA, believes that linking all these ground and air sensors and cameras over a secure radio network is crucial in the fight against poaching.
As well as spotting, tracking and deterring poachers, drones could also play a wider conservation role.
Mr Williams believes that longer-range drones equipped with multiple sensors and cameras will be used strategically for surveillance, data collection, and flora and fauna censuses.
Ol Pejeta's Robert Breare agrees, saying: "Currently counting animals has to be done manually from the air, which is expensive and not terribly accurate. If this could be done automatically using drones it would save us a lot of time and money."
While image recognition software that can differentiate between species at night is being developed, "we're not there yet," says Airware's Mr Downey.
But the pace of development is rapid and interest in anti-poacher drones is global.
For example, the Wildlife Conservation UAV Challenge, founded by Princess Aliyah Pandolfi of Kashmir-Robotics and supported by the RPA, has received nearly 140 entries for its low-cost drone competition.
The winners, to be announced in November, will see their designs tested in South Africa's Kruger National Park.
So drone technology is likely to play a significant part in the fight against poaching, but only as part of an integrated, ground-to-air tracking and surveillance system.
Until then, as Crawford Allan says: "Nothing beats a real dog."
The pre-inquest hearing was told Surrey Police would have been aware of the claims about Alexander Perepilichny.
The force was asked why it wants some documents in its possession to be kept secret, but Surrey Police said the line of questioning was irrelevant.
Mr Perepilichny, 44, died after collapsing near his home in Weybridge.
The inquest heard Interpol was investigating Mr Perepilichny's suspected previous involvement with Russian criminal gangs.
A communication from Interpol to the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca) in 2010 claimed Mr Perepilichny was suspected of "fraud, money laundering and abuse of power".
Hermitage Capital Management, one of the interested parties at the inquest, said it suggested Surrey Police knew of his alleged criminal links and that this contradicted public statements made by the force to that end.
Surrey Police was asked if a move to keep some documents secret under public interest immunity rules had anything to do with a suggestion that Mr Perepilichny was "running with" or being "run by" British intelligence.
A representative for the force said this had been answered in previous hearings.
And a counsel to the inquest confirmed there were no outstanding issues for Surrey Police to answer.
Mr Perepilichny's death was originally attributed to natural causes but an earlier pre-inquest hearing heard traces of a rare poison were found in his stomach.
His death was also said to have parallels with the murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.
The earlier hearing heard that like Mr Litvinenko, Mr Perepilichny had apparently received threats, particularly after handing over sensitive documents to Hermitage Capital Management.
That had led to the freezing of foreign bank accounts belonging to a group of Russian officials suspected of money laundering after a tax fraud, the hearing was told.
The hearing continues.
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United will pay 105m euros for Pogba and performance-related bonuses and other costs could see that figure rise.
The midfielder will have a medical in the next few days with the deal due to be completed in midweek.
The 23-year-old, who left United for £1.5m in 2012, is set to return for a fee that surpasses Gareth Bale's £85m move to Real Madrid in 2013.
The Old Trafford club still have to agree personal terms with the France midfielder, although that is expected to be a formality.
Pogba's imminent medical was announced just over 90 minutes before Sunday's Community Shield, which United won 2-1 against Leicester.
Boss Jose Mourinho said after the game at Wembley that United is the "perfect" club and the Premier League is the best stage for Pogba.
"We have everything to give him and we know the reasons why he wants to come to us," added Mourinho.
"He comes because he knows the club, knows the city, many of the players and wants to be an important part of the project.
"If you want to be the best player in the world, if you go to Barcelona or Real Madrid you are in trouble because I don't think the other two big guys [Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo] will let you."
Asked about the size of Pogba's transfer fee, Mourinho said: "I don't think Real were upset when they broke the record with Gareth Bale or Cristiano.
"I don't think it's a reason to be sad - it's a reason to be proud.
"Football is crazy and the market has become crazy. What you think this season is crazy, you realise three years later it's not crazy any more.
"What is expensive and not expensive in football? I don't know any more. I just know he is a big player."
In four seasons in Turin, Pogba, who helped France reach the Euro 2016 final, won four league titles.
He is Mourinho's fourth signing at United, after Eric Bailly, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
It is the first time in 20 years an English club will have paid a world record fee.
Newcastle United were the last to do so when they spent £15m signing England striker Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers.
Pogba joined United from French club Le Havre in 2009 as a 16-year-old, but made just a handful of appearances before his contract expired in July 2012.
He has made 178 appearances for Juventus, scoring 34 goals, and helped the club reach the 2015 Champions League final. The Serie A side had offered him a new contract, while Real Madrid were also interested in signing him.
Pogba's agent, Mino Raiola, also represents striker Ibrahimovic, who signed for United on a free transfer from Paris St-Germain, and midfielder Mkhitaryan, who joined from Borussia Dortmund.
In August 2011, then United manager Six Alex Ferguson described Pogba as a "young boy" who was "showing great promise".
He said: "If we hold Pogba back, what's going to happen? He's going to leave. So we have to give him the opportunity to see how he can do in the first team and he's got great ability, plus he's got the physique and athleticism."
However, later that year, with Paul Scholes retired, Owen Hargreaves leaving and Darren Fletcher injured, Brazilian full-back Rafael was preferred to Pogba in midfield, a decision the Frenchman later said "disgusted" him.
Scholes came out of retirement aged 37 in January 2012, and Pogba said: "I didn't want to sign a contract as Ferguson didn't play me, even though there were no midfielders there.
"I was frustrated because he spoke to me a few times and said I was nearly there. When I saw Scholes come back, part of me was really happy as he's a legend, but I knew it was the end of me."
Pogba left United when his contract expired, with the Red Devils receiving a £1.5m fee as compensation.
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In his second autobiography, Ferguson said he "distrusted" Pogba's agent, Raiola, describing their first meeting as a "fiasco".
"He and I were like oil and water," said the Scot. "From then on, our goose was cooked because Raiola had been able to ingratiate himself with Paul and his family and the player signed with Juventus."
Juventus full-back Patrice Evra, who was at United with Pogba, said the club initially "underestimated" his France team-mate.
Speaking in 2014, he said: "I went to talk to him and spent two hours with his parents and his brothers to discuss his future, even though I'm just a player.
"I said, 'Here in Manchester you will become a legend. Be patient'. I tried to tie him up. I even tried to put him in padlocks. But, no, he'd already made his choice."
Police were called after reports the £180,000 supercar was being driven too fast around Newport.
Traffic officers did not catch the 25-year-old driver speeding in his bright green Lamborghini Huracan - which can go 0-60mph (97km/h) in 2.5 seconds.
But police said he was driving in an "anti-social manner" and confiscated the Italian supercar.
The driver was given a legal warning which meant the car, which has a top speed of 202mph (325km/h), was seized by police on Wednesday night but handed back the following day.
A spokeswoman for Gwent Police said: "The driver was driving in an anti-social manner - speed not recorded but was excessively speeding in a built-up area."
The man was warned his car could be seized again if he is caught for a second time.
The 35-year-old is in his second spell with the Spireites, who were relegated from League One this season, and has made 211 league appearances for the club.
Evatt has also had spells with Derby, QPR and Blackpool.
He told the club website: "The club is very close to my heart and I'm settled in the area so I turned down offers from elsewhere in order to stay."
Michaella McCollum, from Dungannon, and Melissa Reid, from Lenzie near Glasgow, who are both 20, are accused of trying to smuggle some 11kg (24lb) of cocaine.
Ms McCollum's solicitor, Peter Madden, visited her in the police holding cell where she has spent the past 14 days.
He said some recent press coverage of the case had been "bizarre".
"I've seen some very strange press reports over the weekend about this case," Mr Madden said.
"The ones that I saw I put to Michaella and she totally denies them. Some of them, as I say, are just not true and some of them are just really bizarre."
Some newspapers at the weekend reported on the drugs scene in Ibiza and questioned the two women's stories.
Mr Madden was due to meet with police to discuss the case after visiting Ms McCollum.
Two weeks after their initial arrest, the two women are still waiting to be formally charged with a crime.
The Peruvian anti-drug police have concluded their investigation into the case, which should now be with the public prosecutor's office.
The contents of that report will form the basis of any charges against the pair, which they are expected to hear in a courtroom on Tuesday.
Ms McCollum and Ms Reid have maintained from the start that they were forced by an armed gang to carry the cocaine they were arrested with in their luggage at Lima Airport.
They both say they were forcibly recruited as drug mules by the gang while working in bars in the Spanish island of Ibiza and travelled to Peru under duress.
It is not yet clear if they still intend to enter a not guilty plea in court on Tuesday.
Peru's anti-drug police's lead investigator, Tito Perez, told the BBC his unit had been checking into the women's version of events by travelling to the hotels they had stayed in.
Officers had also gathered video evidence from the city of Cuzco where they claimed the drug gang had taken them.
The report is due to form the basis of the pre-trial hearing which will determine what the two young women will be charged with.
If refused bail, they could face up to three years in jail before trial.
Legal experts in Peru suggest the normal charge in such a case would be for drug smuggling, which carries an average sentence of about eight to nine years in prison.
If they are accused of being members of a criminal organisation, they could face harsher sentences.
The twins were pulled from the weekend's live shows. It came after claims that Josh sent threatening messages to an ex-girlfriend.
It was confirmed on Monday that the twins were leaving the show for good.
An X Factor spokesperson said: "Following the allegations relating to Josh Brooks, we have decided by mutual consent that Brooks Way should leave the competition."
Josh Brooks said: "Due to events in my personal life I've decided that it's best not to be on the show at this time.
"While not everything that has been claimed is true I would like to apologise to everyone involved."
X Factor host Dermot O'Leary said at the start of Saturday night's show: "Due to circumstances that have arisen, Brooks Way won't be appearing this evening."
A new group is expected to replace Brooks Way on the show in Louis Walsh's category.
One of Louis's other groups, Bratavio, was the first act to get booted off the live shows.
The pair lost out to Saara Aalto in Sunday night's sing-off.
Team Sky's Geraint Thomas remains in contention in 11th place overall, 23 seconds behind the leader.
Germany's Andre Greipel (Lotto Soudal), who had won the previous stage and held the overall lead, finished in 10th.
The racers had to contend with strong crosswinds throughout the third and final stage on Sardinia.
Gaviria and his team-mates caused a split in the peloton with 10km to race, and powered over the line in triumph at the end of the 148km ride from Tortoli to Cagliari.
All of the main contenders for leader's pink jersey are well placed in the standings before Monday's rest day and Tuesday's ascent of Mount Etna.
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Thomas felt he was in a good position after the opening three stages as the race moves towards Etna.
"We've stayed out of troubled and missed mishaps. The legs are feeling all right but we'll see on Tuesday up Etna what they're really like. That will be interesting," he said.
"I think everyone is going to be testing each other (during stage four). I don't know the climb but I heard it could be windy up there. It could be a bit stop-start. We'll see how it goes."
Stage three result:
1. Fernando Gaviria (Col/Quick-Step) 3hrs 26mins 33secs
2. Ruediger Selig (Ger/BORA) Same time
3. Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita/Trek)
4. Nathan Haas (Aus/Dimension Data)
5. Maximiliano Richeze (Arg/Quick-Step)
6. Kanstantsin Siutsou (Bel/Bahrain) +3secs
7. Bob Jungels (Lux/Quick-Step)
8. Caleb Ewan (Aus/Orica) +13secs
9. Sacha Modolo (Ita/UAE Team Emirates)
10. Andre Greipel (Ger/Lotto)
Overall classification after stage three
1. Fernando Gaviria (Col/Quick-Step) 14hrs 45mins 16secs
2. Andre Greipel (Ger/Lotto) +9secs
3. Lukas Poestlberger (Aus/BORA) +13secs
4. Bob Jungels (Lux/Quick-Step) Same time
5. Kanstantsin Siutsou (Bel/Bahrain)
6. Caleb Ewan (Aus/Orica) +17secs
7. Roberto Ferrari (Ita/UAE Team Emirates) Same time
8. Ryan Gibbons (SA/Dimension Data) +23secs
9. Enrico Battaglin (Ita/LottoNL) Same time
10. Sacha Modolo (Ita/Team Emirates)
11. Geraint Thomas (GB/Team Sky)
Alistair Darling said Ms Sturgeon had to regularly "throw red meat" to her supporters by hinting at a second vote.
But he said she "knows she will be finished" if she loses again.
Ms Sturgeon's predecessor as first minister, Alex Salmond, believes there will be a referendum in 2018.
Lord Darling led the Better Together campaign ahead of the 2014 referendum, which saw the No side win by 55%-45%, while Mr Salmond was the figurehead for the pro-independence Yes campaign.
The two politicians were speaking to the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme on the second anniversary of the 2014 referendum result being announced.
Lord Darling, the former UK Chancellor, said opinion polls had suggested very little has changed in terms of support for independence over the past two years, with most recent polls showing a narrow majority in favour of remaining in the UK.
This is despite the UK as a whole voting to leave the EU while Scotland voted to Remain - a situation Ms Sturgeon has said makes another independence referendum "highly likely".
Lord Darling said Ms Sturgeon would not risk everything, including her reputation, on another referendum which she currently appears far from certain to win.
He added: "If she loses, she knows she will be finished. That is why she has no hurry to rush into it. What she has got to do of course is to continually throw red meat to her supporters.
"In many ways, calling for independence is a diversion because people aren't discussing how is it that people from disadvantaged backgrounds are not getting the same opportunities they are, say, in London?
"Why is it that we have got a shortage of GPs in Scotland when all of these things are controlled by the Scottish government?"
He said most people in Scotland do not want another referendum, and instead wanted governments in both Edinburgh and London to get on with the job of governing.
Lord Darling added: "Brexit has changed a lot for Scotland, for the whole of the UK. To break ourselves away from the European market is very bad in my view and will cause disruption.
"But to then go and break yourself away from what is undoubtedly your biggest single market - which is basically England - would make the situation ten times worse.
"I don't think it will happen any time soon at all. And if you are looking to get into Europe, the deficit that is allowable is about 3%. Ours is about 10%, which would make austerity look like a Sunday afternoon picnic."
Lord Darling's comments were made amid reports in the Herald newspaper that senior SNP figures want their party leader to wait until a potential Tory victory at the 2020 general election before pressing ahead with a second vote.
But Mr Salmond later told Good Morning Scotland that Ms Sturgeon's mandate for a second referendum was "unimpeachable" given that Scotland was being "dragged out of the EU".
He added: "The way that Westminster can stop a referendum of course is by allowing Nicola Sturgeon to secure Scotland's place within the European single market without having an independence referendum.
"Now my judgement is they don't have the flexibility, the sensitivity, the democratic acknowledgement of Scotland's right to do that.
"Which is why my guess is that we are likely to have another independence referendum in two years' time."
Mr Salmond also said the Scottish government's recent Gers figures - which showed the country has a 9.5% public spending deficit - "do not tell you about the finances of an independent Scotland" but instead "show the finances of Scotland within the United Kingdom".
He added: "I don't think any serious economic commentator would question the fact that Scotland has the ability to become a prosperous independent nation, and nobody would seriously doubt Scotland's viability."
Gers was described as the "authoritative publication on Scotland's public finances" in the Scottish government's White Paper on independence ahead of the 2014 referendum, when the figures were more positive than they are now and formed the basis of much of the Yes campaign's economic argument.
Writing in the Sunday Herald newspaper over the weekend, Ms Sturgeon said that "the case for full self-government ultimately transcends the issues of Brexit, of oil, of national wealth and balance sheets and of passing political fads and trends".
Opposition parties said her comments suggested the first minister was now pursuing "independence at any cost".
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said: "Instead of trying to explain what would happen to our economy and how we fund our public services under independence, the new mantra is that none of these things matter anymore and people should just shut up about them and wrap themselves in a flag instead."
The technology harnesses the temperature difference underground to create heat.
It is being used at the new Kirkwall Grammar School, Stromness Primary school, Papdale Halls, and the new developments at the Pickaquoy Centre.
The aim is to cut carbon emissions by 30%.
It is believed to be the biggest geothermal project of its kind in Scotland.
The work is being carried out by Geothermal International.
The work at Kirkwall Grammar School is set to take about three months.
Seventy-one lorries reached rebel-held Madaya and Zabadani, near Damascus, and government-controlled Foah and Kefraya, in Idlib province, on Sunday.
They brought food, medical supplies and hygiene kits for 60,000 people.
Last week, the UN suspended aid deliveries across Syria for 48 hours after a deadly attack on a convoy.
The US and Russia, which support opposing sides in the country's five-year civil war, have blamed each other for the incident.
It came as a week-old truce brokered by the two powers collapsed and the government's bombardment of rebel-held areas of Aleppo resumed.
A monitoring group said dozens of air strikes hit the northern city and its surrounding countryside overnight, killing and wounding a number of people.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented the deaths of 237 people, including 38 children, in Aleppo since last Monday, when the truce ended.
The ICRC, which managed the latest aid deliveries jointly with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the UN, announced that 53 lorries reached Madaya and Zabadani on Sunday afternoon.
Some 40,000 people in the towns have been besieged since June 2015 by the Syrian army and allied fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah movement.
In early January, reports that children and old people were dying amid shortages of food, water and medicine in Madaya caused international outrage.
The government was persuaded to allow in several aid convoys between January and April, but none included adequate food and medical supplies to stave off malnutrition for all the town's residents, according to US-based Physicians for Human Rights.
The latest aid deliveries to Madaya and Zabadani were co-ordinated with the arrival of 18 lorries in Foah and Kefraya, where conditions are said to be similarly dire for their 20,000 residents.
The two predominantly Shia towns, near the northern city of Idlib, were encircled by rebels and allied jihadists from Jabhat Fateh al-Sham in March 2015.
Their electricity and water supplies have been cut since then and, while government aircraft have occasionally dropped aid over the areas, there are grave shortages of food and medicine.
The UN estimates that 13.5 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance in Syria. Of these, 5.47 million are in hard-to-reach areas, including 600,000 in 18 besieged areas.
The UN had hoped to take advantage of the cessation of hostilities brokered by the US and Russia two weeks ago to deliver aid to besieged areas, but subsequently complained that the Syrian government had failed to issue the necessary permits.
Jan Egeland, the adviser to the UN special envoy for Syria, accused "well-fed grown men" of putting "political, bureaucratic, and procedural roadblocks" before humanitarian workers willing to help women, children and wounded civilians.
There's plenty they can do - but it won't make up what's lost.
The Democratic governors of the three states say they represent 10% of US greenhouse gas emissions combined, and one in five Americans. Their United States Climate Alliance is designed to "convene US states committed to upholding the Paris Climate Agreement and taking aggressive action on climate change".
In California, legislators voted to get 100% of the state's energy needs from renewables by 2045. It followed in the footsteps of Hawaii, Portland and Salt Lake City, which have similar targets.
And mayors representing 82 cities and 39 million Americans have written an open letter pledging to increase their commitment to renewable energy and electric cars, and "adopt, honour, and uphold the commitments to the goals enshrined in the Paris Agreement".
One report suggests that if all US cities participated, they could contribute 6% of the greenhouse gas savings the world needs to stick to the target.
Under the Paris agreement, the US had agreed to:
The cut in greenhouse gas emissions was part of a global effort to keep temperature rises below 1.5C (3.5F) above pre-industrial levels. If the US pulls out and other countries do not adjust their plans, that target will not be met, which would raise the risks of flooding, extreme weather including heat waves, and changes to freshwater patterns and food production.
As for the financial shortfall: the $3bn was meant to help poorer countries deal with the effects of climate change, and fund the development of clean energy technologies. Of this, $1bn had already been paid. Now that the US has pulled out, there is a $2bn shortfall.
Bloomberg Philanthropies, run by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, has offered $15m to cover a separate shortfall. It will give the money to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and says it could cover staff costs associated with negotiations and communications.
Mr Bloomberg struck a defiant tone when announcing his funding pledge, saying: "Americans are not walking away from the Paris Climate Agreement. Just the opposite - we are forging ahead.
"Americans will honour and fulfil the Paris Agreement by leading from the bottom up - and there isn't anything Washington can do to stop us."
"I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris," Mr Trump said . This was slapped down by the city's mayor, who tweeted that Pittsburgh would follow the deal's guidelines "for our people, our economy and future".
Historically a manufacturing city, Pittsburgh suffered economic collapse in the 1980s when the steel industry's fortunes declined, but has recovered through investment in technology and research.
However, Pennsylvania emains the fourth-biggest coal-producing state in the US.
While Pittsburgh voted for Hillary Clinton, rural parts of the state went the other way and are a core part of Mr Trump's support.
Another coal mine is due to open soon about an hour and a half's drive outside Pittsburgh, but it will bring with it just 70 jobs. In the state of Pennsylvania more people work in the renewable energy industry than in mining, oil and gas combined.
Mr Trump also mentioned the other so-called Rust Belt cities of Youngstown, Ohio, whose Democratic mayor said "nothing about the US withdrawal would seem to indicate any form of job creation" for his city, and Detroit, Michigan, whose mayor has not yet commented.
Power stations - some of them, that is.
Coal as a means of making electricity is declining around the world. In the US, natural gas has overtaken it as a power station fuel, partly due to fracking bringing the prices down.
And renewable energy sources like solar and wind power are tumbling in price, meaning coal is not likely to become a major player again.
It hasn't been a major source of heat for people's homes for years, either, having been largely overtaken by gas.
Coal industry representatives, though, are among the few people who welcomed Mr Trump's withdrawal.
Peabody Energy, America's biggest coal mining firm, said the Paris agreement would have badly affected the US economy. And Murray Energy's chief executive said in a statement that Mr Trump's decision was "supporting America's uncompromising values, saving coal jobs, and promoting low-cost, reliable electricity for Americans and the rest of the world".
Not at all.
The Chinese are stepping up, as are major European countries such as Germany and France.
Many businesses - including Apple, Goldman Sachs and even oil companies such as Exxon - have pledged to uphold their commitments. They will find themselves with less federal co-ordination but alongside US cities and states.
In fact the global outcry at the US exit just might concentrate other countries' efforts in the pursuit of the targets laid down in Paris.
The catastrophic loss of life is the primary factor, of course. But there is also the fact that people are finding it very difficult to get any information.
There does not appear to be any central official point here on the ground where people can go to get answers and support. No marquee with "help centre" written on the side. No officials with lanyards guiding confused and desperate people to counsellors.
There has been a huge voluntary response, with local churches and others helping people.
Donations have flooded in - too many now - such is the public response.
And unseen officials are caring for those in hospital and working to find empty accommodation in which to house those left homeless.
And yet on the ground people speak of a total lack of coordination from the government and Kensington and Chelsea council.
Local residents' association representatives say some families are still sleeping on floors in centres around the Grenfell Tower four days after the fire.
They talk of absolute chaos. And they say what they regard as the inability of the local council to respond to their needs and concerns is "symptomatic of why we had this disaster".
Such is the total and utter lack of trust between residents and the officials in charge.
One of the things fuelling the anger here - perhaps the main thing - is the lack of a central point of contact for answers.
Crisis management at disasters around the world swings into action at varying speeds. But even in remote areas, international bodies have normally set up obvious local centres of support fairly soon after the event.
It has not happened in North Kensington.
Twenty-four hours after the 2010 Haitian earthquake, I arrived to find no international response to speak of.
But within another 24 hours that response was arriving and was significant there three days after the disaster - teams from around the world flying in, crisis centres and the United Nations in control of feeding points and housing solutions.
Yes, there were problems. There always are. But the centralised and visible response was in place days later in a relatively remote area.
That is what appears to be missing in the richest borough in one of the world's leading cities.
Kensington and Chelsea council's website refers to a "Family and Friends Reception" at the Westway Sports Centre, staffed by police.
People need visible and accessible emotional psychological and physical help and right now they say they are not getting it.
Many people here believe an affluent Conservative council failed to look after its poorest residents.
But one angry former resident of the tower, who moved out in October, said: "Right now the residents need housing and taking care of. The council have failed to do so.
"This is not about politics. It is about getting people what they need and deserve. It is an outrage."
There has been little trust between residents and the council over the years. They say their concerns about safety in the Grenfell Tower were not listened to - not acted upon.
Right now that lack of trust is deepening. And so is the anger.
First Secretary of State Damian Green told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "Kensington council are absolutely doing their best.
"People want answers, people want someone on the ground. The new recovery taskforce that the prime minister is chairing has people from central government as well as from the council on the ground to answer all those perfectly reasonable questions.
"It was decided to do it yesterday, it is happening today," he added.
Matthew Price reports for the Today programme on BBC Radio 4.
Ratan Tata, of the Tata Motor Group, and Prof Lord Bhattacharyya, founder of Warwick Manufacturing Group, took their oaths in Coventry Cathedral.
Both have been made Honorary Freemen of the city.
The men were honoured for helping "the regeneration of the city", the city council said.
Coventry City Council leader Ann Lucas OBE, said: "The vision, leadership and commitment of Mr Tata and Professor Lord Bhattacharyya has been instrumental in placing Coventry on the world stage."
"I'm very proud that Coventry today honoured me," Lord Bhattacharyya said.
In 1980, he founded the manufacturing, education and research group at Warwick University, and remains its chairman. The department works with motor manufacturers across the UK, including Jaguar.
Tata Motors announced plans to double the size of JLR's manufacturing plant in Whitley, in March.
Warriors produced arguably their finest European performance to crush Leicester 43-0 and reach the last eight.
Townsend hopes that display has given his players belief they can go on to win the competition.
"It should," said the former Scotland player. "To play such a prestigious team is something we can't wait for."
Glasgow ran in six tries as they humiliated Leicester at Welford Road to advance to the quarter-finals for the first time in their history.
They progressed as sixth seeds, with the results of Sunday's final pool matches pitting them against Saracens - the English and European champions securing a home tie courtesy of a 10-3 win over Toulon.
Had results in Pool Two been different, Glasgow would have faced a trip to Munster, but Townsend is pleased his side have a fresh challenge.
"We're probably looking forward to Saracens more because it's a team we've never played," said the man who will replace Vern Cotter as Scotland head coach in the summer.
"They're the champions, they've not lost a game in Europe for the last two seasons and there is less distance for our supporters to travel. I'm sure many thousands will try to make it down to London and there will be a lot of Scots in London trying to get tickets.
"We'll love having to analyse a new team. We'll learn from some of the things they'll do and they'll have to learn about what we do and stop what we do. It is a couple of months away and there will be a lot of work to do until then, but it should be a cracking game."
Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall has confirmed that the club plan to expand the capacity of their Allianz Park home ground to accommodate the tie, rather than switch to Twickenham.
McCall says the Premiership team have "huge respect" for their opponents, praising Glasgow's performances against Racing 92 and Leicester - teams of "real European pedigree".
He added: "There's a really positive energy in their squad and they have a team packed full of internationals so it'll be a huge test for us but one that we're looking forward to."
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Townsend believes the knockout format gives his men a chance of going even further in the tournament.
"We always strive to get out of our pool for the very fact that then it's just knockout rugby," he said. "The best eight teams in Europe are going to play each other and no-one has the right to go through to the next round. You've got to give your best and take your chances. We've now given ourselves that opportunity.
"We realise how tough it will be but we've been in play-offs in the last five years in the Pro12 so we've got experience of what it takes. We'll just have to go up another level against Saracens."
Glasgow scrum-half Ali Price, meanwhile, feels his side are on the road to establishing themselves as one of the best teams in Europe.
"Our goal has always been to be one of the top teams in Europe - the best team in Europe," said the Scotland international.
"I feel like we're now on the way to proving that. We're into the top eight clubs in Europe and I feel if we match the physicality and intensity of any team in that top eight then we can go anywhere in Europe and pick up the result.
"I don't see why we can't win it. We've made it to the last eight and we've earned our place here. If we click on our day I feel that we've got the attacking style to break down anyone."
Flood Re was set up in June 2013 by the government in collaboration with the Association of British Insurers (ABI).
The ABI had said the scheme would be in place by summer 2015.
But Brendan McCafferty, from Flood Re, said it had "never commented publicly" on a launch date for the scheme - which still "needs to be tested thoroughly".
For much of the winter of 2013-2014, large parts of the Somerset Levels were underwater with dozens of homes flooded.
With flood-hit homeowners facing soaring insurance bills, Rebecca Horsington - from the Flooding on the Levels Action Group - said it was important to get the government scheme "in place as soon as possible".
"They've had 18 months to sort it out and now they're requesting a further year," she said.
"You don't want the scheme to fall at the first hurdle but you do have to question why it's taking so long.
"You can't have people ending up with no insurance."
But Mr McCafferty, CEO of Flood Re, said they were "working night and day" to get the scheme up and running as quickly as possible.
"Building a re-insurance company from a standing start is complicated," he said.
"It is a complex scheme which needs to be tested thoroughly if we are to get it right first time for UK home insurance customers."
Up to 500,000 homes will have their insurance capped under the plan, which is due to be launched in April 2016.
Rebel positions were targeted in the central cities of Ibb and Taiz, and in Aden and Dalea in the south.
Clashes between rebels and militiamen loyal to exiled President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi also continued in Aden.
Riyadh said on Tuesday its campaign had achieved its goals, but that military action would continue as needed.
The coalition had set out to restore Mr Hadi and his government, and to halt the Houthis' advance across southern and western Yemen.
However, Mr Hadi remains in Riyadh and the Houthis and allied military units loyal to ousted former President Ali Abdullah Saleh are still in control of large swathes of the country, including Sanaa.
Overnight, coalition warplanes struck rebel positions close to the capital and the third city of Taiz, where the Houthis seized the headquarters of a pro-Hadi armoured brigade on Wednesday.
On Thursday morning, strikes were reported in and around Aden. The targets reportedly included tanks being used by Houthi fighters in the southern port city.
Two colleges used as bases by the rebels on the outskirts of Ibb and in the nearby town of Yarim were also bombed, while a military base was hit in al-Kafr.
Later, dozens of Houthis were killed or injured in air strikes in Dalea, according to Al Jazeera.
On Wednesday evening, eight rebels died in clashes in Dalea province, while five others were killed while fighting southern militiamen in Aden, residents told the Reuters news agency.
A newly-formed Islamic State offshoot calling itself the "Green Brigade" also claimed it was behind a bombing that killed five rebels in Yarim on Wednesday, the AFP news agency reported.
The UN says at least 944 people had been killed and 3,487 injured in air strikes, fighting on the ground and attacks by jihadist militants in Yemen since 19 March.
After declaring the end of its bombing campaign, the coalition said it would focus on preventing the rebels from "targeting civilians or changing realities on the ground" and finding a political solution the conflict.
But the Saudi ambassador to the US, Adel al-Jubeir, warned the Houthis on Wednesday that they "should be under no illusion that we will [not] use force in order to stop them taking over Yemen by aggressive actions".
The rebels issued a statement declaring that they were ready to "resume political dialogue... under the sponsorship of the United Nations". But they also demanded a "complete end to the aggression against Yemen and the lifting of the blockade".
Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch warned that an air strike on a warehouse of the charity Oxfam in northern Yemen last Saturday was an apparent violation of the laws of war.
"The fact that the Oxfam warehouse should have been known to the coalition forces raises concerns that the attack was deliberate," the US-based group said.
Oxfam's Yemen country director, Grace Ommer, called the attack on the warehouse in the city of Saada - a stronghold of the Houthis - "an absolute outrage".
She said the coalition had been told where Oxfam's offices and warehouses were located, and that they contained humanitarian supplies associated with the provision of clean water. The coalition has so far not commented.
The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture exhibition, on display at the Hepworth, Wakefield, has four short-listed artists.
Work from Phyllida Barlow, Steven Claydon, Helen Marten and David Medalla is featured.
The winning artist is to be announced at an award dinner in the gallery on 17 November.
Sophie Bowness, art historian and granddaughter of sculptor Hepworth, said the prize was "a fitting legacy to... one of Britain's greatest sculptors".
The prize was announced in May as part of the gallery's fifth anniversary celebrations.
Each of the four artists is exhibiting new and recent work.
On show are Phyllida Barlow's monumental constructions and the sensory work of Steven Claydon.
Helen Marten, who is also nominated for this year's Turner Prize, is to display her intricate sculptures, while David Medalla's installation gives the visitor the chance to collaborate in the making of the work.
The gallery said the prize aims to "demystify contemporary sculpture" and recognise a British artist who has made a significant contribution.
Exhibition visitors are also encouraged to vote for a people's choice award.
The Hepworth Wakefield gallery opened in 2011.
Hepworth, who was born in the West Yorkshire city in 1903, was a contemporary of Castleford-born Henry Moore, with the pair among the most highly regarded sculptors of the 20th Century.
She attended Leeds School of Art in the 1920s and opened a studio in St Ives, Cornwall, in 1949.
The artist and sculptor was made a CBE in the 1958 New Year Honours list and died in a fire at her studio in 1975.
Margaret Murphy's husband Andrew died in 2014 from leukaemia. His immune system was left badly weakened after he got Legionnaire's from compost in 2008.
She said stronger warning labels could avoid more cases of the infection.
The Scottish government said current evidence suggested labelling had no impact on the number of cases.
The Growing Media Association, which represents compost manufacturers, said the risk of infection remained very low.
Between 2008 and 2013, 16 people in Scotland contracted Legionnaire's disease from compost. Two of them died.
Andrew Murphy, from Lanarkshire, was the very first Scot to contract the infection in 2008.
He was not a regular gardener, but purchased a bag of compost to try his hand at growing tomatoes.
He planted them in his conservatory, with his four-year-old granddaughter nearby. A couple of days later, he was admitted to hospital.
Speaking for the first time, his wife Margaret said that when laboratory tests confirmed he had contracted Legionnaire's disease from the compost, she could not believe it.
"I was in shock. I thought, I'm dreaming this. I just couldn't take it in," she said.
Mr Murphy spent 50 days in intensive care. Although he survived the initial infection, his immune system was damaged. He died last October from leukaemia.
"We have to have warning labels," Mrs Murphy said. "Nursery school children are using compost to plant sunflowers.
"I would not want another family to have to go through what we've gone through. It doesn't cost a lot of money but nobody's listening. That just upsets me."
The manufacturer of the compost paid Mr Murphy compensation in an out-of-court settlement but Mrs Murphy described the sum as "paltry".
She said it did not even cover her lost income as a result of having to give up work to nurse her husband.
Cases of the particular strain of Legionella associated with compost, Legionella longbeachae, have been rising in Scotland.
There is no clear explanation for this, but it is thought it may be due to the replacement of peat with more environmentally friendly ingredients such as sawdust and bark.
Legionella longbeachae is common in Australia and New Zealand, where compost bags have carried specific warnings about the danger of infection since 2003.
There is no clear explanation why there have been more cases in Scotland than the rest of the UK, but health experts believe it may simply be because labs in Scotland are more alert to the danger and therefore detect it more often.
In 2013 a Strathclyde University study into 22 different compost brands sold in the UK found that 14 of them contained a variety of Legionella species. Four contained Legionella longbeachae.
Last year, a report by Health Protection Scotland recommended that bags should warn gardeners to wear a mask if the compost is dusty, since infection can occur when spores are inhaled. However, manufacturers said such warnings were alarmist.
In a statement, the Growing Media Association (GMA) said it took the issue "very seriously".
"The GMA would like to reassure garden centres and their customers that the risk of infection remains extremely low," it said.
"This was confirmed by a recent report by Health Protection Scotland which recorded less than one case per million population between 2008-2012.
"Compared with the number of gardeners in Scotland and the volume of growing media used, the HPS report concludes that the risks of severe disease are very low."
Most compost bags currently warn customers to use gloves and wash their hands after use.
The Scottish government does not have the power to force manufacturers to change their labels, but Health Protection Scotland recommended that it "explore with its relevant UK counterparts how best to secure agreement with manufacturers and/or retailers".
Public Health Minister Maureen Watt said: "The Scottish government has enormous sympathy for the family of Mr Murphy, and all of the other families affected by Legionnaire's Disease.
"We have carefully considered the available international evidence, which suggests that labelling does not have an impact on the number of cases. However, we will keep this issue under review.
"We welcome the advice and recommendations of Health Protection Scotland. We would encourage anyone using compost to wear gloves, use a mask if dusty and wash their hands thoroughly afterwards." | Bath have signed Western Force's former Australia centre Ben Tapuai and brought in London Irish scrum-half Darren Allinson on a two-month loan deal.
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I was sitting in the stands as a 19-year-old Wasps fan when we beat Toulouse in the 2004 final at Twickenham with a moment of genius from Rob Howley, and Joe Worsley making 33 tackles.
Toulouse were big favourites. They had loads of ball, but it was a defensive masterclass from Wasps, with people putting their bodies on the line until they crawled off the field.
I had been a big Wasps fan since the age of 14 and had also travelled to watch the semi-final win away against Munster at Lansdowne Road in an incredible game sealed by a late Trevor Leota try.
To then actually be part of a winning Wasps side in 2007 against Leicester, to be part of that dressing room and lift the trophy having watched from the stands just a few years before, was absolutely amazing.
When I saw the Saracens boys winning it last season you do look on with a bit of jealousy in a way, because you know how special an achievement it is and how hard it is to replicate.
French champions Racing 92 have a number of big names, notably former All Black Dan Carter, who has a world status that transcends the sport.
Racing have been drawn with Munster, Leicester and Glasgow in a mouth-watering group that will be really interesting to watch.
The French teams are always interesting to watch. Toulouse, four-time champions, always bring a lot, and three-time winners Toulon have some stellar names.
You don't normally get to see guys like Australia back Drew Mitchell close up unless you're playing Super 15.
Another player to watch is Charles Piutau, who was superb for Wasps last season and is now lighting things up for Ulster.
But I think for me it is a chance to see the guys from Super 15, who you don't get to play week in and out that is most exciting - it is always great to test yourself against the best. Toulon's former New Zealand centre Ma'a Nonu is another exciting player that many wouldn't have seen up close.
Honestly, you can't call it until you get into the tournament and see how teams are performing.
You have some Irish sides in there who have a rich heritage in the tournament, like Munster and Ulster, who will really want to compete, while Glasgow Warriors will give it a crack.
Last year the English teams went away with it, supplying three of the semi-finalists and eventual champions Sarries, but this season I think it could be very different.
There is always a special buzz around the club when you are playing European rugby.
The training weeks become a little different because guys want to play rugby to challenge themselves against these massive French sides full of superstars, and to go to places like Munster's famous Thomond Park, so everything has an extra edge.
These are the sort of challenges that make your rugby career.
One thing you can guarantee is that the games will be very physical - there is less variety than in southern hemisphere rugby.
When I played for the Highlanders against New Zealand teams in Super Rugby you always knew it was going to be a very fast, fluid game. The matches were physical, and tough when playing other kiwi teams, but slightly looser than you would find in the Premiership.
Against the Aussie teams it was a halfway house between loose and physical, and with the South Africans you knew were going to get that physicality that bordered on a Test match.
European rugby is always very physical and it very often takes on the appearance of an international match.
I don't think we played as well as we wanted to in last week's defeat by Saracens, but Sarries did what they do best - which is cause you problems in your own half, get the defensive line up in your face and generally play in that suffocating way.
They see set-pieces in lots of parts of the game. For them, it's not just the scrum and the line-out, but also kick-offs, kick chase, exit from their own 22m and the rest. They are very difficult to play against and Wasps will have to go away and learn from it.
If you don't get over the gainline then it is very easy for defensive lines to reset, and come back at you quicker.
They come up very quickly and stop you as soon as possible, again and again, and if you don't make a dent in them you are soon scrambling, and it feels claustrophobic.
It is difficult but it is down to us to learn how to unlock them. It is possible, but you need to get it right on the day and not give them any errors for them to feed off.
What they are doing at Saracens is very special and they have a group of guys who enjoy what they are doing, just as we do at Wasps.
They play a certain brand of rugby. For me, it is not the most exciting form of the game but it is devastatingly effective. They get results from it every time.
It is insightful to have former Saracens defensive coach Paul Gustard, who is the founding father of that Sarries 'Wolfpack' defensive system, on board with England now, but it doesn't make it any easier to play against them.
In 2007 we worked with the SBS, which was incredible. It was all sorts of mental and physical stuff, a lot of stuff in the water-boarding boats and then paddling out to stuff. It was very demanding, but luckily there were no horrific wake-up calls in the mornings.
One exercise involved five tyres and three poles and you had to get the tyres from one pole to another in the same order while wearing gas masks.
You were trying to do it as fast as you can, and with a gas mask you were quickly struggling to breathe. We had mixed teams, with backs and forwards. We were very lucky to have Fraser Waters, who figured it all out.
Not so lucky to have Ronnie Regan (Mark Regan), who looked at one of our other challenges with great excitement, and proclaimed to the group: "Lads, two words: done it before!" We then all pointed out that was three words!
We also had one training drill called the duck drill. You would hold the ball above your head, run off in a straight line, and another guy would come steaming in and tackle you full-pelt from behind. You were a sitting duck, hence the name…
We would also have games where you play a small-sided game of rugby in the five-metre channel, so it is constant contact and knocking seven bells out of each other.
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Jack Cornwell died aged 16 after fighting in the Battle of Jutland. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery.
Memorials across the country are being protected ahead of the centenary of the naval battle.
A ceremony will take place at Manor Park Cemetery in London, where Jack's family will visit his grave.
The battle on 31 May 1916 saw 6,094 British and 2,551 German personnel lose their lives.
Jack was serving on the HMS Chester on 30 May 1916 when it came under heavy fire from four German ships. All of Jack's gun crew were fatally injured.
He remained at his post awaiting orders, despite severe shrapnel wounds, but died on 2 June.
Following a national campaign which hailed him as the "boy hero" of the battle, Jack was awarded the Victoria Cross and buried in a new grave with full military honours.
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David Evennett, World War One minister, said: "Jack Cornwell is one of the many brave sailors who lost their lives at the Battle of Jutland who we will honour at the centenary commemorations.
"It is important that their sacrifice is never forgotten. It is right that we list these important memorials to ensure they are protected for generations to come."
Petrofac had already said it would take losses of £130m this year on the Laggan-Tormore offshore field, that was initially worth a total £500m.
The oilfield services firm announced on Tuesday it expected to register a further £30m in pre-tax costs.
That cuts the company's expected profit for 2015 by nearly half.
Laggan-Tormore is a large gas field, owned by French energy giant Total, in deep water to the west of Shetland.
The project has required installations on the sea-bed, a new pipeline to Shetland, and a new processing plant where it reaches land at the Sullom Voe terminal.
Petrofac took on the work in 2011, but admitted that it failed to plan for the complexity.
It has meant hundreds of workers continuing to work in Shetland a year longer than planned, which has been a boost to the local economy.
Ayman Asfari, group chief executive of Petrofac, explained in the 2014 annual report: "On the Laggan-Tormore project, we failed to stress-test adequately our assessment of the risks of operating in a wholly new geography for the onshore engineering and construction business.
"Our ability to deliver on schedule was further impacted directly by challenging weather conditions affecting the Shetland islands.
"Furthermore our construction contractors failed to deliver their agreed scope, and, though we had a lack of experience in managing direct construction, we had little choice but to take on more direct construction activity on a day rate basis."
Mr Asfari added: "Putting the challenges we have faced on Laggan-Tormore to one side, the rest of our portfolio continues to perform well."
Investors had priced in the cost of delays in Petrofac's UK offshore projects, and the share price rose 7%.
Pre-tax profits, before exceptional items, fell by 13.2% to £146.4m in the year to 31 March.
Overall sales held steady at just under £575m, but output fell by eight million standard bottles to below 100 million.
Edrington said it had been hit by "fiercely competitive" markets in Asia and in blended Scotch across Europe.
Profits after tax, but before exceptional items, were down by £7m to £72.7m.
The Glasgow-based distiller's Famous Grouse and Cutty Sark blends suffered double-digit declines in sales, but there was growth for Edrington's single malts, The Macallan and Highland Park.
Analysis by Douglas Fraser, Scotland business/economy editor
Edrington is a rare beast in the Scotch whisky industry - it is big and Scottish-based, and it hands profit to worthy causes through its main shareholder, the Robertson Trust.
But it's not unusual in the problems it has been facing, as the rapid growth in Scotch exports has hit turbulent trade winds in more recent years.
Its blends, led by Famous Grouse and Cutty Sark, remain market leaders but have seen a significant fall-off in demand, while its single malts - led by The Macallan and Highland Park - are growing.
Across the industry, the overall volume of whisky exports fell by 2.4% during 2015, to £3.9bn. The previous year, it fell 7%.
But while blends declined (the industry slower, it seems, than Edrington's fall) the value of single malts has now hit 25% of the export total.
It is clear from Edrington's strategy that it sees the prospects for further growth are from more differentiated and premium bottlings of single malt, with the five-year strategy set out last year focused heavily on the few brands and on innovative marketing.
It has identified cities as the key to the high end whisky drinker, and sees the younger millennial demographic as a target for imaginative social media marketing and sales.
Growth in the Americas remains its best prospect, while Asia is going to be of increasing importance though growth will be slow, while its European markets remain flat.
The distiller said The Macallan achieved growth in both volume and value, despite "a setback in Taiwan, where intense competitive activity dented volume and market share".
However the brand performed "particularly strongly" in China, Russia and the USA.
Edrington also reported that Highland Park continued to show "good momentum" across its major markets in Europe, the USA and Canada.
There was a marginal decline in the sales of Brugal rum, but Edrington said there were signs that the brand had "arrested the significant decline of prior years".
Last year the company announced a £239m writedown for the brand after facing "tough economic and competitive conditions" in the key markets of Spain and The Dominican Republic.
A year ago, Edrington set out its 2020 strategy which included plans to develop super premium brands, "perfect The Macallan" and "accelerate Highland Park".
Chief executive Ian Curle said: "A year on from the launch of Edrington's new strategy, we see evidence that we have put the right strategy into effect, and that it is delivering results.
"During this year of transition we have faced challenging economic and trading conditions with strong performances in key markets and shortfalls in others.
"In combination with the influence of currency, this has adversely affected our results."
The warning by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists comes as it publishes its preliminary report into how problems during labour are investigated.
More than 900 cases have been referred to the programme.
Of the 204 investigations reviewed, 27% were found to be of poor quality.
The review has also been looking at the number of cases where parents have been involved in the investigations - nearly three-quarters of the 599 reviewed did not involve them in any meaningful way.
Ministers said the findings were "unacceptable". The final report is due in 2017.
The inquiry, Each Baby Counts, has been set up to ensure lessons are learned when something goes wrong.
The aim is by 2020 to halve the number of babies who die or are left severely disabled.
Out of 800,000 births after at least 37 weeks of pregnancy, in the UK in 2015, there were:
In all cases, the babies had been healthy before labour began.
The report says all investigations should be robust, comprehensive and led by multi-disciplinary teams, including external experts and parents.
Prof Alan Cameron, vice-president of the RCOG and a consultant obstetrician in Glasgow, said: "When the outcome for parents is the devastating loss of a baby or a baby born with a severe brain injury, there can be little justification for the poor quality of reviews found.
"The emotional cost of these events is immeasurable, and each case of disability costs the NHS around £7m in compensation to pay for the complex, lifelong support these children need."
Judith Abela, acting chief executive at Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, said it wanted a more effective review process involving parents.
"Parents' perspective of what happened is critical to understanding how care can be improved, and they must be given the opportunity to be involved, with open, respectful and sensitive support provided throughout," she said.
Health Minister Ben Gummer said the findings were "unacceptable".
"We expect the NHS to review and learn from every tragic case, which is why we are investing in a new system to support staff to do this and help ensure far fewer families have to go through this heartache," he said.
Louise Silverton, director for midwifery at the Royal College of Midwives, said she supported the move to get all investigations carried out to the same high standard, but this was not always easy.
"All healthcare professionals must, of course, be rigorous in their practice," she said.
"However, they are often working in systems that do not support best practice, and the safest and highest quality care as well as they should.
"Each one of these statistics is a tragic event, and means terrible loss and suffering for the parents.
"We must do all we can to reduce the chances of these occurring.
"This report shows that this is not the case and improvements are needed as a matter of urgency."
Michelle lost her son Louie in 2011. She was nine days overdue when she went into labour.
She says she was left in a hospital bath for two and a half hours because there was no bed for her and told it was "a bad day to have a baby" because it was so busy.
Up until then, she thought she was in the safest place she could be, but then she began to get a little concerned.
"I was in labour, but I didn't see anyone for more than five hours" she says.
"By the time I saw a midwife, my gas and air had run out."
Her baby became distressed and his heart rate was monitored - but when a new midwife came on shift, she told Michelle not to panic and did not consult a doctor.
When Michelle finally gave birth to Louie, after a further hour and a half's delay, he was taken straight to be resuscitated.
Thirty-five minutes later, she was told he had died.
The cause was hypoxia - due to lack of oxygen, something she says could easily have been avoided.
Michelle says: "It lives with you forever. I think of Louie every day. I'm not the same person I was before he died.
"There's always a sadness there - it never goes. Everything is tainted by his death."
Senior staff say remaining paramedic crews are under greater pressure than ever before to meet demand.
At least 1,015 paramedics left their job in 2013-14, compared with 593 in the same period two years earlier.
The Department of Health says it is spending an extra £28m on the ambulance service in England this year.
London Ambulance Service saw 223 paramedics leave in 2013-14, four times the number in 2011-12, and the largest increase in the country.
An internal document, produced by London Ambulance Service and seen by BBC Radio 4's The Report programme, suggests morale among paramedics is low.
It says three-quarters of paramedics surveyed had considered leaving the service in the past 12 months.
Anonymous paramedics quoted in the report point to rising workloads as one of their greatest grievances.
Alison Blakely, a paramedic in London for 10 years, says that while she loves the job, when on shift, she often doesn't even have time for a break.
"You use hospital facilities for toilets as much as possible, and eat and drink as and when you can," she says.
"The control room do try and get us rest breaks, but due to the demand currently [they are] rare."
A London paramedic who wanted to remain anonymous, told the BBC that sometimes there were as many as 200 emergency calls on hold, and that the service "haven't got enough vehicles or staff to cope".
"When I joined the job, it was very unusual for someone to leave the service other than through retirement, but over the last two or three years it's escalated beyond belief," he said.
But this is not just a London problem.
Association of Ambulance Chief Executives chairman Anthony Marsh says a surge in 999 calls this year and higher numbers of paramedics leaving some services, means the remaining front-line staff are facing pressures that are "greater than they've ever been".
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"Traditionally, ambulance services receive just over 4% more 999 calls each year, and we have done for the last 10 years - some years a little bit more than that, some a little bit less - but this year we're seeing substantially more 999 calls," says Dr Marsh.
This growth in emergency calls has outpaced the rise in numbers of qualified ambulance staff, which has increased on average by 1.6% each year in England over the past decade.
In 2011-12, there were 13,828 paramedics employed by the 12 of the 13 emergency ambulance trusts in the UK that responded to a request for the data by the BBC. This grew to 15,004 in 2013-14.
Dr Fiona Moore, medical director for London Ambulance Service, estimates there is a shortfall nationally of up to 3,000 paramedics.
And she says expectations of what the service is for have also changed.
"We've seen an increase in calls from the 21- to 30-year-old group, and I think that now reflects the sort of supermarket culture we now have, so if you can buy a loaf of bread at 04:00 in the morning, why can't you access your healthcare when it's convenient to you?" she says.
The trust in London is taking action to try to reduce staff workloads, and improve the service.
It has offered more than 180 paramedics jobs on a recruitment expedition to Australia and New Zealand and has recently increased the number of calls that do not receive an ambulance but are instead referred on to other services.
But nationally, the number of new paramedics recruited in 2013-14 was lower than the year before, and some paramedics are concerned that the number of new recruits coming through degree courses is too low to meet demand.
This year the Department of Health has provided £28m to ambulance trusts to help cope with the extra emergency calls.
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The Scottish SPCA said six owls had been airlifted from installations recently.
It said it was unusual for so many to have been rescued in a short space of time, and that most of them had been "exhausted".
Five of the owls have now been released into the wild on the east coast, north of Dundee.
Colin Seddon, manager of the Scottish SPCA's rescue centre in Fishcross, said there had been previous instances of birds landing on North Sea platforms, but added: "To have this many owls in such a short space of time is unusual."
He said they had probably flown over from Scandinavia, Russia or Iceland to spend the winter in Scotland.
"Most were merely exhausted, which could be due to high winds and stormy conditions," he said.
"Some also had oil on them from the rigs which thankfully we were able to remove successfully."
He added that the remaining owl was currently being looked after in an aviary at the SSPCA's centre and would be returned to the wild shortly.
The shooting happened in the Saqqara area, some 35km (22 miles) south of the capital Cairo.
The unidentified attackers opened fire on a police checkpoint from a motorbike, officials say.
Egypt has seen increased attacks on security forces since the army ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in July 2013.
Most incidents have been confined to the restive Sinai peninsula.
There, the authorities are battling jihadists who have pledged loyalty to the so-called Islamic State (IS) group.
IS's local affiliate says it was behind the crash of a Russian jet in Sinai, which killed all 224 people on board.
The Paraguay river has reached a height of 9.64m (32ft) in Alberdi in Neembucu province, and officials have warned that flood defences are about to burst.
But Neembucu's governor said locals had refused to follow advice to leave.
The El Nino weather phenomenon has triggered some of the worst floods seen in 50 years in the region.
Dyke experts suggested as early as Saturday that resident should be evacuated.
National Emergency chief Joaquin Roa warned that a breach of the defences was imminent and would almost certainly lead to loss of life.
Neembucu Governor Carlos Silva said that people "do not want to believe they real danger they are in".
While the village itself is not yet flooded it has been cut off by the rising waters of the river Paraguay.
The army is helping villagers to cross the river Paraguay by boat to the Argentine city of Formosa.
From there, they are flown by military plane to the Paraguayan capital, Asuncion.
Chile were fined 70,000 Swiss francs (£48,073) for four incidents in 2018 World Cup qualifying games.
Argentina, Mexico, Uruguay and Peru were each fined £13,735 for individual cases of "discriminatory" chanting.
Honduras' FA is under investigation by world football's governing body for similar breaches of discipline.
"We have been fighting discrimination for many years and one part of that has been through sanctions," said Claudio Sulser, chairman of Fifa's disciplinary committee.
"Disciplinary proceedings alone cannot change behaviour by certain groups of fans that unfortunately goes against the core values of our game."
Chile's sanctions follow their recent qualifiers against Brazil, Peru, Colombia and Uruguay. Peru and Uruguay were fined for chanting in the same fixtures.
The other games specified in Fifa's disciplinary report were Argentina v Brazil, and Mexico v El Salvador.
A public meeting was held in the Oh Yeah centre as part of a campaign in support of the Northern Ireland Tourist Board (NITB) events fund.
On Friday, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (DETI) said the £2.4m fund would be scrapped.
The fund helped more than 60 events, from Londonderry's Halloween carnival to the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival.
Adam Turkington, the director of Belfast's Culture Night, told the meeting that they needed "to make the argument that this sector makes economic sense".
Culture Night began six years ago with a turnout of 15,000 people and this year attracted 50,000 on to the streets of Belfast for the festivities, he said.
It benefitted from £30,000 of funding from the events fund in 2014.
Suzie McCullough of NITB said overseas investors are attracted to cities with popular events and a strong tourism sector, and there was a strong case for a dedicated events budget.
Kieran Gilmore of the Open House Festival, said the event had exceeded all expectations in the past year.
He told the meeting that funding regulations require a return of £3 for every £1 that is funded. In 2014, the Open House Festival returned £18 for every £1 of events funding, he said.
Ross Brown, a Green Party councillor in Belfast, said the cuts would have an effect on "the spirit of Belfast" and were "a big step backwards".
The Belfast Festival at Queens is not affected but one of its organisers, Richard Wakeley, said he would be telling MLAs who support his event that the scrapping of the fund will damage the arts sector throughout Northern Ireland.
"If you cut the fingers or cut the head, then the body will bleed out," he said.
It is the second of five bridges to be recaptured since the operation to retake the city from so-called Islamic State began in October.
The news comes a day after Iraqi forces launched a new push against the western part of Mosul.
The eastern part was recaptured in January after heavy fighting.
All five bridges were damaged in coalition air strikes but the capture of the second bridge, also known as the al-Jamhuriya bridge, will provide a foothold for government forces.
The bridges were put out of action with the aim of limiting ability of IS to resupply or reinforce their positions in the east.
Mosul is the last stronghold for IS in Iraq.
On Sunday, a senior Iraqi commander told the Associated Press that troops had been involved in the heaviest clashes since the push into western Mosul began two weeks ago.
The west includes the old city and the Great Mosque of al-Nuri, where IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaimed the creation of a "caliphate" in July 2014, after the jihadist group overran large parts of northern and western Iraq.
The International Organisation for Migration says 45,000 people have fled as the fighting intensifies and aid agencies say they can barely cope with the number of people arriving at their camps.
About 750,000 people had been living in the west of the city before the new assault started.
In a written statement to Parliament, Food Minister David Heath said it would look for any vulnerabilities in the food chain that could be exploited by fraudsters.
Consumers "must have confidence in the food they buy", he said.
The move follows a series of revelations that beef products sold and supplied in the UK contained horse DNA.
The government's review will consider the responsibilities of food businesses and practices throughout the supply chain, including safety, food authenticity, auditing, testing and health issues.
In his statement, Mr Heath stressed that members of the public "had a right to expect that food is exactly what it says on the label".
He said: "We are establishing a wide-ranging review to help restore consumer confidence by looking at our whole food system - identifying weaknesses and looking at what food businesses, regulators and government are responsible for."
The minister said the Food Standards Agency (FSA) would also be looking at whether to commission a review of its handling of the crisis.
The City of London Police was continuing to coordinate investigations in the UK into how meat came to be contaminated, he added.
Horsemeat was first discovered in January in frozen burgers on sale in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, and since then traces have been discovered in processed beef products and prepared meals across the EU.
A wide range of supermarkets and food suppliers have withdrawn suspect products.
In response to the horsemeat scandal, the FSA requested that local authorities test minced beef products and ready meals sold at shops, wholesalers and catering suppliers for horse and pig DNA above a 1% threshold.
Any companies that have found horsemeat in their products have also been testing for the veterinary painkiller phenylbutazone, known as bute.
Animals treated with bute are not allowed to enter the food chain because the drug could pose a risk to human health.
On 10 April, Asda announced it was recalling all corned beef from its budget range after traces of bute were discovered in its Smart Price Corned Beef product. The supermarket had already withdrawn the product on 8 March.
The FSA said it was the first time bute had been found in a meat product in the UK since the horsemeat scandal started. Officials said it posed a very low risk to human health.
Traces of horsemeat have also been found in numerous processed beef products across Europe, including in France, Switzerland, Sweden and Germany.
Ongoing investigations, spanning many countries, are currently examining whether the substitution of beef for horsemeat was not accidental but the work of a criminal conspiracy.
Earlier this month, it emerged some 50,000 tonnes of meat supplied by two Dutch trading companies and sold as beef across Europe since January 2011 may have contained horsemeat.
Authorities said the meat was being recalled where possible.
For decades this was safe Labour territory. Until 2015, the local MP had been from the Labour Party for 30 years. The party had never lost a Holyrood election here.
But not now.
The MP and MSP are both from the SNP - and Labour members are trying to figure out how to win back what was once a party heartland.
Last year that led the local party to back Jeremy Corbyn for the leadership. This time, they're not so sure.
Christina Boyd has been in the Labour Party for 30 years and is backing Owen Smith.
"We need to win back Scotland for Labour," she says. "But the main thing for me is what we can offer to people in Scotland; vote for us, we will be elected as a UK government, we can make a difference to your lives.
"I believe that under Owen Smith we can do that."
James McColgan was one of those who used to think Mr Corbyn could bring the party back to electoral success. Not any more. He too is backing Mr Smith this time around.
"I believe that Owen can appeal to a wider section of society," he says. "That's crucial."
That's not what many others here think. Siobhan McCready has the unwanted record of being the first Labour candidate to lose a Holyrood election here.
The SNP overturned a narrow majority of 500 in 2015 - and won by more than 8,000 votes.
Ms McCready thinks Mr Corbyn is bringing Labour's natural bedfellows back into the fold.
"I'm a trade union rep," she says in the shadow of a memorial celebrating this area's dockyard workers.
"Every day I'm getting people who have been in the union for a number of years, had left the Labour Party, were just totally disinterested, are now coming back."
She thinks Mr Corbyn can help win Scotland back for Labour.
"He's offering a credible leadership, he's offering a chance to have a Labour government that's going back to its roots, that's standing up for ordinary working-class people."
She was outvoted when the party picked a horse in this race - the party narrowly nominated Mr Smith this time around...but they're in the minority.
From the local parties in Scotland who've picked a horse in this race the majority - 23 - are backing Mr Corbyn. Mr Smith is on 16. But UK-wide, Mr Corbyn's lead over his challenger is far higher. He has the backing of 285, compared with Mr Smith's 53.
MSP Neil Findlay, Mr Corbyn's most prominent cheerleader in Scotland, says the Labour leader has got "very good support" among an increasing party membership in Scotland.
"We picked up nominations which were previously with Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham (in the 2105 contest)," he told BBC Scotland from London, where he has been helping Mr Corbyn prepare for his visit.
Across the UK, many on the left of politics who had previously left the Labour party, are now getting behind Mr Corbyn.
Former Respect MP George Galloway wants back into the party. Filmmaker Ken Loach - who had set up his own party in England - is speaking at pro-Corbyn events.
But is that happening in Scotland too? Colin Fox, from RISE, thinks there's something stopping that happening.
"His opposition to independence is Jeremy Corbyn's Kryptonite in Scotland. The Labour Party's membership has not grown the same way it has down south because he stands opposed to our right to self-determination."
Scottish Labour's top team is split. Leader Kezia Dugdale is backing Owen Smith. She says Jeremy Corbyn can't win a UK general election.
Her deputy Alex Rowley disagrees. He's backing Mr Corbyn - and has criticised those who tried to oust him, including Ian Murray, Labour's only Scottish MP and a Dugdale ally.
UK-wide there have been rumours a split could be on the cards. Could that happen in Scotland? She says no.
"When you believe in the Labour Party like I and so many people do, when you believe in that collective...whilst I hear a lot of talk about that I think everybody is ultimately and totally committed to the cause of the Labour movement."
That's a view both Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith have expressed too.
Tonight they'll have the chance to speak to voters - and members here in Scotland.
Humza Yousaf met them to hear their goals for the road which runs from Edinburgh to Carlisle.
The group believes a range of small and larger-scale projects could bring economic and environmental benefits to the area.
It argues that could benefit the whole region and make it more attractive to visitors as well.
Secretary Marjorie McCreadie said she was delighted a long-sought ministerial visit had been secured.
"We have long waited this meeting with the minister but we have at last succeeded," she said.
Ms McCreadie said talks would be based on a new action plan with a Selkirk bypass the main concern.
However, she said there were other issues along the route which she hoped would be addressed.
The action group said improved transport infrastructure could give a significant economic boost to the area.
"We need tourists to come, we need people to come and stay and shop," said Ms McCreadie.
"To have these people come we need good roads, good transportation to encourage them to stop and shop and stay.
"Money is always a problem but we will stick at it like we did with Auchenrivock - it took us 10 years to get Auchenrivock but we succeeded in the end."
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The Swans have not won in the Premier League since the opening day of the season and are 17th in the table.
Bradley, who has also managed Egypt and Norwegian side Stabaek, leaves French second-tier team Le Havre to succeed Guidolin, who was appointed in January.
The club's hierarchy spoke to several potential candidates, including former Wales captain Ryan Giggs.
American Bradley, 58, will take over a Swansea side who have lost their past three league matches and find themselves above the relegation zone only on goal difference.
Guidolin has been under intense pressure - which was increased by Saturday's 2-1 home defeat by Liverpool - and his sacking was announced on his 61st birthday on Monday.
Three members of the Italian's backroom staff - Diego Bortoluzzi, Gabrielle Ambrosetti, Claudio Bordon - have also left the Welsh club.
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Swans chairman Huw Jenkins said he was "disappointed" to sack Guidolin but added that the club "needed to change things as soon as possible in order to move forward in a positive way".
The chairman said Bradley is viewed as a "long-term appointment" who will "stabilise matters on and off the pitch".
"He is highly regarded as a coach and has a wealth of experience on the international and domestic front," added Jenkins.
"He is well aware of the club's footballing philosophy and will provide us with strong leadership qualities and a renewed belief to compete at this level."
Swansea City also spoke to former Wales and Manchester United captain Ryan Giggs, ex-Derby County manager Paul Clement and former Sevilla and Villarreal coach Marcelino about the manager's job.
BBC Wales has learned neither of the club's American owners, Steve Kaplan and Jason Levien, knew Bradley personally before the selection process began. Their advisor Landon Donovan, the former USA captain, took no part in the decision.
Bradley may bring in an assistant, but Alan Curtis will continue to have a key role in first-team affairs.
The American's first match in charge will be at Arsenal on 15 October, after the international break.
Swansea City Supporters' Trust, which holds a 21% stake in the club, issued a statement saying it is "disappointed" not to be consulted over the managerial change.
"Having been an integral part of the club board for 15 years we are saddened that decisions as major as this can be taken without our involvement, despite earlier assurances from the new majority shareholders that they wished to work closely with the Supporters' Trust," it added.
"We are also frustrated and angry that the club have allowed the speculation over the manager's future to be played out in public."
BBC Wales Sport's Dafydd Pritchard
Bradley may be something of an unknown quantity to some Premier League followers, but the American's career is one that Swansea City's hierarchy have tracked closely.
He is best known for his five years in charge of the United States, with highlights including a run to the 2009 Confederations Cup final that included a victory over then European champions Spain, who were on a 35-match unbeaten run.
Swansea's American owners, Steve Kaplan and Jason Levien, and chairman Jenkins were particularly impressed by the way Bradley conducted himself during his time in charge of Egypt, dealing sensitively with the 2012 Port Said stadium disaster in which 74 people were killed.
It is believed Swansea were as impressed by Bradley's character as they were his experience, and he saw off competition from the likes of former Manchester United and Wales captain Giggs to land the Premier League job he has coveted for years.
For the umpteenth time this season, Kiss bemoaned his team's inability to take chances after they created 11 line breaks in the 31-19 loss at Sandy Park.
"We've got to realise that because we can create chances doesn't make us a good to great team yet," said Kiss.
Sunday's defeat makes next weekend's game against Bordeaux a dead rubber.
Kiss hinted that he may rest some of his big name players for the final Pool Five game at Kingspan Stadium as his mood was decidedly downbeat after Sunday's game.
"We work hard but we've got to work harder," added the Ulster boss.
"We are able to fashion out opportunities despite the fact that you're up against it in certain areas of the game such as the scrum tonight.
"To still be able to do those things is great but it doesn't get you the result if can't convert 11 clean line breaks to the point where you put the points on the board."
Speaking immediately after Sunday's game on BT Sport, Kiss struggled to hide his frustration after Ulster's third successive failure to progress to the knockout stages of Europe's premier club competition.
"It's not good enough to keep saying: 'We'll learn and get out and do the job next time'.
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"We've got to have players who are going to put their hands up and make a difference in terms of their play on a weekly basis and being more consistent.
"I've been in the dressing-room and the boys were quite frank with each other about the disappointment of not being able to do the deal."
Kiss was more measured in his subsequent post-match news conference as he focused on his team's failure to convert their chances.
"We showed some good patches tonight. We made 11 clean breaks to their three which tells a little bit of a story about not being clinical.
"I've got to take my hat off to Exeter. There is some really good ambition in their play at times.."
Kiss added that he had no complaints with Romain Poite's decision to award the decisive late penalty try, when Ulster fly-half Paddy Jackson was also yellow carded for a deliberate knock-on as Exeter looked certain to touch down.
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The 22-year-old will replace New Zealand's Kane Williamson from 18 July and play in all three formats.
Head has played two Twenty20 internationals and worked under Tykes coach Jason Gillespie at the Adelaide Strikers in Australia's Big Bash.
"I can't wait to get over to England and play for Yorkshire, the best side in the English game," said Head.
"To work alongside Dizzy (Jason Gillespie) is also an added attraction. He was brilliant for the Strikers and I have heard so many positive things about what he is doing with the team at Yorkshire.
"To play across all formats is important to me and playing in English conditions will be a good challenge."
Head scored 299 runs from nine innings with an average of 42.71 as the Strikers reached the semi-finals of the Big Bash, although he is not in the Australia squad for the forthcoming World Twenty20.
Gillespie is delighted to be linking up with the batsman, who is set to play in the Indian Premier League with Royal Challengers Bangalore, for a second time.
"The fact that he can adapt to all formats is beneficial to us," said the former Australia fast bowler.
"He will add something different to the squad with his aggressive batting style and his ability with the ball as a genuine spinner."
The Irish province's director of rugby Les Kiss said on Tuesday that the trio would all play a part in Friday's game.
Payne, 31, made his return after three months out because of a kidney injury when he came on in Ulster's Pro12 win over Zebre on Sunday.
Coetzee missed that game because of illness while Trimble was a replacement in Ireland's weekend win over France.
Trimble's fellow Ireland wing Craig Gilroy is also likely to return to Kiss' squad after missing Sunday's game.
Ireland coach Joe Schmidt has indicated that fit-again Payne could now come into consideration for a recall to the national squad for the remaining Six Nations games against Wales and England.
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Ulster boss Kiss was delighted to see New Zealand-born Payne emerge unscathed from his return to action.
"It was great to see Jared come out and have the 20 minutes. Baby steps but they are pretty good baby steps and we'll give him more time this week," Kiss told BBC Sport Northern Ireland.
"Jared's focus is to do the best he can for the Ulster jersey and get himself right and if something happens from there [with Ireland] then great."
With Ireland's full-back Rob Kearney a fitness concern for the Six Nations game in Cardiff on 10 March, there has been speculation that Payne be given game time at full-back against Treviso and when asked about this possibility, Kiss replied: "It's a good question".
The Ulster boss added that he intends make a number of changes this weekend because of the short five-day turnaround from the Parma game.
"We've also got Andrew Trimble back from the weekend [with Ireland] to get him a bit of rugby so I'm going to rotate a few players."
Springboks back row Coetzee has made an impressive start to his Ulster career after starring in his debut against Edinburgh on 10 February and then producing another forceful display in the impressive victory over Glasgow.
Centre Darren Cave remains out of contention for the Treviso game after being concussed against Glasgow while Louis Ludik is waiting to see whether he gets clearance to feature this weekend.
Ludik also missed the Treviso game after taking a bang to the head against Glasgow.
Ireland centre Stuart McCloskey remains unavailable for the visits of the Italians as he recovers from a calf injury which is expected to keep him out for around another fortnight, while Rodney Ah You and Ross Kane also remain on the injured list.
The rate was revised down from 0.5% because the key services sector, which accounts for well over 70% of UK economic activity, grew more slowly than had been thought.
It is the third estimate for the quarter from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The ONS also cut its estimate of second quarter GDP growth from 0.7% to 0.5%.
In annual terms, growth in the third quarter of the year was revised down to 2.1% from the previous estimate of 2.3%.
The UK economy has been growing for 11 consecutive quarters.
A Treasury spokesman said in a statement that the figures highlighted that risks to the UK economy remained despite it being "the fastest growing economy in the G7 last year".
"We're leading the pack with the US this year, we have a record high employment rate and the deficit is down," the Treasury said.
Simon French, chief economist at stockbrokers Panmure Gordon, said the figures added to a picture of a fragile economy: "It's been a bad 24 hours for the chancellor with bad public sector borrowing numbers [on Tuesday]. It is the fourth of seven quarters where the ONS growth estimate overestimated the strength of of the economy.
He said the most worrying part was the weakness of the service sector, which is the engine of the UK economy.
Other figures released on Wednesday showed scant prospect of a pick up in that.
Figures for the service sector in October - the first month of the fourth quarter - only grew 0.1% between September and October, suggesting fourth quarter GDP has made a slow start. The previous month the index grew by 0.5%.
Martin Beck, senior economic advisor to the forecasting group EY ITEM Club, said the full picture had not yet emerged: "Given the extent to which the economy has benefitted from very low inflation and the degree of spare capacity, this should really have been a year where the economy grew in excess of 3%.
"However, recent experience suggests that we should not write off 2015 just yet, given the clear tendency for the GDP data to eventually be revised up over subsequent years."
US economic growth was also revised down this week, but despite that slight weakening, the US economy is perceived by its central bank to be strong enough to withstand a rise in interest rates. Borrowing costs were raised by the Federal Reserve for the first time in nine years last week.
The Bank of England is widely expected to hold back from following the Fed's lead until well into 2016.
Juan Manuel Santos won re-election in June 2014, gaining what he presented as an endorsement of his efforts to end the continent's longest-running insurgency.
He had staked his reputation on securing a peace deal with the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) and said after his re-election: "This is the end of more than 50 years of violence and the start of a new Colombia.''
He served as defence minister under hawkish president Alvaro Uribe, overseeing a no-holds-barred military campaign against the Farc.
But he switched tack after his 2010 election, launching peace talks with the Farc two years after taking office.
The negotiations led to a bitter break between Mr Santos and Mr Uribe, his former mentor, who accused him of betraying the nation.
The civil war has killed more than 200,000 people and displaced five million more since 1964.
Progress has been slow, but Farc agreed to begin talks in 2012, and by early 2015 the government said it was ready to agree terms for a formal ceasefire.
Mr Santos comes from a powerful Colombian family. His great-uncle, Eduardo Santos, was president from 1938 to 1942 and owned the country's largest newspaper, El Tiempo.
Mr Santos himself held a number of ministerial posts, most prominently defence minister in 2006-2009. He played a key role in implementing the then president Uribe's tough policies against the Farc.
He oversaw Operation Checkmate, the successful rescue by the military of 15 high-profile hostages, and was also in charge when the military mounted a controversial air raid into Ecuador that resulted in the death of senior Farc figure Raul Reyes.
A surface swimmer identified the name on the back of the boat and knocked on the hull but there was no response.
The Coast Guard said the yacht's life raft had not been deployed and was still in its storage space.
The four-strong crew were returning to the UK from Antigua when it hit problems on 15 May.
They are Paul Goslin, 56, from West Camel, Somerset; Steve Warren, 52, from Bridgwater, Somerset; skipper Andrew Bridge, 22, from Farnham, Surrey; and 22-year-old James Male, from Romsey, Hampshire.
Last Thursday, the sailors contacted the yacht's owner to say they were taking on water and diverting to the Azores.
Contact was lost the following day and it is thought the yacht may have capsized. Locator beacons activated by the crew indicated they were in a position 1,000 miles east of Massachusetts on the morning of Friday 16 May.
The US Coast Guard said a warship helicopter crew located the hull 1,000 miles from Massachusetts.
The warship was diverted and a boat crew sent to examine the boat.
They found the cabin of the yacht was flooded and the windows shattered. The yacht's keel was also broken, causing a breach in the hull, a spokesman added.
An image showing the life raft still in position had been "shared with and acknowledged by the [men's] families", the Coast Guard said later on Friday night.
A Foreign Office spokesman said it was keeping in close contact with the US Coast Guard and had informed family members of the missing men of the discovery.
A raft, such as that on board the Cheeki Rafiki, is required to meet the international standard ISO 9650, which stipulates how the craft must be constructed and what it must have on board. The rafts are highly visible and buoyant and can be boarded quickly in an emergency.
The US Coast Guard has confirmed that it suspended its search overnight for the yacht.
An RAF Hercules plane is set to keep looking for the Cheeki Rafiki on Saturday.
Speaking after a meeting with officials earlier on Friday at the Foreign Office in London, the families of the men said they were staying strong.
Mr Male's father, Graham, said "we have got to stay positive", adding: "We know our boys are out there".
The Foreign Office said the British Hercules C-130 plane would continue scouring the search area "for one more day" on Saturday.
"They will be co-ordinating closely with the US Coast Guard on the search area," it said.
It said the US had "gone above and beyond" in its effort to locate the yacht and its British crew.
The plane, which was deployed on Tuesday and is operating from Portugal's Azores islands in the Atlantic, was expected to end its search at about 22:00 BST on Saturday, the Foreign Office added.
It is understood it will probably fly two search missions on Saturday - one in the morning and one in the afternoon.
Tuesday's decision to resume the search followed an official request from the UK government. An online petition, set up to put pressure on the US Coast Guard, had attracted more than 200,000 signatures.
Thousands signed up to a Facebook page which promised to bring "thrill rides", including flumes and a mini-beach, to four Scots cities.
But Aberdeen, Dundee and Edinburgh councils told BBC Scotland they had received no notification of the events.
A spokesman for Glasgow City Council said it appeared "extremely unlikely" the tour would take place.
The Safari Water Park Adventure Tour was viral hit on social media earlier this week when more than 5,000 people expressed an interest in the event.
The Facebook page revealed plans to tour 30 towns and cities across the UK in July and August.
However there are fears that the tour will never happen and the promotion is a "data mining" scam.
It comes after similar concerns were raised about a promotion for a non-existent tour based on the BBC's popular Total Wipeout series proved to be fake.
A spokesman for Glasgow City Council said: "We're not aware of any contact with the council regarding this event - and it seems extremely unlikely that it would even be possible to transport, build and dismantle the kind of attractions pictured in a different town every couple of days.
"Unfortunately, similar Facebook events have previously been used to try and obtain personal information from anyone signing up."
Details of the so-called "tour" are sketchy. There is no official website, contact details or ticket information.
The photograph used to illustrate the page appears to be of a water park in Beijing.
They have failed to respond to a request for more information from BBC Scotland.
In a statement on the Facebook page, the organisers said: "Please note we do NOT request any data information, once we have licensing permission from the councils in every city, locations and exact dates will be disclosed."
Patrick Hogan, a spokesman for Citizens Advice Scotland, said it was unclear whether the water park tour promotion is a scam.
But he warned that data mining scams can look benign.
"They may ask you to register your support for particular events or causes, and even if they never explicitly ask at any point for personal information, the people behind the scheme can then comb through the profiles of those who have signed up and pull personal data from their profiles without their knowledge.
"They can then do with this data what they like, including selling these details on to online spammers or scammers.
"Consumers must therefore remain vigilant online and ensure any entity seeking your support or your personal information is legitimate and can be trusted.
"Ultimately, the more information we have on data mining scams, the better we can target our efforts to stamp them out. "
Saints dominated possession and territory in the first half but trailed 14-0 at the break through two converted tries from winger Jeff Williams.
After Bath's Chris Cook was sin-binned, Teimana Harrison touched down in the corner and a penalty from Stephen Myler reduced the arrears.
Mikey Haywood powered over late on and Myler converted to seal victory.
Bath capitalised on their scant first-half opportunities, with Williams pouncing on a slip by Saints full-back Harry Mallinder to open the scoring and adding a breakaway second after hacking on a clearing kick.
The hosts had a score from George North ruled out just before half-time for a forward pass from Mallinder but worked their way back into the game when Cook was shown a yellow card for kicking the ball out of Lee Dickson's hands at the breakdown.
Northampton's game was marked by handling errors and a lack of penetration but they kept their composure at the end as Harrison finished well before Haywood dived over following a rolling maul.
Saints' victory keeps their hopes of European Champions Cup qualification alive but if Harlequins win at London Irish on Sunday, Jim Mallinder's side may need to win at Gloucester on the final day of the season to ensure a top-six finish.
Northampton director of rugby Jim Mallinder: "It was similar to the Leicester game last week, conceding two tries out of the blue.
"We were attacking and then we lost two tries and were suddenly 14-0 down.
"But we talked about them having a big set of forwards and tiring in the second half, so we wanted to keep putting them under pressure and thankfully we got the results.
"I was worried all the way through from the first minute to the last to be honest. But we've seen Myler time and time again kick goals like that."
Bath head coach Mike Ford: "We just lost our composure where we wouldn't have done that last year. It's an issue and one we've got to get right for next season.
"We've been competitive all year, but clearly our confidence of winning those small margin games like today has been tough.
"You can analyse too much and start thinking everything's wrong. Once we couldn't make the top six, we took a deep breath and we've played some good rugby in the past few weeks.
"It's difficult to put your finger on it and there are different factors, but I'm confident that this club will be there or thereabouts next year."
Northampton Saints: Mallinder; K Pisi, G Pisi, Burrell, North; Myler, Dickson (capt); Waller, Haywood, Brookes, Lawes, Day, Gibson, Wood, Harrison
Replacements: Marshall, Ma'afu, Hill, Matfield, Nutley, Fotuali'i, Hanrahan, Wilson.
Bath: Watson; Williams, Joseph, Devoto, Banahan; Priestland, Cook; Catt, Webber, Wilson, Ewels, Attwood, Garvey, Louw (capt), Denton.
Replacements: Dunn, Auterac, Lahiff, Day, Houston, Homer, Ford, Clark.
Sin bin: Cook (48)
Referee: Wayne Barnes.
The achievements of these 10 athletes have earned them a place on the shortlist for the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year 2016.
One of these teenagers will follow in the footsteps of past winners Ellie Simmonds, Wayne Rooney, Amber Hill, Tom Daley and Andy Murray.
The top three, chosen by an expert panel, will be named on Blue Peter on Thursday, 8 December.
Last year's winner Ellie Downie has had another phenomenal year, joining Tinkler and her older sister Becky in the GB Gymnastics team at the Rio Olympics.
Ellie qualified for the all-around final, finishing in 13th place in what was arguably the most competitive all-around final in Olympic history.
The 16-year-old also dominated at the 2016 Osijek World Challenge Cup event in Croatia taking four golds in four apparatus finals.
Sophie Ecclestone became the third youngest female to be selected for full England honours, earning a place in England Women's T20 and ODI squads.
The 17-year-old was part of the series-winning ladies' team in the West Indies and is a key member of the Lancashire Thunder's Women's Super League team.
In Keelan Giles' first four games for Pro 12 side Ospreys, he scored eight tries including a hat-trick away to Lyon in the European Challenge Cup.
Ospreys coach Steve Tandy has described the 18-year-old as an "unbelievable finisher" and he has been compared to Wales' record try scorer Shane Williams.
Keelan was called up to train with Rob Howley's senior Wales squad ahead of the autumn internationals and was one of the stars of Wales' U20s Grand Slam campaign during the Six Nations.
Tom Hamer won two silvers (200m S14 freestyle and S14 individual medley) at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, setting British records in both events.
The 18-year-old also took gold in the 200m freestyle at the IPC European Championships, setting a new British record of 1.57.27.
Swimmer Ellie Robinson broke the Paralympic record to win gold in the 50m butterfly at the Rio Games.
The 15-year-old also won bronze in the 100m freestyle, breaking a British record in the process and has been described as a "great role model to both able-bodied and para-athletes".
Earlier in the year, at the IPC European Championships, she brought back one silver (50m butterfly) and three bronze medals (50m, 100m and 400m freestyle).
Lauren Rowles, 18, picked up a gold medal at the Rio Paralympic Games, in the trunk-and-arms mixed double sculls, with partner Laurence Whiteley, recording a world best time in the process.
Lauren only took up rowing two years ago after competing at the Commonwealth Games in athletics in 2014.
She has had to balance training with taking her A levels and was successful in gaining a place at Oxford Brookes University.
Georgia Stanway, 17, has had an outstanding breakthrough season for Manchester City Women, making nine appearances and scoring four goals - helping the team to their first FA Women's Super League title, as well as securing the Continental Cup.
Georgia was England's top scorer during the U17 Women's World Cup, with three goals in four games as they reached the quarter finals.
She also played every minute of England's games at the Uefa Women's U17 Championship finals, scoring two goals and making one assist.
Sixteen-year-old Jess Stretton won individual gold in the Q1 archery at the Rio Paralympic Games.
As the youngest competitor in the archery event she set a new Paralympic record, with compatriots Jo Frith and Vicky Jenkins taking silver and bronze position to make it a clean sweep for Great Britain.
She also claimed silver at the Fazaa International Para Championships, breaking a world record in an earlier round.
Rebekah Tiler won three bronzes (overall bronze, as well as individual medals in the snatch - with a best of 99kg and 123kg in the clean and jerk) at the European Weightlifting Championships in April, boosting her hopes of Olympic selection.
The 17-year-old went on to compete at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games as Team GB's only female weightlifter, finishing in 10th place.
Sixteen-year-old Amy Tinkler gave the performance of her life to take bronze on the floor at the Rio 2016 Olympics, becoming the first female British gymnast to medal in the event.
She was the youngest member of Team GB in Rio, and only the second British woman to win an individual artistic gymnastics medal, after Beth Tweddle's bronze in the uneven bars in 2012.
Amy also retained her floor title at the British Championships, winning gold for the second year in a row.
This award goes to the outstanding young sportsperson aged 17 or under on 1 January 2016, selected from nominations made to the BBC and by sports governing bodies via the Youth Sport Trust. Nominations closed on 11 November 2016.
The Young Sports Personality of the Year award will be determined by the following panel:
·John Inverdale (chair)
·Radzi Chinyanganya (Blue Peter presenter)
·Young Blue Peter sports badge winner
·Tina Daheley (Radio 1)
·Alison Oliver (CEO, Youth Sports Trust)
·Will Roberts (Assistant Director of Development, Youth Sports Trust)
·Lee Murphy (Head of PR/Comms, Youth Sports Trust)
·Jody Cundy (Paralympic Gold medallist)
·Lutalo Muhammad (Olympic silver medallist)
·Dina Asher-Smith (Sprinter, Olympian and European Champion)
·Carl Doran (Executive Editor, BBC Sports Personality of the Year)
It is considering imposing an average "anti-dumping" import tariff of 47%, with a decision expected by 5 June.
The EC argues China unfairly subsidises its solar panel firms, putting Europe's manufacturers at a disadvantage.
But some European solar panel makers are warning that such a move would amount to "dangerous protectionism".
"Protective duties are poisonous for the solar industry", said Udo Mohrstedt, chief executive of IBC Solar, a Germany-based global manufacturer.
"These guarding measures will endanger more than 70,000 jobs in medium-sized companies in Germany alone. The Commission must stop this dangerous protectionism."
Wouter Vermeersch, chief executive of the Belgian company Cleantec Trade, agrees.
"The solar business is very price sensitive", he said in a statement issued by the Alliance for Affordable Solar Energy, where Cleantec is a member.
"Solar companies already had to cope with continuously decreasing feed-in tariffs in the past.
"If prices are artificially increased by punitive tariffs, the European solar market would simply come to a standstill with disastrous effects on green jobs."
Trade officials from all 27 countries in the European Union are expected to be briefed on the proposals at in meeting on 15 May.
The provisional tariffs would be imposed even though the EC's official investigation is only nine months into its 15-month duration.
The EC can do this if it considers there is clear evidence that companies are being harmed.
If the EC believes China has not altered its trade practices after the full 15-month investigation comes to an end in December, the provisional tariffs could be imposed for five years.
The case, involving over 100 Chinese companies exporting photovoltaic and solar panels worth 21bn euros (£17.8bn; £27.7bn) a year, is the EU's largest ever trade dispute.
The Chinese could appeal against the EU's decision to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg and to the World Trade Organisation.
The 47-year-old was later released but had to surrender his passport to stop him returning to Syria.
Prosecutors said that Dutch law did not allow the use of force apart from in exceptional circumstances.
"Killing an IS fighter therefore could mean being prosecuted for murder," a statement from prosecutors said.
Even though the Netherlands is part of the international coalition against the so-called Islamic State (IS), the prosecutors said there was "an important difference between Dutch nationals who travel to Syria on their own to fight against IS and Dutch soldiers who train Iraqi and Kurdish forces".
The Dutch military presence was legal and took place "at the request of the Iraqi government", they added.
The man's name cannot be released under Dutch privacy law and it was unclear when he left the military.
Prosecutors said further investigation into the soldier's involvement was required to decide whether charges would be brought.
The BBC understands that about 100 Western volunteers have joined Kurdish forces in the region - including some Britons.
In some instances they have faced legal troubles on their return to their home countries.
One British former Royal Marine, Konstandinos Erik Scurfield, and one Canadian ex-soldier, John Gallagher, died in northern Syria in 2015 fighting Syria against IS militants.
The reigning champions were asked to chase a Duckworth Lewis readjusted target of 194 from 24 overs at Trent Bridge, but fell well short as Samit Patel (4-11) took four quick wickets.
Alex Hales top scored with 63 for Notts who had to suffer a frustrating five-hour rain break in their innings.
They eventually reached 170-4 from 24 overs, Durham falling short on 144.
Notts had made good headway on 94-1, with Hales on 53, when rain called a halt after 17.2 overs.
A further early evening downpour looked like ending play for the day, with the sides prepared to reconvene on Wednesday.
But, after a near five-hour delay, and with the game now reduced to 24 overs a side, Notts re-emerged to plunder a further 76 off the final 40 balls as they reached 170-4.
Although Hales holed out to deep mid on just a ball after being equally well caught by a spectator in, Daniel Christian went on to reach 48 and captain James Taylor hit three sixes in his 29 off 20 balls.
In reply, Durham raced to 63-0 in the seventh over, but then crucially lost both openers Mark Stoneman and Phil Mustard, as well as skipper Paul Collingwood, brilliantly caught and bowled by Steve Mullaney, for just one run in the space of two overs.
Graham Clark and Calum MacLeod mustered some hefty blows to keep them in it with a 62-run fourth-wicket stand. But Patel got rid of both, before catching Gordon Muchall and adding two more scalps as Durham quickly collapsed from 125-3 to 144 all out.
The semi-final draw took place before the first of the four quarter-finals, throwing up an away tie for Notts on Sunday 6 September at either Canterbury or The Oval against the winners of Thursday's Kent v Surrey quarter-final.
RNLI Lochinver lifeboat was launched on Saturday after the man got into difficulty in the Summer Isles, north west of Ullapool.
The Inverness Airport-based winchman was lowered to the boat to assess the kayaker's condition, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said.
He was found to have a dislocated shoulder.
The man had first been picked up by a passing fishing boat.
He was transferred to the lifeboat which was making its way to Lochinver to a waiting ambulance when the helicopter arrived.
The winchman, a trained medic, was lowered to the lifeboat in case the kayaker required emergency treatment.
He was found to have injured his shoulder. It was later put back into place at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness.
RNLI Lochinver lifeboat's mechanic took footage of the winchman being lowered to the moving boat.
The MCA said its coastguard helicopter crews regularly trained for this type of situation.
Pre-tax profit for the year to 15 March rose by 16.3% to £898m.
However, like-for-like sales, which strip out trading at new stores, excluding fuel, rose by just 0.2%.
The firm said it had maintained market share in a "tough retail environment". The big four supermarkets are being challenged by low-cost rivals including Aldi and Lidl.
The big four have responded by cutting prices in an attempt to stem the loss of customers to the low-cost chains.
Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King - who will be leaving the company in July - told the BBC that the retailer would, "match the price activity of our competition - we always have".
"There's always a price war in supermarket retailing. Occasional skirmishes break out, I guess this is one of them," he added.
"In the end it isn't just about price. Quality, the provenance of sourcing is a big factor as well."
Sainsbury's said sales of general merchandise were increasing at more than twice the rate of food.
The relaunch of its clothing brand, which represented its single biggest investment in its clothing business since 2004, had helped generate sales of £750m.
The supermarket's results come a month after Tesco reported a second fall in profits in as many years.
The UK's biggest supermarket chain said group trading profit fell 6% to £3.3bn, with like-for-like sales down 1.4%.
In March, Sainsbury's had reported its first quarterly fall in like-for-like sales for nine years, with sales down 3.1% in the 10 weeks to 15 March.
However, Sainsbury's underlying full-year profits beat analysts' expectations, rising 5.3% to £798m.
Despite this, the company warned that trading was expected to remain tough.
"While the general economic outlook is showing some signs of improvement, conditions in the food retail sector are likely to remain challenging for the foreseeable future as customers continue to spend cautiously," Mr King said.
Analysts called the results solid, adding investors were likely to "breathe a sigh of relief".
Manoj Ladwa, partner at TJM Partnership, added: "Despite numbers across all metrics showing signs of improvement, management won't be able to sit on their laurels as the retail environment continues to remain tough."
Keith Bowman, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers, said: "Accompanying management comments again point to challenging conditions, concerns for a further ratcheting up of the current price war persist, whilst the change of chief executive does, understandably, raise some nerves."
Sainsbury's share price rose 1.92%, or 6.4p, to 339.8p in early trading on the London Stock Exchange.
In January, Sainsbury's announced that Mr King was to leave the supermarket group in July after 10 years at the head of the company.
Mr King is credited with the transformation of Sainsbury's fortunes during his time in charge.
Sainsbury's chairman David Tyler pointed out that under Mr King customer transactions had increased by 10 million a week to around 24 million.
He added annual sales had grown by £10.3bn to £26.4bn, while underlying pre-tax profit had trebled.
Mr King will be succeeded as chief executive by Sainsbury's commercial director Mike Coupe.
The latest supermarket industry figures from market analysts Kantar Worldpanel, for the 12 weeks to 27 April showed the UK grocery market grew by just 1.9% - its slowest pace for 11 years.
Among the "big four" supermarkets, Asda proved the most resilient, holding its 17.3% market share and narrowly beating the market with 2% year-on-year growth.
Tesco's market share fell 2.4% compared with the same period a year ago to 28.7%.
Sainsbury's and Morrisons also suffered declines in their market share in the period.
Sainsbury's market share fell 0.3% to 16.6% compared with a year earlier, while Morrisons' market share fell 3.6% compared to year before to 11%.
Tesco and Morrisons also recorded a fall in actual sales.
Waitrose, Aldi and Lidl all achieved record growth in market share in the period.
Waitrose's market share rose to 5.1%, Aldi rose to 4.7% and Lidl rose to 3.5% market share.
Sue McAllister was appointed director general in 2012 and became the first woman to hold the most senior position within a prison service in the UK.
Last November, an inspection report was highly critical of prison leadership, finding that Maghaberry prison was the most dangerous prison ever inspected.
The justice department is to begin a search for her successor in September.
Mrs McAllister said it had been a "great privilege" to work in the role.
She said her focus had been to lead the "transformational reform envisaged in the prison review report".
"With the conclusion of the reform programme in March, my role has come to a natural end and the time is right for a new director general to lead the service."
Justice Minister Claire Sugden said Mrs McAllister should be "proud of what she has achieved in her time as director general".
"The role of director general is a uniquely challenging post and Sue McAllister has led the organisation through the reforms, which have placed rehabilitation at the core of its work," added Ms Sugden.
Her predecessor, David Ford, said she had "delivered a successful reform programme to the Prison Service, the benefits of which would continue to be seen".
The DUP's Edwin Poots said her resignation "creates the opportunity for a new broom".
He added: "It is critical that attention is given to the foot soldiers in the Prison Service who are working in trying conditions, facing constant threats, verbal abuse, and physical attacks."
Mrs McAllister's four years in the role coincided with an increased threat to prison officers from dissident republican paramilitaries.
In 2012, prison officer David Black was shot dead as he drove to work.
He was the first member of the Northern Ireland Prison Service to be murdered in nearly 20 years.
Earlier this year, prison officer Adrian Ismay died of a heart attack a month after being injured in a dissident republican bomb attack.
"The murders of David Black and Adrian Ismay were despicable and an attack on the whole community," said Mrs McAllister.
"Both came as a tremendous shock and I want to pay tribute to their families, friends and colleagues.
"Working in prisons in Northern Ireland is different and I have always been hugely impressed by the courage, professionalism and dedication of my colleagues.
"They play a crucial part in making Northern Ireland a safer place and I want to thank them all for their hard work over the last four years."
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The County Antrim jail houses men convicted of serious and violent offences, including paramilitary prisoners.
Mr Hardwick said Maghaberry was the "most dangerous prison" he had ever been in during his time as a chief inspector.
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English duo Peaty and Guy will make their Olympic debuts in Brazil, as will Welsh Commonwealth champion Jazz Carlin.
"I want to make Britain proud," Peaty, 21, told BBC Sport.
Scotland's Hannah Miley, 26, and Robbie Renwick, 27, will compete in their third Games.
However, former world champion Liam Tancock and ex-European gold medallist Lizzie Simmonds - who both raced at Beijing 2008 and London 2012 - miss out.
European Games medallist Georgia Coates, 17, who finished third in the 200m freestyle final, is the youngest member of the Rio swimming squad.
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Team GB swimmers failed to achieve their Olympic medal target of five at London 2012, winning one silver and two bronzes. However, a record-breaking 2015 World Championship has given the squad cause for optimism with world medallists Peaty, Guy, Carlin and Siobhan-Marie O'Connor among their ranks.
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Peaty, who won three world titles in Kazan, is aiming to be the first British man since Adrian Moorhouse in 1988 to win an Olympic swimming gold medal.
"It's Olympic year so you never know who's going to appear, but I'm definitely the strongest I've ever been," Peaty said.
"It has been a long time [since the 1988 gold], but I like the pressure because it leaves me with nowhere to hide."
Miley has won World, European and Commonwealth honours in an impressive career, but hopes Rio will finally allow her to realise her lifetime ambition of an Olympic medal.
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"It's another fantastic opportunity to put myself out there against the very best in the world," she said.
"It's the biggest event in the world - and hopefully I can come out on top."
Tim Shuttleworth (1500m), Chloe Tutton (200m breaststroke), Max Litchfield (400m individual medley) are among a group of exciting youngsters to claim breakthrough British titles last week and secure surprise Olympic selections.
"The team has been refreshed as a result of a series of great performances from some of our Podium Potential youngsters," British Swimming performance director Chris Spice said.
"Athletes have done a good job to make the team, but our primary focus is to improve performances in Rio."
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BT is scrapping hundreds of boxes across the country after usage dropped by 90% over the past decade.
However, residents in Crossmichael decided to take advantage of the "Adopt a Kiosk" scheme to take theirs over for the cost of just £1.
Jane McCarthy, a member of the team responsible, said it could hold between 150 and 200 books.
"We talked to villagers and people came up with ideas as diverse as a bird observatory, a fish tank and even holding a defibrillator," she told BBC's Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland.
"We have a defibrillator in our village shop already so we decided to choose a library.
"People will be able to borrow, to exchange books and donate books 24/7."
The Wee Book Hoose was officially launched on Friday after the conversion works took place.
"It looked very grey and sad when we first took a look inside," said Ms McCarthy. "But it has been beautifully painted red."
It is now open for business and already appears to be proving popular.
"One wee boy in the school said to me: 'What would it be like if I took all the books?'," said Ms McCarthy.
"I said: 'Well, you might need a barrow, but I am sure we will find books to replace the ones you have taken.'"
The London Living Rent scheme would see low and middle-income households being offered new homes with rents set at a third of average household incomes.
Sadiq Khan said it would provide "an alternative to renting privately" and allow people to "save for a deposit".
But the Conservatives called the scheme "another feat of illusion".
According to the mayor, a household typically earning between £35,000 and £45,000 would be able to a rent a two-bed London Living Rent flat for less than £1,000, compared to average private rents of £1,450.
However, he could not say how many homes would be available under the scheme as "it depends on how much land comes forward".
Tony Devenish, the Conservative planning spokesperson, said the mayor was "attempting to distract Londoners with spin instead of real answers".
"The only way to slow down the increase in rental prices is to build far more homes," he said.
Green London Assembly Member Sian Berry said the capital needed "something more sophisticated" as there was a risk of people "being left behind by this policy".
"An arbitrary definition based on a third of the local average income will leave many women and families with children still struggling," she said.
Mr Khan made the announcement during a visit to the Sugar Hill housing development in Harlem, New York, as part of his five-day business trip to North America.
The 36-year-old, who will leave the Blues in the summer, scored the opening goal on a night of celebration for the Premier League title winners.
Chelsea host Sunderland on Sunday in their final league game of the season.
"I've not ruled out Sunday being my last game and retiring from football," he told Sky Sports.
"If the right offer comes along I will sit down and consider it with my family - whether that's here or abroad.
"Genuinely I haven't made any decisions yet and I'm evaluating all my options at the moment."
Former England captain Terry announced last month he will leave Stamford Bridge after more than two decades at the club.
The central defender is the Blues' most decorated player, with this season's title triumph earning him a fifth Premier League winners' medal.
He has also helped them win five FA Cups, three League Cups, the Champions League and the Europa League.
The Londoner has made 716 appearances since his debut in 1998 - 579 of them as captain.
Chelsea manager Antonio Conte, who restricted Terry to a bit-part role on the pitch this season, paid tribute to the player's influence.
"He is a great man. He helped me a lot in my first season. He had a fantastic role on and off the pitch," said the Italian.
"I think against Watford he showed he can continue to play. I'm pleased for him, he scored a great goal.
"I'm looking forward to seeing him lift the cup on Sunday. He deserves this."
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Chelsea wrapped up their sixth English title with a win at West Brom on Friday, and the home fans were in a celebratory mood as they welcomed the champions back to Stamford Bridge.
Terry, in what may be his final playing appearance at the stadium, lifted the atmosphere even more when he opened the scoring after 22 minutes.
Watford threatened to dampen the occasion with a gutsy fightback before substitute Cesc Fabregas earned a thrilling win for a much-changed home side.
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The Spaniard's scuffed strike sparked joyous scenes among the home fans, while a fireworks display outside the stadium followed the final whistle.
The Blues will be presented with the Premier League trophy when they host relegated Sunderland on Sunday.
"If I could have written my story, this is how it would panned out - to go having been crowned champions, and to leave the club in great hands with the manager, the owner and the players we have here," added Terry.
"It is going to be sad and emotional for me on Sunday because I've been here 22 years.
"But I'm delighted for the experiences and opportunities I have been given."
Despite swirling winds, the world number 251 made only one bogey in a four-under 68 for an eight-under total.
South African Branden Grace holds second but joint overnight leader Scott Jamieson of Scotland had two double bogeys in a 76 and is five shots back.
England's Lee Westwood birdied the last three and is five under with compatriot Andrew Johnston two further adrift.
Dodt, who won the last of his two European titles at the co-sanctioned Thailand Classic in 2015, dropped his only shot of the day at one of the easier holes, the par-five fourth, but told Sky Sports: "It was a different wind direction to the first two days.
"It was pretty tricky, the first 12 holes were really tough with the greens firm."
Italian Francesco Molinari, who played in two Ryder Cup victories in 2010 and 2012, shares third with Westwood after a 74, which contained a moment of ill-fortune when his approach to the 11th hit the flag and ricocheted into a bunker.
Another joint overnight leader, Ryder Cup player Thomas Pieters, dropped further down the leaderboard with a 78 that left him seven shots behind Dodt.
The 25-year-old world number 24 from Belgium finished with a double bogey seven after finding the water at the 18th for the second time this week.
Olympic champion Justin Rose, who made an eagle at the last to make the cut by a single stroke, compiled four birdies in a 70 to return to level par for the tournament.
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"The FSA [Financial Services Authority] was stretched almost to breaking point."
It is a comment given to one of the report's authors, Andrew Green, by Sir Hector Sants, the chief executive of the FSA from 2007 until 2012.
Reading through both HBOS reports, time and again it is revealed that major questions about why a bank was engaged in reckless lending are missed.
Opportunities to rein in excessive lending are rejected.
And the option of starting proper investigations and enforcement actions into who might be "personally culpable" for failures lost as increasingly desperate attempts were made to keep the banking system on its feet.
Indeed, Clive Adamson, the former director of supervision at the FSA, said that "the people most culpable were let off".
Keeping the ATMs open became the focus for a regulator that was "facing a day-to-day survival game" in the banking system.
That may be understandable in the teeth of a storm.
But the fact that the storm was allowed to gain such ferocity before someone started asking if the flood defences were secure is important.
And why it is worth studying closely today's reports on HBOS, even though for anyone who has looked at the investigations into the collapse of Northern Rock and Royal Bank of Scotland the criticisms will be wearily familiar.
Of course, the failure of HBOS was ultimately down to the management and board of the bank.
The bank rapidly increased lending to risky property ventures in Britain and abroad during a period of "almost uninterrupted economic growth".
It seemed like a one-way bet that could not fail.
HBOS financed that lending through what are known as the "wholesale markets" - funding provided by other banks.
Increasing market share was the key.
For a time it was hugely profitable - and flattered the bank's bottom line, much to the delight of investors.
When questions were raised about the major problems inherent in this approach they were often rejected, as the "risk function" at HBOS was seen as far less important than the race to make ever higher profits
When the property market started turning sour, HBOS was exposed. Wholesale funding started to dry up and "inappropriate risk taking" over many years was quickly revealed as unsustainable.
So, where were the police officers?
The stability of the bank was regulated by the FSA.
"Overall the FSA's approach was too trusting of firms' management and insufficiently challenging," the Bank of England report into HBOS says.
It also puts that in context, saying that "sustained political emphasis" during the era of the Labour government on "light-touch regulation" and the need to keep London "competitive" weighed heavily.
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"It was inherently unlikely that senior leaders of the FSA would have proposed, before the first signs of the financial crisis, a supervisory approach which entailed higher capital and liquidity requirements, supervisory caps on rapid bank balance sheet growth, or intensive analysis of asset quality," the key paragraph says.
"If they had, it is likely that their proposals would have been met by extensive complaints that the FSA was pursuing a heavy-handed 'gold-plating' approach which would harm London's competitiveness."
Could it happen again? Of course, no-one can give an ultimate guarantee that any financial system is totally secure.
But, certainly, the capital and liquidity requirements for banks today are far higher.
And regulators are more intrusive.
But, as some argue that regulation has gone too far, it is worth remembering the content of these two reports on the collapse of HBOS, the failure of the policing system and the ultimate cost that was paid by the public.
BBC Scotland revealed this month that Aberdeenshire East MSP Gillian Martin had passed concerns about the practice to the UK government.
One oil worker said companies would not hire him because they believed he would quit if the oil price rose again.
Ms Martin's described the extent of discrimination claims as "shocking".
She said many more constituents had been in contact with her, saying they had been excluded by employers outwith the energy sector because of their oil and gas background since the issue was highlighted by BBC Scotland.
One of them, who only wanted to be named as Gary, told BBC Scotland: "One company said they would keep my CV on file, but they did not want to waste money or time on someone that will leave.
"They just straight away categorise."
Ms Martin said: "I have been inundated with correspondence from oil and gas workers since revealing worrying evidence from constituents of job discrimination.
"It is shocking to see the breadth of discrimination against skilled people who have been hit hard by the downturn and simply want to return to employment.
"I will be continuing to take this matter forward at the highest level to raise awareness of how companies are simply outright dismissing talent from the sector."
She originally wrote to UK employment minister Damian Hinds about the issue and it was passed to the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
BEIS said at the time: "Businesses should be in no doubt that the oil and gas industry in Scotland has one of the most highly-skilled workforces in the world."
However, the managing director of a scaffolding business who has lost workers to the oil and gas industry hit back at claims former offshore workers were now being unfairly blacklisted.
William Dore of MJD and Sons said companies were tired of losing workers.
Thousands of people have lost their jobs since the oil downturn began.
Costica Voedes was arrested following the attack on the 17-year-old in Epsom, Surrey, at about 22:30 BST on Friday.
Mr Voedes, 32, of High Street, Epsom, was remanded in custody and is due before magistrates on Monday.
The girl was stabbed in the abdomen and her condition is serious but not life-threatening, Surrey Police said.
Mr Voedes is accused of two counts of wounding with intent, two counts of rape, kidnap, false imprisonment, possession of an offensive weapon, affray and common assault.
He is due to appear at South East Surrey Magistrates' Court on Monday.
The victim is being treated at St George's Hospital in Tooting.
A Pizza Hut staff member, who tried to help her, suffered injuries to his arm which are not believed to be serious.
Three teenagers were injured after the female driver's car collided with a tree in Dundee's Camperdown Park on Wednesday evening.
Family and friends on social media had congratulated the 17-year-old on passing her driving test that morning.
A 19-year-old male passenger was also injured in the incident.
The 17-year-old female passenger is being treated in Dundee's Ninewells Hospital.
The crash happened at about 22:10 on Wednesday.
Police Scotland has appealed for information from anyone who witnessed the crash or who was in the area at the time.
Their boats are thought to have capsized while crossing to the island of Lesbos.
The bodies were found on beaches at Ayvalik and Dikili some 30 miles (50km) apart. Several were children.
More than one million migrants crossed the Mediterranean in 2015 and the vast majority went from Turkey to Greece.
According to the UN, 3,771 people were listed as dead or missing.
Conditions in the Aegean Sea in the early hours of Tuesday were described as rough and officials said the migrants who had tried to reach Lesbos were in rubber dinghies.
Coast guards at Ayvalik searched the area for survivors and rescued eight people who had climbed on to a breakwater, reported Dogan news agency.
Residents said the boat that sank off Ayvalik appeared to have hit rocks. "I'm guessing these people died as they were trying to swim from the rocks," one man said.
Security forces pulled some bodies from the water while others could be seen on the beach, all wearing life jackets. Some were clearly children.
Police told Turkish media that 24 bodies were found on the beach or in the sea off Ayvalik while 10 more were discovered near Dikili.
Although their nationalities were not confirmed, local governor Namik Kemal Nazli Hurriyet said they were Syrians, Iraqis and Algerians.
On Sunday, dozens of people were rescued from a small island off the town of Dikili as they tried to cross to Lesbos. Helicopters had to be called in because the island was too rocky for rescue boats to get to.
Boats are continuing to arrive on the Greek islands every day, despite the wintry weather. Lesbos is by far the most popular destination for migrants leaving Turkey. More than 500,000 reached the island in 2015.
Late last year, Turkey reached a deal with the European Union to tighten its borders and reduce the numbers crossing to Greece in return for €3bn (£2.1bn) and political concessions.
Amos, 21, who injured his shoulder as Wales beat England in the World Cup in October, helped Dragons beat Castres.
It is now possible he could regain his national squad place as Warren Gatland names his Six Nations squad on Tuesday.
Amos told BBC Wales Sport: "I've come back at a good time. There are exciting matches coming in the next few weeks."
His try after just 50 seconds against Castres sent Dragons on their way to a 31-18 win in European Challenge Cup Pool Two.
Medical student Amos, who has five international caps, will be up against Northampton's George North and Cardiff Blues' Alex Cuthbert for a Six Nations place, with Eli Walker of the Ospreys and Blues' Tom James also in contention for the squad.
Asked about a possible selection for Wales, Amos said: "I'm not sure, it's a tough one because I'm only just back from injury and there are other boys playing really well at the moment.
"I haven't thought too much (about it), I just wanted to get back on the pitch with the Dragons, and whatever happens, happens.
"I was always aiming for this kind of time to be back, and I'm back a couple of weeks ahead of (the original) schedule which is good."
Amos could hardly believe he had the chance to run in a try with his first touch on his return.
"You think about it the night before and that's exactly what you want," he continued. "(It was) a great break by Sarel (Pretorius) and a lovely ball by Jason Tovey.
"In rugby you will pick up injuries, though it's been tough watching the boys.
"But I can't ask for much more than that with my first touch back after three months."
Amos will now be part of the Dragons squad aiming to ensure a home quarter-final in the Challenge Cup with victory away to Sale Sharks on Thursday.
The event in the youngster's home village of Blackhall in County Durham ends a memorable week in which he was also named a "child of courage".
Bradley, who has struck up a remarkable friendship with England footballer Jermain Defoe, was in hospital on Wednesday when he turned six.
Defoe was one of 250 well-wishers at a marquee at the village cricket club.
At the weekend Defoe carried Bradley onto the pitch as mascot for Sunderland's last home game and on Thursday he was on the red carpet with him as he was named child of courage at the Pride of North East Awards.
Bradley, who has the rare childhood cancer neuroblastoma, has touched millions of people as well as the world of football.
Fans of different clubs have sung his name at matches and held banners for him.
An appeal to send him Christmas cards ended with him receiving 315,000 through the post.
On Wednesday, his family posted a video of Bradley in hospital in which he smiled and put his thumbs up, saying: "Thank you for my birthday messages everyone."
In April, it was confirmed the latest and final round of Bradley's treatment had failed and the family vowed to continue "creating memories".
His mother, Gemma Lowery, said: "I'm absolutely over the moon that we have managed to get this far and celebrate Bradley's sixth birthday with all of our family and friends.
"He is actually a lot better than he has been, he's still obviously poorly and in a lot of pain but he has rested well in bed all day and he was raring to go tonight.
"We are very grateful for Jermain to have taken Bradley in his heart. He is obviously now a friend of the family rather than Bradley's idol - although he is still Bradley's idol.
"He makes Bradley happy and he makes Bradley smile, and it's just lovely to see him with him."
Homes and properties were searched in Bavaria, Berlin, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt during the pre-dawn operation, federal prosecutors say.
Police were looking for three suspects - two of them are believed to be IS members and the third a supporter of the jihadist group.
No arrests have been made.
After suffering a series of deadly attacks last year, Germany has been in fear of further violence.
On Tuesday, the authorities made an arrest linked to an alleged plot to murder a senior public figure.
A survey showed tourism businesses in Wales saw a 32% rise in visitors during the May half term compared to in 2016.
In June Cardiff hosted the UEFA Champions League Finals and on Sunday about 10,000 cyclists will take part in the Velothon.
Mr Skates said a "summer of sporting legends" was boosting the industry,
"Already this year we have successfully hosted the giants of Real Madrid and Juventus on the UEFA Champions League Final and welcomed the ICC Champions trophy to Wales," he said.
"The Seniors Opens is yet another opportunity for Wales to demonstrate our capabilities in hosting world class sporting events, a real summer of sporting legends."
According to the recent Wales Tourism Barometer - which surveyed 884 industry representatives - 87% of businesses feel confident about trade ahead of the summer holidays.
Out of these 33% said they felt "very confident" about the season.
Meanwhile 33% of businesses are reporting profits are up in 2017 compared to the previous year.
Out of those surveyed 18% of businesses said the reason for the increased profits was because more people were holidaying in the UK rather than going abroad.
The 23-year-old was registered in Sale's Champions Cup squad last week despite the move not being confirmed.
Cas are taking legal action after Solomona did not report for pre-season having "resigned" from rugby league with two years left on his contract.
"He is a great player," said Sale director of rugby Steve Diamond.
"He has an eye for scoring tries and has the added bonus of having played rugby union in his time at school and college."
Solomona broke Lesley Vainikolo's record for the most tries in a Super League season this year when he crossed 40 times.
He has joined fellow winger Josh Charnley in making the switch to the 15-a-side game with Sharks.
Despite the deal being done, BBC Sport understands that Sale could end up paying Castleford a compensation fee for signing Solomona.
The Tigers are prepared to take the issue to the High Court and have appointed London barrister Nick Randall QC and Leeds-based sports lawyer Richard Cramer to fight their case.
Rugby Football League chief executive Nigel Wood spoke about his concerns about the "implications for the game" because of Solomona's breach of contract.
The RFL have discussed the transfer with the Rugby Football Union and Premiership Rugby.
New Zealand-born Solomona, who made his Samoa debut in a rugby league international against Fiji in October, was contracted to Castleford until 2018.
Kent County Council's study of NHS figures said 4,509 days were lost in December to patients who were medically fit but whose transfer was delayed.
In the same month for the previous year, 2,331 days were lost, the figures showed.
One factor was a rise in fragile and elderly patients in A&E, said Kent county councillor Graham Gibbens.
The Kings Fund health charity pointed to cuts in social services and "process issues in NHS hospitals".
The charity's analyst James Thompson said: "It is not good for (patients) to be lying on a bed not using their muscles, in a setting very different from their homes."
Roger Goldfinch said his late wife Margarita "was fit to come out of hospital before Christmas" but was not discharged "until February".
"There was an argument about who would fund her care when she came home and who would organise it," he said.
Mr Gibbens said: "Sometimes one carer is not sufficient. We have to work with GPs and providers to make sure the right provision is there."
Figures issued on Thursday indicated delays in Kent rose further in February, to 4,929 days lost.
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust said there were a "variety of reasons" which "involve the whole Kent care system - not just our Trust" and it was working with partners "to achieve a system-wide improvement".
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust said some patients were "waiting for nursing home placement and continuing healthcare in the community" and it was "a challenge for the whole health economy".
The collapse of Iraq's armed forces in the face of the IS advance led to these militia playing a pivotal role in government security operations over the past year, most notably in Tikrit.
However, they have also come under criticism for alleged human rights abuses, a charge their commanders deny.
Iraq's Shia militia are part of a broader mobilisation of the majority Shia community, which has traditionally aimed to contest power in the country and, prior to 2003, remedy the Shia's history of oppression at the hands of the Iraqi state.
Shia mobilisation and activism in Iraq intensified with the Baathist coup in 1968 and the regime's collective suppression of the community, although some Shia were co-opted.
After the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, Shia actors, like the Islamic Dawa Party (of Iraq's current prime minister), mobilised the Shia community to try to overthrow the Baath regime but the attempt failed.
The 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war then saw various Shia groups take up arms against Saddam Hussein, with patronage from Iran, but this was to no avail as neither side was able to defeat the other during the costly war of attrition.
Another rebellion was launched in 1991, following the first Gulf War. Looking to capitalise on a weakened Iraqi army, as well as an apparent endorsement from then US President George HW Bush, Iraqi Shia launched an uprising in mainly Shia provinces of the south.
But no US support materialised and the regime's indiscriminate crackdown on the population saw tens of thousands killed. Shia shrines, centres of learning and communities were also destroyed.
Following the fall of Saddam Hussein, Shia fighters that had previously fought the Baath regime were integrated into the reconstituted Iraqi army and the country's police force.
However, some also remained militia members and fought a sectarian war with Sunni militants, which reached its apex in 2006.
As a result of sectarian warfare and disastrous post-conflict reconstruction, Shia militia that functioned independently of the state became increasingly widespread and powerful.
They were responsible for much of the lawlessness and crime in the country, including attacks on US and British occupation forces, as well as Western civilians working in Iraq.
Shia militia have their own differences and fought one another over the past decade. However, when IS seized control of much of northern and western Iraq they unified as part of a concerted effort to defend their country and places of worship.
This is not to say that intra-Shia clashes will not take place again in the future.
To swell the ranks of the anti-IS forces, in the absence of a functioning Iraqi army, Iraq's Grand Ayatollah Sistani, the leading cleric in the Shia world, issued a religious edict calling on Iraqis to take up arms.
Tens of thousands of Shia volunteers, as well as many Sunni tribal fighters, were immediately mobilised as a result to form what is known as the Popular Mobilisation. The Washington Post reports that Shia militia comprise up to 120,000 fighters.
The proliferation of Shia militia in Iraq after 2003 was also fuelled by the support Iran gave Shia bodies willing to act as its proxies.
Iran has actively supported Iraq's Shia groups since 1979. The most powerful militia group in Iraq today is the Badr Brigade, which was formed in and by Iran in the early 1980s, during the Iran-Iraq war.
Iran has considerable influence over Iraq's Shia militia because of its heavy on-the-ground presence.
Iran was the only outside power that deployed advisers and special forces in the country when IS took control of Mosul and directly organised the anti-IS offensive.
However, it does not have the same level of influence over all militia.
The Badr Brigade, whilst considerably close to Iran, could still function without Iranian support and has done so before, given its entrenchment in the Iraqi state (its head, Hadi al-Ameri, is a former Transport Minister).
A large number of the militia in the Popular Mobilisation also report to local Iraqi figures, as opposed to Iran.
On the other hand, weaker splinter groups which emerged after 2003 are more dependent on Iranian support and some are widely reported to be receiving orders directly from Iran.
In the near future, Iraq is likely to continue to depend on the militias to contain IS and maintain security in the country.
While Iraq's Shia militia cannot be eliminated, given their entrenchment within the Shia community and the Iraqi state, they can be regulated but that is only likely to happen once the threat from IS has abated and the country has a fully functioning army.
Ranj Alaaldin is a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and a Doctoral Researcher at the London School of Economics, where he specialises in Iraqi history and politics. His research currently looks at the history of Iraq's Shia movements. Follow him @RanjAlaaldin
Just as predictable as the changing seasons is Pyongyang's reaction to the annual military exercise between South Korea and the US, known as Foal Eagle.
The US says it has detected no signs that North Korea is actively preparing to go on the offensive - there has been no large-scale mobilisation of forces, for example.
Pyongyang's threats are usually conditional - if there is a real danger of a US attack, there will be a response, or a pre-emptive strike.
The tension usually goes down when the exercises end - until the next round of theatre and threats. But the possibility of an accident provoking a military confrontation is always real.
North Korea has been a vexing problem for Washington for years, and so far the Obama administration has also failed to successfully engage Pyongyang and break this cycle - or curb its nuclear programme.
This year, the threats emanating form North Korea have sounded even more bombastic for several reasons.
There's a new young leader sitting in Pyongyang who's still asserting himself domestically and consolidating his power.
And South Korea has just elected its new president, Park Geun-hye - the country's first female leader. So, Kim Jong-un is - no doubt - testing her too.
The US reaction has remained mostly the same - with a few variations, officials in Washington repeat the line that North Korea's actions are not helpful and only further isolate the reclusive nation. There seem to be no creative ideas on the horizon.
During the Clinton administration, the US repeatedly cancelled military exercises to assuage Pyongyang's fears and defuse tension.
But more recently, Washington has matched the intensity of Pyongyang's rhetoric with a display of hardware.
After a deluge of 20 threats in a just a few weeks, the Obama administration also dispatched B-2 stealth bombers over the Korean peninsula.
The move was also meant to decrease pressure on South Korea to take unilateral action to sound tough in the face of its northern brethren.
But every attempt by the US and the international community to hold Pyongyang accountable, with sanctions for example, leads to even more erratic behaviour by the North Koreans.
And every time the US ignores Pyongyang's pleas for attention, responding with a resolve to continue military exercises, the North Koreans are further infuriated - partly because their thinking is driven by a different rationale.
They perceive US-South Korean defensive military exercises as potentially offensive, and analysts say the North Koreans believe their nuclear weapons are the only thing keeping them safe from a US attack.
President Obama spoke at the start of his first term about his willingness to extend a hand if America's foes were willing to unclench their fist.
Efforts to restart the six-party talks, which stalled in 2009, have failed.
And Pyongyang's behaviour makes it difficult for Mr Obama to be bold and engage in open, direct talks with the North Koreans without risking being lambasted by critics for caving in to threats and legitimizing Kim Jung-un.
Administration officials did travel to North Korea on secret missions last year in an effort to persuade the newly-anointed leader to moderate his foreign policy.
One of the trips took place in April 2012 and was led by Joseph DeTrani - a North Korea expert who then headed America's National Counter-Proliferation Center.
Mr DeTrani, who is now president of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, an industry group, would not openly confirm to the BBC that he had been on a mission to Pyongyang.
But he spoke about the need for diplomacy while indicating that the American approach had been rebuffed.
"The North Koreans know the US and China are available in the six-party talks. Their rhetoric is over the top and puts them in a difficult position."
Mr DeTrani added that the US was handling the situation well and that it was up to North Korea to break the cycle.
US policy towards North Korea is partly driven by Washington's support for Japan and South Korea and efforts to show that the US remains in lock-step with allies in the face of North Korea.
Diplomacy with North Korea takes place mostly through the six-party talks, which also involve Japan, China, South Korea and Russia.
Denuclearisation is always the stated end goal of every discussion. Because of North Korea's fears, justified or not, this often undermines the basis of the talks.
Over the past four years, the Obama administration's posture on North Korea was also dictated by former South Korean president Lee Myung-bak's hardline stance towards the North.
But Christopher Nelson, an Asia expert and vice-president of Samuels International Associates, points out that while the new South Korean leader has responded with tough words to Pyongyang's rhetoric, she has also indicated that if the North Koreans are willing to resume North-South talks, denuclearisation would not have to be the state end goal.
Mr Nelson said there are indications from the North Korean team at the UN that Pyongyang is now willing to engage.
While this still needs to be tested, what's unclear is whether the US is ready to go along with this approach.
In public, and for now, it's unlikely that the US will signal any easing of its policy towards North Korea.
But if Mrs Park persists with her offer, the US could say it respects its ally's choice and will support the approach.
There will be many opportunities to explore this and other diplomatic options in policy towards North Korea.
The South Korean foreign minister is in Washington this week.
The US Secretary of State, John Kerry, will be heading to Asia next week for his first trip to the region in the new job - with stops in Beijing, Tokyo and Seoul.
And President Park herself will meet President Obama in Washington in May.
The move comes after the bank failed to apply correct interest payments to some accounts for several years.
The lender told the BBC it had received a complaint about the issue in 2013 and that the error dated back to 2007.
ANZ said a system error was to blame and that it was resolving the problem and had apologised to customers.
"There was an issue where some customers were either underpaid or overpaid the correct amount of bonus interest on their progress saver account," ANZ's media spokesperson Emily Kinnear told the BBC.
But Ms Kinnear said the bank would not recoup the amounts that were overpaid.
The bank said the issue had affected 0.5% of saving accounts each month and that the majority of refunds were for amounts of A$35. About 100,000 customers were owed less than A$5.
Ms Kinnear said a thorough review had been conducted and reimbursements should be completed this week.
Australia's banking watchdog, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC), said the lender had reported the matter to the regulator.
It said ANZ had taken its breach reporting obligations seriously and that the refund payment included an additional amount "to recognise the time elapsed since the initial breach".
"Breach reporting helps ASIC ensure affected consumers are returned to the position they would have held if it were not for the breach occurring at all," ASIC's deputy chairman Peter Kell said.
Earlier this year, ANZ won an appeal against a landmark court ruling that some of its fees for late payments were unfair.
One of the largest in the country, the class action suit began in 2010 and involved some 43,500 customers.
Last month, the lender posted a record annual cash profit of A$7.2bn ($5.1bn; £3.34bn). The result for the year to September marked a 1% rise on cash profits from a year earlier.
Angelina Jolie came under scrutiny after speaking to Vanity Fair about her new film where she explained how they used a casting game which involved giving money to poor children then taking it away.
She fiercely denied playing tricks on the children and claimed the magazine misreported her.
The BBC announced a new TV cookery competition with former Bake Off star Mary Berry as the lead judge.
Britain's Best Cook will broadcast on BBC One and it will be presented by Claudia Winkleman.
Berry will be joined by a second judge but their identity hasn't been revealed yet.
Edward Enninful started his new job as British Vogue's editor-in-chief.
He's the first male editor in the magazine's history and takes over from Alexandra Shulman who spent 25 years in the role. His first move as editor was launching Vogue on Snapchat.
Kim Kardashian West's company is being sued over a phone case.
The LuMee smartphone case is a popular item amongst bloggers and Kardashian fans as it comes with an integrated light to help users take the perfect selfie - the right lighting is key after all!
Hooshmand Harooni has claimed in a £75m lawsuit that the idea was copied from him but a representative for Kardashian said: "The patent lawsuit filed by Snaplight has no merit."
Tom Hiddleston is taking on the role of Hamlet on the London stage and will be directed by Sir Kenneth Branagh.
Tickets will be available through an online ballot and proceeds will go towards the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. That's Rada to you and me.
The latest series of Celebrity Big Brother has started on Channel 5 in the UK.
The house has been filled with 15 "stars" ranging from soap actors to reality TV regulars and even a YouTuber!
Chris Evans's Radio 2 breakfast show has lost half a million listeners in the past year, figures show.
But Nick Grimshaw saw his weekly audience on his Radio 1 breakfast show rise by 350,000 listeners from the previous quarter to reach 5.5m. It's also an increase on the 5.43 listeners who tuned in during the same period in 2016.
Harry Potter and All Creatures Great and Small actor, Robert Hardy, died aged 91 - he was also known for his numerous portrayals of Winston Churchill.
We also lost actor Hywel Bennett, known for his roles in Shelley and EastEnders, and US playwright and actor Sam Shepard died. They were both aged 73.
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Vulcan XH558, which will be permanently grounded at the end of the summer, was one of the highlights of the Blackpool Air Show.
Also appearing were the Red Arrows, Breitling Wingwalkers and RV8tors aerobatic team.
The air show ends on Monday.
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The American world number one served superbly to win a pulsating final 6-3 7-6 (7-5) after Sharapova fought back in the second set.
Williams, 33, moves past Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert with a 19th major singles title.
She has now beaten Russia's Sharapova, the world number two, 16 times in a row dating back to 2004.
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"I have to congratulate Maria, she played a wonderful match and she really pushed me," said Williams.
"She played so well and gave me a great final not only for the fans, but for women's tennis. I'm really honoured to play her in the final."
Despite feeling so unwell during a rain delay in the first set that she left the court to vomit, Williams hit 18 aces and 38 winners as she won in one hour and 51 minutes.
Seemingly unsure for a moment that an ace had sealed victory, she then shook hands with Sharapova and bounded over to the corner of Rod Laver Arena towards her player box.
It was a brilliant performance in a final that exceeded many expectations, bearing in mind the players' head-to-head record.
Sharapova made a nervous start, double-faulting to drop serve in game one, while Williams appeared keener than ever to shorten the points, possibly because of her ailment.
The American crushed the Russian's second serve and was not disrupted by a 12-minute rain break that led to the roof being closed.
Still feeling the effects of a heavy cold that has dogged her over the last week, Williams headed off court - in contrast to Sharapova - but the top seed returned at the potentially dangerous score of 3-2, 30-30, to calmly produce an ace and a forehand winner.
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Breaks of serve were swapped before Williams took the set in 47 minutes with a backhand and a scream.
Sharapova was looking at another one-sided defeat when facing break points early in the second, but showed why she is a five-time Grand Slam champion.
She served her way out of trouble and managed to cling on in a set in which Williams hit 15 aces and won almost 90% of first-serve points.
A gripping contest developed, with Serena escaping at 3-2, 0-30 thanks to three aces and a service winner.
Another game of three aces led to the American being called for hindrance after shouting "Come on" before the point had finished, and she mockingly mouthed "calm down" to herself after another winner soon after.
Sharapova would not give in, saving a match point with a screaming forehand winner to make it 5-5, and seeing off a second in the tie-break behind a bold second serve.
Williams had a third opportunity, however, and after an apparent ace was called a let - much to her disbelief - she clinched it with another unplayable serve.
"I've not beaten her for a long time, but I love every time I play her as she is the best and you want to play against the best," said Sharapova.
"I gave it everything. I love playing in the Rod Laver Arena, I've had some of my best memories and toughest losses but that is the life of a tennis player."
The 25-year-old impressed after scoring in a friendly against St Mirren.
Sutherland headed to the United States on a soccer scholarship at Midwest State University and North Carolina State University.
He had previously been with Whitehill Welfare and Spartans and on his return was with Blackpool, Plymouth Argyle and Woking.
Sutherland, who represented Great Britain at university level, ended last season on a short-term contract with Queen's Park in League Two after having had a trial with Rangers.
However, he has now moved up to the Championship with the Blue Brazil.
Meanwhile, Cowden midfielder Greig Renton has joined junior club Lochore Welfare until January on loan.
Fellow 17-year-old Liam Dunn has joined Berwick Rangers on a permanent contract, the midfielder's one appearance for the Blue Brazil coming last season against the Borders outfit.
Carl Worrall, 49, of Pyle Street, Newport, Isle of Wight is accused of a public order offence.
Jack Stevens, 26, of Oxford Street, Long Eaton, was charged with criminal damage in connection with the throwing of a flare.
Nottinghamshire police commissioner Paddy Tipping said the cost of policing the march will probably reach £200,000.
About 100 EDL supporters attended, with several hundred people gathering to oppose the protest.
Mr Tipping said he will be asking the Home Office to introduce tougher laws to stop disruptive protests.
"We have to be clear that demonstrations like this are disruptive and they do cause concern in the wider community," he said.
"I am not sure we have got the balance right. People have a right to demonstrate but normal citizens have a right not to have their lives disrupted."
Police said of four other people arrested in connection with the demonstration, one was bailed and the other three released without charge.
They said they had received no reports of injury or assault during the march.
The force was supported by 21 other police forces - including specialist officers, police dogs and mounted officers.
India batted first and collapsed from 83-0 to 200 all out, with Steven Finn taking 3-36 and Ajinkya Rahane top-scoring with a patient 73.
England were in deep trouble at 66-5 but were rescued by a sixth-wicket partnership of 125 between James Taylor (82) and Jos Buttler (67).
England will play Australia in the final at the same venue on Sunday.
Eoin Morgan's side have lost both of their games against the hosts in the tournament.
The final will be England's last one-day international before the World Cup starts on 14 February, although they also have warm-ups against West Indies and Pakistan.
Reigning world champions India, who failed to register a win in the tri-series, have warm-up games against Australia and Afghanistan.
Having lost the toss at the Waca and been asked to bat, India openers Rahane and Shikhar Dhawan overcame a nervous start on an uneven pitch to put on 83 for the first wicket.
But the dismissal of Dhawan, who was caught behind by Buttler off the bowling of Chris Woakes, triggered the collapse.
Virat Kohli and Suresh Raina both perished cheaply trying to take on the off-spin of Moeen Ali.
Rahane lost another partner when Ambati Rayudu edged behind, handing Stuart Broad his first wicket of the series.
The powerplay saw India lose further ground, with only 23 runs scored for the loss of Rahane and Stuart Binny.
Finn accounted for both, dismissing Rahane caught behind and Binny courtesy of an outstanding slip catch by Ian Bell.
When captain MS Dhoni fell - undone by a ball that kept low from James Anderson, five balls after being hit on the helmet by the seamer - India looked unlikely to make it to 200.
However, some lusty hitting from Mohammed Shami saw 35 runs added for the last wicket.
Woakes eventually ended the innings with 11 balls remaining, but not before Shami had made the second-highest score by an India number 11 against England.
Finn was the pick of England's bowlers, while Anderson returned miserly figures of 1-24 from nine overs.
In reply, Bell was trapped in front by Sharma before Moeen threw his wicket away, chipping Axar Patel to Rayudu at long-off.
And when Joe Root fell for a duck in the following over, having driven a return catch to Binny, India were suddenly back in the match.
Morgan was undone as much by the unpredictability of the pitch as the medium pace of Binny, squirting a catch to mid-on.
In contrast, Ravi Bopara had no such excuses, steering a long-hop from Binny straight into the hands of Ravindra Jadeja at point.
Rahane should have run Buttler out when the Lancashire man had only three runs to his name and the missed chance proved to be the crucial turning point.
Taylor and Buttler slowly rebuilt the England innings, the former making his fourth fifty in eight matches since being recalled to the one-day team.
With Taylor playing the anchor role, Buttler was able to play some shots and his sixth fifty in ODIs came from 58 balls and included a couple of sweetly-timed off-drives.
England had a late wobble - Taylor top-edging a pull shot to long-leg and Buttler holing out in the covers - but Woakes and Broad saw them home with 19 balls to spare.
The move was confirmed in a statement to the Stock Exchange on Monday.
An extraordinary general meeting is being held at Ibrox on Friday, when the future of the current board is to be decided.
It is unclear if chief executive Derek Llambias and finance director Barry Leach will also go before Friday.
The Rangers Supporters Trust (RST) says it is "delighted" at Somers' resignation, describing him as "inept and embarrassing".
It has also announced that it has been given the proxy vote for the shares owned by former Rangers manager Walter Smith and now claims to have voting rights for 6.3% of the shareholding.
The EGM was called by shareholder Dave King, who has tabled resolutions aimed at ousting the current board and appointing himself, Paul Murray and John Gilligan in their place.
Somers, 66, had been chairman since October but has faced numerous calls to step down by fans who have been protesting for change.
He said in a statement: "I have worked in the City of London, the world's greatest financial centre for decades and enjoyed considerable success.
"When I was approached about the chairmanship of Rangers, friends warned me that the world of football has different rules and codes of behaviour.
"I now know that is a gross understatement.
"I am a non-confrontational man and have always tried to bring harmony to boardrooms and with stakeholders.
"At the risk of antagonising my army of critics, I would point out that Rangers managed to pay its bills and avoid going under during my tenure.
"These critics might not agree with how we achieved this.
"I look forward to alternative solutions from whoever is running the club in the future.
"Despite the personal attacks on me from various sources, I genuinely wish the club the very best in the future and I am confident that with such a passionate and vociferous fan base they will be restored to their former glories."
Director James Easdale last week resigned from the board, giving his reason as a lack of support from the club's fans.
In a damning statement, the RST said Somers' comments were "entirely in keeping with his behaviour" during his tenure.
It said: "His lack of ambition or ability, rampant self interest, contempt for shareholders and fans, and disastrous dearth of understanding of the position of responsibility he held will be his legacy.
"He will be remembered as one of the most inept and embarrassing chairmen of our wonderful sporting institution."
And the fans' group has called for the remaining directors, Llambias and Leach, to "follow Mr Somers out of the door".
"Mr Leach should have resigned when he made disparaging comments about major shareholders in a meeting with fans," said the RST statement.
"This amounted to gross misconduct in our opinion and in any normally operating business he would no longer be in position. He should be suspended and subject to disciplinary procedures after the general meeting.
"Mr Llambias has serious questions to answer over the recruitment process which saw him appointed as chief executive. Not least whether the inaccurate information which appeared in his bio on the Rangers website, and was circulated to shareholders, formed part of the information relied on to support his application.
"His ham-fisted attempt to use legal threats to silence legitimate criticism from the outgoing Fan Board has further alienated supporters. Taken together we believe these make his position untenable. He should also be suspended and subject to disciplinary procedures after the general meeting."
On the subject of Smith passing his voting right to the RST, a spokesman said: "Obviously we are delighted that Walter has agreed to proxy his shares to us.
"We are sure he shares our hope that things are about to change for the better."
Ryan Lloyd teed up Ross Hannah to give Chester what looked to be the game's only goal before a hectic ending.
Emile Sinclair headed Oliver Norburn's corner to level before Will Hatfield gave Guiseley an 81st-minute lead.
Kane Richards levelled just two minutes later while Sinclair looked to have won it after tapping in James Hurst's cross before Tom Shaw equalised again.
A police spokesman said it was not clear how those found had died, but that tests were being carried out to establish their identities.
The camp was found on Friday on a route regularly used to smuggle Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma).
One very ill survivor was also found.
Police General Jarumporn Suramanee told the AFP news agency that one of the 26 bodies recovered was a woman.
"There are no more bodies," he went on. "Every hole has been searched."
A police spokesman said earlier that human traffickers were believed to have abandoned the sick man a few days ago, as they moved people across the border from the camp, in Songkhla province.
The BBC's Jonah Fisher in Myanmar says that it is not immediately clear how the people died but that, from looking at the remains, police officers believe that many perished from disease or starvation.
The purpose of the camp is also unclear but our correspondent says that smugglers are known to hold people in camps for months while ransoms are demanded from their families back home.
Every year thousands of people are trafficked through Thailand and into Malaysia.
Rohingya Muslims in particular have used the route to flee persecution and sectarian violence in neighbouring Myanmar.
In 2012, more than 200 people were killed and thousands left homeless after violence broke out between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar. Anti-Muslim violence has flared several times since then.
In December, the UN passed a resolution urging Myanmar to give access to citizenship for the Rohingya, many of whom are classed as stateless.
Lawro's opponent for FA Cup fourth-round weekend is former Cambridge United and Manchester United striker Dion Dublin.
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Dublin made his name as a striker with the U's, who sold him to United for £1m in 1992. He believed that Cambridge, who are mid-table in League Two and the lowest ranked side left in the competition, had a chance against the 11-time winners. And he was right!
"Anything can happen," Dublin told BBC Sport before the game. "There is always a chance in the FA Cup, there's always a twist.
"I don't think Cambridge will win the tie, best scenario is to get a draw. Underdogs do tend to find a few extra percent against teams like Manchester United."
How right he was as the sides battled out a goalless draw in front of the BBC cameras.
* Dion specified a scoreline, but declined to pick a winner. However, he says he wants a draw.
# away team to win at home in the replay
^ home team to win away in the replay
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth ONE point. Getting the exact score correct earns THREE points.
Last week, Lawro got four correct results from 10 Premier League games, with no perfect scores.
His score of four points was beaten by comedian Seann Walsh, who picked five correct results, with one perfect score for a total of seven points.
We are keeping a record of the totals for Lawro and his guests (below), and showing a table of how the Premier League would look if all of Lawro's predictions were correct (at the bottom of the page).
All kick-offs 15:00 GMT unless otherwise stated.
Lawro's prediction: 0-3
Dion's prediction: 3-1/1-3 (Dion specified a scoreline, but declined to pick a winner. However, he said he wanted a draw)
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Lawro's prediction: 0-1
Dion's prediction: 0-2
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Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Dion's prediction: 1-1 (West Brom to win the replay)
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Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Dion's prediction: 1-0
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Lawro's prediction: 3-0
Dion's prediction: 5-0
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Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Dion's prediction: 3-1
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Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Dion's prediction: 2-0
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Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Dion's prediction: 0-0 (Sheff Utd to win the replay)
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Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Dion's prediction: 2-1
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Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Dion's prediction: 3-1
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Lawro's prediction: 1-1 (Leicester to win the replay)
Dion's prediction: 2-2 (Leicester to win the replay)
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Lawro's prediction: 1-1 (Liverpool to win the replay)
Dion's prediction: 2-1
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Lawro's prediction: 1-2
Dion's prediction: 1-3
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Lawro's prediction: 1-1 (Bournemouth to win the replay)
Dion's prediction: 1-1 (Bournemouth to win the replay)
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Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Dion's prediction: 0-2
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Lawro's prediction: 1-1 (Stoke to win the replay)
Dion's prediction: 1-3
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Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Lawro's best score: 17 points (week seven v Ossie Ardiles)
Lawro's worst score: 2 points (week 20 v Steve Wilson)
The 153 skiers were stuck on the slopes of the Cervinia resort for seven hours on Saturday after wires carrying the cabins became tangled in strong winds.
The cars stopped at an altitude of more than 2,500m (8,366ft), and the rescue ended just before midnight.
No cases of hypothermia were reported during the incident in the Aosta Valley, near the French border.
"Luckily the wind wasn't too cold... everything is under control," Adriano Favre, the head of the local rescue teams, was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.
Television pictures of the rescue showed the skiers using wires to slide down the cable to the ground.
In September, more than 30 tourists spent a cold night trapped in several cable cars high above the French Alps.
They were eventually freed after rescuers managed to restart the cabins by relaxing the tension of tangled cables.
Scotland's Charity Air Ambulance (SCAA), the only charity-funded helicopter air ambulance, has been upgraded to a new model.
The new helicopter was revealed by Health Secretary Shona Robison and SCAA chairman John Bullough.
The UK government has provided £3.3m of funding for the new helicopter from Libor fines on banks.
The money comes from fines imposed on the banking industry for rigging the Libor benchmark interest rate.
The EC 135 replaces the current charity-funded air ambulance, the country's last Bolkow 105, which will be taken out of service.
The new helicopter was unveiled at the SCAA's Perth Airport base.
Liz Smith, Scottish Conservative MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife said: "The new helicopter will provide a modern, spacious, powerful and all-round more capable aircraft that could increase operational capacity by over 50%.
"Since the charity Air Ambulance was launched it has attended over 750 time critical emergency callouts.
"The £3.3m funding provided by the UK government from Libor fines on banks is very welcome and has helped to put the air ambulance on strong and sustainable footing for the future.
"Scotland's Charity Air Ambulance is one of the best things that has happened in Perthshire. It has successfully brought together the public, big business and local community groups. I wish the charity the very best going forward."
So far, Putin has driven past all of them and shows no sign of changing course. A recent Pew poll provides at least a partial explanation: Putin has a considerable domestic political wind at his back.
Even though there is growing concern among the Russian people about the state of the economy, 88% of those surveyed nevertheless trust Putin's leadership.
Putin may well be driving Russia into the wilderness but so far the Russian people are enjoying the ride. The current dynamic reminds them of the halcyon days of the Soviet Union.
With no obvious end in sight, Europe, the United States and Russia are left with a series of reciprocal moves that do not necessarily represent an escalation but certainly deepen the chasm between East and West.
The European Union recently renewed sanctions against Russia for another six months as part of a Western strategy to increase the costs to Putin to a degree that it changes his calculus.
At least for now, Putin's domestic political gain outweighs the international pain.
US Defence Secretary Ash Carter, on a visit to Estonia, announced additional support for Nato's rapid reaction force.
While the prepositioning of equipment and increased exercises communicate the alliance's preparedness to defend its allies, the same Pew poll suggested that there is a discernible sentiment across "Old Europe", notably in Germany, against a military response, even if Russia attacks a Nato ally.
One key factor in that scepticism is Germany's preoccupation with keeping the European Union intact and the eurozone afloat.
In fact, if the EU fails to reach a revised financial agreement with Athens in time to meet a scheduled repayment to the International Monetary Fund on 30 June and Greece defaults, it may be forced out of the eurozone.
If that happens, the fallout could weaken either the existing European consensus on sanctions against Russia or their effectiveness, since Athens might increase its economic reliance on Moscow to help with its economic recovery.
Either way, Putin gains.
Putin for his part pledged to strengthen Russia's nuclear forces, the only genuine strategic card that Russia has left. And it plays well with the home crowd.
Nato is also committed to helping Ukraine improve its ability to defend itself, a process that will be likely to take a decade or more.
Recognising that stability will take years to achieve under the best of circumstances, as there is a growing understanding that the crisis is larger than Ukraine.
Until now, Europe has been guided by a sensible policy of isolating Russia over Ukraine while leaving all doors open for political, economic and military co-operation if and when Russia stops its destabilisation strategy against Kiev.
For example, Russia still has an ambassador at Nato and all the structures for defence co-operation remain in place, if dormant.
But Putin is challenging how the international system works, the degree to which international norms will be enforced and what regional prerogatives his country should have. Russian policy under Putin is far more about counterbalancing than co-operating.
Thus, the new Nato with 28 member states finds itself wrestling with an old question: what to make of Russia and what are the implications for transatlantic security.
To the extent Ukraine is not a temporary diversion but a manifestation of a more permanent challenge to Western interests and values, it raises the question of whether the current Russian revisionism is a reflection of its leader or the system that produced him.
If the leader is driving the system, the existing antagonism could last as long as a decade. If the system is driving the leader, then it requires a fundamental rethinking of the strategy that has guided European and American policy since the end of the Cold War.
That's not a question that needs to be answered now. Putin and Russia are currently one and the same.
But just to put that in perspective, presidential campaigning is under way in America. If the next president serves two terms, he or she will still be dealing with Putin in his or her eighth year in office.
If there is another attempt at a reset with Russia down the road, it will be the president after next who makes that attempt.
PJ Crowley is a former US Assistant Secretary of State and now a professor of practice and fellow at The George Washington University Institute of Public Diplomacy & Global Communication.
"I in no way advocate the gender pay gap," he said, claiming his remarks had been "taken out of context".
Chambers faced a social media backlash after claiming men's salaries should be higher as they had families to support.
The actor also said his Casualty co-star Derek Thompson deserved to be the BBC's highest-paid actor.
"It's like being a footballer - you earn your credits," he was quoted as saying at a book launch.
"I've just done six months on Casualty, but Derek has done 31 years of service."
"My wife works really hard as a stay-at-home mum, but I'm the only one bringing in a salary for our family," he reportedly went on to say.
"Many men's salaries aren't just for them, it's for their wife and children, too."
Thompson's salary was among those disclosed in the BBC's annual report, which highlighted a disparity between what the corporation's male and female celebrities are paid.
"I am completely mortified by the stories that have run today and didn't mean to offend anyone by my comments," Chambers told the Press Association on Tuesday.
"I was explaining that I thought it had stemmed from that past, and shouldn't be how things are now.
"I truly believe that change needs to happen."
Chambers, a former winner of Strictly Come Dancing, plays Sam Strachan on Casualty and its sister show Holby City.
His comments come amid continued debate about the BBC's pay disclosures and the wider issue of gender pay disparity.
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Four people have been taken to hospital and a further eight treated for asthma symptoms since the fire began at a recycling plant on Thursday.
Described by authorities as "the size of a sports field", the fire is likely to burn for at least two more days.
It has cast smoke and ash as far as 15km (nine miles) away.
Metropolitan Fire Brigade Commander Brendan Angwin said the blaze is being fuelled by thousands of tonnes of plastic, cardboard and paper.
"It is extremely difficult to gain access to the fire," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
"We are really concerned for firefighter safety."
The local Environmental Protection Agency has described air quality in the vicinity as "very poor".
Authorities have urged anyone near the fire, at Coolaroo in Melbourne's north, to take shelter indoors. An emergency relief centre has been set up.
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The Pension Tracing Service will have its headcount tripled to 49 by April.
Last year, the service was contacted 145,000 times - double the number of contacts it dealt with in 2010.
It helps people to find providers of pensions they have lost contact with, often after switching jobs.
Estimates by the National Association of Pension Funds suggest that there could be as many as 50 million dormant and lost pension pots by 2050.
Pensions Minister Steve Webb said: "Whilst we have plans to help people combine their pension pots in future when they change jobs, there are still too many scattered and lost pensions.
"We are working hard to make sure people get what they are entitled to."
Jill Scott, operational manager at the PTS, pointed out that recovering this money can help people enter retirement "in a much better position".
"While it may sound strange, losing track of a pension is easily done, as people tend to move around the jobs market far more frequently than might have been the case in the past," she said.
From April pension holders will also be able to access the government's new "pension wise" service, which offers guidance to people over 55 about how they can make the most of the new pension freedoms which will come into force the same month.
Changes announced by George Osborne last year will mean that around 300,000 people a year will be able to access their defined contribution (DC) pension savings on demand, subject to their marginal tax rate in that year.
It replaces the current system in which people are directed towards a retirement annuity.
Concerns were raised earlier this month on Radio 4's Money Box that the new advice service will not have enough staff to deal with the demand expected when the new rules come into force in April.
The hosts went ahead through Zlatan Ibrahimovic's deflected free-kick.
But John Mikel Obi scored a precious away goal, capitalising on some terrible defending to sweep home a deserved leveller from six yards.
Chelsea's stoic defending had them on course for a draw, before Cavani steered home Angel di Maria's pass.
The 29-year-old Uruguay striker, who has been used primarily as back-up to Ibrahimovic this season, scored moments after substitute Oscar spurned a chance for the visitors.
But with the second leg to come at Stamford Bridge on 9 March, the Blues are still very much in contention thanks to Mikel's goal - and Thibaut Courtois' late save from Ibrahimovic.
Some have called this a make-or-break week for Chelsea, with this match followed by an FA Cup tie against Manchester City on Sunday.
With their Premier League title defence already over, Guus Hiddink's men will know by the end of the weekend whether they can salvage anything from a disappointing domestic season.
But whatever happens against City, they will be hopeful of progressing in this competition after a promising performance in the French capital.
This is the third successive season these teams have been drawn against each other, and both previous ties were decided on away goals. Chelsea progressed in 2014 despite losing the first leg 3-1 in Parc des Princes - though admittedly they were a more formidable outfit than this vintage - but were beaten last season.
This was Chelsea's first defeat since Hiddink took charge after Jose Mourinho's sacking in November, leading his team to a 12-match unbeaten run.
The Blues thumped Newcastle 5-1 at the weekend, but Laurent Blanc's men were a step up in class.
The Ligue 1 leaders are unbeaten in 44 league games and lead second-placed Monaco by 24 points, though before the match Hiddink questioned the quality of the French top flight.
There is no doubting the quality of players at PSG's disposal, however, with Blanc able to recall the likes of of Ibrahimovic, Marco Verratti and Lucas Moura after resting them at the weekend.
The hosts were by far the superior side in the opening 17 minutes, enjoying 74% of possession, but all they had to show for it was a long-range Lucas strike.
As the visitors dragged themselves back into the match, Ibrahimovic scored against the run of play. Indeed, were it not for Kevin Trapp's fingertips diverting Diego Costa's header onto the crossbar, the Blues would have been ahead before the Swede scored his first goal against them.
Ibrahimovic's free-kick struck Mikel en route to beating Courtois, but the Nigeria midfielder quickly made amends by capitalising on poor PSG defending from a corner.
With John Terry and Kurt Zouma injured, Chelsea were without their first-choice centre-backs.
But the makeshift partnership of Gary Cahill - who blocked bravely from Blaise Matuidi - and Branislav Ivanovic withstood wave after wave of second-half PSG attacks until they were eventually breached in the closing stages.
They were ably supported by Courtois, who made a series of saves, though he was culpable for allowing Cavani to thread the ball between his legs and in at the near post.
Terry's hamstring injury resulted in a promotion for Ghana defender Baba Rahman, and the left-back played his part in the Blues' rearguard display.
Chelsea boss Guus Hiddink said: "Scoring away is always good. I'm never happy with a loss but it's not a dramatic loss."
Paris St-Germain counterpart Laurent Blanc said: "The return game will probably be open and, hopefully, with some goals."
Chelsea host Manchester City in the FA Cup fifth round on Sunday before travelling to Southampton in the Premier League on 27 February.
Match ends, Paris Saint Germain 2, Chelsea 1.
Second Half ends, Paris Saint Germain 2, Chelsea 1.
Attempt missed. Pedro (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Willian.
Attempt saved. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Javier Pastore with a cross.
Foul by Thiago Silva (Paris Saint Germain).
Diego Costa (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Thiago Motta (Paris Saint Germain).
Willian (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Thiago Silva (Paris Saint Germain) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the left following a corner.
Corner, Paris Saint Germain. Conceded by Gary Cahill.
Attempt blocked. Marquinhos (Paris Saint Germain) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gary Cahill (Chelsea).
Offside, Paris Saint Germain. Javier Pastore tries a through ball, but Zlatan Ibrahimovic is caught offside.
Javier Pastore (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Baba Rahman (Chelsea).
Substitution, Paris Saint Germain. Javier Pastore replaces Blaise Matuidi.
Substitution, Paris Saint Germain. Adrien Rabiot replaces Marco Verratti.
Marco Verratti (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Willian (Chelsea).
Goal! Paris Saint Germain 2, Chelsea 1. Edinson Cavani (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ángel Di María with a through ball.
Attempt saved. Oscar (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas with a through ball.
Foul by Edinson Cavani (Paris Saint Germain).
Pedro (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Ángel Di María (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Pedro (Chelsea).
Substitution, Paris Saint Germain. Edinson Cavani replaces Lucas Moura.
Lucas Moura (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Oscar (Chelsea).
Blaise Matuidi (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Diego Costa (Chelsea).
Offside, Chelsea. Willian tries a through ball, but Branislav Ivanovic is caught offside.
Substitution, Chelsea. Oscar replaces Eden Hazard.
David Luiz (Paris Saint Germain) is shown the yellow card.
Lucas Moura (Paris Saint Germain) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Lucas Moura (Paris Saint Germain).
Baba Rahman (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the left wing.
David Luiz (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea).
Corner, Paris Saint Germain. Conceded by Thibaut Courtois.
Danny Rowe scored the game's only goal after 21 minutes when he unleashed a superb left-footed strike when he was given time to shoot.
Bromley came close to cancelling out Rowe's goal - his second in as many games - as Tobi Sho-Silva headed against the crossbar before Rob Swaine hit a post shortly after half-time.
Macc defender John McCombe was also needed to clear a Blair Turgott shot off the line as the visitors claimed a win to move them three points behind new leaders Lincoln.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Bromley 0, Macclesfield Town 1.
Second Half ends, Bromley 0, Macclesfield Town 1.
Mitch Hancox (Macclesfield Town) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Bromley. Bradley Goldberg replaces Blair Turgott.
Substitution, Macclesfield Town. David Fitzpatrick replaces Chris Holroyd.
Substitution, Macclesfield Town. Jack Sampson replaces Ollie Norburn.
Danny Whitaker (Macclesfield Town) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Bromley. Alfie Pavey replaces Adam Cunnington.
Ollie Norburn (Macclesfield Town) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half begins Bromley 0, Macclesfield Town 1.
First Half ends, Bromley 0, Macclesfield Town 1.
Goal! Bromley 0, Macclesfield Town 1. Danny M. Rowe (Macclesfield Town).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Previews of Cleansed by Sarah Kane at the National Theatre on London's South Bank saw people pass out due to the scenes of torture, rape and violence.
People were warned of "graphic scenes of physical and sexual violence" in promotional material, the theatre said.
Up to 40 people reportedly walked out of the production which depicts a character having their tongue cut out.
Sarah Kane has been described as one of Britain's most influential playwrights and killed herself aged 28, a year after Cleansed was first staged at the Royal Court in 1998.
The play is set in a university campus and draws on the torture chambers of the former Yugoslavia, during the civil war, for inspiration. It features a gay couple, a young woman and a dancer who are tortured by a doctor on stage in an attempt to test their love.
In a Front Row interview for BBC Radio 4, the play's director, Katie Mitchell said the cast had experienced nightmares as a result of the performances.
She said: "We have to laugh a lot, in order to balance the despair and the darkness of the material."
"We all dream huge nightmares, everyone has very strange nightmares, where very extreme events takes place," she continued.
The reason for wanting to stage the play now, she said, was partly as a result of a new political structure at the National that sought to promote women's work.
"Reviving a play as powerful as Cleansed, by a young woman, is very much fulfilling that new, feminist remit," the director said.
Although it depicts a character having their tongue cut out and placing their hands in a shredder, she said the play was "not about violence, it's about love."
"All of the torture going on is led by a doctor who is making tests about love, its durability. The gay couple in it, the durability of their love is being tested and they are being tortured to see whether their love will survive."
Responding to claims that up to 40 people had already walked out of the performances at the National, she said culturally there was very little tradition in Britain of portraying the violence and atrocity on stage of world events.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Buttler, 25, scored an unbeaten 73 in the Twenty20 win over Sri Lanka on Tuesday.
All-rounder Stokes, 25, is unable to bowl following knee surgery but has been playing as a batsman for Durham.
"They have to be in contention, I would think," said Bayliss before the first Test, which starts on 14 July.
"There's Buttler, [Surrey's Jason] Roy, Stokes playing as a batter - he made 250 [258 in 198 balls against South Africa in Cape Town in January] just a few Tests ago.
"It will be an interesting selection meeting."
Next week's Test is the first of four Tests England will play against Pakistan, before five ODIs and one T20 international.
Buttler was dropped from the Test side after a run of poor form, with his last five-day appearance coming in the second game against Pakistan in Dubai last October.
He has not played a first-class match for county Lancashire since his last Test, while Yorkshire's Jonny Bairstow has taken over the gloves with the national side.
However, he has impressed with the bat in limited overs cricket, scoring 93 and 70 in the one-day series with Sri Lanka prior to his match-winning knock in the T20 in Southampton.
"Personally, I think he'd be better in Test cricket if he played like he does in the white-ball game," said Australian Bayliss. "That would be devastating, him coming in at six or seven, and being able to play that.
"He certainly looks like he has a lot of confidence at the moment - this series [against Sri Lanka] has probably been as consistent as he's played since I got here.
"I'm sure he'd love to be in the Test team, and I'm sure he'll play a lot more Test cricket."
England must make a change further up the order, after out-of-form number three Nick Compton's decision to take a break from all cricket.
Yorkshire's Joe Root or Hampshire's James Vince will move up from their positions, unless England bring in a new number three such as Durham's Scott Borthwick, who has scored three hundreds and averages 58.50 in the County Championship this season.
Bayliss said: "Long-term, I think Root is our number three.
"Rooty would have to want to do it - it's a big change, and he's done well at number four.
"My way of thinking is you put your best batter at number three.
"From what I've seen of Vince, I think he could handle number four also. In a way he's a similar style of player to Rooty - a classical player, plays nice and straight - so there's no reason why he couldn't make a success of number three."
There are still fitness concerns regarding England's all-time leading Test wicket-taker James Anderson.
The 33-year-old has been diagnosed with a stress fracture of the shoulder blade in his bowling arm.
"I'm not sure the medical team know exactly how long it will take to come back," added Bayliss.
"There will be an ongoing assessment between now and the Test, giving him every chance to make himself available."
Pakistan seam bowler Mohammad Amir is set to make his Test comeback at Lord's, the venue where his bowling of deliberate no-balls during the 2010 tour of England earned him a five-year ban after pleaded guilty to spot-fixing.
The 24-year-old impressed in the recent tour match with Somerset, taking 3-36 in the first innings and 1-42 in the second.
England captain Alastair Cook is expecting England fans to give Amir hostile reception.
"I'm sure there will be a reaction and that is right," said Cook.
"That is part and parcel, that when you do something like that there are more consequences than just the punishment - that is something for him to cope with, whatever comes his way.
Alex Hopkins, currently director of Northamptonshire, will take control of the Sunderland service in July.
Two separate case reviews in November 2015 found the council's failings may have contributed to the death of one baby and the injury of another.
A council spokeswoman said more frontline staff had also been taken on.
Last year Ofsted found the council did not respond quickly enough to concerns over a child, Baby Penny, who fell and drowned in the bath in 2014.
It also found information about risks to a child - Baby N - whose father was later convicted of neglect and ill treatment, was not properly shared.
The service is to be run by a new company and is expected to run in shadow form from September and be fully operational by April 2017.
Commissioner for children's services, Nick Whitfield, said: "Alex's success in leading the transformation in Northamptonshire has resulted in Ofsted recently finding improvement across all areas and I believe he has the ability to truly transform children's services in Sunderland."
PepsiCo gained 2% after reporting stronger numbers than expected.
Bond prices, gold and utilities stocks fell as investors braved their way out of these safer assets.
The Dow Jones rose 40 points to 17,960, while the wider S&P 500 index was up 6 points at 2,105 while the tech-focused Nasdaq climbed 20 points to 4,879.
The 29-year-old limped off during the first half of Friday's Premiership win over local rivals Bristol.
The former Scarlets player - who switched to the English club in 2015 - will see a specialist on Wednesday, Bath head coach Tabai Matson said.
"It is not looking really good. He is going to be out for a chunk of the winter," Matson told BBC Points West.
"For us, it is a big loss and a big blow for the squad."
Priestland was omitted from Wales' squad for the autumn Tests, as he was not one of their three players selected from outside Wales, a decision he "expected".
Bath are second in the Premiership after winning seven of their first eight league games this season.
Team Scotland won 10 medals, including four golds, to claim third place in the medal table.
England leads the table with six golds out of 17 medals on day one, with Australia second.
Much of the Scottish success came in judo, with six medal winners, including golds for sisters Kimberley and Louise Renicks.
Sisters Kimberley and Louise Renicks won Scotland's first gold medals with victories before a raucous home crowd.
Kimberley, 26, secured her country's first gold, beating India's Sushila Likmabam courtesy of an ippon in the 48kg weight category.
The Lanarkshire native's crowning move sparked jubilant scenes at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC).
Louise, 31, overcame England's Kelly Edwards in a nervy 52kg final.
There was more medal success for Scotland in the judo hall with Stephanie Inglis taking silver in the under 57kg category while Glasgow fighter Connie Ramsay secured bronze.
John Buchanan won bronze in the men's under 60kg category while James Millar took bronze in the under 66kg competition.
In one of the shocks of the Games so far, Ross Murdoch broke the Commonwealth Games record as he easily beat fellow Scot Michael Jamieson to claim gold in the men's 200m breaststroke final.
Murdoch finished nearly a second ahead of Jamieson - the poster boy of Glasgow 2014 - in two minutes 7.30 seconds, with England's Andrew Willis third.
A thrilled Murdoch, 20, said: "There's no way that just happened. I can't believe it. That was amazing.
"I didn't think I could do that if I'm honest. I'm so surprised."
Hannah Miley won the gold medal ahead of England's Aimee Willmott in the women's 400m individual medley.
Scotland's first medal of the games went to Aileen McGlynn and pilot Louise Haston who won silver in para-cycling.
The pair came second in the women's sprint B2 tandem at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome.
The race was won by Sophie Thornhill and pilot Helen Scott, who picked up England's first Commonwealth Games track gold after beating the Scottish pair 2-0 in a best-of-three final.
English success started with Triathlete Jodie Stimpson, who won the first gold medal of the Games to banish the pain of missing out on the London Olympics.
Stimpson sprinted to victory at Strathclyde Country Park while team-mate Vicky Holland took a surprise bronze behind Canada's Kirsten Sweetland.
Stimpson went into the race as the top-ranked competitor and justified that position with a commanding performance, pulling away from Sweetland over the closing 500 metres.
Alistair Brownlee added Commonwealth triathlon gold to his Olympic, world and European titles to complete the full set and make it a perfect opening day for England.
Brownlee ran away from a splintered field as younger brother Jonny took silver and South Africa's Richard Murray bronze.
Stewart Harris, chief executive of sportscotland, said: "Congratulations to all Team Scotland athletes who gave their all for their country today, and what an outstanding achievement it is to win 10 medals on the opening day.
"Four gold, three silver, and four bronze medals has exceeded all expectations. Spurred on by an incredible home crowd, Team Scotland is on track to deliver its best ever medal haul at a Commonwealth Games.
"This is a historic and proud day for Team Scotland."
In total, about 4,500 athletes from 71 nations are taking part in the Games, which run until 3 August.
The group, which includes the former CIA director Michael Hayden, said Mr Trump "lacks the character, values and experience" to be president.
Many of the signatories had declined to sign a similar note in March.
In response, Mr Trump said they were part of a "failed Washington elite" looking to hold on to power.
The open letter comes after a number of high-profile Republicans stepped forward to disown the property tycoon.
Mr Trump has broken with years of Republican foreign policy on a number of occasions.
The Republican candidate has questioned whether the US should honour its commitments to Nato, endorsed the use of torture and suggested that South Korea and Japan should arm themselves with nuclear weapons.
"He weakens US moral authority as the leader of the free world," the letter read.
"He appears to lack basic knowledge about and belief in the US Constitution, US laws, and US institutions, including religious tolerance, freedom of the press, and an independent judiciary."
"None of us will vote for Donald Trump," the letter states.
In a statement, Mr Trump said the names on the letter were "the ones the American people should look to for answers on why the world is a mess".
"We thank them for coming forward so everyone in the country knows who deserves the blame for making the world such a dangerous place," he continued.
"They are nothing more than the failed Washington elite looking to hold on to their power and it's time they are held accountable for their actions."
Also among those who signed the letter were John Negroponte, the first director of national intelligence and later deputy secretary of state; Robert Zoellick, who was also a former deputy secretary of state and former president of the World Bank; and two former secretaries of homeland security, Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff.
The letter echoed similar sentiment shared by some Republican national security officials in March, but the new additions came after Mr Trump encouraged Russia to hack Mrs Clinton's email server, according to the New York Times.
Mr Trump later said he was "being sarcastic" when he made the remarks about hacking his rival's emails.
Missing from the letter were former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, James Baker, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice.
Some of the latest letter's signatories plan to vote for Mr Trump's Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton while others will refuse to vote, but "all agree Trump is not qualified and would be dangerous," said John Bellinger, a former legal adviser to Ms Rice who drafted the letter.
The open letter follows a fresh round of Republican defections in the wake of recent controversy surrounding Mr Trump.
Lezlee Westine, a former aide to President George W Bush, announced her support for Mrs Clinton in a statement to the Washington Post on Monday.
Wadi Gaitan, a prominent Latino official and chief spokesman for the Republican party in Florida, announced he would leave the party over Mr Trump's candidacy.
Meanwhile, George P Bush broke with his father, Jeb Bush, to lend his support to Mr Trump on Sunday, the Texas Tribune reported.
The Texas land commissioner urged party members to unite behind his father's former Republican primary rival.
Other Republicans not voting for Mr Trump
An initial 150 soldiers are to be followed by a further 450 within days.
US President Barack Obama has warned Russia it faces new sanctions if it refuses to implement an agreement to reduce tensions in eastern Ukraine.
Reports are coming in of violent incidents overnight between pro-Russian militants and Ukrainian forces in Mariupol and Artemivsk.
Mr Obama accuses Russia of flouting last week's deal on Ukraine while Moscow has warned it will respond to any attack on its "interests" in Ukraine.
Speaking on Russian state TV channel RT on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov drew a parallel with the 2008 Georgian war, saying that if "the interests of Russians have been attacked directly.... I do not see any other way but to respond in full accordance with international law".
Mr Lavrov also accused the US of "running the show" in Ukraine, and that it was "quite telling" that Kiev had re-launched its "anti-terrorist" operation in the east on Tuesday during a visit by US Vice-President Joe Biden.
US state department spokeswoman Jen Psaki dismissed his comments as "ludicrous". "Our approach here is de-escalation. We don't think there's a military solution on the ground," she said.
The 150 soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade arrived in the Polish town of Swidwin from their base in Vicenza, Italy.
Stephen Mull, the US ambassador to Poland, said the US had a "solemn obligation in the framework of Nato to reassure Poland of our security guarantee".
President Obama told a news conference in Japan that Moscow had failed to halt actions by pro-Russian militants in Ukraine.
The US had further sanctions against Russia "teed up", he added.
The US troops are expected to be carrying out military exercises in Poland as well as in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia for the coming months.
There has been growing concern in those countries at the build-up of thousands of troops in Russia along its borders with Ukraine in recent weeks.
Elsewhere, the UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed that Russian military aircraft had been identified approaching the north of Scotland, but they turned away shortly after fighter jets were scrambled to investigate.
Military officials in the Netherlands and Denmark confirmed they too had scrambled jets to escort the jets away from their airspace.
And in the seas around the UK, a Royal Navy warship is shadowing a Russian destroyer in what the MoD described as a "well established and standard response" as it sails past British territory.
But the focus of the tension remains eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian separatists have taken over administrative buildings in at least a dozen towns in a bid to seek closer ties to Moscow.
Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov announced on Thursday that the city hall in Mariupol, a port on the Sea of Azov, had been "liberated" overnight without any casualties.
"Civic activists" played a major part in the operation, he said.
However, local news website 0629 reported that the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk was still claiming control over the mayor's hall after a struggle with attackers.
Mr Avakov also reported that Ukrainian troops in Artemivsk had fended off an attempt by dozens of pro-Russian militants to seize weapons from a military unit. One soldier was wounded, he said.
Unverified footage of military helicopters, said to be flying over Artemivsk, was posted by a blogger on YouTube.
Unrest began in Ukraine last November over whether the country should look towards Moscow or the West.
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Downes, 29, left Plainmoor last month following a three-year stay, during which time he made 115 appearances, scoring 16 times.
Munns, 21, was out of contract at Charlton having not made appearance for the Championship club.
The pair become manager Gary Johnson's first signings since Cheltenham's relegation to the Conference.
Karl Richter-John, from Swansea, was involved in flying 650 kilos of the drug into Heathrow in October 2013.
Bristol Crown Court heard police intercepted and replaced the drugs with bricks, before undercover officers delivered it to an Avonmouth address.
Richter-John, 43, was traced to an address in Spain and extradited.
His 52-year-old father-in-law Malcolm John, from Burry Port, previously admitted to conspiring with Richter-John to import the drugs
Det Insp Austin Goss, of Avon and Somerset Police, said the men tried to "make a tremendous amount of money by importing cannabis from South Africa".
"They tried to control it through violence and exploitation of people," he added.
Claire Jones, from Burry Port, Lilly Harris-John, of Swansea, and Peter Davies, of no fixed address, were all cleared of any involvement.
After the guilty verdict, Judge Mike Roach told Richter-John: "I don't want to mislead you but you are facing a prison sentence, and it will be a substantial one."
The pair will be sentenced on 19 February.
Olof Schoon, Leonardus Bijlsma and Richard Engelsbel brought drugs in to the UK concealed behind panels in the bogus ambulances.
The smugglers were arrested after a raid by officials in June in Smethwick, West Midlands.
All men were sentenced on Friday at Birmingham Crown Court.
Father-of-three Olof Schoon, 38, from Amsterdam, received 24 years in prison.
Leonardus Bijlsma, a 55-year-old father-of-four from Hoofddorp and described as Schoon's "right-hand man", received 28 years.
Richard Engelsbel, 51, from Amsterdam, was given 18 years after admitting acting as driver on 25 smuggling trips purporting to be journeys to pick up injured patients.
Sentencing the men, Judge Francis Laird said the "meticulously planned" conspiracy tried to import drugs into the country on a "truly colossal scale".
A raid that took place in June by officials from the National Crime Agency found cocaine worth £30m, heroin worth £8m in individual deals and ecstasy tablets and crystal worth £60,000 in the fake ambulance used by the men.
The men's operation involved a fleet of fully taxed and insured adapted ambulances, which were created in the Netherlands.
Fake invoices and paperwork for false patient transfers to The Royal London Hospital were produced by Schoon's company, despite the hospital having no records of any trips, with false addresses and phone numbers for patients also made.
The operation ran from April last year and at the time of the arrests Schoon was believed to have made 39 separate journeys.
The bid had faced opposition, with many people concerned that local funds would be used to pay for cost overruns.
The decision means that another US city will have the opportunity to bid for the Games.
The US has until 15 September to submit a bid to the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Analysts say Los Angeles is now likely to be the frontrunner to be selected as the US candidate.
In a statement, USOC chief Scott Blackmun said the short time before a bid must be submitted meant that not enough public support could be mustered.
"The USOC does not think that the level of support enjoyed by Boston's bid would allow it to prevail over great bids from Paris, Rome, Hamburg, Budapest or Toronto," he said.
Mr Blackmun added that USOC will explore the possibility of entering a different city in September's bid.
One concern of local opposition groups was that the cost of the Games would have risen far higher than the estimated $4.6bn (£3bn).
London's 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games cost $13bn, according to UK government figures.
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said: "No benefit is so great that it is worth handing over the financial future of our city and our citizens were rightly hesitant to be supportive as a result."
Earlier on Monday, Mr Walsh had said he would "refuse to mortgage the future of the city away".
Boston was selected as the designated US host city in February after beating off competition from Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington DC.
The last time the USA hosted a summer games was in Atlanta in 1996. Salt Lake City, Utah, hosted the Winter Olympics in 2002.
The 77-year-old is best known for his neurotic romantic comedies - notably Annie Hall, for which he won Oscars as both director and screenwriter.
"There is no-one more worthy," said awards organiser Theo Kingma.
It is not known whether Allen, who usually shuns Hollywood events, will attend the ceremony next January.
He was a no-show at last year's Golden Globes, where he won best original screenplay for his Parisian time-travel comedy Midnight In Paris - leaving Nicole Kidman to accept the trophy on his behalf.
The New Yorker instead concentrates on his prolific movie-making career, averaging a film a year.
His latest, Blue Jasmine, is his 49th in the director's chair, and stars Cate Blanchett as a socialite whose life of privilege comes to an abrupt halt during the financial crisis.
Born Allen Stewart Konigsberg in 1935, Woody Allen wrote gags for entertainers like Bob Hope and Sid Caesar before becoming a stand-up in his own right.
His nerdy, nervous delivery was a sly cover for devastating one-liners: "Sex without love is a meaningless experience," went one, "but as far as meaningless experiences go, it's pretty damn good."
After penning scripts for The Tonight Show, and columns for the New Yorker, he made his debut as a Broadway playwright with the Cold War farce Don't Drink The Water in 1966.
A lukewarm film adaptation, as well as the lacklustre direction of his first movie script What's New Pussycat?, convinced him he should step behind the camera himself.
He hit his stride with Annie Hall and Manhattan, two New York-based comedies, in which Allen perfected his blend of neurosis, psychoanalysis and wry observations on romance.
He has won four Oscars from a total of 23 Oscar nominations over the years, for films including The Purple Rose of Cairo, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanours, and Bullets Over Broadway.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which presents the Golden Globes, described him as "an international treasure".
By winning the Cecil B DeMille award, Allen joins a distinguished club which boasts the likes of Walt Disney, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor amongst its members.
Last year's recipient was Jodie Foster, who memorably used her acceptance speech to speak publicly about her sexuality for the first time.
DeMille was an influential Hollywood director who successfully spanned the silent and sound eras of film.
26 October 2015 Last updated at 15:29 GMT
Post-mortem examinations are due to be carried out on the bodies of Lynette and John Rodgers.
Their families hope their bodies will be returned to Northern Ireland later this week.
Rosemary Ferguson, a friend of the couple, said it was "very distressing" to hear the news about a "couple just setting out on life together".
It is reported that a missile went off course, but the government has not confirmed or denied this.
Theresa May was told about the test when she became prime minister in July, shortly before MPs voted overwhelmingly to renew Trident.
Sir Michael told the Commons he had "absolute confidence" in the system.
Labour and the SNP have urged the government to explain whether the test firing from HMS Vengeance went wrong.
The Sunday Times reported an unarmed missile had been set off from the submarine off the coast of Florida but, rather than head towards Africa, had veered towards the US.
CNN quoted an unnamed US defence official on Monday as saying the missile did deviate from its intended trajectory as part of an automatic self-destruct sequence.
Sir Michael was asked several times by MPs to say whether or not the test missile had gone off course as reported.
He said: "I can assure the House that the capability and effectiveness of of the United Kingdom's independent nuclear deterrent is not in doubt.
"The government has absolute confidence in our deterrent and in the Royal Navy."
For Labour, shadow defence secretary Nia Griffith said: "This is just not good enough."
She added: "At the heart of this issue is a worrying lack of transparency and a prime minister who's chosen to cover up a serious incident, rather than coming clean with the British public. This House, and more importantly the British public, deserve better."
Another Labour MP, Mary Creagh, said a White House official had confirmed to the US broadcaster CNN that the missile did "auto-self-destruct" off the coast of Florida. She asked why people in the UK were "the last to know".
The Defence Select Committee chairman, Conservative MP Julian Lewis, urged the government to be frank about what happened, while the SNP said it was "absolutely outrageous" that information had been deliberately withheld from MPs.
But Sir Michael said: "We do not give operational details of the demonstration and shake-down operation of one of our submarines conducting a test with one of our Trident missiles"
The Ministry of Defence said submarine HMS Vengeance and its crew had "successfully tested" last June, with Sir Michael repeating this.
He cautioned people against "believing everything" they read in newspapers and said: "I am not going to respond to speculation about the test last June."
By Laura Kuenssberg, BBC political editor
It's one of the simplest questions in politics, and one of the most troublesome.
At the start of a critical political week, Theresa May finds herself under pressure for refusing to answer it.
Did she, or did she not know that something had gone wrong with our nuclear weapons, when she asked MPs to vote to renew the costly Trident system?
Read Laura's blog
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, a long-standing opponent of Trident, whose submarines are based at Faslane on the River Clyde, called the apparent misfire a "hugely serious issue".
BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said the Royal Navy had carried out half a dozen such tests since 2000 and in the past had publicised successful launches, but this time had not.
Sir Michael told MPs that decisions on publicity were made "on a case-by-case basis" and were "informed by the circumstances".
HMS Vengeance, one of the UK's four Vanguard-class submarines, returned to sea for trials in December 2015 after a £350m refit, which included the installation of new missile launch equipment and upgraded computer systems.
According to the Sunday Times, the unarmed Trident II D5 missile was intended to be fired 5,600 miles (9,012 km) from the coast of Florida to a sea target off the west coast of Africa - but veered towards the US.
In July, days after Mrs May had become prime minister following David Cameron's resignation, MPs backed the £40bn renewal of Trident by 472 votes to 117.
During the debate, Mrs May told MPs it would be "an act of gross irresponsibility" for the UK to abandon its nuclear weapons.
But 52 SNP MPs voted against it, as did 47 Labour MPs including party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Questioned by the BBC's Andrew Marr on Sunday, Prime Minister Theresa May refused four times to say whether she had known about the test firing ahead of the vote.
Speaking on a visit to Cheshire on Monday, she said: "I'm regularly briefed on national security issues. I was briefed on the successful certification of HMS Vengeance and her crew."
She added: "I have absolute faith in our independent nuclear deterrent. I believe we should continue to have that for the future, the House of Commons voted for that."
The Trident system was acquired by the Thatcher government in the early 1980s as a replacement for the Polaris missile system, which the UK had possessed since the 1960s.
Trident came into use in the 1990s. There are three parts to it - submarines, missiles and warheads. Although each component has years of use left, they cannot last indefinitely.
The current generation of four submarines would begin to end their working lives some time in the late 2020s.
A guide to the Trident debate
Earlier, Julian Lewis said Mrs May had been "handed a no-win situation" by her predecessor as Prime Minister, David Cameron, whose "spin doctors" had been responsible for a "cover-up".
He told Today that the government usually released film footage of the "99%" of missile tests deemed a success and that ministers could not "have it both ways" by not announcing when this had not been the case.
But a spokesman for Mr Cameron said: "It is entirely false to suggest that David Cameron's media team covered up or suggested a cover-up for the Trident missile test."
Caroline Lucas, co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, called for "full disclosure", adding: "A missile veering off course is deeply concerning. Imagine such a failure occurring in a 'real-world' situation - it could lead to the slaughter of millions of people in an ally's country."
Kate Hudson, general secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, said: "There's absolutely no doubt that this would have impacted on the debate in Parliament."
But former nuclear submarine commander and Ulster Unionist Party assembly member, Steve Aiken, told Today that any fault "would have been sorted out".
"There is a convention that we don't talk about the deterrent... because that is the nature of the deterrent - it is about the security of this nation and I would fully support the prime minister in avoiding those questions," he said.
Following Rob Page's departure for Northampton, Smurthwaite has narrowed down the search to three applicants, one of whom is such a big name he "thought it was a wind-up".
He now intends to have the new man in place in Burslem by 21 June.
"One of the three has contractual obligations until then. It's a massive decision for me," said Smurthwaite.
"If I get it right, then happy fans, happy club. If I get it wrong, then unhappy fans, unhappy club, unhappy chairman."
"The other two decisions I've had to make since I've been chairman were forced on me," Smurthwaite told BBC Stoke's Sport at Six.
"Micky Adams left, then my first choice until a week before I appointed Rob Page got offered a job he could not turn down. Rob was doing reasonably well, bringing us back up the table and winning games, so I gave the job to him.
"Now I have three candidates and all of them have their own merits.
"One has been out of the game a while, but he has a young hungry assistant who would come in as part of it.
"The second is the candidate who should have had the the job 18 months ago.
"The third shines out like a beacon from the people putting him forward. In fact, up until recently I thought it was a wind-up. Then they contacted me.
"They have now done so, senior people in the hierarchy of the UK game. Now it looks like what I thought was bogus turns out to be potential reality."
Smurthwaite has had over 70 applications - but not from ex-Vale boss Micky Adams and former Vale winger Gareth Ainsworth, the Wycombe manager.
Both have already ruled themselves out, while veteran player Michael Brown, the bookies' favourite, has also been dismissed by the Vale chairman, despite his enhanced new role on the coaching staff.
"Browny won't be the manager," said Smurthwaite. "He'll be in the background. But I want to hear what he says.
"He could be interviewing the man who's going to be his boss, which seems a strange way round."
Vale remain on the market, having been put up for sale in December 2015 by Smurthwaite, who helped bring the club out of administration in 2012.
Smurthwaite became sole owner in May 2013, when his former business partner Paul Wildes left shortly after Vale had won promotion from League Two.
Tricia Marwick, who is the only woman to have held the position, said May 2016 would be the "right time" to leave frontline politics.
She said it had been an "honour" to serve as presiding officer since 2011 and was proud of the changes she had made to Holyrood business.
Mrs Marwick was elected as an SNP MSP in the first Holyrood poll in 1999.
She became presiding officer after the 2011 election, taking over from Alex Fergusson.
Mrs Marwick, the MSP for Mid Fife and Glenrothes, said: "It is possible that the next parliamentary session will last for five years and, if so, I will be 67 when that session ends.
"I have been an MSP since 1999 and I am convinced this is the right time for me to leave the parliament and frontline politics."
She added: "When I was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2013 it made me realise I wasn't invincible. The sad loss this session of four MSPs from the 1999 intake has affected me deeply.
"My health is good and all my tests show that I remain clear of cancer.
"However, my family have had to make many sacrifices over the years and I want to ensure that I can spend more time with them, particularly my two grandchildren."
But she said: "I don't intend to retire completely and hope I can continue to make some contribution to public life in Scotland."
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon paid tribute to Mrs Marwick for becoming the parliament's first female presiding officer and "blazing a trail for other women to follow".
Ms Sturgeon said: "She has also introduced a number of important and welcome reforms to procedures in Holyrood - giving a greater voice to backbenchers within parliament and making proceedings more open and accessible to the public.
"She will certainly be missed by all the MSPs and staff within parliament and I wish her the very best in her retirement.
"I know she'll be looking forward to spending more time with her family but I have no doubt that she will continue to play a role in public life in Scotland."
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said Mrs Marwick's "kindness and her firmness marked her out as a great presiding officer".
He added: "Tricia Marwick will be known as a reforming presiding officer. She has provided voices for the backbenchers in the first majority government. She raised the stature of the parliament."
Scottish Labour's acting leader Kezia Dugdale said: "A working class woman made it to the top and she's a first class role model for women across the land who want to break down barriers and the established order.
"While she'll leave parliament, I've no doubt that she'll never be far from public life."
Lawmaker Andrei Lugovoi, one of two suspects in the poisoning of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006, said he was baffled by the move.
Mr Trump, who assumes the presidency on 20 January, has vowed to restore closer ties with Russia.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he had hope ties would improve "soon".
Thirty-five Russian diplomats have been expelled from US soil over allegations that Russia ran a hacking campaign to influence the American presidential elections.
Russia has dismissed the claims as a "witch-hunt".
Russia 'tired' of US hacking 'witch-hunt'
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US officials say the sanctions announced on Monday are not related to the hacking but come under the 2012 Magnitsky law, designed to punish human rights violators, which bans travel to the United States and freezes all assets there.
The two men wanted in the UK for Litvinenko's murder, Mr Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun, are among them.
Alexander Bastrykin, the head of Russia's Investigative Committee, is also on the list. He oversaw the investigation into Sergei Magnitsky's arrest and death in police custody and concluded that no crime had been committed.
He has previously said inclusion on the Magnitsky list "would be a great honour".
The others are the former head of the Universal Savings Bank Gennady Plaksin, and former investigative agency official, Stanislav Gordiyevsky.
But on Tuesday Mr Lugovoi said he was "perplexed".
"I think that [President] Obama is now rushing before handing over his prerogatives to harm and spite Russia in any way he can, and this has led to absurd things," he was quoted as saying by Russian news agency RIA Novosti.
Mr Peskov told journalists in Moscow that the sanctions were "additional steps towards the artificial degradation of our relations".
He declined to comment on whether Russia would retaliate.
On the legacy of the Obama administration, Mr Peskov said: "We can only express deep disappointment that it was in Mr Obama's second term that we saw a period of unprecedented and prolonged degradation in our bilateral relations.
"We are convinced that this does not meet our interests, or those of Washington. We think it's a shame that it happened. At the same time, we still hope that one way or another it will be possible to reach a more positive trajectory for relations with America soon."
Litvinenko died after drinking tea laced with a rare radioactive substance at a hotel in London.
Both Mr Lugovoi and Mr Kovtun deny any involvement in the killing, and efforts to extradite the men to the UK have failed.
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The Scot, seeded second, won 6-4 6-2 4-6 6-2 and will face world number one Novak Djokovic in Sunday's final.
Djokovic beat Austrian 13th seed Dominic Thiem 6-2 6-1 6-4.
Murray, 29, matches the achievement of Britain's last finalist Bunny Austin - and will now hope to equal Fred Perry's victory of 1935.
He also becomes one of only 10 men since the open era began in 1968 to have reached the final of all four Grand Slam tournaments.
"I'm extremely proud," said Murray. "I never expected to reach the final here, I always struggled on the clay. I hope I can put on a good match on Sunday."
Wawrinka, 31, had won their last three matches and came out firing on all cylinders, but once Murray had saved a break point in a lengthy opening service game he steadily assumed control.
A backhand smash gave Murray the break in game three and he served superbly under pressure to fend off three break points before sealing the set after 50 minutes.
The brilliant shot-making that had helped Wawrinka upset Djokovic in last year's final was increasingly matched by errors as Murray's terrific movement made winners hard to come by.
Wawrinka looked a forlorn figure when Murray broke to love early in the second set, and a second break soon followed as the Briton buzzed with energy on a dank afternoon in Paris.
Murray closed it out with another winning first serve and looked on the verge of victory with a break point in the third, but Wawrinka hit a big serve down the middle and raised his level as the set progressed.
It still appeared that Murray was the man in control but from 5-4, 40-15 he lost four straight points and Wawrinka roared in delight as he clinched the set.
There was no sustained comeback from the champion, however, as Murray regained the initiative in the fourth set with an immediate break.
An unplayable drop shot followed by a stunning lob showed the confidence of the former Wimbledon and US Open champion, and he broke serve for a fifth time on his way to a comprehensive victory.
"To play at that level in the semis of the French Open is very pleasing," added Murray. "There was a lot of pressure there today."
Wawrinka said: "I think that Andy played really so well today. He was the strongest on the court."
BBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller
"This was a pitch perfect performance from Murray, who has turned himself into the complete modern clay-court player. He was not the only one who thought a place in the French Open final might be one of the few career goals to escape him.
"Wawrinka's opening salvo was ferocious and yet crucially it was Murray who had the break of serve by the first change of ends. The drop shot was used expertly, and judiciously, and more than often he found just the right moment to steal into the net. Murray's serve was commanding, and Wawrinka's chipped returns ineffectual.
"Knocking out the champion has allowed Murray to dominate the headlines, but Djokovic tuned up perfectly for Sunday, too. He has played on each of the last four days, but offered his opponents very few crumbs of comfort."
Top seed Djokovic looked in superb form as he saw off Thiem in straight sets to reach a fourth French Open final.
The Serb, 29, dominated against a player in his first Grand Slam semi-final to move within one victory of completing the set of all four major titles.
Their semi-final was played on the second show court as organisers looked to get the schedule back on track after persistent rain in Paris.
"The atmosphere was fantastic," said Djokovic. "It's the first time I have played a semi-final on the Suzanne Lenglen court.
"I played the best tennis of the tournament so far. I am now in the situation where I always dream of being each season, in the final of Roland Garros."
Djokovic has now reached six consecutive Grand Slam finals and will try to win his 12th title on Sunday.
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Parts of the Kent coast are expected to be the worst-affected, the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has forecast.
Defra advice is for people with lung and heart problems and older people to reduce or avoid strenuous physical activity, particularly outdoors.
Asthmatics may need to use their reliever inhaler more often, it added.
Anyone experiencing discomfort such as sore eyes, cough or sore throat should also consider reducing activity.
30 April 2016 Last updated at 18:37 BST
The naturalist said children - even in urban areas - are naturally drawn to the world around them.
BBC London's Sarah Harris reports.
The authority's base at Aykley Heads in Durham City has been described as "over-sized and inefficient".
Officers suggested a move could create up to 6,000 jobs and put £1m into Durham city's economy.
A cabinet meeting backed proposals to demolish the existing site and build new homes and offices ahead of a further meeting in November.
A recent report said the existing complex, which opened in 1963, was no longer fit for purpose and would be attractive to businesses.
More than 2,000 jobs have been axed by the authority in recent years as it seeks to make budget cuts.
From 2011 to 2019, it said it would have to make a reduction in spending of £250m.
The cabinet meeting was told any relocation would take up to four years to complete.
National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) figures show an average of 35 referrals a month in the year to July 2016 - up from 21 a month the previous year.
Since July 2015, public bodies have a legal duty to report people considered at risk of being drawn into terrorism.
The government says its Prevent programme safeguards people at risk.
BBC Radio 5 live used a Freedom of Information request to obtain the figures from the NPCC, which said that, following assessment, one in 10 were found to be vulnerable to radicalisation and offered support.
Those referred undergo an initial assessment and may then be considered by a multi-agency "Channel panel", chaired by the local authority.
If the person is considered to be at risk, they would be offered a mentor and counselling, as part of the Channel programme, a de-radicalisation process that uses psychologists, social workers and religious experts.
Health professionals have previously voiced concerns over referrals.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists warned patients might be less willing to access mental health treatment and questioned the "the variable quality" of evidence underpinning the Prevent strategy.
Some doctors have also said they fear some psychiatric patients have been referred inappropriately.
One former healthcare assistant, who asked not to be named, told the BBC that she was referred to Prevent by colleagues after she started wearing a headscarf at work.
She said she was called to a meeting with safeguarding nurses and a Prevent police officer, and told that allegations had been made by colleagues concerned about some of her social media posts.
She said one photo she shared showed so-called Islamic State members praying in opposite directions because "if they claim to be Muslim, surely they'd know where Mecca is?"
After the meeting, she was told there were no concerns but several weeks later two Prevent officers paid an unannounced visit to her home and asked the same questions.
She said she explained that she was not a risk, but said she has been left feeling paranoid.
"It's been over a year and a half and I'm still not over it. That meeting just changed me, it changed who I was," she said.
As a result of the referral by her colleagues, she felt forced to leave the job she loved, she said, and hated to think what patients would go through in the same situation.
Adam Deen, of the counter-extremism think tank Quilliam Foundation, is an advocate of the scheme but believes better training is needed to avoid "knee-jerk referrals".
He said the fact that most referrals were rejected suggested individuals in the public sector were making inadequate referrals.
There is no breakdown of how many of the 420 referrals in the 12 months to July 2016 were for patients and how many for staff.
However NHS Trust figures obtained by campaign group Docs Not Cops suggested most referrals were for patients, of which a significant number were people with mental health needs.
It found a hospital in Durham referred one staff member and 11 patients.
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust made 10 referrals and eight mental health patients were referred from Bradford District Care, their figures showed.
A Department of Health spokesperson said: "Radicalising vulnerable people and encouraging terrorist acts is something which NHS staff should treat as a safeguarding issue."
NHS staff training and guidance was being improved so they can "spot the signs and act in the same way they would for any other form of abuse", they added.
Security Minister Ben Wallace said: "Rules for health sector workers on patient confidentiality are the same across all areas of safeguarding, including referrals made because of concerns about radicalisation."
He added that 1,000 people, who had been referred, had been offered support through Channel since 2012.
Security blogger Brian Krebs has spent months investigating the attack which knocked his blog offline.
He claims that the origins of the Mirai botnet can be traced back to rivalries in the Minecraft community.
His claims are backed up by a security expert who provided net security for Minecraft servers.
Robert Coelho, vice president of security firm ProxyPipe, told the BBC that his suspicions about who was behind the Mirai code have been passed to the FBI, which is "actively investigating" the claims.
The botnet Mirai was made up of more than 500,000 web-connected devices such as webcams and routers.
The attacks it launched - so-called denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that hit web pages with so much data that they fall over - were the biggest the net had ever experienced.
Victims that were knocked offline included Twitter, Spotify and Reddit.
Shortly after the attacks, the individual claiming responsibility - using the codename Anna Senpai - released the source code online, paving the way for copycat attacks.
A modified form of the malware was later used to attack UK internet service providers TalkTalk and the Post Office.
Since being hit by the Mirai botnet in September 2016, Mr Krebs has devoted "hundreds of hours" into uncovering who was behind it.
"If you've ever wondered why it seems that so few internet criminals are brought to justice, I can tell you that the sheer amount of persistence and investigative resources required to piece together who's done what to whom (and why) in the online era is tremendous," he wrote.
His research led him directly to the community around Minecraft, a computer game now owned by Microsoft, in which users build things from cubic blocks.
It has a huge following, especially among children, and it is estimated that at any one time a million people are playing it.
According to Mr Krebs, a large successful Minecraft web server with more than 1,000 players logging on each day can earn up to $50,000 (£40,600) per month, mainly from players renting space to build their Minecraft worlds.
"The first clues to Anna Senpai's identity didn't become clear until I understood that Mirai was just the latest incarnation of an IoT [internet of things] botnet family that has been in development and relatively broad use for nearly three years," he writes.
The code for these earlier versions was often used to knock over web servers used to host Minecraft, he claims.
ProxyPipe - owned by Mr Coelho - had plenty of Minecraft servers as clients and in mid-2015 was hit by a massive attack, launched from a botnet made up of IoT devices such as web cameras.
Mr Coelho told the BBC that he had his suspicions about who was behind the attack: "Minecraft is a tight knit community. We know who is talking to who."
He alleged that the attack came from a competing security firm, which also offered DDoS protection to Minecraft clients.
He claimed that the founder of the security firm had previously run a Minecraft web server and was one of his clients.
He also claims that the Mirai author - Anna Senpai - contacted him via Skype at the end of September, partly to explain that the attack on his firm was "not personal" but also to brag that he had been paid by the owners of a large Minecraft server to launch an attack on a rival server.
The evacuation of thousands of people shortly after the accident in 2011 sharply lowered their exposure to radiation, a draft report concluded.
The World Health Organisation has said local residents have a slightly higher risk of developing certain cancers.
Reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant were crippled by an earthquake and tsunami that killed some 19,000 people.
It was the world's worst nuclear incident since Chernobyl in 1986.
The findings of the draft report were presented by the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (Unscear) in the Austrian capital, Vienna.
Committee member Wolfgang Weiss said the decision by the Japanese authorities to evacuate large numbers of people had proved to be the right one.
"If that had not been the case, we might have seen the cancer rates rising and other health problems emerging over the next several decades," he added.
Unscear's report also stated that "no radiation-related deaths have been observed among nearly 25,000 workers involved at the accident site".
Studies after Chernobyl linked cases of thyroid cancer to radioactive iodine that contaminated milk. But Mr Weiss said that had not been the case in Japan.
The report was prepared by 80 scientists from 18 countries and will be published in full later this year.
The findings contradicted a report published by the WHO in February, which said the risk of cancer for those living near the nuclear plant had risen.
Ayew, 26, was linked with Sunderland during the January transfer window and there has been reported interest from West Ham and Chelsea in recent weeks.
"Andre is a good guy and a good player, I hope he stays with us but I don't know," Guidolin said.
The manager indicated that he was waiting to hear from chairman Huw Jenkins, who deals with transfers.
Jenkins will continue to fulfil that role following a recent US takeover.
Ayew was Swansea's top scorer with 12 goals last season after joining from Marseille on a free transfer in June 2015.
"It is important to keep him, but it is not my job," Guidolin said. "My job is to train and to get the team to play well and to get good results. I am confident he will stay."
Swansea are in the market for a new striker with Eder - who scored Portugal's winner against France in the Euro 2016 final - having left the club, along with Italian forward Alberto Paloschi.
Bafetimbi Gomis, who played no part in Saturday's 5-1 friendly win at Bristol Rovers, is also close to leaving the Liberty Stadium.
Guidolin wants a striker, but says he has no idea if a deal is close.
"I don't know if we are close to signing a striker, this is a question for the chairman and the new owners," he said.
"I speak with the chairman every week when there is the possibility and he knows what we need. It is a question for him."
Guidolin gave his seal of approval to the US takeover of the club, with US investors Steve Kaplan and Jason Levien purchasing a 68% stake in the Swans.
"The takeover is good, the new owners are with us and I am happy," he told BBC Wales Sport.
"I hope to see something in the coming weeks."
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Gordon Henderson, the Conservative MP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey, posted a picture of his injuries on his Facebook page.
He said he had used a "small amount" of petrol to light a bonfire in an enclosure in his garden.
The MP said he was treated at a specialist burns unit and is now recovering at home in Eastchurch.
Mr Henderson used the post to warn others about the dangers of using petrol to start garden fires.
He said: "My hair caught fire and I was badly burned on my face, back, sides, chest, both arms and right leg.
"In fact, my left leg was the only part of my body to escape relatively unscathed.
"Thankfully there was a hosepipe close by, positioned for just such an eventuality, and my wife Louise had the good sense to immediately douse me with water for 10 minutes.
"If she had not taken such immediate action then I might well be dead, and that is not being over dramatic."
Mr Henderson was taken to a minor injuries unit and later transferred to the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead after the accident last month.
He added: "I have posted a photograph showing the outcome of my accident.
"It is not a flattering photograph, but I have posted it because I very much hope it will show, in graphic terms, the affect that one moment of thoughtlessness can have on any one of us."
Mr Henderson concluded his post: "So, to anybody out there who is in the habit of using petrol to start a bonfire, or is tempted to do so in the future, I would urge you to resist such temptation.
"Think of what happened to me and remember that the same thing could happen to you.
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Amy Winehouse: In Her Own Words has been pieced together from interviews and sessions the singer recorded for the BBC before her death in 2011.
It includes live performances of Love Is A Losing Game and Wake Up Alone which were never broadcast.
The release precedes a documentary film about the star's life.
Entitled Amy it is directed by Asif Kapadia, whose last movie was an acclaimed biopic of Ayrton Senna.
Kapadia conducted more than 100 interviews with 80 people - including friends, family and colleagues of the star, although her father, Mitch Winehouse, has since distanced himself from the film.
BBC Music's companion programme focuses exclusively on interviews and sessions by the London-born star.
She is seen discussing her musical influences, her aspirations and the intensely personal nature of her lyrics.
"I've been through times where I've been so [messed] up that I've had to just write everything down - even feelings I don't want to acknowledge.
"It's good, because someone else might hear that and be like 'I'm not an idiot for feeling them things.'"
She also talks about her tempestuous relationship with Blake Fielder-Civil, which inspired much of the Grammy Award-winning album Back To Black.
"I fell bang in love with someone and it didn't do me any favours," she says. "When I split up with this fella, I didn't have anything to go back to. I wasn't working, so I was playing pool for four hours every day, getting drunk, having to be carried home in a wheelbarrow. So Back To Black is about a black mood, I guess."
The quotes, many of which are also being seen for the first time, are drawn from interviews Winehouse gave to the BBC for documentary projects including the Jazz and Soul Britannia series on BBC Four.
Performances have been drawn from The BBC One Sessions (2007), Glastonbury (2004 and 2008), The Mercury Music Prize (2004), Later... with Jools Holland (2006) and The Hootenanny (2006).
Winehouse died at her London home in 2011 at the age of 27.
She had previously struggled with alcohol and drug addiction. The inquest into her death found she died of accidental alcohol poisoning.
Amy Winehouse: In Her Own Words is available now on the BBC iPlayer.
The deal includes a 100MW development at the Ness of Duncansby in the Pentland Firth and a 10MW project at the Sound of Islay in western Scotland.
The projects were acquired by Atlantis's development vehicle, Tidal Power Scotland Limited (TPSL).
In exchange, SPR has gained a 6% shareholding in TPSL.
The project assets include lease agreements with The Crown Estate for both sites, while the Sound of Islay development also has a grid connection offer and construction consents from Scottish ministers.
Atlantis said the two projects would sit alongside its flagship 398MW MeyGen tidal energy scheme in the Inner Sound of the Pentland Firth, which separates the north Caithness coast and Orkney.
The firm eventually plans to have up to 269 turbines installed on the seabed there.
Earlier this year, Atlantis bought Marine Current Turbines from Siemens AG, providing it with lease agreements for two further Scottish tidal sites - at the Mull of Galloway in south-west Scotland and Brough Ness, to the north of the MeyGen and Ness of Duncansby sites.
Atlantis is in the process of adding these two projects, with a combined capacity of 130MW, to the TPSL portfolio.
By 2022, the company aims to have at least 640MW of installed capacity in the UK through developing its existing portfolio.
Atlantis chief executive Tim Cornelius said: "The UK is now synonymous with tidal power in the same way tech is with Silicon Valley.
"Thanks to the dedicated support provided by the Department for Energy and Climate Change and the Scottish government, the UK tidal sector is leading the world.
"In a transformational 12 months, we have increased our UK projects portfolio by almost 80% in terms of potential capacity, through the acquisition of Marine Current Turbines from Siemens, and this transaction with SPR."
ScottishPower Renewables chief executive Keith Anderson said: "The MeyGen project has moved the tidal power sector forward in Scotland and Atlantis is now the world's leading developer.
"This agreement will drive momentum in the sector."
In a separate development, Orkney-based Scotrenewables Tidal Power Ltd announced it had secured a further £5.7m from investors to allow it to demonstrate the world's largest tidal turbine.
The company is close to completing the construction of its SR2000 (2MW) system in the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
The machine is due to be launched early next year before being towed to the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney to commence grid-connected testing.
The latest funding was provided by existing shareholders - including ABB, Total New Energies, Bonheur ASA and Ganger Rolf ASA - as well as new stakeholders DP Energy, Harland and Wolff and Scotmarine.
While the UK voted for Brexit, 74.4% of those who cast their ballots in the Scottish capital were in favour of remaining.
Driving through the capital, making stops along the way to talk to people, there were no visible signs in the streets or in gardens of how people felt about the vote.
There were no flags, banners or groups of kilted men as there had been in the hours after the Scottish referendum result in 2014.
However, everyone wanted to talk about the referendum result.
Alice Cook, 41, a teacher who lives in Portobello, said she was "worried and scared" by the result.
"This is a disaster. I am devastated. I am astounded by the English," she said.
"I am happy with Scotland's vote but I'm embarrassed to be English and I'm glad I moved to Scotland to be with like-minded people.
"This is probably the most stupid thing that will ever happen in my lifetime.
"Isolating ourselves is ridiculous. I have a new Danish boyfriend who was planning to move here but I don't know what this means for him now."
BBC Scotland took to the streets of towns and cities across the country to find out what people feel about the decision to leave the EU.
Some mothers in Morningside said they were up at 05:00 so they could find out the result.
Amelia Baptie, 36, a mother of twins, said she was "heartbroken and devastated" by the result, as were most of the parents she spoke to in the playground.
She said: "I think if it was about hope on the Leave side then some good could come out of it, but it was about hatred.
"I am upset and worried. I don't know what has happened to England. They have gone so much to the right and Scotland is being pulled along.
"My parents live in France and they are very worried now if they can stay, and about their income."
Beryl Borrowman, 72, a grandmother-of-four, said: "I voted for Europe to join the EU but it is not the Europe that I voted for.
"However, I voted to Remain and so feel slightly shocked and a bit sad."
Logan Turner, 27, a recovery worker from Colinton Mains in Edinburgh, said he was "very worried" about his German mother.
He said: "My mother has lived in Scotland for at least 35 years but was told she had to choose which passport she kept. So she chose her German one as she wanted to retain her heritage.
"Now after this vote she will not be entitled to any benefits from the government here. However, if my parents move to Germany then my dad will lose his pension from here, so they are in a Catch 22 situation."
Linda Napier, 37, from Colinton Mains, said: "I'm shocked as I didn't think the vote would be to leave.
"Scotland is always in England's back shadow.
"I'm scared because when we leave there is no going back and it's the next generation that will take the brunt."
The small plastic bags, containing rum, vodka or other spirits, are popular with those on a budget - costing between $0.35 (£0.28) and $1.65.
The ban was aimed at minimising the impact of alcohol on young people, especially students, government spokesman Bruno Kone said.
A ban on the sale of water in plastic bags led to protests two years ago.
They were banned by the Ivorian authorities in a bid to reduce pollution.
The decision to ban the sachets of alcohol was taken after a cabinet meeting on Wednesday and had been proposed by the ministry of commerce, Mr Kone said.
"These products are mostly smuggled into the country," the APA news agency quotes him as saying.
"They do not meet our standards and therefore constitute a real threat to the health of consumers - and a threat to the country's economy."
Cameroon, Malawi and Senegal have also banned the sale and production of alcohol in sachets in recent years.
In its ever-escalating war against connectivity ports, Apple’s latest computers do away with the SD card port, a full-size USB port, and the HDMI port.
Instead, you’ll need a dongle to convert those “legacy” connectors, as Apple put it on Friday, into the new, smaller USB-C port.
"We recognize that many users, especially pros, rely on legacy connectors to get work done today and they face a transition,” the company said in a statement, without acknowledging that Apple’s newest iPhone, released just last month, is one such “legacy” device - without a dongle (or a different cable, sold separately), you can’t connect Apple’s new smartphone to Apple’s new laptop.
“We want to help them move to the latest technology and peripherals, as well as accelerate the growth of this new ecosystem."
That help will be a decent discount on the price of the dongles - it calls them adapters - until the end of this year.
The most popular one is likely to be the USB to USB-C adapter - which will be $9, down from $19. For connecting iPhones (both new and old), you’ll need a $19 Lightning to USB dongle - although you could use an old Lightning to USB cable if you bought the USB to USB-C adapter. Keeping up?
Dongle spaghetti
It’s an acknowledgement that Apple’s pro users aren’t exactly thrilled with the latest offering from the company considered to offer the gold standard in laptops.
The bigger issue here, and one that was expertly discussed in a Medium post by technology journalist Owen Williams, is what many see as a muddle at the heart of Apple’s newest products.
For a company that rightly prides itself on creating products that “just work”, it’s literally descended into something of a tangled mess.
Apple has, Mr Williams argued, created computers that lack a core selling point. For pro users, the types that use their Macs for graphic design and video editing, the new range only serves to take away functionality existing Macbooks provide.
If you’re not a pro user, that’s fine. But along with Apple’s announcement of new hardware came the news that the prices were going up. Dramatically so, if you’re living in Brexit Britain. (Though Apple certainly isn’t alone there. Marmite, anyone?)
Those factors combined mean the dongle issue, one Apple might have got away with in the past, has caused added frustration to the faithful who had been waiting for a serious Macbook upgrade for some time.
Dongles get lost, forgotten and broken. They’re an added source of vulnerability when it comes to things accidentally being pulled out when uploading some data, corrupting the lot.
The Macbook future, at least for a short while, is a rag-tag spaghetti junction of dongles strewn across a desk or stuffed into a bag. In offices around the world, inboxes will fill with passive aggressive requests for “whoever took my iPhone dongle” to “please put it back where you found it, no questions asked”.
And when something doesn’t work, you’ll now need to ascertain: is it the device that’s broken? Or the cable? Or the port? Or the dongle?
But hold up. Apple has form here, and history mostly proves them right. Where Apple goes, others normally follow.
Earlier Macbook models already did away with ethernet ports and the CD/DVD drive - a move which seemed absurd at the time, but I’d argue Apple was ultimately exonerated. When was the last time you put a CD into your computer?
So in time, the accessories we use every day will become USB-C as standard, no question about that, and the dongles will no longer be needed.
But in the short term, Apple is left with a product that that no longer caters to either end of the market. Data suggests schools, parents and bosses are looking to Google’s cheaper Chromebooks, which this year began outselling MacBooks.
And if we’re looking at MacBooks as being as part of the bigger Apple planet, we’re left with a company that appears to be behind in many areas. Its iPhone is still king, but sales have been in decline.
Apple doesn’t have any virtual reality hardware. It doesn’t have any augmented reality hardware. Or a car - autonomous, electric or otherwise. In artificial intelligence, Apple's Siri is considered to be the least smart of the mainstream smart assistants, and unlike Google and Amazon, it can’t yet be found in a family-friendly home device.
Tim Cook appears to be throwing money at the problem(s). Spending on research and development has ballooned in the past three years, though Mr Cook is staying typically mum about what exactly the company is working on - only to tell worried investors that his company has the "strongest pipeline that we've ever had and we're really confident about the things in it”.
Only an idiot would write off Apple and its future. I don’t intend to be that idiot. Apple wasn’t the first to market with the smartphone, not even close, but it went on to define the industry and produce the most profitable piece of technology ever made. It could do that again and again in these new areas.
As the world’s richest company, it has time and resources on its side. But with that in mind, couldn’t it afford to pop a dongle or two in the box to make its present-day customers a little happier?
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The 2012 Olympic champion, 30, will meet an opponent yet to be named on the David Haye v Tony Bellew undercard.
Taylor, who stopped Karina Kopinska on debut in November and out-pointed Viviane Obenauf two weeks later, is currently training in America.
She said: "It's the start of a very big year for me and there are big plans but I need to keep winning and performing."
Taylor, who won world championship gold on five occasions, added: "I think people are really excited about the Haye-Bellew fight and the rivalry between those guys and as a boxer these are the kind of nights you want to be a part of.
"It's a massive stage for me and I'm really looking forward to it."
WBC cruiserweight champion Bellew, 34, will step up in weight to meet former world champion Haye at heavyweight, with both fighters consistently goading one another on social media during the build-up to the bout.
Also on the undercard, Sam Eggington faces a step-up in class against former two-weight world champion Paulie Malignaggi, while Liverpool's Derry Mathews challenges WBC silver champion Ohara Davies at lightweight.
Since then the tide of opinion has turned. Astronomers have shown that Earth may be just one of myriad habitable worlds.
Meanwhile biologists have shed light on how life might have originated here, and therefore on other planets too.
Far from being unique, many now regard Earth as an ordinary lump of space rock and believe that life "out there" is almost inevitable. But could the truth be somewhat more complex?
On Friday, top scientists are meeting at the Geological Society in London to debate this very issue, posing the question: "Is the Earth special?". What emerges is that aspects of our planet and its evolution are remarkably strange.
Prof Monica Grady is a meteorite expert at the Open University. She explained in what sense the Earth could be considered special.
"Well, there are several unusual aspects of our planet," she said. "First is our strong magnetic field. No one is exactly sure how it works, but it's something to do with the turbulent motion that occurs in the Earth's liquid outer core. Without it, we would be bombarded by harmful radiation from the Sun."
"The next thing is our big Moon," continued Prof Grady. "As the Earth rotates, it wobbles on its axis like a child's spinning top. What the Moon does is dampen down that wobble… and that helps to prevent extreme climate fluctuations" - which would be detrimental to life.
"Finally, there's plate tectonics," she added. "We live on a planet that is constantly recycling its crust. That's another way that the Earth stabilises its climate." This works because plate tectonics limits the amount of carbon dioxide escaping into the atmosphere - a natural way of controlling the greenhouse effect.
If these factors were important for life flourishing on Earth, an obvious question is what went wrong for our moribund neighbours, Venus and Mars?
One popular explanation is the Goldilocks Effect. This states that Venus was simply too close to the Sun and overheated while Mars was too far away and froze. Between these extremes - like the baby bear's porridge - Earth was "just right" for life.
Indeed, just this week astronomers confirmed the discovery of an Earth-like planet in this "habitable zone" around a star not unlike our own.
Dr Richard Ghail, an expert on Venus at Imperial College London, is highly sceptical of this Goldilocks theory, however.
"For me, the key thing is that Venus has a lower density than the Earth," he told the BBC. "That difference was fixed early on in the formation of the Solar System when there were lots of planetary collisions." In the case of Venus, collisions led to accretion into a single planet, but with Earth, the lighter material was flung off to form the Moon.
One effect of Venus's lower density is that its interior melts more easily. So, whereas the Earth has a swirling core that is part solid and part liquid, the core of Venus is entirely liquid - and strangely calm.
In Dr Ghail's opinion, this has led to a spiral of doom for Venus. Without a turbulent core, no magnetic field was generated. And no magnetic field meant that Venus was mercilessly battered by solar radiation, causing it to lose all its water.
Because water is needed to "lubricate" plate tectonics, the crust stopped recycling. Consequently, carbon dioxide built up in the atmosphere and the greenhouse effect ran out of control. As a result, today, Venus is a lifeless inferno whose surface is hot enough to melt zinc.
Dr Ghail said: "When you think about it, there was this one amazing chance event [a collision that flung off the Moon] that made the Earth the way it is." If that had not happened, life on Earth might not have evolved at all.
Given that Earth's history was shaped by a single improbable event, one might be tempted to assume that life elsewhere must be extremely rare.
Wrong, argues Dr Nick Lane, a geneticist at University College London. He believes that the emergence of life is probable on any wet, rocky planet.
Dr Lane explained the reasons for his confidence, saying: "One of the most common minerals in the Universe is olivine; interstellar dust is full of it. When olivine and water mix on the seafloor, the reaction is exothermic." That is, it gives off heat.
The environment produced by this reaction "provides analogues for all six essential processes of living organisms," continued Dr Lane. But the especially important thing is that it releases "a rich source of chemical energy that is much easier for an organism to tap than, for example, the Sun's energy".
Thus, wherever olivine and water mix in large quantities, conditions are favourable for the emergence of life.
Consequently, life is not limited to planets that orbit a star; conceivably it could also exist on asteroids drifting through deep space. Simply put, "The Earth is not special," concluded Dr Lane.
Prof Simon Conway Morris, a renowned palaeontologist at the University of Cambridge, is not entirely convinced by these arguments, however.
"I would tend to raise one cautious eyebrow to such arguments," he said. After all, there is a horrible gulf between elementary chemical systems and the creation of fully functioning cells. It is a gap that we have been remarkably unable to bridge experimentally."
Prof Conway Morris concluded: "One important jigsaw piece that is rarely mentioned in these discussions is Fermi's Paradox." This is the concept of the Great Silence; in other words, if life is common in the Universe, why have we not managed to contact it?
And that surely is the key. For in the absence of verifiable alien contact, scientific opinion will forever remain split as to whether the Universe teems with life or we are alone in the inky blackness.
Bydd rhagor o heddweision yng nghanol Dinbych-y-pysgod ar benwythnosau ac ar drenau'n dod i mewn i'r dref.
Fe fydd Trenau Arriva Cymru hefyd yn darparu mwy o staff diogelwch.
Nod Ymgyrch Lion yw ceisio atal ymddygiad gwrthgymdeithasol cyn iddo gyrraedd Dinbych-y-pysgod.
Mae'r ymgyrch yn ei bumed flwyddyn eleni, ond mae wedi bod yn cynyddu pob blwyddyn.
Mae canol y dref wedi bod yn "ardal yfed reoledig" ers 2014, sy'n golygu bod yfed ar y stryd wedi'i wahardd.
Dywedodd yr Arolygydd Aled Davies o Heddlu Dyfed Powys: "Poblogaeth Dinbych-y-pysgod fel arfer yw tua 5,000 i 6,000, ond yn yr haf gall hynny godi i 60,000.
"Mae 99% o'r bobl sy'n dod i Ddinbych-y-pysgod eisiau dod yma a mwynhau'r dref fel ymwelwyr, a'r oll d'yn ni'n ei ofyn yw i'r bobl sy'n dod yma yw iddyn nhw barchu'r dref.
"Ond yn y gorffennol d'yn ni wedi gweld rhai yn dod yma i ymweld â'r tafarndai a'r clybiau, sydd yna'n achosi trwbl ar ôl yfed yn ormodol."
It is exploring whether it can buy out the contracts of RHI beneficiaries due to receive subsidy payments in the next 20 years.
First Minister Arlene Foster this week survived a no-confidence vote over the flawed design of the scheme, which is expected to run up a £400m overspend.
Buying out the recipients would incur a cost, but would reduce the final bill.
The RHI was set up by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (Deti) under the stewardship of Arlene Foster in 2012 to encourage businesses and other non-domestic users to move from using fossil fuels to renewable heating systems.
But flaws in setting the scheme's subsidy rate left it open to abuse as claimants could earn more cash the more fuel they burned.
The scheme was finally halted early this year, by which time its overall cost had reached £1.18bn.
About £20m a year for the next two decades could be taken from the Northern Ireland budget to cover the overspend.
In an interview with the BBC's Stephen Nolan on Thursday, Jonathan Bell, a former enterprise minister, broke ranks with his DUP colleagues and made a number of sensational claims about how the controversial scheme was handled.
In the tumultuous fall out Mrs Foster, who is now first minister, denounced a "trial by television" as she survived Monday's no-confidence vote in the Assembly.
The potential cost of a buy-out policy is not yet clear.
It would likely be focused on compensating recipients for the costs of buying and installing boilers.
The executive would prefer buy-outs to be voluntary but is also understood to have taken legal advice from the Attorney General about making them compulsory.
The other option being considered is keeping the scheme open but reducing the subsidy rate.
Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt said he favoured the scheme remaining open but said a windfall tax should be imposed on those who had abused it.
"It acknowledges the fact that this was a bad scheme, badly thought out and it had a fatal flaw in it," he said.
"The fundamental principle of having a renewable heat incentive to try and encourage people off fossil fuels onto renewables is sound and we want to continue with that rather than close it all down."
Mr Nesbitt has written to Assembly Speaker Robin Newton asking him to stand down after Christmas over his handling of this week's Assembly debate on the RHI scheme.
Mr Newton allowed First Minister Arlene Foster to make a statement on the scheme despite it not having the support or approval of Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.
An Assembly spokesperson said: "The Speaker intends to reply directly to Mr Nesbitt in the New Year."
The SDLP's Nichola Mallon said her party wrote to Mr Newton on Tuesday and drew his attention to the "fact that we believe that there is a significant issue of confidence in his role".
"We have asked that he consider his opinions," she said.
"We have done so because, unfortunately, I think, when the speaker increasingly becomes the story, there are issues, but in respect of Monday, we disagreed with his ruling."
Later, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the speaker had "lost confidence of the assembly and must stand down."
In a statement, the DUP said: "The speaker is independent of party politics and such calls are not a matter for the DUP.
"It is clear, however, that some parties have nothing to offer other than resignation calls and cheap walkout stunts."
TUV leader Jim Allister said a rating system could be introduced for boilers operating under the scheme.
"I would have thought that it would be possible to rate these boilers, to make them rateable, we've done that with wind turbines, you could do the same with these boilers and in that way recoup some of the excessive profits," he said.
On Tuesday Mr Bell, who was suspended from the DUP following his Nolan interview, released an email to the head of the civil service which he said held "critical information" about the scheme.
The email shows that the permanent secretary for the department responsible for the RHI scheme regarded the spike in applications in the autumn of 2015, which accounted for a large proportion of the projected £400m overspend, as "beyond reasonable prediction".
The former Enterprise Department Permanent Secretary, Andrew McCormick's, assessment came in an e-mail dated 28 January 2016.
Mr Bell has blamed the delay in bringing down the costs of the scheme on interference by DUP advisers - a charge rejected by the First Minister, Arlene Foster.
In the e-mail Mr McCormick said the former minister Mr Bell was advised of the mounting problems with the heating scheme in early July 2015.
Chelsea had already won the Premier League title, but got another chance to celebrate, and this time with their trophy.
Manchester City and Liverpool secured their places in Europe's Champions League next season but Arsenal lost out on a place, the first time in 20 years.
Meanwhile in the Scottish Premiership Celtic completed an unbeaten campaign with a 2-0 win over Hearts.
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The moment of the season for me was when Arsenal beat Chelsea 3-0.
Jacob, 10, Carmarthenshire
I think I like it now because the teams who lost last season can get a second chance in winning next season.
Elise, 10, Wolverhampton
My favourite part of the season is when Emre Can scored that spectacular overhead goal against Watford with an outstanding assist from Lucas.
Jack, 11, North Yorkshire
My favourite part of the season was when Spurs beat Hull 7-1! The best match I've ever seen! The highest scoreline this season!
Will, 11, Brighton
I support Manchester United. My highlight of the season was when Mkhitaryan scored with a scorpion kick.
James, 8, Darlington
My favourite moment this season was Charlie Adams' corner in the Burnley v Stoke game. He tripped up taking the corner and gave away a free kick for handball. We all thought he looked like he was searching for his pie on the ground!
Fred, 8, Lancashire
My favourite footy moment is Sanchez's step-over. He then chipped it over the goalie for Arsenal's 5-1 win over West Ham.
'Arsenal fan', 8, Norfolk
My best footy moment of the season is when Emre Can scored the overhead kick against Watford. It was the best goal I've ever seen!!!
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Nicholas Paget-Brown remains leader of the council for the time being but Ms Campbell becomes de facto leader.
It is expected that she will be confirmed as leader of the council at its next full meeting on 19 July.
Mr Paget-Brown resigned on 30 June following continued criticism of the council's handling of the Grenfell Tower tragedy.
He had faced fierce criticism of the council's response to the blaze, in which at least 80 people died nearly three weeks ago.
In her first statement since her selection, Ms Campbell said: "The first thing I want to do is I want to apologise.
"This is our community and we have failed it when people needed us the most. So, no buts, no ifs, no excuses.
"I am truly sorry."
She said as the new leader she would appoint a new cabinet on Tuesday and vowed, "things are going to change".
Her first action would be to reach out to the community so that wounds could begin to heal, she added.
Her second action would be to call Communities Secretary Sajid Javid to ask for more help.
She said she was unsure at this stage exactly what form that help should take but said she needed to draw up a plan for north Kensington.
The Conservative group control 40 out of 50 seats on Kensington and Chelsea Council.
Ms Campbell has been a councillor in the borough since 2006 and represented the Royal Hospital Ward since 2010. She was previously a Conservative parliamentary party candidate in for Gateshead East in 2001
Local politicians have warned the new leader must come from outside the "contaminated" administration.
Councillor Daniel Moylan said the ruling Conservative group has to "show a complete break with the past".
Mr Moyland, the Conservative former deputy leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council, said "any idea of a continuity candidate would be a very bad idea".
"We have to be able to go to the people of North Kensington and to the victims of the fire with a real sense of acknowledging how badly they have been let down, a real sense of shame if you like," he told BBC London Radio.
Judith Blakeman, a Labour councillor in the ward which houses Grenfell Tower, said "it can't possibly be one of the cabinet members" as they had voted to endorse the former leadership.
"They are all contaminated. No member of the current cabinet would have any credibility with the residents of North Kensington," she added.
Sadiq Khan has called for commissioners to take over the running of Kensington and Chelsea Council.
The Mayor of London said the government had "no option" but to appoint "untainted" commissioners.
Donegal 1-14 1-12 Mayo
Down 0-06 0-22 Kerry
Derry 2-12 1-18 Galway
Laois 0-14 1-14 Tyrone
Meath 1-13 1-20 Cavan
Antrim 2-14 0-09 Leitrim
Fourteen wagons of the CSX freight train overturned near Rhode Island metro station early on Sunday.
Sodium hydroxide, a form of caustic soda, leaked from one wagon, which was later sealed by emergency crews.
Crews also plugged a leak in another wagon after a release of non-hazardous calcium chloride.
The cause of the derailment is unclear.
Sodium hydroxide is a corrosive chemical that can irritate and burn the skin and eyes.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control, while sodium hydroxide is not combustible, contact with moisture or water may generate enough heat to ignite combustible substances.
"We don't know how much leaked," District of Columbia Fire Department Deputy Chief John Donnelly was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.
"The fumes should not cause you any problems."
CSX said the train had three locomotives and a total of 175 cars - nearly half of them empty, the rest carrying mixed freight.
After a relatively quiet, goalless first hour, Yeovil stormed into a three-goal lead as Francois Zoko slotted home before Shaylon Harrison and Alex Lacey both headed in.
At that stage, Exeter were set to slip out of the League Two play-off places, while Yeovil looked certain to win for only the second time in 11 league games.
Anything but a Glovers win still seemed unlikely even when David Wheeler drilled in off the post with less than two minutes of normal time remaining.
However, in stoppage time, first Troy Brown headed in to make it 3-2 before Reuben Reid smashed in Jack Stacey's cross at the far post to equalise amid delirium at St James Park.
Exeter remain seventh but are level on points with eighth-placed Carlisle, while Yeovil slipped to 18th, 13 points clear of the relegation zone.
After the game, Yeovil boss Darren Way said his players needed to take responsibility, telling BBC Somerset: "When the first [Exeter] goal went in, I looked at the body language - it took us long to get up and we looked deflated.
"If I could have made six changes just by looking at their body language, I probably would have.
"With the goals going in in quick succession I think the players have got to take responsibility. We should have managed that game better.
"The players are very disappointed. You have got to be strong enough and resilient enough. As a manager, I have to go over those goals and make sure we do our best to make sure that doesn't happen again."
Exeter manager Paul Tisdale told BBC Radio Devon: "It is a lesson to our team as well that you can never count your chickens.
"Don't celebrate early. Don't think you are there.
"I want the players to leave today feeling good about themselves because they showed so much character and belief."
There was a surprise onlooker in the stands at St James Park - The Walking Dead and Love Actually actor Andrew Lincoln.
Lincoln, who plays Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead, told Devon Live: "One of my oldest and dearest friends happens to be Paul Tisdale. So I've been watching him very avidly throughout his whole career and I've been very proud of him."
Match ends, Exeter City 3, Yeovil Town 3.
Second Half ends, Exeter City 3, Yeovil Town 3.
Lloyd James (Exeter City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Liam Shephard (Yeovil Town).
Foul by Reuben Reid (Exeter City).
Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Brandon Goodship replaces Ben Whitfield.
Goal! Exeter City 3, Yeovil Town 3. Reuben Reid (Exeter City) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by David Wheeler with a cross.
Goal! Exeter City 2, Yeovil Town 3. Troy Brown (Exeter City) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Lloyd James following a corner.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Alex Lacey.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Tom Eaves replaces Francois Zoko.
Goal! Exeter City 1, Yeovil Town 3. David Wheeler (Exeter City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Ryan Harley.
Attempt blocked. Ollie Watkins (Exeter City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Alex Lacey.
Attempt blocked. Ben Whitfield (Yeovil Town) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Delay in match Alex Lacey (Yeovil Town) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Francois Zoko (Yeovil Town) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Troy Brown.
Attempt missed. Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Exeter City 0, Yeovil Town 3. Alex Lacey (Yeovil Town) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Matthew Dolan with a cross following a set piece situation.
Lloyd James (Exeter City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Lloyd James (Exeter City).
Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro replaces Shayon Harrison.
Foul by Jack Stacey (Exeter City).
Ryan Dickson (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Jordan Moore-Taylor (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Matthew Dolan (Yeovil Town).
Artur Krysiak (Yeovil Town) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Jack Stacey (Exeter City).
(Yeovil Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Goal! Exeter City 0, Yeovil Town 2. Shayon Harrison (Yeovil Town) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Ben Whitfield (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Francois Zoko (Yeovil Town) header from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Troy Brown.
Substitution, Exeter City. Reuben Reid replaces Craig Woodman because of an injury.
Craig Woodman (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kevin Dawson (Yeovil Town).
Attempt missed. David Wheeler (Exeter City) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
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A section of the sea wall in Dawlish, Devon, collapsed and left the railway to Cornwall suspended in mid-air.
Residents of homes on the Somerset Levels were evacuated amid fears flood defences could be overwhelmed.
David Cameron chaired his first Cobra meeting this year and announced an extra £100m for flood works.
At Prime Minister's Questions he pledged £75m for repairs over the next year, £10m for urgent work in Somerset - where several rivers have flooded - and £15m for maintenance.
By Nick RobinsonPolitical editor
Mr Cameron said he would "ensure that everything that can be done to get stricken communities moving is being done: there are no restrictions on help".
The BBC's political editor Nick Robinson said Mr Cameron had given the "clearest possible sign" that he needed to "be seen to be getting a grip" on the response to the floods.
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson's handling of the crisis has been widely criticised.
He will not be chairing the Cobra emergency committee or giving a statement to the House of Commons on Thursday after being diagnosed with a detached retina. Instead, Mr Paterson will undergo emergency surgery.
By Chris EakinBBC presenter
Seldom can one small village have been so inundated by officials and their vehicles.
In Moorland, on the Somerset Levels, floodwater has reached people's gardens, and there is a huge effort to save properties as residents are advised to leave.
Environment Agency workers, at the centre of a political as well as meteorological storm, are here in huge numbers. Monster pipes are being laid across a road to shift great volumes of water from an overwhelmed drainage canal into the River Parrett. It is an effort to bypass Moorland and save the village.
Despite the advice to leave, announced from a police helicopter - as in a Hollywood disaster movie - many people, if not most, are staying to look after their homes. One woman told me she was worried about looters.
Residents have an anxious wait to see what the water does. For many on the Somerset Levels, it's an anxiety present since Christmas.
Western Power Distribution said about 44,000 customers had been affected by power cuts since Tuesday afternoon.
By 22:00 GMT on Wednesday, thousands of homes had been reconnected but 953 customers remained without power across the South West. In Cornwall, 490 were still cut off.
On the Somerset Levels, police used a helicopter to advise the occupants of more than 150 properties in Fordgate and Northmoor to leave their homes.
Forecasters say there will be an "improving picture" on Wednesday evening. But there will be rain moving up from the south coast on Thursday morning which will spread to south-west England in late morning. About 20-30mm of rain is expected throughout the day.
More heavy rain and gales are forecast for Friday night into Saturday.
Dawlish resident Robert Parker said the storm was "like the end of the world".
He said: "It was like an earthquake. I've never experienced anything like it. I've been in some terrible storms in the North Sea, but last night was just a force of nature."
First Great Western said all lines between Exeter St Davids and Plymouth were closed because of the collapsed track at Dawlish and the bad weather.
Limited services are running between Plymouth and Penzance, with rail replacement services due to be provided from Thursday.
Network Rail has estimated the damage at Dawlish could take at least six weeks to fix. First Great Western said the repairs could not begin until the weather improved.
Speaking after the Cobra meeting, the prime minister said he was "determined to ensure a proper alternative service" was provided while the railway line at Dawlish remained out of use, with a solution found to fix it as soon as possible.
The Environment Agency has two severe flood warnings in place in south-west England - meaning there is a danger to life - down from a high of nine earlier on Wednesday.
It has also issued about 60 flood warnings and more than 200 flood alerts.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has issued five flood warnings and several flood alerts.
The Met Office has issued an amber severe weather warning for rain - meaning "be prepared"- from 15:00 GMT on Thursday until 23:00 GMT on Saturday across southern England.
In other developments:
Firefighters have also been called out to deal with dangerous structures. There have been two incidents in the Tenby area of Pembrokeshire with roofing being blown off buildings.
1914-1918 - The Netherlands maintains its neutrality during World War I. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany goes into exile in the Netherlands at the end of the war.
1922 - Dutch women get the vote.
1932 - A 31-km dam is completed across the Zuider Zee forming a freshwater lake known as the IJsselmeer. Part of the lake has since been drained and the reclaimed land used to grow crops.
1939 - At the outbreak of World War II, the Netherlands declares its neutrality.
1940 - Nazi Germany invades on 10 May. The Dutch Royal Family flees to England, accompanied by the Dutch cabinet. The Germans bombard Rotterdam from the air, destroying tens of thousands of buildings in a few hours. The Dutch army is overwhelmed and the Netherlands surrenders.
1940 onwards - The Netherlands suffers greatly under German occupation. There is political repression, Dutch workers are forced to labour in German factories, Dutch Jews are deported to the death camps. Some go into hiding, including Anne Frank, whose posthumous diaries make her world-famous. The Dutch resistance movement draws its members from all social groupings. The Germans execute Dutch hostages in retaliation for acts of resistance.
1944-5 - As the Allied forces advance towards Germany, the Netherlands becomes the site of bitter fighting. There is further destruction through bombardment of German positions. The food supply is severely disrupted with many Dutch civilians suffering near-starvation.
1945 - The occupation ends with the surrender of German forces in the Netherlands on 5 May, three days before Nazi Germany capitulates on 8 May.
1945 - The Netherlands becomes a charter member of the United Nations. The leader of the Dutch Nazis is sentenced to death in December.
1949 - The Dutch East Indies, which had been occupied by Japan during World War II, receives its independence as Indonesia.
1949 - The Netherlands abandons its policy of neutrality and joins Nato.
1952 - The Netherlands is a founding member of the European Coal and Steel Community, which is to become the European Economic Community five years later.
1953 - Nearly 2,000 people die when dykes are breached by storms.
1963 - Colony of Netherlands New Guinea is ceded to Indonesia.
1965 - Princess Beatrix, the heiress to the throne, arouses controversy when she announces her engagement to a German diplomat. Former Dutch resistance fighters protest. The Dutch parliament eventually approves the marriage, which takes place in 1966.
1975 - Dutch colony of Surinam achieves independence. Hundreds of thousands of Surinamese emigrate to the Netherlands.
1980 - Queen Juliana abdicates; Beatrix becomes queen.
1985 - Government decides, despite widespread opposition, to site nearly 50 US cruise missiles in the country within three years. The controversy is subsequently dissolved by the ending of the Cold War.
1993 - Netherlands regulates euthanasia by doctors. Official estimates suggest that 2% of all deaths in the Netherlands each year are assisted.
1994 - Labour party leader Wim Kok becomes prime minister at the head of a three-party coalition.
1995 - Serious flooding leads to a state of emergency, with a quarter-of-a-million people evacuated from their homes.
1998 - Wim Kok re-elected as prime minister.
2000 - Parliament legalises euthanasia, setting strict conditions for doctors.
2001 April - In the first official ceremony of its kind, four homosexual couples are married in Amsterdam under new legislation. The new laws also allow homosexual couples to adopt children.
2002 January - Euro replaces the Dutch guilder.
2002 April - Wim Kok's government resigns following official report criticising its role in the Srebrenica massacre in 1995 when just over 100 lightly armed Dutch peacekeepers failed to stop Bosnian Serb forces from murdering thousands of Muslims.
2002 May - Widespread shock as anti-immigration party leader Pim Fortuyn is killed by gunman. His party, formed three months earlier, comes second in elections. Moderately conservative Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) led by Jan Peter Balkenende tops poll.
2002 July - Balkenende becomes prime minister in centre-right coalition with List Pim Fortuyn Party and liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
2002 October - Balkenende's government collapses, brought down by infighting in List Pim Fortuyn Party.
2003 January - Narrow win in general election for Christian Democratic Appeal. Coalition talks begin.
2003 April - Animal rights activist Volkert van der Graaf sentenced to 18 years for Fortuyn killing. He said he saw Fortuyn as a threat to democracy. His subsequent appeal is rejected.
2003 May - Centre-right coalition sworn in with Balkenende as premier for second term. New coalition involves Balkenende's Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and Democrats-66.
2004 March - Queen mother Juliana dies, aged 94. Juliana reigned for 32 years from 1948.
2004 November - Film-maker Theo Van Gogh is murdered. He was reported to have received death threats after his controversial film about the position of women in Islamic society. A radical Islamist is jailed for life for the murder in July 2005.
2005 June - Dutch voters reject a proposed EU constitution, days after a French referendum goes against the treaty.
2006 February - Parliament agrees to send an additional 1,400 Dutch troops to join Nato-led forces in southern Afghanistan. The decision comes after weeks of wrangling and international pressure.
2006 June-July - Prime Minister Balkenende forms a temporary, minority government after his coalition collapses in a row over immigration, precipitating early elections in November.
Cabinet backs plans to ban the burqa - the full body and face covering - in public places.
2007 February - Jan Peter Balkenende is sworn in as head of a three-party centrist coalition, three months after general elections.
2009 January - Court orders right-wing politician Geert Wilders should stand trial for inciting hatred against Muslims for a film linking radical Islamists' actions to the Koran.
2009 May - Seven people are killed at a parade in a failed attack on the royal family.
2009 June - The right-wing Freedom Party, led by Geert Wilders, comes second in European elections in the Netherlands, winning 15% of the vote.
2010 February - Coalition government collapses following dispute over troops in Afghanistan.
2010 June - Centre-right Liberal Party emerges as largest party in parliamentary election.
2010 August - The Netherlands withdraws its 1,900 soldiers from Afghanistan, ending a four-year mission that had grown increasingly unpopular at home.
2010 October - After months of coalition talks, Liberal Party and Christian Democratic Appeal agree to form minority government with parliamentary support from Geert Wilders' right-wing Freedom Party.
Netherlands Antilles dissolved. Aruba, Curacao, St Maarten become nations in Netherlands Kingdom. Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba, became autonomous special municipalities of the Netherlands.
2011 June - Populist politician Geert Wilders is acquitted of all charges in a hate speech trial in Amsterdam. Judges find his comments comparing Islam to Nazism might be offensive but fall within the scope of protected speech.
2011 July - A court rules the Dutch state responsible for the deaths of three Bosnian Muslims in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
2012 April - Prime Minister Mark Rutte tenders the resignation of his cabinet after the right-wing Freedom Party refuses to support an austerity budget.
A court upholds a draft law to ban foreign tourists from entering cafes that sell cannabis in the south of country. The law, intended to stop dealers' buying drugs to resell abroad illegally, is to be applied nationwide from January 2013.
2012 September - Prime Minister Mark Rutte's ruling Liberals win election with 41 seats in parliament, two more than centre-left Labour. Eurosceptic and anti-immigrant Freedom Party sustains heavy losses.
2012 November - Liberals and Labour form a coalition headed by Mark Rutte. The new government warns the Dutch that tough austerity measures will be needed.
2013 March - The authorities raise the terror threat to "substantial" - the second-highest level, citing concerns that Dutch citizens who fought with Islamists in Syria are returning more radicalised.
2013 April - Willem-Alexander becomes king.
2013 November - Netherlands contributes 380 peacekeeping troops to Mali, as part of a UN-led mission that took over from French forces who drove out Islamist and Tuareg insurgents earlier in the year.
2014 April - Dutch Supreme Court bans a paedophile club championed by advocates of free speech
2014 May - Volkert van der Graaf, the convicted killer of anti-immigration Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, is released after serving two-thirds of his 18-year sentence.
2014 July - A Dutch court rules that the Netherlands is liable over the killings of more than 300 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys at Srebrenica in Bosnia-Hercegovina in July 1995. The men and boys were among 5,000 Bosniaks, mostly women and children, sheltering with Dutch UN peacekeepers.
Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashes in eastern Ukraine, close to the border with Russia. The Netherlands declares national mourning for its 193 citizens who are among the 298 people killed. The two sides in the Ukrainian conflict accuse each other of shooting the plane down. The incident and its aftermath spark international outrage and condemnation.
2014 September - Preliminary report by Dutch experts says crash of Malaysian airliner in rebel-controlled territory in Ukraine in July was likely due to "external cause". Nearly 200 of those killed were Dutch.
2014 November - Authorities take measures after outbreak of bird flu at several poultry farms in the Netherlands.
National memorial service held for 298 passengers who died in crash of Malaysian airliner in rebel-controlled territory in Ukraine in July. Nearly 200 of those killed were Dutch.
2014 December - The authorities say far-right politician Geert Wilders will be prosecuted over claims that he incited racial hatred against Moroccans.
2015 March - Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten and his state secretary resign over having misled parliament.
Antenucci put Leeds in front when he latched on to Mustapha Carayol's corner and struck past keeper Paul Rachubka.
The hosts doubled their advantage when Antenucci curled into the far corner after his initial cross was blocked.
Substitute Kaiyne Woolery gave Bolton hope when he fired in Dean Moxey's cross but Leeds held on to win.
The result, Leeds' first league win since their 1-0 victory against Bristol City in January, eased the pressure on under-fire head coach Steve Evans as his side move up two places to 16th in the Championship.
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Evans was advised by the club's chairman Massimo Cellino not to talk to the media following their 4-0 defeat by Brighton & Hove Albion on Monday.
Meanwhile, Bolton's relegation worries deepen as they drop to the bottom of the league once more and are now 10 points adrift of safety following MK Dons' 2-0 win against QPR with 11 games left to play.
Prior to kick off, a Leeds fans' group named "Time To Go Massimo" held a mock funeral outside Elland Road to mark "the death of the club" as a protest towards Cellino.
A single-engine plane then flew over the ground, half an hour before the match started, with a banner displaying the message "Time To Go Massimo".
Both sides suffered early injuries with Bolton losing Emile Heskey in the warm up whilst Leeds lost Lewie Coyle after 22 minutes when he came off worse following a challenge for the ball with Jay Spearing.
Leeds boss Steve Evans when asked if the protests had proved a distraction: "No, none of it. We have to keep our focus on the grass.
"At the team meeting at the hotel I said to the players whatever happens we can't affect it. It's not our business.
"Our business is to turn up as professional footballers, professional coaching staff and medical staff and support the team on the pitch and get three points. We know if we get the three points we send the Leeds United family home ready to enjoy their Saturday night. "
Bolton manager Neil Lennon: "It's been a problem for us all season, we've lacked quality in the final third and that was apparent here.
"For all our good approach play we weren't clinical enough. We had Leeds on the back foot for the last 20 minutes.
"They had one shot in the second half and it goes in the back of the net. Strikers cost money and we've not got a lot of that this season."
A whistleblower had alleged patients were removed from lists at Kettering General Hospital because national targets were being missed.
The hospital denied "fiddling" but admitted inappropriate "filtering" to remove patients from waiting lists.
NHS Protect said it had carried out inquiries and no fraud was found.
The organisation, which investigates potential fraud in the NHS, said having conducted preliminary inquiries it would not be carrying out a full investigation.
In May, the BBC reported allegations by David Phelan, who was also a trust governor at the time, that waiting lists had been "fiddled" to remove patients.
A hospital review found that 138 patients were harmed - including one who had substantial sight loss - as a result of the long waits.
The hospital admitted using inappropriate filtering of its data to remove patients, but said: "Allegations brought by the former member of staff that this was done to deliberately make our figures look better and to avoid fines from our commissioners for long waiting patients is entirely false."
It quoted the findings of a report which said the filters were "well-intentioned, if misguided, tactical efforts to extract performance data which created a false sense of comfort and control".
Fiona Wise, interim chief executive at the hospital, said the trust had been given the "all clear".
"There has been a lot of concern about fiddling the waiting list," she said. "NHS Protect have been looking at the issues and they have confirmed to us that absolutely there was no fraud."
NHS Protect said: "After undertaking enquiries about Kettering General Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, it is our view that there is no evidence of fraud against the NHS in the claims made, and it is also unlikely fraudulent activity will occur in the future in relation to this issue at the trust."
Mae'r Glymblaid Sosialaidd ac Undebau Llafur (TUSC) yn ymgeisio mewn wardiau ar draws pump o gynghorau, gan gynnwys 14 yng Nghaerdydd a phump yn Abertawe.
Dywedodd Ross Saunders o TUSC ei bod yn hanfodol i "adeiladu gwrthwynebiad go iawn i'r toriadau sydd bobman yng Nghymru".
Ychwanegodd y dylai cynghorau ar fyrddau iechyd lleol wrthwynebu toriadau i'r GIG.
Fe wnaeth Mr Saunders, sy'n ymgeisydd ac yn llefarydd ar wasanaethau cyhoeddus i'r blaid, gyhuddo rhai cynghorwyr o fethu a throi i fyny i gyfarfodydd byrddau iechyd.
Dywedodd nad oedd pleidiau eraill wedi "sefyll i fyny ac amddiffyn gwasanaethau cyhoeddus a swyddi rhag y toriadau mae'r llywodraeth Geidwadol yn eu hanelu atyn nhw".
"Pan rydych chi'n ethol cynrychiolydd rydych chi'n disgwyl iddyn nhw frwydro drosoch chi, i sefyll i fyny drosoch chi, ac yn anffodus does dim un toriad gan y llywodraeth yn San Steffan wedi ei wrthod," meddai.
"Yn hytrach mae carnifal o gydweithio gyda chynghorau'n cael eu rhedeg gan bleidiau gwahanol yn torri'n gwasanaethau'n ufudd a'u preifateiddio."
Mae blaenoriaethau eraill TUSC yn cynnwys gwneud popeth sy'n bosib i reoli lefelau rhent, amddiffyn tenantiaid a rhoi diwedd ar ffioedd rhentu tai.
Traffic lights were placed on the A379 near Yealmpton in March 2015 after the road started subsiding.
Repairs were due to be finished by 31 March this year, said Devon County Council.
The authority has admitted the problems mean a delay for about 6,000 drivers on the road every day.
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The A379 was turned into a single carriageway for about 200m with traffic lights last year after highways chiefs were alerted to subsidence.
Yealmpton parish council clerk Mike Stickland said: "We are fed up with it being closed for so long, it's a major tourist road and the local area's businesses rely on it."
South Hams district councillor Richard Hosking asked the county council to classify the roadworks as an emergency but his request was rejected.
"I've been assured it is being treated as a priority," he said.
A county council spokesman said: "Public safety is our prime concern, and one lane of this section of the road is closed, with temporary lights, because the road is subsiding and is not safe.
"It doesn't normally take this long to design a structural repair scheme but the investigation work was seriously hampered by the location of a gas main under the road.
"A further complication arose following preparatory vegetation clearance which identified the need for a risk assessment to determine if a safety barrier was now required.
"That assessment took place last week and the outcome is a significant length of barrier is required to safeguard the highway user from what is a significant drop.
"The re-design of the strengthening works and the safety barrier will delay starting on site until April."
The first leg on 30 June against Estonian side Infonet was switched to Tynecastle hours after Monday's draw.
And, the following day, the second leg was moved forward 24 hours, which Hearts say inconvenienced their fans.
"The club has requested that the Scottish FA make representation to Uefa," the Scottish Premiership club said on their website.
Hearts want the SFA to recommend "that the communication process between participating clubs, their national associations and Uefa be reviewed and improved".
They say that fans "who had moved quickly to book flights and accommodation" had been adversely affected.
"Having been assured that all deliberations of the competitions committee had been concluded, and decisions taken were final, we released this information to our supporters," they said.
"No further communication was received from Uefa to the club prior to them issuing their finalised list of fixtures, which showed that a further change had in fact been made, moving our away leg from Thursday 7 to Wednesday 6.
"This change was made without any reference to either Hearts or, indeed, FC Infonet.
"In this instance, the club can only repeat its apologies for the inconvenience that these events have caused and trust that supporters will recognise that we did everything possible to provide timely and accurate information to our supporters, including sending representatives to Nyon."
The people living in them are among the oldest, most vulnerable people in society. One in six of all people over the age of 85 are housed in them.
I make these points to illustrate the size of the market. Why? Because something isn't right.
The sector is haunted by the collapse of Southern Cross four years ago, which left more than 30,000 people at risk of losing their "homes". Other providers stepped in then.
But now storm clouds appear to be gathering over many of those. Four Seasons, the biggest provider with nearly 500 homes, has debts that are costing £50m a year to service, while rumours have circulated that Bupa is preparing to sell a number of homes, although this has been dismissed by the firm.
I have also been told about internal market research carried out by consultants PwC (but not published publicly) which shows among the big five firms as many as half their homes may not be viable in the long-term.
But they are not alone, according to Mike Parish, the chief executive of Care UK.
The big five, of which his firm is one, account for just a fifth of the market. Most of the rest are small providers. He believes the smaller providers are most at risk, adding: "The market has been pretty resilient until now, but that could soon change."
Top of his thoughts is the introduction of the National Living Wage next year.
Research by the Resolution Foundation think tank predicts up to a million of the 1.4m workers across the whole care sector could end up getting rises over the coming years.
Another concern is the squeeze on fees paid by councils. About six in 10 people in care homes get their care arranged and paid for by councils - the rest pay for themselves.
But as local government has seen its funding cut in recent years so it has passed this on.
Research by LaingBuisson consultants found the cost of running a care home is £554 per week, but the average fee paid by English councils is just £512.
It was a combination of these factors which led the think tank Respublica to warn that as many as 37,000 beds could close in the coming years.
Since the report was published in early November, the government has set out its spending plans.
Chancellor George Osborne spoke about the importance of the sector and claimed to be putting forward measures that would see funding for care increase, mainly because councils will be allowed to raise council tax by 2% to invest in care.
However, councils have since disputed this, leaving the sector once again worried what the future holds.
But is it really as bad as people are saying? After all, if you look at the figures the number of care home beds has been pretty much increasing year on year since 2010 - up from just over 460,000 in 2010 to nearly 465,500 this year, according to figures from the Care Quality Commission, the sector's regulator.
However, even the CQC itself admits that doesn't tell the full story.
Firstly, despite the rise in beds, the number of homes has actually fallen by 5% over the same period, suggesting the more vulnerable smaller operators are being swallowed up.
Chief inspector for social care Andrea Sutcliffe acknowledges this.
She says a "tipping point" seems to have been reached, particularly when inspectors demand changes be made.
Whereas in the past homes would respond quickly to requests, now, she says, they're simply talking about "throwing in the towel".
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Jack Marsters, 18, was arrested after the flare was discharged in Bo'ness Academy, West Lothian just before the start of the school day on 28 April.
Marsters' actions led to the entire 1,200-pupil, 90-teacher school being evacuated.
No damage was caused and no one was injured.
The flare set off the school's smoke alarm system, alerting the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.
Marsters, of Bo'ness, pleaded guilty at Falkirk Sheriff Court to culpable and reckless conduct.
Sheriff John Mundy deferred sentence until 13 February and granted Marsters bail.
Accident and emergency and maternity services at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch could be moved to hospitals in Worcester or Birmingham.
It is part of plans by Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust to save £50m.
The 32-page report has been produced by Redditch Borough and Bromsgrove and Stratford-on-Avon district councils.
It stated: "The removal of services from Redditch will leave what is already a vulnerable society with the worst accessibility to health services in the region.
"[It] will introduce substantial inequalities with the populations of Redditch, Bromsgrove, Studley, Alcester and neighbouring areas being significantly worse off than all other areas in Worcestershire."
The report has been submitted to Redditch and Bromsgrove Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) for its current review of the county's hospitals.
The CCG is looking at two options for services at the Alexandra Hospital as part of a £35m reorganisation of health services in Worcestershire.
For the first option, some services at Alexandra Hospital would move to Worcestershire Royal Hospital.
Alternatively, it would be taken over by a University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Birmingham's QE Hospital.
The council report said if downgrading services was unavoidable, then Birmingham was the more "feasible option" because of better transport links.
Leader of Redditch Borough Council, Bill Hartnett said: "The prevalence of stroke, asthma and high blood pressure in Redditch are higher than the national average with over 28% of adults obese.
"With a clear link between physical and mental health problems and deprivation, the removal of key health services from the Alexandra Hospital to an inaccessible central base would put some of our most vulnerable residents at risk."
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust were unavailable for comment.
Maxence Melo, a director of Jamii Forums message boards, was charged under a controversial cybercrimes law.
The government said the law would stop the spread of lies, sedition and pornographic material online.
But critics say the law limits freedom of expression.
One US aid agency ,The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), cancelled nearly $500m (£405m) of funding in March partly on concerns over the enforcement of the law.
Tweeters have been using the hashtag #FreeMaxenceMelo in protest at Mr Melo's arrest.
On Wednesday Tanzanian police took Mr Melo to his office and home to search for the users' details they wanted.
Mr Melo's lawyer told the BBC the search was against his consent and the police did not have a search warrant.
The Jamii Forums other co-founder, Mike Mushi, told the BBC the police didn't take anything but made copies of several documents.
Mr Melo appeared at Kisutu court in Dar es Salaam on Friday, charged with obstructing an investigation and with failing to register the site with a co.tz domain name.
The cybercrime law made it a legal requirement for all websites in Tanzania to have a co.tz domain name.
The BBC's Sammy Awami reports that Mr Melo's bail hearing has been postponed until Monday. After he was charged, he was sent to Keko Prison in the country's economic capital, Dar es Salaam.
Technology journalist Tefo Mohapi says JamiiForums has played a huge part in exposing corruption in Tanzania.
He says information posted on the site about corrupt deals has led to the resignation of a prime minister, the dissolution of a cabinet and several ministers losing their jobs.
The 22-year-old Scot has risen 22 places in the world rankings in a year.
"I've wanted this since I was a kid and it's actually here and it's actually happening," she told BBC Scotland.
"I think it would be crazy to go in thinking there's no way possible for me to challenge for a medal. I'm 15th in the world."
Two years ago, Gilmour was asked what she wanted to achieve in the sport.
Her bold aim was to win a medal at all the major events - European, world championships, Commonwealth Games and Olympics - and she is halfway to realising her ambition.
A Commonwealth Games and a European Championships medal have already been chalked off the list.
Gilmour, who won a silver medal at this year's European Championships, believes she is going into the Olympics in the best shape of her life and in great form too.
"I've pushed these top guys to three sets, taken a couple of wins here and there," she said.
"It's a major championships and crazy things happen in major championships. So for me to say there's no chance is silly."
Gilmour is full of confidence at the moment, but after the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, her new coach, two-time Olympian Chris Bruil, decided to overhaul her game and she admits she struggled.
"He stripped my game back to very basics and there were tears and there were broken badminton rackets, I'm not going to lie," she said.
Gilmour competed in lesser tournaments against weaker opponents in a bid to solidify what she had been working on in training.
It had the desired effect as she has risen up the world rankings to 15th from 37th this time last year.
While she is moving up in the world, she admits she is not feeling totally in awe at the prospect of competing on the Olympic stage.
That is also down to the fact that she was involved in the GB ambition programme for London 2012.
"That kind of wow factor and shock has been taken away a bit," she said.
"I got to go to London, soak in the atmosphere, even eat in the dining hall, which doesn't seem like a big thing.
"But, when you're faced with every food under the sun, and you have to control yourself, it's quite difficult."
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The fire broke out at the substation on Bluebell Avenue at about 19:25 BST.
The Electricity Supply Board (ESB) said a transformer fault caused the fire and that engineers have now restored power.
Nobody has been injured in the blaze. The gardaà (Irish police) have advised people near the fire to stay indoors and keep windows and doors shut.
Several units from the Dublin Fire Brigade have attended the scene.
Whiteheads Steelworks was closed down in 2005 and later demolished as part of the city's regeneration works.
Developers say the development, off Mendalgief road, could regenerate a section of Pill "traditionally associated with industry".
Plans also include a pub-restaurant, retail and assisted living units.
Whiteheads Developments first submitted plans for the development in 2015 with a smaller number of residential properties - 498 - and a care home.
Developers changed the plans following noise concerns over the Coilcolor factory and after increased costs of "unforeseen contamination" at the site.
The initial gathering lasted half an hour, but is hailed a significant step.
Earlier, the government team told the BBC "ending terrorism and violence" was the top priority but said opposition members harboured "personal hatreds".
Delegates in Geneva are aiming at small concessions, not a full peace deal, and will talk through a UN mediator.
The BBC's Lina Sinjab, in Geneva, says diplomatic efforts are concentrating on trying to build confidence between the two sides with small achievements like localised ceasefires, release of detainees and the opening of humanitarian corridors.
There is hope that such steps could pave the way for the discussion of wider issues like political transition, our correspondent says.
By Imogen FoulkesBBC News, Geneva
Lakhdar Brahimi's announcement that the two sides will, after all, meet face-to-face is the first genuinely positive moment since these talks began on Wednesday.
If it goes well, there may be further meetings later on Saturday.
Exactly what will be discussed remains unclear: If the two sides focus on better access for aid agencies, or even some temporary local ceasefires, then progress may be made. If they continue to make President Assad's future their starting point, they may get nowhere.
As Mr Brahimi said, no-one expected these talks to be easy.
Syria's Ambassador to the UN Bashar Jafari - part of the government delegation - told the BBC that "item number one should be putting an end to the terrorism and to the violence".
"We should all have one agenda, how to serve the interests of the Syrian people, how to rebuild our country on a solid basis and how to go ahead, forward towards achieving the aspirations of the Syrian people," he said.
But he accused the coalition delegation of harbouring "personal hatreds towards the government for whatever reasons".
The envoy said the common ground between the parties "should be that we should talk about everything, everything, without any selectivity... and no preconditions and no hidden agendas".
However he said it was "too early" to talk of Mr Assad stepping down and that the issue was "not the priority".
In Homs - where President Bashar al-Assad's forces have surrounded rebel-held areas for more than a year - the practical steps needed to get humanitarian aid in have been worked out, and could take place quickly if agreed, Reuters news agency cited an official as saying.
Syria's civil conflict has claimed well over 100,000 lives since it began in 2011.
The violence has also driven 9.5 million people from their homes, creating a major humanitarian crisis within Syria and for its neighbours.
The delegates are still not prepared to talk to each other directly, but are expected to communicate via UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, reportedly in two sessions during Saturday.
Preliminary talks began on Wednesday in Montreux, and Mr Brahimi spent Thursday and Friday attempting to persuade both sides to agree to meet face-to-face.
Friday was supposed to be the first day of official talks, but neither side would meet the other.
A UN-backed meeting in 2012 issued the document and urged Syria to:
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Instead, Mr Brahimi met government delegates in the morning, and the opposition in the afternoon.
On Friday, the government's delegation reportedly threatened to quit the talks unless "serious" discussions were scheduled for Saturday.
The opposition and government are fundamentally divided over the aims of the conference.
The government delegation has said the main issue of the talks is finding a solution to foreign-backed "terrorism", by which it means the whole of the armed opposition.
The opposition, however, had insisted that the regime commit in writing to the 2012 Geneva I communique, which called for a transition process.
The communique urged Syria to form transitional governing authority that "could include members of the present government and the opposition and other groups".
The Adventure Travel in Scotland guide has been published by Tourism Intelligence Scotland (TIS).
It is aimed at helping companies make the most of new and emerging opportunities in the tourism sector.
Tourism bosses expect a 70% increase in people taking part in adventure travel over the next three years.
According to the guide, more than 3.2 million adventure holiday trips were made in Scotland in 2008, generating almost £900m of spending.
Adventure travel includes adventure sports and mountain biking, but also walking and wildlife watching.
The guide provides facts and figures about the market, emerging consumer trends and marketing tips to help operators attract more adventure travellers to their business.
Julie Franchetti, tourism innovation manager at Scottish Enterprise, said: "In the current economic climate, tourism businesses need to continue to look at new ways to innovate and grow their business.
"This guide will give them the knowledge and the tools to make the most of these new opportunities and ensure they meet, and exceed, the needs of these adventurous travellers."
Paul Easto, director of adventure travel company Wilderness Scotland, said good market intelligence was essential to any business.
He added: "For Scotland to thrive as an adventure travel destination, it is fundamentally important that all aspects of the tourism supply chain understand the specific needs and expectations of this market."
TIS is a joint venture developed by Scottish Enterprise, Highlands & Islands Enterprise and VisitScotland, in partnership with the tourism industry.
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A new study has found an atmospheric melting phenomenon in the region to be far more prevalent than anyone had realised.
This is the foehn winds that drop over the big mountains of the peninsula, raising the temperature of the air on the leeward side well above freezing.
"The best way to consider these winds is how they translate to german now, which is 'hairdryer'," explained Jenny Turton from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
"So, they're warm and they're dry and they're downslope. If you take the spring, the air over the ice shelf is usually minus 14 but during the foehn winds it’s above freezing.”
The effect on the ice that pushes east from the Peninsula out over the Weddell Sea is clear. It produces great ponds of brilliant blue melt water at the surface.
Such warm, downslope winds are well known across the Earth, of course; and they all have a local name.
The chinook winds, for example, that drop over the Rockies and Cascades in North America are the exact same thing.
Foehn is just the title they garnered originally in Europe's Alps. And while their presence on the White Continent has also long been recognised, the BAS study is really the first effort to try to quantify their behaviour.
Examining data from 2009 to 2012, Turton and colleagues identified over 200 foehn episodes a year.
That makes them more frequent than anyone had thought previously. And the range is broader, too, with occurrences being recorded much further south on the Peninsula.
This all means their melting influence on the eastern shelf ice has very likely been underestimated.
"In summer, we expect some melt, around 2mm per day. But in spring we’re having an equal amount of melt as we are in summer during the foehn winds," Ms Turton told BBC News.
"That's significant because it’s making the melt onset earlier. We kind of expect melt in January/February time; but we’re also seeing it sometimes in September/October, in particularly frequent foehn wind conditions."
Is the Larsen C Ice Shelf being conditioned for a break-up?
Turton presented the foehn research at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna.
It is timely work because there is considerable interest currently in the status of the Larsen C Ice Shelf - a floating projection from the Peninsula that is the size of Wales.
Scientists are wondering if this shelf will follow the demise of its siblings, Larsen A and Larsen B, further to the north.
These collapsed in 1995 and 2002, respectively; Larson B doing so in spectacular style.
Larsen C shares some similarities - notably, the presence of those summer melt pools.
This liquid water is problematic because of the way it can seep into crevasses and help to open them up.
The water pushes down on the fissures, driving them through to the base of the shelf in a process known as hydrofracturing. They weaken the shelf.
"The thing about Larsen B though was that it was covered in them," recalled Prof Bernd Kulessa from Swansea University.
"By the time the shelf reached a really weak state, there were literally thousands of ponds. On Larsen C, the ponds are still very much focussed in the inlets (close to the mountains). There are few ponds on the shelf itself and so it is not quite as pre-conditioned."
Drawing a lot of attention at the moment is the big iceberg calving event occurring on Larsen C. A mass of ice some 5,000 sq km in area is about to break away.
When the monster berg does detach, it could change the way stress is configured and managed by the remaining shelf structure.
It is interesting to note that the collapses of Larsen A and B were also preceded by major calvings. But these are not swift processes. They do not happen the day after tomorrow; they can take very many years to complete.
Presently, the putative Larsen C berg is hanging on to the shelf by a 20km stretch of ice. And the crack that will set it free has actually slowed its pace of late.
"It's entered a suture zone which is soft - softer because the ice is warmer and has more water content," Swansea's Prof Adrian Luckman told BBC News.
"As a result the crack cannot propagate as fast as it has done through the colder ice. So, it will be stuck in this suture zone for some time to come. However, where we're measuring the rift width, which is at the point where it broke through the first suture zone it came across - it continues to open by about a metre a day."
In total, that's a gap of more than 450m.
Prof Luckman is monitoring the crack’s position with the European Union's Sentinel-1 satellites. Their radar sensors report on the developing berg every six days, and can see the ice surface even through cloud and during the long polar winter nights.
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Camila Batmanghelidjh was born to a wealthy family in Iran. In a Guardian interview last year she said that because she was premature it was thought that she would die, and so was sent home without her birth being registered. She told the paper: "I don't know my birthday. My mother can't remember."
Whatever the precise day of her birth, given that she says she was 14 at the time of the Iranian revolution in 1979, Ms Batmanghelidjh is now around 50.
She traces the origins of Kids Company - which she founded in 1996 - back to when she was nine and wanted to open an orphanage. She says she was creative but had dyslexia and struggled at school, spending three years from the age of nine in a special Swiss school.
Arriving in England at the age of 12, she was educated at the the private Sherborne Girls school in Dorset and was there when the Iranian revolution broke out and her father was captured. She says he was presumed dead for three years, before they were eventually reunited. He died in 2006.
But she believes the impact of her father's capture had a profound effect on her family. Ms Batmanghelidjh says talk of her father being murdered tipped her sister Lila into psychosis.
Following school, and despite her dyslexia, according to her profile on the Specialist Speakers website, she used a tape recorder instead of pen and paper and got a first-class degree in theatre and dramatic arts from Warwick University and then trained as a psychotherapist in London
The charity's website says she founded Kids Company in six converted railway arches in London - and that on two occasions she has re-mortgaged her flat to see Kids Company through its lack of funding. It says over the years she has worked tirelessly to raise millions of pounds for its work.
Originally starting up in London the charity deals with some of England's most troubled youngsters who often suffer from abuse, mental health problems, substance misuse and homelessness.
Kids Company says its aim is to restore their trust and provide an environment in which they can begin the healing process, "using a carefully designed support system that includes psychotherapy, counselling, education, arts, sports, hot meals and various other practical interventions".
It now operates in London, Bristol and Liverpool and claims to help 36,000 people.
Well known for her charismatic approach and distinctive dress sense Camila Batmanghelidjh is one of the UK's most instantly recognisable figures - one magazine profile put it like this: "Ignoring Camila Batmanghelidjh is not easy: not her neon clothes and ready roar of laughter; nor her rocklike certainty gained through experience, academic research and compassion."
She has won an array of accolades and awards, including a CBE and a series of honorary degrees and fellowships from universities including UCL and the Open University and was listed among the UK's most powerful women by BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour in 2013.
The charity has had an array of high profile donors and supporters, including children's author JK Rowling and was chaired by the BBC's creative director, Alan Yentob.
And Ms Batmanghelidjh had influential contacts in politics too.
The charity has received millions in government grants going back a number of years. One source involved in talks over grants says David Cameron appeared "mesmerised" by the Kids Company boss.
Officials and ministers at the Department for Education had repeatedly expressed opposition to continued funding for the charity because of concerns about its performance and management but, the source said: "She was a good news story for the Conservative Party. It was a case of glamour over substance."
And a former adviser in the last Labour Government has told the BBC he raised concerns about Kids Company as far back as 2007.
He said that there was a "cult of personality" surrounding Camila Batmanghelidjh and that the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown intervened personally to safeguard funding for the charity.
In July Ms Batmanghelidjh announced she was to step down as a condition of her charity getting a £3m government grant.
At the time Ms Batmanghelidjh claimed that government briefing was "attempting to discredit me" and distract focus from the charity's lobbying to improve services for troubled children and youths.
According to Newsnight's Chris Cook, that £3m grant and the associated restructuring have failed to give the charity the finances to secure its future and it plans to close for business on Wednesday evening.
The former Conservative education minister Tim Loughton, who told the BBC his department had been over-ruled by No 10 in 2012 over levels of funding for Kids Company said: "Anybody who has met Camila Batmanghelidjh cannot be but completely impressed by her passion, enthusiasm and charisma.
"But you have to balance charisma, passion and enthusiasm with running a charity effectively and administering a charity effectively and clearly that's where there are some shortfalls."
London mayor Boris Johnson told Today "it's a great shame that it doesn't seem to be working in the way that I think everybody who supports the idea would like - what I want to happen is to ensure that all the kids who've been receiving attention from Camila and her team will have some kind of safety net."
In total, 893 patients were affected, up by 89 from 804 in November.
Glan Clwyd Hospital in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, and Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor saw increases while Wrexham Maelor had fewer people waiting.
A health board report said the number of beds and staff had been increased to tackle the issue.
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board chief operating officer Morag Olsen said staff had been deployed to support patients waiting in ambulances with "care being commenced for many whilst they waited for space to be made available".
"The pressure has continued into January and we anticipate that we will see only a gradual reduction," she said in the report which will be considered by the board on Thursday.
Last month, Dr Andrew Goodall, the head of the NHS in Wales, said the service as a whole had faced "exceptional" challenges this winter.
A&E monthly waiting time figures are due to be published on Thursday.
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Kvitova, a two-time Wimbledon champion, played at the French Open in May after being stabbed by an intruder at her home in the Czech Republic in December.
And last month, she claimed a stunning win at the Aegon Classic in Birmingham.
"It was ambitious to see her return here in this space of time, but miracle happens," Kebrle told BBC Sport.
Last week, Kvitova told BBC Sport the attack "took her smile away" and that winning her first title since the attack was "a fairytale".
It was her 12th tour title and one she won in style by claiming 17 of the final 18 points.
The 27-year-old left-hander, who beat Sweden's Johanna Larsson in the first round at Wimbledon, had surgery for severe lacerations to all four fingers on her left hand.
Kebrle said he told Kvitova in December that there was "a high risk that she will not pass and come back" but he would do "everything he can" to help her recover.
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He added: "We said six months is a realistic or safe time to make a return. After three months she would have a full range of motion and will have to learn to play tennis again.
"She was a perfect patient because she was following our orders. We made a schedule for two, six, 10 weeks and we followed it. We were reaching the points.
"To gain good range of motion is very difficult. Even if you treat it well, you are not sure she is going to come back because she still has to work it out mentally and has to train - it needs time.
"In two and a half months, she is back and she won Aegon in that time. It is outstanding, unbelievable."
HMP Manchester has seen seven self-inflicted deaths in less than two years, including that of alleged killer Barry Morrow.
HM Inspectorate of Prisons found staff had accepted the deaths as "the way things were in Manchester".
Chief Inspector of Prisons Nick Hardwick said the prison was not "ensuring lessons were learnt".
He said that while cases of self-harm had decreased from 22 a month in 2009 to 10 a month in 2011, there was "a degree of fatalism in the prison's response" to such incidents.
"Arrangements for caring for prisoners at risk of self-harm or suicide were not poor but there was room for improvement," he said.
"The prison was not active enough in ensuring lessons were learnt from previous cases, both at Manchester and elsewhere, and ensuring they were consistently applied."
He said the prison's management needed to "bear down on this issue with the same determination and skill with which they have successfully addressed so many other issues".
"Just over 20 years ago, Strangeways, as HMP Manchester was generally known, had a notorious reputation," he said.
"It is now completely transformed and in many ways provides a model to which other local prisons should aspire."
The chief executive of the National Offender Management Service, Michael Spurr, said the number of suicides at the prison was "not disproportionate to comparable establishments but there is no complacency".
"The governor and his team will continue to work to further reduce the rate of self-harm and to prevent suicides," he said.
"Every self-inflicted death is a tragedy which impacts not only on families but also on prisoners and prison staff."
He added that he was "pleased that Manchester is assessed as performing well or reasonably well against all four healthy prison tests - safety, respect, purposeful activity and resettlement".
"This reflects good progress and confirms Manchester is delivering positive outcomes for the public," he said.
Morrow was due to face trial in May over the deaths of Angela Holgate and Alice Huyton, whose strangled bodies were found at Mrs Holgate's home in Southport on 3 December.
He was found hanging in his cell on 9 February and pronounced dead the same day.
On 15 May 1941, the Gloster E28/39 aircraft powered by Sir Frank Whittle's pioneering engine took off for a flight that lasted almost 17 minutes.
In commemoration, a replica of the aircraft was transported to the RAF base.
It performed a fly-past for guests including Sir Frank's son.
The full-size fibreglass model of the Gloster, owned by The Jet Age Museum in Gloucester, was transported to RAF Cranwell on Thursday.
Following the fly-past on Sunday, the E28 returned to Gloucestershire Airport, Staverton, where the museum has planning permission for a permanent home for its collection.
Sir Frank began his RAF career as an apprentice and later trained as an officer at Cranwell.
He was knighted by King George VI in 1948 when he retired from the RAF in the rank of Air Commodore. He emigrated to the USA in 1976 and died at his home in Columbia, Maryland in August 1996.
Speaking in Japan, the PM said her job was not just to deliver Brexit but to define the UK's place in the world and also to tackle domestic "injustices".
Some reports had suggested she could stand down in 2019 after EU withdrawal.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson gave Mrs May his "undivided backing", but Labour accused her of being delusional.
The prime minister has been under pressure after losing her Commons majority in a snap election called earlier this year.
Mr Johnson, speaking on a visit to Nigeria, said she could "certainly" win an absolute majority at the next general election.
But shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Trickett said the prime minister was "deluding herself" about her plan to stay in power until the next election.
"Neither the public nor Tory MPs believe her fantasy of staying on till 2022," he said.
"Theresa May leads a zombie government."
The next general election is not scheduled to take place until May 2022, by which point Mrs May - if she stayed in Downing Street - would have been PM for nearly six years.
In the immediate aftermath of her party's failure to win June's general election outright, several MPs called on her to consider her position.
Former Chancellor George Osborne, who has become a newspaper editor after being sacked by Mrs May, said she was a "dead woman walking".
The PM has sought to consolidate her position by negotiating a governing agreement with the Democratic Unionists and overhauling the way Downing Street works, replacing key advisers.
But this has not stopped speculation about how long she might remain in No 10 and about potential successors, although one cabinet minister earlier this summer blamed such talk on too much "warm prosecco".
Asked whether she wanted to lead her party into another general election, whenever that takes place, the prime minister told the BBC's Ben Wright in Kyoto that that was her intention.
"Yes, I'm here for the long term. What me and my government are about is not just delivering on Brexit but delivering a brighter future for the UK.
She said she wanted to ensure "global Britain" could take its trading place in the world, as well as dealing with "those injustices domestically that we need to do to ensure that strong, more global, but also fairer Britain for the future"
The prime minister faces a crucial few months with a number of tests of her authority within the party, including her second conference speech as party leader in October and key Brexit votes in the Commons.
Newspapers reports over the weekend claimed Mrs May had told MPs that she intended to stand down in the summer of 2019 to give her successor ample time to bed in before the next election.
No 10 dismissed the reports as "peak silly season".
Mr Johnson, who received public backing from Mrs May after recent criticism of his performance, said: "I've made it clear I'm giving my undivided backing to Theresa May.
"We need to get Brexit done.
"She's ideally placed to deliver a great outcome for our country and then deliver what we all want to see, which is this exciting agenda of global Britain.
"I think she gets it. She really wants to deliver it. I'm here to support her."
The UK is due to leave the EU in March 2019 and supporters of Mrs May have said leadership speculation only serves to undermine attempts to secure the best possible terms of exit.
On the second day of her trip to Japan, Mrs May will hold official talks with her counterpart Shinzo Abe and emphasise the growing security links between the two countries.
Newcastle and Everton both met the clause in the 29-year-old's Wigan contract but the Ivorian has opted to move to Merseyside
He will link up again with manager Roberto Martinez, who left Wigan at the end of the season.
Kone scored 11 Premier League goals for last season's FA Cup winners who were relegated to the Championship.
Kone said: "Every player dreams of playing for a bigger club and coming here is a big step up for me.
"I hope to be able to fulfil all my dreams and get as far as I can through hard work.
"I hope to score as many goals as I can next season."
Wigan boss Owen Coyle said last week he expected Kone to leave the club and that Everton was his preference.
Martinez, who took over at Everton last month, signed Kone on a three-year deal from Spanish side Levante last summer.
"For me it's an honour to be back working with the manager once again. Last season he really helped me a lot," added the player.
Kone has also played for Belgians Lierse SK, Dutch sides Roda JC and PSV and Sevilla in Spain.
He has played his part in three African Cup of Nations campaigns and was also selected for the World Cup in Germany in 2006.
The fee was officially announced as undisclosed.
The Cochno Stone dates to 3000BC and is described as one of the best examples of Neolithic or Bronze Age cup and ring markings in Europe.
Located next to a housing estate, the stone was buried in 1965 to protect it from damage.
Excavation work started on Monday and is expected to last three weeks.
Archaeologists will use 3D-imaging technology to make a detailed digital record of the site.
They hope this will provide more information on the stone's history, purpose and the people who created it about 5,000 years ago.
Dr Kenny Brophy, from Glasgow University, who is leading the dig next to Cochno farm, said: "This is the biggest and, I would argue, one of the most important Neolithic art panels in Europe.
"The cup and ring marks are extensive but the site just happens to be in the middle of an urban housing scheme in Clydebank.
"It was last fully open to the elements and the public up until 1965. Sadly, as it was neglected it was also being damaged through vandalism and people just traipsing all over it.
"Renowned archaeologist Ludovic Maclellan Mann, with a team of experts, decided the best way to preserve it was to cover it over to protect it from further damage."
A trial excavation last year indicated modern graffiti is "probably extensive" over the stone's surface.
The joint project between the university's archaeology department and the Factum Foundation for Digital Technology in Conservation aims to gather high-resolution data of the stone's surface before reburying it.
The foundation then hopes to produce a lifesize copy of the 8m by 13m stone using the recorded digital data and historical sources, including the graffiti as well as the prehistoric surface.
The foundation's Ferdinand Saumarez Smith said: "Factum Foundation captured the world's attention through its 3D scanning work that led to the discovery of evidence of a new chamber in the tomb of Tutankhamun.
"With the Cochno Stone, we are going to use similar recording methods to bring the world's attention to Scotland's equally important, mysterious and beautiful heritage.
"We believe that if we trust people, they will look after it."
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But for one school boy that dream has actually come true.
Nine-year-old Billy hit the headlines after cheekily asking War Horse author Michael Morpurgo to name a character after him at a book signing.
Now Newsround has reunited Billy and Michael to talk about the release of the finished book at a mysterious location.
The alert, the highest possible warning level, was issued late Monday and will last until midday on Thursday.
Limits have been placed on car use and some factories have been ordered to stop operations.
It comes as China, the world's worst polluter, takes part in talks on carbon emissions in Paris.
It is the first time China has declared a red alert under the four-tier alert system, which was adopted a little over two years ago, although pollution levels were far from the city's worst.
At 07:00 local time on Tuesday (23:00 GMT on Monday), when the alert came into effect, the US Embassy's air pollution monitor in Beijing reported that the intensity of the tiny particles known as PM 2.5 was at 291 micrograms per cubic metre.
By 11:00 it had dropped very slightly to 250 - still a level it described as "very unhealthy". Levels of the poisonous particles in the suburbs were reported at several times that number.
The World Health Organization recommends 25 micrograms per cubic metre as the maximum safe level.
As I cycled into the office this morning, smog mask clamped firmly in place, the traffic was certainly lighter. Beijing's first red alert means half of all cars must stay off the roads; odd numbered license plates today, even numbered ones tomorrow.
But although the air is indeed an unpleasant, filthy grey, the pollution index is actually a good deal lower than it was this time last week, when the quantity of dangerous particulate matter (PM 2.5) surged to around 40 times the World Health Organisation's maximum guideline. Today, it is a mere 10 times that limit.
So why red now? Well, the lack of any previous red alerts has been met with increasingly loud howls of derision. What would it take, people wondered last week - as their children felt their way to the still open schools through the poisonous gloom - for the government to act?
Perhaps it is the growing public pressure that has finally made the difference this time round.
Coal-powered industries and heating systems, as well as vehicle emissions and dust from construction sites, all contribute to the smog which has been exacerbated by humidity and a lack of wind.
The order will last until 12:00 on Thursday, when a cold front is expected to arrive and clear the smog.
As well as limits on construction and schools - which were advised to close if they did not have good air filtration systems - cars are only permitted to drive on alternate days, with the day depending on whether a car's number plate ends in an odd or even number. Officials promised additional public transport to cope with demand.
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China's air quality is a key factor in its push for a new global deal on climate change.
Its negotiators here point to their continued investment in renewable sources of energy, in an effort to cut down on coal consumption, particularly in urban areas. Around 58% of the increase in the country's primary energy consumption in 2013-14 came from non-fossil fuel sources.
These efforts to go green may not be having an immediate effect on the air in Beijing but they have had an impact on global output of carbon dioxide. This year's figures, just published, show carbon levels have stalled or declined slightly even while the world economy has expanded.
A strong agreement here in Paris won't immediately solve China's air woes, but if it ultimately pushes down the price of renewables even further, it could play a part in solving the issue long term.
"You have to do whatever you can to protect yourself,'' Beijing resident Li Huiwen told AP news agency. "Even when wearing the mask, I feel uncomfortable and don't have any energy.''
While the smog's effects have been worsened by weather conditions and the city's geography - bordered to the south and east by industrial areas that generate pollution and to the north and west by mountains that trap it - it has prompted increasing concern that China has prioritised economic growth at too high an environmental cost.
"It is a sharp warning to us that we may have too much development at the price of environment and it is time for us to seriously deal with air pollution,'' said Beijing worker Fan Jinglong.
The scale of the health impact is vast. There have been 1.4 million premature deaths in China because of air pollution, according to a study led by Jos Lelieveld of Germany's Max Planck Institute and published this year in Nature magazine.
Activists said the level hit 1,400 micrograms per cubic metre in the north-east city of Shenyang last month, saying it was the worst seen in China.
In comparison, London's PM 2.5 average on 6 December was 8 micrograms per cubic metre, the Environmental Research Group at King's College said. It said more than 70 was reached during spring 2014 and 2015, and the highest was on bonfire night, 5 November 2006, at 112.
Last week, activists from Greenpeace had urged the Chinese government to declare a red alert. Another Chinese city, Nanjing, issued a red alert in December 2013.
On 30 November, Beijing issued an orange alert - the second-highest of the four-tier system adopted in 2013.
Pollution in the capital had in fact improved in the first 10 months of the year compared with the same period last year, although pollution levels were still frequently high.
Correspondents say Chinese officials had been unwilling to commit to hard targets on reducing carbon emissions, but have now realised the country has to cut its dependence on fossil fuels. President Xi Jinping promised to take action over China's emissions at the global climate change talks in Paris.
China still depends on coal for more than 60% of its power, despite major investment in renewable energy sources.
Eluned Morgan brought together firms and public bodies on Friday to help develop proposals to put to ministers, saying there was a "huge amount of insecurity" after the Brexit vote.
She said strategies for "quality tourism" and providing more affordable homes could be part of the plan.
The Welsh Government said it would urge UK ministers to replace lost EU funds.
Ms Morgan, who represents Mid and West Wales, said: "There are economic development plans which are relevant for cities, the city region of Cardiff and Swansea.
"Our case really is that those are not relevant or appropriate for a rural environment and we need our own specific plan for economic development in rural Wales.
"I think it's a critical time for the rural areas at the moment, there's a huge amount of insecurity in all areas but in particular in rural areas because of the Brexit vote.
"We have no idea what, for example, agriculture will look like in four years from now, so we need to get ahead of the curve."
Low pay, low skills, weak transport and IT, a lack of affordable homes and an ageing population were among the "many and varied" challenges faced in rural Wales, Ms Morgan said.
She warned: "Due to a lack of varied employment opportunities there is a loss of many of our brightest people who feel they need to leave in order to find work."
A Welsh Government spokesman said EU withdrawal may be "most dramatically and quickly apparent" in rural communities.
"It is vital the challenges faced by our rural communities continue to receive dedicated and additional investment - and we are pressing the UK Government to make good on promises made during the referendum campaign that Wales would not lose funding as a result of the UK leaving the EU.
"We are currently refreshing our economic priorities and, as part of this work, we will ensure rural interests are protected and feature strongly as Wales works towards a future outside the EU."
He replaces Steve McClaren, who was sacked last month after the club finished eighth in the Championship.
It is the first managerial role for Englishman Clement, 43, who left the La Liga side following the sacking of manager Carlo Ancelotti.
"Paul is one of the most in-demand coaches in world football," said Rams chief executive Sam Rush.
"I am delighted that he has agreed to join Derby. He is hugely respected, has exceptional relationships throughout football and tremendous coaching experience at some of the very best clubs in Europe."
Clement described joining Derby as "incredibly exciting" and is looking forward to working at a "massive club".
The Londoner began his coaching career with Chelsea in the 1990s and returned to the club in 2007.
He started working with the first team under Guus Hiddink in 2009 and then became a key figure working with Ancelotti at Chelsea, Paris St-Germain and Real.
Clement has worked with some of the biggest names in world football including Didier Drogba, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Rush added: "He is the perfect appointment at the next stage of Derby County's development and we are looking forward to the coming season with a great deal of optimism."
Derby were leading the Championship in late February but won only two out of their last 13 league games, missing out on a play-off place on the final day of the season.
Aaron Bishop and Martin Beard were convicted by a jury of taking delivery of guns ordered by Mark Richards via the dark web.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) also found a memory stick with 59 serious child abuse images buried in the garden at Bishop's property in Hampshire.
He pleaded guilty to possessing them.
In 2013 the NCA began working with United States authorities to investigate a dark web trafficking group sending guns to the UK.
After Bishop signed for one delivery a warrant was executed. A live shotgun cartridge was found, and an ex-housemate reported 30 9mm live Luger Geco rounds being delivered two weeks before.
During his interview with NCA officers Bishop claimed he thought the delivery was cannabis, but admitted he was "a bit of a paedophile" in relation to the images.
The NCA also intercepted a parcel sent to Beard containing a Glock with two magazines of ammunition.
Analysis of the defendants' phones and computers showed they discussed the purchases and identified Richards as the organiser.
Father-of-two Richards, of Chapel Lane, Godalming, pleaded guilty at the first opportunity to conspiring to import prohibited Glock handguns and ammunition.
Bishop, of Milford, Godalming, pleaded guilty to possessing indecent images but not guilty to conspiring to import weapons.
Beard, of Riverside, Staines, pleaded guilty to producing cannabis but not guilty on the same weapons charge.
On Thursday, a jury at Birmingham Crown Court convicted them on all charges.
Richards was jailed for five years and four months, Beard to four years and six months with eight months concurrent for the cannabis offence and Bishop for four years and 10 months, with six months concurrent for the child abuse images.
"I value the independence of the judiciary," she said. "I also value the freedom of the press."
The latter was "important to democracy", she added.
It was her first contribution since three of the country's most senior judges ruled in the High Court that Parliament should, after all, have the power to trigger the all important negotiations on Britain's exit from the European Union.
The gaggle of Fleet Street correspondents and political editors perked up, and took the brief declaration as the highest possible political cover-fire for what has been some of the most ferocious criticism of senior and respected judges in recent times.
The Daily Mail, for example, splashed the headline "Enemies of the People" across its front page - above pictures of the three presiding judges.
True, no prime minister would ever offer anything other than an unqualified endorsement of press freedom if invited to do so. But Mrs May repeated the words twice. Those who were outraged by the strength of the papers' attacks, and even saw the criticism as an assault on the independence of the judiciary, will be far less pleased than the editors framing the morning editions.
As for the implications of the verdict, Mrs May, speaking to journalists accompanying her on her first trade mission outside Europe, was wholly unyielding. She again said there would be an appeal to the Supreme Court.
And to MPs and peers planning to use their votes in Parliaments to try to force much more detail of Britain's negotiations position - and more willingness to compromise in sealing a deal - she was implacable.
"MPs and peers should recognise there was a Parliamentary decision to give a choice to the people in a referendum. Now it's the job of the government to get on and deliver it."
Control of migration was "an important aspect" of the referendum vote to leave the EU.
Pro-European politicians won't be astonished to hear the PM's position articulated in this way. But they will now be preparing for a trial of will and strength in Parliament, as they seek to use their leverage to force the government to compromise with EU leaders and negotiators. Opposition and pro-EU MPs want a Brexit deal which maintains the UK's participation in the EU single market as close to the current terms as possible.
There'll be no Labour attempt to undo Brexit. Today, Labour's leader and deputy leader have said as much. Too many Labour supporters voted to leave. But given a chance, the Opposition will try to write all sorts of conditions into the legislation starting the Brexit talks. The Lords may well be stroppier - even to the extent of stalling Brexit if they can.
Again today Mrs May told reporters she was not anticipating any early general election before the due date in 2020. The message was a snap poll figured nowhere in her plans, and would not happen.
Not everyone's completely convinced. Not yet.
The fall reverses March's surprise 1.4% increase, the Office for National Statistics said.
But new housing projects contributed to a 1.6% increase in all new work during the month.
After revising its methodology for measuring construction, the ONS said output fell 0.2% in the first quarter, rather than 1.1% as previously thought.
This revision could have a theoretical impact on the UK's overall rate of economic growth, the ONS said.
It means the economy could have grown by 0.4% in the first quarter rather than 0.3% as previously forecast, and by 2.9% in 2014 rather than 2.8%.
The third and final revision of overall GDP for the first three months of this year will be published on 30 June. It is also possible that GDP for 2014 will be revised up at the same time.
The ONS said the upward revision incorporated late data and new seasonal adjustment parameters among other technical calculations.
Compared with a year earlier, construction output in April rose 1.5%, slowing from a rise of 5% in March.
Construction accounts for 6.4% of Britain's economic output, so its impact on overall GDP can often be negligible when compared with the services sector, which accounts for 77% of economic growth.
Even so, the slowdown in the economy economy in the first three months was seen in part as resulting from the weakness in the construction industry, which was linked to uncertainty ahead of the general election.
The latest set of figures fly in the face of that analysis, as much as they do the Bank of England's economic growth forecast last month, which cited a weaker outlook for housebuilding.
Across the UK, prices rose by 5.8% in the year to February, up from 5.3% in January, it said.
More recent figures from the Nationwide and the Halifax have suggested that house price growth is slowing down.
At the same time, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) reported very strong borrowing in January and February.
The ONS figures - which include cash sales - show that the average price of a property has risen to a record high of £217,502.
Within the English regions, prices are rising fastest in the East - up 10.3% in the last year.
At the other end of the scale, prices are rising by just 2.2% in the North East.
According to the Nationwide, average prices fell during the month of March. And last week the Halifax said annual house price inflation was at its lowest for four years.
The CML said borrowing in January and February was the strongest for 10 years. In all, 93,200 loans were taken out in the first two months of the year, the highest number since the financial crisis.
"Seasonal factors traditionally keep the market quieter in winter months, but 2017 began relatively strong on the house purchase side," said Paul Smee, the CML's director general.
"Borrowers took out more loans to purchase a home in the first two months of 2017 than any year since 2007."
That number was driven by an increase in the number of first-time buyers. However, the number of existing homeowners needing a new mortgage to move house has fallen.
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Dylan Booth, 18, from Solihull, died in hospital after taking the substance at the Rainbow in the Digbeth area of Birmingham on New Years's Eve.
Three men and a woman were also taken ill but have since recovered.
A city council licensing hearing stipulated the club must employ under-cover security staff and sniffer dogs.
Other conditions include extra drugs signage and more stringent identity checks.
A full licensing review is due next month.
The Canadian firm Africa Oil behind the project said its two wells are the first to be drilled there in 21 years.
The semi-autonomous Puntland region where the drilling is taking place says it is an opportunity for peace.
"It's a new beginning - if oil is found it will change Somalia for the better," Issa Farah head of Puntland's Petroleum and Minerals Agency told the BBC.
Speaking on the BBC's Focus on Africa programme, he said it was an important development not only for Puntland, but the whole of Somalia, which has not had a functioning central government since 1991 and has been convulsed by fighting between militias.
"I think in 10 years' time - if oil is found, we will see a better country, a stronger country that lives in peace and prosperity with its own neighbours and hopefully that produces what we have been all looking for - peace, prosperity, development and progress," he said.
In the area where the two wells are being drilled to a depth of 3,800m (about two miles), there is an assumption that "there will be about 3bn to 4bn barrels of oil", he said.
Nigeria, which is Africa's biggest oil producer, is estimated by the International Energy Agency to hold 37bn barrels of reserve oil.
According to Africa Oil, whose firm Horn Petroleum Corporation is operating the project, the drilling of each well will take about three months.
"These wells are the first to be drilled into the deep areas of the rift basins and will be key to unlocking the hydrocarbon potential of this unexplored prospective trend," David Grellman, head of Horn Petroleum Corporation, said in a statement.
Mr Farah said that Puntland would not allow this "historic project" - involving three oil firms - to be a curse, as oil has proved in some other African countries.
"Before any barrel of oil comes out will have a policy that will benefit our own people and will not be detrimental to us," he said.
"We want this to be something that can improve our lives, not take us back into the dark ages."
Puntland is relatively stable compared with other parts of Somalia, but many of the pirates who function off the country's coast are based in the region.
Xu Ting, 26, was diagnosed with lymphoma, a form of cancer that affects the immune system, earlier this year.
However, she chose not to undergo chemotherapy, saying she had seen friends suffer from the procedure, and was concerned about the cost.
"I don't want to let chemotherapy torment me to the point where I look unrecognisable, and have lost all my money, and myself," she wrote on micro-blogging site Sina Weibo.
Instead, Ms Xu opted for traditional Chinese medicine methods, such as cupping, acupuncture, back stretching and a method called gua sha in which the skin is scraped to produce light bruising.
As her condition got worse, she did eventually resort to chemotherapy - but died of cancer on 7 September.
Xu Ting first revealed her condition to the public in July, using her official Weibo account which has almost 300,000 fans.
She documented her journey online, posting several photos of herself undergoing traditional Chinese medicine treatments.
Her posts attracted the attention of tens of thousands of social media users - while many wished her well, several also urged her to undergo chemotherapy.
"Listen to me, Chinese medicine is absolutely useless to cure cancer, if you don't want to listen to me at least listen to a doctor," one user commented.
"Please abandon the traditional treatments, it's a fantasy. You need to rely on modern medicine to save yourself," another said.
The actress, who is one of seven children, said that she had been working hard her entire life to pay for her brother's tuition, her parent's debt, and a house, but never felt comfortable spending money on herself.
After learning of Ms Xu's death, there was intense debate over whether she would have survived if she had turned to chemotherapy, with the hashatg #XuTing'sDeathAndChineseMedicine trending on Sina Weibo.
Some argued that traditional Chinese medicine should not be blamed for her death.
"There are many cancer patients who pass away after receiving chemotherapy. Will these same people also say that Western medicine is a sham?" said a writer from the Beijing Evening News.
"Chinese medicine is thousands of years old. Not everything Western doctors say is true," another expressed.
Others argued that Ms Xu should have taken both types of treatment to complement each other, as chemotherapy would have targeted her tumour while traditional Chinese medicine could have helped alleviate her symptoms.
"Both types of medicine have their own strengths and weakness. The point is you need to use them together," said one user.
It is not uncommon for Chinese patients to visit Western doctors for acute illnesses, but use traditional Chinese methods to prevent sicknesses or minor ailments.
Scientists are also beginning to research whether traditional Chinese medicine can treat or prevent cancer.
Many fans steered clear of the debate altogether - but expressed sadness that Ms Xu had died at such a young age.
"I'm sad that this is how I came to know you," one user wrote. "I hope there's no pain in heaven, and wish you well."
Krzysztof Jan Lesny was arrested in the flood-affected Greystone Road area of Carlisle, in the early hours of 9 December.
Appearing at Carlisle Magistrates' Court, the 30-year-old, of Warwick Road in the city, pleaded not guilty to one charge of theft by finding, and one of going equipped for theft.
He was bailed to appear at Carlisle Crown Court on 11 January.
Rebecca Williams, known as Bex, was initially in a critical condition when she was taken to hospital after the deliberate New Year's Day fire.
Cameron Logan, 23, died in the blaze at his home in Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire.
Police are treating the case as murder and attempted murder.
Mr Logan's parents were treated for smoke inhalation after the fire, but have since been released from hospital.
Ms Williams, a 24-year-old journalist at Global Radio, is being treated at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.
On Friday, her father Phillip Williams posted on Facebook that his daughter was "fighting hard".
Her condition later went from critical to "serious but stable" and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde confirmed on Sunday that Ms Williams was continuing to improve.
A spokeswoman for the health board said: "Her condition has improved again from yesterday [Saturday]."
The news comes as police stopped and spoke to people near the scene in Achray Place exactly a week after the fire.
Officers spoke to 45 motorists and 10 pedestrians between 06:30 and 08:30 on 8 January.
Police Scotland has urged dog walkers and joggers who were in the area at the time to come forward.
Det Ch Insp Paul Livingstone said Sunday morning's operation had been "very positive".
"We will now assess any new information that could potentially assist with the investigation and help us catch the person responsible for this despicable crime," he said.
"Somebody deliberately set this fire, killing a young man and seriously injuring a young woman, and that person will have had to make their way from the scene in the immediate aftermath.
"If you were in the area around the time of the fire and have not spoken to police, please come forward."
There are more people out and about at seven in the morning than you'd think.
Two private hire cars draw up on Achray Place.
And a group of three young men - perhaps walking home after a night out, or perhaps setting off for the day - walk past the Logan family home, still swathed in tarpaulins.
At the shops on nearby Craigton Road, there were a stream of cars and vans.
Everyone stopped, and the drivers were spoken to.
There are people walking their dogs, and out for a run. Uniformed officers and detectives talk to them, too.
Who are they, and why are they here?
Were they in the area a week ago, at the time the fire was started deliberately?
Did they see anything or anyone, or notice some detail which seems tiny but helps detectives build a complete picture of what was going on at the time the fire was deliberately started?
If often strikes me that detectives on a big inquiry like this must gather vast amounts of information which is fascinating, but ultimately irrelevant to the case.
The reason they do it, of course, is the hope that in amongst all the dross will be some crucial sighting or insight which helps brings the killer or killers to justice.
Det Ch Insp Livingstone said police were still hoping to trace a number of people who were either seen in the area on New Year's Day or were captured on CCTV - including a man and woman who jogging together on Craigton road at about 08:10.
He added: "We are also still looking to speak to a man seen in the Craigton Wood area around the time of the fire walking a brown 'pitbull' type dog, as well as another man walking along Craigton Road onto the West Highland Way with two Springer Spaniels.
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Thomas Laird, 38, carried out the "horrifying offences" at addresses in Glasgow, Dunbartonshire and Lanarkshire over an 18-year period.
Temporary judge Michael O'Grady QC said Laird would be eligible for parole after serving five years.
However, the judge said he would only be released when he was no longer considered a risk to public safety.
He added: "It is clear that you are a clever, manipulative and exploitative individual who has spent many years abusing vulnerable women."
Laird was convicted at the High Court in Glasgow last year.
He attacked one of his victims in a house in Airdrie and raped another woman in nearby Coatbridge.
Sentence had been deferred for the court to obtain reports about Laird's character.
Donald Trump says he would bring back outsourced manufacturing jobs from Mexico and China. There's a factory that is a symbol of outsourcing.
"You thought you had a job for life," says Gregg Trusty. "As long as you didn't show up to work drunk or punch your supervisor, you thought you could work there until you retired."
A wander around the factory Trusty is talking about gives a stark example of the precarious nature of the American economy today.
The gigantic Western Electric plant in Shreveport, Louisiana was once one of the country's biggest producers of telephones. Now it's abandoned, the machinery silently rusting. Nature creeps in on all sides. Dusty papers sit on desks and lights still blaze on to empty factory floors, as if the people working there were forced to leave in a hurry.
If you want to understand how Donald Trump has tapped into economic insecurity across America, this humid city of 200,000 in northern Louisiana is an excellent place to start. Western Electric was the wholly-owned manufacturing arm of corporate behemoth AT&T, which for most of the 20th Century held a monopoly on the US telephone business.
At its height, the company employed 7,500 people at its Shreveport plant. But long before the rise of Chinese competition, the ubiquity of the mobile phone and the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico - which Trump has called "worst trade deal ever" - the factory's future was clear.
Starting in the 1980s, AT&T slashed its domestic workforce and moved telephone manufacturing to Singapore.
"There was a feeling of disappointment," says Don Corliss, who worked at the plant for 25 years. "We moved from a manufacturing economy to a service economy.
"Did the average worker on the shop floor realise what was hitting them? I don't know."
Several factors led to the factory's closure. In 1984, a lawsuit ended AT&T's monopoly and opened up American telecommunications to competition. And, of course, the last 30 years have seen unprecedented international competition and technological change.
When Trusty moved here from the Midwest in the late 1960s he recalls that big celebrations would be held every time the plant added an additional 1,000 jobs, which in the early days happened every few years.
Later, as part of the company's public relations team, he would face the local media to announce round after round of layoffs.
"One time I was asked a question about how it made me feel," he says. "I told the reporter straight: 'We've lost some damn fine people today.'
"I meant it. It hurt, every time we did it. It was painful."
After years of job losses, the plant, located in the Southern Hills area of Shreveport, closed for good in 2000. The fortunes of the workers themselves varied. Many retired, while others shifted gears with the aid of generous redundancy packages and company-funded education grants. Trusty worked in other jobs in public relations and journalism. Other former employees became small business owners, consultants, care home workers - and in one case, an elected state politician.
Randy Doss started on the factory floor and later became a supervisor. After he left the company in 1995, Doss ran a local transportation business with his wife before retiring earlier this year.
"We all had a sense of security. We thought we were fine," he says. "And we all bit the dust."
Despite that, Doss says he holds no ill will towards the company.
"It's a business decision pure and simple, and they could make phones cheaper elsewhere. That's business."
In Shreveport the absence of manufacturing jobs is palpable. Another iconic American company, General Motors, shut its local factory in 2012. That set off a wave of job losses at local suppliers, and today there's little heavy industry left.
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Harold Sater of the Southern Hills Business Association says the area around the AT&T plant suffered for years and despite rows of busy restaurants, petrol stations and other small businesses nearby, it doesn't quite compare to AT&T's heyday.
"The traffic you see now is just starting to come back to the levels back then," he says.
There were knock-on effects. Richard Corbett, the business association's current president, says crime increased in the area - a trend he saw first-hand in his day job as a local sheriff.
"It's simple. Fewer jobs nearby means fewer people came to the area to shop," Corbett says. "That led to problems and we're still working through them today."
Yet Shreveport does seem different from those Midwestern cities that were strangled by loss of their main industries.
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The economy here shifted and diversified. It's a regional centre for health care. Nearby oil and gas reserves have provided jobs, although that industry has gone through boom and bust. There's a large military base nearby and the city once had a thriving film industry lured in by tax breaks.
Meanwhile, casinos dotted along the Red River have led to a small revival downtown. The city's growth has slowed, but its population is stable - there's been no mass exodus.
Although most of the former AT&T site is abandoned, a couple of companies have moved in. One is even a small-scale manufacturer. Skyrunner is making futuristic recreational vehicles that can both drive and fly. The company is perfecting its designs and aims to ship its products around the world.
What's missing is big industry of the kind that provides that elusive path for the low- and semi-skilled workers.
"We're still working on getting good-paying jobs for those people," says Sater. "There's almost nothing that pays $15 an hour outside of work on oil and gas fields. That's frustrating."
AT&T, meanwhile, no longer manufactures telephones in Singapore or anywhere else. It's a technology and media company. Its latest move is a bid to buy Time Warner, a proposal that both Democrats and Republicans are concerned about.
Among the firm's former employers in Shreveport, faith in Trump and his economic plan is decidedly mixed. Some, like Corliss, say they'll vote for him but only because they dislike Hillary Clinton more.
Doss is a staunch Trump supporter. He says he believes the Republican candidate when he says he can bring back manufacturing jobs to the US, even though he's thin on specifics. For Doss, like for many Trump supporters across the country, voting for Trump is a leap of faith.
"I don't know how he's going to do it," Doss says, "but I think that he can."
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Jonathan Mathew is one of five former Barclays employees charged with conspiracy to defraud by rigging US dollar Libor rates between 1 June 2005 and 31 August 2007.
Libor is linked to financial contracts around the world.
The five men deny the charge.
Libor - the London interbank offered rate - is a benchmark interest rate used by banks around the world to set the price of financial products worth trillions of pounds.
Mr Mathew, 35, is accused along with Stylianos Contogoulas, 44, Jay Vijay Merchant, 45, Alex Pabon, 37, and Ryan Reich, 34, of manipulating the rate.
The prosecution told the court that "they were driven by money... to make more profit on their trading".
Mr Mathew was 24 and living at home with his parents when he worked on the cash desk at Barclays in London.
He was responsible for submitting the bank's US dollar Libor rates when his boss was away.
His defence counsel, William Clegg QC, said Mr Mathew admitted accepting requests from traders to adjust the rate, but that he didn't financially benefit - he was only doing what his boss, Peter Johnson, told him to do.
Mr Johnson is not on trial.
They also heard that for all the importance of Libor to international financial markets, there was a lack of supervision, education and training at Barclays.
The defence counsel for another defendant, Mr Pabon, said he openly admitted making requests to rate submitters in London to suit his trading positions but had no idea it was wrong.
He, too, was instructed to do it.
The court heard evidence that senior bankers from across the industry knew that Libor was being influenced for commercial reasons but nothing was done.
Adrian Darbishire QC, representing Mr Reich, said when circumstances changed, "you could hear the unpleasant crunching sound of a few expendable traders thrown under a bus".
The trial, being held at Southwark Crown Court, began on Tuesday, and is expected to last 12 weeks.
The freak weather ripped the guttering and tiles from roofs in Park Bottom, Illogan, in Cornwall and left them in a nearby field on Tuesday night.
Stunned residents described a "massive whirling noise" as windows were blown in and debris smashed into cars.
Weather experts said it was "plausible" that a tornado was whipped up during a severe storm.
The freak weather struck at abut 21:15 GMT, said John Budd, whose 6ft (1.8m) by 8ft (2.4m) wooden summerhouse was ripped from his garden.
"All of a sudden there was a loud roaring noise and then a bang," he said.
"I thought a plane had come down."
Mr Budd's summerhouse roof had been blown four houses down the street and landed in Trev Harris's garden after striking his conservatory and roof.
Roof slates were piled on the ground outside.
A large trampoline had also been catapulted four houses down the street.
Mr Harris said: "I said to my wife we have a shed-load of material in the garden and then I realised it was a shed."
Neighbour Dave Crabtree said: "There was an almighty sound of the wind whistling. The window was vibrating and all the glass shattered into the living room.
"It went everywhere. It missed my wife Lynne by an inch or two."
BBC weatherman Kevin Thomas said: "It sounds like a tornado; the clues are the roaring sound and the localisation of the damage and the fact that weighty objects have been picked up."
A lightning strike blasted a hole in the roof of a house in Hayle during the storm.
Snow caused hazardous driving conditions in Cornwall, especially around Launceston, and the A3074 near Lelant was closed after high winds brought down trees and power cables.
If patients with back pain, for example, were directed to a physio instead of a GP, an extra five minutes could be spent with other patients.
Physios are already working in a small number of GP surgeries in England.
GPs' leaders welcomed the initiative but said staff would have to be trained to the highest standards.
Musculo-skeletal conditions are thought to make up as much as 30% of all GP appointments.
Physiotherapists say that if they could be the first point of contact for patients with these conditions, GPs could dedicate more time to people with other conditions.
During a three-month pilot in West Cheshire, more than 700 patients who would otherwise have seen a GP, were seen by a physiotherapist.
The arrangement is now in place in 36 GP practices in the area.
According to Karen Middleton, chief executive of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, GPs and patients regularly say they are concerned about the inadequate length of appointments - which are usually around 10 minutes - and this could be a solution.
"More GPs are choosing to invite physiotherapists to work alongside them in surgeries up and down the country to save time and money," she said.
"Our ambition is for this to be the norm rather than the exception."
The Society also said putting physios in GPs surgeries could save the NHS money.
It calculated that a typical GP practice could save around £2,500 a week by sending patients with musculo-skeletal conditions to see a physio rather than a GP.
Dr Richard Vautrey, deputy chair of the British Medical Association's GP committee, said: "Implementing services like this in GP surgeries would be good for patients, good for practices and good for the wider NHS."
However, he said that to make this a reality, funding from CCGs [Clinical Commissioning Groups] and NHS England was essential.
Dr Maureen Baker, chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners, said she welcomed any initiative which helped to ease the pressure on GPs, as long as it was well-regulated.
"Whilst the services GPs and physiotherapists provide complement each other, they are very different, so whilst we would welcome better integration between the two we would recommend that any self-referral schemes reflect local needs and are continuously evaluated.
"We would also need assurances that patients do not fall prey to providers who are not accredited by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, whose members are trained to the highest standards and have the skills to identify health problems that go beyond musculo-skeletal conditions."
She added that more investment in general practice and more emphasis on recruiting and retaining GPs were equally important in delivering longer appointments for patients.
The Scotch Whisky Association's case against the measure is being assessed by the Supreme Court in London.
The policy was approved by MSPs at Holyrood in 2012, but has been tied up in a succession of court challenges amid claims it breaches European law.
The two-day hearing at the Supreme Court is the final point of appeal for the case in UK courts.
Ministers maintain that a 50p minimum price per unit of alcohol would help tackle binge drinking, with societal and health benefits. They want to implement the policy "as quickly as is practicable".
The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) believes the proposed legislation contravenes EU regulations, potentially acting as a restriction on the free movement of goods, and argues there are better options already available to the government.
Former Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill has told BBC Scotland he thinks the SWA's behaviour has been "disgraceful".
In October 2016, Scottish judges Lord Carloway, Lord Brodie and Lord Menzies ruled that the plans were legally sound.
However, in December the three judges allowed the association to go to the Supreme Court after hearing from the organisation's advocate Aidan O'Neill QC, who argued that the original ruling misunderstood European law.
In the initial exchanges of the two-day hearing in London, Mr O'Neill said the legislation was a "measure equivalent to a restriction on imports", therefore breaching European competition rules.
He said the Scottish government should seek the "least restrictive" approach available, saying the biggest question was "why not tax?"
The QC argued that there were other ways of raising alcohol prices - such as with increased duties or indirect taxes - which he said would be "more flexible" and more compatible with European rules, and which would result in "at least the same level of social protection and health benefits" which minimum pricing aims for.
Defending the legislation, Lord Advocate James Wolffe said it was targeted directly at "hazardous and harmful drinkers" who tend to consume alcohol which is "cheap relative to its strength", highlighting a "particular problem with cheap vodka".
He told the court: "The aim is not to reduce consumption for the sake of it, but to reduce alcohol-related harm. That is why the aim is expressed primarily in terms of targeting hazardous and harmful drinkers, as they are the drinkers who are most at risk of alcohol-related harm."
Mr Wolffe said increasing duties, as suggested by Mr O'Neill, would have a "disproportionate" impact on "moderate drinkers", who do not tend to consume many of the products affected by a minimum price floor. He said minimum pricing would be a more "balanced" approach to specifically target problem drinkers, and would work in a complementary way with excise duties.
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This latest development comes more than five years after the Scottish government introduced a bill for minimum pricing to Holyrood.
MSPs passed the bill, stating that retailers could not sell alcohol below a minimum price of 50p per unit, in May 2012.
Under the plans, the cheapest bottle of wine would be £4.69, a four pack of 500ml cans of beer would cost at least £4 and a bottle of whisky could not be sold for less than £14.
The new laws would be "experimental" and expire after six years.
The Scottish government, health professionals, police, alcohol charities and some members of the drinks industry believe the policy would help address Scotland's "unhealthy relationship with drink".
But the SWA has consistently objected to the legislation.
Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme, Karen Betts, chief executive of the Scotch Whisky Association, said: "We believe that the minimum pricing of alcohol is illegal under EU law.
"Minimum pricing actually amounts to a trade barrier and this is a real concern for our industry.
"The success of Scotch really depends on our ability to sell successfully overseas, so if other markets respond by imposing similar barriers to free competition, Scotch will be damaged and with it the communities, the jobs which rely on the industry's continued success."
Scotland's Health Secretary Shona Robison said: "We're looking forward to the judgment of the Supreme Court on Minimum Unit Pricing and if it is the positive outcome we hope for, we will move as quickly as is practicable to put the policy in place."
Former Justice Secretary Mr MacAskill, who was one of the architects of the minimum pricing bill, said: "This isn't about protecting Scotch whisky, this about protecting cheap alcohol sales.
"What we have to remember is that members of the Scotch Whisky Association are also large alcohol producing companies and they are protecting their interests because somebody sells the cheap vodkas, somebody sells the cheap ciders and it's the same people that own and manufacture Scotch whisky."
A trailer containing the treats was taken from Burton's Food Ltd on Ty Coch Way, Cwmbran, Torfaen, at about 03:10 BST on 17 June.
The trailer was later found empty in Warrington, Cheshire.
Gwent Police are investigating the theft.
Cash and jewellery were taken from the Holland Park property on 4 December 2015.
Darren February, 32, is due before Hammersmith Magistrates' Court on 5 October.
At the time the X Factor boss said he had been asleep in the property, along with his partner Lauren Silverman and their baby son Eric.
A brilliant shot from Cardiff's Anthony Pilkington with five minutes left completed a fine fightback.
The home side went ahead when a Joe Bryan effort hit the bar, but bounced in off Cardiff goalkeeper Brian Murphy.
Pilkington equalised from the penalty spot. Tammy Abraham put Bristol City back ahead before Kadeem Harris header levelled and Pilkington won it.
All the action at Ashton Gate came in the second period after a cautious first-half out of keeping with the usual intensity of this fierce rivalry.
Bristol City dominated the opening 45 minutes, but failed to carve out a clear-cut chance. Indeed it was Bluebirds' midfielder Peter Whittingham who came closest as his shot deflected over with nine minutes gone.
But the game burst into life on 51 minutes when Bryan's superb 20-yard volley hit the Cardiff bar, but bounced into the net off the back of goalkeeper Murphy.
Neil Warnock's men were handed a lifeline on 74 minutes when Joe Ralls was brought down in the box and a penalty was given. Pilkington made no mistake from the spot.
It precipitated a flurry of late goals which the earlier mundane action had hardly indicated.
Tammy Abraham put Lee Johnson's side back ahead with a close-range finish, but on 82 minutes Cardiff were level again as substitute Harris headed home.
And three minutes later Pilkington let loose a fantastic 25-yard strike to hand the Welsh club all three points.
It meant Cardiff have done the double over Bristol City this term having beaten them in the Welsh capital in Warnock's first game in charge after taking over as boss in October.
For the hosts, the slide continues. Johnson's side have now lost seven games on the trot, equalling an unwanted club record.
Match ends, Bristol City 2, Cardiff City 3.
Second Half ends, Bristol City 2, Cardiff City 3.
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Kadeem Harris (Cardiff City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Lee Tomlin (Bristol City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Jamie Paterson (Bristol City).
Aron Gunnarsson (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Mark Little.
Mark Little (Bristol City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Mark Little (Bristol City).
Lee Peltier (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marlon Pack (Bristol City).
Kadeem Harris (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Greg Halford replaces Anthony Pilkington.
Attempt missed. Kenneth Zohore (Cardiff City) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Sol Bamba.
Substitution, Bristol City. Jamie Paterson replaces Josh Brownhill.
Substitution, Bristol City. Lee Tomlin replaces Callum O'Dowda.
Goal! Bristol City 2, Cardiff City 3. Anthony Pilkington (Cardiff City) right footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Kadeem Harris.
Attempt missed. Aron Gunnarsson (Cardiff City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Anthony Pilkington.
Attempt blocked. Joe Ralls (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Junior Hoilett.
Substitution, Bristol City. Aaron Wilbraham replaces Milan Djuric.
Goal! Bristol City 2, Cardiff City 2. Kadeem Harris (Cardiff City) header from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Junior Hoilett with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Joe Ralls (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Anthony Pilkington.
Foul by Josh Brownhill (Bristol City).
Joe Ralls (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Bristol City 2, Cardiff City 1. Tammy Abraham (Bristol City) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Milan Djuric with a headed pass.
Callum O'Dowda (Bristol City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Aron Gunnarsson (Cardiff City).
Attempt saved. Tammy Abraham (Bristol City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Bristol City 1, Cardiff City 1. Anthony Pilkington (Cardiff City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.
Penalty conceded by Mark Little (Bristol City) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Cardiff City. Joe Ralls draws a foul in the penalty area.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Kadeem Harris replaces Joe Bennett.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Junior Hoilett replaces Peter Whittingham.
Foul by Milan Djuric (Bristol City).
Matthew Connolly (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Bailey Wright (Bristol City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Callum O'Dowda following a corner.
Corner, Bristol City. Conceded by Joe Bennett.
Foul by Milan Djuric (Bristol City).
Matthew Connolly (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
The clip, apparently captured on a passenger's mobile phone in April, was sent to the Sun newspaper.
It said the video had been recorded about three miles from the site of the 9 November derailment in Croydon, south London, which also injured 51.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was "extremely concerned" by the footage.
In the 30-second clip, a driver - who is not the same one who was involved in last week's fatal crash - appears to drift in and out of sleep as the tram moves along.
He is seen apparently struggling to remain upright, and passengers can be heard expressing shock as the tram approaches the next stop.
Mr Khan said people would be "understandably very worried" by the footage, and called for an immediate investigation.
"I will make sure any necessary action is taken, and that all steps are taken to make sure these trams are as safe as possible."
The BBC has not been able to verify the footage for itself, but Transport for London said it was carrying out urgent inquiries.
A Transport for London spokesman said it had asked operators First Group to take all necessary action and report back as soon as possible.
First Group said it had not previously seen the video, but added: "If the situation is as it appears then this is completely unacceptable and appropriate action will be taken."
Crystal Palace and Manchester City fans fell silent ahead of their Premier League fixture on Saturday as they paid tribute to the victims of the Croydon tram crash.
Both sides and their supporters observed a minute's silence in honour of the six men and one woman killed in the tragedy on November 9.
Two of the victims - Dane Chinnery and Philip Seary - were Crystal Palace supporters.
In addition to the tram crash victims, the supporters also remembered Harry Davies - a 19-year-old Crystal Palace fans who passed away last month.
The tram that overturned on 9 November had been carrying about 60 people.
An interim crash report found it had been travelling at 43.5mph in a 12mph zone and found no evidence of any track defects or obstructions.
An investigation also found no malfunction of the braking system.
The seven people killed in the crash were Dane Chinnery, 19, Philip Logan, 52, Philip Seary, 57, Dorota Rynkiewicz, 35, and Robert Huxley, 63, all from New Addington, and Mark Smith, 35 and Donald Collett, 62, both from Croydon.
A further 51 people were taken to hospital, with eight of them suffering injuries described by London Ambulance Service as serious or life-threatening.
The driver of the tram was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and is currently on bail.
West Midlands Police Counter Terrorism Unit and officers from the West Mercia force held the 23-year-old by the Kidderminster centre on Sunday night.
Officers said there was nothing to indicate a threat to the premises on Birmingham Road or any link to the terror attack in Finsbury Park, London.
The man's motives are not yet known and he remains in custody, police said.
Asst Ch Con Martin Evans, of West Mercia Police, said: "On identifying the man our officers took prompt action to contain the threat and take him into custody.
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"I understand that this will be extremely concerning for the residents of Kidderminster but I would like to reassure you that at this time we believe the suspect was acting alone and we are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident."
He said an "extremely sensitive investigation" was under way and confirmed additional police patrols would take place in the town to reassure people.
The Hibernian striker is believed to have been detained by security guards at a Tesco store in Edinburgh.
Lothian and Borders Police confirmed a 22-year-old man was arrested and charged in connection with an alleged shoplifting incident.
Griffiths is likely to appear in court at a later date.
After the incident, Griffiths - who is on loan at the SPL club from Wolverhampton Wanderers - tweeted that it had been "something over nothing".
He added: "got taken to the back, asked about it, looked on CCTV and I was away, simple as that!"
Other tweets said: "Iv been caught shoplifting but I'm tweeting? Pretty sure I'd be in a cell??? Think about it! #hugemisunderstanding" and "Not been caught shoplifting at all".
A Hibs spokesman said: "The club is aware of an alleged incident which took place on Saturday afternoon involving the player. This is now a police matter."
Griffiths, who has scored 15 league goals for the Edinburgh club this season, made his full Scotland international debut against Luxembourg last year.
He played from the start of his club's SPL match against Aberdeen on Sunday afternoon.
Earlier this month, Griffiths was criticised for telling someone to "go back to your own country" on Twitter.
A fourth man, 57, remains in a critical condition in hospital after the 23:00 GMT collision at the junction of Sutton Road and Manor Way in Askern.
Ricky Joe Hepworth, 24, of Newmarche Drive, Askern, is due to appear at Doncaster Magistrates' Court later.
Two women, aged 53 and 54, and a 48-year-old man died.
Mr Hepworth has been charged with three counts of death by dangerous driving, three counts of aggravated vehicle taking, three counts of causing a death while driving uninsured and unlicensed, causing serious injury by dangerous driving and failing to stop at the scene of a collision.
Costa, 23, joined Wolves on a season-long loan deal from Benfica in July and the Portuguese has impressed in his 29 appearances for the club.
The Championship club's previous transfer record was Portuguese forward Ivan Cavaleiro, who joined from Monaco in a reported £7m deal in August.
Wolves are 18th in the Championship, seven points above the relegation zone.
But despite their inconsistent league form, Paul Lambert's side reached the fifth round of the FA Cup with a 2-1 win at Premier League side Liverpool on Saturday.
Costa becomes the fifth player to move to an English Football League club this season for a fee of more than £10m, following Dwight Gayle and Matt Ritchie's moves to Newcastle, Ross McCormack's transfer to Aston Villa, and Villa's signing of Bristol City striker Jonathan Kodjia.
Kodjia is believed to be the most expensive signing in Championship history, having signed for an initial £11m, with add-ons taking his cost to £15m.
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He knows this because when he had his genetic code read, he found out that he was likely to get age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
The disease leaves the sufferer with a very narrow field of vision.
As head of bio-technology at the world's most futuristic learning institution, Singularity University, he found the news "burdensome" at first.
"I had never heard of AMD, I had no family history of it and in many ways it was the worst story you can get in genetic diagnosis, 'Here's something that you didn't know about which we can't do anything about,'" he says.
"But I'm a scientist, so I read some papers and found out that there are some things you can do. You can take vitamins, you can get a certain ocular check-up. I stopped going to the mall to buy my glasses and started seeing a research ophthalmologist."
Now he feels a lot happier.
"What was an incurable, untreatable disease turns out to be fairly curable and treatable. I'm glad that I got the information," he says.
An increasing number of private companies are offering to read people's DNA in the same way that a computer reads code, providing insights into how their own genome will affect their health.
Finding out that she had an 85% chance of developing breast cancer, led Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie to have both breasts removed.
Even before genetic information went mass market, doctors have raised concerns about patients Googling symptoms and diagnosing themselves with diseases often far worse than anything that they really have.
Does the new era of personalised genomics mean this is set to get worse?
"I think it could slide into a dangerous place but in that particular case and in most others, the patients are doing it with the full consent of the medical community. If you are 85% likely to get cancer in your lifetime that at the very least is going to prey on your mind and at worst it will kill you," said Mr McCauley.
And, he adds, nobody wants to return to the dark ages of medical care.
He says: "In the [19]70s a family practitioner who found out that a patient had cancer was more likely not to let them know because they didn't want to worry them. That would be unthinkable today."
It took 12 years and $3bn (£1.8bn) to sequence the human genome, the code in DNA which makes up every living thing.
But in recent years the cost and speed of sequencing have dropped dramatically and today you can send off a blood sample and get your own code read for $2,000.
And, for about $100, you can send in a sample of saliva and get reports on how your genes relate to hundreds of health conditions.
It is only a matter of time until new parents get handed their child's genetic code alongside their birth certificate, says Mr McCauley.
"We will all get those readouts done when we are first born," he says.
"We will end up with at the very least with a health prediction, things we are likely to suffer from and the drugs that won't work for us."
But having such information readily available raises huge ethical issues too.
It could lead to what he calls the "Gattaca scenario", a sci-fi film that portrays a future society divided between those with good genes and those with bad.
"Will we also get a read out of our innate talents or limitations, social, intellectual or otherwise? That is pretty chilling. How will we handle that as a society?" asks Mr McCauley.
It is clear that the authorities are unsure how to regulate the industry that is growing up around personal genetic information.
Last month the US Food and Drugs Administration banned personal genomic firm 23andme from sending out any more of its saliva tests until it could provide evidence they were accurate.
For campaign group Genetics and Society it is further evidence that the burgeoning industry is already unravelling.
"Some would say it's much too soon to talk about revolutionising healthcare, because we're still learning just how much we don't know about genes and individual health," executive director Marcy Darnovsky tells the BBC.
"I'm about ready to say that it might in fact be too late to make that claim, because it's becoming ever more clear that genetic information will never yield solid actionable data about an individual's risks for the vast majority of common complex diseases."
Arming people with information about their possible future health is likely to dramatically alter the patient-doctor relationship.
Stanford-trained Dr Daniel Kraft thinks currently doctors are ill-equipped.
"If I'm your doctor and you come to me with your genome on a disk drive I don't know what to do with that," he says.
"We are still at early stages of understanding this information. No doctor wants to look at the actual code, we need tools to help us interpret it."
Those tools are likely to be algorithms that can trawl through vast amounts of data.
When we are able to make sense of the data, it will raise a whole heap of ethical questions, thinks Richard Dobbs, director of consultancy McKinsey Global Institute.
He says: "Will you need to tell your insurance company about your genome? When you go for a job will you have to tell your employee so they know how many days you will have off sick? The question becomes - where do you draw the line?"
They begin their campaign in Estonia on Wednesday in the Europe/Africa zone.
Johanna Konta, the first British woman to reach the world's top 10 in 32 years, joins Heather Watson, Laura Robson and Jocelyn Rae in the GB squad.
"Hopefully Jo's success and the way she goes about it will inspire the other girls," said Keothavong, 33.
British number one Konta, 25, reached the quarter-finals of the Australian Open before a nine-match winning streak - which included victory at the Sydney International - was ended by Serena Williams.
"They can definitely learn a lot from her," added Keothavong. "For the first time since Jo Durie we've got a top-10 player so that in itself gives the team a different feel.
"We all know what she's capable of, but Laura and Heather have also had big wins and they're still very young."
Europe/Africa Group I takes place in Tallinn and involves 14 teams divided into groups, with Britain facing Turkey, Latvia and Portugal in Group C.
The four winners will progress to promotion play-offs on Saturday, with two nations qualifying at the end of the week for World Group II play-offs in April.
World number one Andy Murray inspired Great Britain to Davis Cup victory in 2015 - but his mother, Judy Murray, quit as Fed Cup captain last year, frustrated at the competition's format and Britain's failure to progress.
"The format doesn't lend itself to anything - but it is what it is and we have to accept that," added Keothavong, who played in 39 ties for Great Britain.
"There's only eight teams in the Fed Cup World Group whereas the Davis Cup has 16 so, with the format, it will take us a few years to get there.
"But we can certainly put women's tennis on the map in this country."
Latvia's world number 35 Jelena Ostapenko is the highest-ranked opponent Britain will face in the round-robin stage, while Croatia - seeded to meet the Group C winners in Saturday's play-off - have selected 37th-ranked Ana Konjuh and 84th-ranked Donna Vekic.
Should Britain's women make it through to the World Group II play-offs in April, it could see them given a home Fed Cup tie for the first time since 1993.
They fell at the same stage in 2012 and 2013 - away ties in Sweden and Argentina - under the captaincy of Murray.
So put off was he by the creature wedged inside the packaging, that he turned to Facebook to let Tesco know why it would be a while before he tucked into another cucumber sandwich again.
Tesco's comical comeback and Mr Metcalfe's response to it have gone viral.
It started on Saturday, when he posted: "Dear Tesco, yesterday I purchased one of your fine cucumbers to make my favourite dish - a cucumber sandwich.
"Upon opening my cucumber, I discovered a worm inside the wrapping.
"I thought - at last, finally Tesco have come up with something to beat Aldi's free-spider-with-bananas offer.
"I excitedly shouted the kids downstairs to come and meet our new pet.
"We decided to name him William.
"Our new pet appeared to be very unresponsive, we just put it down to him being sleepy and decided to give him some time to come round.
"Twenty-four hours later and William still hasn't moved - on closer inspection he seems quite flat (again, see picture) and I think he may be dead.
"Well... I'm no vet, but I think the tight shrink wrap on the cucumber may have squashed and killed William.
"I know Aldi's banana spiders were deadly, but at least they had some life in them.
"I now have three very upset children, a worm funeral to plan and to top it all off I've totally lost my taste for cucumber sandwiches, which as everyone knows are a favourite at any wake.
"So come on Tesco, wiggle your way out of this one."
Tesco's equally tongue-in-cheek response began: "I'll be heading to a muddy festival shortly, trawling through the fields of damp grass and dirt much like William would've during his happier times.
"This means I wont be able to make it on the day unfortunately, though I've decided to compose a poem, which I hope you can read out on the day.
"Would that be OK?
"Here goes: 'An ode to William.
Although life takes funny turns, we can all learn from William the worm.
Let us gather, light a candle to burn, and celebrate the life of William the worm.
Lights shine bright, let's eat sponge cake through the night! Because there's many a lesson to learn.
He wriggles many miles; he gave us many smiles, so we stand confident and firm...
William will be back, very much like Arnie, though now we will all check before we make a sarnie!'
"#PoemsforWilliam.
"Wishing you the best, Rob - customer care."
So moved was Mr Metcalfe by Tesco's tribute, he shared a picture of William the worm's grave, with the post: "Funeral update: well what can I say? It's been an emotional day, but the funeral went without a hitch.
"Tesco Rob, we read out your poem, and there wasn't a dry eye amongst us.
"Keeping on with the poem theme, here's another, which I think sums up today quite nicely.
"#RIPWilliam #justiceforwilliam #poemsforwilliam.
As we gather here today for William the worm,
It's time to reflect on the lessons we can learn.
Now, this poor worm's life was cut far too short,
After he was crushed to death in a cucumber I bought.
Tesco, please don't let this happen again.
Don't let William's life be lost in vain.
But let's not focus on who's to blame.
Tesco have apologised admitting their shame.
As we resume William's body into the mud,
Please don't shed a tear. Instead, think of the good,
For William's death has brought us all here,
Sharing jokes and spreading cheer.
Before his death, William was completely unknown,
Spending his days in the mud on his own.
But now his name has travelled wide and far,
William the worm - the viral superstar!
The conversation did not end there.
Tesco replied with their interpretation of Wonderwall by Oasis, and Mr Metcalfe responded with a version of Blur's Parklife, which he renamed Worm life.
The Facebook conversation has been shared more than 30,000 times and has had more than 10,000 comments since being posted on Saturday.
Mr Metcalfe, a trainee electrician from Sheffield, told BBC News: "I enjoy making people laugh, but you just can't tell what will go viral.
"I think it went crazy because Tesco's responses were so good.
"If they hadn't replied in such a fun way, then it probably wouldn't have gone so big on the internet.
"I've had a mostly positive response, but one lady didn't get the joke and told me off for making a fuss about the worm."
Mr Metcalfe said Tesco had offered him a £10 gift voucher to cover the cost of William the worm's funeral.
"I think Tesco have more than made up for it," he said.
"If people can laugh about it all, then that is great,
"There is enough seriousness in the world."
Mr Metcalfe also confirmed he would start eating cucumber sandwiches again.
Hooker Elloway joined the Pirates from Gloucester in 2007 and played 229 times for the Penzance-based club.
He played twice for the German national team, and spent time on loan at London Welsh in the Premiership in 2015.
"With a two-year-old and another on the way in July, I want to spend more time with my wife and children," he said.
"I feel excited to start the next chapter in my life and keen to find a role where my positive nature and enthusiasm will make a difference."
The Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act was fast-tracked through Parliament in three days last July.
It allows Britain's intelligence agencies to gather people's phone and internet communications data.
But former Conservative minister David Davis and Labour's Tom Watson will argue that the legislation is incompatible with human rights.
Individuals or organisations have the power to seek a judicial review of any decision by a public body that they believe has been made unlawfully.
The Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act was rushed through Parliament in July 2014, after a ruling by the European Union's Court of Justice rendered existing powers illegal.
A bill's passage through the Commons usually takes a matter of weeks or months but there are well-established procedures for fast-tracking legislation when MPs believe it is necessary to do so.
The government said at the time that without the new law the UK's ability to fight crime and protect the country against terrorism would be seriously impeded.
Ministers said the act would simply maintain existing powers, which required communications companies to retain data for 12 months for possible investigation.
They said it would not allow police or security agencies to access the content of calls or emails without a warrant.
The plans were supported by the three main parties, but opposed by civil liberties campaigners.
However, Mr Watson and Mr Davis say the legislation was rushed and lacked adequate safeguards, and needs to be re-thought.
They argue that the legislation is incompatible with the right to a private and family life, and data protection, under both the Human Rights Act and the European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights.
The MPs aim is to get the legislation sent back to Parliament for further consideration, under the terms of the Human Rights Act, or struck down under the terms of the European charter.
The legislation relates to the harvesting and retention of data only - the power to access stored data is governed by separate laws.
Mr Watson said in a statement: "The government's decision to use emergency powers to enable it to spy on citizens shows the rights of the individual need to be strengthened to ensure the state can't act with impunity.
"Even MPs are powerless to prevent such powers being enacted.
"The Human Rights Act allows us to challenge those powers in the courts but the Tory government is intent on tearing up the Act and doing away with the limited legal protection it affords.
"It is vital that we fight for it to be retained."
Mr Davis, who has also criticised the government's intention to scrap the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights, said: "This Act of Parliament was driven through the House of Commons with ridiculous and unnecessary haste to meet a completely artificial emergency."
Emma Norton, a legal officer for campaign group Liberty, which is bringing the case on behalf of the two MPs, said: "People need to understand just how personal this information is that will be taken and retained and what an intimate portrait of their lives it will create.
"And there was very little evidence to suggest that by giving police even greater banks of information about people who they don't even suspect of committing crimes it is going to make their jobs easier - it isn't."
The Home Office said it does not comment on on-going legal proceedings. The High Court hearing is expected to last two days but the verdict is not expected for some months.
The MPs' legal challenge comes as Home Secretary Theresa May draws up proposals to give police and spies new powers to monitor internet and phone use.
Downing Street said the measures, announced in last month's Queen's Speech, would "address gaps" in intelligence gathering and access to communications data that are putting "lives at risk".
However, civil liberties campaigners claim they will pave the way for mass surveillance of UK citizens.
Mrs May's efforts to introduce a similar bill in 2012, dubbed the "snooper's charter" by critics, were blocked by their coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said output per hour rose by 0.3% in the first three months of the year compared with the previous quarter.
It added this measure or productivity had grown by 1.3% in the year to the end of March, the fastest rate of growth since the start of 2012.
But productivity across the whole economy fell slightly, it added.
On Tuesday, the ONS revised UK economic growth up 0.5 percentage points for the year to the end of March to 2.9% and said the economy grew by 0.4% in the first three months of this year.
Official figures last month showed unemployment in the UK had fallen to 1.81 million and average wages rose at their fastest rate in four years.
The ONS tends to focus on output per hour as its main measure of productivity, claiming it is a more comprehensive way of measuring output..
It also looks at unit labour costs - the cost to companies of employing staff - as well as the number of available jobs, workers and hours worked.
Output per hour expresses the amount produced by a company after all its costs have been stripped out. The more efficient, or productive, the company, the greater its level of output per hour.
But the ONS said output per hour remained 1% lower on average in the first quarter of 2015 compared with the same period in 2008.
It said productivity remained "exceptionally weak" across many industries.
Output per hour in services - other than financial services - has grown by about 0.2% per quarter since the first three months of 2009, compared with 0.5% per quarter before the economic downturn.
Output per hour in manufacturing has expanded at an average quarterly rate of around 0.3% since the start of 2009, compared with almost 1% per quarter before that.
The Bank of England has consistently referred to the UK's productivity problem and it is a key concern for the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee - alongside inflation - in determining when to raise interest rates.
Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist at IHS Global Insight, said if productivity had taken a significant lasting hit, it meant the economy had less "spare capacity" to grow without generating inflationary pressures and that interest rates would need to rise at an earlier stage.
Spare capacity is the Bank of England's measure of the extent to which the UK economy is underperforming, as a result of a lack of business investment either in hiring new staff, technology or machinery. It has become one of the key measures that will determine when interest rates begin to rise.
Mr Archer said one argument for continued low productivity was that employment levels largely held up throughout the financial crisis, with companies often switching staff to part-time roles, implementing pay freezes or reducing hours worked per member of staff.
He added: "If much of the weakness of productivity is cyclical, then it clearly should improve markedly as the economy sees sustained decent growth. The more that productivity improves, the greater the scope of the Bank of England to keep monetary policy very accommodative.
"However, if productivity fails to pick up appreciably over the coming quarters, it indicates that the economy has less potential to grow without generating inflationary pressures and that interest rates will likely need to rise at a faster rate than would otherwise be the case."
At the same time, the Markit/CIPS Purchasing Managers' Index indicated growth in the UK's manufacturing sector slowed to its lowest pace in more than two years in June.
The closely watched index fell to 51.4 from 51.9 a month earlier.
Any reading above 50 indicates growth, while below 50 points to contraction. But Markit said the manufacturing sector was undoubtedly seeing a slowdown in growth, with production output expanding at its slowest pace since April 2013.
"The UK manufacturing sector had a disappointing second quarter overall," said Rob Dobson, economist at Markit.
"Growth trends in output and new orders were the weakest since the opening quarter of 2013, as a strong sterling exchange rate and subdued demand from mainland Europe offset the continued solidity of the domestic market."
Twenty-two people died in the explosion at the end of an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena on 22 May.
Chris Parker, 33, said he comforted a seriously-injured eight-year-old girl and a woman who died in his arms.
Jessica Parker, of Sprowston, met her son at the weekend for the first time in five years. She did not know he was homeless until seeing him on TV.
Speaking about their meeting, Ms Parker said: "It was heart wrenching, absolutely heart wrenching to know that he actually still wanted his mum.
"He told me very matter-of-factly what he did and said, 'Mum, I've just done what anybody else would do'.
"I said, 'I don't think so Chris, I think you did something really wonderful and you need to remember that'.
"He's going to be alright, I know he is."
Mr Parker had been begging in the arena foyer when the bomb went off.
He comforted a seriously injured little girl and helped a woman in her 60s who was badly hurt.
He told the media last Tuesday: "She passed away in my arms. I haven't stopped crying."
A fundraising page set up to help Mr Parker has raised more than £50,000.
Ms Parker plans to visit her son again this weekend.
England led 1-0 with three minutes left, but needed an injury-time equaliser from Harry Kane after Leigh Griffiths almost clinched a Scottish win with two late free-kicks.
Southgate told BBC Radio 5 live: "I've seen teams fold in those moments.
"We showed the mentality shift we needed."
He added: "I was pleased with how we dealt with a difficult atmosphere."
The result keeps England top of Group F but Scotland's chances of qualifying for Russia 2018 hang in the balance, as they are six points further back in fourth.
Substitute Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's close-range finish after 70 minutes looked to have secured the victory before Celtic's Griffiths scored two magnificent free-kicks in short succession - the second in the 90th minute - to put Gordon Strachan's side in contention for a famous victory.
Kane's goal in the third minute of added time rescued a point, but the late loss of concentration was reminiscent of last November's friendly against Spain, when England squandered a 2-0 lead by conceding in the 89th and 96th minutes.
"In the past I've seen players lie on the floor, sink to their knees and look as if they've been beaten," said Southgate.
"That wasn't the case, the body language was good. We should never be beaten and we showed the character to get an important point.
"For 80 minutes, we controlled the game. We moved it really well but in the final third our final ball wasn't quite what it might have been."
England face France on Tuesday in a friendly at the Stade de France.
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"The whole England team lacked a little bit of sharpness for me. That three weeks without a game really showed.
"There will be some players who don't really want to be there. They have had a long, hard season and they just want to be on holiday with their families."
Hyeon Soo Lim's confession was reported by the state news agency KCNA.
The 60-year-old reverend of a Toronto-based church was detained in January when he travelled to North Korea for humanitarian work.
North Korea periodically detains foreigners, particularly those linked to religious activity which is banned.
Staged public confessions from prisoners have previously been held in similar cases.
The KCNA report said Mr Lim gave a press conference on Thursday in Pyongyang where he admitted to using humanitarian work as a "guise" for "subversive plots and activities in a sinister bid to build a religious state".
He also reportedly admitted to giving lectures that "North Korea should be collapsed with the love of 'God'", and helping the US and South Korea to aid North Korean defectors.
The report made no mention of how long his detention sentence would be.
Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail said Mr Lim's church released a statement on behalf of his family, which said that his humanitarian projects were "both initiated and supported" in North Korea and "have been for the betterment of the people".
A spokesman from Canada's foreign affairs department told Reuters news agency that they are "deeply concerned", adding: "We continue to advocate for consular access and for a resolution in his case."
Mr Lim, who heads the Light Korean Presbyterian Church, had made numerous humanitarian aid missions to North Korea for nearly two decades.
During that time his missions to distribute food and clothes had expanded to a significant network of businesses, including factories, petrol stations, a fishing fleet and farms.
Delays to the A21 widening have been caused by the discovery of asbestos and heavy metals in the excavated earth.
The route which links south-east London, Tunbridge Wells and Hastings has been a bottleneck close to Pembury.
The road is now due to reopen in summer 2017 but may be later, Highways England said.
Campaigners worked for years to get the £69m scheme near Tunbridge Wells approved but groups including The Woodland Trust objected to the destruction of 22 acres of ancient woodland.
Andrew Broughton from Highways England said: "The site is progressing well."
He said the delay was caused when 30,000 tonnes of earth being moved was found to be contaminated and could not be reused elsewhere on the site.
Highways England said the work had been due to be finished by March 2017.
The work should now be finished by summer 2017, Mr Broughton said.
But he warned it could be longer "if we get a really wet winter".
Birmingham-born Vaughan, 27, has hit 33 goals in 95 games since joining the Terriers, initially on loan, in 2012.
Much-travelled Halford, 30, a seven-figure signing at three of his former clubs, Reading, Sunderland and Wolves, was signed by Rotherham in the summer.
Sixth-placed Birmingham travel to second-placed Brighton on Saturday.
Boyhood Blues fan Vaughan has lost his place at struggling Huddersfield this season, having so far made just four substitute appearances.
"When the possibility of a loan came up, James asked me if we would consider it," said Town head coach David Wagner.
"I considered the advantages and disadvantages, the fact that it is for only six weeks and that James wanted to go and we decided to allow it."
Vaughan, who is contracted to Huddersfield to the end of this season, will not be available to play for Blues when the two sides meet in the Championship at St Andrew's on 5 December.
But he should be available for seven matches to help fill the void left by the loss of five-goal top scorer Clayton Donaldson with a groin injury while on international duty.
Halford, who started his career at Colchester and has also played for Charlton Athletic, Sheffield United, Portsmouth and Nottingham Forest, made 19 appearances while on loan at Brighton last term.
His eight games for Rotherham so far this season leave him just one short of 450 career appearances, in which he has scored 55 goals.
The statement comes amid reports that Operation Midland, an inquiry into claims of child abuse by establishment figures, was not progressing.
Scotland Yard defended itself against criticisms officers had jumped to conclusions about the evidence.
It has also warned the media over the treatment of vulnerable witnesses.
Operation Midland was set up in November after a man known as "Nick" alleged that boys, including himself, had been abused by a group of powerful men from politics, the military and law enforcement agencies in the 1970s and 1980s.
It is also examining claims that three boys were murdered and has focused on the Dolphin Square estate in Pimlico, south-west London.
When the inquiry was launched, Det Supt Kenny McDonald - who is overseeing Operation Midland - said the officers who had spoken to "Nick" thought his account was "credible and true".
In the statement released on Monday, the Met acknowledged the language used had suggested the force had pre-empted the outcome of the investigation.
"We must add that whilst we start from a position of believing the witness, our stance then is to investigate without fear or favour, in a thorough, professional and impartial fashion, and to go where the evidence takes us without prejudging the truth of the allegations," the statement said.
It also said Operation Midland was a "complex case, where the normal avenues of evidence-gathering from CCTV, DNA and telephone data, are not open to us".
"These cases take time, but the public can have confidence that allegations from witnesses will be investigated thoroughly," Scotland Yard said.
The force said a newspaper journalist had, in recent weeks, shown the name of an accuser to someone who had been questioned by police over a sexual assault allegation.
It said such an action could be distressing to those who had made allegations of sexual abuse, lead to fewer people coming forward and could ultimately hamper police investigations.
"Names will be disclosed by police to those involved in the case, but that will be at the appropriate time for the investigation depending on how those lines of enquiry progress," the Met said.
The Ayr Hospital surgeon was cutting into the pensioner's limb when the knife struck a metal plate in his leg.
After B&Q was found to be closed, the operation went ahead with the sterilised saw found in a storage area.
NHS Ayrshire and Arran said it was investigating an incident "where standard procedures were not followed".
A health board source said: "An elderly man who was a patient at Crosshouse Hospital needed a leg amputation and was taken to Ayr Hospital for the operation, because that's where the vascular surgeons are based.
"The operating theatre was prepared, he was anaesthetised and the operation began but it was halted after the surgeon had difficulty cutting further.
"That's when he discovered he'd hit a metal plate that they didn't know about. So he frantically sought advice from the consultant orthopaedic surgeon, who suggested going to B&Q."
However, the store was closed because the operation was being carried out after 21:00 so the surgeon decided to use the saw which was from old hospital stock."
The source added: "The saw was sterilised by soaking in some disinfectant solution and the surgeon proceeded to complete the amputation after cutting through the metal plate.
"If this is a proper investigation it should be shared with all as learning. This should never have happened. I have never come across anything similar in my career."
It is understood the patient and his relatives were told about what happened some time after the incident.
Scottish Conservatives health spokesman Jackson Carlaw said: "This is simply incredible - an indescribable way to treat any patient.
"Despite the UK's advances in modern medicine this episode has all the finesse of improvised surgery on Nelson's flagship during the Battle of Trafalgar.
"I would hope that NHS Ayrshire and Arran thoroughly investigates this as a matter of urgency."
Ann Gow, the board's interim nurse director, said in a statement: "NHS Ayrshire and Arran is currently conducting a significant adverse event review (SAER) into a recent incident within University Hospital Ayr, where standard procedures were not followed.
"The findings of this review and any subsequent recommendations will be shared with clinicians, as well as the family of the patient."
Argentine forces, who had landed on the Falklands to stake a territorial claim, were ejected by a British military task force.
Argentina says it has a right to the islands, which it calls the Malvinas, because it inherited them from the Spanish crown in the early 1800s. It has also based its claim on the islands' proximity to the South American mainland.
Britain rests its case on its long-term administration of the Falklands and on the principle of self-determination for the islanders, who are almost all of British descent.
The windswept and almost-treeless territory is made up of two main islands, East Falkland and West Falkland, as well as hundreds of smaller islands and islets.
Capital Port Stanley
Population 2,560 (local government figures)
Area 12,173 sq km (4,700 sq miles)
Major language English
Major religion Christianity
Currency Falkland Islands pound
Head of state: Queen Elizabeth II, represented by a governor
Chief Executive: Keith Padgett
Mr Padgett, a former financial secretary in the Falkland Islands Government, took over from Dr Tim Thorogood in March 2012.
The islands are self-governing, although foreign affairs and defence matters are handled by the British government.
There is no party-political activity on the islands.
A new constitution to enhance the powers of the Executive Council came into force on 1 January 2009.
Coverage of local affairs is provided by a radio station and by the territory's sole newspaper, Penguin News.
Some key dates in the history of the Falklands:
1690 - English captain makes first recorded landing on Falklands.
1764 - First settlement founded on East Falkland by French navigator.
1765 - British settle West Falkland. They are driven off by the Spanish in 1770 but return in 1771, only to withdraw again in 1774.
1820 - Independent Argentina proclaims sovereignty over the Falklands.
1831 - US warship destroys Argentine settlement in reprisal for the arrest of three US vessels hunting seals.
1833 - British force expels remaining Argentine officials from the island and installs a governor. Argentina continually protests against British occupation.
1965 - UN resolution invites Britain and Argentina to discuss ways of finding a peaceful solution to their dispute.
1982 - Argentina invades, prompting Falklands War.
1990 - Argentina and Britain restore diplomatic relations, severed in 1982.
2013 - Islanders vote to remain a British overseas territory.
The six documents, amongst the oldest secret papers to be held by the agency, disclose a number of spying techniques.
The nearly century-old records include instructions "to suspect and examine every possible thing".
Recent advancements in technology have made it possible to release the documents, the CIA said.
One document suggests soaking a handkerchief, or any other starched substance, in nitrate, soda and starch, in order to make a portable invisible ink solution.
Putting the treated handkerchief in water would release a solution that could then be used to write secret messages, the records say.
A document written in 1914 in French, exposes a German formula for making secret ink, suggesting that French spies had managed to crack the enemy's code.
One memorandum, compiled by a hand-writing expert in California, suggests painting invisible messages on the human body.
"To make them appear, develop a suitable reagent sprayed with an atomizer" the record states.
The document warns of "other methods used by spies and smugglers, according to the skill and education of the criminals", such as "engraving messages and credentials on toe-nails".
The secrets have been made obsolete by advances in the chemistry of secret ink and the lighting methods used to detect it , the CIA said.
The CIA declassified more than a million historical documents last year. They are available on the agency's website.
In their eyes, they should have been allowed to give their daughter any name they wanted, and the state had over stepped the line and infringed their constitutional rights.
But had they?
Although some US campaigners argue that the right to call a child whatever you want is guaranteed by the Constitution, each state has its own rules.
In Georgia, parents have the right to give the child either of their surnames, or a combination of the two. They cannot be given a brand new name on their first birth certificate, although it can later be changed.
In Louisiana, the law stipulates that the mother's maiden name must be used if unmarried, or the father's surname if they are - unless both parties agree to change it.
Some, like Arizona and Washington, restrict the number of characters a surname can be, while others, like Texas, restrict the use of accents and umlauts, according to TheBump.com.
New Jersey bans people from naming their children after an obscenity. However, MyCentralJersey reported it did not go as far as to stop self-proclaimed Nazi Isidore Heath Campbell, who named his child Adolf Hitler, changing his own last name to Hitler this month.
But had baby ZalyKha been born in Alabama, she could have taken whatever surname she wanted.
France demands a child has only the name of their father, their mother or a hyphenate of the two.
Those wanting to change their names later in life are also likely to face massive hurdles - and only have their request granted if the reason for wanting a new surname fits in with a handful of very specific reasons, including bearing a name which is considered "ridiculous or pejorative".
But since 2005 men have been able to change their names to that of their wives legally.
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In Japan, a woman must take her husband's surname - a law dating back to the 19th Century, held up by the Supreme Court in 2015. Babies must take the name of their father, if their parents are married, or their mother if not.
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Dries Mertens' double for Napoli has taken them to within two points of second-placed Roma, while Juventus will move 10 points clear if they beat Udinese on Sunday (14:00 GMT).
Belgium attacker Mertens dinked home Marek Hamsik's through ball to open the scoring and converted Lorenzo Insigne's pass to make it 2-0.
Roma midfielder Daniele de Rossi was fortunate not to be sent off when he kicked keeper Pepe Reina. Napoli coach Maurizio Sarri was dismissed for his protests.
Kevin Strootman scored late on for Roma, and Diego Perotti almost levelled in injury time with Reina producing a magnificent save to deny him.
Match ends, Roma 1, Napoli 2.
Second Half ends, Roma 1, Napoli 2.
Attempt missed. Edin Dzeko (Roma) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Diego Perotti with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Roma. Conceded by Amadou Diawara.
Offside, Napoli. Marko Rog tries a through ball, but Arkadiusz Milik is caught offside.
Diego Perotti (Roma) is shown the yellow card.
Diego Perotti (Roma) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Corner, Roma. Conceded by José Reina.
Attempt saved. Diego Perotti (Roma) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Antonio Rüdiger.
Attempt missed. Diego Perotti (Roma) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Mohamed Salah.
Corner, Napoli. Conceded by Radja Nainggolan.
Corner, Napoli. Conceded by Juan Jesus.
Goal! Roma 1, Napoli 2. Kevin Strootman (Roma) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Diego Perotti.
Leandro Paredes (Roma) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by José Callejón (Napoli).
Corner, Roma. Conceded by Lorenzo Insigne.
Foul by Leandro Paredes (Roma).
José Callejón (Napoli) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Radja Nainggolan (Roma).
Marko Rog (Napoli) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Juan Jesus (Roma) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Arkadiusz Milik (Napoli).
Mohamed Salah (Roma) hits the left post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Radja Nainggolan with a through ball.
Corner, Napoli. Conceded by Wojciech Szczesny.
Attempt saved. Marko Rog (Napoli) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by José Callejón.
Offside, Napoli. Kalidou Koulibaly tries a through ball, but Lorenzo Insigne is caught offside.
Faouzi Ghoulam (Napoli) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Mohamed Salah (Roma).
José Reina (Napoli) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Edin Dzeko (Roma) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Bruno Peres with a cross.
Substitution, Napoli. Arkadiusz Milik replaces Marek Hamsik.
Substitution, Roma. Leandro Paredes replaces Daniele De Rossi.
Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Roma) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Edin Dzeko.
Corner, Napoli. Conceded by Daniele De Rossi.
Attempt blocked. Piotr Zielinski (Napoli) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Marko Rog.
Attempt blocked. José Callejón (Napoli) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Radja Nainggolan (Roma) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Raúl Albiol (Napoli).
Attempt missed. Lorenzo Insigne (Napoli) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Faouzi Ghoulam.
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Marc McNulty gave Pompey a first-half lead, firing in Michael Doyle's free-kick off the underside of the bar.
Webster doubled the host's advantage, blasting home after Kyle Bennett's 20-yard shot had struck the woodwork.
Luke Berry grabbed a consolation for Cambridge, slotting in after a free-kick from the left side of the box.
Portsmouth manager Paul Cook told BBC Radio Solent:
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It happened shortly after a judge ordered that his bail be set at $25 million (£16.7 million) in a murder case.
His defence lawyer said the 49-year-old hit his head on a chair as he fell.
Knight has pleaded not guilty to murder, attempted murder and hit-and-run charges.
Knight denies running down two men with a pickup truck in Los Angeles following an argument in January on the set of a commercial for the film Straight Outta Compton.
One of the men, 55-year-old Terry Carter, was killed, while the other was seriously injured.
After his collapse, lawyer Matthew Fletcher told the court that his client, who is diabetic and has a blood clot, hadn't received any medication since Thursday.
Fletcher claimed Knight was being kept in solitary confinement without proper access to medication.
He also criticised the bail amount calling it "absurd" and "clearly excessive".
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ronald S. Coen approved the amount because prosecutors noted that Knight was already on bail over a separate robbery case.
Since his arrest, Knight has suffered various health problems and this is the fourth time he's had to be taken from the courthouse by ambulance.
He'd previously been hospitalised after complaining of chest pains and also said he's now blind in one eye and has about 15 per cent vision in the other.
This latest court appearance was a bail review hearing.
Knight has previous convictions for assault with a deadly weapon and could face 25 years to life in prison if he's convicted at trial.
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A page set up in the name of Amber Roof had called for donations to pay for her wedding, which was cancelled after the attack on the church in South Carolina.
She said her wedding day had been "tainted by the actions of one man".
Dylann Roof was charged with nine counts of murder for the attack on African-American church in Charleston.
Ms Roof was due to marry her partner Michael on 21 June, four days after the attack on the Emanuel AME Church.
Writing on their fundraising page, the couple said their "lives were forever changed" by the event, adding that the media "abused our privacy" by publishing details about their wedding.
They said they had cancelled their wedding "to protect our family and mourn the lives of those lost".
The money would help "to cover lost wedding costs, to pay bills, and to send us on our dream honeymoon", they wrote.
The couple added that they would give 10% of funds raised to the church in Charleston.
Just before the page was taken down on Thursday afternoon they had raised about $1,600 (£1,025) of their $5,000 target.
GoFundMe told the BBC that the page had been taken down by the user, not the company.
One person who had donated wrote: "I can't imagine what you are going through. I too have a selfish brother that has ruined a few of my special days."
But on Twitter, many users accused the campaign of being insensitive, with one saying: "If the public of Charleston has spare money it should not be going to you."
Dylann Roof was arrested the day after the shootings, more than 200 miles (320 km) away in North Carolina.
He appeared in court in Charleston on 19 June and was charged with nine counts of murder and one weapons possession charge.
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has called for the 21-year-old to face the death penalty.
It said lower oil output in the US and other countries was helping to curb the glut in the supply of oil.
The increase in supply from Iran has also been less dramatic than first feared, the IEA said.
Oil prices have plummeted 70% since June 2014, falling as low as $27 per barrel earlier this year.
The IEA, which coordinates energy policies of industrialised nations, said it now believed non-Opec output would fall by 750,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2016, compared with its previous estimate of 600,000 bpd.
US production is forecast to decline by 530,000 bpd this year, it said.
"There are clear signs that market forces... are working their magic and higher-cost producers are cutting output," the IEA said.
There has been an oversupply of oil from booming US output in recent years, thanks to the spread of fracking.
Meanwhile, members of the oil-producing cartel Opec have been reluctant to cut supply in order to "put a floor" under the the oil price, for fear of losing market share against higher-cost producers.
These two factors sent oil prices tumbling at the end of 2014 and throughout 2015.
Lower demand for oil from China, the world's second-largest consumer of commodities, has also hurt oil prices and prompted fears of a global economic slowdown.
Many of the major oil firms have reported dramatic falls in profits and cut back billions of pounds in investments in exploration, while at least 5,000 jobs have been lost in the North Sea oil industry over the last 18 months.
Prices hit a 12-year low in January, but have since recovered to about $40 per barrel after leading Opec nation Saudi Arabia and top non-Opec producer Russia said they could freeze output.
Brent crude on Friday was 1.9% higher at $40.79, while US West Texas Intermediate oil was 2.5% higher at $38.77 per barrel.
The IEA said Opec output fell by 90,000 bpd in February because of production outages in Nigeria, Iraq and the United Arab Emirates, which lost a combined 350,000 bpd.
"Meanwhile, Iran's return to the market has been less dramatic than the Iranians said it would be; in February we believe that production increased by 220,000 bpd and provisionally, it appears that Iran's return will be gradual," the IEA said.
Iran has promised to add as much as one million bpd to global supply after securing a deal with the West in January that has seen the easing of international sanctions, imposed on the Islamic Republic over its nuclear programme.
The IEA said inventories in industrialised member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) had declined in February for the first time in a year, although crude in floating storage increased.
"For prices, there may be light at the end of what has been a long, dark tunnel, but we cannot be precisely sure when in 2017 the oil market will achieve the much-desired balance. It is clear that the current direction of travel is the correct one, although with a long way to go," the IEA added.
While demand for oil reached a near five-year high in the middle of 2015, prompted by lower prices and countries such as China and India building up stockpiles, it has slowed significantly since the start of the year.
And the IEA warned: "The risks to global oil demand growth are almost certainly on the downside."
It said it expected demand to be flat in the US, the world's largest consumer of oil, this year.
And it said demand could weaken "if prices maintain their recent upward momentum".
Demand in China was forecast to grow by 330,000 bpd this year, well below the 10-year average of 440,000 bpd.
"We expect India and other smaller non-OECD Asian economies and the Middle East to provide most of the 2016 growth. The foundations for global demand growth are sound, but not rock-solid," the IEA said.
The party issued a challenge to the other political parties over their terms for a referendum on EU membership.
Economic spokesman Patrick O'Flynn demanded David Cameron came clean on how he'd run an EU referendum, accused the Liberal Democrats of "gerrymandering" by trying to include under 18s and EU migrants in any vote, and said school children had been brainwashed by pro-European propaganda.
But despite best efforts, the press interest drifted away from the EU referendum and returned to when an immigration target is not quite an immigration target.
UKIP has denied a U-turn on this before, after Nigel Farage ruled out an immigration cap of 50,000 that his migration spokesman Steven Woolfe had previously endorsed.
Yesterday during a poster unveiling in Dover, the "immigration target" question came up again.
Mr Farage said he would like immigration to return to "normal levels".
He then said this was, in his view, between 15,000 and 50,000 people coming to Britain a year - "about 30,000".
He said he thought this level could be achieved by mid-way through the next parliament, if Britain left the EU and UKIP's policy of banning unskilled migration for five years and introducing a points-based system for skilled workers was introduced.
Sounds like a target? Apparently not.
Nigel Farage said as much yesterday, and today at a Westminster-based press conference another party spokesman confirmed no such number would appear in the party's manifesto.
Suzanne Evans said UKIP - the party for which immigration is such a key issue - would have no cap or target at all, although she insisted its policies would see immigration figures plummet.
UKIP has said a Migration Control Commission would be set up to control the number of people moving to Britain - but there is no set target.
So despite the numbers that have been kicked around, it's not 50,000. It's not 30,000. Or, in fact, anywhere else between 15,000 and 50,000.
The policy does now seem clear, but political opponents wasted no time pointing out that for a party that wants to be trusted on immigration, it has taken a while to get this clarity on numbers.
Consider what we know so far. Both Republican candidate Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton have been accused of sexual assault.
Both men have faced allegations from multiple women which span several decades.
In the second presidential debate on 9 October, Mr Trump claimed that Mrs Clinton had "viciously attacked" women who accused her husband of sexual assault - or claimed to have had affairs with him.
Now Mr Trump's wife has spoken out against her husband's accusers, what are the differences between her words and those of the former First Lady?
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Mrs Trump has in the past shifted blame when addressing allegations against her husband.
Addressing Mr Trump's lewd remarks in a 2005 tape, in which he claims he can force himself on women because he is "a star", she said he was "egged on" by Billy Bush, then host of NBC's Access Hollywood, "to say dirty and bad stuff".
In an interview with CNN, she said: "I know he respects women, but he is defending himself because they [the allegations] are lies.
"My husband is kind, and he is a gentleman, and he would never do that."
She also justified Mr Trump's decision to appear with the women who have accused Mr Clinton of sexual assault.
Mrs Trump has adopted her husband's line that the media are conspiring to block his path to the White House.
She said of the sexual assault claims: "This was all organised from the opposition. And with the details… did they ever check the background of these women? They don't have any facts."
"Checking the backgrounds" of Mr Clinton's alleged partners is an aspect of Mrs Clinton's past behaviour which has alienated some - especially young women - who might otherwise have supported her.
The Washington Post reports that when Mr Clinton launched his presidential run in 1991, his wife and senior staff planned how to deal with "bimbo eruptions" - or claims of infidelity.
In 1992, Mr Clinton's campaign hired a private detective to investigate two dozen women alleging sexual encounters with the president-to-be. It is not known how much involvement Mrs Clinton had in this decision, but Democrat insiders recall her actively fighting her husband's corner.
In his memoir, former White House press secretary George Stephanopoulos refers to one woman's allegation published in Penthouse Magazine. He says that when Mr Clinton declared it untrue, Mrs Clinton said: "We have to destroy her story."
Both Mrs Trump and Mrs Clinton have been guilty of shaming the "other women".
When Mr Trump ridiculed journalist Natasha Stoynoff - who accuses him of forcibly trying to kiss her - by telling a Florida rally she was not attractive enough to sexually assault, his wife excused his tone, saying: "He's raw. He will say it as he feels it."
Mrs Trump said she has seen her husband reject the advances of women "giving phone numbers, and, you know, want(ing) to work for him" - which she said was "inappropriate" on their part.
Mrs Clinton has been accused of deriding and even threatening the women who could potentially damage Mr Clinton's reputation or her own.
When model and actress Gennifer Flowers sold her story about an alleged 12-year affair with Mr Clinton, Mrs Clinton branded her "some failed cabaret singer" in an interview with ABC News. She also told Esquire magazine that if she had the chance to cross-examine Ms Flowers, "I would crucify her".
According to the diary of her close friend Diane Blair, Mrs Clinton privately dubbed White House intern Monica Lewinsky, who had an affair with her husband, a "narcissistic Looney Toon".
Mrs Trump told CNN that she agreed with Michelle Obama's statement that kissing or groping a woman without consent was assault. However, she declined to include Mr Trump's taped allusions - where he says "I'm automatically attracted to beautiful - I just start kissing them" - in this category.
"No, that's not sexual assault," she said. "He didn't say he did it."
Mrs Clinton has been called an "enabler" for defending her husband, and this damaging label re-emerged in November when she tweeted that "every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported".
The next month, a questioner at a public forum demanded to know if she took the same view of her husband's accusers.
She responded: "I would say that everybody should be believed at first, until they are disbelieved based on evidence."
Two hours before the second presidential debate, Mr Trump appeared on Facebook Live with three women who have accused Mr Clinton of sexual assault - Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick, and Kathleen Willey.
Evidence that Mrs Clinton intimidated or insulted these women is either disputed or inconclusive.
Ms Jones, a former Arkansas state employee who says Mr Clinton exposed himself to her in 1991, said recently that when she filed a lawsuit, "they sent out people to dig up trash on me". She has not cited evidence that Mrs Clinton orchestrated this.
Juanita Broaddrick, who accused Mr Clinton of raping her in 1978, claims that his wife tried to silence her at a fundraiser later that year. She says Mrs Clinton told her: "I just want you to know how much Bill and I appreciate the things you do for him. Do you understand? Everything you do."
In February 1999, Ms Broaddrick appeared to backtrack. She was asked by NBC: "Did Bill Clinton or anyone near him ever threaten you, try to intimidate you, do anything to keep you silent?" and replied: "No."
Former White House aide Kathleen Willey, who has alleged that Mr Clinton groped her in his office in 1993, says the political couple wanted to intimidate her out of telling the truth in court.
She says she found a dead cat on her porch, saw a man under her deck at night, and that a stranger in her neighbourhood asked how her children were doing. While Ms Willey says she perceived these events as threatening, none of them have been independently linked to Mrs Clinton.
It has reduced its figure to 3.1% from the 3.3% it predicted in July. The 2016 forecast is down to 3.6% from 3.8%.
"A return to robust and synchronized global expansion remains elusive," the IMF says.
The report also warns that the risks of an outcome worse than its forecasts are more pronounced than they were just a few months ago.
The sharpest downgrades are for emerging economies, especially Brazil, Nigeria, South Africa and Russia.
So the IMF is still predicting growth, but it is distinctly lacklustre growth, especially for the current year.
The developed economies are expected to manage slightly stronger growth than before, reflecting the modest recovery in the eurozone and the return of growth in Japan, though that looks tentative at best.
Receding legacies from the financial crisis are elements in that story, as is the long-lasting support from central bank policies - low and zero interest rates and also quantitative easing, which continues in the eurozone and Japan.
The emerging and developing economies still account for what the IMF calls the lion's share of global growth, but they are slowing, in 2015 for the fifth consecutive year.
One important factor is China's economic transition - from very rapid growth driven by investment and industrial exports to moderate expansion based to a greater extent on Chinese consumer spending increasingly on services.
The IMF mentions that shift as one direct factor behind the emerging world slowdown. But China is also a key element behind other forces,
Oil producers have been hit by the decline in the price of their exports. Nigeria and Russia are striking examples. China's slowdown is one of the underlying forces, along with abundant supplies of crude oil.
The report also mentions the declines of other commodity prices as a factor, especially in Latin America. Some countries also have domestic political issues that have encroached onto economic performance; Brazil for example.
The other downbeat element in this report is the view of risks - how the global economy might perform differently from this forecast.
Financial market volatility is a possible danger, if interest rate rises in the US encourage investors to move funds out of emerging economies more rapidly than they have done already.
Increased debt in the emerging economies, lower commodity prices and slower growth could undermine their financial stability, which could in turn hit wider economic performance.
China's slowdown is another possible trouble spot, if it does not manage its economic transition reasonably smoothly.
There is also the possibility of lower potential growth - that's a wide-ranging term for factors that govern the maximum capacity of an economy to grow if nothing much goes wrong. Weak investment (though not in China) and the effect of longer-term unemployment on workers' skills are examples of forces that could do further damage.
And there's one more risk we have heard about before: Greece. In terms of the international economic impact the situation has calmed greatly. But the IMF warns there is the potential for renewed financial stress in Europe if there is fresh political uncertainty there.
Still, the IMF's main forecast is for growth to pick up somewhat next year - globally and in the emerging economies. It's just that it is still not all that convincing a recovery.
The 28-year-old, who has cystic fibrosis, has won four caps for his country and recently had a spell with French Top 14 side Clermont.
He has spent most of his career with Western Force in his homeland, but had a six-week stint at Gloucester in 2011.
"I'm ready to hit the ground running in what is a crucial few weeks in Europe and the Premiership," Charles said.
Bath director of rugby Todd Blackadder added: "After losing three hookers in the last month, we're really fortunate to be able to bring in someone of Nathan's calibre."
The Bureau of Labor Statistics data also showed the jobless rate held at its seven-and-a-half year low of 5%.
Professional and business services, construction, health care, and food services all saw job increases.
In addition, the figures for October and November were revised up to show 50,000 more jobs created than previously reported.
However, not all sectors saw job gains in December - mining continued to decline, dropping by 8,000, and taking the total jobs lost in the sector in 2015 to 129,000.
In the fourth quarter of 2015, US economy created an average of 284,000 jobs a month, the best three-month pace in a year.
The robust figures suggest resilience in the US economy at a time of market turmoil in China, the world's second biggest economy, and global economic uncertainty.
Robust consumer spending has encouraged employers to hire staff, offsetting a drop in US exports in response to a stronger dollar.
"It is one more sign the domestic economy continues to chug along," said Kate Warne, an investment strategist at Edward Jones.
"It is not a game changer in terms of faster economic growth, but it offsets some of the other indicators that recently have suggested the economy might be slowing down."
The figures come after the first US interest rate rise in nearly 10 years in December.
The Federal Reserve raised overnight interest rates last month by a quarter of a percent to between 0.25% and 0.50%.
US stocks opened higher after the jobs figures were released. The Dow Jones Industrial Average then lost ground, closing down 167.65 points, or 1.02%, at 16,346.45.
Her name is Eve Senior. She's 14 but looks older in the photo - she had dressed up and done her make-up to go to the Ariana Grande concert.
She was a few metres from Salman Abedi when he detonated his suicide bomb, killing 22 people.
In the picture, half her jeans had been cut off by paramedics and she needed help to walk because of 14 shrapnel wounds she had suffered. Once at hospital medics operated to remove the lumps of metal from her legs.
For many people the photograph conveyed the awful reality of the attack. An attack targeting a concert packed with children.
But another image that has stayed with me is of Eve's younger sister.
On the night of the bomb I watched as 11-year-old Emilia was scooped up by her father and carried away from the arena. She is too tall for her dad to carry very far. But he tried.
Once through the police cordon she was hugged and kissed by her grandparents. I heard her quietly say to them that she was one of the lucky ones.
That night, Emilia told me they had been leaving the concert when the bomb went off.
"We walked out and then suddenly something really hot flew over us," she said. "We all dropped to the floor."
Her mother and sister were still inside waiting to go to hospital. Emilia wiped her face and said: "My sister's really bad."
She was remarkably calm and articulate. But looking back at footage of that interview now, you can see the fear.
Four weeks later, I met Emilia again at her home near Bradford, West Yorkshire. She told me that as she left Manchester Arena on the night of the bomb she was convinced her big sister was dying.
This was also the first time I met Eve. She was still struggling to walk because of the shrapnel wounds and nerve damage. As a teenage girl and talented dancer, the way her legs looked and worked was important to her.
She had been told she still had months of physiotherapy ahead of her and doctors had mentioned the possibility of plastic surgery.
"Some of my friends don't understand how long it's going to take," she said. "I don't think I understand."
Her parents Andrew and Natalie told me Eve had good days and bad days. The bad days were really tough.
Emilia's hearing in one ear was damaged by the blast, but she escaped any other physical injuries. Her parents' main concern was about the psychological impact.
As she talked to me about the way her mind played and replayed what she saw that night, it became clear why.
"I see all of it. I see the flashing lights of the explosion," she said.
"I see the people being thrown in the air who were probably dead. And then you play it. And then you pause it. It's like my mind took a photo. That's what it feels like when you think about it."
Her father was sitting quietly next to her, taking in what she was saying.
Her mother, who was also injured in the explosion, said: "For an 11-year-old child to have seen the things she saw, it's going to be a long process."
By early July, when I next met the family, Emilia had turned 12 and Eve was walking without crutches.
I went with them to their local hospital where Eve and her mother had a physiotherapy session.
They had made huge progress, but for Eve it wasn't fast enough.
"It feels like I'm not improving at all," she said. "I know I am. But it feels like that, because I just want to be able to do all the stuff I did before."
For her mother, each physiotherapy session had been a reminder of how far they had come.
"We've turned a real corner," she said. "Eve's getting a lot more mobile which has been a big thing for us."
They had been for days out together and one of their outings was to Manchester.
Like other survivors, the family had been offered the chance to visit the arena before its scheduled reopening. They had doubts in the days before the visit. The girls' parents hoped it would help them move forward, but feared the girls would find it totally overwhelming.
In the end it did help. It helped them fill in the gaps and get a better sense of what happened. They calculated that Eve was 5m from Abedi when he detonated the bomb.
"I was really scared to go," Eve told me. "I was crying before I even went in. But as soon as I got in there, you felt more calm."
Her mother said that for weeks after the attack she'd pictured the Arena foyer as a cold and frightening place. But going back changed that.
"It was as if you were going back somewhere where you found a bit of peace," she said.
Eve's face lit up when she talked about the staff at Manchester Children's Hospital.
"Before Manchester I had no idea what I wanted to be when I grow up," she said.
"But staying in hospital and seeing what the nurses do and how good they are - when I'm older I want to be a nurse."
Emilia has also found ways to cope. As her mother and sister worked out at their physio session, she chatted to me while colouring-in.
It is easy to forget how young she is. Her colouring book reminded me. She told me her trauma counsellor had suggested colouring as way to block out the images that had been filling her mind.
Remarkably, she said she did not hate the man who carried out the attack.
"You have to forgive and forget in life, or else you're not going to get anywhere."
This family is one of hundreds deeply and permanently affected by the Manchester attack. But despite all they have been through, they still regard themselves as the lucky ones.
Alongside hospital appointments and counselling sessions, they have found the time to hold fundraising events for the Manchester Emergency Fund and Victim Support.
Mr Senior told me he constantly thinks about the fathers whose children did not survive.
"It changes your perspective on things," he said. "We're always going to have Manchester as a part of our family now."
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Jose Torres, 26, and Kayla Norton, 25, both wept as the Douglas County judge handed down sentencing on Monday.
They will serve 13 years and six years in prison respectively, local media report.
Superior Court Judge William McClain said the two were "motivated by racial hatred".
They are part of a group of at least 15 people charged over the incident in which cars were driven along the street flying the Confederate battle flag in Douglasville, west of Atlanta, in July 2015.
The crime occurred shortly after a mass shooting inside an African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina by a white supremacist gunman.
Photos emerged after the Charleston shooting of the killer, Dylann Roof, holding the Confederate flag and a handgun.
The Confederate battle flag became a potent symbol for residents of the southern states that fought against the north during the Civil War. It is considered by some to be a symbol of slavery and racism.
The couple are among four who were charged with performing criminal acts, the other two pleaded guilty and are serving shorter prison terms.
Torres and Norton were found guilty of threatening to kill some of those attending the child's party while shouting racial slurs at children.
Torres was said to have been carrying a shotgun, according to prosecutors. He was sentenced for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and for violating Georgia's street gang and terrorism prevention laws.
Norton was found in violation of the same state laws and was sentenced for threatening behaviour.
"This is behaviour that even supporters of the Confederate battle flag can agree is criminal and shouldn't be allowed,'' Douglas County District Attorney Brian Fortner said.
The incident involved members of the group Respect the Flag, who drove cars and trucks decorated with the Confederate banner past the party in Douglasville causing a disruption.
Residents at the time told local media that the people in the vehicles were shouting racial slurs, but the group said they were attacked.
Burgess, 26, left the Premiership side on Thursday to return to Australian NRL club South Sydney Rabbitohs.
He made the decision after being part of England's poor World Cup campaign.
"The way we play rugby at Bath he would have fitted in brilliantly and taken our game, and rugby union I feel, to a new dimension," said Ford.
Burgess switched codes and moved to Bath last year, before the recent Rugby Union World Cup.
But he has returned to Rabbitohs, citing "family reasons", with two years of his three-year contract remaining.
The Yorkshireman had been playing at blind-side flanker for Bath, but was picked at centre for England against Wales in the World Cup.
His selection led to much debate, with many observers suggesting the newcomer should have been allowed time to develop in just one position.
Ford is adamant Burgess could cope with playing in both positions, despite personally seeing his future at number six.
"No-one can change my mind that Sam Burgess is a back-row player - that's who he is," the 49-year-old former rugby league player told BBC Radio 5 live.
"We wanted him on the field as a ball carrier and a tackler, that's what he did and it worked for us the way we played.
"Going from six to 12 for how England wanted to play, it's the same job. But with Bath he touched the ball more, made more tackles, had more involvements.
"I said to him he could play 12 with England then easily come back to us and play six. I stand by that.
"It's disappointing as I feel he has potentially left too early and we're short of a very good back-row player, and England are short of a potentially good back-row player internationally."
Burgess was given time off by Bath after England's World Cup campaign, returning earlier this week and had been poised to start on the bench in Saturday's Premiership win at London Irish.
"In that 10 days he's gone away and discussed his future to his fiancée Phoebe, he's come back in and he's still not right," said Ford after the 45-14 victory.
"On Monday, we spoke to him and there was still light at the end of the tunnel that he was going to play for Bath.
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"He trained Monday, he trained Tuesday, we picked him in the team today to start on the bench, but from late on Wednesday South Sydney rang up and started negotiating with Bath.
"We had one more chance with Sam where we sat down with him and he kept saying it was for family reasons and he wanted to go back home."
The 24-year-old made 14 appearances in his first season at Elland Road, but failed to play a game for the senior team last term.
Sloth had one year left on his contract with the Championship side, who he joined from Aarhus in August 2014.
He has won eight caps for Denmark, the last of which came in March 2014.
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Scott Sinclair curled a shot against the post for the visitors before Lars Stindl volleyed Gladbach ahead.
Andre Hahn fired off the crossbar as the hosts pressed for a second and Celtic's Moussa Dembele drew a save from goalkeeper Yann Sommer.
Dembele was then fouled by Julian Korb, who was sent off, and the striker converted the resulting penalty.
Brendan Rodgers' side, who face Barcelona in Glasgow on 23 November, move on to two points at the bottom of Group C, trailing Gladbach by two points and final group opponents Manchester City by five.
Though Celtic's Champions League fate is all but sealed, Dembele's cool penalty ensures they can still overtake Borussia in third and secure a Europa League berth.
Having missed a spot-kick in Camp Nou at a crucial stage of the group opening 7-0 defeat by Barca, the French striker showed great confidence to step up in another intimidating atmosphere and earn his side a potentially crucial point.
It was his 16th goal of the season and third in the Champions League group stage.
He has been an outstanding acquisition by Rodgers and at the age of 20 already looks an accomplished performer at the highest level.
His evening could have been even better had Sommer not kept out an earlier effort on a night when Celtic could conceivably have nicked a victory.
With the scoreline goalless, Sinclair's curling shot came within inches of ending up in the back of the net, ricocheting away off the inside of the post.
And in the dying moments, greater composure from Callum McGregor should have led to the substitute scoring or creating a late winner rather than drag his shot wide.
That is one lesson Celtic have to learn if they are to become a "last-16 side" as Rodgers desires.
Too often Celtic got in to promising positions, only for the move to break down because of a poor choice or inaccurate pass.
As Rodgers had noted pre-match, the Champions League is an unforgiving environment and a lack of precision in a pass or a momentary lull in concentration is likely to be punished.
So it was as Borussia constructed a fine passing move, begun by Jannik Vestergaard's raking diagonal pass to Korb, linked by Christoph Kramer to Thorgan Hazard, and emphatically finished by Stindl.
But the space afforded to Korb and more damagingly Stindl underlines what Celtic still have to improve upon.
Further carelessness as they tried to play their way out of defence could have seen them fall two goals behind, but Andre Hahn's guided shot came clattering back off the frame of the goal.
But there was much to be pleased about for Celtic, their manager and supporters who can go into the final matches in the knowledge they still have much to play for, having avoided defeat in an away Champions League group match for only the third time in 26 trips.
Match ends, Borussia Mönchengladbach 1, Celtic 1.
Second Half ends, Borussia Mönchengladbach 1, Celtic 1.
Attempt blocked. Patrick Roberts (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Callum McGregor.
Foul by Scott Sinclair (Celtic).
Fabian Johnson (Borussia Mönchengladbach) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Christoph Kramer (Borussia Mönchengladbach) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Liam Henderson (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Christoph Kramer (Borussia Mönchengladbach).
Attempt missed. Callum McGregor (Celtic) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Patrick Roberts with a through ball.
Attempt missed. Liam Henderson (Celtic) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Patrick Roberts.
Substitution, Celtic. Liam Henderson replaces Cristian Gamboa.
Offside, Borussia Mönchengladbach. Yann Sommer tries a through ball, but Patrick Herrmann is caught offside.
Nico Elvedi (Borussia Mönchengladbach) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Moussa Dembele (Celtic).
Attempt missed. Raffael (Borussia Mönchengladbach) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Jannik Vestergaard.
Substitution, Borussia Mönchengladbach. Raffael replaces Lars Stindl.
Lars Stindl (Borussia Mönchengladbach) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Erik Sviatchenko (Celtic).
Attempt missed. André Hahn (Borussia Mönchengladbach) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Lars Stindl.
Emilio Izaguirre (Celtic) is shown the yellow card.
Patrick Herrmann (Borussia Mönchengladbach) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Borussia Mönchengladbach. Tony Jantschke replaces Tobias Strobl.
Goal! Borussia Mönchengladbach 1, Celtic 1. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Julian Korb (Borussia Mönchengladbach) is shown the red card.
Penalty conceded by Julian Korb (Borussia Mönchengladbach) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Celtic. Moussa Dembele draws a foul in the penalty area.
Foul by André Hahn (Borussia Mönchengladbach).
Cristian Gamboa (Celtic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Fabian Johnson (Borussia Mönchengladbach) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Scott Brown (Celtic).
Substitution, Borussia Mönchengladbach. Patrick Herrmann replaces Thorgan Hazard.
Substitution, Celtic. Callum McGregor replaces Tomas Rogic.
Lars Stindl (Borussia Mönchengladbach) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stuart Armstrong (Celtic).
Attempt blocked. Cristian Gamboa (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Patrick Roberts.
Offside, Borussia Mönchengladbach. Fabian Johnson tries a through ball, but André Hahn is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Julian Korb (Borussia Mönchengladbach) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Lars Stindl.
Attempt missed. Lars Stindl (Borussia Mönchengladbach) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Foul by Christoph Kramer (Borussia Mönchengladbach).
The University and College Union questioned more than 2,500 of its members on casual employment contracts in further and higher education.
Of these, 42% said they had problems with household bills, 35% with rent or mortgage and 21% struggled to buy food.
But a university employers' body said the study was flawed as not all the contracts would count as casual.
The union's study, Making ends meet: The human cost of casualisation in education, was carried out between January and April this year.
About 2,550 staff on casual contracts at UK universities and colleges responded - 71% were from the higher education sector, the rest from further education.
About a quarter said they were on zero-hours contracts, 45% were on fixed-term contracts and 32% were paid by the hour.
They included lecturers, tutors, trainers, researchers and postgraduate teachers.
The figures varied between sectors, with 55% of the higher education staff on fixed-term contracts and 32% of the further education staff on zero-hours contracts.
Overall, 47% worked up to 30 hours a week and 33% earned less than £1,000 a month, the survey found. .
About one in 10 could not say how many hours they worked in a week because their employment was so irregular, says the report.
Many said they worked long hours because of worries about where their next job was coming from or because they knew they would not be paid over the holidays.
Some said their hours were being cut to make way for cheaper staff.
UCU general secretary Sally Hunt described some of the employment contracts in the study as "exploitative" and leaving people "unable to plan their lives month by month or even week by week".
"Ministers and employers must stop trying to defend these practices as flexible. People who want security and a proper contract should be able to get one.
"The high levels of casualisation in further and higher education would shock many students and parents and expose the harsh reality of life in modern universities and colleges."
The union says the most recent official figures show more than a third (36%) of academics in higher education were on fixed-term or temporary contracts in 2013.
But the University and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) disputed the union's definition of fixed-term employment as casual work, pointing out that fixed-term contracts were primarily used for researchers on externally funded projects, lasting three or four years.
A spokesman said numbers of permanent contracts had risen in recent years and, once research contracts were excluded, the proportion of work done by casual staff was more like 3%.
"Higher education institutions cannot simply provide full-time or open-ended employment to everyone who wants it. Like all employers they will always have variable and temporary needs."
The spokesman said specialist lecturers, who combined teaching with other employment in their profession, often preferred flexible contracts.
The Association of Colleges (AoC) said further education had always needed a flexible workforce and employed people on different types of contracts according to need.
"These needs include the levels of demand for some courses, covering staff absences and delivering short courses," said Marc Whitworth, the AoC's employment and policy director.
Mr Whitworth said the UCU's conclusions were "concerning" but "not representative of the discussions we have had with our college members".
A report on casual and hourly paid staff in higher education is due to be published next month after an eight-month inquiry by a joint working group of unions and employers.
The Nigerian, 28, who was brought to Parkhead by Hibs boss Neil Lennon, has not featured for Celtic since July.
A loan move to Blackburn Rovers fell through on Monday due to issues in obtaining a work permit.
Hibs have also signed ex-Motherwell, Falkirk, Dundee United and Ross County defender Brian McLean, 32, on loan with three senior centre-backs injured.
Paul Hanlon, Liam Fontaine and Jordon Forster are all currently sidelined, while their only fit centre-back, Darren McGregor, is suspended for Saturday's Scottish Cup quarter-final against Ayr United.
McLean, who will also be at Easter Road until the end of the season, arrives after a brief spell with Brunei DPMM in Singapore's S.League.
Both are eligible to play in Wednesday's Scottish Championship match against St Mirren in Paisley, with Hibs looking to extend their seven-point lead at the top.
Head coach Lennon said: "We were a little bit light on bodies in the central defensive position at the minute and bringing in Efe and Brian will fill that void.
"Both have fantastic experience in domestic football here in Scotland, as well as abroad. I know what qualities each of them possess and they will help to bolster the squad as we strive to achieve our goals this campaign."
Fontaine became the most recent casualty when he limped off with an ankle problem during Hibs' 2-2 draw with Dunfermline Athletic last weekend.
Holding midfielder Marvin Bartley took his place at the back, alongside McGregor.
Lennon told BBC Scotland after the match that both Hanlon and Forster, who are nursing pelvic and hamstring injuries respectively, are "not far away" from a return to action.
5 November 2013 Last updated at 00:03 GMT
A new law signed last year by Mayor Michael Bloomberg requires the release of all public data by December 2018.
In the meantime, officials who work for city agencies may be granted access to other agencies' information in order to help their workflow. And entrepreneurs can tap into the data.
"With the news of the NSA and Prism and all that stuff, people are scared about big data," says Joel Natividad, the co-founder of Pediacities.com, which compiles data about restaurants and schools.
"We're doing Big Data for good, for regular people."
The BBC's Jonny Dymond spent a day in the offices of NYC Open Data and met city workers and entrepreneurs trying to understand - and build on - big data's waves of zeros and ones.
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The athletes include British cyclists Sir Bradley Wiggins, the country's most-decorated Olympian, and three-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome.
There is no suggestion the athletes are involved in any wrongdoing.
Wada says the cyber attack is an attempt to undermine the global anti-doping system.
The records released by the group calling itself "Fancy Bears" mostly detail "Therapeutic Use Exemptions" (TUEs) allowing banned substances to be taken for athletes' verified medical needs.
The group says the TUEs are "licenses for doping" and that Wada is "corrupt and deceitful".
Wada Director General Olivier Niggli, strongly criticised the leak.
"Wada is very mindful that this criminal attack, which to date has recklessly exposed personal data of 29 athletes, will be very distressing for the athletes that have been targeted; and, cause apprehension for all athletes that were involved in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games," he said.
Mr Niggli said there was "no doubt" that the hack was retaliation against Wada for its report into Russian state-sponsored cheating and appealed to the Russian government to help stop it. The Russian authorities have denied any involvement.
Dan Roan, BBC sports editor
They may have been braced for it, but this second leak will dismay the anti-doping authorities.
None of the athletes named has broken any rules, and several of the medical exemptions detailed were already known.
But these leaks will intensify the debate around TUEs and force sport to ask itself some uncomfortable questions about the legal use of certain banned substances.
Is the system being exploited by some athletes? Should TUEs be allowed at all, especially in competition? And given the lack of trust in sport now, is it time to make all TUEs public, even if it means athletes' private medical details are revealed?
The documents relate to 10 American, five British and five German athletes as well as one athlete each from Denmark, Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic and Romania.
Among the names is the Czech Republic's two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova and London 2012 discus gold medallist Robert Harting of Germany.
The list also names 11 medallists from Rio, including American Bethanie Mattek-Sands, who won tennis gold in the mixed doubles.
It follows an earlier leak of documents relating to US athletes including multiple gold-winning US gymnast Simone Biles.
The records show that Wiggins was given permission to take two banned substances on several occasions between 2008 and 2013 during competitions including the 2011 Tour de France and the 2013 Giro d'Italia.
One of the substances, triamcinolone acetonide, was taken for an allergy to pollen, according to the certificates.
Froome was granted permission to take the banned steroid prednisolone on occasions between 2013 and 2014, including during the 2014 Tour de Romandie race.
In 2014 French newspaper Le Journal de Dimanche reported that Froome had been given permission to take the steroid-based drug because he was suffering from a chill. The International Cycling Union said at the time that the TUE complied with Wada guidelines.
In a statement, Froome said: "I've openly discussed my TUEs with the media and have no issues with the leak, which only confirms my statements. In nine years as a professional I've twice required a TUE for exacerbated asthma, the last time was in 2014."
A spokesperson for Froome's Team Sky added: "Applications made by Team Sky for TUEs have all been managed and recorded in line with the processes put in place by the governing bodies."
A spokesperson for Wiggins said: "There's nothing new here. Everyone knows Brad suffers from asthma; his medical treatment is British Cycling and UCI [cycling's governing body] approved and like all Team GB athletes he follows Wada regulations to the letter.
"The leak of these records is an attempt to undermine the credibility of Wada."
British Cycling said it was "proud" of its anti-doping culture. A spokesperson added: "We condemn the publication of any individual's medical information without their permission."
The other British athletes whose records have been leaked are golfer Charley Hull, rugby sevens player Heather Fisher and rower Sam Townsend.
Russia's track and field team were banned from the Rio Olympics over an alleged state-backed doping programme. All of its athletes are barred from the ongoing Paralympics.
The Russian authorities have denied running a doping programme and maintain Russia is being made a scapegoat for a much larger problem.
On Wednesday, Russian government spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was "out of the question" that the Kremlin or secret services were involved in the hacking, while the country's sports minister Vitaly Mutko asked: "How can you prove that the hackers are Russian? You blame Russia for everything. It is very 'in' now.''
However, Peskov later said there was "no question" that Russia would be prepared to help Wada if asked.
"Russia consistently backs fighting cybercrime, consistently invites all states and international organisations to co-operate in this area, and this position of Russia is well known," he added.
BBC Radio Nottingham reported on Tuesday that the 28-year-old, who was a free agent after leaving German club Wolfsburg, was discussing terms and he has now agreed a two-year contract.
The Denmark international told BBC Nottingham Sport: "My main goal was to come back to England.
"What happened in Wolfsburg was a sad situation. I have made mistakes in the past, but I am looking to the future."
Bendtner had an unhappy spell in Germany and left the club after several disciplinary issues.
He said the move to a club with a "big history", and the chance to work with Forest manager Philippe Montanier, was the ideal way to make a "new start".
"It is important to prove myself and get back to scoring goals," said Bendtner.
"The coach has given me a great impression of the club and how he wants to do things.
"He cares a lot about football. He wants to play football, he is a nice man and I look forward to working with him."
Forest face Aston Villa on Sunday and Bendtner, who has scored 29 goals in 72 appearances for his country, said he was not quite ready to play.
"I need a little bit of time to settle and adjust but it won't be long," he added.
Bendtner scored 45 goals for Arsenal in 171 games between 2005 and 2014 and also had loan spells at Sunderland, Birmingham and Juventus during that period.
BBC Radio Nottingham's Nottingham Forest correspondent Colin Fray
"Nicklas Bendtner is certainly a controversial figure and has his detractors, but Forest will be hoping that their marquee signing can combine with Britt Assombalonga up front and fire the club into top-six contention.
"He's a player who's proved he's capable of scoring goals in his career - including in the Championship during his loan spell with Birmingham, when he was only 18 and was sent out by Arsenal to gain first-team experience. That spell apart, his entire career has been spent in the top flights in England, Italy and Germany, and he has a wealth of international experience with Denmark, too.
"So, as a free agent, you can see why Forest would be prepared to offer him a deal. At 6ft 4ins tall, he's likely to be handful for Championship defenders, and is the highest-profile signing of 12 this summer."
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But they said the opportunity to review many of the regulations that govern farming should not be lost.
The leaders of the UK's farming unions have been meeting in Northern Ireland.
In a statement, they said the job of transposing existing EU laws is one of the "biggest legislative challenges" ever faced.
The government has announced plans to bring EU laws into domestic legislation at the point of exit.
The details are in a white paper published on Thursday for a proposed Great Repeal Bill.
The UK government will then have the power to amend the legislation.
Ulster Farmer's Union president Barclay Bell said farmers wanted an "efficient and streamlined" regulatory system through a future agriculture bill.
He said "too often" farmers had been burdened by rules that stifled the ability to farm "for no discernible reason".
He said the farm unions recognised the value of good regulation which could promote productivity while protecting human health and the environment.
"But bad regulation often achieves none of these," he said.
Farmers have said they recognise the need for continuity and stability to provide businesses with certainty and to keep standards aligned as a new trading arrangement with Europe is hammered out.
Mr Bell said there were a "huge number" of EU regulations governing the day-to-day running of UK farms.
The white paper says the government will want to set a UK-wide legislative framework for things like farming.
But devolved ministers will also have some powers to amend legislation for which they have responsibility.
The giant, annual Victory Day parade for the first time included missiles adapted for Arctic warfare.
Russia is developing new Arctic bases.
"No force will be able to dominate our people," Mr Putin said, deploring the havoc that Nazi Germany wreaked in the war. The USSR lost more than 20 million people - more than any other country.
The Soviet Union (USSR) ceased to exist in 1991.
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko took part in a wreath-laying ceremony in Kiev. He told Ukrainian soldiers that Russia was trying to use the victory anniversary "to satisfy its own revanchist, imperialist and expansionist needs".
"The Kremlin is still trying to command Ukraine as if it commanded the four Ukrainian fronts in the 1940s."
Russia has often been accused of downplaying the role of other nations in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
Western sanctions were imposed on Russia after it annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in 2014. They were ratcheted up - targeting many close associates of Mr Putin - when the Russian military bolstered pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine.
The Kremlin denies helping the rebels militarily, but admits that Russian "volunteers" have joined their ranks.
The military hardware on show in Red Square on Tuesday included Pantsir-SA air defence missiles in grey-white Arctic camouflage.
Yars RS-24 intercontinental ballistic missiles, which can deliver nuclear warheads, also trundled past the assembled military top brass, government officials and bemedalled war veterans.
Members of a new "military-patriotic" youth movement, called Yunarmiya, participated in the parade for the first time.
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The main event was in Moscow, but parades also took place in cities across Russia, many of which were devastated in the 1941-1945 bloodbath that Russians call the "Great Patriotic War".
"To fight terrorism, extremism and neo-Nazism we need the co-operation of the entire world community," Mr Putin said in his short speech.
Russia has deployed many of its latest weapons in the Syrian war, backing President Bashar al-Assad's forces, who are also heavily assisted by Iran.
The two girls were "touched inappropriately" during a visit to the attraction, in Windsor, on Thursday.
Detectives have urged others who visited the resort to check their photos to see if the man is in the background.
He is described as white, under 5ft 8in-tall, wearing dark slim-fitting trousers, a dark t-shirt and trainers.
The assaults happened between 12:15 BST and 12:30 at Castaway Camp in the Pirate Shores area of the attraction.
Det Insp Penny Mackenzie of the Thames Valley Police child abuse investigation unit said: "We really need the public's help to find the offender and I would urge anyone who recognises the man in the e-fit to contact police.
"If you went to Legoland on Thursday please check any photographs you may have taken to see if you can spot anyone who looks like the man in this e-fit. If you have any photographs you want to share with us please email them.
"I would like to reiterate that such offences are extremely rare. We are conducting a detailed investigation and working closely with Legoland in order to find the offender."
Positive news on a technical agreement in Greece's bailout deal failed to make an impression.
The FTSE 100 index dropped 71.68 points to 6,664.54.
Four of the top five fallers on the FTSE 100 were mining companies for which China is a key market.
Glencore was the biggest casualty, falling 7.3%. BHP Billiton fell 5% .
The surprise devaluation will make imports into China more expensive, hitting retail companies such as Burberry.
Burberry, which has some 14% of its sales in China, saw its shares fall 4.4%.
On the upside, Prudential reversed an early fall to climb 4.7% after releasing a 17% rise in first-half operating profit.
And the gold price rose almost 2% as investors looked for safe haven investments away from volatile currencies and equities.
Miners of precious metals saw their shares rise. Randgold Resources and Fresnillo were both some 0.5% higher.
Base metal miners were also the biggest losers in the midcap FTSE 250. Vedanta fell 7.6%. Kaz Minerals was down 6.75%.
Shares in Serco reversed earlier gains to end down 1.2%, after the outsourcing group said revenues in the first six months of the year fell to £1.8bn from £2bn a year earlier.
Serco is attempting to revive its fortunes following problems with a number of failed contracts, including a scandal over tagging criminals.
Shares in Just Retirement Group rose in early trading but then fell back to stand 5.5% lower after the company announced it had agreed to buy rival Partnership Assurance for £669m.
On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.2% against the dollar to $1.5560, and was down 0.2% against the euro at €1.4130.
Throughout the 1800s it hovered around the 40 years of age mark in the UK, but since the start of the 20th Century it has almost doubled.
This can be put down to a number of factors including improved health care, sanitation, immunisations, access to clean running water and better nutrition.
It means about a third of babies born today can expect to celebrate their 100th birthday.
But are we thinking about the issue in the right way?
Ministers have responded to the challenge of the ageing population by increasing the age at which people qualify for the state pension to 68 in future years.
This has been done to maintain the ratio of working-age adults to pensioners.
At the moment there are 3.7 20 to 64-year-olds for every person over 65.
If the current trend in life expectancy continues, by 2050 it will be down to 2 to 1.
It will come as no surprise that increasing working lives to 68 almost completely counteracts this.
But it is not quite as simple as that.
People can only work if they remain in good health - and currently the average "healthy life expectancy" is 63.5 years of age, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The problem is that a rise in life expectancy does not automatically lead to a similar rise in years spent in reasonable health.
Over the last 20 years the gap has been getting wider. Life expectancy has risen by 4.6%, but healthy life by only 3%.
So what can be done about it?
It is an issue that is being explored by the International Longevity Centre - UK, a think tank led by Baroness Sally Greengross, who recently chaired a House of Lords committee.
Prof Les Mayhew, of the Cass Business School, who acts as an adviser for the centre, believes the answer lies not in improving health care, but in investing in prevention and early intervention.
"That means addressing lifestyles, but also giving people the right support to stay healthy and independent. Social care will be critical.
"If we are not careful we will just end up in a situation where instead of people retiring there will just be more on incapacity benefit."
To stress his point, Prof Mayhew has carried out modelling, which shows the importance of healthy life expectancy.
He looked at various scenarios to see what effect they would have on GDP.
It shows that by far the most important factor in terms of encouraging economic growth is expanding healthy working lives by a year.
If that could be achieved, GDP would grow by 2.7% compared with 1.6% for increasing the numbers working by 1% and the 1% boost gained from a 1% increase in productivity.
Understandably, the government maintains it is taking improving the health of the nation and supporting older people seriously.
Just last week ministers in England announced more details about how the cap on elderly care costs will work.
Meanwhile, a national organisation - Public Health England - has been created to encourage lifestyle changes and councils have been given ring-fenced budgets to spend on public health schemes.
Nonetheless, in light of the recent apparent U-turns on plain packaging for cigarettes and the minimum pricing for alcohol, the suspicion persists that not enough is being done.
Prof Michael Murphy, an expert in demography from the London School of Economics, says: "Although healthy ageing and well-being are on the political agenda, actions so far have been limited."
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) "opened suspension proceedings" last month following the publication of another damaging report.
That report, compiled by Canadian law professor Richard McLaren, claimed Russia operated a state-sponsored doping programme from 2011 to 2015.
The Paralympics begin on 7 September.
The IPC is set to announce whether it will suspend the National Paralympic Committee of Russia at a news conference in Rio.
Should the NPC be suspended it will have 21 days to appeal against the decision.
Reacting to the McLaren report, IPC president Sir Philip Craven said: "McLaren's findings are of serious concern for everyone committed to clean and honest sport.
"The additional information we have been provided with by Richard McLaren includes the names of the Para athletes associated with the 35 'disappearing positive samples' from the Moscow laboratory highlighted in the report.
"We are also urgently following up on McLaren's recommendation for 19 samples from the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Games to be sent for further analysis, having been identified as part of the sample-swapping regime in place during the Games."
Craven said Russia's NPC would be given the chance to make its case before a decision is made.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) originally said individual sports' governing bodies should decide if Russian competitors were clean to compete at the Olympics, which begin on 5 August.
But it now says a newly convened three-person panel "will decide whether to accept or reject that final proposal".
More than 250 Russian athletes have so far been cleared to compete.
The IOC says it plans to re-test all Russians who competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Russia topped the medal tables at both the Winter Olympics and Paralympics in the Russian city of Sochi, winning 113 in total, 43 of them gold.
Commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, it looked into claims by Grigory Rodchenkov, the ex-head of Russia's national anti-doping laboratory.
He alleged he doped dozens of athletes in the run-up to the 2014 Winter Games with the help of the Russian government, which exploited its host status to subvert the drug-testing programme.
Rodchenkov, now in hiding in the United States, also alleged that he doped athletes before the 2012 Games in London, the 2013 World Athletics Championships in Moscow and the 2015 World Swimming Championships in Kazan.
The 'Spy Booth' artwork, which depicts three spies "snooping" on a telephone box, appeared in Hewlett Road in April.
It was badly damaged with spray paint earlier this month.
Robin Barton, from London's Bankrobber gallery, who asked Tom Organ to assess the damage, said the six-week project would return it "to its former glory".
Mr Barton said it had been "established beyond doubt" that the mural could be successfully restored whilst keeping the structural integrity of the Grade II* listed building intact.
Mr Barton added that Roger Wilson, the man who claims to own the house, had "agreed to cover the costs of the restoration in full".
In a letter to Mr Barton, professional art restorer Mr Organ said he aimed to recover the original image, under the recent graffiti, and to carry out "essential stabilisation and work" in order to improve its long-term conservation.
Mr Organ, who also warned the cost of any restoration project could rise, added he would need "proof of ownership of the piece" before any work could be carried out.
The artwork was daubed with white paint just days after it appeared in April but it was saved by drinkers who rushed from a nearby pub to wash off the paint before it dried.
In August, silver and red graffiti was sprayed over the mural and, less than two weeks later, protective hoardings were removed and holes made at the four corners.
After the holes appeared, businessman Hekmat Kaveh - who has offered funds to buy the house to ensure the mural stays in the town - said he thought an attempt was being made to remove it.
And on Wednesday, photos emerged of the inside of the house on which the Banksy is painted after "substantial work" was carried out on the listed building.
Islamic State (formerly known as Isis) militants are reported to have taken over the town of Sinjar near Syria.
It follows the IS takeover of the town of Zumar and two nearby oilfields from Kurdish Peshmerga forces on Saturday.
IS seized large parts northern Iraq from government control in a major offensive in June.
The UN special envoy to Iraq, Nickolay Mladenov, said that a "humanitarian tragedy is unfolding in Sinjar".
"The United Nations has grave concerns for the physical safety of these civilians" he said.
"The humanitarian situation of these civilians is reported as dire, and they are in urgent need of basic items including food, water and medicine" he added.
The UN said many of those who fled are in exposed areas in mountains near the town.
Many of those in Sinjar are believed to have fled from earlier IS advances in northern Iraq.
The town is home to a large community of Kurdish Yazidis, whom IS consider heretical.
Two Yazidi shrines have reportedly been destroyed in the town.
Kurdish military forces, known as the Peshmerga, were also forced to retreat from the nearby town of Zumar on Saturday after a militant offensive.
Kurdish forces had held the town since the Iraqi army retreated from the are in June.
Eyewitnesses said militants also seized control of two small oilfields near Zumar.
IS already controls several other oil installations in northern Iraq, which are believed to fund its activities.
Iraqi state television reported that the militants also took control of Mosul Dam on Sunday after the withdrawal of Kurdish forces.
The dam is the largest in Iraq and provides much of Mosul's electricity.
Further south, clashes between the Iraqi army and sunni militants continued near the town of Jufr al-Sakhar, military officials said.
The Iraqi army said it conducted several airstrikes on militants in the centre of the town, which lies about 60 km south-west of Baghdad.
The town was captured by the militants last week.
The fighting this summer has been one of the worst crises to hit Iraq since the withdrawal of US forces in 2011.
The currently untitled film will be set in the 1960s and focus on Dahl's marriage to actress Patricia Neal.
"I can't imagine anyone better to give the ambivalent nature of Roald Dahl's life," the film's producer Elliot Jenkins said.
"He was such a man of wounded parts below his polished veneer of self-confidence."
The 1960s were a time when Dahl struggled to write some of his most famous works, such as Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
The same decade saw Neal starring in Hud, a role which saw her win an Oscar for best actress.
The biopic has been described as being in the same vein as the Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson film Saving Mr Banks - the story of Walt Disney trying to persuade PL Travers to let him make a film out of her novel Mary Poppins.
The role of Neal has yet to be cast.
In other Bonneville casting news, it has also been announced he will star in the new Thomas & Friends film Journey Beyond Sodor.
The actor will voice a new engine called Merlin who believes he has the power of invisibility.
He follows in the footsteps of Ringo Starr, Eddie Redmayne, Alec Baldwin and Olivia Colman who have also previously featured in Thomas & Friends.
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Members of parliament applauded as President Ram Baran Yadav signed the document in the capital Kathmandu.
Earlier on Sunday police fired on protesters in the south, where some members of ethnic minorities oppose the constitution. At least one person died.
The document defines the majority Hindu nation as a secular republic divided into seven federal provinces.
It was agreed by parliament last week, after years of political wrangling.
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"We believe that the adoption of the new constitution has now opened the path for development of the country," Mr Yadav told the assembly.
Firecrackers went off in Kathmandu in celebration, and some Nepalese spoke of their relief that the country could now move on.
Student Shyam Sharma told the Associated Press news agency that he hoped politicians could "focus on other important issues like developing the country, improving the economy".
But others across the country are not happy.
Before the signing, clashes broke out between the security forces and a crowd of Madhesi people who had defied a curfew to demonstrate in the town of Birgunj, Parsa district, in southern Nepal.
One person was killed and a number of people were injured.
"They attacked with stones and glass bottles. Some of the security forces have been injured as well as the demonstrators. The situation here is tense," Parsa's chief district officer Kesheb Raj Ghimire told the AFP news agency.
At least 40 people have been killed amid protests by the Madhesi and Tharu ethnic groups in the south in recent weeks.
They are concerned that changes to the borders and election rules will further marginalise them.
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The original offer was £600,000 but the Championship club increased this by around £100,000.
BBC Scotland has learned there is a substantial gap between this offer and what Hearts are prepared to accept for the 21-year-old.
Paterson was named in Gordon Strachan's Scotland squad for the upcoming World Cup qualifier against Malta.
He made his international debut in May's 1-0 friendly defeat by Italy and has made over 140 appearances for Hearts since 2012.
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The Somme was one of the bloodiest battles of World War One with more than one million casualties over 141 days.
Among the events will be two memorial ceremonies in County Dublin, while sets of commemorative stamps will be issued.
Thousands of soldiers from the 36th Ulster Division and the 16th Irish Division fought in the battle.
Next year is arguably the biggest year in the decade of centenaries, lasting from 2012 until 2022, in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
As well as the Battle of the Somme, the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising is also set to be marked.
The Easter Rising was a republican rebellion which lasted from Monday 24 April (Easter Monday) to 30 April 1916.
The aim was to end British rule in Ireland.
Despite its military failure, the Easter Rising is viewed by many as being a significant stepping-stone in the eventual creation of the Republic of Ireland.
The Irish events to mark the Battle of the Somme will include:
Enda Kenny, the Irish prime minister, said 2016 was a "very important year for Ireland" as it marked events that "shaped the history of our island over the last 100 years".
"We remember the huge losses experienced by the 36th Ulster Division and the 16th Irish Division and the indescribable impact that this had on the island of Ireland - a loss that has transcended generations," he said.
Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan said the Republic of Ireland would "join with our neighbours in Northern Ireland and across Europe in remembering the huge losses of lives" in the battle.
He added: "[The] commemorative events will help build an understanding of the events of 1916 in all their complexity and diversity, and explore how they have resonated through the years since."
It is the third Captain America movie in the Marvel franchise.
The movie, which stars Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr and Scarlett Johansson is expected to eclipse 2014's Captain America: The Winter Soldier at $259m (£179.2m) by the end of next weekend.
It includes a much-publicised fight between Captain America and Iron Man.
Plus there are introductions of new characters in Chadwick Boseman's Black Panther and Tom Holland's Spider-Man.
Its opening record trails Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which opened at $248m (£172m), Jurassic World at $208.8m (£145m), Marvel's The Avengers at $207.4m (£144m) and Avengers: Age of Ultron at $191.3m (£132.4m) .
2011's Captain America: The First Avenger opened at $176.6m (£122.2m).
Captain America is also keeping the US box office on track for a record performance in 2016 with $3.856bn (£2.669bn) through this weekend.
Disney has played a major role in that gain with The Jungle Book and Zootopia delivering blockbuster numbers.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens provided $285m (£197m), or 30% of its $936m (£648m) total.
A review of the Countess of Chester's 'Children's Hospital at Home' service was due at the end of June.
The NHS West Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group and the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust said the service would now continue.
The campaign group Save Our Hospital at Home said it was "delighted" but had concerns over staffing.
"Whilst we are delighted with the assurances that the paediatric hospital at home service will be continued... we do still have concerns about how this will work operationally now that over half of the original team have been redeployed elsewhere within paediatrics."
The service sees medical staff travelling to patients' homes to administer treatment and help with long term care.
In April, NHS commissioners announced the service would be discontinued because planned savings due to be achieved by the scheme had "not been realised".
A petition against axing the service was signed by more than 5,000 people and it was given a two-month reprieve by the NHS West Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) until the end of June.
The CCG needs to save £11.5m from its budget by April 2017, after registering overspends over the last financial year.
Speaking at the Justice for Men and Boys party's conference, he said: "feminist zealots really do want women to have their cake and eat it".
The comments prompted many women to tweet photos of themselves eating cake with the hashtag #letthemeatcake.
His remarks were also condemned by opposition MPs.
Hannah Martin posted: "There's no calming down this Madeira, thanks to Philip Davies MP," and Emily Buchanan wrote: "My cake's crumbling like the patriarchy."
Justice for Men and Boys describes itself as "the only political party in the English-speaking world campaigning for the human rights of men and boys".
Their 2015 election manifesto suggests men should receive their pension earlier than women because they work harder and die younger, and the government should scrap schemes which attempt to increase the proportion of girls and young women studying science, technology, engineering and maths.
Addressing their conference, Mr Davies, MP for Shipley, said: "They fight for their version of equality on all the things that suit women but are very quick to point out that women need special protections and treatment".
In a 45-minute speech posted online, Mr Davies denied that there is "an issue between men and women".
He said: "I think the problem is being stirred up by those who could be described as militant feminists and the politically correct males who pander to this nonsense."
MPs including Lib Dem leader Tim Farron and Labour's Diana Johnson have condemned his speech.
In Parliament Mr Davies has often raised concerns about what he calls the "justice gender gap", complaining that the justice system favours women by sending fewer to prison and not forcing them to wear uniforms.
Asked about his appearance at the Justice for Men and Boys conference, Mr Davies told the Guardian: "I don't accept the premise that the only place that people can speak on anything is a place where they agree with everything that organisation stands for.
"I don't agree with everything the Conservative Party does but I'm still a Conservative MP."
Mewn erthygl yn y Sunday Times mae Mr Hammond yn ysgrifennu na fydd o'n cymryd agwedd "ddryslyd" gyda'r gyllideb.
Fe fydd Mr Hammond yn cyflwyno ei gyllideb i Dy'r Cyffredin ddydd Mercher.
Ond mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi annog Llywodraeth y DU i roi "terfyn ar ei pholisi cyni niweidiol a darparu'r ysgogiad ariannol' er mwyn gwella hyder yn yr economi.
Mewn llythyr at Brif Ysgrifennydd y Trysorlys, amlinellodd yr Ysgrifennydd Cyllid, Mark Drakeford, ei bryderon am "fwriad Llywodraeth y DU i fwrw ymlaen â thoriadau gwerth £3.5 biliwn i wariant cyhoeddus yn 2019-20."
Dywedodd y gallai toriadau o'r fath olygu gostyngiad pellach o £175 miliwn yng nghyllideb Cymru.
Yn ôl Mr Hammond dydi'r gwaith o gael gwared ar y diffyg ariannol "heb ei gwblhau eto".
Mae'n dadlau, er bod yr economi wedi profi i fod yn gadarn, mae yna ddal angen disgyblaeth ariannol wrth i'r DU baratoi ar gyfer Brexit.
Dadl Mr Drakeford yw bod toriadau o'r fath yn wrthgynhyrchiol.
"Mae'n amser i Lywodraeth y DU roi diwedd ar ei pholisi cyni niweidiol a darparu'r ysgogiad cyllidol y mae ei angen i wella hyder yn yr economi a chefnogi gwasanaethau cyhoeddus hanfodol,
"Rwy'n annog Llywodraeth y Deyrnas Unedig i gymryd camau yn y Gyllideb hon i gynyddu'r cyllid ar gyfer iechyd a gofal cymdeithasol i gydnabod y pwysau sylweddol y mae'r gwasanaethau hyn yn ei wynebu."
The men were accused of taking part in a massacre of more than 500 civilians in the Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema in 1944.
But a court in Stuttgart said it could not prove the men, who were part of an SS unit, played a role in the deaths.
The decision brings to a close the 10-year investigation into the massacre.
The 17 men, eight of whom are still alive, were part of the 16th SS Reichsfuehrer division of the German army deployed in Italy during the war.
In 2005 an Italian court convicted 10 officers from the division in absentia of taking part in the massacre, which Italian authorities said left 560 civilians dead, including more than 100 children.
But German prosecutors said they were unable to prove that any of soldiers still alive were guilty of murder or accessory to murder - the two charges on which the statute of limitations has not run out.
The countries were involved in a row with Fifa because they wanted to wear the symbol of the poppy during matches.
The poppy is a symbol that is often worn around Armistice Day on 11 November.
Armistice Day is a day every year when the United Kingdom, and other countries, remember those who have lost their lives in war.
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland wanted to wear armbands with poppies on, or have poppy displays on the field or in the stands.
But Fifa said that nations are not allowed to display any political, religious or commercial messages.
However, the UK's football teams ignored Fifa.
England and Scotland players wore armbands featuring the poppy when they met at Wembley on 11 November.
Wales and Northern Ireland's games had poppy displays on the pitch or in the stands to mark the event.
Fifa have fined all four countries for breaking the rules.
England have been fined £35,311, Scotland and Wales £15,694 and Northern Ireland £11,770.
Argyle fan Kevin May was at the clubs' FA Cup tie on 8 January when he received a text with the news.
His son Daniel, 25, was quadriplegic, blind and had cerebral palsy following an operation he had as a baby.
Liverpool brought the unnamed men to Home Park for Wednesday night's replay, along with a special banner.
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Bearing the slogan "RIP Daniel May You'll Never Walk Alone", it was unfurled at the cup tie.
Fans from both sides also joined a minute's applause in the 25th minute, to mark Daniel's age.
Mr May, from Plymouth, described the two men who looked after him during the Anfield clash as his "guardian angels".
Speaking about the special welcome organised by Liverpool, Mr May said: "I had a lovely time with them."
He said before the meeting that it would be "poignant, very nice, and very sad", but he was "determined to focus on the positives, with many thousands of people thinking of my boy Daniel".
"Home Park is where I go to worship and for them to be thinking of Daniel is beyond words," he said.
Mr May was told on the phone that Daniel had died as he watched the first cup game alongside thousands of Plymouth supporters.
The distraught dad, who was taken to a quiet room away from the crowd after receiving the news, later thanked a policeman and staff at Anfield for their support.
His message led to a fundraising campaign led by a Liverpool fan Anthony Grice to pay for the banner in memory of Daniel, who lived in Surrey with his mother.
Mr May said he would take the banner to Daniel's funeral on 7 February.
The Aberdonian finished joint third in the qualifying event at Walton Heath in England, where the top 15 were able to seal a spot at the major.
"I played in the US Open in 2007 with Tiger Woods and Geoff Ogilvy," Ramsay told BBC Scotland.
"And I'm very eager to get back and show that I've moved on from where I was."
Compatriot Russell Knox had already qualified for this season's event because he won a PGA Tour event last year.
"Anytime we get to represent Scotland, especially in the bigger tournaments at the majors, is a proud moment," said Ramsay.
"I'm proud to be in the US Open representing Scotland.
"The US Open is the perfect platform to showcase that I'm capable of mixing it with the best guys out there.
"I feel like I've got a lot more game, a lot more shots and a lot more mental toughness now."
England's Aaron Rai topped the field at Walton Heath with a 14-under-par total for his two rounds, one shot ahead of China's Haotong Li.
Ramsay, who shot two rounds of 66, was tied with Alexander Levy of France one shot further back.
Welshman Bradley Dredge, Ireland's Paul Dunne and English trio Andrew Johnston, Eddie Pepperell and Matt Wallace also qualified.
A diner at Shajan on Longsight Road in Lancashire's Ribble Valley claimed the rodent - later found to be a water shrew - was in their 17 September meal.
Shajan denied wrongdoing and cooperated with the council's environmental health team, which found it "unlikely the rodent had been in the ingredients or cooked due to [its] size".
Damages are sought from eight diners.
It is not known how the water shrew - with a trauma injury on its back possibly caused by a mouse trap - came to be in the curry.
Examination of the shrew's mouth cavity and stomach contents did not reveal any colouration from the spices used in the cooking of curries, the investigation added.
It concluded: "It was obvious [the shrew] would have been spotted during the preparation, cooking, or service of the food."
Potentially defamatory posts were made on social media after the incident, which have since been removed.
A solicitor representing the restaurant confirmed civil action for damages was being taken against eight diners who were part of the group in which the claim was made.
Michael Corrigan added: "We're also contacting police asking them if they could consider whether a criminal offence has been in effect here."
The Indian restaurant's owner Mohammed Ali said he was "relieved" to see "the truth will always come out".
Ribble Valley Borough Council said, like all food outlets, the Shajan Restaurant receives regular environmental health inspections and has had a maximum five-star rating since the introduction of the National Food Hygiene Rating Scheme in 2012.
The 28-year-old had reportedly jumped down onto tracks at the end of a tunnel near Ludlow station in Shropshire, but had underestimated the drop.
West Midlands Ambulance Service said the man had a serious chest injury but was conscious and breathing when medics managed to reach the location.
He was taken by train to the station and then put in an ambulance.
The ambulance took him to a waiting helicopter which then flew him to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in Birmingham, for emergency care.
The man fell at about 10:15 GMT and several trains were delayed as a result.
An ambulance service spokesman said: "Due to their location and the difficult terrain, staff decided to use a train to safely transport the patient back to the station.
"This was a protracted and complex case due to its location, but the patient received seamless treatment thanks to excellent team work between different ambulance teams and the station staff."
Warren Gatland's side will take on the All Blacks in a three-game Test series, as well facing Chiefs on 14 June.
"The way they play, the speed of the ball, numbers in contact, it's a completely different game," North said.
"Which is why it is such a hard task to try and match that with what we play up in the northern hemisphere."
North says it has been beneficial for Wales to arrive in New Zealand ten days ahead of the first Test against the three-time world champions, following a long season which included a World Cup campaign last autumn.
"It's a huge task for us. We know that especially after a long season as well, but to come and play the world champions at home was always going to a massive task," North told BBC Wales Sport.
"We needed some time to get over the jet-lag, which is a nightmare, recharge and then turn our minds to the first test on Saturday. It's been good for us and good for the boys to have this time here.
"A three test series in such a short period is going to be tough but we're all ready for it."
Armed with the task of beating the All Blacks after 26 unsuccessful attempts, it will prove a formidable task for North his teammates, but he is looking forward to the challenge.
"We've got to try and contain and defend really. It'll be good so see where we are at the end of it," North added.
"The team have been working hard now for more than a year what with the World Cup and now we've come here.
"It's a huge challenge and to win here would be a huge achievement for the team."
Too many empty seats and increasing competition from mainland Chinese carriers contributed to the poor results, the airline said.
The net loss of HK$575m ($74m; £60.1m) for 2016, was down from a HK$6bn profit the previous year.
It is only the third time the company has posted a full-year loss since it was founded in 1946.
The airline's shares fell by 7% in early trading, but then recovered.
Cathay Pacific is facing fierce rivalry from mainland Chinese and Middle Eastern airlines that are expanding rapidly in the region.
Carriers such as Air China and China Eastern are offering more direct services from the mainland, making it less attractive for passengers to travel via Hong Kong.
The airline said "intense competition" from those rival carriers contributed to sales dropping by 9.4%.
Demand for lucrative business and first class seats had also gone down, said chairman John Slosar.
Passenger yield - the average fare paid per mile per customer - is a closely watched indicator of an airline's financial health.
For Cathay Pacific that figure fell by 9.2% in 2016, while yield on cargo services fell by 16.3%.
Mr Slosar warned that 2017 would be similarly "challenging".
In January, the airline announced a major restructuring programme which would see jobs axed, although it remains unclear how many roles will be affected.
"Our organisation will become leaner," the carrier said in a statement to the Hong Kong exchange on Wednesday.
Fire crews were called early on Saturday as a shed and fence were alight at the Highbridge Caravans site.
A Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said the blaze posed significant danger to firefighters, because of gas cylinders on site.
It is believed the fire quickly spread to the caravans. The fire brigade received more than 60 emergency calls.
The yield on the UK's 10-year gilt dropped below 1.25% for the first time. The yield on the German equivalent also sank to a record low.
More buyers cause bond values to rise and yields to fall, hitting annuity rates, pension fund income, and debts.
Analysts see it as a "pessimistic" sign.
"The low yield on government bonds paints a pretty pessimistic picture of the global economy, and suggests we are set for an extended period of low or negative inflation, and weak economic performance," said Hargreaves Lansdown analyst Laith Khalaf.
Investors have been worried about a weakening Chinese economy, the outlook for US interest rates, and the UK's pending EU referendum vote. Investors typically buy bonds because they provide a long-term, predictable and - crucially - a secure income stream.
But yields have been falling for months. This time last year, the UK 10-year gilt yield was 2%.
Also on Thursday, the 10-year German Bund yield fell to a record low of 0.027%, while in the US, the yield on 10-year notes fell 1.671%, the lowest for three months.
Jason Simpson, fixed income strategist at Societe Generale, said gilt yields could fall further.
He added that trading in the bond market has been thin recently because investors were probably "sitting on their hands" ahead of the referendum, with the small number of trades exacerbating the size of moves in the market.
Mr Khalaf said: 'While all eyes have been on the EU referendum campaign, gilt yields have been slipping, fast.
"The US Federal Reserve is backing away from interest rate rises following wavering employment data, and in Europe the central bank is pumping billions of euros into the bond market every month in the form of quantitative easing, both of which have served to drive yields down."
The demand for higher yields helped the US government raise $20bn on Wednesday from the sale of 10-year notes. The bond issue reportedly received record demand from investment funds and foreign central banks.
"The auction process shows large bidder participation. Those bidders are mostly international buyers who need the yield," said Tom Tucci, head of Treasuries trading at CIBC in New York.
Arthur Collins, 24, is accused of 14 counts of grievous bodily harm with intent and one of throwing corrosive fluid on a person.
Twenty people were hurt when they were doused with a substance at the Mangle E8 club in Hackney on 17 April.
Mr Collins and a 21-year-old man are due on trial on 9 October.
Andre Phoenix of Clyde Road, Tottenham, is charged with seven counts of throwing a corrosive fluid with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
No pleas were entered when both men appeared via videolink at Wood Green Crown Court.
Confirming the date for their trial, Judge Peter Ader told the men "there will be other hearings, but you will be (attending) via videolink."
Mr Collins of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, who is also the father of Ms McCann's unborn child, only said the word "yes" when the judge spoke to him at the end of the hearing.
He and Mr Phoenix are next due to appear at the same court on 13 June.
Mr Gargan, 48, was suspended following allegations of data protection breaches and inappropriate behaviour with women.
A panel found him guilty of misconduct - but cleared him of gross misconduct.
Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner Sue Mountstevens said Mr Gargan's suspension would be lifted and a phased return to work prepared.
In a statement, Mr Gargan said he accepted the panel's findings and apologised that his actions had "fallen below the standards expected of a chief constable".
"I am pleased that the more serious gross misconduct allegations were found not to be proven, including any allegation of inappropriate advances towards female colleagues," he said.
"I am relieved and very pleased that my suspension is at an end."
Mr Gargan, who has been suspended on full pay since May 2014, faced 10 charges of gross misconduct and three charges of misconduct. The PCC said he was found guilty of eight charges at a level of misconduct.
There was insufficient evidence to bring criminal charges over the alleged data protection breaches.
The chair of the Avon and Somerset Police Federation, Kevin Phillips, said there would be "an awful lot of concerned police officers".
Mr Phillips added: "The people who have stood up and said something should be protected and can't be victimised.
"I have no doubt whatsoever that they will have concerns and they will be looking over their shoulders."
Panel chair Dorian Lovell-Pank QC will now write a report of its findings and will recommend any sanctions Mr Gargan should face under police regulations.
The panel met behind closed doors even though Ms Mountstevens wanted the proceedings held in public.
The children, aged five and seven, were at their Bedfordshire school when they revealed their parents had bought them the toys, in March 2016.
The school told police and the two boys were questioned. Their mother says they have since been having nightmares.
The local council has accepted the children were discriminated against.
Central Bedfordshire Council has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum in compensation.
Speaking to the BBC, the boys' mother, who has asked to remain anonymous in order to protect the identity of her children, told how she was called in to school and spent a couple of hours waiting for her children.
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The mother, who is of Indian Hindu heritage, was told one of the boys had been speaking Arabic and talked about attending a mosque, yet she said none of the family spoke Arabic and the children did not go to mosques.
The guns they owned were bright green and orange and made from plastic.
"I was told they had displayed signs that were worrying in terms of being reasonable indicators of being involved in terrorist activity," she said.
"They had no other reason to believe they had any signs of extremism other than the colour of their skin.
"I understand that [terrorism] is a problem, but this is a rather blunt instrument with which to tackle it.
"There are some residual effects - both boys have suffering nightmares. My younger boy fears he might taken away. We are trying to help them move on."
She said she felt her family's reputation "had been trashed".
The school, which is understood to have called the police under the government's Prevent Strategy, would not comment on the case and instead referred the BBC to the local education authority, Central Bedfordshire Council.
The authority said the school had not followed "council procedures".
"We accept the boys were discriminated against and have apologised to the family."
Bedfordshire Police said: "We were called to reports of concern for safety and two officers attended - this was not in a 'Prevent' capacity but routine police attendance and the officers were only present for a short time."
The boys have since been moved to another council-run primary school.
The Pole Intentions classes in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire were criticised after three girls did a demonstration on ITV's This Morning.
But instructor Zoe Hardy said they were about sport, and not sexual.
The International Pole Sports Federation has said classes like this help train future athletes.
"Children are our future pole sports athletes and just like any sport we need to train our athletes from a young age," a spokesperson said.
The federation has included children in the World Pole Sports Championships for the last three years, and has its own Youth Pole Sports Coaching course.
"In order for us to be a recognised sport we have to have the same as other sports, so having children included is what any sport would have and we are no different," said the spokesperson.
Similarly, Pole Sports UK said the participation of children should be "celebrated", not criticised.
"We are actively trying to encourage people outside of the industry to see past the immediate connotations surrounding the term 'pole dancing' to recognise that pole sports is so much more," it said in a statement.
Psychologist Kerry Nixon is among people to have criticised the classes.
"Pole dancing is inextricably linked to sexuality," she said.
"The whole notion of pole dancing historically goes hand in hand with a sexual aspect of dance so therefore it is linked and we can't get away from that."
But Miss Hardy said if adults perceive the activity as being a sexual thing it is "in their own head".
"Now we are moving on and away from the strip clubs to a different kind of pole performance, which is a sport," she said.
Lorraine Handbury, whose 11-year-old daughter goes to the Nottinghamshire classes, said there is no "provocative dancing" involved.
"She used to compete in gymnastics so to me it's no different to that, it's just the bar is a different way," she said.
"They have to wear shorts because you have to be able to hold on with your skin."
Conglomerate HNA Group owns Hainan Airlines and is led by billionaire Chen Feng.
HNA has offered 53 Swiss francs a share for the Swiss firm, an offer which has been backed by Gategroup's board.
The transaction is expected to be completed in July if the deal is approved by regulators.
In a statement, Gategroup chairman Andreas Schmind said: "The offer reflects the fair and adequate value and quality built by Gategroup.
"It makes strategic sense that our company will become part of HNA, one of the leading providers of airport and aviation services worldwide."
HNA Group is the parent company of Chinese carrier Hainan Airlines, the fourth biggest operator in China. The big three - Air China, China Eastern and China Southern - are all state-owned airline groups.
HNA also owns a number of subsidiary airlines including Hong Kong Airlines, Lucky Air and China West Air. In addition, the conglomerate's portfolio includes business interests in real estate and it also owns several retail brands in China.
Between this year and last year, HNA has spent more than $6bn buying companies in the aviation industry.
The company's chairman is attempting to cash in on continued interest in air travel in the Asian region.
In September last year, a unit of HNA purchased an Irish aircraft leasing firm Avolon Holdings for $2.5bn.
In November, HNA spent $2.8bn to acquire airport luggage handler Swissport Group from PAI Partners SAS.
According to industry research, China is forecast to become the world's biggest passenger market by 2034, surpassing the US.
As China's economy slows down, big corporate honchos are looking to hedge their bets by placing their funds outside of China. The Chinese currency, the yuan, has been on a weakening trend recently, partly as a result of what many see as a deliberate move by China to allow its currency to weaken so as to boost exports.
That means if the yuan continues to weaken, it will become more expensive for Chinese firms to buy assets overseas - which may be one reason why you're seeing such a flurry of activity in such a short period of time.
Expect more acquisitions by Chinese firms in the year ahead, but also expect more bumps ahead too.
It's a trend that's set to continue, but will almost certainly run into political trouble ahead of the US elections as a bigger spotlight is shone on China's attempts to snap up overseas assets.
They say pickpocket gangs, four or five strong, have become a regular presence, mingling with tourists visiting the tower and stealing what they can.
Every day there are several victims, particularly among Asian visitors.
Chinese tourists in particular are reputed to carry a lot of cash.
The management of the Eiffel Tower said it was sorry for the disruption and that it was working closely with Paris police to try to reinforce security.
The tower is normally open every day of the year, but sometimes closes briefly for bomb threats or strikes.
Workers at the Louvre staged a similar walkout in 2012, complaining of a rising problem of pickpockets in the Paris museum's galleries.
According to numbers released on Thursday, Paris authorities said violent theft was down 25% and pickpocketing was down 23% in the first four months of 2015, compared with the same period last year.
The North Lowther Energy Initiative is a partnership between Buccleuch and 2020 Renewables.
It would see the turbines constructed to the north west of Wanlockhead.
Buccleuch chief executive John Glen said the proposals were part of a "wider renewable energy and land use strategy" for the area.
The scoping report details the layout of the turbines and could pave the way for a full planning application.
"The submission of the scoping report to Scottish ministers marks the latest stage in the consultation process with local residents and stakeholders," said Mr Glen.
"We have received much valuable feedback which has already informed the design process and we hope this will continue to be built upon now and in the subsequent environmental impact assessment."
Alan Baker, managing director of 2020 Renewables, said the proposed design of the project had "steadily evolved" following initial feasibility studies and subsequent public consultation events.
"The feedback received has helped us arrive at a point where we believe we can develop a project that delivers for the local community as well as on environmental and energy targets," he said.
"There is an opportunity for further refinements to the scheme before a formal planning application is made and we will ensure that all future feedback is taken into account during these next stages."
Prosthetic limbs, a living room carpet and even a box of maggots are some of the things Jean Scott has witnessed people leaving behind on First Glasgow buses over the years.
The 59-year-old is shortlisted for an Unsung Hero title in the UK Bus Awards.
The event highlights the achievements of those working in the bus industry.
In total, 97 finalists have been selected from more than 250 entries across 19 categories and winners will be presented with their awards at a ceremony next week.
Ms Scott, who has worked for more than 37 years in the bus industry, said: "You wouldn't believe what I've seen over the years.
"I remember when I opened a fisherman's bag and discovered tubs of worms which I later released in the park. Once we even managed to return a lost suitcase to Australia.
"Being nominated for this award is very humbling, I just love doing my job and I get great satisfaction returning as many lost belongings to our customers as I possibly can."
Fiona Kerr, managing director for First Glasgow, said: "We're delighted that Jean has been shortlisted for this prestigious award. It's clear recognition of her hard work and dedication to reuniting our customers with their lost property items."
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said they had information to suggest one of those arrested "could undertake violent actions in France".
But he played down French media reports that an attack was imminent.
France remains on high alert after the jihadist attacks in Paris in November that killed 130 people.
More than 100 people were wounded in a series of shootings and suicide bombings that targeted a concert hall, major stadium, restaurants and bars over the course of a Friday evening.
The so-called Islamic State (IS) group said it was behind the attacks.
French media earlier reported that three men and a woman were detained at dawn in the 18th arrondissement of Paris and the nearby northern department of Seine-Saint-Denis.
They said at least one of those arrested had a prior conviction and had been under house arrest since last month, under new rules imposed after the November attacks.
Mr Cazeneuve confirmed that the authorities had concerns about one of those arrested, saying the suspect was thought to have ties with IS in Syria.
"This person was arrested this morning along with people linked to him," he said.
But he warned against jumping to the conclusion that an attack was imminent, and said such arrests were commonplace.
The Paris prosecutor's office said computer equipment seized during the dawn arrests would be analysed.
The arrests come a day after French police officers, alongside Belgian officers, were involved in a raid on a house in Brussels, that ended in a shoot-out with at least two suspects.
One of the suspects was killed, and later identified as Algerian national Mohamed Belkaid. His body was found alongside Salafist (ultra-conservative Islamic) literature and Kalashnikov ammunition, prosecutors said.
Ernest Turner was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur for his part in the D-Day landings in a presentation in Ilkeston.
He said he was rather embarrassed by the ceremony and, if he was younger, would prefer to fight on the beaches.
A French representative said they owed their freedom to those involved.
The 90-year-old Derbyshire man said: "It was rather embarrassing really [with all the people there]. I would rather be in action if I'm honest. If I was younger [the beaches] wouldn't worry me."
Talking about his role in the D-Day landings, he said: "I was a gunner on 25 pounders - which was a very small field gun.
"I came as a re-enforcement, and when the 43rd [Wessex] Division arrived I was allocated to them and stayed with them until the end of the war."
Asked about his emotions at the time, he added: "I never thought of anything else, other than just doing what I had got to do."
A letter from the French Embassy informing Mr Turner that he was to receive the country's top honour said: "We must never forget those, like you, who came from Britain and the Commonwealth to begin the liberation of Europe by liberating France.
"We owe our freedom and security to your dedication."
The invasion of France in 1944 was a massive undertaking involving tens of thousands of troops and months of careful planning.
On 6 June Allied forces, carried on the largest armada ever seen, landed on five beaches in Normandy, many facing fierce resistance from the Nazi occupiers.
An estimated 4,413 Allied troops were killed in the operation but 11 months later Nazi Germany was defeated.
D-Day timeline: The beginning of the end of WW2
The club say it's "the largest profit since the foundation of the football club in 1909".
United - currently bottom of the Scottish Premiership - sold Ryan Gauld, Gary Mackay-Steven and Stuart Armstrong during the accounting period.
Net debt was reduced to £1.28m. Turnover was up 4% to £5.82m but there was an operating loss of £799,000.
Debt had stood at £7.3m in 2007 while the latest profit represents a £2.7m increase on the previous year.
"It is noted that the club continues to spend more than it generates in income," the club added.
"The operating loss for the year was £799k and only successful player trading can sustain such losses.
"Much work continues to be done on identifying and implementing reductions in operating expenses and the value of this work should be reflected in forthcoming results."
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That's after her party, the Conservatives, did worse than people expected in the general election.
Jeremy Corbyn made the speech after being voted the MP for Islington North in London.
Brandon Vandenburg was found guilty on five counts of aggravated rape and two counts of aggravated sexual battery.
Vandenburg, 23, was a student at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee.
He was first convicted last year alongside teammate Corey Batey, but the original verdict was thrown out when a juror was found to be a rape victim.
In a retrial, the jury took four hours to find Vandenberg guilty. He was also convicted on one count of unlawful photography.
Four former players were charged in the case but only two were accused of raping and sexually assaulting the woman.
Batey was convicted again in April. The two men now face a minimum of 15 years in prison.
The verdict comes amid controversy over a six-month sentence given to another college athlete, Brock Turner, for the sexual assault of an unconscious woman at Stanford University.
Vandenburg's lawyers argued that he was too drunk to be responsible for his actions. But CCTV footage showed the defendant carrying the victim into a hotel room along with several teammates.
The trial also featured graphic videos and photos that were taken by the players with their phones. Vandenburg's lawyers admitted in court that the images were "disturbing".
The victim, then a 21-year-old neuroscience student, testified that she had no memory of the event.
She said Vandenburg told her when she woke up that she had got drunk and sick and he had taken care of her.
Prosecutors suggested in court that she was under the influence of a date-rape drug.
Parallels have been drawn between the sentence in the Stanford case and the minimum sentence faced by Vandenburgg and Batey.
Dmitry Gorin, a Los Angeles criminal defence lawyer and former prosecutor specializing in sex crimes, told the Associated Press: "It does seem like an extreme disparity, but I would say this.
"With these sex crimes, the facts are very important, the details are very important, and the law punishes the conduct differently depending on what conduct can be proven.
"In the Stanford case, they did not prove rape."
Currently 35 part-time students are on six degree courses taught by 18 part-time tutors, all practicing artists.
The tutors said they had not been consulted over plans to withdraw the courses in their present form.
A university spokesman said it was conducting a wide-ranging review.
He said this is to "be able to face the challenges in the higher education sector in the years ahead".
"As part of that review the university is considering new ways of providing education for adults and fine arts programmes," he added.
Bangor University is "anxious to see these programmes continue" and in talks with the local tertiary college Grŵp Llandrillo Menai as they are "exploring ways of providing the courses".
Wanda Zyborksa, a tutor on the fine arts course, told BBC Radio Wales: "We hope they will reverse the decision."
Fourteen pupils from Portadown College, County Armagh, aged between 14 and 17, were assaulted on Sunday.
Five were treated in hospital but the school's principal said none of them was seriously injured.
Greater Manchester Police described the incident as a 'brutal' attack.
Insp Fahar Zaman said: "This was an unprovoked attack on some young people who were visiting our city.
"It is very disappointing that the memories they are left with will be of this brutal attack.
"We are working with the Trafford Centre to gather evidence and we are following some positive lines of enquiry to find those responsible."
He said said police were treating the matter "very seriously" and were appealing for witnesses to get in touch.
The students had travelled to the city as part of the school's annual trip to attend football matches in Manchester.
Craig, one of the pupils who witnessed the assaults, told the BBC that "at least 40" local youths attacked his school group as they left a shopping centre.
"We were just walking out of the Trafford Centre to go to the bus and a group of people from Manchester, who were all about the same age as us, came behind us and just started a fight basically.
"We were completely outnumbered and they just started a brawl."
He said one of the students from his school sustained a broken elbow in the attack and others were treated for concussion.
The pupils had just attended a football derby between Manchester United and Manchester City.
The principal of Portadown College, Simon Harper, said the teenagers who required hospital treatment were all discharged the same night and have since travelled home to Northern Ireland.
He said he had spoken to the teachers who had accompanied the students on the trip and was satisfied that emergency procedures had been followed.
The chair of the school's Board of Governors, Peter Aiken, said the attack was "traumatic" for the pupils.
"On Sunday evening, they were returning to their bus to go back to the hotel when they were set upon by a group of youths and unfortunately there were nine students on the receiving end of this incident.
"After the incident the police were involved, the students were taken to the police station.
"There were nine students, five needed hospital attention, they were subsequently released and allowed to join the rest of the school party."
Mr Aiken said school staff who were with the pupils "immediately contacted parents and college management and the college policy and procedure was put into play".
He added that the school authorities "honestly don't know at this stage" why the students were attacked and said they would be guided by the police in regard to a possible motive.
"I understand that Greater Manchester Police have been looking at CCTV and will be taking the investigation forward.
"Some of the children have been traumatised by the attack and I hope they will be able to get over this regrettable incident." | Hearts have turned down a second bid from Wigan Athletic for right-back Callum Paterson.
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More than 650 properties were flooded and over 28,000 left without power over Christmas, with Maidstone, Tonbridge and Yalding being the worst affected.
The document also calls for better overall communications and improved co-ordination between agencies.
The report is due to be discussed by the Conservative-run council's cabinet later.
The Blue Anchor Pub in St Mary's Platt, near Sevenoaks, was flooded and left without power.
Landlady Rose Gill said: "We were supposed to be having a special family Christmas because I was diagnosed with cancer in August...it could be my last Christmas.
"We did have them here, we sort of had a meal but no one enjoyed themselves because it was so cold.
"We were going across the road, cooking the meal over there and walking it back over here.
"It was like a trail of ants, backwards and forwards across the road."
Gavin Ritchie, from Yalding, and his family were rescued by a dinghy.
He said people needed information about when they should leave their homes.
"You have no idea and no one's telling us it's getting worse," he said.
"You're essentially left as a sitting duck with little or no time to actually save any possessions that you do have."
Mike Hill, cabinet member for community services, said: "Ten days or so it went on, and people were working unsustainably long hours.
"We'll at least look again at how we can bring in trained volunteers to supplement some of our work.
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"If I thought too hard about the actors who played this part before, I couldn't take the job," he told fans gathered at Comic-Con in San Diego.
But director Zack Snyder reassured the 42-year-old he was "perfect" casting.
"He's at the end of his rope. He's older; he's burned out... You're perfect for it" Snyder told the star.
Two-time Oscar winner Affleck follows in the footsteps of Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney and Christian Bale, as he steps into role of the masked vigilante - in a showdown with Henry Cavill's Superman.
Speaking at Comic-Con, where a new trailer for the film was shown, Affleck revealed an unexpected encounter with Bale - the previous incumbent of the Batman suit - in a store in LA.
"Before we started the movie I was getting my kid a Hallowe'en costume. My son is really into Batman," Affleck explained.
"We went to a costume store in Los Angeles... it was pretty empty. And I was in the aisle and I heard this 'Oi!', and I turned around, and it's Christian Bale!
"And there he and I were, standing in the Batman section."
"I said, 'Do you have any tips?'," Affleck recalled. "'And he said: 'Make sure you can piss in that suit.'"
Bale was also in the costume shop to buy his son a Batman suit, Affleck added: "He doesn't just hang out [in the Batman aisle]".
The film, a sequel to Snyder's 2013 film Man of Steel, also stars Jeremy Irons as Bruce Wayne's butler Alfred, and introduces Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman.
British actor Irons said he wanted to recognise, but move away from, previous interpretations of his role.
"Michael Caine was pretty amazing as Alfred, so I had big shoes to sit in. But he's a little different my Alfred, so I think there are surprises in store."
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Gadot - a star of the Furious franchise - spoke about how honoured she felt about playing Wonder Woman, immortalised on screen by Lynda Carter in the 1970s TV series.
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Zdenek Makar, 31, from the Czech Republic, died near All Saints DLR station in Poplar on Wednesday night.
The Met said it was believed he had been followed and attacked after an altercation inside Perfect Fried Chicken in East India Dock Road.
Two men, aged 19 and 29, have also been arrested on suspicion of murder.
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Fisher, who has represented England at Saxons level, joined Saints in 2014 and made 25 appearances for the club.
Fisher previously played for London Irish but missed most of the 2013-14 campaign with a serious injury..
"Jon is an experienced Premiership performer and has the right characteristics to fit in well," director of rugby Andy Robinson said.
"He's a young man whose versatility provides us with plenty of options. Jon is highly regarded by those who have coached him and we're looking forward to welcoming him to Bristol."
Fisher added: "I'm pleased to be joining Bristol at such an exciting time for the club."
Bristol returned to the top flight for the first time since 2009 with a 60-47 aggregate victory over Doncaster in May's Championship play-off final.
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She incorrectly replaced a marked ball in Saturday's third round - a TV viewer spotted the offence and told officials.
Thompson was leading the ANA Inspiration by two shots when told of the penalty after her 12th hole.
She birdied the 18th to force a play-off which Ryu won at the first hole.
Thompson, 22, had missed a 20-foot eagle putt on the last that would have given her a sensational victory at Mission Hills in California.
Thompson appeared to put a marker at the side of her ball on the 17th green before lifting it and replacing in front of the marker prior to a putt of less than two feet.
The LPGA said she "breached Rule 20-7c (Playing From Wrong Place), and received a two-stroke penalty. She incurred an additional two-stroke penalty under Rule 6-6d for returning an incorrect scorecard in round three."
Her five-under-par third-round 67 was changed to a 71.
"Is this a joke?" Thompson said after being informed by a rules official, before making birdies on three of the last six holes to force the play-off.
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"It is unfortunate with what happened, I did not mean that at all, I had no idea that I did it," Thompson later told the Golf Channel.
"I had to regroup myself, my caddie helped me out tremendously, we have a great relationship. I tried to gather myself and I made a great putt at 13.
"But it's all to the fans, they helped me get through the rest of the round and I thank them a lot.
"I learned a lot about myself and how much I have in me. I wasn't expecting what happened today to happen and I will learn from it."
South Korean Ryu was the beneficiary as she claimed a second major title after making a four in the play-off, but admitted her win did not feel right.
"I cannot believe the situation. I didn't even check the leaderboard, Lexi was playing so well. I didn't expect it," she said.
"It hurts me as well, it is a weird feeling but at the same time I am proud of myself."
The LPGA said in a statement: "On Sunday afternoon, the LPGA received an email from a television viewer that Lexi Thompson did not properly replace her ball prior to putting out on the 17th hole during Saturday's third round of the ANA Inspiration.
"She was immediately notified of the breach by LPGA Rules Committee in between holes 12 and 13 of the final round."
And LPGA Tour rules official Sue Witters, who had to break the news to a stunned Thompson, said she understood the outrage of fans but insisted no other option was available.
"What's my choice?" she said. "A violation in the rules and then it would be the opposite story: Oh, they knew, why didn't they do anything about it.
"I can't go to bed tonight knowing that I let a rule slide. You know, it's a hard thing to do, and it made me sick to be honest with you."
However, Bernard Gallacher, former captain of the Europe Ryder Cup team, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme "the LPGA had the power to dismiss that person (the TV viewer), they should have completely ignored it".
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Thompson was two shots clear of playing partner Suzann Pettersen on 16 under following the 12th hole - and was charging towards her second major championship.
She immediately dropped from 16 under to 12 under following the penalty ruling, but recovered from her tears on the 13th tee, to hole a 20ft birdie putt to move back into a share of the lead after Pettersen, bogeyed the hole.
Thompson continued to battle back and made birdie at the 15th to take a one-stroke lead with three-holes to play.
But she bogeyed the 16th as Ryu took the clubhouse lead at four under, with a birdie on 18 to card a bogey-free four-under-par 68.
Thompson arrived at the 18th hole one-stroke behind Ryu, needing eagle to win but her putt stopped inches from the hole and she tapped in for a 67.
Ryu then birdied the first play-off hole, the 18th, to complete her second major victory.
Norway's Pettersen signed for a 70 to finish in a three-way tie for third with Australia's Minjee Lee and Inbee Park of South Korea, who both shot three-under 69s.
American Michelle Wie also carded a 69 to finish sixth on 11 under, while New Zealand's world number one Lydia Ko was tied 11th on seven under.
England's Charley Hull closed with a level-par 72 for five under and compatriot Mel Reed's four-over 76 saw her finish on six over.
Golf is no stranger to controversy surrounding its rules.
At the 2016 US Open, eventual winner Dustin Johnson was forced to play his last seven holes knowing he had to review a possible rules infringement after the round.
Standing over his ball on the fifth green, Johnson made two practice putts. But as he prepared to address the ball to take his putt, it moved slightly.
The American was handed a one-shot penalty for making his ball move, despite being initially absolved of wrongdoing.
But unlike Thompson, he went on to claim his first major finishing three shots ahead of the field.
And Johnson also fell foul of the rules in 2010 when he missed out on a US PGA Championship play-off as a result of a violation.
Leading by one, Johnson was docked two shots for grounding his club in sand on the 18th hole. He thought it was wasteland but it was deemed to be a bunker.
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Her career has spanned more than 40 years and her music is a fusion of rhythms of the Chope people of Southern Mozambique and various African sounds.
She has collaborated with major African musicians, including Angelique Kidjo and Hugh Masekela.
Mozambique has just been celebrating 40 years of independence, and when BBC Africa's Sophie Ikenye met her, she started by asking her if the country today is what she imagined it would be.
Flight TOM6248, which was bound for Tenerife, struck a seagull shortly after taking off at 08:21 GMT.
Passengers described a loud thud from the left engine and the plane vibrating.
A Thomson Airways spokeswoman said: "We would like to reassure customers that issues of this nature are very rare."
The passengers were taken off the plane and put on a replacement flight to Tenerife which departed shortly before 13:00.
Passenger Eric Jackson said: "There was a loud thud and noticeable vibrations. They decided there would be more engineers and help available at Gatwick so we diverted.
"Everybody was pretty calm. People were more worried when we landed at Gatwick because it was a full-on emergency landing - they chased us down the runway with 12 fire engines so that was a little bit nerve-wracking.
"The pilot came on with the remnants of the bird and showed it to us. There wasn't an awful lot left of it. It had shattered three of the blades so the engine was irreparable."
State-owned CalMac had competed with private firm Serco Caledonian Ferries Limited for the Scottish government contract to run the services.
CalMac already operates the routes on the west coast of Scotland, which include the inner and outer Hebrides.
It was named the successful bidder of the new contract in May.
The contract, which was awarded by the Scottish government's Transport Scotland, covers an eight-year period from 1 October.
The deal includes a separate contract which sees CalMac taking responsibility for ferry operations at 24 ports on behalf of Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd (CMAL).
CalMac managing director Martin Dorchester said: "Now that the contracts have been signed we can start to share information with staff and customers about our ambitious plans to transform the experience of ferry travellers during the lifetime of the contract."
Nearly 2,000 new houses are needed over the next five years for homeless people in the Derry City and Strabane District Council areas.
The Executive aims to build 1,255 by 2019, but this will not meet the housing needs for Londonderry alone.
1,200 households are accepted as being homeless in the council area but 700 have been turned down.
The figures were revealed at a Derry City and Strabane District Council meeting held on Tuesday.
One homeless single mother told BBC Radio Foyle that she was private renting until it became too expensive.
The woman, who did not want to be named, is now living with her sister-in-law's family.
"Its hard because times you feel you're in someone else's house, you don't feel comfortable," she said.
"You feel you are just in their way and that you are a burden. It's a nightmare, I'm constantly sick with worry and I can't sleep at night.
"The anxiety it causes is just ridiculous, I am depressed and its all to do with my living arrangement," she added.
When you apply for housing in Northern Ireland, a housing officer will award points based on your personal, housing and social circumstances.
The more points you have, the better your chance of getting an offer.
Independent councillor Darren O'Reilly said there is a serious housing crisis in Londonderry.
"That's a normal case," said Mr O'Reilly. "Four or five times a day I would be in the Housing Executive and you are dealing with a lot of stress.
"A lot of that stress is brought on by the living arrangements. People who were normally well and healthy before they went into this process.
"I think we need to look at this in a wider approach and see how much negative mental health is being caused by housing stress," he said.
The situation is the same, if not worse, in Strabane, according to Independent councillor Patsy Kelly.
"I did ask why the figures were not broken down for Derry and Strabane but they couldn't do that.
"Seeing the amount of new homes being built on the Skeoge road or Creggan in Derry, there is nothing like that here.
"We haven't had social housing built in Strabane in years and there is huge demand," said Mr Kelly.
They are asking President Dilma Rousseff to veto the bill, which has been approved by Brazil's Congress.
The bill proposes sharing oil revenues more evenly between oil-producing states like Rio and other states.
Local politicians are fiercely opposed to the move, saying it could cost the state $1.7bn (£1.06bn) next year.
They say that the changes would affect Rio's ability to host the 2014 football World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.
The bill would lower the level of royalties collected by oil-producing states from 26% to 20%.
The BBC's Julia Carneiro reports from Rio that state authorities released employees from work and invited musicians and celebrities in order to entice people to attend the demonstration.
The protest ended up looking more like a big street party, with people dancing and drinking, she says.
Police said about 200,000 people took part.
"We cannot redistribute the royalties with other states," Isabel Johnson, a 24-year-old nurse, told the AFP news agency.
"It is our heritage and our chance to climb on the international stage," she said.
Brazil is expected to be able to produce tens of billions of barrels of crude oil over the coming decades from discoveries of offshore deposits of oil made in recent years.
Ms Rousseff has until Friday to approve or reject the bill.
State governor Sergio Cabral and Rio's mayor Eduardo Paes were among those on the march.
In recent days, state officials have put up banners around the city addressed to Ms Rousseff, bearing the words "Veto, Dilma".
Many of the protesters had been bussed in from other parts of the state.
Three-year-old Sandy Davidson went missing from his grandmother's garden in Irvine on 23 April 1976.
It is believed he went to look for the family dog which had escaped through an open gate, but he never returned.
Police Scotland have issued a computer-generated image showing how Sandy might look if he is alive.
Sandy had been playing in the garden in St Kilda Street in the Bourtreehill area of Irvine with his younger sister Donna when he went to look for the family pet.
Police were alerted immediately of his disappearance but despite an extensive search by the police and members of the community, as well as a high profile media campaign, there was no trace of him.
There have been no positive sightings of him since 1976.
Det Supt David Halliday, who is the senior investigating officer, said: "It's hard to imagine the distress and sadness Sandy's family have endured over the last 40 years, not knowing what has happened to their beloved son and brother, who was only a toddler when he went missing.
"Despite the passage of time, this missing person investigation remains open and I'd like to take this opportunity on the anniversary of Sandy's disappearance to ask people to cast their minds back to Friday 23rd April 1976.
"Did you live in Bourtreehill in Irvine, specifically around the area where Sandy was last seen in St Kilda Street?
"Friday April 23rd 1976 was a relatively warm day as Sandy played outside with his sister Donna. The community of Bourtreehill was tight-knit and mostly everyone knew their neighbour.
"Did you see Sandy when he left his grandmother's garden? He was quite a distinctive-looking child with light blonde hair and blue eyes."
Over the years, his sister Donna has led various campaigns to ensure the public are aware of Sandy's disappearance and police have worked closely with the charity Missing People.
Jo Youle, chief executive of Missing People, said: "To spend any length of time with a loved one missing is heartbreaking for a family desperate for news.
"Sandy's family have had to endure an unimaginable 40 years since Sandy disappeared.
"Everyone at the charity joins Police Scotland and the rest of the public in the hope that this new appeal will finally end the limbo that Sandy's family has been living in since the day he disappeared."
Among Bauleni's 15,000 residents little stirs on streets full of normally active welders, mechanics and tyre menders during business hours, as workers wait for power to return.
Elsewhere across the Zambian capital of 1.4 million, and throughout this hydroelectric-dependent country, businesses are suffering after an erratic rainy season from last October to March this year left reservoir water levels too low, resulting in load shedding - or planned power-cuts - lasting eight to 14 hours a day.
Not everyone, however, accepts the government's blaming of rains for the energy crisis that began shortly afterwards, but has worsened since August. Everyone agrees on the outcome, though.
"It is a hell of a problem," Mr Mwanza says. "The power went at 10 this morning and now we just have to wait. Normally it takes me three weeks to finish a wardrobe but this one has taken two months."
Zambia had one of Africa's fastest growing economies - expanding on average 7% annually over the past five years - driven by mining of its huge copper and cobalt reserves.
Then global prices for minerals dropped, coinciding with low rainfall and power cuts, and now Zambia's local currency, the kwacha, is tumbling against the US dollar.
This triple whammy has hit everyone from multi-national mining firm Glencore, to mid-size local manufacturers, right down to Bauleni's welders.
"If power comes on at night you do not feel like working, then when you wake up there is no power," says Jabulani Keswa, pointing to an unfinished metal window frame. "The owner wanted this yesterday."
"If food defrosts we have to throw it away, so we must use a generator, which is expensive," says Bismark Musheke, 22, in a Bauleni butcher's.
Many businesses cannot absorb such unplanned costs. A decent-sized generator for a modern office in Lusaka with 20 workers costs up to $14,000 (£9,000) - the cost has risen due to a weakened kwacha - while needing constant supplies of imported petrol or diesel, again subject to foreign exchange volatility.
Power cuts typically add 40% to businesses' costs in emerging economies, the World Bank estimates.
As costs of doing business increase, output decreases and firms become less profitable - reducing the government's tax take - says one foreign business advisor in Lusaka.
"There is less money to invest in infrastructure, development and debt repayment - it is a vicious cycle."
For now, 59-year-old taxi driver Grivin Phiri has not let power cuts reduce output from his small side business run in his neighbourhood of Tenderer East, a larger Lusaka township.
"I do not care what time it is - if there is power I will make peanut butter," Mr Phiri says beside the machine in his kitchen producing about 50 jars of peanut butter each week.
Mr Phiri says he remembers when rains used to arrive like clockwork each year on 24 October, but "now there is global warming."
"The leadership should have prepared for this a long time ago," says Evans Chisokwe, a Bauleni farmer. "Children cannot study at night."
More than half Zambia's hydroelectric power usually comes from the Kariba Dam - which has the world's largest man-made reservoir - in the Zambezi river basin between Zambia and Zimbabwe.
"On the news we are told it is because water is low at Kariba Dam - that is the only thing we hear," 33-year-old bar manager Elise Matafwali says of the power crisis.
Many say is not the first time Zambia has experienced the capriciousness of Mother Nature and the global commodity market.
"Zambia's - and sub-Saharan Africa's - energy crisis is caused by a lack of planning, a lack of investment as a result of low tariffs and prevarication by politicians, and poor management of the resource," says Mark Pearson, a Lusaka-based independent regional integration consultant.
"We have known there would be an energy shortage for years and have allowed this situation to develop."
This leads some to argue it is time the government-controlled Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation (ZESCO) was overhauled, with proper business leaders replacing government-chosen appointees whose mismanagement and lack of contingency planning has resulted in Zambia's worst electricity crisis.
"Even if the rains come it will take time for water levels to rise enough," says one ZESCO office manager.
"There is talk of full capacity returning by March; perhaps that is people being cautious and it may be earlier."
"Zambia sums up why business in Africa is a different ball game," says Niels Bojsen, a Danish partner with Kukula Capital, a Lusaka-based investment company.
"Very few economies are in the world's top 10 fasting-growing, and then suddenly are one of the countries with the largest currency devaluation."
The main difference, Mr Bojsen says, is when problems hit Europe they appear more controllable. Whereas in Zambia, the fallout means severe power shortages and no one is sure when they will end.
The next two to four years will be rough for Zambia's economy but it will recover due to richness in natural resources and great potential for agri-businesses and fish farming, he says, while noting Zambia could emerge stronger if the right lessons are learned and infrastructure established.
And Mr Bojsen is not alone in highlighting the advantages for business in Zambia compared with others in the region: peace and security, rule of law, political stability, lack of racial tension, a friendly population and a good climate.
Once power returns to Bauleni there is a rush to communal taps - with four local pumping stations starting again - workshops come alive, sparks fly from Mr Keswa's blowtorch, and service picks up in Tiger Woods bar.
"Customers do not like warm beer," says bartender Patrick Mbewe, reaching into a now humming, cooling fridge.
It is the second suicide attack in northern Nigeria in less than a week.
On Saturday, at least nine people were killed in Yobe state when a woman blew herself up at a bus station.
Although no-one has yet claimed responsibility, the militant group Boko Haram is suspected to be behind the attack.
The bomb went off at about 12:15 GMT in the village of Garkida in Adamawa state.
The BBC's Abdullahi Kaura Abubakar in Abuja said locals at the entrance to the market were suspicious before the blast and tried to prevent the bomber going in when he detonated explosives strapped to his body.
The attacks come as the Islamist insurgents are under increased pressure from the Nigerian military, our correspondent adds.
Officials say most of the militants camps in the vast Sambisa forest have been destroyed and many of the jihadists killed while some are on the run.
But observers believe many of the fighters are still alive and capable of regrouping and rearming to continue their attacks.
In January at least 19 people were killed and several injured by a bomb strapped to a girl reported to be aged about 10 in north-eastern Nigeria.
Flights, trains and ferries into and out of France are all running a normal service, but have warned passengers to allow extra time for border controls.
French financial markets will also open as usual on Monday, stock exchange operator Euronext has confirmed.
However, some major tourist attractions, including the Eiffel Tower and Disneyland Paris, remain closed.
The Eiffel Tower is closed until further notice, as a security precaution, while Disneyland Paris is expected to reopen on Wednesday.
The theme park said the decision had been taken "in support of our community and the victims of these horrendous attacks".
Department store Galeries Lafayette briefly opened its three stores in the capital on Saturday to show "its will to resist in the face of terror", but later closed them, saying it was difficult to provide a good service for customers.
However, it plans to reopen them as normal on Monday.
Smaller businesses have also continued to operate.
Mihaela Iordache, who manages the 10 Belles coffee shop, just around the corner from the attacks in the 11th arrondissement, said she planned to donate all of Sunday's profit to the Red Cross for the work it does with immigrants.
She said Saturday was very quiet, but people "went crazy" at home and had come out on Sunday. "They're queuing out on to the street from the cafe", she told the BBC.
The Euro 2016 football finals in France are expected to go ahead as planned next summer.
The tournament final is due to be held on 10 July at the Stade de France, outside where three suicide bombs were detonated on Friday.
Cancelling the finals would be "playing the game of the terrorists", tournament organiser Jacques Lambert told French radio station RTL.
Despite initial appearances, some have warned that both tourist and business visits to Paris will inevitably suffer in the aftermath of the attacks.
"Companies have to continue to do business, but for some period of time they'll give employees a lot of leeway about travelling to Europe and Paris in particular," said Kevin Mitchell, who runs US advocacy group the Business Travel Coalition.
Tourist visits to Paris had already been affected by three days of attacks in early January, when Islamist gunmen murdered 18 people after attacking satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a Jewish supermarket and a policewoman on patrol.
The Paris tourist office said the number of hotel stays had fallen 3.3% in the first three months of the year as a result.
Topping the hit list were the television networks that have hosted the last three presidential debates and the Republican National Committee, which set up the terms of the events.
The consensus following last week's much-criticised debate hosted by CNBC was that the tone of the questioning was too derisive and the amount of time given to the candidates was too uneven.
Although CNBC was seen as an egregious offender, the anger over the structure of the debates has been an ongoing issue for the campaigns that at last reached critical mass.
So representatives of every campaign except Carly Fiorina's sat down around a conference table in a nondescript Washington-area hotel room purportedly to wrest power out of the hands of the RNC - voice of the often derided party establishment - and the hated liberal media.
The end result, however, was less a Hollywood-style gangland war than a Sunday evening slap-fight.
At the heart of the problem is that while the campaigns are unified in their dissatisfaction with the process, no one can agree on exactly what needs to be fixed.
Candidates who have been consigned to the early "undercard" debate - like South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal - demanded a place on the big stage.
Ben Carson's people supported this expansion, while Donald Trump's men want fewer candidates.
"Why do I want to let someone who's polling at 0.1% on that stage so he can take shots at Trump?" Mr Trump's campaign manager reportedly said during the meeting.
Jeb Bush's team asked that NBC-owned Spanish-language network Telemundo be reinstated as co-host of the February debate in Houston, airing concerns that the party was alienating Latino voters. Trump's campaign was adamantly opposed and threatened to boycott.
"Some candidates want more time per candidate, more candidates on stage and shorter debates," quips Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell via Twitter. "They wonder why moderators question their math skills."
In the end, the list of demands leaked from the meeting - as first covered by the Washington Post - was less an offer that can't be refused than offer that can't be too serious.
All that was missing, it seemed, were demands for fruit bowls and fresh-cut flowers for each candidate backstage.
And in case there's any doubt who the real capo dei capi of the conservative movement is, the list of demands - offered along with a questionnaire for media bosses - did not apply to the host of next week's debate, Fox News's business channel.
According to one source at the meeting quoted by the Washington Post, the campaigns didn't want to cross the media giant and provoke the anger of news department head, Roger Ailes.
"Questions were more hostile, less substantive" at the Fox News debate in August, tweets Vox's Ezra Klein. "But they were aimed at Trump, so Republicans didn't care."
As the various campaign representatives scattered across the nation after Sunday night's meeting, there were promises of more specific instructions for debate hosts - and Republican Party officials - to come. Candidates may request time for opening and closing statements and control over how they are identified in on-screen graphics. (Mr Bush's campaign had been irked that he was labelled a banker by CNBC and not as a former Florida governor.)
The RNC even engaged in some pre-emptive bloodletting, shuffling the staffers in charge of handling future debate negotiations.
On Monday the Washington Post reported that the group efforts made on Sunday night may all be for naught, as Mr Trump's team signalled they weren't going to sign on to the draft letter and will negotiate directly with the debate networks on their own.
For all the talk of a post-debate Rubio surge, it's clear the centre of gravity in the Republican race for the White House still firmly rests in a top-floor suite of Manhattan's Trump Tower .
There will only be one way to settle the Republican Party's "family business", and that's at the ballot box next year.
Candidates in (and out of) the Republican presidential field
Many more were injured in the attacks. The toll does not include three bombers who died.
Twin blasts struck the main terminal of Zaventem international airport, in the north-east of the city.
Another explosion hit the Maelbeek metro station in the city centre, close to several European Union institutions.
The so-called Islamic State group said it was behind the attacks.
The bombers have been named as follows:
From Paris to Brussels: Why the attacks are linked
Two explosions, moments apart, tore through the check-in area of Zaventem airport at 07:58 local time (06:58 GMT).
One eyewitness reported hearing shouts in Arabic just before the explosions.
Officials said the bombs were detonated just seconds apart at opposite ends of the departures hall. Witnesses said people ran from the site of the first blast, only to be caught in the second, near the main entrance.
Video: What eyewitnesses saw
Just over an hour later, a further blast happened at the Maelbeek metro station in the city centre, close to several EU institutions.
A three-carriage train was just leaving the station in the direction of Arts-Loi, the next stop a short distance away, when the blast happened, according to Brussels transport operator STIB.
The bomb was apparently detonated in the middle carriage, which was running along the platform at the time. The driver immediately halted the train and evacuated the carriages.
Thirty-two people died in the three explosions or later from their injuries, in addition to the three bombers.
All have been identified, the Crisis Centre said in an update (in French) on 29 March. Sixteen of them died in the airport attack, and 16 others at Maelbeek.
Seventeen of the dead were Belgians, and the rest were foreign nationals, the centre said.
In total, 340 people were injured in both attacks, and 57 victims remained in Belgian hospitals on 7 April, according to another update.
"What we feared, has happened," Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel told a news conference.
"We realise we face a tragic moment. We have to be calm and show solidarity."
Victims of the Brussels attacks
In pictures: Brussels blasts
Police have conducted several raids across Brussels since the attacks.
Most recently, on 8 April, Belgian media reported that Mohamed Abrini, the key remaining suspect in November's Paris terror attacks, had been arrested.
Sources cited in reports said Abrini was also likely to be the "man in the hat" seen on CCTV before the blasts in the Brussels airport departure hall on 22 March.
Prosecutors confirmed that several arrests had been made in connection with the Brussels attacks, but did not give further details.
In the aftermath of the attacks, police were approached by a taxi driver who said he had driven three men with big bags to the airport on the morning of the attacks.
Local media reported that the driver had refused to take one of men's large bags because there was not enough room in the vehicle.
Police later found a large nail bomb at the address the taxi driver gave them, along with 15kg of TATP high explosive, chemicals, detonators, bomb-making materials and an Islamic State flag.
TATP, or triacetone triperoxide, was the explosive used by the suicide bombers in Paris. It is produced by combining chemicals sold in pharmacies and hardware stores.
Also found at the address was a note written by Ibrahim el-Bakraoui that read: "I don't know what to do, I am in a hurry, I am on the run, people are looking for me everywhere and if I give myself up I will end up in a cell."
Why has Belgium's capital been attacked?
From Paris to Brussels: Why the attacks are linked
Twelve people were arrested in raids across Belgium, France and Germany on 24 and 25 March. Some have been charged.
They include:
The 'scumbag's lawyer' acting for Salah Abdeslam
Salah Abdeslam's luck runs out
Belgium raised its terror threat to its highest level following the attacks.
The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) says in its travel advice that visitors should "remain vigilant, stay away from crowded places and follow the instructions of the Belgian authorities".
UK Foreign Office warns against travel to Brussels
Crisis information
Brussels Zaventem airport closed after the attacks, with all flights diverted elsewhere or cancelled.
Flights began resuming on 3 April, and the airport advises all passengers to arrive at the airport three hours before their departure time.
The whole metro system was shut after the attacks but was later reopened with a few restrictions.
Airport security under the spotlight again
Security measures have been stepped up in western European countries following the attacks.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said an extra 1,600 police officers were deployed to train stations, airports and border crossings. France has been on alert since 130 people were killed in attacks in Paris last November.
British airports and transport hubs also increased security as a precaution. The UK's official terrorist threat level remains unchanged at "severe," the second-highest level on a five-point scale, meaning an attack is highly likely.
German authorities stepped up security measures at airports, train stations and the borders with Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, a spokesman for the federal police said.
The rally follows months of allegations that he has abused his power.
Covert recordings released by the opposition appear to show ministers plotting vote-rigging and the covering-up of a murder.
Last week two ministers and the head of the intelligence service resigned.
Opposition leaders said intelligence chief Saso Mijalkov and Interior Minister Gordana Jankulovska were behind attempts to control the press, judiciary and electoral officials by tapping their phones.
However, the government denies the allegations and insists the opposition is trying to destabilise the country for its own benefit. It is organising a counter-demonstration on Monday.
The political instability comes as the country wrestles with the aftermath of clashes last weekend between ethnic Albanians and police.
Fourteen ethnic Albanians and eight police officers were killed in fighting that followed a police raid on an ethnic Albanian neighbourhood in the northern town of Kumanovo.
Ethnic Albanians make up one quarter of Macedonia's 2.1 million population.
The Oval Office tapes finished off US President Richard Nixon. Now the Macedonian equivalent is threatening to do the same to Nikola Gruevski. Covert recordings apparently show ministers plotting everything from vote-rigging and media manipulation to covering up a murder by a police officer.
The opposition leader Zoran Zaev says the prime minister has to go. The rally may show how many Macedonians agree. But the protest movement had been running separately from the political parties, and some have said they are not happy about Mr Zaev's involvement.
The demonstration will also be a challenge to the professionalism of the authorities. Western diplomats have urged the police to show restraint - and the government to launch a credible investigation into all the allegations.
Power struggle in Macedonia
Opposition leader Zoran Zaev has been releasing a steady stream of recordings since February.
His party accuses the government of wiretapping 20,000 people, including politicians, journalists and religious leaders.
He says that scores of leaked recordings reveal corruption at the highest levels of government, including the mismanagement of funds, dubious criminal prosecutions of opponents and even cover-ups of killings.
He argues that the abuse of power allegations are so serious that the prime minister has to resign and call new elections.
Opposition parties have boycotted parliament since accusing the governing coalition of fraud in the April 2014 election.
But Mr Gruevski, who has won successive elections since 2006, has repeatedly rejected the allegations.
He has accused Mr Zaev of orchestrating a coup at the behest of unnamed foreign spy agencies who want to overthrow his conservative government.
More than 200 people were injured, some seriously, a police spokesman said.
The crash happened during the morning rush hour as hundreds of commuters were waiting at the station in Flores, a Buenos Aires suburb.
Officials are investigating reports the bus driver, who is among the dead, failed to heed a stop signal.
Fire chief Omar Bravo said the collision was "one of the worst and saddest accidents of recent years" in Argentina.
Many rail lines go through residential areas of Buenos Aires, and it is not unusual to see drivers or pedestrians ignoring the warning signs of an oncoming train, says the BBC's Vladimir Hernandez in Buenos Aires.
The accident happened at about 06:00 local time (09:00 GMT) on the Sarmiento line, which connects the centre of Buenos Aires with the western suburbs.
The impact smashed the bus into the train station where it was crushed against a platform by the locomotive.
The front of the train was derailed and hit another train that was leaving the station in the opposite direction.
Transport Secretary Juan Pablo Schiavi said most of the fatalities had been on board the bus. He also said children were among the injured as many parents use public transport to take them to school.
Mr Bravo said those rescued included a two-year-old child who was found under the platform.
Nine people died at the scene and two others in hospital, officials said. About 20 of the injured are said to be in a critical condition.
Officials are investigating reports that the bus driver did not stop and went through lowered barriers in an attempt to cross the railway line.
Train company spokesman Gustavo Gago said it believed the bus had "crossed on to the level-crossing when the barriers were low, but we await the results of the investigation to see if this is what happened".
A total of 100 ambulances and 10 fire engines were sent to the scene. Some of the injured were taken to local hospitals, some by helicopter.
According to the Argentine newspaper Clarin, firefighters took two hours to remove one of the train drivers who was trapped in the wreckage.
Going into the final days of campaigning, Ljubisa Preletacevic is vying with well-established political players in the race to become Serbia's next president.
They include a former president of the United Nations General Assembly, Vuk Jeremic; the ultranationalist leader of the Serbian Radical Party, Vojislav Seselj; and a former minister of the economy, Sasa Radulovic.
Preletacevic has been consistently out-polling all of them. Not bad for a man who does not actually exist.
For all the considerable publicity about his presidential bid, it would take an upset of unprecedented scale for him to prevent Aleksandar Vucic from becoming head of state.
The incumbent prime minister looks a reasonable bet to pass the 50% threshold and win in the first round. But the man on the white horse is an irresistible story.
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The creator of Ljubisa Preletacevic is a 25-year-old student, Luka Maksimovic. He came up with the character for last year's local elections in Mladenovac, a suburb of Serbia's capital, Belgrade.
The student and his friends were as stunned as everyone else when Preletacevic led a coalition (known as "Hit It Hard" or "Keep It Strong", depending on the translator) to 20% of the vote.
The character was supposed to be a joke - a parody of an opportunist politician. The name Preletacevic is a pun: prelatac is a word used to describe a political figure who switches parties for political gain.
The ever-present white suit and his nickname, "Beli" (white), also cock a snook at politicians who promise probity on the campaign trail, but head straight for the trough once elected.
In contrast, Preletacevic and his cohorts brazenly commit to making false promises. One particularly eyebrow-raising proposal was a plan to open a euthanasia department for pensioners in a local hospital, to cut down on the cost of care for the elderly.
The parody struck such a chord that Preletacevic's SPN party, which stands roughly for "Have You tasted the sauerkraut?" has become the biggest opposition grouping on Mladenovac council, with 12 seats.
His appeal appears to be spreading nationwide, to the considerable chagrin of economic reformers and ultranationalists alike.
His alter-ego, Luka Maksimovic, has responded with grim satisfaction to double-digit poll ratings, accusing Serbian politicians of being "dirty and corrupt" and declaring that it is time "at least to try to do something to change that".
Whether a comedy candidate with little-to-nothing in the way of serious policies can promote a meaningful analysis of the shortcomings of Serbian politics is another question.
Veteran political analyst Bosko Jaksic has mixed feelings.
"He does have two effects. He can encourage young voters who don't want to go to the polls. So he can, with his satire, mobilise them.
"But the second effect is that he is counting on those who are dissatisfied."
It is not favourite Aleksandar Vucic who is losing votes, he believes, but his most serious challengers, ex-ombudsman Sasa Jankovic and former foreign minister Vuk Jeremic.
"This is a serious moment and it's not time for games and humour," he warns.
Aleksandar Vucic will, in all probability, complete a smooth transition from the prime minister's office to the presidency. And the power base in Serbia will go with him.
But perhaps, as well as raising laughs, Ljubisa Preletacevic will raise awareness that Serbian politics has problems that need serious consideration.
But a reliance on tourism makes the nation vulnerable to downturns in the world market.
Antigua has tangled with the United States over its online gambling industry, which at its height employed more than 4,000 people and was a major contributor to the economy. But it shrunk drastically because of US restrictions, the Antiguan government says.
The Bird family has dominated the country's politics since its independence in 1981 until 1994. Underlying this stability was a succession of scandals, including allegations of corruption. The Bird family was also accused of abuse of authority.
In 2009, the country's economy was rocked by news that its single biggest investor, Texan billionaire Allen Stanford, had been charged with massive fraud by the US authorities.
Population 90,800
Area 442 sq km (170 sq miles)
Major language English
Major religion Christianity
Currency East Caribbean dollar
Head of state: Queen Elizabeth II, represented by a governor-general
Prime minister: Gaston Browne
Gaston Browne took over as prime minister when his Labour Party won the general elections in June 2014 after defeating the ruling United Progressive Party (UPP).
Browne has served as a senior bank manager with the Swiss American Banking Group.
Mr Browne pledged to transform the financially crippled twin island nation into an "economic powerhouse" by attracting investment.
His vision is to transform Antigua and Barbuda into "a globally competitive, premier tourism and financial services economy, producing well-paying jobs and a higher standard of living for the people".
The media sector as a whole offers diverse views, including criticism of the government. A number of private outlets, however, are aligned with political parties and display a partisan bias, says Freedom House.
Physical attacks and harassment directed at journalists occur occasionally in the country, according to Freedom House.
Some key dates in the history of Antigua and Barbuda:
1493 - Christopher Columbus visits Antigua and names it after the Church of Santa Maria de la Antigua in Seville, Spain.
1632 - Antigua colonised by English settlers from St Kitts.
1967 - Antigua and Barbuda becomes a self-governing state within the British Commonwealth, with Britain retaining control of defence and foreign affairs.
1976 - Antigua Labour Party (ALP), led by Vere Bird, returns to power after winning the general election.
1981 - Antigua and Barbuda becomes independent.
1990 - Prime Minister Vere Bird's son, Vere Jr, removed from public office in the wake of allegations of gun-running.
1993 - Vere Bird resigns as prime minister and is replaced by his son, Lester.
2008 July - Tourism industry rocked by shooting of British honeymoon couple in holiday cottage.
2009 - Antigua's single biggest private investor, Sir Allen Stanford, is charged with massive investment fraud by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
2013 - Antigua wins World Trade Organization permission to suspend American copyrights and patents, in a possible retaliatory response to US restrictions on the island's online gambling industry.
The Shrews avoided the nine-goal defeat that could have sent them down, with Port Vale's draw at Fleetwood meaning it was the Valiants who occupied the final relegation place.
Two goals in a minute early in the game put the U's in charge.
Centre-half Curtis Nelson ran through on goal from Rob Hall's backheel to hammer past goalkeeper Jayson Leutwiler in the 16th minute to open the scoring.
And in the home team's next attack, Hall turned in Chris Maguire's cross from the left to make it 2-0.
The goals came despite Oxford losing both full-backs, Joe Skarz and Christian Ribeiro, to injuries in the first 13 minutes.
Bryn Morris headed wide from a good position as the Shrews tried to respond, and at the start of the second half both Abu Ogogu and Stefan Payne went close.
Kane Hemmings should have made it three as he beat two defenders in a run through on goal only to screw his shot wide from seven yards.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Oxford United 2, Shrewsbury Town 0.
Second Half ends, Oxford United 2, Shrewsbury Town 0.
Attempt blocked. Alex Rodman (Shrewsbury Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Alex Rodman (Shrewsbury Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Kane Hemmings (Oxford United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Abu Ogogo (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marvin Johnson (Oxford United).
Attempt missed. Marvin Johnson (Oxford United) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Jayson Leutwiler.
Attempt saved. Josh Ruffels (Oxford United) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Foul by John Mcatee (Shrewsbury Town).
Joe Rothwell (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Junior Brown (Shrewsbury Town).
Marvin Johnson (Oxford United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Alex Rodman (Shrewsbury Town).
John Lundstram (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Shaun Whalley (Shrewsbury Town) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Shrewsbury Town. John Mcatee replaces Ryan Yates.
Attempt saved. Alex Rodman (Shrewsbury Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Stefan Payne (Shrewsbury Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Ryan Yates (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Marvin Johnson (Oxford United).
Foul by Aristote Nsiala (Shrewsbury Town).
Kane Hemmings (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Gary Deegan (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kane Hemmings (Oxford United).
Substitution, Oxford United. Kane Hemmings replaces Chris Maguire.
Attempt missed. Stefan Payne (Shrewsbury Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right.
Substitution, Shrewsbury Town. Gary Deegan replaces Bryn Morris.
Foul by Stefan Payne (Shrewsbury Town).
Canice Carroll (Oxford United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Shrewsbury Town. Conceded by Joe Rothwell.
Foul by Dominic Smith (Shrewsbury Town).
Chris Maguire (Oxford United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Bryn Morris (Shrewsbury Town).
John Lundstram (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Junior Brown (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Robert Hall (Oxford United).
Ryan Yates (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Sam Long (Oxford United).
The four girls said they came up with the new name Little Mix after talking with their mentor Tulisa Contostavlos.
"We decided to change our name to Little Mix as we do not want to cause problems for the charity," they said.
The charity gave a "massive thank you" to supporters who backed its campaign against X Factor.
Little Mix said they had no idea there was a charity with the same name when they came up with Rhythmix.
"We're happy that this has now been resolved," they added.
"We're the same girls as we've always been and we want to thank all of our fans for their continued support.
"We came up with some ideas for our new name which we discussed with Tulisa and she had some ideas too.
"We all agreed on Little Mix as it just felt right."
The music charity Rhythmix, which has been operating in Kent, Surrey and Sussex for 10 years, feared X Factor's use of the name would cause confusion.
It hired lawyers and wrote an open letter to show supremo Simon Cowell asking him to intervene after the mix-up was revealed.
It formally objected to the X Factor's application to register Rhythmix as a trademark in Europe.
Supporters set up a Facebook group urging music fans to buy Nirvana's 1991 track Smells Like Teen Spirit in time to make it the Christmas No 1.
Tens of thousands of people joined the group, pledging to help stop an X Factor act getting the Christmas top spot.
The charity, which receives National Lottery funding, has 50 musicians who have worked with 40,000 young people through youth support services.
Chief executive Mark Davyd said it was delighted the band had changed its name.
"We are very pleased that the girls have, as we understand it, really pushed the programme to allow the name change," he added.
"I think that says a lot about the way they behaved throughout.
"We are very, very pleased with the outcome."
Cockroft, 24, was first in the T34 800m, following her success in the 100m on Friday and can complete the treble with victory in the 400m.
Team-mate Kare Adenegan finished third to add bronze to her 100m silver.
Kamllish, 20, secured the T43/T44 100m title and Breen won the T38 long jump with a personal best of 4.81m.
Britain's Richard Whitehead, who won T42 200m gold on Saturday, took bronze in the 100m, but Britain dropped behind the United States into second in the medal table with 20 in total and 11 golds.
Cockroft, who races in a category for athletes who have cerebral palsy and are in a wheelchair, remains undefeated in major competitions.
She has now won nine world titles, to go with her five Paralympic gold medals, and will repeat her trebles at the 2015 World Championships and 2016 Paralympics with success in the 400m later in the week.
"I'm really happy with that race. I knew I was in for a good time," she told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I'm not at full fitness. I feel like I'm smoking 100 cigarettes a day. Hopefully I'll have more of a voice by the 400m (on Thursday). I love the 400m."
Adenegan, 16, matched her bronze in this event from Rio and at the 2015 Worlds, while team-mate Carly Tait finished fourth.
Kamlish, who has an amputation of the right leg below the knee, had set a world record time of 12.90 seconds for the T44 category in the heats, just like she had done in Rio last year.
On that occasion she went on to come fourth in the final, but overcame the memory of that disappointment as well as a restart in the final.
Her victory also ended the domination of the Netherlands' Marlou van Rhjin, who had won the 100m and 200m double at the last two World Championships.
"I really wanted a medal. I knew I'd be disappointed if it wasn't gold," she said.
"The false start shakes everyone up. I was a bit pleased because it felt like my first start wasn't great. I beat Marlou in the Manchester City Games and now I can do it on a much bigger scale."
Breen, 20, who has cerebral palsy, claimed her first individual major title having won a gold medal in the 4x100m relay at the 2015 Worlds.
She had only finished 12th in the long jump at the Paralympics last year.
"I moved to Loughborough to train after Rio. I knew I had to change something and it's been the best change ever. This is a dream come true," she said.
"I'm so happy. I knew I had to be on my form and it's so exciting."
Whitehead, who turns 41 on Wednesday, had talked about the possibility of retiring after the London championships.
The four-time 200m world champion had made winning a gold medal in the 100m a priority and described his performance in the final as "rubbish".
He confirmed he would be competing at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, but criticised governing body the International Paralympic Committee for removing the T42 100m from the programme for the Games.
"The IPC are trying to shrink the programme. For me it's about performance, inclusion, and offering opportunities for performance, not actually restricting the programme," he said.
"It's a backwards step for the IPC. Hopefully they will do a U-turn on that decision - especially after today."
The IPC is splitting T42 athletes between two separate classifications for Tokyo and the body say there is not enough depth in talent in the double-leg amputee classifications to warrant keeping all of the events.
Britain's Richard Chiassaro crashed in his T54 800m final after touching wheelchairs with eventual winner Marcel Hug of Switzerland.
The 35-year-old, who looked to have damaged a finger, recovered to cross the line but was then disqualified. The race will be rerun on Friday without Chiassaro.
Elsewhere for Britain, Paul Blake and Graeme Ballard finished sixth and eighth respectively in the T36 200m, Steve Morris and James Hamilton came fourth and six in the T20 1500mm and in the T34 400m Ben Rawlings came fifth with Isaac Towers seventh.
America's seven-time Paralympic gold medallist Tatyana McFadden continued her domination of women's T54 wheelchair racing by winning two medals in one day and her third of the championships.
Having claimed the 1500m in the morning she added the 400m in the evening. The 28-year-old had already won the 200m on Friday and can complete the quadruple in the 800m on Wednesday.
Wales' footfall figures for February grew by 1.7% compared to 2016 - the fastest growth of any UK region.
That was above the three-month average of 0.2% and the annual average of 0.3%, with Wales the only UK nation to have a positive twelve-month average.
High Streets saw the biggest increase.
But out-of-town retail parks and shopping centres saw a decline, with consumers attracted to city centres for shopping along with dining and leisure.
The 1.7% increase in consumer footfall across the board in Wales in February compared to 0.5% in January.
Retail parks experienced their biggest drop in footfall, -1.6%, since November 2013, as spending on furniture and household items weakened.
Insights director at retail analysts, Springboard, Diane Wehrle, said: "High streets are clearly benefiting as the destination of choice for dining and leisure, while shopping centres continue to underperform as they struggle with a weak entertainment and leisure offer, coupled with increasing caution amongst consumers around retail spend."
Sara Jones, head of policy and external affairs at the Welsh Retail Consortium, said the figures were good news, particularly for High Streets across Wales.
She added: "The challenge for our town centres and shopping destinations will be turning this into a more sustained uptick in the months ahead, particularly as the popularity of online shopping and click and collect services continues to soar."
The epicentre was near the town of Oakham in Rutland, in the East Midlands, at 22:40 BST on Tuesday.
It is the ninth earthquake to be recorded in Rutland since April 2014, when there were three in one month.
The largest tremor was recorded in January of this year, and had a magnitude of 3.8.
However, some people reported feeling the latest earthquake more strongly than previous quakes.
BGS seismologist Paul Denton, who lives in Rutland, said this could be because the earthquake was more shallow.
"It was a very, very shallow earthquake, so it only happened about 2km under the ground, whereas the other ones were a little bit deeper than that," he said.
The BGS has received more than 500 reports from members of the public, all within a 20km (12-mile) radius of the epicentre.
More than a third of those people reported having been frightened.
One report to the BGS said: "There was a boom and I thought the upstairs ceiling was going to collapse."
Another said: "I was woken with a large bang as though someone was trying to enter the house with a battering ram."
David Galloway, another BGS seismologist, said earthquakes were not unusual.
"We record about 200 earthquakes somewhere in the UK over a period of a year," he said.
"The fact is, we live on a dynamic planet where there are lots of tectonic plates that are moving about.
"Oakham is quite a populated area so it's felt more widely because there are more people to feel it."
He has looked through BGS records going back to 2010 and found nine recorded earthquakes in Rutland, which were all between April 2014 and this week.
Sir Clive Loader, Police and Crime Commissioner for Leicestershire and Rutland, tweeted: "Wow - just had another earthquake here in Rutland. Perhaps not as strong as ones over the last couple of years, but still quite a sensation!"
Reg Burrell tweeted that he felt it in Castle Bytham, a village in Lincolnshire.
John Kennedy, from Oakham, said his whole house shook.
"Thirty seconds before it went off, the dogs suddenly started barking or howling. It was as if they had felt it before it happened," he said.
"It really is getting quite scary now.
"We are getting to be famous now, not only for being the smallest county, but also for the most earthquakes."
The British Geological Survey is asking people to fill in a questionnaire if they felt the earthquake.
Mark Cahill, who is 51, had been unable to use his right hand after it was affected by gout.
Doctors say he is making good progress after an eight-hour operation at Leeds General Infirmary.
It is still very early to assess how much control of the hand will be gained - so far he can wiggle his fingers, but has no sense of touch.
It is early days to assess what level of function Mr Cahill will achieve with his new hand.
Surgeons hope that within 18 months it will be a huge improvement on what he had before.
Prof Simon Kay said: "I would hope that he has a quite a strong grasp, good sensibility in the hand, good ability to feel and a precision pinch."
Both doctors and patient are pleased so far.
Hand transplants raise more ethical questions than other transplants, such as the heart, as they improve the quality of life rather than saving a life.
Yet Mr Cahill will need a lifetime of drugs to suppress his immune system in order to stop his body rejecting the donor hand. This can leave him vulnerable to infection.
Mark Cahill, from Greetland near Halifax, said: "When I look at it and move it, it just feels like my hand.
"Right now it feels really good, it's not a lot of pain, it looks good, it looks a great match and I'm looking forward to getting it working now."
Mr Cahill's new hand is still bandaged up, but he can already move his fingers. It is hoped that with time he will gain much greater levels of movement and sensation.
He developed gout in his toes and feet 20 years ago. Five years ago it spread to his right hand leaving him unable to open his fingers or use his hand for anything.
One option would have been a bionic hand, but he volunteered for the pioneering surgery.
As well as being a first for the UK, it was also the first time a recipient's hand has been amputated during an operation to attach a donor hand.
The fresh cut, made where you would wear a watch, allowed surgeons to connect nerves in Mr Cahill's arm with those in the donor hand with great precision - along with the bone, blood vessels and tendons.
The operation took place on 27 December when a donor hand became available.
Prof Simon Kay, a consultant plastic surgeon at the hospital, said: "The team was on standby from the end of November awaiting a suitable donor limb, and the call came just after Christmas.
"It was extremely challenging to be the first team in the UK to carry out such a procedure.
"It is still early days but indications are good and the patient is making good progress."
He also paid tribute to the donor and their family.
Leeds General Infirmary already has a reputation for reattaching hands which have been accidentally cut off.
This operation has been planned for more than two years and the hospital was in touch with plastic surgeons across the country looking for people who might be suitable.
Potential patients had to be assessed - both physically and psychologically - to ensure they were suitable for the procedure.
The surgical team also liaised with surgeons in France who performed the first hand transplant in 1998.
The first recipient was Clint Hallam, from New Zealand, who had lost a hand in an accident with a circular saw more than a decade earlier.
He later had the hand removed, complaining it was like a dead man's hand with no feeling in it.
He said he felt "mentally detached" from the transplant, which was wider and longer than his own. The skin was also a different colour.
Surgeons do try to find hand transplants which are a close physical match to a patient, however, they are very visible, unlike a transplanted internal organ such as a kidney.
Ensuring a patient is prepared for the mental challenge of living with a hand which is not their own is considered as important as the surgical element of the transplant.
More than 60 hand transplants have been carried out around the world.
Prof Norman Williams, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons, said: "This is yet another example of life-changing surgical advancements that are now possible."
"As with all procedures that improve the quality of life rather than save it, there is an ethical balance to be struck - especially as the lifelong anti-rejection medication that the patient would need to take carries its own risks.
"Care always needs to be taken in choosing suitable patients who understand the risks and benefits."
Under his direction, AQAP took advantage of the weak central government in Yemen to establish strongholds in tribal regions and become what US counter-terrorism officials described as the "most active operational franchise" of al-Qaeda beyond Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The group claimed responsibility for a number of high-profile attacks in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, as well as a failed attempt to blow up a US passenger jet.
In August 2013, it was reported that Wuhayshi had been named al-Qaeda's "general manager", or second-in-command, showing his importance to the jihadist network's efforts to attack the West and suggesting he might be in line to succeed Ayman al-Zawahiri as overall leader.
But in June 2015, AQAP announced that Wuhayshi had been killed in a suspected US drone strike in the south-eastern port city of Mukalla.
Wuhayshi, who is from the southern Yemeni governorate of al-Baida, spent time in religious institutions before travelling to Afghanistan in the late 1990s.
He fought at the battle of Tora Bora in 2001, before escaping over the border into Iran, where he was eventually arrested. He was extradited to Yemen in 2003.
In 2006, Wuhayshi and 22 other suspected al-Qaeda members managed to escape from a prison in Sanaa. Among them were also Jamal al-Badawi, the alleged mastermind of the USS Cole bombing, and Qasim al-Raymi, AQAP's military commander.
After their escape from prison, Wuhayshi and Raymi were said to have overseen the formation of al-Qaeda in Yemen, which took in both new recruits and Arab fighters returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The group claimed responsibility for two suicide bomb attacks that killed six Western tourists before being linked to the assault on the US embassy in Sanaa in 2008, in which 10 Yemeni guards and four civilians died.
Four months later, Wuhayshi announced in a video the merger of the al-Qaeda offshoots in Yemen and Saudi Arabia to form "al-Qaeda of Jihad Organisation in the Arabian Peninsula". His appointment as AQAP leader was later confirmed by Zawahiri.
AQAP's first operation outside Yemen was carried out in Saudi Arabia in August 2009 against the kingdom's security chief, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, though he survived.
It later said it was behind the attempt to blow up a US passenger jet as it flew into Detroit on 25 December 2009. The Nigerian man who was convicted in relation with the incident, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, said AQAP operatives had trained him.
Two more plots targeting US aviation were foiled.
At home, Wuhayshi's group capitalised on political turmoil in Yemen resulting from the uprising against President Ali Abdullah Saleh in 2011 to capture a string of towns and villages, only to be driven out of many areas in an army offensive in 2012 ordered by Mr Saleh's successor, Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.
At the same time, US President Barack Obama authorised a significant increase in the number of drone strikes targeting AQAP operatives in Yemen in 2012, resulting in the deaths of a number of senior figures, including Wuhayshi's Saudi-born deputy, Said al-Shihri.
The territorial losses did not, however, stop AQAP from launching a series of high-profile attacks targeting Yemeni security forces and government personnel. This included a suicide bombing at a military parade in Sanaa in May 2012 that killed more than 120 people and a raid on a hospital in the defence ministry compound in the capital in December 2013 that left 56 people dead.
In March 2014, Wuhayshi was filmed telling a large gathering of militants that AQAP would fight Western "Crusaders" and their allies everywhere.
That December, the group threatened to kill an American hostage, Luke Somers, if its unspecified demands were not met within three days. Somers was killed during a failed rescue attempt by US special forces.
The next month, AQAP claimed to be behind the deadly attack on the Paris offices of the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, which had published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. US officials later confirmed that one of the gunmen had received training at an AQAP camp.
In Yemen, AQAP has recently capitalised on the chaos caused by a rebellion by the Houthi movement and a Saudi-led air campaign to weaken the Zaidi Shia group, expanding the territory it controlled in the south and east of the country.
However, the US drone strikes targeting AQAP did not stop and one was reported to have killed Wuhayshi as he met two fellow militants in Mukalla on 9 June.
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The team behind the device was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering's MacRobert Prize at a ceremony in London last night.
The tiny computer launched in 2012. Its designers hoped to introduce children to coding and had modest ambitions.
They beat two other finalists, cyber-security company Darktrace and radiotherapy pioneers Vision RT, to win the prize.
Previous winners of the innovation award, which has been run since 1969, include the creators of the CT (computerised tomography) scanner; the designers of the Severn Bridge; and the team at Microsoft in Cambridge that developed the Kinect motion sensor.
A tiny cheap computer that might encourage youngsters to learn programming was the idea of a small team of scientists and Cambridge University academics.
They hoped to sell a few thousand units, but sales have now passed 14 million, and the Pi is widely used in factories as well as in classrooms and homes.
One of the MacRobert award judges, Dr Frances Saunders, said a small engineering team had redefined home computing.
"The Raspberry Pi team has achieved something that mainstream multinational computer companies and leading processing chip designers not only failed to do, but failed even to spot a need for," she said.
Back in 2011, computing academic Eben Upton and games designer David Braben came to the BBC to show me an early prototype of the Raspberry Pi. The video I shot on my phone of the device went viral, proving the potential appetite for the computer.
I caught up with Eben Upton, now the chief executive of Raspberry Pi Trading Ltd, as he was arriving in London for last night's award ceremony, not yet knowing that his team had won.
"This is the big one," he told me.
"It would be a validation of the fact that we have built something bigger than we ever envisaged. It would also be recognition of the extraordinary community we've built around the Pi."
The Raspberry Pi is now the best selling British computer in history. It sailed past the Amstrad and Sinclair's ZX Spectrum some years ago, helped by the launch of an even more minimalist model the Pi Zero.
What is extraordinary is just how successful it has become in industry, where it's finding a place in all sorts of applications, from robotics to smart signage systems. This area now accounts for nearly half of all Raspberry Pi sales.
Last week, it emerged that Intel had quietly cancelled three devices aimed at competing with its tiny rival in this area.
Eben Upton says that, after selling so many, his organisation now has an advantage over new entrants because it has ironed out all the early kinks.
"We still see it as a toy - it just happens to be a toy that's rather well made," he said.
For all its commercial success, the Raspberry Pi's core mission remains education. It has recently merged with CoderDojo, making it the largest global coding teaching organisation.
In the early days, it seemed that the device appealed more to middle-aged nostalgic hobbyists than to children, who found it hard to get to grips with something that did not fit their idea of a computer.
Now, with ample funds at their disposal and recognition of their engineering expertise, the Raspberry Pi team can step up their drive to transform attitudes to computing.
He was attacked along with another man - understood to be his brother - in the Donegall Road area at about 21:30 BST and suffered a serious head injury.
A band parade was taking place at the time, but the attack is not being treated as sectarian.
The second man suffered injuries to his face that are not believed to be life-threatening.
Police have appealed for witnesses to contact them.
The contract includes all seven BP-operated platforms in the area, as well as the Shah Deniz gas development project off the coast of Azerbaijan.
The agreement extends an existing £33m five-year deal by up to three years.
Under the contract, the Aberdeen-based firm will provide personnel, materials, equipment and engineering services.
It has trained more than 40 Azerbaijani nationals in crane operations and employs more than 60 Azerbaijani personnel on the BP contract.
EnerMech cranes and lifting director John Morrison said: "BP is a valued client and the award of this contract extension underlines our credentials in providing frontline cranes and lifting services on major international projects."
The ongoing eurozone crisis also depressed the market as Greece faces another deadline next week to present its reform plans, which should unlock rescue funds.
The index has gained nearly 7% this year and hit a record intra-day high of 7,065.08 on Tuesday.
The biggest faller was the microchip developer ARM Holdings, which lost 6.1% following a downgrade for its US rival AMD.
ARM licenses chip designs for the likes of Apple, and its shares had gained more than 50% since October.
Shares in Barclays fell 2.5%, after it was downgraded by the broker Investec.
Travel operator UTUI rose 2.6%, after the company said it was confident of meeting its full-year profit target.
Balfour Beatty rose 5.5% in response to signs that the infrastructure and construction firm was tackling its problems.
Shares in Bellway gained 2.7% after the house builder posted a 53% increase in profit for the six months to January to £158.9m. It is constructing more homes to meet the robust demand in the property market.
On the currency markets, the pound was up 0.3% against the dollar at $1.4890. Against the euro it traded 0.1% lower at €1.3580.
The incident took place at about 00:25 on Tuesday in Southdeen Avenue. The property was empty and no one was injured.
Officers said a white Ford Transit van, found abandoned on Achamore Road in Drumchapel a short time later may be connected with the shooting.
They have appealed for anyone with information to get in touch.
Det Insp Greig Wilkie said: "Inquiries are continuing in the area with officers carrying out door to door enquiries and studying CCTV footage.
"I would urge anyone with information that may assist our inquiry, or who saw the white Ford Transit van in the area around the time of the incident to contact us through 101."
The elderly woman was left shaken after the men entered her home in Balado, Kinross, at about 13:30 on Wednesday and made off with personal belongings.
One suspect was about 18, with a tanned complexion and wearing a grey or blue jersey. The other was in his 20s, with brown eyes, short brown hair and a goatee beard, wearing a blue hoodie.
Officers have appealed for information.
Det Insp Wayne Morrison said: "This is a despicable crime targeting an elderly person in their home and inquiries are ongoing to trace the individuals responsible for this crime.
"We would urge anyone who may have seen these man before or after the incident in the area to contact Police Scotland."
In a critical six-page report to the Pakistan Cricket Board, Waqar said he did not want to "shift the blame to any personal individual but to identify where things did not go right".
The 2009 champions beat Bangladesh, but suffered defeats by India, New Zealand and Australia and were jeered by fans.
Waqar's current contract ends in May.
Despite claiming he was not singling out individuals, Waqar made critical comments relating to Afridi's captaincy and the troublesome attitude of batsman Umar Akmal.
Waqar's report contained the following claims:
Waqar, who "begged forgiveness from the nation" on Tuesday, has also given the PCB a list of 13 recommendations, according to Cricinfo. They include:
The team were jeered on their return to Lahore airport, with huge crowds chanting "Shame! Shame!"
Former fast bowler Waqar, in charge as head coach for a second time, suggested that Akmal was finding it too easy to retain his place despite questionable behaviour.
Waqar was angry that the batsman missed a training camp in Lahore last year to play for Guyana Amazon Warriors in the Caribbean Premier League.
The coach wrote: "Are we bold enough to take this step or do we fear the media or pressure from different people to play certain players?
"Andrew Symonds was a very talented player for Australia or Kevin Pietersen for England, but due to their behaviour they were dropped and never picked again irrespective of their talent."
Captain Afridi, 36, is expected to announce soon whether he will be retiring from internationals.
Waqar added: "We lost to New Zealand, Asia Cup and the World Twenty20, due to poor captaincy.
"No matter how many times I talk to the players, it is the captain who has to lead the boys on the field and execute the plan."
With Saudi-led coalition air strikes and fighting on the ground between Houthi rebels and pro-government militiamen preventing international humanitarian organisations from reaching some of the hardest-hit areas, some Yemenis have stepped in to help.
Umm Mundhar, 40, worked as a primary school teacher before the Saudi-led air campaign began in late March.
Her monthly salary combined with that of her husband, who also worked in the education sector, came to 100,000 Yemeni rials ($465; £300).
Like many Yemeni professionals, the couple have not received their salaries in the past two months.
They have been struggling with the daily cost of living in a country where food, electricity, fuel and water are increasingly scarce, and have also faced the challenge of being among the more than 500,000 people displaced by the conflict.
Umm Mundhar spoke to the BBC from the home of a relative in a suburb outside Aden where she and 18 members of her extended family are now living.
They fled from their homes when the clashes in the southern port city between Houthi rebels and local militiamen intensified.
"I always thank God because we're better off than so many others," she said. "But before the war, even though we would feel the pinch at the end of the month, we had enough to support ourselves and our children. Now our lives have turned upside down."
She said that before the crisis began, her brother had travelled to India on a regular basis to receive treatment for leukaemia.
Having finished the last of his medication, panic has set in about how to obtain more.
Although their brother in the capital Sanaa managed to find a chemist stocking the medicine, and paid 300,000 rials for a month's supply, they have not found a way of getting it to Aden.
Sanaa-based media and communication expert Mohammed al-Asaadi has coined the term "The New Poor" to describe Yemenis like Umm Mundhar, who have found themselves suddenly without regular incomes in what was already one of the poorest countries in the Arab world.
Mr Asaadi said he had noticed that many businesses and schools had been forced to close in recent months as the conflict spread across Yemen, leaving their employees out of pocket.
He paid for food baskets for 15 families, and he and two friends also funded medical operations for two children whose families could not afford them.
Mr Asaadi is also supporting a grassroots initiative that was started in Aden - scene of some of the fiercest clashes in recent weeks - when local hospitals ran out of equipment to test donated blood.
After being contacted by the communications officer for a development agency in Sanaa, Faiza al-Sulimani, Mr Asaadi and his colleagues arranged to get the blood-testing equipment to Aden.
From there, the idea grew and the grassroots initiative, Takaful Insan, now has a team of 20 volunteers funded by themselves, their friends and families.
"Our aim is to help the people that government agencies and NGOs have been unable to reach," Ms Sulimani told the BBC.
The team has managed to deliver food baskets to more than 800 families in areas worst hit by the violence, including Aden, Taiz and Lahj provinces.
They have also run a training programme teaching some 300 youths first aid, as well as how to be tolerant citizens and avoid political and sectarian conflict.
With aid workers having been killed by snipers in Aden, volunteers are risking their lives to make deliveries.
Some have been detained by Houthi fighters, who accused them of providing food and arms to the resistance before eventually releasing them.
The volunteers have often found themselves relying on sheer resourcefulness to overcome the logistical challenges of reaching people in remote areas.
One of them, Ahmed Nour, described how supplies were being transported on donkeys in rural parts of Taiz and Lahj due to fuel shortages and the blocking of main roads.
What keeps them going in situations like this? "We're Yemenis, it is our duty," said Mr Nour.
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A century after the Battle of Verdun, the Whitgift Exhibition Centre will host original uniforms and weaponry, rare first issues of the trench newspaper The Wipers Times and recruitment posters.
Visitors can see mock-ups of trenches and an Edwardian drawing room.
Many items have never been on public display before.
Remembering 1916 - Life on the Western Front tells the story of the war through objects, displays and testimony from individuals on both sides.
A locket holds a portrait of an unknown airman from the Royal Flying Corps, with a fragment of fabric from the Red Baron's red triplane.
Re-enacted rooms from the period show call-up papers arriving in the hallway of an Edwardian home.
Numerous weapons are on display, including pistols, a German trench club and machine guns.
Many exhibits come from France, including a railway station sign from Verdun, a military priest's hat and grave markers.
Remembering 1916 opens on 12 March and runs until 31 August 2016.
He will become the world's top diplomat on 1 January when Ban Ki-moon's second five-year term ends.
Mr Guterres, 67, who led the UN refugee agency UNHCR for 10 years, was chosen from among 13 candidates last week.
He told the BBC that ending the civil war in Syria would be his biggest challenge.
"I believe it is the international community's first priority is to be able to end this conflict and use this momentum created by it to try to address all the other conflicts that are interlinked," he told the BBC's chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet.
He said the world was facing a dangerous time and he wanted to see people across the globe working together to achieve a safer future.
"I hope people will understand that it's better to put aside different opinions, different interests and to understand that there is a common, vital interest to put an end to these conflicts, because that is absolutely central if you want to live in a world where a minimum of securities are established, where people can live a normal life," he said.
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Mr Guterres, who trained as an engineer, entered politics in 1976 in Portugal's first democratic election after the "Carnation Revolution" that ended five decades of dictatorship.
As head of the UNHCR refugee agency from 2005 to 2015, he led the agency through some of the world's worst refugee crises, including those in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
During that time, he repeatedly appealed to Western states to do more to help refugees fleeing the conflicts.
Mr Guterres' 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.
Mr Guterres told the general assembly: "The dramatic problems of today's complex world can only inspire a humble approach. One in which the secretary general alone neither has all the answers, nor seeks to impose his views.
"One in which the secretary general makes his good offices available, working as a convenor, a mediator, a bridge-builder and an honest broker to help find the solutions that benefit everyone involved."
Mr Ban told the assembly that his successor was well-known in diplomatic circles as a man of compassion.
"He is perhaps best known where it counts most - on the frontlines of armed conflict and humanitarian suffering," Mr Ban said.
"His political instincts are those of the United Nations - co-operation for the common good and shared responsibility for people and the planet."
The Security Council - with five of its members wielding vetos - is the most powerful body in the UN.
While not as powerful, the secretary-general serves as the organisation's top diplomat and chief "administrative officer".
It has been described as the most impossible job in the world, says the BBC's diplomatic correspondent James Landale. The secretary-general has to run an unwieldy bureaucracy and manage the competing demands of the world's big powers, he adds.
A key requisite of the role is to step in both publicly and privately to prevent international disputes from escalating. The post lasts for five years and is limited to a maximum of two terms.
Groove CairnGorm, taking place on Friday and Saturday, has been organised by local music promoters and CairnGorm Mountain ski centre.
The music event will be based at Badaguish Outdoor Centre, near Aviemore, but will also see performances at the ski resort.
Acts will include Highland bands Spring Break and Niteworks.
Also due to perform are DJ Grandmaster Flash, The Cuban Brothers, Prides, DJ Monki and The Elephant Sessions.
The festival's organisers hope to make it a regular event along the lines of continental Europe's snowsports music festivals Snowbombing and Snowboxx.
But the Dundalk manager believes it was teamwork rather than star players that led to his side being edged out by Rosenborg in the previous round.
"They don't have any one outstanding individual but a very cohesive team.
"But you have to respect that Bendtner's got 28 goals for Denmark, so that says a lot," said Kenny.
The 29-year-old Dane moved to Rosenborg in March after an undistinguished spell with Nottingham Forest and has scored six goals in 19 games for the side leading the Eliteserien by five points after 17 games.
"He's been at some good clubs, winning the German Cup with Wolfsburg and being part of the squad that won Serie A at Juventus - even if he was not a regular starter," Kenny told BBC Scotland.
"Most people don't realise until you've seen him in person - he's actually 6ft 5in, a giant of a man and has a very good first touch, although his movement was not that threatening.
"Admittedly, he didn't get many opportunities against ourselves, but he was quite good with his back to goal and he still has a real physical presence in the box."
Former Dunfermline Athletic boss Kenny does not expect counterpart Kare Ingebrigtsen to come up with any formation changes that might surprise Celtic's Brendan Rodgers in the third qualifying round on Tuesday.
"Over the decades, they have played 4-3-3 and they rarely, if ever, change and, right from under-nines all the way up, that's what they play and that's the system they are accustomed to," he said.
"Whichever coach comes in generally plays that system and that seems to have served them well.
"They are quite a rigid team and their roles are clearly defined, although they are a good football team."
Ingebrigtsen, though, showed against Dundalk a willingness to change his personnel to suit the occasion.
Kenny recalled that Iceland international Matthias Vilhjalmsson, who scored the extra-time winner in the second leg, was deployed in central midfield and centre-back Johan Laedre Bjordal was also in the starting line-up as a taller, more physical side was chosen for the first leg in Ireland.
"Their creative flair in midfield was played wide on the left in the away tie," he said.
"But, in the home tie, they brought in Yann-Erik de Lanlay, a left-winger who actually scored their first goal and Birger Meling, a smaller left-back who was more dynamic.
"In the away tie, they went for the taller, more physical team than in the home tie, where they went for some more technical players.
"They've got a lot of good players. Mike Jensen's their captain, another Danish international, and plays on the right side of the midfield three and a lot of the play goes through him."
Kenny admitted his own side had been "devastated" to miss out on what would have been a "huge" occasion at the Aviva Stadium against Celtic after such a narrow 3-2 aggregate defeat.
However he thinks Rosenborg, who have won their domestic double two seasons running, might thrive on being the underdogs this time.
"Celtic will undoubtedly be favourites because they have been in great form over the last year, winning the domestic treble in the manner that they did," said Kenny.
"But I certainly don't think Rosenborg should be underestimated, because in many respects they were under a lot of pressure to beat us.
"The expectations in the Norwegian public certainly would have been that they should beat us and they are under a bit of pressure to do well in Europe this year.
"They just scraped through in extra time and it was a very close-fought two games, but against Celtic there is less pressure really because they know, even if they lose, they are in the Europa League play-off and the expectations will be lower.
"Because a lot of their players have either played for Norway or Denmark, they have a degree of international experience, so they will be tough opposition for Celtic.
"It certainly won't be a formality. Celtic will have to earn the right to win, which I'm sure they know, but I would expect Celtic to be the stronger over the two legs."
There were 1,578 babies born to mothers aged 45 and over in England in 2009, but in 2015 there were 2,119.
London has the highest rate of older mothers, seven times that of the North East.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said there were regional "social, economic and cultural differences".
The number of babies born to mothers under 18 is half what it was in 2009, down from 11,135 (11.8 per 1,000 women) to 5,788 (6.3 per 1,000 women) in 2015.
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Prof Adam Balen, chairman of the British Fertility Society and spokesman for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), said: "The age at which women are having their first baby has increased over the past few decades due to a variety of social, professional and financial factors, and this trend is unlikely to be reversed.
"We know that female fertility starts to decline gradually from the late 20s and more rapidly from the mid 30s onwards.
"As well as potentially taking longer to get pregnant, later maternity can involve a greater risk of miscarriage, a more complicated labour, and medical intervention at the birth.
"The data [also] shows that London had the lowest birth rate for women under 18 in 2015, with 4.4 births per 1,000 women. We welcome this positive news which reflects the sustained efforts on access to education and reliable contraception."
ONS statistician Nick Stripe said London had lowest under-18 birth rate but the highest birth rate for women aged 45 and over.
"In contrast, the north-east of England has the highest under-18 birth rate but the lowest birth rate for women aged 45 and over," he said.
"Social, economic and cultural differences between these areas are likely to be causing these differences."
Sarah Crowley wanted children, but did not meet husband Esteban until the age of 43.
It took seven years and six rounds of IVF, using an egg donor, before their son Andres, now four, was born.
Sarah, who was born in Connecticut in the US, has lived in London for 13 years and featured in the BBC documentary Fertility & Me presented by the One Show's Alex Jones.
Andres was born in Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in Hammersmith.
His mother is not surprised that their story, while still rare, is more common in the capital than elsewhere.
"If you look at the economic differences, London is like a country on its own", Sarah said.
"The gap between wages and opportunities (across the country) is getting bigger and bigger."
Sarah, of Brentford, used to be a sales director for a travel technology company and is now re-training as a fertility coach.
And while she does not believe that every woman should do as she did and have a baby at 50, she challenges what she sees as the "stigma" attached to older mothers.
"Women shouldn't be made to feel that it's wrong. If you're like me and you spend seven years trying, you develop a thick skin.
"You do get warned, understandably, about pre-eclampsia, diabetes and so on, but you also know what you want. I want to be with Andres. I feel so settled. I don't want to be anywhere else, such as backpacking around Thailand."
The ONS said the rising number of older mothers was down to advances in fertility treatment as well as more women in higher education and attitudes around the importance of a career.
Jacque Gerrard, director for England at the Royal College of Midwives, said: "All women deserve the very best care, regardless of the age at which they give birth.
"Women have every right to give birth later in life, and we support that. But typically older women will require more care during pregnancy, and that means more midwives are needed."
She said there were benefits to mothers who give birth later, including "having life skills, more confidence in their abilities and a tendency to be financially more stable".
Nearly 6,000 people were evacuated, with more than 1,200 police officers deployed for the clearance operation.
BBC News recaps the dramatic events of the week in pictures.
The French authorities moved in to start the operation to clear the camp, which had been home to an estimated 8,000 migrants.
Migrants were registered and bussed to reception centres across France, where they would be allowed to apply for asylum.
Workers in hard hats and orange jumpsuits began dismantling the "Jungle" with sledgehammers.
They pulled down unoccupied tents and shacks.
By the end of the day, about 3,000 migrants had been moved out on coaches to centres across France, while another 1,000 unaccompanied minors were given accommodation in containers near the "Jungle".
Fires ravaged parts of the camp as the demolition entered its third day.
French authorities later declared the resettlement operation over but some charities called the announcement premature as there were still migrants roaming the site.
About 100 unaccompanied minors were left to sleep rough overnight.
Heavy machines moved in to tear down structures used by remaining migrants for shelter the night before.
There were still many unaccompanied minors at the site which prompted charities to warn that dozens of children were being exposed to "serious amounts of danger" during the clearance process.
A number of migrants were still at the deserted Calais "Jungle" camp. At least 80 people, including children, spent a second night in shelters that remained.
Two large fires broke out again in the morning as stranded migrants queued to board a bus leaving for one of the reception centres in France.
Calais police said people refusing to leave would be arrested as the evacuation was due to be completed by the end of the day.
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 bodies of Finbar McGrillen, 42, and Caron Smyth, 40, were found in a flat at Ravenhill Court in east Belfast on 13 December 2013.
Shaun Patrick Joseph Hegarty, 34 and Ciaran Nugent, 33, are accused of the murder.
A number of women were removed from the court on Friday as trouble flared.
It began even before the two accused appeared in the dock, and resulted in a punch being thrown
The court heard that a trial is due to last up to four weeks and has been earmarked to take place next May. The case is due to be reviewed again at the end of January.
As Mr Hegarty, formerly of Grainne House in the New Lodge area of north Belfast, and Mr Nugent from the Falls Road, in west Belfast, were being led from the dock two groups of women in the public gallery became embroiled in a verbal altercation.
One woman was overheard saying to another female "what goes around comes around, remember that".
The 24-year-old flanker will move to Sandy Park from Gloucester in the summer after signing a three-year deal.
"We know his quality and by his own admission at the moment he's probably not playing quite as well as he can," Hunter told BBC Sport.
"By coming here and joining in with us, we can help him kick his game on and I'll think he'll fit in really well."
Kvesic, who has won three England caps, has been coached by three of Exeter's coaching staff.
He was part of the England tour to Argentina in 2013 where head coach Rob Baxter assisted the national side, backs coach Ali Hepher coached Kvesic on the Saxons tour to South Africa last summer and he was also part of an England Under 20's side under Hunter.
"Every player we bring in is always a long-term move, or you hope it'll pan out that way," added Hunter.
"He's young, he's English, he's the same sort of group as Ollie Devoto, Luke Cowan-Dickie and Henry Slade and all these guys, the same sort of era, and I hope he'll come in and play a couple of hundred games."
Adrian Pogmore, 51, used the aircraft to film people sunbathing naked and a couple, who were his friends, having sex in their garden.
Four other men all deny charges of misconduct in a public office.
Giving evidence at Sheffield Crown Court, a former colleague said he did not know Pogmore was "into voyeurism".
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Police officers Matthew Lucas, 42, and Lee Walls, 47, and helicopter pilots Matthew Loosemore, 45, and Malcolm Reeves, 64, are all on trial.
Pogmore made four recordings from the aircraft between 2007 and 2012, including filming two naturists sitting outside a caravan on a campsite and his friends having sex, the court heard.
The jury was told he knew the couple because they "shared his sexual interest in the swinging scene" and the pair had "brazenly put on a show" for the helicopter.
When asked by Mr Loosemore's defence barrister, Neil Fitzgibbon, if he believed it was appropriate for someone "into swinging and voyeurism" to operate a £1.5m police helicopter camera, ex-colleague PC Tim Smales replied: "certainly not".
PC Smales agreed with Mr Fitzgibbon when asked: "It would be fair to say Mr Pogmore kept his swinging and/or voyeurism a secret?"
He replied: "Certainly from me, yes."
The officer told the jury he would have reported it if he knew Pogmore was "into voyeurism and swinging" and that he worked with him for a number of years before Pogmore was dismissed from South Yorkshire Police.
Prosecutors had described Pogmore as "a swinging and sex-obsessed air observer", while the jury was told the other four men blamed him for the recordings.
The court heard how the footage was found among Pogmore's property at a police station, and he was the only defendant present during all four incidents.
Pogmore, of Guilthwaite Crescent, Whiston, Rotherham, has admitted four charges of misconduct in a public office.
Mr Reeves, of Farfield Avenue, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, denies two counts of the same charge.
Mr Walls, of Southlands Way, Aston, Sheffield, denies one count.
Mr Loosemore, of Briar Close, Auckley, Doncaster, denies one count.
Mr Lucas, of Coppice Rise, Chapeltown, Sheffield, denies three counts.
The trial continues.
John Greenwood and Gary Miller died after being found beaten and hidden under a mattress on a rubbish tip in Whiston on 16 August 1980.
A man was tried for their murders in 1981, but found not guilty.
Police are making a fresh appeal for anybody who saw the boys on the day of the murders after receiving new information.
A dog walker found the schoolfriends at about 19.20 BST at the site of a disused colliery on Pottery Lane, which is now Stadt Moers Park.
They both later died at Whiston Hospital as a result of head injuries, post-mortem examinations revealed.
John Greenwood's sister, Deborah Lewis, 38, from Whiston said the last 36 years had been "heartbreaking" to cope with and that the families are "united in their fight for justice".
"The original police investigation was very flawed - mistakes were made and we were let down", she said.
"We tried over the years to get the police to do more and it's very frustrating."
Speaking on behalf of both families, Ms Lewis said "losing the boys in such an horrific way was devastating" and "the fact that no-one has been convicted for their murders has made it so much harder".
She urged "those who know the truth to speak up".
"They were two little boys who went out to play and they never came home... search your consciences and ask yourself: what if it was my child, or grandchild?" she said.
Ms Lewis thanked investigative reporter Josh Boswell, who she said had researched the case and given police the information he uncovered for a Sunday Times investigation.
She said the moment a police officer "took her seriously" and told her they would look into the case again, she "started crying".
Det Ch St Paul Richardson said Merseyside Police were "committed to helping the family try to get the justice they deserve".
He said as a result of the new information, investigators were "particularly interested in talking to anyone who may have seen a man with three young boys, aged between 12 and 14 years, near to the church hall on Dragon Lane, Whiston, between 18.45 BST and 19.20 BST on Saturday 16 August 1980.
"Two of the boys who were seen with the man were stood on the wall of the church hall and one was in the grounds of the church hall. Were you one of the three boys?" he said.
People struck by the vehicle would become glued to its bonnet, rather than being thrown off and further injured.
One transport safety professor said the concept could reduce injuries sustained in a pedestrian collision.
Google did not say whether it intended to implement the idea in its driverless vehicles.
"It does have some merit to it," said Andrew Morris, Professor of Human Factors in Transport Safety at Loughborough University.
"When pedestrian accidents happen, often the person is thrown up onto the bonnet and there may be injuries from that contact, but sometimes there are not.
"But when a driver brakes in a collision, a totally natural reaction, the pedestrian is thrown onto the ground and you can get injuries from that contact."
Google's patent explained that the adhesive layer would be hidden under a protective coating, to ensure it did not gather debris during journeys.
"Upon the initial impact between the colliding object and the vehicle, the coating is broken, exposing the adhesive layer," the patent document said.
Google has been testing driverless cars since 2009, and the company says its vehicles have driven more than a million miles autonomously.
While there have been some minor collisions along the way, the most serious involving a bus, the company's monthly reports suggest a majority of incidents are the fault of human drivers in other vehicles.
Prof Morris said it remained to be seen whether the idea would work in practice.
"Whether they could realistically make a car that has the right material in it and works reliably, we can't categorically say that," he told the BBC.
Kevin Clinton, head of road safety at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, said: "As well as developing new technology that prevents pedestrians from being hit in the first place, it's also crucial to develop ways of reducing the severity of injuries suffered if a pedestrian is knocked over."
"This idea is a fascinating example of just how far vehicle technology is changing," he told the BBC.
"It will obviously need to be developed and tested to ensure that it works reliably and doesn't cause any unintended consequences."
Nick Reed, academy director at the Transport Research Lab (TRL), agreed that the idea made sense in principle.
"The idea behind Google's patent is not new - others, including TRL, have discussed and presented on the idea of 'capturing' pedestrians after they are impacted," he told the BBC.
"In 1974, following initial research into the future of car safety technology by British Leyland, five prototypes were developed. This featured a spring-loaded pedestrian-catching cage which was activated in the event of an impact and raised to prevent the accident victim from sliding down or being thrown forward.
"The use of a sticky layer could be part of a number of methods used to help manage dynamic movements of pedestrians as a result of a collision."
The money will include funding improvements to Dundee Railway Station and creating 4,500 sq m of new office space.
Development of the V&A Museum and digital infrastructure will also benefit from the funding.
The Scottish government funding was announced ahead of a jobs summit in the city.
The money has been made available through the Growth Accelerator Model (GA), developed by the Scottish Futures Trust, and is designed to stimulate growth, create jobs and support businesses through a combination of public and private sector investment.
The funding was announced by Deputy First Minister John Swinney, who will attend the jobs summit.
Mr Swinney said: "Today's package includes £13m for the Dundee Railway Stations concourse in addition to the £4.3m wider station development and £3m to establish a future-proofed digital corridor to assist the city's world-renowned games industry and provide a competitive digital solution to support economic development.
"We are also providing up to £20m to further support the development of the V&A and over £25m to redevelop the two civic spaces at Discovery Plaza and Waterfront Place."
The funding is paid over 25 years and is linked to the council reaching agreed targets and outcomes.
Dundee City Council leader Ken Guild said: "Today's announcement is the key to unlocking increased funding for one of the most exciting and innovative projects currently going on in Scotland.
"In the past two weeks alone we have had more than £70m of such investment announced in the wider Waterfront regeneration project and Dundee Port.
"Right now there is an unprecedented level of investor interest in Dundee and this announcement will help to reinforce that."
However, Donna Quinn admitted she did think child killer Robert Howard had done something to her.
She was giving evidence at Belfast Coroners Court.
She admitted lying to police about being with Arlene on the night she disappeared, on Howard's instructions.
Ms Quinn said Howard told her: "Don't be saying Arlene was with us."
Arlene, 15, disappeared in 1994 after a disco in County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland.
"I always thought she would be back," Ms Quinn said.
"Arlene would have went away, I didn't think she was dead.
"As time went on I thought Howard had done something to her.
"I thought there was something suspicious but I never thought she was dead."
Ms Quinn went on to tell the inquest that she knew in her "heart and soul" that her friend was dead, and that Robert Howard had probably sexually abused and killed her.
She said: "I have no doubt he killed her. I think he sexually abused and killed her."
Ms Quinn said she was a vulnerable girl at the time of Arlene's disappearance.
She told the court that Howard boiled her pet rabbit and smashed the skulls of kittens for fun before showing her the bodies.
Ms Quinn agreed Howard probably used her to get access to other young girls in the Castlederg area.
A* or A grades were achieved in 30.4% of entries, a rise of 0.9% on 2016.
More than 30,000 students received their A-level and AS-level results on Thursday and the overall A*-E pass rate was 98.3%.
However, the gap between girls and boys has widened: One third of entries (33.3%) from girls achieved A* or A grades - a significant rise on 2016.
That compared to 26.8% of entries from boys getting those grades, a fall of 0.4% on last year.
There was a fall of just over 1,000 in the number of A-level subject entries this year to 30,684.
However, that is mainly due to a drop in the Year 14 demographic.
Maths remains the most popular A-level subject.
Biology, history, religious studies and English Literature complete the list of the top five most popular subjects.
However, there have been steep falls in the number of A-levels taken in subjects like psychology, geography and physics.
Students were able to access their exam results from 07:00 BST on Thursday, but many went to their schools to discover their grades.
Many of those getting their results have already applied to university and will have their place confirmed if they get the grades they need.
Figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) show there has been a 4% fall in Northern Irish students applying to go to university this year.
Other pupils will go into further education, work or an apprenticeship.
Students can call UU's inquiry line on 028 7028 7028 on Thursday and Friday, and the university is holding an advice day at all four campuses on Friday.
As of Thursday morning, the university had a small number of places for approximately 39 courses available through clearing.
QUB's enquiry line is on 028 9097 3838 and it will operate on Thursday and Friday, and on selected days over the following weeks.
The university is holding advice sessions on Monday 21 August and Monday 28 August in the Whitla Hall between 14:00 and 17:00.
Many students getting their grades will also pursue other options including apprenticeships, entry into further education, employment or a gap year.
The Department for the Economy's careers service will run an extended online advice facility from 09:00 to 19:30 on Thursday and Friday.
Careers advisers are also available by phone on 0300 200 7820.
BBC News NI will also be hosting a special Facebook Live to answer any questions that students and parents might have.
Please join us on Friday 18 August at 10:00 and put your questions to our panel of experts.
Ten years ago, Juve were dragging themselves out of the second tier of Italian football following a tumultuous sequence of events that saw them demoted from Serie A.
Now, after beating Monaco 4-1 on aggregate, the Old Lady will face either Real Madrid or Atletico Madrid in the Champions League final in Cardiff on 3 June.
"Magic Dani Alves, fantastic Juventus," read the headline on Italian newspaper Tuttosport. Gazzetta dello Sport, meanwhile, went with: "Great Juve!"
The media are gushing, and who can blame them?
Two Champions League finals in three years, on the cusp of winning a sixth successive Serie A title and 23 games unbeaten in Europe.
Former Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov, speaking on BT Sport, described Juve's performance on Tuesday as a "masterclass".
"Attack and defence everywhere," he said.
After a rollercoaster decade, Juve may have put together the perfectly balanced side.
Just five days after lifting the World Cup trophy in 2006, Juve team-mates Gianluigi Buffon, Alessandro del Piero and Mauro Camoranesi were faced with the prospect of preparing for life in the second tier of Italian football.
Juve, along with Lazio and Fiorentina, were implicated in a match-fixing scandal that resulted in the three teams being demoted to Serie B for 2006-07, though the latter two had their sentences reduced to points deductions on appeal.
Juve were also given a 30-point deduction, later reduced to nine, and their hopes of an immediate return to the top flight were further hampered by the departures of several key players, including Patrick Vieira, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Fabio Cannavaro.
The club's trio of World Cup winners stayed, though, and were instrumental as Juve bounced back at the first attempt - winning Serie B by six points, losing just four of their 42 league games.
Didier Deschamps, a Champions League winner with Juventus in 1996, returned to coach his former club following their demotion but left two games before the end of their title-winning season after a disagreement with the club's hierarchy.
Claudio Ranieri was the man brought in to lead Juve in their first season back in Serie A, and he led them into the Champions League with a third-place finish.
But the Italian was unable to build on that, with Juve knocked out of Europe by Chelsea and finishing 10 points adrift of Inter Milan in the league.
Ranieri was sacked, but the next three managers - Ciro Ferrara, Alberto Zaccheroni and Luigi Delneri - made little impact in short spells in charge.
Though the team appeared to be regressing, a significant appointment had been made by club owner Andrea Agnelli.
He made former Sampdoria chief executive Giuseppe Marotta Juve's sporting director, and he brought about significant changes in the playing and coaching staff.
Marotta oversaw the arrivals of Leonardo Bonucci and Andrea Barzagli - two players who would become key parts of Juve's near-impenetrable defence - before appointing Antonio Conte as coach in the summer of 2011.
Just as he has at Chelsea, Conte implemented a gameplan founded on a three-man defence, turning Juve into a side that dominated possession and was tough to break down.
The results were immediate - the club's first Scudetto in nine years in his first season followed by another two just for good measure.
Also significant in Juve's revival was their move to the Juventus Stadium - built on the site of their former home the Stadio delle Alpi - during Conte's first season.
Though capacity is significantly reduced - from 69,000 to 41,254 - the atmosphere in the arena has improved dramatically.
"The Delle Alpi was hugely unpopular with fans, who were stationed far away from the pitch because of a running track, and sightlines were almost universally poor," says European football expert Andy Brassell.
"It was rarely filled. In their last Champions League campaign at the old stadium, the Delle Alpi had an average attendance of just 12,285 in the group stage. Even the visit of Bayern Munich attracted only 16,076. The only way was to rip it up and start again."
In the six seasons since opening their new home, Juve have lost just three Serie A games there.
While Conte brought back domestic glory, European success continued to elude Juve. They were beaten by Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals of the 2012-13 Champions League and failed to even get out of their group the following season.
When Conte left in July 2014 to become Italy boss, he suggested he had not had the financial clout to compete with Europe's top clubs, saying: "When you sit in a restaurant where a meal costs 100 euros, you can't think about eating with just 10 euros."
That was, perhaps, a final gift from Conte.
With Juve's players determined to prove themselves to new boss Massimiliano Allegri - and perhaps show Conte was wrong - they reached the Champions League final in 2015, losing 3-1 to Barcelona.
"The change of coach gave Juventus something more, because in the first two months of the season we wanted to prove that we were still the best," defender Giorgio Chiellini said in March 2015.
"We want to prove to everyone and, above all, to ourselves that we are a great team."
Defeat by Barcelona prompted wholesale changes to the playing squad as Allegri looked to move them to the next level.
Juve's formidable defence was largely unaltered, but more flair and bite has been added in attack.
Former Roma midfielder Miralem Pjanic, for example, has proven a more-than-able replacement for Paul Pogba, who made a world-record £89m move to Manchester United last summer.
Up front, the exciting Paulo Dybala, signed from Palermo in 2015, has drawn comparisons to Lionel Messi while ex-Napoli striker Gonzalo Higuain has scored 32 goals in 49 appearances this season.
As Conte said, eating a 10 euro meal at a 100 euro restaurant is not really the done thing - and Juve paid Napoli £75.3m to sign Higuain last summer.
But the manner of their victories over Barcelona and Monaco suggests they are now dining at the top table alongside Europe's elite.
A CCTV image of the men, believed to be working with others, has been released by Sussex Police.
Victims' purses and wallets were stolen as they left stores and cash withdrawn from nearby ATM machines before they became aware of the theft.
One one occasion they targeted a person in a hospice shop.
There have been 22 such reports in Sussex since November last year, mostly in supermarkets, but also from pubs and fast food restaurants. The amounts stolen vary but have reached as much as £3,500.
The men are described as being of Eastern European appearance, one bald and the other with dark hair.
Investigator Kayleigh Bartup said: "We are working with the large supermarket brands to raise awareness about these incidents among staff and customers.
"Be alert and aware of strangers when shopping and never leave your bag or trolley unattended at any point. Try not to be distracted by strangers, and also be alert for any suspicious activity around your vehicle.
"It appears that these men, and others, may strike up to twice a day in different towns, and then lay low for a while, so we need to maintain awareness even when there are no reports."
Robert Montgomery, 32, attacked Alan Montgomery during a row at his father's flat in Parnie Street, in Glasgow city centre, on 4 August last year.
The 56-year-old refused medical attention and was found dead days later, having died of blood poisoning.
Montgomery admitted culpable homicide and another charge of assaulting his partner. Sentence was deferred and he was remanded in custody.
The High Court in Glasgow heard that Montgomery, from the city's Royston area, had an argument with his partner, Lorraine Greer, at their home on 19 July last year and he hit her on the head with a knife.
She contacted neighbours to phone the police who alerted paramedics but no treatment was needed.
The court also heard that on 31 July, Montgomery was staying at his father's flat due to bail conditions that prevented him going to his home address.
Ms Greer and Montgomery's brother, Andrew, were also in the flat on the same day.
Montgomery's father pushed him to the floor after which Andrew Montgomery got between them.
Montgomery then took two knives from the kitchen unit and the two men were seen to lunge at each other.
During the scuffle, Mr Montgomery was stabbed to the left side of his abdomen.
Montgomery was described as crying "hysterically" and his father said he did not need medical treatment.
Days later Mr Montgomery collapsed unconscious on the kitchen floor an an ambulance was called.
A post-mortem examination showed five injuries on the stomach consistent with being cuts or deep grazes, a stab wound on the left finger and knuckle "consistent with being a defensive injury", and a stab wound to the abdomen.
The cause of death was found to be blood poisoning as a result of a delayed complication of the untreated abdominal stab wound.
Police trawling CCTV identified Montgomery as a suspect and he was later arrested.
The incidents happened at Rex's Kitchen in the town's Duncan Street on Sunday, and Kelly's Chips in Low Street on Wednesday.
Police said a 33-year-old man and 34-year-old woman had been charged.
They are expected to appear at Peterhead Sheriff Court.
A man armed with a small knife and metal bar approached staff as they opened the One Stop Shop at 06.00 GMT.
Officers said he took a substantial amount of money from a safe.
They want to speak to a witness who told an officer they saw a car leaving the car park at speed, and a female customer who went into the shop shortly after the robbery.
The armed man is described as 5ft 10in (1.78m) tall, of slim build and wearing grey or white jogging bottoms, black shoes, a camouflage jacket with the hood up and a scarf over his face.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 101.
The alarm was raised after the aircraft, which took off from Oban Airport at 11:30 on Thursday, failed to arrive at Carlisle Airport.
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the crash, which took place about two miles off the Kintyre coast near Skipness.
The bodies of two men and wreckage from the aircraft were recovered from the sea following an extensive search.
The search operation involved a coastguard search and rescue helicopter from Prestwick, as well as Police Scotland, Arran Lifeboat and the Tarbert and Campbeltown coastguard rescue teams.
Police Scotland said inquiries were continuing in an effort to establish the identities of the two men.
The force urged anyone with information about the crash to get in touch.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch is also conducting an independent safety investigation.
DF Concerts repaid the money after confirming in November that the Strathallan Castle event would not take place this year.
It was given a £150,000 grant after the festival was forced to move from Balado in Kinross in 2015.
DF Concerts announced a three-day festival to be held in Glasgow in July in place of T in the Park.
A Scottish government spokesman said: "In line with the grant conditions, DF Concerts have now repaid the Scottish government £50,000 following its decision to not stage the 2017 event."
Officers were called to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn, Norfolk, after Milana Guzas was admitted with suspected head injuries on 26 February.
She was transferred to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge where she died on 2 March.
Arunas Guzas, 40, of Greenland Avenue in King's Lynn, has been charged with manslaughter.
He will appear before magistrates in Norwich later.
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A scrutiny committee has called on the council cabinet to give up on the controversial project, first mooted in 2015.
Under the proposals, owners would allow their dogs to have cheek swabs taken and their details put on a database.
The council has also been looking at creating designated areas for dogs.
The scheme has already proved successful in parts of the United States and has been introduced in a London borough.
Barking and Dagenham council saw a reduction in dog waste in its pilot area and is now expanding the scheme.
In Flintshire, an existing requirement, known as a Dog Control Order, requires owners to remove their dog's waste from public areas.
However, the authority has been looking at the creation of a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) which provides an "opportunity for enforcement against other designated offences", such as the complete exclusion of dogs from a defined area like children's play areas.
But a meeting of the authority's environment overview and scrutiny committee on Wednesday agreed to recommend the idea was shelved.
However, members of the council's cabinet could still approve it when they next meet.
Police say he was held on a disorderly conduct charge after refusing to go through screening at Dallas Love Field.
Authorities say the 59-year-old then declined a pat-down by airport security.
Reinhold co-starred in 1980s films such as Beverly Hills Cop and Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
According to reports, the actor used explicit language and took his shirt off after being asked to undergo a second screening.
Reinhold's attorney said the actor had successfully passed the Transportation Security Administration scanner and was stopped only after his bag raised an alarm, according to the Dallas Morning News.
The lawyer added that the actor did not understand why he needed to be searched after he had gone through the scanner without incident.
As Reinhold was led away by police to jail, he said to journalists: "Thanks for the exposure guys. Glad you're here."
If found guilty, he could pay up to a $500 (£395) fine.
Here is the latest situation on the roads, trains and ferries.
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The Most Rev Justin Welby told Wonga boss Errol Damelin the Church would do this by expanding credit unions.
These would act as an alternative to payday lenders.
Mr Cable told Channel 5 News that the Archbishop had "hit the nail on the head".
He added the Archbishop was "right not just to condemn abuse but to offer alternatives which are more ethical."
Mr Cable also said that the government was considering ways of regulating the industry.
"We're looking at whether we can stop advertising drawing people into payday lending who perhaps shouldn't be using it."
Archbishop Welby said the plan is to create "credit unions that are... engaged in their communities."
Mr Damelin said he was "all for better consumer choice".
Payday firms offer short-term loans, often at high interest rates, and have been accused of leading people into more debt.
Archbishop Welby, a former financier who sits on the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards, has previously lobbied for a cap on high interest rates charged by loan companies.
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He said the Church could do more to help non-profit lenders to compete with payday firms.
"I've met the head of Wonga, and we had a very good conversation," the archbishop told Total Politics magazine.
"I said to him quite bluntly that 'we're not in the business of trying to legislate you out of existence; we're trying to compete you out of existence'."
He said of Mr Damelin's response: "He's a businessman; he took that well."
Mr Damelin later said: "There is mutual respect, some differing opinions and a meeting of minds on many big issues.
"On the competition point, we always welcome fresh approaches that give people a fuller set of alternatives to solve their financial challenges. I'm all for better consumer choice."
Earlier this month, Archbishop Welby launched a new credit union aimed at clergy and church staff. Credit unions charge their members low rates of interest to borrow money.
BBC religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott said the archbishop's plan was to go to some of the 500 independent loan companies and say to them, "We will help you by letting you have access to our buildings and expertise".
Our correspondent said the Church would not run the companies but would help them and allow them to work on its premises.
"I think the archbishop would see this as a social good countering a social evil," he said.
He also said it was quite possible that in future people could go to church when they needed to borrow money.
"Churches are already being used as libraries and shops and post offices. It's part of a wider trend for churches to try and become more relevant to people's everyday lives."
Charities such as Christians Against Poverty already use church premises to offer debt counselling to those in difficulty.
The Association of British Credit Unions said it was a good idea to harness the skills among church congregations to help credit unions grow.
"We believe it is speed and convenience which attracts people to payday lenders, not the short term nature of the loans. The amount of loans which are rolled over demonstrates how the short-term nature of the product is in itself not in the best interests of consumers - even before the high interest charges are added on," it said.
By Robert PigottReligious affairs correspondent, BBC News
This is fully in line with the Church's efforts to capitalise on its 16,000 buildings - present in every corner of England - and to remain relevant to the lives of people whether or not they go to its services
Churches already serve as shops, cafes, post offices and libraries, as well as meeting places.
Christianity does not have as much of a problem with money lending and interest as Islam.
But the sin of usury - the charging of excessive interest - is condemned in the Bible and Justin Welby himself has warned of the dangers of usurious lending, saying it was bad for society at large.
This is the Church's way of integrating itself into the fabric of life, tackling what it sees as a social wrong, and living out its message at the same time.
"Credit unions have been shown to be best value in the UK market up to about £2,000, and many will match bank rates for higher value loans as well. They lend responsibly and ensure repayment terms are affordable for the borrower."
However, the association accepted that credit unions could do more to compete with payday lenders, by improving online applications and speedy decisions on loans.
In April, the government announced an investment of £36m in credit unions, to help them offer an alternative to payday lenders.
Wonga has said it charges about 1% a day on its consumer loans, which are short-term, and for small amounts.
The lender said there was room for more competition in the market.
"The Archbishop is an exceptional individual, with our discussions ranging from the future of banking and financial services to the emerging digital society," Mr Damelin said.
"On his ideas for competing with us, Wonga welcomes competition from any quarter that gives the consumer greater choice in effectively managing their financial affairs."
This view was echoed by the Consumer Finance Association (CFA), which represents many other payday lenders.
"Everyone needs access to banking and credit facilities in the modern world and so we welcome any support for the credit unions, which we see as complementary to short-term lenders," said Russell Hamblin-Boone, chief executive of the CFA.
By Dr Alastair McIntoshCentre for Human Ecology
Several passages in the Old Testament condemn usury. This meant that lending money at interest was forbidden within the Jewish community and to the poor, but was permitted to outsiders.
As for Christianity, there is a passage in the Gospels (Luke 6: 34-35) where Jesus says that if you lend, you should not expect anything in return. This was taken by the medieval Roman Catholic Church to mean that usury should be forbidden among Christians.
But in the 16th century, with the Protestant Reformation, John Calvin of Geneva proposed reinterpreting the Gospel's passage to mean that money lending should be allowed, as long as the rate of interest was not excessive.
Islam holds a firm line against usury, as it forbids charging interest to anybody. This means that Islam favours equity (or shared) financing over debt.
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"High standards and responsible lending are our watch words and I have written to the Archbishop seeking a meeting to talk about the role of alternative finance."
An investigation into the payday loan industry by its regulator found widespread irresponsible lending earlier this year.
The industry, worth £2bn, was later referred to the Competition Commission by the Office of Fair Trading.
At an industry summit in Whitehall last month lenders were told they could face tighter controls, including limits on the number of loans that can be taken out and a cap on the total cost of credit.
The measures will be considered by the Financial Conduct Authority, which formally takes over regulation of the industry from next April.
Asked about Archbishop Welby's comments, Chancellor George Osborne said: "We are now regulating [the payday] sector. I am all in favour of credit unions and all sorts of other channels to allow families to get credit. I want to see as many options for families as possible."
Wonga hit the headlines this month when Newcastle United footballer Papiss Cisse refused to wear the team's Wonga-branded strip.
He pulled out of the club's pre-season trip to Portugal, saying he was not prepared to promote the payday loan company, citing his religion, and instead offered to wear an unbranded strip.
He has now reached an agreement with the club and will wear the logo on his shirt.
A typical secondary school in Wales will be driven into deficits of more than £1m, the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) said.
The Welsh government has sought to protect school budgets.
It has increased education spending by 1% above the block grant that Wales receives from the UK government.
Last week, Education Minister Huw Lewis told a conference of head teachers that the education budget had seen a cut of 10%.
He also apologised for the Welsh government's decision to claw back £4.4m from this year's education budget in order to fund the NHS in Wales.
ASCL Cymru Secretary Robin Hughes said there was a picture emerging across Wales of "severe financial hardship for our schools".
"It's a hardship that puts the recent record-breaking results that we've seen with GCSEs and A-levels this summer at risk," he said.
"Without the resources to maintain that progress, clearly, that progress is at risk."
He said the budget cuts were happening alongside an increase in the costs schools must manage, including rising pension and National Insurance contributions.
Mr Hughes added: "It's not scaremongering to say that staffing levels will have to be looked at."
Over the next few years, the Welsh government intends to introduce many far-reaching changes to the education system.
Next year there will be new GCSEs in English, Welsh and double maths.
There is also a review of the entire curriculum, due to report back in the new year.
But Alun Llwyd, head teacher of Ysgol Dyffryn Ogwen in Bethesda, Gwynedd, and a member of the Welsh government's ministerial advisory board on education said: "This is all happening at the same time as there are big developments nationally in terms of the curriculum, qualifications, GCSEs and A-levels, with all the training implications which come with that."
The cuts to school budgets come at a time when the overall level of reserves held by schools in Wales are at their lowest level since at least 2001.
Across Wales, the overall amount held in reserves by schools amounts to £60m, or of £132 per pupil. This is a decrease of 13.9% compared with the previous year.
Sixty one secondary schools in Wales had negative reserves (i.e. deficits) totalling £13m.
Plaid Cymru's education spokesman Simon Thomas AM said policies to improve the education system "will not work unless adequate resources are put in place to implement them".
Angela Burns AM, the Welsh Conservatives' shadow education minister, added: "In 2011, average per pupil funding in Wales was £600 less than in England, equating to hundreds of thousands of pounds less for Welsh secondary schools.
"Motivated by shame Labour ministers stopped collecting comparable data on average school underfunding, but the National Union of Teachers estimates the gap is widening."
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"Since 1999 local authority expenditure on education has increased from £1.4bn to over £2.6bn in 2014, an 86% uplift in cash terms and a 34% increase in real terms," the spokesperson added.
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Mr Modi was sworn in two years ago with a promise to reform the economy, boost employment and rejuvenate social welfare schemes.
Newspapers and pundits agree he has taken some steps in the right direction, but caution that he hasn't been able to fulfil many of his promises.
The Times of India editorial says it is "evident that much has changed" and the "pall of gloom that hung over the economy has lifted".
"On the flip side of the ledger, the economy is yet to fire on all cylinders as in some respects, crony capitalism has been replaced by crony socialism. The Modi government hasn't shown much stomach for bold economic reform, ease of doing business has improved only marginally," it says.
The paper, however, praises the government's initiatives in infrastructure development.
"In terms of building India's infrastructure and energy security the power, rail, road and petroleum ministries are doing an excellent job. And Mr Modi has conducted a bravura foreign policy which has significantly raised India's profile in the world," it adds.
The Hindustan Times agrees that the PM has shown a keen interest in India's foreign policy.
"Having visited 40 countries as the PM, Mr Modi has placed himself well on the world map, successfully courted the US as an ally, displayed inspiration in befriending Japan with an 'Act East' policy and built bridges with Iran," it says.
But the paper highlights that Mr Modi hasn't been very successful in India's immediate neighbourhood.
"Tensions with Pakistan persist despite his pro-active flight to Lahore, Nepal is no longer a tame neighbour and relations with China remain edgy," it says.
Some analyst also point out that Mr Modi's popularity has largely remained intact because of a weakened Congress party.
"He [Mr Modi] has benefited in many ways from the disarray in the ranks of the main opposition party, the Congress, that ruled India for the better part of the past six decades under the leadership of the Nehru-Gandhi family. Yet, the party today is struggling to retain its relevance in a rapidly changing nation, mainly because the dynasty is no longer as potent as it used to be," write Harsh V Pant in The Diplomat.
Some papers and analyst have also highlighted his weak responses to cases of intolerance against India's minority Muslim community and his inability to work with the opposition.
"In its two years, the Modi government has not addressed itself in any notable manner to the country's minorities. Instead, at critical moments, it has sought to sidestep the need to do so by ducking behind the opaque slogan "sabka saath sabka vikas" [Together with all, development for all], when it has not retreated behind loud silences," writes The Indian Express in its editorial.
Mr Modi was criticised for remaining silent after Mohammad Akhlaq, a 50-year-old Muslim man in northern India, was killed in a mob lynching in last September over false rumours that his family had been storing and consuming beef at home.
The paper also highlights the government's inability in reaching out to the opposition to pass key bills.
Mr Modi's BJP party doesn't have a majority in the upper house of parliament and it needs support from opposition parties to get bills passed.
"Not only has the Modi-BJP not made a break with past petulance in government-opposition relations, it has added to it considerably," it writes.
Writing in The Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta argues that Mr Modi rode to electoral success by tapping into "a fear that India would slide into unbridled defeatism".
"The sense of defeatism has abated. But India is far from a deep transformation; and the risk of social and political conflict is returning," he writes.
Mr Mehta advises the government to be more open to hold dialogues with its opponents.
"The government has to be clear whether it stands for a politics of hope or a politics of resentment," he writes.
Members of the GMB at Glasgow City Council had voted in favour of industrial action in protest at the proposal.
The union claimed staff who regularly receive enhanced payments would lose out by £500 a year on average.
The council said it withdrew the plan after making "significant" progress in achieving £130m of savings.
The holiday changes were put forward as a way of saving money in the council's budget in March.
The council's executive member for personnel, Martin Rhodes said: "The council is facing the greatest budget cuts in its history from the Scottish government.
However, our staff are making considerable progress in delivering the reforms and efficiencies that are required to protect frontline services.
"As a result, we are now in a position to withdraw proposals to make alterations to public holidays. This progress on budget savings will also allow the council to improve some elements of frontline services further in the near future."
GMB Scotland Officer Benny Rankin said: "We are pleased the council has listened to the concerns of our members and climbed-down from its imposition plan, which could have plunged thousands of low paid workers into the ranks of the working poor.
"Our campaign of resistance has protected our members interests but there can be no doubt that the swingeing cuts to local government funding means the road ahead will be tough for all local government workers across Scotland.
"GMB Scotland is calling on all our councils to engage positively with trade unions and their members and work with us to find alternatives to an austerity agenda that is punishing working people and their communities."
The visitors had taken a two-goal lead after Sergio Aguero's volley and a Dzeko strike from long range.
But Eliaquim Mangala headed into his own net, then conceded a penalty, from which Abel Hernandez made it 2-2.
However, Dzeko struck again from close range, then substitute Frank Lampard hit his fourth goal in a week to secure the win.
Last season at the KC Stadium, Man City overcame the early sending off of Vincent Kompany to record a defiant 2-0 victory.
They made a much better start this time, taking the lead after just seven minutes with a goal made in Argentina.
Pablo Zabaleta, back from a one-game suspension, did well to direct a header toward compatriot Aguero, who swivelled before firing a clinical volley past an exposed McGregor.
With the Tigers struggling to get out of their own half, Dzeko made it two when he picked up David Silva's pass, cut inside and curled a fine effort into the far corner from the edge of the box.
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However, with the visitors appearing to be strolling to victory, Steve Bruce's men found a way back in with a goal from nowhere when Mangala unwittingly powered Liam Rosenior's cross past a stunned Willy Caballero, who was making his first Premier League start in place of the benched Joe Hart.
After half an hour they were level, and again it was down in no small part to Mangala, who this time went studs up into the chest of Hernandez in the area.
Referee Anthony Taylor pointed to the spot and Hernandez coolly sent Caballero the wrong way.
With a yellow card, a conceded penalty and an own goal inside the 32 minutes, it was turning into a bad day for City's £32m signing from Porto.
His mistakes did not prove too costly, however, as Dzeko latched onto Silva's pass before rolling a precise left-foot finish beyond McGregor on 68 minutes.
Caballero beat away a Gaston Ramirez shot and Tom Huddlestone had an effort deflected over, but substitute Lampard sealed it with his fourth goal in a week, sidefooting home Zabaleta's cross.
City had gone three league games without a win following a shock loss to Stoke and draws with Arsenal and Chelsea. However, despite this win there will be plenty for manager Manuel Pellegrini to ponder on the journey back over the Pennines.
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Former Manchester United defender Bruce will be delighted with the fightback but his side remain without a Premier League win since their opening day victory over QPR.
Hull City manager Steve Bruce: "They nearly blew us away in the first 10 minutes. Maybe we showed them too much respect. We were brave or stupid to play two up top. I thought 'we're at home let's give it a go'.
"We've conceded four and not done that badly. Sometimes you have to hold your hand up and say you have been beaten by the better team. We were brave and it nearly came off."
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini: "We were very unlucky with two individual mistakes. These things can happen. He [Mangala] was very unlucky with the own goal and after that he arrived late for the penalty but we continue to trust him because he is a very good player who had very bad luck.
"It was very important to win three points here because we cannot allow to drop any more points on Chelsea."
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Lab tests showed cells looked biologically older in people who were severely depressed or who had been in the past.
These visible differences in a measure of cell ageing called telomere length couldn't be explained by other factors, such as whether a person smoked.
The findings, in more than 2,000 people, appear in Molecular Psychiatry.
Experts already know that people with major depression are at increased risk of age-related diseases such as cancer, diabetes, obesity and heart disease.
This might be partly down to unhealthy lifestyle behaviours such as alcohol use and physical inactivity.
But scientists suspect depression takes its own toll on our cells.
To investigate, Josine Verhoeven from the VU University Medical Centre in the Netherlands, along with colleagues from the US, recruited 2,407 people to take part in the study.
More than one third of the volunteers were currently depressed, a third had experienced major depression in the past and the rest had never been depressed.
The volunteers were asked to give a blood sample for the researchers to analyse in the lab for signs of cellular ageing.
The researchers were looking for changes in structures deep inside cells called telomeres.
Telomeres cap the end of our chromosomes which house our DNA. Their job is to stop any unwanted loss of this vital genetic code. As cells divide, the telomeres get shorter and shorter. Measuring their length is a way of assessing cellular ageing.
People who were or had been depressed had much shorter telomeres than those who had never experienced depression. This difference was apparent even after lifestyle differences, such as heavy drinking and smoking, were taken into account.
Furthermore, the most severely and chronically depressed patients had the shortest telomeres.
Dr Verhoeven and colleagues speculate that shortened telomeres are a consequence of the body's reaction to the distress depression causes.
"This large-scale study provides convincing evidence that depression is associated with several years of biological ageing, especially among those with the most severe and chronic symptoms," they say.
But it is unclear whether this ageing process is harmful and if it can be reversed.
UK expert Dr Anna Phillips, of the University of Birmingham, has researched the effects of stress on telomere length.
She says telomere length does not consistently predict other key outcomes such as death risk.
Further, it is likely that only a major depressive disorder, not experience of or even a lifetime of mild-to-moderate depressive symptoms, relates to telomere length, she said.
That is the proposal being championed by software entrepreneur Walter May.
Originally from Pontypool, he started work as an apprentice with British Steel and left Wales to study for an MSc at Cranfield University.
He built a successful career in the software sector and since returning to Wales has been a business support advisor for tech companies in their early stages and is involved in peer-to-peer mentoring.
Mr May is also conducting a feasibility study for the Welsh government into how five different nations - India, Ireland, New Zealand, Portugal and Scotland - have benefited from tapping into the success of exiles.
Ministers will get a sight of that report next month.
One of the most successful countries in terms of getting money, influence and experience from its ex-pats is Ireland.
Kingsley Aikins set up Diaspora Matters four years ago . He wanted to reverse the brain drain and form networks of successful people across the world who wanted to help their home country's economy. It has been hugely successful and he now advises groups across the world.
Walter May, inspired by Aikins, is now building a network of Welsh exiles who he hopes will be interested in using their experience and connections to help the Welsh economy.
One person he is talking to is Warren East, former chief executive of ARM Holdings - a UK multinational and one of the world's most successful technology companies.
He comes from Newport originally but has built his career in Cambridge and around the world, although he regularly returns home.
Mr East is particularly interested in inspiring young people to take up a career in engineering and he says networks and connections can make a difference.
"Comparing Wales to where I've been working in Cambridge and all over the world you can see the economy is not in a good state.
"Business happens between people and this kind of networking effect that Walter is talking about is a necessary condition for inward investment and trade.
"Government initiatives are great but actually it's other businesses that businesses do business with and if you don't create that environment then things don't happen."
He adds that if he is connected with other people from Wales then he is more likely to think of doing business with Welsh companies.
Mr May is planning a Global Welsh conference at this year's Hay Festival and hopes to attract top Welsh business exiles.
Rovers took the lead when Matty Marsh gathered in John Boudebza's grubber kick to touch down close to the posts.
Jimmy Keinhorst and Rob Burrow crossed for Leeds, before Maurice Blair went over to make it 12-10 at half-time.
Ken Sio restored the hosts' advantage but James Segeyaro and Ryan Hall crossed to win it for the Rhinos despite Kieran Dixon's late try.
Both sides were already assured of a place in the Qualifiers when the Super 8s phase starts, but the result means Leeds - last season's treble winners - will have an extra home game in the middle eights.
Rovers controlled possession early on and were good value for their lead, but poor tackling allowed Keinhorst and Burrow to run through the defence and put Leeds ahead.
The hosts lost James Green to a shoulder injury shortly before Blair's second try, and Josh Mantellato's missed conversion meant they trailed at the break.
Mantellato missed again after Dixon's last-minute try, as Rhinos climbed to ninth and Hull KR dropped to 11th in the table.
Hull KR: Cockayne; Sio, Minns, Blair, Mantellato; Marsh, Kelly; Walker, Boudebza, Tilse, Greenwood, Larroyer, Lawler.
Replacements: Dixon, Cator, Mulhern, Green.
Leeds Rhinos: Sutcliffe; Briscoe, Watkins, Keinhorst, Hall; Lilley, Burrow; Galloway, Segeyaro, Singleton, Ferres, Ablett, Jones-Buchanan.
Replacements: Cuthbertson, Achurch, Garbutt, Golding.
Referee: Robert Hicks
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The Nuggets recovered after the Pacers led 31-30 early in the second quarter to finish with a season-high score.
Nikola Jokic scored 22 points as Denver ended the Pacers' five-game winning run before a sell-out crowd at the O2 Arena.
It was the seventh time a regular-season game has been held in London.
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The Grecians were looking to bounce back from Saturday's disappointing 2-0 home defeat to Accrington, and they started with intent.
Lloyd James' cross fizzed across the six-yard box with no-one on hand to convert, and Ryan Harley saw a shot deflect just over the crossbar.
However, Exeter's pressure told a minute before half-time when David Wheeler was felled by goalkeeper Scott Brown and Reuben Reid converted the penalty for his 10th goal of the season.
It was 2-0 six minutes after the break as Reid bagged his second goal of the game, lashing home from 12 yards from Jake Taylor's lay-off.
And it was 3-0 shortly afterwards as a Taylor shot from 12 yards took a wicked deflection to leave Brown wrong-footed.
Cheltenham, with manager Gary Johnson absent through illness, rarely threatened and were well beaten with their best chance coming late in the game, Exeter goalkeeper Bobby Olejnik pushing Jack Munns' effort wide of the post.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Exeter City 3, Cheltenham Town 0.
Second Half ends, Exeter City 3, Cheltenham Town 0.
Foul by Jack Stacey (Exeter City).
Jack Munns (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ryan Harley (Exeter City).
Harry Pell (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jordan Cranston (Cheltenham Town) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt missed. Liam McAlinden (Exeter City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left.
Ollie Watkins (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Manny Onariase (Cheltenham Town).
Attempt missed. James Dayton (Cheltenham Town) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Substitution, Exeter City. Matt Oakley replaces Jake Taylor.
Attempt saved. Billy Waters (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Jake Taylor.
Corner, Cheltenham Town. Conceded by Robert Olejnik.
Attempt saved. Jack Munns (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Craig Woodman (Exeter City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Craig Woodman (Exeter City).
James Dayton (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Exeter City. Liam McAlinden replaces David Wheeler.
Attempt saved. David Wheeler (Exeter City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Tin Plavotic.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Jordan Cranston.
Foul by David Wheeler (Exeter City).
Manny Onariase (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Manny Onariase.
Corner, Exeter City. Conceded by Jordan Cranston.
Substitution, Cheltenham Town. Daniel Wright replaces Kyle Wootton.
Foul by Lloyd James (Exeter City).
Kyle Wootton (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ryan Harley (Exeter City).
James Dayton (Cheltenham Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Exeter City. Ollie Watkins replaces Reuben Reid.
Goal! Exeter City 3, Cheltenham Town 0. Jake Taylor (Exeter City) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Cheltenham Town. James Rowe replaces Carl Winchester.
Attempt blocked. Carl Winchester (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Goal! Exeter City 2, Cheltenham Town 0. Reuben Reid (Exeter City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jake Taylor.
Attempt missed. Kyle Wootton (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Second Half begins Exeter City 1, Cheltenham Town 0.
First Half ends, Exeter City 1, Cheltenham Town 0.
Motherwell, now on a run of three successive defeats, took a fifth-minute lead through Marvin Johnson's shot.
However, a cross from Niall McGinn flew straight in to draw Derek McInnes's side level before the break.
And defender Ash Taylor headed an emphatic winner from another McGinn delivery to give the Dons nine points from nine.
It is the first time since 1991 Aberdeen have won their opening three league matches of the season and last year's runners-up are playing with an air of confidence and authority, a consequence of the winning habit they have developed.
This was a big win for them, with Motherwell proving testing opponents in a fabulously entertaining match.
Both sides possess players with terrific pace, which added to the absorbing, end-to-end nature of the contest. Indeed, the opening goal owed much to Motherwell's counter-attacking ability.
Lionel Ainsworth broke with lightening speed to feed Scott McDonald and the Australian forward's powerful shot was pushed away by Danny Ward. The ball then fell for Johnson, who volleyed into the ground and past the keeper.
Aberdeen's equaliser came in bizarre fashion as McGinn curled in a cross from the left and as players from both sides tried and failed to get a touch, the ball crept past the flat-footed Connor Ripley and in off the far post.
Both sides contributed hugely to a frenetic game but Aberdeen will feel they deserved the win, having dominated possession and creating more danger for the opposing keeper.
David Goodwillie should perhaps have headed them in front just after the interval, but Taylor did exactly that in the 62nd minute.
McGinn swept in a free kick from the left and Taylor rose to plant a firm header into the net as Ripley came off his line and failed to get anywhere near the cross.
The busy McGinn almost put the game beyond Motherwell with a terrific run and shot, which on this occasion came back off an upright.
The high tempo continued in the closing stages but Motherwell could not fashion another opportunity to seriously test Ward as the large visiting support went home delighted.
Match ends, Motherwell 1, Aberdeen 2.
Second Half ends, Motherwell 1, Aberdeen 2.
Substitution, Motherwell. Chris Cadden replaces Jake Taylor.
Substitution, Motherwell. David Clarkson replaces Louis Moult.
Attempt missed. Adam Rooney (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Niall McGinn (Aberdeen) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Louis Laing.
Niall McGinn (Aberdeen) hits the right post with a left footed shot from the left side of the box.
Lionel Ainsworth (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Shaleum Logan (Aberdeen).
Foul by Steven Hammell (Motherwell).
Jonny Hayes (Aberdeen) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Dom Thomas (Motherwell) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Adam Rooney (Aberdeen).
Louis Laing (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Louis Moult (Motherwell) header from the left side of the six yard box misses to the right.
Louis Moult (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ash Taylor (Aberdeen).
Substitution, Aberdeen. Paul Quinn replaces David Goodwillie.
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Stephen McManus.
Substitution, Motherwell. Dom Thomas replaces Marvin Johnson.
Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Lionel Ainsworth (Motherwell).
Attempt saved. Jonny Hayes (Aberdeen) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Adam Rooney (Aberdeen).
Louis Laing (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Lionel Ainsworth (Motherwell) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Foul by Kenny McLean (Aberdeen).
Louis Moult (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adam Rooney (Aberdeen).
Steven Hammell (Motherwell) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Goal! Motherwell 1, Aberdeen 2. Ash Taylor (Aberdeen) header from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Niall McGinn with a cross following a set piece situation.
Niall McGinn (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Josh Law (Motherwell).
Ash Taylor (Aberdeen) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ash Taylor (Aberdeen).
Scott McDonald (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Scott McDonald (Motherwell) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Scott McDonald (Motherwell) header from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Jake Taylor.
Russian state TV's coverage of the crisis has been consistently sensationalist, using a wide repertoire of propaganda techniques to incite revulsion and hostility towards the authorities in Kiev.
Television in Ukraine has fastened on the role of the Kremlin and decries Russian media "lies", though with less emotive language than Moscow-based channels.
A constant refrain of Russian TV's reporting of the Ukraine crisis has been its attempts to equate the current authorities in Kiev and their supporters with fascists.
One of the ways they have done this is to brand them as banderovtsy, followers of controversial Ukrainian nationalist and wartime partisan leader Stepan Bandera.
Bandera was demonised by the Soviets and still is by Vladimir Putin's Kremlin as a Nazi collaborator, but is revered as a hero in parts of Ukraine.
The word junta is often used on Russian television to describe the Ukrainian government, suggesting a lack of legitimacy following the ouster of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in February.
More emotive is the use of the words "fascist" and "Nazi" in many Russian TV reports. They are words used in several contexts, from portraying the far-right Right Sector as Ukraine's real driving political force, to drawing parallels with World War Two.
Russian state TV widely uses the term "punitive operation" when referring to Ukraine's security operation in the east.
The term, which normally refers to wartime German reprisals on Soviet territory, was first heard during a speech by Mr Putin on state TV in March, in which he said that supporters of Mr Yanukovych were being threatened by "repressions and punitive operations".
Russia's state channels Rossiya 1 and Channel One have each used the term in more than 500 reports, and the word "punishers" more than 100. Their use is not universal, however. Gazprom-owned NTV has used the term sparingly, and has never used "punishers".
In Ukrainian newscasts, stories about Russia portray the country in a negative light but language has been restrained in comparison to that on Russian TV. There has also been mild criticism of the country's military commanders.
Coverage has evolved in recent days from suggestions of Russian involvement to direct accusations. Russian forces, which were previously described as "someone helping from the neighbouring state", are now openly accused of taking part in the fighting. According to one report on the 1+1 channel, Ukrainians "are being killed not only by terrorists, but also by Russia".
Pro-Russian separatists are routinely referred to as "terrorists" as Ukrainian channels follow the government line, irrespective of ownership or leaning.
Much Ukrainian coverage has been devoted to accounts of torture and kidnapping by pro-Russian fighters, and rebutting what it calls Russian media "lies" about the Ukrainian government's self-declared "anti-terrorist operation".
If the Russian stance on any issue is mentioned, it is invariably dismissed as "Kremlin propaganda" with Oleksandr Dubynskyy, a journalist working for Ukrainian 1+1 TV, referring to the Russian pro-Kremlin LifeNews rolling news channel as "liars and scoundrels".
Stronger editorial criticism of the Russian authorities can be seen away from news broadcasts, with documentaries and live discussion programmes promoting strong anti-Moscow views, and it is on live talk shows where the most outspoken views on Russia are heard.
The Freedom of Speech programme on ICTV and Shuster Live on Kiev's state-run UT1 both feature harsh criticism of Russia, voiced by numerous Ukrainian officials and politicians.
However, alternative opinions are also aired, and presenters make no attempt to block dissent.
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A cabinet statement said a voluntary recruitment drive was necessary to fill shortages in squads in the west of Anbar province.
Thousands have fled Ramadi since its capture by IS on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the US National Security Council said it was considering "how best to support local ground forces".
Spokesman Alistair Baskey told AFP that some of the measures may include "accelerating the training and equipping of local tribes and supporting an Iraqi-led operation to retake Ramadi".
A more detailed announcement could come within days.
President Barack Obama has been briefed by advisers and "reaffirmed the strong US support" for Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.
Islamic State militants have been setting up defensive positions in Ramadi, witnesses say.
After a Council of Ministers meeting on Tuesday, the Iraqi prime minister vowed to prosecute forces who fled the city in the wake of the IS attacks.
Mr Abadi said the Iraqi people needed to "stand unified" and called for voluntary recruitment to the army. He also pledged to recruit and arm tribal fighters.
Fleeing Ramadi residents face tough choices
On the frontline in Anbar province
The council also issued a fresh plea to the international community to help Iraq's "war against terrorism".
The loss of Ramadi, capital of western Anbar province, is a blow for both the Iraqi government and US strategy in the area, says the BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut.
Retaking it is a massive challenge to the Iraqi government, which has had to appeal to the Shia militias despite risks of a sectarian backlash from sending them deep into the Sunni heartland, our correspondent adds.
Some 3,000 Shia militiamen are said to be "on standby" at Habbaniyah military camp, some 20km east of Ramadi, in preparation for an attempt to recapture the city.
The United Nations says some 25,000 people have fled the area in recent days, with many having to sleep in the open.
Streets in the city are deserted, but some shops have been forced to open by IS fighters.
Militants were also going door-to-door looking for government sympathisers and throwing bodies in the Euphrates river, residents said.
Fans fear Clwb Ifor Bach in the city centre could close after permission was granted for a hotel redevelopment nearby.
Kevin Brennan and Jo Stevens want special designation for such areas to restrict residential schemes.
The Welsh Government said the "cultural contribution" of music venues was being considered in a review of planning law.
More than 7,000 people have signed a petition to save live music in Womanby Street, a prime site for new developments opposite Cardiff Castle.
It is already home to several venues, including Clwb Ifor Bach, and is the base for the annual Swn festival.
Nearby venues Dempseys and the Full Moon have recently closed for redevelopment, while Clwb Ifor Bach has learnt of a plan to convert a neighbouring derelict site into flats.
The MPs also pointed to the demise of The Point in Cardiff Bay in 2009, which closed following complaints about noise from residents of flats built after the venue opened.
Cardiff West MP Mr Brennan, a Labour shadow arts minister and keen guitarist, said: "As a regular performing musician it's important to me that our city can continue to hold its reputation as a great location for live music.
"Festivals like Swn are the place where many bands from Wales and beyond have cut their teeth.
"I would hate to see opportunities like this squandered away to placate the residential developers looking for a quick buck in Cardiff city centre."
Cardiff Central Labour MP Ms Stevens added: "To see the quality and variety of live music compromised due to unnecessary and inappropriate development would be disastrous for Cardiff's live music scene and reputation.
"I want to see a change to planning laws that will enable us to retain this very special place in the city and keep live music in Cardiff."
Cardiff council said a pub given permission to turn its upper floors into a hotel had been told to install sound proofing to keep out noise from the road, neighbouring venues and the pub itself.
A spokesman added there was little scope in current planning law to consider the cultural nature of an area.
"The Mayor of London is proposing to recognise 'an area of cultural significance for music' in parts of the capital but, in Wales, this term isn't recognised in the current Planning Policy Framework," he said.
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "Planning Policy Wales is currently being reviewed and Welsh Government officials have already met with the Music Venues Trust in relation to this issue.
"The cultural contribution of music venues is acknowledged and this is being given consideration as part of the review of policy."
Earlier this month the court had asked for the numbers during a hearing on the decriminalisation of gay sex in India.
A 2009 Delhi High Court ruling that decriminalised same-sex relationships is being challenged.
Many political, social and religious groups want the 19th Century colonial-era law reinstated.
The figures filed by the Ministry of Health were compiled by India's National Aids Control Programme.
The Aids programme has already reached 200,000 men in same-sex relationships and the hope is to raise that number to 400,000.
The prevalence of HIV in the group is 6.54%-7.23%.
But overall, the number of HIV-infected people in India is just 0.2% of the population as the country's Aids control programme has been successful in reducing the number of new infections.
Last month, the Supreme Court criticised the government for its shifting stand on the issue of decriminalising gay sex.
This was after a senior government lawyer, PP Malhotra, told the court that homosexuality was unnatural and immoral.
Within hours, the home ministry disowned the lawyer's statement and said he had read from an out-of-date file.
The health ministry then stated that it supported the 2009 Delhi High Court order decriminalising gay sex.
Judges GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhyaya criticised the government for not doing its "homework" on the case and ordered the government to provide a count of the country's homosexual population for the next hearing.
"You should have done your homework before coming to the court," they told an official.
The 2009 ruling decriminalising gay sex was welcomed by India's gay community, which said the judgement would help protect them from harassment and persecution.
Many people in India still regard same-sex relationships as illegitimate, but rights groups have long argued that the law contravened human rights.
Section 377 of the colonial Indian Penal Code defined homosexual acts as "carnal intercourse against the order of nature" and made them illegal.
But the Delhi High Court said the law was discriminatory and gay sex between consenting adults should not be treated as a crime. Until the high court ruling, homosexual acts were punishable by a 10-year prison term.
The pilot of the single-engine aircraft was headed toward Boise Airport when he encountered a problem with the fuel tanks and the engine stopped working.
The plane "belly" landed on Interstate 84 - about a mile from the airport - without its landing gear deployed.
No-one was hurt in the crash, which snarled traffic for several hours.
Andy Patrick, owner of Boise-based charter business SP Aircraft, said the pilot was the only one on board the plane.
Mr Patrick said the plane, which was travelling from Seattle, Washington, was hauling cargo.
Taittinger has teamed up with British wine agent Hatch Mansfield and private investors to buy 69 hectares of farmland near Chilham.
Stone Stile Farm has chalk soil and south-facing slopes up to 80 metres above sea level.
It is said to be ideal for Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier vines.
The wine, which will be ready to bottle in five years, will be named Domaine Evremond after Charles de Saint-Evremond, a 17th century ambassador for Champagne who is said to have helped popularise it in England.
English sparkling wine cannot be called Champagne because the name is protected under EU law for wines harvested and produced in the Champagne region of France.
But British vineyards such as Nyetimber in West Sussex, Chapel Down in Kent and Denbies in Surrey produce award-winning wines on chalky soil similar to that found in the Champagne region.
"We believe we can produce a high quality English sparkling wine, drawing on our 80 years of wine-making expertise," said Taittinger president Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger.
"Our aim is to make something of real excellence in the UK's increasingly temperate climate, and not to compare it with Champagne or any other sparkling wine.
"Our family has already had considerable success planting sparkling wine vineyards in the USA in 1987.
"We hope to replicate this success in the UK."
M Taittinger's father, Jean, twinned Canterbury with Reims when he was mayor of the French city more than 45 years ago.
Can't think why.
Granite muscles and stomachs of steel are out, they say. What's in is something, well, a bit more cuddly - the dad bod.
Suitably squidgy, bear-like if bulging, it is the kind of body that looks lived in rather than worked on.
With a dad bod, that paunch ceases to be a button-bursting embarrassment and becomes a swelling asset in the dating game.
Really?
What the dad bod Twitter storm tells us is that the human body remains a battleground.
What reason did those women give for favouring the ample-bodied over the agile-bodied?
Well, Mackenzie Pearson, a student who arguably coined the phrase dad bod, said it was a "perfect balance between a beer gut and working out".
I'm fine with the first bit.
"We don't want a guy that makes us feel insecure about our bodies. We are insecure enough as it is."
Her argument essentially: "No one wants to cuddle a rock."
But why is it a choice between having a sculpted, muscle-bulging body and a bulging bulging-body?
What's so wrong with normal healthy?
And why has liberating women, and increasingly men, from the pressure to look perfect ended with us embracing the jelly-belly as a positive?
Now don't get me wrong, I am far from stick thin and certainly not rippling with muscle but I - personally - don't want to be told that my spreading waistline is just a perception problem. It's not!
I don't want to man up and love that girth. It's not good for me and I shouldn't accept it.
So, while there is pressure on young men and women to look like models there is another equally pernicious trend emerging - the normalisation of obesity.
Put simply, there is so much of it around these days we have just got used to it.
Stroll down any British beach, peep into any children's playground and the UK health crisis is plain to see.
A quarter of children are now overweight or obese and the figures for adults are much, much worse.
Some of those people, unless their lives change, will die younger than they should.
They'll have less agile lives and possibly health complications later, so yes, it is a problem.
Now it's also clear that many large, or should I say fat, people suffer cruel and degrading treatment.
When a video was posted online recently of Liverpudlian Sean O'Brien strutting his stuff on the dance floor he became the butt of a vicious internet bullying campaign.
Sean was quite a dancer. He was also seriously obese and so - as it happens - he had quite a lot of stuff to strut.
But the nastiness backfired. A group of supporters soon joined by entertainers came together to organise a party for the so-called Dancing Man who then flew to Los Angeles to join in.
He even appeared on US TV. So Sean - now buoyed up by public support - enjoyed five minutes of fame.
The cruelty brought people to his side.
One of the performers who rallied to the cause was Meghan Trainor.
Her hit single All About That Bass is an anthem in doo-wop style, celebrating the fuller figure.
Again - I'm hiding behind euphemism - some of the people dancing in her video are clearly overweight.
So why has accepting human difference morphed again into normalising the unhealthy?
So how do we pick our way through this ethical minefield?
Clearly some people have medical conditions which lead them to gain weight and human bodies also change with age too.
And some would also say it is for the individual to decide what to do with their own bodies. It's a fair point.
But surely we have to find a way of respecting and accepting people of all shapes and sizes without minimising even eulogising bad health decisions.
Obesity can kill.
We should show solidarity and understanding for its victims but we should not learn to love it.
Darren Adie, 42, was found unconscious on a Kirkcaldy street on Saturday 28 May and later died in hospital.
His father, John Adie, 67, said: "We're devastated. Imagine what his kids will feel like growing up knowing their father was murdered and left lying in the street."
Crimestoppers is offering a reward of up to £10,000 for information.
Mr Adie was found unconscious on Tweed Avenue near the junction of Lawson Street at about 18:.45 on 28 May.
Speaking about the person who murdered their son, Mr Adie said: "I'd say to them to do the right thing.
"Anyone who knows them, do the right thing and get in touch with the police.
"We want to bury our son and we can't do that until his killer has been arrested."
Mr Adie said Darren's two brothers and sister had been left "devastated" by his death and that it had "ruined their life".
Det Ch Insp Raymond Brown said there had been 100 sightings of Darren Adie on 28 May.
He said: "That Saturday was the night of the Champions League final between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid.
"At 6pm that night he was in the Overton Mains area and was shouting on a person named Kelly - this may be a male or female and we need them to come forward.
"He went down to Overton Road and was in Valente's chip shop before moving through the housing estate there.
"He was speaking to a white male in his 40s with a bald head, wearing a blue T-shirt and grey joggers."
Det Ch Insp Brown said Mr Adie then moved away towards Tweed Avenue, walking past two separate couples.
He said the man was aged 20-30, of chubby build, who had short, brown hair and was wearing a white vest and grey jogging bottoms and walked with a limp.
The woman was of slim build with brown, shoulder-length hair with a red tint through it.
The second couple was a man and woman in their 20s who were pushing a double buggy in Tweed Avenue.
The officer said another man police wanted to trace may have given Mr Adie some help. He was wearing a grey hoodie and jogging bottoms.
The British Museum in London is loaning the Mildenhall Great Dish to Ipswich's Christchurch Mansion, from 26 July until 31 October.
The 34-piece Mildenhall silver collection is in the British Museum's top 10 list of British treasures.
A replica set of the collection has been permanently on display at Mildenhall Museum since 2001.
The Mildenhall Treasure is believed to date from the 4th Century.
The solid silver dish, which depicts the myth of Bacchus, is 24in (60cm) in diameter.
It will be displayed with other Roman Suffolk treasures including the Wickham Market gold coin hoard, the Cavenham crowns and the Holbrook horse harness pendants.
Jayne Austin, development manager at Ipswich Museums, which runs Christchuch Mansion, said: "Treasures such as this automatically went to the British Museum but they are leading the way in making collections more accessible around the country.
"The British Museum is working with us to help support the ongoing development of Ipswich Museums.
"This is a great opportunity for people to see this beautiful item free of charge in the local area."
Norma Chapman, a trustee at Mildenhall Museum, said: "We're still not sure about its significance and mystery surrounds who owned it, although it was obviously a very important, wealthy person who had tableware like this.
"We're hoping people might be inspired to visit our collection after seeing the original."
Writing on Instagram, the 47-year-old accused people involved in the film for having a lack of respect towards Shakur's legacy.
"Tupac was much more than a hip hop artist... He was a black man guided by his passions," Singleton wrote.
The Boyz n the Hood director has been replaced by Carl Franklin.
Shakur was one of the most popular hip hop artists of all time, selling millions of records around the world.
He also appeared in several films, including Poetic Justice directed by Singleton.
He died in September 1996 in Las Vegas after being shot four times by an unidentified assailant.
Singleton said he now planned to make his own rival film about Shakur.
"The reason I am not making this picture is because the people involved aren't really respectful of the legacy of Tupac Amaru Shakur," Singleton said.
"To Pac's real fans just know I am still planning a movie on Tupac. It doesn't matter what they do mines (sic.) will be better... Of most importance was his love of black people and culture... Something the people involved in this movie know nothing about."
Shooting is expected to begin in August or September, according to Greg Mielcarz, a spokesman for producers Morgan Creek.
Mr Mielcarz told Variety that Singleton left the project over creative differences several months ago.
HSBC closed the account of St Nicholas in Harpenden at the start of February.
It accused church staff of repeatedly failing to provide up-to-date details of individuals involved in the church's finances, which it said was vital to fight money-laundering and fraud.
The church says the bank has since reopened the account and apologised.
The "giving account" is used by the church for hundreds of parishioners to make donations by standing order, and has a monthly turnover of nearly £20,000.
Church volunteers say that initially they could not understand why the information was being requested, and assumed it did not apply to them.
When they did realise, they say the bank offered little support. In the end, it gave them a final deadline and then closed the account.
HSBC did reopen the account at the end of last week after speaking to officials from St Nicholas, and has promised to try to work with the church to resolve the situation.
As a result of the closure, many standing orders have bounced, and the church was forced to write to parishioners to ask them to pay the missing money by cheque instead.
"We've had this account for a very long time," says the Rev Linda Williams. "Many of our parishioners are now worried, asking, 'Where is my money? Where is my standing order?'"
She says the giving account is vital for the church's finances.
"The big thing at this time of year is our utility bills. If we have a cash-flow problem, we'll have to take the money out of reserves, and we can't continue like that."
Church treasurer Peter Timms is furious at HSBC's actions.
"I personally think the bank have been acting like little dictators," he says.
"This was very heavy-handed treatment, particularly for a charity run by volunteers. Banks should know their customers, and exercise a bit of common sense. If they're concerned, they should speak to us properly."
The details demanded were part of HSBC's controversial Safeguard programme.
It was set up in response to the bank being fined £1.2bn in 2012, over money laundering and sanctions busting. As a result, it agreed to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on a global "know-your-customer" programme.
This in turn meant many existing retail and business customers were asked for detailed personal information, with the warning of account restrictions and closures if they failed to comply.
Money Box has heard from other HSBC retail customers, charities and businesses angry at the level of information being demanded and the threatening letters they have received.
Some have had accounts closed or restricted. Others have moved their banking elsewhere in protest.
Dennis Stamps, the rector of St Nicholas, admits the church should have responded to the requests sooner, although he still doesn't understand why an existing customer would be asked for such detailed information.
"The person handling this account is an accountant by training, but she couldn't understand why the form was being sent to us, and how it applied to our particular charity.
"When we got another letter she was still perplexed about the information really being requested, so she inquired about that."
He also accuses the bank of failing to be supportive.
"When we realised we were struggling to complete the forms they wanted, we asked for an extension on closing the account, but the account was closed."
HSBC said it would not comment on specific accounts, but said Safeguard was designed to protect customers' own interests by aiming to detect and protect against financial crime.
"This includes asking existing customers to provide additional information about themselves and the intended nature of their business with HSBC to make sure that our records are up-to-date and accurate," the bank said.
"While we understand this may cause some inconvenience for our customers, it is an important step we need to take to protect our customers' interests.
"Where a customer doesn't supply all of the information that we have asked of them, HSBC may be forced to close the customer's account."
The All-Party group on International Development (APGID) has launched a toilet twinning initiative.
As a result, two toilets have been twinned with two newly built latrines in Uganda - funded by MLAs.
SDLP MLA Claire Hanna, who chairs the group, explained the idea behind the unusual concept.
"In Northern Ireland we generally take the availability of toilets for granted but, in many parts of the world, a lack of adequate water and sanitation leads to disease and can prevent girls, in particular, from accessing education," she said.
"By twinning these toilets we hope to remind MLAs, staff and visitors to the building of this need around the world," she added.
Gareth Vincent Hall, 22, a lifeguard from Caernarfon, is being held in the city of Eugene, Oregon.
The FBI is concerned that Mr Hall travelled to other US states.
FBI spokesperson Gerald Dezsofi told BBC Wales that the bureau was asking for help from people in the US.
"Obviously we are concerned that since Mr Hall travelled to other states, that there is potential for other victims," said Mr Dezfosi.
He said the FBI was "putting the information out there to as many people as possible".
"Law enforcement agencies are working together to gather as much facts as possible," he added.
Detective Jed McGuire, of Eugene Police, told a press conference that apparently Mr Hall had been going to another part of the US to meet somebody and officers were still looking into it.
Anyone with information has been urged to contact the FBI in Oregon.
Mr Hall, who worked at Arfon Leisure Centre in Caernarfon, was suspended last October by his employer, Gwynedd council, following a separate criminal investigation by North Wales Police.
North Wales Police had earlier confirmed that a 22-year-old man from Talysarn was arrested in October "on suspicion of offences committed online and remains on police bail".
Asked about latest developments, North Wales Police told BBC Wales: "The investigation into the 22-year-old man from the Talysarn area is ongoing. North Wales Police are liaising with police in America."
Mr Hall is said by US police to have flown to Oregon in April where he hired a car and then took the girl to a hotel. He was arrested trying to re-enter the US on 2 May at O'Hare Airport, Chicago, and charged with rape, kidnap and other serious sexual offences.
He is due to appear in court in the US on 10 June. Bail has been set at $1.5m (£956,000).
Gwynedd council has said that it cannot comment on the details of the police investigations in north Wales or the US. But it said "all relevant child protection procedures have been followed by the council in the management of this case."
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The Leicester City frontman enhanced his growing reputation with a 30-yard shot that flew past Reds keeper Simon Mignolet on Tuesday.
It was the first of two goals for the England international in a 2-0 win.
Speaking ahead of Saturday's match with Manchester City, Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri said the goal was "amazing - you can put him with Van Basten".
Dutch great Van Basten scored some brilliant goals in his career, including a memorable volley against the USSR in the final of the 1988 European Championship.
Running away from goal and towards the byeline on the right-hand side of the penalty area, he showed amazing technique and awareness to fire his volley over goalkeeper Rinat Dasayev from a tight angle.
The strike helped give the Netherlands a 2-0 win in the final.
Radio 5 live football daily - Ranieri assesses Vardy's form.
Meanwhile, Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino says Vardy is as good as his own Harry Kane and Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero.
Vardy is the Premier League's top scorer this season with 18, three above fellow England striker Kane in joint second.
Argentine Aguero, who cost City a reported £38m in 2011, won last season's Golden Boot with 26 goals.
"Today Vardy and Kane show big quality and the same quality as Aguero," Pochettino said.
"They are all different and come from different circumstances but today Vardy and Kane are at the same level as Aguero."
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French President Francois Hollande has warned that "everything must be done" to keep Greece in the eurozone.
Greek PM Alexis Tsipras set out new proposals in a bid to prevent a default on a €1.6bn (£1.1bn) IMF loan.
Greece must repay the loan by the end of June or risk crashing out of the single currency and possibly the EU.
Talks have been in deadlock for five months, with the European Commission, the IMF and the European Central Bank (ECB) unwilling to unlock the final €7.2bn tranche of bailout funds until Greece agrees to economic reforms they want to see introduced.
The head of the European Commission president's cabinet, Martin Selmayr, said on Twitter that Greece's latest proposal had been received by the country's creditors.
He said it represented a "good basis for progress" before comparing the discussions on a deal to a forceps delivery childbirth.
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Athens on Sunday evening in support of its left-wing government, which came to power off the back of an anti-austerity promise.
They are angered by austerity measures imposed by Greece's lenders in the two previous bailouts, which saw wages and pensions slashed and left one in four Greeks unemployed.
Rallies were also staged in Brussels and Amsterdam in solidarity with the people of Greece.
Prime Minister Tsipras is scheduled to meet the heads of Greece's three international creditors on Monday, ahead of his meeting with the leaders of 18 other eurozone nations in Brussels on Monday.
On Sunday, he made a new offer on a reforms package to the leaders of Germany, France and the European Commission, in what some see as a sign of the Greek government's willingness to make concessions.
The proposals, which Mr Tsipras described as "mutually beneficial", were adopted at an emergency meeting of the Greek cabinet - though they have yet to be revealed.
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has urged both sides to seize a "window of opportunity".
The head of Greece's biggest bank, Louka Katseli, earlier said it would be "insane" not to reach an agreement in Brussels on Monday.
The National Bank of Greece chief said while the banks were not under immediate threat of running out of money, the situation was serious and without a deal would become severe.
However, she said she thought it unlikely that Greece would be forced to leave the eurozone, saying the cost would be too high for other eurozone nations.
Meanwhile the ECB is reportedly due to hold a separate meeting on Monday to decide on whether to raise the level of emergency funding for Greek banks, after it approved an emergency loan on Friday.
It comes amid reports of Greek savers withdrawing billions of euros in recent days, putting Greece's banking system under intense pressure.
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Withdrawals between last Monday and Friday reportedly reached about €4.2bn, representing about 3% of household and corporate deposits held by Greek banks at the end of April.
But Greek banks are expected to open as normal on Monday following the ECB loan.
Greece's lenders want to see Athens implement a series of economic changes in areas such as pensions, VAT and on the budget surplus before releasing the funds, which have been delayed since February.
The emergency summit of the leaders of 19 EU leaders was agreed late last week.
Even before the meeting takes place, Greece's three creditors need to come to some sort of deal with Athens.
That would act as a springboard for more intense discussions at the summit on Monday. So, needless to say, if Greece and the creditors do not strike a deal, there will not be much to talk about.
The deadline for Greece to pay back a slice of its loan is 30 June - so why the panic to get things resolved by 22 June?
The simple answer is time.
Just agreeing a deal and arranging how the money is transferred is a complicated affair - one that could not be finalised with hours to go.
On top of that, a separate European Council summit is scheduled for Thursday and Friday, and its agenda is packed. That meeting will take up a lot of the time of those who would need to be on hand to discuss Greece.
In theory, if no deal is struck on Monday, there is still a week to get things resolved.
The victim, in his late teens, was attacked at about 23:10 BST on Friday in an alleyway near Heron Way on Lakeside Retail Park, Thurrock, Essex.
His attacker, described as white, with dark clothes, fled the scene.
Det Insp Hayley King said it was a "serious incident".
"I would urge anybody who may have seen anything suspicious or who noticed a man hanging around the area before or after the time of the assault to contact us immediately," she said.
She added she would like to hear from anyone who has found the victim's missing card-style wallet containing train tickets.
The Tynemouth RNLI lifeboat went to the aid of the Spirit of the Tyne at 23:30 GMT as it made its final crossing between North and South Shields.
Three passengers and two crew were rescued by the Port of Tyne pilot boat before the ferry, manned only by the captain, was blown into a riverbank.
The lifeboat then towed the ferry back to port.
An RNLI spokesman said the lifeboat almost became grounded itself because of the extreme wind caused by Storm Desmond.
There was further drama as the two vessels returned to the South Shields ferry landing when the two rope parted and the powerless ferry was once again carried away,
Eventually the lifeboat crew got the ferry under tow again and assisted by the crew of the pilot launch, got it safely tied up on the landing.
Adrian Don, spokesman for Tynemouth RNLI lifeboat station, said it was a "short but incredibly difficult and dramatic rescue in a howling gale".
He said: "Coxswain Michael Nugent and his volunteer crew used their extensive experience, training, determination, and every last reserve of the lifeboat's powerful engines to rescue the ferry and bring it and its skipper to safety.
"Thankfully, no-one was hurt in the incident."
Nexus, who run the ferry, said an investigation will now be held.
The firm said: "The Shields Ferry has a very good safety record and our crew train for these type incidents all the time.
"Our thanks go to the Port of Tyne pilot boat crew and the lifeboat crew for coming to our aid."
The BBC is running a Local Live page providing updates on the weather and flooding.
The suit alleges that Armstrong defrauded the government by cheating while riding for the publicly funded US Postal Service team.
It was filed by Armstrong's former team-mate Floyd Landis before being joined by the government in 2013.
A federal judge refused to block the lawsuit on Monday, which clears the way for the case to go to trial.
Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life in August 2012.
The 45-year-old won the seven titles between 1999 and 2005. The US Postal Service sponsored the team between 1996 and 2004.
Armstrong admitted to using drugs in all seven of his Tour wins in January 2013 while Landis was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title for failing a doping test.
John Cowbrough, 47, from Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, and James Wilson, 53, from Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire, were jailed at the High Court in Edinburgh.
They were found guilty last month of extortion between 1 January 2013 and 1 March 2013.
Between 22 April 2014 and 9 May 2014 they attempted to extort £375,000.
They sent their victim, a property developer from Inverkeithing, anonymous letters in which they threatened to kill members of his family unless he paid £60,000. The letters were spelled out with letters cut from newspapers.
They then made anonymous phone calls in which they pretended that the letters had been sent to him by dangerous criminals and the threats would stop once the funds had been handed over. They instructed him where and when to deposit the money.
The property developer then confided in Wilson, who was a work colleague and friend of 20 years, unknowing that he was in fact behind the threats.
Wilson offered his services as a courier, telling his victim he would safely transport the money to those who were demanding it.
The property developer agreed to this plan and handed over the £60,000 which was then kept by Wilson and Cowbrough.
Between 22 April 2014 and 9 May 2014, the pair again attempted to extort the property developer, this time sending anonymous hand-stencilled letters threatening violence against him and members of his family unless he paid £375,000.
Again the property developer received numerous anonymous telephone calls, promising that the threats would stop once the money had been handed over.
Becoming concerned about the level of their knowledge of his movements, the property developer reported it to the police.
Following their conviction, proceeds of crime actions have now begun against the pair, and are next due to call for a first Procedural Hearing on 8 February 2016 at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Kenny Donnelly, procurator fiscal for High Court cases in the East of Scotland, said: "Blackmail and extortion of this sort can have a profound financial and emotional impact on its victim.
"I would encourage anyone who receives threatening material of this nature not to suffer in silence.
"Scotland's police and prosecutors will deal with any such allegations with the sensitivity they deserve, and will make every effort to ensure that the perpetrators are apprehended and brought to face the full force of the law."
Nouri, 20, suffered "cardiac arrhythmias" - heart rhythm problems - against Werder Bremen on Saturday.
On Monday, Ajax said tests showed his "heart is functioning normally".
A brain scan since has not detected "any anomalies" and the Dutch club said more detailed testing will be carried out when he is conscious.
The Amsterdam-born player is in hospital in Austria - where the friendly was played - and is expected to be out of the coma in the next 24 hours.
He was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Innsbruck after his collapse and on Sunday, the 33-time Dutch champions said the Moroccan was "out of danger".
Nouri played 15 league and cup games for Ajax in 2016-17, scoring one goal in a Dutch Cup tie.
Gary Burchett is standing down from the helm of the Tories in Aberconwy, citing personal and business reasons.
During the campaign he argued with Guto Bebb, re-elected as the area's MP.
Mr Bebb called Mr Burchett an "idiot" and "a disgrace" for accusing him of not doing enough to support the local party.
Mr Burchett had told Mr Bebb he had "spent the last 18 months making excuses" for him.
The row had broken out in a series of emails leaked to the Golwg360 website and seen by BBC Wales.
They are angry about moves by the British government to ban the use of the leafy substance from this July.
Last year, the UK government decided - against some expert advice - to treat khat as a class C drug to "protect vulnerable members of our communities".
It is traditionally used by Ethiopian, Kenyan, Somali and Yemeni communities.
The mildly narcotic leaf - a herbal stimulant - is already banned in most of Europe and in a number of other countries, including the US and Canada.
The MPs say that the British move will force almost two million people out of jobs in Meru, which is one of Kenya's 47 counties and lies to the north-east of Mt Kenya.
It is not clear how many British nationals own farms in Meru.
But the MPs say they have about a quarter of the farmland in Meru, including wheat and barley farms.
Florence Kajuju, one of the MPs behind the motion, said the government had the right to compulsorily buy property for later public use.
The arable land in Meru owned by UK farmers should be made available to locals as areas used to grow khat could not be used for other crops, she said.
"If they cannot allow us to access their market then they should also then be willing to let go of tracts of land that could be occupied by the Meru people," Ms Kajuju told the BBC.
She said Kenyans were used to fighting for their rights as they had had to do so to gain independence from Britain.
Correspondents say even if the motion was passed by MPs it is unlikely the government would implement it given its policy of accommodating foreign investors.
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Ms Kajuju travelled to the UK last year to appeal for the ban not to be enforced, saying it was important that the British government was not duped by a misinformation campaign.
Khat was not only of economic importance but of cultural significance to many Africans, she said.
Last year, the UK's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) said there was "insufficient evidence" that khat caused health problems although regular users suffered withdrawal symptoms.
It also said that there was also "no evidence" that khat, made from leaves and shoots of a shrub cultivated in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, was directly linked with serious or organised crime.
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Nadal, seeded fourth, beat the Belgian ninth seed 7-6 (7-3) 6-2 after Djokovic earlier had a walkover when Kei Nishikori withdrew with a wrist injury.
In the other half of the draw, Uruguay's Pablo Cuevas will play Dominic Thiem.
Third seed Simona Halep beat Anastasija Sevastova 6-2 6-3 in the women's semis.
The Romanian defending champion goes on to face France's Kristina Mladenovic - who saw off Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-4 7-6 (7-3) - in the final.
Nine-time French Open champion Nadal has lost his past seven matches against Djokovic stretching back to 2014, and trails the head-to-head 26-23 in their 49 meetings.
However, the Spaniard will go into Saturday's semi-final as the form player after taking his record on clay this year to 13-0 with an impressive win over Goffin.
Nadal, 30, broke the Belgian's resolve in the first-set tie-break and could have won more comfortably had he converted more than just two of 13 break points.
Djokovic is into his first semi-final since he won his opening tournament of the year in Doha, while Nishikori is struggling to be fit for next week's Rome Masters and the French Open in 10 days' time.
"I will plan to play Rome, but we'll see," said the Japanese player.
"I cannot promise to play or pull out right now. The French is more important."
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Mr Mitchell, who resigned from his post over the incident in Downing Street, has called for a full inquiry.
On Tuesday, Channel 4 News accused the officer of falsely claiming to have seen the events in an email to his MP.
The Metropolitan Police Federation later strongly denied any "conspiracy".
Channel 4 News alleged the police officer posed as a member of the public who witnessed the row in which Mr Mitchell was said to have called police "plebs".
Mr Mitchell has always denied using the word but has admitted he had lost his temper and swore at the officers after they refused to let him cycle through the main gate to Downing Street.
A spokesman for No 10 said of the latest claims: "Any allegations that a serving police officer posed as a member of the public and fabricated evidence against a cabinet minister are exceptionally serious.
"It is therefore essential that the police get to the bottom of this as a matter of urgency."
He added: "We welcome [Metropolitan Police commissioner] Bernard Hogan-Howe's commitment to achieve that aim."
John Tully, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, which represents officers in the Met Police, said: "The Metropolitan Police Federation unequivocally and categorically refutes any allegation that it was part of a conspiracy to unseat a cabinet minister."
A Diplomatic Protection Squad officer was arrested on Saturday by officers investigating how national newspapers came to publish police records of the incident.
Although the arrested officer was not on duty at the time, they claimed to have witnessed the incident - a claim now being probed by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
The Conservative MP told Channel 4 News he had been "really shocked" to learn of its allegations that the original newspaper coverage of the claim he had used the word "pleb" had been corroborated by the email from the officer pretending to be an eyewitness.
"I always knew that the emails were false, although extremely convincing," Mr Mitchell, MP for Sutton Coldfield, said.
"If you'd told me on 19 September [the night of the row] that the experience I have had since then, the revelations that have since come to light, could take place in Britain today, I simply would not have believed you.
"And it's certainly shaken my lifelong support and confidence in the police.
"I believe now that there should be a full inquiry so that we can get to the bottom of this, so that everyone can have confidence that this sort of thing won't happen again."
London Mayor Boris Johnson said: "An allegation that a serving police officer posed as a member of the public whilst fabricating evidence is a matter of the utmost gravity.
"I know that the Metropolitan Police Commissioner is committed to establishing the truth here, as soon as possible."
BBC political editor Nick Robinson said Mr Johnson's comments were the first time there had been suggestion of a conspiracy involving police officers.
Channel 4 News broadcast CCTV footage which it said cast doubt on the official police log of the night of the row.
The footage shows the MP with his bicycle talking to three officers by the main gate at Downing Street for about 20 seconds. He then wheels it over to the side gate and exits.
Mr Mitchell said on Channel 4 News that his first reaction was "there's not really much of an altercation" when the story about his dealings with the police emerged.
"There were three phrases above all which were hung around my neck for the following 28 days every day in the press which were used to destroy my political career and were used to toxify the Conservative Party," he added.
Before the footage was broadcast, Mr Hogan-Howe had told the BBC that he had seen no reason to doubt the original claims by the Downing Street police officers.
MP Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, said he planned to write to the Met commissioner to ask for a full explanation of what happened.
Mr Mitchell told Channel 4 News he would never call anyone the name which he was accused of using, adding, "anyone who know me well would know that it is absolutely not in me to use phrases like that".
Asked why he did not give a more detailed account earlier, Mr Mitchell said: "Well, when the story broke, the decision was made that I would apologise for what I did say, and my apology was accepted; there was no police complaints and that we would let it lie.
"Now with the benefit of hindsight, that was clearly the wrong decision."
Following the airing of the Channel 4 News report, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt tweeted: "Incredibly concerned at v serious C4 Dispatches suggestion that A Mitchell was stitched up, never believed he used p-word anyway."
Conservative MP David Davis told the BBC: "He has suffered a real injustice. His reputation has been traduced, he's lost his job, his career's come to an end and to all intents and purposes that's pretty tough on the basis of something that may not now be quite the way it looked at the beginning." | Allegations that a police officer falsely claimed to have witnessed former Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell calling police "plebs" are "exceptionally serious", No 10 says. | 20,775,071 | 1,116 | 38 | false |
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