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McGowan was a free agent after the Buddies decided not to offer him a new deal.
And the club have beaten off competition to secure McGinn, who was voted into the Championship team of the year last term.
"I'm delighted both have agreed to join," said Dundee boss Paul Hartley.
The Dens Park men are gearing up for their return to Scotland's top flight, after winning the Championship last term.
McGowan, who spent four years at St Mirren, started his career at Celtic where he played alongside his new boss Hartley.
"He was always good with me so it was a big factor in me joining," said the 26-year-old.
"I was shocked to be released by St. Mirren. My mobile kept ringing from the next day but I didn't answer as I didn't know the number.
"It turned out to be Paul [Hartley] and I met him and Scot Gardiner [chief executive] on the West Coast and they sold me on the club and team, I was convinced from then and it was just a matter of getting the deal done."
And the manager was also a key factor in the capture of McGinn.
"I was flattered by a lot of clubs showing interest in me but speaking to Paul Hartley made my mind up," said the 23-year-old right back.
Clarke, 31, who has played two Test matches and 20 one-day internationals for England, started his career with his native Surrey.
Having left to join Derbyshire, he then moved on to Edgbaston in 2008.
Guildford-born Clarke is now contracted to remain with the Bears until at least the end of the 2017 season.
Clarke had not represented his country since 2006 but his form last summer both in first-class and one-day cricket earned him a place in the England Lions tour squad.
And he was one of six Bears players selected earlier this month for the provisional 30-man England one-day squad for this summer's Champions Trophy.
More to follow.
Summit chairman Donald Tusk said 40,000 would be relocated to other EU states over the next two years.
No agreement on a proposed quota system has been reached at the summit.
The Greek debt crisis is also on the summit's agenda. Greece and its international creditors remain deadlocked after talks on Thursday.
Earlier, Mr Tusk called on EU member states to share the burden of the boat loads of illegal migrants who have crossed the Mediterranean.
New figures from the UN refugee agency UNHCR show that 63,000 migrants have arrived in Greece by sea this year and 62,000 in Italy.
"Leaders agreed that 40,000 persons in need will be relocated from Greece and Italy to other states over the next two years," Mr Tusk told reporters. "Interior ministers will finalise the scheme by the end of July."
Leaders also agreed to resettle another 20,000 refugees from outside the EU.
The BBC's Damian Grammaticas in Brussels says Hungary, which has seen thousands of migrants cross its border by land, and Bulgaria, one of the EU's poorest countries, have both been granted exemptions.
The UK has opted out of the scheme, while nations in eastern Europe refused to accept set quotas, so it will be only voluntary. This angered Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who called the plan "modest".
Italy has sought more help from its EU partners to handle the boatloads of migrants.
The migrant crisis has been high on the agenda for the EU summit, which opened on Thursday.
153,000
migrants counted on Europe's borders
149% increase from 2014
63,000 migrants reached Greece by sea
62,000 migrants reached Italy by sea
10,000 on Hungary/Serbia border in May
Why is EU struggling with migrants and asylum?
EU summit: Greece and migrants to dominate agenda
The crisis is being fuelled by the many Syrians fleeing the civil war in their country.
More than three million refugees are being housed in countries on Syria's borders - far more than the EU has taken in.
But many thousands are also fleeing chaos, violence and dire poverty in Eritrea, Somalia and other countries of sub-Saharan Africa.
Meanwhile, the impasse in the Greek debt talks has threatened to overshadow the summit.
Only once agreement on economic reforms is reached between Greece and its creditors - the European Commission, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - will the final €7.2bn tranche of bailout funds be released to Greece.
The cash-strapped country must make a €1.6bn (£1.1bn) IMF debt repayment by Tuesday or face default and a possible exit from the euro.
On Thursday, a meeting of eurozone finance ministers also broke up without progress on the issue.
It was the fourth time in a week that the Eurogroup had met in an attempt to prevent a Greek debt default. They will meet again on Saturday.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that meeting would be "decisive" in finding a solution.
IMF head Christine Lagarde said lenders had been presented with a counter-proposal by the Greek parties "at the last hour" on Thursday and needed more time to assess it, Reuters reported.
Also during Thursday's talks, UK Prime Minister David Cameron outlined his plans to renegotiate the terms of Britain's membership of the EU.
Mr Tusk said EU leaders should consider British concerns but "only in a way that is safe for all of Europe".
Can Greece stay in the euro?
Chris Morris: Tsipras may face impossible choice
How did Greece get in this mess?
Jagendra Singh died on Monday, a week after he was allegedly set on fire by a group of men in Uttar Pradesh state.
The attack happened after he published an article and posted allegations of corruption on Facebook against ruling party politician Ram Murti Singh Verma.
Police have registered a complaint of murder and criminal conspiracy against Mr Verma, who denies the charges.
Jagendra Singh's family has alleged that Mr Verma and a group of policemen assaulted the 42-year-old journalist at his home and then doused him with petrol and set him on fire.
A local police official claimed that Mr Singh had "committed suicide" when the police arrived at his house in Shahjahanpur district to "arrest him" in connection with a case.
Amnesty International has urged the government of Uttar Pradesh to launch an independent investigation into the incident.
"This horrific attack highlights the dangers that journalists can face in doing their jobs," Shemeer Babu of Amnesty International India said in a statement.
Although police have opened a case against Mr Verma and five others in connection with the incident, no arrests have been made yet.
"We have booked the minister for murder and criminal conspiracy and the investigations are on," Vijay Singh Meena, a senior state police official, told AFP news agency.
The Press Council of India (PCI) also called for a special investigation into the incident, saying the incident was "an attack on freedom of press".
Journalists often face harassment and intimidation by police, politicians and bureaucrats in India.
The country ranked 136 out of 180 nations in the 2015 World Press Freedom Index, according to Paris-based Reporters without Borders.
First-quarter net profit plunged 51% to $105m (£67m). Revenues rose 3% to $10.7bn, but this was below forecasts.
Lenovo said it had been facing the "toughest market environment for years", reporting a steep decline in sales at its mobile division.
The job cuts represent about 10% of its non-manufacturing employees and 5% of its global workforce,
Lenovo, the world's biggest PC-maker, said the cuts were part of a cost-cutting programme aimed at saving $650m in the remainder of 2015.
Lenovo reported significant declines in its global computer and tablet sector, as well as increasing competition and slowing growth in the smartphone market.
Chief executive Yuanqing Yang said the company would also restructure its smartphone business.
Last year, the company last year bought the Motorola brand from Google for $2.9bn to boost its position in the market.
However, Motorola's contribution to Lenovo's smartphone shipments fell 31% from a year earlier to 5.9 million units.
Lenovo's mobile division recorded a pre-tax loss of $292m in the three months to the end of June.
Lenovo said its PC business reached a worldwide share of 20.6%, with a 13% stake in the key US market.
The Tamworth sculpture, which is depicted wearing a police helmet, is known as the "Peel Pig" after former prime minister Sir Robert Peel, who was an MP in the town.
The work was removed by the councillor Danny Cook who said it was "offensive".
But a charity set up to honour Sir Robert is calling for its return.
The Peel Society said the work formed part of a Trotters Trail through the town in honour of Tamworth's association with the animal.
The trail was funded by an £8,000 grant from the Arts Council.
The pig is decorated in purple and yellow - the Peel family colours - and wears the police helmet as a tribute to Sir Robert's role in establishing the Metropolitan Police Force.
Nigel Morris, chairman of the society, said the statue was "colourful street furniture", designed to keep people "informed about one of the greatest politicians this country has ever produced".
"It was a social art project," he said. "The pigs are all over Tamworth, in schools and in castle grounds.
"I was invited, as chair of the Peel Society to paint one. I saw it as a unique opportunity to tell the people of Tamworth about Sir Robert Peel."
Mr Cook said: "I have been contacted by retired police officers who say they are offended by it.
"If I had left it, there would have been a lobby of people wanting it removed.
"An offensive pig is not going back on council land."
Andy Adams, chairman of the Staffordshire Police Federation, said the pig had "raised a smile" and was "not intended to be offensive".
"It's not the average pig in town," he said.
"I know 'pig' can be a derogatory term for a police officer but I don't think the Peel Society meant it that way at all. It's there to get a message across and it was probably over the top to remove it."
Tasha Coates got in touch with Get Inspired to tell us about her challenging illness - and her love for gymnastics. This is her story.
"Your disability does not define you. You have to focus on what you can do, and don't let others stand in your way.
In May 2013 I developed a rare condition which affects the cells in my body called mast cells. As well as many different daily symptoms, this in effect makes me 'allergic to exercise'.
Why? Because exercise promotes mast cell degranulation, which can throw me into a life-threatening allergic reaction if I do not stop at first sign of any symptoms.
I lost all of my hair in July last year due to the physical stress of going into anaphylatic shock so many times in a short space of time. My hair was falling out in clumps so, before I lost it all, I gave it to charity.
I'm 20 now. Having already been a gymnast for 10 years, I was not willing to let my diagnosis define me and stop me from enjoying the sport I love, so I made the switch to disability gymnastics.
This allows me to train and compete just like anyone else, while keeping my health a priority throughout and allowing for adaptations.
So, I'm an artistic gymnast training at Hartford School of Gymnastics in Northwich and I compete in the physical disability category (there is also an 'intellectual' disability category).
In April 2014, I suffered a respiratory arrest. I thought my time as a gymnast was over.
It took what felt like a very long time to get well enough to be able to complete a full routine on each piece of equipment, and I was thrilled just to be well enough to be able to compete properly again.
Before my diagnosis, I wanted to be a paramedic. Unfortunately, I am not well enough. But I try not to be scared of the past, or anxious of the future. I focus on taking things a day at a time!
I made a big comeback in November 2014 at the Disability British Championships, where I won five gold medals and two trophies.
I'm now the current senior women's National Champion on all four pieces of apparatus (beam, bars, floor and vault), and I also hold the all-around title and the highest-scoring female of the whole competition!
But what really matters to me is getting more people into disability gymnastics.
It truly is a fantastic sport with many opportunities, but not many people know it exists as it isn't a 'Paralympic' sport.
My coach, Charlie Oaks, trained Beth Tweddle when she was young, so he is a very experienced coach and now specialises with disabled athletes.
The gym I currently train at is full of gymnasts of all ages and abilities; however, I am the only competitive disabled gymnast.
The full name of my condition is Spontaneous Urticaria and Spontaneous Angioedema leading to Idiopathic Anaphylaxis. Alongside this I also suffer from asthma, eczema, allergic rhinitis and Oral Allergy Syndrome.
If it wasn't for gymnastics, I would be dwelling all on this - and I would have given up everything I love.
Yet even when I was in hospital I was planning my first session back to build up my strength, searching for new floor music and shopping online for leotards.
Sport is a massive stress relief as well: when I'm in the gym I just focus on that, and not worry about everything else that's going on in my life.
What inspires me is the present.
I want to promote the sport of disability gymnastics and, also, participate in more competitions. I would love to go to schools and do talks and motivate people to get into sport, regardless of age or ability.
It really can make all the difference to your life."
Whether you are looking for information on disability gymnastics, adult options or classes for children, see our guide to getting into gymnastics to find a style suited to you.
Flitney, 32, has had spells at Barnet and Gillingham and spent time at National League South side Whitehawk this season.
The National League side have not disclosed the length of his deal.
Ex-Brentford, Stevenage and Gillingham man Julian, 33, joined the Ravens from Dartford in January 2015.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
The move upwards was tiny - 22.5 points or 0.32% - but it left the FTSE at an unprecedented 7,142.83.
The last trading day of the calendar year in London is a short one, with dealings ending at 12:30 GMT.
Among the top 100 companies, there were no major daily moves. Rolls-Royce was the biggest faller, notching up a decline of 1.47%.
Oil ended in London flat, with Brent at $56.67 a barrel. The commodity has almost doubled from this year's low of $30 a barrel.
Oil has gained 53% since the start of the year, the biggest annual rise since 2009, with the promise of production curbs from major oil-producing countries giving a late surge to the price.
Mining companies have largely been winning investments, in sterling terms, with many gaining about 30% over the year.
The FTSE 100 has benefited from the fall in the pound since the Leave vote, because the many international companies whose shares are traded in the UK tend to benefit from it.
Profits earned abroad by multinationals such as drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline and major mining companies are worth more when converted into sterling.
That makes a company's shares appear better value when compared with the higher profits it will make, prompting a revaluation of the stock.
Source: Bloomberg
Source: Bloomberg
In currencies, the pound was up 0.48% against the dollar at $1.2310, but was flat against the euro at €1.1681.
The Brexit vote dramatically weakened the worth of the pound against the dollar. At the start of the year - and in June on the eve of the Brexit vote - the pound was worth just short of $1.50.
It has certainly been a good year for a British investor with stakes in the top 100 companies traded on the London stock exchange. If you held a portfolio made up of the same stocks in the same proportions as go into the index, you would have made a very healthy gain of about 14%.
But a foreign investor buying the same selection of assets would not have done so well, because sterling has fallen so sharply.
If the dollar were your home currency, you would have seen the value of your holding of London stocks decline by 4%. That partly reflects the fact that the pound has moved especially sharply against a strengthening US currency.
If what you cared about was the performance of your investment measured in euros, then you would have seen the value of your portfolio ending 2016 very close to the level at which it started the year.
Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets, said 2017 could be a rocky one: "It's all about political risk, there's the French and German elections and potentially another election in Italy. There's also Greece, Italy's banks and Article 50.
"We could be in for another year of surprises."
"After an open and honest meeting last week we unfortunately failed to agree terms," said Boro director Lee Thorn.
"Liam's worked extremely hard to bring in players and has developed a strong mentality throughout the club. He has carried out his role professionally."
Daish's exit was revealed following Boro's final-day 5-3 defeat at Chester.
Boro won just eight times in 38 games in his seven months in charge, the former Ebbsfleet boss having taken over after Brian Reid was sacked on 8 September.
Ex-Birmingham City centre-half Daish will step down after his return to St Andrew's on Thursday, when he is due to lead Boro out in the Birmingham Senior Cup final against his old club.
"It was concluded that the BSC final at St Andrew's on Thursday would be his last game," added Thorn.
Boro are now looking for their fifth manager in the 13 months since Kevin Wilkin, now available again following his sacking by Wrexham, left Liberty Way for the Racecourse Ground in March 2014.
Caretaker boss Mark Noon took control for five games, none of which Boro won before Reid came in until the end of last season.
But when they managed just one win from their first seven games this season, he was sacked but the pattern had already been set for what proved to be a relegation campaign.
His body will be displayed at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace alongside his father, Kim Il-sung.
There are also plans to build memorial towers for him, state media said, and his 16 February birthday will be marked as a "Day of the Shining Star".
Kim Jong-il died of a heart attack on 17 December at the age of 69.
His body was put on display at the palace before his elaborate funeral on 28 December.
The news came in an announcement from state news agency KCNA.
The decision to preserve Kim Jong-il was made to show "the unanimous desire and ardent request" of the party to hold Kim Jong-il in high esteem "as the eternal leader of the party", the KCNA report said.
The Kumsusan Memorial Palace was "eternal president" Kim Il-sung's home before it was converted into a mausoleum after his death.
The "Shining Star" is thought to be a reference to rockets built by North Korea under Mr Kim's policy of channelling funding to the military.
Kim Jong-il has been succeeded by his son Kim Jong-un, who is believed to be in his late 20s.
Secretary of State John Kerry raised the matter in a phone call with the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, the White House said.
Russia said the embargo was no longer necessary after an interim deal was reached on Iran's nuclear programme.
Tehran and six world powers aim to reach a final deal by 30 June.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest did not give details of Mr Kerry's phone call, but said that "coordination and unity" with nations like Russia had been key to reaching agreement with Iran.
A Pentagon spokesman called the move "unhelpful", saying concerns were being raised through the "appropriate diplomatic channels".
Russia agreed to sell the S-300 system in 2007, but blocked delivery in 2010 after the UN imposed sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme.
The S-300 is a surface-to-air missile system that can be used against multiple targets including jets, or to shoot down other missiles.
Tehran welcomed the move as a step towards "establishing stability and security in the region", the country's Defence Minister Hossein Dehghan said, according to state media.
But Israel, a vocal critic of the nuclear deal, has voiced dismay.
"This is a direct result of the legitimacy that Iran obtained from the emerging nuclear deal,'' said Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz.
Mr Lavrov said the "S-300 is exclusively a defensive weapon, which cannot serve offensive purposes and will not jeopardise the security of any country, including, of course, Israel".
It is not clear when the systems will be delivered. Russia has stopped producing the model specified under the original contract and has instead offered an upgrade.
The deal on Iran's nuclear programme aims to restrict its ability to make nuclear weapons in exchange for sanctions relief.
It is due to be finalised by the end of June deadline, but sticking points remain, in particular on how and when to lift sanctions
Mr Kerry meanwhile has been holding closed door briefings with the US Congress, as he seeks to win over sceptical lawmakers who have threatened to block the deal.
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The Pumas looked to have won it through Juan Martin Hernandez's drop-goal but Solomona went over from halfway.
The hosts led 17-13, Emiliano Boffelli and Tomas Lavanini tries cancelling out Marland Yarde and Jonny May scores.
Second-half tries from Jeronimo de la Fuente and Joaquin Tuculet for the Pumas, and George Ford for England, then set up the thrilling finish.
The second and final Test of the tour takes place next Saturday, 17 June in Santa Fe.
With the Lions tour and a host of injuries depriving England boss Eddie Jones of 30 players, the tourists fielded a match-day 23 containing 11 uncapped players - including four in the starting line-up.
Perhaps understandably England looked nervous initially and it was a good quarter of an hour before they started to gel, and although Yarde finished off a slick move they trailed by four points at the break.
They continued to make mistakes in an error-strewn game but their attacking threat was always in evidence, with a sublime dummy and grubber-kick from Henry Slade - who had endured some rocky moments in the first half - setting up May for a marvellous try.
Argentina looked a constant threat in attack themselves and scored two sizzling tries in two minutes through De la Fuente and Joaquin Tuculet, before Ford went over from distance to level matters.
Back again came the Pumas - but although Hernandez's drop-goal gave them a late lead, it left England enough time to mount a final attack.
When the ball reached Solomona, the controversial cross-code winger who has only played 15 games for Sale and had missed a couple of important tackles in his 15 minutes on the pitch until that point, there looked to be little danger.
But he bounced the first man, evaded several more defenders as he cut inside and handed off Matias Moroni before racing over under the posts to win a belter of a game.
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Prop Harry Williams, centre Alex Lozowski and flanker Mark Wilson all made decent debuts, but the outstanding performer of the quartet of new faces was 18-year-old flanker Tom Curry.
The Sale open-side, the youngest England debutant since a certain Jonny Wilkinson, was a constant threat at the breakdown, tackled furiously and showed some nice touches in attack, suggesting England's long wait for a linkman at seven may possibly be over.
He only made the bench for the Barbarians game last weekend in place of injured identical twin brother Ben - also on tour in Argentina - and on Tom's showing last weekend and on Saturday, the pair look set to both have long England careers.
Of the seven uncapped players on the bench it was Solomona who made the greatest impact, but Piers Francis also had his moments, and England head coach Jones knows that the talent pool available to him is both broad and deep.
Despite being an integral part of England's success over the past couple of years, fly-half George Ford has not enjoyed the total support of some England fans.
But with front-foot ball - often provided by the mighty Nathan Hughes and the indefatigable Joe Launchbury - to play with he ran the game in assured fashion, distributing well, kicking excellently off the tee and capping a fine display with a lovely long-range try as he finally showed glimpses of the running game that has long been absent in an England shirt.
England head coach Eddie Jones: "It's a great result, but I am disappointed with the performance - we gave away too many points.
"But we have shown a tonne of team ethic. We had 10 young guys who came into a situation where we were chasing the game. They were fantastic. The young guys made mistakes but they did not dwell on them. Take Denny [Solomona], he made two horrific defensive mistakes but then scored a fantastic try."
Ex-England centre Jeremy Guscott: "I didn't think England would hold their nerve. With the inexperience coming off the bench I thought they were going to fold and collapse. But they came back and were absolutely phenomenal to play to the end."
World Cup-winning England coach Sir Clive Woodward: "The Lions [who beat the Crusaders earlier on Saturday] will be watching this game very closely and there were some big performances today from these young England players."
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England: Mike Brown; Marland Yarde, Henry Slade, Alex Lozowski, Jonny May; George Ford, Danny Care; Ellis Genge, Dylan Hartley, Harry Williams; Joe Launchbury, Charlie Ewels; Mark Wilson, Tom Curry, Nathan Hughes.
Replacements: Jack Singleton, Matt Mullan, Will Collier, Nick Isiekwe, Don Armand, Jack Maunder, Piers Francis, Denny Solomona
Argentina: Joaquin Tuculet; Matias Moroni, Matias Orlando, Jeronimo de la Fuente; Emiliano Boffelli, Nicolas Sanchez, Martin Landajo; Lucas Noguera Paz, Agustin Creevy, Enrique Pieretto, Matias Alemanno, Tomas Lavanini, Pablo Matera, Javier Ortega Desio, Juan Manuel Leguizamon.
Replacements: Julian Montoya, Santiago Garcia Botta, Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro, Guido Petti, Leonardo Senatore, Gonzalo Bertranou, Juan Martin Hernandez, Ramiro Moyano
In a series of tweets at the weekend, Ms Mone said she had "hung up my bra" and "sold 80% of Ultimo".
She then confirmed she had bought 100% of self-tan business UTan.
Ms Mone also described her 17 years of building up the Ultimo brand as a "roller coaster ride", and hinted at a new TV role.
Ms Mone co-founded the original Ultimo parent company MJM International with her ex-husband Michael in 1996, and created brands including Ultimo Miracle Shapewear and Miss Ultimo.
Last year, she announced he had left the company following a breakdown in their marriage.
MJM ceased trading at the end of last year after registering major liabilities.
Its assets were then moved into Ultimo Brands International after Ms Mone forged a business partnership with Sri Lanka-based lingerie group MAS Holdings. It took a majority stake in Ultimo.
Tweeting on Saturday, Ms Mone said: "Yes I can confirm that I've sold 80% of Ultimo & bought 100% of UTan & Beauty. I'm the happiest I've ever been & Ultimo will soon be Global success.
"My new chapter will be: new Ultimo stores, growing UTan & beauty, new investments, new Biz, TV, speaking round the world, my book & helping others."
Asked in one tweet if she would still be the boss of Ultimo, she said: "No I've hung up my Bra & 63,000 people will take forward."
She later tweeted: "Have a great Sat guys! I'm off to celebrate 17 years of building Ultimo into a huge brand & my new chapter."
Ms Mone also said she was looking for a home in Los Angeles but would keep her home "in Scotland & London".
A spokesman for Ultimo Brands International said: "We can confirm that MAS Holdings has recently increased its stake in Ultimo.
"Michelle remains a significant shareholder and director of the business, and will continue to be the creative force behind Ultimo lingerie.
"This is a very exciting time for Ultimo as we look to open stores around the UK and launch the next phase of the brand's growth in the UK and beyond."
Tributes lined the Shoreham Toll Bridge, since dubbed the "Bridge of Flowers", after last month's crash.
Most have now been removed by volunteers and handed over to West Sussex Record Office.
They will be preserved and kept in memory of those who died when a vintage jet crashed on 22 August.
The community archive will be set up by the record office, working with local people in the Shoreham Recovery Group.
Lesley Sim, West Sussex County Council information services manager, said it would include all the cards and messages left on the bridge.
"We are currently working to dry and conserve all of these for the future," she said.
"The community archive will be held at the record office in safe, environmentally-controlled conditions where it will be catalogued and made available in the public search room for people to see and use both now and in the years to come."
The disaster happened when a vintage Hawker Hunter jet crashed on to traffic on the A27 during a display at Shoreham Air Show.
The plane, flown by experienced pilot Andy Hill, failed to pull out of a loop-the-loop stunt before crashing and exploding in to a fireball.
An interim report released by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch found "no abnormal indications" during the flight.
Mr Hill has now left hospital and his condition is improving.
The "severe" blaze ripped through the office area of a car parts warehouse by The Fort shopping centre off the M6 and was tackled by 100 firefighters.
The fire in Wingfoot Way broke out at about 19:00 GMT on Thursday and was put out at about 23:45. About 20 firefighters remain at the scene.
Nobody was injured in the fire and it did not spread to a tyre storage area.
West Midlands Fire Service had warned people living nearby to close windows and doors.
Dean Stubbins turned up for his nightshift at the nearby DHL warehouse and saw the flames.
He said: "There was heavy traffic around the area due to road closures. The cause is unknown but it started above the offices on the rooftop.
"I saw a major incidents truck from the fire service. I was meant to be on a night shift but no-one got a message to say don't turn up.
"The site is one of the sequence centres for Jaguar Land Rover. The offices are used by Dunlop tyres."
The will is among a trove of documents released to US media. It was seized in the US assault in Abbotabad, Pakistan.
Bin Laden urged his family to "obey my will" and to spend his inheritance on "jihad, for the sake of Allah".
He referred to the money as being in Sudan, but it is not clear whether it was cash or assets.
Bin Laden lived in Sudan for five years in the 1990s as a guest of the Sudanese government.
It is not known whether any of the money made its way to his heirs.
Other letters attributed to Bin Laden and released on Tuesday show that he:
He also gave his assessment of the progress of the West's "war on terror" and the US military campaign in Afghanistan.
"They thought that the war would be easy and that they would accomplish their objectives in a few days or a few weeks," he wrote.
"We need to be patient a bit longer. With patience, there is victory!"
Bin Laden was killed by US special forces in May 2011 in a raid on his compound in Abbotabad, Pakistan.
The group has since been led by al-Qaeda's former second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Pre-tax profits for the six months to 30 July jumped 73% from a year earlier to £77.4m.
Executive chairman Peter Cowgill told the BBC: "It's our third consecutive year of growth and we have become established as the place to go for athletic leisure products."
The company also announced plans to open shops in Australia.
Most of JD Sports' 900 outlets are in the UK, although it is expanding elsewhere in Europe in countries such as Spain, France and Germany.
The company said that while the UK's Brexit vote "means that there will be some uncertainties over the next two or three years, we have no doubt that we have the support of our brand partners to continue our expansion in Europe and beyond".
JD Sports said its sports fashion division had enjoyed "an exceptional first half", with operating profits up 53% to £79.9m.
Its outdoor division - which includes the Blacks and Millets chains - managed to narrow losses to £2.3m from £4.5m last year.
Independent retail analyst Nick Bubb said JD Sports' results were "tremendous".
"The only disappointments are that the outdoor division is still losing money," he added.
"But given the incredible growth in the core sports fashion business, few shareholders are likely to be complaining about that."
Authorities on Sulawesi island said that the ship was reported to have been hit by high waves and its engine had broken down.
Six rescue vessels have been despatched but are being hampered by bad weather.
Local search and rescue agency chief Roki Asikin said they were due to reach the ship early on Sunday.
There is no word yet of any casualties.
Officials said the last contact from the ship's captain said that water was beginning to enter the vessel.
The ship left Kolaka in south-east Sulawesi province with 118 passengers and crew on Saturday morning local time, officials said, and was bound for the port of Siwa across the Gulf of Boni.
Transport ministry spokesman JA Barata said a distress signal was sent out later in the day saying the ship had "had an accident as a result of large waves".
Indonesia has more than 17,000 islands linked by ferry services, but correspondents say the industry has a poor safety record.
Back in 1957 though, things looked a little different - not least because only 10 countries entered, an increase of three on the contest's debut the year before.
That year the UK was represented by the unknown Patricia Bredin from Hull, singing a love song called All.
She ended up in seventh place, her six points outshone by Netherlands' entrant Corry Brokken, who took the crown with 31 points.
Despite the setback Ms Bredin, then 22, went on to have a long career on stage and screen before retiring to a farm in Canada.
Now aged in her 80s, Ms Bredin has clear memories of her performance.
"Singing in the final in Frankfurt, Germany it was wonderful, because they had about a 60 piece orchestra and it was like being on clouds."
Ms Bredin grew up in west Hull and attended the Newland School for Girls.
Her singing career began as a member of the Hull Operatic Society, performing in shows at the City Hall and other venues.
She landed the Eurovision chance after being spotted singing at London's Savoy Hotel.
And a short meeting with BBC executives, who asked her "Would you like to be on TV?", was all it took to get the job.
"Two songs had been chosen and each one had to be sung by two different performers, but they had a problem because nobody wanted to sing that terrible little song called All," she said.
The song was less than two minutes long and despite her performance being broadcast on TV, the public did not have an opportunity to send it into the charts as she never recorded it.
John Kennedy O'Connor, author of the official history of the Eurovision Song Contest, said the contest then did not have the media focus it enjoys now.
"It was a much more formal process that it is now and a much more formal type of show," he said.
"At that time the contest just didn't mean anything to anybody. So I don't think she really benefited from it."
But, Ms Bredin became a regular in musicals in the West End and on Broadway, once taking over a role from Julie Andrews.
She also acted in a number of British films, appearing alongside Ian Carmichael and Sid James.
And, while singing on the liner QE2 in the 1960s, she met Canadian millionaire Charles MacCulloch. The pair married and moved to a farm in Nova Scotia.
She was widowed soon after the wedding and remained in Canada raising cattle.
Reflecting on her Eurovision appearance, she said she was just pleased to still be remembered.
"I had a wonderful career and enjoyed it and you go on to something else," she said.
"Now just existing is my primary priority."
One of the heroes of Wales' 2005 Grand Slam-winning team was 100-cap flanker Martyn 'Nugget' Williams and he has teamed up with BBC Wales Rugby Correspondent Gareth Charles to look back at some of Wales' most memorable and most important tries since the start of the Six Nations.
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Wales had waited 24 years for a win in Paris and then, after success in 1999, they did it again in 2001.
And they achieved it in style with a free-scoring festival of running rugby. James' sprint to the line after a clever set play was a highlight of the 43-35 victory.
Fly-half Neil Jenkins won plenty of games for Wales and the British and Irish Lions with his unerring right boot, but the score that finally saw off France was a try.
It gave Wales a two-score cushion going into second-half injury time - and sparked scenes of wild celebrations on and off the field.
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Ryan Jones was to captain Wales in two Grand Slam seasons, but in 2005 he was a promising young back row player who burst on to the scene with this barnstorming demolition of Scotland's defence at Murrayfield.
The try sparked a rout of the Scots, and had Welsh fans daring to dream of a Grand Slam.
Shane Williams scored 58 tries for Wales and had almost as many different haircuts. Murrayfield in 2005 witnessed one of the great Wales team performances epitomised by this sparkling five-pointer.
Wales were without captain Gareth Thomas, but swept Scotland aside in a blistering opening and went on to win 42-22.
Wales' first Grand Slam in 27 years was finally delivered in style against Ireland on a sunny spring day in Cardiff.
Gethin Jenkins started the ball rolling with his charge-down and dribbler for the opening try, but it was Kevin Morgan's sprint to the line after fine work by Stephen Jones and Tom Shanklin that really sent the Wales fans into orbit.
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Wales were outplayed for 40 minutes in Warren Gatland's first game as coach at Twickenham in 2008, and were fortunate to be trailing 16-6 at the interval.
But half-backs James Hook and Phillips were outstanding as Wales turned the tables on their hosts and took the first tentative step towards a second Grand Slam in three seasons.
Four matches later France were beaten 29-12 in Cardiff, with Shane Williams setting a new individual try scoring record with his 41st touchdown and flanker Martyn Williams displaying his best scrum-half impersonation to set the seal on victory.
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There was no championship or Grand Slam for Wales in 2010, but the 31-24 win over Scotland in Cardiff ranks as one of the all-time great Test matches thanks to a storming start by Scotland and extraordinary fight back by Warren Gatland's team.
The home team trailed 24-14 when Scotland were reduced to 14 men by the sin-binning of Scott Lawson with six minutes remaining. A converted try and a Stephen Jones penalty saw the home team draw level and 80 minutes were up and Scotland further reduced to 13 men when Scotland re-started the match.
A minute later, Williams rounded off a wave of Welsh attacks to break Scottish hearts.
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Wales started their 2012 campaign with a superb win over Ireland in Dublin. George North and Jonathan Davies were Wales' try-scorers, with the pair combining for Davies' outstanding second.
But it took a late Leigh Halfpenny penalty to clinch victory.
After beating Scotland, Wales completed the triple crown in a tense match in Twickenham when Scott Williams ripped possession off England second row Courtney Lawes and beat all comers to his own kick before diving over between the posts. Wales survived a late TMO scare to win 19-12 and went on to complete a Grand Slam with victory over France in Cardiff.
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The 2013 meeting between Wales and England in Cardiff was a match with more than usual at stake.
England were chasing a Grand Slam, while Wales could win their second consecutive Six Nations title provided they won the match by eight points or more.
In an extraordinary atmosphere at the Millennium Stadium, the two teams battered each other before Alex Cuthbert scored twice in the second half to take the game away from Stuart Lancaster's young side.
Cuthbert's second, with flankers Sam Warburton and Justin Tipuric lending more than a hand, is one of the most cherished moments of recent Welsh rugby history.
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Israeli police said the attacker, thought to be Palestinian, was killed.
Eight Israelis have died in attacks by lone Palestinians this month. More than 40 Palestinians, including several attackers, have been killed.
The upsurge began amid tensions at a flashpoint holy site in East Jerusalem.
Israeli security forces have imposed tighter restrictions in Jerusalem and the West Bank, and there have been clashes with Palestinian protesters.
Israel has begun erecting a 5m (16ft) high concrete barrier between the Palestinian district of Jabal Mukaber in East Jerusalem and the neighbouring Jewish Armon Hanatziv.
Israeli officials in Jerusalem insisted the wall was a temporary measure in an area "where there is a history of rock and [petrol bomb] Molotov cocktail throwing at Jewish homes and vehicles".
US Secretary of State John Kerry is to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and, separately, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, this week in a bid to help restore calm.
The attack on the Central Bus Station in Beersheva came on Sunday evening.
"One armed terrorist entered the central bus station and shot at a soldier and killed him," a local police chief, Yoram Levi, was quoted by Haaretz as saying.
"He continued his shooting spree, took the soldier's gun and continued shooting in the central bus station.
"Forces in the area responded quickly, he managed to escape the central bus station but ran into forces, was shot and killed. In his belongings we found a knife and a pistol with ammunition."
Initial reports said there had been a second attacker, who was critically wounded, but he is now believed to be an Eritrean migrant. Video footage showed people kicking him and spitting at him as he lay in a pool of blood on the floor.
The city's Soroka Hospital said it was treating 10 shooting victims - two who arrived in a critical condition, two with serious wounds and the rest with moderate to light wounds.
Among the injured, all said to be in their 20s, were at least four police officers.
This attack will have particularly shocked Israelis as it came not in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank but deep inside Israel itself, the BBC's Middle East correspondent Kevin Connolly points out.
Earlier on Sunday, the Israeli military removed Jewish worshippers it said had illegally entered a religious site in the occupied West Bank.
Thirty Israelis arrived at Joseph's Tomb in the city of Nablus and were assaulted by Palestinians before being handed over to Israeli forces by Palestinian police, reports say.
There has been a spate of stabbings of Israelis - several of them fatal - by Palestinians since early October, and one apparent revenge stabbing by an Israeli. The attackers have struck in Jerusalem and central and northern Israel, and in the occupied West Bank. Israel has tightened security and its security forces have clashed with rioting Palestinians, leading to deaths on the Palestinian side. The violence has also spread to the border with Gaza.
After a period of relative quiet, violence between the two communities has spiralled since clashes erupted at a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site in mid-September. It was fuelled by rumours among Palestinians that Israel was attempting to alter a long-standing religious arrangement governing the site. Israel repeatedly dismissed the rumours as incitement. Soon afterwards, two Israelis were shot dead by Palestinians in the West Bank and the stabbing attacks began. Both Israel and the Palestinian authorities have accused one another of doing nothing to protect each other's communities.
There have been two organised uprisings by Palestinians against Israeli occupation, in the 1980s and early 2000s. With peace talks moribund, some observers have questioned whether we are now seeing a third. The stabbing attacks seem to be opportunistic and although they have been praised by militant groups, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has said Palestinians are not interested in a further escalation.
What is driving the latest violence?
Nearly 8,000 people took part in the race through the streets of Sheffield.
There was confusion last year when many runners completed the race amid police efforts to set up roadblocks, despite the event officially being cancelled.
Beverage firm Water Direct agreed to make a charity donation after failing to provide water for the 2014 race.
The 19-year-old left-back is yet to make a senior appearance for the Toffees but played three games for their U23s in last season's EFL Trophy.
"As soon as I heard about the opportunity to come to Bolton Wanderers I was buzzing," Robinson said.
"He has great athleticism, he's hungry and was keen to join. He's a good addition," boss Phil Parkinson said.
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The British Heart Foundation said the figure was 100,000 more than had been thought and could be even higher.
It said there was now a better grasp of the prevalence of inherited conditions.
A child of someone with an inherited heart condition can have a 50% chance of inheriting it themselves.
The charity warned that the overall figure for those with the faulty gene could be much higher because of as yet undiscovered faulty genes and under-diagnoses.
Each week in the UK, around 12 seemingly healthy people aged 35 or under are victims of sudden cardiac death with no explanation, largely due to undiagnosed heart conditions.
Former England and Nottinghamshire cricketer James Taylor had to retire last year, at the age of 26, after he was diagnosed with the serious heart condition arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy.
He told BBC Radio Four's Today programme that he had been warming up for the first game of the season in Cambridge when his heart started "going mental in my chest".
He said: "You could see my shirt moving, that's how hard my heart was beating inside my chest...
"I went off, I had some oxygen, then I went to hospital some hours later.
"When I walked in to hospital they said it was a miracle I was able to walk in.
"My heart rate was going at 265 beats per minute."
A normal resting heart rate is 60 to 100 beats a minute, but Taylor's remained at 265 for six to seven hours - "the equivalent of doing five, six marathons."
He now treats the condition with medication and said he was fortunate to survive.
"I'm still alive. I should have died - that's the scary thing about these inherited heart conditions.
"A lot of people don't get the opportunities I had and it's often too late."
Research has helped to discover many of the faulty genes that cause inherited heart conditions.
This has led to the development of structured genetic testing services for those at highest risk for some of these conditions.
However, the British Heart Foundation says more research is urgently needed.
Prof Sir Nilesh Samani, BHF medical director, said: "The reality is that there are hundreds of thousands of people across the UK who are unaware that they could be at risk of sudden death.
"If undetected and untreated, inherited heart conditions can be deadly and they continue to devastate families, often by taking away loved ones without warning.
"We urgently need to fund more research to better understand these heart conditions, make more discoveries, develop new treatments and save more lives."
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Josh Griffiths, 23, finished in two hours 14 minutes 49 seconds on his marathon debut to claim an automatic qualifying place for August's Worlds.
Griffiths, who started behind the elite field, was the first British runner to cross the finish line and 13th overall.
"The crowd was amazing and carried me to the finish line," Griffiths said.
"The goal for me was to try and run the Welsh Commonwealth Games qualifying time of 2:16:00. It never crossed my mind that I would be running in the World Championships in the summer."
Robbie Simpson was fastest of Britain's established names, finishing in 2:15:04 ahead of Andrew Davies (2:15:11).
The race was won by Daniel Wanjiru of Kenya in 2:05:56.
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"I didn't really realise until I crossed the finish line what I had just done," Griffiths continued.
"I managed to catch up to the lead British runner at about mile 13, but I was working hard with a group of really elite runners who I have looked up to for a long time.
"Before I knew it, I started to pull away from some of them. I was working hard with Robbie Simpson at mile 22 and I knew that my legs were starting to tire.
"Around mile 25, I started to think I had passed everybody, but you're never really sure until you cross that line."
Griffiths, who finished third in the Cardiff Half Marathon in October, says he was aided by the pace of Simpson.
He added: "I've known Robbie from mountain running previously and I know he's a great runner so the fact that I was able to run with him and work together with him was just great.
"He's really strong and I think we helped each other get to the end.
"This is all very new to me and the thought of being able to run in the World Championships in the summer, I just can't wait."
Protesters gathered outside the offices of Rustavi 2, which has been locked in a dispute with authorities.
They accuse the government of attempting to stifle media freedom.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili warned that he would respond sternly to any potential breaches of the law at the rally.
Some demonstrators held up placards reading "Hands off Rustavi 2 TV" and "Rustavi 2 belongs to the people".
Rustavi 2 has been locked in an ongoing ownership tussle since August, sparking fears that the ruling Georgian Dream coalition could compromise the independence of the channel by interfering.
Over the summer, a court froze the broadcaster's assets after a businessman close to the coalition filed a lawsuit to claim control.
Government critics and the channel's owners say the planned closure of the station is part of a campaign to silence the press ahead of next year's parliamentary elections.
"The government has decided to hand Rustavi 2 ownership over to a man under its control and that will amount to a closure of the country's most influential TV channel," Rustavi 2's deputy director, Zaal Udumashvili, told AFP.
"That will put an end to media pluralism in Georgia and threaten the very existence of Georgian democracy," he added.
On Wednesday, the channel's director Nika Gvaramia said a government middleman had threatened to release secretly-recorded videos showing what he described as his "private life" in an attempt to force him to resign.
The office of Georgia's prosecutor general has launched a probe into his claims.
Founded in 1994, Rustavi 2 TV is Georgia's biggest and most popular television station.
In a speech launching his party's summer offensive, he said he was "not going to be able to compete" with David Cameron's slick approach.
But he said he wanted to offer voters "something different" at next year's general election.
"The leadership this country needs is one that has big ideas to change things," said the Labour leader.
Mr Miliband's personal ratings trail behind those of his party and in June fell to the lowest ever recorded in an ICM-Guardian poll - a distinction he shared with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
Mr Cameron's ratings were also down but he remains well ahead of his two main rivals, particularly when voters are asked about who looks the "most prime ministerial".
Labour fears the Conservatives will target Mr Miliband personally at next year's general election, wrecking the party's chances of gaining power.
In what could be seen as an attempt to head off criticism, Mr Miliband spoke about some of the gaffes he has been accused of committing in recent months - including holding up a copy of The Sun and struggling to eat a bacon sandwich, as well as caricatures of him as Wallace from the Wallace and Gromit animations.
He said he wanted to stand up to powerful vested interests such as Rupert Murdoch, but added: "Sometimes you get it wrong. I know, especially for people on Merseyside, me holding up a copy of the Sun was one of those days."
Mr Miliband was forced to apologise last month after he was criticised by his own MPs for promoting the paper, which has been criticised for its reporting of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, in which 96 people died.
The Labour leader said big ideas and principles were more important than image and Labour had the right policies on dealing with "the cost of living crisis", tackling low pay and building more homes.
Analysis
By Brian Wheeler, political reporter
Ed Miliband is taking quite a gamble with this speech. He knows he has an image problem - and many in his party fear it could cost them the general election.
But a slick relaunch is out of the question - a cynical public would never buy it and, by his own admission, he couldn't pull it off.
So he has opted instead for a bit of of self-deprecation. Yes, I know I look a bit weird - get over it. That is his message.
But the danger is that by talking about his past PR disasters he is simply drawing more attention to them.
Also, whenever he stages a photo opportunity in the future - as all politicians do - he will be reminded of his words.
His political mentor Gordon Brown also tried to make a virtue of his own ineptitude in the field of public relations.
But "Gordon unspun" sounded to many people like yet more spin.
He said: "David Cameron is a very sophisticated and successful exponent of a politics based purely on image.
"I am not going to be able to compete with that and I don't intend to. I want to offer something different.
"I am not from central casting. You can find people who are more square-jawed, more chiselled. Look less like Wallace.
"You could probably even find people who look better eating a bacon sandwich.
"If you want the politician from central casting, it's just not me, it's the other guy."
But he said his version of political leadership was about sticking to principles even when it was hard, caring about people's lives and not leaving decency behind at the door of No 10, like the "callous Conservative" David Cameron.
Mr Miliband's speech, at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London, launched Labour's summer campaign, seen as an attempt to hit back at critics who accused the party of taking its eye off the ball during last year's parliamentary recess.
He said shadow cabinet members would be making a series of speeches about the "positive vision for the future from Labour".
Prime Minister David Cameron said Mr Miliband's speech proved that he was the leader who lacked substance.
"On a day when our national output has recovered to where it was before the great recession, which was brought to us by Labour, I think it was an extraordinary thing to say.
"The real substance is that because of the hard work of the British people we have actually reached a major milestone in our long-term economic plan."
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Robins was reappointed on Monday, and has inherited a City side lying bottom of League One, 13 points adrift of safety with just 11 games left.
He is well aware of all the off-field ructions that have further soured City's fortunes in his four years away.
"The political side of what's happening makes this place different," he said.
"It's different to any other club in the country. It is a unique set of challenges, but it can be done."
He told BBC Coventry & Warwickshire: "This season has been tough to watch, and I understand the frustration totally. The fans are angry and frustrated with what they've seen and maybe the lack of action or investment.
"But this is a great, well-supported club that deserves better. We've got to get back to the stage where we the club can win back the fans' trust and implement a plan that makes sense for everybody.
"I just want to steer clear of the politics and get on with the football side of things. But the whole structure needs looking at in terms of the money I can have to rescue it.
"Key relationships need to be better and I need the tools to do the job. I need the best recruitment I possibly can.
It was Valentines's Day 2013 when Robins ended his previous spell with Coventry and departed for Huddersfield Town.
Now, just over four years, or 1480 days, later, he admits he felt something stir in his heart when he was offered the chance to return.
"I got a call on Sunday evening and that feeling lit up again. It doesn't go away. The opportunity to come back was too great to resist," the 47-year-old said.
"You look at Coventry and what they nearly achieved last season. The key to that was winning and we were doing plenty of that when I was here before.
"I've looked at how difficult it's been and that was something which motivated me to try and turn it round. We need unity and trust. They're things that come over a period of time and we need to foster that."
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire's Clive Eakin
"Relegation to League Two is looking all but certain as Mark Robins takes over.
"Coventry will have appointed him on the basis of what he did first time around when they moved up the table before Huddersfield nipped in and offered him a job he couldn't resist.
"His first stint, albeit fairly brief, was successful. Just about the only manager of recent times to have left Coventry because someone else wanted him.
"But there is an irony to him taking over with City on their way to Wembley as he narrowly missed out on getting there in the same competition before, taking the Sky Blues to the semi-finals only to lose to eventual winners Crewe."
Jacqueline Robb, 54, of Laburnum Avenue, Manchester, used the funds to buy foreign holidays and clothes.
The school where she worked spotted that £952 was missing from its bank account after an audit in autumn 2016. It later identified a loss of £46,011 between April 2012 and December 2016.
Robb was jailed for 10 months at Manchester Crown Court after she pleaded guilty to theft.
She had been employed at a school in Openshaw since April 2009, where her duties included the administration and accounting of the school meals income.
The audit identified an annual deficit of about £10,000 missing from the school's bank account between 2012 and 2016.
Det Con Laura Watson, from Greater Manchester Police, said Robb had been initially considered as a "respected and trusted member of staff".
"She made the decision to breach the trust instilled in her by the school, improving her financial wellbeing through illicit means, which is absolutely unacceptable."
A proceeds or crime hearing is due to be held on 26 October.
The discovery was made by canoeists close to Radyr Weir, Radyr, on Saturday shortly after 11:00 BST.
Officers spent about three hours at the scene as part of their investigation.
No further details have been released by police.
Washington's UN ambassador Susan Rice said they would be "some of the toughest sanctions" the UN had imposed.
Li Baodong, China's UN envoy, said a "strong signal" had to be sent following North Korea's third and most powerful nuclear test last month.
Earlier, Pyongyang warned it would scrap a 60-year Korean ceasefire.
North Korea's military command said it would end the truce with South Korea on 11 March because of the threat of sanctions and the current military exercises taking place in South Korea.
"We aim to launch surgical strikes at any time and any target without being bounded by the armistice accord and advance our long-cherished wish for national unification," the statement said.
The Korean War ended with an armistice in 1953 - not a peace treaty - meaning the peninsula is still technically at war.
"For the first time ever, this resolution targets the illicit activities of North Korean diplomatic personnel, North Korean banking relationships [and] illicit transfers of bulk cash," Susan Rice said after a closed-door consultation on the draft with the 15 members of the Security Council.
The agreement provided for:
The Korean War armistice
"The breadth and scope of these sanctions is exceptional and demonstrates the strength of the international community's commitment to denuclearisation" of the Korean peninsula, she told reporters.
The resolution also pledges to take further measures should North Korea carry out another missile launch or nuclear test, she said.
She said she hoped the Security Council would vote on the draft resolution this week.
Li Baodong said China supported the move, but added: "We think that action should be proportionate, should be balanced and focused on bringing down the tension and focusing on the diplomatic track.
"A strong signal must be sent out that a nuclear test is against the will of the international community," he told Reuters news agency.
China is North Korea's only ally and its major trading partner. Beijing has in the past been reluctant to support tougher sanctions, citing the impact of potential instability inside its secretive neighbour state.
February's nuclear test was the first of its kind under new leader Kim Jong-un, who took over the leadership after his father Kim Jong-il died in December 2011.
Nuclear test monitors based in Vienna say the underground explosion had double the force of the last test, in 2009, despite the use of a device said by the North to be smaller.
North Korea claimed that a "miniaturised" device had been tested, increasing fears that Pyongyang had moved closer to building a warhead small enough to arm a missile.
Pyongyang said the test was a "self-defensive measure" made necessary by the "continued hostility" of the US.
It came weeks after Pyongyang successfully used a rocket to put a satellite into space, a move condemned by the UN as a banned test of missile technology.
His National Governors' Association speech in Rhode Island on Friday was a first for a Canadian prime minister.
In his speech, Mr Trudeau urged US governors to embrace their neighbour to the north and avoid protectionism.
It is all a part of his aggressive strategy to promote a "thinner border" ahead of vital trade talks with the US renegotiating the Nafta treaty.
President Donald Trump has made "America First" his mantra, shaping his policies on trade and immigration.
But Mr Trudeau, who is a fierce advocate of free trade, told the governors protectionist policies "kill growth".
"And that hurts the very workers these measures are nominally intended to protect. Once we travel down that road, it can quickly become a cycle of tit-for-tat, a race to the bottom, where all sides lose," Mr Trudeau said.
"If anything, we would like a thinner border, not a thicker one."
Earlier in the day, Mr Trudeau had talks with governors from Wisconsin, Kentucky, Rhode Island and Iowa.
Nafta is a controversial trade deal between US, Mexico and Canada, which Mr Trump has threatened to rip up because he said it is unfair to the US.
With Nafta renegotiations set to begin in August, Canada must use whatever time is left to convince leaders that bilateral trade between the two countries must be a priority.
Public policy specialist Maryscott Greenwood said "the timing is perfect" for Mr Trudeau's visit.
"This is a big, high stake negotiation," she said. "I do not think he wants to leave any stone unturned, he has got to try everything.
"We do not really know who is going to be the most influential, which thing will be the turning point, and what is going to resonate with people, so they have got to try everything and hope that it comes out well in the end."
At the governors meeting, Mr Trudeau said "Nafta isn't perfect" but that states should urge the federal government to fix it, instead of scrapping it all together.
"More trade barriers, more local continent provisions... does not help working families over the long term, nor the mid term."
Historically, trade between the two nations has been hashed out by the respective countries' cabinet ministers, Ms Greenwood said.
But over the past several months, Canada has sent everyone from cabinet ministers to provincial premiers to the mayor of Toronto to plead its case.
"The level of intensity is new," Ms Greenwood said. "I think that is utterly unprecedented, and entirely appropriate [given the circumstances]."
Zachary Peter Davies, from Mold, appeared before Wrexham Magistrates' Court on Friday.
He was remanded in custody to appear at Mold Crown Court on 19 January.
Sarandev Brahambra, 24, from Yorkshire, suffered life-changing injuries while shopping at the store on Wednesday.
Witnesses reported seeing a white man chasing an Asian man through the store with a knife and hammer.
Mr Brahambra remains in hospital having suffered wounds to his hand, back and head.
He and his family are being supported by specialist family liaison officers. | Dundee have signed former St Mirren midfielder Paul McGowan and ex-Dumbarton defender Paul McGinn on two-year contracts.
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All-rounder Rikki Clarke has committed his long-term future to county champions Warwickshire by signing a new four-year contract.
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EU leaders holding late night talks in Brussels have agreed to relocate tens of thousands of migrants who have arrived in Italy and Greece.
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Rights group Amnesty International has called for an inquiry into the alleged killing of a journalist in India.
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Chinese computer and smartphone company Lenovo has announced 3,200 job cuts as it reported a halving of profits.
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A charity is calling for a council leader to bring back a sculpture of a pig he has removed from a Staffordshire town centre.
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Every day, amazing people across the UK are unwilling to let significant hurdles stop them from enjoying physical activity.
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Bromley have signed former Eastleigh goalkeeper Ross Flitney after accepting a transfer request from fellow keeper Alan Julian.
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London's benchmark FTSE 100 index reached its highest level to date on the last day of trading for 2016.
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Nuneaton Town are to part company with manager Liam Daish after failing to agree terms for him to continue at the relegated Conference club next season.
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North Korea has announced that the body of late leader Kim Jong-il will lie in state permanently at a palace in the capital, Pyongyang.
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The US has expressed concern after Russia lifted a ban on supplying Iran with the sophisticated S-300 air defence missile system.
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Denny Solomona's dazzling solo try saw a much-changed England edge to victory in an epic encounter against Argentina.
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Scottish bra tycoon Michelle Mone has announced that she has sold most of her stake in lingerie firm Ultimo and bought a fake tan and beauty business.
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Thousands of cards, flags, pictures and messages of condolence to the victims of the Shoreham air disaster are to be preserved in a public archive.
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A fire at Goodyear Dunlop Tyres offices in Birmingham burned for nearly five hours.
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Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden left a personal fortune of around $29m (£21m) after his death in a raid in 2011, his will shows.
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JD Sports has announced record half-year profits as it continues to benefit from strong demand for sports fashions.
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Rescuers are trying to reach a passenger ship which is adrift in rough seas off of Indonesia with more than 100 people on board.
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This year's Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm will feature the UK's 60th song to vie for glory in the competition's history.
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It's 16 years since five became six and Italy joined the crew to form the Six Nations Championship.
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An Israeli soldier has been killed and several other people have been wounded in a gun and knife attack at a bus station in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva.
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The 2015 Yorkshire Half Marathon has started without a hitch, following last year's cancellation due to a lack of water for runners.
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Bolton Wanderers have signed defender Antonee Robinson on loan from Premier League side Everton until January.
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An estimated 620,000 people in the UK have a faulty gene that puts them at risk of developing coronary heart disease or sudden death, and most are unaware, a charity has warned.
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A club runner with Swansea Harriers stunned Britain's elite men at the London Marathon to qualify for the 2017 World Championships in London.
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Breana Talbott was arrested after telling police the alleged crime, which she had said was committed by "three black males", was in fact a hoax.
Denison Police Chief Jay Burch called her actions "insulting to our community and especially offensive to the African-American community".
She is charged with false reporting.
Police say they will also seek restitution for the cost of the search and investigation, and are closing the case, calling the reported crime "unfounded".
Investigators say the plot began on 8 March, when a man identifying himself as Talbott's fiance called police to say that she was missing.
The man told officers that her vehicle had been found in the car park of an apartment complex with a door left open and her phone, keys and a shoe nearby.
They began to search the area, and later that night Talbott walked into a nearby church wearing just a shirt, bra, and underwear, and with scratches and cuts on her body.
The woman told church-goers, and later police officers, that she had been sexually assaulted in the woods behind the church by "three black males" wearing ski masks and driving a black SUV.
"Almost immediately, Talbott's story and allegations began to unravel," Chief Burch wrote in a press release.
Officers now believe that she staged the crime, and that she probably acted alone.
She has admitted that the injuries to her body were self-inflicted, police say.
Officials are puzzled as to why she would have made everything up.
The initial reports of the crime were widely reported online by self-avowed white nationalists, as evidence of crimes committed by black people.
"Even though we know the story to be a hoax, there is still potential damage to the reputation of the City of Denison... as many may remember the reported crime but not the outcome," the Chief Burch said.
"That is unfortunate," he added.
Pasquale Galianni, 30, made no plea at Cupar Sheriff Court and was remanded in custody.
He is alleged to have raped a 27-year-old woman in the Fife town's Doubledykes Road on Wednesday 9 April.
He is also accused of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old at the David Russell Apartments the following day.
The case was continued for further examination.
The 26-year-old has scored 48 goals in 99 appearances for Rovers, with 28 coming last season as the club won their second straight promotion.
Oxford boss Michael Appleton says he had "shaken" on a deal with Taylor.
"It has taken me a long time to determine my future. I apologise for the time involved," Taylor said.
During protracted negotiations, Taylor hired a personal trainer to stay fit while he was out of contract.
The forward admits it was "difficult to arrive at a final decision"
"I have enjoyed being a member of an incredibly successful squad during the past two years and felt a great deal of loyalty to the gaffer and to Bristol Rovers," he said.
"Although I am still very ambitious and want to play at the highest level possible, I didn't want to leave the club under a cloud and via the back door.
"If, at some point down the line, a club comes in for me then they will have to pay Bristol Rovers a fee and I can leave by the front door, with my head held high."
Taylor was top scorer as Rovers won promotion back to the Football League in 2015 via the Conference promotion final before topping the goalscoring chart in League Two last term.
"To have a striker of his calibre in our squad gives us all a tremendous boost," Rovers boss Darrell Clarke told the club's website.
"Last season he contributed 28 goals and nine assists, which means he was involved in almost 50% of the goals we scored, and I think that demonstrates his value to the team."
The length of Taylor's new deal has not been disclosed.
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The moth was discovered by scientist Dr. Vazrick Nazari when they were looking at a collection of moths from the Museum of Entomology, at the University of California in America.
They noticed that one of the moths was different to the others and didn't match.
After a bit more research the moth was revealed to be a brand new species, which Dr Nazari decided to name 'Neopalpa donaldtrumpi' after Donald Trump.
The scientist said the moths bright blonde scales and unique hairdo reminded them of the president elect.
However, Donald Trump is not the only president to have an animal named after them, Barak Obama had a fish called 'Tosanoides Obama' named after him last year!
Liam Lyburd was convicted at Newcastle Crown Court of possessing an arsenal of weapons including pipe bombs and a gun, with intent to endanger life.
The judge said his threats showed he was a significant risk to the public.
In a deleted file recovered from his computer, Lyburd wrote: "People will die, there's no question about that."
Jurors heard the "cold and detached" teenager held a grudge against his former college after he was kicked off his course for bad behaviour.
Lyburd, of Hamilton Place, Newcastle, said he had not intended to hurt anyone at Newcastle College.
Police found a cache of weapons, a "kill bag" containing overalls, a mask, boots and pipe bombs at his home after they were tipped off by a member of the public concerned about his Facebook postings talking about launching a murderous attack.
The bag also contained a Glock pistol and 94 hollow-tipped expanding bullets.
Officers recovered webcam pictures Lyburd took of himself dressed for combat, armed with the pistol and brandishing a knife.
In the deleted file he said: "You people ruined my whole life, don't expect me to show mercy today. No-one disrespects me and gets away with it.
"I'll teach you people a little lesson on respect with my 9mm jacketed hollow points."
Det Supt George Duff, who led the investigation, said Lyburd was a "dangerous man who intended to cause serious harm".
"He at no point has shown any remorse for what he intended to do," he said.
Judge Paul Sloan QC commended the member of the public who alerted police to Lyburd's behaviour.
He told Lyburd that, if they had not, "it was only a matter of time before you would have put your plan into action".
"Your emotional coldness and detachment and your lack of empathy to others was self-evident," he said.
Lyburd was warned the psychiatric evidence suggested it might be a "very long time indeed" before he is considered safe enough to be released.
He laughed as he was taken away by police, telling officers they had saved lives and prevented what would have otherwise been a massacre at the college.
Nipsa, Unite and GMB members voted last month for a work-to-rule and withdrawal of on-call services and overtime.
Water supply to about 10,000 customers in counties Fermanagh and Tyrone was disrupted over the weekend.
The company said one of five pumps at its Enniskillen treatment plant broke down, and industrial action meant repairs were delayed.
The disruption continued to affect hundreds of customers on Monday.
Agreement was reached before Christmas to provide some emergency cover, but following talks facilitated by the Labour Relations Agency last week, unions rejected an offer made by management on Friday.
NI Water made proposals for changes to its pension scheme last July.
Unions say increased pension contributions could cost members up to £100 a month, and they want this to be offset by an increase in salaries.
They also want pension changes to be delayed for a year until April 2016.
NI Water say increased contributions for most staff would be much less than the £100 claimed by the union, and any pay deal would have to include changes to some working practices, including longer working days for some staff.
The city hosted part of the Tour de France in 1994 and it is hoped the race would return in 2018.
Conservative leader Donna Jones said putting a bid together was "expensive and complex" but securing the race for the area would be "fantastic".
Ms Jones said it would be a joint bid with French city Caen with support from a ferry company.
She said: "Before we can embark on it we need to make sure the risk we are taking with public money is a sensible and calculated risk.
"That's why we need key people on board."
She said work was being done to calculate the cost and logistics of a bid.
She said: "If we are successful in this bid the boost to Portsmouth, the Solent and the UK would be fantastic."
A stage of the Tour De France was held in Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex and London last year.
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The hosts squandered a 10-point lead as Wales won 28-25 at Twickenham, and defeat on Saturday could all but end their hopes of qualifying from Pool A.
"We've got a massive game now to build to," said Lancaster.
"There's a lot of frustration in the changing room and that frustration has to be turned into a positive mindset."
England, who led 22-12 early in the second half against Wales, have been criticised for the ill-discipline that allowed Dan Biggar to kick his side back into contention.
Biggar succeeded with all eight of his kicks, seven of which were penalties - including a 50-metre effort that put Wales into the lead in the final minutes.
Lancaster said he was "hugely disappointed" after letting a winning position slip.
"We gave a couple of penalties away which allowed Wales to build belief and momentum. Wales did well to score the points at the end and we didn't close out the game," he said.
England captain Chris Robshaw's decision to opt for touch in the final minutes instead of attempting a penalty kick, which could have secured a draw, has also been questioned.
Lancaster described the 78th-minute driving line-out that followed as "poorly executed", and said he would review the team's decision-making.
"Games are never won and lost on one decision, but obviously that was a big moment," he said.
"Lots of decisions we made were good, but decision-making at the breakdown and to give penalties away, and decision-making as to whether to go for goal or the corner are all things that players have to make in the heat of the battle.
"The one thing I would do is never hang any of the players out to dry for making those decisions. We'll review them privately, not publicly. We stay united."
Injury-hit Wales host Fiji at the Millennium Stadium on Thursday and should Warren Gatland's men secure their third win, England will have to beat the Wallabies to retain any hope of progressing into the knockout stages.
"If we said to the players you can play again tomorrow, they'd play tomorrow because they're so frustrated and disappointed having lost that game having been in such a dominant position so there'll be no problem with the mentality of the players," Lancaster added.
"It's a massive game for us and everyone knows the stakes, so I'll have no problems getting the players ready - 100% we'll be ready."
Number eight Billy Vunipola and lock Courtney Lawes both sustained knee injuries on Saturday and are "50-50" to be fit to face Australia.
Scrum-half Ben Youngs, who injured an ankle, has a slightly better chance, according to Lancaster.
Lancaster said he would announce the team on Thursday to give centre Jonathan Joseph the "best chance" to gain selection after missing the Wales match with a pectoral injury.
"Hopefully Ben Morgan and JJ will be fit again and we can consider them but Ben Youngs, Courtney Lawes and Billy Vunipola are doubts," he said.
"To a certain extent your selection is dictated by your injury situation, but clearly if someone like JJ is fit he's a high-quality player and we'd want him back in the team."
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Having renewed his commitment to this "ambition" in the Conservative manifesto, he must now try to reverse a trend.
The government signalled its intent with a photocall this morning at the scene of an immigration raid, publicising a law designed to hit illegal migrant workers in the pocket.
Success or failure, though, will be dictated by reducing legal migration.
The prime minister believes better-trained Britons, more apprentices, and new EU welfare rules will help achieve that.
His decision to chair a taskforce on the topic is intended to focus minds in Whitehall.
But while crackdowns, legislation and declarations of intent make good copy, there is no guarantee they will shift the figures.
The UK cannot dictate how many EU citizens come here, or how many Britons leave.
Businesses will worry that by targeting the sort of immigration they can affect - legal migrants from outside the EU - ministers risk making it harder to hire skilled workers.
No law can change the fact there are more jobs and better pay in Britain than in many other nations.
Migrants will still want to come.
But Conservatives are keenly aware that there could be a heavy political price to pay if they go into a second election having conspicuously failed to realise their ambition.
At first archaeologists thought the remains were part of the cathedral's cemetery but then realised they had been "tipped" into the ground.
They were found during work on Durham University's Palace Green library.
Experts believe the people may have been killed by disease and were buried in a hurry, but said it was too early to say.
Richard Annis, senior archaeologist at Durham University, said: "We have found clear evidence of a mass burial and not a normal group of graves.
"The bodies have been tipped into the earth, one on top of each other, without elaborate ceremony and they are tightly packed together and jumbled.
"Some are buried in a north to south alignment, rather than the traditional east to west alignment that we would expect from a conventional medieval burial site."
His team must get permission to move the bones from the UK's Ministry of Justice before it can begin trying to determine how old they are.
By law the remains must eventually be reinterred in an approved burial site.
Mr Annis added: "The process of post-excavation processing, examination and analysis is essential to allow us to draw proper conclusions about this group of human remains.
"It is too early to say what they may be."
Shelter Scotland's Perth Road shop was given about 60 designer dresses, along with knitwear, jackets and trousers.
The shop is selling the brand new dresses for £30 each, almost a tenth of their actual cost.
Shop manager Karen Kelbie said: "In my 20 years of managing the shop, I've never seen anything like it.
"We're all still in shock.
"What could be better than dancing the night away in a beautiful dress, knowing you've just helped a vulnerable homeless person or a family living in poor quality housing?"
The donation was made by Prego Boutique in Broughty Ferry.
Owner Liza Sinclair said: "Many of our staff and customers live very fortunate lives where we don't have to think about where we're going to sleep each night or if we're going to lose the roof over our heads altogether.
"If by doing our little bit we can make a difference to even one person, then it'll all be worth it."
Southern Railway trains from the south coast into London have been disrupted for weeks because of industrial action and high levels of staff sickness.
"The shambles we have seen is turning into a crisis," said Peter Kyle, Labour MP for Hove and Portslade.
But rail minister Claire Perry insisted services were improving.
Mr Kyle told the House of Commons during transport questions: "I'm getting people writing to me who are being late for work every day and their bosses are giving them written warnings now.
Mims Davies, Tory MP for Eastleigh, described Southern Railway's performance as "shameful" and said it could not be tolerated.
The watchdog Transport Focus has published figures showing passenger satisfaction was lower on Southern and Southeastern services than for any other train operator in the country.
Caroline Lucas, the Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, urged Ms Perry and the Department for Transport to transfer the Southern franchise into public ownership.
A man who commutes to London from Hove told BBC South East his employer could no longer book early client meetings as he had no idea whether he would turn up.
"I am therefore simply not fit for purpose and there is nothing concrete to suggest that the situation will change," he said.
"His [the boss's] response is entirely rational.
"My options are therefore to live in London during the week, waving my young family goodbye and switching my pension contributions into accommodation costs, or get fired."
The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union is in dispute with Southern about the role of conductors.
Ms Perry said investment on the routes meant things were "getting better".
But she added: "If your constituents would like to write to bosses, may I suggest they write to the union bosses involved, who I think are doing their members a grave disservice by bringing them out on completely unjustified grounds.
"This is a dispute about who presses the buttons that operate the doors and the change in the role of the second staff member."
Southeastern and Network Rail said that at the time of the Transport Focus survey, between 11 January and 20 March, factors including the partial collapse of the sea wall at Dover and landslides at Barnehurst affected trains.
Storm Imogen also hit services and there were infrastructure failings around London Bridge.
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Pakistan posted their highest World Cup score with opener Nahida Khan (79) helping them to 206-8.
The Proteas reached 113-0 before losing five wickets for 34 runs in a frenzied spell which included three run-outs.
It was left to number nine Shabnim Ismail to strike consecutive boundaries in the 49th over to secure a win.
Pakistan, who have not won a World Cup match since 2009, face England on Tuesday, again at Leicester, while South Africa play New Zealand at Derby on Wednesday.
Officers were called on Monday after a man was seen being driven away from a property in Kingsgate, East Reading, at 22:17 GMT.
A 27-year-old man from Luton and two men from Reading, aged 20 and 31, have been arrested and are currently in custody.
Thames Valley Police is appealing for witnesses.
Three others were seriously injured in Wednesday night's blast at the factory in West Midnapur district.
It was not immediately clear how the fire started.
Accidental explosions are common at Indian fireworks factories, which provide fireworks for weddings, festivals and other ceremonies.
In 2012, 34 people were killed and 30 others injured in a massive blaze at a fireworks factory in the southern Tamil Nadu state.
In the latest explosion near Pingla, the owner of the illegal factory and his wife have died. The building owner has been arrested.
The BBC Bengali's Amitabha Bhattasali in Kolkata (Calcutta) says the villagers are claiming that the death toll is higher, and that several bodies are still lying in a nearby pond.
Earlier this week, at least nine people were killed in an explosion at a fireworks factory in the western state of Maharashtra.
Many plants once found in meadows now only thrive beside roads, where they provide essential habitat for insects, says charity Plantlife International.
But it says one in 10 of the plants is at risk of extinction, in part because councils cut verges too early.
Local authorities say shorter verges are safer for drivers and pedestrians.
Dr Trevor Dines, botanical specialist for the charity, said more than 97% of meadows had been destroyed in England since the 1930s, with road verges becoming the last stretches of natural habitat for wildlife such as bees and other insects.
"Most of our farmland is now hostile to many of our wild plants and other wildlife due to the loss of wild flower meadows and the use of herbicides and fertilisers," he told BBC News.
"The roadside verges are often the last refuge for wild flowers and the wildlife there depends on them.
"It's almost as if plants have been squeezed out of farmland and now they're being squeezed out of road verges from bad management."
The Local Government Association has said keeping road verges well-maintained means motorists have a good line of sight and allows pedestrians to walk more safely alongside busy roads.
Plantlife International says road verges are of particular importance to rare plants such as Deptford pink, tower mustard and spiked rampion.
They also act as wildlife corridors and provide pollen and nectar for bees, butterflies and moths.
The wild plant conservation charity says many of Britain's road verges are being cut down in full flower threatening the wildflowers and the wildlife that depends on them.
It is calling on members of the public to sign a petition urging councils to do more to enhance the wildlife value of road verges.
Its management principles for road verges include:
Dr Dines added: "If we just give them a chance, wildflowers can return."
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Powys council's cabinet said the loss of £1.6m over the next three years has affected the number of classes it could afford and it was launching a review.
It will look at whether its sixth forms are financially viable and educationally sustainable.
The Welsh government said it is working with Powys to minimise the impact of cuts to learning.
The council launched a similar review three years ago but eventually decided not to shut any sixth forms in the county.
Since then, the council has backed the takeover of the struggling John Beddoes School in Presteigne by Newtown High School, meaning the number of sixth forms in the county will drop from 13 to 12 from April.
Council cabinet member for learning Myfanwy Alexander said: "Changes to the way post-16 funding is delivered and a decline in pupil numbers have had a severe impact on Powys sixth forms.
"Learner choice will be hit hard and the sustainability of Powys sixth forms will be seriously affected."
In September 2012, the council was able to fund 232 further education classes across the authority area.
But according to the council, the decline in pupil numbers and changes to post-16 education budgets means only 181 classes will be funded in September 2014.
Ms Alexander said she feared a "reduced menu of subjects" for pupils, leading to some students travelling outside of Powys to study.
She said the education authority had made "strong representations" to the Welsh government on the funding changes, and had asked for a rethink on funding levels or risk "damaging changes in Powys".
Responding to the council's comments, the Welsh government's deputy minister for skills and technology Ken Skates said: "We have been open about the stark reality of the financial challenges ahead and the difficult decisions that we are facing.
"The post-16 sector remains a key priority for this government and we are working closely with colleagues in Powys and across Wales to minimise the impact of any reductions on learning."
Controversial plans to save around £20m was approved by councillors in Powys last week. The decision also means about 400 posts will be lost at the authority.
Tareena Shakil, from Birmingham, told friends she was going on holiday to Turkey in October 2014 before she entered territory held by the group.
She told Birmingham Crown Court she came back early last year "of my own free will".
The 26-year-old denies joining IS or encouraging acts of terror on Twitter.
Ms Shakil handed herself in to the Turkish border patrols after fleeing Syria and was later arrested when she landed at Heathrow Airport.
The former health worker, who previously told the court she travelled to Syria to live under Sharia law, said she returned after realising how extreme the regime was.
"I was interested in Islamic State as a place, never in jihad or anything like that," she said.
Ms Shakil said she feared telling her family about life in Syria because IS fighters could murder her.
"I was one woman alone in the most dangerous place in the world - 4,000 miles from home - around some of the most dangerous people in the world," she said.
Under cross-examination, Ms Shakil was questioned about accounts she followed through social media site Twitter, which included a jihadi fighter who advocated being "harsh towards the kuffar [non-believer]".
She said she only retweeted images and passages from the Koran she agreed with, and did not endorse jihad against non-Muslims or extremist behaviour.
"If he says he's harsh towards the kuffar, that's a matter for him," she said.
"I have not been - half my family are non-believers."
The trial continues.
The industry's trade body has warned people not to ignore the "essential role" diesel commercial vehicles play in keeping the UK economy moving.
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders also pointed out that emergency vehicles are overwhelmingly diesel.
But "green" groups said it was clear all diesel engines must be phased out.
Diesel vehicles have been under attack since revelations that carmakers falsified emissions data. It has prompted calls for vehicle bans, tax penalties, and scrappage schemes.
The SMMT's defence of the commercial vehicle sector comes at the start of a three-day event that will promote new and cleaner diesel technology.
In a report published to mark the start of the Commercial Vehicle Show, in Birmingham, the SMMT claimed that there are 1.8 million owner-operators dependent on vans for their livelihood.
The report also estimated that UK commercial vehicles contribute £27.5bn to the economy by moving freight alone.
The SMMT said that, on average, modern diesel vans use around 50% less fuel than petrols, which means lower fuel bills for operators and a knock-on benefit for consumers and taxpayers.
Mike Hawes, the SMMT's chief executive, said, "Commercial vehicles play an essential but often overlooked role in keeping Britain functioning, performing jobs and transporting vital goods and services that we all rely on every day.
"This sector has never been so important to the UK economy - and to British jobs - and diesel's role in powering these vital vehicles should not be downplayed. Nearly all our commercial vehicles are driven by diesel."
But the latest Euro VI standards meant that new diesel vehicles were the cleanest and safest yet, he said.
Mr Hawes also pointed out that diesel was essential for keeping tens of thousands of ambulances, fire engines and police vans on the road.
But his defence of the sector got short shrift from environmental groups, which said it was time to get rid of all internal combustion engines for the benefit of health and quality of life.
Jenny Bates, air pollution campaigner at Friends of the Earth, said: "The motor industry knows that the writing is on the wall.
"Technology is moving so fast that using alternative power for vans should not be a problem," she said, citing efforts made by the bus industry to become cleaner.
"Obviously, we need to ensure emergency services are maintained. But in the end, all vehicle types need to be addressed, even if it doesn't all happen at the same time. It just needs commitment and investment."
He lost a High Court battle last month to be extradited over alleged sex offences, which he denies.
Judges refused Mr Assange permission to appeal directly to the Supreme Court - but said his case raised "a question of general public importance".
He can now directly ask the Supreme Court to look at his case.
However, Mr Assange, who was at the London court to hear the judges' ruling, still has no automatic right to be heard by the highest court in the UK.
He was cheered by supporters as he left the Royal Courts of Justice and, alluding to an MPs' debate later on calls for the renegotiation of extradition rules, he said there were "many aggrieved families in the UK and other countries and in Europe struggling for justice".
Speaking of his own case, he said: "I think that is the correct decision, and I am thankful. The long struggle for justice for me and others continues."
Mr Assange, 40, is founder of the whistleblowing website Wikileaks, which has angered the United States by releasing hundreds of thousands of classified US documents.
The Australian faces extradition over accusations he raped a woman and sexually molested another in Stockholm in August last year. He denies the allegations.
Mr Assange was arrested in London a year ago on a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) and has been living at the country estate of a supporter under stringent bail conditions. He claims his arrest was politically motivated and linked to the activities of Wikileaks.
District Judge Howard Riddle ruled in February that Mr Assange should be extradited to face investigation following a hearing at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court in central London. The decision was upheld at the High Court last month.
Mr Assange attempted to appeal the decision on two grounds.
He argued the highest court should consider whether his extradition would be unlawful because the request was made by a "partisan prosecutor working for the executive" and whether he could be defined as "the accused" even though no decision has been taken to prosecute him.
On Monday the High Court certified that the case raised the question of whether the Swedish prosecutor who issued the EAW against Mr Assange was a "judicial authority". Mr Assange's lawyers argue the prosecutor was not, and the warrant was therefore invalid.
Mark Summers, appearing for Mr Assange, said: "Public prosecutors should not, in any circumstances, be permitted to issue EAWs."
One of the two judges, Sir John Thomas, told Mr Summers the court's view was that it had "very little doubt that, as a matter of law, the prosecutor was within the scheme" for issuing warrants, and Mr Assange's chances of success in the Supreme Court were "extraordinarily slim".
But the judge said the court felt "constrained" to certify that the case raised a question of general public importance.
However, it would be left to the Supreme Court to decide whether to give Assange actual leave to appeal, it was ruled.
Sir John said: "If leave is granted by the Supreme Court we would, for obvious reasons, ask that the point is decided as quickly as possible."
Outside the court Mr Assange's lawyer, Gareth Peirce, said his legal team had 14 days to submit a written petition to the Supreme Court.
She told reporters that if the court refused to hear the request then Mr Assange would have exhausted all legal avenues in Britain.
Nonetheless, many journalists face intimidation because of their reporting. It is dangerous for them to "take too much interest" in organised crime, corruption or human rights violations during the civil war, Reporters Without Borders said in 2011.
Private operators dominate the media. Four national TV channels share the same owner and have a virtual monopoly in TV broadcasting. They have been criticised for being pro-government. Press ownership is "concentrated in the hands of business elites", reports US-based Freedom House.
There were 2.28 million internet users by June 2012 (via Internetworldstats). Facebook is the leading social network.
Robert Fothergill, 47, of Richmond, North Yorkshire, who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a young boy, was handed a six-year sentence.
He admitted seven charges, which also included possessing indecent images.
Teesside Crown Court heard the married father was "a man with a dark side" who had "abused his position of trust".
He had worked at schools across North Yorkshire, Durham, Cleveland and Tyne and Wear.
The court heard Fothergill, of White Lands, specialised in working with vulnerable people aged five to 18.
He admitted to police he had used a website where he would watch children as young as nine perform sex acts.
Judge Tony Briggs placed him on the sex offenders register and said: "It is plain on your public side there are very many good things to say about you.
"Unhappily, you have a darker side which is illustrated by your admission to these matters."
The self-employed counsellor was arrested in February, after an investigation into a West Yorkshire man he had been communicating with.
In April, Fothergill admitted sexually assaulting a boy, causing or inciting a child and a boy under 13 to engage in sexual activity, and one count of possessing and three of distributing indecent images.
All of the offences happened in North Yorkshire.
Tom Mitchell, defending, said Fothergill took medication for "restless leg syndrome" and a known side effect was being less able to combat urges.
Speaking after the sentencing, Det Insp Fiona Wynne, of North Yorkshire Police, said: "Fothergill's admission of guilt has at least spared his victims the ordeal of going through a trial.
"However, nothing can ever undo the harm he has caused both to the children he has directly abused or those whose pictures he has shared."
They sent a camera down to check all was well with their work and saw a cat chasing a large rat.
Highways England site supervisor Jason Appleton said it was the first time their cameras had picked up "an intrepid moggy in hot pursuit".
The rat escaped and the cat was later seen exiting the tunnel, which is by the A120 at Wix in Essex.
Mr Appleton said: "It was like an episode of Tom and Jerry live".
The tunnel was been constructed as part of a £5.98m package of maintenance work across the A12 and A120.
Kiran Giri reached at least 50mph (80km/h) in a 30mph (48km/h) zone before hitting 47-year-old Jayne Parker, Swansea Crown Court heard.
Ms Parker was hit as she crossed Sketty Lane in Swansea on 10 December 2013.
Giri, 33, of Sketty, Swansea, admitted causing death by careless driving and received an eight-month sentence, suspended for two years.
The court heard Ms Parker, who had a 10-year-old son, died from "catastrophic" injuries just hours after the crash.
She was on her way to work as a chef at the city's Singleton Hospital when she was hit.
Giri had driven less than a mile from his home when he became impatient with a slower driver and then a bus indicating to pull in.
He overtook them both in one go and struck Ms Parker.
Builder Giri denied he was in a hurry on his way to work on a train station redevelopment 40 miles away in Cardiff.
He said: "I was not in a hurry. I was at the speed others do."
The court heard Giri had been caught speeding shortly before the accident and had undergone a speed awareness course as part of his punishment.
Judge Huw Davies said Ms Parker "had lived a good life and had the right to look forward to more".
Giri was also banned from driving for two years.
Willie Clarke, who was first elected to Fife Council in 1973, stepped down on Wednesday for personal reasons.
The 80-year-old technically sat as an independent in recent years due to ballot paper rules, but still identifies himself as a Communist.
He said he hoped the movement could "pick up strength" again in the future.
A Fife Council spokeswoman said a date had not yet been set for a by-election to replace Mr Clarke.
The Ballingry resident served on the education and social work committees during his four decades in public office.
There are elections to all of Scotland's councils in 2017, but Mr Clarke told the Edinburgh Evening News that it was "time to call it a day" now due to personal reasons.
He said: "It has been a hard decision to make. I had hoped to see things through to the council elections next May, but over the past few months one or two problems have made it difficult to be able to be as committed as I want to be to this very important job."
Scottish Labour deputy leader Alex Rowley, who was elected to The Lochs ward alongside Mr Clarke in 2011, paid tribute to him as "a great servant to the people".
He added: "Willie has been a great inspiration and friend to so many people including myself, and we owe him a great debt of gratitude for all the work he has put in."
The Communist Party of Britain contested the North East list in May's Scottish election, but won only 510 votes.
As of 2014, the party had 917 members across the UK.
Ysgol Rhosgadfan primary classrooms were moved to the village sports club and the Cae'r Gors education centre after the storm in late December 2016.
The building has now been repaired by Gwynedd council and reopened to pupils on Tuesday.
The school also received donations from the public.
The water reached one metre deep on Avenue Road in Primrose Hill.
The basement and ground floor of one building flooded and about 50 residents were evacuated from a block of flats.
Thames Water said it had stemmed the flow of water and the excess water was draining away. It will then clean the road before working out how to best fix the pipe.
Fire station manager Matt Burrows said sandbags were laid down to protect as many properties as possible.
"Avenue Road is a long residential street and is used as a bit of a thoroughfare [and] this is causing quite bit of disruption, so avoid the area if you can," he said.
Marlon Roban, 38, launched an attack on his victim that was caught on CCTV at The Mount jail near Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, on 30 April last year.
Roban used a shard of glass from a smashed microwave plate, St Albans Crown Court was told.
Judge Stephen Warner said he posed a danger to the public and deserved an "extended sentence" starting in 2019.
Fellow inmates and the victim, who nearly bled to death when the glass severed an artery, refused to give evidence against Roban.
Prosecutor Jessica Clarke said: "One of the shards caused a wound that nearly killed the victim. It struck an artery and he nearly bled to death."
Judge Warner said: "Stabbing a man in the neck near to a vital artery is a serious offence."
He also said he was satisfied Roban posed a danger to the public and there was a real risk of him committing further serious offences.
Plans for a one-off tax of 6.75% on savings up to 100,000 euros (£86,000; $130,000) have outraged Cypriots.
Banks in Cyprus are to remain closed until Thursday, as efforts to revise an international bailout package continue.
A parliamentary vote on the package has been repeatedly postponed, but is now expected on Tuesday.
The 10bn-euro bailout agreed with the EU and IMF demands that all bank customers pay a one-off levy.
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The government's efforts to shift more of the burden onto wealthier depositors enraged Russians, who form the bulk of overseas investors and have deposits worth billions of dollars in Cypriot banks.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called the proposed levy "unfair, unprofessional and dangerous", and Moscow has expressed frustration Russia was not included in European decision-making on Cyprus.
Under the currently agreed terms of the levy, depositors with less than 100,000 euros in Cyprus accounts would pay a one-off tax of 6.75%, while those with sums over that threshold would pay 9.9%.
But the move has outraged Cypriots and sparked heavy cash withdrawals from banks.
Since the start of the financial crisis there has been a guarantee that deposits under 100,000 euros in banks in the EU would be protected.
Many observers believe the Cypriot levy breaks the spirit of that agreement, and there is concern that it could also damage the confidence of depositors in other eurozone countries, reports the BBC's Chris Morris in Brussels.
By Mark LowenBBC News, Nicosia
Cypriots will tell you they're a resilient nation. They bounced back from the war of 1974 and became a prosperous EU member three decades later.
But even they are feeling defeated by this shock tax. "Daylight robbery" is what many here call it.
"If Brussels insists on this, we should leave the EU altogether," one elderly gentleman told me in a Nicosia cafe.
And that is perhaps the lasting damage of this affair - a tiny yet proud EU member now feels bullied and blackmailed by the powerful, the old north-south division of Europe widening again.
Yet many argue Cyprus sleepwalked into this mess. For years it thrived as a tax haven, its banking sector eight times the size of its economy. The warning signs were there but few were willing to heed them.
Eurozone finance ministers - the Eurogroup - discussed the situation in a conference call on Monday evening.
Following the talks, its president Jeroen Dijsselbloem issued a statement saying the group "continues to be of the view that small depositors should be treated differently from large depositors and reaffirms the importance of fully guaranteeing deposits below 100,000 euros".
He said Cyprus would "introduce more progressivity in the one-off levy" - in other words, shift the burden away from small savers towards bigger depositors - provided that the same amount of funds, 5.8bn euros, was raised.
Mr Dijsselbloem urged "a swift decision by the Cypriot authorities and parliament to rapidly implement the agreed measures".
President Anastasiades has been holding talks with ministers and MPs at the parliament building in Nicosia, where hundreds of people noisily protested on Monday.
The BBC's Mark Lowen in Nicosia says there are suggestions Mr Anastasiades may want to lower the former rate to 3%, while raising the levy on the larger depositors to 12.5%.
The debate and vote in Cyprus' parliament is now scheduled for 18:00 local time (16:00 GMT) on Tuesday. It was to have been held on Sunday.
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The president's Democratic Rally has 20 seats in the 56-member assembly and needs other parties' support to ratify the deal.
The vote remains too close to call, correspondents say.
Speaker Yiannakis Omirou, of the EDEK party, said: "Parliament is called to legalise a decision to rob depositors blind, against every written and unwritten law. We refuse to subscribe to this."
Mr Anastasiades insists that without the bailout Cyprus could face bankruptcy and a possible exit from the eurozone - a fear echoed by European officials.
The US has called for a "responsible and fair" resolution.
Protesters in Cyprus have held up banners blaming Germany for the controversial bailout deal, but Germany says it always favoured protecting bank accounts with up to 100,000 euros, and insists it was the Cypriot government, European Commission and ECB that decided on the levy terms.
Earlier European Commission spokesman Simon O'Connor defended the group's actions, saying its original decision on the bailout was "taken by unanimity, all the member states of the eurozone, including Cyprus".
Stock markets in the US, Asia and Europe fell in early trading, though some of their losses were recouped later in the day. The euro also fell.
Cyprus may only be a tiny fraction of the eurozone economy, our Brussels correspondent says. But the sense of uncertainty surrounding it is sending shivers through the financial markets.
And 55% said their job had a negative impact on their mental health.
The government says it trusts heads to address any health issues with staff.
The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) last month polled 925 education staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
A head of a department from a college in Wales said: "The constant pressure, with unrealistic targets given at short notice, has had an adverse effect on my health.
"If you complain or discuss it, your job will be at risk."
A head of department in Kent said: "It is no good telling the management about your hidden disabilities because they will consider you as a weak link."
A lecturer at a college in Manchester said: "Difficult working conditions, pressures from management and Ofsted and very little spare time all contribute.
"The profession is full of ill-health and tiredness."
A teacher at a Kent primary school said: "I have decided to leave teaching because of work-related stress.
"I have been expected to work up to 90 hours per week and this has had a terrible impact on my family life and my health."
Source: ATL
Of those who said they believed their job has had a negative impact on their mental health, 80% said they were stressed.
Some 70% said they were left feeling exhausted by their work and 66% said it disturbed their sleep.
The ATL is concerned that a stigma attached to mental health issues means many people are afraid to tell their employers if they have such problems.
The poll found 68% of those dealing with a mental health problem had decided to keep it a secret from bosses, compared with 38% of those who kept a physical health issue to themselves.
The ATL debated the topic at its annual conference in Manchester on Monday.
In a range of passionate speeches, delegates spoke of talking colleagues out of suicide, having panic attacks on the way to work, crying in a friend's classroom and being told to "get over it" by management.
Tamsin Honeybourne, a union representative in Surrey, said she typically had three members a year about whom she was "seriously worried".
"It's under-recognised. The problem is huge. In 80% of cases, there are mental health issues around being in a high pressured profession, being on the public stage."
Rod Bissett from Birmingham, who himself suffered a period of mental health problems, said: "I've seen colleagues reduced to tears because of their depression and other mental health problems."
A resolution calling on the union to establish a dedicated working group to investigate the issue was passed.
Union members want to look specifically at the impact of performance management systems on those with mental health problems or hidden disabilities
Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of ATL, said she was shocked by the survey findings.
"Education professionals do more unpaid overtime than any other group and are put under constant intense pressure to meet targets, with excessive observation, changes in the curriculum and Ofsted inspections.
"Those working in education need to be supported better, with schools and colleges making adjustments to their jobs and working conditions where necessary.
"ATL calls for more to be done to ease the stigma surrounding mental health problems."
A spokeswoman for the Department for Education said statistics showed that teaching had never been "more attractive, more popular or more rewarding".
"We trust the professionalism of our head teachers to work with their staff to ensure they receive the support they need and to see that any issues are addressed," she added.
Five Catholics, including a 15-year-old boy, were killed in the attack on the Ormeau Road in 1992.
It was carried out by the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF). No-one has been convicted in relation to the killings.
Families said that the Police Ombudsman is due to publish a report into the murders at Easter.
Tommy Duffin, whose father Jack was one of those killed, said the report is the "only way we have to go" in terms of justice.
"We'll have to take into account what it says and where it leaves us as families, and then decide where we move from there.
"We're waiting with baited breath to a certain extent, to know exactly what it's going to say and what it's going to reveal to us."
The families have previously said they believe there was collusion between the killers and security forces.
In 2015, the PSNI's chief constable apologised after it was discovered that the weapon used in the killings was on display in the Imperial War Museum in London.
Transport bosses said slippery rails were causing wheels on the Tube trains to lock, leading to excessive wear and rendering them unsafe.
The problems are not thought to affect other lines.
A limited shuttle service is currently operating between Acton Town and Rayners Lane every 15 to 20 minutes.
A reduced service is operating across the line between Heathrow and Cockfosters.
Tony Matthews, general manager for the Piccadilly Line, said: "‎I sincerely apologise to Piccadilly Line customers for the ongoing disruption to their journeys.
"The safety of our customers and staff is our number one priority which is why we've had to take some Piccadilly Line trains out of service to repair their wheels, which unfortunately means we do not have a full fleet available.
"We're working around the clock to fix the trains so that we can return to a good service as quickly as possible."
Trains on other lines, which have newer carriages and spend less time overground, are not expected to suffer similar problems.
In further disruption, Tube drivers on the Piccadilly Line are set to stage a 24-hour strike on 6 and 7 December, coinciding with a walkout by Southern rail guards.
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The UN's special rapporteur for human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, was speaking as part of a joint BBC Newsnight-BBC Our World investigation.
Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been in power almost a year, declined an interview.
A spokesman for her party said the allegations were "exaggerated" and an "internal" not "international" issue.
Ms Lee has not been given free access to the conflict area in Myanmar. But after speaking to refugees in Bangladesh she told the BBC that the situation was "far worse" than she expected.
"I would say crimes against humanity. Definite crimes against humanity... by the Burmese, Myanmar military, the border guards or the police or security forces."
She said the problem of abuse was "systemic" within the Burmese security forces, but said that Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government should bear some of the responsibility.
"At the end of the day it is the government, the civilian government, that has to answer and respond to these massive cases of horrific torture and very inhumane crimes they have committed against their own people."
Former democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi led the National League for Democracy (NLD) to a majority win in Myanmar's first openly contested election in 25 years in November 2015.
More than 70,000 Rohingya - a Muslim minority group from Myanmar - have fled to Bangladesh in the last few months, after a militant attack in October triggered a military crackdown.
In camps in Bangladesh, the BBC heard allegations from recently arrived Rohingya refugees that the Burmese security forces had shot civilians, and abducted and raped young girls.
Many of the refugee accounts are supported by both satellite and video evidence.
The BBC has repeatedly asked Ms Suu Kyi for an interview to discuss the Rohingya.
Although the Myanmar constitution forbids her from becoming president, she is widely seen as de facto leader.
But since she won an election landslide 16 months ago, Ms Suu Kyi has not done any interviews with journalists based in Myanmar - international or foreign - or held a meaningful press conference.
The spokesman for Ms Suu Kyi's political party, the National League of Democracy, Win Htein, told the BBC that under the current constitution, Ms Suu Kyi did not have the power to get the army to stop.
Responding to Ms Lee's claims of "crimes against humanity" he said reports of hundreds of dead Rohingya were "exaggerations" and that "sometimes the United Nations is wrong".
"As a new government we're just trying to achieve to a modern country. We have thousands of problems.
"We don't believe it's crimes against humanity," he added. "It's an internal affair - it's not an international affair."
The Burmese government has set up its own investigation into allegations of abuses.
It is led by a former general and has been criticised by Ms Lee for being dominated by military men and for its methodology.
On Monday Ms Lee will present her latest findings to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva and will formally call for a Commission of Inquiry to be established, similar to the ones looking at abuses in places like North Korean and Syria.
Contacted by the BBC, both the UK and the EU refused to say they would support the establishment of a commission of inquiry.
A draft Human Rights Council resolution seen by the BBC proposes a watered down investigation.
Many are wary of doing anything that might be seen as undermining Myanmar's elected leader.
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Philippe Douste-Blazy, who previously worked as a cardiologist, assisted the birth alongside a midwife.
The baby was born above Algeria around two hours before the plane landed at Charles de Gaulle airport, travelling from Gabon's capital Libreville.
Both mother and baby are said to be doing well.
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"A young woman in her twenties who was seven months pregnant was clearly having contractions and her water broke," he explained.
"We placed towels and pillows on the floor and delivered there."
He praised the woman for her courage, saying: "She suffered a lot and there was not much (medicine) on the plane."
Mr Douste-Blazy served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2005-2007. He currently works for the UN.
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Work to trap and kill American mink on the isles, including Harris and the Uists, began 15 years ago and has "dramatically reduced" their number.
Stoats are not native to Orkney and hunt voles, a key source of food for endangered birds of prey.
SNH has begun recruiting stoat trappers across the islands.
In its latest online magazine, the agency said the Orkney project would "draw on the experience" of the Hebridean Mink Project, which has now entered its final stages.
Hundreds of mink, descendants of animals that escaped into the wild from fur farms, have been trapped at a cost of about £4.5m.
SNH, along with other public bodies and conservation charities, have funded the work designed to protect ground-nesting birds from the predator.
It is believed stoats first arrived in Orkney from the Scottish mainland by accident in deliveries of hay or straw for farmers.
Another theory is that they were illegally released to control rabbits.
Conservationists were alerted to the presence of stoats in 2010 and there was an effort to trap them humanely and release them on the mainland.
However, SNH said eradication had emerged as the most effect solution because of the large number of stoats and the threat they pose to hen harriers and short-eared owls, which hunt voles, and also to ground-nesting birds.
The 24-year-old left-back, who has made two appearances for the Seagulls this season, featured four times during a loan stint with the Gills last season.
Chicksen will be at the Priestfield Stadium until 23 February.
"Adam is somebody we have kept an eye on for a while and are pleased we had the opportunity to bring him here," said Gills boss Justin Edinburgh
Chicksen, who had a loan spell at Leyton Orient earlier in the campaign, becomes Gillingham's first signing of the transfer window.
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The 18-year-old winger will initially join the Championship club's development squad.
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Ryanair will operate a twice-weekly service as part of its summer schedule next year.
It follows an earlier announcement that the airline would also fly from Aberdeen to Alicante and Malaga next year.
Airport managing director Carol Benzie said a survey suggested a demand for a Faro route from customers.
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Christopher Halliwell led police to Becky Godden's body shortly after he confessed to killing Miss O'Callaghan.
But he was not prosecuted over Miss Godden's death after a judge ruled detectives ignored arrest guidelines.
The petition calls for a review of PACE (the Police and Criminal Evidence Act).
Miss Godden's mother, Karen Edwards, launched the petition this week and so far it has more than 300 signatures.
It calls on the government to urgently review Code C of the Act, the code of practice for the detention, treatment and questioning of persons by police officers.
A Home Office spokesman said: "The Police and Criminal Evidence Act and its codes of practice are designed to protect the rights of all those in the criminal justice system, including victims and interviewing officers.
"The Act was introduced as a direct response to concerns over the conduct of the police in significant miscarriages of justice in the early 1980s and has stood the test of time ever since."
But Ms Edwards told BBC Breakfast: "I feel there should be more flexibility when police officers arrest people."
Halliwell was identified by police as the main suspect in 22-year-old Miss O'Callaghan's murder after CCTV caught him driving outside the nightclub in Swindon she went missing from last year.
Following Halliwell's arrest, he was taken not to a police station to be read his rights but to local beauty spot Barbury Castle by Det Supt Steve Fulcher.
Mrs Justice Cox said Det Supt Fulcher's decision to ignore guidelines in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act were "significant and substantial".
She added the move was intended to create "circumstances deliberately designed to persuade the defendant to speak".
And it led to Halliwell only facing charges over the murder of Miss O'Callaghan and not Miss Godden, also known as Becky Godden-Edwards, who had been missing for eight years.
Det Supt Fulcher said he had made the decision to not take Halliwell to a police station in a bid to "appeal to the killer's conscience".
Ms Edwards said she believed that if Det Supt Fulcher had followed the guidelines he would not have found her daughter's body.
"I don't blame Steve Fulcher at all," she said.
"I think a senior police officer should be able to make decisions about the arrest. He made a split second decision and this is the consequences.
"Yes, it's [PACE] been put in place to protect the arrested suspect and it's also been put in place to protect the police officer, but this was a very, very unusual circumstance.
"I don't want any family to go through what I've gone through ever again."
Ms Edwards said: "It's very frustrating. I mean there's a man who admitted in great detail that he had murdered my daughter. He even showed them where he hid her body, in a remote field in the middle of nowhere."
Ms Edwards has also written a letter to Halliwell, although she has not yet sent it to him.
"When the time is right he will get the letter," she said.
"I want him to admit guilt. I want to put this to bed once and for all.
"I want to move on with my life and just get on with my grieving."
The police and Crown Prosecution Service said the murder charge in relation to Miss Godden had not been dropped with Wiltshire Police previously saying it was their intention to continue their investigations.
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Throughout the week thousands of performers and competitors will take to the stage.
You can see everything from dance to brass bands and choirs.
But what is it really like to be a competitor here?
BBC Wales reporter Rebecca John sings in Cor Y Gleision, the Cardiff Blues Choir.
Here is her take on what happens behind the scenes.
It is something Labour, the Liberal Democrats and Greens say they want to change.
Do you think head teachers should try every means possible to attract talented young people into teaching?
The Conservatives say it is essential to give many schools the freedom to recruit people without a formal teaching qualification.
UKIP agrees, arguing that you can have an experienced and outstanding teacher who is unqualified.
It is one of those muddling and muddied debates that is a dividing line between the political parties.
Depending on where you stand it is either a useful alternative way of recruiting a wide range of talents, or an excuse to lower the pay and status of teaching through deregulation.
While a newly qualified teacher can expect to start on £22,000 a year, an unqualified teacher can be paid as little as £16,000.
Qualified-teacher status is awarded after finishing an approved initial teacher training programme.
In theory you must have it to get a teaching job in a school run by your local council, but not in an academy or free school.
Labour says there are about 17,000 unqualified teachers in England's schools, and points to an increase in the number employed in academies.
This is true on both counts, but - as is often the case in politics - is just one slice of the truth, as the official workforce numbers show.
Schools have long been able to make an exception to employ unqualified teachers for their specialist skills, often in subjects such as music, art and sport.
Go back a decade to 2005 and the full-time equivalent of 18,800 unqualified teachers were working - 4.3% of all teachers in England.
The 17,100 employed today make up a smaller proportion - 3.8% of teachers in publicly funded schools.
That means all schools, including those directly managed by local authorities, free schools and academies.
If you look at the crude numbers, more unqualified teachers were working in local-council-managed schools in 2013 than in academies.
As more schools have converted to become academies, the number of unqualified teachers employed in academies has also gone up.
Less commented on is the significant increase in teaching assistants, with a starting salary even lower than an unqualified teacher at around £13,000.
Of course they don't take classes on their own, they are in class to help not to lead the learning as the teacher does.
But the figures show how their role in schools in England has grown.
So as far as those political positions on qualified versus unqualified teachers are concerned, it seems the parties' rhetoric is largely about staking out different visions of teaching and the school system.
One view is of a less regulated, more diverse teaching workforce; the other argues that formal training in the skills of being a teacher is an essential part of bolstering the status of the profession.
Livingston had been joint leaders but relinquished their place at the top after a 3-1 defeat at East Fife.
Brechin City beat Peterhead 2-1 to move to second.
Stranraer were 2-0 victors over 10-man Queen's Park, while Albion Rovers claimed a 2-0 win over Airdrieonians, who were also reduced to 10 men.
Fraser Kerr's own goal gave Alloa the perfect start and they were in full control after Jim Goodwin's strike early in the second half.
But Goodwin went from hero to villain when he was sent off just minutes later.
Willis Furtado's goal 11 minutes from time set up a tense finish and Oli Shaw netted a stoppage-time equaliser for Stenny.
Livingston were behind Alloa only on alphabetical order heading into the weekend but they slipped to third after an afternoon to forget at East Fife.
Jamie Insall scored either side of Chris Kane's goal to put the hosts 3-0 up at the break and although Josh Mullin pulled one back for Livingston just before the hour mark, there was no way back.
The 3-1 defeat was compounded by red cards to Michael Miller and Alan Lithgow in the closing minutes.
Brechin took advantage, despite Rory McAllister giving Peterhead the lead. Ally Love levelled before Andy Jackson's strike six minutes from time gave Brechin all three points.
Goals from Liam Dick and Craig Malcolm either side of half-time earned Stranraer a 2-0 win at Queen's Park, who had Darren Miller sent off in the early stages of the second half.
Albion won by the same scoreline at 10-man Airdrie courtesy of first-half efforts from Paul Willis and Mark Ferry. Iain Russell was sent off for the hosts midway through the second period.
The Devon side rejected several offers for the 21-year-old, with manager Paul Tisdale grateful to the club's board.
"Tis and my agent kept me up to date, so I knew what was going on. Everyone was very honest and we got through it in a nice way," Watkins told BBC Devon.
"I carried on playing because I said to Tis, that's what I want to do."
The Torbay-born player added: "I insisted on playing because I wanted to help the team, and felt that was right for me."
Watkins played in all five of Exeter's games in January, scoring twice as they picked up maximum points to rise to fourth in League Two.
"It has been difficult, not knowing what can happen - I could've been somewhere else in a week's time and there was a lot of speculation," said Watkins.
"It's all about risks and we're doing really well here, I want to help Exeter get promoted."
Tisdale concedes the player will move on, but believes the right decision has been made.
"We could easily have let him go and taken some considerable money, but I think we'll get more at some point not too far in the future," he said.
London won the right to host the event but UK Athletics chairman Ed Warner says he was told that competitors Qatar were offering bribes to IAAF officials.
"If anything comes out of that nature, then clearly all those bids will be called in," Coe told BBC Radio 5 live.
"In a bidding process, every sport has rumour piled upon rumour."
London won the 2017 vote 10-6 in November 2011. Qatari capital Doha was subsequently named as host for the 2019 event in November 2014. Qatar has denied any wrongdoing in either bid.
A World Anti-Doping Agency independent report published on Thursday found that "corruption was embedded" within the International Association of Athletics Federations, the sport's world governing body.
Coe became IAAF president in August after eight years as vice-president.
A French criminal investigation into Coe's predecessor, Lamine Diack, and other leading IAAF officials is looking at whether there was any financial wrongdoing in bids for seven World Athletics Championships from 2009 onwards.
Co-author of the Wada report Richard McLaren said he suspected bribes might have been paid, adding "we don't know that for sure - that's why we want a further investigation and the police are pursuing that".
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Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek, Warner said that the night before the 2017 vote a senior IAAF official told him that Qataris were offering bribes in brown envelopes in return for support.
Warner, who has said London's bid was "completely by the book", felt the allegation was "quite shocking" but he "dismissed it".
However, he claims that, on the morning of the bid, "certain members of the IAAF and senior people at the IAAF were telling us that we were behind because the Qataris had promised to pay the $7.2m (£5m) prize money, which otherwise the IAAF would have had to pay".
Warner said the London bid decided to match that offer and "we were told that was the decisive swing factor".
He added: "I welcome any investigation into all the bidding processes because I would love to believe it was a level playing field. If it wasn't, there needs to be some recompense."
Coe said he did not know the identity of the senior IAAF official who spoke to Warner on the night before the 2017 vote.
Warner said he would tell Coe who it was after Sunday's Sportsweek broadcast finished.
Coe added: "The French police are looking at this and I have already implemented a review of our financial, marketing and sponsorship arrangements within the IAAF."
In a wide-ranging interview, Coe also said public trust in athletics might not return until "way beyond" his four-year term as IAAF president.
He presented the Legion d'honneur medals to three Americans and a Briton on Monday. Awards to an injured French-American and an unnamed Frenchman will be made later.
Two employees of the SNCF rail company who were on the train will also be honoured later.
Here are brief profiles of the recipients, along with some of their testimony.
Originally from the Sacramento suburb of Carmichael in California, the 23-year-old is a United States Air Force Airman First Class, stationed at Lajes Air Base in the Azores.
Part of his job there is with emergency medical personnel, including working in pediatrics and with expectant mothers. A practitioner of jujitsu, He is reported to want to be a paramedic when he leaves the force.
He was sleeping when the gun suspect emerged from a toilet cubicle and was challenged by a French passenger.
The commotion in the train carriage woke him and he says he responded out of an instinct for survival - both his own survival and that of his fellow passengers.
"I turned around and I saw he had what looked to be an AK-47 and it looked like it was jammed or wasn't working and he was trying to charge the weapon.
"Alek just hit me on the shoulder and said 'let's go' and we ran down, tackled him. We hit the ground."
He was first to reach the gunman.
He suffered a wound in the neck and on the eyebrow from a box-cutter, and his thumb was almost sliced off.
Despite the wound, he tended to the injured Mark Moogalian, which President Hollande said probably saved the professor's life.
Lives in Roseburg, Oregon, but is a boyhood friend of Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler.
The 22-year-old is a Specialist in the National Guard, which he has served for three years.
He returned to Oregon in July after completing a nine-month deployment to Afghanistan. He left on 11 August for a month-long European holiday with his two friends.
Mr Skarlatos said his initial reaction was also "mostly just gut instinct".
"We just kind of acted. There wasn't much thinking going on."
He said military training had only played a role in providing medical help and making sure there were no accomplices.
He said the gunman had a lot of ammunition and "his intentions were pretty clear", but that he appeared untrained. "He clearly had no firearms training whatsoever."
"If he knew what he was doing, or even just got lucky... we would have all been in trouble and probably wouldn't be here today - along with a lot of other people."
A 23-year-old student at California State University in Sacramento.
He was on his first overseas trip and is scheduled to return to the university on 30 August for his senior year in kinesiology - the study of human movement.
Reportedly wants to become a doctor and work for the National Basketball Association.
Was quick to praise the actions of his two friends, particularly Spencer Stone.
"The gunman would have been successful if my friend Spencer had not gotten up."
He added: "I want that lesson to be learned. In times of terror like that to please do something. Don't just stand by and watch."
Father Tony said: "He leaves here a young man on an excursion to broaden his world view and have fun with his buddies and comes back France's national hero."
A 62-year-old Uganda-born British national. Married with two children and two grandchildren.
He is an IT specialist now based in Nimes, in southern France, and helps African entrepreneurs find European financing.
Helped to subdue and tie up the gunman after the Americans had charged him.
Mr Norman said: "My thought was, OK, I'm probably going to die anyway, so let's go. I'd rather die being active, trying to get him down, rather than simply sit in the corner and be shot."
Was modest after accepting his award from President Hollande.
"I'm just amazed, and I really appreciate the honour I've been given, this recognition of what we did. But I really don't know whether I deserve it.
"If you had told me before that I would one day be awarded the Legion d'honneur, I wouldn't have believed it.
"I did what I could, what I had to do, but it's the others you should be thanking, especially Spence and Alek."
Mr Moogalian is a 51-year-old American-born French national who is a professor at the Sorbonne.
His website reveals him to be an author, artist and musician in a group called Secret Season.
He was travelling on the train with his wife, Isabella Risacher.
She told BFM TV her husband had seen a passenger tackling the gunman as he emerged from the toilet and went to help.
She said: "He told me, 'Go, this is serious.' I just moved a few seats away and my husband rushed at the man to take his Kalashnikov. Then he collapsed and I saw him through the gaps between the seats. He looked at me and said, 'I'm hit, I'm hit.' He thought he was going to die."
Ms Risacher applied a tourniquet with a scarf and ran to the next carriage for help but found none. She returned to see the Americans subduing the gunman, after which Spencer Stone applied pressure to the artery in her husband's neck.
"He stayed in that position for the whole journey until we got to Arras, so I think he really saved my husband's life."
Mr Moogalian remains in hospital being treated.
Reported to be a 28-year old banker, he does not want to be named.
Was trying to enter the cubicle when he was the first to encounter the suspect.
Tried to wrestle away the Kalashnikov but reportedly lost balance and the gunmen freed himself, firing shots, one of which hit Mr Moogalian.
Train manager on board, Michel Bruet, who sounded the alarm.
Eric Tanty, an off-duty conductor, who also helped overpower the suspect.
Medals are only awarded to French recipients after background checks are made.
The Dow Jones rose 106.7 points to 18,004.16, its first close above 18,000 since July.
The S&P 500 gained 13.61 points to 2,094.34, and the Nasdaq index climbed 26.15 points to 4,569.31.
Markets shook off early losses caused by a drop in the oil price after a meeting of oil producers failed to reach a dealnt to cap output.
News that Kuwaiti oil-workers were on strike helped bring the price of crude oil back up from severe lows.
Shares of Chevron rose 1.5%, while Exxon was up 1%.
Toymaker Hasbro rose 5.8% after it reported stronger-than-expected profits and revenues for the first quarter.
Net income jumped to $48.8m from $26.7m a year earlier, with net revenue up 16.5% to $831.2m. The toy company was helped by strong demand for Star Wars, Frozen and Disney Princess toys.
The news also helped lift shares of Walt Disney by 2.9%.
Shares in Morgan Stanley fell 0.12% after the bank reported a 54% fall in net profit to $1.1bn but beat earnings forecasts.
Officers found 53-year-old Andrena Douglas dead in her home in Stewarton, at about 06:20 on Thursday.
They had gone there to tell her that her partner had been seriously injured following a fire at nearby Peacockbank Farm, Stewarton, at about 05:15.
Ms Douglas's partner is seriously ill and had been unable to speak to police.
Det Insp Martin Fergus said: "What we need to do is establish what happened between 2000 hours on Wednesday 8 June when Ms Douglas was last seen and 0600 hours on Thursday morning (9 June) when she was found.
"To this end, I would appeal to anyone who was in the area, who may have seen any suspicious activity - whether that be a vehicle or someone on foot in the area - to contact police."
He added: "How and why the fire started has still to be established and a joint investigation between police and Scottish Fire and Rescue is under way."
He urged anyone with information to contact police or Crimestoppers.
Danielle Waterman is England's full-back, winning 60 caps in her 13-year international career. The 31-year-old has played in three Rugby World Cups and represented Britain in sevens at this summer's Olympics. In her BBC Sport column she talks about the importance of women-specific rugby kit.
I'm only 5ft 5in and weigh just 60kg, so I'm not quite sure how I managed to play so freely in those big heavy cotton shirts, especially in the mud and rain, although it's fascinating to look back at the pictures.
Gone now, too, are the days of wearing men's rugby kit - at international level at least - and that is just fantastic.
Rugby kits have definitely improved over the years and I'm really excited that this season, for the first time in my England career, I'll be wearing kit designed specifically for women in the 15-a-side game.
This summer, the Rugby Football Union awarded professional contracts to 16 of us in the 15-a-side squad for the first time.
The new kit will fit nicely alongside turning professional. Hopefully, it can take women's rugby in England to the next level. It's another important advance.
The sevens squad have been on full-time contracts since 2014. Their kit has always been at the forefront of the technology. At the Rio Olympics, we had sevens kit specifically made for women, which is important because sevens is such high intensity.
Canterbury, England's kit makers, have been taking a lot of measurements from us over a number of years, so developing a 15-a-side women's kit isn't something they've jumped into. They've been collating information from the squad for a long time.
I guess the difficulty with designing rugby shirts is we're such a mix of sizes. A shirt has to fit the mould of an athletic woman, but there are all kinds of shapes and needs within that. It's all about proportions.
In terms of the technology that they've used, it's going to be similar to the men's, but to play in a shirt designed to fit a woman's shape is going to be brilliant and it will make a difference in terms of comfort.
When you're playing any sport, you want to have something that's appropriate for the job you're doing.
I was capped in 2003, the year England's men won the World Cup, and the iconic images from that tournament emphasise how rugby kits have developed, even in the men's game.
I've played in three Women's Rugby World Cup finals and we wore three different brands in three different sizes and three different materials. I've kept one piece of kit from every year I've played, so that's 16 years' worth of kit and they're all in different styles.
It's the change in material that has made the biggest difference - the switch from thick cotton shirts to a dry-fit top that wicked away the sweat.
We've always worn the traditional male shorts. I know the front-row girls, and the pack in general, especially during set-pieces, will definitely find these female-fitted shorts more comfortable.
Technology has improved across the board, in shirts, shorts and socks. I'd have to say the most entertaining bit of kit we've had during my time with England were the socks which had 'England' written on the side.
It was a good idea, but I've got really short, small calves so my family thought it was amusing looking at the pictures of us all lined up for the national anthem and my socks just said 'Land' because they didn't quite fit.
There have certainly been kit hits and misses over the years.
We had a renowned pair of training trousers that weren't ideal in muddy conditions, neither were they suited for the bigger ladies. They were the same material as drill tops - stiff, cardboard-like, and they'd absorb water - so it was like training in a pair of jeans. They were durable, but they weren't of much use in the rain or mud.
I'm pleased to say we've had women's training kit for the last few years - trousers, tops, etc - because they sell those for the retail market anyway, and we've an option to have the male version or the female versions because they're different cuts. Like a pair of jeans, you've just got to find the version you like best.
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But rugby isn't like cycling, swimming or athletics. We're not dealing in fine margins. Sprinter Adam Gemili lost out on 200m bronze at the Rio Olympics by 0.003 seconds so every single detail makes a fundamental difference in that sport.
For us, we play over 80 minutes in all sorts of weather and it's a contact sport. The kit has to last, it has to be durable, and it has to do the job we need it to do to get us through a contact game, or a contact training session.
It is important to look and feel good when you are wearing the kit, but fundamentally the real pride comes from the fact it has the red rose which represents us as England and England Women.
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Rallies were held on Wednesday at Ithaca College in New York and Smith College in Massachusetts.
The president of the University of Missouri was ousted on Monday after students said he did not do enough to address racism.
An interim president - a black, former administrator - has been appointed.
Students at over 20 campuses have planned solidarity protests this week.
At Ithaca College, the demonstrators are also seeking changes in campus leadership.
On Wednesday, protesters chanted "Tom Rochon - no confidence", referring to the college's president.
"With University of Missouri's president stepping down, we demand Rochon to do the same as it is vital to fight against both covert and overt racism in all places of education and empowerment," the protesters said in a statement.
The protesters say Mr Rochon has failed to increase the number of minority students who attend Ithaca, among other complaints.
Protests were also held at Yale University in Connecticut after administrators sent out an email advising students about offensive Halloween costumes.
The email has set off a debate about free speech and cultural sensitivity on the mostly white campus.
Meanwhile, the University of Missouri's governing board appointed Michael Middleton, a black, former administrator, to be the education system's interim president.
And police have arrested another person who made anonymous death threats against black students through the messaging app Yik Yak.
"I'm gonna shoot any black people tomorrow, so be ready," read one of the threatening messages posted online.
The company that operates Yik Yak warned users that it would report threatening messages to authorities.
A report on Friday said the authority had improved its financial management, but needed to boost the ability of councillors and managers to monitor performance.
An action plan has been introduced to improve management of the workforce.
The council is also not yet ready to take back control of its education service, the report found.
Auditor General Huw Vaughan Thomas said: "Merthyr council is making progress, thanks to the external support it is receiving, but without such help, the prospect for continuing to make progress is limited.
"That's why I urge the council and Welsh government to continue working together to keep up the level of support.
"The county borough continues to face significant challenges and needs to draw on outside help to deliver its priorities."
On Monday, a loss of power at its headquarters in Atlanta led to the breakdown of the company's booking and communications systems
The airline was forced to cancel nearly 1,000 flights and delay close to 3,000 others worldwide.
Delta said it has addressed the issue but is still in "recovery mode".
"We were able to bring our systems back on line and resume flights within a few hours yesterday but we are still operating in recovery mode," said Dave Holtz, Delta's senior vice president of operations and customer centre.
He said the company was doing everything it could to restore the system but warned more delays and cancellations were likely.
On Monday evening, Delta's chief executive Ed Bastian, issued a video apology to passengers. The company has been offering refunds and $200 (£154) vouchers to passengers whose flights are cancelled or delayed by more than three hours.
The company has not said yet what the financial impact of the incident will be.
Delta is the third largest airline by passenger numbers in the world.
According to flight tracking service, FlightStats, over 600 flights had been delayed on Tuesday and 330 had been cancelled by mid-day.
The former shadow chancellor became the 10th celebrity to be eliminated from the current series after losing to Judge Rinder in Sunday's dance-off.
He will appear on stage with several of his co-stars on the show's UK tour, which begins in Birmingham in January.
Lesley Joseph and Ore Oduba have also joined the line-up, alongside Louise Redknapp, Daisy Lowe and Danny Mac.
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Anita Rani will host the live dates, while Len Goodman, Craig Revel Horwood and Karen Hardy will make up the judging panel.
More names are expected to be confirmed for the line-up in the coming weeks.
Balls said: "Going on tour is going to be another first for me and I plan to give it everything I've got for the audiences across the country."
The former politician was popular with viewers despite regularly finishing at the bottom of the judges' leader board.
Goodman described Balls as "the people's champion" after he performed comedic routines to songs such as Gangnam Style and (Is This The Way To) Amarillo?
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And yet, with all manner of irony, it was the humiliation Moyes suffered at his former club that sounded the death knell for the Scot and provided the signal for United's owners the Glazers to mark the end of an error.
The sight of Everton, the team he left behind after 11 years last summer, outplaying United with a verve and swagger under Roberto Martinez that has barely been seen since Moyes succeeded Sir Alex Ferguson, was clearly the final straw.
And the sound of Moyes talking up aspects of an abject United performance in the 2-0 defeat only confirmed the long-held suspicion that he simply could not come to terms with the standards the club and their supporters demand.
United's hierarchy have done their best to be supportive of the man they handed a six-year contract on the advice of Ferguson but the evidence of their own eyes has convinced them they cannot afford to slide any further. The planned summer overhaul could not be entrusted to Moyes.
The sacking of the 50-year-old will also be a personal embarrassment for Ferguson. His endorsement of Moyes, a manager he saw in his own younger image and likeness, has proved to be a flawed one.
United may now be regretting taking the unusual step of allowing a manager, no matter how successful, to hand-pick his successor in an organisation of such scale. If there is blame to be apportioned, Ferguson must take his share.
Moyes looked a safe and sensible line of succession after Ferguson ended 26 years with United's 20th crown.
But the unknown factor was how a manager who had never won silverware and had only overseen two Champions League qualifiers in a creditable Everton career would cope with the unique demands of Old Trafford.
The answer was that he could not.
There are, of course, mitigating circumstances. Most regular observers of United admitted the squad that won the title was not vintage, propelled towards the Premier League by one last transfer market flourish from Ferguson in the shape of Robin van Persie.
Moyes was cut this slack but the decline from champions to marginal also-rans simply had to be arrested.
Everton's win left them 12 points ahead of United. It also left the reigning champions 23 points behind leaders Liverpool, officially out of Champions League contention for the first time in 18 years and struggling to even qualify for the Europa League.
United went out of the FA Cup at home to Swansea City in the third round, lost the Capital One Cup semi-final on penalties over two legs to Sunderland and a sign of their declining status was confirmed when a 4-2 aggregate defeat by Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarter-final was almost given the gloss of a moral victory.
The Glazers, ruthless though they are, would have accounted for transition. What they would not have counted on was the feeling that Moyes might manage a terminal decline - hence the decision to remove him.
Moyes did have to tackle that flawed squad but the bottom line is that he has engineered his own downfall by simply not being up to the job.
The transfer of expectations from Everton to those at United has proved too much for him, indeed almost from the time he came through the door.
Moyes either could not, or would not, speak the language of positivity expected at United.
A prime example was when he labelled Liverpool as favourites for their recent visit to Old Trafford.
The words would never have been dragged from a screaming Ferguson. Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers said he would not have delivered a similar message even if they had been bottom of the league.
On arrival he seemed in awe of the job in hand, rarely showing the steely determination and defiance that marked him out at Everton.
The road to his departure almost started at the very beginning, with a dreadful summer in the transfer market - not helped by rookie executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward.
Within days of his arrival Moyes backed away from deals the club had in place to sign Barcelona midfielder Thiago Alcantara, who later joined Bayern Munich, and Benfica centre-back Ezequiel Garay.
Then, main targets such as Barcelona's Cesc Fabregas,Everton full-back Leighton Baines and even the plan to try and re-sign Cristiano Ronaldo came to nought.
In their place came what seemed to be an almost panic-stricken £27.5m expenditure on Everton midfielder Marouane Fellaini, the identikit of the sort of player United did not need and whose sole attraction seemed to be that he was available.
And even though Juan Mata was widely hailed as a fine signing at £37.5m from Chelsea in January, he never came accompanied by any sort of clear plan as to where Moyes might immediately use him.
Moyes was also guilty of throwing the baby out with the bathwater when he assembled his backroom staff.
It was understandable he would, as most managers do, bring the bedrock of his previous Everton staff with him in assistant Steve Round, long-time cohort Jimmy Lumsden, goalkeeping coach Chris Woods and former United player Phil Neville.
But to dispense with the likes of Mike Phelan, in particular, looked unwise at the time and nothing has happened to change that view.
Surely it would have been better to keep a reliable, trusted figure who had played such a key role in the Ferguson era, who could advise him on some of the potential pitfalls?
Ryan Giggs was added to the backroom team to give it an added United presence but that has always looked more of an arranged marriage of convenience than part of a carefully-assembled strategy.
There was a sense that Moyes never carried the faith of United's players - that he was a man out of his depth handling the bigger stars who would question his methods (and perhaps more pertinently his record) than those who followed him at Everton.
Training sessions were understood to be long and tactically laborious, in contrast to the short sharp work of the Ferguson, Rene Meulensteen and Phelan era. Whatever approach Moyes was employing, it resulted in removing the exciting cutting edge that was the hallmark of Ferguson and replaced it with a blunt instrument.
Some will say, with a measure of justification, that the players should have adapted but it is difficult in any walk of life to settle for something inferior when you have sampled success brought by the best.
Moyes has also struggled to get the best out of the injury-troubled Robin van Persie, with constant speculation about their personal relationship denied by the manager.
One unqualified success for Moyes was his relationship with Wayne Rooney, still trying his heart out for United and his manager in the final seconds of misery at Goodison Park.
There is irony there, too, in that Moyes and Rooney parted on sour terms when he left Everton as a teenager and was intent on leaving United when he arrived as manager.
Moyes handled this stick of dynamite left behind by Ferguson deftly, with Rooney producing outstanding form and also pledging his long-term future to the club.
On the pitch, however, Moyes provided the sort of natural caution that often drew criticism from Everton fans.
The cavalier attacking policy of Ferguson was in complete contrast to his successor's approach, which must have come as a culture shock to a very patient Old Trafford gallery.
Add 11 Premier League defeats from 34 games and this has proved the sort of grim evidence that has led the Glazers to cut Moyes adrift, even with a six-year contract.
This has led United to the decision that Moyes is not the man to spend a transfer budget well in excess of £100m that they expect to use in the summer to right the current wrongs.
Moyes has not shown a sure enough touch on the pitch or in the markets to provide a compelling case to stay - and the question remains whether a man who has no serious track record of silverware would have the reputation and profile to attract stellar names to Old Trafford without the cushion of Champions League football to fall back on.
There will be sympathy for Moyes. The task of succeeding Ferguson was always going to be a poisoned chalice. However, he inherited the Premier League champions, no matter how in decline they were, and spent £65m adding to that squad.
It will also pain Moyes that his final game ended with the derision of Everton fans ringing his ears.
It was a desperate 90 minutes for the Scot on his old ground, hearing his fractured relationship with his former supporters being spelled out in graphic terms.
Of greater significance for Moyes and United was that Goodison Park was the place where they finally decided he was no longer up to the task of managing Manchester United.
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Friday's 2-0 win at Cefn Druids was their 27th in a row in all competitions - one more than Ajax in 1971-72.
TNS have won all 21 of their league games, four in two Welsh cups and two in the Scottish Challenge Cup, in which they were invited to play this season.
They have also won the Welsh domestic treble in the last two seasons.
Scottish fifth-tier side East Kilbride thought they had broken Ajax's record earlier this season - but the official mark can only be set by teams playing in their country's top tier.
A 4-0 win to TNS in the reverse fixture on Boxing Day suggested another victory over Cefn Druids on Friday night would be a formality.
But some resolute defending in the first half from the home side suggested they were in the mood to spoil the party.
However, TNS' Aeron Edwards broke the deadlock after half an hour and Jon Routledge struck with a late long-range effort to seal the win and the new world record.
Harrison's side last suffered defeat in July when they were beaten 3-0 by Apoel Nicosia of Cyprus in a Champions League second qualifying round second leg tie.
The previous benchmark was set by Dutch giants Ajax in 1972, by a side which included the legendary Johan Cruyff and Johann Neeskens.
The Amsterdam club won 26 games in a row in all competitions, including 19 league wins in the Eredivisie, four European Cup victories and three Dutch Cup wins.
Ajax came within one game of equalling the record during the 1995-96 season when a side featuring Edwin van der Sar, Frank and Ronald de Boer, Edgar Davids and Jari Litmanen won 25 games in a row.
Brazilian side Cortiba won 24 straight games in 2011 and Real Madrid - including Wales forward Gareth Bale - won 22 consecutive games during the 2014-15 season.
Scottish side East Kilbride actually went on a longer winning run earlier this season, with 30 consecutive wins, and received a crate of beer from Ajax in recognition.
But their feat has not been recognised by Guinness World Records as they play in the fifth-tier Lowland League.
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Both teams came into the game unbeaten in all competitions but Yannick Carrasco's low strike ensured the home side finished with their record intact.
Antoine Griezmann struck the bar with a penalty and Fernando Torres hit the post with a header for Atletico.
Franck Ribery and Robert Lewandowski missed good chances for Bayern.
The defeat is Carlo Ancelotti's first as manager of the German side.
It is also a repeat of the first-leg scoreline between the sides in last year's semi-final clash, which Atletico won on away goals.
Diego Simeone's side deserved their win, which would have been more comfortable but for Torres' inability to finish into a near empty net at the far post in the first half, and Griezmann's wastefulness from the spot after Luis Felipe had been fouled in the box in the second.
Bayern were under par, failing to get their chief attacking threat - Lewandowski - into the game often enough, with the Polish striker heading his only chance wide from an unmarked position near the penalty spot.
Atletico's win means they top Group D with six points, three ahead of Bayern and five ahead of both Rostov and PSV, who drew 2-2 in Russia on Wednesday.
Match ends, Atlético de Madrid 1, FC Bayern München 0.
Second Half ends, Atlético de Madrid 1, FC Bayern München 0.
Attempt saved. Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Arturo Vidal with a cross.
Foul by Xabi Alonso (FC Bayern München).
Gabi (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München).
Diego Godín (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Atlético de Madrid. Thomas Partey replaces Antoine Griezmann.
Attempt missed. Nicolás Gaitán (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Antoine Griezmann with a headed pass following a corner.
Corner, Atlético de Madrid. Conceded by Javi Martínez.
Attempt blocked. Diego Godín (Atlético de Madrid) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gabi.
Foul by Mats Hummels (FC Bayern München).
Nicolás Gaitán (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München) header from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by David Alaba with a cross.
Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nicolás Gaitán (Atlético de Madrid).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Delay in match Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München) because of an injury.
Delay in match Saúl Ñíguez (Atlético de Madrid) because of an injury.
Foul by Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München).
Saúl Ñíguez (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Penalty missed! Still Atlético de Madrid 1, FC Bayern München 0. Antoine Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid) hits the bar with a right footed shot.
Penalty conceded by Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Atlético de Madrid. Filipe Luis draws a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt blocked. Filipe Luis (Atlético de Madrid) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Koke.
Attempt missed. Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Arturo Vidal.
Attempt saved. Filipe Luis (Atlético de Madrid) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Antoine Griezmann.
Substitution, Atlético de Madrid. Nicolás Gaitán replaces Fernando Torres.
Attempt missed. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Xabi Alonso.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Saúl Ñíguez.
Attempt blocked. Franck Ribéry (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked. Assisted by David Alaba with a cross.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Stefan Savic.
Attempt missed. Antoine Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid) header from the left side of the six yard box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Fernando Torres following a fast break.
Franck Ribéry (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Juanfran (Atlético de Madrid).
Substitution, Atlético de Madrid. Kevin Gameiro replaces Yannick Carrasco.
Attempt missed. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by David Alaba with a cross.
Foul by Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München).
The king rules by decree over his million subjects, most of whom live in the countryside and follow traditional ways of life.
The struggling economy benefited from preferential access which textile exporters had to the United States until this facility was withdrawn over human rights concerns in 2015.
The country exports sugar and many Swazis work in South Africa and send their earnings home.
According to UNICEF Swaziland has the highest HIV prevalence rate in the world. The HIV-Aids virus has killed countless Swazis who have left behind thousands of orphans. Some 210,000 people, out of a population of 1.2 million, are estimated to be living with HIV.
Population 1.2 million
Area 17,364 sq km (6,704 sq miles)
Major languages Swazi, English (both official)
Major religions Christianity, indigenous beliefs
Life expectancy 50 years (men), 49 years (women)
Currency Lilangeni
King: Mswati III
King Mswati III was crowned in 1986 at the age of 18, succeeding his long-serving father King Sobhuza II, who died at the age of 82.
The king, who is known as Ngweyama - "the lion" - often appears in public in traditional dress and has many wives.
He rules by decree and has been criticised for the heavy-handed treatment of opponents and for requesting public money to pay for new palaces and luxury cars.
Protesters angered by economic decline have become increasingly vocal in demanding political reform.
In 2014, the government of King Mswati III further restrained an already weakened media environment in Swaziland, and both journalists and media outlets were targeted by officials through the use of restrictive legislation, Freedom House reported in 2015.
The government does not restrict access to the internet, but few Swazis can afford to go online, according to Freedom House.
Some key dates in Swaziland's history:
1894 - Britain and the Boer Republic of Transvaal jointly rule Swaziland.
1907 - Swaziland becomes a British High Commission territory.
1921 - King Sobhuza II succeeds to the throne,
1964 - Swaziland's first constitution enters into force, and King Sobhuza establishes a political party, the Imbokodvo National Movement (INM).
1968 - Swaziland is granted formal independence, within the Commonwealth, and adopts a new constitution.
1973 - King Sobhuza suspends the constitution and bans political parties.
1986 - Prince Makhosetive is crowned - three years early - and assumes the title of King Mswati III.
2007 - Thousands protest in the commercial capital Manzini to press for democratic reforms.
2014 - Swaziland appears to be stemming the pace of new infections of HIV/Aids, the UN reports.
Isa Huso was a member of the Supreme Kurdish Council, aimed at bringing together Syrian Kurdish groups, and an opponent of President Bashar al-Assad.
Syria's main Kurdish militia later issued a call to arms to all Kurds to fight jihadists operating in the north.
It follows weeks of intense fighting between Kurds and jihadist groups.
Mr Huso was leaving his home in the border town when a bomb planted inside his car detonated, Kurdish political sources told Reuters news agency.
He was a member of the foreign relations committee in the Kurdish council, an umbrella group for regional Kurdish factions.
Isa Huso, 60, was described by Kurdish activists as a moderate.
He had reportedly been imprisoned several times under Mr Assad's rule for campaigning against human rights abuses.
"Huso sought to promote Kurdish rights within a united Syria free from the grip of the Assad regime," his former neighbour, Massoud Akko, told Reuters news agency.
"No-one knows who killed him but the fingers point to the militant Islamists. They are the only ones who are targeting Kurds as Kurds," he added.
Responding to Huso's killing, Kurdish fighters known as the Popular Protection Units (YPG) issued a call to arms.
"(The YPG) called on all those fit to carry weapons to join their ranks, to protect areas under their control from attacks by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) fighters, Al-Nusra Front and other battalions," a London-based Syria watchdog, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said.
The YPG, which claims to have no political affiliations, was set up to counter offensives in majority Kurdish areas.
In recent months it has been battling to drive out rebels from the north, including the al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Nusra Front.
Areas near the Turkish border have seen some of the most intense fighting, with clashes reported between the Kurdish Democratic Union Party and the Al-Nusra Front in the town of Ras al-Ain.
Syria's ethnic Kurdish minority has faced decades of discrimination and marginalisation under Assad rule, with Syrian Kurds staging their own anti-government protests after the Syria conflict began in March 2011.
Responding to a wave of protests in 2011, the Assad administration decreed a number of concessions, granting Kurds in the eastern Hasaka region Syrian nationality.
In mid-2012, Assad's forces withdrew from majority Kurdish areas, leaving Kurdish militia in charge of security there.
The Kurds make up a little over 10% of the population and are largely concentrated in north-eastern Syria, towards the Turkish border.
Dubbed "yellowface" by angry users, it contorted facial features and gave users the appearance of slanted eyes.
Snapchat said the filter had already been removed and would not return to circulation.
The social media app, one of the most popular in the world, has come under fire before over its lenses.
Critics often accuse it of favouring white complexions with filters that lighten users' skin tones.
Its "Bob Marley" filter, which added animated dreadlocks and a cap, was also criticised for promoting "blackface".
"This anime-inspired lens has already expired and won't be put back into circulation," Snapchat said in an official statement on Wednesday.
"Lenses are meant to be playful and never to offend."
But many Snapchat users were still not satisfied and took to social media to call the company out for "promoting racist Asian stereotypes".
"Stop it, Snapchat, this is not okay. This Yellow Face filter is not cool," tweeted actress and celebrity blogger Latrice Butts, who shared a snap of the filter.
Other users like Tansu Philip, reported that they had deleted the app over the filter. "Racist filters are not cute," she said.
The lens even drew users to make comparisons with US Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump.
"Racist taste in black and yellow filters. Snapchat must be Donald Trump supporters," wrote Californian Mike Udem on Twitter.
"Yellowface is never playful," said Reid Robinson in New York City. "Love you Snapchat but you're acting like Trump - clearly racist and with the maturity of a third grader."
Reporting by the BBC's Heather Chen.
A week after staying seated during The Star-Spangled Banner, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback kneeled during the anthem before a match on Thursday.
Team-mate Eric Reid also protested, but they were booed by some in the crowd.
Kaepernick was joined by a former soldier who he met before the game.
Nate Boyer, a former staff sergeant with the US Army Special Forces, or the Green Berets, wrote an open letter to the quarterback last week.
While some have criticised Kaepernick, calling him unpatriotic and disrespectful of those willing to die for their country, other in the military have pledged their support online using the hashtag #VeteransForKaepernick.
"Even though my initial reaction to your protest was one of anger, I'm trying to listen to what you're saying and why you're doing it," Mr Boyer wrote in his letter.
"There are already plenty people fighting fire with fire, and it's just not helping anyone or anything. So I'm just going to keep listening, with an open mind."
Kaepernick invited Mr Boyer to join him at the game against the San Diego Chargers after the two met earlier on Thursday. Mr Boyer stood for the anthem as Kaepernick kneeled in protest.
Kaepernick said he will continue to sit out the national anthem until he sees improvements in US race relations. On Thursday, he pledged to donate $1m (£753,000) to community organisations.
The 28-year-old stirred controversy last Friday when he sat during the national anthem before the San Francisco 49ers played the Green Bay Packers in an exhibition game.
Racial tensions are mounting in the US, where a string of recent police killings and subsequent revenge killings have sparked protests across the nation.
After the pre-season game in San Diego, he said he loved America, and respected the military.
"The message is that we have a lot of issues in this country that we need to deal with," Kaepernick said. "We have a lot of people that are oppressed. We have a lot of people that aren't treated equally, that aren't given equal opportunities."
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump criticised the player earlier in the week, saying: "I think it's a terrible thing, and you know, maybe he should find a country that works better for him.
"Let him try. It won't happen."
Also on Thursday, Seattle Seahawks player Jeremy Lane sat during the national anthem before a game in Oakland, but he has not elaborated on his reasons for doing so.
Police have cordoned off Bath Street by Commercial Road where officers found the man, who has not yet been identified, at about 08:00 GMT.
Three men and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of murder.
Some of the arrested people were found injured at the property, and are being treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
Det Insp Neil Devoto said: "Following the discovery of a man's body and a number of injured people, Dorset Police has launched a murder investigation.
"Inquiries are now under way to establish exactly what happened earlier this morning.
"I am appealing for anyone who may have witnessed anything suspicious in the Bath Street area this morning to contact us as soon as possible."
Bath Street has been closed and Commercial Road was closed between Wesley Street and Bath Street.
Crime scene investigators have been examining the property and officers carrying out house-to-house inquiries.
One police officer was slightly hurt and a number of Orthodox Jews detained, say reports.
The town has become a focus of friction between secular Jews and ultra-Orthodox men demanding strict gender segregation and "modest" dress for women.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to end attempts to enforce segregation of the sexes.
The latest clashes came as police attempted to remove one of several signs in the town ordering segregation between the sexes.
Some 300 ultra-Orthodox residents pelted the police with stones and eggs, slightly injuring one officer, and rubbish bins were set on fire.
A television crew attempting to film in the town were also surrounded and harassed - the second alleged attack in two days on journalists.
On Sunday, a crew from Channel 2 news were attacked as they were filming, say reports, with rocks allegedly thrown at their van.
The alleged assault came days after Channel 2 aired a story about an eight-year-old American girl, Naama Margolese, who said she was afraid to walk to school because ultra-orthodox men shouted at her.
The broadcast has inflamed secular opinion, with activists planning to hold a rally in Beit Shemesh on Tuesday to counter what they say is intimidation by sections of the ultra-orthodox community.
Some ultra-Orthodox Jews will also reportedly be joining the rally in an effort to distance themselves from "extremists".
Unnamed ultra-Orthodox activists from Beit Shemesh issued a statement condemning the violence, but also accusing the media of initiating "deliberate provocations in order to make the peaceful, quiet and tolerant residents, who live their lives according to their beliefs, look bad".
Such clashes have become more frequent in Israel in recent years as the authorities have challenged efforts by ultra-Orthodox Jews to segregate women in public places.
Other recent points of contention include demands for separate seating areas for women on buses and a recent case of some soldiers who refused to remain at a performance by female singers.
Mr Netanyahu has ordered a crackdown on segregation, saying harassment and discrimination have no place in a liberal democracy.
Ultra-orthodox Jews make up 10% of the population in Israel. The community has a high birth rate and is growing rapidly.
Within days of taking office, he signed two presidential memoranda supporting both the Dakota and the Keystone XL pipelines - telling the army to review one, and inviting a private company to re-apply for the other.
A $3.7bn (£2.8bn) pipeline is planned at nearly 1,200 miles (1,900km) long to transport some 470,000 barrels of crude oil a day across four states, from North Dakota to a terminal in Illinois, where it can be shipped to refineries.
The pipeline would provide a more cost-effective, efficient means of transporting crude, rather than shipping barrels by train.
The project, built by a subsidiary of Texas-based company Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), would also increase profit margins for oil companies while crude prices are low.
Most of the pipeline has already been built but the section closest to the Standing Rock Sioux reservation was still awaiting federal approval.
The decision came after months of protests by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their supporters, who set up a number of spiritual camps - Sacred Stone, Oceti Sakowin, Red Warrior, and Rosebud Sicangu - near the Missouri river.
They had argued that the project would contaminate drinking water and damage sacred burial sites.
The US Army Corps of Engineers suspended the project last year, but in February 2017 said it planned to grant final easement for the remaining section of the project.
Construction sites are technically just north of the tribe's reservation but the Sioux say the government took this land from them illegally in an 1868 treaty.
Native Americans also accused the government of approving pipeline construction without consulting them, a requirement under US law.
Environmental activists say the pipeline would perpetuate fossil fuel production.
Mr Trump made two different announcements: his backing of both projects in presidential memoranda, and a plan to use American steel in any and all future pipeline projects.
While Mr Trump does not have the power to approve either the Dakota Access or Keystone XL pipelines, his memos offer significant encouragement.
For Dakota, he said he believes finishing the pipeline will "serve the national interest" and ordered an "expedited" review. He also ordered the army to "consider" withdrawing its December memo, which effectively paused the project.
On the Keystone XL project, he invited the company involved, TransCanada, to resubmit its application, and instructed the secretary of state to "take all actions necessary and appropriate to facilitate its expeditious review".
But Mr Trump can only ease the way with such memos, and prompt their advancement - he cannot single-handedly approve them.
On the same day, he signed another memo, ordering the secretary of commerce to produce a plan to use steel and iron made in the United States in all pipeline construction and repair.
The new president may face questions about his personal interest in the Dakota project, as ETP chief executive Kelcy Warren donated $100,000 (£80,000) to his election campaign.
Mr Trump denies he is motivated by any financial interest.
The Standing Rock Sioux said they would fight the decision.
"Americans know this pipeline was unfairly rerouted towards our nation and without our consent," they said.
Greenpeace director Annie Leonard said that "instead of pushing bogus claims about the potential of pipelines to create jobs, Trump should focus his efforts on the clean energy sector where America's future lives".
More than 200 Native American tribes pledged their support last year, in the largest coming together of indigenous peoples in the US in decades, perhaps centuries.
At its peak, an estimated 10,000 people joined the campsites in the region to join in the demonstrations.
Among others lending their support were :
Protesters have been accused of starting fires and throwing petrol bombs at police.
A Colorado woman who shot at police trying to remove protesters from private property was arrested and charged with attempted murder.
Police have in turn been accused of using excessive force, including dousing crowds with pepper spray and freezing water as well as firing sound cannons, bean bag rounds and rubber bullets.
Officers have arrested hundreds of people and accused activists and journalists of criminal trespass, rioting and other felonies.
At one point, police held protesters in temporary cages made of chain-link, which activists equated to "dog kennels".
The allegations led the United Nations to speak out about the use of excessive force against protesters.
Correction: This article has been substantially updated to correct previous inaccuracies.
The cat, which is not microchipped, was found with the trap attached to its leg in a field at Bowdens Lane, Penhow, near Newport, on 9 June.
Gin traps, which have been illegal to use since 1958, were designed to catch animals using spring-operated jaws with a serrated edge.
The cat was taken to a veterinary surgery where its leg was amputated and the RSPCA is trying to trace her owner.
RSPCA Insp Gemma Black said: "It was horrendous - she is only a young cat. She would have been in so much pain. It was lucky someone found her."
His seven-year prison sentence has now been thrown out by judges in Milan, in the so-called "Ruby" case.
Last year a court found that he had paid for sex with a 17-year-old nightclub dancer, Karima El-Mahroug, known as "Ruby the Heartstealer".
Berlusconi is doing community service after being sentenced for tax fraud.
That was a separate case involving his business empire Mediaset. Berlusconi, 77, helps out once a week at a home for people with Alzheimer's disease.
He began doing that service in May - and so far it is the only final judgment against him, despite various other court cases.
In the Ruby case both Berlusconi and Ms El-Mahroug denied having had sex.
During the trial reports emerged of raunchy "bunga-bunga" parties at his private villa attended by showgirls. Some of the female guests however described them as "elegant dinner parties".
Berlusconi, a billionaire tycoon and veteran politician, was also acquitted of a charge that he abused his prime ministerial powers by pressuring the police to free Ms El-Mahroug when she was in custody.
In another separate case he is accused of having bribed a senator.
As a result of the conviction over Mediaset he was banned from holding political office for two years and expelled from the Senate.
Reacting to Friday's verdict in Milan, Berlusconi's lawyer said it "goes beyond our rosiest expectations".
Berlusconi was in power three times as prime minister, dominating Italian politics. He still heads the right-wing Forza Italia party.
The acquittal may enable him to remain a strong influence in politics and may also help centre-left Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, observers say, as Forza Italia may be less inclined to block the government's reforms.
"This ruling will bring people together. We will be calmer working in future and be more united between ourselves and with all of the centre-right," said Lucio Malan, a Forza Italia senator, quoted by AFP news agency.
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KRW Law has argued the inquests never closed because the convictions of the Guildford Four were later proved to be unsafe and overturned.
The BBC has viewed coroner's papers held in Surrey.
They show there was just one opening hearing after the bombings in 1974 in which five people were killed.
Soldiers Ann Hamilton, 19, Caroline Slater, 18, William Forsyth, 18, and John Hunter, 17, died following the blast at the Horse & Groom on 5 October 1974, along with plasterer Paul Craig, 21.
The BBC is in contact with the victims' families and friends, but most remain too traumatised to talk publicly.
Christopher Stanley, from KRW, said there were obvious parallels between the Guildford and Birmingham cases.
Inquests into the Birmingham pub bombing deaths were reopened last year by coroner Louise Hunt, who said "a wealth of evidence" had not been heard.
Mr Stanley believes there may be "sufficient grounds" to satisfy the public interest in applying to the Surrey coroner or the Attorney General to resume the Guildford proceedings.
"This would be on the basis that the original inquests were never closed because convictions were secured against the Guildford Four, which were then proved to be unsafe and unsatisfactory," he said.
"There has never, therefore, been an independent investigation into the Guildford pub bombings and a resumed inquest would be a mechanism to investigate in a manner compliant with human rights standards should there be evidence of state failure or collusion."
A spokeswoman for the Attorney General's Office said they had not received an application.
She said: "If an application is received we will consider it carefully."
Although there is no active police investigation into the Guildford bombings, Kevin Winters, senior partner at KRW, thinks there may be a duty to continue to investigate.
He said the "Balcombe Street gang", an IRA unit which carried out a series of bombings in the 1970s, later admitted planting the Guildford bombs but police did not follow up the confessions.
Over the years it has been disputed how many members were in the unit - a court transcript suggested up to 20.
Mr Winters said: "The failure to follow up the Balcombe Street cell confession given to Lord Peter Imbert could lead to the Crown Prosecution Service recommending a fresh investigation, parallel to any resumed inquest."
Surrey Police have said the five-year-long probe by former judge Sir John May after the convictions were quashed addressed the issue of the IRA unit's admissions.
Sir John concluded in his final report - published in 1994 - the police investigation was "thorough".
A force spokeswoman said: "The bombings were not subject to further active investigation by Surrey Police following the publication of the report and, to date, this remains the case."
Lord Imbert, former Surrey assistant chief constable and later Met Police commissioner, who investigated the Balcombe Street gang, gave evidence to Sir John about the Balcombe Street unit's admissions during the inquiry.
Transcripts have shown he told inquiry members: "We had some grave doubts about the veracity of what they were telling us. We were just not sure that they were telling us the truth."
Records from the Surrey coroner's archives show the cause of death for the five pub bombing victims as "blast injuries".
The papers, which reveal the extent of their injuries, show four people died before reaching hospital, but one of the soldiers made it to casualty alive.
Eleven days after the explosions, lawyers for Mr Craig's family wrote to the coroner to ask when inquest proceedings would take place.
The then Surrey coroner Lt Col George Murdoch McEwan replied proceedings had been adjourned and a further hearing was planned, but archives show no sign of any further proceedings.
More than a year after the explosions, Old Bailey staff wrote to the coroner informing him Gerry Conlon, Paddy Armstrong, Paul Hill and Carole Richardson had been convicted of murder.
But those convictions were later deemed unsafe and were overturned after the four spent 15 years in jail.
Alastair Logan, who represented the Guildford Four during their legal fight and remains in contact with the two surviving members - Mr Armstrong and Mr Hill - said: "There should never be an inquest that has not concluded.
"It is incredibly important for those who lost loved ones and also who were injured in those explosions. It is important to bring it to a conclusion."
He added: "The defendants would have wanted the inquest completed. Throughout the time I represented them, they were concerned about the people left in limbo after they were convicted."
Julie Hambleton, from Justice 4 the 21, which represents relatives of the Birmingham bombing victims, said the families of those who died in Guildford could contact the group for support.
"We are here if we can help in any way," she said.
"I can't say how they will feel other than they are still grieving and in pain at the loss of their loved ones, which will be with them until the day they die. Murder is murder."
She said the Birmingham families had fought not only for funds but also for emotional support, adding: "There was no counselling in 1974. We had no help from anybody."
IRA blasts that year ended in the wrongful convictions of the Guildford Four, the Birmingham Six, the Maguire Seven - and of Judith Ward following the M62 coach bombing in West Yorkshire.
The status of the inquests following the M62 blast, in which 12 people died, is not yet known.
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Hundreds of files from Sir John May's inquiry remain closed at the National Archives. The BBC accessed working papers last year and has since asked to see more, under FOI. Six files have been released since then, but seven refused.
Papers released include an academic report on false confessions, two indexes of Metropolitan Police papers on the IRA's Balcombe Street unit, and three files from the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice.
Documents that are to remain closed include two files on Gerry Conlon's alibi, Mr Conlon's first defence file, an index of Surrey Police papers, a file headed "allegations of brutality and threats made against the Guildford Four" and another file believed to contain statements made by Mr Conlon's father on the night of his arrest.
The BBC has also asked to see documents relating to the inquiry conducted by Avon and Somerset police into Surrey Police.
However, that final report at the National Archives is to remain closed and Avon and Somerset police have said "no information is held".
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Mr Swinney told MSPs the funding would be in addition to the £4m announced in his draft budget in December.
He said the money could be used by councils to relieve council tax and business rates for flood victims.
Earlier he insisted a 6% cut to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) budget would not affect the flood forecasting service.
Flood waters are receding and the clean-up has begun in many areas but homes and travel routes are still feeling the impact of the recent severe weather.
Mr Swinney was answering MSPs' questions on the day the Met Office confirmed it was the wettest December since records began in 1910 with 351mm of rainfall recorded and temperatures 2.7C above the average.
2015 was also the second wettest year in Scotland, with only 2011 being wetter.
Mr Swinney told Holyrood that a £4m allocation to help the Scottish Borders, Perth and Kinross and Dumfries and Galloway after Storm Desmond would now be extended in light of the devastation wreaked by Storm Frank.
He said the damage inflicted upon the Aberdeenshire village of Ballater in particular was "incomprehensible", and he paid tribute to local firefighters who helped others while their own homes were being flooded.
Mr Swinney said: "In the light of the events of the last couple of weeks, I intend to provide a further allocation in relation to the cost that will be involved in localities.
"That will inevitably have some additional consequences for Dumfries and Galloway and I'll make announcements in due course once I've had due opportunity to have discussions with the local authority about how that can be taken forward."
He added: "I intend to make a further financial allocation from which I would expect Aberdeenshire Council to relieve council tax payers of their council tax bills, to relieve business rate payers of their business rate bills and then also to contribute towards some of the regeneration that will clearly be required to recover the situation in Deeside."
Earlier, Mr Swinney had defended a 6% cut to Sepa's funding announced in his December draft budget.
He said the flood forecasting role of Sepa had been protected from cutbacks and it was right the agency made efficiencies.
He said: "What Sepa is responsible for is a range of different measures - but as a public body we have to expect Sepa, like every other public body in the country, in the constrained financial environment in which we operate to take decisions that will ensure we can deliver greater impact and value from the use of a smaller amount of resources."
Scottish Labour has called for a review of the country's preparedness to deal with flooding in future.
The party's environment spokesperson Sarah Boyack said: "There are 100,000 houses across Scotland at risk and some of those houses have been built since 2009.
"So we have some tough question to ask about where we're putting new houses, where our flooding investment goes in terms of new defences.
"Because of climate change, this is not going to be one-off experiences. That's why I'm saying it needs a proper review. It needs local authorities working with the Scottish government."
But Mr Swinney said flood prevention work was ongoing and such a review was unnecessary.
He told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: "We have done that. We passed the Flood Management Act in 2009 in parliament and one of the requirements was to produce flood risk management strategies around the country.
"And we now have 14 of them just published in December by Sepa."
Mr Swinney said 42 formal flood protection schemes had been proposed for 2016 - 2021, costing an estimated £235m.
"There is funding within the local government settlement for the years going forward to adequately provide for all of those schemes," he said.
The local government umbrella organisation Cosla later expressed puzzlement at his comments, saying it was unaware of any promise of funding beyond the next financial year.
A spokesman said: "We are somewhat bemused by this statement from the Scottish government on funding for flooding.
"The position clearly set out in the deputy first minister's budget is that we only have funding for one year - for 2016/17 - and nothing beyond that."
Sepa said the worst of the current flooding appeared to be over, with river levels now falling.
But it warned that transport disruption, especially on the roads was likely to continue for some time.
A Met Office yellow warning for rain is in place in Aberdeenshire for throughout Wednesday and Thursday but the local council said river levels had peaked and were slowly falling.
Aberdeenshire Council chief executive Jim Savege said: "We've had positive discussions with the Scottish government over access to funding to help us progress repairs, and we will be having ongoing conversations about how we can help minimise flood risk in a number of communities in the future."
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) chief officer Alasdair Hay praised crews, volunteers and communities for their response to devastation caused by Storm Frank.
SFRS received 350 flooding-related calls between Wednesday 30 December and Tuesday.
Mr Hay said: "Alongside our communities many agencies and volunteers have worked tirelessly to help and support those affected. I want to pay tribute to all those who have worked so hard to support their communities.
"However, I want to pay particular tribute to all our SFRS staff right across the country as their efforts have been, and continue to be, extraordinary."
Lord Carter came to the conclusion after spending a year working with 22 hospitals on behalf of the government.
He found a wide variation in spending across medicines, everyday items and on facilities, such as heating.
He also identified huge inefficiencies in the way staff were managed, with one hospital losing £10,000 a month through workers claiming too much leave.
The report, which will be published in full later, will also say hospitals need to make better use of staff through flexible working and better rostering.
Meanwhile, better use of medicines could also have a substantial impact, the efficiency review said.
Lord Carter found one hospital had managed to save £40,000 a year by using non-soluble versions of a tablet for liver failure that cost 2p instead of the soluble versions at £1.50.
He also said major savings could be made on everyday items such as syringes and aprons with prices varying by as much as a third.
The review recommended a single electronic catalogue be created for the purchasing of such goods.
Lord Carter also found that hip operations were costing some parts of the NHS more than double the amount they should.
And the hips used did not last as long as less expensive versions, meaning patients needed more replacements and follow-up care.
That difference costs the NHS up to £17m extra every year.
Lord Carter said the gains could be "significant".
"We found some extremely good hospitals, some very efficient hospitals, but there are a number of hospitals that are not as good as they need to be," he said.
Following publication of this report, Lord Carter will publish a template for an efficient "model hospital" during the summer followed by a report by September in which he and the Department of Health will set out what each hospital is expected to save by putting in place the report's recommendations.
Nuffield Trust chief executive Nigel Edwards said: "Lord Carter is right that there is waste within the health service and that enormous savings could be made through standardisation.
"But this has been a long-standing issue in the NHS. Spending public money better has been the holy grail of public-sector spending reductions over the past 20 years.
"Diagnosing the problem is the easy bit. Getting solutions to stick is much, much harder."
But Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers - which represents every variety of hospital trust - told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the NHS had worked "incredibly hard" over the last five years to save £20bn.
He added: "There is no organisation in this country that could not do better in terms of improving efficiency. In large complex organisations it's always possible to do things better."
The incidents were said to have happened during the 4-0 win over Paris St-Germain which saw them reach the Universal Cup semi-finals.
"There was alleged incidents of racism from certain 'people' in the stands towards Milan's black players," said a statement on the club website.
Milan beat Benfica to reach the final.
The Milan statement continued: "We do not wish to magnify the issue, but truly hope that these reports aren't true or that it was simply a sporadic incident.
"If they were to be confirmed, then it would be simply unacceptable."
Chelsea, Ajax, Inter Milan, Roma and Juventus are among the other teams taking part in the tournament in northern Tuscany.
The organisers have been contacted by BBC Sport, but have yet to respond. They have posted an anti-racism video message on their Facebook page since the alleged incidents took place.
Retired general Michael Hayden told the BBC the union was "not a natural contributor to national security".
Home Secretary Theresa May has said there are "good reasons" on the security front to stay in the EU.
An in-out referendum on UK membership of the EU takes place on 23 June.
Security has been a key argument in the debate so far, with In campaigners saying being in the EU makes the UK safer, and Out campaigners arguing the opposite.
Is Britain safer in or out of the EU?
It has intensified following Tuesday's terror attacks on Brussels, which claimed 31 lives.
Former MI6 head Sir Richard Dearlove said EU-based security bodies were of "little consequence" and that leaving the EU could boost Britain's security.
But the former head of GCHQ, Sir David Omand, has said the UK enjoys the best of both worlds by staying in - remaining part of an established information-sharing network while still retaining control of the border.
Prime Minister David Cameron has warned that leaving Europe would be a "threat to national security" and, after Brussels was bombed, Mrs May called for the UK and its allies to work with "greater urgency and joint resolve" to defeat terrorism.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Hayden said the standard of security services across Europe was "very uneven".
France and Britain had "very good" services, he said, while in Scandinavia, they were "good but smaller".
The rest of Europe had "small" services and Belgium's, in particular, was "small, under-resourced and legally limited - and frankly working for a government that has its own challenges in overall governance".
He said he agreed with Sir Richard that leaving the EU could boost Britain's security.
Mr Hayden said: "I don't mean to be arguing against the European Union, but the union is not a natural contributor to national security to each of the entity states.
"In fact in some ways [it] gets in the way of the state providing security for its own citizens."
He rejected a suggestion that the UK leaving the EU would affect the US's ability to co-operate with national security services, adding that European security services were "more forthcoming with us than they are with one another".
"We are a huge security service and each sees their national interests as being well served by having a productive relationship with us and, frankly, the same math does not apply to other services on the continent," he said.
Asked about US President Obama watching baseball in Cuba as the Brussels attacks unfolded, he said he thought the president wanted to deny the enemy the "image of victory of American panic" over their attack. Later, a US official said at least two of the dead were US citizens.
Philippe De Backer, a member of the European Parliament with a particular interest in intelligence services, said he strongly disagreed with Mr Hayden's comments over the EU.
"If he were faced in the US with separate services... he would be the first to call for a centralised agency," Mr De Backer, of the Belgian Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, told the Today programme.
There is currently no EU-wide intelligence-sharing arrangement.
However, the European Parliament had long called for closer co-operation on intelligence, but "mistrust" between member states had stifled that, Mr De Backer said.
He suggested that if the UK left the EU, it would be hard for it to keep up with Europe-wide policing and security services.
"I think we are now at a turning point. Because of this fragmentation in 28 different intelligent services, we have seen the information services have not always been up to speed," he said.
He said it was time to give greater strength and more resources to Europol and Eurojust, because a "helicopter view" was the only way to dismantle the terrorist networks.
He said member states must now move on from the "old concept of sovereignty" towards a "shared sovereignty where we understand that we are better off when we share information and pool resources".
Dominique Moisi, who helped to found the French Institute of International Relations, said there was a "dramatic lack of collaboration and exchange of information" across European intelligence agencies.
This was partly due to a "pecking order" in which France and Britain rated each other but no-one else, "sometimes rightly, sometimes wrongly", he told the BBC's World At One.
Europe had to rediscover the "dimension of security to regain some of its hard power", he added, but there was a kind of "protective, emotional, nationalist rise which is a stumbling block to rationality."
I was asked by Jeremy Vine to sell the election earlier during his Radio 2 broadcast from Cardiff as he travelled the UK ahead of the vote.
I accept it's not the most exciting answer in the world but the one I came up with was "we've got a bit of everything."
Let me explain. Above all, Wales will play its part in the battle for Number 10. Labour have 26 seats out of 40 but the thumping big majorities are not what they once were.
Take Merthyr Tydfil, where the Labour majority is currently just over 4,000. In 1997 it stood at 27,000.
Conventional wisdom would suggest that if Labour fail to win more seats in their Welsh heartland then they're going to struggle elsewhere, and as a result find it difficult to get the 5% swing they need for a majority.
Their best chance of picking up seats is probably in Cardiff. They'll be pushing the Conservatives hard in Cardiff North where the Tories are defending a majority of 194, and they'll be pushing the Liberal Democrats hard in Cardiff Central.
Incidentally, Cardiff North is the best bellwether seat in Wales. Since 1983, it's the only seat where the local MP has been from the same party as the Prime Minister.
The Conservatives have eights seats, the same as in 1987 under Margaret Thatcher. If they can return the same number after five years' worth of cuts then they'll feel they're in a good position.
As well as the existing eight, the Tories have set their sights on Lib Dem-held Brecon and Radnorshire.
The challenge they have is persuading people that they are responsible for meaningful economic improvements.
The fact that they are still neck-and-neck with Labour, despite reductions in unemployment and inflation and higher growth, would suggest they're struggling to do that.
The Conservatives say a bounce in the polls hasn't happened yet because most people won't start thinking about the election until after Easter.
And in keeping with the "bit of everything" theme, Wales has a nationalist story playing out.
Recent polls suggest the Scottish referendum has not led to any increase in support for independence.
But Plaid Cymru believe the television debates, which will give their leader Leanne Wood the opportunity to speak for Wales at the top table, could be a game-changer, and for the first time ensure everyone finally gets to grips with multi-party elections.
The three seats held by the Liberal Democrats will come under attack from the Conservatives, Labour and Plaid and will be a huge test for the party as it seeks to persuade voters it has made a difference with policies and as a moderating influence in coalition.
And then there's the UKIP factor. Last year's European elections was the moment when people stopped describing the party as primarily an English phenomena.
Many realised UKIP has been generating significant support as a result of concerns over immigration, despite the fact that levels are comparatively low in many parts of Wales, and concerns over the EU, despite the fact that billions of pounds of EU-aid has been spent in Wales.
It will be difficult for UKIP to win any seats under the first past the post system in Wales but the key question is where their votes are coming from.
Nobody can give a definitive answer. In the meantime UKIP are targeting Alyn and Deeside, Delyn, Merthyr and Cardiff South and Penarth.
The killing grounds for general elections, where governments are made or broken, are of course the marginal seats.
The unknown UKIP factor in particular has thrown many people's perceptions of what a marginal seat is in Wales.
Traditionally it has been where a party has a majority of less than 10% so it requires a swing of 5% to remove the incumbent. In Wales a whopping 45% of seats fall into that category.
In reality the great majority of seats don't change hands. That will inevitably be the case this time round but it's possible to construct scenarios where there could be some surprises.
So my "bit of everything" scenario absolutely includes a bit of the unknown as well.
Local media say as many as 29 people were killed in the attack by suspected herdsmen from the Fulani ethnic group and police were caught in an ambush.
Unconfirmed reports suggest the herdsmen were acting in revenge.
The BBC's Ishaq Khalid says there is an ongoing conflict between herdsmen and farmers over land and grazing rights.
This particular feud was over the destruction of farm crops, police spokesman Othman Abubakar told AFP news agency.
Mr Abubakar said the gunmen had looted food supplies and set fire to homes before fleeing on Sunday morning.
The police chief of Girei town, in Adamawa State, was killed when police had been ambushed on the way to the site of the attack, he added
One suspect has been arrested.
Children at Old Priory Junior Academy in Plympton, Devon, were stopped from carrying out all "gymnastic activities" two weeks ago.
The school said it made the decision after a number of minor injuries to wrists and to backs.
It said it had been contacted by one parent about the issue.
Alison Russell, whose child goes to the school, said it was "ridiculous" and "silly".
Another parent, Lewis Harvey, said: "It's health and safety gone mad. Kids should be able to do what they want in the playground as long as they don't hurt anyone else."
Interim head teacher Emma Hermon-Wright said: "Over a series of a few days we had quite a few [injuries] for the same reasons. The children said they had been doing cartwheels and handstands and had fallen and we thought it was causing us a problem at school.
"In PE lessons in primary schools they are carefully supported and carefully controlled to help learn skills of this nature and we have very good gymnastic capabilities in our school.
"[At break times] we've got a lot of children in one go and you can't be supporting every child for a backward roll, forward roll, cartwheel, handstand or whatever they're doing at play time."
The school said it had responded to one parent who was concerned about the decision.
It said: "Ultimately, the safety and wellbeing is our responsibility and it is paramount to everything we do here."
It was not trying to stop children from having fun, the school said, and the ban was temporary while staff worked out a way of allowing them to take part in gymnastic activities under staff supervision.
Bradley picked up his first win last Saturday as Swansea beat Crystal Palace in dramatic fashion to climb off the bottom of the Premier League.
After this weekend's trip to face Tottenham, the Swans play five of the bottom 12 teams.
"I think it's a critical period between now and the beginning of the new year. There's a lot of work to do," he said.
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"They're all important matches. The opportunity to turn things around.
"To put a bad start behind us and really give us a bit more belief that we're ready to finish the season in a strong way."
Bradley confirmed that the returning Brian Flynn, now appointed club scout, will have a say in January's transfer dealings.
"Recruitment starts with people who can spot talent," Bradley said. "Brian's track record in that regard is special.
"Having that kind of football man (back) is fantastic for all of us."
Bradley said the club is looking at bringing in "some smart additions" when the January transfer window opens.
He added: "I would not think we're talking about that many moves. We feel there is a nucleus here that is strong. We want to add to that."
Bradley revealed the players have been working hard on their defensive play after conceding 14 goals in the American's six games in charge.
"It's an important part of us becoming a complete team, the ability to win games 1-0," he said.
"You can dissect all the goals, but in the end there's a mentality of being a team that's hard to play against and about being a team that knows how to keep clean sheets.
"We've got to find a way of making that part of who we are."
Former House of Lords leader Lord Strathclyde came up with a proposal to remove peers' veto over laws - called statutory instruments - after a series of government defeats last year.
The government said it now had "no plans" for legislation on the issue.
But it warned peers it could reconsider unless they showed "discipline and self regulation".
The government announced its review into the workings of Parliament last year after defeats in the House of Lords over controversial tax credit cuts. Labour said the original plan had been an "absurd overreaction".
In a statement to peers, Baroness Evans, the leader of the House of Lords, said the will of elected MPs should prevail where there was a clash between the House of Commons and the House of Lords over a statutory instrument.
But she added: "We do not believe that we need to introduce primary legislation at this time."
Unlike with regular legislation, there is not currently a mechanism to assert the Commons' primacy on statutory instruments, so the government relies on the "discipline and self regulation that this House imposes on itself", she said.
"Should that break down we would have to reflect on this decision."
There have been claims the Lords could delay or block Brexit legislation, and Baroness Evans said when such laws are debated, "the constructive approach that this House has so far shown will be ever more important".
There are several reasons why the Strathclyde proposals are now never likely to see the light of day.
First, as if it needs saying, the political circumstances are transformed from this time last year. The government is trying not to fall into a black hole of Brexit, so some of the priorities of the previous administration that might have caused trouble in Parliament are being ditched.
Second, Theresa May is a pragmatist. These plans were deeply controversial, described as the Labour Lords leader as an "absurd overreaction", and themselves might have struggled to get through Parliament.
And third, sources have suggested that the government seems to want to rebuild a more traditional relationship with the Lords, dial down the confrontations and work more constructively together.
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The change of heart is another policy planned by former Prime Minister David Cameron and former Chancellor George Osborne that Theresa May's government is abandoning.
One source said the reform had now "been dumped". Another added: "The world has changed."
It has been suggested to the BBC that the change is part of No 10 distancing itself from the previous administration, and part of its desire to pare back any legislation that might be controversial as the government prepares to face resistance in Parliament over its plans for leaving the EU.
Lord Strathclyde told the BBC it would be sensible if the government could find a way of working more effectively with opposition parties in the Lords without having to change the law, saying: "Legislation should be a last resort."
Baroness Smith, Labour's leader in the Lords, said she welcomed the government's realisation that "the Strathclyde review was an absurd overreaction to a sensible and principled challenge on tax credits".
Crossbench peer Lord Digby Jones said the move was a "big mistake" and risked peers blocking Brexit.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I would have stuck to my guns because I think they're going to live to regret it on all of the Brexit stuff coming down the pipe."
But the Electoral Reform Society described the Strathclyde proposals as a "knee-jerk reaction to a government defeat", calling instead for "genuine Lords reform".
The Welsh poet's granddaughter Hannah Ellis revealed the plaque showing his stamp on a postbox in King's Road, Swansea, near the Dylan Thomas Centre.
The stamp was issued in 2014 as part of the Remarkable Lives issue.
A plaque of the Tenby lifeboat stamp, issued in 2008, was also unveiled at a postbox in Tudor Square in the town.
Firefighters were called to Anderton Road in Sparkbrook at 03:30 BST, West Midlands Fire Service said.
Police were contacted by fire crews after the body of a man, believed to be in his 50s, was discovered in the flat.
Formal identification is yet to take place. The fire is not being treated as suspicious, a spokesman for West Midlands Police said.
He said: "This role is very much a team game and [my wife] Valerie has played a huge part in it, as a result of my honour she becomes Lady Ridgway and I think that is only right and just."
They are coming to the end of their five years in Jersey.
Four other islanders were appointed MBE.
Among them is Dr Lee Durrell, of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation trust, who has been recognised for her conservation work.
She said: "The way I look at it, it is certainly not for myself.
"It is for the work that I do with Durrell, so really it is for Durrell and all the people that work here and all the animals we are trying to save."
Senator Paul Routier is appointed MBE for services to the community and to those with learning difficulties.
Senator Routier said: "If I have been able to support people with learning difficulties during that time and to achieve their potential in their lives then it has been all worthwhile.
"A lot has been achieved during that time and I am very proud of it."
Michael Wilkins, the Judicial Greffier, is appointed MBE for services to the judicial system in Jersey, in particular for his work and co-operation in international bankruptcy matters.
Nick Manning, the director of music for the Band of the Island of Jersey, is appointed MBE for services to the band and the community as a whole.
He has been in the band nearly 40 years and took over as conductor in 1994.
Mr Manning said: "It was something totally unexpected and I am overwhelmed and so honoured to receive it."
The quake struck 25km (15.5 miles) west of Chauk, at a depth of 84km, the US Geological Survey said.
Tremors were felt as far away as Thailand, Bangladesh and India, sending fearful residents into the streets.
At least 66 stupas in Bagan have been damaged, a spokesman from the department of archaeology told the BBC.
A 22-year-old man was killed in the town of Pakokku due to a building collapse.
Videos posted on social media from Bagan show clouds of dust and the tops of some pagodas crumbling as the quake struck.
The ancient capital is a major tourist site, home to thousands of Buddhist monuments.
Earthquakes occur regularly in central Myanmar and the temples have been damaged and reconstructed before, the BBC's Myanmar correspondent Jonah Fisher says.
There are numerous reports of buildings being damaged elsewhere in the country, including the parliament building in Naypyidaw.
Tall buildings shook in Yangon, Myanmar's largest city, the Thai capital Bangkok and Kolkata in India, where underground railway services were temporarily suspended.
At least 20 people were injured in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, as they fled a building, local media report.
Roedd cynghorwyr Ceredigion wedi mynnu y dylai pob arwydd yn y siop fod yn ddwyieithog.
Ond mynnodd y cwmni fod yr enw 'Foodhall' yn enw brand ac felly nad oedd angen ei gyfieithu.
Dadl y cwmni oedd nad oedd dyletswydd gyfreithiol i gwmnïau ddarparu arwyddion dwyieithog gan fod y gyfraith ond yn ymwneud â chyrff yn y sector cyhoeddus a chwmnïau preifat yn y diwydiant nwy, trydan, dŵr a rheilffyrdd.
Ychwanegodd nad oedd y cwmni wedi cyfieithu'r enw brand mewn gwledydd eraill fel Twrci, Iwerddon ac India.
Statws i'r Gymraeg
Roedd Cyngor Tre Aberystwyth wedi gwrthwynebu cais cynllunio M&S gan ddweud y dylai'r iaith Gymraeg gael o leiaf yr un statws a'r Saesneg.
Dywedodd Chris Bentley, rheolwr siop M&S Aberystwyth: "Fe fydd yr holl arwyddion sy'n cyfeirio pobl o amgylch y siop yn ddwyieithog, a bydd staff sy'n gallu'r Gymraeg yn gwisgo bathodynnau er mwyn i gwsmeriaid eu hadnabod, polisi sydd wedi ei greu gyda chymorth Comisiynydd y Gymraeg."
It marks the first time its US-based developer Bethesda has won the prize. It did not win in any other category.
British indie titles Everybody's Gone to the Rapture and Her Story both won three awards.
London-based Rocksteady Studios walked away with best British game for Batman: Arkham Knight, its third and final game in the series.
John Carmack - the creator of Doom, Wolfenstein 3D and Quake - was also honoured with a Bafta fellowship, the academy's highest honour.
He now works at Facebook's Oculus virtual reality division.
Mr Carmack told the BBC there was a "very good chance" VR titles would dominate 2017's ceremony.
"Award shows like this will tend to be kind of bellwethers about where things are going," he explained.
"[The games] won't dominate the market for some time yet, but they will be the exciting things that people are talking about."
Fallout 4 is an action-focused role-playing game set in Boston following a nuclear war. It contains hundreds of hours of storyline to explore.
Like last year's winner - Destiny - it had not won a prize in any of the other categories before taking the top award.
The studio's European managing director said he had not expected the result, and recalled that although Fallout is now one of gaming's biggest franchises, it too started out small.
"I'm genuinely humbled to receive this on behalf of Todd Howard and Bethesda Game Studios," said Sean Brennan.
"You don't have to have the multi-million dollar budgets to make great games - I've seen a huge amount of evidence for that tonight."
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture had been tipped for the top prize after being nominated 10 times across nine categories.
It won three of them: game innovation, music and performer.
The game is set in a fictitious Shropshire village in the 1980s and involves the player trying to find out what happened to the inhabitants who have disappeared.
Its pace is slow and the studio behind it said it wanted the title to have a distinctive English character.
"It was really important to us that it wasn't a chisel-jawed American hero going around fighting zombies," The Chinese Room's co-founder Jessica Curry told the BBC.
"It's kind of like the Archers," she added, referring to the BBC Radio 4 soap opera.
Her Story also won three awards: best debut game, best mobile and handheld title, and game innovation.
The game - in which players must try to solve a murder by sifting through a video archive of a woman being questioned by police - was developed by Sam Barlow.
The British 37-year-old said he had deliberately tried to do something "experimental" by focusing on an actor's performance to see if the idea would appeal.
Another award-winner with distinctive gameplay was Sundown.
Its developer - Mild Beast Games - has created a top-down stealth title in which characters are invisible until they are revealed by a light source.
Guns in the game shoot bursts of light rather than bullets.
The title took the the "ones to watch" prize for the Los Angeles-based developer.
Was Fallout 4 taking the best game Bafta the oddest result of the night?
Arguably, but you have to bear in mind that while a panel of judges produced the shortlist, the top prize was determined by the wider Bafta membership taking a vote.
That wasn't the case for the other categories, which were chosen by individual judging panels.
The Fallout series has been nominated six times and this is its first win. So, while this post-apocalyptic retro-future holds the attentions of its fans, it seems it didn't grab the "experts" to the same degree.
Are the games too big?
If they are that might account for the lack of success the Witcher 3 had this year. Like Fallout that game presented an enormous world; rich in content and incident.
That said neither game pushed the development of narrative nor involved the kinds of innovative approaches that the awards seem to favour.
Smaller games, built by smaller studios are, at least at the moment, much more likely to carry home the laurels.
Smite won the AMD eSports Audience Award - a new category that is voted for by the public.
The battle arena title is unusual for presenting its action from a third-party perspective behind each of the 71 gods the players can choose from.
This and other competitive multiplayer titles have become a popular spectator sport.
On Wednesday, it was announced that a new eGames international gaming tournament would make its debut in Rio during this summer's Olympic Games.
Joseph Smith suffered multiple injuries when the Ford Focus car he was travelling in smashed into oncoming traffic on Cardiff's Western Avenue.
Driver Dean Collins, 24, from St Mellons, denies causing death by dangerous driving in September 2015.
Cardiff Crown Court heard witnesses described his driving moments before as "impatient".
The trial was told that Mr Collins was in a borrowed car carrying his partner Laura Bright, 23, her mother Michelle Holmes, Joseph, and Mr Collins' own two-year-old daughter.
The grey Focus car crossed the central reservation on Western Avenue hitting a white Seat Ibiza head-on.
The jury was told that rear-seat passenger Joseph was wearing a seatbelt, but was not on a booster seat.
Prosecutors said it meant the child was too short, with the seatbelt across his neck.
The boy suffered broken limbs, a fractured spine, head and internal injuries.
"Joseph was not sitting on a booster seat as required by law," said prosecutor Janet McDonald.
"This impacted his chances of survival.
"The prosecution say the responsibility for that child was that of Dean Collins."
The trial heard that Mr Collins' own daughter had been strapped into a booster seat, and survived the crash.
His partner and her mother, and the driver and passenger in the Ibiza car all suffered critical injuries which required "intensive medical care".
The defendant has also pleaded not guilty to four charges of causing serious injury through dangerous driving.
The trial continues.
Williams, a two-time world champion, has not won a ranking event since February 2011 and failed to qualify for this year's World Championship.
But Griffiths believes Williams, who he used to coach, can add to his tally of 18 ranking titles.
"He's a really tough great match player and he's still got it in him," he said.
"I think he can still win tournaments - he says he can't - and if he won one more tournament I think he would win a few."
Williams' last ranking title came at the German Masters in February 2011, when he beat Mark Selby in the final.
He reached the final of the China Open early in April, losing to Selby.
The 42-year-old was one of five Welsh players who missed out on a place at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield after losing in the last qualifying round.
Griffiths, the 1979 champion, is not concerned Ryan Day is the only Welshman competing for this year's world title.
"It's disappointing that all five lost but I don't think that'll ever happen again," Griffiths told BBC Wales Sport.
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"I think there's still plenty in Michael White, Jamie Jones and Daniel Wells who hasn't had a bad season. I feel they can do better. "
Griffiths is also upbeat about Day's prospects as the world number 16 prepares to start his campaign against Chinese qualifier Xiao Guodong.
If Day wins he will face defending champion and world number one Selby in the second round but Griffiths feels the 37-year-old from Pontycymer near Bridgend could cause an upset.
"Ryan's had a really great season," Griffiths said.
"He came really close to beating Barry Hawkins in the World Grand Prix final in Preston in February.
"He's been playing great snooker and if he can produce that here you never know what's going to happen."
Darren Millar, chairman of the public accounts committee, said feedback suggests health boards have not put enough resources into resolving this.
NHS Continuing Healthcare allows people with complex ongoing illnesses to apply for an assessment and all care needs are paid for by the NHS.
The Welsh government said more staff are being hired to focus on the claims.
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 and Mr Millar expects an update from the Welsh government next week on efforts to address the long-standing issue.
In the past, many people did not claim the payments because they did not know they could or because they were told they did not qualify for the funding.
Over the past decade, more than £50m in wrongly-paid care home fees and interest has been returned to Welsh families - often after a lengthy delay.
While a central team based in Powys has helped reduce the backlog of appeals, solicitor Lisa Morgan said significant delays remain for those cases that have been retained by local health boards.
She told BBC Radio Wales' Eye on Wales: "They didn't have dedicated teams to consider retrospective cases and it's clear that it wasn't a priority for the local health boards.
"Unfortunately, families have been waiting a significant time for their case to be considered."
The public accounts committee has looked into continuing NHS healthcare twice in the past two years. Its latest report made nine recommendations, all accepted by the Welsh government.
Mr Millar said: "What we need to see is some determined action from health boards and the Welsh government to put the necessary resources in so we can clear the backlog.
"Because there are cases which, regrettably, go back a number of years and in some cases people have passed away in the interim. That's not good enough."
In 2014, the Welsh government took steps to reduce the number of appeals and retrospective claims, meaning the national framework for decision makers was revised and staff training bolstered.
The Welsh government said: "Health boards are appointing extra staff to focus on retrospective claims and we will be investing additional resources in training to help staff get it right first time and avoid or reduce the need for retrospective payments."
He told the Australian Financial Review (AFR) that his May budget would be based on the anticipated price of iron ore falling further, to $35 a tonne.
Iron ore is currently trading at $47 a tonne - down from $120 a tonne in 2013.
The drop has been blamed partly on falling demand in China.
The estimated price of $35 a tonne is even lower than the conservative forecast from December's budget update, which assumed prices would fall to $60 a tonne.
"There seems to be no floor, we are contemplating as low as $35 a tonne," Mr Hockey told the AFR.
He said every fall of $10 in the price of the ore cost the Australian economy A$2.5bn in revenue.
Mr Hockey is due to present his budget on 12 May.
He told the AFR the budget would contain "a credible path back to surplus" but refused to say when a surplus may be achieved.
He also could not guarantee that the deficit may not worsen again.
He said the government would have to continue pursuing structural savings, which have included unpopular cuts to health and welfare budgets.
In a separate interview with ABC News Breakfast on Monday, Mr Hockey said there was "no doubt" iron ore prices had a big impact on the budget.
But, he said, the government would not impose new taxes to compensate for the lost revenue.
The drop in the value of iron ore has been linked to a slowdown in China, as well as to steady output from Chinese producers who are competing with major Australian mining companies.
The 150cm-wide wheeled-vehicle appears as a single pixel in the images from the US space agency's (Nasa) Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).
The lander that placed Yutu on the surface of Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on 14 December is also visible nearby.
Both pieces of Chinese hardware are distinctively bright against the dark lunar "soil" and cast long shadows.
This made them easy to identify in before-and-after images of the landing location, which can now be given very precise map coordinates.
Nasa says its LRO satellite was not in the right position to capture the landing earlier this month. Only by 25 December had the spacecraft's orbit brought it directly overhead.
The published images were taken from an altitude of 150km.
Yutu ("Jade Rabbit") is China's first mission to make a soft landing at the Moon. After running down a ramp on to the lunar surface, Yutu trundled in an arc around its delivery lander.
Scientists were able to check the vehicle's systems before putting the robot into hibernation for the long lunar night, which lasts two Earth weeks.
When revived, Yutu will explore its landing zone, studying the dusty terrain and its geology.
"We have been spoken to in patronising tones when pitching ideas and explaining our business model. We have been met with the attitude that what we are doing should be treated as a hobby."
The team has worked in the fashion industry for more than a decade, but the first 10 months of their business venture has taken its toll.
"Two of us are new mothers," explains Louie Tew. "We've been changing nappies whilst on the line to Chinese banks, running our business from our smartphones, meeting with clients with newborns in arms."
Even though she thinks advice from male entrepreneurs can also be useful, she draws particular inspiration from hearing tales about how "specific gender pressures" have been overcome by women who have reached the top.
So do aspiring female entrepreneurs need - and successful female CEOs offer - a different kind of business advice?
It's a question we might be in a position to help answer.
For one year now we've been conducting an experiment in the BBC News Business unit.
We've been asking the CEOs who cross our paths a personal question: "What's the business advice you wish you had been given when you started out?"
One year on, we have collected 45 contributions in our CEO Secrets series.
A quarter of the bosses we've heard from are women.
By way of comparison, just less than 10% of chief executives at FTSE 100 companies in the UK are female. According to recent government statistics, 20% of small and medium-sized companies are female-led. In the world of business start-ups men consistently outnumber women by two-to-one.
So we decided to show our series to a selection of women who are currently running start-ups to find out who they find most inspiring.
Roxane Gergaud, co-founder of Doris & Dicky, a website for finding affordable, boutique hotels
I always find advice from women particularly inspiring as naturally I identify with them more. I have a greater curiosity in the motivations behind and the routes to female success and draw strength from other women's experiences.
There is a tendency for women to make it more personal, to overtly base their advice on their own experiences which, in turn, makes them feel more accessible as people and their advice more applicable.
I love working in the travel industry. But there are definitely moments when I've realised there are still quite a few corners that are a bit old-fashioned in their views.
I was at times sidelined in meetings by investors wanting to deal with my male co-founder, which was incredibly demoralising and frustrating.
I was often in the situation where I'd get to the end of the meeting and no-one had made eye contact with me.
So watching amazing women like Carolyn McCall, Harriet Green and Martha Lane-Fox, who are leaders in the travel sector, has given me huge strength and encouragement in times when I've felt a little on the back foot because of who I am.
Adrienne Hanna, CEO and co-founder of Right Revenue, a software start-up that helps hotels decide on pricing
I have worked in travel and hospitality for 30 years.
To be honest, I don't think getting the advice from a man or a woman makes any difference at all. If you had taken away the pictures and just put that advice in text anonymously, I think it would have been almost impossible to distinguish.
I was a fan of [Brompton Bikes boss] Will Butler-Adams as I too find it difficult to listen to the "boardroom chat" and people talking for the sake of talking. Get things done - keep it simple and stay focused.
I perhaps am lucky in that I have never felt my sex has held me back in any way. I have always felt an equal even though many, many times in my life I am the only woman in the boardroom.
I feel it comes down to mindset. If you go in feeling like an equal then that is how you will be perceived.
Lu Li set up Blooming Founders, a social network that aims to nurture and inspire women in the business start-up community
Gender definitely matters because people relate better to people who are like them. It gives you that feeling of "I can do it too". I don't have the same feeling when I listen to advice from Elon Musk or Richard Branson. I admire them as entrepreneurs, but I still think that their circumstances and my circumstances are just not the same.
I wholeheartedly agree with Lily Cole who advised to reach out for help. I made that mistake myself, thinking that asking for help would make me look weak. But actually the opposite is true: asking for help gives you power.
It is really interesting to see that the women featured in the series tend to talk more about the importance of self belief and having confidence, whereas the men tend to stress the importance of having the right team.
This is in line with the trends I see through my work: 66% of the Blooming Founders community are solo founders, which proves that they don't put much priority in recruiting a team when they start out. At the same time, I also see that confidence is a big issue amongst female entrepreneurs.
Many women are held back by fear of failure, social expectations and unease with financial instability.
Elizabeth Clark, CEO and founder of Dream Agility, an online shopping platform
Generally who the advice comes from doesn't matter, unless it's gender specific.
I discovered I was pregnant (with a 16-year gap after having my first two children) when I started my first business and my confidence was rock bottom.
I was told by a business adviser that I should think about doing something else as nobody would take me seriously as a woman doing tech. I was mortified as I had encountered attitudes like this 20 years ago when I was working in engineering but I thought people would be more enlightened.
I was knocked back by venture capitalists because I didn't have any experience in the area I was seeking investment - but neither would anyone else as it was completely new!
The recent video from the Mumsnet founder is the perfect example of this and it's inspirational to hear other people have overcome this kind of adversity and made a huge success.
Being female has its pros and cons.
Yes there are people that don't like dealing with a female CEO. I don't get upset about it any more. I just pass them on to a male colleague.
By the same token, I'm not above using my feminine charms to win over a customer - all above board of course, my husband is the chief technical officer!
You can watch all the videos from the #CEOSecrets series here. To go behind the scenes and keep up to date follow series producer Dougal Shaw on Twitter orFacebook.
Officers were acting in cooperation with the Romanian police and Europol. The raids took place on Friday.
One man has been arrested in connection with brothel keeping and serious and organised crime. He is expected to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Monday.
Another man is the subject of a report to the procurator fiscal.
A police spokesman said: "As part of an ongoing investigation into Human Trafficking and Serious and Organised Crime, Police Scotland, supported by a number of partner organisations, as well as Romanian police and Europol, visited four properties in the Glasgow area on Friday 8 April 2016.
"A 29 year old male has been arrested and detained in custody in connection with Brothel Keeping and Serious and Organised Crime.
"A 35 year old male will be the subject of a report to the Procurator Fiscal."
The app-based car-hire service joins rivals Grab and GoJek, who already have established similar services.
Thousands of taxi drivers protested recently in the Indonesian capital against transport apps.
The drivers said ride-hailing apps such as Uber have made it impossible for them to earn a living in the city.
Uber started operating in Jakarta in the later part of 2014. The car-hire service also operates in other Indonesian cities - Bandung, Surabaya and the popular tourist destination Bali.
It is calling its latest offering "uberMOTOR", which it claims will allow anyone in Jakarta to "push a button and get a motorbike ride in minutes".
The company says its pricing is the "most affordable" in town, with a base fare starting at 1,000 Indonesian rupiah ($0.08; £0.06).
Earlier this year, thousands of cab drivers in Paris also staged a protest, against competition from app-based taxi services including Uber.
The Uber service is available in 380 cities around the world. The company has said it is profitable in the US. But in China, Uber is losing $1bn a year. And that is partly due to fierce competition.
Murtaza Ahmadi's father said they had received threats of kidnap, including from a gangster demanding money.
After the boy shot to fame in his shirt fashioned from a stripy blue plastic bag, the Argentine star gave him two signed jerseys and a football.
"I love Messi. He's the king," Murtaza, who hopes to meet him, told the BBC.
Murtaza's father says they left their home province of Ghazni because the situation was "very risky" for him.
"A few days ago I got a call from a local gangster. He thought that since my son had received these T-shirts from Messi that maybe he also got money and asked for his share," Arif Ahmadi told the BBC.
Now the family hope Quetta will provide a chance of a better life, even though Murtaza and seven of his family members are all crammed into one room.
They briefly stayed in the capital Islamabad but found it too expensive.
Meanwhile, Murtaza is keeping busy dodging camera crews and working on his football skills, hoping to meet his hero.
"Messi, you know how much I like you. Now I want you to invite me so I can come and meet you," he told the BBC.
The Unicef ambassador, who stars for Barcelona, has said he would like them to meet too but no plans have been arranged so far.
Earlier this year the Afghan football association promised to bring them together, whether in Afghanistan, Spain or a third country.
Murtaza's father said none of the options had worked out so far.
The reports say Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove through the seafront promenade area of the French city on Tuesday and Wednesday in preparation.
More than 80 people died when he ploughed his vehicle into people celebrating Bastille Day on Thursday.
Six people are being held in connection with the killings.
The latest, an Albanian couple who have not been identified, were arrested on Sunday morning, French judicial sources said.
Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was shot dead by police when his vehicle's path along the Promenade des Anglais was eventually halted.
Europe 1 radio said CCTV footage from the days beforehand showed him driving through the area in the lorry, closely observing the scene.
On the day itself, Lahouaiej-Bouhlel phoned his brother in Tunisia during the afternoon, sending a photograph of himself among the crowds, Reuters news agency reported.
"That last day he said he was in Nice with his European friends to celebrate the national holiday," the brother, Jabeur, said, adding that in the photo "he seemed very happy and pleased, he was laughing a lot".
France has called up 12,000 police reservists to boost security in the wake of the killings.
A BBC correspondent in Nice says the beaches and cafes are busy again and the promenade has been re-opened.
Many people have taken the opportunity to leave tributes or pay their respects to those, including 10 children, who were killed.
An impressive air of normality in much of tourist-packed Nice is deceptive. As well as grief, bewilderment hangs in the sea air.
There are tears, hugs and silence at the mountain of candles, flowers and cuddly toys on the beach promenade, where joggers stop and parents bring young children to read the messages.
A large white banner says: Why children? And, in a child's handwriting: Why do you want war?
The bloodstains on the tarmac are gradually disappearing. The lampposts the lorry smashed into will be replaced.
But for those who knew or loved the victims, things will never be the same. More armed police and soldiers guarding the streets will serve as a reminder.
Amid the fear and sadness, and the unanswerable questions, defiance acts as a source of comfort.
He will never defeat us, says one message on the promenade. Another reads: Love defeats hate.
Lahouaiej-Bouhlel's estranged wife, who was detained on Friday, was released on Sunday.
Those still being held are said to be close associates of the killer but have not been identified.
French President Francois Hollande has called the attack terrorism and officials have said investigators will seek to find out whether the Tunisian had links with extremist groups.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Lahouaiej-Bouhlel seemed to have been "radicalised very quickly".
He was unknown to French intelligence services although he had been in trouble with the police for threatening behaviour, violence and petty theft.
Tunisian security sources have told the BBC he visited Tunisia frequently, the last time eight months ago.
It is not known if he trained in Syria or had any help planning the attack.
So-called Islamic State said the attacker was acting in response to its calls to target civilians in countries that are part of the anti-IS coalition.
Eighty-five of those injured remain in hospital; 29 are in intensive care and 18 of those are listed as critical.
He said the counter-terrorism budget was being increased and more money would be spent on defence.
But asked to rule out police cuts he said: "Every public service has to make sure it is spending money well."
Labour said he should heed security warnings from senior officers and do an "11th hour" U-turn on cuts.
Mr Osborne said he had now reached a deal with all departments ahead of Wednesday's Spending Review.
Spending Review: Where will the axe fall?
The chancellor denied reports he was still at war with Home Secretary Theresa May over cuts to the policing budget amid warnings from officers that further cuts would threaten Britain's ability to respond to a Paris-style attack.
"In the summer Budget we took the decision to increase our defence spending and increase our counter-terrorism budget," the chancellor said.
"These were decisions taken before the terrible events in Paris and, of course, those events in Paris throw a spotlight on the threat we face but, of course, that threat existed before that terrible event," he told the BBC.
"So when it comes to the Spending Review, we are going to make the argument that protecting the British people is our first duty as a government, that economic security is a vital part of national security.
"And precisely because we are making difficult decisions in other parts of our budget, we can give our military more kit, we can increase our counter-terrorism budget by 30%."
Some of the extra money for counter-terrorism would go to the police "to make sure we can deal with marauding gun attacks," he said. But he refused to rule out cuts to the number of frontline officers.
"We will make sure Britain is properly defended from the terrorist threat," he added.
Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell said he supported more money for the intelligence services but was "really worried" about further cuts to police numbers.
He told the BBC: "If he (Mr Osborne) cuts the police service in the way he's planned, that undermines our security.
"I am saying to him directly, end the cuts to policing because all the police chiefs are saying you are putting our communities at risk. I will support him if he says, straightforwardly, policing cuts will not take place."
Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham also urged Mr Osborne to heed security warnings from senior police officers, saying: "He can't be allowed to dig in and damage national security with his dogmatic approach to deficit reduction."
Chancellor George Osborne hinted that his target of running a £10bn surplus by 2020 could be revised down as he deals with worse than expected borrowing figures.
"The precise level of the surplus will be set out in the forecasts on Wednesday," he told Andrew Marr.
The estimated £20bn in spending cuts to be unveiled on Wednesday are aimed at helping the UK eliminate its deficit and run a surplus by the end of 2020 but economists warned the latest figures on the public finances would make that difficult without more belt-tightening than already planned.
John McDonnell said: "George Osborne's economic and fiscal plans are in utter chaos just months since he announced them.
"We all know he gave up a long time ago on his 2010 promise to eradicate the deficit by today, but now he can't even stick to the deficit reduction plans he announced as recently as July."
A survey of 1,211 IoD members indicated they believe that the deficit reduction should be achieved mainly through spending cuts rather than tax rises.
Infrastructure and education were other major policy areas the business body's members would like to see addressed.
IoD director Simon Walker said it was time for "decisive action".
More than half of those who took part in the survey, which was conducted immediately after the general election, also strongly opposed increases in national insurance, income tax, VAT and business rates.
The research also found support for improving the UK's broadband capability, investing in energy generation, and spending on railways.
In addition, there was also overwhelming support for a crackdown on tax avoidance.
Mr Walker said: "The election result was more decisive than most expected, and now is the time for the new government to take decisive action.
"Returning the budget to surplus must be the overriding goal in this Parliament, but businesses want the emphasis to be on finding further reductions in spending, not significantly raising taxes."
Stephanie Hirst, formerly known as Simon, hosted the commercial Top 40 show nationally between 2003 and 2006.
The Barnsley-based DJ left radio stations Capital FM Yorkshire and Gold last June after confirming her gender change.
She will join BBC Radio Manchester for a weekly show, saying she "wanted to ensure that my return is gentle".
Numerous sources told BBC News last year that Ms Hirst was suspended by bosses at Global Radio when she disclosed that she wanted to be a woman.
The company said at the time: "Hirsty made the decision to take time out to focus on the process he was going through. We were sad to see Hirsty leave but we were happy to offer him our full support."
When asked about claims that she was treated wrongly by her former employer, Ms Hirst said last October: "Everyone was supportive. There is nothing more I can add that can be of use to you."
Ms Hirst, who has won three Sony Radio Awards, said her new role "allows me time to grow into a broadcaster as Stephanie".
Kate Squire, managing editor of BBC Radio Manchester, added: "It's fantastic that Stephanie is returning to the airwaves - she's a brilliant broadcaster, and should be on air."
Ms Hirst first presented a radio show at the age of 16 on Radio Aire in Leeds. Since January, she has been a regular contributor on the ITV programme Lorraine.
Her new show, which will focus on 1990s music, will start on 4 July at 22:00 BST.
BBC Radio Manchester reaches a weekly audience of 229,000 listeners, according to figures from radio body Rajar.
In 1982, he was part of the Tottenham Hotspur team who beat Queens Park Rangers in the final after a replay in front of 92,000 fans at Wembley.
Thirty-four years on, as the unpaid manager of Barnet-based ninth-tier side Hadley, the former midfielder is falling in love with the competition all over again.
Before this season the 134-year-old club, who play in the South Midlands Premier Division, had failed to advance past the preliminary round.
Beat seventh-tier Kings Langley in Saturday's second qualifying home tie and Hadley, who up until a few weeks ago were sharing a ground and playing in front of fewer than 50 fans, will be two wins from the first round.
"Never mind the first round," said Hazard, now 56. "The big question is: What do I do when Hadley reach the third round and draw Tottenham at White Hart Lane? I might bring myself out of retirement and come on as an 89th-minute substitute."
In a Spurs career spanning 170 games, Hazard also won the Uefa Cup under Keith Burkinshaw in 1984. Yet he is as proud of his achievements as a non-league manager as of the medals he won playing alongside Glenn Hoddle and Ossie Ardiles.
Since Hazard's appointment in 2014, Hadley have won the Hertfordshire Charity Shield, achieved their highest league finish and are now enjoying a club-record FA Cup run.
"The fact I don't get paid makes it more enjoyable in many ways," Hazard told BBC Sport. "I consider this stage of my footballing life as a hobby.
"I'm fortunate to have a fantastic committee and a wonderful group of human beings as my players, who all play for free.
"When you play for free, you are truly in love with the game. These guys are a pleasure to coach."
Hazard also played for Chelsea, Portsmouth and Swindon.
But it is Tottenham he calls home. Hazard still works at White Hart Lane on matchdays, entertaining sponsors and giving tours.
It is an arrangement which sometimes clashes with his commitments at Hadley, but Spurs remain Hazard's first love.
"I worship every moment I'm at White Hart Lane," he said. "When I became Hadley manager, I made it clear that if a fixture clashed with a Tottenham home game, then I'd be at Spurs.
"The arrangement works because I have a fine coaching team at Hadley.
"The first thing I did when I realised the next round of the FA Cup was on the 17th was check Tottenham's fixtures. Fortunately they are playing at home on Sunday, so I'll be able to make both games."
Hadley have spent around £400,000 to enable the first team to return to their Brickfield Lane facilities after eight seasons playing at Potters Bar Town.
Having entered this season's FA Cup at the extra preliminary round stage, they have already battled through three rounds and earned £6,425 in prize money. Saturday's tie is worth a further £4,500.
So, will Hazard show Hadley's players his FA Cup medal from 1982 to motivate the team before kick-off against seventh-tier Southern League Premier Division side Kings Langley?
"No. I donated my medals to the Tottenham club dentist, who is a Spurs fanatic," he added. "His whole surgery is a shrine to Tottenham Hotspur."
Teams at this stage are still three wins from the first-round draw, yet the players of Ashton Athletic have already celebrated like they have reached the FA Cup final.
They each landed a £30 bonus after beating Mossley 7-2 in the last round - and the dressing room scenes afterwards proved popular viewing on social media.
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"A lot of the players are on £15 a week and as some come from Liverpool, Manchester and Widnes, it doesn't even cover expenses for petrol," said Ben Kay, joint-manager, player and groundsman at Athletic, who are based in Ashton-in-Makerfield, near Wigan.
"The chairman trebled their wages to £45 for the first qualifying round win - I think that's the reason they celebrated like they did in the dressing room afterwards."
The Yellows, who are the last representatives of the North West Counties League and appearing at this stage of the FA Cup for the first time, entertain Halifax, who won the FA Trophy at Wembley in May.
Last season Athletic's average home attendance was 68.
On Saturday they are expecting a club record attendance of around 900 at Brocstedes Park after Halifax sold out of their initial allocation of 400 tickets. Ashton Athletic's current record crowd is 202.
Yellows forward Joel Brownhill is the brother of Bristol City midfielder Josh, while Kay was in the same Wigan Athletic squad as Leighton Baines and Arjan de Zeeuw under Paul Jewell in 2001-02.
The club investigated after being alerted to the posts, which have since been removed, and have told Aakjaer his services are no longer required.
United said: "The club received evidence from the Guardian and has ended our association with Mr Aakjaer.
"Manchester United is an inclusive organisation and will not tolerate this sort of behaviour."
Aakjaer, who had been employed by United on a casual basis since 2011, later posted on his Facebook profile that he was "in no way a racist" and that the issue had been blown "completely out of proportion".
He wrote, in Danish, that he was a "keen social commentator" but acknowledged that his "rhetoric and humour can be gritty, satirical and sometimes maybe degrading".
The scout, whose primary function was to attend matches and provide reports on specific players, added that "with hindsight" he shouldn't have "mixed overheated public debate in parallel with my job as a scout".
Aakjaer added: "It is with deep regret that I last night got the message that I am no longer employed at Manchester United." | More money will be made available to council's hit by recent floods, Finance Secretary John Swinney has said.
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The 45-year-old mother-of-two suffered a punctured lung and permanent damage to her sight following the crash on the Firth of Forth last summer.
The woman had been part of an organised trip to the Isle of May seabird haven.
She was crushed after being seated on an inflatable tube on the boat, used when passenger numbers were high.
The accident happened onboard the Osprey II, which normally carried eight passengers to the Isle of May from Anstruther Harbour.
However, on 19 July 2016, the vessel was carrying 11 passengers, including seven adults and four children.
The boat's sister craft, Osprey, was also in the water and was carrying 12 passengers, including 11 adults and one child.
Investigators were told that passenger spaces on Osprey II were normally limited to the eight spaces available on its four bench seats, but in good weather two additional spaces were sold, with the extra passengers sitting in designated positions on its inflatable tubes.
On the day of the accident, the skipper of each boat - known as rigid inflatable boats (RIB) - had increased speed and started a power turn away from each other with the intention of passing each other in the course of completing a round turn.
The Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) report said that as the vessels turned towards each other, it became apparent to both skippers they were in danger of colliding. Despite skippers both acting quickly to reduce their speed, they were unable to prevent the collision.
The report said: "Passengers not sitting on suitable inboard seating have an increased risk of falling overboard, are at significant risk of musculoskeletal injuries and are more exposed to serious injury in the event of a collision."
The injured woman, who was on the vessel with her husband and two children aged eight and 12, was taken to hospital after the incident and was put into an induced coma, having suffered two broken collar bones, five broken ribs, a punctured lung and lacerations and bruising to her back and torso.
The internal injuries she sustained in the accident also resulted in permanent damage to her sight in both eyes.
There are currently no regulations to prevent people on RIBs from sitting on the inflatable tubes, but the MAIB said they are at increased risk in that position.
The MAIB has recommended the Maritime and Coastguard Agency's (MCA) forthcoming recreational craft code includes the stipulation that the certified maximum number of passengers carried on commercially-operated passenger-carrying RIBs should be limited to the number of suitable seats designated for passengers.
Isle of May Boat Trips Ltd, which owns and operates the two vessels, has banned passengers and crew from sitting on the inflatable tubes of Osprey and Osprey II, and has limited passenger numbers to 12 and eight respectively.
It has also issued an instruction that twin RIB operations are not to take place except in an emergency and has reviewed its risk assessments to ensure they incorporate all activities undertaken by Osprey and Osprey II.
Chief Inspector of Marine Accidents, Steve Clinch, said the MAIB had investigated several accidents in which people had been injured as a result of inappropriate seating on RIBs, and the faster the RIB was travelling, the greater the risk.
He confirmed passenger limit recommendations have been made to the MAC, and added: "We have also made a recommendation to the Royal Yachting Association and Passenger Boating Association aimed at improving the guidance available to the operators of commercial passenger-carrying RIBs." | Marine accident investigators have issued new safety instructions after a woman was seriously injured in a collision between two inflatable boats. | 39,962,552 | 774 | 26 | false |
There are fears the closures could see people's journey times take more than two hours if going by bus in some rural areas.
Closure-threatened courts are in Powys, Bridgend, Carmarthenshire, Gwynedd, Anglesey, Neath Port Talbot, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Denbighshire and Wrexham.
Justice Secretary Michael Gove said it would tackle "surplus capacity".
The UK government consultation on plans to close 91 courts and tribunals in England and Wales ends on Thursday.
It said if the plans go ahead, 95% people could drive to court within an hour, but a map produced by the Law Society suggests it would take longer for those who rely on public transport. | People have one more day to have their say on plans to close 11 courts across Wales. | 34,466,917 | 171 | 19 | false |
Labour said it had discovered an £800m dip in spending in Budget papers.
But a defence minister said Labour had got its sums wrong - overall spending had not gone down but money had moved from one part of its budget to another.
Labour has written to Defence Secretary Michael Fallon to seek assurances he is committed to Nato's spending target.
Shadow defence minister Toby Perkins asked about the effect of the apparent cut to spending "on our already stretched ability to respond to demands that our government places on our armed forces".
But Philip Dunne, Minister for Defence Procurement, said: "Labour have made two fundamental errors.
"Firstly, they have used the figures from the March 2015 Budget instead of the July 2015 Budget that followed the election. Secondly, they failed to include capital spending.
"The defence budget in the July 2015 Budget was £34.9bn and latest estimates are higher than that at £35.2bn.
"Thankfully, when they get the numbers wrong now, it doesn't cause the damage it did when they ran the country."
Labour stuck to its claim that the government was spending less on defence than a year ago.
Mr Perkins said: "Even if you combine the capital and current spending projections of the Budget 2016 and compare them with the next most recent budget, given at the Autumn Statement, there is still a shortfall of £200m.
"The government claim it is an 'underspend', but it is clear that this is actually the new normality that Britain's armed forces will be forced to deal with over the next few years."
The UK is currently one of only five Nato members, along with the US, Estonia, Greece and Poland, to meet the alliance's budget target - which recommends that a minimum 2% of a country's GDP be spent on defence.
Before last year's general election, David Cameron would not be drawn on whether the UK would continue to meet the target in the next few years given the scale of the public spending cuts earmarked to eliminate the deficit.
But in his July Budget, Chancellor George Osborne said the UK would meet the Nato pledge on a "properly measured" basis and said overall spending on defence would be ring-fenced, getting a real terms 0.5% annual increase in its budget every year until 2020.
US President Barack Obama was reported to have warned Mr Cameron that the UK would have to pay its "fair share" and spend 2% of GDP on defence.
South Yorkshire Police visited Robert Walton, 66, at his home on Meadow Street in Dinnington on 7 April in response to concerns about his welfare.
He was found dead following a fire at his home the next day.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) will examine whether officers made the right decisions.
Aymeric Sarrazin, 31, continued to rape the drunk woman after she woke up in her Meadowbank flat and told him "no".
His victim was left with a bite mark and was bleeding after the assault on 25 July 2015.
Sarrazin claimed the sex was consensual but was found guilty by majority verdict at the High Court in Glasgow last month.
Lord Kinclaven said the victim had suffered emotionally and psychologically and the incident had had an affect on her career.
The woman told the court she remembered opening her eyes and finding Sarrazin, from Bourg-La-Reine in France, on top of her having sex with her.
She said she was in shock and lay terrified while Sarrazin moved her limbs "like a puppet".
Advocate depute Iain McSporran told jurors: "The Crown case is that she was incapable of consenting to sex with the accused because of the effects of alcohol."
The prosecutor said Sarrazin continued to rape her even after she awoke despite her protests, using force and strength to overcome her protests.
Sarrazin was placed on the sex offenders' register.
Solicitor advocate Jim Stevenson said: "Mr Sarrazin has a good work record and has always been in full time employment.
"He intends to return to France after serving his sentence. He has no ties to Scotland."
Mr Stevenson said Sarrazin's family and long-time partner were standing by him.
After fine strikes from Kaiyne Woolery and Tranmere's Connor Jennings, Christian Doidge and Woolery goals put Forest Green 3-1 up at the break.
Cole Stockton went close for Tranmere three times in the second half.
But Forest Green held on at Wembley to reach League Two via the play-offs at the third attempt.
Their Gloucestershire home town of Nailsworth will be the smallest ever to host an EFL club next term, with a population of 5,794.
Defeat condemned battling Tranmere to a third straight season of non-league football, after their 94-year stay in the EFL ended with relegation in 2015.
Pacy winger Woolery's fierce, bouncing low strike put Forest Green ahead on 11 minutes, for the first of three well-struck goals in a compelling first half.
Jennings rifled in to level after a neat passing move from Micky Mellon's side, who were backed by a far superior number of travelling fans.
But shortly before half-time, Doidge drilled in for his 27th goal of the season after cutting inside, and Woolery latched onto a defensive error to slot in his second soon after, which stunned Tranmere after what had been an even first 40 minutes.
After the break, Stockton was denied by a brilliant low save from Sam Russell, and he then blazed over an empty goal after the keeper had made a hash of an attempted clearance.
Tranmere continued to press, but Stockton's glancing header dropped wide of the far post and Forest Green - with men behind the ball - stoutly withstood the pressure for rest of the game.
Victory saw Forest Green go one better than they did at Wembley last term, having lost 3-1 to Grimsby in the 2016 promotion final.
For that game, Mark Cooper had only just arrived at the Gloucestershire side, after former boss Ady Pennock was sacked on the eve of last year's final, but the former Swindon and Notts County boss has achieved promotion in his first full season in charge.
In doing so, he achieved the main, long-held ambition of ambitious, eco-conscious owner Dale Vince, who had strenuously believed it was "inevitable" his side would eventually go up.
A 'vegan' club, with Scottish seaweed helping to fertilise their New Lawn pitch and no meat served on match days, they will be a unique addition to the EFL.
Backed by the owner of 'green' electricity company Ecotricity, Forest Green have hopes to one day compete as high as the Championship.
Having scored more goals than anyone else in the National League this season, they have avoided a 20th consecutive season in the fifth tier, after previously winning promotion to this level in 1998.
Tranmere, who were playing in League One as recently as 2014 and finished nine points above third-placed Forest Green in the regular season, will perhaps look back to their two league losses against champions Lincoln, which ultimately tipped the balance at the top as they finished just four points behind the Imps.
Tranmere boss Micky Mellon:
"Some of the goals we gave away, we're obviously very disappointed about. if you come to a place like this, you've got to do better in those moments.
"The third goal was the killer goal and it was another mistake. But on the day, I totally believe the better team won.
"Every credit to Forest Green. The things you have to do well at places like this, they did them.
"On the day, we made too many errors. I'll have a look at myself as well and look at the preparation."
Forest Green boss Mark Cooper:
"We were brilliant today. The young players were very mature and we looked a really good side today.
"Two goals up is always a funny score, because one goal changes everything. But we encouraged Tranmere to hit a lot of balls into the box, because our centre-halves are good at heading the ball out of the box, and they did it really comfortably.
"I want to enjoy tonight and savour that moment. The clock seemed to take ages to tick by. The players were magnificent."
Match ends, Tranmere Rovers 1, Forest Green Rovers 3.
Second Half ends, Tranmere Rovers 1, Forest Green Rovers 3.
Liam Noble (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Sam Wedgbury replaces Drissa Traoré.
Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Shamir Mullings replaces Christian Doidge.
Dale Bennett (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Charlie Cooper (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Adam Buxton (Tranmere Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Daniel Wishart replaces Keanu Marsh-Brown.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Andy Cook replaces Connor Jennings.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Jack Dunn replaces Andy Mangan.
Second Half begins Tranmere Rovers 1, Forest Green Rovers 3.
First Half ends, Tranmere Rovers 1, Forest Green Rovers 3.
Goal! Tranmere Rovers 1, Forest Green Rovers 3. Kaiyne Woolery (Forest Green Rovers).
Goal! Tranmere Rovers 1, Forest Green Rovers 2. Christian Doidge (Forest Green Rovers).
Goal! Tranmere Rovers 1, Forest Green Rovers 1. Connor Jennings (Tranmere Rovers).
Goal! Tranmere Rovers 0, Forest Green Rovers 1. Kaiyne Woolery (Forest Green Rovers).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The draw for the second round also sees Premiership champions Linfield hosting Lisburn Distillery and Crusaders meeting Dundela at Seaview.
Cliftonville face Banbridge Town, Glenavon will entertain Donegal Celtic and Glentoran go up against Loughgall.
Coleraine will travel to Larne with the 16 matches to played on Tuesday, 29 August.
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Portadown v H&W Welders
Institute v Moyola Park
Warrenpoint Town v Sport & Leisure Swifts/Lurgan Celtic
Banbridge Town v Cliftonville
Queen's University v Ards
Carrick Rangers v Dergview
Ballymena Utd v Knockbreda
Larne v Coleraine
Loughgall v Glentoran
PSNI v Limavady Utd
Newington v Ballyclare Comrades
Lisburn Distillery v Linfield (at Windsor Park)
Newry City v Dungannon Swifts
Glenavon v Donegal Celtic
Ballinamallard Utd v Tobermore Utd
Dundela v Crusaders (at Seaview)
Deputy Steve Luce has called on farmers and landowners to cut the use of fertiliser, which can increase nitrate levels, by up to 10%.
Nitrate is a form of nitrogen that is a natural part of soil and groundwater.
Long-term exposure to high levels of nitrate can cause stomach cancer, thyroid problems and blue baby syndrome.
Using fertilisers can increase levels and tests have shown nitrate levels in Jersey drinking water are higher than recommended.
In Jersey it is estimated about 4,000 homes with boreholes and wells have a water supply higher than the EU and Island limit of 50mg per litre for nitrates.
Levels in mains water, which has been treated, also regularly exceeded the limit in the last 14 years.
Deputy Luce said he was working with farmers and Jersey Water to tackle the problem but has also called on home owners to think twice before using fertiliser.
He said: "Private and public drinking water supplies, recreational water use, fisheries and shellfish production, and of course the 'green weed' problem are all affected by nitrate levels."
President of the Jersey Farmers' Union Graham Le Lay, said he would continue to work with the States in reducing nitrate levels.
He said: "The environment minister can rest assured that the Jersey Farmers' Union will continue to encourage and assist farmers in finding ways to reduce nitrate fertiliser use.
"We would urge him to take immediate steps to make all land users aware that they too have to reduce their use of both inorganic and organic fertilisers on their allotments, vegetable gardens and lawns."
The authorities in Sweden say the number of women on the streets in the prostitution area in Stockholm has fallen from 700-800 to 200 women since the legislation was introduced in 1999.
Prostitution is technically legal in the UK although related activities, such as soliciting for sex in a public place, are outlawed.
Campaigners are calling for the new law to be implemented across the rest of the UK, to help stifle the trade and "end demand'.
But others say this just drives it into more dangerous locations and further stigmatises the industry and the best protection for prostitutes is actually legalisation.
Here are two viewpoints from different sides of the debate.
Ben - not his real name - believes the trade serves a "useful social function".
The 30-year-old single man, who works in PR in London, has paid for sex since he was 22. He has slept with 30 to 40 prostitutes.
"The law would probably only scare away the kind of customers who have something to lose," he says.
Ben sleeps with prostitutes - or escorts he finds online - at their homes or hotels, once every two-to-four weeks. He says he pays around £100 an hour so it is not possible to do more often.
"A lot of the time I struggle with women and paying for sex for me is a way of experiencing the kind of sex that I probably wouldn't without paying for it, frankly," he explains.
He says if buying sex was illegal it would stop him from doing it in the UK. "To me it's not worth the risk to be arrested for a crime that would have such a stigma attached to it."
There were 60,879 prostitutes in the UK in 2009, who had an average of 25 clients per week - each paying on average £67.16 per visit
One in 10 British men say they have paid for sex, a study of 6,000 found, while 3.6% admitted going to prostitutes in the past five years
The trade in the human trafficking of foreign women to be sexually exploited in the UK is worth at least £130m
50% of women in prostitution in the UK started being paid for sex acts before they were 18, while 95% street prostitutes are problematic drug users
About 17,500 men pay for sex each year in Northern Ireland. Only about 20 people still work as street-based prostitutes, the majority advertise online and work from houses
Sources: Office for National Statistics, University College London, Home Office and Queen's University Belfast
An anti-prostitution advocate would probably see that as a good thing, and evidence legislation was working, he says.
"What they don't take into account is that the fewer clients there are, the less choice there is for people who work in the sex industry.
"It would not stop people from entering the trade, it would give them less choice in the type of customer they had, which would probably mean they would take greater risks."
Ben says he does not believe that penalising customers would stop the sex trade, as Sweden still has prostitution, it has just moved indoors and onto the internet.
"If criminal penalties come in and there is a police crackdown, then of course this would change, but it would not change my opinion that the sex trade serves a useful social function.
"This isn't what a lot of people talk about on the other side of the debate.
"For a lot of customers it isn't the orgasm that they are chasing, it's the intimacy of being able to lie with someone in a bed for one or two hours that is absent from their regular life a lot.
"I can't say what it would be like for an average man. But if I had never paid for sex I would have had a really lonely life."
Mia de Faoite worked as a prostitute in the Irish Republic for six years, mainly on the streets of Dublin. She left the trade in 2010 with the help of a social worker and says it took her about a year to recover. She then joined the campaign to implement the Nordic model of law throughout Ireland.
She does not agree with the suggestion legislation would hurt the work of women who choose to be prostitutes.
"In Ireland there's a handful of women like that who say they are happy to be there. This law is not about them.
"This law is about the vast majority of women who feel [like me] trapped and can't see the choices out. This law is about the protection of human dignity.
"This law is to stop the traffic because it will not stop until we cut off what makes it exist in the first place, and that is the demand, that is those who believe they have a right to buy other human beings for sex.
"The collateral damage for those who say they are happy to be there is that they will have to look for a new job. That's collateral damage I can sleep with."
She says prostitutes see the world in a different way. "Within a short period of time your only human contact becomes men who buy you, and then the other damaged or addicted women that you stand alongside. So we don't quite see the world the same way as everybody else."
She says she does not believe that freedom to do whatever you want with your own body is an absolute right.
"Not if in doing what you do with your body feeds into an industry which at its worst leads to the rape and sodomisation of young women and girls. Then no, it's a much more limited right. But what is an absolute right is freedom from slavery, torture and servitude."
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In January, the Rhondda Tunnel Society was given a £10,000 grant from the Welsh Government to carry out an initial "tapping survey" on the tunnel, which runs from Blaencwm to Blaengwynfi in Neath Port Talbot.
Experts began work on the 3km-long (1.8 mile) tunnel at 08:00 BST on Wednesday.
The work is expected to last two weeks.
Steve Mackey, chairman of the Rhondda Tunnel Society, said it was an "exciting day".
He said specialist works and railway contractors Hammond ECS had started in Blaengwynfi by working to remove a concrete cap so they can begin an "exploratory drill" inside the tunnel.
"The Rhondda Tunnel Society was formed in 2014 and this is probably one of the most important visible signs of [progress]," he added.
"I'm quite excited. I came here at half past seven this morning."
A tribunal found that Maggie Dewhurst, a courier with logistics firm City Sprint, should be classed as a worker rather than self-employed.
As a worker, she would be entitled to basic rights including holiday and sick pay and the national living wage.
City Sprint said it was "disappointed" and will review the ruling "in detail".
While Friday's decision will only apply to Ms Dewhurst, it highlights the working practices of the so-called "gig economy", where people are employed by companies on a job-by-job basis.
It is the first of four legal challenges being taken against courier companies, which include Addison Lee, Excel and E-Courier.
The case follows a similar ruling against the taxi-hailing service Uber in October last year, which found that drivers should be classed as workers rather than self-employed. Uber intends to appeal.
City Sprint said: "This case has demonstrated that there is still widespread confusion regarding this area of law, which is why we are calling on the government to provide better support and help for businesses across the UK who could be similarly affected."
Ms Dewhurst, 29 from South London, said: "I'm delighted that the tribunal ruled in our favour as it has set a legal and moral precedent which others can use to make similar claims."
Ms Dewhurst has been with City Sprint for the past two years, during which time the company classed her as an "independent contractor", or self-employed.
However, she claimed her role was more like that of a worker. "We spend all day being told what to do, when to do it and how to do it. We're under their control. We're not a mosaic of small businesses and that's why we deserve basic employment rights like the national minimum wage," she said.
The tribunal ruling released on Friday stated that "the claimant was a worker of the respondent [City Sprint] and... it unlawfully failed to pay her for two days' holiday".
The Employment Tribunal judge, Joanna Wade, described City Sprint's contractual arrangements as "contorted", "indecipherable" and "window-dressing".
City Sprint said it enjoyed "a good relationship with our fleet" and said that evidence given at the tribunal highlighted that it is "a good company that pays its couriers some of the best rates in the industry".
Paul Jennings, a partner at law firm Bates Wells Braithwaite which represented Ms Dewhurst, said: "Until now couriers have occupied a vulnerable position. They carry out physically demanding work, in dangerous conditions, but cannot take paid leave. In the wake of this judgement, we expect to that thousands of couriers across the capital will look to assert their rights and seek back pay."
The rebels said they had also seized two smaller towns, Sam Ouandja and Ouadda, but this could not be confirmed.
Ndele is on a major route linking the CAR to Sudan, Cameroon and Chad.
The CAR has had a series of rebellions and coups since independence in 1960.
It is rich in mineral resources, including gold and diamonds, but its population is extremely poor.
The latest conflict involves a faction of the Union of Democratic Forces for Unity (UFDR), which accuses President Francois Bozize's government of reneging on a peace accord signed in 2007.
The accord led to rebel forces being integrated into the army.
But some of the rebels have since deserted and taken up arms again.
An army source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the BBC that the rebels captured Ndele after a surprise attack.
The town was poorly defended, as a detachment of troops was leaving Ndele and had not yet been relieved by other soldiers, the source said.
The violence has forced many residents to the town, which has a population of between 15,000 and 20,000, AFP news agency reports.
The army in Ndele was backed by a former rebel movement, the Convention of Patriots for Justice and Peace (CPJP), which signed an accord with the government in 2011, AFP reports.
"The CPJP put up resistance, but they were routed by our men and forced to flee," a rebel spokesman known as Col Narkoyo told AFP.
He said the northern towns of Ouadda and Sam Ouandja were also under rebel control.
"Our forces took prisoners among FACA [army] elements at Sam Ouandja," Col Narokoyo is quoted as saying.
The BBC French Service's Ibrahima Diane says the UFDR faction has carried out several attacks in recent months, but this was its biggest offensive.
The fall of Ndele is a blow to the government, he says.
The 45-year-old has willingly gone to an unnamed centre, his management company confirmed.
The former Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur and Lazio player has battled with alcoholism since giving up football.
A recent appearance at a charity event, when he broke down sobbing on stage, sparked widespread concern.
In a statement, GamePlan Solutions said that Paul Gascoigne was an alcoholic with "complex issues", which were being dealt with by professionals.
It added: "Paul has been extremely touched and overwhelmed by the generous offers of help and support over the past few days.
"He is motivated to fully understand and control his addiction problem under guidance."
Gascoigne's drinking problems started during his playing days - he was admitted to the Priory Hospital, near Southampton, in 1998, shortly after his divorce from wife Sheryl.
Three years later, whilst playing at Everton, Gascoigne admitted himself to an alcohol rehabilitation clinic in Arizona on the insistence of his then manager Walter Smith.
In 2008, four years after retiring he was arrested in Newcastle and detained under the Mental Health Act.
He was later sectioned following reports that he was acting strangely in Hemel Hempstead.
More recently he has been treated at The Priory again and at the Providence Projects treatment centre in Bournemouth.
Located in Chipinge, a small farming town near Zimbabwe's border with Mozambique, Padera Restaurant enjoys a busy trade.
Customers flock to eat its chicken, beef or fish, served with rice or sadza (a thick cornmeal porridge), with prices ranging from between $1 (64 pence) and $2 (£1.28) a plate.
Ms Muyambo, 27, opened the cafe last year, and currently employing three people, she is about to take on more staff to keep up with demand.
In a country where the economy has now been in the doldrums for the past 15 years, and where government figures last year showed that just 376,000 people were in formal employment, you would imagine that most of Zimbabwe's 14 million population can only dream of going out for a meal.
Yet while Zimbabwe is undoubtedly impoverished, and earnings are low, a further 5.9 million people are in employment, scratching a living working informally, either for themselves, or small firms which aren't officially registered.
And eating out has never been more popular in the country, with a growing number of food outlets springing up, from roadside shacks to more formal restaurants.
Ms Muyambo says: "Competition in this sector is very stiff, but we realised that even with the economic challenges people still need to eat.
"I get at least $150 [profit] per month after deducting all expenses".
In the capital Harare, another restaurauteur enjoying good business is 41-year-old Allen Gava, who owns the eponymous Gava Restaurant.
A former fruit and vegetable wholesaler, he started in the restaurant business back in 2013 in one of Harare's more prosperous neighbourhoods.
Now employing 10 full-time and five part-time employees Mr Gava says: "We have built a solid customer base, and now have many regular customers who eat with us three or four times a week."
With dishes costing as much as $10, and a large garden for outside eating, Gava Restaurant is certainly more upmarket than most.
While Mr Gava won't reveal how much money he makes, he says that his monthly turnover is "enough to pay salaries, cover expenses, and make a profit".
Yet despite his success Mr Gava says that all restaurants in Zimbabwe continue to face a number of problems.
"It is hard to find certain supplies for the restaurant," he says.
"We are also experiencing power cuts, which affect our cooking, and we are spending more money on generator fuel."
Other Zimbabwean restaurant owners have tried to alleviate the problem of supply shortages by rearing their own animals, or growing their own vegetables.
Husband and wife team Alexander and Shumirai Mujuru are just such people.
Since 2009 they have run a fast-food outlet in Zimbabwe's rural Buhera district in the east of the country, at a transit hub for truck drivers and long-distance buses.
To ensure they have enough chickens, they rear them on a nearby farm. And they arrange to buy potatoes from local farmers.
Mr Mujuri adds: "We value good relationships with customers, and we are also hands on."
Independent economist Vince Musewe says that restaurants in Zimbabwe can generally be successful if they keep their prices down.
"Despite the hardships, people still have to eat, and you will find most food outlets sell cheap food. For $1 you can have a decent lunch."
He adds: "More people are doing their businesses on the streets, as opposed to formal employment, and these informal traders provide a ready market for cooked food."
Meanwhile a recent report by StartupBiz Zimbabwe, a private organisation which provides information on how to start and grow a business in the country, suggests that entrepreneurs are setting up food outlets because of the low start-up costs.
It estimates that while it can cost between $1,000 to $5,000 to launch a restaurant in downtown Harare, the price falls to just $200 to set up a small food stall on the outskirts of the city centre.
And while the power cuts that bedevil Zimbabwe inevitably cause restaurants big difficulties, in other ways they help restaurants, because people choose to eat out in the evening rather than sit at home in the dark.
Some consumers even find that if they go to a cheap takeaway they can spend less on food than if they were making it for themselves at home.
Nyasha Mukundi, a 29-year-old mother of two, says: "I finish work at around 6pm, and arrive home at around 7pm, and most of the days there will be no electricity at home.
"Instead I buy takeaway food everyday on my way home from work. It's cheaper too."
A security official told the AP news agency that most of the escapees were facing serious charges.
Another report said a riot had taken place inside the al-Kwafiya prison.
The jailbreak comes a day after the assassination of a prominent political activist triggered protests in the city, although it is not clear whether the two are connected.
Benghazi is one of the most unstable parts of post-revolution Libya. Last year the US ambassador and three other Americans were killed there.
On Saturday protesters attacked offices linked to the Muslim Brotherhood following the assassination of the prominent political activist Abdelsalam al-Mismari. Hundreds of mourners attended his funeral.
A security spokesman in Benghazi told the BBC that some of those who escaped from the prison had been captured but he did not specify how many.
In a news conference, the Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan said residents in the southern area of the city had stormed the prison in protest at its existence in their district.
The inmates include a small number of people thought to be supporters of Col Muammar Gaddafi, the BBC's Rana Jawad reports. The former leader was toppled and killed in an uprising in 2011.
The Gaddafi supporters had been charged with attacking security bases after the conflict, our correspondent says.
AFP news agency quoted a security official saying that there had been unrest inside the prison before the breakout.
"There was a riot inside al-Kwafiya prison, as well as an attack from outside," he said.
"Special forces called in as reinforcements were given orders not to fire at the prisoners."
The fire was reported in the lift motor room in the Sir Bobby Charlton stand at about 07:00 GMT.
Sarah Louise Feeney tweeted: "Fire at Old Trafford in South Stand ... Fire alarm going off since 7am and smoke!!!"
Firefighters were at the scene for about 90 minutes. Manchester United said there was minimal damage and no injuries.
In a statement, the club said: "A small electrical fire was identified quickly in the Sir Bobby Charlton stand around 7am today.
"The fire brigade attended and the isolated incident was dealt with quickly and effectively."
Tests on heroin seized by police since November found traces of the synthetic drug, with more than 70 further deaths pending toxicology reports, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.
Some contained carfentanyl, which is 10,000 times stronger as morphine and is often used to tranquilize elephants.
Health officials and police have warned heroin users to be "extra careful".
Most of the deaths were in the police force areas of West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, Humberside and Cleveland, the NCA said.
They were predominantly men and a range of ages, with none younger than 18.
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Fentanyl, which hit the headlines after it was linked to the death of US singer Prince, is considered to be 50 times more potent than heroin according to America's Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
While it can be legally prescribed, sometimes in the form of a patch or nasal spray, carfentanyl is only used as an anaesthetic for large animals, the NCA said.
Recent NCA investigations found that fentanyl and its analogues are being both supplied in and exported from the UK.
Fentanyl is an extremely strong painkiller, prescribed for severe chronic pain, or breakthrough pain which does not respond to regular painkillers.
It is an opioid painkiller which means it works by mimicking the body's natural painkillers, called endorphins, which block pain messages to the brain.
The risk of harm is higher if the wrong dose or strength is used.
Typical symptoms of a fentanyl overdose include slow and difficult breathing, nausea and vomiting, dizziness and increased blood pressure.
Officers have warned drug users that heroin and other class A drugs were being laced with synthetic opioids like fentanyl.
Det Supt Pat Twiggs, of West Yorkshire Police, said: "People are playing Russian roulette with their lives by taking this stuff, that's why we would strongly recommend to the drug-using community to stay away from it.
"The business is not done under lab conditions, it's not done by scientists, it's done in a very uncontrolled way by people seeking out profit - this is why we're concerned when you're dealing with such toxic chemicals."
A national alert was issued in April by Public Health England to warn medical and drugs services of the need to be vigilant.
Richard Sykes, principal analyst at West Yorkshire Analytical Services, said: "If you look at normal street heroin probably something like a quarter of a sugarcube would be a normal dose, but with carfentanyl a single grain of salt would probably be enough to kill a person, so it's extremely dangerous."
On Monday a 25-year-old man from Gwent was charged in connection with investigations into the supply of synthetic opioids.
Three men arrested in April in Leeds have also been charged.
His visit included trips to the Lincoln Memorial, the Arlington Cemetery and an address to both Houses of Congress - the first time this honour has been afforded to a Japanese leader.
And no wonder. The visit heralded a significant reinforcement of the alliance between Washington and Tokyo.
Given the continuing dramas in the Middle East, the Obama administration's signature policy shift - its pivot to Asia - is being pursued in more of a minor rather than a major key.
But regardless of the old business in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere, the pivot is continuing; preparing Washington for its role in what it set to be the Pacific century.
In this the Americans expect to have Japan at their side and Mr Abe, through both his desire to update Japan's defence posture and his economic reforms is reinforcing Japan's claim to be Washington's chief partner of choice.
This visit emphasised the crucial importance of both security and economics in the future of the Asia-Pacific region.
As important as new defence guidelines and a reinforced security partnership was further discussion of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP); a 12-nation trade deal which is very much a shared initiative between Mr Obama and Mr Abe.
Watching all this from the sidelines is of course Beijing. A victim of Japan's militarism during the past century, China views Japan's military modernisation and expanding security horizons with some concern.
China though - because of its own growing defence capabilities and regional, if not global ambitions - is very much the reference point that is prompting military reform and modernisation across the region.
It's a powerful reminder that as much as grand strategy and economics, history is also a powerful factor in the Asia-Pacific.
Japan's military reforms, most importantly the desire of the Abe government to revise constitutional provisions limiting the role of the country's so-called "self-defence" forces are very much part of this.
Japan's post-war US-drafted constitution was specifically intended to prevent a resurgence of Japanese militarism.
And tensions persist given perceptions in many countries that Japan has been insufficiently explicit in its apologies for its behaviour during World War Two.
This has prompted particularly bitter recriminations, for example, between Japan and another of Washington's key allies in the region, South Korea.
Some 70 years on from the end of World War Two Mr Abe sees these constraints on the armed forces of a democratic Japan as imposing an unnecessary exceptionalism that hampers the country's ability to defend its interests.
The important new defence guidelines agreed with Washington give Japan roles in new areas like cybersecurity and space.
But they also broaden the remit of Japan's armed forces, enabling them to operate with the US and other allies in new ways that are not restricted to the narrow and direct defence of Japanese territory itself.
Thus, Japan is on the way to becoming a more effective military ally of the US able to operate alongside it in joint missions.
It is by no means clear of course that public opinion in Japan is entirely in tune with Mr Abe's desire for constitutional change.
But the fact remains that even under the existing remit Japan has become a much more significant player in the international system.
Over the past 10 years Japanese forces have been despatched to Iraq and Kuwait.
Japanese peacekeepers have been deployed in South Sudan and Haiti and it has participated in Operation Enduring Freedom - Washington's broader counter-terrorism operation - in the Indian Ocean.
What especially worries China is Japan's own military modernisation.
It is deploying ballistic missile defences - directed in the first instance against the potential threat from North Korea's missile arsenal.
And Japan recently commissioned its largest warship since World War Two - the Izumo - described as a helicopter-carrying destroyer but potentially a small aircraft carrier.
Its chief mission - anti-submarine operations and command and control.
It is a significant reinforcement of Japan's ability to defend its interests in the East China Sea.
Disputed territorial claims have turned the tensions between China and Japan into a favourite subject for a whole genre of futuristic fiction with writers seeing this as the spark that might set off a third world war in Asia.
For the US and Japan, broader defence ties are intended to make this less likely.
But their defence relationship still begs bigger questions about Washington (and for that matter Tokyo's) strategy towards Beijing.
Is the US goal co-operation with or containment of a rising China?
Just where should the line between these two options be drawn?
And does China want harmony or hegemony?
The answers to these questions are likely to determine whether the coming Pacific century is marked by peace or conflict.
Scientists think that the giant crabs have been able to spread further south to the Antarctic for the first time because of global warming.
King crabs are known as one of the top predators of the sea floor and can have legs that are up to a metre long.
But some experts are worried they might have a damaging affect on the area as they are known for being very destructive.
Andrew Ashman was adjusting the sail of his team's boat when he was knocked unconscious. Organisers said he failed to regain consciousness, despite resuscitation attempts.
It happened about 120 nautical miles off the Portuguese coast at 00:00 local time.
Mr Ashman's death is the first fatality in the history of the race.
Mr Ashman, 49, an amateur sailor, was aboard the IchorCoal boat, which has been diverted to northern Portugal where it is expected to arrive in the early hours of Sunday.
Race organisers said Mr Ashman was struck as he adjusted the mainsheet - a rope connected to the boom - as the boat was heading south towards Brazil in the first leg of the race, which started last Sunday.
Race founder Sir Robin Knox-Johnston said: "This is extremely sad news and my heart goes out to his bereaved family and friends, and to his fellow crew who have come to know Andrew with great affection during his training and the early days of this race."
He said a full investigation had been launched.
Mr Ashman was due to take part in the Southern Ocean and USA coast-to-coast legs of the race. His next of kin have been informed of his death.
The yachtsman had enjoyed sailing since joining the London Sailing project aged 16 and he had completed his competent crew, day skipper, yachtmaster theory and coastal skipper courses.
A spokesman for Clipper Ventures said: "At this stage it looks like a tragic accident as far as we can see, but obviously there will be a full assessment.
"The skipper and crew have been very upset."
The team were in the middle of the first of 14 mini races.
The first leg of the race launched at St Katharine Docks on 30 August with teams travelling 6,000 miles to Brazil's Rio De Janeiro.
At 40,000 nautical miles, the world's longest ocean race features 700 participants over its eight stages.
Twelve teams spend a year travelling the globe, sailing from London to Brazil, South Africa, Australia, Vietnam, China, Seattle, New York via Panama and back to London at the end of July next year.
The increase covers both regulated fares, which includes season tickets, and unregulated fares, such as off-peak leisure tickets.
The rise in regulated fares had already been capped at July's Retail Prices Index inflation rate of 1.9%. Unregulated fares face no cap.
Campaigners said passengers would be disappointed by the increase.
"Passengers will now want to see the industry's investment deliver a more reliable day-to-day railway," said Anthony Smith, chief executive of the watchdog Transport Focus.
"The government should consider setting rail fare rises around the Consumer Prices Index instead to bring rail fares into line with other recognised measures of inflation."
Lizzie Green, a London commuter, said: "Given that the trains are so irregular and the delays are so often it seems like a bit of a cheeky increase."
Some unregulated fares are likely to rise by considerably more than 2.3%.
That far outstrips the inflation rate, which is currently running at 0.9%, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index.
The pace of fare increases has slowed a little in recent years, but it follows a decade's worth of steeper rises which began in 2004.
It's all because successive governments have changed the way they split the bill for running the service, so that passengers pay more and other taxpayers pay less.
About 70% of the total network cost is met from ticket sales now. It used to be about 50%.
Ministers are spending record amounts upgrading the service, which is creaking under huge demand for train travel that no-one saw coming.
But it hasn't stopped punctuality levels falling well below target.
The Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators and Network Rail, said the industry was working to simplify fares and improve services.
"We understand how passengers feel when fares go up, and we know that in some places they haven't always got the service they pay for," said Paul Plummer, chief executive of the Rail Delivery Group.
"Around 97p in every pound passengers pay goes back into running and improving services."
The overall 2.3% increase covers fares in England and Wales and Scottish policy as expected at the moment. Northern Ireland is treated separately.
Authorities in Scotland can set their own fare increases.
A Scottish government spokeswoman said: "No final decision has been taken on next year's fares in Scotland and we are looking at options before the end of the year."
She added that the government would consider a fare freeze if it could "enable us to reduce costs to passengers while still delivering our ambitious infrastructure programme".
Meanwhile, more than 84,000 passengers on Southern Rail are to receive compensation for the disruption they have experienced during 2016.
The government said the delays were caused by "Network Rail track failures, engineering works, unacceptably poor performance by the operator and the actions of the RMT union."
It has set aside £15m to pay commuters.
Season ticket holders will be able to claim a month's compensation, directly into their bank account.
To qualify, customers must have paid for at least 12 weeks of travel, between 24 April and 31 December 2016.
From 11 December passengers on Southern Rail will additionally be able to claim compensation if their train is more than 15 minutes late.
Newlands Park, off the M1, would see offices, shops and a hotel built to support the development of Luton Town's proposed Power Court stadium.
A council report said it could damage "trade, footfall and investment".
The club said there was "no evidence" the scheme would have a negative impact and concerns had been addressed.
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Gary Sweet, the Hatters' chief executive, said: "We have conducted an in-depth assessment of the impact on the town centre and our applications show there is no net impact.
"Newlands Park will be an iconic gateway development which will genuinely attract new retail into our town.
"We think it will be considered as one of the most unique and the best places to shop in the country - but it will be distinctly different to our town centre, therefore it will not replace it."
Luton Borough Council's strategic planning team report said, from a "strategic planning perspective", there were some "significant concerns" about the "potential adverse town centre impacts".
It said "significant weight" should be given to the impact on the "vitality and viability" of Luton town centre.
The proposals are yet to be considered by the council's development control planning officers who are responsible for assessing the application.
The borough council said the plans would be considered in the new year.
Luton Town identified the Power Court site, near the railway station, as the ideal location for a new stadium in December 2015.
Luton has been at its current stadium, Kenilworth Road, since 1905. It wants to move into the new ground by 2020.
The firm had said it was halting operations in Venezuela as it was unable to obtain raw materials.
But the labour minister said on Monday that the factory closure was illegal and it had re-opened "in the hands of the workers".
Kimberly-Clark, which makes hygiene products including tissues and nappies, said it had acted appropriately.
Over the weekend it became the latest multinational to close or scale back operations in the country, citing strict currency controls, a lack of raw materials and soaring inflation.
General Mills, Procter & Gamble and other corporations have reduced operations in Venezuela as the country is gripped by economic crisis and widespread shortages of basic household goods.
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Labour Minister Oswaldo Vera, from the ruling Socialist Party (PSUV), visited the factory in Maracay and said it was illegal.
Almost 1,000 workers had asked him to re-start production, he said.
Mr Vera said: "Kimberly-Clark will continue producing, now in the hands of the workers.
"We've just turned on the first engine."
The Texas-based company said in a statement: "If the Venezuelan government takes control of Kimberly-Clark facilities and operations, it will be responsible for the well-being of the workers and the physical asset, equipment and machinery in the facilities going forward."
Venezuelans cross in to Colombia to buy food
There are daily protests against shortages at the moment in Venezuela.
A growing opposition blames President Nicolas Maduro of wrecking the oil-rich economy and is seeking a referendum to remove him.
Mr Maduro has previously threatened to jail the owners of factories that have stopped production.
A private supermarket chain and an electronic goods shop have been seized in recent years after Mr Maduro accused many businessmen of conducting an economic war in collusion with the country's opposition.
With half the vote counted, President Petro Poroshenko's bloc and the party of Arseniy Yatseniuk were neck-and-neck with more than 21% of the vote each.
Both men said they expected other parties to join their coalition talks.
There was no voting in eastern areas controlled by pro-Russian separatists.
As a result, a number of parliamentary seats in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions will remain vacant, as will those for Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in March.
The separatist rebels plan to hold their own elections next Sunday.
The legislative polls were the first since pro-Russian former President, Viktor Yanukovych, was driven from power in February after he refused to sign an agreement on closer ties with the European Union.
With 50.08% of ballots for party lists counted, Mr Poroshenko's bloc - comprising his own Solidarity Party and Udar, led by former boxing champion Vitali Klitschko - had 21.45% of the vote.
But the People's Front of the president's ally, Mr Yatseniuk, was fractionally ahead with 21.61%.
Self Help, based in western Ukraine and led by Lviv mayor Andriy Sadovyi, was third with 11.1%, followed by the Opposition Bloc of Mr Yanukovych's former Energy Minister Yuri Boiko on 9.82%.
If results hold, Ukraine's parliamentary elections could potentially spell an electoral earthquake - a second revolution, only one that has taken place at the ballot box.
For the first time in country's history, a broad pro-European, pro-reform coalition seems to be in the makings.
Just as significantly, two groupings that have long dominated the political landscape appear to have been considerably weakened - the Communist Party, which for the first time may not enter parliament, and the remnants of the Party of Regions, which look set to have a much smaller role in the new legislature.
In the end, President Poroshenko may enjoy a two-thirds "super majority", with which he will be able to enact his long-promised reform programme with little resistance.
The question, then, will be what Mr Poroshenko would manage to do should such power be delivered to him.
Poroshenko's balancing act
The full party-list results expected later on Monday will cover only 225 of the 450 seats.
"More than three-quarters of voters who took part in the polls gave strong and irreversible backing to Ukraine's path to Europe," Mr Poroshenko told a news conference.
"We must create... the best government in Ukraine because no other government will cope with the challenges that the country is facing today," he added.
The president held preliminary power-sharing talks with Prime Minister Yatseniuk on Monday, Reuters news agency reported.
At a meeting with election observers, Mr Yatseniuk said: "The main task is to quickly form a pro-European coalition for carrying out agreements with the EU."
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the result was a "victory of democracy" and a pro-European agenda.
International observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe said the election had "largely upheld democratic commitments" and had "offered voters real choice".
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told RIA news agency that his country was likely to recognise the poll.
"It is very important for us that Ukraine finally will have authorities which do not fight one another, do not drag Ukraine to the West or to the East but which will deal with the real problems facing the country," he is quoted as saying.
US President Barack Obama also praised the election as "another important milestone in Ukraine's democratic development".
Turnout on Sunday was more than 52%. However, it varied widely between the east and west of the country, with some three million people in separatist-controlled areas in Donetsk and Luhansk unable to vote.
More than 900 observers from 43 countries monitored the polls.
Anger in eastern Ukraine at the overthrow of Mr Yanukovych turned to unrest with pro-Russian separatists seizing government buildings and beginning an insurgency in April.
At least 3,700 people have been killed since then, 300 of them in sporadic clashes between the Ukrainian army and separatists around the city of Donetsk since a truce was agreed on 5 September.
On Monday morning, a government-held military base in the Avdiivka area, on the outskirts of Donetsk, was hit by rockets. Shelling also disrupted vote counting in Volnovakha, 60km (40 miles) to the south.
The blast happened at about at 16:40 BST on Saturday at Plumpton Road in Hoddesdon.
A man in his 30s and another in his 40s, both from Wood Green in London, died from their injuries at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford.
Hertfordshire Police said a man had been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter by gross negligence.
A third victim, who is in his 20s, was taken to the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow but has since been discharged.
Police said the arrested man is a 40-year-old from Hoddesdon. He was also being questioned on suspicion of health and safety offences.
The fire service tweeted to say it had received "numerous calls to a building fire".
The scene remained cordoned-off on Sunday while investigations took place.
Police said the unit was currently unoccupied, but it was believed the men may have been carrying out some form of work there.
The Argentine playmaker, 23, expertly placed all three of his goals beyond visiting keeper Danijel Subasic, who had a night to forget.
Monaco's consolation came when Stephan El Shaarawy curled in from 25 yards.
But Tom Carroll's neat, close-range finish rounded off another superb display by Mauricio Pochettino's side.
Monaco were never in the contest against a Tottenham team that started without the likes of Harry Kane, Dele Alli and Christian Eriksen.
Despite the changes, Tottenham had enough firepower to extend their run of form to nine games unbeaten, with just two defeats in their last 21 matches.
Lamela was the architect with three low shots which were too good for Subasic, but the Croatia international will feel he was beaten far too easily at his near post.
Perhaps the best goal of the night was the cool finish applied by Carroll after his quick feet had left Elderson wrong-footed.
The manner of the strike was reminiscent of the type of goals regularly scored by Barcelona and Argentina forward Lionel Messi.
With qualification already secured, Pochettino took the opportunity to test the depth of his squad - and his understudies passed with aplomb against a Monaco side who knocked out Arsenal on their way to reaching the quarter-finals of last season's Champions League.
Nabil Bentaleb and Nacer Chadli continued their recoveries from injury with tidy substitute performances, while 18-year-old Joshua Onomah impressed in his first senior start.
The midfielder combined some probing passing with clever runs and he might have scored, but he opted for precision rather than power from six yards out.
South Korean forward Son Heung-Min was always a threat too on a night when Monaco, save for a 20-minute period in the second half, were outplayed.
By finishing top of their group, Tottenham avoid having to play the best teams which will drop down from the Champions League in the next round.
They are next in action on Sunday when they host Newcastle in the Premier League (16:00 GMT).
Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino: "I'm very happy, job done and first in the group. I'm proud of them and we showed we have a very strong squad.
"It's fantastic for Lamela and a great moment for him. From the start of the season he's showing improvement and consistency.
"Joshua Onomah deserved it for how he trains and develops his game. He's a great talent from the academy."
The Met Office said it was possible up to 80mm (3in) of rain could fall between 10:55 BST on Monday and 11:00 on Tuesday.
The average rainfall for the whole of June in Wales last year was just over 100mm - considered above normal.
Six flood alerts are also in place for areas close to rivers.
Natural Resources Wales issued flood alerts for those living close to the river Conwy, the rivers Loughor and Amman, the rivers Gwendraeths, river Glaslyn and river Dwyryd.
An alert has also been issued for north Gwynedd and for the whole of Anglesey.
The Met Office yellow "severe weather" alert warns there could be some disruption to transport routes and difficult driving conditions.
The runaway leaders won all eight of their league matches last month, taking them 19 points clear of nearest challengers Rangers.
It is the third time Rodgers has won the monthly prize since taking over in the summer.
Midfielder Armstrong, 24, scored five goals for the champions in December.
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The rats destroyed the puffins' nests and ate their eggs, so the puffins flew away from the island west of Wales.
But now the rats have gone and the RSPB is using a special sound system to try to get the birds to return.
The solar-powered sound system plays a recording of the puffins' call on a loop.
Nel visited Ramsey Island to find out more.
The amount showed the ex-military ruler and minister of petroleum had been living a "Spartan lifestyle", his spokesman Garba Shehu said.
The BBC's Will Ross says the assets are loose change for Nigerian politicians but a fortune for most of the country.
Mr Buhari is the first opposition candidate to win a national election.
The former military ruler was elected in March largely on a promise to tackle corruption and insecurity.
Corruption is a major problem in Africa's biggest economy and last month, Mr Buhari said that $150bn (£100bn) was missing from state coffers.
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Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, a successful lawyer and pastor at one of Nigeria's biggest churches, is considerably wealthier.
Mr Shehu said in a statement Mr Osinbajo had $1.4m (£900,000) in his bank accounts.
In his declaration of assets, Mr Osinbajo also revealed that he owned a four-bedroom residence, a three-bedroom flat, a two-bedroom flat and a two-bedroom mortgaged property in Bedford, UK.
His political career started when he was appointed commissioner of justice in Lagos state in 2007 - a position he held for eight years.
The statement did not give the value of all the assets held by the president and the vice-president, saying the documents submitted to the Code of Conduct Bureau would be made public as soon as the verification process was completed.
The leaders are also required by law to declare their assets when they left office.
Late President Umaru Yar'Adua was the first Nigerian leader to declare his assets publicly.
He was reported to be worth $5m (£3.5m) when the declaration was made in 2007.
We have long been told that Muhammadu Buhari prefers the austere life and now according to his spokesman there is evidence to back this up.
Muhammadu Buhari is no pauper. We are told he has less than $150,000 his bank account - a fortune for the vast majority of the population but probably the equivalent of loose change for many working in the dizzy world of Nigerian politics.
The law requires politicians to declare their assets to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), which has a pair of handcuffs on its website but has been fairly toothless as the agency which has been "checking corrupt practices in the Nigerian public service since 1989".
The assets do not have to be declared in public but Gen Buhari's team clearly think shining a light on his "Spartan" lifestyle will help in the anti-corruption fight.
His predecessor Goodluck Jonathan was sharply criticized for refusing to go public even though his assets were declared to the CCB.
There may well now be some jittery politicians working out how they will look when compared to a president who has even declared his mud huts and livestock.
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Manor House in Lisburn, County Antrim, was run by the Society of Irish Church Missions (ICM), an organisation with links to the Church of Ireland.
Manor House closed in 1984.
The Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry is investigating child abuse in residential institutions in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 1995.
The allegations of abuse relating to Manor House have been made by some former residents who lived at the home during periods in the 1940s, 1960s and 1970s.
They claim the abuse was perpetrated by some staff, visitors and other children at the home.
Among those alleging abuse at Manor House are two people who were sent to Australia as part of a child migrant scheme in the 1940s and 1950s.
One man, a retired company director, told the inquiry in September 2014 that he became a teenage prostitute in Australia after suffering abuse at Manor House.
Another former resident of Manor House also gave evidence to the inquiry in 2014.
He said he was tied to a rope that was attached to a brick and then tied to his bed at night so that he would not run away.
At the time, the ICM said in a statement that it disputed the claims made.
The Society for the Irish Church Missions was founded in March 1849 by an evangelical preacher from England, in a bid to convert Catholics to Protestantism across the island of Ireland.
Manor House, on Lisburn's Hillsborough Road, was bequeathed to the ICM in 1927, by Louisa Fitzgerald Stannus, a member of an aristocratic family.
The former children's home is one of 22 residential institutions across Northern Ireland that are currently under investigation by the inquiry team.
The list includes state-run children's homes, juvenile justice centres and homes run by the Catholic Church, the Church of Ireland and the UK's largest children's charity, Barnardo's.
More than 500 people have made a formal application to speak to the HIA inquiry or to share their experiences thorough its acknowledgement forum.
The inquiry's chairman, retired senior High Court judge Sir Anthony Hart, is due to submit his report to the Northern Ireland Executive by 17 January 2017.
The vase is one of four designed by William Burges in 1874 for the corners of the Summer Smoking Room, at the top of Cardiff Castle's clock tower.
Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has put a temporary export bar on the vase.
He said he hoped this would allow time for a buyer to come forward and "ensure this incredible piece by Burges remains in the UK".
He said: "The other three vases that formed this magnificent set are still in the UK and it would be fantastic to see them all reunited in an exhibition at Cardiff Castle or another of our public museums."
Mr Vaizey was recommended to defer granting an export licence until 27 August by the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest (RCEWA).
This date could be extended to 27 November if a serious intention to raise funds to purchase the vase is made.
Sir Hayden Phillips, RCEWA chairman, said: "This Burges vase is intrinsically beautiful and outstanding in its historical significance."
Alderley Edge is the kind of place where you might have thought the Conservatives could win local council seats without really trying.
The average selling price for houses here is currently around £886,000, and it's right on the edge of Chancellor George Osborne's Tatton constituency, which he retained easily in May's general election.
The Tories also eased comfortably into power the last time there was a parish council election, back in 2011.
At the time, no-one stood against the Conservatives in any of the small local authority's nine seats - meaning there was actually no need for an election after all.
This year, though, things could not have been more different.
For a start, there was actually an election. There were 18 people standing for office, instead of the usual nine.
Ballot papers had to be printed and counted, and for the first time in years the 4,600 residents of the village had a chance to go out and vote.
The opposition to the Conservatives were an intriguing set of local renegades - from a software CEO to a chutney and relish producer.
Wearing white rosettes and styling themselves "Alderley Edge First", their main selling point was that as independents they had no party to be loyal to.
The result was a resounding win, with the Tories beaten in all nine seats.
It all started a few months before the elections, says Rachael Grantham, one of the village's new independent councillors.
"We were a group of nine independent people who wanted to change how the parish council was run in the village," she said.
They decided to avoid negative campaigning. Even now she has won, Ms Grantham is adamant that the previous Conservative administration "did a pretty good job".
The new council comprises a mix of youth and experience.
Ms Grantham works in her family's food and wine business, and describes the group as "a bit of a random bunch of people".
While most parish councils do not have a huge amount of power, they do deal with issues which are important to people.
In Alderley Edge, the council is responsible for making sure litter is picked up and flowers are planted. It also represents local views on issues like planning applications and parking.
The new independent councillors share a belief that party politics have no real place when it comes to such ultra-local issues.
Ms Grantham said: "It's important that decisions are made for what's best for the village, and not really related to any party politics."
These sort of "anti-politics politicians" are now using that logic to win parish and town council seats across England.
Frome in Somerset has a town council which is made up exclusively of independent councillors, who have knocked out the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats over the last two elections.
Pippa Goldfinger is the council's deputy mayor.
She said: "A lot of us were activists and campaigners, but not members of political parties. We're more hands-on type people than tribal people. For us that's worked really well because we want to get things done, not go to endless meetings and bang gavels and argue."
For voters in Alderley Edge, the idea that party politics is largely irrelevant to local village life seemed to resonate.
Michael, who runs a dry-cleaning shop, said: "Just in Alderley Edge I don't think political parties have a bearing on things. It's about who's going to do the right sort of thing by the people."
A general anti-politician feeling plays a part too. Mark lives here and told me the new independent councillors "can express what the people here are thinking about" as the voice of "the normal everyday person".
For the Conservatives in the chancellor's back yard, all of this is something to think about.
Michael Jones runs the much larger Cheshire East Council, responsible for the majority of council services in the area.
Insisting his party will learn lessons, he said: "Perhaps people felt they weren't being listened to. Well now they must be and they will be."
And there is of course a risk for Alderley Edge in that all of its councillors are new to the job. The experience built up by the long-serving members of the old administration has now completely gone.
But as Michael in the dry-cleaning shop said: "We're yet to see whether it's going to work or not.
"But we've got to run with it and see what happens."
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The 2013 champion, seeded third, won 7-6 (9-7) 6-4 5-7 6-4 in three hours and three minutes on Centre Court.
Murray, 28, let the third set slip with a loose service game, but a Hawk-Eye challenge on a line call helped earn him the key break in the fourth.
He goes on to face unseeded Canadian Vasek Pospisil in the last eight.
There was no mystery surrounding the threat posed by 36-year-old Karlovic, who went into the match with a tournament-leading 136 aces and added another 29 to his total.
It took 62 winners, among them numerous flashing passes and a succession of winning lobs, for Murray to prevail.
"I came up with some good lobs and passing shots. I just needed to keep him low," Murray told BBC Sport.
"It was an incredibly difficult match. It was mentally tiring. Maybe not as tiring physically due to the points being so quick.
"You've always got to be ready to take your chances. It's about getting the balance right and getting through. It wasn't going to be the best tennis, it was about getting through."
The Scot had won all five of his previous matches against Karlovic and was prepared for the barrage of aces, but could not always contain his frustration as the Croat repeatedly snuffed out chances with towering serves.
From 12 break points, Murray converted twice, the crucial second coming at 3-3 in the fourth set after Hawk-Eye judged a Karlovic volley to have drifted two millimetres wide.
Murray had earlier come through a tense 56-minute opening set in which five break points and six set points disappeared before he was able to edge the tie-break.
He looked well set when he finally claimed his first break of serve early in the second set thanks to two terrific returns, and moved two sets up after an hour and a half's play.
Murray fended off a break point early in the third when he sent a Karlovic forehand back past the Croat into the open court, roaring in delight, but his hopes of a straight-set win were derailed after two break points slipped by.
With a second tie-break looming, Murray broke a string when serving at 30-30 and moments later was smashing his new racquet in frustration after two errors handed Karlovic the set.
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The International pits the best players of a game called Dota 2, created by developer Valve, against each other.
NewBee defeated rival Chinese team Vici Gaming to win the title.
The total prize money was $10.9m, with the runners-up getting $1.4m, and $4.5m distributed among the other 19 teams taking part in the tournament, which began on 18 July in Seattle.
Valve donated $1.6m of the prize money, but the rest was raised by some of the millions of people who regularly play the game.
Dota 2 is as a multiplayer online battle arena game for the PC.
Each player assumes the role of one of 107 different heroes and must work together to defend their own and destroy their rival's "ancient" - an artefact sitting in a fortress sited in one corner of the game map.
Video streams of the matches have been shared online, and Valve even ran a "newcomer" series to educate people new to the game.
In addition, some bars, pubs and gaming centres around the world held parties for people keen to see the finals in a crowd.
The final was also shown on one of the ESPN channels.
"Valve have put an awful lot of thought into packing digital sports up as actual things for people to actually follow and watch and enjoy," wrote Alice O'Connor in a blogpost on the Rock, Paper Shotgun website.
Michael O'Dell, manager of the UK's Team Dignitas, said: "This year has certainly been the banner year for e-sports, with massive tournaments in Dota, League of Legends and CS:GO (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive). And there are more to come. The scene is very vibrant right now."
Jeremy Cox is looking after his wife Roz who has been diagnosed with dementia.
"I think one of the things you've got to be aware of is, without a drug like this, what the situation is, it's desperate.
"You just go on into the final stage of being spoon-fed baby-food in a care home."
The statistics back up the human stories too.
Alzheimer's Research UK estimates that a treatment that could slow dementia progression by 25% would halve the number of people who reach the most debilitating severe form of the disease.
At the moment there is simply nothing to stop that happening.
Current medication, such as Aricept, can manage only the symptoms of dementia by helping the dying brain cells function.
The modern history of dementia research has been unbelievably bleak. More than 100 trials in the past three decades have produced just a handful of drugs that manage symptoms and nothing to stop the death of the brain.
Compare that to the phenomenal progress that had been made in heart disease or cancer.
That is why even the slightest hint of progress - for those in the mildest stage of Alzheimer's - is creating excitement.
Provisional data suggests that the drug solanezumab may slow the progression of the disease by 34%.
The implication is that the amount of cognitive decline normally seen in 18 months would take 24 months with the drug - allowing patients to spend longer in the mild phase of the degenerative disease.
Be in no doubt that it would be a hugely significant moment if such as drug was available.
However, today is not the day to jump up and down proclaiming a breakthrough in slowing the pace of Alzheimer's.
The limited data which has been released is the scientific equivalent of a poll before a general election or a trailer ahead of a movie.
It provides captivating clues, hints and teases, but nothing definitive.
Next year, when further trial results are due, we will know for certain whether solanezumab is the breakthrough everyone hopes it could be.
But even if everything goes perfectly it could take years to reach patients as the drug is licensed and approved.
It means people with Alzheimer's today are unlikely to benefit as the effect is seen only in those with the mildest stage of the disease.
The 20-year-old former Histon player has featured for the Chairboys in pre-season games against Le Havre, Brentford and Queens Park Rangers.
"Nick has taken his chance with both hands," boss Gareth Ainsworth told the club website.
"He has a real hunger to make it as a professional footballer."
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Her Majesty and former IRA commander Martin McGuinness shook hands for the first time.
The meeting between the monarch and Northern Ireland's deputy first minister took place at a charity event in Belfast on Wednesday morning.
In the afternoon she attended a Diamond Jubilee party attended by 20,000 in Stormont.
The Queen and Mr McGuinness shook hands at a private meeting and later shook hands in public.
The private meeting, in a room at the Lyric Theatre, involved a group of seven people, including Irish President Michael D Higgins and Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson.
It is understood Mr McGuinness welcomed both the Queen and the Irish president in Irish.
The deputy first minister is said to have commented on the Queen's visit to Dublin last year, and in particular her comments regarding all the victims of the Troubles.
By Mark SimpsonBBC Ireland Correspondent
Not only did the Queen and Martin McGuinness shake hands, they wore a matching colour.
Needless to say it was green. It may be a trivial point, but it spoke volumes.
The image will help Sinn Féin reach out to voters, previously reluctant to support a party linked to the IRA.
But the picture could lose them a small number of party members for whom a meeting with the British head of state is a republican step too far.
As for the Queen, it will not be the favourite moment of her 60-year reign, but it is certainly one of the most significant.
A Sinn Féin spokesman said: "He emphasised the need to acknowledge the pain of all victims of the conflict and their families."
Sinn Féin said Mr McGuinness told the Queen that their meeting was a "powerful signal that peace-building requires leadership".
Later, as the Queen left to continue her Diamond Jubilee tour of Northern Ireland, the pair shook hands again, this time in public.
As they shook hands for a second time, Mr McGuinness wished the Queen well in Irish, which translates as: "Goodbye and God bless."
When asked how it was to meet the Queen, Martin McGuinness replied "very nice."
From IRA leader to statesman
The main event had been billed as one to celebrate the role of the arts in contributing to reconciliation and peace-building and not as part of the Jubilee celebrations.
During the event, the Queen was presented with a gift of Belleek pottery to mark her Diamond Jubilee.
President Higgins said he and his wife, Sabina, had been delighted "to have the opportunity for a brief but very warm meeting" with the Queen.
He said it marked "another important step on the journey to reconciliation on this island".
The prime minister's official spokesman said the Queen's visit to the Republic of Ireland last year had "taken relations between the two countries to a new level".
The spokesperson added: "We think it is right that the Queen should meet representatives from all parts of the community."
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams said he very much welcomed the meeting between the Queen and Martin McGuinness.
Speaking to reporters in Dublin, Mr Adams said: "It brings our journey of relationship building within this island and between these islands onto a new plane."
He added: "I think the vast majority of unionists will be pleased this happened because they know it was essentially a real gesture towards their sense of identity and their sense of allegiance."
"Whatever personal feelings Martin may have, no more than myself, doesn't come into it. It was a good thing for him to do and I commend him for it," he added.
Those present at the Lyric event included the pianist Barry Douglas, poet Michael Longley and actors Adrian Dunbar and Conleth Hill.
BBC Northern Ireland's political editor Mark Devenport said the occasion at the Lyric had been specifically designed to meet Sinn Fein's sensitivities and to ensure that a ground-breaking encounter could take place.
"It is being stressed the arts event has a cross-border dimension and is not part of the Jubilee celebrations," he said.
The Queen and Prince Philip later toured Titanic Belfast, a new visitors' centre located near where the ship was built. She has also unveiled a plaque to commemorate the visit.
She enjoyed a lunch which included traditional Irish soda bread, Comber potatoes, the sweet toffee yellow man, and ice cream.
In a speech at the lunch, First Minister Peter Robinson said: "I know for many in the media, the focus has been on a handshake and a photograph, but for most people in Northern Ireland it is not about one moment of history but the opportunity to celebrate and give thanks for 60 very full years of Your Majesty's service to this nation."
At the end of the day the Queen and Prince Philip were driven through the grounds of Northern Ireland's seat of government in an open-topped vehicle.
The royal motorcade was cheered by around 20,000 people attending a party to mark the monarch's 60-year reign.
A recent report revealed that European companies were exploiting weak regulations in West Africa to export fuels with high levels of sulphur.
Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, and Cote d'Ivoire agreed on the import ban.
The UN says the move will help more than 250 million people breathe safer and cleaner air.
The sulphur particles emitted by a diesel engine are considered to be a major contributor to air pollution and are ranked by the World Health Organization (WHO) as one of the top global health risks.
It is associated with heart disease, lung cancer and respiratory problems.
In a statement, the UN environment programme says the West African group, in addition to banning the import of dirty fuels, has also agreed to upgrade the operations of their national refineries.
The upgrade, which will concern both public and privately owned refineries, is meant to boost standards in the oil produced in the five countries.
The report into Europe oil exports released in September particularly criticised the Swiss for their links to the African trade in diesel that has toxin levels illegal in Europe.
The study was by the campaign group, Public Eye, which said retailers were exploiting weak regulatory standards.
Erik Solheim, the head of UN Environment Programme, hailed the import ban.
"West Africa is sending a strong message that it is no longer accepting dirty fuels from Europe," Mr Solheim said.
"Their decision to set strict new standards for cleaner, safer fuels and advanced vehicle emission standards shows they are placing the health of their people first," he added
For a long time African countries relied on colonial-era standards, which have only been revised in recent years.
Nigeria's Environment Minister Amina Mohamed said: "For 20 years, Nigeria has not been able to address the vehicle pollution crisis due to the poor fuels we have been importing.
"Today we are taking a huge leap forward - limiting sulphur in fuels from 3,000 parts per million to 50 parts per million."
She said the move would result in major air quality benefits in Nigerian cities and would allow the country to set modern vehicle standards.
The WHO says that pollution is particularly bad in low and middle-income countries.
The FSB intelligence agency said two attempted incursions had taken place over the weekend and a Russian soldier and an FSB employee had been killed.
President Vladimir Putin vowed "further security measures" in response to Ukraine's "stupid and criminal" acts.
Ukraine's president described the accusations as "preposterous".
"Russian accusations against Ukraine of terrorism in occupied Crimea sound as preposterous and cynical as the statements of the Russian leadership about the absence of Russian troops in the Donbass [region of rebel-held eastern Ukraine]," Petro Poroshenko said.
"These fantasies are only a pretext for making more military threats against Ukraine," he added.
Russian intelligence also said it had smashed a Ukraine military intelligence network in Crimea and detained a number of people. They included a Ukrainian national named as Yevhen Panov, who is described by Russian sources as a Ukrainian military intelligence officer.
Russian state TV has been running pictures from the FSB, showing rucksacks packed with explosives. Ukrainian "saboteurs", sent by the defence ministry, were supposedly intending to use them in Crimea.
The claims of Ukrainian "terrorism" on the peninsula have sparked concern here that Moscow could respond with some kind of military action. The possibility has been discussed actively on social media, especially after President Putin's comment that he will not just "pass over" the death of two Russians.
Others suggest that the incident will be used - or was engineered, depending on your viewpoint - to scupper the complex peace process in Ukraine.
Straightaway, Mr Putin said more internationally-backed talks, due in the next few weeks, had been proved "pointless". So Russia has a reason to stall again on the Minsk peace process, maintain the unstable status quo in Ukraine and to blame Kiev for all of it.
Russia says one of those detained is Yevhen Panov. Initial reports suggest he was a former military volunteer fighting for Ukraine in the east of the country. However he has apparently more recently been associated with a charitable organisation.
Ukraine has managed to contain the Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine and, in purely military terms, it is hard to see what Ukraine has to gain by provoking its larger, much more powerful neighbour. For all the talk about rapprochements and peace in eastern Ukraine, there has been very little concrete progress. Fighting between Russian-backed separatists and the Ukrainians goes on every day.
Just two weeks before Ukraine celebrates 25 years of independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, relations between Moscow and Kiev have taken another turn for the worse.
Kiev is preparing to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Ukrainian independence on 24 August, and officials have suggested Moscow may try to disrupt the celebrations.
Russia is preparing for a parliamentary election on 18 September.
The FSB said Ukrainian forces had intended to sabotage key infrastructure in Crimea.
"The aim of this subversive activity and terrorist acts was to destabilise the socio-political situation in the region ahead of preparations and the holding of elections," the spy agency said.
It said the attempted incursions had been accompanied by "heavy fire" from Ukrainian territory, resulting in the death of the Russian soldier. The FSB employee died while trying to detain infiltrators, it said.
Bombs, ammunition and mines had been found in the area where "terrorist attacks" had been foiled, it said.
Mr Putin said there was no point in further negotiations with Ukraine and called on the US and European countries to put pressure on Kiev to change its behaviour.
About 9,000 people are reported to have been killed in the conflict in eastern Ukraine that followed the Russian annexation of Crimea.
The annexation, which was itself largely bloodless, followed a vote to secede at a referendum on self-determination on 16 March 2014 - a ballot which was not recognised internationally.
The US and European Union imposed sanctions on Moscow in response to its seizure of the territory.
He said he had campaigned to allow constituents to recall MPs and trigger by-elections, and must be held to that.
"He has now given up the label on which he was voted in," Mr Farage added.
Mr Carswell, who called a by-election when he defected to UKIP from the Tories in 2014, said one was not needed now as he was not switching parties.
The MP told BBC One's Sunday Politics: "I'm not submitting myself to the authority, to the whip of a new party. If I was doing so then quite rightly, as I did previously, I would feel obliged to trigger a by-election."
Douglas Carswell: The political maverick
Mr Carswell said he had emailed nearly 20,000 constituents on Saturday and had "a huge number of responses back", adding: "All but a handful were overwhelmingly supportive."
Asked if he would run in 2020 - the current most likely date for a general election - as a Conservative MP, he said he felt "pretty comfortable with being independent" but added: "Let's wait and see."
Referring to MEP Mr Farage's previous unsuccessful efforts to get elected to the Westminster Parliament, Mr Carswell added: "You know, there have been several by-elections where Nigel's had the opportunity to contact the electorate and those didn't always go according to plan."
The two men have had a tumultuous relationship - Mr Farage has accused Mr Carswell of working for the Conservatives and has said in the past he wanted to "get rid" of him.
Mr Farage, who resigned as party leader after last year's EU referendum result, told the BBC: "He was voted in as a UKIP candidate, and whilst he had a personal vote, it's a constituency in which UKIP is very, very strong.
"I could be wrong, but I suspect there will be a lot of very angry UKIP voters in Clacton."
He pointed to Mr Carswell's backing for recall powers to give constituents the power to call a by-election, if 20% of the electorate backed one.
"What we will do is we will take him at his word and we will now write to every house in Clacton and ask them: Do you want a by-election or not? And if more than 20% say that they do, we will then find out just how honourable Mr Carswell is."
He said he believed it was a "very good unifying day for the party" - blaming splits with Mr Carswell and his supporters for many of the stories of internal division that have hit UKIP.
His successor as leader, Paul Nuttall, told the BBC he was "disappointed" Mr Carswell was leaving "because I wanted Douglas to be part of the post-Brexit UKIP where we could move forward with a raft of domestic policies".
Mr Nuttall said the party was "not a single issue pressure group" and would now "move on to a new exciting era". He also confirmed that businessman Arron Banks - UKIP's largest donor - was "not a member of UKIP at this present moment", amid reports that Mr Banks' membership had been suspended and he was demanding £200,000 be repaid.
Mr Carswell, 45, first entered the Commons in 2005 as MP for Harwich, defeating Labour's candidate by just 920 votes. By 2010 he defeated the same opponent by 12,000 votes - although boundary changes had seen the seat renamed.
After defecting to UKIP he stood down to seek re-election in a by-election, which he won by 12,404 votes in October 2014. At the general election in 2015, he retained the seat with a 3,437 majority.
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It's a big decision for France to make at a time when there is a lot of change going on in the world of politics, with Donald Trump becoming the new president of the US not very long ago, the UK leaving the European Union (EU) and the UK holding its own general election on 8 June.
Find out more about the French election below.
There is a different system to choose a leader in France, as the country is ruled in a different way to the UK.
France has a president who is the head of state.
The president is chosen by adult voters in the country and will stay in the job for five years, before voters get the chance to choose again. A president is only allowed to stay in the job for two lots of five years - or two terms, as it's called.
Once French voters have chosen their president, they later vote for members of parliament (MPs) - called députés- to represent them.
The president appoints a prime minister, who is head of the government, and the two work closely together with the government to run the country.
To begin with, there were 11 people standing in the race to become the next president of France. Now, after a first round of voting, there are just two left for France to choose from - Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.
They both have different opinions about how the country should be run.
On 23 April, France chose between the original 11 candidates and the top two have now gone through to a second and final round of voting, which will take place on 7 May.
If one person had won more than half of the votes during the first round, they would have become the next president, but nobody won that many.
In fact, nobody has won more than half the votes to become president after the first round since the current voting system was introduced in the 1960s.
This election is unusual because for the first time in modern history, the current president of France - Francois Hollande, who belongs to the Socialist party - is not putting himself forward for a second term in the job.
Benoit Hamon was his party's candidate, but he did not win enough votes in the first round of voting to go through.
Francois Fillon was the candidate for the Socialist party's main rivals, the Republicans. But his popularity went down as he is being investigated about how some public money may have been spent, so he did not get through to the second round either.
Now, for the the first time in decades, France will choose a president who does not belong to one of the country's two main political parties.
We do not know exactly what will happen. We will have to wait to see who French voters choose on 7 May.
Once the presidential election is out of the way, voters in France will head to the polls again in June to choose the MPs they want to represent them in the National Assembly, which is part of parliament - a bit like the House of Commons in the UK.
The president will also appoint his or her prime minister and a government will be formed.
Initial advice was the Osprey's sprained ankle would require a long rest, but he will play against Scotland in Cardiff on Saturday.
Gatland said: "The medics thought that it was a three-to-five-week injury.
"But the scan came back clear and he's worked really hard. He's made a pretty miraculous recovery really."
Biggar has been "icing" his injury every two hours since the match in Dublin.
But his inclusion in the team was only confirmed after he took part in a full training session on Thursday morning.
"It was just a normal training session," added Gatland.
"He was a little bit sore yesterday so he had to get through today's training."
Gatland joked that Biggar's recovery had earned him the nickname "Lazarus" among the players - a title previously given to centre Jamie Roberts.
"He's taken that mantle now off Jamie," said Gatland.
New Zealander Gatland has named an unchanged starting line-up to face Scotland. He had contemplated changes after the poor opening against Ireland when Wales trailed 13-0 after 28 minutes.
"We debated whether we'd make some changes particularly with a six-day turnaround," he said.
"But we felt that we hadn't started well so there's an opportunity in terms of those players that started the game last weekend to make sure they start the game well this weekend.
"We could have started with some of those players on the bench, but we felt there was a chance in terms giving them another chance to go and potentially put things right."
Wales have not lost a game against Scotland under Gatland, with their last defeat coming in 2007 in Edinburgh.
The Scots have not won in Cardiff since 2002, but Gatland dismissed the notion there is a gulf between the teams.
"A lot of those matches have been very close," he said. "And in a couple of them we got out of jail.
"They look like a team that are not far away and Vern Cotter has made them hard to beat."
Two years ago Wales were 51-3 winners after Scotland's Stuart Hogg was sent off early in the first half.
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He has had six separate loan spells, including three at Crewe, and scored 12 goals in 79 matches.
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The Derry GAA star was shown a straight red card by referee Raymond Hetherington at Seaview following his clash with Crues skipper Colin Coates.
The lengthy absence of their top scorer will be a massive blow to Glenavon who are fourth in the league table.
The 32-year-old has scored 17 goals in the current Irish Premiership campaign.
"Eoin is a big player for us. There is no denying it," said Glenavon player-manager Gary Hamilton.
"We do not really have a player who runs behind defences like he does.
"Any team would miss a striker who has scored the number of goals he has.
"But we just have to get on with it and keep trying to win games of football."
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The government recommends that everyone should have at least five portions of fruit and veg a day.
But the survey shows 52 in every 100 kids don't have any veg, and 44 in 100 have no fruit on a daily basis.
What we're eating is a big issue at the moment because one in three kids in the UK is obese or overweight.
Newsround asked food expert Dr Radha to explain why it's important to eat your greens.
The US followed by China are the world's most popular destinations, followed by France and Spain.
According to the UNWTO's figures, released earlier this month, international tourism grew by 4% in 2015 generating $1.4trn ($966bn).
In comparison, global trade increased by just 2.8% in 2015 according to the World Trade Organisation.
"Tourism is today a major category of international trade in services," said UNWTO Secretary-General Taleb Rifa.
In 2015, tourism accounted for 7% of the world's total exports up from 6% in the previous year.
Tourism spending, which includes accommodation, food, entertainment, and services, has helped to offset drops in exports that have occurred as commodity prices have fallen.
"Tourism has shown a strong capacity to compensate for weaker export revenue in many commodity and oil-exporting countries," said Mr. Rifai. "Tourism is increasingly an essential component of export diversification for many emerging economies as well as several advanced ones."
Falling commodity prices have lowered the overall value of imports for many countries. According to the CPB Netherlands Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis, 2015 was the worst year for world trade since 2009.
The increase in international tourism came even as attacks at transportation hubs and on airlines raised concerns about travellers' safety.
The US and China, along with the UK were the leading sources for outbound travellers.
The number of outbound tourist from China has risen every year since 2004 with their spending increasing by 25% last year.
Mr Osborne's newspaper editorial said a so-called "end to austerity" would lead to a "loss of economic credibility".
Earlier Michael Gove, the new environment secretary, said ministers had to listen to public concern about how services are funded.
The Tories need Democratic Unionist Party support to stay in power.
The DUP is committed to lobbying for extra cash for public services in Northern Ireland and promised in its manifesto to "resist any assault" on universal benefits and to maintain the "triple lock" on pensions which Theresa May planned to scale back before the election.
It also opposes the so-called bedroom tax and wants to abolish air passenger duty and cut VAT for tourism businesses.
The Tories lost their majority after Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who based his campaign on ending austerity, defied predictions and gained 30 seats.
Former MP Gavin Barwell, who lost his marginal seat, told Panorama Labour had "tapped into" concerns about the impact of years of public sector pay freezes.
Mr Barwell has since been appointed as Mrs May's chief of staff.
Mr Osborne, who implemented deep spending cuts during his six years in the Treasury, abandoned his bid to restore government finances to a surplus by 2020 shortly before leaving office.
His deficit reduction targets have been relaxed by his successor Philip Hammond.
An editorial in the London Evening Standard, which he edits, said: "Talk of 'an end to austerity' is code for 'we're going to allow the deficit to rise, and we don't care'.
"That would risk repeating the mistakes of the past that led Britain to the point where there was, in the words of that Treasury letter, 'no money left'."
It added: "The government already has enough on its plate. A loss of economic credibility would make those problems a whole lot worse."
Mr Osborne, who was sacked as chancellor by Mrs May when she became PM, has repeatedly criticised Mrs May since the election result.
Asked on the Today programme whether the government could change course, Mr Gove said ministers had to "reflect on what the election result told us about the way that people want to see the economy managed in the future".
He said there was a need to ensure public spending was kept at a sustainable level but stressed that "we also need to take account of legitimate public concerns about ensuring that we properly fund public services in the future".
Speaking on the BBC's Daily Politics, Tory MP Dominic Grieve said austerity had been a necessity after the 2008 financial crash, but warned against it becoming "a state of semi-permanence".
He said the government should not be "chucking billions of pounds at public services" and said "turning the tap on" on public spending could undermine wealth creation.
But he added: "The question is have the limits of reasonableness been reached with the electorate."
The two people died on 2 and 3 of August at Springwater Care Home in Calverton near Nottingham.
Two women who work at the home were arrested and suspended from duty and have since been released without charge.
The home said it had brought in extra staff to continue caring for its residents.
More on this and other stories from Nottinghamshire.
Nottinghamshire Police said results from a post-mortem examination were expected next week and they continue to investigate.
A spokesman for the home said: "We are deeply shocked and distressed by these allegations.
"We are working very closely with the police while they seek to establish whether a murder took place, and we will do everything we can to support their investigation."
The three-month-old, who is yet to be named or have its sex confirmed, was born to first-time parents at Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire.
Charlotte MacDonald said the zoo was "really excited" about the birth as it was the first in 29 years at Twycross.
Diana monkeys are endangered in their native West African habitat, where they are under threat from habitat loss and hunting for bushmeat.
Dr MacDonald, director of life sciences at the zoo, said: "Mum is doing a great job rearing her baby and that is evident in the infant's active, playful and exploratory behaviour."
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Diana monkeys in 22 European zoos
13 Diana monkeys in England
5 of those are at Twycross Zoo
2 Diana monkeys in Edinburgh
The baby lives in a family group of four others, including mother De'Arly and father Manu.
De'Arly, aged 14, came to Twycross Zoo from Newquay Zoo in 2013, and Manu, aged nine, came from Paignton Zoo.
The newborn is part of the European Endangered Species Programme (EEP).
Donald Gow, studbook keeper for the Diana monkey and EEP co-ordinator, said: "The birth at Twycross is the first birth in a UK zoo in five years of a Diana monkey and this rare event is great news.
"This birth is a really important boost to the breeding programme and will help ensure the population in zoos keeps growing and stays healthy, which in turn has real significance for their conservation in the wild too."
The last baby Diana monkey to be born in the UK was at Devon's Paignton Zoo in 2011.
The 32-year-old is suing the club for in the region of £2m over disability discrimination after he was diagnosed with testicular cancer in October 2013.
The Argentine, who was released in May 2015, was giving evidence on day one of an employment tribunal on Tuesday.
He says he was left out of the team to avoid triggering a new one-year deal.
Gutierrez claims he had to start 80 games during a four-year contract signed in September 2011 in order to trigger a further year at the end of the 2014-15 season.
However, he says then temporary boss John Carver waited until he could not hit his 80-game target before starting him in the final five matches of the campaign.
In a witness statement presented to the tribunal in Birmingham, Gutierrez said: "Due to their concerns about my cancer I consider that the club then ensured that I would not be selected to start in a sufficient number of matches to trigger the option.
"In late April 2015 I was told the club may consider offering me a new playing contract but would only consider this at the end of the season.
"However, I knew by this stage the club had taken steps to ensure the automatic option in the contract was not triggered. I found it difficult to believe that they would in any event offer me a new contract."
Gutierrez, who is now at Spanish side Deportivo La Coruna, claims Newcastle's discrimination against him began in December 2013, two months after he had surgery.
He says Alan Pardew, his manager at the time, told him he did not feature in the club's future plans and that he was free to leave.
"It came as a great shock so soon after my cancer treatment," added Gutierrez, who left the room in tears at one point during the morning session, saying he was "not here for the money" but because the way he was treated by the club "was not right".
"I believe the reason for this was due to my cancer diagnosis and very recent operation to remove the tumour as I had clearly been a crucial part of Newcastle's first-team line-up to this point.
"I think they feared that my illness would mean that I could no longer play at the highest level and they considered me to be a liability rather than an asset to the club."
After further treatment in the summer of 2014 when the cancer returned, Gutierrez says he felt neglected by Newcastle.
"During my chemotherapy treatment, neither the manager, Alan Pardew, nor any club directors contacted me to see how I was feeling or to congratulate me on my recovery," he said.
"This was incredibly disappointing after everything I had done for the club."
Newcastle insist they did contact Gutierrez during his treatment.
The tribunal is expected to last for 10 days, with evidence from Pardew and Carver to follow.
Crews were called to the house in Bowydd Road, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, at 21:30 GMT on Thursday after reports of the blaze.
The man was rescued but pronounced dead at the scene.
Police and fire officers are investigating the cause of the blaze.
The 24-year-old has played 27 league matches for the Whites since joining from Aldershot in the summer.
Stevenson could feature in Saturday's trip to Woking - who lie three points and three places above Southport.
He is the third player that Southport have brought in on loan this week, with Kevin Da Veiga Monteiro and Lindon Meikle joining on Wednesday.
The length of Stevenson's loan has not been confirmed by the club.
An ABC Four Corners report showed live piglets, possums and rabbits being chased and eventually killed by dogs.
Greyhounds Australasia has begun an urgent review of animal welfare.
Industry authorities in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland have suspended more than 20 people after raids on properties last week.
They were carried out after ABC handed over its footage ahead of Monday's broadcast.
Live baiting is outlawed but some trainers believe it gives their dogs an advantage in races.
The footage was secretly filmed at training tracks in Queensland and Victoria.
Some of the video showed struggling animals being flung around a mechanical lure before being torn apart by greyhounds. One possum was spun on the lure for almost an hour.
The footage also captured trainers apparently discussing ways of disposing of unwanted dogs, which is against racing regulations.
"What we have documented is sickening, shocking and profoundly disturbing, not only because of the horrific cruelty, but because of the human behaviour that is revealed," said Lyn White from Animals Australia, which helped gather the footage.
There has been condemnation from senior figures in Australia's greyhound industry.
In a statement, Greyhounds Australasia Chief Executive Scott Parker described the footage as "appalling", and called the use of live animals "disgusting, illegal, unethical and totally rejected by the industry".
Darren Condon, the CEO of Racing Queensland, said immediate action would be taken against individuals implicated.
Peter Caillard, chair of Greyhound Racing Victoria, said the use of live bait was "abhorrent and has no place in our sport".
"Any person engaged in live baiting can expect to be disqualified and prosecuted," he said, but added that he believed the practice was not widespread, and was isolated to one private facility in Victoria.
Depending on state laws, someone convicted of animal cruelty in Australia can face a jail term of between one and five years, and a substantial fine.
The Victoria state government has announced two separate investigations into the greyhound racing industry.
Animals Australia and Animal Liberation Queensland, who also helped make the report, have called for an end to greyhound industry self-regulation.
For nine years Colbert, masquerading as a self-obsessed conservative talking head, held court on his Comedy Central show, The Colbert Report. At times his act was so convincing it was difficult to tell whether his guests were playing along or taking his over-the-top quips and opining at face value.
Now Colbert is stepping out from behind his previously ubiquitous persona and replacing late-night legend David Letterman. As US television audiences get their best look at the "real" man this week, here are five things to keep in mind.
Politics was Colbert's bread and butter on the Colbert Report. He took particular relish in meeting with - and poking fun at - some of the lesser lights in the political fixture.
During the 2008 and 2012 elections, presidential candidates of all stripes paraded onto his show. Some, such as former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, became official "friends of the show", in Colbert's words.
His Better Know a District segment featured interviews with members of Congress - many of whom seemed to have little idea what was in store for them. He coaxed California's Brad Sherman to talk like a robot, asked Florida's John Mica if he had to remove his toupee to go through airport security and combed New York's Eliot Engel's prodigious moustache.
Although new Democratic members of Congress were once advised to steer clear of the show, Colbert often boasted of a "Colbert bump" - a boost in support for politicians who made appearances. One study found Democratic candidates received a 44% boost in fundraising following a spot on the Report.
A look at Colbert's guest list for his new show reveals that, despite the change of venue, politics will still be front and centre - and, with a presidential campaign season in full swing, he'll have plenty of material.
Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush, Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders and Vice-President Joe Biden all are scheduled to appear in the first two weeks.
In 2006 Colbert delivered the monologue at the White House Correspondents Dinner - a role typically reserved for traditional comedians delivering safe, unthreatening one-liners.
Instead Colbert proceeded to skewer President George W Bush, who was seated nearby, and the entirety of the Washington press corps in attendance.
"I stand by this man, because he stands for things," Colbert said of the president. "Not only for things, he stands on things - things like aircraft carriers and rubble and recently flooded city squares. And that sends a strong message, that no matter what happens to America, she will always rebound with the most powerfully staged photo-ops in the world."
As for the press, he told them: "Here's how it works. The president makes decisions. He's the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put them through a spell check and go home."
In the days after the speech, much of establishment Washington brooded over the insults. "Colbert was not just a failure as a comedian but rude," sniffed Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen.
Colbert's fans loved him for it, however, and the moment helped cement his rise as political agitator.
"I just want to do things that scratch an itch for me," Colbert said in a recent interview with GQ magazine. "That itch is often something that feels wrong. It's wrong because it breaks convention or is unexpected or at times uncomfortable. I like that feeling."
Another thing to keep in mind as Colbert works his way through his first few weeks as Late Night host is that Colbert is a nerd at heart when it comes to the sci-fi/fantasy genre - and his guest list often reflects that.
Colbert is a passionate fan of the JRR Tolkein fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings. He reportedly can speak Quenya, the fictional language of the elves used in the book, and is well versed in Tolkien lore.
He had a cameo appearance in the film The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, taking advantage of a live video chat to ask director Peter Jackson about the genealogical differences between Mirkwood and Sindarin elves.
Colbert likes to boast that he was one of first to see the original Star Wars films - he won a ticket to a sneak preview when he was a child in South Carolina - and his love of the sci-fi saga has only grown since then.
He once ended a show with a faux light-sabre duel with Star Wars creator George Lucas and asked viewers to create Star Wars-themed videos based on footage of the show's host jumping around in front of a television green screen.
With a new Star Wars film in just a few months away, expect to see Colbert go into full geek mode as the premier approaches.
Colbert comes from a large Southern family with 10 siblings. His childhood was marred by tragedy when, at age 10, his father and two brothers were killed in an plane crash in North Carolina. He's also totally deaf in one ear due to complications from surgery to repair a perforated eardrum.
After struggling in high school, Colbert discovered a love of acting. He graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in theatre and took a job with the well-known Chicago comedy improvisation group Second City - originally to answer phones and sell souvenirs.
He worked his way onto the troupe's touring company in 1988, then headed to New York to work for several television shows before landing a job as a correspondent on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show, where his Stephen Colbert-as-right-wing-pundit character was born.
As host of the Report, he developed a cult following. A treadmill on the International Space Station is named after him, as are four animal species, including a spider native to California, the Aptostichus stephencolberti.
Despite his comedic persona, Colbert can at times play it straight. In 2010 he put his satirical persona to a more serious use, testifying before the US Congress on expanding legal rights for undocumented migrant labourers.
"I like talking about people who don't have any power," he said in a more serious moment during questioning during a testimony that was otherwise heavily satirical. "It seems like some of the least powerful people in the US are those who come to the US and do our work and don't have any rights when they're here. And then we ask them to leave."
Like his White House Correspondents Association speech, his testimony received mixed reviews - with some conservative critics saying it demeaned the proceedings.
Throughout the course of his nine-year show, Colbert often led drives to raise money for US veterans. He spent a week broadcasting his show from Iraq and began his visit by having his head shaved under orders by President Barack Obama.
In May Colbert made headlines when he donated more than $800,000 - raised from the sale of his Colbert Report desk - to fund every public school teacher request from South Carolina made on the crowd-funding site DonorsChoose.org.
Colbert is also a devout Catholic and teaches Sunday school at his local church. Some of the rare times he seemed to break out of character on the Report were when the topic turned to faith.
In an NPR interview in 2007, he explained how he answered a question from his son about the meaning of hell.
"Well, if God is love, then hell is the absence of God's love," he said. "And, can you imagine how great it is to be loved? Can you imagine how great it is to be loved fully? … And imagine if you knew that was a possibility, and then that was taken from you, and you knew that you would never be loved. Well that's hell - to be alone, and know what you've lost."
The Galloway Mountain Rescue team received the emergency call at about 22:00 on Wednesday.
The group from the Doncaster area, who got into difficulties while descending the summit of the popular Buchan Hill, was airlifted to safety at midnight.
One of the group, a 56-year-old man, suffered an asthma attack.
The Resolve scheme is less than two years old.
It is thought to be the first of its kind to emerge that is linked to the loyalist paramilitary organisation.
Criminal Justice Inspection's Brendan McGuigan said the scheme was making a useful contribution.
"It is very significant in the sense that it is the first of the schemes to come forward with links from the UDA constituency," he said.
"Community-based restorative justice schemes have been operating now for approximately 16 to 17 years, but have only been formally accredited over the last nine years."
"Some of them are from republican backgrounds, others are from loyalist backgrounds, but mainly the UVF (Ulster Volunteer Force) constituency as opposed to the UDA."
Among the 428,211 vehicles recalled on Friday are the Chevrolet Cruze, Silverado and GMC Sierra.
Problems in the vehicles' air bag mechanism risk shooting pieces of metal into the cabin or keeping the air bags from deploying, the company warned.
In 2014, GM has issued 48 separate recalls for 20 million vehicles total.
"The inflator in the driver's front air bag may rupture and/or the air bag may not inflate during air bag deployment," the company wrote in a statement listing the models and model years subject to the recall.
"A rupture could propel metal pieces of the inflator into the vehicle cabin, possibly striking and seriously injuring the driver or other vehicle occupants. Additionally, if the inflator does not inflate the air bag, there is an increased risk of injury to the driver."
The company said it was aware of one injury stemming from the issue.
Other issues cited in the four recalls announced on Friday include a transfer case failure which could allow a vehicle to lose all power to its wheels while in motion.
On 16 June, GM announced it would recall 3.16 million cars in the US because of ignition switch problems.
Earlier this month, an additional 500,000 Chevrolet Camaro cars were recalled after GM found fault with the ignition system.
In March, 2.6 million cars were also recalled because of a faulty ignition switch.
Earlier in June, the company raised its expected second-quarter charge for recall expenses to $700m (£411m), up from $400m.
In May, the company was fined $35m for failing to address defects which have been linked to 13 deaths.
GM has now recalled nearly 20 million vehicles in the US this year - more than the carmaker sold in 2013.
Previous recalls have involved possibly faulty seat belts, transmissions and air bags, as well as potential fire issues.
The company has set up a website where consumers can check if their vehicles have been recalled.
The proposed "Leisure Hall" development will include a new cinema, restaurants, bowling and indoor golf.
Joint owners British Land said the new 330,000 sq ft (27,800 sq m) facility was a "significant" step in improving the centre's "leisure provision".
A planning application is due to be submitted this year.
British Land said the proposal will mean Meadowhall can provide "dining and entertainment experiences not currently available at the centre".
Centre director Darren Pearce said the extension will be housed beneath a glazed, lattice roof "four times the size" of the roof at King's Cross railway station.
"This is a very exciting era for Meadowhall," he said.
"This is more than it cost to build Meadowhall in the first place so it's a massive commitment by investors to the region."
A public consultation is due to be held on 3 and 4 June at the shopping centre.
If the plans are approved work on the new leisure hall is expected to begin in 2018 with a view to opening in late 2020.
Meadowhall opened in 1990 at a cost of £250m.
Last year, British Land announced it was investing £50m in refurbishing areas of the existing site. It co-owns the site with Norwegian investment fund, Norges.
More than 12,300 rounds of ammunition were also handed in, as well as World War One weapons.
The surrender started at 07:00 GMT on 10 November and lasted two weeks.
Those surrendering firearms did not face prosecution for illegal possession and could remain anonymous.
All weapons and ammunition were forensically checked for evidence.
Weapons with antique value will go to museums and the rest will be destroyed.
Det Ch Insp Gary Bruce said: "The surrender has led to a significant number of lethal-barrelled weapons and ammunition being taken off the streets, preventing them from falling into the hands of criminals, in particular gang members, and helping to further reduce gun crime in the capital."
Last year 300 firearms were seized.
Retired church pastor Henry Clarke, 75, admitted he had abused three boys at Northern Ireland care homes, including Billy Brown in 1968.
Mr Clarke, who now lives in Canada, confessed his crimes to police in 1985, but has never been prosecuted.
Mr Brown said he had gone "through hell" since the abuse, and called for Clarke to prove his remorse is genuine.
Prosecutors in Northern Ireland are considering a review of the case after they said police had not provided them with "significant evidence concerning serious offences".
"You've admitted it - just jump on the plane and come home yourself, face the music, come and face me," Mr Brown told BBC Radio Ulster's The Stephen Nolan Show.
"I'm not hiding from him any more, I'm not scared."
Henry Clarke first came to the attention of police in 1982, when the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) started an inquiry into sex abuse at the notorious Kincora boys' home in Belfast.
Some of the teenagers who had been abused at Kincora had come from Bawnmore home in Newtownabbey, County Antrim, where they said they had also been abused.
Belfast man Mr Brown was 12 years old and in care when he was abused by Clarke, who had invited him to his family home, introduced him to his parents and then abused him while he slept.
Mr Brown, now 61, said he was "angry" with Northern Ireland's Public Prosecution Service (PPS) and the police for their failure to bring his abuser to justice.
He said: "Why was I left in the dark all them years, going through alcoholism, taking drugs, trying to kill myself?
"He shouldn't have been able to leave this country to get to Canada.
"I want him prosecuted - if others have got jailed, why not him?"
After carrying out his abuse in Northern Ireland, Clarke later moved to Canada, but returned on a family holiday in 1985.
He was taken in for questioning by police and admitted abusing two boys.
In spite of his confession, the then director of public prosecutions ordered "no prosecution".
That, prosecutors said, was because too much time had elapsed between the offences and the confession.
When he returned to Canada, he wrote a letter to police in which he admitted sexually touching another child in in 1968, 17 years before his confession.
The RUC decided not to tell prosecutors, given the previous decision not to mount a case against Clarke.
The PPS has now requested that the chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) provides information linked to Clarke.
Questions have been raised over why the RUC did not alert Canadian authorities to Clarke's history of abuse.
For years, he continued to live his life in Canada without anyone in authority knowing about his confessions.
In a statement to the BBC, the PSNI said it contacted Canadian police in 2016 to inform them that Clarke was "an alleged abuser at a children's home".
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Stanford, 27, the 2013 world champion, won in 59 minutes 49 seconds, seven seconds in front of Stimpson with Bermuda's Flora Duffy coming third.
Jonathan Brownlee, who needed medical help after coming third in the previous event in Australia earlier this month, came second in the men's race.
Spain's Fernando Alarza won in 54:12, five seconds ahead of Briton Brownlee.
Both events consisted of a 750m swim, 20km cycle and 5km run, with Britain's Vicky Holland finishing sixth in the women's competition.
Duffy is now the overall points leader with Stimpson second. Helen Jenkins, who did not race in Cape Town, was third and Stanford eighth.
Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee was absent because of illness and his brother Jonathan revealed he had contemplated withdrawing from the race as well.
He missed the medal ceremony after stage two on Australia's Gold Coast because he was receiving medical treatment for heat stroke, but was able to compete again in South Africa.
"For the last two weeks I've felt terrible," Jonathan Brownlee told BBC Sport. "Since the Gold Coast I was not sure I would start.
"It's not a victory but from where I was two weeks ago it's a big improvement. I knew I wouldn't be able to run a fast 5km."
Brownlee's silver medal takes him up to third in the rankings, behind Spanish duo Mario Mola and Alarza, who is now second overall. Fellow Briton Adam Bowden finished 16th.
This was the third of nine World Series events and the next one will be held in Yokohama, Japan on 14 and 15 May.
The party seemed set to carry on when Boreham's Danny Woodards headed Zaine Francis-Angol's dangerous cross into his own net.
The Wood's renowned fighting spirit from last season, however, kicked in on the stroke of half-time when Ricky Shakes nodded Angelo Balanta's cross past Rhys Taylor.
Luke Garrard's men continued their momentum into the second half and from Balanta's ball, Kane Smith's awkward looking header sailed in to hand the away side the lead.
But Fylde substitutes Jonny Smith and Henry Jones combined well for the former to level the scores and earn his side a point.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, AFC Fylde 2, Boreham Wood 2.
Second Half ends, AFC Fylde 2, Boreham Wood 2.
Andy Bond (AFC Fylde) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! AFC Fylde 2, Boreham Wood 2. (AFC Fylde).
Substitution, Boreham Wood. Bruno Andrade replaces Dan Woodards.
Substitution, AFC Fylde. Henry Jones replaces James Hardy.
Substitution, AFC Fylde. replaces Josh Ezewele.
Goal! AFC Fylde 1, Boreham Wood 2. Kane Smith (Boreham Wood).
Second Half begins AFC Fylde 1, Boreham Wood 1.
First Half ends, AFC Fylde 1, Boreham Wood 1.
Goal! AFC Fylde 1, Boreham Wood 1. Ricky Shakes (Boreham Wood).
Jordan Tunnicliffe (AFC Fylde) is shown the yellow card.
Own Goal by Dan Woodards, Boreham Wood. AFC Fylde 1, Boreham Wood 0.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Most of those in the group drive tankers of petrol, diesel or kerosene to and from Maiduguri - the city at the heart of the Islamist insurgency in the north-east and the capital of Borno state.
Gathered at the Ogere Trailer Park, about 50km (30 miles) north of Lagos, they say they have all been affected by the six-year conflict.
"We are all concerned about the situation, we have all lost relatives, wives and children are kidnapped and houses have been burnt," says Atiku Abubakar.
Speaking in Hausa, he and his colleagues describe the perils of the route to and from Lagos.
It takes two and a half days when a tanker is empty and four and a half days when full.
They say it is dangerous enough without the militants to contend with as there are so many potholes.
"Ten of my colleagues who ply this route have been killed in the last three weeks," says Mr Abubakar.
"The militants stopped them and cut off their heads with an electric chainsaw and burned the trucks," he says.
"Boko Haram is usually only interested in commandeering smaller vehicles, sometimes the fighters will take the lorries, but most of the time they burn them."
Another truck driver chips in to say that if a driver looks "powerful" he may be kidnapped and conscripted as a fighter, but anyone looking "weak" will definitely "lose his head".
"If you reach Damaturu by five in the afternoon, you dare not continue on the final leg to Maiduguri," he says, explaining that a driver may not manage the last 130km before the sun sets, when they would be most vulnerable to attack.
The drivers tend to work for an owner who has about 20 tankers - each vehicle also has about two assistants to help with loading and guarding the cargo, known as motor boys.
As the drivers and motor boys ease into the conversation they begin to open up about how the insurgency has directly affected them.
Driver Trap Bukar says he was in the town of Bama when it was captured by Boko Haram last September.
"It started early in the morning. Suddenly they came. There was shooting, in my presence I saw four people go down; the soldiers fled," he says.
He lifts up his shirt to show what look like bullet scars on his upper torso
"I could tell you many unhappy tales," he says, with tears in his eyes.
But he suddenly gets up and leaves the group and his colleagues say he is too traumatised by his memories to continue.
Kullima Ali, 18, who has been a motor boy for four years, says he is now his family's only bread winner.
He says it is very difficult to tell the militants from soldiers, as they dress in camouflage - with only their eyes visible.
"They stole some food, killed my two brothers and burned our house in Maiduguri in January 2013," he says.
"There's only my mother and my sister now."
He says he had wanted to go and study science, but he is unable to afford to continue his education.
"Many of the drivers have good qualifications," says Umar Hussaini, 18, a motor boy who helps his driver brother.
He introduces me to Ibrahim Abdullahi, 25, a former university student who had been studying civil engineering at the start of insurgency.
He has been working as a trucker for the last five years as there are few other employment opportunities for young men, especially in the areas affected by the conflict.
"Yes I am scared, if there was other work I would find another job," says Mr Abdullahi.
All the truckers express anger about the six-week postponement of the 14 February presidential election and are vocal in their criticism of President Goodluck Jonathan's handling of the conflict.
Some even refer to him as "the chairman of Boko Haram" - seeing him as complicit in the group's growth over the years.
Others say his complicity lies in his neglect of north-east.
"President Jonathan is just as guilty as those Boko Haram killers because he has chopped off all the money to repair the roads," Mr Abubakar says.
Life is now a constant financial struggle for them, he adds.
For each trip, a driver gets a 10,000 naira ($50, £33) living allowance but this might have to last for several weeks as he waits at Ogere Trailer Park for clearance to go into Lagos port to collect cargo.
Most of the truckers get a monthly salary of between $100 and $200 and the motor boys receive $2.50 a day.
Saleh Mohamed, a driver who has just arrived back from Lagos port with his shipment of petrol, sits down with the group under the porch looking exhausted.
"I spent four days in the queue in the traffic to the port - I haven't slept for four nights because I had to watch out for thieves as they remove parts from the vehicle or steal the gas," he says.
But he is only taking a short break of a couple of hours as he is anxious to put the coming dangers behind him.
"The killings are too much and have been going on for too long," says his colleague Mr Abubakar.
"President Jonathan is not doing anything. We hope he will leave - we want change."
She has been in hospital since 22 September, and anxiety about her health has grown in the absence of clear information about her condition.
Her party, the AIADMK, which forms the state government, recently announced that she had transferred all her portfolios to her deputy OP Panneerselvam, who has stood in for her in the past. However, it was made very clear that she would remain chief minister.
So how then does her cabinet meet in her absence?
They seem to have found a neat workaround - a photograph. An official picture released by the state government shows Mr Panneerselvam at a cabinet meeting with a framed photograph of Ms Jayalalitha prominently placed before him. And it's not just cabinet meetings that the photograph is attending. It is also present at review meetings of several ministries.
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Mr Panneerselvam stood in for the chief minister on two occasions while she was in jail on corruption charges, but he has always taken great pains to show he is not replacing her.
He made it a point to never sit on her chair, because he felt she still "occupied" it. He preferred, instead, to conduct his meetings while sitting on a chair at the other end of the table.
But the photograph is a new addition.
``Our culture is such. For AIADMK people whenever or whatever we do we will do in the presence of the honourable chief minister's photograph. Then we feel she is with us. We feel we are making decisions in her presence. There is nothing wrong in keeping her photograph at the cabinet meeting. She is the chief minister,'' party spokesperson Saraswathi told BBC Hindi's Imran Qureshi.
Comedian and actor TM Karthik says this could be one way the state government is responding to the constant clamour for pictures of Ms Jayalalitha as "proof" that she is well.
He says that the next move would be to release her most famous "pictures" - alluding to some of the more celebrated films she has acted in - every Friday.
"Why do they keep the chief's pictures in their meetings? Well, a picture can speak a thousand words, slightly less than what the real would," he said.
Not everyone finds the development amusing though.
"This is sycophancy at its worst. I have never seen or heard of anything like this in a cabinet meeting in my career,'' political analyst, G Satyamoorty, told BBC Hindi. ``What they are saying is that we are sworn into office in the name of Amma and not the Constitution,'' he added.
Tamil Nadu's main opposition party, the DMK, has said the gesture shows the state government feels that "one person is more important than the people of the state". "It's certainly degrading to the self-respecting politics of this state but also the ethos of the Constitution of our country,'' said Manuraj Shanmugham, a spokesperson for the party.
The Last Night of the Proms event, which is now in its 14th year, will bring together artists from Northern Ireland and around the world.
They will be performing alongside the Ulster Orchestra in a programme that combines classical and contemporary music, as well as a few surprises.
Almost 11,000 free tickets will be allocated in a random draw after the 15 July closing date for applications.
Outside of the Royal Albert Hall, Last Night of the Proms events will also take place on the same night in Glasgow, Swansea and London's Hyde Park.
BBC Proms in the Park in Northern Ireland will be hosted by Noel Thompson and Claire McCollum.
It will be broadcast live on BBC Radio Ulster and streamed online. Highlights programmes will be recorded for both BBC NI and BBC Four for later transmission.
Peter Johnston, BBC Northern Ireland director, said: "This is one of the most ambitious outside broadcasts and events we undertake each year, with demand for tickets always exceeding supply.
"BBC audiences at the event and those watching and listening at home can expect a very special evening - showcasing local and international talent and celebrating the very best in music-making."
The event is being supported by Belfast City Council.
Deputy Lord Mayor Alderman Guy Spence said it promised to be "another memorable occasion".
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Having won the 2005 World title and 2008 UK crown, Murphy stays on course for a career 'triple crown', after making two breaks of 103 to advance.
He will meet Mark Allen who beat Joe Perry 6-4 earlier in the day.
"For long periods of that match, it was embarrassing," Allen told BBC Sport. "I just could not get anything going.
"I was delivering the cue so badly."
Allen went 3-1 ahead, before England's Perry made breaks of 50, 68 and 67 to make it 4-4. But Northern Irishman Allen made a break of 55 and then clinched the 10th to progress.
Allen went through into his second Masters semi-final but will have to improve significantly if he is to trouble Murphy.
Scotland's Maguire opened with breaks of 137 and 67, before Murphy responded with 103 as he levelled at 2-2.
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Oliveira struck a fine first-half opener into the bottom corner.
City wasted numerous chances before the Portuguese striker headed number two in the second half, soon after the Rams had Jacob Butterfield sent off for a lunge on Wes Hoolahan.
Oliveira then struck a third to seal City's third win in 13 league games.
The visitors started well enough, with Matej Vydra sending a free-kick just wide.
But the Canaries dominated from the moment Oliveira surged through to hit the first goal on 14 minutes after Derby's Bradley Johnson was guilty of a sloppy pass against his former club.
Alexander Tettey hit the post with a 20-yard shot and Steven Naismith wasted three great chances to extend the lead, notably when he blazed a shot over from six yards - and Rams keeper Scott Carson made several fine saves.
With Hoolahan dictating play in midfield, opportunities continued to come for the home side, and they ensured a precious win which takes them up to ninth place after Butterfield's dismissal.
A deserved second arrived when former Nottingham Forest frontman Oliveira was left unmarked to head in, and he grabbed his 11th goal of the season two minutes later.
The Rams remain seventh, but would have climbed into the play-off spots with a victory.
Norwich City manager Alex Neil:
"It was an excellent performance, but it was in keeping with his general play for us in recent games.
"He (Oliveira) took time to settle after we brought him in, but he has been doing really well for the team since he got a run in the side.
"They were three really well-taken goals. And he could have scored four or five more, he really could.
"It's not a surprise to me. I knew what a good player I was getting when I bought him from Benfica. He has played 25-odd games for Portugal alongside Cristiano Ronaldo and people like that, so everyone here knows what he is capable of."
Derby county manager Steve McClaren:
"I think the referee got it wrong and we will be looking at an appeal. Butterfield's feet were not off the ground and he got a little bit of the ball. He also caught the player as well and because of that he falls down.
"I think the reaction of the player (Wes Hoolahan) and the crowd, which I can understand, played a part in it.
"That was a big turning point, for me it was all about the sending off. We were up against a very good Norwich side, who have got one of the best squads in this division, and it was always going to be very difficult for us when we went down to 10.
"It was a disappointing afternoon for us, but we were unbeaten in 10 and that run was always going to come to an end at some stage.
"What we have got to do now is dust ourselves down and go another run like that. We have got some big games coming up, West Brom in the FA Cup and Leeds in the league and we have got to make sure we are ready for those."
Match ends, Norwich City 3, Derby County 0.
Second Half ends, Norwich City 3, Derby County 0.
Substitution, Norwich City. Alex Pritchard replaces Steven Naismith.
Substitution, Norwich City. Cameron Jerome replaces Nélson Oliveira.
Attempt missed. Martin Olsson (Norwich City) header from the left side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Wes Hoolahan with a cross.
Attempt saved. Steven Naismith (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jacob Murphy.
Attempt blocked. Andreas Weimann (Derby County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Chris Baird.
Attempt saved. Darren Bent (Derby County) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Andreas Weimann with a through ball.
Attempt missed. Wes Hoolahan (Norwich City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Offside, Derby County. Bradley Johnson tries a through ball, but Andreas Weimann is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Wes Hoolahan (Norwich City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ivo Pinto.
Substitution, Derby County. Darren Bent replaces Tom Ince.
Attempt missed. Jacob Murphy (Norwich City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Wes Hoolahan with a through ball.
Ivo Pinto (Norwich City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ivo Pinto (Norwich City).
Andreas Weimann (Derby County) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Goal! Norwich City 3, Derby County 0. Nélson Oliveira (Norwich City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner following a corner.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by Scott Carson.
Attempt saved. Steven Naismith (Norwich City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Wes Hoolahan with a through ball.
Goal! Norwich City 2, Derby County 0. Nélson Oliveira (Norwich City) header from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Jonny Howson with a headed pass following a corner.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by Scott Carson.
Attempt saved. Wes Hoolahan (Norwich City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jonny Howson.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by Jamie Hanson.
Nélson Oliveira (Norwich City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jamie Hanson (Derby County).
Offside, Derby County. Matej Vydra tries a through ball, but Andreas Weimann is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Jacob Murphy (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Martin Olsson (Norwich City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Steven Naismith.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by Richard Keogh.
Attempt missed. Jacob Murphy (Norwich City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Scott Carson (Derby County) is shown the yellow card.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Wes Hoolahan (Norwich City) because of an injury.
Jacob Butterfield (Derby County) is shown the red card.
Wes Hoolahan (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jacob Butterfield (Derby County).
Steven Naismith (Norwich City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jamie Hanson (Derby County).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
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Northern California could receive up to 15in (38.1cm) of rain over the next 16 days, with parts of the Sierra Nevada mountains getting up to 24in of snow.
The El Nino system, a warming trend in the Pacific Ocean, is expected to spur extraordinary weather across the US in the coming weeks and months.
The phenomenon is prompting warnings of flash floods and mud flows.
Light rain began falling across the region on Monday, but stronger storms are expected to hit the area on Tuesday, with at least two more systems expected on Wednesday and Thursday.
Much of the area in the storms path has fallen victim to wildfires in recent years, making the heavy rains more hazardous. After wildfires destroy vegetation, there is an increased risk of landslides and mudslides along sloped areas.
The concerns are shared in southern California, where wet conditions could put communities in the Los Angeles area at risk of flooding and susceptible to debris and mud flows. Between two and three-and-a-half inches of rain are expected through Friday in southern California.
Across the state, officials are issuing warnings for the storms and telling residents to clear gutters and anything that could hinder the flow of storm drains. Efforts are under way to shelter homeless people.
El Nino systems form every two to seven years when the warm waters of the central Pacific ocean expand towards South and North America. The current El Nino is the strongest since 1998 and is expected to be in the top three most powerful episodes ever recorded.
In recent weeks, the system has generated unusual weather across the US with unseasonably high temperatures in the northeast, uncommon winter tornados in the south, and a deluge of snow across the west.
The El Nino system has also generated intense flooding across South America, with Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil experiencing the worst flooding in 50 years, resulting the evacuation of more than 150,000 people.
In many ways the soggy deluge may bring some welcome relief.
California has been struggling with a four-year drought that has forced officials to enact a contentious water-savings plan. Residents have missed savings targets for at least two months in a row.
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Halloween started as a Celtic festival called Samhain, when Celts thought the barrier between our world and the spirit world was at its thinnest.
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The rate was higher than the 8.5% rise measured in May, according to the new House Price Index, and brought the cost of an average home to £213,927.
The fastest growth was in the Western Isles, while the biggest fall was in Aberdeen, where prices dropped 6.8%.
Prices also fell significantly in Kensington and Chelsea (-6.2%) and other parts of West London.
The new "experimental" index comprises figures collated by the Office for National Statistics from data supplied by Land Registry, Registers of Scotland, Land and Property Services, Northern Ireland and the Valuation Office Agency.
It includes cash sales and new-build houses, which together make up more than a third of the market.
The figures do not fully reflect any impact of the result of the vote to leave the EU, which was declared on 24 June.
Last week, a survey of housing surveyors suggested that prices were now falling in London, East Anglia, the North of England and the West Midlands.
The survey from Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) said house price inflation had slowed in July.
However, Rics predicted that the rate of house price growth would recover over the next 12 months.
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The occupier arrived home in the early hours to find the smoke alarm going off at the property in Bailey Road, Cowley.
Crews said flames were visible at the bedroom window of the house and the whole floor was full of smoke when they arrived shortly after 01:20 BST.
Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue said the family was being supported by the Red Cross. No-one is believed to have been hurt.
A review by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which also looked at employment, housing, pay, and criminal justice, found an "alarming picture".
Black graduates earn on average 23.1% less than white ones, and more ethnic minorities are unemployed, it found.
The government said it was committed to "delivering real social reform".
David Isaac, the commission's chairman, said the report reveals a "very worrying combination of a post-Brexit rise in hate crime and long-term systemic unfairness and race inequality".
"We must redouble our efforts to tackle race inequality urgently or risk the divisions in our society growing and racial tensions increasing," he warned.
"If you are black or an ethnic minority in modern Britain, it can often still feel like you're living in a different world, never mind being part of a one nation society."
It underlines "just how entrenched and far-reaching race inequality remains", he said.
The commission, which carried out an analysis of existing evidence, said:
Poorer white communities also face "continuing disadvantage", the report added.
The commission acknowledged there had been progress in some areas, citing an increase in the number of ethnic minority MPs and a rise in the proportion with a degree-level qualification across all ethnic groups.
But Mr Isaac said the government's strategy in recent years has been "piecemeal and stuttering".
He called for the government to introduce a comprehensive race equality plan "to build a fair society in which our origins do not determine our destinies".
The commission recommended that responsibility for the strategy be brought under one secretary of state.
New targets to improve opportunities and outcomes for ethnic minority communities should be introduced, it added.
The government said "real progress" was being made - with black and ethnic minority employment rates at their highest levels for 15 years.
"But there is clearly more to do, which is why we are delivering a comprehensive race equality programme on employment, university places, apprenticeships, start-up loans and recruitment to the police and armed forces," a spokeswoman added.
They were found about 50m (164ft) up the cliff face near Balintore in Easter Ross after one of them turned on a torch on her mobile phone.
Invergordon lifeboat and coastguard personnel directed a search and rescue helicopter to the girls.
They were winched to safety on board the helicopter and flown to Balintore.
The two friends were believed to have been on a walk to a place called The Well of Good Health, known locally as The Wellie.
Emergency services were alerted to the incident just before 21:00 and the rescue was wound up by 22:40.
A coastguard helicopter was involved in the rescue operation.
The suspect, reportedly a 13-year-old boy, has been arrested but may not face charges because of his age.
The teacher killed was protecting a colleague during the incident at the Instituto Joan Fuster, reports say.
Four other people were wounded. Police have not confirmed the weapon used and there is no indication of his motive.
The boy was said to have arrived late for a class on Monday morning and wounded a Spanish language teacher and her daughter, who was also a student.
Hearing screams, a male teacher covering as a substitute for a colleague entered the classroom and was fatally wounded when the boy attacked him.
A police spokesman could not confirm whether he had been fatally wounded by the boy's knife or his makeshift crossbow.
The man had only begun working at the school in recent weeks.
Students at the school said the crossbow had been fashioned out of wood and ballpoint pens and that the boy had thrown it into a rubbish bin before running off.
According to Spanish media, the pupil had spoken of killing all his teachers last week, and had a list of 25 names, but his schoolmates had dismissed his comments as a joke.
Spain's ANPE teachers union says it is the first documented case of a pupil killing a teacher in the country.
If the attacker is confirmed as a 13-year-old, he would not face charges as the age of criminal responsibility in Spain is 14.
The Mayor of Barcelona, Xavier Trias, tweeted that he was appalled by the incident and has pledged his support for those affected.
The four people wounded in the attack, two teachers and two teenagers, were not badly hurt.
Andrew Keenan, 28, of Bewicke Road, Wallsend, was found at his home before being taken to hospital in Cramlington, Northumberland.
His death is being treated as "unexplained", but police said he may have been attacked in Gladstone Street on 31 July.
Martyn Richard Burke, 27, of Bewicke Road, Wallsend has been charged with murder.
Katie McGuire, 30, of the same street, has been charged with perverting the course of justice and producing cannabis.
He said it would be a test of whether warring parties were committed to allowing in humanitarian supplies.
Among the areas due to receive aid is the town of Madaya, where people have been dying of starvation.
World powers last week agreed to seek a nationwide "cessation of hostilities" and to accelerate and expand aid deliveries.
The seven areas named by the UN are:
"It is the duty of the government of Syria to want to reach every Syrian person wherever they are and allow the UN to bring humanitarian aid," Mr de Mistura said after talks in Damascus on Tuesday.
"Tomorrow we test this."
The Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad earlier approved humanitarian access to seven areas which are besieged, either by government troops or rebel groups.
The areas are those deemed by the 17-member International Syria Support Group to be most in need of relief.
Almost half a million people live in besieged areas, according to the UN.
The cessation of hostilities - which does not apply to jihadist groups - is due to come into force later this week.
But President Assad has cast doubts on the move, warning it would be "difficult" to implement and would not mean all parties would stop using weapons.
Government forces, backed by Russian air power, have been advancing in the north towards Syria's biggest city and commercial centre, Aleppo. They are on the brink of encircling the rebel-held east of the city.
Earlier this week, a series of rocket attacks on several hospitals and schools in areas close to Aleppo killed up to 50 people.
Save the Children said seven healthcare facilities were hit - more than was previously reported.
Turkey has blamed Russia for the strikes, which the UN has said could constitute war crimes.
Russia said it "categorically rejects" accusations of war crimes. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the BBC that the only proof Russia would accept from the ground "comes from the Syrian authorities".
The men, from Rochdale and Oldham, "groomed" girls, one as young as 13.
Liverpool Crown Court heard the men plied their victims with drink and drugs so they could "pass them around" and use them for sex.
The case, involving Asian defendants and white victims, sparked protests by far-right groups but police insist the grooming was not "racially motivated".
The offences which centred on Heywood included rape, trafficking girls for sex and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child.
Two of the defendants on trial, Qamar Shazad and Liaquat Shah both of Rochdale, were acquitted and walked free from court.
The court was told that the abuse, which began in 2008, took place at two takeaways in the town involving a group of men aged between 24 and 59. The takeaways are now under new management.
A failed police investigation in 2008 allowed the abuse to go undetected for another two years.
The oldest defendant, a 59-year-old man from Oldham was found guilty on all counts but cannot be identified for legal reasons.
Some of the girls were beaten and forced to have sex with "several men in a day, several times a week", the jury was told.
One teenager told the jury she was forced to have sex with 20 men in one night.
Another recalled being raped by two men while she was "so drunk she was vomiting over the side of the bed".
Police said the victims were from "chaotic", "council estate" backgrounds. The girls were targeted in "honeypot locations" where young people were seen to congregate, such as outside takeaways.
Rachel Smith, for the prosecution, told the jury: "No child should be exploited as these girls say they were."
In court, many of the defendants argued that they were not aware the girls were underage.
But Senior Investigating Officer Det Insp Mike Sanderson said this was no defence.
"What we are dealing with here is the deliberate targeting of young, vulnerable girls by a group of older and in most cases much older men who simply saw them as 'fair game'.
"They preyed on the fact that the young girls were extremely vulnerable and impressionable."
Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of of the Ramadhan Foundation, accused Pakistani community elders of "burying their heads in the sand" on the issue of on-street grooming.
"There is a significant problem for the British Pakistani community," he said.
"There should be no silence in addressing the issue of race as this is central to the actions of these criminals.
"They think that white teenage girls are worthless and can be abused without a second thought; it is this sort of behaviour that is bringing shame on our community."
But Assistant Chief Constable Steve Heywood of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) denied that the ethnicity of either the defendants or the victims was a factor.
"It is not a racial issue," he said. "This is about adults preying on vulnerable young children.
"It just happens that in this particular area and time the demographics were that these were Asian men."
It was also revealed in court that a 15-year-old victim who became pregnant by one of the defendants went to the police in August 2008.
After the verdicts, GMP and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) apologised for failing to bring her case to trial following her cry for help.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is spearheading an investigation into that failed inquiry.
It can also now be reported that the trial was delayed by two weeks when two Asian barristers quit saying they had been intimidated outside Liverpool Crown Court.
All those convicted were found guilty of conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with girls under the age of 16.
A 59-year-old Oldham man - who cannot be identified for legal reasons - was convicted of two rapes, aiding and abetting rape, sexual assault and trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation.
If accepted, it would mean proposals allowing those living in remote areas to demand broadband were unnecessary.
In a letter to Culture Secretary Karen Bradley, Scottish ministers said the deal put at risk plans to have superfast broadband in all properties.
Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing suggested a working group be set up.
This would be to consider the proposals and related issues.
About 1.4 million households currently cannot get speeds above 10Mbps, according to Ofcom.
The UK government is consulting on plans for a Universal Service Obligation (USO) which gives homes and businesses in so-called "white areas", where there is no existing infrastructure, the right to request a high-speed connection.
The Scottish government said it had been engaging with potential suppliers who might want to bid for contracts to provide broadband to the so-called "final few".
The Scottish government's R100 programme aims to deliver speeds of up to 30Mbps to all properties in Scotland by 2021.
Mr Ewing's letter said: "The emerging USO proposal risks undermining that engagement by apparently concluding that it will not be commercially viable for any provider other than BT to deliver in white areas.
"What has emerged as a result risks entrenching, even extending, BT's monopoly position in rural areas and could deter alternative suppliers from bidding for R100 contracts.
"That would be a hugely negative outcome and one that would serve to undermine and frustrate the Scottish government's digital ambitions."
Rural campaigners have argued that the higher speed is necessary to future-proof the infrastructure as more people stream TV programmes and use multiple devices.
Mr Ewing added: "It is arguable whether a 10Mbps connection could be defined as a high-speed connection today, let alone in 2020. It will certainly not be high-speed in 2023 or in 2028 when any speed uplift is implemented."
Speaking last week, Culture Secretary Karen Bradley said: "The government is taking action to ensure that people everywhere in the UK can get a decent broadband connection as soon as possible.
"We warmly welcome BT's offer and now will look at whether this or a regulatory approach works better for homes and businesses.
"Whichever of the two approaches we go with in the end, the driving force behind our decision-making will be making sure we get the best deal for consumers."
Leighton James, a photographer in Bristol, said: "It's something I have never seen before and thought it looked quite amazing."
A halo around the moon appears when a thin layer of cirrus cloud - which is very high and made up of ice crystals - moves across the moonlit sky.
Refraction of the light by the ice crystals causes the halo to form.
Mr James said he saw it from Bishopston at 23:00 BST and it grew in size as the night went on.
Several photos were taken and shared on social media.
Will Belcher, in Wiltshire, described it on Twitter as a "pretty decent moon halo", while Les Knowles in Cheltenham called it "amazing".
Dowager Countess Bathurst, who lives in Cirencester, said it was "stunning".
Ian Fergusson, BBC Weather forecaster for the West of England, who also snapped a picture from Somerset, said 22 degree lunar halos are caused by the same reason as solar ones.
The girl, who cannot be named, admitted possessing "recipes for explosives" and a bomb making guide.
Her arrest in April followed an investigation by the North West Counter Terrorism Unit.
The inquiry also led to the arrest of a boy, 14, from Blackburn who has admitted involvement in a plot to attack police in Australia.
The girl, from Manchester, admitted two counts of possessing a document containing information of a kind likely to be of use to a person preparing or committing an act of terrorism.
She was accused of having a copy of bomb-making guide the Anarchist Cookbook.
She will be sentenced in October.
The move to axe PCSOs will be discussed at the next Management Board meeting.
The proposal comes at a time when the force is planning savings of at least £800m by 2019.
The Met said all PCSOs who could be affected have been informed. Labour said the move would be the "nail in the coffin" for neighbourhood policing.
The three options to be presented to senior officers are axing 1,017 PCSO posts, retaining 629 dedicated ward PCSOs to leave the equivalent of one in each London ward or keeping the existing structure.
PCSOs funded by other organisations, such as Transport for London, and PCSOs who work in Aviation Security (SO18) are not under threat.
Cdr Lucy D'Orsi, who is leading the neighbourhood policing project, said: "Like local communities we very much value PCSOs and their role in community engagement. They have been an integral part of the Safer Neighbourhoods model from the start.
"However, the financial pressures we are facing mean that we have a duty to consider all options available in order to meet those challenges and to ensure we deliver a quality policing service to London's communities."
Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has previously said there were "hard choices" to be made over whether the number of PCSOs could be maintained.
PCSOs were introduced in London in 2002 to provide increased police presence and to enable regular police officers to make more effective use of their specialist skills tackling crime.
They are not police officers, but are civilian members of police staff who have different powers to police officers.
Until a few years ago there were three PCSOs in every ward in every borough in London, but that was reduced in a shake-up of neighbourhood policing initiated by Sir Bernard.
Labour London Assembly member Joanne McCartney said: "Axing all of London's PCSOs would be the final nail in the coffin for neighbourhood policing and mean far fewer officers on the beat in our communities acting as the eyes and ears of the Met."
Stephen Greenhalgh, deputy mayor for policing and crime, said no decision had been made, but he suggested losing all neighbourhood PCSOs would be a step too far.
"The case for any change would have to be made powerfully, alongside a public consultation.
"It is likely that tough choices will need to be made, and we are aware that the Met are considering ways in which they can balance the books and manage possible reductions in their budget beyond 2016," he said.
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) said PCSOs were crucial in developing and maintaining trust and were more representative of the capital's population than police officers.
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: "We don't believe this is in the best interests of Londoners and we are calling on the Met to halt the plans and allow for proper negotiations around the alternatives."Met considers scrapping 1,000 PCSOs
Source: Met Police
I remember the excitement at getting my first polling card and trotting down to vote at my village hall in Rutland.
Joy was immediately followed by disappointment at being turned away because I was too young to vote and the polling card was a blunder.
On the TV at that time was a BBC drama called The Brothers - a tale of sibling rivalry in a haulage company.
Fast forward to today and I have found a 2016 version in Nottingham where the plot centres around the EU referendum.
Two brothers, each with their own haulage business, divided by a footbridge over the ring road and divided by their views on whether to leave or remain members.
Nigel Baxter is heading the East Midlands' Vote Leave campaign for the Business for Britain group which represents small and medium sized companies.
The family firm, RH Commercial Vehicles, was set up by his father 46 years ago.
For a time he and one of his younger brothers, Ian, worked there.
Ian Baxter recently set up a new company, Baxter Freight, which organises 30,000 lorry shipments a year, mostly around Europe.
Nigel is fed up with a European Union which he says hinders business and jobs because they are handcuffed to rules and regulations.
For him, who employs 80 people over three sites in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire, too much control has been given away to the EU and too much money. More than £1bn a year he says, from the East Midlands alone.
"I don't believe the EU now is fit for purpose, it's not what we signed up for and over time has become a redundant organisation in many respects," he said.
But his brother, although admittedly a bit of a euro sceptic, believes it is better to stay a member.
Ian, who employs 60 people and has expansion plans, said being outside the EU would damage business and their customers. New customs controls at EU borders would, he believes, really cost them in time and money.
"The fact is it'll be a drag on growth, it will definitely affect our ability to employ more people in this city," he said.
"It's definitely damaging to our business and that of our customers, more importantly."
Despite their rivalry over Europe, unlike the 1970s soap opera, these brothers still get on well and can laugh about their differences over the dinner table.
The big future test for the Conservatives, now the prime minister has promised MPs and members of the government they can say what they really think, is how they get on when the issue is finally settled.
In 1975, the Labour government went down a similar road of having members such as Tony Benn and Roy Jenkins arguing against each other over Europe.
In the end Labour splintered. Roy Jenkins left to form the SDP and the party were out of power until 1997. Will this be another lesson from history?
Rumours and reports appeared during the one-day international against Ireland, with people writing and talking about him in the past tense while he was on public display. It was humiliating for someone who, regardless of what you think of him as a coach, is a thoroughly good man.
There is supposed to be a new regime in place at the England and Wales Cricket Board, a new start after a year that has seen the public become increasingly disillusioned with the game and the manner in which it is run.
Instead, in the past few weeks, we have had confusion about a possible recall for batsman Kevin Pietersen,West Indies being called mediocre with no apology and potentially a very serious rift developing between Yorkshire and England. Now the coach has been sacked, with the news appearing widely in the media before he was told.
The administration really needs to take a long, hard look at itself and make a determined effort to improve its public relations. A few years ago, the ECB was being held up as the sporting organisation for others to look at and learn from.
At the moment, what is going on, including the various comments from the incoming chairman Colin Graves, is embarrassing. England and the game in this country appear to be no further on from the post-Ashes mess in which Moores arrived a year ago. We are back to where we started, with ill-feeling, rancour and misjudged comments. This was supposed to be a fresh start.
I feel sorry for Moores because he has worked tirelessly to make his second attempt at the job a success. Ultimately the results have not been good enough, with the defeat in the third Test in the Caribbean one too many.
Moores is a good coach - the fact he has won the County Championship with both Sussex and Lancashire tells us that - but there is a general feeling around the game that he has not cut it at this level. He has never played international cricket; that is not a pre-requisite for the coach of a national team, but in his case it has, perhaps, proved to be a disadvantage.
His final mistake came on that tour of the Caribbean. With a little more adventure, England could have won the series.
A different attack, including either the spin of Adil Rashid or pace of Liam Plunkett, might have won the first Test in Antigua, meaning England would have had a 2-0 lead before their final slide in Barbados. Moores must take his share of the blame for the conservative selection policy.
Captain Alastair Cook would have also been involved in that, but he had a relatively good tour and his position looks safe until the Ashes, when he will need to have a good series.
The decision to remove Moores seems to have been taken by the new director of cricket Andrew Strauss. How that appeared in the public domain before Strauss had even started his job is more than just careless. And it is no way to treat an employee and a decent man.
Still, it goes some way to disproving those who think Strauss is too cautious to take the job. Removing the coach before you've got your feet under the table is certainly not an act of caution.
Strauss is instinctively measured and careful. We still know little about the responsibilities of his role, so it is hard to judge how successful he will be - is he to become a selector, for example?
However, what we do know now is that one of his first duties will be to appoint a new coach.
Jason Gillespie appears to be the favourite: a man who has done an excellent job at Yorkshire with some very good players. However taking over a struggling international team very low on confidence would be a different proposition and a huge challenge.
The options of where to look for the new coach are limited because the most talented leaders in the game - the likes of former New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming and ex-India and South Africa coach Gary Kirsten - are happy working in the various Twenty20 leagues and are not willing to exchange a massive pay cut for a constant slog around the world. People forget that this was a major issue when Moores was appointed for the second time - there was a dearth of high-quality candidates.
A year on, England find themselves in the same position. If they really believe Moores is not the man, it is not too late to remove him before the huge summer ahead. Better now than with an Ashes crisis looming.
But, once again, there is nothing to admire about the handling of the situation.
In a rare interview, he told AFP news agency that defeating the groups ranged against him could take some time due to the involvement of regional powers.
World powers have agreed to push for a cessation of hostilities in a week's time.
The UN says it hopes to start delivering aid to some besieged areas in Syria within the next 24 hours.
Mr Assad expressed support for peace talks but said negotiations did not mean "we stop fighting terrorism".
More than 250,000 people have been killed and some 11 million displaced in almost five years of fighting in Syria.
Some Syrian cities have been cut off from humanitarian aid for over a year because of fighting. About 13.5 million people are in need of aid, the UN says.
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Mr Assad was speaking in Damascus on Thursday, ahead of the deal on the cessation of hostilities that was agreed in Munich late on Thursday night.
In a wide-ranging interview, President Assad spoke about:
He said government forces would try to retake all of Syria "without any hesitation", but that the involvement of regional powers meant that "the solution will take a long time and will incur a heavy price".
Syrian government forces, backed by Russian air strikes, have almost encircled rebels in parts of the northern city of Aleppo and cut off their main supply route from the Turkish border.
Mr Assad told AFP that if all rebel supply routes from Turkey, Jordan and Iraq were cut, the country's "problem" could be solved in less than a year.
Mr Assad rejected recent accusations by the UN that his government was guilty of war crimes.
Earlier this month, UN human rights investigators said the Syrian government had carried out a state policy of extermination against thousands of detainees.
In a report for the UN Human Rights Council, they accused the Syrian government of crimes against humanity. The report also said government and rebel forces had committed possible war crimes.
But Mr Assad called the accusations "politicised" and said the investigators had provided no evidence.
Tentative peace talks were held in Geneva earlier this month and have been "paused" until 25 February.
Mr Assad said he "fully believed in negotiations and in political action since the beginning of the crisis."
"However, if we negotiate, it does not mean that we stop fighting terrorism. The two tracks are inevitable in Syria," he said.
He also told AFP he believed there was a risk that Saudi Arabia and Turkey, which both back Syrian rebel forces, would intervene militarily in Syria.
Tens of thousands of people have fled the fighting around Aleppo, raising fears of a humanitarian crisis.
Many have headed to the Turkish border but have not been allowed to cross. Instead, Turkey says it will support the refugees on the Syrian side of the border.
Both Turkey and the European Union fear those displaced could add to the hundreds of thousands making the often perilous journey to Europe to seek asylum.
Mr Assad said European governments had caused the migration crisis "by giving cover to terrorists in the beginning and through sanctions imposed on Syria".
"I would like to ask every person who left Syria to come back," he said. "They would ask 'why should I come back? Has terrorism stopped?'."
Meanwhile, a new UN task force set up to co-ordinate aid distributions is expected to convene in Geneva later on Friday.
"The UN system has been geared to deliver this aid all along, especially to besieged areas, and that's precisely what's going to be discussed today: how to start, and when to start," UN spokesman Ahmad Fawzi said.
"We hope to start as early as tomorrow, immediately after the meeting, decisions will be taken to roll the aid in, especially to besieged areas that need it", he added.
Riad Hijab, co-ordinator of Syria's main opposition bloc, told the BBC's Newsnight programme that to announce a cessation of hostilities before making progress in the political process "is not realistic, objective or logical".
"It only satisfies the Russian demand to preserve gains by Russian and Iranian forces through their scorched-earth policy against rebels in territories under their control," he said.
Why is there a war in Syria?
Anti-government protests developed into a civil war that, four years on, has ground to a stalemate, with the Assad government, Islamic State, an array of Syrian rebels and Kurdish fighters all holding territory.
Who is fighting whom?
Government forces concentrated in Damascus and the centre and west of Syria are fighting the jihadists of Islamic State and al-Nusra Front, as well as less numerous so-called "moderate" rebel groups, who are strongest in the north and east. These groups are also battling each other.
How has the world reacted?
Iran, Russia and Lebanon's Hezbollah movement are propping up the Alawite-led Assad government, while Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar back the more moderate Sunni-dominated opposition, along with the US, UK and France. Hezbollah and Iran are believed to have troops and officers on the ground, while a Western-led coalition and Russia are carrying out air strikes.
They had to start by retrieving the bodies of comrades killed by bombs planted inside the building by militants from so-called Islamic State (IS).
"We cannot proceed deep inside the city centre. You can wander about this area and this street leading to the local market because they have been cleaned up," our escort, Cpl Arafa Mohammed, of the elite Counter Terrorism Services, warned me and the cameraman.
Booby-traps are one of the weapons of choice for the extremists, who want to carve out large parts of Iraq and Syria for a caliphate based on their unyielding jihadist doctrines. We saw dozens of elements of exploded ordnance by the side of almost every road we went through.
"If you offered the most experienced engineers in the Iraqi army $1bn, they would not still risk their lives and enter many districts. Nothing is more dangerous than this," said Cpl Mohammed as he drove us through Ramadi in an armoured vehicle.
He then stopped to show us on the roadside at least 20 petrol cans filled with explosives, which he said had been left in homes by IS militants.
"They are criminals," he said. "We have never ever seen or experienced such brutal and destructive tactics before. Entire districts are infested with explosives."
I visited Ramadi in the years before it was taken over by IS fighters in May 2015.
This time, I hardly recognised its main streets. Nearly every structure I saw was destroyed and almost 90% of the city, the heartland of Iraq's Sunni Arab community, is currently deserted.
Many roads have become impassable and clogged with damaged vehicles and are littered with debris.
We were told that all bridges in the city were destroyed. Had it not been for a temporary bridge constructed by the military, we would not have been able to cross into the city centre.
Air strikes by the US-led multinational coalition against IS positions and shelling by Iraqi government forces since the start of an operation to retake the capital of Anbar province have contributed to the widespread destruction.
However, coalition spokesman Col Steve Warren told the BBC that he believed the IS group was "responsible for 100% of the damage in Ramadi".
"Not a single bomb would have dropped if the group had not occupied Ramadi," he added.
"Our analysis indicates that approximately 20% of the damage in the city can be attributed to coalition strikes. The remaining 80% of the destruction was deliberately caused by the IS group.
"We have seen them dig tunnels under homes that cause the homes to collapse. They break holes into walls so they can easily move from house to house. They have rigged entire houses to become IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices).
"Iraqi forces have reported to us that they have found IEDs in refrigerators and even in copies of the Holy Koran. [IS] deliberately scorched the earth in Ramadi."
The fatigue from seven months of fighting IS militants was evident on the face of Ragi Hamad, another member of the US-trained Counter Terrorism Service.
He was completely exhausted. The CTS commandos, he said, should not be doing the work of regular army soldiers.
"We are fed up with them," he fumed. "They cannot do anything without us.
"You remember what happened in Mosul? We are supposed to take part in special operations such as freeing hostages or arresting terrorists, but not to liberate entire cities."
He was referring to the army's defeat by IS jihadists in Mosul in June 2014, which shocked many Iraqis.
For Mr Hamad and every visitor to Ramadi since its recapture, the scale of destruction is unbelievable.
"The entire stockpile of US rockets is not enough to bomb the houses booby-trapped by [IS]," Mr Hamad said with a big grin on his face.
The United Nations says the destruction in Ramadi is as bad as anything it has seen in Iraq.
"It's hard to imagine the damage that has been done to this city," the UN development programme's resident representative, Lise Grande, told me by email.
"We're extremely worried about the booby-traps that have been laid throughout Ramadi. Removing IEDs is the biggest obstacle preventing families from returning in safety and dignity to their homes in Ramadi."
The Shia-led government's plan to rebuild Ramadi and win back the hearts and minds of its disgruntled Sunni locals also faces another obstacle - but this one financial.
Plummeting global oil prices have sent Iraq's economy into a tailspin.
"The destruction is massive. But we are resolved with the help of Anbar residents to rebuild Ramadi," Anbar Governor Sohib al-Rawi said.
Refusing to give an estimate of how costly the process would be, Mr Rawi noted: "The local councils do not have the necessary funds, but they can seek donations especially from the well-to-do residents of Ramadi."
A few bulldozers and bin lorries joined the governor's convoy from Baghdad to Ramadi, but many more will be required to remove the rubble there.
"We pledge to the people of Ramadi that we will try our hardest to get them back again safely to their areas to help rebuild this precious piece of Iraq," Mr Rawi said enthusiastically.
Hundreds of thousands of Ramadi residents fled for their lives amid intense fighting between government forces and IS militants and allied Sunni tribesmen.
Most of them live today in camps on the edges of Baghdad. They are angry, frustrated and exhausted.
Um Haqqi and her family of five have been living in a temporary shelter made of metal sheets and canvas for seven months.
"Why they are leaving us this long in tents? Our children have become sick, diseases are widespread, especially scabies. We can't wait until we return home."
Now Ramadi is lying in pieces, her son Ali Jasim, 46, who lost his leg in an explosion while trying to flee the city, is worried about when and if their home city will be rebuilt.
"If politicians are responsible for the return to our homes then mark my words we will never return. Only God can save us," he says.
Sally Burton donated the book - complete with the Hollywood star's handwritten notes - to Dyffryn Lower School's library.
Professor Hywel Francis, of Swansea University, presented it on her behalf.
It came after this year's annual Richard Burton lecture by historian Prof Angela John, about how teachers have nurtured the town's acting talent.
Speaking at the school, she said: "John Gielgud said that Burton came from nowhere. He didn't come from nowhere. He came from an extremely rich cultural background in Port Talbot - the town of stars and steel, and the actors' capital of Wales."
She also pointed to Port Talbot's influence on screen stars Michael Sheen and Anthony Hopkins.
Burton - who was born Richard Walter Jenkins in Pontrhydyfen, Neath Port Talbot - died in 1984, aged 58.
His career on stage and screen saw him win Bafta, Golden Globe and Tony Awards, with seven Academy Award nominations.
Swansea University's Richard Burton Centre organises the annual lecture, with this year's event coming 90 years since the actor's birth.
More than half of 850 staff surveyed by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) agreed more pupils had developed problems.
On Monday, the ATL's annual conference will debate a call for more support for vulnerable pupils in schools.
General secretary Dr Mary Bousted blamed "poverty, poor housing, unemployment and financial insecurity".
School staff have had to "plug the gaps in social care as best they can", said Dr Bousted.
Some 861 ATL members responded to the survey earlier this month.
More than one in six said they believed at least a quarter of students in their school or college were affected by mental health problems.
Almost 90% said staff have had to provide more support for these pupils over the past two years, while 43% said they had been finding it harder to access services for pupils with mental illness.
One head of department at a Reading secondary school said local Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services were "completely overwhelmed".
"Unless there is significant risk of harm to either the child or others, there is pretty much no point in contacting them."
Almost two-thirds (59%) said their school did not devote enough time and resources to mental health issues.
Only 9% felt they had been given enough training to help them spot the signs of mental illness in pupils, 45% said training had been inadequate and 32% said they had received no training at all.
The conference motion calls on the union to lobby the government, after the election, for more investment in measures including havens for vulnerable pupils and better funding for specialist staff.
Proposer Bella Hewes, a special needs teacher from Oxford, said the expertise to support pupils' mental health was "just not there".
"Where are the school nurses? Where are the school counsellors? Where are the expert social workers who have the time and resilience to support families in crisis? They have been made redundant!"
Some 91% of respondents said it was important to make children aware of the issues surrounding mental illness, with better personal, social and health education to combat stigma.
"It comes as no surprise that so many education professionals are feeling so utterly let down on all sides when it comes to support for children's and young adults' mental health," said Dr Bousted.
Cuts to services had left pupils "dangerously at risk", she added.
Lucie Russell, campaigns director of the charity Young Minds, said the survey demonstrated the "huge burden" teachers were under.
"Having to manage a growing crisis in young people's mental health and decreasing access to expert support makes their jobs so much harder."
Ms Russell promised the charity would hold the next government to account to ensure Department of Health proposals to overhaul children's mental health services were implemented.
Following the publication of a taskforce report earlier this month, the coalition government announced a five-year plan to improve services.
The move followed the allocation of £1.25bn to mental health services in England which will mainly go towards helping young people.
Packed with families from a middle class that has, roughly after the turn of the century, fallen in love with the automobile and the open road, the expressway food plaza hints at the restless energy of emerging India - a constant search for new destinations and experiences.
The dosa, a popular rice pancake, usually crispy brown on one side, white on the other, is itself a traveller.
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It originated in south India but with growing internal migration, is now known nationwide.
India's great restlessness has forced the birth of hundreds of dosa varieties, more than this article can record.
Of these, few dosas signify the modern middle-class Indian's food choices and the national proclivity to marry culinary cultures - although the Chinese, if they knew, might instantly request a divorce - than the "Schezwan dosa".
Relations between the world's two most populous countries are scrappy at the best of times, and the most generous way to describe Indian-Chinese relations would be suspicious incomprehension.
Yet, the ubiquitous presence of the Schezwan dosa across India reveals an aspect of Chinese culture that Indians have enthusiastically adopted, albeit in a form no self-respecting Chinese would recognise, such as the word "Schezwan".
"Schezwan" is a corruption of "Sichuan", a Chinese province that lends its name to a style of cooking known for the use of hot peppers - or chillies, as we call them.
Indians take enthusiastically to any cuisine that uses chillies, and in our restless search for new flavours - especially after a tide of growth, sparked by economic reforms in the 1990s - a home-grown, bright-orange "Schezwan (also spelt Shezuan)" sauce seeped rapidly into not just Indian street food but posh restaurants and home kitchens.
No one really knows how Schezwan sauce and the dosa met, but of that meeting there are myriad manifestations, such as the Schezwan butter dosa, the Schezwan masala dosa, and the Schezwan noodle dosa.
In the expanding universe of the Schezwan dosa, nothing is as bizarre - and popular - as the Schezwan chopsuey dosa.
It incorporates all the ingredients I mentioned and then some: a dosa stuffed with butter, spicy vegetables and noodles, tossed in a sweet-sharp Schezuan sauce.
"Take the typical potato stuffing out of the masala dosa and replace it with a tongue-tickling Schezuan chopsuey," writes food diva for the middle-class, Tarla Dalal, on her website, "and there you have a unique snack that is both filling and tasty. With noodles and colourful veggies, this dosa's stuffing is quite sumptuous (sic) too."
As you travel across India, you will also find (on the western, or Konkan, coast) Konkan-Chinese with a preponderance of coconut; Telugu-Chinese which is laced with super-spicy chillies from the southeast; and paneer (or cottage-cheese) heavy Sino-Ludhianvi.
Food writer Vir Sanghi says that no one from China would recognise any of these culinary digressions as Chinese, but he offers this justification: "No Indian would eat the so-called Balti rubbish that British call Indian food in the Midlands."
Chinese cuisine - or, a vague idea of it - may top the food-fusion list of Indians, but as incomes, enthusiasm and the desire to experiment grow, no national culinary tradition that is strong on spice is safe.
In a country where those who suspect even a hint of blandness in food call for raw green chillies as compensation - hard as it might be to conceive today, Indians never knew of the chilly until the Portuguese ferried it over during the 16th Century - cuisines that use strong spices are favoured but not necessarily.
So, Indians are latching on to Thai, Mexican, Indonesian, Malay and Italian food, the last being a particularly good example of how cuisines that appear inherently alien are forcibly subsumed.
Multinational food chains know better than to ignore the spice imperative.
So McDonald's has a best-selling, spiced vegetarian Mac Aloo Tikki (potato patty) burger, Pizza Hut offers a "curry crust" flavoured with coriander, cardamom and fenugreek and Dominos has a "southern chilly chicken" topping.
Newer, wilder interpretations of foreign fusions include spiced chicken tikkas wrapped in tortillas (with tandoori salad and garlic aioli), samosas - savoury puffs - stuffed with pizza, and Punjabi butter chicken gravy stuffed into a bao, a Chinese steamed bun.
The extent of experimentation appears to - anecdotally - correlate with disposable income.
The rich may enjoy those fancy tortillas and baos, but the middle-classes are still content with the wonders of the Schezwan dosa.
The poor may appear to have few choices, but street carts with cheap "gobhi (cauliflower) manchurian" proliferate in the dustiest small towns.
When they do trade cycles for scooters, the first thing they will do is ride out for a Schezwan dosa.
Samar Halarnkar is the editor of Indiaspend.org and a food writer who runs the blog marriedmaninthekitchen.tumblr.com.
The data is stored on a supercomputer at the headquarters of the DGSE intelligence service, the paper says.
The operation is "outside the law, and beyond any proper supervision", Le Monde says.
Other French intelligence agencies allegedly access the data secretly.
It is not clear however whether the DGSE surveillance goes as far as Prism. So far French officials have not commented on Le Monde's allegations.
The DGSE allegedly analyses the "metadata" - not the contents of e-mails and other communications, but the data revealing who is speaking to whom, when and where.
Connections inside France and between France and other countries are all monitored, Le Monde reports.
The paper alleges the data is being stored on three basement floors of the DGSE building in Paris. The secret service is the French equivalent of Britain's MI6.
The operation is designed, say experts, to uncover terrorist cells. But the scale of it means that "anyone can be spied on, any time", Le Monde says.
There is a continuing international furore over revelations that the US has been systematically seizing vast amounts of phone and web data.
The French government has sharply criticised the US spying, which allegedly included eavesdropping on official EU communications.
The scale of surveillance by America's National Security Agency (NSA) emerged from classified intelligence documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The UK spy agency GCHQ is reported to run a similarly vast data collection operation, co-operating closely with the NSA.
Rohith Vemula killed himself on Sunday inside the campus of Hyderabad Central University.
He was one of five Dalit, formerly known as untouchables, students who were protesting at their expulsion from the university's housing facility.
Mr Vemula's friends have blamed the university's top official and a federal minister for his suicide.
The police in Hyderabad said they were investigating the role of some university officials as well as federal minister Bandaru Dattatreya in Mr Vemula's death.
Some students also protested in Delhi, demanding action against Mr Dattatreya and clashing with police.
Mr Vemula and the four other students faced allegations last year that they attacked a member of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) - the student wing of the governing Hindu nationalist BJP.
They all denied the charge.
The university cleared them in an initial inquiry, but reversed its decision in December, broadcaster NDTV reports.
Protesters allege that the students were expelled after the minister, Mr Dattatreya, a BJP member, wrote a letter to the federal Ministry of Human Resource and Development, to complain about the scuffle.
The five Dalit students were subsequently barred from using the university's housing and other facilities, reports say, prompting their supporters to say they had been subject to a "social boycott".
Protesters believe Mr Dattatreya was upset because the students were known for campaigning against the policies of the BJP student wing.
But the minister said the letter he wrote was not about the Dalit students.
"Some anti-social elements were disrupting the peaceful atmosphere within the university, I wrote to the ministry seeking action against that," Mr Dattatreya told reporters.
"This suicide does not have any link with BJP. The inquiry report will bring out the truth," he said.
The two-vehicle collision happened on the Foreglen Road between Claudy and Dungiven at about 06:30 GMT on Monday.
Police said a car and a van were involved in the collision.
Three other people were treated at Altnagelvin Hospital for minor injuries and have since been discharged.
Police appealed for anyone who was travelling on the Foreglen Road at the time of the accident to contact them.
Sinn Féin MLA Caoimhe Archibald said her thoughts were with the dead man's family.
"I would like to express my sympathies to the family and friends of the man who has died as a result of this morning's crash," she said.
"This is the second death on the A6 in weeks and, as we enter into the winter months, I would urge all road users to exercise care and caution on the roads at all times and to allow for extra travelling time if conditions are poor."
Last month, Loreto Douglas, 64, a child care worker from Derry died after a three-vehicle crash on a stretch of the A6 at the Glenshane Pass.
Helen Richardson-Walsh scored her second goal of the tournament from close range at the end of the third quarter to help seal consecutive wins.
Nicola White added a second a minute from the end as Alex Danson missed a second-half penalty.
Danny Kerry's side face unbeaten Germany in their final Pool B game on Wednesday.
The defending European champions beat Scotland 2-1 earlier in the day, Nikki Kidd scoring a late penalty corner for the Scots.
England head coach Kerry said: "We made the Italian keeper look good, but once we went back to what we've been working on in training we got our rewards."
England beat Scotland 2-1 in their opening game at London's Olympic Park. The semi-finals take place on Friday.
The panel, which consists of representatives from the seven authority members, said the figure should be reassessed after a few years.
One candidate said he planned to keep only £29,000 of the wage, but another said the £79,000 pay packet sounded "about right".
The authority will consider the recommendation at its 3 March meeting.
The report said the allowance should be revisited in two to three years' time when the responsibilities of the role have become clearer.
Of the five candidates, two - Sion Simon, for Labour, and Pete Durnell, for UKIP, did not comment.
Andy Street, the Conservative candidate, said he believed the mayor's pay should be performance related.
Beverley Nielsen, the Liberal Democrat candidate, said: "The salary being reported sounds about right.
"However, this is not about salary, it's about commitment to the region and using the experience you have built up in your career that will contribute to making this a better place."
James Burn, the Green party candidate, said he would only keep the average wage of the West Midlands - £29,000 - and would use the remainder to help develop less well-off areas.
"Only when those areas get richer will I allow myself to be paid more," he said.
The West Midlands will be one of six devolved regions in England.
Greater Manchester; Liverpool and Merseyside; the North East; South Yorkshire; and Tees Valley are also set to be run by elected mayors.
Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton are all set to be full members of the new authority.
In a country where killings in the name of honour are not uncommon and canoodling couples are beaten up on Valentine's Day, Mr Kumar has set himself up as a defender of love.
He launched the party on Valentine's Day in 2008, embarking on a journey that has taken him from being a lone crusader and an object of ridicule in the community to the leader of a political party with more than 100,000 registered members.
Sitting on a wooden bench inside his one-room office in the Chennai (Madras) suburb of Kodambakkam, Mr Kumar, 34, talks with animation about his cause.
A computer covered with a transparent plastic sheet sits on a table, under which folders labelled with his party's name are stacked neatly.
Mr Kumar's face is framed by a faded wall calendar carrying a sepia image of Mahatma Gandhi. To one side, atop a television set, a yellow, heart-shaped clock provides a suitable backdrop for Mr Kumar's long discourse on the politics of love.
Mr Kumar says it was the problems he faced during his own days as a "lover", as well as the situation experienced by many couples who had fallen in love but found it difficult to get married in the face of parental opposition, that prompted him to launch a political party to support the cause.
Since then Mr Kumar has supported, with his presence and his money, more than 15 weddings among "lover couples".
In other cases, he counsels, mediates and does everything possible to ensure a happy ending for the pairs, ie marriage.
After all, that is the stated agenda of his political party. Its mission statement, spelled out on its website, says: "Its objective is to heal the wounds inflicted in the hearts of lovers by society."
While this may not exactly be very specific, Mr Kumar is very particular about who he helps.
First, he checks the basic details (age, address and willingness) of the prospective bride and groom and, if possible, has a conversation with the parents.
"I do not support anything wrong like extramarital affairs," he says.
In cases where there are serious threats against the couple, he sends the material on to the Police Commissioner's office, where he is well known.
"In Tamil Nadu, the police are friends of true lovers," he says with a dramatic flourish, a statement that couples routinely harassed by officers on the sands of Marina Beach would contest.
Mr Kumar's own story sounds like something out of an Indian movie, beginning with his bus journey at the age of 16 to Chennai after a fight with his parents in his village in Andhra Pradesh.
Mr Kumar came to Kodambakkam with the dream of becoming a film star, finally ending up as a make-up artist after a prolonged struggle.
And somewhere in those years, he added the extra syllables Sri Sri to his name ("numerology for luck") and also met, fell in love and married his wife and primary supporter Mangala Devi.
When Mr Kumar launched the ILP, he had 5,000 rupees ($100) in his pocket and three assistants whose job was to stick posters around the city - "not supporters but helpers who worked for money".
But he says the three-and-a-half-year journey has been carefully planned.
"I am slowly laying the basement now and soon I will build on it," he says with a smile.
For Mr Kumar, getting lovers married is not the sole goal, though at present it is his primary aim.
He clearly sees this cause as one that is attractive to youth, and that is where the votes lie.
In the recent state assembly elections, he stood from the Chennai suburb of T Nagar and won more than 3,000 votes.
He says he has already been getting feelers from various political parties within the state.
Not everyone is convinced though. Publisher at New Horizon Media and Chennai political blogger and commentator Badri Seshadri dismisses him as a "crank", calling the idea of the party a publicity stunt.
He says: "Every party has - and needs to have - a clear political goal, but the Indian Lovers Party does not seem to have any political goal.
"'Lovers' do not belong to a political class and as such, they do not require a political party."
For his part, Mr Kumar is eagerly looking forward to the day when he gets to pick the election symbol of his choice - once his political party is registered and recognised at the national level.
For now, he is content with the symbol given to him: a cup of ice-cream.
And he points with pride to the party flag that he has designed with great thought and love; a Taj Mahal (his ultimate symbol of love), enclosed by a white heart (the white, he says representing Christians) outlined with three colours - pink (for love), orange (for Hindu) and green (for Muslim). Not to forget the yellow arrow that pierces through the heart.
Gwynedd Council has opened a consultation on the proposed closure of Y Frondeg residential care home.
Under plans, it would be replaced with a new home on adjoining land in Caernarfon, which could house up to 16 residents and include specialist support for adults with complex needs.
Staff and residents from Y Frondeg would also move to the new home once it has been completed.
Cabinet member for care, Gareth Roberts, said: "We obviously accept that change can be difficult, but we are keen to ensure that living standards and facilities available for adults with a learning disability are of the highest standard."
The consultation runs until 23 October.
Michael Dale Vance Jr has been wanted since Sunday in connection to the murders and a string of shootings.
Police said they believe Mr Vance filmed two Facebook Live videos during his run from authorities.
Mr Vance appeared to be seeking revenge for child sexual abuse allegations against him, police added.
The 38-year-old from has been charged with sexual abuse of a 15-year-old girl in Lincoln County, court records showed.
"Obviously, as long as he isn't apprehended, we're extremely concerned about those he may have indicated that he wishes harm to," Oklahoma County Sheriff John Whetsel told The Oklahoman newspaper. "Most of those are outside Oklahoma City."
Authorities believe Mr Vance has a hit list with as many as eight more people on it.
Police said he was last seen early on Monday about 30 miles from the Texas border in western Oklahoma.
The violent rampage began when two officers were shot and wounded while responding to a call in Wellston, about 35 miles northeast of Oklahoma City. One person was arrested while Mr Vance fled in a patrol car.
He is also suspected of shooting a woman and stealing her vehicle before driving to his aunt and uncle's home, where police say he murdered them.
Mr Vance allegedly filmed two Facebook Live videos during his flee from the scene.
In one of the videos, he turned the camera to a long gun placed in the passenger seat and said: "If you want to know what's up next, stay tuned to your local news."
Mr Vance's uncle, 55-year-old Ronald Everett Wilson, was shot and had stab wounds "consistent with an attempt to sever his head", Oklahoma County Sheriff's Deputy Michael Belanger wrote in an arrest affidavit.
His wife, Valerie Kay Wilkson, 54, had similar neck wounds.
Authorities found a large, bloodied knife, a blood-stained shirt and two shell casings appearing to be from an AK-47-style assault rifle.
On Saturday, tens of thousands of people demonstrated across the Republic of Ireland against water charges.
The controversial austerity measure is a key part of the government's plan to pay back the international financial bailout the state had to seek in 2010.
On Sunday night, Drogheda mayor Kevin Callan resigned from the governing Fine Gael party over the issue.
Mr Callan said he did so in light of what he called the overwhelming levels of public dissatisfaction with the handling of the introduction of water charges by the government and Irish Water.
The utility company was set up last month to provide water services throughout the Republic.
However, speaking on Monday, Mr Callan's former party colleague, Mr Coveney said: "There's one certainty, and that's that Irish Water won't be scrapped.
"Irish Water has spent a lot of money to set up a very large new company, which is going to remain in public ownership, and is going to provide water in a much more cost-effective and efficient manner in the future.
"But I think we need to learn from some of the mistakes that have been made over the last six or eight months."
The political debate on the issue has widened with Ireland's largest union and Labour Party politicians calling for a referendum that would guarantee Irish Water remaining in the hands of the state.
Micheál Martin, the leader of the opposition Fianna Fáil party, has described as "utterly bogus" a claim by Prime Minister (taoiseach) Enda Kenny that the top rate of income tax would have to rise by 4% if water charges were not introduced.
SIPTU president Jack O'Connor and former Labour minister of state Joe Costello have both called for a referendum that would guarantee Irish Water remaining in public ownership.
The Right2Water campaign said 150,000 people had turned out to protest on Saturday.
Right2Water campaigner and former member of Unite trade union, Brendan Ogle, has also criticised the Taoiseach's warning that income tax would rise if the government was to abolish water charges.
Speaking on state broadcaster RTÉ, Mr Ogle said the turnout at the anti-charge protests on Saturday sent a significant message to the government over the level of disquiet at local level.
He said his campaign against water charges was not in any way political and described the charges as a form of double taxation.
"We believe water should be paid through progressive general taxation and that is how it should be done.
"This is a double tax on something we already pay for."
Meanwhile, the Economic Management Council is beginning its second week of examining the issues surrounding Irish Water.
Minister for Finance Michael Noonan said the council, an inner Cabinet comprising the taoiseach and three other ministers, would be addressing the issues of certainty about what charges people would face in the future. | It's almost Halloween time, which means dressing up, trick or treating and pumpkin carving for many of you!
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Mars said the products, for sale in the UK and Ireland, should not be eaten.
The recall began after tests showed salmonella may be in ingredients.
"We are working closely with the relevant food safety authorities and our customers to ensure that the affected products are no longer available for purchase," Mars said.
Mars said thousands of potentially affected chocolates - fewer than 3,000 - could already have been sold to customers.
Products including Galaxy Milk 200g bars, Minstrel 118g pouches and Maltesers Teasers 35g bars with best-before dates of 6 May 2018 and 13 May 2018 are affected.
Other products included in the recall include Galaxy Milk 4x42g multipacks and Galaxy Counters 78g and 112g pouches with the 6 May 2018 and 13 May 2018 best-before dates.
The company has asked food retailers across the UK and Ireland to pull the affected products from shelves immediately.
Tesco told the BBC that it wasn't going to sell any of the affected products it had in stock, whatever the best before date, as a temporary measure to help avoid any customer confusion.
The chocolate products affected were made at Mars' Slough factory.
People who have purchased the affected confectionary should contact the Mars customer call centre for "returns and reimbursement", it said.
The Food Standards Agency said the recall "is for a small number of products and is on a precautionary basis."
Mars said no other brands or varieties of chocolate, pack formats, bar sizes or best before dates had been affected.
The products being recalled are:
Mars said UK consumers can call 0800 952 0084 for reimbursement and Irish consumers can contact 1890 812 315.
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The Gambling Commission is also investigating if there was a breach of betting regulations after Shaw ate a pie in the 83rd minute of the game.
Before Monday's game, a bookmaker offered odds of 8-1 that Shaw would eat a pie on camera during the match.
He later said it was "a bit of fun".
Shaw, 46, ate the pie while standing by the substitutes' bench.
He told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme that the pie was in fact a pasty and he ate it as he was "light-headed".
"We are told we are not allowed to gamble as it is full-time professional football," he added. "In no way did I put anyone in jeopardy of that - this is not the case here, this is just a bit of fun and me being hungry."
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Asked whether he knew if anyone had taken up the bet, he told the Daily Mail: "I think there were a few people. I think a few mates and a few of the fans."
The Gambling Commission, which licenses and regulates gambling in Britain, says it is looking into whether there was any "irregularity in the betting market and establishing whether the operator has met its licence requirement to conduct its business with integrity".
It warned operators in June last year about the integrity of taking bets on novelty markets.
"Integrity in sport is not a joke and we have opened an investigation to establish exactly what happened," said enforcement and intelligence director Richard Watson.
Sun Bets, who sponsored the club on Monday for the fifth-round tie, tweeted that it had paid out a "five-figure sum" on the bet.
Sutton manager Paul Doswell said after the game: "I don't think it shows us in the best light."
Club chairman Bruce Elliott told 5 live: "I didn't know anything about it. He has got himself in the papers again and the fame obviously has gone to his head a little bit, but we will soon bring him back down to earth, don't worry about that."
Shaw said he was told about the betting promotion before the game.
"I thought I would give them a bit of banter and let's do it," he added. "All the subs were on and we were 2-0 down.
"It was just a bit of banter for them. It is something to make the occasion as well and you can look back and say it was part of it and we got our ticket money back."
A worldwide ban on betting in football was introduced in 2014 and covers everyone involved in the game, from the players and managers to the match officials and club staff.
It prevents participants covered by the ban from betting, either directly or indirectly, on any football match or competition, including the passing of "inside information".
The FA website defines that as "information that you are aware of due to your position in the game and which is not publicly available".
It adds: "You are not allowed to pass inside information on to someone else which they use for betting."
The issue was discussed by shareholders at the club's annual general meeting at the Philharmonic Hall on Wednesday.
Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson said the council would invest £20m ($25m) in a new road near the planned ground, alongside plans for a railway station.
He said the proposals were the "most exciting opportunity that the club has had in decades".
Everton chief executive Robert Elstone said they were hoping to reveal more detailed plans within the next three months.
Mr Elstone revealed at the meeting Everton had secured new commercial deals worth £75m ($93m), including a naming rights deal for their Finch Farm training ground and shirt sponsorship. Season ticket prices for next season will also be either frozen or reduced.
Everton FC which has played from Goodison Park since 1892 abandoned plans to build the new ground at Walton Hall Park in May.
Goodison Park has a capacity of just under 40,000.
Liverpool FC officially opened its expanded main stand at Anfield, which increased its capacity to 54,000, in September.
Liverpool City Council said it "remains committed to working with Everton Football Club to find a viable stadium solution within the city.
"The significant investment of a new stadium, at whichever location the club chooses, will have far ranging economic benefits and would be a catalyst for regeneration to the surrounding communities.
"Once the club has made their decision, the city council will provide as much support as possible on all the relevant planning and transport issues.''
James Brokenshire and Nuala McAllister both laid wreaths at Belfast City Hall.
More than 1m men were killed or wounded on both sides of World War One over the course of the 141-day offensive.
Thousands of the casualties were from the island of Ireland. Two thousand of them, from the 36th Ulster Division, died on the first day of the battle.
The 36th Ulster Division was one of the few British divisions to attain its objective that day, much to the surprise of the defending Germans.
The division's target was the Schwaben Redoubt - a fortified stronghold on the German line near the village of Thiepval.
Their success came with horrific losses.
By the end of the day the division had suffered more than 5,000 casualties, around 2,000 of whom lay dead.
Its new forecasts came as it said total sales in the three months to 2 May were down 0.2% from a year earlier, while full price sales were 0.9% lower.
Next blamed colder weather in March and April which hit demand for clothing.
The retailer said it now expected full-price sales for 2016 to range between a 3.5% fall and a 3.5% rise.
That was wider than its previous range of between a 1% fall and a 4% rise.
"We believe it is unlikely (but possible) that sales will deteriorate further, and we have seen a significant improvement over the last few days as temperatures have risen," the company said.
"However, the poor performance of the last six weeks may be indicative of weaker underlying demand for clothing and a potentially wider slowdown in consumer spending."
It is the third time Next has downgraded its annual sales guidance in five months.
Next also widened and lowered the range of its full-year profit forecast to between £748m and £852m, compared with the previous forecast issued in March of between £784m and £858m.
In March, Next warned 2016 would be a "challenging year" for its business, saying the year ahead "may well be the toughest we have faced since 2008".
The BBC's business editor, Robert Peston, has learned that the hole is around £1.5bn.
He said a lot of the capital to be used to plug the hole will come through a "bail in" - a process where bonds will be turned into shares.
However, the plan makes Co-operative Bank appear much more like a bank than a mutual organisation.
An announcement between the bank and the Prudential Regulation Authority could come within the next few hours.
Under such a rescue deal, it is unlikely that taxpayer money will be required or that savers will be affected, but it could affect up to 5,000 smaller investors.
Concerns about the bank's capital arose after a deal with Lloyds collapsed.
In April, the Co-op cancelled a plan to buy 631 bank branches from Lloyds Banking Group.
That was followed two weeks later by the ratings agency Moody's downgrading the bank's debt to junk status.
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The Co-op will raise much of the £1.5bn of precious capital it needs from what is known as a "bail in", or converting bonds - loans to the group - into shares which will be listed on the London Stock Exchange.
This contrasts with the many bank "bail outs" of 2007-8, in which desperate banks were kept alive by injections of funds from the public sector.
With a minority of Co-op Bank's future shares tradeable on the Exchange, the Co-op Bank will begin to look more like a conventional bank and less like a mutual - although it will still be controlled by the mutual Co-op Group.
The agency warned the bank may need "external support" if it could not strengthen its balance sheet.
In response to Moody's, the Co-op said it had a "strong funding profile" that was "significantly above the regulatory requirements".
But the bank admitted there was a "need to strengthen our capital position in light of the broader economic downturn and the pending introduction of enhanced regulatory requirements".
It added: "We have a clear plan to drive this forward throughout the coming months."
Most of Co-op Bank's problems stem from bad loans associated with its takeover of Britannia Building Society in 2009.
Any agreement with Co-op would be the first test of the new city regulator, the Prudential Regulation Authority, since it assumed responsibility from the Financial Services Authority in April for regulating the banks. Part of its mandate is to ensure that the banks won't have to be bailed out from taxpayer money again.
The Co-operative Group, parent of Co-op Bank, was founded in 1863. It has more than 6 million members and employs more than 100,000 people.
The report found 14 inmates at HMP Garth in Leyland had refused to return to their cells during the incident before Christmas.
The prisoners who were "believed to be under the influence of hooch" began "behaving in an aggressive manner".
The Prison Service said the incident was under investigation.
According to the report: "Staff withdrew when the prisoners began behaving in an aggressive manner and throwing items around.
"CCTV cameras were smashed and other parts of the spur sustained minor damage."
Three specialist units, trained to deal with violence in jails, were deployed to deal with the disorder.
The prisoners later returned to their cells.
One prisoner, who claimed to have swallowed a bag of heroin, was taken to hospital for checks.
A Prison Service spokesperson said: "An act of minor concerted indiscipline by a small number of prisoners at HMP Garth began at 5pm on 15th December and was quickly resolved by 7.15pm without any damage to property or injuries to staff or prisoners."
They added that the incident was being investigated and would be followed by "any appropriate internal disciplinary action".
HMP Garth at Leyland, near Preston, is a Category B prison for inmates who do not require the highest conditions of security.
They have been searching for the element for decades, believing it makes up a significant proportion of our planet's centre, after iron and nickel.
Now by recreating the high temperatures and pressures found in the deep interior, experiments suggest the most likely candidate is silicon.
The discovery could help us to better understand how our world formed.
Lead researcher Eiji Ohtani from Tohoku University told BBC News: "We believe that silicon is a major element - about 5% [of the Earth's inner core] by weight could be silicon dissolved into the iron-nickel alloys."
Hard to reach
The innermost part of Earth is thought to be a solid ball with a radius of about 1,200km (745 miles).
It is far too deep to investigate directly, so instead scientists study how seismic waves pass through this region to tell them something of its make-up.
It is mainly composed of iron, which makes up an estimated 85% of its weight, and nickel, which accounts for about 10% of the core.
To investigate the unaccounted for 5% of the core, Eiji Ohtani and his team created alloys of iron and nickel and mixed them with silicon.
They then subjected them to the immense pressures and temperatures that exist in the inner core.
They discovered that this mixture matched what was seen in the Earth's interior with seismic data.
Prof Ohtani said more work was needed to confirm the presence of silicon and that it did not rule out the presence of other elements.
Core formation
Commenting on the research, Prof Simon Redfern from the University of Cambridge, UK, said: "These difficult experiments are really exciting because they can provide a window into what Earth's interior was like soon after it first formed, 4.5 billion years ago, when the core first started to separate from the rocky parts of Earth.
"But other workers have recently suggested that oxygen might also be important in the core."
He said that knowing what is there could help scientists to better understand the conditions that prevailed during the formation of the Earth.
In particular whether the early interior was one where oxygen was greatly limited - known as reducing conditions. Or whether oxygen was in abundance, which is described as oxidising.
If a larger amount of silicon had been incorporated in Earth's core more than four billion years ago, as suggested by Prof Ohtani's results, that would have left the rest of the planet relatively oxygen rich.
But if, instead, oxygen was sucked into the core that would leave the rocky mantle surrounding the core depleted of the element.
Prof Redfern said: "In a way, these two options are real alternatives that depend a lot on the conditions prevailing when Earth's core first began to form.
"The most recent results add to our understanding, but I suspect that they are by no means the last word on the story."
Prof Ohtani presented his research to the recent Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
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In the build-up to the day there have been public readings of the book in venues associated with it.
Most public readings of revered texts are rather restrained, sometimes stiff, affairs. but the one I was at most certainly wasn't.
It was more like James Joyce's Ulysses meets the Rocky Horror Picture Show with different people reading a chapter from the novel, but with lots of added heckles, sound effects and some in early twentieth century costume.
Jessica Yates is one of the organisers of the public readings of the novel.
"The story just comes to life while you're reading it," she said.
"There's also a beautiful sense of community when you're reading something together. It's like when you're a kid and you're read to sleep. People really get into it."
The heckles may not always be politically correct, but Niall Laverty another organiser, says the book, set in Dublin on 16 June 1904, remains relevant.
"It's one of those books that the more you read the more you get out of it. It's a bit like a soap opera. It's very contemporary and it's a celebration of the city and its people," he said.
But Maite Lopez, from Germany and one of the readers, knows that while Dubliners venerate Joyce they have a very ambiguous relationship with his novel, Ulysses.
"Most Dubliners own a copy of Ulysses but most Dubliners haven't read it. They know lots of stories about Joyce, though," she says laughing.
The chapter being read, called Eumaeus, is set in a hostel near what is now the main Busaras - bus station - in the centre of the city.
The reading is in the nearby Isaacs Hostel where James Clancy, one of the managers, is happy to help out.
"In the chapter, coffee and buns do play a part. We got one of our girls to make a few 'dirty buns' because that's what they asked for," he said.
"We've got coffee brewing as well so, hopefully, a few people will take part."
The organisers have also written a little manual with illustrations to help people understand what is going on in the text, but also so that they can see where the story unfolds and what is recommended to visit.
Those who joined in and took part in the night's reading - which by the way is free - say they got a lot out of it.
Aaron McColl-Jones from Sydney, Australia said: "I'm actually a lot more interested in reading the book and I think it will be a good book that I can relate to."
Fellow Australian, Sean Watters from Adelaide, agrees: "I don't really know that much about Ulysses but it sounds like an interesting story and I might give it a read."
Dylan Bateman from Canada says he found the whole event very "cool".
"I saw everyone in their costume, which I really like. So, I figured why not join in as it's not something I'd do at home," he said.
Judy Boraham from Australia said: "Every chapter in Ulysses has a different style and flavour about it. I think Joyce is fabulous, a true experimental writer."
While another, Canadian Katie Hawes, says the readings "were a lot more entertaining than just reading a book".
The readings and mayhem will continue for the next few weeks building up to Molly Bloom's - rather naughty - soliloquy where she remembers past lovers.
That public reading will be in a bed.
Just over an hour after beginning, the readers and hecklers bring the evening to an end.
If you want to know more about the free readings and performances you can visit the website.
Not only did childhood friends Geraint Thomas and Luke Rowe manage exactly that, but from Saturday, 1 July, they will be teammates at the Tour de France, the world's most prestigious cycling race.
The pair met at the Maindy Flyers Youth Cycling Club and a bond was instantly made between a couple of children from Cardiff who lived for speed and success on the track.
Rowe, 27, is embarking on his third Tour, and Thomas, 31, his eighth.
Olympian Thomas has recovered from the shoulder injury which forced him to pull out of the Giro d'Italia in May.
The two riders will support Chris Froome's bid for a fourth Tour victory.
Rowe has come a long way since his days of playing on the streets of the capital with the slightly older Thomas in tow, but he can not quite believe just how successful they have become.
"It is still quite strange sometimes when you think about the whole story with me and Geraint in that how long ago it was that we were two little kids racing around Maindy Flyers," Rowe told BBC Wales Sport.
"Messing around on the street on our BMX's together and we kind of slowly but surely gone through the ranks together.
"He is three or four years older than me so he was always that one step ahead."
With Thomas being a little bit older, Rowe says he looked up to the double Olympic gold medallist.
"To go through the ranks together and see each other progressing and bounce off each other a bit, to now be going year-on-year to the Tour de France the biggest bike race in the world together," Rowe added.
"Just two Cardiff lads bombing around Maindy causing carnage, to going to the best bike race in the world and being successful, it is a pretty cool story."
The two riders have a very close relationship away from the track and roads, with Thomas being given the special task of being an usher at Rowe's wedding.
The Tour de France is one of the toughest road races in the world, but for Rowe it is a little bit more special with a fellow countryman in the team.
"He is a pretty close mate on and off the bike. On a personal note he is one of the ushers at my wedding so he is a super close mate," he said.
"It makes it all that bit more special to go and do something like that alongside a good mate like Geraint."
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The Tour gets underway in Dusseldorf in Germany on 1 July, and once again there will be two Welshman tackling the roads for Team Sky.
Rowe was pleased that he made the selection for the event and will once again be road captain.
"Excited really, I mean it has been a long process even just to get selected for the team it is quite a tall order, with the strength and depth that they have there," said Rowe.
"There is always someone who will replace you straight away if you are not quite one hundred percent, so first and foremost it was a case of make sure I got selected.
"Now it is a case of going there for three weeks and doing the business.
"I have ridden in 2015 and 2016 and both times Chris Froome was successful and Team Sky won the Tour de France, so hopefully we can go back and try and replicate that and make some history."
Captain Brendon McCullum declared on 524-5, leaving Sri Lanka needing 390 in 107 overs at Wellington's Basin Reserve to win and square the two-match series.
Williamson hit an unbeaten 242, his first Test double century while Watling made 142 not out, his fourth Test ton.
The record tops the 352 Watling and McCullum made against India last year.
That feat was also achieved at the Basin Reserve, where a bronze plaque marking the achievement had only been set in concrete three days ago.
Williamson spent more than 10 hours at the crease, scoring his ninth Test century and the seventh highest score by a New Zealander.
The 24-year-old faced 438 deliveries, scoring 18 fours, while Watling posted a career-best 142, with nine fours and a six as Sri Lanka toiled.
The tourists had reached 45-1 by the close after Dimuth Karunaratne fell for 17, leaving his opening partner Kaushal Silva (20 not out) and nightwatchman Dhammika Prasad to see them through the final overs.
Gun fired from a moving car during a live broadcast on Periscope
A live broadcast on Periscope, the Twitter-owned video app, showed two men driving to a house apparently in search of one of their girlfriends. Encouraged by online comments, one of them fired a gun from a moving car. The two men were later arrested.
Burning Man 2015 begins with some live tweeting
The Burning Man festival takes place this week, and in what is seen by some as an unwelcome recent addition, full mobile phone signal is available at the Black Rock site in Nevada. It's an event open for people from all walks of life. Tickets $390.
Swans help create smoother camera drone videos
Researchers at Stanford University have taken inspiration from the graceful flight of swans to develop new techniques for ultra-stable video recording from drones.
Pokemon's copyright lawyers wipe out themed PAX pre-party
A Pokemon-themed party night, due to take place ahead of last week's Pax gaming conference in Seattle, was cancelled after a copyright claim from The Pokemon Company. The event was promoted with posters featuring Pokemon characters.
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Successive mayors have tried to get the legislation to cap the increasing number of minicabs, driven in part by apps like Uber.
So far they have failed which has meant that Transport for London (TfL) has to issue Private Hire Vehicle (PHV) licences if the drivers meet the requirements.
Currently, there are 118,000 licensed private hire drivers who have been blamed for congestion, pollution and an increase in collisions.
If you look at the regulation around this market, you can see where it has been outpaced.
It is only now that more compliance officers are being recruited, and soon there will be 350 officers to police 139,000 vehicles. Previously there were 82 officers.
To pay for that, TfL is having to introduce large fees for minicab operators, some will be millions of pounds.
Helen Chapman, general manager of taxi and private hire at TfL, said: "The operator fees system is no longer fit for purpose.
"It is only fair that licence fees for private hire operators accurately reflect the costs of enforcement and regulating the trade.
"The changes to fees would also enable us to fund additional compliance officers to help crackdown on illegal and dangerous activity."
Even basic data gathering such as the number of collisions and occupants injured in taxis and private hire vehicles isn't split between the two trades.
Although that is now changing, the existing data gives an interesting picture. Between 2013 and 2015 the number of passengers injured in taxis and minicabs went up from 544 to 827 - an increase of 52%.
The corresponding figures for black cabs shows they have remained static at about 21,000 over that period but the number of PHVs went up 54% from 65,656 to 101,434.
There are now calls from the Liberal Democrats on the London Assembly for drivers to be banned from using what they think is causing the problem: apps while driving.
Black cab organisations like the London Cab Drivers Club would also like to see them restricted and they also want much clearer guidance from the Met Police and TfL about when they can be used.
At the moment, TfL says it is up to the individual drivers to make sure they are driving safely.
An Uber spokesperson said: "It is against the law to hold a mobile phone or device in your hand while driving. Drivers must be in proper control of their vehicle and concentrating on the road at all times."
In the middle of a rapidly changing world, it is TfL whose old systems cannot cope with the changing landscape.
Most of them had finished competing by the time the outfits arrived.
"We are disappointed and embarrassed. We've been wearing kits from the World Athletics Championships," one athlete, requesting anonymity, told the BBC.
Nigeria's men's football team has its own sponsored kit - but it has been hit by funding problems and players only arrived hours before their first match.
The team plays for bronze on Saturday against Honduras.
Africa's most populous country has so far won no medals at Rio, with only three more days of competition left to go.
The BBC spoke to two athletes who confirmed that they had only received their sports and ceremonial kits on Thursday.
An unnamed Athletics Federation of Nigeria official told Nigeria's Vanguard newspaper that he had never experienced anything like this in all his years in sport.
"Money meant for the Games was held tightly by [sport] ministry officials and they were just releasing money piecemeal," the official is quoted as saying.
The government had budgeted 600m naira ($1.7m; £1.3m) for the Olympics, the Vanguard reported in July.
But payment problems appear to have dogged Nigerian Olympians.
Japanese plastic surgeon, Katsuya Takasu, is donating $200,000 to the football team after hearing about its financial difficulties.
The players were held up in the US city of Atlanta because of problems paying for their flight and only landed in Brazil just hours before their opening 5-4 win over Japan.
Mr Takasu has also promised each player a $10,000 bonus if they win bronze.
The incident happened in the Woodvale Road/Woodvale Park area in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Police said it is believed the attack happened between 00:30 and 3:30 GMT.
They have appealed for information.
A predominantly Slavonic-speaking, Orthodox Christian country, Bulgaria was the birthplace of the Cyrillic alphabet, which was created there towards the end of the 9th century AD.
It was long influenced by Byzantine culture then was part of the Ottoman Empire for 500 years before gaining its independence in the 19th century.
After the Second World War it became a satellite of the Soviet Union, but is now a member country of the EU and NATO.
Population 7.4 million
Area 110,994 sq km (42,855 sq miles)
Major language Bulgarian
Major religion Christianity
Life expectancy 70 years (men), 77 years (women)
Currency lev
Outgoing president: Rosen Plevneliev
Rosen Plevneliev won the presidential elections in a run-off in October 2011, beating Socialist candidate Ivaylo Kalfin.
He took office in January 2012 for a five-year term in a post that carries few real powers.
His successor will be Rumen Radev - a Socialist and former air force commander who favours closer ties with Russia - following his victory in the presidential election of November 2016.
Outgoing prime Minister: Boyko Borisov
Boyko Borisov formed a centre-right coalition government made up of his centre-right Gerb party and the Reformist Bloc in November 2014, following snap elections the previous month.
The prime minister said his new government would work to guarantee stability, but warned that hard times lay ahead, highlighting economic stagnation, blocked EU funding, poverty and delayed reforms.
Voters grew impatient at Mr Borisov's lack of progress in fighting corruption and raising living standards, and he resigned in late 2016 in response to the Gerb candidate's defeat in presidential elections, triggering another early parliamentary election.
Mr Borisov was prime minister between 2009 and February 2013, when he stepped down during mass anti-poverty protests.
Global media giants have a stake in Bulgaria's lively broadcasting market. TV is the most popular medium.
International media group CME runs bTV, Bulgaria's most-watched channel. Scandinavian company MTG operates national station Nova TV.
There are several private regional TVs and many private radio stations. Cable and satellite are the main distribution platforms. Media ownership is concentrated among a handful of individuals.
Some key dates in Bulgaria's history:
1018-1185 - Bulgaria is part of Byzantine empire.
1396 - Ottoman Empire completes conquest of Bulgaria. Next five centuries are known as era of the "Turkish yoke".
1876 - Nationwide uprising against Ottoman rule is violently suppressed.
1878 - Treaty of San Stefano - signed by Russia and Turkey at the end of their war of 1877-78 - recognises an autonomous Bulgaria.
1908 - Bulgaria declares itself an independent kingdom. Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha assumes title of tsar.
1914-18 - First World War. Bulgaria allies itself with Germany. Some 100,000 Bulgarian troops are killed, the most severe per capita losses of any country involved in the war.
1939-45 Second World War - Soviet army invades German-occupied Bulgaria in 1944. Soviet-backed Fatherland Front takes power.
1947 - New constitution along Soviet lines establishes one-party state.
1954 - Todor Zhivkov becomes Communist Party general secretary. Bulgaria becomes staunch USSR ally.
1971 - Zhivkov becomes president.
1989 - Reforms in the Soviet Union inspire demands for democratisation. Zhivkov ousted.
1991 New constitution proclaims Bulgaria a parliamentary republic and provides broad range of freedoms.
His best-known role, and the one that made him an international name, was as Napoleon Solo in The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
The somewhat implausible, but extremely popular NBC series originally ran between 1964 and 1968.
He starred in more than 150 films, many of which have been completely forgotten both by audiences and, as he once candidly admitted, by Vaughn himself.
Robert Francis Vaughn was born into a theatrical family in New York City on 22 November 1932.
His mother, who was a stage actress, was often out on the road so Vaughn spent much of his childhood with his grandparents in Minneapolis, where he went to school.
He started off studying to be a journalist but quit after 12 months and moved with his mother to Los Angeles where he took a Masters degree in Theatre at California State University.
Even when his acting career took off he continued to study, gaining a PhD in 1970 with his dissertation on show business blacklisting during the McCarthy era which he eventually published as a book.
He made his first TV appearance in 1955 with a role in the US TV series, Medic and followed this up a year later with an uncredited screen appearance in the biblical epic, The Ten Commandments.
His film breakthrough came in 1959 when he was nominated for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe in the legal drama, The Young Philadelphians, where he appeared alongside Paul Newman.
A year later he was cast as the dapper, black-clad gunfighter, Lee, in the John Sturges western, The Magnificent Seven, itself a remake of an earlier Japanese film, The Seven Samurai.
Although now seen as a cinema classic, the film had a chaotic start which was not helped by a writers strike in Hollywood.
Vaughn later described how he arrived to discover that there was no script and that Sturges had only cast two of the characters, those played by Steve McQueen and Yul Brynner.
"So when Sturges met me, he actually asked if I knew any other good actors. I called my best friend James Coburn, who was hanging out with a chick, smoking dope in Greenwich Village, and told him: 'Get out here fast!' He had no money, and had to borrow some from his parents. But he made it."
Despite the misgivings of the entire cast who, according to Vaughn spent most of the time on set playing poker and waiting for the day's scripts to be written, The Magnificent Seven became a massive hit.
He then went back to television, playing a number of now forgotten roles before he was offered the title role in a new spy series, Solo which had been created, in part, by the author Ian Fleming.
Renamed as The Man From U.N.C.L.E, the first episode, shot in black and white, aired in September 1964 with Vaughn playing secret agent Napoleon Solo alongside David McCallum as the Russian born Illya Kuryakin.
The series, with its tongue in cheek approach to espionage ,brought some much-needed relief to a world deep in the Cold War and became an international hit.
It was especially popular in Britain, where schoolboys enthusiastically sent off for U.N.C.L.E. identity cards while their sisters gave Vaughn a screaming pop star style welcome when he arrived in London on a publicity tour in 1966.
Serious actor that he was, Vaughn had no regrets about taking on the role.
"Not only was it a great deal of fun, it changed me from being a working actor to a negotiating actor. After U.N.C.L.E., I never accepted the first offer: if I wanted more money, I asked for it."
By the third series a misguided attempt to introduce humour into the show resulted in excruciatingly embarrassing scenes such as Solo dancing with a gorilla. Audience numbers nosedived and the series was cancelled half way though its fourth season.
In 1968, Vaughn's former co-star, Steve McQueen, offered him the role of the ambitious and conniving politician, Walter Chalmers, in the film Bullitt, for which he received a Bafta nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Over the next three decades Vaughn appeared in a string of films, including The Towering Inferno and Superman III, as well as countless TV programmes.
Between 1972 and 1974 he spent a somewhat acrimonious time playing Harry Rule in the ITV series, The Protectors.
The plot featured three wealthy individuals getting together each week, usually in exotic locations, to solve crimes and protect the innocent.
It was described by Vaughn in his autobiography as "tasteless junk", and there were rows with the producer, Gerry Anderson, who accused Vaughn of behaving like a prima donna.
Nevertheless the show proved extremely popular and was only cancelled when a major sponsor pulled out at the end of the second series.
After years of mainly forgotten parts and guest appearances his career was re-energised when he was invited to play Albert Stroller in the BBC television series, Hustle.
Taking its inspiration from films such as, The Sting, Vaughn played an elderly con man responsible for setting up potential targets for a younger generation of grifters.
The format proved an immediate success particularly after the BBC brokered a lucrative deal with the US cable channel AMC.
"Hustle is wonderfully enjoyable, because all my life I've made an effort to be with people who can make me laugh. That original cast - Marc Warren, Jaime Murray, Robert Glenister and Adrian Lester - are all funny. So I know every day I'll have a few good laughs."
While filming in London, Vaughn took the time to narrate and appear in a BBC Radio 4 drama on the making of the film The Bridge at Remagen, in which he had starred back in 1969.
Off screen, Vaughn was a committed political activist who had joined the Democrats in the early 1950s while at college in Minnesota.
Firmly on the liberal wing of the party, he became close friends with Senator Robert Kennedy and played a major part in opposition to the Vietnam War but denied rumours he had ambitions to run for political office himself.
Vaughn's acting career never reached the heights achieved by some of his contemporaries, possibly because he devoted time to his political activities.
But he had no regrets. "With a modest amount of looks and talent and more than a modicum of serendipity," he wrote, "I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into more than half a century of good fortune."
"The city is a scary place. It's like someone put you in the middle of Trafalgar Square, turned you in a circle and said 'find your way home'."
That is Amit Patel's new reality after he lost his sight unexpectedly in 2012, six months after he got married.
He now relies on guide dog Kika to get him around the once familiar streets of London.
But the footage captured by his canine guide hasn't always shown a city willing to help him.
"The video came out of necessity," Patel says. "Kika was getting hit by peoples' bags and she was getting a lot of abuse. A woman stopped me one day and had a go at me for holding everyone up and said I should apologise, which was a real shock."
The former doctor found a solution - attach a GoPro to Kika's harness and film every journey. Patel's wife, Seema, can then review the footage if it is felt there was something amiss about that day.
And when alterations were made to a London train station the camera came into its own.
"I asked for help and no one came," Patel recounts. "The video shows lots of staff standing around me and this one guy looking over many times.
"Eventually when the staff member actually came to me the first thing he said was 'sorry I didn't see you' and that really bugged me. He wouldn't say that to someone who wasn't visually impaired.
"It really makes me angry. It's the fact that someone is fobbing me off."
The footage was sent to Network Rail giving Patel the "valuable evidence" needed to lodge a formal complaint about an incident he couldn't see.
"It made me feel vulnerable but having the footage was a godsend," he says.
"Having the camera, having the voice, having the actual scenario played out in real time it actually gives me something to go back to the company and say 'this is what happened to me and it needs to be sorted'."
The video had an impact and Network Rail investigated before giving further training to its staff.
"While in this instance the event and associated disruption was not organised by or held at the station itself, we do recognise that the station can be a complicated place to navigate," a spokesman says.
"That is why we have hired many extra staff to look after passengers."
For newly blind Patel, standing alone for several minutes can feel like hours.
"One of the things I noticed with losing my sight is how lonely it is. If I'm travelling by public transport I will be the scared little boy sat in the corner. You can't listen to music because you're listening out for dangers or to station announcements."
Patel says it is only since he lost his sight that he has become aware of the discrimination visually impaired people can face.
Patel learned he had keratoconus - a condition which changes the shape of the cornea - in the final year of medical school.
Lenses to push the corneas back into shape stopped working and six cornea transplants were rejected by his body until he was told "no more".
It was a series of burst blood vessels which caused the unexpected loss of sight within 48 hours.
Patel says: "I woke up every morning thinking I'd get my sight back. For about six months I was quite shut off, depressed and I would go to the bathroom and have a cry.
"The one thing that stayed in my mind was that I would never see my loved ones. It was holding on to the last memories I had."
"There are taxi drivers who will see you and won't stop. You phone the company and they say they didn't see you, but you look at the footage and see them having looked at you and driving right past."
Other incidents he says highlight a lack of thought - especially on London's Underground.
"People assume, because I have a guide dog, I can walk around them but they make us walk near the tracks or I can say to Kika 'find me a seat' and I'll put my hand down on one and someone will sit on it and refuse to get up."
The loss of his sight led Patel to change his life dramatically. The former University College Hospital doctor moved to New Eltham in south London so his wife didn't have to travel so far for work and wouldn't spend so much time away from him.
Patel says he had assumed, as a doctor, he would know where to get support, but he found that wasn't the case and he became frustrated at the simple mistakes he made - miscalculations led to stair falls and fingers were burnt from trying to find out how full his coffee cup was.
Beyond the major life changes there were more subtle experiences too.
"Your balance goes awry. I felt like I walked on a cloud sometimes, and if I find a pair of shoes I'll buy three pairs because a change in grip makes a real difference.
"My hearing's increased and my sense of smell, and the way I touch things."
There have also been more unexpected side effects.
"I have small pixels of light coming into my eyes and my brain interprets that as images. It'll put four pixels together and build a photo - so you may be sitting on the couch while thinking a car's coming towards you."
Patel now supports people who have lost their sight unexpectedly and gives talks to community organisations using the GoPro footage to demonstrate what Kika sees.
Despite all the challenges he has faced, including coming to terms with never seeing his baby son, Patel has accepted his new world.
"My life at the moment is so much more vivid, it's more colourful than it was when I had sight.
"It still fills me with dread leaving the house, because I have no control and am completely reliant on Kika, but we're out all of the time - any excuse."
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So-called Islamic State (IS) has said it was behind the attacks on Tuesday.
The terror strikes left 20 people dead at Maelbeek metro and 11 dead at Zaventem airport. Dozens were injured.
Aberdeen City Council said Marischal College would feature the flag from dusk until 22:30 on Wednesday and Thursday.
Belgium is observing three days of national mourning.
Charminster bridge was previously untouchable due to its historic status, but authorities agreed its small arches restricted the flow of the River Cerne.
English Heritage will now allow the 16th Century bridge to be replaced with a new one that has bigger arches.
The bridge had been blamed for nearly wrecking a nearby grade I-listed church during the January 2014 floods.
Dorset County Council, which has worked with the Environment Agency on the project, said the replacement bridge would "reflect the character" of the existing bridge, and would use "as many of the original bricks as possible".
The existing historic parapets will also used on the new bridge.
Work on the new bridge is planned for May, which includes raising the road surface by 30cm to accommodate the larger arches. The road would be closed to both vehicles and pedestrians until October.
The Welsh pop artist is best-known for his celebrity portraits crafted from food and he's attracted commissions from brands like Starbucks, Hovis and Morrisons.
But he's also got topical edge - with one of his works on phone-hacking hitting the front page of a national newspaper in 2012.
So should the 25-year-old be taken seriously? He thinks so.
Mr Wyburn burst onto the scene after becoming an internet sensation on YouTube in 2010 with a toast portrait of X Factor judge Simon Cowell and gained a wider following after appearing on ITV's Britain's Got Talent in 2011.
It was at the inception of his cult status, while studying fine art at Cardiff School of Art & Design, that Mr Wyburn detected a slightly condescending attitude from some lecturers towards his work.
"I don't expect everyone to like it. But people that do, love it. I'm completely fine with it," he said.
"I don't mind that it [his work] is going to get looked down upon. All of the pop artists were for so many years."
Mr Wyburn, who is originally from Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, may be unashamedly fixated on celebrity culture, but his work has also been recognised for its commentary on current affairs.
His portrait of Rupert Murdoch, made from 5,000 images of alleged phone-hacking victims, featured on the front page of The Guardian.
"It is current to current affairs and current to pop culture. I don't see why that should not be shown in a gallery, in the Tate Gallery or the National Gallery.
"I do strive to be taken seriously. It would be nice to get that sort of recognition," he added.
Mr Wyburn said he recently learned that he will be taught as part of the GCSE art curriculum in Wales and the possibility of him being mentioned in the same lesson as his hero Andy Warhol is "mind-blowing".
While his fascination for art began in school, Mr Wyburn believes there is little being done to inspire the next generation of artists in British classrooms.
"I don't think there's enough of a push to believe you can have a career in art or to spur people on.
"In school, I didn't know I was able to have it as a career. I don't think many of the teachers would push you enough, encouraging you to be creative people.
"Creative people, in general, are dismissed as non-academic. That's not what it is at all.
"Without creative people, without music, without the arts…where would we be without culture?"
An unashamed purveyor of popular culture, Mr Wyburn has created images of football manager Fabio Capello from Bolognese sauce and pasta, singer Tom Jones from cassette tape and TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson in motor oil.
He said that, not only was Warhol right to say everyone would one day be famous for 15 minutes, but also insisted the dead artist would have jumped at the chance to appear on celebrity TV.
"He was so obsessive about being on camera 24/7. He made himself a commodity, he made himself a piece of artwork. I think Big Brother would definitely be the one that he would do."
Mr Wyburn is currently looking forward to the release of his new book, Not That Kind Of Art, in the spring and has created a series of portraits from coffee for Macmillan Cancer Support.
But he is in no doubt about his dream project.
"I'm extremely proud of being Welsh," he said.
"I have always said I would like to go into the Millennium Stadium and, using either rugby shirts or rugby balls, make an incredibly large Welsh flag or a portrait of Sam Warburton."
They plan legislation to introduce tougher sentences for cases involving children, and a new watchdog to ensure proper support for victims nationwide.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd admitted there were areas where too many cases still went unreported.
Critics say that many refuges for victims of domestic abuse have closed since the Tories took power.
The charity Women's Aid claims 17% of specialist women's refuges had closed since 2010.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today, Ms Rudd said a new commissioner would be tasked with ensuring best practice on supporting victims of domestic violence was adopted across the country.
Under the Conservative proposals a new Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill would create an aggravated offence allowing harsher punishments for cases involving children.
There would also be a new statutory definition for domestic violence, which the Conservatives say would help provide clarity, and increase the chances of successful prosecution of perpetrators.
Although the number of reported cases domestic violence has fallen, estimates suggest only a fifth of victims come forward.
Ms Rudd said: "The fact is that across the country [standards] are varied, and part of [the reason for] this legislation and having a commissioner is to make sure that we raise standards everywhere, so that women get a good service, wherever they are."
Ms Rudd defended the government's record on domestic violence.
She said the Conservatives had introduced measures such as stalking protection orders, and Clare's Law, a scheme allowing police to disclose to individuals details of their partners' abusive pasts.
An extra £20m had also been made available last year to fund residential places for victims.
Sarah Green, co-director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, welcomed the Conservative plans. She told Today the law around domestic violence was unclear, and there were often cases when police dealing with assault cases missed the underlying ongoing problem of domestic violence.
"This is a massive and endemic social problem. A new law and a new commissioner is not the whole answer. What we have got persistent disbelief of domestic violence victims by a range of services... there is systemic stuff that needs to happen, not just a simple altering of the law."
"We hope for an end to women and children being forced to flee for their lives while perpetrators walk free and continue their coercive control through the family courts."
Liberal Democrat election campaign spokeswoman Jo Swinson said: "Let us be clear actions speak louder than words and Conservative cuts to local authorities have meant that funding for domestic abuse services have suffered, with some services having to refuse referrals from victims due to a lack of capacity."
The 19-year-old has made two first-team appearances for Wolves since joining in 2014, both as a substitute in the Championship last season.
A former Chelsea trainee, Hunte has appeared for England at Under-17 level.
Hunte, who could make his debut on Tuesday against Leyton Orient, joins after Boro signed winger Jobi McAnuff before the League Two season began.
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It marked the first public appearance for the baby bear, who was born on 6 November 2015.
Having weighed just 0.5 kilograms at birth, Nora now weighs over 23 kg and is growing at a healthy rate, according to Columbus Zoo officials.
Scientists estimate that only 20,000-25,000 polar bears remain in the wild.
But at Columbus Zoo, people will now have the opportunity to watch one grow, as Nora gets set to play outside for one hour each day.
Builder Sebastian Stephenson, 34 from Croydon, hung the poster which said "Wanted: Dead or Alive" alongside a CCTV photograph of the alleged thief.
The police told him he had to change it as it was inciting public disorder.
The Met said Mr Stephenson had not been arrested and that the investigation into the theft continues.
Mr Stephenson said the alleged thief had targeted him four times and had taken more than £4,000 worth of tools.
After the first couple of thefts, he installed CCTV cameras outside his house which filmed the tools being taken.
He said he called the police saying "here is the burglar" and urged them to send a picture from the Met's Twitter accounts and other social media to raise awareness to other builders.
When this did not happen, Mr Stephenson uploaded the CCTV footage to YouTube and paid £300 for a Facebook post on the incident to be promoted to users in the Croydon area.
Still frustrated at the police's response, he decided to print the banner.
"I want him to drive back and see his face. [But] within 24 hours the police came back to arrest me for inciting public disorder and said I must take the sign down immediately.
When asked why he included the "Dead or Alive" line he said: "Everybody knows it's just a cowboy and western reference, like Clint Eastwood."
He has now marked out the word dead.
After the poster went up, he said he had people who lived close by to him saying they had had their tools stolen too.
"Burglary is important. My home has been violated. When I told my wife I was going away for work she said 'you're leaving me alone with a thief' - see it's affecting her.
"At night I'm checking the van through the window to see if it's still there. My children keep asking if I've caught the thief so it's on their mind.
"It's not low-level crime."
The Met said anyone with information should contact 101 or Crimestoppers.
A court in Madrid found him and more than 60 other former bankers guilty of using undeclared corporate credit cards to finance lavish lifestyles.
About €12m (£10.1m; $12.7m) was spent from Caja Madrid and Bankia in 2003-12. Rato, 67, had denied any wrongdoing.
Bankia was rescued in 2012 at huge public expense.
About 200,000 small-scale savers - who had been persuaded to convert their savings into shares before Bankia's flotation in 2011 - lost their money.
During the trial, Rato argued that the corporate credit cards were part of his pay package.
All the card purchases during that period were not declared to the tax authorities.
Rato resigned as head of Bankia shortly before its near-collapse in 2012.
He led the International Monetary Fund in 2004-07. Before that he served as Spain's economy minister.
Manxmen Rob Sellors and Ben Scott will be joined in their record attempt by Richard Hurdle from Gloucestershire.
The current record of 25 hours and 10 minutes was set by Bob Baxter in 1985.
Scott, 42, said: "I know we'll make a pretty formidable team and if there's any chance of setting a record this is the team that can do it."
The three experienced ultra-distance runners are using the run to raise money for the Isle of Man's Children's Centre.
Sellors said the challenge was both "exciting" and "daunting."
The 48-year-old headteacher said: "The challenge of running around our beautiful island in one go has always held a strong appeal for me.
"Personally this is a challenge I would really like to attempt before I reach 50."
The men began their challenge from Peel promenade on Saturday at 14:00 GMT.
About 150 staff out of the ambulance service's total workforce of 1,100 are members of Unite.
Most of those who are to go on strike work in the control room. The BBC understands the roles will be filled by management during the 24-hour stoppage.
Public sector transport workers who are members of Unite are taking part in a 24-hour strike on the same day.
The transport strike will affect Ulsterbus, Metro and Northern Ireland Railways services.
On Thursday, GMB members of Translink announced they would be taking part in "two weeks of discontinuous industrial action short of strike", beginning on 1 May.
Other health unions are taking part in strike action in the coming weeks.
Unite officer with responsibility for health, Kevin McAdam, said the union had agreed a programme of strike action in "pursuit of an outstanding pay claim for 2014-15, the lack of an offer for the current year and proposed health service closures".
The Society of Radiographers will walk out for four hours on 30 April - the same day that midwives will hold a four-hour strike.
Unison and GMB members will begin a work to rule from Monday 27 April.
Ambulance crews will begin an overtime ban on the same day at 08:00 BST.
That will end at 20:00 BST on Sunday 10 May.
GMB, a smaller union, will also begin an overtime ban on Monday that will last for two weeks.
The union has given notice to the five trusts in Northern Ireland that its members would be taking part in action short of strike from Monday.
Unison workers will take part in a work to rule, but at this stage the union is not planning to participate in the 24-hour strike.
Last month, public transport workers took part in a one-day strike involving education, administration and health service staff.
In a statement on Thursday, the Department of Health said it respected the right of trade union members to take part in industrial action but was disappointed "that this further industrial action is being taken by Northern Ireland Ambulance Service members".
"In Northern Ireland, despite our offers to negotiate, local trade unions have not been prepared to talk to us about options for a 2015/16 pay deal, dissatisfied with what their English colleagues accepted in 2014/15," a spokesperson for the department said.
"The department wrote earlier this year inviting unions to begin discussions, and also sought to engage with unions at the start of March. A further invitation has been issued to seek to commence discussions as soon as trade union availability permits.
"There is ongoing pressure within our health and social care system and there is a very difficult financial year ahead with difficult decisions required regarding the provision of direct health and social care services.
"The minister remains committed to putting patients first and departmental officials will work with the HSCB and trusts to ensure a safe service is provided during any planned stoppages."
Daytime temperatures as low as -15C are expected, although forecasters say with wind chill it could feel like -29C.
The coldest NFL game in terms of air temperature was 1967's 'Ice Bowl' between Green Bay and Dallas, which at kick off was -25C (-44C wind chill).
"It is going to be brutally cold," AccuWeather's John Feerick said.
The Vikings say fans attending Sunday's game in Minneapolis are encouraged to bring blankets and "styrofoam, cardboard or newspapers to place under their feet" to prevent prolonged contact with the concrete.
Free hand warmers and coffee will also be distributed.
"Frostbite will occur quickly to any exposed skin and both fans and players will have to prepare accordingly," Feerick added.
Vikings owner Mark Wilf said: "We know Minnesotans are resilient when it comes to cold weather and unified when it comes to the Vikings, so we view this Sunday's game as a rallying moment.
"At the same time, we want our fans to be smart and safe when they are supporting the team, and we are taking a few extra steps to assist in that effort this Sunday."
The previous coldest game in Vikings history was played on 3 December 1972, when the air temperature was -18C and the wind chill was -28C.
The Vikings are currently playing at TCF Bank Stadium, home of the University of Minnesota's football team, while a new stadium on the site of the Metrodome, their home from 1982 to 2013, is under construction.
The Football Leaks: The Dirty Business of Football discloses some eye-popping sums apparently involved in football's biggest transfers, from Manchester United's world-record signing of Paul Pogba to Ezequiel Lavezzi's lucrative move from Paris St-Germain to the Chinese Super League.
We have delved into the book and put together this quiz from its alleged sums, so get playing.
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Rajinder Singh Panesar, known to his friends as Halifaxwala after the West Yorkshire town where he settled, has died aged 69.
His funeral was held at a Gurdwara in Bradford.
Jasjit Singh, a family friend, said: "Many of the next generation of Sikhs will have been personally affected by his teaching."
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Mr Panesar "used to try and build bridges across the communities in Bradford, Leeds, Halifax and across the country", Mr Singh said.
Mr Panesar, who had been very active on social media was "a doer and role model", he added.
A Just Giving page in his memory has raised almost £1,700 for an international disaster relief charity.
Mr Panesar was born in India but moved as a teenager to Halifax in the 1960s and had studied civil engineering at King's College, London.
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He was addressing a huge Russian audience in a live televised phone-in.
He also insisted "there are no Russian troops in Ukraine". Moscow denies Western charges that it is directly arming and reinforcing the rebels.
Later he said those who had ordered the murder of Boris Nemtsov - one of his leading critics - might never be found.
Mr Nemtsov, a prominent opposition politician, was shot dead on 27 February near the Kremlin.
Five suspects, all of them Chechens, are in custody. Mr Putin condemned the murder as "disgraceful".
It was Mr Putin's 13th marathon annual phone-in with the Russian public, and lasted nearly four hours.
Mr Putin denied reports that Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko had offered to let Russia have the rebel-held areas in the Donbas region.
The rebels reject Kiev's rule and are getting humanitarian aid from Russia, which annexed Ukraine's Crimea region last year.
"There are many problems there and we do not see the current Kiev authorities wanting to restore the social sphere, or the economy of Donbas," Mr Putin said.
"We see a total blockade of Donbas. One can say that the current Ukrainian authorities are cutting off Donbas by their own hand. That is the problem and tragedy."
Mr Putin said he had told business leaders that he did not expect EU-US sanctions - imposed over Russia's actions in Ukraine - to be lifted soon.
"We need to use the situation to reach a new level of development," he said.
The BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Moscow says such phone-ins are highly choreographed but do reveal Russians' concerns. Russians' real incomes have fallen this year for the first time since Mr Putin came to power.
Mr Putin said the Russian economy would take about two years to bounce back from recession, or less as the rouble's value was rising again.
He said there were encouraging signs that Russian agriculture was growing and replacing imports of Western food.
However, a dairy farmer introduced as "John - a Russian citizen" grilled Mr Putin over the hardship faced by farmers.
"You say everything is going well - sorry, that's not true," the farmer said. "I have five children... I need some assurance about their future in Russia. Do you believe the statistics or are they lying?" he asked in English-accented Russian.
The farmer is reportedly John Kopiski, originally from the UK, who has lived in Vladimir region for about 15 years.
Mr Putin admitted that farmers faced difficulties over low dairy retail prices and that cheap imports of powdered milk from Belarus were part of the problem.
"I don't have reason to disbelieve the statistics," he said, adding that the government would have to increase subsidies for farmers.
Later in the phone-in Mr Putin was asked about Russia's controversial plan to export S-300 air defence missiles to Iran.
He insisted that the missiles were not on the UN list of banned exports under the UN sanctions linked to Iran's nuclear programme.
He said he made the move because Iran had shown "a desire to reach compromise". The S-300 "doesn't threaten Israel at all, it's exclusively a defensive weapon", he added.
Our correspondent says the questions for Mr Putin were clearly vetted, with nothing too critical or too personal. About two million questions came in before the broadcast.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said about 23% of the questions submitted concerned social welfare issues, and the second biggest area of concern was housing and local services.
Hamilton was 0.291 seconds slower than Rosberg, with Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo splitting the Mercedes.
Rosberg heads Hamilton by 33 points in the championship with 100 still available in the remaining four races.
Hamilton badly needs to win in Austin in Sunday to revive his rapidly faltering hopes of retaining his title.
Final practice is at 16:00 BST on Saturday, with qualifying at 19:00.
The world champion was fastest in first practice, in which he was impressive in setting a rapid initial pace and maintaining an advantage throughout as Rosberg closed in.
Hamilton looked quick in the first stages of second practice, lapping within 0.3secs of Rosberg on the first runs, despite using the slower medium tyre while the German was on the soft.
But his qualifying simulation run on the super-soft tyre did not go as well.
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However, Hamilton was evenly matched with Rosberg on the race-simulation runs in the second part of the session, when Ricciardo was marginally faster than both Mercedes drivers on the super-soft tyres.
"Ricciardo has had a great day," said team principal Christian Horner. "His short-run pace has been very strong, his long-run pace has been strong.
"Mercedes are favourites going into the grand prix but if we can get within 0.1secs or so we can put a bit of pressure on in the race."
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel was fourth fastest, ahead of Ricciardo's team-mate Max Verstappen and the Force Indias of Nico Hulkenberg and Sergio Perez.
McLaren drivers Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso were eighth and ninth, ahead of Vettel's team-mate Kimi Raikkonen, who made a mistake on his flying lap.
The Finn incurred the wrath of both Alonso and Toro Rosso's Daniil Kvyat, who both felt he was obstructive on track at various points of the session.
Renault's Jolyon Palmer, fighting for his future in F1, had a spin and managed 17th fastest time, five places and 0.2secs behind team-mate Kevin Magnussen.
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Lufthansa chief executive Carsten Spohr spoke of such checks in an interview with the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). They could be like sports doping tests, the paper said.
A Germanwings co-pilot deliberately crashed a plane in the Alps in March.
It remains unclear why he did so.
Andreas Lubitz, 27, is thought to have suffered some sort of mental breakdown. Prosecutors in Duesseldorf found evidence of "an existing illness and appropriate medical treatment". They found torn-up sick notes at his home.
Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 - travelling from Barcelona to Duesseldorf - was flown into a mountain by Lubitz, after he locked the plane's pilot out of the cockpit. Germanwings is a budget airline managed by Lufthansa.
In the FAZ interview, Mr Spohr said unannounced medical checks for pilots could be introduced, which in terms of the surprise factor would be similar to doping tests for sports men and women.
He said that in certain cases a doctor might have to be released from the duty of confidentiality, to reveal concerns about a pilot.
Random checks might for example detect a drug that the pilot had concealed from his or her employer.
Since the disaster Lufthansa and other airlines have ruled that there must always be at least two people in the cockpit.
Air accident investigators have staged a test flight to reconstruct conditions on board the Germanwings Airbus A320 which disintegrated on a mountainside in the French Alps after being put into a controlled dive.
The German tabloid Bild says experts flew an identical plane, which took off from Hamburg and returned there after flying in German airspace. It took place on 12 May, a spokesman for Germany's crash investigation authority BFU said.
French investigators say they hope the reconstruction will help them analyse sounds recorded in the cockpit of Flight 4U 9525. The flight copied the various altitudes, speeds, the cockpit door locking mechanism and pilots' breathing noises.
The SNP's Emma Harper told the Scottish Parliament it had been estimated the trade could be worth between £100m and £300m a year.
She said it was a "tax avoidance cash economy" being targeted by a special HM Revenue and Customs taskforce.
Ms Harper added that many hundreds, possibly thousands of puppies, were coming through the port of Cairnryan.
She said dogs were coming into the UK without legal documents including EU pet passports from "industrial-sized farms which don't support animal welfare practices".
"Scotland is a country of animal lovers and I believe that part of the task facing us is to make the public aware of the horrors of the trade and encourage best puppy purchasing practice," she said.
"Anyone buying a puppy should ensure that they see the dogs in a homely environment with the pup's mother and breeders should keep the pup until it is old enough to be rehomed.
"And they should insist on required sale documents."
She said no legitimate breeder would have any problem with such conditions.
"No-one should ever buy a puppy in a public place such as a car park and it should set alarm bells ringing if this is suggested by the seller," she added.
Her call was backed by numerous MSPs including fellow SNP MSP Christine Grahame who called for a campaign to raise awareness of the trade.
Conservative Oliver Mundell described puppy trafficking as a "blot on our welfare standards".
The conditions the animals were kept in was also highlighted by Labour MSP David Stewart.
"Puppies are held in mass breeding operations in dark and filthy conditions," he said. "They often do not receive sufficient food or water, let alone proper immunisation."
Scottish Greens MSP Mark Ruskell said he would urge anyone who was thinking of buying a dog this Christmas to do so via a dog shelter.
He said conditions on some puppy farms failed to meet animal welfare codes.
Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham said she shared many of the concerns which had been raised.
She said the issue of human contact would be taken into account during the Scottish government's ongoing animal welfare review which would also look at the issue of third-party sales.
However, she said that local authorities did have powers over dog breeding and might need to be encouraged to use them.
She added that many of the powers to deal with dog trafficking sat with the UK government but the Scottish government could encourage Westminster to consider the views voiced during this debate.
"The key message remains that the illegal trade in puppies from Ireland and elsewhere could be seriously disrupted if every single puppy buyer first considered rehoming an animal from a centre in Scotland," she said.
"Or if they must buy a puppy insist that they always see it first with its mother at the breeder's premises."
Ch Insp John Chisholm of the Scottish SPCA said it was working with a range of agencies to tackle the multi-million pound industry.
He said many of the trafficked pups developed diseases and died, which was extremely distressing for owners.
"Trafficked pups often look fine when they are purchased, but problems will begin to show at a later stage," he said.
"We want to remind anyone looking to buy a puppy over the festive period please only go to reputable breeders, a list of breeders can be provided by the Kennel Club."
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Some eyewitnesses say the lorry driver spotted him and started swerving to force him off and there are reports that the vehicle which ran into him when he hit the ground, did not stop to help.
According to the aid organisation Help Refugees, the boy had an older brother living in the UK, giving him the legal right to come to this country, but he was so frustrated with the slow application process that he decided to risk jumping on a lorry instead.
One of his Afghan friends described him as "a kind boy with a good mind, who was trying to learn English in the camp and hoping to go back to school when he reached the UK".
So far this year, 12 people are reported to have been killed including several children - most of them while trying to get on board lorries near Calais port.
And almost all have come from the refugee and migrant camp in Calais known as the Jungle, where latest estimates say at least 9,000 people are now living - the majority from Afghanistan, Eritrea and Sudan.
So many have arrived since the authorities bulldozed half of the camp earlier this year, that aid workers are finding it increasingly difficult to find space for newcomers to pitch tents on the mud and sand.
Providing sufficient food for the burgeoning population is also a problem.
Amidst the squalid, tightly packed tents and makeshift shelters, the atmosphere is becoming increasingly febrile for other reasons too, particularly the fear that the French authorities will go ahead with their stated aim of closing the camp within the next few months.
One local official hinted recently to community representatives that the process could begin within weeks, although a spokesman for the regional authority has denied this.
Estimates of the number of unaccompanied children in the camp vary from 800 to more than 1,000 and so far very few have been granted the right to come to Britain through legal means.
And this despite an amendment to the Immigration Act coming into force earlier this year, committing the government to take in some of the thousands of unaccompanied refugee and migrant children now in Europe.
Among those waiting in the camp, still hoping he will eventually be allowed to set foot in the UK legally, is Tito, a 17-year-old boy from South Sudan.
Initially, as we walk together through the camp to his tent, he seems upbeat - laughing and smiling as he greets friends along the way.
But as we sit down for the interview, his mood darkens abruptly and disturbingly.
The pain of recalling why he left his family and home, and what he went through to get to France, showing on his face and in his voice.
"I lost my Daddy in the war (in South Sudan) two years ago," he says.
"It is very hard if you lose your father, you cannot complete your life… and every day I was losing someone from my family."
But his search for peace and security was still a long way off as he travelled north to take a boat from Libya to Europe.
The packed boat capsized and sank, leaving hundreds dead, including his friends.
As a strong swimmer, Tito was among those who survived and was even able to give his lifejacket to a 12-year-old boy who was screaming for help.
But after all this, his dream of reaching Britain remains as far away as ever.
He has no idea if or when his application to be resettled in the UK will be accepted and time is running short because in a few months he will have his 18th birthday, making him too old to be eligible.
Also looming on the horizon is the prospect of the camp being pulled down by the authorities, which would destroy the sense of security he has managed to create here.
"We have more friends here, it's like my family, my brothers, I don't feel alone," he says.
A Home Office spokesman told the BBC they were working as fast as possible on the child refugee issue and so far this year more than 120 have been given the green light to come to Britain.
He stressed that the ministry has to follow a process involving EU and French law and has to ensure there are places in Britain available for the children.
But aid workers are warning that the longer the wait, the greater the chances that more children will risk their lives trying to jump into lorries near Calais port.
And that means more could die.
The 60-year-old was attacked by a man in his late 20s on 10 March after she left Warwick Avenue station.
The Met said the victim had earlier "politely" rejected the man's attempts to "chat her up".
Detectives are now appealing for information to help trace the woman's attacker.
As part of the appeal the victim, who does not wish to be named, released a picture of her injuries.
The attacker is described as white, aged 25 to 27, about 5ft 8in tall, with short brown hair and brown eyes.
He was wearing light-coloured trousers, a brown jacket and a black baseball cap.
The Met said after failing to chat up the victim he followed her as she walked along Warwick Avenue towards Formosa Street, near Paddington.
He then grabbed her from behind and repeatedly hit her in the face, leaving her needing surgery.
After being found by a passer-by she was taken to hospital.
Det Con Mike Reilly, said: "Warwick Avenue is a busy area, especially at 8pm on a Friday evening.
"Someone must have seen something and I'd appeal for anyone with information to come forward as soon as possible so we can bring the perpetrator to justice."
Hammersmith Bridge opened in 1887 and requires reinforcing to cope with heavy modern traffic like buses and lorries.
Hammersmith and Fulham Council said it had cut council tax by 1% and postponed the £27m works until late 2017.
The Labour council said people were its first priority and there were currently no structural issues with the bridge as long as only one bus crossed at a time.
Transport for London (TfL) is believed to be contributing £20m towards the cost of repairs, but said it would not comment while negotiations were ongoing.
The council threatened to close the bridge in September when it learned Transport for London had removed the bridge monitor who enforced the single bus weight restriction.
Its ultimatum came after three buses were seen on the bridge at once, and the authority gave TfL 24 hours to ensure compliance with the one-bus rule, which it did.
Strengthening work was planned for the summer of 2016 to help ease traffic flow.
Council leader Stephen Cowan said the council had experienced a 66% reduction in its budgets since 2010, but was not prepared to increase council tax by 3.75% as recommended by the government to help the council raise revenues.
Mr Cowan added: "There's no way that this council is going to spend anything like that money, the majority of this issue is the responsibility of TfL and we will work with them to make sure the bridge is fit for public purpose."
But it left interest rates unchanged.
The main US share indexes fell from earlier peaks with the Dow Jones still closing at record high up 96.49 points or 0.45% at 21,709.92.
The wider S&P 500 closed up 0.69 points or 0.03% at 2,477.82 while the tech-focused Nasdaq index ended 10.57 points or 0.16% ahead at 6,422.75.
The Federal Reserve said in its statement on Wednesday that it would start cutting back its $4.5tn balance sheet "relatively soon".
In June it had suggested it would start "this year".
Chris Low, chief economist at FTN Financial in New York said: "The Fed did the bare minimum today, acknowledging recent economic data and little else.
"Balance sheet reduction will likely be announced at the September meeting and begin soon after.
"The next rate hike, therefore, is not likely to be considered until December."
Earlier shares were boosted as investors welcomed some strong trading updates.
Boeing shares jumped more than 9% after the firm's quarterly profits beat expectations.
The US aerospace giant also said it expects higher profits for the year than previously forecast.
Second quarter earnings have continued to beat analyst expectations.
Shares at AT&T climbed more than 5% on Wednesday, a day after that the telecommunications giant told investors that it had lowered operating costs and was holding onto customers better.
Not all the corporate news was welcomed though.
Ford shares fell 1.8%, after the US carmaker reported nearly flat revenues for the quarter and warned investors that key markets, including North America and Europe, would be less profitable this year than last.
The Giants' eighth defeat in nine outings, despite a hat-trick from Jermaine McGillvary, saw them remain two points adrift of 11th-placed Leeds.
Mike McMeeken scored twice for the hosts, with Greg Minikin and Jake Webster also crossing for Castleford.
Leroy Cudjoe went over on two occasions for Huddersfield, with Sam Rapira grabbing the Giants' other score.
The defeat continued a miserable start to 2016 for Paul Anderson's men, who were beaten by Wigan in the play-off semi-finals last season.
Castleford, who remain without a number of key first-team players through injury, climbed to seventh in the table, three points behind third-placed Widnes Vikings.
Castleford head coach Daryl Powell:
"It was a crazy game. It was a typical third game of Easter.
"We've generally been pretty good in this period, but I haven't been able to rotate like normal. We have 10 guys out and we lost Grant Millington early on, and it's made it hard for us.
"It's a massive win. I said to (assistant) Danny Orr before the game whether we'd have enough to beat them but we did, just about.
"There's a couple of clubs who've responded well to new coaches such as Wakefield and Hull KR - and the competition is real tight, so it's an important win."
Huddersfield head coach Paul Anderson:
"Our focus has to be on dusting ourselves down and trying to make sure we win the next game.
"We know this group is capable of doing some good things. It's just a case of building energy because we're robbing ourselves of it at the moment.
"It's the same old story. I could sit here and repeat myself constantly.
"The positive was that we scored 30-odd points but the negative was clearly the amount they got."
Castleford: Hampshire; Minikin, Crooks, Webster, Hitchcox; T. Holmes, Gale; Lynch, Milner, Jewitt, McMeeken, Millington, Massey.
Replacements: Cook, McShane, Maher, Boyle.
Huddersfield: Brierley; McGillvary, Cudjoe, Wardle, Murphy; Brough, Connor; Rapira, Hinchcliffe, Huby, Lawrence, Ta'ai, Roberts.
Replacements: Crabtree, Patrick, Mason, M. Wood.
Referee: Phil Bentham
Northumberland County Council has approved plans to close and sell off its headquarters in Morpeth and relocate to a smaller HQ at Ashington.
It says that the new building will cost less than refurbishing the current one.
Labour council leader Grant Davey rejected Tory Peter Jackson's "palace" claim.
The council said it needed to save £58m over the next four years and relocating would save more than £13m.
The "more cost-effective" HQ is part of a plan to rejuvenate Ashington town centre, the council said.
Mr Jackson said: "We just don't believe what we are being told, the people of Northumberland don't believe what they are being told and no one thinks there's any sense whatsoever in wasting £40m on a palace for councillors in the middle of Ashington."
Mr Davey said: "A new building would be a far better place for our staff to work in.
"The design we would like to have built has a very simple council chamber that will also double up as a local cinema, because of the layout, and will probably have a stage where other events can be put on. So it's about a utility building and not a building that will be a palace for anyone."
About 1,000 people work in the current building, which was built in 1981.
To save £11.9m from its 2016/2017 budget, councillors also agreed a 1.99% rise in council tax.
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Why? To make a flat spot to build the world's biggest ever telescope, which will have a mirror that's half the size of a football pitch!
It's called - wait for it - the European Extremely Large Telescope, and Nel has been finding out why it's an Extremely Large deal.
Ms Al-Jeffery, 21, who has dual British and Saudi Arabian nationality, claims her father Mohammed Al-Jeffery locked her up and kept her against her will after she "kissed a guy".
He said he took her from Swansea to Jeddah in 2012 to "save her life".
Last week at the High Court in London, Mr Al-Jeffery denied the allegations.
A judgement on the case has been reserved until Wednesday.
In a letter to Mr Johnson, Swansea West MP Geraint Davies, said: "If Ms Al-Jeffery is being held against her will, she must be released immediately.
"Ms Al-Jeffery is 21 years old and no one, whatever their relationship to her, has the right to deprive her of her liberty.
"If these allegations are proven to be correct, the court must order her release and the government must take all the necessary measures to ensure her safe return.
"This is now a matter of urgency, so if she is being held against her will, I would ask that you take immediate action to ensure her release and uphold her human rights."
A friend of Ms Al-Jeffery in the UK - who wished to remain anonymous - told BBC Wales Today they have had contact with her whilst she has been in Saudi Arabia.
They said during a series of messages between October and December 2015, Ms Al-Jeffery had asked them to contact the British Embassy to inform them of her situation.
Ms Al-Jeffery also sent a picture of what she claimed to be the cage she had been kept in and said that she had been "under constant surveillance".
The friend also said Ms Al-Jeffery had described how she was "clinging on to sanity".
Mr Al-Jeffery claimed he took daughter to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia in order "save her life."
He said his daughter was not doing well at school, had been taking drugs and "going to clubs and spending time with older men".
In a statement the Foreign Office said: "We are providing assistance to a woman in Saudi Arabia.
"This has included visiting her and assisting her to speak to her lawyers in the UK as part of an ongoing legal process."
It said it would respond to Geraint Davies' letter in due course, once it has been received.
Having spent 12 years flying around the ringed planet and its moons at a relatively safe distance, the probe is now about to undertake a series of daredevil manoeuvres.
These will see the satellite repeatedly dive extremely close to - and through - the rings over the next nine months.
The manoeuvres will culminate in Cassini dumping itself in the atmosphere of the giant planet.
This destructive ending is necessary because the spacecraft is running low on fuel.
Nasa (US space agency), which leads the Cassini mission, needs to make sure that an out-of-control probe cannot at some future date crash into any of Saturn’s moons - in particular, Enceladus and Titan.
There is a chance these moons harbour life, and however remote the possibility - a colliding satellite could introduce contamination from Earth. This must not be allowed to happen.
But in the lead up to its safe disposal - set for 15 September next year - Cassini should gather some remarkable science.
Starting on Wednesday, Cassini will repeatedly climb high above Saturn's north pole before then plunging to a point just outside the F ring (the outer boundary of the main ring system).
The probe will do 20 such orbits, even sampling some of the particles and gases associated with the F ring.
Starting on 22 April next year, Cassini will then initiate a series of dives that take it in between the inner edge of the rings and the planet’s atmosphere.
On occasion, it could pass less than 2,000km above Saturn’s cloud tops.
As well as returning some spectacular imagery of the rings and moonlets previously seen only from a large distance, these upcoming manoeuvres are designed to permit close-up investigation of Saturn’s interior.
“One of the big outstanding questions at Saturn, for example, is: we don’t know how long a day is. We have a large error. It’s 10.7 hours plus or minus 0.2 hours,” said magnetic field instrument principal investigator, Prof Michele Dougherty.
“Come and ask me afterwards but I think what we learn about the internal structure of the planet could be among the great discoveries of mission,” the Imperial College London, UK, scientist told BBC News.
Interestingly, many of the unknowns at Saturn are similar to the ones also now being pursued by Nasa’s Juno spacecraft at Jupiter - fascinating mysteries such as whether there is a solid core at the planet's centre.
“It’s as if we’re about to do a whole new mission at Saturn - a Juno-type mission at Saturn,” said Prof Dougherty.
Cassini is a cooperative venture between Nasa, the European Space Agency and the Italian space agency.
The probe launched in 1997 and arrived at Saturn in July 2004.
Key discoveries have included the determination that Enceladus is spewing water into space from a sub-surface ocean, and that Titan is a strange Earth-like world where lakes and seas are fed by rivers and rain - except that all the liquid is made up of hydrocarbons such as methane.
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Argyll and Bute Council granted permission to Ardyne Estates to build the facility at Ardyne Point.
The council said the factory was expected to support 150 jobs, and add more than £7m to the local economy.
A masterplan identifying potential future developments in the wider Ardyne Point area was also approved.
Ardyne Estates has not indicated when construction work will start on the factory.
David Kinniburgh, chair of the council's planning committee, said: ''We wholeheartedly support this development.
"It will be a great boost to the economy of South Cowal in particular and Argyll and Bute in general.
"A particularly important feature is the masterplan which identifies potential future developments in the wider Ardyne Point area.
''The plan is flexible but includes areas for tourism, business, leisure, housing, marine and aquaculture developments.
"This site can now be developed in a sensible and sustainable way, benefiting both developers and the wider community."
Councillor Ken Gowans said he did not believe The Gathering Place to be a viable concept. About 200 people have opposed it in a public consultation.
The arts group continues to review the project, as well as other arts schemes proposed for the city.
Highland Council said a new chairperson would be appointed in due course.
The Gathering Place would be designed to tilt gently up and down.
A child-friendly water feature and a project called River Connections, which involves seating areas and poetry set into stones have also been proposed for locations next to the Ness in Inverness.
The public art would form part of the River Ness Flood Alleviation Scheme.
The working group includes senior councillors, including Thomas Prag, and local authority officers and involves Highlife Highland.
The stamp, featuring a profile of the Queen by Stoke-on-Trent-born sculptor Arnold Machin, has been reproduced in more than 130 colours since 1967.
He also designed the profile of the Queen that appeared on coins from 1968 to 1984.
A set of six stamps has now been issued featuring different stages of the stamp design.
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The new stamps were issued on Monday to mark the day the Machin Definitive, as the image is known, was first issued.
It has since been reprinted an estimated 220 billion times.
Before 1967, an image of the Queen taken by society photographer Dorothy Wilding had been used.
Dominic Newton, Mr Machin's nephew and director and trustee of the Machin Arts Foundation, said his uncle "regarded his design and sculpture for the definitive issue stamp as his greatest achievement".
"He saw his task as creating a design with charm and dignity and yet without sentimentality, both a likeness of the Queen and an image of the monarchy," he said.
"The result was an iconic design that has stood the test of time."
Mr Machin, who came from a family of pottery workers, started working at the Minton China Factory aged 14.
He won scholarships to both the Derby School of Art and Royal College of Art and was appointed an OBE in 1965.
British Gas unveiled a 5.1% price reduction, followed swiftly by EDF's announcement of a 5% cut.
British Gas's price change takes effect on 16 March, while EDF's kicks in eight days later.
The moves benefit customers on a standard domestic gas tariff.
Britain's big six energy suppliers have been under pressure to pass on savings to customers after a 57% drop in wholesale gas prices since this time last year.
E.On was the first to announce a cut this year of 5.1%, followed by similar reductions by SSE, Scottish Power and Npower.
Executive director at consumer group Which?, Richard Lloyd, said :"Seeing all of the big suppliers mirror each other with small cuts in the face of falling wholesale prices will raise questions in many people's minds about whether competition is working in this market."
British Gas, which is owned by Centrica, said 6.8 million of its customers on dual-fuel deals would see an average annual saving of £31 due to the 5.1% cut.
It said customers on so-called "fix and fall" tariffs would also benefit from the price reduction.
EDF said about 900,000 of its customers would also make an annual saving of £31.
It said it had no exit fees on any of its fixed deals.
Beatrice Bigois, managing director of customers at EDF, said: "Our prices are under constant review and today's announcement reflects falls in wholesale gas costs."
Centrica's Mark Hodges, chief executive of its energy supply and services in UK and Ireland, said: "Competitive pricing is the way to retain existing customers and win new business in this hard-fought market."
Some commentators warn that these types of "standard" tariffs are among the most expensive, so there is still benefit in shopping around.
Rachel Fletcher, Ofgem's senior partner for consumers and competition, said: "These price cuts are a movement in the right direction for loyal customers, but they are dwarfed by the savings available by switching from a standard tariff to a fixed deal.
"You could save more money, up to £300, by switching."
There was also criticism of the industry for failing to cut electricity tariffs, despite falling wholesale costs.
Energy analysts at Jefferies said: "There has still been no movement in electricity tariffs, despite a 30% fall in wholesale electricity prices since August 2014.
"This is likely due to increased environmental costs, which fall on electricity rather than gas, and additional network charges."
British Gas said it was unable to lower electricity prices due to rising costs, such as for network delivery, adding that wholesale costs only make up a third of electricity bills.
Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd said there was still more to do.
Suppliers are awaiting the outcome of a competition watchdog investigation set to conclude in June, which Ms Rudd said would help determine if consumers were getting a "rough deal".
Mr Owen was due to face a hearing with two senior officers also suspended over claims they failed to follow procedures while handling a safeguarding case.
It related to how the authority handled a councillor who admitted possessing indecent images of children.
It is understood Mr Owen quit on Friday. The council is not commenting.
The BBC understands that Mr Owen will not receive any severance pay as a result of his decision.
The hearing was scheduled to last three days.
A statement from the council issued on Friday said it was making "every effort" to ensure a fair hearing took place.
Those who have spoken publicly include Andy Woodward, Chris Unsworth, Jason Dunford and Steve Walters.
Andy Woodward, 43, was the first player to go public when he revealed he was abused by coach Barry Bennell, 62, who has served three jail sentences for child sex offences.
It happened between the ages of 11 and 15 while he was a member of Crewe Alexandra's youth team.
"I kept it locked away in the back of my head," he told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.
Bennell had threatened to take his career away from him, he alleged, adding: "It was that control - that all I wanted to do was be a footballer."
Mr Woodward, who played for Bury and Sheffield United, retired from the game in 2002, aged 29, after suffering a series of panic attacks.
He said he wanted to encourage more victims to speak out and would "die a happy man" if he could prevent more children from being abused.
Ex-Manchester City youth player Chris Unsworth, 44, claimed he was abused by Bennell from the age of nine.
"It started in the car - he used to touch, play games on the way to training," he said, and later got "more serious" during sleepovers at Bennell's house where, Mr Unsworth claimed, "there was penetration".
He said although he had been "raped between 50 and 100 times", no-one ever spoke about it.
Mr Unsworth moved to Crewe with Bennell at the age of 12 when, he says, Bennell began to lose interest.
"Your body changes and that's when your time is up - he moves on to fresh blood."
Mr Unsworth said he "turned away from football" at the age of 16 because he had "had enough", adding: "I kept it locked away right in the back of my head, but I am still re-living it."
At the age of 13, Jason Dunford was a budding footballer when, he claims, Bennell tried to abuse him at a Butlin's holiday camp.
"I told him to get off me. I remember physically hitting him," he said. "After that he detached me from the group, saying he'd drop me."
A period of "isolation" and "mind games" followed, Mr Dunford said, where he was prevented from playing and accused of stealing money.
"He fabricated stories about me amongst my team-mates," he said, adding that Bennell told him: "Do you really want to tell your parents you'd been accused of being a thief?"
Mr Dunford, who never turned professional, pointed to a culture of silence in the 1980s and said his dream "would've burst" if he had tried to expose a coach like Bennell.
And he added: "For those parents out there kicking themselves, do not feel guilty. This man wasn't just playing games with the children's heads."
Steve Walters broke three decades of silence to reveal what he called "absolutely petrifying" abuse.
The ex-Crewe player, now 44, alleged the abuse began at the age of 12, when he would stay at Bennell's house in the town during the school holidays.
"Back in that day and age if you came out with accusations, would anybody believe you?" he said.
Bennell would "teach you these tricks and flicks, he could do things with a football we'd never seen before", he said, "but it was all just grooming, wasn't it?".
One of England's most promising young players, Mr Walters was diagnosed with a blood disorder at the age of 17, but continued to play at a lower level.
"I had problems with relationships because I've always thought, 'Am I gay?'" he said. "What's happened to us has made us feel like that - it's not right."
Former Tottenham and England player Paul Stewart, who began his professional career playing for Blackpool aged 17, told the BBC he was abused by a coach - not Bennell - for four years as a child.
"I was told that I had to do these things if I wanted to be a footballer," he said.
"He was threatening that he would kill my parents and my two brothers if I ever spoke out. I was just absolutely frightened.
"I do believe, in the days it was happening to me, it was a taboo subject, nobody spoke about it. It was brushed under the carpet if it was happening. I don't think there was anywhere to turn in those days."
On coming forward now, Mr Stewart said: "I felt that I needed to do this so other people will come out and with the hope that it may stop anyone who may be thinking of doing it again, in any walk of life - not just football."
He added: "The access to children at sport level is very easy and it is the perfect ground for them to prey."
Former Manchester City and England player David White also claims he was abused by Bennell - whom he "hero-worshipped" - and "kept the ordeal secret" from family and friends for almost two decades.
Mr White, now 49, says he was targeted in 1979, at the age of 11, when he played for Whitehill FC junior team in Manchester.
"I now realise the effects of Bennell's actions were much more far-reaching than I knew then," he said, adding the alleged abuse "influenced almost every event and relationship in my life".
"I would like to say that I do not feel brave... I feel like one of the lucky ones," he added.
"I salute Andy Woodward, Steve Walters, and Paul Stewart for so bravely revealing their personal tragedies.
"The physical abuse they and others suffered was certainly more extreme and prolonged than my ordeal, and I cannot be sure that I would have their courage."
A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murdering Tom Webb, from Alvaston, on 19 January.
The 22-year-old died in hospital after being stabbed once on St Peter's Street, Derbyshire Police said.
Two 15-year-olds and two 16-year-olds have been arrested along with a 14-year-old, a 17-year-old and 18-year-old, police said.
The 16-year-old charged with murder, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was remanded in custody after appearing in Nottingham Crown Court.
Police said the arrests of the seven, all male, were made after the force made an appeal for members of a group that were seen leaving McDonald's on the evening of the stabbing to contact them.
One of the 16-year-olds arrested on suspicion of violent disorder remains in police custody, while the others have been released on bail pending further inquiries.
Detective Chief Inspector Dave Cox, who is leading the investigation, said: "We have made a number of arrests in connection with this crime but we are still keen to speak to anyone who might have information."
Mr Webb died in hospital after being found in St Peter's Street on Tuesday evening.
Carmarthen Road is the main route into the city centre from junction 47 of the M4 and some parts of it has a 40mph limit.
But Swansea council has acted in a bid to cut the number of accidents and fatalities.
As well as reducing the speed, cameras will also be installed at junctions.
Scottish Hydro said several hundred customers were still without power on Saturday morning.
About 300 Scottish Power customers remained off supply but were expected to be reconnected later in the day.
At the height of the storms, the entire Scottish rail network was closed and power was cut to 130,000 properties.
Scottish Hydro said the remaining customers without power were in small pockets in rural areas across Argyll, Perthshire, Stirlingshire, the Highlands and Shetland.
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The company, which has reconnected almost 80,000 customers since the storms began, said its engineers were "out again at first light" with the aim of restoring electricity to all remaining households on Saturday.
A spokesman added: "We are working closely with community and resilience groups in the affected areas and welfare vans have been deployed to provide hot water, charge mobile phones and provide hot food and drinks."
Scottish Power said on Friday 650 engineers, 150 of them brought in from England, were working to reconnect supplies.
The worst-affected areas included Dumfries and Galloway and the Borders. Faults were also reported across Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and the Lothians.
The biggest problem has come from uprooted trees and other debris which has been blown on to overhead power lines, causing damage and bringing down the lines in some areas.
A Scottish Power spokesman said about 300 customers remained without power overnight on Friday. He added: "All customers will be reconnected today."
The company said it had raised its interest in the Maersk Oil-operated Culzean development from 16% to 32%.
It did not disclose how much it paid co-venturer JX Nippon for the additional stake.
The development, which lies about 145 miles east of Aberdeen, is one of the largest gas fields discovered in the North Sea in more than a decade.
The gas condensate field has resources estimated at 250-300 million barrels, according to BP.
Production is due to start in 2019 and continue into the 2030s, with plateau production of 60,000-90,000 barrels per day.
It is expected to produce enough gas to meet 5% of total UK demand when it reaches peak production in 2020-21.
Mark Thomas, from BP, said: "This is a challenging time for the industry and we must continue to work together to ensure that when developments like Culzean, or other projects such as BP's Quad 204 and Clair Ridge, come online they can be run as efficiently as possible."
He added: "BP has been focusing and refreshing its North Sea portfolio by bringing new fields into production, redeveloping and renewing existing producing facilities and divesting some of its more mature or less strategic assets.
"Our deepening in Culzean further demonstrates our commitment to supporting the development of another UK field for the future."
UK Energy Secretary Amber Rudd said: "With BP doubling investment in Culzean gas field, the opening of Total's new Shetland facility today and new powers for the Oil and Gas Authority through the UK government's Energy Bill becoming law, this has been a good week for our oil and gas industry."
The 21-year-old has previously had spells on loan with Gateshead and Hartlepool United but has not made a first-team appearance for the Magpies.
"Tom is a good young player that I have monitored for around a year at Newcastle," manager Lee Clark said.
"We also feel that we can help him develop and he can also be an asset for us over the coming season."
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But 70 years ago this month, this son of a Cockett sheet metal worker would go on to change the course of our everyday lives.
Because Prof 'Taffy' Bowen managed to miniaturise radar, from a nationwide network of 50ft (15m) tall masts in 1935, right down to something which by 1943 could be fitted into the noses of planes during the Battle of the Atlantic.
This meant that while Allied fighters could detect German U-Boats from a range of up to 100 miles (160km) - even though they were thousands of miles away from the nearest land-based radar systems - the U-boats were unaware of their presence until the planes were virtually on top of them.
As a result the Royal Navy and RAF were able to break the Nazi stranglehold over the north Atlantic, allowing vital arms and food to reach Britain from America and scuppering Hitler's plan to starve the UK out of the war.
If that wasn't enough, the breakthroughs which Prof Bowen made in the field of electro-magnetism during his career led directly and indirectly to a string of other developments:
Mike Charlton, who now holds the seat once filled by Prof Bowen as professor of physics at Swansea University, says his predecessor was one of the most brilliant minds ever to come out of Wales.
"Taffy was born in May 1911 to a quite unremarkable working-class family in Swansea, but from a very early age it was obvious that he was different," said Prof Charlton.
"By 1920 he'd already built his own valve radio transmitter. A marvellous achievement for any nine or 10-year-old boy, but this was fully two years before even the BBC made their first broadcast.
"He joined Swansea University aged 16, he had his MSc (master of science degree) by 19, and was a professor aged 24."
In 1935 Prof Bowen's brilliance brought him to the attention of the inventor of radar, Scottish scientist Robert Watson-Watt.
He was set to work on a top-secret spin-off project from radar, investigating whether high energy electro-magnetic waves could ever be used as a "death ray" in order to bring down enemy aircraft.
Prof Bowen soon discovered that the power required to create such a death ray made the notion impractical, but as Prof Charlton explains, he did learn that using shorter frequency microwaves vastly improved the efficiency of Watson-Watt's principal of radar.
"Radio travels in metres-long, loopy waves," added Prof Charlton.
"Their arc through the air is so vast that one of them could quite easily miss something even the size of an aeroplane, meaning that to be effective radar had to have enormous chains of transmitters throughout the country.
"But what Taffy discovered was that microwaves, with their shorter frequency and higher energy, bombard something the size of a plane with many times more waves, and send back a much clearer image for the energy expelled.
"Put simply, if someone throws a bucket of water out of the window, it's comparatively easy to get out of the way. But you try dodging the rain."
And even though Prof Bowen's death ray never came to pass, its principle lives on to this day in most kitchens, in the form of the microwave oven, as does his research into cathode ray tubes, which influenced the design of televisions until the advent of the flat-screen TV.
After the war he switched old south Wales for New South Wales in Australia, where he built the Parkes radio telescope which received the first slow-scan images of the Moon landing in July 1969.
Prof Bowen died in Sydney in 1991, aged 80.
According to Prof Charlton, he is perhaps best summed-up by the wackiest of his experiments.
"Taffy was an avid cricketer and sailor, both highly weather-dependent pastimes," he said.
"So when he heard about American efforts to produce and control rainfall through cloud seeding, he enthusiastically embraced the idea and dramatically improved its effectiveness.
"That alone probably shows why Taffy was so successful. Not only was he a brilliant scientist, he had the imagination to anticipate how what he was working on could benefit the real world."
Mr Duncan is to be given a peerage so that he can serve in the government as a member of the House of Lords.
He will work alongside Scottish Secretary David Mundell, with a particular focus on the Brexit talks.
Opposition politicians were critical of the move, as Mr Duncan failed to win election in Perth and North Perthshire but still entered the government.
He lost out to the SNP's Pete Wishart by 21 votes, after a recount.
However, with the announcement of his peerage, it was confirmed that Mr Duncan will serve as parliamentary under-secretary of state in the Scotland Office.
Mr Duncan, who will step down as an MEP, said it was a "crucial time for Scotland" as the Brexit negotiations get under way. He has already said the Scottish government should have a seat at the table to "see exactly what is going on".
On his appointment he said: "Having worked in Brussels for many years as an MEP, and previously as an EU advisor to the Scottish Parliament, I understand how important it is that we build a new partnership with the EU, while making sure that whole of the UK gets the best possible deal, especially around crucial issues for Scotland such as fisheries, agriculture and energy.
"Working alongside Scottish Secretary David Mundell, and in close collaboration with the Scottish government, I look forward to playing a key role in helping build Scotland's economy and strengthen the union. We are in a strong position to deliver for Scotland."
Mr Wishart said the appointment of Mr Duncan was "so wrong" and "an insult to my constituents who recently rejected him", adding: "The abuse of the undemocratic House of Lords as a receptacle for cronies, donors and the defeated should no longer be accepted".
The Canadian, who played 10 seasons with six teams, was found dead in his home in Toronto in February aged 35.
According to court papers, he had 15 documented concussions in his career.
The suit was filed on behalf of his son, Morrison, and other family members by his father, Paul.
Montador Sr said his son suffered from depression, memory problems and erratic behaviour and was involved in 69 on-ice fist fights during his NHL career.
"During regular-season NHL games, pre-season NHL games, NHL practices and morning skates prior to NHL games, Steven Montador sustained thousands of sub-concussive brain traumas and multiple concussions, many of which were undiagnosed and/or undocumented," claimed the suit.
According to Associated Press, several years before his death, the player had decided to donate his brain to the Canadian Sports Concussion Project.
In May, three months after his death, researchers confirmed Montador's brain had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the brain disease that has been linked to repeated head trauma.
"The NHL continues to ignore the lasting problems caused by multiple head traumas suffered by its players," Paul Montador said in a statement.
"Tragedies like that of my son Steven will continue until the problem is addressed. The NHL knows, but denies, that years of repeated head injuries cause long-term brain problems."
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman declined to comment on the case, and said the league was not going to litigate the case publicly. Deputy commissioner Bill Daly said in an email the "claims made in the lawsuit are without factual or legal merit".
In April, the National Football League reached a settlement of a lawsuit brought by former players over concussions that could cost the NFL $1bn (£665m) and a US federal appeals court is considering whether the settlement figure is sufficient.
In Britain, rising fears over head injuries across all sports prompted the Football Association to issue new guidelines earlier this month to all involved with the game on how to deal with concussions.
World Rugby's chief medical officer Martin Raftery recently told the BBC the sport's rules may have to change to reduce concussions. with reported concussions doubling in five years.
Daventry District Council is believed to be the first authority to bring in the measure, which could see owners given £100 on-the-spot penalties.
The extra power for enforcement officers comes in the form or a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO).
It takes effect on 1 December, but fines would not be levied until 2016.
The plan was put out to public consultation earlier this year and the council said there was "overwhelming support for the proposal by residents and local groups".
The council said there would be a month of offering advice and warnings to dog walkers before the fines were enforced in January.
Mike Warren, councillor for health issues, said: "We will be advising them to make sure they have extra poop bags with them at all times to ensure they have the means to pick up, regardless of how long they've been out and about with their pet.
"These new powers are not intended to penalise the many responsible dog owners, who should be assured that our officers will be taking a common-sense approach on their patrols.
"It's not unreasonable though, for example, to expect someone who has just arrived at a venue to walk their dog to be carrying poop bags."
People caught with their dog and no plastic bags could face prosecution and larger fines if they unsuccessfully contest an on-the-spot fine.
Pyongyang warned it would turn Seoul into a "sea of fire" if provoked. The US and South Korean joint command insist the drills are purely defensive.
Relations have been fraught since the North shelled a South Korean island in November, killing four people.
Military talks aimed at easing tensions between the two broke down recently.
The 11-day exercises involve 200,000 South Korean troops and nearly 13,000 Americans - most of whom are not based in the country.
The training drills are a regular rehearsal for emergency deployments of US forces in the event of a sudden attack on South Korea.
The drills "are planned months in advance, and they are not connected to any current world events", the joint command said in a statement.
Every year Pyongyang denounces the exercises, saying they are actually a pretext for an American invasion of the North to topple the communist government.
Just hours after the exercises started, a commentary in North Korea's main newspaper warned "the danger of a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula is deepening".
Earlier, the North threatened to turn the South's capital, Seoul, which sits less than 48km (30 miles) from the border and so well within range of artillery, into a "sea of fire".
Despite the harsh rhetoric, South Korea's Defence Ministry said there had been no suspicious behaviour by Pyongyang's army, adding that it was ready to defend the country against any attack.
The BBC's Nick Ravenscroft in Seoul says many analysts have predicted a new military provocation by the North, following last year's confrontation over a South Korean island and the sinking of one of its warships, for which the North denies responsibility.
These concerns were reinforced when military talks between the two Koreas broke down earlier this month, says our correspondent.
The US has about 30,000 troops stationed in South Korea. Technically North and South remain at war as the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.
The North has also been angered by a renewed propaganda drive from the South.
As well as activists sending leaflets criticising the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il via balloons floated over the border, it is understood the South's military has begun using the same technique - and may also be spreading news of uprisings in Arab countries.
Pyongyang calls this "psychological warfare" and has threatened to attack the sites from which balloons are launched.
Education expert Prof Alan Smithers estimates 35,000 pupils have submitted an Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) which counts as half an A-level.
This is twice the number who took EPQs in England and Wales five years ago.
Taken alongside A-levels, it is used by top universities as a tie-breaker to tell talented students apart.
Head teachers said the qualification was becoming increasingly popular and could help to strengthen a candidate's university application.
Students choose a topic, plan and research the issue, and present their results, often as a written report, but sometimes as a production such as a fashion or sports event.
Figures published by the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) show that last summer, 33,245 candidates took the qualification, up by 108% from 15,958 in 2010.
Professor Smithers, director of the Centre for Education and Employment, Research at Buckingham University, suggested there have been around 2,000 more entrants this year.
The final numbers for this year will be published by the JCQ when data on A-level results is published next week.
The rise in recent years may be down to schools seeing the qualification as good for helping students adjust to the demands of university, he added.
Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said: "Extended projects are becoming more and more popular.
"They are liked by universities and can help to strengthen a candidate's application.
"They are phenomenally valuable in giving young people the opportunity to prepare themselves for university where they will spend much of their time studying and learning through their own research and reading."
The boy was with his parents in the Canford Heath area of Poole when he was struck by a Peugeot 107 shortly after 08:00 BST.
He was taken hospital with critical injuries and has since died. Dorset Police said no one else was injured.
Sherborn Crescent, where the crash happened, was closed but has since reopened.
Police said the boy's family were being supported by specially trained officers.
Insp Matt Butler added: "Officers are continuing to liaise with local schools to give reassurances and to offer assistance at this difficult time.
"There were a number of people in the area at the time of the collision and I am appealing for anyone who witnessed what happened, and has not yet spoken to police, to please contact us as soon as possible."
The road was closed for several hours at the junctions with Seatown Close, Henbury Close and Chetnole Close and drivers were advised to avoid the area.
Though the Premiership side still have one Group D fixture left, they will finish below the top two places.
McIntyre led County to their first League Cup triumph against Hibernian at Hampden in March's final.
"We played right into their hands by making gilt-edged mistakes," he said after the 3-2 loss at League One Alloa.
"We were nowhere near good enough. The performance was embarrassing.
"I can only apologise to our fans who made the journey down tonight."
The eight group winners and four best runners-up will progress to the second round and Alloa's win took them top of the section.
However, McIntyre felt County should have had a penalty when Jason Marr challenged Alex Schalk with the score 3-2.
"The referee has made the worst decision of the night," said McIntyre.
"It's a stonewall penalty on Alex Schalk. I have looked at it several times.
"It was a poor, poor decision at a crucial time in the match where I thought we had the ascendency and looked as if we were pressing for the third goal.
"It was a big moment in the match."
The former Lib Dem leader said voters had "played safe" by backing the Tories to prevent a Labour/SNP government.
He said he would have quit as leader a year before polling day if he thought it would have made a difference.
And he had "no regrets" about coalition with the Tories, in his first interview since standing down as leader.
Mr Clegg said he feared David Cameron was undoing much of what his party achieved in coalition and that the Conservative Party had also been "gobsmacked" by the election, which he said they had not expected to win.
The Lib Dem leader said his first reaction on seeing the exit poll predicting the near-wipe out of his party, was to reach for a cigarette for the first time in months.
His initial disbelief at the poll's predictions quickly turned to despair and a "grim realisation that this was going to be an absolutely terrible night".
He worried first about whether he would retain his own seat before realising he had to "take responsibility" and began to call close colleagues, such as Danny Alexander and David Laws, to discuss the results and how badly the pollsters had got it wrong.
He said it had been a "strange" election campaign and although the party had not remotely expected to do as badly as it did they felt the Conservative strategy of talking up the prospect of Labour/SNP government was having a big effect in England.
"Ten days before the election day all of us really felt a Labour government dancing to the tune of the SNP really chilled the English heart," he told presenter Nick Ferrari.
Asked about reports in The Guardian that he had considered quitting as leader a year earlier, after his party's disastrous results in local and European election results, he said he did not believe "changing personnel at the top of the party " would have changed the general election result.
The former deputy prime minister denied he had destroyed his party, which saw its number of MPs reduced from 56 to just eight, insisting it would bounce back.
But he said they had paid the price for "putting country before party" in 2010.
Asked what the party had achieved in government, he said: "We had a strong and stable government, anchored in the centre ground for five years at a time of outright economic peril."
But he was concerned the Conservatives were now pursuing an "illiberal, punitive" approach to issues like child poverty and protecting the poor from welfare cuts.
He had been most proud of figures suggesting the "attainment gap" in schools was closing, with poorer pupils doing better, something he claimed was a direct result of Lib Dem policies such as "the pupil premium".
And the thing he most missed about being deputy prime minister was "making decisions" that would improve the country.
Asked a question suggested by former sparring partner Nigel Farage - if he regretted winning his Sheffield Hallam seat - Mr Clegg said he wanted to serve his constituents for the next five years and play an active role in the debate on Europe and other issues he cared about.
But, as for his future, he said would "take it one Parliament at a time".
Mr Clegg had to be persuaded to carry on as Lib Dem leader a full 12 months before the general election, according to The Guardian.
But was talked in to staying on by Lord Ashdown and Tim Farron, who is now bidding to be the party's next leader.
Mr Farron told The Guardian that when he spoke to Mr Clegg after the 2014 local and European polls he found him "just distraught about everything" and "he felt personally every single loss".
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The former Hulme Library building and the former Beech Mount Children's Home in Harpurhey are the first to be opened up from next month.
Homeless organisations will be able to refer people to the temporary accommodation.
The council is also assessing other empty buildings across the city.
It is part of an ongoing campaign to improve services for homeless people and increase the amount of bed spaces over the winter, the council said.
It said the move would result in an extra 165 bed spaces.
Last month two former Manchester United players allowed a group of about 30 homeless people to stay in the former Stock Exchange building.
Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs are renovating the building into a luxury hotel.
Three buildings in other areas of Manchester, which had previously operated as shared houses, will also provide temporary accommodation, the council confirmed.
The council's rough sleepers team will provide support and help occupants access medical, mental health and drug and alcohol services
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A coroner will also continue to open inquests into the deaths of those murdered in the assault, which left 30 Britons among 38 dead.
On Friday, a minute's silence was held across the UK to remember the victims.
Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid also said the slow response of police to the attack had been a major problem.
An RAF plane carrying the bodies of the final five Britons is expected to arrive at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Saturday afternoon.
Their coffins will be loaded on to hearses and travel in convoy to West London Coroner's Court in Fulham, where inquests into their deaths will be held.
The first inquests were opened on Friday. During one of the hearings, the coroner heard Stephen Mellor from Bodmin, Cornwall, was killed by gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen as he shielded his wife Cheryl.
Post-mortem examinations will be carried out before the bodies are released to their families.
Among the three Irish citizens killed in the attack were Larry and Martina Hayes, who were buried in Athlone on Friday - which was the 30th birthday of their only daughter, Sinead.
Other victims included two Germans, one Belgian, one Portuguese and one Russian national.
Also on Friday, the Queen and Prime Minister David Cameron joined the minute's silence, along with the families of the dead.
Tourists and Tunisians gathered at the scene of the attack in Sousse, where they linked arms to observe the pause.
Tunisian PM Mr Essid also took part in the commemorations there and said he was deeply sorry for the attack.
Reports have suggested the assault took place over almost 35 minutes, and that the gunman was able to return to kill some of the wounded before the police arrived.
"The time of the reaction - this is the problem," Mr Essid told the BBC's Richard Galpin.
"We feel really sorry about what happened," he said. "They were our guests. They came to spend their vacation with us, but what happened is a horror, unacceptable."
Tunisian authorities have identified 28-year-old Tunisian student Seifeddine Rezgui as the gunman who carried out the attack.
They are also holding eight suspects in custody on suspicion of being directly linked to the attack, which jihadist group Islamic State has claimed. Four others who were held have been released.
Scotland Yard has previously said its investigation into the attack is likely to be one of the largest counter-terrorism deployments since the London 7/7 bombings in 2005, which killed 52.
The ban, imposed on 4 January, was resisted by opposition groups.
It was lifted because it made women "unhappy", his office said in a statement, adding that they were his "best friends".
Last month, the president declared the Muslim-majority country an Islamic republic.
He said the move was in line with the nation's "religious identity and values".
A memo published in the pro-opposition Freedom and JollofNews newspapers, dated 4 January, said that an "executive directive has been issued that all female staff within the government ministries, departments and agencies are no longer allowed to expose their hair during official working hours".
But on Thursday, Mr Jammeh's office said that the government's initial ban had had "nothing to do with religion" and that women should not be upset by it.
"Women are (Mr Jammeh's) best friends, they are his sisters and he is here for their wellbeing and happiness at all times," a statement said.
"That being the case, this decision that makes them unhappy has been lifted."
The Gambia is popular with Western tourists because of its beaches. About 90% of Gambians are Muslim - and many Muslim scholars believe that Islam orders women to cover their hair in public.
Rights activists accuse Mr Jammeh - who has been in power since 1994 - of presiding over a brutal regime which is intolerant of dissent.
He portrays himself as a devout Muslim with miraculous powers - once claiming that he could cure Aids with a herbal concoction.
Pirate Joe's was popular with Vancouver locals who wanted to get their hands on fancy foods from the American alternative grocer.
But Trader Joe's sued Pirate Joe's owner Mike Hallatt in 2013, citing trademark infringement.
With legal costs mounting, the store closed on Wednesday at midnight after five years.
Mr Hallatt says it's finally time to put away his vanilla meringues.
"I had to face the music," he told CTV. "I got myself into this, so I had to get myself out of it."
Trader Joe's declined to comment on what this means for their lawsuit.
Mr Hallatt has always maintained that his store was legal under the US concept of "first sale doctrine", but he says that he just can't afford a drawn-out court battle with a corporate giant.
Mr Hallatt's business model was unorthodox. Like some kind of Prohibition rumrunner, he would cross the border into the US, stock up on Trader Joes goodies and bring them back to Canada, where he sold them - at a mark up - from a small storefront under the name of Pirate Joe's.
But it wasn't liquor Mr Hallatt was smuggling - it was dark-chocolate peanut butter cups, triple-ginger snaps and sweet-apple sausage. Once Trader Joe's caught wind of his scheme, they banned him from shopping, so he had to recruit others to make grocery runs for him.
"I would love for Trader Joe's to open up in Canada so they could put me out of my misery", Mr Hallatt told the BBC earlier this year.
The grocery store sued him in 2013, arguing that his business was infringing on their trademark and hurting their brand. That suit was dismissed by a Washington-state court because the alleged infringement did not occur in the US, and because Trader Joe's couldn't prove economic hardship, given all the items were bought at full price.
But in 2016 a US court of appeal overturned the dismissal, and Mr Hallatt has been embroiled in the renewed legal battle ever since.
"This is completely legal, there is no doubt anyone's mind, it's a question of brand control," Mr Hallatt told the BBC.
Perhaps our experience as a university in Yola, north-eastern Nigeria might add something to the global debate.
Yola, desperately poor, sits on the edge of the Sahara Desert, and for the past three years on the porous border between safety and security, at the edge of the territory seized by Boko Haram terrorists.
The American University of Nigeria (AUN) was established in this unlikely spot, founded by the former Nigerian Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, who was orphaned in this area as a young boy.
"Be a development university," he said when the university was established a little over a decade ago.
Four years ago, with a growing number of unemployed youth just outside the gates of the university, and the hungry and hopeless in flight from Boko Haram flooding into our small city, the American University of Nigeria (AUN) began to implement our vision of a "development university."
We reached out to local religious and community leaders to see how we might partner with them in peace, food security, and education programmes.
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The AUN-Adamawa Peace Initiative (AUN-API) was born. All major local Muslim and Christian leaders, traditional rulers, and local community leaders actively participate.
Our goals are simple: educate and feed as many people as we can.
In the process, we were guided by a number of principles - make sure women and girls are included in all projects; join with religious leaders in all efforts; involve AUN students, faculty and staff in all of these efforts; and make sure our local vulnerable youth know that they have a network of people who care about them.
The tsunami of hungry frightened people began arriving in Yola in 2014. The first 5,000 had few relatives in the area, no food and no access to school.
The next wave of 20,000 arrived by foot and by bus. Their hungry faces were seen everywhere in town. The Catholic cathedral and Muslim Centre became the major feeding areas.
Our peace initiative members developed comprehensive lists of where people came from, their names, ages, and gender so we could provide the most accurate food and supplies.
For example, women needed sanitary supplies; some young children needed life saving oral rehydration. At the university, we held classes all day and raised funds and fed hungry people the rest of the time.
By early 2016, the university's peace initiative had fed close to 300,000 people. One young woman and baby, who had been held in the Sambisa forest by Boko Haram and were severely malnourished, died in our local hospital. We all mourned.
What have we learned here that can be applied to other cities and countries?
First is the centrality of local leaders in any development effort. These conscientious and concerned religious and community leaders know which youth are particularly at risk to be radicalised.
Second, find out what these young people really want. Our peace network identifies the youth who need literacy education, tools to start a business, training to learn about information technology (which our youth want as much as any around the world). Then the university designs programmes and projects to meet these needs.
The young people told us they wanted to play sports. Thousands have joined our Peace Through Sports programme, which not only gives young people a chance to compete with each other in soccer, basketball and volleyball, and something to do during the day, but also teaches them to think about peace and cooperation.
We begin each programme with a discussion of peace, led by members of the peace initiative. We listen to them talk about their challenges.
Most of the games occur on our campus, where students and staff welcome them and make them feel they are part of our community. Every team is made up of members of different religious and tribal communities. They forge teams with people they would otherwise never encounter, much less befriend.
While it's impossible to pinpoint which of our programmes have kept youth from joining the terrorist group in our back yard, more than one young man has said to me: "It is either you or Boko Haram - there is nothing else." Peace initiative leaders can document that none of the youth they identified and brought into our various programmes joined the terrorist group.
As the threat from Boko Haram fades, the problems local people face have not diminished.
Thousands of very young children have been orphaned, left in our city to live with non-family members. Hunger has increased, as thousands of farmers were not able to plant their crops. The university is trying to deal with this next phase of the humanitarian crisis. The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and university founder Atiku Abubakar provided seed, which we distributed.
With assistance from USAID, we established Technology Enhanced Literacy for All, which employs tablet computers and radio broadcasts to extend learning to 22,000 out-of-school children.
Many of the students walk up to three miles each way to participate. If for some reason a session is cancelled, children are visibly upset. When a radio failed to materialise recently, children went house-to-house in a village until they found someone willing to lend them one.
The university feeds and provides literacy and numeracy education to hundreds of children who are homeless, orphans, and Almajiri (Muslim religious school) boys.
The programme, Feed and Read, has just expanded to include Feed and Read for Girls. These children are out of school and are among the millions of Nigerian children who comprise the largest out-of-school population in the world.
Currently, about 500 children receive instruction and a meal through these two programmes. The plan is to expand to help 2,000 children by 2017.
The demand for our projects far exceeds the number of places and available funding. At every session, hundreds of children crowd around the learning centres in hope of participating.
The children in the Feed and Read programmes share their meal with children who are not. It's heartbreaking to know that we can't help so many children who are hungry for learning, and just plain hungry.
It is essential that these modest efforts be replicated and expanded immediately. Otherwise, the most vicious cycle will begin again, devouring youth who are uneducated, destitute, with no family, no support, and nothing else in their lives. We all know where that leads.
The debate in the West about terrorism is usually presented in stark and defensive terms: increase security, curtail civil liberties and reduce the number of refugees allowed to emigrate. Is there another solution that would prevent angry and hopeless youth from joining terrorist groups?
Firefighters were called at 14:43 GMT on Monday to a chemical fire at the Hazardous Waste Transfer Station in the Ewelme area near Wallingford.
Hydrogen gas was produced after water was used to cool the chemical contents of a skip fire before Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service arrived.
Six people were treated by paramedics at the scene.
Station manager Marcus Reay said: "This was an unusual incident as most people expect that if you apply water to something hot it will cool it down.
"This is not always the case, especially when chemicals or liquids are involved.
"I'd like to remind business owners to check their inventory and to make sure they know the chemicals and products they use and store."
The 39-year-old victim suffered injuries to his head and body following the incident on Glebe Street on 16 November.
A 21-year-old man has been arrested and charged and is due to appear at Falkirk Sheriff Court.
Officers are following a positive line of inquiry to trace a second man believed to have been involved.
Grandfather John Charles is considered by many as the greatest Welsh footballer of all time and one of British football's most successful foreign exports.
He was lauded as one of the sport's best all-round footballers, comfortable on the ball in defence or as a centre forward.
Fans at former clubs Leeds United and Juventus still adore Charles, who along with brother Mel, was part of Wales' World Cup squad of 1958.
But Jake Charles is not burdened by the famous surname and takes great pride when talking about the achievements of his grandfather, who died aged 72 in 2004.
"I take it in really and use it as confidence for myself," Charles told BBC Wales Sport.
"He was a legend in Italy and here in Wales and if I do half as well as he did then I'll be doing well for myself.
"Everyone knows how much of a big, big player he was.
"I've seen [footage] of him in his days at Leeds and Juventus and he was a Gentle Giant as they said.
"When he passed away I was young but I remember his stature and how big he was. He was a big guy."
John Charles became the youngest Welsh international in 1950 when he made his senior debut as an 18-year-old against Northern Ireland at the Racecourse Ground in Wrexham.
Sixty six years on and grandson Jake has been training at the same ground this week with Wales' under-21 squad ahead of two Euro 2017 qualifiers.
Having represented Wales at under-16, under-17 and under-19 levels, Leeds-born Charles has won six under-21 caps since his debut against Bulgaria on 31 March, 2015.
"I love getting here with the lads for the weeks when we meet up," Charles added.
"The international games that we play in are competitive and we want to qualify for Poland in 2017.
"We know if we perform well we've got a chance of getting there."
Charles took time out from preparing for Wales' game against Denmark on Friday to complete a move from Huddersfield Town to Yorkshire rivals Barnsley on transfer deadline day.
The 20-year-old forward made one first team appearance for Huddersfield as a late substitute against Fulham in March 2015 but is looking forward to a new challenge with the development squad at Oakwell.
"I'd been at Huddersfield since I was nine years old and it's not easy to leave but it's part of football," Charles added.
"You've got to move on and I'm looking forward to a new challenge.
"I want to make a name for myself there and prove to people that I'm a good player and break into the first team.
"I've got to put together consistent performances in the Under-21s.
"It's a fresh start for me and I'm looking forward to get going when I get back."
The Harlequins team-mates are both in Warren Gatland's 41-man squad for the summer tour of New Zealand.
"He helps me out quite a lot, and tells me off a bit as well," Sinckler told the BBC's Rugby Union Weekly podcast.
"So whatever he does, I try and do. If it's good enough for Joe Marler, why is it not good enough for Kyle Sinckler?"
Marler, 26, has made more than 150 appearances for Harlequins and played 51 times for England.
Sinckler, 24, who has eight international caps, added: "I probably annoy him a bit but I always try to hang around him and watch how he works."
Marler believes has team-mate has "grown up quickly", and learnt to cope with his rebellious streak both on and off the field.
"I do see a little bit of myself in Kyle," Marler told the Rugby Union Weekly podcast.
"When I was younger, I didn't listen to anyone. I was getting yellow-carded and red-carded, being an idiot. 'Sink' has had tendencies like that, but he has grown up a lot quicker - he's had to."
Marler was twice banned in 2016, but after missing the summer tour of Australia for personal reasons has featured in England's past nine matches, winning his 50th cap in the victory over Scotland.
"You have to learn," he added. "I had to go through a lot of bits and bobs to learn that lesson.
"I didn't want my kids to see me on telly [acting badly] on the pitch."
Marler says he has not yet managed to "fathom" his Lions call-up.
"I was speaking to my wife and I said to her that none of it feels real: playing for Harlequins, playing for England," he said.
"It still feels like I'm looking up at the likes of Jason Leonard and Martin Johnson."
Marler and Sinckler are the only Harlequins players in Gatland's party, and both men have paid tribute to the club.
"I'm probably not the easiest person to manage at the best of times, especially in my earlier years, so I owe a lot to Harlequins," Sinckler said.
"It's taken a bit of time for me to mature but I owe a lot to the club for believing in me. It will be a massive honour when I - touch wood - go away with the Lions."
Marler, meanwhile, said he owed Quins "everything".
"The way they have stood by me no matter what and let me express myself in various ways," he said.
"Without them and their support, [as well as] the coaches and players I have played with, I wouldn't be here today.
"I am very grateful, and I will try and make them proud when I am out there."
Hear in-depth interviews with Harlequins' Lions props Joe Marler and Kyle Sinckler on BBC Radio 5 live's Rugby Union Weekly podcast.
Federal prosecutors said Ross Ulbricht's website, hosted on the hidden "dark web", sold more than $200m (£131m) worth of drugs anonymously.
The 31-year-old was found guilty in New York of charges including conspiracy to commit drug trafficking, money laundering and computer hacking.
The site was shut down in 2013 after police arrested Ulbricht.
In February he was convicted of operating the site for nearly three years from 2011.
The Silk Road took its name from the historic trade routes spanning Europe, Asia and parts of Africa.
It achieved notoriety through media reports and online chatter. But users could only access the site through Tor - a system that lets people use the web without revealing who they are or which country they are in.
Tor was created by the US government to help provide activists with anonymity but is now often used to mask illegal transactions.
Illegal drugs such as heroin could be bought on the Silk Road using the virtual currency Bitcoin, which is also hard to monitor, but the site also offered other products such as hacking equipment and stolen passports.
Court documents from the FBI said the site had just under a million registered users, but investigators said they did not know how many were active.
How FBI closed in on suspect Ross Ulbricht
Sentencing Ulbricht - who has two college degrees - District Judge Katherine Forrest said he was "no better a person than any other drug dealer".
She said the site had been his "carefully planned life's work".
"There must be no doubt that lawlessness will not be tolerated," she added.
Ulbricht had expressed remorse and had written to the judge begging to not receive a life sentence.
"I know you must take away my middle years," he wrote, "but please leave me my old age."
Before the sentence was announced, Ulbricht told the judge he was not greedy.
"I've essentially ruined my life and broken the hearts of every member of my family and my closest friends,'' he said. "I'm not a self-centred sociopathic person that was trying to express some inner badness. I do love freedom. It's been devastating to lose it.''
But the judge said the sentence would show copycats there are "very serious consequences".
Ulbricht's lawyer said he was "disappointed tremendously''.
The Silk Road was only accessible on the dark web, a part of the internet that requires specialist software to access.
Users of the site used online currency Bitcoin to purchase drugs such as heroin, cocaine and LSD.
Prosecutors say that six people who died from overdoses bought drugs via the site and that such untraceable deals earned Ulbricht at least $18m.
In the months leading up to Ulbricht's arrest at a public library in San Francisco in 2013, investigators undertook a painstaking process of piecing together his digital footprint, according to court documents.
The search started with work from "Agent-1" who went through pages dating back to January 2011.
He found a post titled "Anonymous market online?", in which a user nicknamed Altoid started publicising the Silk Road.
Records found the blog had been set up by an anonymous user who had hidden their location. But Altoid also appeared in a discussion site about virtual currency, bitcointalk.org.
Months later, in October, Altoid appeared again - but made a slip-up. In a post seeking an IT expert with knowledge of Bitcoin, he asked people to contact him via [email protected].
Manchester's Fury, who outpointed Chisora in 2011, switched to southpaw in round two and controlled every minute of every round behind his jab.
Londoner Chisora was unable to get inside his rival's superior reach and make any dents in his defences.
Fury now targets a fight with WBA, IBF and WBO champion Wladimir Klitschko.
"Which other heavyweight in the world can box southpaw against a world-class fighter like Dereck, a fighter who will give any other heavyweight a tough fight?" said Fury.
"I'm very proud of my performance."
Given a build-up full of ill temper and bluster, the 20,000 sell-out crowd had every reason to expect an exciting encounter.
However, the boxers did not enter the ring until past midnight and the venue was less than half full by the end, with punters needing to catch last trains home.
The opening round was close but the second Fury switched to a southpaw stance in round two, he assumed full control of the fight.
It was more of the same in the third, with Chisora, 30, rumbling forward and Fury picking him off with jabs and little more than flicks with the back of the glove.
Fury, 26, opened up towards the end of the fourth round, battering Chisora's midriff with right and left uppercuts, and the fifth round was one-way traffic again, ending with Chisora looking somewhat dispirited and with a swollen right eye.
Boos began to ring out midway through the sixth as Fury refused to take undue risks and continued to control proceedings behind his right jab.
Fury's grip on the fight had become so tight by round seven that he was able to engage in some showboating, and a lack of action in round eight moved referee Marcus McDonnell to bring the two fighters together and say: "Either fight or we go home."
The irony was that thousands had gone home already.
By round 10, Chisora's face was busted up and he looked ready to fall, so it was no real surprise when his corner, bowing to the inevitable, pulled him out before the start of the 11th.
Chisora has now lost five of his 25 professional fights, including a world title challenge against Vitali Klitschko in 2012, and it is difficult to see where he goes from here.
Fury, meanwhile, remains undefeated in 23 pro contests and should finally get a world title shot after two or three years of frustration.
Wladimir Klitschko has not been beaten for 10 years and has made 17 defences during his second reign as world champion. His last fight was a fifth-round knockout of Bulgaria's Kubrat Pulev earlier this month.
Fury's promoter, Mick Hennessy, added: "Tyson's mandatory now for the heavyweight world title.
"Wladimir Klitschko's being allowed one more fight in March or April, then it'll be purse bids, then the fight's on. It'll be June to September. The big fight is on, and Klitschko has to just take it and not swerve it."
Gunmen are said to have opened fire during a football match at the Alizai High School. Blasts were also heard.
Security officials returned fire, and a gunman was reportedly killed.
It was not immediately known who carried out the attack in Kurram Agency, near the border with Afghanistan.
Security forces and police later sealed off the area.
More than 100 people were at school premises during the attack, according to Pakistan's Dawn newspaper.
Kurram is a tribal area with a history of sectarian violence between Shia and Sunni Muslims.
Several Taliban-affiliated groups are known to be active in the region.
The 28-year-old set up Jamie Vardy for England's second goal in a 2-0 World Cup qualifying win over Lithuania on Sunday, having also started against Germany in a friendly on Wednesday.
He has featured in 27 of Liverpool's 29 Premier League games so far this term.
There is no timescale on Lallana's recovery, but he could potentially miss five games.
Jurgen Klopp's side host Everton in the Merseyside derby on Saturday at 12:30 BST.
The formation of a "Mujahideen Battalion" in 1992, composed mainly of Arab volunteers in central Bosnia, was a landmark. Today the dynamic of jihad has been reversed and it is Bosnians who are travelling to Arab lands.
"There is a war between the West and Islam," says Aimen Dean, who, as a young Saudi Arabian volunteer, travelled to fight in central Bosnia in 1994. "Bosnia gave the modern jihadist movement that narrative. It is the cradle."
Conventional wisdom holds that it was the fight against the Soviet Union's occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s that created the modern notion of jihad or "holy war". Aimen Dean's point is that the West and the Salafists (or adherents to a strict form of Islam going back to observance in the Middle Ages) were on the same side in Afghanistan, but became enemies in Bosnia.
At first, in 1992, it was just a few dozen militants who went to defend their co-religionists in Bosnia, as Serbian paramilitaries drove them from their homes in the west and east of the country. But it was in early 1993, when it became a three-way fight against Catholic Croatians as well as the Serbs, that the Mujahideen Battalion swelled to the hundreds and started to hunt non-believers more actively.
After Croatian militias massacred around 120 Bosnians in Ahmici in April 1993, the Mujahideen were involved in numerous reprisals. At Guca Gora monastery two months later, they drove out nearly 200 Croatians, who were evacuated by British United Nations troops. They then entered the chapel, desecrating its religious art, and filmed themselves doing it.
British troops fought the Mujahideen Battalion at Guca Gora and elsewhere in the summer of 1993 - the opening shots of that army's fight against jihadism. Vaughan Kent-Payne, then a major commanding a company of British troops involved in those battles, says the foreign fighters were "way more aggressive" than local Bosnian troops, frequently opening fire on the UN's white-painted vehicles.
In the nearby town of Travnik, that had been almost equally Muslim, Croatian and Serb before the war, the foreigners helped drive out thousands, and tried to impose Sharia law on those who remained. They were also involved in kidnapping local Christians, and beheaded one, Dragan Popovic, forcing other captives to kiss his severed head.
The Popovic case eventually went to court, so the facts have been well established. But the Mujahideen Battalion was also suspected in many others including the kidnap and murder of aid workers as well as the execution of 20 Croatian prisoners.
The foreigners never amounted to more than one per cent of the fighting force at the disposal of the Sarajevo government, despite the frequent claims of the Serb and Croatian media to have spotted Islamic fanatics from abroad just about everywhere. From an early stage the Mujahideen also started recruiting Bosnians and, by 1995, in the final months of the war, the incorporation of several hundred local men allowed the outfit to be expanded into the Mujahideen Brigade, around 1,500 strong.
By the summer of 1993, the Sarajevo government was starting to wake up to the potentially toxic effect of these jihadists on their image as a multi-ethnic, secular republic. So, in an attempt to control it, the battalion was placed under the command of III Corps, the Bosnian Army formation headquartered in the central city of Zenica.
Its commander at the time, Brigadier General Enver Hadzihasanovic, ended up facing a war crimes trial in the Hague on charges of overall responsibility for some of the Mujahideen's behaviour, including the Travnik kidnappings. In the end, the prosecution dropped those charges, but the general served two years, having been found guilty of having (Bosnian) troops under him who had abused prisoners.
From the outset, the general had felt the Mujahideen were a dubious military asset, and wrote a secret message to army chiefs in 1993, saying: "My opinion is that behind [the Mujahideen] there are some high-ranking politicians and religious leaders." Reflecting now on the jihadists' participation in the war he adds, "they didn't help Bosnia at all, on the contrary, I think they did Bosnia a disservice."
However, as the general's 1993 memo implied, there were some leaders, including Alija Izetbegovic, Bosnia's President at the time, who were happy to welcome the foreign fighters, partly as a way of keeping wealthy Arab donors sweet.
When the war ended, under the Dayton Peace Accord, all foreign fighters had to leave, and they were duly ordered out in 1996. Remembering that day, Aimen Dean says there were high emotions, shouting and tears at the Mujahideen base: "And the reason is because everyone was there hoping to die as a martyr. Now that chance was taken from them."
Hundreds of Mujahideen went from Bosnia to Chechnya, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Among their alumni were two of the 9/11 hijackers, the murderer of American hostage Daniel Pearl and numerous other al-Qaeda cadres.
More than 300 of the foreigners remained in Bosnia, buried in its soil, a testimony to the heavy casualties taken by the unit. A few dozen Arabs who had met local women or were fearful of going home also managed to stay, by taking Bosnian citizenship.
Today also there are suggestions in Sarajevo that the SDA - the late President Izetbegovic's party - is not taking a tough enough line against foreign fighters. Only this time they are the hundreds of Bosnians who are choosing to fight in Iraq and Syria. There is "a recalcitrance from more radical elements of the SDA" about condemning those who go to the Middle East to fight, says one Sarajevo diplomat.
In fairness, the Sarajevo government has taken action to ban recruiting for foreign wars (in the name of any religion or cause) and has mounted numerous raids to disrupt extremist networks and arrest those who have returned from fighting in the Middle East.
However, its critics note that for years it turned a blind eye to those Arab Mujahideen who remained in Bosnia but continued to agitate, and has allowed several communities of home-grown Bosnian Salafists to emerge in recent years.
Among those who link what is happening now with the 1990s is Fikret Hadzic, who has been charged with fighting for the so-called Islamic State in Syria. He met our BBC team but said that legal restrictions prevented him giving an on-camera interview, however he was happy to be quoted in print.
Hadzic had joined the Mujahideen unit in 1994. For years after the war he worked as a driver and mechanic before deciding he needed to join the fight against "the Assad Shia regime" in Syria. While he insisted he was not a member of IS, and disapproved of its methods, Hadzic told us that before returning from Syria last year he had met some Bosnian members of the organisation who appeared in an IS video that was released this June.
Other Bosnians who served with that unit back in the war include the leader of an important Salafist mosque in Sarajevo, and Bilal Bosnic, who is in detention awaiting trial. Bosnic is charged with recruiting fighters for the Islamic State group.
With IS now trying to start a "new front for the Caliphate" in the Balkans, there are many who worry that Bosnia is vulnerable because it remains so weak and fragmented, even two decades after its war ended.
Mark Urban's report is on Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 BST on 2 July. Our World: Bosnia: Cradle of Modern Jihad? is on the BBC News Channel at 21:30 BST on Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 July and on BBC World TV at 00:30 BST on Saturday 4 July and also at these times.
A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 16 and 23 September. Send your photos to [email protected] or our Instagram at #bbcscotlandpics.
Muhammadu Buhari has just returned from three months in the UK, amid widespread concerns over his health.
But government spokesman Garba Shehu said the office required renovation after damage was done to the furniture and air conditioning in his absence.
He told the BBC the president had a "well-equipped" office at home that he could work "perfectly" from.
Mr Buhari returned to Nigeria on Saturday, but did not reference his health in his first speech.
Some Nigerians had called for him to resign during his prolonged absence, saying he was unfit to run the country.
Others were angered by officials' refusal to disclose what Mr Buhari was being treated for.
He first travelled to London in June 2016 for what his office said was a persistent ear infection. He returned in January and May this year for an undisclosed illness.
Opposition politicians have claimed he was actually receiving treatment for prostate cancer - an accusation Mr Buhari denied.
"There's nothing at all to worry about as to the condition of his own health. From everything we have seen from the president - we have a new Buhari: energetic, well focused and it is clear he is enjoying excellent health," Mr Shehu told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.
"He has recovered, so there is nothing to talk about in any speech."
Many users of Nigerian social media have cast doubt on the reason given for Mr Buhari working from home.
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Some mocked the irony of the rat story because Mr Buhari is nicknamed the '"Lion President".
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But others have come to the defence of the president's spokesperson's story.
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One Twitter user @MandyChisholm wrote: "It is possible for rat to destroy Buhari's office, I kid you not, Nigerian rats are bloody.
"I remember the group of rats that ate my mattress, drank my bottle of olive oil, ate the whole bottle and everything else in site but not the rat poison. So imagine what political rats can do..."
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The world number one, who claims he rejected £110,000 to lose a match early in his career, says there is "no real proof" of fixing among the elite.
"It's just speculation," said the Serb 10-time Grand Slam champion.
The BBC and BuzzFeed News have obtained secret files that contain evidence of suspected match-fixing in tennis.
Those files indicate that, over the past decade, 16 players who have been ranked in the world's top 50 have been repeatedly flagged to the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) over suspicions they have thrown matches.
All of the players, including winners of Grand Slam titles, were allowed to continue competing.
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Chris Kermode, head of the Association of Tennis Professionals, has rejected claims that evidence of match-fixing had "been suppressed for any reason or isn't being thoroughly investigated".
But he added: "While the BBC and BuzzFeed reports mainly refer to events from about 10 years ago, we will investigate any new information."
Tennis match-fixing Q&A
UK Government minister John Whittingdale has told the BBC that tennis should "learn from the mistakes of other sports" and take prompt action.
He said that "past allegations of this kind" against athletics and football were seemingly "swept under the carpet".
The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport added: "These are serious allegations and they need to be looked into very quickly."
Prime Minister David Cameron said he is "deeply concerned" that another sport is facing accusations of corruption.
His official spokeswoman said that "fans suffer most" from this alleged wrongdoing and these issues need to be investigated.
According to the BBC and BuzzFeed News, tennis authorities were presented with an examination of 26,000 matches in 2007, three of them at Wimbledon, which contained enough evidence to root out offenders.
However, no action was taken.
Nigel Willerton, who heads the TIU, insisted there had been a rigorous examination of material.
"All credible information received by the TIU is analysed, assessed and investigated by highly experienced former law-enforcement investigators," he said.
Djokovic had already revealed he had been approached to lose a first-round match at the St Petersburg Open in 2007.
"I was approached through people working with me," he said. "Of course, we threw it away right away. It didn't even get to me."
He added: "From my knowledge and information about match-fixing, there is nothing happening at the top level, as far as I know.
"At challenger level, maybe, maybe not. But I'm not entitled to really talk about it. I can give my opinion.
"But there is an organisation, authorities, people who take care of that on a daily basis and make sure to track it down."
A number of players competing at the Australian Open in Melbourne have been responding to the revelations.
Like Djokovic, Roger Federer said it was difficult to gauge if and to what level fixing went on, adding he wanted more information about who might be guilty.
"I would love to hear names,'' said the former world number one. "Then at least it's concrete stuff and you can actually debate about it.
"Was it the player? Was it the support team? Who was it? Was it before? Was it a doubles player, a singles player? Which Slam?''
The 17-time Grand Slam champion added: "It's super serious and it's super important to maintain the integrity of our sport.
"So how high up does it go? The higher it goes, the more surprised I would be."
World number one Serena Williams said that if match-fixing was taking place, then she "didn't know about it".
The American added: "When I'm playing, I can only answer for me. I play very hard, and every player I play seems to play hard."
Williams began the defence of her Australian Open title with a 6-4 7-5 win over Italy's Camila Giorgi.
Djokovic, who is the reigning men's champion, started with a 6-3 6-2 6-4 defeat of South Korea's Chung Hyeon.
The leaked files included details of an investigation into a 2007 match between Russian Nikolay Davydenko and Argentine Martin Vassallo Arguello.
Both players were cleared of violating any rules, but the investigation developed into a much wider inquiry looking into a web of gamblers linked to top-level players.
Documents show the inquiry found betting syndicates in Russia, northern Italy and Sicily making hundreds of thousands of pounds betting on matches investigators thought to be fixed.
In a confidential report for the tennis authorities, the enquiry team said 28 players involved in these matches should be investigated, but the findings were never followed up.
Kermode said the TIU had won 18 convictions, including six life bans, since it was set up in 2008, adding that it "has to find evidence as opposed to information, suspicion, or hearsay".
"Flowers for Heroines" was started by the Cambridge Blue Belles and Stoke-on-Trent Let's Make Jam branches.
They described it as a "counter protest" after graffiti was daubed on the London memorial during an anti-government demonstration.
Since then many other WI branches have joined in and put pictures on Twitter.
The words "Tory scum" were painted on the Whitehall war memorial during protests against austerity.
Joanne Croxford of the Cambridge branch said she was "beyond angry" when she heard what had happened.
"The memorial means a great deal and without those women we would not have what we do today," she said.
"I was taking to Rebecca Brown at the Stoke branch and we decided we would go to London and cover the memorial with as many flowers as we could.
"Then we realised the big parade was taking place and we didn't want to detract from that, so decided to do it locally instead."
Word spread on social media and Ms Croxford estimated about 150 WI branches had joined the campaign.
She and other members placed bunches of flowers on a number of memorials with labels which read: "This is a counter protest against the damage done to the WWII women's memorial #flowersforheroines."
Janice Langley, WI chairwoman, said the campaign was "a wonderful example of WI members working together to celebrate women and pay respect to the valuable roles that they have played, something they have done since the very beginnings of the organisation in 1915".
Kermorgant scored twice in seven minutes as Reading won a third successive Championship match after coming back from 2-0 down.
"It wasn't the best of starts, but we kept on going right to the end," the Frenchman told BBC Radio Berkshire.
"We know how we want to play and we've got the plan that we stick to and we all believe that can get us something."
Kermorgant, 35, has scored seven Championship goals so far this season for third-placed Reading and took his tally to three from two games over the Christmas and New Year period with his brace at Ashton Gate.
"Our approach didn't work out for us in the first half and after falling 2-0 behind," the former Charlton and Bournemouth striker added.
"But, after Bristol City started dropping back and giving us more time on the ball, I think we spent pretty much the rest of the game 35 yards out from their goal.
"Once we got the first goal, it then became a complete scramble in their half. At 2-2, most people would be happy to hold on to a point, but we knew we could push on for the win and so it proved."
The building in the capital, Amman, was sealed on the city governor's orders, an MB leader told Reuters news agency.
No reason was given for the closure, the official added.
The MB has a strong support base in urban areas and its political wing, the Islamic Action Front (IAF), is Jordan's largest opposition party.
The group split in 2014 into the old movement and a new, more moderate, officially licensed branch. The headquarters of the original movement were targeted in Wednesday's raid.
"We were surprised by this move from the Public Security Department," spokesman Badi al Rafaiah told Reuters.
"Many policemen and gendarmes came... broke the door down and threw out all the staff with an order to close down the main centre, which they sealed off without giving any explanation."
The rise in militant Islam in the region has increasingly strained relations between the Brotherhood and the authorities.
The IAF has boycotted parliamentary elections, alleging the system marginalises the party, while authorities have sporadically cracked down on the group.
Last year, a Muslim Brotherhood leader was jailed for criticising Jordan's ally the UAE, in the first such case involving a top opposition figure in Jordan for years.
Jake Gosling's drilled cross was turned in by Lee Mansell before Shaun Miller's lob levelled for the Shrimps.
Billy Bodin and Matty Taylor both converted to give Rovers a two-goal cushion but Tom Barkhuizen stroked home from close range to reduce the deficit.
In the final 10 minutes both sides were awarded penalties with Ellis Harrison netting for Rovers and Paul Mullin for Morecambe, the visitors moving to 12th.
Stubbs, 48, finished first in the individual competition in Bangkok and claimed compound team gold, alongside Richard Hennahane and Frank Maguire.
Brown, 25, had won every World and Paralympic title available since 2007.
But she took the silver medal this time after losing out to Turkey's Burcu Dag in a one-arrow shoot off.
Stubbs, who last won the World Championship in 2005, won his second individual title against Finland's Jere Forsberg, winning by just a single point.
The men's compound team were also celebrating after winning their match against Italy by two points with a final score of 227-225.
Britain have enjoyed a successful competition in Thailand with Paralympic silver medallist Mel Clark winning a bronze medal in the women's compound on Tuesday when she defeated Ukrainian Larysa Mikhnieva 137-135.
Michael Peart, Archery GB's paralympic coach said: "We are all immensely proud of the whole team who have been competing out here in Bangkok and for Danielle, Mel, John, Richard and Frank to win medals at the World Championships is just fantastic."
There could be further joy for the British competitors on Thursday as Brown and Stubbs team up in the compound mixed team against Italy, while Paul Browne is shooting for individual gold in the men's W1 recurve.
The men's recurve team which consists of Kenny Allen, Phil Bottomley and Browne also compete in the bronze medal match.
Forfar were held to a 1-1 draw at home to third-placed Elgin City.
Annan Athletic, who are fourth, won 1-0 against Edinburgh City, who slipped to second bottom.
And Stirling Albion and Berwick Rangers drew 2-2 while Cowdenbeath and Clyde were not in league action due to the latter's Scottish Cup tie with Ayr.
The Bully Wee were taken to a replay with United after a 1-1 draw.
Josh Peters slotted home to put Forfar ahead against Elgin but Brian Cameron equalised in the second half.
The hosts' Eddie Malone was then sent off for violent conduct and City also finished with 10 men after David Brownlie received a second booking.
At Link's Park, visitors Arbroath trailed at the break to a Matty Smith goal but Matthew Smyth, Ryan McCord and Omar Kader netted to give Dick Campbell's side victory.
Peter Weatherson scored the only goal of the game as Annan saw off Edinburgh.
And at Forthbank Stadium, Stirling came from two goals down to secure a draw with Berwick.
Lee Hamilton and Aaron Murrell put the visitors in control but trialist Aiden Malone and Sean Dickson replied in the final few minutes.
Both sides traded chances in the first half, but the game sprung into action two minutes after the break with Jamie Allen giving Southport the lead from the penalty spot.
Moments later it was almost two, but substitute goalkeeper Scott Flinders denied Andrai Jones from point-blank range.
Flinders was in fine form, saving again from Jones and Allen, but he could do nothing to stop the latter wrapping up the points in stoppage time with a well-timed finish.
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Match ends, Southport 2, York City 0.
Second Half ends, Southport 2, York City 0.
Goal! Southport 2, York City 0. Jamie Allen (Southport).
Alex Whittle (York City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Matt Fry (York City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Southport. James Caton replaces Nathan Ferguson.
Substitution, York City. Callum Rzonca replaces Jack Higgins.
Goal! Southport 1, York City 0. Jamie Allen (Southport) converts the penalty with a.
Substitution, York City. Franklyn Clarke replaces Yan Klukowski.
Substitution, Southport. Liam Hynes replaces Jordan Lussey.
Second Half begins Southport 0, York City 0.
First Half ends, Southport 0, York City 0.
Neil Ashton (Southport) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, York City. Scott Flinders replaces Kyle Letheren.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Pablo Sarabia opened the scoring for the visitors with a free-kick but Paco Alcacer levelled with a fine strike.
Lafita took advantage of an Aymen Abdennour error to put struggling Getafe ahead for a second time.
But substitute Santi Mina scored their second equaliser with his first touch - with all the goals scored in the opening 35 minutes.
Neville lost his opening match as Valencia boss 2-0 to Lyon in the Champions League and drew his La Liga debut 1-1 with Eibar last weekend. But they beat third-tier Barakaldo 2-0 in the Copa del Rey in midweek.
Meanwhile, parts of England have seen six consecutive days of temperatures above 30C, prompting official health alerts.
So what is the body's key way of dealing with the heat?
When temperatures rise, the body reacts by increasing blood flow to the skin's surface, taking the heat from within the body to the surface.
This means sweat.
As the sweat evaporates, the body cools down.
If, as in the UK, our skin temperature is warmer than the external temperature we are also able to lose heat to the environment, termed 'dry heat loss'.
But in hot, dry climates - like Qatar - this would not happen.
The body would be completely dependent on sweat.
The body's normal core temperature is 37-38C.
If it heats up to 39-40C, the brain tells the muscles to slow down and fatigue sets in.
At 40-41C, heat exhaustion is likely - and above 41C, the body starts to shut down.
Chemical processes start to be affected, the cells inside the body deteriorate and there is a risk of multiple organ failure.
The body cannot even sweat at this point because blood flow to the skin stops, making it feel cold and clammy.
Heatstroke - which can occur at any temperature over 40C - requires professional medical help and, if not treated immediately, chances of survival can be slim.
The best method of cooling people down is to immerse them in ice water or apply ice packs to the groin and armpits where crucial arteries are located - but it all depends on how long the body has been at an elevated temperature.
George Havenith, professor of environmental physiology and ergonomics from Loughborough University, says humidity - the amount of moisture in the air - is critical in determining how much we can sweat out.
If humidity is high, our ability to sweat is impaired and this makes us feel awful.
But if it is hot and dry - like Qatar - sweat can help.
"We can evaporate a lot of moisture from our skins - but we also have to produce it," says Prof Havenith.
"This means going to very high sweat rates quickly, and people might be limited by the amount of sweat they can produce."
So someone running at around 15km per hour in temperatures up to 37C would need to produce four litres of sweat per hour.
Jamie Pringle, an exercise physiologist, works with professional triathletes at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield.
He says the fitter athletes are, the better they are able to cope with heat - and Tour de France leader Chris Froome is a good example.
"Training increases blood volume in the body and that's where you sweat from so someone like Froome will have 10-12 litres of blood in his body compared to six litres in the average male."
A serious athlete is going to build up high blood volume and can therefore sweat more and cool down more quickly and effectively when the going gets hot.
Pringle says we can all improve our ability to hold on to fluids by spending a week or two in a heat chamber and exercising on a treadmill.
The key is to listen to your body, Prof Havenith says.
"Most amateur runners naturally slow down when they get too hot, but there are always people who keeping pushing themselves further and that's when things go wrong."
Her third album's long-awaited release on streaming services has also helped it claim a 13th week at number one.
In the singles chart, Drake's continued dominance saw One Dance become the third longest-running number one ever.
Only Bryan Adams and Wet Wet Wet have spent more consecutive weeks in the top spot than the Canadian rapper.
Adams' (Everything I Do) I Do It For You spent 16 consecutive weeks at number one in 1991, while Wet Wet Wet enjoyed a 15-week reign with Love Is All Around in 1994.
One Dance, already the longest-running UK number one single of the digital era, has now spent 12 straight weeks fending off all comers.
Drake has more cause to celebrate thanks to Too Good, his collaboration with Rihanna, which rose two places this week to number three.
French producer Kungs came between Drake's two top five tracks. Kungs' remix of Cookin' On Three Burners' 2009 track This Girl held steady at two.
Rihanna made another appearance at four with her Calvin Harris collaboration This Is What You Came For, while Justin Timberlake's Can't Stop the Feeling dropped two places to five.
Adele sat just beneath him in this week's countdown, with her her Send My Love (To Your New Lover) track jumping nine places to make its Top 10 debut at six.
In the album chart, two other acts experienced a sales boost off the back of their high-profile appearances at Glastonbury.
Coldplay, who closed the event on Sunday night, saw their A Head Full of Dreams album climb three places to two.
ELO's greatest hits compilation All Over the World, meanwhile, climbed four places to three following Jeff Lynne's appearance in the festival's Sunday afternoon "legends" slot.
Rick Astley's 50 dropped a place to number four, while Beyonce's Lemonade album jumped five places to number five.
Neil Young's environmentally-themed live album Earth was this week's highest new entry, making its chart debut at 14.
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In a land that takes pride in making everything bigger - he exercises his right to miniaturise.
Namely, video games consoles.
In America he is a celebrity of the "maker" scene, thanks to his humorous broadcasts on YouTube. The Ben Heck Show (which he helpfully advertises on his T-shirt) sees him hack devices from smartphones to quadcopters, electronic doors and wheelchairs - often after requests from viewers.
He adapts these digital objects in surprising ways, as well as building new objects from scratch - and the show has been viewed more than 16 million times.
But he is best known as a "console modder" - an expert in deconstructing classic games consoles, and morphing them into different forms.
It is a passion he has cultivated as a hobby for nearly 15 years and stemmed from a fascination with computer gaming, growing up in Wisconsin.
More used to the circuit of the American maker scene, he has made a trip to hackers' camping festival Electromagnetic Field in Bletchley, just north of London, to connect with fellow British computing enthusiasts.
To appease the Brits, he has brought not a converted XBox, or Atari - two of his signature hacks - but Sir Clive Sinclair's 1980s ZX Spectrum.
In essence, his technique is to open up the guts of video games consoles, and mutilate them.
The shrinking is possible because he uses modern data storage, some up to date components which are less power hungry, and he replaces bulky elements, such as the screen, keyboard and casing, with his own parts.
"I hand-wired a duplicate of the Spectrum," he explains. "We found the schematics online and reproduced it along with some lithium ion batteries."
"That's why we put a window on the back of it," explains Heck, "to show off the wiring and prove that it's not an emulation, it's actually original hardware."
He sourced many of the original Spectrum Z80 chips from Ebay, before wiring them on prototyping boards.
"It's the real deal," he says.
In this way he has turned Commodore 64s and XBox 360s into laptops, and made portable, handheld versions of Atari, Sega and Sony consoles.
Video console makers are notoriously protective of their devices and the secrets behind their manufacture. But despite his notoriety, Heck has so far not encountered any objections, or legal action.
It is mainly people who "mod" to play pirated games they go after, he points out.
In the case of the ZX Spectrum, his new handheld version looks a bit like a Blackberry - a parallel he is keen to play down. (Though he points out it at least avoids the issue of having rubber keys.)
A tablet instead of a music cassette player can be plugged in to the computer to load games, though still using an audio lead.
"Ironically the tablet is around 2,000 times faster than the Spectrum," muses Heck. "2GHz quadcore versus 3.5Mhz in the Z80."
There is the familiar, tense wait for the game to load.
He has sourced the files for the game from the same retro site where he found the circuit designs, World of Spectrum, a magnet for the computer's international fan base.
Classic game Manic Miner fails to load on first attempt - a sign of the system's authenticity, insists Heck.
When it does arrive the sounds are familiar - and the Menagerie level is no easier on a small screen.
"It is pretty ironic," says Heck, "I could just download a Spectrum emulator on to this iPad."
Nostalgia apps
There is a huge nostalgia market for games of the 1980s, and emulator apps are available that allow you to download old titles and play them on mobile devices.
This has allowed games studios that have survived to make money from their old back catalogue.
But despite this appetite for retro games, Heck says he will not build another miniature ZX Spectrum. He hasn't made this to satisfy any market - just his own urge to see if it can be done.
But if the console modder's art seems a little self-indulgent and abstruse, Heck has one antidote to this.
Through his work he has received a steady stream of requests from disabled people, and relatives of disabled people, to see if he could make a games controller operated with one hand.
Many were heartfelt pleas to help war veterans, stroke sufferers and car accident victims, who loved to game, and wanted to continue to do so.
"It feels good" to fulfil these requests, says Heck. "Controllers like that are a small percentage of the population, so solutions aren't usually made for them.
"That's where I come in!"
Watch Ben Heck load and play Manic Miner on his mini-Spectrum.
The Wales Governance Centre at Cardiff University estimated Wales received about £245m more from the EU than it paid in during 2014.
A spokesman for Vote Leave Cymru said he did not recognise these projections and, if the UK voted to leave, Wales would be financially better off.
Britain Stronger In Europe said the EU was a great bargain for Wales.
The report claimed Wales' position differs substantially from the rest of the UK, with the UK making a net contribution of £151 per person rather than being a net beneficiary.
Ed Poole, one of the report's authors, said this was "primarily due to Wales' receipt of significant funding from the EU's regional and agricultural programmes".
The UK makes contributions to the EU on a UK basis, so any contribution Wales makes as part of that has to be estimated.
The report makes clear that a different methodology could be used which would come to a lower figure for how much Wales benefits from the union.
This could reduce the net benefit from £245m to about £180m.
However, the authors defended the method they used, saying it is based on a methodology used by the Scottish Government in their annual national accounts publication.
They explain that the publication is National Statistics accredited, meaning it is certified by the UK Statistics Authority as compliant with its Code of Practice for Official Statistics.
The report estimated Wales' proportion of the UK contribution was £414m in 2014.
After this is subtracted from the £658m Wales received from the EU in structural funds and money for agriculture, the report came to a figure of about £245m for how much Wales gets back.
This amounts to about £79 per person.
To come to the contribution figure, academics used a method developed in Scotland. This uses Wales' economic performance to estimate a proportion of the different kinds of contributions the UK makes to the EU.
Wales' share of the UK government's rebate from the EU is included in that, but is calculated in a different way, based on a per capita share of the overall rebate figure.
Under the per capita method the rebate is estimated at £211m, but there is an alternative way of working this out.
Using a method based on Wales' economic performance, described in the report, the rebate would be pegged at £147m.
This then reduces the net benefit for Wales to about £180m.
The academics argued they have kept the per capita measure "for the purposes of comparison and consistency".
A spokesman for Vote Leave Cymru said: "Reports such as these ignore one crucial fact; there is no such thing as European money. It is money that hardworking families have paid in taxes and money which could be better spent locally.
"Even if true, this report calculates the price of Wales' freedom from the anti democratic EU at just £1.50 a week - a real bargain.
"In any case, we do not recognise these projections and if the UK votes to leave the EU on 23 June, Wales will be financially better off.
"The UK currently spends £10bn a year more than it receives in so-called EU funds and Wales would be entitled to its share of that dividend if we vote to leave."
Geraint Talfan Davies, chairman of Wales Stronger In Europe, said: "This report makes it abundantly clear that Wales gets back from Europe more than we contribute - a benefit equivalent to £79 per person.
"This makes a real difference to all our lives - creating jobs, upgrading skills, regenerating communities, enhancing our universities, improving the environment, sustaining agriculture and rural areas and helping the stretched budgets of our local authorities.
"In short, the EU is a great bargain for Wales. But there is no guarantee that we would enjoy these benefits if we vote leave. Wales would almost certainly be out of pocket."
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The 23-year-old front man had asked for a move from Shamrock Park in June, with Cliftonville appearing to be his most likely destination.
Murray returns to the Ports squad on Saturday having missed the midweek win over Warrenpoint because of suspension.
Portadown, Cliftonville and Linfield have won their opening two fixtures.
"Something has got to give and and it should be a really good game," said Cliftonville manager Tommy Breslin who had made no secret of his desire to sign front man Murray.
Cliftonville have been looking for a striker to replace their record-breaking top scorer Joe Gormley who moved to Peterborough United during the close season.
Linfield top the early standings on goal difference and the Blues host Dungannon Swifts on Saturday.
Join presenter Joel Taggart for Saturday Sportsound with Portadown's clash with Cliftonville the feature game.
Michael Hammond and Philip Mitchell will take you through the Shamrock Park action while Eric White and Tim McCann are on commentary for the derby between Ballymena United and Coleraine.
The programme also includes updates from the other four Premiership game and the latest cross-channel news.
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Carrick Rangers defender Aaron Smyth is set to miss the Taylor's Avenue clash with Glentoran after sustaining a leg injury in Wednesday night's defeat by Linfield.
Glens keeper Elliott Morris was dismissed four minutes into the 2-2 midweek draw with champions Crusaders and he is suspended.
The Crues have made a stuttering start to their title defence, with just one point on the board from two games.
But manager Stephen Baxter is in relaxed mood as he prepares for a Seaview encounter against Ballinamallard United.
"It's a long league, we had a similar start last year, it's early season and we will not be over-assessing it," he said.
"Maybe it's a hangover from playing in Europe but we've played two top teams and there's still 36 games to go.
"We've another tough game against Ballinamallard, who have a wily manager in Whitey Anderson and they've brought in excellent players."
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The move is part of £12m plans for St Nicholas Park and Newbold Comyn centres being looked at by Conservative-run Warwick District Council.
Labour councillor Judith Clarke said tendering led to risks "because you never really know whether it is going to be a success or not".
Sue Gallagher, of cultural services, said they wanted to improve services.
The council said its executive committee would discuss a report on Thursday about improving leisure and sports services "to respond to increasing demand as the district grows over the coming decades".
"Without this investment, there is a significant risk that these major leisure facilities will no longer be fit for purpose," the report says.
Councillors will be asked to look at seeking outside funding for new fitness facilities, updating reception areas and building a new sports hall at Leamington Spa's Newbold Comyn centre.
Council leader Andrew Mobbs said: "It is important that we consider the best ways to continue to provide this service by seeking to both invest in the future and reduce the financial burden of such facilities."
But Ms Clarke, a Leamington councillor, said if any services were run by outside groups, the contracts would have to be "scrutinised very carefully" to ensure the council got best value for money.
Ms Gallagher, portfolio holder for cultural services, said costs would be considered, adding the centres were very important to people in the area.
"We have always kept them up to high standards and high quality and we just want to make them better," she said.
The executive committee is being asked to approve plans for further studies and reports into the "likely costs and benefits" ahead of a future decision about how the services will be operated.
Hundreds of Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) troops entered Bazwaya, the last village before the city boundary, after launching a dawn assault on Monday.
A BBC correspondent travelling with them says there was some resistance, with car bombs targeting the convoy.
Units of the army's ninth division are meanwhile advancing from the south.
Earlier, the military announced the start of an operation to retake the part of Mosul east of the River Tigris, which flows through the city.
The BBC's Ian Pannell, who is with a CTS unit, says the assault on Bazwaya, about 3km (1.9 miles) from Mosul, began early on Monday.
Hundreds of troops in heavily-armoured Humvees, together with tanks and bulldozers, advanced on the village, supported by US-led coalition air strikes, our correspondent adds.
Within hours the head of the Iraqi military's Nineveh Operations Command, Lt-Gen Abdul Amir Yarallah, announced that they had entered Bazwaya and raised the Iraqi flag.
Our correspondent says that a column of troops is now probing different parts of Mosul's outskirts, as commanders make a plan about where to go next.
When Daesh (a term for IS) entered Mosul, they killed my father because he was a police officer. I got away - they didn't come after me.
My village was besieged for two years and a couple of months. If I had spoken to anyone about being in the police or army, Daesh would have killed me.
It happened to many of my close friends. They would go to their homes and Daesh would just take them away.
Daesh are just beards. They force you to attend all the prayers at the mosque. If your woman is not wearing a hijab, they will whip you - they have complete control.
One senior officer told the Associated Press news agency that they aimed to enter the city limits later on Monday, while another told Reuters they were already fighting in the Karama district.
CTS commander Lt Gen Abdul Wahhab al-Saidi denied that the troops had entered Karama. But he did say that they were moving on Kukjali, an industrial zone west of Bazwaya that lies about 1km from Mosul's municipal boundary.
It had been expected the CTS would halt its advance until troops and allied fighters on other frontlines also reached the outskirts of Mosul.
Gen Yarallah announced earlier that the army's ninth division had taken control of the village of Ellag, 17km (10 miles) south of Mosul.
Army units also recaptured a number of villages to the south-east and north, the military said, while federal police are moving north from the town of Shura towards Hamam al-Alil.
About 50,000 Iraqi security forces personnel, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, Sunni Arab tribesmen and Shia militiamen are involved in the two-week-old offensive to drive IS militants out of their last major urban stronghold in the country.
Mosul fell to the jihadists in June 2014 and their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, chose a mosque in the city as a place to proclaim the establishment of a "caliphate".
Before the offensive began on 17 October, there were believed to be between 3,000 and 5,000 militants remaining in Mosul, along with up to 1.5 million civilians.
More than 17,700 residents have fled so far and, according to the UN's worst-case scenario, as many as 700,000 others could follow suit.
The approval by the Federal Reserve could give momentum to White House plans to loosen financial rules.
The Fed signed off on the firms' plans to distribute money to shareholders and use it for purposes other than being a buffer against another meltdown.
It said the proposals would not hinder the banks' ability to operate in a severe downturn.
This is the first time in seven years all 34 firms under review have passed the second part of an annual stress test brought in after the financial crisis.
Bank stocks jumped on the news.
Citigroup shares rose more than 2% in after hours trading. The firm said on Wednesday that it would increase its dividend and authorize up to $15.6bn in share buybacks in coming months.
Shares of JP Morgan Chase spiked almost 2%, while Bank of America climbed 1.3% and Goldman Sachs increased 1.2%.
The Federal Reserve last week cleared all 34 financial firms in the first part of the review, which looked at whether the firms had enough of a financial cushion to absorb losses in a severe downturn.
In the second part of the review, the bank said the companies' capital plans, which include share buybacks and dividend increases, would not harm their ability to operate in a crisis.
"I'm pleased that the... process has motivated all of the largest banks to achieve healthy capital levels and most to substantially improve their capital planning processes," said Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell.
The Federal Reserve asked one company, Capital One Financial, to submit a new plan within six months that addresses weaknesses in its capital planning process.
Regulators said the firm did not "appropriately take into account the potential impact of the risks in one of its most material businesses."
The 22-year-old from Queenstown is Wales-qualified through his grandfather from Llanelli and played for New Zealand Under-20s five times in 2013.
Scarlets head coach Wayne Pivac said: "Michael is a versatile player with a good skillset.
"He has been brought in to cover injuries to Scott Williams and Liam Williams."
The 34-year-old, who played for Llanelli as well as representing the Barbarians, joined the region in 2000 as part of their academy year group.
"I'm delighted and proud to have the opportunity to continue my coaching development at the Scarlets," he said.
"There's plenty of work to be done, but with a young pack I'm looking forward to seeing the development continue."
Flynn, 36, has been rewarded with a two-year deal after securing League Two survival in a 12-game caretaker spell.
Coach Wayne Hatswell and advisor Lennie Lawrence will also remain at County, who avoided relegation with victory over Notts County.
"Nothing makes me prouder than to take charge of my hometown club," Flynn said.
The appointment means midfielder Flynn has all but hung up his boots as a professional player, despite five League Two appearances this season.
Though he may register as a player, he said: "It will just be an emergency if anything happens, you can take it I am retiring because unless we have a horrendous run of injuries then I won't be doing anything.
"Its a new chapter in Michael Flynn's career and its management not football."
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Flynn will immediately set to work on reducing the size of County's squad, while seeking to keep key players who engineered the astonishing late revival.
The former Wigan Athletic and Gillingham player is anxious to take that momentum into next season, but warned: " I am not going to say I am a miracle worker and we are going to win the league by ten points. I am honest it's going to be a tough job but it's an exciting job.
"We have to get the recruitment right. We need payers in who will take us up the league. We are already having a chat about targets and what we think we need.
"For me there was not enough pace in the team so we need to increase the pace around the pitch."
Vastly experienced Lawrence said Flynn's knowledge of the club - he made more than 100 appearances for County - was a key to survival and would be important going forward.
The former Cardiff City, Charlton and Middlesbrough manager said: "If you are at a club like Newport it has to be more than a job. It's a young man's game unless your are at the top. You have to have a good work ethic.
"The fact that he's local, started and finished his career here, is a big advantage. He knows the club he knew the players. Now he has to show skills in a recruitment department."
Meanwhile the club have released Liam Angel, Marcus Beauchamp, Paul Bignot, Jack Compton, Tom Meechan, Kieran Parselle, Finlay Wood following the end of the season.
Darren Jones, who has had two spells with the club, also announced his retirement.
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The 46-year-old victim was in the office of his van hire shop on Court Road in Greenwich on 10 February when the men burst in.
They choked him until he lost consciousness during the raid.
Grabbing the gold Rolex Yacht Master watch - worth £15,000 - they ran off to a waiting black Peugeot 206 in Middle Park Avenue, where a man and woman were sitting.
Police describe the first suspect as a 25-30 year-old white male, with a goatee beard.
The second is described as a 38-40 year-old white male with a scarred complexion.
Tidal Lagoon Power (TLP) says it will now negotiate how much subsidy will be paid for the energy.
That is still a big hurdle for TLP, which wants five other lagoons on the west UK coast to harness power, and needs a guaranteed price for it.
There are also concerns about the impact on the environment and migratory fish.
The backing by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is seen as a significant step forward for the developers.
Energy Minister Lord Bourne, who is also Wales Office Minister, said: "We need more clean and home-grown sources of energy, which will help to reduce our reliance on foreign fossil fuels.
"Low carbon energy projects like the tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay could bring investment, support local jobs and help contribute to the Welsh economy and Swansea area."
The tidal lagoon on the eastern side of Swansea Bay, between the docks and the new university campus, would use the flow and ebb of the tide to generate energy, which would then be converted into electricity.
But before the lagoon becomes a reality, there are three main challenges that need to be met:
The attraction for the UK Government is the potential for a new industry.
Thousands of construction and manufacturing jobs could be created, especially if five much bigger lagoons are built in the Severn estuary and off the north Wales coast.
There would also be a boost to the UK's standing as a generator of clean, green energy.
Mark Shorrock, chief executive of Gloucester-based TLP, said the project had the" potential to help transform our industrial economy and the UK's energy mix".
He added: "We see it as a game-changer, a scalable blueprint, paving the way for a fleet of lagoons that can work in harmony with nature to help secure the nation's electricity for generations to come."
Swansea council leader Rob Stewart called the news hugely encouraging for the city, saying it would boost leisure and tourism.
Friends of the Earth Cymru director Gareth Clubb also welcomed the news, adding: "Tidal power could further revolutionise Wales' energy mix - instead of relying on climate-wrecking fossil fuels, it could help us build a clean and safer energy future."
However he called for the government to make the most of existing renewable resources such as offshore wind and solar power.
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) will continue to assess the possible effects of the lagoon on the environment. A marine licence could be issued by the end of July.
If the decision is a positive one, work would start next March.
A Welsh government spokesman said: "We welcome this decision. Wales is well-placed to exploit the potential of marine energy and the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon project could create thousands of jobs during the construction and hundreds of permanent ones."
ANALYSIS by Iolo ap Dafydd, BBC Wales environment correspondent
Tidal energy has political muscle from both George Osborne and David Cameron behind it, while the developers claim the promised tourism and jobs from the project have strong support in the Swansea area.
But there are challenges too. Big ones.
There are environmental concerns about the impact on migratory fish. The Swansea lagoon would be between the Tawe and Neath estuaries. The potentially larger lagoon in eastern Cardiff could block the Rhymney estuary.
TLP still needs a marine licence from NRW whatever is decided in Westminster.
The impact of dredging and clearing on the bay, as well as sediment pollution, are other considerations. And the project could yet face legal challenges or calls for a judicial review.
Then there's the cost. A cool billion pounds for an energy output that would be a third of an average sized power station.
TLP and the UK Government now need to agree a guaranteed price for the energy generated.
Last year, the company asked for £168 per MWhe - higher than for nuclear, solar and onshore wind energy - but will not say the current detail of negotiations.
Higher tariffs are offered to wave and other marine technologies, but unlike energy lagoons, they are far in the future whereas staff at TLP want to be able to start building next spring.
HOW THE LAGOON WOULD WORK:
Source: Tidal Lagoon Power Ltd
It will be the second time Bennett will have played under Rovers boss Paul Lambert, following his spell as boss at Carrow Road from 2009 until 2012.
The 27-year-old has moved for an undisclosed fee.
Bennett made 79 appearances for Norwich, scoring three goals. He had a spell on loan at Bristol City earlier this season.
The prime minister said a joint GCHQ and National Crime Agency unit would hunt online paedophiles with the same "effort" used to track terrorists.
Speaking at a London summit, he said online child exploitation existed on an "almost industrial scale" worldwide.
He also unveiled a law to stop adults sending children "sexual" messages.
Labour said it had suggested the same law six weeks ago and the government had said it was "not necessary".
Mr Cameron said the new unit was part of a drive to remove millions of "sickening and depraved" images from the internet.
The term "dark net" refers to parts of the internet that are hidden and can be hard to access without special software, and Downing Street said the new unit would be able to analyse huge volumes of images.
Mr Cameron said progress had been made on blocking online abuse images, but added: "The dark net is the next side of the problem, where paedophiles and perverts are sharing images, not using the normal parts of the internet that we all use.
"What we are doing there is setting GCHQ, our world class intelligence agency, together with the National Crime Agency and we are going to go after these people with every bit of effort that we go after terrorists and other international criminals."
Mr Cameron said children were being "abused to order" by some international gangs.
"One gang in the Philippines was arranging the sexual abuse of children, filming it and then live streaming it to paying customers across the world," he said.
He said this gang was stopped - and 29 people arrested - after an investigation which began when a British police officer examined a sex offender's computer. He said 15 children, some as young as six, were rescued from their "living nightmare".
Speaking at the We Protect Children Online summit in London, Mr Cameron said his proposed new law would make it "illegal for an adult to send a sexual communication to a child".
The law, which would apply in England and Wales, is expected to be included in the Serious Crime Bill currently going through Parliament.
Various laws exist in this area, but Mr Cameron said there should be no "grey areas".
It follows a campaign by the NSPCC charity to close what it dubbed the "flaw in the law".
Mr Cameron said it would also be made illegal to possess material offering guidance on abusing children - what he called "paedophile training manuals".
Representatives from more than 50 countries, 23 leading technology companies and nine non-governmental organisations are attending the summit.
Mr Cameron said they would sign a "landmark agreement" which "amounts to nothing less than a global war against online child abuse".
As part of the agreement, he said a "range of countries" had committed to create "dedicated law enforcement response" to tackle child abuse images.
He said a new "global child protection fund" would be set up, with the UK the first and "most major" donor - paying £50m over the next five years.
Mr Cameron said internet firms had gone "above and beyond" what they had been asked to do in terms of blocking access to child abuse images.
He also said:
Google said it "aggressively" removes child abuse images, adding: "Over the past 12 months our algorithm changes and deterrent campaign have already led to a five-fold reduction in a number of child sexual abuse image-related queries in search."
Responding to Mr Cameron's comments, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said there were "very serious gaps" in the government's plans because "thousands of cases of abuse are not being followed up by the police".
"We know the National Crime Agency has details of over 20,000 suspected of accessing images of child abuse under Operation Notarise, and yet they have only investigated a tiny proportion of these - and arrested fewer than 1,000," she said.
Ms Cooper also said the new law outlined by Mr Cameron was "in fact a Labour amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill" that the government had said was "not necessary" only six weeks ago.
"It's very welcome that they have changed their minds," she said.
Roy Devine told a council meeting on Tuesday that the airport will not break even until 2021/22.
It is currently running at a £2.145m loss per year, paid for by Derry City and Strabane District Council ratepayers.
While this subsidy has reduced by £1m since 2010, a further £1.3m is owed in charges on historic capital loans.
Mr Devine said that they were in discussions with other airlines to try to attract new routes to the airport, following a number of recent losses.
They have included routes from Derry to Birmingham and Alicante, while a proposed Derry-Dublin Citywings flight was scrapped last month following the Brexit vote.
Mr Devine told the meeting that an "over-supply" of airline routes flying to and from Belfast, an increase in business rates incurred by the airport and cash-strapped customers in the region were all pressing challenges.
"I do acknowledge things are challenging at the moment but we do believe there are better days ahead and we would ask council to stay with us," he added.
"I think the airport is vital to the infrastructure of the north west. I think the city would be poorer without having it."
Mr Devine added that extra costs outlined in a new five year business plan related to money needed to cover staff wages, and cover the recent loss of the Birmingham route.
However, Independent councillor Paul Gallagher said the airport now looked like "a vanity project for this area", the "burden" of which is being endured by ratepayers.
"As a business plan, I would say this concedes more than it gives. It concedes that we need to pay airlines to attract routes and that there is an inability to attract funding and attract and maintain new routes," Mr Gallagher said.
"CODA (City of Derry Airport) cannot keep coming back to this area and just looking for subvention, subvention, subvention."
Those comments were dismissed by SDLP councillor, John Boyle.
"We need connectivity; we have a very poor roads network here. For anyone to say we should give up and wave the white flag, to my mind would be ridiculous," he said.
"We have a responsibility to ratepayers to keep the airport running as well. There are many, many large businesses who depend upon it."
Russia was suspended in November 2015 by the IAAF and the ban has twice been extended meaning athletes missed the Rio Olympics.
They are now set to also miss March's European Indoors in Belgrade.
This extension comes despite Russian President Vladimir Putin approving a law criminalising doping in sports.
In his annual Kremlin speech to parliament and the nation, President Putin said that Russia's new anti-doping programme would be ready in early 2017, so that athletes could qualify to take part in August's World Championships in London.
Although Rune Andersen, the head of the International Association of Athletics Federations Taskforce looking into the steps Russia is taking to combat doping, says the country's athletics federation (Rusaf) has made further progress on the matter since June, it has refused to put any dates on a timescale for a return to the fold.
The final report by Canadian law professor Richard McLaren into Russia's state-sponsored doping programme, is due to be released on 9 December and Andersen said the Taskforce would return to Russia in January to assess the response to it before reporting to February's IAAF Council meeting.
"At that time it hopes to be able to identify a clear roadmap and timetable for Rusaf's reinstatement," said the Norwegian.
In the meantime, Russian athletes can still apply to the IAAF doping review board to compete if they can demonstrate they have undergone a testing system, as the US-based long jumper Darya Klishina did successfully for the Rio Games.
The team principal has faced questions over banned substance use and British Cycling has been investigated due to issues during his time in charge.
But ahead of the start of the Tour on Saturday, Brailsford said he is "proud" and "patriotic" of achievements.
Tour champion Chris Froome said he had "no trust issues" with Team Sky.
Froome, 32, is seeking a fourth Tour de France title and revealed he is close to signing a new contract with the outfit which would extend his stay to 2021.
But since his win in 2016, Team Sky have been criticised for the use of Therapeutic Use Exemptions and questioned over the contents of a medical package sent to Sir Bradley Wiggins at the Criterium du Dauphine in 2011.
Amid widespread criticism of the team, Froome - who has not won a race this season - conceded he could "sympathise" with fans who doubted the credibility of his performances.
"Certainly I've learned to grow a thicker skin over the years and I understand where it's coming from given cycling's history," said Froome, who had urine thrown at him during the 2015 Tour where he claimed fans called him a "doper".
"I do sympathise with people who have had their doubts because I've had my doubts as well about performances post the early 2000s. I can see where those questions are coming from.
"I don't have any trust issues, I can't make it any more plain."
Brailsford faced a Culture, Media and Sport Committee in December to discuss doping in the sport and said the package delivered to Wiggins prior to the first of his two wins at the Criterium du Dauphine was a "decongestant".
Team Sky are seeking a fifth win in six years at this year's Tour and Brailsford is adamant they have never strayed from their "zero tolerance" policy on doping ahead of the off in Dusseldorf.
"I've been involved in this sport a long time, and I've tried to do it absolutely in the way that I've always thought it should be done," he said.
"I wouldn't want to be doing anything else. I'm proud of cycling in Britain, I'm proud of everything that's been achieved, I'm proud of these guys, proud of Team Sky. I love it, I'm going nowhere."
The France international finished at the near post after he received the ball from Maxwell following good hold-up play by Ezequiel Lavezzi.
Ramy Bensebaini had Montpellier's best chance but saw his header saved.
Neither £43.4m signing Angel Di Maria nor Zlatan Ibrahimovic featured in the match as they recover from injury.
Former Manchester United midfielder Di Maria has a thigh injury while Sweden striker Ibrahimovic is still struggling with a knee problem.
PSG, chasing a fourth consecutive league title, have won all three of their Ligue 1 matches so far, scored four goals without conceding.
The guidelines focus on the harm caused to victims of fraud, money laundering and bribery, as well as the monetary amounts involved.
The old rules viewed the pain caused to victims only as an "aggravating factor", the Sentencing Council said.
Justice minister Jeremy Wright has welcomed the change.
Elderly people getting ripped off by unscrupulous builders was the the type of crime the council cited as an example of when the tougher guidelines could be used.
Sentencing Council chairman Lord Justice Treacy said fraudsters "were only in it to make money" but victims were often adversely affected in ways far greater than just financial loss.
He said: "Our research with victims showed the great impact it can have on them, so the guideline puts this impact at the centre of considerations of what sentence the offender should get."
In 2012, 17,926 people were sentenced for fraud, which the council describes as a hugely varied offence that can affect "individuals, businesses, public money and charities".
Fraud against individuals cost victims £9.1 billion in 2012-13, the Council said.
Private sector fraud cost business £21.2 billion in 2012-13, while fraud targeting public money amounted to £20.6 billion.
Mr Wright said: "The upset and embarrassment of falling victim to con artists and fraudsters can often be at least as bad as the financial loss, and we welcome these guidelines which make sure courts will take that into account in future."
The Sentencing Council for England and Wales was set up to promote greater transparency and consistency in sentencing. The courts must follow its guideline "unless it is in the interests of justice not to do so". Most of its members are judges of various sorts but it also includes members of a number of professions connected with the law and the courts.
Chile midfielder Vidal struck early in the second half when his 20-yard shot was deflected past keeper Thomas Kraft.
Brazil winger Costa made sure of victory with a spectacular shot into the top corner 11 minutes from the end.
That would have made Bayern champions had Borussia Dortmund lost, but Thomas Tuchel's side won 3-0 at Stuttgart.
Shinji Kagawa, Christian Pulisic and Henrik Mkhitaryan scored for Dortmund, who trail Bayern by seven points with three games each to play.
Vidal's goal brought a redemption of sorts, after he was criticised heavily for diving in midweek.
The midfielder dived to win a penalty as Bayern beat Werder Bremen 2-0 in their DFB-Pokal semi-final on Tuesday night, with the referee who awarded the kick later apologising for his error and even manager Pep Guardiola admitting that it was the wrong decision.
Guardiola rested captain Philipp Lahm with Wednesday's Champions League semi-final first leg trip to Atletico Madrid to consider, but still put out a strong side.
Hertha, seeking to qualify for next season's Champions League, threatened the leaders' goal only rarely, with former Bayern forward Mitchell Weiser seeing a first-half penalty appeal rejected as his shot struck Serdar Tasci on the arm.
After Vidal's opener, Kraft made a superb save to deny Robert Lewandowski, but was helpless to do anything about Costa's effort.
During Mr Chavez's funeral in Caracas on Friday, Mr Ahmadinejad was photographed sympathising with Elena Frias de Chavez, 78.
While it is not a full embrace, the Iranian president and Mr Chavez's mother have their faces brushed against each other, with their hands clasped in a moment of shared grief. Several news agencies released photos of the unexpected scene.
Muslim men are by tradition forbidden to touch women who are not members of their close family.
Conservative critics, already irked by Mr Ahmadinejad's effusive eulogy for the leftist leader, reminded him that he has not only committed a sin, but also behaved in a way inappropriate for the president of an Islamic state.
They said it was another sign that Mr Ahmadinejad was influenced by the "deviant current", a term used to label his close aides, and increasingly himself, and distance him from the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Iranian government spin doctors tried to deflect the criticism by claiming the photograph was faked.
"They have doctored the picture or took it from an angle that appears to show they (Mr Ahmadinejad and Mrs Chavez) are in contact. There was no handshake," said Mohammadreza Mir Tajeddini, an aide to the president.
Then in an intriguing twist, a clearly Photoshopped version of the picture made the rounds on some Iranian websites. It showed Mr Ahmadinejad with an old balding man in the very same pose.
The president's supporters insisted this was the genuine photo, depicting an uncle of Mr Chavez, while the one with his mother was indeed Photoshopped.
But on close inspection, it's clear that the so-called uncle is the Egyptian opposition leader and former director-general of the UN nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei.
In real life, Mr ElBaradei is much taller than Mr Ahmadinejad, but in the doctored picture he appears significantly shorter than the Iranian president.
In another baffling twist, Entekhab, a website that had earlier chastised Mr Ahmadinejad for the original picture of the president and Mr Chavez's mother, issued an unreserved apology to the Iranian president.
It blamed the British Daily Telegraph for "Photoshopping the picture amateurishly".
This was all the ammunition pro-Ahmadinejad websites and blogs needed. A few hours later, Entekhab withdrew its own apology, however.
"After seeing the picture of Ahmadinejad and the old man, one of our reporters thought this was the real photo. Believing that he has made a significant discovery, he published the story without informing his editors. Unfortunately, the photo showing Ahmadinejad and (Mrs) Chavez is genuine," read Entekhab's statement.
There is also another contentious picture published by anti-Ahmadinejad websites, falsely claiming it shows the president hugging one of Hugo Chavez's daughters.
The Iranian president's supporters are claiming a smear campaign to discredit Mr Ahmadinejad and his aides as they attempt to retain power in the June presidential election.
Kevin Hannaway and four others were arrested on 8 August as part of an operation targeting dissident republican activity in Dublin.
Mr Hannaway, 67, from Colin Mill in Belfast was charged on 10 August with assisting the IRA.
Edward O'Brien, 41, of Finglas, Dublin and Eva Shannon, 59, from Oakman Street, Belfast face the same charge.
David Nooney , 52, from Coultry Green, Ballymun, Dublin, and Seán Hannaway, 47, from Linden Gardens, Belfast are each charged with membership of the IRA.
Mr Hannaway is a member of the group known as the 'hooded men' who were detained by security forces during the Troubles.
They are seeking revision of a 1978 judgment of the European Court of Human Rights, which said their treatment was "inhuman and degrading" but not torture.
Mr Hannaway, along with his co-accused, were each granted bail at the non-jury court, on a number of conditions.
A book of evidence is expected to be served on 3 November.
But Zika is no fiction.
The spread of the disease across the Americas is being described as an "explosive pandemic" and now Asia is on alert.
India has already started testing for the virus among its 1.3 billion population. And it will be no surprise if it is found, because India has a surprisingly long history of Zika infection.
Zika is a mosquito-borne virus which has recently been linked to shrunken brains in children and a rare auto-immune disease called Guillain-Barre syndrome.
Scientists who have been studying the outbreak in the Americas say a couple of million people have almost certainly been infected. The virus has been detected in 23 countries in the region and now threatens to spill into the US.
So far Asia is reckoned to be Zika-free. Certainly all the samples analysed for the virus by the National Institute of Virology in Pune - India's centre of expertise on the spread of viral illnesses - have been negative.
But India has had Zika before.
When the Institute was first established in 1952, a group of scientists was commissioned to try to work out what diseases it should focus its efforts on.
They went out across India collecting blood samples to test for exposure to a list of 15 insect-borne diseases. Amazingly they included Zika on the list.
I say amazingly because Zika had only just got into the spotlight.
The virus was first isolated from monkeys living in the Zika jungle of Uganda in 1947. It was only formally described as a distinct virus in 1952.
Yet the researchers discovered that "significant numbers" of people had been exposed to the virus in India. A total of 33 of the 196 people tested for the new disease had immunity.
"It therefore seems certain", they concluded in a paper published in 1953 "that Zika virus attacks human beings in India".
What is particularly extraordinary is that this conclusion was reached even before the first official case in a human being was registered in Nigeria in 1954.
It suggests, one expert on the spread of infectious diseases tells me, that Zika was already widespread even before that first live virus was isolated in a human.
The research team was not particularly concerned by the evidence of Zika infection. Zika was regarded as a very mild illness causing just a slight rash and fever, and with no significant long-term complications.
That perception has changed dramatically over the last couple of months, as Zika has been linked with abnormalities in brain development in pregnancy and autoimmune illness.
Indeed, it is possible that Zika has remained endemic here but has simply not been identified because it is not routinely tested for.
And even if India does not already have Zika, the progress of two other diseases - dengue and chikungunya - demonstrates that it could spread.
All three viruses are carried by the same mosquito, the now infamous Aedes aegypti.
Just a few months ago I was out hunting Aedes aegypti in the narrow streets of Delhi's old town with a government team.
I was there because India suffered one of the worst outbreaks of dengue in its history last year. There were 25,000 confirmed cases, but the real figure was reckoned to be at least 100 times higher.
The spread of dengue across the world has been dramatic. The disease causes high fever and agonising joint pain. About one in a hundred victims die.
Fifty years ago it had only ever been recorded in a couple of countries. Now it is endemic in more than 100, putting more than half the world's population at risk.
There are reckoned to be 100 million cases of the disease a year, and perhaps as many as a million deaths.
And wherever there is dengue, one expert told the BBC, you are likely - in time - to get Zika too.
Professor Laura Rodrigues, a fellow of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, says she thinks there is a real chance Aedes aegypti will re-infect Asia with the virus.
Indeed, the findings of the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) are likely to apply to Asia as well as the Americas.
It anticipates that "Zika virus will continue to spread and will likely reach all countries and territories of the region where Aedes mosquitoes are found".
In the meantime the race is on to try to understand how the virus works on the human body and to try to develop a vaccine.
Even the most optimistic estimates suggest that will take a minimum of two years.
The classroom is crammed.
Four or five children squeeze into 1.5m-long wooden desks with the ones at the end forced to stretch a leg out into the aisle to stabilise them.
They are not sitting comfortably but they do seem to be concentrating on the maths lesson.
At the front one of the class is working out a conversion of grammes to kilogrammes.
The rest of them - roughly 100 11-year-olds - recite the answer in chorus.
The teacher walks around the classroom making sure all the pupils are on the same page of the textbook.
This is the scene at Nairobi's Olympic Primary School, which once had a reputation for high academic standards.
But when the Kenyan government introduced Free Primary Education (FPE) in 2003, the school roll almost tripled, without the facilities and resources expanding as fast.
Olympic is in the heart of the Kibera slum area, and the FPE programme gave children there a chance to get an education at no cost.
"Some classes have as many as 120 pupils in one room, handled by one teacher," headteacher Caleb Ochieng admitted.
But he said that in spite of the numbers, his school manages to perform just above average in the national examinations.
This is however a far cry from the days when Olympic was known as one of the best performing schools in Kenya.
Mr Ochieng said that without the teachers' hard work the standards could fall further.
"Sometimes you'll find our teachers, even when they are on the road, marking the books.
"During the weekend they are still marking so that by Monday they are done," Mr Ochieng added.
It is estimated that the country needs 80,000 more teachers to make up the shortfall in personnel.
Education Minister Jacob Kaimenyi told the BBC there have been moves to address this.
The government has employed 20,000 teachers in the last two years, and plans to add 5,000 more this year, but this is still not enough.
"This country spends a substantial amount of the national budget on education," Mr Kaimenyi said. "It is almost 28%, and [because of this] some people think education is overfunded."
Most of that money goes to pay teachers.
Faced with a huge shortage of both teachers and space, some schools have had to be creative.
"We converted some of the [special] rooms like the art room, home science room and the Islamic room, where Muslims were being taught Islamic studies, into classrooms," said Peter Kamau, the deputy headteacher at Nairobi's Milimani Primary School.
"Then, we employed Parent-Teacher Association [PTA] teachers, that is teachers who are paid by parents."
"We have about 10 PTA teachers, because the government cannot cope with the demand for teachers needed to implement the [FPE] programme," added Mr Kamau.
Milimani School is in a middle-income neighbourhood, and most of the residents there prefer to send their children to private schools where class sizes are smaller, facilities more developed and performance in national exams generally better than public schools.
In the poorer areas, like Kibera, the government schools are vital in the effort to raise education standards.
"Most of the children here are very needy - some cannot even afford to buy a pencil," Olympic headteacher Mr Ochieng said.
The Ministry of Education says it will continue to press the finance minister for more money.
"We all believe that education is key, it's an equaliser and a basic human right," argued Minister Kaimenyi.
Education researcher Sarah Ruto says many African governments have been willing to introduce basic education for all children.
But critics have argued that even though these programmes enabled more children to go to school, there was a lack of focus on the quality of education.
Ms Ruto says that Kenya performs best in East Africa for literacy and numeracy skills, but still the average pupil is below the expected level for the previous year group.
In Uganda, only 10% of the pupils can read English to the expected level.
Figure like these, Ms Ruto says, means that despite education now being available to more people there is little to celebrate.
The blasts in Sylhet occurred near an apartment building where commandoes have been trying to flush out a group of suspected Islamist militants.
Earlier many civilians were evacuated from the block of flats. The suspects have refused to surrender.
Dozens of people were injured in the twin explosions on Saturday.
The blasts hit a large crowd which had gathered nearby as troops continued to exchange gunfire with the militants.
The first explosive device was brought by two men on a motorbike and the second was left in a bag of vegetables, police say.
So-called Islamic State (IS) claimed on messaging app Telegram that it was behind one of the blasts.
The suspected extremists are hiding out in a five-storey building, from which 78 civilians have been evacuated.
They keep detonating explosives strewn all around the building, the army says.
Police began their siege on Friday morning, the same day that an apparent suicide attack took place near the main airport in Dhaka, the capital.
Only the bomber died, and IS said it was behind the attack. There was another suspected suicide bombing in the Dhaka area on 17 March, which targeted the barracks of an elite police force, injuring two personnel.
A day later, a man was shot dead at a checkpoint of the same force, and police said bombs were found on him.
The escalation in violence comes at a time when many in Bangladesh thought security forces had managed to curb Islamist militancy, following the deadly siege on a café in Dhaka last year.
Since then security personnel have carried out a number of raids, arresting and sometimes killing dozens of suspected Islamists across the country.
But the recent suicide attacks on security camps and checkpoints have surprised many.
Despite claims by the Islamic State group and al-Qaeda, Bangladeshi police maintain that an offshoot of the banned Islamist outfit Jamaeytul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) is responsible for many of these attacks.
The challenge for the security forces is to find out how many more followers or hard line jihadist sympathisers are still in hiding.
If it is proved that Islamist extremists are responsible for the recent handful of suicide bombings, then it marks a new phase in Bangladesh's fight against militancy.
The rise in violence may also trigger concerns among secular activists, religious minorities, academics and bloggers who bore the brunt of the jihadist violence in the past few years.
Steve Smith's masterful 215 underpinned Australia's 566-8 declared and laid a platform from which to attack with the ball.
In an electrifying spell of fast bowling, Mitchell Johnson took two wickets in seven balls as England lost their first four wickets for 30 runs.
On a pitch that remains slow, Alastair Cook and Ben Stokes spared England further embarrassment with an unbroken 55-run stand but they closed on 85-4, still 481 runs in arrears.
England's deficit reflects two days of complete Australia dominance in response to losing the first Test in Cardiff by 169 runs.
Australia, who were 5-0 victors at home in 2013-14, only need to draw the series to retain the Ashes.
With the comfort of a mammoth total behind them, Australia's pacemen could afford to let rip against England batsmen wearied by nearly two days in the field.
And it took only took two balls to land the breakthrough. Adam Lyth, wafting at a wide away-swinger, edged into the gloves of debutant wicketkeeper Peter Nevill.
Gary Ballance paid a high price for having the cheek to drive Johnson's first ball for four as a 90mph yorker cannoned into his off stump.
Ian Bell was bowled by Josh Hazlewood when he tried to work a straight ball to leg, and Joe Root - so often England's saviour in recent times - edged Johnson behind for one.
With the close of play still 19 overs away, Australia sensed an opportunity to all but wrap up the match, but Stokes counter-punched his way to 38 and Cook dug deep to reach 21 by stumps.
In a textbook piece of pre-Ashes sparring, Stuart Broad had suggested that Smith's promotion to number three in Australia's batting order might play into England's hands by exposing him early to the swinging Dukes ball.
Over the course of more than eight hours of batting at the home of cricket, Smith not only answered any lingering questions but dismissed them out of hand.
The 26-year-old, who began his career as a leg-spinning all-rounder and has batted at every position from three to nine, has now scored six centuries in his past eight Tests, with all of them coming in the first innings of the match.
His 346-ball effort at Lord's saw Australia from 78-1 to 533-6 and could well prove pivotal to the destination of the Ashes urn.
While Smith's curve continues its upward trajectory, Michael Clarke's has been heading in the opposite direction.
The Australia captain made a scratchy seven off 32 balls before looping Mark Wood to square leg.
Since scoring back-to-back hundreds in the last Ashes in December 2013, Clarke is averaging just 31 in 24 innings, a worse record than the ousted Shane Watson, who averaged 34 in 20 innings in the same period.
The solution may be to move the skipper back down to number five, where his average of 61.8 is almost twice as high as his mark when batting at four.
Clarke was out in the middle of a slight Australia wobble either side of lunch, which briefly gave England hope of keeping their total below 500.
Broad picked up three wickets as Chris Rogers played on for 173, Adam Voges edged a leg-cutter into Jos Buttler's gloves for 25 and Mitchell Marsh was bowled by an inswinger to leave Australia on 442-5.
If the momentum briefly appeared to be shifting England's way, Smith and Nevill snatched it back with a breezy 91-run partnership.
Both fell in quick succession to Root, with Smith pinned lbw in front of leg stump and Nevill driving on the up to mid-off.
When Johnson perished in similar fashion to give Broad figures of 4-83, it was the cue for Clarke to declare and unleash his bowlers on England's fragile top order.
Former England captain Michael Vaughan on Test Match Special: "A fantastic day for Australia; they are all patting each other on the back. Smith and Rogers were outstanding but Starc got things going with that wicket to get rid of Lyth and then there was the Mitchell Johnson factor. They looked like the old Australian side of a few years ago. They had that menace about them again."
England's Stuart Broad on TMS: "There are no demons in the pitch but we had a ropey 20 minutes. We've still got a chance to bat big. We have to apply ourselves. We've got 16 wickets to play with in this Test and if people get in and play to their game plan, they're going to be hard to get rid of."
Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott on TMS: "It started Australia's day and finished Australia's day. Steve Smith went on in his uncomplicated way and England haven't worked out the best way to bowl at him."
Australia's Mitchell Johnson on Sky Sports: "England will be having a good night's sleep and digging in. Hopefully they'll play that aggressive brand of cricket they've been talking about and we'll see where that goes."
Staring at defeat they may well be, but England can take some heart from the fact they were 30-4 against New Zealand at Lord's in May but recovered to make 389 and went on to win the Test.
A repeat would avoid the ignominy of following on and significantly lift their chances of escaping with a draw.
The weather could also play a part, with heavy rain forecast to hit Lord's on Sunday.
Former Rotherham Titans hooker Batty, 29, has been with Bath since 2010.
Ex-London Irish prop Lahiff, 27, joined in 2015 and has made 50 Premiership appearances in Blue, Black and White.
"We are extremely pleased to have agreed deals with two key first-team squad players," director of rugby Todd Blackadder told the club website.
"They are energetic, hard-working, and have a really positive impact on and off the field."
Chewing gum and other small packets of sweets are commonly offered instead of small change by shopkeepers according to a police officer who has investigated the thefts.
PC David Walton, of West Mercia Police, said it was a growing problem for supermarkets across the Midlands and North Yorkshire.
On 16 January two Romanian nationals were jailed for stealing £800 worth of chewing gum from stores in Worcester the previous day.
Worcester magistrates ordered Constantin Barbu, 31, and Bogan-Constantin Panait, 23, both from Hounslow in London, to spend seven days in prison after they pleaded guilty to stealing chewing gum from supermarkets.
PC Walton said it was a "widespread problem" with the first case he became aware of happening in April 2011.
He said: "The values we are talking about are £340, £700, £420, £318.
"What they do in effect is they go down the aisles and empty the whole box into their trolley.
"They always have a vehicle outside, they never use public transport and they target stores on retail parks because there is less chance of getting blocked in by traffic, like in the town centres."
He said Sainsburys and Asda stores had particularly been targeted in Shropshire along with a Morrison's store. He said he saw no reason why Tesco would be exempt although the chain had not reported any thefts.
"When we started looking into it the same addresses came up time and time again. They seem to come over for a few weeks and stay with people in London then drive back to Romania with the goods," he said.
Thefts have been reported as far afield as Lincolnshire, Wimbledon, Cambridge and Wiltshire.
Sarah Cordey, spokeswoman for the British Retail Consortium, said the thefts fitted with recent trends they had identified of shoplifting being carried out by "organised criminal gangs".
She said: "It does play into recent trends we've raised that supermarkets are being targeted by more organised criminals often working together.
"It shows retailers are doing a good job at targeting opportunistic thieves stealing the odd item for their own use but there is a hard core left which is often a more serious criminal element.
"Sadly (chewing gum theft) fits into this trend and what's of concern to us is they are more likely to be violent if confronted by staff and are more likely to be responsible for sizable losses because they tend to pre-plan."
Richard Goodchild, who runs the Safer Shrewsbury Pub and Shop Watch Partnership, said at first he thought the problem was just contained to Shropshire.
He said: "I was astounded as I had never come across this before. At first we thought we were the only ones being affected.
"When we raised the issue at the Midlands Retail Crime Partnership forum we felt a bit daft, but when we mentioned it other places said it had happened to them too."
PC Walton and Mr Goodchild are advising stores to reduce the amount of gum they have on display and to heighten their security.
Mr Goodchild said the issue would also be raised at the West Midlands Regional Crime Initiative on Tuesday.
PC Walton said: "There is no market for chewing gum theft in this country, so we are going round making stores aware of it."
Romanian student Ioana Enea, 20, from Moldova, in Eastern Romania, said it was "not uncommon" to receive gum instead of change in her home country.
The digital design student, who is currently studying at the University of Dundee, said: "Bubble gum or other small candies are used as small change but only if the cashier is out of small change and you are asked beforehand if you wish to have a piece of gum instead of currency.
"Usually people use large notes to pay for items and shopkeepers, especially in small shops, don't have much small change and that is why they use gum or candy when they run out of it. This is not an uncommon practice."
It can come as a shock to the uninitiated however.
John Bagley is an engineer from Warwick who started working in Romania in 2010.
He said: "I was given chewing gum at the train station in Bucharest.
"It was a bit of a shock at first. I was just buying some water at one of the little kiosks before I got on the train and had handed over some notes and got given some gum instead of bani [the equivalent of pence in sterling]."
The Ratiu Family Charitable Foundation promotes Romanian culture in Britain.
Ramona Patrica, the foundation's director, said Romanians were not obsessed with chewing gum.
"Chewing gum is not a national sport in Romania or anything like that. I had never heard of this before now, although I think it is quite funny and a bit weird," she added.
The 30-year-old from Peebles made history in September as the first person to win showjumping's grand slam.
Riding Hello Sanctos, he scooped the sport's biggest individual prize of 1m Euros (£725,000).
British Showjumping said they were "naturally extremely disappointed" that he was not nominated for the award.
A social media campaign to have the world number one included in the Sports Personality of Year shortlist has won more than 17,000 supporters.
Brash was part of the four-man jumping team which won gold at the London Olympics in 2012.
This year he had Grand Prix successes in Geneva and Aachen.
He went on to claim the grand slam with victory at Calgary, where he was the only competitor to ride a clean second round inside the time limit.
A spokeswoman for British Showjumping said: "We are naturally extremely disappointed to see that London 2012 team gold medallist Scott Brash's outstanding achievements have not been recognised, not only for him but for the sport as a whole.
"Scott's achievements are unsurpassed; this year alone he has held the world number one spot for eight consecutive months and he has won numerous Grand Prix.
"This is in addition to him securing the Rolex Grand Slam, a feat that many thought impossible."
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In an interview with Horse and Hound magazine, Brash said he was "not frustrated" by the decision of the BBC SPOTY panel.
He told the publication: "I'm not frustrated about not being nominated. I focus on my job and it's up to people outside of the sport to take notice."
A spokeswoman for the BBC said the equestrian will be mentioned during the awards ceremony.
She added: "A great many athletes are considered and debated by the panel. The independent, expert panel considered everyone and drew up the shortlist of 12 candidates through consensus agreement."
Earlier this month the BBC awards faced criticism for including boxer Tyson Fury in the shortlist.
Thousands of people signed a petition calling for him to be removed after he spoke out on his views on women and gay people.
BBC director general Tony Hall told the Commons Culture, Media and Sport committee that the shortlist was drawn up by an independent panel and Fury was nominated for his "sporting prowess".
Andy Murray is the bookies' favourite to take home the prize, after helping Great Britain win the Davis Cup.
The winner will be announced at the awards ceremony in Belfast on Sunday.
The second row, an ever-present part of Eddie Jones' England side in 2016, has had minor surgery on an ankle injury.
Sarries boss Mark McCall expects the 26-year-old to be out for "a number of weeks", adding "we're in agreement it's in the best interests of the player to undergo this minor procedure now".
He joins James Haskell, Anthony Watson and Jack Nowell on the sidelines.
Nowell's Exeter team-mate Luke Cowan-Dickie joined England's injury list at the weekend, while Manu Tuilagi (groin) and Jack Clifford (ankle), and uncapped flankers Mike Williams (broken arm) and Sam Jones (broken leg), are all out of the autumn Tests.
Kruis has won 18 caps since making his debut against New Zealand in 2014.
He was an integral part of the side which won the Six Nations Grand Slam earlier this year, and started all three Tests in the series whitewash against Australia in the summer.
England play four Tests this autumn, starting against South Africa at Twickenham on 12 November.
American Gatlin dominated last year's Diamond League, running 9.77 seconds and 19.68 secs in the 100m and 200m.
Coach Glen Mills said Bolt had stepped up his preparations since running 46.37 seconds over 400m in Kingston in March.
"Usain's made significant strides since the last time you saw him," he said.
Gatlin, 33, won 100m Olympic gold in 2004 and World Championship gold in 2005.
"We take all competitors with a level of seriousness," added Mills. "But the truth of the matter is Usain at his best doesn't have much to worry about."
Bolt, 28, ran only three races last year. He is next due to run in a 100m race at an athletics meet in Rio on 19 April, and will follow that by representing Jamaica in the World Relay Championships in Bahamas on 2 and 3 May.
"I want to run really fast this season so I'm working on it," he said.
"I'm happy with where I'm at. I'm doing a lot of work leading up to this first run in Brazil [in April] - that's the focus and that's what we're working towards."
Bolt will bid for a third 100m gold and a fourth 200m gold in succession at August's World Championships in Beijing.
Facebook at Work will look similar to its existing social network, but users will be able to keep their personal profiles separate, the paper says.
They also would be able to chat with colleagues, build professional networks and share documents, people said to be working on it told the Financial Times.
Facebook has been contacted by the BBC.
A spokesman said the company would respond later today.
The product, said to be in use internally at Facebook already, could be a strong competitor to existing services such as Google Drive, Microsoft Office and LinkedIn.
LinkedIn, which launched in 2003, is currently the largest professional network, with 332 million users in more than 200 countries, according to its website.
Facebook recorded 1.35 billion monthly active users in September 2014 - but some employers remain sceptical about the usefulness of social media at work, and many have banned it in the office.
"Facebook at Work is likely to bring some benefits to companies - but not the ones they think," said Prof Andre Spicer, of Cass Business School.
"It is unlikely to make employees more productive, but it will help them to be more connected and aware.
"Social media sites like Facebook help employees to build 'weak ties'.
"These are people we would talk to infrequently and don't know intimately.
"These weak ties are often a source of important background information."
Prof Spicer added that the new tool could also cause problems.
"It makes it easier for employees to accidentally leak sensitive information.
"It can also be a threat to hierarchy and clash with implicit or explicit chains of command."
Like its parent site, Facebook at Work could also end up being a time-consuming distraction, he warned.
"Communication which could easily be dealt with face to face is pushed online - adding another potential source of information overload," he said.
"It can also mean employees spend more time polishing their Facebook profile than actually working."
A 20-year-old woman is believed to have fallen and has been airlifted to hospital.
A man whose son found a handbag raised the alarm.
"My son and his friends were up jogging round the mountain and found a handbag and identification," he said.
"They started to look around and they saw a lady lying down the cliff.
"They climbed down the hill and found she was still alive. The alarm was then raised," he told the BBC.
Lincoln screenwriter Tony Kushner and soprano Renee Fleming were also among the 23 recipients honoured for their cultural contributions to the US.
The president praised their ability "`to open up minds and nourish souls".
"[To] help us understand what it means to be human, and what it means to be an American".
"The work that we honour today, the lifetime achievement of these artists and these scholars, reminds us that the human imagination is still the most powerful tool that we have as a people," Mr Obama told the medallists.
"Frankly, this is just fun for me because I feel like I know you all because I've enjoyed your performances."
He hailed 69-year-old filmmaker Lucas for "transforming" movies.
"I remember when I first saw Star Wars," said Mr Obama, who was a teenager when the first film was released in 1977.
"There's a whole generation that thinks special effects always looked like they do today. But it used to be you'd see the string on the little model spaceships."
He cited the courage shown by Ernest Gaines, who writes about the lives of African Americans, and blues and jazz musician Allen Toussaint, who helped revive his native New Orleans with music after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
Mr Obama told him: "After his hometown was battered by Katrina and Allen was forced to evacuate, he did something even more important for his city - he went back. And since then, Allen has devoted his musical talent to lifting up and building up a city."
Other medal winners included musician Herb Alpert, the co-founder of A&M Records; comedian Elaine May and Home author Marilynne Robinson, who received a National Humanities Medal.
"Your writings have fundamentally changed me - I think for the better, Marilynne. I believe that," the president said.
Past recipients of the medal include writer Harper Lee and the late pianist Van Cliburn.
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The view puts him at odds with the current leader Tim Farron who insisted - in an interview with the BBC - that the Lib Dems could hold power in just five years.
Mr Farron's claim the Lib Dems can and must return to office has been a central theme of his first party conference.
But Sir Menzies urged Lib Dems to be realistic, and said the claim they could recover so quickly risked being met with cynicism and scepticism by voters.
He said: "My view, being entirely realistic, is that this is a 10-year journey."
The former leader - who has been nominated for a peerage - said the party could improve its numbers in the House of Commons and have a significant influence in the next Parliament.
But he added: "I think if we go around telling people that we're going to hold the balance of power or that we're going to do well enough to be in government then people will be somewhat cynical or sceptical about that."
Mr Farron, asked whether the Lib Dems could be in power at the next election, replied "absolutely".
He said: "Liberal space, that socially just, economically credible space has just now become vast and the Liberal Democrats now aim ambitiously to fill it because if we don't the Tories may be in power for 10 years and that would be unconscionable "
Mr Farron told BBC News the Liberal Democrats would provide grid references showing where exactly they want to see five new garden cities built between Oxford and Cambridge. The Lib Dems would seek to build 10 cities in total.
The Lib Dem leader said party members would be free to campaign for an independent Scotland if they choose in a second referendum.
The party's leader in Scotland Willie Rennie said they should have that freedom in an interview on Good Morning Scotland.
"We would of course tolerate people to make their own position," said Mr Farron.
But he added Scotland was integral to his identity and Scotland leaving the UK would be terrible news. Lib Dems would also be free to campaign for leaving the EU he said if they chose, he added.
Mr Farron, who is due to make his first major conference speech as leader on Wednesday, declined to condemn songs mocking the late Charles Kennedy's alcoholism that appear in a Lib Dem songbook.
Party aides say Kennedy's family was consulted about the book. He said the songbook went back 25 years and contained songs written in the 19th Century.
"I think what's really important is that we remember Charles today and the celebration of his life which we shall have later on is a reminder of the fact this is a man who achieved vast things," said the Lib Dem leader.
West Midlands MEP Bill Etheridge added that the other contenders should follow his example and stand down in favour of current deputy leader Paul Nuttall.
He urged UKIP to stick to its "patriotic, libertarian" principles.
Mr Nuttall announced on Sunday that he would run for leader.
Whoever wins the race will replace Nigel Farage, who is filling the role on a temporary basis. This follows the resignation of Diane James, who won the previous UKIP leadership election over the summer but quit after just 18 days in the job.
In his withdrawal statement, Mr Etheridge said: "I always said that if a candidate better suited to take this party forward emerged I would back down and support them. That candidate has emerged.
"Paul Nuttall is not only a personal friend and an honourable man but I believe he is the only person who can effectively unite our party after the recent well publicised problems we have suffered.
"I will be supporting Paul and giving him my 100% backing. I call on all other potential candidates to follow my example and withdraw from the race to allow Paul to go forward from here and unite our party."
Mr Etheridge also said: "I believe that UKIP must remain a patriotic, libertarian party standing for the individual against the over-powerful state, and not be tempted into cultural nationalism and the so-called centre ground on economic policy."
Mr Nuttall, an MEP for North-West England, described himself as the candidate to "bring the factions together" following months of infighting within UKIP.
Another candidate, Suzanne Evans, a former Conservative councillor who helped write UKIP's general election manifesto, announced on Sunday that she would run, promising to make the party less "toxic" and aim to occupy the "common sense centre" ground.
Former Welsh parliamentary candidate John Rees-Evans said on Monday that he would enter the contest, meaning there were eight candidates until Mr Etheridge stood down.
Nominations close on 31 October, with the eventual winner announced on 28 November.
Spurs dominated but did not make the breakthrough until Harry Kane scored with their 22nd attempt on goal.
Papy Djilobodji failed to clear a Dele Alli header allowing Kane to poke home from point-blank range on 59 minutes.
Late on, Kane suffered a nasty ankle injury and Sunderland's Adnan Januzaj was sent off for a second booking.
Relive Spurs's dominant display
A fourth defeat in five games means Sunderland are yet to win in the league under David Moyes.
The scoreline could have been worse for them but for outstanding goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, 22, who made a string of saves to keep his side in the game.
England striker Kane, who scored his second goal of the season, limped off the field after injuring his ankle with three minutes remaining and eventually left on a stretcher.
Aside from losing Kane, there was further injury worry for Spurs as England's Eric Dier and Belgium's Mousa Dembele were both substituted in the second half with what appeared to be hamstring injuries.
Moussa Sissoko was given his first start for Spurs since his £30m move on transfer deadline day and he joined Dembele and Victor Wanyama in a powerful midfield as Erik Lamela and Christian Eriksen dropped to the bench.
Tottenham completely dominated the game with 31 shots and 73.8% possession.
In the first half alone, they mustered 19 efforts with Kane, Son Heung-min and Toby Alderweireld going close.
Impressive South Korea winger Son was Spurs' best attacking force with five key passes and seven shots, though only two were on target.
The win was the perfect response after the disappointing midweek Champions League defeat by Monaco at Wembley and moves Spurs up to third in the table.
In contrast to the home side's dominance, Sunderland had just three shots in the first half.
The first came after 22 minutes as Jermain Defoe latched onto a long ball from Pickford but was unable to get his shot past Hugo Lloris.
Steven Pienaar had the best chance of the half just before the break as he met Januzaj's cross but his shot from six yards was cleared off the line by Kyle Walker.
The worry for the Black Cats is that striker Defoe managed just 13 touches in the match and only one of those came in Spurs' area.
Pickford had the most touches and his eight saves were vital in keeping the score respectable.
Moyes will have to do without Januzaj for the next match as the on-loan Manchester United winger was dismissed for a second booking in the space of 10 minutes. Having been cautioned for dissent, he saw red after fouling Ben Davies.
Sunderland manager David Moyes: "Steven Pienaar had a great chance and we probably need to score any chance we get.
"Jordan Pickford is going to be a very good keeper. He has a lot of work to do at the moment, more than I'd like him to get. He will get better, he has a real good future ahead of him.
"We had a chance to clear the ball for the goal. That was a mistake and, of all the chances Tottenham got, that was a soft one and we gifted them that.
"It is a big job. I know how much is going to get better. All we can do is keep getting on the training field and making it better and I enjoy doing that."
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Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino: "Sometimes it's difficult. In the end it was fair.
"We fought a lot and tried to score. I'm happy with the three points and it takes away the feeling from losing against Monaco.
"I want to create chances and play well - sometimes you need a lot of chances to score. Today we always tried to go forward. We feel disappointed because we created a lot of chances in the first half."
Tottenham host League One side Gillingham in the EFL Cup on Wednesday before travelling to Middlesbrough in the Premier League on Saturday.
Sunderland are at Championship side QPR in the EFL Cup on Wednesday before entertaining Crystal Palace in the Premier League on Saturday.
Match ends, Tottenham Hotspur 1, Sunderland 0.
Second Half ends, Tottenham Hotspur 1, Sunderland 0.
Attempt saved. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Erik Lamela.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Lamine Koné.
Attempt missed. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from more than 35 yards misses to the left.
Substitution, Sunderland. Paddy McNair replaces Jason Denayer.
Attempt missed. Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Erik Lamela.
Attempt blocked. Jermain Defoe (Sunderland) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Papy Djilobodji (Sunderland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Papy Djilobodji (Sunderland).
Second yellow card to Adnan Januzaj (Sunderland) for a bad foul.
Ben Davies (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Adnan Januzaj (Sunderland).
Attempt missed. Duncan Watmore (Sunderland) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Javier Manquillo with a cross.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Vincent Janssen replaces Harry Kane because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Dele Alli.
Ben Davies (Tottenham Hotspur) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Moussa Sissoko (Tottenham Hotspur).
Adnan Januzaj (Sunderland) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Papy Djilobodji.
Attempt blocked. Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Kane.
Adnan Januzaj (Sunderland) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Duncan Watmore.
Substitution, Sunderland. Wahbi Khazri replaces Jan Kirchhoff.
Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Didier Ndong (Sunderland).
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Ben Davies replaces Eric Dier because of an injury.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Erik Lamela replaces Mousa Dembélé because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Mousa Dembélé (Tottenham Hotspur) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Jordan Pickford.
Attempt saved. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Mousa Dembélé.
Attempt missed. Moussa Sissoko (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Harry Kane.
Attempt missed. Lamine Koné (Sunderland) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Adnan Januzaj with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Sunderland. Conceded by Kyle Walker.
John Wallace, of Nethy Bridge, threw cardboard boxes containing the contraband over the prison's walls and picked them up when he was on duty.
Inverness Sheriff Court heard that the 36-year-old agreed to do this over a five month period to help him pay off family debts.
Sheriff Gordon Fleetwood sentenced Wallace to 40 months in prison.
The sheriff told Wallace: "This was a gross breach of trust and both those in prison and your employers should have been able to rely on your integrity.
"But I will take into account the difficulties you will face in prison.
"I consider five years as appropriate but I will reduce this by a third to one of three years and four months to take into account your early plea."
The sentence was backdated to 10 February.
Wallace had earlier admitted two charges that between 27 October 2015 and 18 March 2016 he introduced, without reasonable excuse, to HMP Porterfield mobile phones and cannabis resin.
He also pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of cannabis resin in the prison and elsewhere whilst acting with others.
Wallace was caught following a Police Scotland investigation targeting those involved in the supply of controlled drugs into Inverness Prison.
Det Insp Peter Mackenzie said: "This case is an example of our commitment to tackle the supply of controlled drugs into the Her Majesty's Prison whilst working together with the Scottish Prison Service.
"Our message to individuals involved in the supply of controlled drugs into Her Majesty's Prison is that we will continue to pro-actively target those involved whilst working together with our partner agencies to identify emerging trends and methods utilised by the individuals involved."
But in this week's Scrubbing Up, consultant ENT surgeon Andrew McCombe, honorary secretary of ENT UK, warns the cuts have gone too far and patients are paying the price.
Tonsillectomy - cutting out the two lumps of lymphoid tissue found at either side of the back of the throat - is an operation that was described first over 3,000 years ago.
Its popularity grew throughout the ages and became so favoured in the UK that in the 1950s over 200,000 were performed in any given year.
Certainly, this rate was too high and surgeons set about refining the indications for carrying out this potentially risky operation, reserving it only for those patients most likely to benefit.
However, over the last 15 years the rate of tonsillectomy has continued to fall, so much so that we are now in danger of too few procedures being carried out.
In 1994-95 some 77,600 tonsillectomies were carried out in the UK. By 2009 this had dropped by 37% to 49,000.
At the same time, we are seeing increasing rates of diseases and conditions that tonsillectomies can prevent or cure, like infections, and even cancer, of the tonsils.
The number of people who develop cancer of the tonsils is still small, but it has certainly jumped significantly.
In 2000-01, there were 30,942 tonsil-related admissions for emergency medical treatment. By 2008-09, the figure had risen to 43,641, an increase of over 41% in 8 years.
The economic impact of tonsillitis is considerable. Overall, 35m days are lost from school or work each year due to sore throats in the UK. GP consultations for sore throat cost around £60m per year.
As tonsillectomy rates fall, it is predictable that hospital admissions for severe tonsillitis and its complications will rise, and this is borne out by the data available.
Admissions for quinsy - an extremely painful complication of acute tonsillitis - is rising. At the start of 2000 there were 6,352 UK hospital admissions for this condition. This increased to 7,683 in 2008-09, a rise of over 20% and equating to 11,865 hospital bed days.
Any further reduction in the rate of tonsillectomy is likely to be associated with a further worsening of this trend.
Tonsillectomy rates are lower in the UK than in any other country in Europe.
In fact the data trends of increasing hospital activity for tonsillar problems seem to suggest that rather than performing too many tonsillectomies in the UK, we are now performing too few.
The 41-year-old had joined the club in February 2015 when Ian Baraclough was manager but remained once Mark McGhee succeeded him in October.
McGhee told his club website: "Stephen is an excellent assistant and an excellent coach.
"It became clear to me very quickly when I joined the club that we had someone of real talent and integrity."
Northern Irishman Robinson, the former Bournemouth and Tottenham Hotspur midfielder, is also on the coaching set-up with his national team and will be with them at the Euro 2016 finals in France this summer.
"He's very well respected in the game," said McGhee.
Robinson had helped Baraclough's side retain their place in the Scottish Premiership after defeating Rangers in last season's play-off final.
However, after a poor start to the present season, the Englishman was replaced and Well have gone on to secure a top-six finish this season under McGhee.
Robinson said he was delighted to extend his contract to coincide with the Scots'.
"I've really enjoyed my time at Fir Park," he added.
"There have been some challenges, but it's a pleasure to work for the club and the people around the place have been brilliant.
"We changed the manager back in the autumn and that always brings some uncertainty, but I cannot speak highly enough of Mark and we enjoy a very good relationship.
"On the park, making the top-six has been an excellent achievement."
She said elections in May would be a "big first test" for the party as they face the London mayoral, Scottish, Welsh and English local elections.
The party had "turned left", she said, away from a centre-left position which she said had been "most effective".
Her comments come as Labour's membership has reportedly soared.
Baroness Jowell, a former minister in both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's governments, told BBC London's Vanessa Feltz radio show that Jeremy Corbyn "carried a tide" with an "extraordinary level" of "enthusiastic support" from hundreds of thousands of Labour Party members.
However, she questioned whether ordinary people, not part of the party, would vote for its policies, she said: "Is its offer, policy offer, one which people who are not members of the Labour Party want to vote for because they feel it will meet their needs?"
She said: "Will the Jeremy Corbyn Labour Party actually become a party of government?"
"You can have a party which is a movement which satisfies its members, enthuses its members and engages its members, but the role of a great political party like the Labour Party is to become a party of government," she said.
Asked whether she thought the Labour Party could become a party of government she replied "I don't know yet, we're four years away" from the general election.
She said elections in May would be "the moment at which the new Labour Party is tested".
During Labour's London mayoral candidate contest she ran against Sadiq Khan, who won.
She said she "gave it everything I could" and "couldn't have fought a better campaign" adding "I didn't win because the Labour Party turned left".
The Labour Party has released its membership numbers which show increases linked to the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.
The Australian hit eight fours and four sixes in his first ton for the Tykes before being caught behind for 111.
Opener Alex Lees (67), Jack Leaning (58 not out) and Adil Rashid (41) also contributed as Yorkshire made 345-6.
Worcestershire's in-form Ross Whiteley hit 77, but wickets tumbled around him as the hosts were all out for 212, with Steven Patterson claiming 5-24.
After stand-in captain Lees was out in the 24th over, Maxwell took the game away from Worcestershire, putting on 105 in 13.4 overs with Gary Ballance, who contributed only 28 runs in the partnership.
Whiteley struck five sixes in his List ' A' career-best 51-ball innings, but was last man out when he skied Patterson to Leaning at deep mid-wicket.
Worcestershire director of cricket Steve Rhodes:
"Yorkshire played really well and we weren't quite at our best at all. The result was inevitable.
"When you play against someone who has a real 'A' game you've got to make sure you have an 'A' game and we didn't do that.
"We were a bit sloppy in the field. We had some silly run-outs at the top of the innings and possibly we could have started with the ball a little bit better as well."
Yorkshire first-team coach Jason Gillespie:
"For me, honestly, Glenn Maxwell could have gone on even further and scored even more runs.
"To perform like he did was absolutely fantastic. He really gave us an opportunity to make a 300-plus score.
" We have done a lot of talking about our limited-overs cricket and this morning was about 'We have done enough talking, just go out and do your job'."
People who practised a basic movement to music showed "increased structural connectivity" between the regions of the brain that process sound and control movement.
The University of Edinburgh research showed brain wiring enables cells to communicate with each other.
The findings have been published in the medical journal Brain & Cognition.
Experts said the study could have positive implications for future research into rehabilitation for patients who have lost some degree of movement control.
Dr Katie Overy, who led the research team, said: "The study suggests that music makes a key difference. We have long known that music encourages people to move.
"This study provides the first experimental evidence that adding musical cues to learning new motor tasks can lead to changes in white matter structure in the brain."
Researchers divided right-handed volunteers into two groups and charged them with learning a new task involving sequences of finger movements with the non-dominant left hand.
One group learned the task with musical cues while the other group did so without music.
After four weeks, both groups of volunteers performed equally well at learning sequences, the researchers found.
Using MRI scans, the study found the music group showed "a significant increase" in structural connectivity on the right side of the brain while the non-music group showed no change.
The team hopes that future research will determine whether music can help with special kinds of motor rehabilitation programmes, such as after a stroke.
The project brought together researchers from the university's Institute for Music in Human and Social Development, Clinical Research Imaging Centre and Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, and from clinical neuropsychology at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
McGuinness will be assisted by his father Laurie McGuinness, who succeeds Mark Roberts.
Rhyl parted company with Owen and Roberts in a bid to avoid relegation from the Welsh Premier League.
They are second from bottom of the table with only three wins from 24 games this season.
Only last season's promoted team Haverfordwest are below Rhyl, who have not won since October, 2015.
Since then they have not won in 12 league games.
Rhyl stated "disappointing results" led to the departures of Owen and Roberts.
It is the brainchild of space archaeologist Dr Sarah Parcak who set it up using prize money from the Ted conference.
Describing it as "Indiana Jones meets Google Earth", she said the site would also allow the public to help prevent looting.
GlobalXplorer will initially be limited to sites in Peru.
Dr Parcak uses satellite imagery collected above the Earth, analysing it with algorithms to identify subtle changes that could signal a hidden human-made structure.
Using the technique, which is used by a growing number of researchers, she has discovered 17 potential pyramids, 3,000 settlements and 1,000 lost tombs in Egypt.
She hopes the technique can now be passed on to citizen scientists.
"The world's hidden heritage contains clues to humankind's collective resilience and creativity," Dr Parcak explained. "It's up to all of us to protect this heritage, and with GlobalXplorer, we are empowering a 21st Century army of global explorers to discover and protect our shared history."
Users of the site will be given a tutorial showing them what different patterns on images mean. When six people flag an area of potential interest, it will be handed over to Dr Parcak's team to assess whether it is an area worthy of exploration.
The website will also allow citizen archaeologists to spot potential looting of existing sites, which is becoming a huge problem in sites around the world.
And to make sure looters do not use the site to locate potential targets, the high-resolution satellite images are broken into tens of million of small tiles which are displayed to users in a random order without the ability to navigate or pan out. The tiles do not contain any location reference or co-ordinate information.
Users are rewarded for their time with content about Peru, behind-the-scenes looks at archaeological sites and the opportunity to join archaeologists on digs.
DigitalGlobe, a satellite imagery company, is providing more than 200,000 sq km of satellite imagery of Peru for users to peruse.
There are plans to launch the site in other countries later this year.
The Ted (Technology, Entertainment and Design) prize is given out annually to what the organisers deem to be a "world-changing project". Winners receive $1m (£800,000) to turn a wish into reality.
Previous winners include Prof Sugata Mitra, who used the money to create remote-learning schools in India and chef Jamie Oliver who used the prize to educate children about healthy eating.
Highways England said Balfour Beatty has been chosen to undertake the £130m project in Kent.
Last summer, part of the M20 was used 32 times so lorries could queue during cross-Channel disruption, during a process known as Operation Stack.
The government has not yet decided where the lorry park will be built.
The plans were announced by the Chancellor George Osborne in November and a total of £250m was allocated to the project.
Two potential locations, both north of the M20 at junction 11 are being considered.
The Port of Dover has estimated the UK economy loses up to £250m per day when Stack is implemented.
It is anticipated the park will be partially open by summer 2017.
The Hills Waste site at Lower Compton has consent to operate until December 2016. After that it has to be restored back to greenfield.
In spite of 129 letters of objection, it was expected the application to retain and extend the site would be approved.
A spokesman for the waste firm said it was "extremely disappointed".
The company was hoping not only to retain the site but process up to 119,000 tonnes of household waste a year there.
However, residents claimed it would result in an HGV every two minutes, 12 hours a day, on the road to the site.
Despite being recommended for approval by planning officials, the proposal was rejected by the council's strategic planning committee.
A spokesman for the firm said councillors had "behaved unreasonably" in voting against the scheme.
"The issues do not reflect the planning position or the technical reports which have been scrutinised by Wiltshire Council and by external consultants," he said.
"Hills is confident that this decision will be overturned on appeal and will be looking to recover full costs of the appeal from the council."
The brothers from Mansfield finished 26.598 seconds ahead of John Holden and Lee Cain with Conrad Harrison and Andrew Winkle completing the podium.
Ben, who together with his brother set a lap record in Monday's opening race, said it was a "dream come true to win their sixth TT."
Manx duo Dave Molyneux and Daniel Sayle retired at Sulby crossroads on lap one.
"To race around this course is an honour and to race and win people of this quality is a big deal," Ben said.
Their sixth win means they have now won as many TT races as Geoff Duke, John Surtees and Rick Long.
Lewis Blackstock and Patrick Rosney finished fourth, with Karl Bennett and Maxime Vasseur in fifth.
Earlier on Friday, Team Mugen racer Bruce Anstey won the TT Zero race for electric powered machines.
The 48-year-old from New Zealand completed the one-lap sprint of the 37-mile (60km) Mountain Course at an average speed of 117.710 mph.
It was his 12th Isle of Man TT title since making his debut in 1996 and his second consecutive victory in the class for electric bikes.
Anstey's team-mate Guy Martin finished second, 48.417 seconds behind.
Anstey said: "A win is a win and I'm made up with it. The bike was amazing."
Martin, who will not compete is the Senior TT later on Friday, added: "It is the future in some way or other. I've got loads to learn but it was class."
Daley Mathison completed the podium 48.41 seconds down on Martin for the University of Nottingham team.
Dean Harrison finished fourth, with Antonio Maeso fifth and James Cowton sixth.
Six of the eight machines that started completed the one-lap race.
The North Lowther Energy Initiative (NLEI) is a partnership between Buccleuch and 2020 Renewables.
It would see the turbines constructed east of Sanquhar and north west of Wanlockhead.
Developers said it could produce enough energy to meet the needs of 78,000 homes and create seven local and 33 regional jobs.
John Glen, chief executive of Buccleuch, said: "The plans for North Lowther are part of a wider renewable energy and land use strategy that can deliver very significant social, economic and environmental benefits for the region.
"Should this application be approved, it would open up tremendous potential for the area, particularly in conjunction with our current proposals for a pumped storage hydro scheme, which has already received planning consent.
"Together, these projects would involve more than 300 local jobs and secure and prolong job creation in the area."
He said public feedback had been used to "enhance the design" of the project.
Alan Baker, managing director of 2020 Renewables, said: "This project has the potential to provide clean energy for more than 78,000 homes across the region, assisting the targets set nationally on renewable energy generation.
"However, aside from generating electricity, there is scope for widespread habitat enhancement which could be tailored to benefit birds, particularly raptors and waders."
The Independent Jersey Care Inquiry has recommended demolishing the Haut de la Garenne children's home.
The report said the States of Jersey "proved to be an ineffectual and neglectful substitute parent".
Chief Minister, Senator Ian Gorst said: "We failed children who needed our care."
Led by judge Frances Oldham QC, the inquiry heard hundreds of witness testimonies.
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The report said at the end of the inquiry's hearings in June 2016 "aspects of Jersey's services for children remained not fully fit for purpose".
It said: "Children may still be still at risk in Jersey and children in the care system are not always receiving the kind or quality of care and support that they need."
The inquiry heard 553 offences took place between 1947 and 2004, with more than half said to have occurred at Haut de la Garenne.
The report says the buildings at Haut de la Garenne are a reminder of an "unhappy past or shameful history".
It says they are also a symbol of the "turmoil and trauma" of the early stages of the police investigation, which began in 2006.
Read more of the survivors' stories here
The report says there is no doubt that "many instances" of physical and sexual abuse were suffered by children in the care of the States of Jersey.
It adds that the wellbeing of vulnerable children has been "low on the list" of Jersey's priorities.
It found a "worrying history of both inappropriate and ineffectual state invention and state indifference".
There was no will to invest the resources required in child care services and unsuitable people were appointed to management roles on the basis of local connections, the report said.
Gifford Aubin, who was at Haut de la Garenne in the 1950s, told how "live electrical wires" and "a pre-war stick with a metal end" were used to abuse children.
Mr Aubin said he also suffered mental abuse and had his meals withheld.
Jacky de la Haye was one of a handful of girls at Haut de la Garenne and says she suffered psychological abuse.
"I have nightmares that I'm still there," she said.
A witness, known as "Mrs A" said outside of school hours children were forced to work unpaid in a knitting factory run by the nuns at the orphanage.
In February 2015 one survivor known as "Witness D", now in his 40s, told the inquiry he was sexually abused by two members of staff, William Gilbert and Phil Le Bais. They were never charged and have now died.
The report refers to the use of the phrase the "Jersey way" by witnesses, which was often used to describe a system where "serious issues are swept under the carpet" and "people avoid being held to account for abuses".
There are more than 600 recommendations contained in the report, which include:
Alan Collins, the lawyer for some of the victims, said it was important that the recommendations made in the report are implemented quickly.
He said: "It is interesting to see how much could have been prevented if there had been good government."
Senator Ian Gorst, Jersey's chief minister, apologised to "all those who suffered abuse in our islands over the years".
"Unpalatable truths were swept under the carpet because it was the easiest thing to do," he said.
"People cared more for the status quo, for a quiet life, than for children.
"We failed children who needed our care who needed to be protected and listened to.
"I am shocked I am saddened and I am sorry. I accept every recommendation."
The Highlanders were outfought in the first half by their fellow Championship team, who moved above them in Group A.
"There are some players at this club who are still feeling sorry for last season, they had better get over it," said Robertson.
"Liam Polworth is a perfect example; Jake Mulraney is the same."
Robertson replaced Richie Foran in the summer following Caley Thistle's relegation from the Premiership.
The former Hearts striker pointed to the Bairns, who lost out on promotion in the play-offs, as an example to his own players.
"Falkirk showed where we have to get to," he told BBC Scotland after goals by Joe McKee and Nathan Austin won the match for Peter Houston's team.
"They worked for each other and they were brave on the ball. They did to us what we were attempting to do to them.
"The one thing that hugely disappointed me in the first half was the lack of desire, the lack of passion; you've got to get the basics right."
Robertson highlighted the effort made by midfielder McKee to get into the box to receive a cut-back by Alex Harris as evidence of the "passion and desire" lacking in his own team.
"We need much, much more from everyone," he added.
"I would suggest, apart from Collin Seedorf, they won every individual battle on the pitch in the first half. The second half was a different story.
"We've only got 14 players, and four injuries - Aaron Doran, Carl Tremarco long term, Zak Elbouzedi and Gary Warren short term. Bring those four into the squad and you have competition for places.
"I think too many players know they are going to be selected week in, week out because of the lack of bodies."
Houston was delighted with Falkirk's win, which he believes his players "managed fairly comfortably".
"We look as if we have a bit more pace in the front line [this season]," he said.
"John Baird was a brilliant player for us, and Lee Miller, coming on for us today, we couldn't get beyond teams.
"This time, with Nathan Austin, Rory Loy, Myles Hippolyte and Alex Harris, like a front four, we can get in behind teams as well as take it short.
"We are a threat with more pace in the team and I think that is what we hope will serve us well in the division this year.
"We are at home to Forfar on Tuesday night. If we win that it would take a lot for anybody else to get in front of us."
When a survey* indicates that one in five in England has suffered physical abuse and nearly two-thirds experience verbal abuse on a regular basis, why would you want to put yourself in harm's way?
More importantly, who would want to do such a job?
Here, four referees under 30 - a schoolteacher, an anti-social behaviour officer, a business development consultant and a paralegal - talk candidly about their careers and reveal what drives them.
Tell us your stories, either by commenting at the bottom of the piece, or by joining today's Sportsday debate.
"Reffing gives me my own identity, it gives me control. I like to build a rapport with players, coaches and parents, but the game depends on my decisions and how good my decision-making is. There is a buzz having control of a game in my hand.
"Adult games are the toughest ones. The players release so much tension and frustration. Sometimes it's just passion, sometimes they want to prove a point. It's funny because I used to be that player.
"Respect is a massive thing for me. You can have an opinion, just don't be abusive. I've had abusive language directed at me, but never a racist comment. There are idiots on the sidelines, but you can't ignore them. If I ignore them, I'd have to ignore everyone.
"Refs are always getting slaughtered for any mistakes they make, but they never get enough praise when they get something right. There is a lot of pressure. All eyes are on them. But they are only human.
"There is more chance to further your career as a ref than as a player. The ambition is to become a professional referee. I would love to be the Amir Khan of football referees - a role model for others."
"I started refereeing to get a bit of extra pocket money. It beats getting a paper round. It was like getting dragged on a rollercoaster for the first time. You don't want to get on, but then you do it and you love it.
"It requires 110% commitment and a lot of sacrifice. I needed to explain to my friends and girlfriend that this is my career and it comes first. I've sacrificed my Friday nights. I'm always in bed nice and early.
"There is always going to be an element of abuse, but the Football Association is working hard to put this right. The Premier League needs to set a better example. What you see there filters down to grassroots football. If Wayne Rooney or whoever is behaving badly, that gets replicated around the country.
"Refereeing has changed me as a person. I used to be the quietest of people, but refereeing has given me a lot of confidence and helped me with my personal life and my love life.
"There are so many more opportunities to progress as a ref than as a footballer. There is a lot of commitment involved, but if a ref wants it enough, they'll get there. It's so enjoyable. I'd recommend it to anyone."
"I was never going to make it as a player, but I just love football and a ref gets paid to be involved in the game. What could be better? I love the banter and I love the game.
"A spectator recently shouted out that the football pitch was no place for a female referee and told me to get back to the kitchen and get out the ironing board. I've been a ref since I was 14 and haven't heard someone say that kind of thing to me for a good 10 years.
"There will always be people who disrespect you. It's about having the strength of character to cope. I've grown as a person a lot more as a referee. I'm so much more outgoing.
"You have to be massively committed. I'm out all day Saturday and Sunday and train three nights a week if I don't have a midweek game. I don't see my friends as often as I would like and I miss nights out, but they are very supportive and tell me they are proud of me.
"TV commentators annoy me because they often don't know the laws of the game. Those who have played the game often don't know the laws of the game either."
"I was with a few mates, probably watching a really, really bad refereeing performance at Rochdale Football Club, and decided to give it a go. I was really bad at football, so this was a way of staying in the game.
"I've been assaulted. I was about 19 or 20. I showed somebody a card, I can't remember if it was a yellow or a red, and they headbutted me. I just picked up the ball and walked off the pitch. I was told to grow up by some of the players. I was quite small at the time and a bit baby-faced, someone they perhaps thought they could manipulate.
"I went back to the changing rooms and started crying. I was in floods of tears and I thought about quitting. I took some time away from the game, about three months, came back for a game, didn't enjoy it and took another four months out.
"Since I've come back, I've never felt in any danger. Any negative experiences I've had, I've turned into a positive. You can still achieve what you set your mind to when you have the right support.
"Refs are normal people and don't deserve the abuse they get. It's easy to blame the ref - that will never change - but I'd urge people to take note of themselves before they jump all over us. What would I say to anyone who wanted to be a ref? Do it. It's the best thing I've ever done."
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* More than 2,000 referees, mostly from grassroots football, took part in the survey, which was carried out by academics from Loughborough, Portsmouth and Edge Hill universities.
The results of that survey were then shared with the BBC Radio 5 live Investigates team, who spoke to some of the referees who had responded. You can listen to that programme again via the BBC iPlayer.
Djodjo Nsaka, 19 from Streatham, died in Fulton Road, north-west London, in the attack shortly after 01:00 GMT on 20 January.
A 20-year-old man has already been charged with Mr Nsaka's murder and common assault against another man outside the national stadium.
Two men, both aged 21, will appear at Hendon Magistrates' Court later.
A post-mortem test found Mr Nsaka, a business studies student who was attending the University of Middlesex, died from a single stab wound to the chest.
Taylor Wright, 21, was jailed for five years and 10 months at the High Court in Edinburgh last month.
Appeal details emerged at Jedburgh Sheriff Court when he appeared for sentence on other outstanding charges.
His lawyer asked for sentence to be put on hold pending the appeal but it was deferred until Thursday.
Wright was jailed in August after he admitted assaulting and robbing 80-year-old Sheila Turnbull in her Yarrow Valley home.
He armed himself with a spray-painted BB gun which his victim believed was real and robbed her of cash and a bank card after getting her to reveal her PIN number.
Wright has appealed against the length of the sentence he received for that offence.
That came to light while he was appearing for sentence on a number of outstanding offences including breaking into a carwash premises where he used to work and stealing a cash register and a vehicle.
The Evolution site closed as its administrators went offline reportedly taking with them bitcoins people had deposited with the underground bazaar.
The two administrators are believed to have absconded with about $12m (£8m) in bitcoins.
Evolution was one of several drug-selling sites that filled the gap created when a similar site, the Silk Road, was closed down in 2013.
The Evolution marketplace was a hidden site on the Tor network. This system is used by many people to hide their identity and location and others have found ways to host sites on it in a similar fashion to those found on the wider web. The Tor network conceals information by bouncing data through several different machines and encrypting it at every step.
According to tech news site Ars Technica the marketplace let people buy illegal drugs, stolen ID information, weapons and hacking services. Payment for these goods and services was only made using bitcoins. Evolution offered an "escrow" service which let people deposit bitcoins on the site to help speed up the sales process.
Security expert Brian Krebs said this meant the administrators had "direct access to a tempting amount of virtually untraceable currency".
The temptation appears to have been irresistible, said Mr Krebs, as many people who bought and sold via the site took to social news site Reddit to report the administrators had absconded with their escrowed bitcoins.
Evolution rose to prominence following the closure of the Silk Road site in 2013 following raids by the FBI and other US law enforcement agencies. It also prospered when the Silk Road 2.0 went offline.
The group was performing at the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in San Diego when the singer went off-script.
Member Remigio Pereira held up a sign that read "all lives matter" while singing O Canada and also changed a lyric of the song to the same phrase.
The group said they were unaware of his plans to change the anthem.
The vocal quartet, based in British Columbia, issued an apology on Twitter, saying they were "deeply sorry for the disrespectful and misguided lack of judgment by one member of the group acting as a 'lone wolf' today".
The group added Mr Pereira would not be performing with them until further notice.
The incident inspired a hashtag on Twitter - #lonewolftenor, under which hundreds of Canadians cracked jokes about the mini-scandal.
Mr Pereira changed the line from, "With glowing hearts we see thee rise, the True North strong and free" to "We're all brothers and sisters. All lives matter to the great".
He then held up a sign with the phrase and "United we stand" written on the back.
The phrase "all lives matter" has stirred controversy as critics argue it undermines the Black Lives Matter movement.
The singer's political statement comes amid a heated debate over racial divide in the US following the recent fatal shootings of two black men by police as well as a deadly attack in Dallas that left five police officers dead.
Mr Pereira took to Twitter to defend his actions.
"I've been so moved lately by the tragic loss of life and I hoped for a positive statement that would bring us ALL together. ONE LOVE," he wrote on Twitter.
"That was my singular motivation when I said all lives matter," he added.
Lynnette Greenop is accused of assaulting her 46-year-old sister Sharon on various occasions between August and November this year.
The charge accuses Ms Greenop of repeatedly striking her sister on the head and body.
It said she compressed her neck and assaulted her by other means unknown.
Lynnette Greenop is also accused of neglect and failing to obtain medical assistance for her sister.
Her lawyer Peter Lockhart confirmed she appeared on petition at Ayr Sheriff Court on Monday afternoon and made no plea. She was remanded in custody.
Sharon Greenop's 19-year-old daughter Shayla, who had also been detained by the police, did not appear in court and was released by police pending further inquiries.
Alan Duncan, MP for Rutland and Melton, said the case was "straightforward" and the married couple from Welby were defending themselves.
Leicestershire Police were called by the man who said he had fired a shotgun at a group of intruders.
One of the suspected raiders called an ambulance. Another went to hospital.
Officers said a 35-year-old man and his 43-year-old wife were arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm.
Four men, aged 27, 23, 31 and 33, were arrested on suspicion of aggravated burglary.
A police spokeswoman said officers had been granted more time to question all six.
Mr Duncan, a government minister, said: "If this is a straightforward case of someone using a shotgun to defend themselves against burglars in the dead of night, then I would hope that the police will prosecute the burglars and not my constituents.
"The householder is the victim here and justice should support them and prosecute the burglars."
A statement from Leicestershire Police said: "Police were called at 12.26am this morning [Sunday] by a man reporting a group of men had broken into his home in Melton.
"The man stated that during the course of the incident he had fired a legally held shotgun and the intruders had left the scene.
"Around five minutes later the ambulance service called to tell us they had been called to a man with injuries consistent with shotgun injuries.
"A second man presented at Leicester Royal Infirmary with similar injuries."
All six remain in custody on Monday, Leicestershire Police confirmed.
Vote Leave said ending EU citizens' automatic right to live in the UK would create a "more humane" system.
But Dutch PM Mark Rutte told the BBC it would trigger "an inevitable, unavoidable race to the bottom".
David Cameron said it would "crash" the economy and increase migration.
Britain currently has a points-based immigration system for people coming to work in the UK from outside the EU.
It means entry to work is limited to people deemed to be of value to the UK economy, such as skilled workers in "shortage occupations" or wealthy entrepreneurs and investors. Migrants with sought-after skills gain more points towards their visa. This is often called an Australian-style system as that country introduced it first.
More migrants come to the UK from outside the EU than inside it - but a higher number of EU migrants take jobs or look for work.
Extending points-based controls to all migrants could be seen as fairer - South African software designers would have the same chance of working in Britain as Spanish software designers.
It would also give government more control of who and how many immigrants can come to the UK.
The problem is in designing a system that is not completely bound up in the kind of red tape the Leave campaign complains about in Brussels.
A government-commissioned employment report recently urged ministers to simplify the existing system for bringing workers from abroad, complaining there are 13 relevant acts of Parliament including 10,000 pages of guidance relating to 1,400 categories of immigrants. It noted that employers must answer over 100 questions including the birth dates of applicants' dead parents.
The system also relies on an army of officials having a detailed understanding of the current needs of every area of UK industry to decide if a shortage exists. The warning from business is that bureaucrats in Whitehall will be rather less efficient and responsive to need than the market.
Points-based systems were introduced by countries looking to increase immigration and to woo the right people to become permanent residents.
Leave campaigners want the points system to be extended to cover EU migrants, who are currently free to come to the UK and take up jobs, including low-paid manual work - but it would be up to the government of the day to decide whether to adopt this policy.
The Leave campaign says that if Britain votes to come out of the EU the government should do the following by 2020:
EU citizens already lawfully resident in the UK would not be affected as they will be given indefinite leave to remain, and neither will Irish citizens.
The 1972 European Communities Act could also be amended to make it easier to remove criminals and other people whose presence in the UK is "not conducive to the public good".
In a joint statement, Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Priti Patel and Gisela Stuart said their proposals would "create fairness between EU citizens and others" including those from Commonwealth countries.
This issue covers immigration and free movement within Europe.
They added: "We think that this system will be fairer, more humane, and better for the economy."
"We will welcome new citizens who wish to contribute to our society, as so many immigrants have done. And we will be able to remove those who abuse our hospitality."
But Mr Rutte, whose country currently holds the presidency of the European Council, said it would be "very bad news" if the UK adopted such an approach.
"It will immediately mean that we will get this race to the bottom, that it will move against the interests of the population," he said.
Campaigns have got two choices as the date of any vote nears - narrow the message more and more tightly down to one issue, one argument, one sound bite or slogan. The logic of that is clear - focus on your best bits and shout about them as loudly as you can.
But there's a different way - keep adding to what might cringingly be called "the offer", in the hope that a slow reveal of ideas will gradually get voters on your side. Essentially, save the best until last.
After the entirely predictable economic bludgeoning of the Vote Leave campaign by the other side, which has all the might of the government machine, it's now clear that rather than try to retaliate with all of their goodies, Outers were keeping some in the cupboard for this moment.
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Mr Rutte said it would be "impossible" for him not to implement a similar system towards UK residents.
Mr Cameron said this would "reduce opportunities for people to work in other countries". He told BBC Radio Derby that Australia had more migration per head than the UK, so Vote Leave's proposal was "the wrong approach".
His point was echoed by Home Secretary and fellow Remain supporter Theresa May, who warned there was "no silver bullet" to control immigration.
"What it requires is a concerted effort across a range of fronts and we've shown that where we take action, we can bring the numbers down, but there's more to do," she added.
But UKIP leader Nigel Farage, who has previously called for the UK to adopt an Australian-style system, said this was because Australia was "growing its country" and was able to choose migration numbers every year.
Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson accused Vote Leave of trying to turn the EU referendum into a vote on British immigration policy.
He said an EU exit "won't end immigration" and he cautioned that there were "no easy choices", saying losing access to the EU's single market would be bad for trade and against British workers' interests.
How trade and the UK's economy are affected by membership of the EU.
Meanwhile, the TUC is warning average earnings in Britain would be lower by 2030 outside the EU - adjusting wages for smaller GDP growth.
A study by the TUC also says employee rights and manufacturing jobs in particular would be hit.
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: "At a time of continuing hardship, Brexit would be a disaster for working people - for our wages, for our jobs and for our rights."
But Vote Leave's Ms Stuart said the EU had been "a disaster" for workers, saying unemployment levels across the eurozone were "in the double digits".
Correction: This story, originally published on 1 June, has been amended to clarify that the majority of migrants coming to the UK for work are from the EU.
A United Kingdom stars Rosamund Pike and David Oyelowo.
It tells the true story of the marriage of Seretse Khama, King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, a British office worker.
The film, based on the book Colour Bar by Susan Williams, will be shown on 5 October, the festival's opening night.
The couple at the centre of the book faced fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments when they married in 1947.
The BBC film is directed by Amma Asante, whose previous credits include Belle.
Clare Stewart, the festival's director, said: "A United Kingdom is testament to a defiant and enduring love story that also reveals a complex, painful chapter in British history."
Assante described her film being chosen as "a great privilege".
The 60th BFI London Film Festival runs from 5-16 October. The festival's full programme will be announced on 1 September.
The party launched a campaign after the Brexit vote, using the hashtag #Wearethe48 - a reference to the 48% of people who voted to remain in the EU.
Leader Tim Farron says the result is "reversible" and said he would campaign to keep the UK in the EU at the next election, whenever it takes place.
Senior Tory and Labour figures insist the result must be respected.
Mr Farron, whose party has traditionally been the most pro-EU and backed a Remain vote, said the Lib Dems had seen an "enormous uplift" in support in the aftermath of the UK's decision to leave the EU.
The party says new members have been joining at nearly one a minute since the Brexit vote - swelling the party's membership ranks to more than 70,000.
The party, which served in coalition government between 2010 and 2015 but was reduced to eight MPs at the last election, has made a "clear and unequivocal" promise to campaign for the UK to remain in the EU at the next election.
The poll is not scheduled to take place until 2020 but some commentators believe the Brexit vote and the election of a new prime minister to succeed David Cameron may bring this forward.
Mr Farron has said a snap election later this year could be "a golden ticket to undoing the chaos" seen in recent days.
He has appealed to like-minded individuals in other parties to join forces to make the case for remaining in the EU - or at the very least retaining key elements of the UK's current arrangements in Brexit talks over the next few years.
Speaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Mr Farron said whatever deal the UK agreed with the EU on the terms of its exit, young people who voted overwhelmingly to remain in Europe must be protected.
"Given three-quarters of the young people of Britain voted to remain in Europe, they should be permitted, as far as possible, to remain in Europe," he said. "What can be done to make sure young people are allowed access even over and above those of the rest of us?"
In response, David Cameron said it was important that young people should have the opportunity to travel, work and study in the EU and the government would be considering the impact of Brexit on educational programmes like the Erasmus scheme.
The Lib Dems' membership fell sharply after the party went into coalition with the Conservatives, dropping from about 65,000 in 2010 to about 42,000 in 2014.
But it recovered after its 2015 election setback. At the time of last year's conference, the party had about 61,000 members.
Extensive discussions between leading Fleet Street executives over the past several months have been aimed at combating the structural decline of the market, as annual display advertising diminishes by around 20% and circulations continue their downward trajectory.
The talks have been hampered by personality clashes, the competing priorities of different groups, and the sheer novelty of companies whose commercial operations had hitherto been aggressive rivals, trying instead to co-operate for mutual advantage.
Project Rio will continue, with News UK, Telegraph Media Group, and the owner of The Guardian still trying to collaborate.
DMGT, the publisher of the Daily Mail, pulled out of Project Rio in January, saying it had "stepped back" to pursue "broader commercial priorities" in 2017. These include the monetisation of Mail Online, which has expanded quickly into America and is a priority of Paul Zwillenberg, chief executive of DMGT.
On 10 January I revealed that Trinity was in talks with Northern & Shell, the newspaper group run by Richard Desmond, and David Montgomery, the former newspaper executive and investor, about back-office consolidations.
My recent conversations with very senior sources in the industry make clear that the failure to progress this work on consolidation, which could potentially reap huge savings, is a source of immense frustration to the parties involved.
For Trinity, focusing on that consolidation is a higher priority than Project Rio.
But with the flight of advertising from print to digital accelerating, and Facebook and Google tightening their grip on that money, newspapers are struggling to make enough money from their websites to offset the loss of money from print, due to structural decline.
Even after the closure of the print Independent (of which I was editor) last year, Britain's newspaper sector is very full - and arguably over-supplied - for a country with our population size.
As this blog has repeatedly argued, bloated sectors facing structural decline are bound to consolidate. For Fleet Street, it's a question not of when, but how.
I've been sent a statement on behalf of Telegraph Media Group, Guardian Media Group and News UK.
It says: "Telegraph Media Group, Guardian Media Group and News UK today confirmed their continued commitment to working together to significantly improve the commercial value and perception of the news brands in the UK.
"Trinity Mirror have confirmed that they will step aside from involvement in the next phase of the project, whilst wishing it well and reserving an option to rejoin at a later stage.
"The three partners are working with market-leading consultancies on building the right approach to ensure that the industry continues to evolve to service key client and agency needs."
Extracts from the "missing" correspondence are published in the journal Nature.
Maurice Wilkins, James Watson and Francis Crick won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the DNA-related work.
But many others contributed, including Rosalind Franklin - whose efforts were called "witchcraft" in one letter.
All three Nobel Prizewinners worked in molecular biology, but in different labs.
Essentially, there were two main groups, pursuing the discovery of the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) structure: Dr Wilkins and Dr Franklin at King's College in London, and Dr Watson and Dr Crick at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University.
Besides strained relationships, the letters and postcards also give insights into the personalities of the key players.
The Cambridge team used some of Dr Franklin's results to build their first DNA model in December 1951.
This triple-helix model was wrong, and the scientists were barred from doing any further DNA work.
Dr Wilkins then wrote to his colleagues: "This is to say how bloody browned off I am entirely, and how rotten I feel about it all, and how entirely friendly I am (though it may appear differently).
"We are really between forces which may grind all of us into little pieces…"
But Dr Crick and Dr Watson appeared to be rather breezy: "…cheer up, and take it from us that even if we kicked you in the pants, it was between friends," the pair wrote in response.
"We hope our little burglary will at least produce a united front in your group!"
The last phrase referred to strained relations between Dr Wilkins and Dr Franklin. When the latter arrived to King's College, her colleague thought that she would be working for him, but she believed otherwise.
This misunderstanding poisoned their relationship, and the tensions were highlighted even further in other letters.
Just before Dr Franklin was to leave King's College, Dr Wilkins wrote to the Cambridge scientists that "the smoke of witchcraft will soon be getting out of our eyes".
Explaining the situation to BBC News, Nature's commissioning editor Sara Abdullah said it added to "the canon of awful things said about [Dr Franklin]".
"I think 'sexist' is what we are groping around for.
"Obviously, this is a different time, it's 1953. There was personal tension; she was very unusual in being a leading woman in science at that time.
"And there were these different styles of working - all these things are captured there, in those few words."
In early 1953, Maurice Wilkins showed James Watson the famous "Photograph 51".
It was the crucial X-ray image of DNA made by Dr Franklin in the previous months, and it helped the two Cambridge biologists to develop the historic - and correct - double-helix model.
"To think that Rosie had all the 3D data for nine months and wouldn't fit a helix to it, and there was I taking her word for it that the data was anti-helical," wrote Dr Wilkins to Dr Crick.
"Christ."
And when the study was published in Nature in April 1953, there were only vague references to Dr Franklin's contribution to the titanic achievement in molecular biology.
The correspondence had been thought lost.
But it was found earlier this year by Alexander Gann and Jan Witkowski of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York among papers that had belonged to another scientist, Sydney Brenner, who had shared an office with Francis Crick in Cambridge.
A 25-year-old man from the town was pronounced dead at the scene after being found by police called to a serious assault in the early hours.
A 46-year-old, also found at the flat in Cleveland Road, is being treated in hospital for serious injuries.
Police said a 45-year-old man from Poole had been arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.
Police said the victim and arrested man were known to each other.
Police have cordoned off the scene and a forensic examination and house-to-house inquiries are under way.
Alison Sharland, who accepted £10m in her divorce, and Varsha Gohil, who got £270,000, say the men hid the extent of their wealth when the deals were made.
Solicitors for Ms Sharland's ex-husband Charles said the ruling could "open the floodgates" to thousands of cases.
Ms Gohil said there were "no winners", but both spoke of the pair's relief.
The court indicated that both claims would return to the High Court.
BBC legal correspondent Clive Coleman said it was an "incredibly significant ruling" that meant a division of the parties' financial assets had to be based on a "valid agreement".
"If one of the parties is dishonest, if they are misleading about what their assets are, then this is a very clear signal that the other party can go back to court, can have the agreement set aside and can have the whole thing considered again," he said.
'John' from Kent is divorced and says the ruling is "fundamentally wrong".
"My divorce cost me more than £200,000," he said.
"I am now in my sixties, worked all my life and have lost more than half my earnings, including what my parents were good enough to leave me.
"The system is crazy. Some women set out on a course after marriage to get as much money as possible."
'Joan', who is divorced, said she hoped it would strengthen her appeal case.
"This is welcome news for women - or men - who have fallen foul of the wealthier party in a divorce who have been hiding their assets," she said.
"I had a very comfortable lifestyle until I left my husband. I now have less assets than I did when I went into the marriage."
Ms Sharland, from Wilmslow in Cheshire, believed the £10m settlement she accepted in her 2010 divorce from her husband Charles, a software entrepreneur, represented half of his wealth.
Under the settlement, the 48-year-old would also receive 30% of the proceeds of shares held by her husband in his company when he sold them.
It later transpired he had lied about his company's value - which the financial press estimated to be worth about £600m, when the value used in the divorce case was £47m - as well as plans to float it on the stock market.
Ms Gohil, 50, from north London, accepted a car as well as £270,000 as a settlement when she divorced her husband Bhadresh in 2002.
In 2010, Mr Gohil was convicted of money laundering and jailed for 10 years.
At his criminal trial, evidence revealed he had failed to disclose his true wealth during divorce proceedings.
"I hope that their decision sends out a message to everyone going through a divorce," Ms Sharland said.
"My legal battle has never been about the money, it has always been a matter of principle.
"I entered into an agreement with my estranged husband thinking that it was a fair one."
She said she wanted to move on "safe in the knowledge that my future divorce settlement will be based on the true value of our assets".
Giving the judgement of the court, Lady Hale said Ms Sharland had been "deprived of a full and fair hearing" because of "her husband's fraud".
Ms Gohil said: "There are absolutely no winners in divorce and more than a thought has to be given to the children of families locked in this type of litigation."
James Brown, a partner with JMW Solicitors, which is acting on Mr Sharland's behalf, said his client was "bitterly disappointed that his family will continue to be locked in litigation for the foreseeable future".
"Family law is complicated and entirely discretionary and there could be a danger that this change may open the floodgates to thousands of couples revisiting the agreements they reached," he said.
"Mr Sharland's primary objectives have always remained the same - to arrive at a fair settlement with Mrs Sharland and to make generous provision for his children." | Former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell has said it will take a decade for the party to recover from the last election.
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Some 28 of those he saved as children were among 400 people who attended the event at London's Guildhall, along with Czech, Slovak and UK government representatives.
Sir Nicholas organised the "Kindertransport" in which 669 mostly Jewish children came to Britain by train from Czechoslovakia in 1939.
He died on 1 July last year, aged 106.
The Kindertransport became public knowledge on BBC TV show That's Life in 1988 when presenter Esther Rantzen reunited some of those saved with the person who helped them escape the Nazis.
Many of the children went on to have their own families and the number currently alive as a result of the Kindertransport is believed to be about 7,000.
Esther Rantzen told the service about the moment two women who were rescued through the Kindertransport met Sir Nicholas on That's Life.
She said: "For the only time in my professional life I had to stop, get off my chair, get to behind the scenery, wipe my eyes, come back again and continue with the programme, because the impact of that moment, when people for the first time had the chance to meet their hero."
Around 130 rescued children and family members travelled from around the world to be at the service.
For part of the service four of them spoke to Esther Rantzen about their experiences of travelling to the UK on the Kindertransport.
One of those was Ruth, who was 13 when she travelled to London.
She said she ended up looking after a baby that travelled with her group and fed the infant with chocolate after its milk bottle smashed.
"My memory of looking out of the window and seeing all of the faces of our relatives, tear-stained and in great worry, will stay with me forever," she said.
Ruth said she had regarded Sir Nicholas as a father, adding: "He was the most human exemplar of humanity we shall ever find."
Another of those rescued, Hugo, praised the parents who sent their children on the Kindertransport as well as Sir Nicholas.
He added that Sir Nicholas had "inspired" parents with his confidence, after which support for the Kindertransport had "spread like fire".
by Mario Cacciottolo, BBC News
The grand surroundings of the Guildhall buzzed with the warm rumblings of friends, dignitaries and families as people gathered to celebrate the life of the man they knew as "Nicky".
While a pianist stroked the keys of a black grand piano, some of those who were on the Kindertransport filed in beneath the hall's grand arches, bringing their sons and daughters with them.
All of these people form part of what is known as Sir Nicholas Winton's extended family.
When the event began, Sir Nicholas's daughter, Barbara, paid tribute to her father, saying they were all gathered to "squeeze into an hour his long life", which she also said had been one of "love, laughter, passion and commitment".
Eva Paddock, 80, who now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the US, took that life-saving journey with her sister when she was three.
"I have my family with me and for us it's a rite of passage. Nicky was an exemplar of a person who acted when something needed to be done.
"It's very emotional and very moving to be here. It feels very important to be here with my extended family."
One of the Kindertransport children, Hana Isaac-Kleiner, now 88, told the BBC that Nicholas Winton saved their lives.
She said: "He was one of the few on the team in Prague who were well-enough informed about what was happening in Germany and Austria to realise that the danger to Jewish people was imminent."
Another, Kurt Taussig, 92, from Stanmore, Harrow, said he usually did not come to Kindertransport events but would have "swum an ocean to be here".
"What that man did has never been done before or again. He was completely unique in achieving a miracle."
Mr Taussig spent seven years in the RAF after coming over on the Kindertransport.
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Others present at the service included Lord Alfred Dubs, Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines and the Rev John Fieldsend, who were all part of the Kindertransport, as well as representatives from the German and Swedish embassies.
The service also had contributions from Lord Dubs and former Czech ambassador Michael Zantovsky.
Asked what message people should take from Sir Nicholas's life, Lord Dubs said: "I think what they should see is the story the triumph of the human spirit where one individual said he is going to do something and save lives from the Holocaust and he did it."
Sir Nicholas continued community work in later life in Maidenhead, Berkshire.
His surviving children Nick and Barbara Winton speak at events around the world about how one person can change lives.
Barbara Winton wrote his biography If It's Not Impossible, the title of which is taken from his motto: "If something is not impossible there must be a way of doing it."
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The Criminal Cases Review Commission has given "priority one" status to the case of convicted killer David Morris.
He was jailed for life for the second time in 2006 for killing Mandy Power and her family in Clydach after a prior conviction was quashed.
His lawyers have compiled a dossier of new evidence to appeal his conviction.
Morris' trial heard he had a sexual relationship with Ms Power and was fuelled by drink and drugs when he went on a killing spree in June 1999.
Mrs Dawson, who was 80, was killed as she lay helpless in her bed, and the killer laid in wait for the others to return home.
Ms Power and her daughters were battered repeatedly with a fibreglass pole which the children used to play with, and Ms Power's body was sexually assaulted.
The scene was described as "carnage" in court, with the judge adding: "Words cannot convey the severity of the injuries inflicted upon them."
The killer lit fires around the house in an attempt to hide the crimes. Firefighters found the bodies of Ms Power and the girls laid out on the landing when they came to tackle the blaze.
Before Morris was arrested, suspicion had fallen on Ms Power's secret lover Alison Lewis, a former South Wales Police officer, and her husband Stephen Lewis, a serving officer.
They were arrested but never charged.
The Mail on Sunday previously reported that fresh evidence had emerged which was not heard at Morris's trial after a journalism lecturer took up the case.
Thomasina Bennett, from Belper, had Alzheimer's Disease and was staying at Milford House Care Home in April 2012.
Milford House Partnership had denied two health and safety at work charges, but were convicted of one relating to personal activity monitor alarms (PAM).
Derby Crown Court heard the monitors were "systematically unsafe".
Gerald Hudson, 72, from Ambergate, trading as Milford House Partnership, was found not guilty of the other charge, which related to the fastening of the wardrobe onto the wall.
Another hearing is taking place on Thursday which will seek to determine a sentencing date.
Mrs Bennett's daughter Margaret Calladine, said the last four years have been "an emotional rollercoaster".
"It seemed, on paper and from the people we spoke to, to be a place that we felt that she should have been safe in," Mrs Calladine said.
"I hope they've learned their lessons, and that legislation will be tightened up on how care homes have to care for these vulnerable people."
The court was told the monitors were supposed to alert staff if residents got up in the night - but Mrs Bennett's alarm had not gone off before she was found.
The PAMs were used in multiple rooms, but could only show one alarm at a time. In other instances, they would appear to be working when they were not.
A Milford House Partnership spokesman said the firm was "devastated" by Mrs Bennett's death and that their thoughts "continue to be with her family".
"No legislation or guidance currently exists in relation to the fastening of furniture in care homes or other healthcare settings," the spokesman said.
"However, we will continue to campaign for the Health and Safety Executive to review this and release guidance to the care industry to prevent the re-occurrence of such a tragedy."
The spokesman added the company told the jury the monitors were an "additional aid" and did not replace checks carried out on residents every two hours.
Amber Valley Borough Council, who investigated the care home, hoped the verdict will have "far-reaching consequences" for improved health and safety standards in care homes across the UK.
Jackie Downie parked his Lothian Bus before helping the man, who was using a walking stick, whom he feared might trip and fall on his untied laces.
A passenger on the bus took a picture of the driver crouching down at the man's shoes.
Lothian Buses praised their driver's "initiative".
Leah-ashley Brown posted the photograph on to the company's official Facebook page and it reshared the post, writing: "Well done Jackie."
Alongside the photograph, Leah wrote: "Kudos to the driver on bus service number three for getting off to tie this elderly gentleman's shoe lace."
Facebook user Jennie Brown said: "Good to see. Only takes two minutes but I bet this gentleman appreciated for rest of his day."
Ryan Mcglone wrote: "Now that's the type drivers I like to see on every bus."
Greta Tiffney said: "Good on you. Still some good people in this world."
And Stephanie Laptucha wrote: "Well done to driver. Such lovely thing to do."
Leah-ashley Brown said of the bus driver: "He is a lovely man and on the route a lot.
"Recently I was on crutches and Jackie would wait until I sat down until he moved off.
"Same with the elderly gentleman, he is always so nice and patient with passengers."
Lothian buses said Mr Downie had been working for the company for 41 years.
A spokeswoman for Lothian buses said: "We're very proud of Jackie for taking the initiative to help this gentleman, he is a true asset to our business and it's great to see that his act of kindness didn't go unnoticed."
Ari Harow, who was Benjamin Netanyahu's chief of staff, will turn state's witness under a plea bargain in a probe he is facing himself, reports say.
Mr Netanyahu has been questioned about the cases three times by police under caution.
The prime minister, who is serving his fourth term, denies any wrongdoing.
The BBC's Tom Bateman in Jerusalem says Mr Harow's reported agreement with prosecutors marks a significant development in the corruption investigations, whose twists have received near daily coverage in Israel's media.
One of the cases relates to claims that Mr Netanyahu and his family received gifts from wealthy businessmen.
The other centres around allegations that Mr Netanyahu offered to limit the circulation of a rival free newspaper in return for more favourable coverage from one of the country's most widely-read dailies.
The cases are known colloquially as "1,000" and "2,000" respectively.
Mr Harow agreed to confess to fraud and breach of trust in return for testifying against his former boss, Reuters news agency cited court papers as saying.
Mr Netanyahu has repeatedly described the investigations as a witch-hunt stirred up by political opponents.
"We completely reject the unfounded claims made against the prime minister. The campaign to change the government is under way, but it is destined to fail, for a simple reason: there won't be anything because there was nothing," a post on his Facebook page said.
Mr Harow, a former head of American friends of Likud (Mr Netanyahu's party), was the prime minister's chief of staff from 2009-10, and from 2013-15.
The 25-year-old Southend United footballer pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud by obtaining bank details and transferring the money.
He denied a second count of money laundering at Wood Green Crown Court.
Reanne Morgan, 18, and Aseany Duncan, 19, both from Enfield, north London, will face trial for the same charges.
The court heard Ranger conspired to use the bank details of Diane Bloss in February 2015 and move £2,090 from one account to another.
Mitigating, Angus Bunyan, said the footballer's last serious conviction was more than 10 years ago.
Ranger's case was adjourned for a pre-sentence report. The money laundering charge will lie on file.
Morgan and Duncan were warned by Judge Peter Ader of the consequences of not appearing for trial.
They were told it "could be the difference between going to prison or being free".
Their trial is set for 24 April at the same court. Ranger will be sentenced afterwards.
Ranger, from north London, played for Newcastle United, England Under-19s, Swindon Town and Blackpool, before moving to Southend United in August.
The report has projected a boost of nearly 10% in economic output, or £13bn at current prices, if Scotland takes the most ambitious choices and becomes a world leader.
And it said 99% of Scots could be using the internet by 2030.
The report was commissioned by the Scottish Futures Trust.
It also said:
With the Internet of Things being developed - allowing people to control homes, cars and workplaces through electronic communications - there could be as many as 130 million digital devices in Scotland - 26 for the average Scot.
Even without any initiative to make Scotland more ambitious in its digital connections, the Internet of Things is expected to mean 25 million connected devices by 2030.
The report, commissioned from Deloitte by the Scottish Futures Trust, an agency of the Scottish government, also details changes which a full embrace of digital technology could bring to public services.
It says:
The vision of digitally-skilled citizens also applies to education and schooling.
The aim would be to cut down the so-called "digital divide" between those with the computing hardware and skills to use it, and those who have neither.
The Deloitte authors also envisage a reduction of the split in digital access between rural and urban Scotland.
It notes that people living rurally use 20% less data on fixed landlines than those in cities, and 28% less on mobile connections.
While the European Union average for internet access is 81% of people, Scotland lags on 78%.
The report also highlights relatively low uptake by businesses of recent digital options.
It says about 95% of Scottish businesses have internet access, but only 25% use cloud computing technology.
Of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), only 17% use the Next Generation Access (NGA) which is common for large companies.
With a more digital society and economy, it is argued that productivity would rise, boosting total output, jobs and earnings, while making it easier for more businesses to start up.
The report's modelling suggests that a world-leading Scottish digital economy could help create 175,000 more jobs than if the current development rate is retained.
A less ambitious programme to become world class, rather than world-leading, is estimated to mean 120,000 more jobs.
Market data shows there are currently five million digital devices in Scotland, one million of them with mobile connections, yet usage is low by international comparison.
Deputy First Minister John Swinney welcomed the report "which shows the incredible potential of increased digitalisation to Scotland".
He said: "The report outlines that if Scotland were to become a world leader, the nation could not only see a significant increase in GDP, but also the creation of nearly 6,000 new small-medium sized enterprises and small office or home office enterprises."
The service was held at the Royal Marines Riding Stables at Bickleigh Barracks in Devon.
Five horses wore poppy garlands for the ceremony, including a horse named Rocky with the rank of sergeant major.
The service honoured not just the eight million horses which died in World War I, but the many others used in battles since.
A horse named Anoushka represented horses used in the Battle of the Somme, cobs horses were represented by a horse named Bob, a horse named Zabor represented Russian horses and a horse named Tango represented the officers' horses.
Stables chairwoman Cathie Gillespie said: "The service is one of a kind and it is the first time that anything like this has been held in the Royal Navy.
"Eight million horses and countless mules and donkeys died in the First World War.
"They were used to transport ammunition and supplies to the front and many died, not only from the horrors of shellfire but also in terrible weather and appalling conditions.
"We thought it only fitting that in this month of remembrance we remember the animals too and what better place to hold a memorial service but at the Royal Navy Stables."
The US Attorney for Manhattan, Preet Bharara, made the announcement in a letter to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
The ICIJ worked with media outlets including the BBC and the Guardian to report on the leaked documents from Panama law firm Mossack Foncesa.
The letter asks for help from the ICIJ.
Mr Bharara's letter stated: "The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has opened a criminal investigation regarding matters to which the Panama Papers are relevant.
"The Office would greatly appreciate to opportunity to speak as soon as possible with any ICIJ employee or representative involved in the Panama Papers project in order to discuss this matter further."
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The letter gave no information on the subject of the investigation and was not a subpoena that would force the ICIJ to hand over any of the 11.5 million documents that were leaked.
Access to the documents remains limited to a handful of media organisations.
The UK's financial watchdog said that it had not yet gained access to the papers.
Mark Steward, enforcement head at the Financial Conduct Authority, told a conference in London: "Most of us on the law enforcement side haven't seen what the media has seen."
Serious Fraud Office head David Green, who spoke at the same meeting, said the papers "are being and will be accessed" for evidence of misconduct such as fraud and illegal tax schemes.
He called the cache an "interesting source of information" that had yet to be fully analysed.
Thought to be the biggest data leak in history, the documents have lifted the lid on how the rich and powerful use tax havens to hide their wealth.
The files have prompted the resignation Iceland's prime minister, the Spanish industry minister and created political headaches for David Cameron. The prime minister's late father had set up an offshore investment fund called Blairmore Holdings in the late 1980s.
Meanwhile, Panamanian president Juan Carlos Varela said that his country would join a global push for greater financial transparency in the wake of the papers.
Panama is hoping to avoid being designated as a tax haven that assists money laundering.
"Our goal is to cooperate actively and to lead the efforts of the international community on the topic of the global problem," Mr Varela said on a visit to Japan.
He claimed that Panama has been "wrongly" labelled a tax haven: "Panama is a country respectful of laws."
Carney, 28, was suspended for eight games by the Rugby Football League on 2 May after being found guilty of racially abusing Toronto Wolfpack player Ryan Bailey.
The player leaves by mutual consent following an internal investigation.
Meanwhile, Salford have signed 25-year-old Ireland forward James Hasson from Australian side Parramatta Eels.
"James is a player that adds some real competitiveness to our squad," said Salford head coach Ian Watson.
"We've had some injuries to our middles with Adam Walne and George Griffin, and James is exactly the kind of player that can step into that role. His NRL experience with Manly and Parramatta will be invaluable."
Baby Gear on Clarence Street, Leicester has provided refurbished baby equipment to low-income families and also trained adults with mental health issues.
Trustees said staff, users and their families would all lose out.
The city and council councils said they regretted the decision but were facing millions in budget cuts.
Set up in 1985, Baby Gear took in donations like pushchairs, cots and high chairs, refurbished them and sold them on.
Currently it has five staff and sees about 40 people each week in its workshop.
The chair of trustees at Baby Gear, Martin Wragg, said: "It will have huge impact.
"The staff will lose their jobs, the services users referred to us by the city council will lose their work and their families will lose their day of respite.
"And the families who came to the shop for equipment will lose out as well."
He said they had tried to find other sources of funding but there were no grants to cover day-to-day spending.
One of the people who used the workshop was Philip Moore, from Birstall. He said: "The work motivated me. I know about the cuts so it wasn't a complete shock.
"But it will leave a gap in my life and I don't know what I will do with my time."
The city council said millions in cuts and the introduction of personal care budgets meant its contracts with Baby Gear had to change. It said it would help users find other care providers.
Kerstin Vockert, 56, was director of Ark Aid Veterinary Centre and received a £620 fine for failing to meet animal welfare needs in May 2015.
RSPCA inspectors found cocker spaniel Millie and shih tzu Happy with matted fur "covered in urine and faeces".
Now the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) has said she should never return to practicing as a vet.
Inspectors visited Vockert's home in Sopley, Hampshire, in September 2014 and found the dogs. When they returned the next day, Vockert had put Millie down.
Happy, who had to have an eye removed and is blind in his other eye, has since been rehomed.
In a report the RCVS said the coats of both dogs had been in "an appalling condition" for "a prolonged period of time".
It said: "[Vockert made] a conscious decision not to groom the animals because she considered that they found the grooming process unpleasant.
"The committee considers that it was not only wrong but wholly misconceived.
"The committee is very concerned that, as a veterinary surgeon, she allowed her clinical judgement to be so impaired."
The RCVS added there was "a potential risk to animal welfare" if Vockert was ever allowed to return to practicing.
Although it said it had taken into account her "long and unblemished career" prior to neglecting her two dogs.
About 100 centres have closed with 360 jobs cut in Wales in four years.
The union's Dominic MacAskill, called on councils to provide at least a "baseline" service.
But the Welsh Local Government Association said the lack of standard success measures made it a complex area for authorities.
Spending on youth work in Wales has dropped from £23m in 2013 to £19.3m in this financial year.
Full-time employees working in the sector have also fallen from 803 to 655, while numbers registered to a scheme are down from 102,700 to 93,400.
Across Wales, only 23% of eligible youngsters are engaged in youth schemes offered.
And a Welsh Assembly inquiry in December 2016 found an "alarming" decline in the number of services available.
Trade union Unison has called for fair funding and the involvement of youths in determining the future of provisions.
Its head of local government in Wales, Dominic MacAskill said: "At a crucial stage in their lives, young people desperately need the support well-qualified youth workers can provide."
He added cuts were "writing off the livelihoods and potential of so many Welsh youngsters" and called for a "baseline" or minimum standard of service across councils.
He believes supported youth workers alongside provisions in schools, open-access centres and on the streets is the "optimum solution".
"They [youth services] are not widely understood - most council tax payers don't use them," he said.
"So few voters protest [when they are changed or discontinued]."
The WLGA's Tim Opie believes that a lack of a universal measure of success of youth work could be a reason for the spending drop in such services.
He said often the results of youth work may not be seen until many years later - and so is not a priority for cash-strapped councils.
Mr Opie said: "You can never be sure if it's the [youth] work or something else has changed in people's lives. It is very difficult to link the intervention with the result."
He added that in addition to the lack of a success measure, councils also faced challenges in terms of the demographic area they served with a variation in the levels of affluence and poverty as well as the broad age range of the users of youth services going from 11 to 25.
It has led to a broad approach being adopted by Wales' councils.
Rural areas often employ more youth workers in order to reach as many young people as possible whereas urban areas need fewer staff as services are more accessible to young people.
Councils also use different measures of success according to the differing needs of areas. In Cardiff the focus is on the number of NEETs (Not in Employment, education or Training) whereas Gwynedd looks at the numbers attending youth clubs.
Other success measures are used across Wales including youth satisfaction surveys as well as how many of the youth population are reached.
Focuses also vary; in Pembrokeshire, workers visit an under-18s disco helping youngsters under the influence of drugs and alcohol get home, while in Merthyr Tydfil youth workers engage with young people in anti-social behaviour hotspots.
The Welsh Government called on local authorities to be "innovative" in their approach and look at different delivery methods, adding it intended to explore rollout of the provision across Wales.
Uefa have charged Celtic in connection with crowd trouble during Tuesday's 1-1 draw at Manchester City in the Champions League.
"The supporters talk about being the best in the world and they travel very well," Wilson told BBC Scotland.
"But it's pointless saying that if you continually let the club down. And it's the club that will be punished."
The visiting supporters are alleged to have set off fireworks and caused other crowd disturbances at the Etihad Stadium.
It is the 10th time in the past five years the club have been charged by European football's governing body regarding their fans' behaviour.
Uefa's disciplinary body will examine the case on 23 February.
Wilson says players seldom notice trouble in the stands, but argues it's logistically challenging for Celtic to take action against the perpetrators.
"You're too focused, too wrapped up in the game to be aware of it," he said. "But it's got to be highlighted - now, what more can the club do?
"Banning the culprits is the only way of going about it but spotting them in a crowd is very difficult. There's no doubt it's ruining the occasion for Celtic."
The 48-year-old finished in 49 days, 3 hours, 7 minutes and 38 seconds.
The previous record of 57 days 13hr 34min and 6sec was set by fellow Frenchman Francis Joyon, who took it from Britain's Ellen MacArthur in 2008.
Coville set off from Brest in France on 6 November and will rarely have slept for more than three hours at a time.
"Mentally I had my highs and my lows but I knew where I wanted to get to," Coville, who had made five previous attempts to break Joyon's record, told Le Parisien newspaper.
"Physically I could not have gone much further."
But there are few areas of crime, in my experience, where the police approach has changed so radically than in domestic abuse.
For me, it was always an area of crime that struck at the very heart of community safety - if you can't feel safe in your own home, where and when can you ever feel safe?
It was an area of huge complexity, where the response needed to be joined up and effective and it was a crime that affected so many people, not just the obvious victim, but the hidden victims too - children.
It was also an area that did not discriminate; anyone could be a victim and anyone could be a perpetrator.
So I jumped at the opportunity to make a television programme on a subject so close to my heart.
The focus of the documentary is on women as victims and survivors, but that is not to say that violence against men does not happen.
In a 40-minute documentary, it was impossible to cover every aspect of this complex and deeply personal crime.
Three remarkable women told me their stories in detail, and without their courage to appear on camera, the documentary would not have been possible.
I spoke to a perpetrator of domestic abuse who also chose to tell his story, without disclosing his identity.
He was undergoing a programme which sought to help him address his violent behaviour before the matter reached court. And I spoke to representatives from some of the agencies working directly with victims and perpetrators.
It is clear to me that while there has been huge progress, the journey of responding to domestic abuse is far from over. Official police figures show that more and more victims are coming forward.
There is now a domestic incident reported to the PSNI every 19 minutes.
Society and, importantly, professionals have learnt more about this phenomenon, and policy and laws have changed.
More and more victims are pointing to emotional abuse in the form of totally unreasonable and controlling behaviour by perpetrators, with some saying that the long term psychological effects of such abuse are as grave as physical assault.
However, unlike in England and Wales, the law in Northern Ireland has not yet specifically recognised coercive and controlling behaviour. The programme highlights other discrepancies in protections for victims here compared to other parts of the UK.
Much has been said about domestic abuse, but in my view there could never be enough said about a crime which has been hidden for generations, and the full extent of which we may never truly know.
I wanted to highlight that there are many avenues of help and support for those suffering domestic abuse, that our laws need to catch up with developments elsewhere, and finally that children need to know what healthy and appropriate relationships look like.
If this programme achieves nothing other than delivering these three messages, it will have been a success.
Gillespie investigates... Domestic Terror is on the BBC Iplayer
The 19-year-old has spent two months at Tannadice on an amateur contract after leaving FC United of Manchester.
But the Englishman has secured a three-year contract after spending time with the Terrors' development squad.
"I would have had him involved with the first-team squad already, but we knew there were other clubs after him," said manager McNamara.
"And we wanted to make sure we had him signed up.
"We see great potential in Justin. He is fast, direct and entertaining.
"There is a lot of hard work ahead, but we now have a chance to develop him into a first-team player at Dundee United."
Johnson's previous experience is in England's National League North.
However, United hope they have similar success as they had in developing Andy Robertson, now with Hull City, Aidan Connolly and Blair Spittal after they were signed from Scotland's lower leagues.
"He is the type of player we want to develop and play at Tannadice," said McNamara.
"He's a crowd pleaser. It will now be our job to turn that potential into a player the fans will be entertained by."
Johnson added: "This club has a reputation for developing young players and I want to grow as a footballer and believe this is the place for me.
"It has been very enjoyable training and playing at Dundee United.
"Although other clubs showed interest in me, the way I have been treated and involved in my time here was an important factor in signing a contract here."
As EU citizens living in the UK and UK expats in other EU states continue to ponder their futures, Brexit negotiations have started in Brussels.
Over the past year, we have been inviting you to send in your questions about the whole process. We have already answered some questions...
Could the UK take over existing EU trade deals?
Brexit court ruling: Your questions answered
... but others are still awaiting definitive answers, which may only become clear at the every end of the negotiations. So, for now, here are your questions awaiting answers:
Many of the questions below are examples which were asked multiple times and in many ways, while others are specific to those who asked.
By the UGC and Social Media Team
Sir Keir Starmer said "as democrats" Labour should not block the start of the process but called for an end to "gloating" from Leave campaigners.
He was speaking as MPs began a two-day debate on legislation to authorise the triggering of formal negotiations.
The government wants to start the two years of talks by the end of March.
The European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill would allow Prime Minister Theresa May to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, getting official talks between the UK and the EU started.
The Liberal Democrats and Scottish National Party are to vote against it, but Labour's leadership is backing it, meaning the government is expected to win.
Brexit Secretary David Davis said the draft legislation was about "implementing a decision already made" by voters in the EU referendum.
He added that people would view any attempt to halt the bill's progress "dimly".
With 99 MPs wanting to speak, the Commons' hours were extended to midnight on Tuesday to accommodate more speakers, with a vote to take place on Wednesday evening after further debate.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has ordered his MPs to vote with the government, but some are expected to defy him.
Sir Keir said two thirds of Labour MPs represented constituencies that voted to leave the EU, and one third where people voted to stay in.
"This is obviously a difficult decision," he said.
"I wish the result had gone the other way. I campaigned passionately for that. But as democrats our party has to accept that result and it follows that the prime minister should not be blocked from starting the Article 50 negotiations."
During the first part of the second reading debate, MPs on both sides of the EU debate set out their cases.
Former Conservative Chancellor Ken Clarke confirmed he would vote against the bill, saying it was in the national interest for the UK to stay in the EU.
Another Conservative Remain campaigner, Anna Soubry, said she did not want to block Article 50 but predicted "history will not be kind to this Parliament".
Former Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg attacked the government over its negotiation strategy, saying it had "decided to placate parts of the Conservative Party rather than serve the long-term strategic interests of this country".
But former Conservative minister John Redwood - who said he would have quit as an MP if Remain had won - predicted Parliament would be "made great by the people" after Brexit.
And fellow leading Conservative Leave campaigner Michael Gove predicted a "liberal, open, democratic" Brexit.
The size of the Labour rebellion will be closely scrutinised, with several of his MPs indicating they plan to defy Mr Corbyn.
Two shadow ministers have quit, saying they want to vote against it.
And Labour MPs Stephen Timms and Lyn Brown told the Commons they would also vote against the bill.
Although Labour's leadership ultimately backs the bill, the party will also attempt to amend the legislation, hoping to force the government into offering MPs a "meaningful vote" on the eventual Brexit deal reached after the negotiations.
If the vote goes the government's way, the bill will return to the Commons next week for the committee stage when opposition parties will try to push through a series of amendments.
The bill was published last week, after the Supreme Court decided Parliament must have a say.
The new political season has hardly begun and already Downing Street has made two quick concessions. It has agreed to the Electoral Commission's recommendation that voters should be asked if they want to remain in or leave the EU because a Yes/No question would unfairly favour the Yes campaign.
And now Number Ten has significantly rowed back over its plans to allow ministers to campaign officially for EU membership in the last four weeks of the referendum.
To some, this amounts to a huge fillip for the EU "out" campaign. No longer will the "in" campaign have the advantage of asking people to vote positively for yes.
And no longer will ministers be free - in theory - to use their full offices of state to campaign to stay in the EU. As one pro-EU Conservative MP put it to me: "This Number 10 "Neville Chamberlain approach" to Tory anti-EU hardliners will in the end encourage them, not pacify them. Most of us mainstream Tories are fed up with holding our tongue while the headbangers run riot."
Yet, this is to mistake the government's intention. Ministers accept that getting rid of the Yes/No vote and partially reintroducing so-called "purdah" might make it marginally harder for David Cameron to win a referendum.
But they think the risk is worth it if it makes it harder for Tory eurosceptics to claim - amid the wreckage of defeat - that the rules were rigged against them.
The great fear among ministers is that they win the referendum by a whisker and then struggle to reunite a bruised, divided Tory party. They don't want to give any pretext for defeated eurosceptics to cry foul and claim they were robbed by an unlevel playing field. Hence Downing Street conceding on process; it is looking to win the war and not just the battle.
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) refused to speculate on reports that Russian hackers were behind the attack.
It has observers in several of Europe's hot spots, including eastern Ukraine, where it monitors ceasefire violations.
"We became aware of an incident at the start of November," said a spokeswoman.
"I don't know how long it went on for but it was serious. The integrity of the ICT system was compromised and put in danger," the spokeswoman told the BBC from the group's headquarters in Vienna.
French newspaper Le Monde quoted an unnamed Western intelligence agency as saying the cyber attack was likely to be down to Russian hacking group APT28, also known as Fancy Bear, Pawn Storm or Sofacy.
APT28 has already been linked to an attack on French global network TV5 and the leaks of leading athletes' medical data, while senior US officials have also blamed Russian hackers for an attack on the Democratic Party's emails.
However there has been no independent confirmation of who carried out the latest attack.
The OSCE said while it knew how the attacker had got into its ICT system, "as for speculating on who it was, we don't, we cannot (say)".
Russia, the US and Ukraine are all members of the OSCE and the body has provided a means of dialogue during times of tension.
Some 1,000 OSCE staff are currently working in Ukraine, and the special monitoring mission has often been caught up in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
In its most recent report, filed late on Tuesday, the monitors said they had had to evacuate a forward patrol base at Svitlodarsk because of heavy artillery fire, including one shell that came within 70m of the base.
A renewed ceasefire came into force on 24 December but there are still frequent violations.
It analysed 40 years of observations of six big ice streams draining into the Amundsen Bay and concluded that nothing now can stop them melting away.
Although these are abrupt changes, the timescales involved are likely measured in centuries, the researchers add.
If the glaciers really do disappear, they would add roughly 1.2m to global sea level rise.
The new study has been accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, but Nasa held a teleconference on Monday to brief reporters on the findings.
Prof Eric Rignot said warm ocean water was relentlessly eating away at the glaciers' fronts and that the geometry of the sea bed in the area meant that this erosion had now entered a runaway process.
By David ShukmanScience editor, BBC News
West Antarctica is one of the least accessible parts of the planet and it takes a huge effort to research the changes under way there. Nearly a decade ago, I joined a flight on an old US Navy patrol plane that made a gruelling 11-hour round trip from the southern Chilean city of Punta Arenas to Pine Island Glacier, which lies among the glaciers featured in these latest studies.
There was no possibility of landing and, if the worst were to happen, there was no-one close enough to offer any kind of rescue. This is research at its most daring. On board was a team from Nasa whose instruments were measuring the elevation and thickness of the ice below us. Even at this stage, it was clear that the glacier, far larger than anything you might see in Europe or North America, was speeding up.
Now the scientists have the benefit of repeated flights, copious satellite images and data from field trips. There is still a lot they do not understand about the pace of change and therefore the speed with which the melt will contribute to sea level rise. But the more detailed the research, the sharper the picture of rapid change.
"We present observational evidence that a large section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has gone into a state of irreversible retreat; it has passed the point of no return," the agency glaciologist explained.
"This retreat will have major consequences for sea level rise worldwide. It will raise sea levels by 1.2m, or 4ft, but its retreat will also influence adjacent sectors of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet which could triple this contribution to sea level."
The Amundsen Bay sector includes some of the biggest and fastest moving glaciers on Earth.
Pine Island Glacier (PIG), over which there has been intense research interest of late, covers about 160,000 sq km, or about two-thirds the area of the UK.
Like the Thwaites, Smith, Haynes, Pope, Smith and Kohler Glaciers in this region - the PIG has been thinning rapidly.
And its grounding line - the zone where the glacier enters the sea and lifts up and floats - has also reversed tens of km over recent decades.
What makes the group vulnerable is that their bulk actually sits below current sea level with the rock bed sloping inland towards the continent.
This is a geometry, say scientists, that invites further melting and further retreat.
The new study includes radar observations that map the underlying rock in the region, and this finds no ridge or significant elevation in topography that could act as a barrier to the glaciers' reverse.
"In our new study, we present additional data that the junction of the glaciers with the ocean - the grounding line - has been retreating at record speeds unmatched anywhere in the Antarctic," said Prof Rignot.
"We also present new evidence that there is no large hill at the back of these glaciers that could create a barrier and hold the retreat back. This is why we conclude that the disappearance of ice in this sector is unstoppable."
The researcher, who is also affiliated to the University of California, Irvine, attributed the underlying driver of these changes to global warming.
This, together with atmospheric behaviours influenced by a loss of ozone in the stratosphere, had created stronger winds in the Southern Ocean that were now drawing more warm water towards and under the glaciers.
Dr Tom Wagner, the cryosphere program scientist with Nasa, said it was clear that, in the case of these six glaciers, a threshold had been crossed.
"The results are not based on computer simulations or numerical models; they are based on the interpretation of observations," he told reporters.
"And I think this is an important point because this sometimes can get lost on the general public when they're trying to understand climate change and the implications."
Prof Rignot and colleagues put no real timescales on events, but a paper released by the journal Science to coincide with the Nasa media conference tries to do just this.
It does include computer modelling and was led by Dr Ian Joughin, a glaciologist at the University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory. The study considers the particular case of Thwaites Glacier.
In the model, Dr Joughin's team is able to reproduce very accurately the behaviour of the glacier over the past 20 years.
The group then runs the model forwards to try to forecast future trends.
This, likewise, indicates that a collapse of the glacier is inevitable, and suggests it will most likely occur in the next 200 to 500 years.
Prof Andy Shepherd, from Leeds University, UK, is connected with neither Rignot's nor Joughin's work.
He told BBC News: "[Joughin's] new simulations are a game changing result, as they shine a spotlight on Thwaites Glacier, which has until now played second fiddle to its neighbour Pine Island Glacier in terms of ice losses.
"There is now little doubt that this sector of West Antarctica is in a state of rapid retreat, and the burning question is whether and how soon this retreat might escalate into irreversible collapse. Thankfully, we now have an array of satellites capable of detecting the tell-tale signs, and their observations will allow us to monitor the progress and establish which particular scenario Thwaites Glacier will follow."
Prof Shepherd said the EU's newly launched Sentinel-1a radar satellite would have a unique capability to assess the glaciers' grounding lines.
"As soon as the satellite reaches its nominal orbit, we will turn its eye on Thwaites Glacier to see whether it has indeed changed as predicted."
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The party wants a central body to take control of the creation of money, which would require a major overhaul of the financial system.
You may be surprised to hear there is not already such a body.
There are two common misconceptions about how money currently works:
Neither of these is quite true.
The vast majority of money is created by private-sector banks - not the Bank of England.
Positive Money, a group that argues for reforming the monetary system, says 97% of money is created by banks.
Each time a bank makes a loan, it essentially creates money.
And it is basically up to banks to decide how many loans they create.
Money then disappears when the loans are paid back.
So the Bank of England actually does not have much control over how much money there is circulating around the UK economy.
Also, a bank's ability to lend is not really restricted by the amount of money held in its vaults.
Textbooks often refer to the reserve ratio, which says that for every loan a bank makes, the lender should set aside some cash, which it cannot lend out to other people.
This would require banks to actually remove money from circulation and keep it locked away in their vaults or the electronic equivalent.
But this has never really happened in the UK.
Instead, there is financial regulation governing how banks manage their balance sheets.
Banks need to maintain a buffer to cover losses arising from when borrowers default on their loans.
The size of the buffer depends partly on the riskiness of the banks' assets.
Under this system, the more profit a bank makes, the more it can afford to lend - even while maintaining a cash buffer.
These rules might restrict the amount banks lend when the economy is doing badly, but they do not affect how much banks can lend when the economy is doing well.
Advocates of reform say the fact the current system leaves it up to banks to decide how much money is in the system is problematic.
Too much money can lead to financial over-exuberance and pump up asset bubbles, while too little money can cause funding problems for individuals and companies.
Positive Money argues the current system can have numerous other negative impacts too, such as increasing levels of household debt and inflating property prices.
The Greens want a central body to take on the job of creating money: "a new monetary authority, independent of day-to-day government control".
This would mean commercial banks would become "no more than the custodians of publicly created money in current accounts".
In other words, the amount of money in the economy would no longer depend on banks' willingness to lend.
If the policy were to be implemented, it would mark a step-change in how money works.
Iceland is already considering introducing a similar system, but if the UK were to undertake such reform, it would be the first major financial centre to do so.
Aside from putting more controls on the amount of lending and debt in the economy, the Greens say this would allow banks to fail more safely.
As the Greens acknowledge, their policy would trigger a radical overhaul of how the monetary system works.
They would create a powerful new body, reform how commercial banks operate and change our understanding of money.
It would require years of debate, consultation and legislative wrangling.
Transitional arrangements would need to be put in place to ease the economy through the change.
And this is all predicated on the idea that Parliament would actually agree on both the need for change and the mechanics for implementing it.
While it looks unlikely such a policy would be implemented in the near future, it raises some interesting topics for debate.
What is the truth behind the politicians' claims on the campaign trail? Our experts investigate the facts, and wider stories, behind the soundbites.
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After suffering their first league defeat in four months at home to Bolton on Saturday, Cian Bolger's first-half header was enough to give the Cod Army three points.
The visitors also hit the woodwork through Ben Davies and Ashley Hunter.
It was a poor display from Walsall, who failed to get a shot on target.
Top scorer Erhun Oztumer's last-minute curling left-foot free-kick just wide of the left upright was the closest the Saddlers came to a goal, as they failed to add to their sequence of six straight home wins.
While Walsall are five points adrift of a play-off place, Fleetwood stayed second, in the table, still a point ahead of Bolton, who have a game in hand.
The only goal came on 22 minutes when Bolger headed home a left-wing corner from on-loan Liverpool youngster Cameron Brannagan, who was then denied by a great save to his left from home keeper Neil Etheridge.
From Bolger's initial far-post header, centre-half partner Ben Davies then headed against the bar and after the break, Ashley Hunter went close with an impudent angled lob, before his left-foot shot was touched onto the post.
Fleetwood's victory extended their unbeaten run away from home to 11 matches - but there were only 142 visiting fans there to see it.
Walsall manager Jon Whitney told BBC WM:
"A lot of effort but not a lot of quality. We knew it was going to be very tight. We knew it could be a one-goal game.
"It's always disappointing to concede from a set piece but Cian Bolger was the difference between the two sides.
"We lost Eoghan O'Connell, who broke his nose five minutes before he came off with some hamstring pain too. But now have to regroup before going down to sunny Southend on Saturday.
"We've got one game less now and you're laying on other people to slip up. But all we can do is control the controllables."
Fleetwood manager Uwe Rosler told BBC Radio Lancashire:
"It's an absolute delight for me, the club and the players that we bounced back against a team who have won six on the trot here and are knocking on the door.
"Especially when I saw who we had unavailable. We were another two players short and had people playing out of position.
"We carried on from Saturday, we played really first half and could have been more than one goal up at half time, we hit the bar and had one cleared off the line.
"In the second half, we were a little bit shaky but we did what we had to. And they did not have one shot on target."
Match ends, Walsall 0, Fleetwood Town 1.
Second Half ends, Walsall 0, Fleetwood Town 1.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Bobby Grant.
Scott Laird (Walsall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Markus Schwabl (Fleetwood Town).
Attempt missed. David Ball (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Erhun Oztumer (Walsall) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Scott Laird (Walsall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Elohor Godswill Ekpolo (Fleetwood Town).
Substitution, Fleetwood Town. George Glendon replaces Kyle Dempsey.
Attempt missed. Matt Preston (Walsall) header from the right side of the box misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Conor McLaughlin.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Conor McLaughlin.
Attempt blocked. Joe Edwards (Walsall) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Joe Edwards (Walsall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Conor McLaughlin (Fleetwood Town).
Delay in match Ashley Hunter (Fleetwood Town) because of an injury.
Substitution, Walsall. Andreas Makris replaces George Dobson.
Substitution, Fleetwood Town. David Ball replaces Cameron Brannagan.
Scott Laird (Walsall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Bobby Grant (Fleetwood Town).
Substitution, Walsall. Amadou Bakayoko replaces Simeon Jackson.
Attempt missed. Matt Preston (Walsall) header from the centre of the box misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Cian Bolger.
Scott Laird (Walsall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Bobby Grant (Fleetwood Town).
Hand ball by Simeon Jackson (Walsall).
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Cian Bolger.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Elohor Godswill Ekpolo.
Attempt saved. Kyle Dempsey (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Fleetwood Town. Conceded by Neil Etheridge.
Attempt saved. Ashley Hunter (Fleetwood Town) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Ashley Hunter (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the right is close, but misses to the right.
Erhun Oztumer (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Amari'i Bell (Fleetwood Town).
Attempt missed. Cameron Brannagan (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Foul by James O'Connor (Walsall).
Bobby Grant (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Walsall. Conceded by Cameron Brannagan.
George Dobson (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Warren Gillespie, 41, carried out the attack at a house in Portlethen in September 2014.
Judge Kenneth Maciver QC told the High Court in Edinburgh it was a "nasty and serious" offence.
Police Scotland said: "Gillespie targeted a vulnerable young girl and has been held accountable for his actions."
Former supermarket worker Gillespie, of Bucksburn, Aberdeen, was also placed on the sex offenders register.
The judge said it was clear from an impact statement that the crime had significantly impacted on the victim and was likely to continue to do so for a long time.
He said: "It is inevitable that a lengthy custodial sentence requires to be imposed in this case in order to address the gravity of the issues involved."
The judge said he was prepared to deduct one year from the sentence he would have imposed because, although Gillespie had made a late guilty plea, the victim did not have to give evidence.
He also ordered that Gillespie should be kept under supervision for a further two-year period after his release.
Handcuffed Gillespie made a one-finger gesture to those in the public benches of the court as he was led from the dock.
Defence counsel David Moggach told the court: "For whatever reasons he allowed himself to act in the manner that he did and, of course, he knows that was wrong."
Det Sgt Barry Stewart said: "Gillespie's victim should be commended for having the courage to come forward and report his actions.
"Such actions are absolutely unacceptable and will not be tolerated.
"We hope that this sentence will bring some form of closure for his victim and that she can now move on with her life."
The request from Rother District Council was rejected by the lifeboat charity because of a lack of resources.
Darren Lewis, the RNLI's senior lifeguard manager, told the hearing in Hastings: "We just physically did not have the manpower."
He said following the deaths the RNLI offered to put lifeguards on the beach.
The charity offered to provide lifeguard cover for the next bank holiday and then for the rest of the season, after being able to reallocate resources, Mr Lewis said.
Two brothers, Ken, 18, and Kobi Saththiyanathan, 22, died at the Sussex beach in August along with three of their friends.
Earlier a beach-goer told the inquest into their deaths he felt "unnerved" by the sea conditions on the day five young friends drowned at Camber Sands.
Stephen Deacon said the water looked calm on the surface but there was a strong undercurrent.
"I wouldn't have gone to the beach if I knew it was like that," he added.
Mr Deacon told the hearing he saw the five men chest-deep in the water playing volleyball before later seeing a Coastguard helicopter.
He said he was in the sea with his three children and their dinghy but took them back to shore when he realised how strong the current was.
"It made me uncomfortable," he added, "like I couldn't control my body."
Mr Deacon said there were no warning notices about the nature of the sands, which has "lots of pockets of shallow and deep holes", and no flag was flying on the day.
The only warning he saw was about the possibility of jellyfish, he added.
Another witness, surfer Amy Wood, 17, told the inquest she helped rescue another young man in trouble in the water on the same day, and also saw the five Asian men further out at sea "waving their arms and bobbing up and down".
Miss Wood, from Kent, said she thought they were just playing around and was concentrating on getting the distressed man back safely to shore.
She told the hearing when she went back to check she could not see the men, but said she did see the helicopter arrive.
The inquest heard "hysteria" broke out as people were urged to get out of the water as the friends' bodies were discovered.
Beach relief coastal officer Stephen Benn said there was a sense of shock as the first body was pulled from the water.
In his statement he said someone had shouted: "There's another body."
Five minutes after learning of the discovery of a second body, Mr Benn said they were made aware of a third one.
He said: "At this point I was just in shock. I couldn't believe it."
It was a perfect summer's day, with totally calm water, not even a ripple."
Beach patrol officer Katherine Morgan told the hearing there were lots of warnings across the beach about sandbars and leaflets about beach safety were available at the offices.
She was asked if practices had changed after two people died at the beach earlier in July.
"We were told to be a lot more observant about people going into the sea who may have consumed alcohol, and vulnerable people going into the water, and the sandbars came into play as well," Ms Morgan said.
Kenugen Saththiyanathan, 18, known as Ken, died alongside his brother Kobikanthan Saththiyanathan, 22, known as Kobi, both from Erith, south east London.
Their three friends, who also died on 24 August, were Nitharsan Ravi, 22, from Plumstead, Inthushan Sriskantharasa, 23, from Grays, Essex, and Gurushanth Srithavarajah, 27, from Welling.
The inquest has previously heard all five were fit, healthy and competent swimmers, with some having visited the beach at Camber before without incident.
On 24 July, Mohit Dupar, 36, from Hayes, west London, attempted to reach Brazilian Gustavo Silva Da Cruz, 19, after he got into difficulty.
Mr Silva Da Cruz died at the scene. Mr Dupar died in hospital four days later.
The deaths prompted calls for improved safety at Camber, resulting in Rother District Council agreeing in February to allocate £51,000 in its 2017/18 budget to bring in seasonal lifeguard cover from this summer.
But council officials have said the beach, which is three miles (4.8km) long and nearly half-a-mile (700m) wide at low tide, could never be completely risk-free.
The hearing was also told there was a death at Camber in 2015 and three "near misses" in 2013.
The inquest continues.
Kevin Ainley was living and working on the Spanish island when he went missing in June 2004.
The 24-year-old, of Fleetwood, Lancashire, had moved to the tourist area of Playa de las Americas three months earlier.
His sister Gemma Brooke said the family was "desperate for answers".
"It is no exaggeration to say we have been put through 12 years of hell. Somebody must know something," she said.
Mr Ainley, who had also lived in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, is known to have worked handing out leaflets for a bar named the Sportsman in an area known as "the patch".
On the day of his disappearance he had visited bars and clubs with a friend.
At around noon, he and another friend went for a meal at a Chinese buffet restaurant called Merlins.
He was last seen walking in the direction of the Sportsman, and his passport and belongings were later found in his apartment.
Despite a Spanish investigation and a Lancashire Police review of the case in 2012, no conclusive information has come to light.
"We are convinced there must be someone out there who saw or heard something," Ms Brooke said.
"I just hope that if someone does know something they can find it in their hearts to come forward and help put us out of our misery."
Exercise is proven to boost mood and strengthen mental wellbeing. In fact research shows outdoor exercise, or ecotherpy as it's called, can be as effective as antidepressants in treating mild to moderate depression and anxiety.
The colours, sounds and smells of the great outdoors stimulate our senses in a way that the gym or urban environments don't. Equally getting physically fit and achieving personal goals boost our confidence and self-esteem and help combat feelings of hopelessness, which can often come over us when we're feeling low.
Playing sport with others can have even greater impact as it provides an opportunity to strengthen social networks, talk through problems with others or simply laugh and enjoy a break from family and work.
To get the most from ecotherapy it's important to find a sport you love and can stick at - try different things be it walking,running,tennis,swimming,rugby, or taekwondo!
Studies have shown that exercise can help with depression, but there is research being conducted on how exercise can help people manage schizophrenia and other mental health conditions.
We know that having a physical health illness can be a cause of mental health problems so staying active, and therefore physically fit, can help maintain mental health too. Doctors are starting to prescribe exercise on prescription, and are increasingly doing so for mental health problems.
People have different levels of fitness and ability and availability but NHS guidelines for 19-65 year olds suggest 150 minutes of activity - be that walking, team sports, swimming - per week.
There is benefit in doing exercise in a structured way to help with mental health problems - making sure that your activity levels are consistent, and that you do a similar amount of exercise each week. It can also help to have something to look forward to, particularly if the type of exercise is something social.
Take a look at Mind's film on exercise for some tips on getting active, and look through our A-Z of guides to help you find an activity that fits your lifestyle.
Police said it followed an incident where a car was driven at a man between the Newpark and Wilderness roundabouts on Saturday.
It is understood a Renault Clio narrowly avoided hitting a 45-year-old.
The 18-year-old man has also been charged with a number of offences under the Road Traffic Act and is due to appear at Livingston Sheriff Court.
Wales play Portugal in Lyon on Wednesday in their first ever semi-final at a major tournament.
"I got the board to spend our participation money to give the boys the very best opportunity for success," FAW chief Jonathan Ford told BBC Sport.
"And they've paid us back in their droves."
Wales topped Group B after wins over Slovakia and Russia, either side of a narrow defeat by England, knocked out Northern Ireland in the last 16 and Belgium in the quarter-finals.
Chris Coleman's team face Portugal on Wednesday with the winners meeting either France or Germany in the final in Paris on Sunday, 10 July.
It is the biggest match in Welsh football history and the most significant in British international football since hosts England reached the Euro 1996 semi-finals.
Ford, who has been in charge of the FAW for the past six years, said this approach gave Coleman and his players the best chance of success throughout the qualifiers and into the finals.
"It is about marginal gains," Ford said.
"Every time, during the qualification cycle, we came around, we said what do we need to do more? What can we do better? And it was those one percents.
"When we planned this event we wanted to make sure we gave the team the very best opportunities.
"We found the best hotel, we wanted to invest in the facilities that were there, we put in the best gym we could, we got the best aircraft that we could.
"Not spending money unnecessarily so, but spending money to ensure that the players can do their job to the best of their ability.
"That's exactly what they've done and we're in the semi-final. We invested more into those facilities, the whole purpose of which was to give the boys on the field the very best chance - no excuses.
"They've had no excuses and they needed no excuses."
Including the participation fee, the FAW could receive at least £14.5m for reaching the last four.
Going on to lift the trophy would add a further £6m-plus to prize money.
The FAW made a profit of £20,000 in its last financial year.
Ford said all the "bits of the jigsaw" have fallen into place in this campaign, but added the FAW would not "stop here".
"We will work harder than we have before," said Ford. "We'll literally throw out the rule book. You can't just sit here and think 'we had success last time, let's just do the same thing'.
"We will look at everything - what can we do better? What can help us to achieve qualification for World Cup 2018?
Participation in tournament - 8m euro (£6.4m)
Each win in the pool stages - 1m euro (£812,000)
Reach last 16 - 1.5m euro (£1.2m)
Reach quarter finals - 2.5m euro (£2m)
Reach semi finals 4m euro (£3.2m)
Champions 8m euro (£6.4m)
The letter, signed by hundreds of staff and students, was prompted by previous comments made by the historian.
In response, the university said it had taken down the video earlier than it had planned to.
Starkey has refused to comment on the allegations of racism.
Starkey, who attended Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, took part in the three-minute video "Dear World", which featured other university alumni such as Sir Ian McKellen, Professor Stephen Hawking, and Lily Cole.
The letter calling for the removal of the video - made in a bid to raise £2bn for the university - alleges Starkey has "repeatedly made racist statements".
It cites a 2011 Newsnight interview in which the constitutional historian said: "A substantial amount of the chavs have become black. The whites have become black; a particular sort of violent destructive, nihilistic gangster culture has become the fashion."
Referring to his appearance in the video, the letter says: "In our eyes, Starkey's presence both undermines and taints our daily efforts to function as a united community."
The university said it had always intended that the current video would be replaced with a new one, and that whilst they appreciate Starkey has made "controversial statements in the past", he was "representing his affection for the university and its values."
Dr Malachi MacIntosh, director of English Studies at King's College, who signed the letter said "we're glad to see the video taken down".
"We're trying now to arrange to speak with the University about how best to proceed," he said.
"Our ultimate goal is to ensure these kinds of campaigns truly represent the best of Cambridge."
Starkey has not commented to the BBC, but earlier told The Independent: "I shall reserve the right to comment freely but without recrimination."
Mr Gomez, leader of the Knights Templar drug cartel, was arrested in Morelia in Michoacan state without a shot fired.
He was taken to Mexico City, where he was paraded before television cameras, before being flown by helicopter to a maximum security prison.
President Enrique Pena Nieto wrote on Twitter that the rule of law had been strengthened because of the arrest.
Police said they located him by following one of his messengers, part of a close network providing him with food and clothing.
He was captured when he stepped outside his house, wearing a hat and scarf to try to hide his identity.
Eight of his associates and several weapons, including a grenade launcher, were captured too. His brother, Flavio Gomez, who was in charge of the family's finances, was also arrested.
Police spent months gathering intelligence for the operation and reportedly seized nearby properties in the weeks leading up Mr Gomez's capture.
For a man who reportedly said he would rather die than be captured, this must be a humiliating end. Paraded in front of millions of Mexicans on live television, he kept his head down as he was marched from a prison van to a police helicopter and flown to a high security prison.
While La Tuta's capture may be a coup for the administration of Enrique Pena Nieto, the fallout in the state of Michoacan is not clear. It is a poor and violent part of the country, the battleground between drugs cartels and vigilantes trying to oust them.
As one security expert told me, this was a man who was not just in charge of a drugs empire - he wanted political power too and in politics you gain as many enemies as you do friends.
Perhaps that is what led to the net closing in in the end?
Previously a school teacher, Mr Gomez became one of Mexico's most powerful drug lords and took control of Michoacan.
Known by his nicknames "La Tuta" and "El Profe", referring to his former job, Mr Gomez ruled over much of Michoacan state as head of the Knights Templar cartel.
Mr Gomez evaded capture for years while other senior members of the gang and rival drug lords were captured or killed.
By the time of his arrest, he had a $2 million (£1.3 million) bounty on his head.
"With this arrest, the rule of law is strengthened in the country and [we] continue moving toward Mexico in Peace," President Pena Nieto tweeted.
The arrest come as the president strives to assuage public anger over the abduction and apparent murder in September of 43 trainee teachers by police accused of being corrupt in concert with criminal gangs.
Knights Templar was primarily a drug cartel and it controlled a large part of the lucrative methamphetamine trade in western Mexico.
But it was also known for mixing in business and politics in the region and even took effective control over the state's international port, Lazaro Cardenas, making millions of dollars from illegal mining of iron ore.
A federal government offensive in 2013 saw the Pena Nieto administration wrest back control of Michoacan state from the Knights Templar and rival gangs.
As leader of the biggest cartel in the region, Mr Gomez became the prime target of Mr Pena Nieto's crackdown.
The administration has been criticised for failing to tackle the drug gangs, with vigilante groups forming to take on the dealers illegally.
Mr Gomez's arrest comes just over a year after the capture of the country's most notorious drug lord, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, head of the Sinaloa Cartel.
Shortly after Guzman's capture, Mexican security forces killed two of Mr Gomez's senior deputies, Enrique "Kike" Plancarte and Nazario Moreno, known as "The Craziest One".
Unlike many rival gang leaders who carefully avoided the limelight, Mr Gomez regularly gave media interviews and railed against the government in Youtube videos.
Mr Gomez began life in the drug trade as an small-time marijuana dealer, before joining a Michoacan gang called La Familia and rising to a senior level. A split in La Familia led him to form Knights Templar.
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Baidu signed an agreement with a joint venture owned by Universal Music, Warner Music and Sony Music to distribute music through its mp3 search service.
Baidu, China's biggest search engine, will pay the owners of the music rights on a per-play and per-download basis.
China is the world's biggest internet market with close to 470 million users.
Baidu has been involved in legal tussle with the music labels. It has been accused of steering consumers to third-party websites where pirated material is hosted.
However, the company said that all outstanding litigation between the parties involved had ended as part of the deal.
Baidu has a near-75% share of China's search engine market.
Analysts said the deal was likely to help the company strengthen its position even further, as the Chinese internet market grew and more users were added,
"It [the deal] will be very positive for Baidu in terms of user experience and it also fits in with Baidu's box computing strategy, which is to make a lot of information available on the Baidu site," said Dick Wei of JP Morgan.
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The American, 30, dominated Arreola, whose corner stopped the fight after eight rounds in Birmingham, Alabama.
That came despite Wilder suffering a suspected broken hand and torn bicep.
"Of course I want the Furys, of course I want the Joshuas, but the question is, do they want me?" Wilder said.
"My goal is to unify the division. I'm one of the baddest, hardest-hitting heavyweights in the business, so whoever's got those belts, that's who I want."
Wilder extended his undefeated record to 37 wins with 36 knockouts with his fourth title defence, but went to hospital for treatment on his right hand.
American Arreola, 35, only took the fight - his fourth world heavyweight title bout - when Alexander Povetkin failed a drugs test in May.
The crash happened on the A39 between Arch Hill and Kea Church in Truro, Cornwall, at about 11:00 BST on Friday.
The man, who had been driving a Vauxhall Corsa, suffered "serious life threatening injuries" and was taken to hospital, police said.
Part of the A39 was shut after the crash, involving a red Vauxhall Corsa, a white Peugeot Motor Caravan, a blue Volkswagen Tiguan and a blue BMW 3.
It is likely more than 500,000 household and business bills will not be issued on time in April.
The process has been hit by Stormont's failure to agree a budget for 2017/2018.
The Department of Finance hopes bills will be issued by May or June.
Direct debit payments - currently made by around 270,000 people or businesses - will not be taken until after bills have been dispatched.
Normally, annual rates payments are spread over 10 months, from April to January.
Bills are being delayed because the regional rate has not been struck.
This is an outworking of the Stormont budget process.
There is a further complicating factor:
If there is no budget by the end of March, the permanent secretary at the department takes control.
But his powers do not extend to dealing with the regional rate.
So if there is no executive and assembly after an election, Westminster would have to step in with emergency legislation covering rates.
The department could tolerate - and is planning for - a few months' delay.
But beyond that there would have to be intervention to collect more than £1bn of required revenue.
However, this year the period might instead run from May to February or June to March.
Land and Property Services, which collect rates for Stormont and 11 district councils, will clarify the situation in the coming weeks.
Rates income is roughly split evenly between Stormont and councils, who use it to pay for the likes of bin collections.
Councils receive their share monthly via the Department of Finance.
The department insists this will still happen from April - even if rates bills are not issued - so council services will not be impacted.
A basic bank account allows customers to use cash machines and direct debits but blocks them from overdraft fees.
All the major High Street names have offered these accounts since January after a deal was thrashed out between the Treasury and the industry.
But one charity says bank staff are not all aware of the accounts.
Debt counselling service Christians Against Poverty (CAP) said that staff were inadvertently directing applicants with a chequered financial history to regular, fee-charging current accounts.
The customers' applications are then inevitably rejected because they fail the credit checks.
"It can be upsetting for people who are already dealing with debt," said Daniel Kelly, creditor relations analyst at CAP. "Many have had a negative relationship with banks for quite some time."
When Lee, from Bolton, lost his job he started to get into financial difficulty. He had to move out of his home because he could not afford the rent and faced years of debt.
The 35-year-old was advised by CAP to open a basic bank account and they provided him with a letter explaining his situation to bank staff and outlining the account he needed to open.
"There are about 10 banks in the centre of Bolton. I went from one bank to another. I kept on getting turned away. I felt like giving up, wondering what was the point," he said.
Initially, he was told he did not have the correct paperwork but, after that, he encountered confusion from bank staff.
"About three or four of them looked at me and asked me what a basic bank account was," he said.
In January, after three months of trying, he went into a branch of Barclays and a member of staff opened a basic bank account for him virtually on the spot.
He said that having the account was helping him to get back on his feet financially.
A basic bank account is aimed at people who are unable to open a regular current account, or switch accounts, owing to their poor credit rating. Customers in financial difficulty who already hold a current account, but need a further account to manage their financial affairs are also eligible.
A basic bank account includes:
The account has no option of an arranged overdraft, and there are no fees for a failed payment when the account is short of funds. Previously they might have paid up to £35 per failed payment.
Mr Kelly said it was "crucial" for those who had faced financial difficulty to have a payment card and direct debit facility in order to access the best deals found online. For example, the best gas and electricity tariffs are only available to those who could pay via direct debit.
A report by the Financial Inclusion Commission, published in March 2015, found that those without an account faced paying an extra £1,300 a year for financial services.
Many people in debt also find it useful to open a separate basic bank account for day-to-day expenses, rather than stick with an account when the bank can take a chunk of any fresh income for unpaid charges.
The banking industry signed an agreement with the Treasury in late 2014 that gave them a year to set up basic bank accounts.
Mr Kelly said that the new basic accounts launched by the deadline were "encouraging", although "it was a shame that the banks had to be forced into it".
He still raised concerns that some people in debt, who were forced to move between temporary accommodation and did not have a passport, found it difficult to product the paperwork and ID required to open an account.
The agreement also gives the banks the power to move customers from a basic bank account to a regular, fee-charging current account if they believe the customer's financial circumstances have improved sufficiently.
The bank must give the customer two months' notice in writing, explaining why it intends to shift them to the new account.
Other providers have separate arrangements to the agreement. For example, Virgin Money launched its version of a basic bank account in 2014.
The British Bankers' Association, which represents the major UK banks, said: "The basic bank account has recently been substantially redesigned to deliver better service for customers and builds on the significant progress made by the industry on financial inclusion in recent years.
"More people than ever before can now access banking services without any fees.
"High street banks are committed to delivering the basic bank account agreement in full, including the obligations to ensure visibility and access, and they take this responsibility very seriously."
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Kenneth Noye, 63, stabbed Stephen Cameron, 21, during a fight on the M25.
The Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred the case to the Court of Appeal because of questions over a pathologist's evidence.
Noye, previously cleared of murdering a police officer, went on the run to Spain but was eventually tracked down.
At his Old Bailey trial in 2000, Noye said he had acted in self defence after being attacked by Mr Cameron when their vehicles stopped on an M25 slip road at Swanley in Kent.
Witnesses said there had been a fight and that Mr Cameron had got the better of the older man. But what happened next was disputed in court.
Noye argued he stabbed once in the chaotic melee, fearing for his own safety. The prosecution said he had stabbed twice - and it was therefore a plan to kill. The jury found Noye guilty of murder by a majority of 11 to one.
In a statement on Thursday, the CCRC said: "Having carried out a thorough review of Mr Noye's case, that has included consideration of the pathology evidence at trial and new expert evidence… the commission has decided to refer Mr Noye's conviction to the Court of Appeal on the grounds that there is a real possibility that the court may quash the conviction as unsafe.
"The commission's referral of Mr Noye's conviction to the Court of Appeal means that the court will hear a fresh appeal.
"The court will decide whether to uphold the conviction, whether to quash the conviction and require a retrial, or whether to quash the conviction without requiring a retrial."
Earlier this year, Noye unsuccessfully challenged his 16-year minimum jail term, but the judgement revealed that Dr Nat Cary, one of the UK's top pathologists, had been critical of the original findings presented at trial.
Dr Cary suggested that Noye could have stabbed once in a manner which caused the two distinct wounds to Mr Cameron's heart and liver.
The original pathologist, Michael Heath, resigned from the Home Office register in 2006. The Advisory Board for Forensic Pathology upheld 20 disciplinary charges against Dr Heath and ruled his conduct had brought into question his fitness to practise in separate cases.
Noye's first appeal in 2001 was dismissed after the then Lord Chief Justice said there was "no justification" for Noye to have produced the knife.
But in a statement, Noye's lawyer Henry Milner said: "Very significant fresh evidence has come to light, which we allege seriously undermines the credibility of the original pathologist.
"Assuming these findings, and the prosecution pathologist's interpretation of them, have been accepted as accurate by the jury at the time of Mr Noye's original trial, they undoubtedly would have damaged my client's credibility in front of the jury, and his case that he acted in self-defence throughout."
Police officer's death
Noye first came to public attention in the 1980s when he was charged with the murder of Pc John Fordham, a Scotland Yard officer.
Pc Fordham was hiding in Noye's extensive grounds in Kent as part of an investigation into the 1983 Brinks Mat bullion robbery, in which a gang took three tonnes of gold.
At his 1985 trial, Noye told the jury that he had acted in self-defence when confronted by Pc Fordham - and he was cleared or murder.
But the following year, he was convicted of handling Brinks Mat gold and jailed for 14 years.
4 November 2015 Last updated at 03:03 GMT
But very few are run by women, as male heirs usually inherit the business.
Among the few woman bucking that tradition is an industrialist from Southern India: Rajshree Pathy who runs Rajshree Sugars and Chemicals and a string of other businesses.
Shilpa Kannan went to meet her.
Troops and militiamen from Lebanon's Hezbollah movement began the assault on al-Eis overnight, backed by heavy air strikes, opposition activists say.
Al-Eis was seized by the al Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front on Monday.
The fighting was said to be the fiercest in the area since the partial truce declared five weeks ago.
The cessation of hostilities has largely held despite both sides accusing each other of breaches and has resulted in a significant reduction in violence across much of Syria.
However, it does not include Nusra or the rival jihadist group Islamic State (IS).
Al-Eis, about 20km (12 miles) south-west of Aleppo, lies next to hills that overlook the motorway connecting Syria's second city with the capital, Damascus.
Nusra fighters and allied rebels attacked government positions in and around the village on Friday, killing 43 soldiers and 11 Hezbollah militiamen, sources told the Reuters news agency. By Monday, they had taken full control of the area.
On Wednesday, activists and rebels reported that the army and Hezbollah had launched a counter-offensive overnight to recapture al-Eis.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, said the assault was backed by air strikes, artillery and rocket fire.
The website of Hezbollah's al-Manar television cited a statement from the Syrian army that said troops had started to target the positions of armed groups in areas south of Aleppo, in response to violations of the cessation of hostilities agreement.
The Syrian Observatory said government forces had made some progress by Wednesday afternoon but that al-Eis remained in the hands of Nusra-led forces.
A spokesman for the Sham Revolutionary Brigades rebel group, Hany al-Khaled, told Reuters news agency its fighters had helped repel the assault and that pro-government Shia Muslim militias had suffered heavy losses.
Nusra also released a video purportedly showing an interview with a Syrian military pilot who it said had been captured after his aircraft was shot down over the Aleppo countryside near al-Eis on Tuesday.
In a separate development, the Syrian Observatory reported that a rebel mortar attack on the predominantly Kurdish Sheikh Maqsud district of Aleppo on Tuesday had killed 18 civilians, including a pregnant woman and three children.
IS meanwhile said it had launched several attacks north-east of Damascus overnight, targeting the Tishrin power station and the nearby Dumeir military airport.
A Syrian military source told Reuters there had been attacks but all of the militants who took part in them had been killed.
Emergency services were called out to the Peebles Hydro Hotel in the Borders just before 13:00. The fire was in the laundry room in the basement.
No-one was injured in the incident at the 130-bedroom four-star hotel.
Peebles Hotel Hydro first opened in 1881 but was destroyed by a fire in 1905. It re-opened two years later with its iconic red roof.
The draft constitution was adopted earlier this month by the National Assembly but opposition parties have called for a boycott, as they say the country already has one of the best constitutions in Africa.
They also accuse President Alassane Ouattara of using it as a way of trying to nominate his successor.
The most important change is contained in an article that removes the age limit of 75 and scraps the requirement that both parents of presidential candidates must be native-born Ivorians.
President Ouattara, 74, will be over the current age limit at the end of his current term.
Initially, some of his critics accused him of trying to stay in power himself but the draft retains a ban on third terms, so he cannot seek re-election.
The new nationality rules are also intended to remove the concept of "Ivoirite" from the constitution.
The concept was initially forged in the 1940s in academic and student circles to promote national pride and identity.
But in the years following the death in 1993 of Houphouet Boigny, the country's first post-independence president, the concept was hijacked and turned into a political weapon against opponents of President Henry Konan Bedie.
From then on, "Ivoirite" was used to stress ethnic and religious differences between natives of the West African state, setting subjective criteria for who can be considered to be "genuinely" Ivorian.
Many northerners, who are mostly Muslims and from the Dioula ethnic group, felt the concept was being used to politically marginalise them.
In 1999, Mr Ouattara, a Muslim and a Dioula, was banned from standing in the presidential race on the grounds that his parents came from Burkina Faso, which he denies.
That led to a flare-up of social and political tension, and soon Ivory Coast experienced its first military coup, and then a civil war which led to a north-south split of the country.
Mr Ouattara won the presidential election in 2010 but his opponent President Laurent Gbagbo refused to stand down, sparking months of conflict.
Pro-Ouattara forces, backed by France, eventually won and he promised to resolve the issue of "Ivoirite" once and for all.
He has billed his constitutional reform as an opportunity for Ivory Coast to turn the page after many years of strife and instability.
Nationality in Ivory Coast is not just important in connection with eligibility criteria of presidential candidates.
Within West Africa, Ivory Coast is a relatively prosperous country, with its coffee and cocoa plantation attracting migrants from neighbouring countries such as Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, many of whom were Muslims.
While he was in power, Mr Houphouet Boigny encouraged migration from neighbouring countries.
While Ivory Coast had a need for cheap and unqualified labour, many Ivorians, especially in the more Christian south, were resentful of the new immigrants.
The new construction also introduces:
There are two main parties who are opposed to the new constitution:
The opposition has called on voters to boycott the referendum, meaning it is likely to pass by a landslide.
There is no minimum turnout requirement.
Eni Aluko's shot and Karen Carney's header made it 2-0 by the sixth minute, with strikes from Gemma Davison and Ji So-Yun earning a 4-0 half-time lead.
Carney hit the bar after the break but Chelsea could not add to their tally.
The win took the Londoners back to within 10 points of leaders Manchester City, with two games in hand.
Unbeaten City beat Reading Women 2-0 earlier on Sunday to briefly stretch their WSL lead to 13 points.
City have three league matches left, including one against Chelsea. Even if they lose that match, City need only two wins to be certain of clinching the league title.
Birmingham captain Emily Westwood:
"Those first 30 minutes were the worst we've played all season and I'd like to apologise to our fans.
"We gave the ball away inside our own half for every one of their four goals.
"We were really poor, but credit to Chelsea they were really on it today.
"In the first half they were turning us, getting in behind us, exposing our weaknesses, and we were never in it."
Chelsea forward Karen Carney:
"That was the first time we've really clicked as a team this season and it was a fantastic performance.
"All the forwards scored and I was pleased to get a goal, but I refused to celebrate out of respect for Birmingham.
"Everybody's saying the title's theirs (Manchester City) because they're 10 points clear, but we've got two games in hand and we've still got to go to their place.
"So there's no way we're giving up - we're the reigning champions and we're not going to give that up without a fight."
Match ends, Birmingham City Ladies 0, Chelsea Ladies 4.
Second Half ends, Birmingham City Ladies 0, Chelsea Ladies 4.
Karen Carney (Chelsea Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aoife Mannion (Birmingham City Ladies).
Foul by Hannah Blundell (Chelsea Ladies).
Melissa Lawley (Birmingham City Ladies) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Gemma Davison (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Ana Borges (Chelsea Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jessica Carter (Birmingham City Ladies).
Attempt saved. Jade Bailey (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Chelsea Ladies. Bethany England replaces Eniola Aluko.
Karen Carney (Chelsea Ladies) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box.
Substitution, Chelsea Ladies. Ana Borges replaces Claire Rafferty.
Attempt missed. Eniola Aluko (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Chelsea Ladies. Jade Bailey replaces Ji So-Yun.
Kerys Harrop (Birmingham City Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Karen Carney (Chelsea Ladies).
Jessica Carter (Birmingham City Ladies) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Claire Rafferty (Chelsea Ladies).
Substitution, Birmingham City Ladies. Alex Windell replaces Marisa Ewers because of an injury.
Foul by Jessica Carter (Birmingham City Ladies).
Claire Rafferty (Chelsea Ladies) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Delay in match Marisa Ewers (Birmingham City Ladies) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Claire Rafferty (Chelsea Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt missed. Emily Westwood (Birmingham City Ladies) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Jessica Carter (Birmingham City Ladies) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Millie Bright (Chelsea Ladies).
Foul by Kerys Harrop (Birmingham City Ladies).
Niamh Fahey (Chelsea Ladies) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Jessica Carter (Birmingham City Ladies) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Claire Rafferty (Chelsea Ladies).
Second Half begins Birmingham City Ladies 0, Chelsea Ladies 4.
Substitution, Birmingham City Ladies. Chloe Peplow replaces Andrine Hegerberg.
Substitution, Birmingham City Ladies. Kirsty Linnett replaces Abbey-Leigh Stringer.
First Half ends, Birmingham City Ladies 0, Chelsea Ladies 4.
Attempt missed. Melissa Lawley (Birmingham City Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Foul by Katie Chapman (Chelsea Ladies).
(Birmingham City Ladies) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Birmingham City Ladies. Conceded by Katie Chapman.
Eniola Aluko (Chelsea Ladies) wins a free kick on the right wing.
This low-scoring slugfest was a freakish championship, played at a new and unique venue for America's national championship.
It would be wrong to draw too many conclusions but the facts surrounding the distance issue are irrefutable.
The Wisconsin course was designed to be played firm and fast but conditions dictated that the layout was soft and slow.
After tempestuous US Opens at Chambers Bay and Oakmont, organisers were under pressure to deliver a tournament free from controversy.
So the USGA erred on the side of caution to ensure their prime event did not suffer any further loss of credibility.
With strong winds sweeping the course on the final day they, quite rightly, slowed the greens to ensure they remained playable.
All of these factors and especially the pristine putting surfaces ensured low scoring. Koepka's 16-under-par tally equalled Rory McIlroy's 2011 record at a rain-soaked Congressional.
But on that occasion the Northern Irishman won by eight strokes, no one else came close to taming the Maryland venue in such a manner. Twenty players broke par six years ago; this time the top 31 were in red figures.
Of course, the fact that Erin Hills was rated par-72 skews the figures (Congressional was par-71) but the scoring on a 7,800-yard course emphatically shows that distance is no longer a barrier in the modern professional game.
On the final tee last Sunday, Koepka knew he was on the threshold of his maiden major title.
With a subsiding wind at his back he tackled the 681-yard par 5 with a three-wood and promptly dispatched it 379 yards.
In that last round, fifty of the 68 players to make the cut averaged more than 300 yards off the tee.
Professional golfers are, for the most part, gym-honed athletes trained to make the most of the powerful and generous sweet-spots that are the hallmark of modern golf clubs.
This takes nothing away from the undoubted skill they possess in channelling that power. Koepka is the perfect example because it was not just his length from the tee but his accuracy that provided the platform for his win.
"I drove the ball really well this week, so that really helps," the champion noted.
"Obviously the fairways were a little bit wider and to have that where some of the misses typically would be in a bunker or deep rough, like a typical US Open."
The Floridian champion averaged 322 yards with his drives, the seventh longest, but hit 88 percent of fairways (fourth) throughout the week. That is a major-winning combination on a course characterised by length both in terms of yardage and rough.
Koepka made the most of the generous fairway widths as he became the seventh successive first-time major champion.
This run stretches back to Zach Johnson's Open triumph at St Andrews in 2015. The American winner at the Old Course is a rarity in not being known for his prowess from the tee.
Subsequent major winners; Jason Day (PGA), Danny Willett (Masters), Dustin Johnson (US Open), Henrik Stenson (Open), Jimmy Walker (PGA) and Sergio Garcia (Masters) are all powerful, long hitters.
Kopeka continues the trend and now pundits such as the Golf Channel's Brandel Chamblee are advocating courses that break the 8,000 yard barrier.
It is an ill-affordable nightmare scenario. Layouts would need more land, more resources for maintenance and more time to play.
The emphasis is all on power and the subtlety of shot-making and shaping is being lost.
Amazingly, the authorities insist the golf ball is not travelling any further. They claim to have put the brakes on technology but the evidence of last week and most other professional tournaments tells a different story.
Something needs to be done to rein back the ball to ensure courses remain relevant and the sport becomes more nuanced.
In the mid-90s, tennis realised it had a problem because fans were being put off because there were too few rallies at tournaments such as Wimbledon.
What did they do? They slowed down the ball and transformed the sport.
It was their ball and they had control. In golf it does not work that way because manufacturers hold sway.
The time is long overdue for the rules-makers to assume proper control. The R and A and USGA have to come up with a blueprint for a tournament ball appropriate to whichever course is being used that week.
Dictate the specifications and limits to the manufacturers and let them come up with the best ball they can.
The emphasis would shift from raw length to feel and playability while we amateurs could still use balls that give us the sort of distance that makes the game more enjoyable for us.
It might be possible to build monster courses such as Erin Hills in the wide open spaces of Wisconsin to accommodate the power of the modern game but it is inconceivable for golf's future to be based on such exceptional sites.
It is time to act.
Fans can also catch ZZ Top, Disclosure, Foals and pop star Jess Glynne, while Muse are Friday night's headliners.
The ground remains muddy after torrential rain at the start of the week, but a dry day on Thursday has made conditions more tolerable.
This year's festival boasts appearances by everyone from Coldplay and Adele to Jeremy Corbyn and Basil Brush.
Blur frontman Damon Albarn is the first act on the Pyramid Stage on Friday morning, playing a set with the Orchestra of Syrian Musicians.
The ensemble comprises members of the Syrian National Orchestra for Arabic Music (SNOAM) who were dispersed by the country's brutal civil war.
Before the conflict, Albarn had worked with the musicians on his hip-hop project Gorillaz.
He told the BBC: "The whole point of this is to get the orchestra back together, to get them working again - just giving some kind of alternative to the prism of the news, which is entirely a negative thing."
Elsewhere, Friday will see Glastonbury's Sonic Stage given over to the UK's increasingly-influential Grime scene, with acts like Stormzy, Section Boyz and Lady Leshurr on the bill.
Headliner Kano, who has been one of the genre's leading voices over the last decade, said the recognition was "really important".
"You look at this line-up and you feel like, 'wow, we really have arrived'. It's been a massive year for us. So yeah, it's a proud moment."
In total, more than 2,000 acts will perform on more than 100 stages this weekend, with the biggest crowds expected for Adele's set on Saturday night and Jeff Lynne's ELO, who play the Sunday "legends slot" - which has seen triumphant performances from Dolly Parton and Lionel Richie in recent years.
The music begins after two days of misery for revellers, who endured hours of traffic jams on their way to the festival on Wednesday.
When they finally arrived, they found the camping sites were waterlogged, with muddy walkways resembling the consistency of chocolate mousse.
But the atmosphere improved by Thursday night, as the ground began to dry out and music boomed out from the dance arenas.
Snooker legend Steve Davis attracted a large crowd for his DJ set at the Stonebridge bar, while BBC Sound of 2016 nominee Mura Masa played a ribcage-rattling late-night set on the Wow! Stage.
Earlier in the day, Billy Bragg led a vigil for MP Jo Cox, who was killed in the streets of her constituency last week.
He led the crowd in a chorus of the protest song We Shall Overcome, while Brigid McConville, who worked with Ms Cox at the White Ribbon Alliance for three years, paid tribute to her friend.
McConville told a crowd of thousands she would never forget the moment she heard the news of the fatal attack.
"It feels like the attack on Jo was an attack on all of us," she said.
"We believed she would be prime minister one day," she continued. "We think the best thing we can do in her memory is to continue to listen to the most marginalised people in our society."
Thousands of people attended the memorial, many wearing the violet, white and green colours of the suffragette movement.
Many of the artists performing this weekend are contributing a track to an Oxfam charity album, which has been dedicated to the memory of the MP.
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His brother, Abdelkader Amri, said he was sure Anis was innocent. If he was not, "it will be a dishonour for us".
German officials have confirmed Amri's fingerprints were found inside the truck that was used to kill 12 people and wound 49 others on Monday evening.
Breitscheidplatz market has reopened, with dimmed lights and no music.
Candles and flowers have been laid for the victims, who include at least six Germans, an Israeli tourist, an Italian woman and the truck's Polish driver. Police have installed concrete barriers to prevent a repeat attack.
"If my brother is listening to me, I want to tell him to surrender, even for our family. We will be relieved," Abdelkader Amri told reporters from the family home in Tunisia.
"If he did what he is suspected of having done, he will be sanctioned," he went on.
But he added: "I am sure that my brother is innocent. I know why he left home: he left for economic reasons... to work, to help the family, he didn't go for [terrorism] reasons."
Both Abdelkader, and another brother, Walid, admitted that Anis had got into trouble in Europe and came out of a three-and-a-half year jail term in Italy with a "totally different mentality".
But Walid said he had spoken to Anis just 10 days ago, and he had said he hoped to return to Tunisia in January. "He was saving money so he could come here, and buy a car and start a business. That was his dream."
The German federal prosecutor's office said Amri's fingerprints had been found in a number of places around the lorry's cab. "At this point in the investigation, we assume Anis Amri drove the truck," said spokeswoman Frauke Koehler.
She also confirmed police raids had been carried out "in various locations" in Berlin and in North Rhine-Westphalia state where the suspect "was living and staying for some time".
"Based on a tip-off, we have also searched a coach near Heilbronn [in south-west Germany]. We have not had any concrete results so far," she added.
Chancellor Angela Merkel earlier said she was hopeful for a "quick arrest", and said she was "very proud of how calmly most people" in Germany had reacted to the attack.
Amri was named as a suspect on Wednesday after his identification papers were found in the truck.
A Europe-wide arrest warrant has been issued amid warnings he may be armed and dangerous. The German authorities have offered a reward of up to €100,000 (£84,000; $104,000) for information leading to his arrest.
There is growing criticism of Germany's security services as details emerge about Amri and his alleged links to Islamist extremists, the BBC's Damien McGuinness reports from Berlin.
The 24-year-old, who arrived in Germany in 2015, had been under surveillance by the German authorities this year on suspicion of planning a robbery to pay for automatic weapons for use in an attack.
But the surveillance was reportedly called off after it turned up nothing more than drug-dealing in a Berlin park and a bar brawl.
He is also believed to have moved in the same circles as extremist preacher Ahmad Abdelazziz A, known as Abu Walaa, who was charged last month with supporting so-called Islamic State (IS).
Amri was also on a US no-fly list, had researched explosives online and had communicated with IS at least once via the Telegram messenger service, the New York Times reported.
He had been due to be deported from Germany in June but stayed because there was a delay in receiving paperwork from Tunisia.
IS has said one of its militants carried out the attack but has offered no evidence.
"I don't have to be taught to not be a rapist," he wrote of the National Union of Student's I Heart Consent campaign - aimed at combating sexual harassment and assault.
In a parody of the scheme's pledge cards, Mr Lawlor posted a picture of himself holding a sign that said: "This is not what a rapist looks like."
"But that's exactly what a rapist looks like - a normal member of society," said Josie Throup, who runs the consent workshop at the University of Warwick.
She told the BBC: "Obviously, I'm not suggesting for one minute this guy is a rapist. But 80% of rape survivors know their attacker.
"So when you post a picture and say 'this is not what a rapist looks like' you're wrong.
"A rapist looks like someone on your course, someone you work with, a friend, a neighbour, a date.
"Suggesting a rapist does not look like an ordinary man or woman - that's perpetuating the myth that rapists are strangers lurking in dark alleys.
"In The I Heart Consent workshops, we have a myth-busting exercise, where we might look at that particular assumption and how that reinforces rape culture.
"A rape survivor attacked by someone they know in their own home might think they could not report it to police because it does not fit 'the stranger in a dark alley' idea of what rape is.
"Equally, an attacker who has non-consensual sex with someone they know in their own home might think it isn't rape for the same reason.
"Those are the sorts of ideas we are challenging in the consent workshops."
So far the workshops have been targeted at members of sports teams and societies.
"I want to make it clear that we are not attacking sports teams," said Ms Throup. "But the NUS That's What She Said report talks a lot about lad culture and drinking associated with sports teams.
"And it highlights sexual harassment and violence as being very much related to lad culture."
In her reply to Mr Lawlor on the Warwick Tab, Ms Throup posted a picture of herself holding a sign that said: "This is what a consent educator looks like."
She wrote: "I know that on this campus, sports teams chant songs about rape.
"A friend of mine from a club told me about a pre-drinks ritual in which members of his club raised their voices as one in the chant.
"An exec member who had attended an I Heart Consent workshop last year told them to stop."
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Lawlor said the furore surrounding his article had been "difficult" and that some people had got the wrong end of the stick.
He said: "I feel as if people are focusing too much on the picture which, to be frank, was probably a faux pas on my part.
"People are saying, of course a rapist can look like me or my demographic.
"I meant 'This is not what a rapist looks like' in terms of me as an individual.
"It's not about gender, class or ethnicity. It's was about me, personally, being offended, as a human being and an individual.
"I'm happy with Josie's response because we have the same end - to help people. It's just the way we go about doing it is different.
"I still believe the workshops are not the best way of helping these people.
"The way I learned not to mistreat people was through my upbringing."
He added: "Reading some of the comments on news articles, a lot of people get what I'm trying to say.
"I am just happy that this issue, that's so often swept under the carpet, is being talked about.
"I don't care what side everybody is on as long as they get the message - it's just about being kind to people."
Mr Iwata underwent surgery last year and had resumed his duties after a brief period of recovery.
A highly revered figure in the Japanese gaming scene, he was considered the leading figure behind some of Nintendo's most popular devices since he joined the company in 2000.
Most recently, he led Nintendo into the rapidly growing mobile gaming sector.
Growing up in Japan in the 1980s, Super Mario was a gaming character that you couldn't avoid. But as the gaming population started to decline in the late 90s, Mr Iwata knew that he needed to make products that were more appealing to non-gamers.
And he succeeded. Nintendo DS quickly became the world's best-selling handheld game console when it was released in 2004.
Two years later, there came another successful launch of Wii which was dubbed the computer game that even your grandma can play. Together, they switched on millions of new converts to computer games.
But the rise of mobile phone games has posed a serious threat to Nintendo and some investors questioned his decision not to enter the market sooner.
As he put it himself, Mr Iwata was a chief executive who had the brain of a games developer and the heart of a gamer.
Nintendo's beloved gamer CEO
The iconic game maker has been losing market share to top competitors like Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's XBox, with its latest Wii U console third in line.
Nintendo made its first annual operating profit in four years to the year that ended in March.
Mr Iwata started out as a programmer in a Nintendo subsidiary in the 1980s and became president of Nintendo in 2002.
Under his leadership, the company launched its hugely successful Wii and Nintendo DS consoles and he was considered the crucial driver behind the focus on easy-to-use consoles, a move that allowed the company to tap into a much wider audience beyond the traditional gaming community.
"Mr Iwata was a titan - he certainly will be missed," Marc Einstein, head of digital media at Frost & Sullivan in Tokyo, told the BBC.
"He was very much known for being a gamer first and a [chief executive] second - a game changing figure."
Tributes have been coming in on social media with the team at PlayStation tweeting: "Thank you for everything, Mr. Iwata."
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In second spot overnight, Dungannon man Meeke lost time in Sunday's concluding five stages but he did enough to secure his sixth podium spot in a WRC event.
Meeke, 36, finished 32.6 seconds behind Sebastien Ogier who clinched his third straight world title by taking the win.
Ogier was 12.3 seconds ahead of runner-up Jari-Matt Latvala.
Despite securing his first World Rally win in Argentina in April, Meeke has been under pressure to retain his Citroen drive after a series of recent crashes in the series.
Prior to last month's German Rally, Citroen boss Yves Matton has said that Meeke's seat for 2016 was under threat after the Northern Irishman's mishaps in Italy, Poland and Finland.
Meeke followed that warning by having a further crash in Germany which meant that he had to settle for another disappointing 12th spot finish.
The Tyrone man started Sunday's action only .30 of a second behind Ogier but he lost time to the Frenchman and Finn Latvala in the final five stages.
However, the Northern Irishman defended his third place to finish 5.9 seconds ahead of fourth-placed Norwegian Andreas Mikkelsen and he appeared content with his performance after securing his sixth podium finish in a WRC event.
"We achieved the first target which was to make it to the finish and be consistent," said the Dungannon man.
"I would point out that we led the rally for almost two days.
"I think we did a very good job and we couldn't really have expected to do much more on the final leg."
The next round of the world championship takes place in Corsica from 1-4 October ahead of the two concluding events of the season, Rally Catalunya and Wales Rally GB.
"There are too many teams generating insufficient turnover and generating too much cumulative debt," sports finance expert Rob Wilson said.
However, the Rugby Football League said the debt should be put into context.
"Rugby League's health compares favourably to every other major sport," RFL director of standards and licensing Blake Solly said.
Using a term like 'Rugby League is staring at the financial abyss' is not too harsh a thing to say
"Attendances were at an all-time high in 2012, more people saw the game on television than ever before and the RFL was able to make record levels of financial disbursements to clubs."
Sheffield Hallam University sports finance specialist Wilson looked at the balance sheets of 11 of the 14 Super League clubs and found a huge financial disparity between them.
Wilson added: "Our findings indicate that there is a cumulative net debt of £68.5m among the Super League clubs with three or four clubs performing well.
"The remaining clubs appear to make annual losses which contribute to the net debt position, some just about wash their faces financially while others appear to have lost control of their spending.
"In my opinion, this is due to seeing the salary cap as a target rather than the limit which is intended. The mentality seems to be that if you want to perform well on the field of play you have to spend up to the cap.
"Two of the clubs examined had significant levels of net debt and, if these are removed from the sample, we can conclude an average net debt of around £3m per club.
"Of course, there are clubs in the league structure who make a profit and it is their business model that others should seek to utilise."
We need to rid ourselves of poor management practices. All clubs have a real responsibility, a real role to play
The RFL signed a deal with Sky television in August 2011 that guarantees the sport an income stream in excess of £90m over five years but Bradford Bulls and Salford Reds have had financial difficulties in the last six months.
Wilson examined the latest accounts available at Companies House of 11 Super League clubs, and discovered that they had a cumulative debt of more than £60m.
"The overall effect of that is that the league itself will struggle for finance. Using a term like 'Rugby League is staring at the financial abyss' is not too harsh a thing to say," he continued.
Of the three Super League clubs not included in the study, one, the Catalan Dragons are registered in France,
The Super League season starts next weekend without a sponsor in place, and Hull Kingston Rovers chairman Neil Hudgell feels that his own club's financial position has worsened in the last 12 months.
He said: "I think probably on the whole it's a little bit worse than it was last year. Every year we make a loss and every year as directors we've funded that shortfall. I think it'd be very hard for us to argue otherwise than we live beyond our means."
Bradford Bulls
Castleford Tigers
Catalan Dragons
Huddersfield Giants
Hull
Hull KR
Leeds Rhinos
London Broncos
Salford City Reds
St Helens
Wakefield Wildcats
Warrington Wolves
Widnes Vikings
Wigan Warriors
Gary Hetherington, chief executive of Super League champions Leeds Rhinos, says that the sport is fundamentally a strong product and insists that financial management needs to improve at club level.
"The product on the field has never been better, the crowds are very strong, the TV audiences are very strong, the game itself is as good as it's ever been," he said.
"We don't want that overshadowed by incompetence at club level - and that's what we've seen in recent years.
"We need to rid ourselves of poor management practices. All clubs have a real responsibility, a real role to play. The majority of clubs are working hard. It's some of the others that have let the sport down, quite frankly."
In a year that sees England host its first World Cup since 2000, the RFL says that it is working with Super League clubs to help them improve their finances.
Solly said: "2013 will also see more commercial income flow into Rugby League than at any time in its history and with a growing stable of sponsors and partners on board, the sport is approaching the new season with confidence.
"The salary cap and licensing have both brought the stability that is allowing many clubs to operate profitably and helping attract the new investors who are coming into Super League. However the ultimate responsibility for the performance of any club rests with the individual club and its directors."
BBC Inside Out Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and BBC Inside Out North West, presented by George Riley, will be shown on Monday, 28 January on BBC One at 19:30 GMT. The programme is also available on the BBC iPlayer.
It now expects growth this year to be 1.2%, down from its previous estimate of 1.8%. Next year, it expects the economy to grow by 1.3%, down from 2%.
A slowdown in the eurozone economy has hit German exports in recent months.
Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said there was no reason for the government to change its economic policies.
The German economy - Europe's largest - contracted by 0.2% between April and June this year, while figures released last week showed that exports fell by 5.8% in August, the largest monthly drop in five years.
These followed weak industrial output figures and recent surveys showing a fall in business confidence.
Announcing the revised growth estimates, Mr Gabriel made it clear the government believed Germany's woes were not the result of troubles at home.
"The German economy finds itself in difficult external waters," he said.
"Domestic economic forces remain intact, with the robust labour market forming the foundation.
"As soon as the international environment improves, the competitiveness of German companies will bear fruit and the German economy will return to a path of solid growth."
For this reason, Mr Gabriel said there was "no reason to abandon or change our economic or fiscal policy".
Concerns about economic growth are not limited to Germany and the eurozone.
Last week, the International Monetary Fund cut its forecast for global economic growth for this year and next, warning that the recovery was "weak and uneven".
Kajsa Tylen, 39, from Nottingham, will begin her attempt to beat Billie Fleming's 1938 record, in January.
Ms Tylen began planning the feat following Mrs Fleming's death last year.
She said she wants to motivate people to exercise rather than raise money for charitable causes.
Billie Fleming, who died aged 100, pedalled for 29,603 miles (47,641km) to set the record and inspire others to adopt a healthy lifestyle.
It has not been bettered in 77 years but Ms Tylen, who said she did practically no exercise until she was 26, has taken up the challenge.
She said: "I felt really inspired by her and the whole challenge and I thought 'I could do that' and it planted a seed."
Ms Tylen got in touch with Mrs Fleming's stepson who said she would have been "delighted" someone else was attempting the feat.
Since then the business analyst has been getting up at 04:30 and doing three hours of training before she starts work.
Her evenings have been spent building up her core strength and sorting out the paperwork that Guinness World Records requires.
Ms Tylen, who is originally from Sweden, will be assisted by her mother who will follow her, with a caravan, across England and mainland Europe.
"She's a bit nuts but loves adventure," said Ms Tylen.
The cyclist is hoping to put some distance between her attempt and Mrs Fleming's record by cycling about 100 miles (160km) a day.
She said: "I'll see how my body reacts, see if it's possible to do more, I'll listen to my body."
Kajsa Tylen is due to start her challenge at Wollaton Hall, Nottingham, on New Year's Day.
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The website offers seniors advice on how to recognise changes in their driving, where to find fresher training and when to retire from the wheel.
The RoSPA website has been welcomed by the charity Age UK.
The move comes as families of those killed in accidents involving older people have called for driving retests.
The call has come from the family of Michael Luciw, 27, from Nottingham, who was killed in a crash with an 87-year-old travelling the wrong way on the M1.
Ben Brooks-Dutton, whose wife Desreen was killed by an 85-year-old driver when he mounted the pavement, has set up an online petition calling for drivers over 70 to face a compulsory retest every 3 years.
The older drivers website, set up with funding from the Department for Transport, offers tips on how people can update their driving skills and knowledge.
There is also advice for families or friends who are concerned about a loved one's driving.
Kevin Clinton, RoSPA's head of road safety, said: "Many older drivers recognise that their driving ability is changing, and they alter when and where they drive to compensate - but not all drivers do this.
"There comes a time when each of us needs to reduce our driving, or even stop altogether. Of course, this is different for each person - there isn't an age at which we automatically become unsafe to drive.
"The aim of the website is to help older people to continue to drive for as long as they are safe to do so, and to provide advice on making the decision to retire from driving if they are no longer able to drive safely."
Caroline Abrahams, charity director of Age UK, said: "We warmly welcome the launch of this new website which aims to help older drivers stay safe on the roads for longer.
"Driving gives choice and control over where and when someone travels, whether that's to the shops or to visit family and friends.
"A person's driving skills can't be judged by the date on their birth certificate. Everyone needs to take responsibility for making sure they are safe on the road, at any age.
"Driving brings freedom and independence and it's important that people are supported to continue driving safely for as long as possible."
They'll be hoping to create an early buzz around their upcoming films going into awards season.
Toronto is seen as a key launch pad for Oscar contenders.
Previous films to win the festival's top award and then be nominated for the best picture Oscar include La La Land and Slumdog Millionaire.
Stone will be returning to the festival to present Battle of the Sexes - in which she plays tennis star Billie Jean King opposite Steve Carell.
Oscar winner Lawrence will offer up her latest film Mother!. Directed by Darren Aronofsky, the horror film also stars Javier Bardem, Domhnall Gleeson and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Meanwhile Jolie and Clooney will both present films they've directed rather than starred in. Jolie brings her Cambodian genocide drama First They Killed My Father, with Clooney directing Matt Damon in Coen brothers' crime comedy Suburbicon.
A strong British contingent will also be heading to the festival, including Lord of the Rings star Andy Serkis, whose directorial debut Breathe will receive its world premiere.
The film features Andrew Garfield in the true story of disability rights activist Robin Cavendish.
Other British stars expected to attend to support their films include Kate Winslet, Idris Elba, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jamie Bell and Gary Oldman.
Many appear in historical dramas - Oldman appears as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour, while Cumberbatch stars as Thomas Edison in The Current War.
There are also a number of literary adaptations including Ian McEwan's The Children Act, starring Emma Thompson, and Disobedience, by Baileys Women's Prize winner Naomi Alderman, starring Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams.
Other highly anticipated films to premiere at the festival include I, Tonya - which sees Margot Robbie star as disgraced US figure skater Tonya Harding - and Stronger, starring Jake Gyllenhall in the true story about a man who lost his legs in the Boston Marathon bombing.
The full list of the first 14 galas and 33 special presentations announced can be found on the Toronto International Film Festival website.
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It will be the 130th time the Wales and England teams will have played each other.
In their 129 matches against each other since 1881, England have won 60, Wales have won 57 and there's been 12 draws.
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After choosing to bat, Glamorgan looked in trouble on 57-4 after Australian all-rounder Clint McKay claimed two early wickets for the visitors.
Despite the efforts of Chris Cooke (84), they were still in trouble when Wagg came in at 136-6, but he hit 94, blasting six sixes and seven four.
Replying to Glamorgan's 278, Leicestershire were 37-1 at the close.
The in-form Wagg, a double centurion against Surrey last week, helped steer Glamorgan to a second batting point, sharing a partnership of 44 with Cooke before putting on a further 78 in a spectacular stand with last man Andy Carter (10 not out).
Glamorgan batsman Chris Cooke told BBC Wales Sport:
"The day was pretty much in the balance. It wasn't easy batting early on but it got a bit easier as the ball got older.
"We've played some good counter-attacking cricket this season and that worked again today as Waggy played brilliantly.
"Hopefully we can knock them over now as we feel the wicket's only going to get worse."
Rovers led when Christian Doidge fired in his 23rd goal of the season.
But two goals in six second-half minutes put the Imps ahead, Lee Angol's angled strike levelling matters and a Marcus Kelly own goal making it 2-1.
Sam Habergham's free-kick sealed victory for the hosts, who have three games in hand on second-placed Rovers.
Rovers defended solidly in the first half and were good value for their lead courtesy of Doidge's sliding low effort from close range.
But the Imps upped the tempo in the second half, showing the passion and intensity which characterised their astonishing run to the FA Cup quarter-finals.
The equaliser came when a long ball saw Angol outmuscle Mark Ellis, who went down under the challenge, and shoot across goal into the bottom corner.
Kelly's unfortunate intervention made it 2-1 when he could only head Habergham's driven left-wing cross into his own net.
And Habergham's long-range free-kick somehow eluded Rovers goalkeeper Sam Russell and found the bottom corner to complete the scoring.
Match ends, Lincoln City 3, Forest Green Rovers 1.
Second Half ends, Lincoln City 3, Forest Green Rovers 1.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Elliot Whitehouse replaces Lee Angol.
Charlie Cooper (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Fabien Robert replaces Sam Wedgbury.
Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Omar Bugiel replaces Kaiyne Woolery.
Goal! Lincoln City 3, Forest Green Rovers 1. Sam Habergham (Lincoln City).
Substitution, Lincoln City. Harry Anderson replaces Terry Hawkridge.
Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Curtis Tilt replaces Drissa Traoré.
Own Goal by Marcus Kelly, Forest Green Rovers. Lincoln City 2, Forest Green Rovers 1.
Goal! Lincoln City 1, Forest Green Rovers 1. Lee Angol (Lincoln City).
Second Half begins Lincoln City 0, Forest Green Rovers 1.
First Half ends, Lincoln City 0, Forest Green Rovers 1.
Luke Waterfall (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Lincoln City 0, Forest Green Rovers 1. Christian Doidge (Forest Green Rovers).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The Bishop of Salisbury, the Right Reverend Nicholas Holtam, announced in May that he would be staging the "fun family day out".
He had invited people from across the diocese and the region to join him.
The 4km (2.5 miles) walk followed the same route the document itself was taken on in the 13th Century.
The pilgrimage started at the old cathedral, Old Sarum, and continued to the current one, where walkers were treated to afternoon tea.
Salisbury Cathedral is home to one of the "finest preserved" of the four original copies of the historic charter, Bishop Holtam said.
The other surviving copies of Magna Carta are held by the British Library and Lincoln Cathedral.
Sealed by King John at Runnymede in 1215, it is seen as the foundation of constitutional law in England.
Coronel, 25, can play at centre or wing and had been playing for top-tier Italian side Lazio.
Taylor, 21, played for Redruth last season and had been on trial with Championship side Pirates.
"He's done a really good job for Redruth and has ambitions to progress further," said coach Gavin Cattle.
On Coronel, Cattle added: "He should certainly bring a bit of physicality to the squad, and being so versatile will add another dimension to our game."
Mauro Milanese took up the post in July 2014 but was dismissed from the League Two club in January 2015 following claims of "serious misconduct".
The club cited the breaking of good faith as one of the grounds for the ex-Italian international's dismissal.
Mrs Justice Whipple upheld the club's dismissal ruling at a hearing in London earlier.
Of the six grounds given for sacking the 44-year-old, only one - described by the judge as "by far and away the most serious" - was upheld.
It related to his handling of an agreement involving an academy player, whose name was not disclosed to the court.
The judge ruled Milanese's involvement was a very serious breach of the implied term of mutual trust and confidence, and constituted gross misconduct.
She said the other issues relating to the transfer of two players, setting up his own business, accepting secret profits in connection with a transfer deal and overspending on players did not constitute gross misconduct.
Justice Whipple said the former director of football was however entitled to £8,300 worth of damages from the club for accrued salary and expenses.
Milanese, who was not present in court, was ordered to pay £100,000 court costs.
A BBC Freedom of Information request found councils were unable to recycle 338,000 tonnes of waste in 2014-15 - up from about 184,000 tonnes in 2011-12.
But Department for Environment data shows recycled waste in the period rose from 10.7m to 11m tonnes a year.
Councils say they are working to stop people putting the wrong items in bins.
The cost to local authorities of re-sorting so-called contaminated recycle bins is said to be the primary reason the vast majority of the waste is being rejected.
The Freedom of Information Request by BBC Breakfast found 97% of the rejected rubbish was incinerated or sent to landfill in 2013-14 - the most recent year for which such figures were available.
Just over 173,000 tonnes of rejected waste was incinerated or sent to landfill in 2011-12, with the figure rising to 270,000 tonnes two years later.
There is a mandatory requirement on local authorities to provide information on recycling to the government.
Statistics show about 45% of household waste is currently recycled. There is an EU target for the UK to recycle at least 50% by 2020.
Yes: (but check your individual council's policy as they vary)
No:
What can be collected from households varies between councils.
Many other items including textiles, electronics, plastic bags and batteries can also be recycled at designated centres and some supermarkets.
The figures show 14.99% of recyclable waste was rejected in 2014-15 in Kirklees in West Yorkshire. The council was among the authorities with the highest contamination rate in England - the national average is 3%.
The council said a substantial quantity of its recyclable waste had been taken to a different plant from usual "which has a low tolerance for contamination, and meant that an entire load of waste could be rejected" when only a small portion of the load should have been.
Elsewhere, about 14.4% of recyclable waste was rejected in 2014-15 in the borough of Greenwich in south-east London.
A council spokesman said it took the contamination of recycling very seriously and pursued "a proactive approach on this issue through engaging with residents, businesses, managing agents and landlords".
It said the high levels of contamination were "not an accurate reflection" of the situation, saying equipment it had been using to process material was out of date and some potentially recyclable materials were being rejected. Its contractor is now using a different processing plant.
Greenwich added it had seen a significant number of new flats being built with communal containers for recycling and "it is recognised by all local authorities that recycling in flats and the associated contamination issues are a challenge".
Hull council, meanwhile, saw 14.2% of its recyclable waste rejected.
It costs the council £50,000 a month to deal with contaminated items and the authority at one stage resorting to removing bins from households it believed were consistently breaching the rules. However, it has now decided to take a different approach and will be spending £100,000 next month to educate the public about the issue.
Waste reduction charity WRAP says contamination could be reduced by promoting greater consistency across the country about what can be collected - there are thought to be about 300 different recycling schemes in operation across England.
It says it is working with government and industry to devise "a consistent set of guidelines nationally".
A spokesman for the Local Government Association said: "In the past decade, councils and residents have worked together to radically increase recycling and divert millions of tonnes of waste from landfill...
"The problem is there is widespread confusion over what can and cannot be recycled. If just one non-recyclable item is included with recyclable items, the whole bin is effectively contaminated. Councils then have to re-sort it, which is time consuming and very expensive.
"There is no one-size-fits-all solution to waste collection. What works in an inner city suburb won't necessarily work in the countryside. The types which would suit a large detached house in the country would be completely unsuitable for a high-rise block of flats in inner-city London and vice versa."
The Department for Environment said tremendous progress has been made in boosting recycling rates, but acknowledged more needed to be done.
And this year's Empire Awards is led by World War Two thriller The Imitation Game which has six nominations.
The winners are chosen by readers of the monthly film magazine, allowing big budget blockbusters to rub shoulders with critic favourites.
This year UK box office smashes, The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies and Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, have four nominations a piece.
Best film sees Richard Linklater's Boyhood up against Christopher Nolan's Interstellar.
Eddie Redmayne who plays Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything can dust down his dinner jacket once again as he's up for Best actor.
Joining him in that category is Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes' star Andy Serkis for his role as Caesar.
Instead Emily Blunt (Edge of Tomorrow), Felicity Jones (The Theory Of Everything), Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game), Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) and Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) make up the list.
It's been a record-breaking year for British independent films according to the British Film Institute - and Paddington leads the pack in the Best British Film category.
James Nesbitt is hosting this year's ceremony in London on Sunday 29 March.
"Last year's awards were an incredible experience," he said.
"Hollywood legends like Tom Cruise, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Emma Thompson were rubbing shoulders with the next generation of acting talent and the atmosphere was electric."
The public can vote for the shortlisted nominees at the Empire website.
Last year Gravity and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug were the big winners.
The Hobbit sequel picked up best Sci-Fi/Fantasy and Aidan Turner, who plays Kili in the film, won best male newcomer.
Emma Thompson took home best actress for her role in Saving Mr Banks and Filth star James McAvoy was named best actor.
•Ellar Coltrane (Boyhood)
•Taron Egerton (Kingsman: The Secret Service)
•Daniel Huttlestone (Into The Woods)
•Jack O'Connell (Unbroken)
•Dan Stevens (The Guest)
•Sophie Cookson (Kingsman: The Secret Service)
•Carrie Coon (Gone Girl)
•Essie Davis (The Babadook)
•Karen Gillan (Guardians Of The Galaxy/Oculus)
•Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Belle)
•Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
•Guardians Of The Galaxy
•The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies
•Interstellar
•X-Men: Days Of Future Past
•Annabelle
•The Babadook
•The Guest
•Oculus
•Under The Skin
•22 Jump Street
•The Grand Budapest Hotel
•The Inbetweeners 2
•The Lego Movie
•Paddington
•Captain America: The Winter Soldier
•Gone Girl
•The Imitation Game
•Kingsman: The Secret Service
•Locke
•The Imitation Game
•Kingsman: The Secret Service
•Paddington
•The Theory Of Everything
•Under The Skin
•Richard Armitage (The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies)
•Bradley Cooper (American Sniper)
•Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game)
•Eddie Redmayne (The Theory Of Everything)
•Andy Serkis (Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes)
•Emily Blunt (Edge Of Tomorrow)
•Felicity Jones (The Theory Of Everything)
•Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game)
•Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)
•Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina)
•Peter Jackson (The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies)
•Richard Linklater (Boyhood)
•Christopher Nolan (Interstellar)
•Matt Reeves (Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes)
•Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game)
•Boyhood
•Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
•The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies
•The Imitation Game
•Interstellar
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Ofcom said the programme "included the most offensive language before the watershed" and would be investigated to see if it had breached its code.
The incident took place on 18 March as Irons recounted an anecdote involving fellow actor Sir John Hurt.
Evans immediately apologised, while Irons said he was "terribly sorry".
The Brideshead Revisited star attributed his slip to the fact that it was "so relaxed and so normal" in Evans' BBC studio.
"A little too relaxed maybe," said Evans, who went on to ask fellow guest Paloma Faith not to "make light" of the incident.
Ofcom confirmed the programme would be investigated in the latest issue of its broadcast and on demand bulletin.
"The guests were all briefed ahead of the programme to remind them they were taking part in a live broadcast," said a BBC spokeswoman.
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Michaella McCollum Connolly, 20, and Scot Melissa Reid, 19, are each alleged to have been carrying almost 6kg of cocaine in their luggage.
They were stopped and searched at Lima's international airport on Tuesday.
Police said they had been due to fly to Madrid, then onto Majorca.
Ms Connolly, who had moved to Ibiza from Belfast, was reported missing last week.
Her family had not heard from her for several days.
A statement on Peru's National Police Force website said the cocaine had been hidden inside packages of food.
It had an estimated street value of about £1.5m (1.7m euros).
The two women were stopped as they tried to pass through the Air Europa counter at Jorge Chavez airport.
Ms McCollum Connolly, a photography student in Belfast, had gone to the Ibizan town of San Antonio in June to look for work as a dancer or a nightclub hostess.
After hearing nothing from her for 12 days, her family appealed on Facebook and other social media websites for any information of her whereabouts.
The appeal was backed by several Irish sport stars. Her family said she would usually be in touch every couple of days.
Ms McCollum Connolly holds an Irish passport. Ms Reid is from Lenzie near Glasgow. Both women have been visited by officials from the British embassy.
The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs has also confirmed it is providing consular assistance to Ms Connolly's family.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London said: "We are aware of the arrest of a British national in Peru this week and are providing consular assistance to the family."
Peru is one of the world's top three cocaine producers, alongside Colombia and Bolivia.
Dan Collyns, a journalist based in Lima, said foreigners arrested on suspicion of drug-trafficking in Peru could remain in holding cells in the anti-drugs police headquarters in Lima for 15 days while police investigate.
He said if the women were charged they would be transferred to Lima's women's prison, Santa Monica, to await a court hearing and sentencing.
Mr Collyns said there were currently more than 200 foreign prisoners at the prison, many of them from European countries.
"The conditions in Peru in any prison are fairly squalid," he said.
"All the prisons are overcrowded, inmates often have to pay for the most basic items, for example a mattress, so prisoners are left very much to fend for themselves.
"I have visited Santa Monica prison, the conditions are pretty dire."
A reboot of the ITV show, which was originally broadcast from 1997 - 2003, is to be screened later this year.
Spellman will take on the role of Matthew - the son of Adam and Rachel, played in the original series by James Nesbitt and Helen Baxendale.
The character was last seen as a baby in the final episodes of the show's original run.
Spellman said he was "so excited and somewhat humbled" to be joining for the programme's return.
He described his casting as a "wonderful opportunity to be part of this fantastic story which was so popular and successful 14 years ago".
The 20-year-old will be appearing alongside the programme's original cast members, including Robert Bathurst, Hermione Norris, John Thomson and Fay Ripley.
A trained actor, Spellman has previously appeared in BBC One's Waterloo Road and Channel 4 drama Cucumber.
But he is currently best known as the presenter of BBC Radio 1's The Number 1 Show, broadcast on the station on Sunday afternoons.
Fans of Cold Feet will recall Matthew's mother Rachel dying in a car crash at the end of the fifth series, after which his father left Manchester - where the show is set - with his infant son.
Spellman joked he was "particularly looking forward" to working alongside his on-screen dad, "even if he is a Man United fan".
The part of baby Matthew was originally played by Jacob Hughes, now a teenager living in Lancashire.
Cold Feet followed the ups and downs of three 30-something couples, and made household names of the cast.
The show was not initially well received by critics but became a firm favourite with viewers, with more than 10 million people tuning into the final episode in the UK.
ITV will be keen to see whether the reboot can replicate the programme's previous success, but the series will face much tougher competition this time around because of the significantly different television landscape.
Catch-up and on-demand services such as Netflix and the BBC's iPlayer mean TV programmes now rarely get as many live viewers as was standard at the time of Cold Feet's original broadcast.
The new eight-part series is currently shooting in Manchester. A broadcast date has yet to be announced.
Sharon Wall, 53, from Gloucester, was attacked on Wednesday at the inpatient unit of Wotton Lawn Hospital.
Her employers said she would be deeply missed by colleagues and those she supported through her work.
Gloucestershire Police has been granted more time to question a man in his 60s being held on suspicion of murder.
Shaun Clee, chief executive officer of the 2gether NHS Foundation Trust, said: "The extremely sad event, which resulted in the death of a highly compassionate and dedicated colleague, has had a profound impact on everyone working in our trust.
"Sharon Wall was a well respected healthcare assistant and everyone who knew her speaks about her warmth, caring nature and good sense of humour.
"We are still in the early stages of the investigation and continue to assist Gloucestershire Police in their work.
"Above all, our thoughts remain with Sharon's friends and family. On behalf of colleagues across our trust, I extend our most sincere and deepest sympathies."
Gloucestershire Police said its officer were working to "secure and preserve further evidence".
Det Ch Insp Steve Porter, the senior investigating officer, said: "The family are extremely distressed at the tragic loss of their loved one and have asked for some privacy and time to grieve during this difficult period."
Wotton Lawn is an 88-bed acute mental health hospital with four admission wards, a psychiatric intensive care unit and a low secure unit.
It is one of four sites 2gether runs in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire. The trust said it cares for more than 1,300 people a year in its hospitals.
The facility is yards away from Gloucester's main Royal Hospital, where workers spoke of their "shock" at Ms Wall's death.
The 21-year-old will finalise a five-year-deal on Monday.
A Barcelona statement read: "FC Barcelona and Santos have agreed terms for Neymar. The 21-year old is one of the most promising footballers on the planet."
Born: 5 February 1992, Brazil
Brazil caps: 32
Brazil goals: 20
What he said in November 2012: "I don't know when I'm leaving for Europe, I'm happy here in Brazil. I have a dream of playing in Europe, but in my opinion it is still not the right moment."
Did you know? Over 14,000 Brazil fans signed a petition demanding that Neymar be called up for the 2010 World Cup finals.
Neymar wrote on Instagram: "On Monday, I sign a contract with Barcelona. I want to thank the fans of Santos by these incredible nine years."
The statement in Portuguese added: "My feeling for the club and the fans will never change. Titles, goals, dribbling, celebrations and songs that fans created for me will be forever in my heart.
"It's a different moment for me. Sadness (farewell) and happiness (new challenge). May God bless me on my choices. I will always be in Santos!"
Neymar had been considering his future after Santos revealed they had accepted two offers for their star player, with Barcelona confirmed as one of the bidders and Real Madrid widely assumed to be the other.
His contract with Santos was due to expire at the end of next season.
Neymar will say goodbye to the Santos fans at Sunday's season-opening game against Flamengo before joining Barcelona after the Confederations Cup, which starts in Brazil on 15 June and finishes on 30 June.
"I want to have the opportunity to once again take the field and hear the crowd scream my name," added Neymar.
The signing ends years of speculation about which team would be the first to persuade the player to make the move to Europe.
As well as Real Madrid, he has also been linked with Chelsea and Manchester United since making his debut for Santos in 2009.
Neymar led Santos to their greatest run since Pele stopped playing for the club in the 1970s, helping the team win the 2010 Brazilian Cup, the 2011 Copa Libertadores and three straight Sao Paulo state championships.
He is the club's leading scorer in the post-Pele era with 138 goals in 229 matches.
Neymar is also considered Brazil's key player for the 2014 World Cup.
In a statement, Santos said they had made every effort to keep hold of the player.
"Every effort was made to keep him in Brazil as long as possible, even offering to renew the current contract, which ends in July 2014," the statement said.
"At this time, however, it was not possible to compete with the terms offered from abroad, which affected the decision of the player to review his professional life.
"Due to the confidentiality agreement, and by mutual agreement, the terms of the transfer will not be disclosed by any of the parties."
They were taken off the Beatrice Alpha platform by Coastguard helicopters from Stornoway and Sumburgh after it suffered a loss of power shortly after 22:00 on Thursday.
Twenty personnel remained on board the installation, which is 15 miles off the Sutherland coast.
Beatrice Alpha is owned by Talisman, and operated by Wood Group.
Five-month-old piebald cob Gizmo was found in an "emaciated state" near a caravan park in Yeldham Road, Halstead, Essex, on 17 February.
More than 1,000 people responded to an RSPCA appeal to help the pony, which was being cared for by Catley Cross Vets in Wickham St Paul.
The surgery is holding an open day on Sunday for people to meet Gizmo.
The pony underwent five months of specialist care and physiotherapy but is now "looking extremely well", an RSPCA spokeswoman said.
Gizmo was "in a very poorly state" when he first arrived, Catley Cross vet Carolyn Wyse said.
He had been "left to die" and his condition was described as "touch and go". Gizmo was "hypothermic, dehydrated and collapsed - and essentially dying".
Horse lovers from around the world rallied to the RSPCA's appeal to help pay for his care at the surgery.
Many others followed his progress on Facebook.
The surgery, which plans to keep Gizmo until he is about two years old and suitable for rehoming, has been able to help seven other horses with the extra funds from Gizmo's appeal.
The open day runs from 10:00 to 16:00 BST.
The city council said it expected 2,000 competitors at the event, which will take place from 7-11 August.
Venues for the competition will include the Ponds Forge centre, Sheffield Hallam University athletics stadium and the English Institute of Sport.
Organisers of the games said the economic benefit for the city would be "significant".
A city council spokeswoman said Special Olympics GB, the charity that provides sports training and competitions for people with learning disabilities, was "delighted" the game were being held in the city.
The National Summer Games event is held every four years, with the 2013 event having been staged in Bath.
Last year Sheffield City Council closed Don Valley Stadium, the 25,000-seater arena built to host the 1991 World Student Games at which Olympic champion heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill trained, in a money-saving move. Demolition work started in November and plans for a college to be built on the site were approved this week.
The Sheffield Hallam University City Athletics Stadium, which has a much smaller capacity, was identified as its "replacement" and will be used for the National Summer Games.
But Julie Dore, leader of the city council, insisted: "From world-class venues such as the English Institute of Sport Sheffield and Ponds Forge, to the award-winning Hillsborough Leisure Centre, Sheffield really does have it all.
"I am absolutely delighted that Sheffield has been selected to host the Special Olympics GB National Summer Games in three years' time.
"The decision is testament to the fact that Sheffield is a great sporting city, home to the sort of world-leading venues that befit a highly prestigious event such as this."
The pair reportedly had to be separated in the McDiarmid Park changing room on Wednesday as the Jambos trailed St Johnstone, with the match ending 1-0.
Choosing not to disclose what exactly had unfolded, Cathro said: "There is no real story. There was a lot of people not happy, and me most unhappy."
The American-born striker, 25, will be in the squad to play Celtic on Sunday.
Playing down the incident at Friday's media conference, Cathro said: "Bjorn has trained well today and is available for Sunday. There is no story around that.
"You hope that a lot of things are private. I don't read everything but my understanding is that what made it out wasn't actually correct.
"There's no real story. It was incorrect to the point of making it a story. I'd need to make up another lie to pretend it was a story again.
"I don't feel that is something we need to turn in to a bigger thing."
Asked if the argument with Johnsen, who has made 36 appearances in his first season at Tynecastle, suggested tension in the squad, Cathro replied: "No, it signals that for 20-25 minutes of that first half our approach, our attitude, our aggression was completely unacceptable and it swung the game to a level we should never drop to.
"It tells you we were not happy with that and what you saw was a much improved second-half performance, where we controlled the game."
Johnsen, who has dual US and Norwegian citizenship, was signed by Robbie Neilson last summer on a three-year contract.
A man in his 30s and a woman, in her 20s, were found under the water by workers at Down Hall Country House Hotel, Hatfield Heath, Essex.
Ambulance crews and staff from the hotel, on the Essex-Hertfordshire border, were unable to revive the pair on Saturday evening.
Police said there was no evidence of foul play. Post-mortem examinations are due to be carried out on Monday.
Ch Insp Nick Lee, from Essex Police, said they are treating the deaths of the pair, who are said to be from the London area, as unexplained.
They had been staying together at the hotel, which was hosting two wedding parties this weekend.
Guest Louise Saunders told the BBC an ambulance and two paramedic cars arrived at the hotel as she was leaving to go for dinner.
She said about three hours later police were "everywhere" and were taking down the names and numbers of guests.
The windows of the building housing the swimming pool had been blacked out with plastic sheets, she added.
The hotel's manager, Chris Falcus, said he was "devastated by this tragic incident".
"As soon as the alarm was raised two of our team dived into the pool and did everything they could to try to save them," Mr Falcus said.
"We are co-operating fully with the police investigation."
The hotel describes itself as one of England's most established country house hotels.
Some of parts of the building date back to 1322 and it sits in 110 acres of surrounding woodland, parkland and landscaped gardens.
The 30-year-old took 50 wickets in the County Championship last season at an average of 28.64.
Anyon joined Sussex ahead for the 2010 campaign and has taken 178 first-class wickets for the county.
James Anyon has been a consistent performer for Sussex in the County Championship since joining in 2010.
"I'm delighted to have signed for another two years as I'm really happy playing my cricket down here," he said.
Anyon's best bowling figures in 2013 came in the victory over champions Durham at Hove, in which he took 5-44 in the first innings.
"On a personal note I was pleased how the season went and hopefully I can help us to finish a couple of places higher in the Championship next season," the Lancaster-born paceman added.
"We've got a really good squad together and I believe we're capable of winning trophies."
Sussex cricket manager Mark Robinson said he was delighted that Anyon had extended his stay with the club.
"He had a very good year last year and is a top professional who has the potential to get better with every year," Robinson said.
The club says it needs to sell its ground to Sainsbury's to fund a move to a 21,700-seat stadium in Frenchay.
Nick Higgs said an "endless pit of legal fees and delays" could mean some parts of the plan being mothballed.
But protesters want a judicial review over how the city council granted planning permission for the store.
Trashorfield Ltd (Traders and Residents Against Sainsbury's Horfield) said it was against a "goliath supermarket" in a residential area.
Spokeswoman Diana Scrafton said there were already 14 supermarkets within a three-mile radius and another was "not needed".
She said the average gate at the club meant some 6,500 people travelling to the site every fortnight - and a similar number could visit the site every day.
She said: "[The development is] going to be larger than Tesco at Eastgate which means you're looking at two-million plus shoppers a year.
"If you divide that up it is some 5,500 cars a day on the Memorial site concentrating on a pretty narrow road."
In January, councillors gave permission for the club's current home to be turned into a Sainsbury's supermarket.
Bristol City Council was later served with a formal notice of intent for judicial review of that decision.
Mr Higgs said the delay meant no work could be started at the Frenchay site and that this was costing the club money.
"This application for a judicial review... appears to be a smokescreen for the anti-supermarket campaign... and no consideration for the benefits for the Bristol community," Mr Higgs said.
"In addition to the Memorial Stadium development there's over £200m of investment being held up while this is being resolved.
"The legal costs for this judicial review are reported to be in the order of £100,000 and delays for the football club could be as much as £1m.
"It won't mean the stadium won't get built but some of the facilities in the stadium may be temporarily mothballed," Mr Higgs added.
A Bristol City Council spokesman said the council did not accept that the grounds of challenge for the proposed judicial review were "well founded and it will continue to oppose the application".
"It is hoped that the application will not be successful, so saving taxpayers the further costs associated with court proceedings," he added.
The Bristol North West MP, Charlotte Leslie, said: "The point is you've got a group of people who don't want a Sainsbury's near them who are holding up something that's magnificent for the city.
"It's very unlikely they're going to stop it, only delay it. It's going to cost the taxpayer a lot of money."
In a statement the supermarket giant said it hoped the matter could be resolved as soon as possible.
"Sainsbury's is obviously disappointed that, so late in the day, a legal challenge has been made against Bristol City Council following the decision in January to grant planning permission for a Sainsbury's at the Memorial Stadium."
He told the BBC: "We are going to have to make savings... we are going to have to cut certain welfare bills like benefits that go to working-age people.
"But the prize is economic stability, growth, jobs in the future, brighter future, I think that's a price that works for our country."
It comes amid a coalition row over future plans to cut spending.
Senior Lib Dem Danny Alexander implied, in a Daily Telegraph article, that the Conservatives were in a "pre-election panic".
Mr Alexander also said that the Tories wanted to "inflict unnecessary pain" on the UK because they were "economically committed" to "shrinking the state ever further".
In an interview with BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson Mr Osborne said voters faced "a real choice between competence and chaos" at the election next May.
He said his Liberal Democrat coalition partners were in "the same mix" as Labour and UKIP.
"What they are offering is a chaotic alternative of higher taxes, higher borrowing and a return to economic chaos. Britain doesn't want to come back to square one."
He denied that comments this weekend made by senior ministers on both sides of the coalition were damaging.
"I know there's an election in a few months' time and there's going to be a real choice for the country."
The chancellor also refused to accept thousands more public sector jobs would be lost with future public spending cuts.
"It depends on the decisions we are prepared to take on pay. If we go on taking what I think are realistic decisions on public sector pay then we can still afford to have people in sufficient numbers in the public sector to do the job we ask of them."
Mr Osborne's comments are the latest in a series of tit-for-tat attacks between the two coalition government parties.
Speaking on Sunday, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said: "I just think the Conservatives are kidding themselves and seeking to kid British voters if they are claiming that it is possible to balance the books, deliver unfunded tax cuts, shrink the state and support public services in the way that everybody wants."
Asked on Monday's BBC Radio 4 Today programme if it was possible for the present administration to survive, given the mounting sniping, Mr Alexander, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said: "Absolutely it is.
"What we have done, and we showed this last week in the Autumn Statement, is work effectively together to deliver a very Liberal Democrat package of measures with lots of income tax cuts, tax reforms, sticking to the path on the public finances.
"So we have shown that we can work well together in this Parliament. What we are doing is something that should be totally unsurprising, which is two political parties - with very different ideologies - setting out their views about the future of this country in a clear and distinct way and I am going to continue doing that for the next five months and beyond but that does not in any way undermine our ability to work effectively together in this coalition to keep the country on the right path."
Asked if there could be another Conservative/Lib Dem administration he said: "As we said at the general election in 2010, we would seek to talk first with whichever party had the strongest mandate in the event of a hung parliament.
"That is the responsible thing to do. What we are doing now is setting out precisely and clearly what are the Liberal Democrat policy objectives in the next parliament."
It is estimated the content from the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) had two million downloads and was shared thousands of times.
This is thought to be one of the largest crimes of its kind, costing the industry millions of pounds.
The 55-year-old was arrested at his home in Coalville in Leicestershire.
Officers from the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) seized several computers and searched the man's home before taking him away for questioning.
He's suspected of uploading more than 3.2 terabytes of data.
DCI Danny Medlycott, Head of PIPCU, said: "Today's operation serves as a clear warning to anyone thinking of uploading copyrighted material to pirate sites. This is not a victimless crime as copyright infringement is costing our creative industries hundreds of millions of pounds.
"Our team is dedicated to combating criminals ripping off other's intellectual property and so those who are thinking of taking this path should think twice, as it might result in a knock on the door from our officers."
Jim Langham, WWE Senior Vice President & Assistant General Counsel said: "WWE is extremely thankful for PIPCU's attention to this matter."
The UFC have also commented; their Chief Legal Officer Kirk Hendrick said: "The UFC organization hopes this investigation and arrest by PIPCU will result in a significant decrease in the illegal online distribution of our intellectual property and broadcasts."
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The gait, which makes horses comfortable to ride on long journeys, is an inherited trait that springs from a single genetic mutation.
According to this new analysis, it first appeared in horses in York about AD850.
Vikings took these horses to Iceland, and the trait spread globally.
Horses have three essential speeds:
However, a four-beat rhythm, where the horse moves both legs on the same side at the same time has long been a prized feature of some breeds.
Called an ambling gait, the step produces a much smoother ride, particularly over longer distances or rough terrain.
It is as comfortable as a walk but the horse goes as fast as a trot.
In 2012, researchers examined Icelandic horses, and discovered that a single mutation in a gene involved in the movement of limbs was responsible for this ambling ability.
In this new study, scientists extended their search for the origins of this variation of the DMRT3 gene by examining genetic material from 90 horses, some dating back before 3500BC.
The earliest examples they found were in samples from York dating between AD850 and AD900, when the area was being raided and temporarily settled by Vikings.
"The first occurrence of this mutation was in two samples from medieval England from the York Archaeological Collection," said one of the authors, Dr Arne Ludwig, from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research.
"It is unlikely that it was present before, especially not in high frequency, because this is a big advantage, this specific movement of the horses."
The more comfortable ride offered by these horses would have made them extremely valuable.
Within a few decades, they had turned up in Iceland, probably brought there by Vikings.
The rough Icelandic territory with few roads was a good environment to show off the abilities of these foreign horses and their unusual stepping action.
The locals liked what they saw, and the English imports were rapidly crossbred with the local horse population.
"It looks like the Vikings discovered the advantage of this mutation, and they had the benefit that Iceland had a small population of horses, and it is much easier to fix a trait in a small population than in a population with a huge number of horses," said Dr Ludwig.
The mutation is now found in many breeds and many different ambling styles exist.
Earlier work has also shown the trait is key to the racing performance of trotting horses.
The study has been welcomed by others in this field.
"It adds significantly to our understanding of the domestication of the horse and especially the role of selection in development of horse breeds beginning over 1,000 years ago," said Prof Ernest Bailey, from the University of Kentucky, who was not connected to the study.
"The origin of the DMRT3 variant was not widespread before AD900, and the first detection was among horses in the British Isles, with a relatively recent point of origin.
"It was highly selected once recognised, as demonstrated by the rapid increase in the presence of the gene after AD1000."
While the researchers cannot rule out the possibility that ambling horses were also present in other parts of the world, they believe it is unlikely.
The authors point out that trade was a major element of Viking society, as well as their fearsome reputation for raiding.
They believe this is the most likely route by which the horses were introduced into Asia and the Middle East.
"They fixed the mutation in their stock there in Iceland, and then they have distributed it via trade right around Europe and Asia." said Dr Ludwig.
The study has been published in the journal, Current Biology.
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The coastguard service was alerted to the incident, just west of Invergordon, at about 14:15.
The RNLI lifeboat from Invergordon was launched and managed to recover the casualties. They were later winched on board a coastguard helicopter and taken to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness.
It is understood that their injuries are not life-threatening.
The former 007 star was apprehended by Transportation Security Administration agents at Burlington International Airport in Vermont with the 10in (25cm) hunting knife in his hand luggage.
The local police department said Brosnan was allowed to continue his journey after the issue was resolved.
The Irish-American's James Bond films include GoldenEye and Die Another Day.
Brosnan, 62, was reportedly embarrassed and angry when the knife was taken away by agents.
TSA rules state that sharp objects such as knives, box cutters and scissors longer than 4 inches must be stored in checked baggage.
Lieutenant Shawn Burke, from the Burlington Police Department, said airport authorities told him about Brosnan's encounter with Transportation Security Administration officials.
He said the Irish actor "was encountered by TSA at one of their checkpoints" and was allowed to continue his journey after the issue was resolved.
The actor has not commented on the incident.
The banjo-playing musician died after "a long... battle with skin cancer", his grandson Nathan wrote on Facebook.
Formed in 1946, The Stanley Brothers and their Clinch Mountain Boys enjoyed success with songs like I'm a Man of Constant Sorrow and The Lonesome River.
In later life, Stanley won new fans when his work featured in the Coen brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou?.
The soundtrack to the 2000 film - which included Stanley's track O Death - sold millions and won the Grammy award for album of the year in 2002.
Stanley won a Grammy himself that year for best male country vocal performance, beating the likes of Tim McGraw, Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash.
Born and raised in Big Spraddle, Virginia, the Stanley siblings were taught to sing bluegrass and play the banjo by their parents Lee and Lucy.
The brothers would later tour the US playing folk and bluegrass festivals, including the Newport Folk Festival in 1959 and 1964.
When Carter died of liver disease in 1966, Ralph considered quitting but was persuaded to continue by messages from fans.
He went on to perform at the inaugurations of Presidents Carter and Clinton, and received the National Medal of Arts from President George W Bush.
Despite health problems, Stanley continued to record and tour into his 80s, often performing with his son Ralph Stanley II on guitar and Nathan on mandolin.
He died on Thursday at his home in Sandy Ridge, Virginia, and is survived by Jimmie, his wife of 47 years.
Actor and banjo enthusiast Steve Martin is among those to have marked his death on Twitter, describing him as "one of the last remaining original bluegrass artistes".
The Parkway Centre at Coulby Newham is intended for unwanted newspapers, glass and cardboard.
But people "continued to dump non-recyclable items long after the containers were full", Middlesbrough Council said.
Councillor Tracy Harvey, executive member for environment, hit out at the "the irresponsible dumping of waste".
She said: "We do everything we can to make recycling as easy and as accessible as possible.
"However, the irresponsible dumping of waste that we have seen in recent days is nothing more than fly-tipping and is a criminal offence.
"This has resulted in considerable extra cost to clean these sites, as well as the nuisance and inconvenience caused by the thoughtless attitude of a small minority."
The waste has been cleared by a team of staff "taken away from their normal duties" working alongside the contractor who services the bins.
Specially-trained prison security teams arrived at the prison near Redditch in Worcestershire late on Saturday night.
The Prison Service said a "small number" of inmates at the category B jail were involved in the disturbance.
Prison authorities are now back in full control of the affected wing and the matter has been referred to West Mercia Police.
Men shouting and swearing, as well as banging and dogs barking, could be heard coming from the prison.
Specialist security squads, equipped to deal with riots, arrived at the site in unmarked vans at about 19:30 BST.
HMP Hewell is surrounded by farmland and houses about 1,000 inmates - including some category A remand prisoners.
In an inspection report published in January, Hewell was described as "a prison with many challenges and areas of serious concern".
Peter Clarke, chief inspector of prisons, said the "main concerns" were regarding "issues of safety and respect".
He said levels of violence were "far too high", communal areas were "dirty" and many cells were overcrowded.
A Prison Service spokesman said: "We are absolutely clear that offenders who behave in this way will be punished and face spending extra time behind bars."
Sheffield's Park Hill site is Europe's largest listed property, famous for walkways known as "streets in the sky".
The flats are being redeveloped after gaining a bad reputation in the 1980s.
The blocks form an imposing and bleak backdrop for Slick, a large-scale eco-thriller by the National Youth Theatre, which made its debut on Thursday.
The audience is led by actors through the empty concrete shells of buildings undergoing redevelopment, which double as the decks of an ocean liner and a mysterious island built on discarded plastic bags.
The finale takes place on grass in front of one of the blocks, where the cast of hundreds take part in choreographed crowd scenes as acrobats abseil down the side of the building.
Two-thirds of the Park Hill complex are currently empty as they are renovated, but a number of the remaining residents watched the spectacular climax from a stairwell.
"We've been sat upstairs watching them practice," said Nicola Carter, who took two daughters to join the audience for the opening performance.
"It makes a change to have something different happening."
Another daughter was watching from their flat, she said. "She knows all the songs."
The estate was opened in 1961 but later became run-down and notorious for crime, drugs and deprivation.
In 1997, English Heritage surprised those who viewed it as an eyesore by listing the entire complex, meaning it could not be demolished.
But the decision was hailed by those who regarded it as a visionary piece of modernist architecture, and it is now being given a major makeover by the hip regeneration company Urban Splash.
Two thirds of the original 1,000 council flats will be be made available for private ownership, with the first going on sale next month.
Slick is the second part of the National Youth Theatre's three-year environmental trilogy, which started with Swarm, about the plight of bees, in London last year.
Artistic director Paul Roseby said the location's "urban decay" fitted the theme of environmental degradation.
"The landscape set the tone of the piece about the environment," he said.
"There's optimism there, there's regeneration going on, but there's also deprivation - and there are definitely some real serious issues there about the decline of that housing estate.
"It's fantastic for a journey to take a promenade audience through some of the corridors."
The National Youth Theatre's famous former members include Doctor Who's Matt Smith, James Bond star Daniel Craig and Little Britain's Matt Lucas and David Walliams.
The organisation is also currently staging Our Days of Rage in London, looking at what might lie behind street violence, which gained extra relevance following the English riots last month.
Poppy Sutcliffe, from Teesside, describes herself as the US singer's number one fan.
She was at the concert on Monday night when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb which killed 22 people and injured 64.
In the letter Poppy said she was "extremely sorry silly people do things like this".
"I hope you are OK and that you will come back to England again to perform," she wrote.
Tickets to the concert had been a Christmas present for Poppy and she went with her mother, Sarah Sutcliffe. Both were unharmed.
Poppy wrote the letter because she "felt sorry" for the star because "her fans came and saw her and then someone sets bombs off", she said.
Mrs Sutcliffe said her daughter had been very brave during the attack.
"She was telling me to stay calm and I think that's about her spirit and her strength," she said.
"We're lucky: we got out. Others weren't so lucky."
In the aftermath of the attack the star tweeted: "Broken. from the bottom of my heart, i am so so sorry. i don't have words."
The singer's Dangerous Woman tour has been suspended until 7 June and she has returned to her hometown of Boca Raton in Florida.
Police said one adult and four children - the youngest being six - were injured at the Cupar Children's Gala. One child and the adult were taken to hospital.
The inflatable was blown about 150 yards into the crowd on Saturday afternoon.
Organisers said every safety precaution was risk assessed and the situation was being investigated.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "The incident happened at a fete in Duffus Park around 2.15pm this afternoon when the inflatable was blown around 150 yards into the crowd."
Most of the injuries were said to be minor and were treated at the scene by the Scottish Ambulance Service.
"One child and the adult have been taken to hospital for further tests," police added.
Relatives were visibly distressed as emergency crews delivered first aid at the scene.
Organisers for the Cupar Children's Gala posted a statement on Facebook thanking those who had helped and supported at the event after the accident.
It continued: "Every safety precaution was risk assessed and fulfilled by the committee and service providers prior to the gala commencing and during the event.
"Unfortunately, due to adverse weather conditions, out with our control, an emergency situation did occur. The incident is currently being investigated and any findings will be announced once available."
Kwon Ri-sae, known as Rise, died in hospital at the age of 23 on Sunday.
She had been unconscious after emergency brain surgery following Wednesday's accident, a spokesperson from Polaris Entertainment said.
Her death follows that of 22-year-old bandmate Go Eun-bi, better known as EunB, who died shortly after the crash.
The five-member group made their debut in 2013 and released their latest single Kiss Kiss last month.
One other member of Ladies' Code fractured her jaw and two had minor injuries and were treated for shock.
Police inspector Lee Ho-dong told the Associated Press that the crash happened when band were returning to the South Korean capital after filming a TV appearance in the south-eastern city of Daegu.
The van driver was treated for a minor injury before being questioned and may have been speeding on a wet road to meet a tight schedule, Mr Lee said.
"We are investigating the exact cause of the accident," he said. "But it's difficult because the highway section where the crash occurred did not have a closed-circuit television camera."
He added that a camera from inside the van had been sent to the National Forensic Service.
Murray will play South African 14th seed Kevin Anderson on Louis Armstrong Stadium at around 20:00 BST.
The Scot has been to at least the quarter-finals at the last 18 Grand Slams, while Konta had never been past round two before this week.
She plays Petra Kvitova in the first night match at 00:00 BST on Tuesday.
Five-time champion Roger Federer will play American number one John Isner in the second night session match on Arthur Ashe Stadium.
"She's obviously been on an excellent run lately," Murray said of Konta. "She's very close to being the number one in Britain.
"It suggests she has the potential to go very high if she continues on the right path."
British number one Murray looked to have put some early drama and a nagging cold behind him in his previous match.
The 28-year-old came through a high-profile first-round encounter against Nick Kyrgios and then fell two sets down before beating Adrian Mannarino in round two.
Brazilian 30th seed Thomaz Bellucci was seen off in straight sets on Saturday, to leave Murray facing Anderson for the seventh time.
He leads the head-to-head 5-1 but Anderson is a man on the up, at his career-high ranking off 14, through to his first US Open fourth round and top of the aces charts with 69.
"Getting a lot of returns in play is something that throughout most of my career I've been good at," said Murray.
"Often the big servers come into matches used to getting a lot of free points. It changes their mindset a little bit in the way they play the match and play the points."
Anderson, 29, has now reached the fourth round at all four Grand Slam without taking the next step.
"Obviously it would mean a lot," he said. "I've been in the fourth round a few times but it's my first time here and it's obviously a small step in the right direction."
Konta began her US Open campaign in qualifying against Hungarian Reka-Luca Jani on 26 August, since when her career has been transformed.
A winning run in challenger events has stretched to 16 matches in New York, a first trip into week two of a Grand Slam and now the prospect of facing two-time Wimbledon champion Kvitova on the biggest court in tennis.
"A two-time Grand Slam champion, I'm feeling pretty lucky that I get an opportunity to play against such a player," said Konta.
The pair have never met on court - the closest they have come is sharing lockers near each other at Flushing Meadows - and the gulf in experience is huge.
However, Konta has already knocked out two seeds this week and Kvitova could start feeling the effects of a busy fortnight.
The Czech won the title in New Haven last Saturday and then headed straight to New York, where she has struggled in the past and is yet to get past round four.
Kvitova has also been limiting her practice time as she recovers from glandular fever.
"When you're winning everything a little bit easier," sad Kvitova. "Mentally I'm feeling great."
Sheriff Mbye, 18, died in hospital from multiple knife wounds sustained in a "scuffle" on Bristol Road South, in Northfield, on Friday evening.
Rakeem Riley, 18, of no fixed address, was arrested on Friday and Omar Robinson, 21, was arrested at his home in Rann Close, Ladywood, on Sunday.
The pair are due before Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Tuesday morning.
Police said they were still keen to speak to a woman seen pushing a child in a pushchair along Bristol Road South around the time of the stabbing and the occupants of a blue Fiat Punto.
A 19-year-old man also stabbed in the incident remains in a "critical but stable" condition in hospital.
Chief executive Lei Jun introduced the Mi Note, saying it was shorter, thinner and lighter than the iPhone 6 Plus.
Priced at 2,299 yuan ($371; £244), the 16 gigabyte model is less than half the price of Apple's handset and Samsung's phablet, the Galaxy Note 4.
Analysts say Xiaomi became the world's third bestselling phone firm in 2014.
Phablets are generally mobile devices that have features of both a smartphone and a tablet, but are too big or small in size to be classified as either one.
Xiaomi - which was only founded in 2010 - announced that the Mi Note was 6.95mm (0.27in) thick and weighed 161g (5.7oz).
That makes it 1.05mm thinner than the iPhone 6 Plus and 11g lighter.
It also features a 13 megapixel (MP) rear camera, made by Sony, and a 4MP front one.
In addition, Xiaomi announced the higher-end Mi Note Pro, which will be released at a later date. This model has:
It will sell for 3,299 yuan ($532; £350).
The company has been accused of copying iPhones in the past and Wee Teck Loo, head of consumer electronics research at market research firm Euromonitor, said a lot of emphasis was put on a side-by-side comparison with the iPhone 6 Plus at the start of the launch.
"Xiaomi appears like a teenager who wants to act like an adult and yet, clings on to his blanket for comfort - Apple bashing," he said.
Kiranjeet Kaur, senior market analyst at IDC Asia Pacific, said Xioami's comparisons to the iPhone implies the firm believes it is a product they look up to.
"They are trying to position against Apple or are trying to appeal to the Chinese consumer who still aspire to iPhones," she said.
In terms of features, analysts said that the specifications of Xioami's new devices did not show a "breakthrough in innovation" and its low prices were still the biggest attraction.
"Xiaomi changed the game in a way. Instead of keeping everyone's focus on ground-breaking innovative features coming on flagship phones, it has switched attention to packing great specs at modest price points," Ms Kaur said. "The key would be if they surpass the competition and its earlier models at those price-points."
The flagship devices basically extended what Xiaomi was good at - models that were targeted at Apple and Samsung, the only firms that still outsell it, Mr Loo added.
"The new models are definitely an upgrade compared to their predecessors - Xiaomi desperately needed to refresh its line-up to keep up with its competitors," he said.
Xiaomi unveiled a variety of shiny new products at its latest launch: two smartphones, headphones, even a powerful air purifier.
However, the company's chief executive also used this event to improve his company's image.
Lei Jun has said in the past that he doesn't want his company to be known as a cheap Chinese company selling cheap phones. He's well aware that critics believe Xiaomi is rising on the back of Apple's product innovations.
Instead, Mr Lei spent much of his presentation detailing the time and effort Xiaomi's designers pour into their work.
He told the audience that Xiaomi filed for 2,318 patents last year, including 1,380 in China and 665 international patents. In 10 years, Mr Lei promised, his company will be filing for tens of thousands of patents a year.
Xiaomi is a "world leading innovator", Lei Jun says. However, until his phones and tablets begin to look significantly different than the ones that Apple is selling, questions will remain regarding Xiaomi's ability to function as a leader, not a follower.
The Beijing-based firm overtook global market leader Samsung last year to become the top-selling handset brand in the world's largest smartphone market, China.
Just last month, Xiaomi was also dubbed the world's most valuable "technology start-up" after it raised $1.1bn (£708m) in a funding round, giving it a valuation of $45bn. That surpassed the $40bn value of taxi booking app Uber.
The Chinese company reported that its revenue in 2014 more than doubled to 74.3bn yuan (£7.8bn; $11.97bn) in pre-tax sales last year, up 135% from 2013.
It sold more than 61 million phones in 2014, a rise of 227% from a year earlier.
Its soaring sales come despite an intellectual property challenge faced in India last year, where sales were temporarily halted after Swedish firm Ericsson filed a patent complaint.
The firm has set a target of selling 100 million phones in 2015, but Mr Loo of Euromonitor said the goal was a little "stretched" and its success depended on overseas expansion, which has not been as successful as it had hoped for.
"Xiaomi is not well-known beyond China and only tech-savvy consumers in other markets have heard of the company, unlike Lenovo which is a household name internationally," he said.
Despite its strong numbers, Xiaomi's phones are only available in select Asian countries outside mainland China, including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, India and Indonesia.
There had been speculation that it might soon announce a move into the US, but there was no mention of this at the latest launch.
Andrew Milroy, senior vice president for telecoms at Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific, said the firm would face challenges when it entered developed markets such as the US and UK, because most consumers there get smartphones on subsidised contract plans from service providers instead of buying the phones upfront.
"The actual price of a handset doesn't matter as much to you if you live in developed markets and that helps the likes of Apple and Samsung," he said. "It would be hard to find people in Western countries who'd be willing to trade their high spec Sony, Samsung or Apple phone for a Xiaomi."
Francis Collomp, 63, said he had studied the daily routine of his captors, and locked one in a bathroom as he was preparing to pray.
He said he then flagged down a motorcycle taxi and asked the driver to take him to a police station.
Mr Collomp was seized by the Ansaru group while working on a power project.
He was kidnapped on 19 December last year by armed men who attacked the residence of his employer, the French wind turbine manufacturer Vergnet, in the north Nigerian state of Katsina.
Ansaru, a militant group linked to the Islamist Boko Haram movement, said it had carried out the abduction.
Speaking to the BBC World Service Newsday programme, Mr Collomp said his chance to escape came when he was transferred to Zaria city in Kaduna state.
"The big difference is that in this new villa there was not only myself but also a small bathroom. One of my captors was also using the same bathroom every day for his prayers. So he would come and after a while I was just taking record, taking notice of all his moves, his times, his routines. And I decided the best opportunity would be at the evening prayers. And one night he just forgot to close the door. He started washing in preparation for his prayers. I managed to grab the keys there.
"I took my bag, I locked my captor inside as he was washing. And just to cover the noise of the keys I coughed two times while I was locking him in this small bathroom. And then, because there's this other door leading to the rest of the villa and then to the terrace, I escaped that way. I went to the streets, I ran for 400, 500 metres, got to the road, and then on the road I tried to calm down and to walk slowly, not to attract attention. And finally, because I spoke a few words in Hausa, I grabbed a motor taxi. And I said 'baraawoo, baraawoo' (which) in Hausa means thief, and I asked this guy to take me to the police.
"I said to them: 'Look, I was kept by Ansaru people. They could come any time to this place and kill us all so you'd better take some steps.' And then higher commanders came. They brought in reinforcements. Then I was taken away, eventually to Kaduna. And for the first time I could sleep on a proper mattress and have a proper shower."
Mr Collomp said he was seized in a "very violent attack".
"The attackers used heavy weapons. I heard four shots of a Kalashnikov, probably the four shots that killed the policeman and my security guard. I shut down the electricity, I tried to hide. They were wearing military uniforms. For some time I thought it might have been the army. Then I realised it was not... They let me guide them out of the villa but then they took me in a car. I was sandwiched between two men and they covered my face with a big, supermarket plastic bag. And I estimate they took me for about 60km. They took me to Kano."
He said he had learned the identity of his captors when he was asked to record a video message, using a script in which the name of Ansaru was stated.
Mr Collomp was watched in turn by up to 25 men, and only allowed to go to the toilet once a day, using a plastic bucket. But he said he was not treated violently, and that the pain was more psychological than physical.
"But I have to say I had a serious health problem, intestinal problems. I asked my captors to bring me medication, which they did, which of course makes me think that they wanted me to stay alive."
During his time in captivity, Mr Collomp was allowed to listen to radio services such as Radio France Internationale, which were broadcast in French and Hausa, allowing him to pick up a knowledge of the language spoken by his many of captors.
"I managed to communicate and write a few words of Hausa now and then, which was a big surprise to my captors when they realised that."
He used various methods to keep up his fitness and morale.
"I wanted to stay fit, so I used to walk inside the cell, and to run inside the cell, about 15 kilometres a day. And also I had to keep my mind afloat. And to do that, I was thinking about my engineering projects. I was working on how to improve electric batteries for electric cars."
Mr Collomp said he was left distressed by a message broadcast on Radio France Internationale by his wife on the occasion of their wedding anniversary.
He determined to escape after being told by his kidnappers that negotiations involving his possible release had failed. But, half in jest, he said that one of the other sparks that encouraged him to seek a way out was the food he had to endure during nearly a year in captivity.
"The food was so appalling in that place, because it was either rice or pasta. Sometimes they would mix the two together so it was so awful that I convinced myself I had to run away."
Both Adventure of a Lifetime and Hymn for the Weekend are up for the prize, which recognises the most-played song on radio, TV and online last year.
But they face stiff competition from Adele's When We Were Young - the category's only other nominee.
The winner will be revealed at a ceremony in London next month.
Nick Cave's devastating Skeleton Tree is among the three releases up for the best album prize.
Cave was in the process of writing the album when, in July 2015, his 15-year-old son died after accidentally falling from a cliff near the family's home in Brighton. The tragedy looms over the record, which received some of the best reviews of Cave's career.
Also up for best album are the retro-soul of Michael Kiwanuka's Love and Hate, and the futuristic funk of Laura Mvula's The Dreaming Room.
Kiwanuka and Mvula are also in the running for best song musically and lyrically - for the singles Black Man in a White World and Overcome respectively. They are up against rock band Mystery Jets for their track Telomere.
"It's a truly humbling feeling," said singer and guitarist Blaine Harrison. "I think the Ivors are particularly special for any songwriter because you're nominated by your peers."
Here is the full list of nominees:
Best song musically and lyrically
Best contemporary song
Most performed work
Best album
Best film score
Best television soundtrack
"This is one of those awards you never feel you're going to be nominated for," said London-born singer Dyo, whose dance hit Sexual is up for best contemporary song.
She put the song's success down to the lyrics.
"People get to shout 'sexual,'" she told the BBC. "It's one of those songs that children sing, even though they shouldn't."
"But I wasn't in a sexual mood when I wrote it. I was actually freezing cold in Sweden and I thought, 'I need to write something that's going to make me feel good right now, and make everyone else happy.'"
The Ivor Novellos are highly regarded within the music industry because they are voted for by songwriters and composers.
Now in their 62nd year, the awards have honoured the work of more than 750 songwriters and composers, including the Beatles, Kate Bush and Sir Elton John.
Last year's ceremony saw Adele named songwriter of the year, while Damon Albarn won the lifetime achievement award.
The recipients of all this year's prizes will be announced at the ceremony on 18 May.
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The recent drive happened in a Muslim-dominated cluster of villagers in Haryana state, which is governed by India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The state has some of the most punishing laws against cow slaughter, a special police force to protect cows, and the curiously named "cow service commission", among other things.
Volunteers and vigilantes keep watch in villages to check if anyone is slaughtering or transporting cows. Village councils have been telling local Muslims to stop selling biryani.
Why the humble cow is India's most polarising animal
A night patrol with India's cow protection vigilantes
Last week samples of biryani were taken away by the local police after "some people" complained that beef was being used. Poor biryani sellers complained they had lost their livelihood and pictures showed empty stalls on the local highway.
India's Hindu majority see cows as a sacred animal but many other Indians eat the meat. According to government data, some 80 million Indians - one in every 13 - eat beef or buffalo meat. Most of them are Muslims. But more than 12 million Hindus also eat the meat.
The cow is India's most political animal. But, as historian DN Jha says, it has "become more political under the BJP governments in Delhi and in some states, which are obsessed with beef bans and cow slaughter".
The ban on beef has also been criticised because the meat is cheaper than chicken and fish and is a staple for the poorer Muslim, tribal and Dalit (formerly untouchable) communities.
India also has a long history of religious conflict over beef - Muslims and Dalits have been targeted and reviled for eating the meat.
Eating the food of your choice has often become an act of transgression and defiance.
But the crackdown on biryani sellers in BJP-ruled Haryana on the suspicion that they were using beef in their dishes smacks of extreme behaviour. "Now public places selling food are being targeted. It is a new form of bullying," says Amita Baviskar, a professor of sociology.
It also points to a poor understanding of India's wildly heterogeneous dietary habits. There are, for example, 20 tribal groups in north-eastern Assam state which all have distinct cuisines.
"We need to remember that no community... has a monolithic culinary culture just as not all [upper caste] Hindu Brahmins are vegetarians or Muslims and Christians meat eaters," says Nabanipa Bhatttacharjee, who teaches sociology at Delhi University. To define India's food culture as vegetarian is, therefore, lazy and disingenuous.
Diets are changing and culinary borders are being crossed by all communities in a rapidly changing country. But this is making a lot of people queasy.
In 2012, the leader of a Haryana village caste council (khap panchayat) blamed noodles for rapes, saying that they led to hormonal imbalance. "The widespread derision with which this comment was greeted shows how thoroughly noodles have been incorporated into local diets. Old men may express a fear of foreign foods and frustration at rebellious youth who no longer listen to their elders, but for the younger generation, noodles are here to stay," says Prof Baviskar.
The attempt to put some food out of the reach of people is a not-so-subtle warning that perceived and rigid dietary borders should not be crossed.
By targeting sellers, the food police may end up driving such food underground, just as prohibition has led to a thriving black market in alcohol in the western state of Gujarat.
People who don't like to be told what to eat, will always find ways to eat the food they want.
Three elderly Kenyans who are suing the government for damages were told it did not dispute that "terrible things" had happened to them.
Their lawyers say it is the first ever official acknowledgement by the UK.
The revolt against British rule in Kenya in the 1950s and 1960s was marked by atrocities, with thousands killed.
The British government argues that too much time has passed for a fair hearing to be conducted.
Before starting cross-examination of witnesses, the QC for the British government, Guy Mansfield, said he did not want to dispute that civilians had suffered "torture and ill-treatment at the hands of the colonial administration".
He spoke directly to each of the witnesses, saying he did "not want to dispute the fact that terrible things happened to you".
Bloody uprising of the Mau Maus
Papers in the test case were first served on the UK in 2009.
In 2011, a High Court judge ruled the claimants - Paulo Muoka Nzili, Wambuga Wa Nyingi and Jane Muthoni Mara - did have an arguable case.
The claimants' lawyers allege that Mr Nzili was castrated, Mr Nyingi was severely beaten and Mrs Mara was subjected to appalling sexual abuse in detention camps during the rebellion.
A fourth claimant, Ndiku Mutwiwa Mutua, has died since the High Court ruling that the test case could go ahead.
With the help of interpreters at the High Court, the three - now in their 70s and 80s - were briefly questioned about written evidence they had provided.
In a 20-page statement, Mr Nzili, 85, gave details of being stripped, chained and castrated, with large pliers normally used on cows, at Embakasi detention camp, near Nairobi.
He said: "I felt completely destroyed and without hope. I have never had children of my own and never will have. I am unable to have sexual relations with my wife."
Mrs Mara, 73, submitted evidence describing how, at the age of 15, she was taken to Gatithi detention camp, where she was beaten by the British and subjected to sexual abuse with a glass bottle containing very hot water.
She said she had felt "completely and utterly violated", adding that the pain "has been bad ever since the beatings and has worsened as I have aged".
"I do not understand why I was treated with such brutality for simply having provided food to the Mau Mau.
"I want the British citizens of today to know what their forefathers did to me and to so many others. These crimes cannot go unpunished and forgotten."
In his statement, Mr Nyingi, 84 - a father of 16 who still works as a casual labourer - described being arrested on Christmas Eve 1952 and held for nine years.
During his detention, in 1959, he said he was beaten unconscious during an incident at Hola camp in which 11 other prisoners were clubbed to death.
"If I could speak to the Queen I would say that Britain did many good things in Kenya, but that they also did many bad things," he said.
"In the years before independence, people were beaten, their land was stolen, women were raped, men were castrated and their children were killed.
"I would like the wrongs which were done to me and other Kenyans to be recognised by the British government so that I can die in peace."
The three Kenyans want an official apology and damages to set up a Mau Mau welfare fund for the hundreds of Kenyans their lawyers say also suffered.
In his ruling in 2011, Mr Justice McCombe emphasised he had not found there was systematic torture in the Kenyan camps nor that, if there was, the British government was liable for what had passed.
It will now be decided whether a fair hearing is still possible.
The hearing will have access to an archive of
8,000 secret files
that were sent back to Britain after Kenya gained its independence in 1963.
Stephen "Aki" Akinyemi died in a fight with businessman Arran Coghlan in 2010.
A murder charge against Mr Coghlan was dropped because prosecutors could not prove he was not acting in self-defence when he shot Mr Akinyemi in the head.
Mr Coghlan told London's Royal Courts of Justice he believed "it was impossible for him and me to fall out".
The 45-year-old described Mr Akinyemi, who worked in security, as "quirky", "funny" and someone who seemed like he had "good morals".
Speaking about their friendship, having known each other since the 1990s, Mr Coghlan said: "I would genuinely believe it was impossible for him and me to fall out about anything in that relationship. I would invite him into my home."
Mr Coghlan told a previous inquest in 2011 that Mr Akinyemi, who was allegedly part of a Manchester drugs gang, had pulled a gun on him at his home in Alderley Edge, Cheshire.
He said it went off in a struggle during which the businessman was stabbed several times.
Cheshire coroner Nicholas Rheinberg recorded an open verdict, saying he had "difficulty" accepting Mr Coghlan's version of events.
Mr Coghlan was also among three people who were stabbed at a Stockport nightclub on New Year's Day in 2008.
He said that he was later told by Mr Akinyemi: "That was not supposed to happen."
Mr Akinyemi said a "young kid" had "got it wrong" when he rushed into the club, according to Mr Coghlan.
Mr Coghlan told the inquest: "I think he (Akinyemi) was justifying about not doing anything about it himself.
"His friend had stabbed me in the back. His whole narrative was that it should not have happened. He was only a young kid."
Mr Coghlan also recalled tensions between Mr Akinyemi and another man called Phil Atkinson who shared the same nickname.
"The only words I ever heard between them were tense," he said.
Both men had Porsches with personalised licence plates, one which read "AKI" and the other which said "AKY", and Mr Atkinson had claimed he had bought his from footballer Ronaldo, according to Mr Coghlan.
The inquest continues.
The Scots beat Wales for the first time in a decade on Saturday, but none of the current side were born the last time they beat England in west London.
England have also won their past 13 home Championship matches since 2012.
"It's going to be a massive, massive challenge to go down to England and win," said 22-year-old Gray.
Scotland travel to England on Saturday, 11 March [kick-off 16:00 GMT] and Gray said that every game in the Six Nations is getting "closer and closer".
"It took a late try to separate Wales and England a couple of weeks ago. Our game in France was decided by just six points," he added.
"It just shows the small margins that are at stake, so we need to get better. We can't stand still."
It is the first time since 2006 that Scotland have won two of their first three Championship matches. On 4 February they beat Ireland 27-22 and victory over Wales on Saturday lifted them up to fifth in the world, their highest position since the rankings began in 2003.
Their latest win was achieved with captain Greig Laidlaw among six front-line players on the sidelines, but Gray praised the impact of stand-in captain John Barclay.
"When Greig was here, he said he wanted the guys around him to step up a bit more, as much as possible. It was the same on Saturday with Barcs," Gray said.
"It was a blow losing Greig. He is an amazing rugby player and an amazing guy. He texted me to see how training has been going. We also spoke on the phone just before his injury was confirmed.
"It was gutting to lose such a big player with his personality and what he brings to the squad, on the pitch and off it.
"But it's not just about one guy, it's about all the other lads around us. Everyone stepped up.
"Barcs has done an incredible job. He was outstanding with the way he led us through the week and the way he spoke. He made the right points."
Gray added that fly-half Finn Russell was among others who emerged as leadership figures.
"Finn in attack was also a big voice," he added. "All in all, it was still a whole squad effort, not just the 23 guys who played on Saturday.
"It was as much down to the guys who ran against us in training, the boys from the Under-20s who came in and ran opposition plays for us.
"It's a special feeling that everyone was able to come together and put in a performance.
"But we have a week off now and we'll look at the improvements we have to make, because there was some sloppy moments which we have to tidy up."
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The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague said the amount of damages would be decided at a later date.
Russia did not take part in the hearings and it is not clear whether it will comply with the ruling.
The Russian authorities confiscated the Dutch-flagged Arctic Sunrise in September 2013.
The ship and 30 people on board were detained after activists from the Greenpeace campaign group tried to scale a Russian oil rig.
The court found that Russia had breached its obligations under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
It said the Netherlands was "entitled to compensation (with interest) for material damage to the Arctic Sunrise".
Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders welcomed the ruling, saying it "makes clear that the Netherlands - as the flag state - had the right to stand up for the ship's crew".
"The Netherlands sees freedom of expression and the right to demonstrate as public goods that are worth defending," Mr Koenders went on.
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Victoria Floyd-Ellis, 22, will receive a national award for helping the pensioner, who was lost after walking out of a cardiac unit at Bridgend's Prince Of Wales Hospital on 9 February.
Ms Floyd-Eliss, from Bridgend, spotted the OAP and drove her back to hospital where she had received heart surgery.
She has received a Royal Humane Society certificate of commendation.
The Cardiff University student spotted the elderly woman, who was disorientated and cold, walking on the town's International Way.
In addition to the award, Ms Floyd-Ellis also won the praise of Dick Wilkinson, secretary of the Royal Humane Society and further praise from Dr Jeff Allen, her year director at the university.
Mr Wilkinson said: "Given some of the things you hear about these days, I think a lot of women would think twice before stopping in circumstances like this.
"However, Victoria did not hesitate and in view of the treatment this lady had been undergoing it may well be that her 'good samaritan' act saved her life.
"Quite apart from the obvious danger to her health from the temperature and the fact she had undergone heart surgery, she was also in a confused state next to a busy dual carriage way.
"Victoria richly deserves the award she is to receive."
Adding to the praise, Dr Allen said: "We are all extremely proud of Victoria for recognising that the elderly lady was in distress and then going out of her way to help her.
"Her actions demonstrated great courage and compassion, everything we look for in our young doctors."
On Monday, First Minister Arlene Foster said she would ask whether the UK's EU withdrawal changed the financial consequences of devolving the tax.
Northern Ireland had been expecting to take a cut of several hundred million pounds to comply with an EU ruling on state aid to business.
But the Northern Ireland secretary said the Treasury would not waive the cost.
She added that the circumstances for devolving corporation tax had been agreed and they would not change as a result of the Brexit vote.
She said devolving the tax must be funded through the Northern Ireland Executive.
Ms Villiers also said on Wednesday that Northern Ireland cannot maintain any kind of special status within the EU after the UK withdraws from the union.
The Aylesbury Grammar School students dressed as the Jamaican bobsleigh team for a film-themed leavers' day event.
The boys' school said the picture was removed from their feed after complaints.
"It was not the intention of either the students or the school to cause offence," a statement said.
The Walton Road school said the theme for this year's event was chosen by the students, and more than 200 boys took part in depictions of about 150 films and characters.
Four of them, including a boy of mixed-race background, chose the 1993 film based on the true story of the Jamaica national bobsled team's debut in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, starring John Candy.
Three boys of white British origin "blacked-up" and the group dressed in Lycra outfits and carried a homemade bobsleigh.
Pictures of many pupils were taken on the day, "some of which were posted on Twitter", the school said.
"It appears that one of those pictures caused offence and as soon as this was known the picture was removed," a statement read.
"The school unreservedly apologises for any offence that was caused."
The spokesman added that the school had also accepted "it exercised poor judgment in not acting swiftly when it saw the boys concerned" and had taken steps to ensure it did not happen again.
"All of the students were enjoying their day of celebration and the experience and at no time was there any undertone of any act being of a derogatory or racist nature," the statement added.
Kapil Mishra, who has been sacked from the party and the cabinet, said Mr Kejriwal misused his powers as Delhi's chief minister.
Mr Kejriwal on Monday tweeted that "truth will prevail".
The AAP was born out of a massive anti-corruption movement that swept India in 2013.
The party had promised to make "big revelations" in the state assembly on Tuesday. But it did not comment on corruption allegations, choosing instead to highlight its findings about "electoral fraud".
The AAP said it lost the recently concluded Delhi municipal elections to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party because Electronic Voting Machines were rigged.
Mr Modi's party rejected these allegations, and asked Mr Kejriwal to respond to Mr Mishra's claims.
Mr Mishra, who was water minister in Mr Kejriwal's cabinet until last week, said the chief minister had "forgotten the founding values of the party".
But the AAP said in a statement that Mr Mishra was sacked because of his poor performance and accused him of making allegations out of frustration.
Led by Mr Kejriwal, a former tax inspector who reinvented himself as a corruption buster, the party won 67 of the 70 Delhi assembly seats in 2015 in what was a huge setback for the BJP.
Mr Kejriwal promised to bring in good governance, end corruption and make Delhi safe for women.
But the party has since suffered from infighting, reportedly between Kejriwal supporters and more left-leaning factions.
Retired PC Trevor Bichard, one of five officers in the control room, was giving evidence at the new inquests.
He also told the jury no-one inside the box was monitoring the central pens where the crush took place.
Ninety-six fans died following the crush at the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
Mr Bichard told the jury that after 15:00 BST on the day of the disaster, 15 April 1989, police radios were not working and "we had basically lost control".
"It was clear that we weren't controlling what was happening," he said.
"The instruction had gone out to open the gates. Another message had come in about opening another gate.
"The situation had created a life of its own."
He told the inquests he began to receive radio messages about the volume of people outside the gates at the Leppings Lane end of the Sheffield stadium at 14:30.
He turned one of the cameras to look at the crowd outside and estimated there were about 3,000 people there, the jury heard.
Mr Bichard, who retired after reaching the rank of chief inspector, said he focused completely on events taking place outside the turnstiles at Leppings Lane, not on the terraces.
He said one of the cameras, camera number five, which was overlooking the Leppings Lane terraces, was "iffy" and having "whiteouts".
He said he was surprised when he overheard a "unique" order by Supt Roger Marshall to open exit gate C at the Leppings Lane end to relieve the crush outside, the jury heard.
Mr Bichard said the instruction was "insistent and desperate" and his voice was "very distressed".
He said there was "no discussion" about where fans would go, and that he had "no idea" why he did not question where fans would go once it was opened.
The gate was opened at 14:52.
"People would come in, choose where they wanted to stand and gradually it would fill out," he said.
"Central pens always fill first and then it moves outwards," Mr Bichard told the inquests.
He said that the concern was about the people outside.
"Leppings Lane was left in these particular type of circumstances to find its own level," he said.
Mr Bichard also told the jury of a brief discussion, lasting only seconds between 14:30 and 14:45, in which senior officers talked about about delaying the kick-off.
"I would describe it as Sgt [Michael] Goddard saying 'The policy is that we don't delay the kick off if the fans have chosen to come late, if there's a road accident" and [Supt] Bernard Murray saying to [Ch Sup] David Duckenfield 'Yes, that's right'," he said.
The inquests continue.
Aston Martin has announced it is to build its new luxury car, the DBX, in St Athan, creating 750 highly-skilled jobs.
The village was chosen over 20 global locations and will be the only place in Wales to build a complete car.
The coup has been hailed as proof of the area's resurgence. But what will it really mean for local people and how will it change the area?
In the words of Aston Martin chief executive Dr Andrew Palmer, St Athan will turn "from a military base to a luxury vehicle manufacturing plant... and frankly, the sooner the better".
Mr Palmer wants to build the workforce from within Wales. When asked about sourcing staff he said: "They're here, they're in Wales.
"You've got some wonderful universities, Cardiff University for example, you train great people. I believe this will retain youngsters in Wales and in Cardiff. "
And he said he was keen to utilise the area's existing skills: "We have a wealth of craftsmanship here - it takes 200 hours to make a car and to do that we need skilled labour.
"We have got that skilled labour in Wales... and that played a big part in our decision [to come to Wales]."
Cardiff and Vale College, which has sites in Cardiff and Barry, said it saw the news as an "opportunity" for students.
Principal Mike James said: "We are very excited by this investment... it represents a fantastic opportunity for our learners to gain employment with a world-renowned, prestige company."
The college said it was working closely with the Welsh government and employers.
Motor industry economist Prof Garel Rhys, who is chair of the Cardiff airport and St Athan enterprise zone advisory board, said colleges have a big role to play: "Colleges need to make sure that they speak to Aston Martin and they will.
"Aston Martin were attracted to the location for the skills required so colleges are doing the right thing already... [they're] doing a sterling job."
Prof Rhys said Wednesday's announcement was just the start of investment in the area: "The car came around in 1888, we've got a car company for the first time ever...
"When you're waiting for a bus for a long time, damn it, if one comes along a second one turns up. So possibly we might now get a second or third car maker."
His hopes were shared by First Minister Carwyn Jones, who told the assembled press at the unveiling that any development would "not just help Aston Martin but open up the site to further development as well".
And according to Prof Rhys, the 750 Aston Martin jobs can only lead to more jobs: "Every job Aston Martin creates will create 0.8 of a job elsewhere.
"There will be more businesses, leisure and retail services. Then they'll get to the point where they'll employ more people.
"You'll see a new school, the reopening of a post office. The knock-on effects don't happen overnight but it can take up to about six years for the whole thing to work through. "
He said Nissan's investment in Sunderland led to the creation of 27 separate companies: "And the north east of England had virtually no history in the industry."
The development will not have a big impact on the appearance of St Athan as the Aston Martin plant is going into an existing building, the super hanger, Prof Rhys said.
But a proposed northern access road from the B4265 between Boverton and Llanmaes traffic signal junctions was "essential" to the enterprise zone, Vale of Glamorgan council said.
New homes could also be on the cards, according to Prof Rees: "There'll be a lot of people moving into Wales from elsewhere... there will be a need for housing quite clearly and that will come down to housing authorities if the local area wants to benefit from this as much as possible.
"It'll be high quality housing as well."
Wednesday's optimism and excitement follows a spell of economic disappointment for the area.
In October 2010, a £14bn defence training academy which would have created 2,000 jobs at St Athan was scrapped as part of 8% of cuts by the UK government to the defence budget.
Then in 2012 the last RAF aircraft was repaired by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) at its St Athan base, ending 75 years of maintenance at the site.
But for today the future is looking bright for the people of St Athan.
Vale of Glamorgan council leader councillor Neil Moore described the announcement as a "vote of confidence" in the area.
He added: "It marks a very significant point in the ongoing resurgence of the Vale of Glamorgan."
"It's an enormous number of jobs, " said Prof Rees.
"They're very well paid jobs. And what a fantastic brand to work for."
Ava and Elouise Lucas were born at 25 weeks after doctors discovered a potentially deadly condition.
After just 18 hours, Elouise died, and weeks later medics advised parents Lauren Smith, 23, and Graham Lucas, 27, to switch off Ava's life support.
But after a "traumatic" four months, Ava was allowed to go home.
The twins were born in January, with Elouise weighing just 400g (14oz) - less than a bag of sugar.
Their parents were told the girls had twin-twin transfusion syndrome, with one losing blood to the other via connected blood vessels.
As soon as they were delivered, Ms Smith said, her daughters were immediately taken to intensive care.
"It was the most traumatic time of my life when the girls were born," she said.
"I didn't see them for hours and when I did, it was clear they weren't ready to take on the challenge they needed to face."
Within hours, the couple were told Elouise was dying.
"We had to make the hardest decision - a decision no parent should have to make - we had to turn off our baby's machine," Ms Smith said.
"We were broken-hearted and inconsolable that one of our precious babies had died but we had to stay strong for Ava and pray she would pull through."
After four weeks, doctors advised the couple to switch off Ava's life support machine, but the couple declined.
Ava remained on life support for 10 weeks, underwent life-saving treatment and was treated at five different hospitals.
After four months, she was well enough to go home to Peterborough with her family.
Ava is still on oxygen and has brain damage. Ms Smith said medics suspect she will have cerebral palsy.
"She was put through a lot but never gave up and we are so proud of her for that," said Ms Smith.
"This Christmas will be very difficult as even though we are celebrating Ava being alive, we will be remembering our beloved Elouise.
"We will lay flowers in our garden for her and think of her all day.
"We know she will be looking down on Ava as we make the day one to remember."
The injury puts him out of Saturday's European Champions Cup final against Clermont Auvergne at Murrayfield.
The 28-year-old winger was named as part of Gregor Townsend's first Scotland squad on Monday for matches in Singapore, Australia and Fiji.
"Sean is unfortunately out for the rest of the season," said McCall.
"It may or may not need surgery, but we won't find out for a few days. It's cruel luck for a player who has been in such great form."
Scotland will play a Test against Italy in Singapore on 10 June before facing Australia in Sydney on 17 June and Fiji in Suva on 24 June.
New-Zealand-born Maitland joined Glasgow Warriors in 2012 from Crusaders and qualified to play for Scotland through his Glaswegian grandparents.
He scored on his Scotland debut against England at Twickenham the following year and has gone on to score five tries in 28 international appearances.
Backs:
Back three: Damien Hoyland (Edinburgh Rugby), Ruaridh Jackson (Harlequins), Lee Jones (Glasgow Warriors), Sean Maitland (Saracens), Tim Visser (Harlequins); Centres: Alex Dunbar (Glasgow Warriors), Nick Grigg (Glasgow Warriors), Matt Scott (Gloucester), Duncan Taylor (Saracens); Fly-halves: Finn Russell (Glasgow Warriors), Peter Horne (Glasgow Warriors); Scrum-halves: Ali Price (Glasgow Warriors), Henry Pyrgos (Glasgow Warriors), Sam Hidalgo-Clyne (Edinburgh)
Forwards:
Props: Alex Allan (Glasgow Warriors), Allan Dell (Edinburgh Rugby), Zander Fagerson (Glasgow Warriors), Willem Nel (Edinburgh Rugby), D'Arcy Rae (Glasgow Warriors), Gordon Reid (Glasgow Warriors); Hookers: Fraser Brown (Glasgow Warriors), Ross Ford (Edinburgh Rugby), George Turner (Edinburgh Rugby); Locks: Jonny Gray (Glasgow Warriors), Richie Gray (Toulouse), Tim Swinson (Glasgow Warriors), Ben Toolis (Edinburgh Rugby); Back row: John Barclay (Scarlets - captain), Magnus Bradbury (Edinburgh Rugby), John Hardie (Edinburgh Rugby), Rob Harley (Glasgow Warriors), Josh Strauss (Glasgow Warriors), Hamish Watson (Edinburgh Rugby), Ryan Wilson (Glasgow Warriors).
10 June - Scotland v Italy, Singapore National Stadium, Singapore (KO tbc)
17 June - Scotland v Australia, Allianz Stadium, Sydney (05:00 BST)
24 June - Scotland v Fiji, ANZ Stadium, Suva (KO tbc)
Susan Potts, 64, of Lodge Close, Uxbridge, Middlesex, had pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
Potts was arrested after Gladys Allen, 93, was found dead at a house in Crimicar Lane, Sheffield, last January.
Her family said they were "grateful" the justice system had recognised the defendant's mental state.
A post-mortem examination of Mrs Allen's body had proved inconclusive, South Yorkshire Police said.
However, Sheffield Crown Court was told her body had a range of injuries. including head wounds and broken ribs.
The Potts family said Mrs Allen had been the central focus of the family and Potts had been a "loving daughter who was consumed by remorse".
The statement continued: "The tragedy that occurred in January was because at that time Sue had become severely depressed; it would have been unthinkable in any other circumstances.
"We are grateful that the justice system has recognised, that, but for her mental state, this tragedy would not have occurred, and that Sue will continue to receive treatment in hospital.
"The hope for all of us, including Gladys' friends and neighbours, is that with expert care, Sue will recover and eventually return to her family."
The duo have fronted the show since it began on BBC Two in 2010, alongside judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.
They said in a statement: "We made no secret of our desire for the show to remain where it was... we're not going with the dough."
Love Productions, which makes the show, thanked them for "bringing their unique humour to the tent".
Giedroyc and Perkins said they were "very shocked and saddened" to learn Bake Off will be leaving the BBC.
Their statement continued: "The BBC nurtured the show from its infancy and helped give it its distinctive warmth and charm, growing it from an audience of two million to nearly 15 [million] at its peak.
"We've had the most amazing time on Bake Off, and have loved seeing it rise and rise like a pair of yeasted Latvian baps.
"We're not going with the dough. We wish all the future bakers every success."
In their statement, Love Productions said: "We would like to thank Mel and Sue for bringing their own unique humour to the tent over the past years and we respect their decision not to be part of the Bake Off team on Channel 4."
A spokesman for Channel 4 said earlier today that it "would be delighted if the presenters and judges want to come to Channel 4".
It is not yet known if judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood will stay with the show.
The BBC fell £10m short of the amount of money required to keep The Great British Bake Off, BBC News understands.
The corporation is thought to have offered £15m per year to keep the programme on the BBC.
That would have been double the amount the BBC currently pays for the show and its sister programmes such as An Extra Slice and the Sport Relief specials.
But it is understood Love Productions refused to entertain any offers below £25m per year.
Channel 4 will begin airing the programme in 2017, starting with a celebrity special in aid of Stand Up To Cancer.
On the news that Giedroyc and Perkins were leaving, former contestant Kate Henry, who was on the show in 2014, told the BBC News channel: "I'm quite sad that future contestants won't get to experience the joy of Mel and Sue in the tent.
"They really make it a fun experience rather than painfully stressful."
She said it would be an "utterly different show" if Berry and Hollywood were also to leave.
Ian Cumming, who was a contestant last year, told the BBC: "I'm really shocked. You're losing the humour of the show (with Giedroyc and Perkins leaving). That was always its charm. I think it will gradually slip down but we'll see."
Richard Burr, a finalist on series five in 2014, tweeted: "Without Mel and Sue it just isn't Bake Off. @Channel4 has just bought a tent."
John Waite, who won the third series of Bake Off, tweeted that he "was not feeling so hopeful" now Giedroyc and Perkins had left.
Both Giedroyc and Perkins have had plenty of work outside the Bake Off tent.
The pair started on Channel 4 in the 90s with daytime TV show Light Lunch, when their on-screen chemistry and ad-libbing became a popular staple with students and daytime TV viewers.
Giedroyc has co-presented the BBC's Eurovision semi-finals in Stockholm and Eurovison You Decide, as well as the BBC One's The Gift with Matt Baker, a show reuniting people who wanted to say thank you or sorry. She also took to the stage to play housekeeper Frau Schmidt in ITV's live Sound of Music last year.
Perkins has hosted BBC Two panel show Insert Name Here as well as shows with Giles Coren, including BBC Four's Edwardian Supersize Me and BBC Two's The Supersizers Go. She also wrote and starred in BBC Two sitcom Heading Out, set in a vet's surgery, in 2013.
Her work also includes presenting Thronecast on Sky Atlantic, the companion show to the hugely popular Game of Thrones TV series.
TV host and actor James Corden tweeted "huge respect" for the departing presenters, while Youtube vlogger Zoella said the show wouldn't be the same.
Guardian writer Charlotte Higgins tweeted: "Mel and Sue completely essential to #GBBO success."
The Sun's Dan Wootton described Giedroyc and Perkins's departure as a "huge blow".
But Telegraph columnist Neil Midgeley said the BBC should have paid out £25m to keep the show.
"The BBC didn't have to lose its biggest hit, The Great British Bake Off, to Channel 4. For BBC director-general Lord Tony Hall, who is constantly fighting off accusations of financial largesse from Tory MPs, it was a splurge too far.
"But, regardless of the politics, this is one BBC cheque that Lord Hall will come to wish he had written."
The shows and presenters that have swapped channels
Love Productions, which makes the programme, said negotiations with the BBC had been taking place for a year, with a last-ditch meeting on Monday.
Richard McKerrow, Love Productions' creative director, said the firm had found "the perfect new home for Bake Off" at Channel 4.
Scott Bryan, TV editor of Buzzfeed UK said: "You can't find any bigger a slot or do any better in terms of viewers than where it already is - on BBC One in a main teatime evening slot.
"Channel 4 would be monumentally thrilled with the idea that they have the same ratings that it has on BBC.
"I feel they would be equally happy if it got a few million less, because that would still be a few million more than another programme they would have on that slot, so it's still a massive win for them."
It is not yet clear what time slot the show will have on Channel 4 or whether it will be cut or extended in length.
Bake Off was 2015's most-watched programme, with 15.1 million viewers for the final, according to consolidated figures which include catch-up viewing.
The seventh series is currently being shown on BBC One on Wednesday evenings. More than 10 million tuned in for the opening episode.
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It follows an incident during their Premier League match at Villa Park on 2 November - which Tottenham won 2-1.
The FA charge stated that in or around the 66th minute, the clubs failed to ensure their players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion.
Both clubs accepted the standard penalty fine.
Villa striker Christian Benteke was sent off after he pushed a hand into Spurs midfielder Ryan Mason's face.
Television replays appeared to show Mason also pushing his head into the face of Benteke before referee Neil Swarbrick dismissed him.
Villa were leading 1-0 at the time of the incident but goals from Nacer Chadli and Harry Kane helped Tottenham come from behind to win.
Among those who will take part in the 28 February ceremony are Benicio Del Toro, Whoopi Goldberg and Kevin Hart.
"Each of these artists brings a wonderfully distinctive element to the Oscars stage," said Oscars producers David Hill and Reginald Hudlin.
The Oscars has been overshadowed by a row about the lack of diversity, with some black stars boycotting the show.
The Academy Awards announced the first slate of presenters for the 88th Oscars telecast in Los Angeles on Thursday.
Other performers and presenters taking part are Tina Fey, Ryan Gosling, Lady Gaga, Sam Smith, Charlize Theron, Jacob Tremblay, The Weeknd and Pharrell.
"Together they represent the many thrilling ways stories can be shared about the human experience, and we're honoured they will be part of the celebration," the Oscars producers said.
The announcement comes after film director Spike Lee's suggestion that quotas might need to be introduced for black, Asian and minority ethnic actors. All 20 Oscar nominees for acting are white for the second consecutive year.
A slew of actors later backed Lee's announcement that he could not support the "lily white" awards show.
However, Oscar nominee Charlotte Rampling called the ongoing row "racism against white people" and double Oscar-winner Sir Michael Caine advised black actors to "be patient".
He thought his years as a coach of Galwegians, Connacht and Ireland had given him sufficient insight into the Irish psyche, but they hadn't.
For omitting the darling of the Irish game, the Kiwi knew that all sorts of flak was heading his way. He knew that people would object thunderously and he was ready for that. He knew that people would object to his decision on rugby terms and he was steeled to the criticism.
What he hadn't banked on was people losing the plot and accusing him of acting maliciously towards O'Driscoll in a bitter attempt to settle a score with Irish rugby following his sacking as national team coach in 2001. That stuff hurt. There was heaps of it and it was as ugly as it was unjustified.
Gatland is a tough old boy, but that allegation stung, not just professionally, but personally. He made the call to drop O'Driscoll and promote Jonathan Davies for purely rugby reasons. Rightly, as it turned out.
When Gatland decided to go with only two Scots - and a dozen Welsh - for the upcoming Lions tour to New Zealand, he did it because he feels it is the right thing to do. He'll take the grief, but let's hope the grief begins and ends with rugby without spiralling into some conspiracy theory about him having no time for the Scottish game.
For Scottish rugby, there is despondency all over the place in this selection. No Scottish forward in a Lions squad for the first time since 1908. The joint lowest number of Scots in history.
No recognition of the Scottish pack - particularly the back row, which completely outplayed the Welsh back row in the Six Nations. Wales have four back-rows and six forwards in Gatland's squad. Only two Scottish players - Stuart Hogg and Tommy Seymour - get the nod as opposed to 23 combined from Ireland and Wales, two teams that Scotland beat only a couple of months ago.
There are legitimate gripes and taking points, but is there a miscarriage of justice? It's hard to see one. Is there a player whose claim was so obvious that it's grossly unfair that he's been left out? No.
If you pick Sean Maitland then which of George North, Anthony Watson, Liam Williams, Elliot Daly and Jack Nowell are you leaving out? All of those guys deserve to travel.
Eight-times capped England centre Ben Te'o's inclusion is a talking point but if there is one player who has cause to feel aggrieved there, it's Garry Ringrose of Leinster and Ireland, not any of the Scottish centres.
Finn Russell (and England's George Ford) missed out in favour of Jonathan Sexton, Owen Farrell and Dan Biggar at 10. There is a case to be made for Russell ahead of Biggar, but it's not one you'd go to war over. Neither is the omission of Greig Laidlaw. It's a touch contentious, but not controversial.
The hookers come into the same category. In this space Fraser Brown may have been picked, but Gatland is employed to do what he thinks he needs to do and he's gone down a different road.
Rory Best is Ireland's captain, Jamie George is terrific off the bench and Ken Owens has had a decent season with Wales. Dylan Hartley, Brown and Sean Cronin, another great impact hooker, miss out. How loudly can anybody protest about Gatland's chosen three? Murmurings, sure, but it's hardly cause for revolution.
Scotland have been unlucky at tight-head prop. WP Nel surely would have gone had he been fit. Zander Fagerson had a case. He's the type of player who would have grown in stature while surrounded by Lions. Tadhg Furlong, Dan Cole and Kyle Sinckler are hard to object to.
It's debatable whether the Lions have ever had such a collection of quality locks. Include a Gray - Jonny or Richie - but who do you leave out? Alun Wyn Jones, Courtney Lawes, George Kruis or Ian Henderson - a player who just put in a thumping performance in derailing the English chariot in Dublin?
Joe Launchbury hasn't made it either. Launchbury has probably more cause to feel hard done by than either Gray, as good as the brothers have been. Donnacha Ryan, the Munster and Ireland forward, hasn't made it either. Ryan played from the start when Ireland beat New Zealand in Chicago and again when they beat England last month.
Now to the back row. CJ Stander, Maro Itoje, Sam Warburton and Peter O'Mahony are among the chosen ones who have played blind-side flanker in the Six Nations. If you're picking John Barclay, you may have to lose one of them. Who?
At open-side flanker, the selected ones are Sean O'Brien and Justin Tipuric, with Warburton available at seven as well. Hamish Watson is arguably the Scot with the biggest case. He was outstanding during the Six Nations, Alun Wyn Jones singling him out for praise for the demolition job he did on the Welsh breakdown.
But is it unfair that he's not picked - or just unlucky that so many other superb players are in his position? James Haskell also misses out. At number eight, Ross Moriarty has been picked, which was a major surprise. He had some high-profile successes, mainly his excellent performance against England, but he was tamed easily at Murrayfield.
Is there much to choose between Moriarty and Ryan Wilson? Not really. But then you look at Jamie Heaslip - a former Ireland captain, a three-time European champion, a two-time Six Nations champion and a winner against the All Blacks in November - being left out and wonder who has the biggest gripe here?
These are Gatland's calls based on what he thinks he needs to win a series in the most unforgiving terrain in world rugby. There's no stitch-up here, no agenda. In June, into July, will we know if his judgement was right.
Mr Garton, 69, from Devizes in Wiltshire, disappeared on 25 September on a hillwalking trip in the area.
Despite extensive searches involving helicopters, divers and search dogs, there has been no trace of him.
The poles were recovered near Aonach Eagach Ridge, but a subsequent search of the area revealed nothing.
Police Scotland said the poles were Lecki telescopic trekking/walking poles in a black and gold colour.
Officers said they would like to hear from anyone else who may have lost poles on the ridge, a prominent feature in Glen Coe.
Mr Garton's family are also helping the police establish if they were his.
Robin Garton was reported missing after he failed to meet up with friends as planned in Kinlochewe in Wester Ross.
A memorial service has been planned by Mr Garton's family. It will be held at St Johns Church, Devizes in December.
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But where will the gold medals come for Britain?
With the caveat that sport at the elite level offers no guarantees - and that no blame can be laid at our door should overly large wagers on the following not come off - here are 12 of the best shots for the coming weeks.
Check on our progress to see if our tips came off or not...
Event: 100m breaststroke
Final: Sunday 7 August (02:53 BST on Monday)
He is the reigning world, European and Commonwealth champion, and the current world record holder. These might be 21-year-old Adam Peaty's first Olympic Games, but the kid from Uttoxeter who grew up scared of water has appeared intimidated by little else since his big breakthrough two years ago. It makes sense: this is a man who relaxes by listening to NWA and practising target shooting with an air rifle. He will have to beat South Africa's 2012 Olympic champion Cameron der Burgh and his GB team-mate Ross Murdoch, but his mother is so confident of her son's chances that she is taking her first flight to watch him in person in Brazil.
RESULT: GOLD!
Event: Canoe single
Final: Tuesday 9 August (19:16 BST)
Having failed to make the C1 final in London when world number one, and then having had to settle for silver in C2 behind surprise British champions Etienne Stott and Tim Baillie, the 33-year-old is desperate to go one better than both four years ago and in Beijing. Once again world number one, David Florence has been part of five separate training camps on the Rio course and feels as at home on it as he did on Lee Valley's white water. The Scot once applied for the European Space Agency's astronaut training programme; while Tim Peake beat him to that honour, Florence could take his own giant leap at his third Olympic Games.
RESULT: 10th
Event: Women's pair rowing
Final: Friday 12 August (14:24 BST)
The winners of Team GB's first gold at the London Olympics are the clearest favourites among their nation's rowers to win gold again here. Unbeaten together since 2011, a run of 36 races, the two women are complementary characters - Helen Glover fiercely competitive, Heather Stanning calm and methodical - and unstoppable together. Since London, army officer Stanning has completed a tour of duty in Afghanistan; Glover has got engaged to kids' TV presenter Steve Backshall. After Rio, the army beckons again for one, marriage for the other. For the next two weeks, it is once again all about the gold.
Event: Team pursuit
Final: Friday 12 August (22:42 BST)
At 36 Sir Bradley Wiggins has done it all - four Olympic gold medals, a multiple world champion, Tour de France winner, holder of the Hour record. These Games represent probably his last major tilt, but what a swansong it would be. One more medal and he will surpass Sir Chris Hoy as his country's most decorated Olympic athlete, reaching eight. Along with Ed Clancy, Owain Doull and Steven Burke he is part of the outstanding quartet in the competition; anything less than gold, for a nation that has won the last two Olympic titles, would rank as a grave disappointment.
Event: Heptathlon
Final: First day Friday 12 August, concludes Saturday 13 August (final event - 03:05 BST on Sunday)
Jessica Ennis-Hill doesn't see herself as favourite to retain the title she won so memorably in Stratford's Olympic Stadium. In the four years since she has suffered injury, taken time out to give birth to son Reggie and had to balance training for the toughest event in her sport with the demands of motherhood. She has, however, won back her world title, and it is that ability to go beyond her best on the biggest occasions that sets her apart once again. Her greatest threat is likely to come from compatriot Katarina Johnson-Thompson, keen to put her own nightmare at last summer's Worlds in Beijing behind her, but having run her second fastest hurdles ever at last month's Anniversary Games Ennis-Hill is coming good when it most matters once again.
Event: Team pursuit and omnium
Finals: Team pursuit Saturday 13 August (21:14 BST), omnium concludes Tuesday 16 August (21:05 BST)
No British woman has ever won three Olympic gold medals, but Laura Trott could double her two from London should she continue her upturn in form over the summer. Britain's team pursuit women's squad were unbeaten at the World Championships from 2011 to 2014, and while they slipped to silver in 2015 and bronze earlier this year, reports from their training base at the Manchester velodrome have indicated that they are returning to their best. In the omnium Trott must hold off veteran American Sarah Hammer as well as Australia's Annette Edmondson; with seven world and 10 European titles to her name already, she has the track record to start as narrow favourite.
Event: Tennis
Final: Sunday 14 August (Time to be confirmed)
Andy Murray's triumph on Centre Court four summers ago marked the start of his first golden period - putting behind him the defeat in that year's Wimbledon final by Roger Federer, setting up his US Open victory a month later and then his first Wimbledon singles title the following summer. He comes to Rio off the back of a second Wimbledon victory arguably even more impressive than that of 2013. And with Federer and Stan Wawrinka absent through injury and Wimbledon finalist Milos Raonic one of several top 10 players to pull out blaming the Zika virus, the greatest threat, as so often, will come from world number one Novak Djokovic. Murray will also take aim at the doubles with brother Jamie and may yet also join Heather Watson in the mixed doubles, having won silver with Laura Robson in 2012.
Event: Dressage
Final: Monday 15 August (14:00 BST)
Before 2012 no British rider had ever won a medal in an Olympic dressage. Charlotte Dujardin, aboard her horse Valegro, won gold in both individual and team events, and the same partnership returns in Rio with both greater profile and greater expectations. Dujardin describes her mount as greedy and unaffectionate, but his ability to deal with the travel, noise and pressure of an overseas Olympics could see them triumph again.
Event: 57kg taekwondo
Final: Wednesday 17 August (02:00 BST on Thursday)
The youngest British gold medallist in London, Jade Jones has spoken of her desire not to be a one-hit wonder. Having won 10 of her last 13 tournaments she is certainly in form, and while old rival Eva Calvo Gomez is her biggest threat (Jones lost four of her first six bouts against the Spaniard, before winning the last two) the two cannot meet until either the final or bronze medal contest. Don't expect Jones to back down; the 23-year-old says she takes pleasure in being known as someone who kicks people in the head for a living.
Event: Triathlon
Final: Thursday 18 August (15:00 BST)
Not once in the four years since he won gold in London's Hyde Park has the elder Brownlee brother won a world title. Some of that is down to a persistent ankle injury, some to the consistent class of Spain's Javier Gomez. With surgery last year having fixed his ankle and a broken elbow ruling out Gomez, Alistair's peerless racing ability in the one-off big days make him a clear favourite once again. It will not be straightforward - younger brother Jonny is looking to upgrade the bronze he won in London, while Maria Mola and Fernando Alarza have both won key World Series races this summer but the punchy configuration of the Rio course - with a sea swim off Copacabana beach and bike leg that sees eight ascents of the steep Rua Professor Gastao - suits his strengths and preferred tactics perfectly.
Event: Flyweight
Final: Saturday 20 August (18:00 BST)
The first woman in Olympic history to win a boxing gold medal, Nicola Adams is now looking to become the first Briton since Harry Mallin in 1924 to retain an Olympic title in the ring. The 33-year-old is in form - she became world champion in May - and while the woman she beat in the flyweight final in London, China's Ren Cancan, is back again for revenge, Adams believes she is in better shape yet than four summers ago.
Events: 5,000m and 10,000m
Finals: 10,000m: Saturday 13 August (01:25 BST on Sunday). 5,000m: Saturday 20 August (01:30 BST on Sunday)
So many global golds has Mo Farah now won over the past five years that he arrives in Rio chasing an unprecedented quadruple-double - a fourth successive triumph at a major international games over both 5,000m and 10,000m. Having pulled that off in spectacular fashion in London, he repeated the trick at the Worlds in both Moscow and Beijing, running each time with pretty much identical tactics. No Briton has ever won three Olympic gold medals in athletics; while Ethiopia's trio of Muktar Edris, Dejen Gebremeskel and Hagos Gebrhiwet will look to gang up on him in the 10, the 5 - with three Kenyans, three Ugandans and a midweek heat to get past as well - could be harder yet. Farah, time after time, has proved himself equal to the challenge.
The decision follows months of protests, with many saying that Marcos' record of corruption and rights abuses meant he should not be interred there.
Nine judges voted in favour of the burial, with five against the decision.
President Rodrigo Duterte had announced plans for the move shortly after his election in May.
In August, he gave the initial go-ahead for the body to be buried in the National Heroes' Cemetery in Manila, calling Marcos a "Filipino soldier".
Critics had argued it was inappropriate to provide an honourable burial to a president blamed for thousands of killings, tortures and military abductions, many of which remain unresolved.
Marcos and his wife, Imelda, ruled the Philippines for 20 years before more than a million people took to the streets to overthrow them in what became known as the People Power Revolution of 1986.
His embalmed body is currently on display in his home city of Batac.
The infant was born to a woman named as Juli, who went into sudden labour a week before she was due to give birth.
She gave birth at 07:28 [01:58GMT] with help from two female passengers near the Khan Market station, reports said.
A spokesman for the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) said they had decided to honour the baby girl.
Juli, who is a resident of the Faridabad area, was on her way to Safdarjung Hospital for a routine check-up when labour began.
Launched in 2002, Delhi's hi-tech metro system has become the lifeline of India's capital city and is used by at least 1.8 million people daily.
Parts of the network are underground while some sections use elevated tracks.
The system, which covers some of the city's most congested streets, is seen as the answer to Delhi's traffic chaos and has helped in lowering air pollution levels.
Police spokesman Tyler Gamble said officers were on their way to break up a big crowd at the city's Bunny Friend Park when shots were fired.
Ambulances took 10 people to hospital, Mr Gamble said, and others were taken by private vehicles.
It is yet not known what started the shooting or how severe the injuries are.
According to Mr Gamble, there were two groups at the park - one had walked there as part of a neighbourhood parade, while others were watching or participating in a video being made in the park.
Witnesses told local TV station WWL that there were about 500 people at the park and that two gunmen opened fire in the crowd.
The last of Dunlop's six successes at the event came in the 2013 Superstock race but the 15-time TT winner will be fancied to add to that tally.
"We've made changes to the Superbike to get more speed and are developing it all the time," said the Ballymoney ace.
"It's a fast, smooth and open. On a good day it's a fantastic circuit."
Since taking Supersport and Senior triumphs at the Isle of Man TT in June, Dunlop has enjoyed victories at the Southern 100 and Armoy but the Bennett's Suzuki and MD Racing pilot will face stiff opposition at Dundrod.
Lincolnshire's Peter Hickman goes into the meeting on a high after securing a win and a second place at Sunday's British Superbike round at Thruxton on board his Smith's BMW machinery.
Hickman, who occupied the top step of the podium for the first time at an international road race by winning the second Superbike race at 'the Ulster' in 2015, believes Ian Hutchinson's one-year-old lap record of 134.089mph can be surpassed.
"I definitely think we could go a lot faster. It all depends on the conditions obviously but if we can have a couple of godo days of practice and get to Saturday with some good laps under our belt then I don't see why we can't push it up to maybe 135 or 136mph," said the two-time Macau Grand Prix winner.
"It'd be great to have a lap record around a road circuit, apart from my newcomer record at the TT I've not had an outright lap record anywhere on the roads so it'd be nice to do something like that, and good to do it at the Ulster.
"I enjoy riding on the roads so much, it's so much fun, and I also enjoy the British Superbikes, and I'm fast doing both which is why I get so much excitement from both. For me it's all about riding bikes as much as possible.
"Dundrod is just an untouched, proper circuit, just as it should be. It's fast, it's flowing, it hasn't had to be adapted with chicanes to try and make it safer; it already is as safe as you can make a road race, even though it is ridiculously fast," added the 30-year-old, who achieved five podiums from five starts at this year's TT.
Among the other leading challengers should be Bradford rider Dean Harrison, who was crowned Southern 100 Solo Champion for the first time on his Silicone Engineering Kawasaki in July.
Bruce Anstey will hope to make up for a disappointing season so far as he goes in search of a 13th win on board his fleet of Padgett's Hondas, with another former lap record holder, Manxman Conor Cummins, his team-mate once again.
William Dunlop's best chance of victory is likely to come in the Supersport class, while Fermanagh's Lee Johnston will aim to recapture the form which saw him clinch a hat-trick in 2015 as he returns to action after a practice spill at the TT.
Dan Kneen will hope to make the most of the opportunity he has been handed to impress in the Tyco BMW outfit, with Derek Sheils, Ivan Lintin, James Cowton, Jamie Coward, Dan Cooper, Christian Elkin and Adam McLean other probable frontrunners.
Roads closed - Wednesday and Thursday 9 and 10 August - 10:00 BST to 21:30 BST; Saturday 12 August - 09:30 BST to 20:30 BST
Thursday racing - Dundrod 150 - Race 1 - Dundrod 150 National Race (5 laps); Race 2 - Ultralightweight/Lightweight (5 laps); Race 3 - Dundrod 150 Challenge (5 laps); Race 4 - Dundrod 150 Superbike (6 laps); Race 5 - Dundrod 150 Supertwins (5 laps)
Saturday racing - Ulster Grand Prix - Race 1 - Superstock (6 laps); Race 2 - Supersport (6 laps); Race 3 - Ultralightweight/Lightweight; Race (5 laps) Race 4 - UGP Superbike (7 laps); Race 5 - Supertwins (5 laps); Race 6 - Supersport (6 laps); Race 7 - Superbike Race (6 laps).
More than 500 men and women from 52 countries around the world are competing in four-a-side matches between 10 and 15 July.
And city shoppers, workers and visitors have descended on George square to take in some of the 416 matches.
Over the course of the week crowds are expected to reach 100,000, with Nicola Sturgeon even taking time out of her busy schedules to cheer from the sidelines.
The first minister said the Homeless World Cup would energise and engage people who, for whatever reason, have become socially excluded.
I took in Wednesday's matches and the heavy showers did nothing to dampen the player's spirits with a glut of goals. Spectators donned ponchos in the stands and gathered around the big screen to watch Scotland's women defeat the USA 11-1.
In the opposite stand, Argentina and England fans exchanged some friendly chants as England's women narrowly saw off their opponents, winning 3-2.
Office workers gathered at the windows of the square's surrounding buildings to watch the action. Men and women who are used to going unnoticed in everyday life have been thrust into the limelight as they represent their respective nations in their bid to become Homeless World Cup champions.
In typical Scottish fashion we were treated to a complete change in weather conditions on Thursday, with matches kicking off in glorious sunshine. And fans seemed to be taking advantage as crowds gathered in bigger numbers than the day before.
Party atmosphere
Families arrived with young football fans in their favourite team colours.
David Henderson, 74, from Cumbernauld, had his two grandchildren with him who are aspiring footballers themselves. Mr Henderson said it was great to see everyone out and integrating with each other.
"This is my second time here. I was here on Tuesday and as soon as I said to my grandkids they wanted to come," he said. "The atmosphere is good and it shows you the people from Glasgow just all integrate and get wired in."
The atmosphere was certainly lively as workers on their lunch break began to drift into George Square to take in one of the 14-minute matches.
James, 33, from London, is in Glasgow on business this week and had no idea the Homeless World Cup was taking place until he was walking past and decided to take in Wales v Australia.
He said: "It is fantastic. What a party. Everyone is just really happy and chilled."
There were plenty of goals in the match with Wales running out eventual 7-3 winners.
As lunchtime approached the stands began to fill for Ireland v Northern Ireland. Fans were not left disappointed as this tight affair finished 4-4.
Matches ending in a draw are decided by penalties - players dribble towards the goalkeeper unopposed before taking their shot on goal. Ireland ran out eventual winners of the game scoring two penalties to one.
The Homeless World Cup was co-founded by Mel Young, who also co-founded the Big Issue and is the chairman of Sportscotland. He said the players from around the world have been warmly welcomed by team Scotland and the people of Glasgow.
"Our players are remarkable ambassadors for humanity, they are facing some of the toughest life challenges, and in their own way dealing with them," he said.
"We hope spectators will continue to come out in their numbers as the competition reaches it's climax over the next couple of days."
Scotland are bidding to be crowned world champions for the third time having previously won the cup in both 2007 and 2011.
The Scotland squad are selected from the Street Soccer Scotland national football programme which supports socially disadvantaged men and women.
Former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson is the national ambassador for the organisation which has also helped to provide reserve players to other national teams who have lost squad members through injury.
Scotland's players are picked by team manager and former Rangers star Ally Dawson, 58, who first became involved in the Homeless World Cup when it began in Graz, Austria in 2003. He said his players were getting a great deal out of the event and that it was a great opportunity for them to learn about different cultures.
The former player, who was capped for Scotland five times, said there was a "buzz about the place" and that everyone had been friendly and was getting behind the team.
"People see how good Glasgow is and how open and friendly it is and everyone has a smile on their face," he added.
Dawson says the commitment and work rate of the players has been fantastic and that they believe in one another and work well together.
At the moment, Scotland's men sit third in Group A with the woman's team sitting second and one point behind leaders Kyrgyzstan in Group B.
They will have to continue their impressive run of form as tournament favourites Mexico top their groups in both men's and women's tournaments. The finals will be played on Saturday.
Houston was found not guilty of making contact with a match official in Widnes' loss to Warrington on 13 April.
Amor was sent off for a high tackle on Wigan's Liam Marshall in Saints' local derby defeat at Wigan a day later.
He was found guilty but the charge against him was downgraded and the red card was deemed sufficient punishment.
Huddersfield half-back Danny Brough has been suspended for one match and fined £300 after being found guilty of using foul and abusive language towards a match official.
Warrington hooker Daryl Clark, Wigan centre Anthony Gelling and Leigh's Gregg McNally all took early guilty pleas to their respective charges.
Clark and Gelling have received one-match bans, while McNally will miss his side's next two games.
A crowd-funding project has raised more than £1m of the £2.35m required to take part in the final race on 23 November.
Administrator Finbarr O'Connell said: "The team needs to showcase itself. It needs to be acquired by some high-value individual, individuals or corporation.
"But the only way they will acquire it is if the team is still together."
Caterham missed last weekend's United States Grand Prix and this weekend's Brazilian Grand Prix in Sao Paulo as the administrators attempt to restructure it.
O'Connell added: "Abu Dhabi is the last link, the stepping stone for one of the purchasers I'm speaking to, perhaps the Middle Eastern purchaser I'm speaking to, perhaps one of the others, to sign that cheque and take it over. It is the best way to showcase it."
Crowd-funding is a way of asking people to invest money in businesses or projects. More than nine million investments and donations were made last year.
Asked why the potential purchaser would not buy the team first, he said: "Because it has not raced, because there is a concern about what they are taking on, about the team and the commitment of the team.
"It is all very well to talk about really wealthy people doing things, but this is about 200 people giving their time and energy in order to make this work. the employees are the engine of this team."
F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone has described the crowd-funding exercise as "a disaster", saying: "We don't want begging bowls. If people can't afford to be in Formula 1, they have to find something else to do."
O'Connell said he was "really upset" about Ecclestone's remarks.
Saying he was speaking to "more than two" drivers about racing in Abu Dhabi, he added: "We have planned all of this.
"With the money we get from drivers with sponsorship and with huge support from a lot of other people, like (engine supplier) Renault, all our major counter-parties, are incredibly keen we are there, we survive, get through this new process, get a new backer and proceed as a properly functioning sound team."
Asked why the crowd-funding money would not need to be paid to the team's creditors, he said: "The money is being raised for a particular reason, so the team can race in Abu Dhabi.
"If it is not raised, it all goes back to the people who paid the money. The creditors are due their money from the assets of the company. If this team was taken over there will be much more money to go to the creditors of the company."
More than 11 million were watching BBC One at 22:00 BST when Trott received her Olympic gold medal for the omnium.
The same figure - 11.1 million - turned in one hour later to see Kenny, Trott's fiance, win the men's keirin.
Coverage of the Rio Olympics, which run until Sunday, has also helped give BBC Four record ratings.
Before Tuesday night's events, the highest viewing figures for the Rio Olympics came on Sunday.
That was reached when an average of 10.4 million watched gymnast Max Whitlock receive his second gold medal.
Ratings for the Rio Olympics have been generally lower compared with London 2012, due to the time difference between the UK and Brazil.
In 2012, 20 million people tuned in to see Usain Bolt win the men's 100m final when it aired on 5 August at 21:50 BST.
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More than two-thirds of 220 websites surveyed failed to comply with consumer protection laws such as cancellation rights and providing refunds when due.
The survey was conducted by officers from 22 Scottish local authority areas.
Officials described the amount of non-compliance as "worryingly high".
The survey of websites, which were selling a wide range of consumer goods across the UK, was part of a project organised by the Society of Chief Officers of Trading Standards in Scotland (SCOTSS).
It found that more than 50% of sites, chosen at random, failed to provide a full refund when required.
More than one in four websites illegally deducted the original delivery charge from money refunded, while 43% of sites failed to inform consumers of their right to cancel.
One in five added unexpected surcharges onto prices late in the buying process.
SCOTSS chairman Colin Baxter said: "These are worryingly high levels of non-compliance.
"These legal requirements are important for a variety of reasons: to protect online buyers, to ensure fairness and a level playing field for reputable retailers, and to ensure the smooth working of the internet marketplace.
"Since the early days of e-commerce, trading standards officers have worked hard with significant success to ensure that internet sellers are complying with the law.
"However, with the continuing expansion of e-commerce in the UK, new entrants are joining the market every day, many of them small micro-businesses with little experience of consumer law."
He added: "It is a battle for law enforcement to keep up".
The project involved an online inspection of the websites as well as officers carrying out "test purchases" to check how a consumer would be treated in practice.
Purchases were also cancelled within the statutory seven-day period to test whether website operators were following their obligations in those circumstances.
SCOTSS said non-compliances were followed up by officers either directly contacting the retailer involved, or referring to the trading standards service for the area where the companies were based.
Yifan Zhao, a university lecturer living in England, and his wife, Guo Huimin, both appeared at Newtownards Magistrates Court, County Down.
Police alleged the pair laundered more than £750,000 for a gang who smuggled "skunk" cannabis into Northern Ireland.
The couple, from Longleat Court, Milton Keynes, were remanded in custody.
The 35-year-old lecturer and his 34-year-old wife cried uncontrollably throughout the 20 minute hearing in Newtownards.
They are jointly charged with four offences including possessing criminal property, converting criminal property - namely cash - entering a criminal arrangement to acquire criminal property and cheating the public revenue.
The offences are all alleged to have taken place between 18 April 2013 and 25 March this year.
A detective constable told the court that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) have been working in conjunction the National Crime Agency (NCA) in an operation that began last February.
The joint operation has resulted in multiple arrests and searches in Northern Ireland and Italy, and the seizure of various items, including financial documents.
The office said police had seized documents that indicated a total of £760,000 had been put through the couples' bank account, with many lodgements coming from across the UK.
The lecturer claimed their money had come from his university salary and from lawful business ventures including the buying and selling of cosmetic products.
A defence solicitor said his clients could be safely released if their bank accounts and assets were frozen and their passports surrendered, claiming they had made "proper tax returns".
However, the detective constable said police disputed the accused's claims that they had obtained the money lawfully and alleged they were "benefitting from this smuggling operation".
He said police were "strongly opposed to bail" as there was a serious risk the couple would flee the UK.
To date, nine other people who were accused of involvement in the international drug plot have been charged with a range of offences including conspiracy to smuggle class B cannabis and money laundering.
The smuggling charges arose after PSNI officers recovered £800,000 of strong cannabis, known as skunk, along with cash during searches in Belfast, Greenisland, Bangor, Newtownards and Ballywalter.
Eight other suspects have also been questioned in Italy following raids on three cannabis factories in the Prato and Bologna areas.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Thursday there was "insufficient evidence to prosecute" the 75-year-old singer.
Sir Cliff told ITV's Good Morning Britain he disliked the terminology.
"Insufficient suggests that maybe there's something there and I know there wasn't," he said.
"There are certain terminologies [the CPS] have to use, and in this case, they never say there is no evidence, they just say insufficient evidence."
The singer said he felt like "collateral damage" resulting from the wave of police investigations into high-profile sex abuse allegations sparked by the Jimmy Savile scandal.
Sir Cliff said he believed suspects in sexual abuse cases should not be publicly named unless they are formally charged and questioned if accusers should have anonymity for life.
"I can understand protecting children, but my accusers are all men, grown up men. I don't see why they should be protected," he said.
When the allegations first came to light in 2014, a police raid on the singer's home was shown during the BBC's initial reporting of the story.
Sir Cliff said he believed the corporation knew about the raid in advance as a result of contact with South Yorkshire Police at the time.
He said there "must have been illegal collusion" between the BBC and police and he believed he had a "every right to sue... definitely for gross invasion of my privacy".
An independent investigation concluded in 2015 that police should not have released "highly confidential" information to the BBC about a planned search of the singer's home.
The BBC and South Yorkshire Police have both apologised to Sir Cliff.
The singer also said the investigation had made him rethink his attitude to fans.
"I am very cagey now when I am having pictures taken with people," he said.
"I don't like that feeling, because I've always had photographs taken with grandparents and their grandchildren.
"That's my life, I'm a family entertainer and that's what I have done, but that's one thing I am going to have to try and get rid of."
Speaking to Gloria Hunniford in a second interview broadcast by ITV on Wednesday, Sir Cliff said it had been a "costly" 22 months.
When pressed further as to how much he had spent on legal fees, the singer replied: "Over a million pounds."
But he added: "I can afford to do that. If you were a plumber or teacher or doctor and somebody makes a false accusation, I don't think they would have the ability to do that."
Sir Cliff also spoke about the toll the process has taken on his health.
"I've had in the course of this year shingles, I got hit by shingles," he said. "I got it on my face and my head."
The entertainer also told Hunniford he "probably will have to" sue the BBC.
"I was first against the idea of suing people who are institutions of our country... I have listened to the BBC everywhere in the world wherever I go, it's a great institution," he said.
"It's the men at the top that should be sacked."
An updated statement from the BBC, released on Wednesday morning, responded to Sir Cliff's suggestion that sexual abuse suspects should not be publicly named unless charged.
"Deciding whether people should remain anonymous while the subject of a Police investigation is a matter for Parliament," it said.
The BBC repeated its apology to Sir Cliff but also defended the initial decision to cover the story.
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Report by former Sky News executive Nick Pollard into the dropped Newsnight investigation on allegations of sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile.
"The decision to drop the original investigation was flawed and the way it was taken was wrong but I believe it was done in good faith. It was not done to protect the Savile tribute programmes or for any improper reason."
"When the full force of the affair broke in October 2012, the BBC's management system proved completely incapable of dealing with it. This report shows that the level of chaos and confusion was even greater than was apparent at the time... beyond the combined efforts of the senior management, legal department, corporate communications team."
"Efforts were hampered in part by an apparent adherence to rigid management chains and a reluctance to bypass them."
"It led to one of the worst management crises in the BBC's history and contributed to further chaos that led to the resignation of the director general a few weeks later."
"I have seen no evidence that anyone involved in the making of the tribute programmes knew of any allegations against or rumours about Savile. Were there nonetheless opportunities to discover these and to evaluate whether or not the programmes should have been commissioned, produced, or ultimately broadcast? In my view there were."
The report found an email was sent by an executive to future director general George Entwistle - when he was head of BBC Vision - and to Danny Cohen, the controller of BBC1, alerting them to the potential of a "darker side" to Jimmy Savile but neither read the message
"Mr Entwistle said that he did not read the email... and he does not believe it was sent in an effort to warn him... I do not regard that email as a 'smoking gun' but it indicates to me that there was knowledge, not just rumour, within BBC Vision about the unsavoury side of Savile's character at the time the Christmas tribute programmes were planned. If either email had been read it was at least possible that further questions would have followed."
"The BBC needs to look again at its practices for handing material to the police. The Newsnight Savile investigation produced an extremely unusual issue - a story that was not deemed convincing enough for broadcast yet included material that the police should have been given. It is unlikely such a situation will occur often but the wider issue about how and when material should be handed to the police needs to be considered."
"[Peter] Rippon's decision to drop the Savile story was seriously flawed: he made a bad mistake in not examining the evidence properly."
"The preparation of the blog can only be described as chaotic. The impression given is of no particular individual being in control of and responsible for that process who was charged with ensuring that the document produced was precise and accurate."
"Within an hour of the blog being published, Jeremy Paxman, a senior presenter on Newsnight, emailed Mr Rippon to say that the blog 'doesn't answer all of the accusations laid against us...
"The email exchange continued with Mr Paxman suggesting that the decision not to run the Savile investigation 'must have been a corporate decision (whatever your blog says)', to which Mr Rippon replied: 'It wasn't corporate honestly. I guess I may be guilty of self-censorship. In the end I just felt what we had … Forty year old contestable claims about a dead guy was not a NN story and not worth the fuss'".
"The BBC's news and editorial management needs to be reviewed. That is a key job for the acting and designate directors general. It is certainly not the case that everything in BBC News management needs repair."
"Several witnesses... told us they believed the Savile affair - and in particular the BBC's poor handling of it after the investigation was halted - would not have happened (or at least would not have been so damaging) if the role of deputy director general... had still been in existence."
"BBC News depends on delegated editorial authority and in an organisation of such size that is inevitable and appropriate. However, there needs to be an effective way of dealing with problems when they arise. It is clear to me that in the Savile case that did not happen. This problem needs to be recognised and addressed."
"The BBC needs to decide what their blogs are for, particularly editor's blogs. Are they a true journalistic outlet, in which case they must meet BBC editorial standards and the press office should not be involved with them."
Report features the findings of the BBC Trust's Editorial Standards Committee into a Newsnight programme on 2 November 2012 which led to Lord McAlpine being wrongly identified online as an abuser. Also includes the conclusions of Ken MacQuarrie, director of BBC Scotland, who carried out an investigation into the programme, and a response from the executive board that manages the BBC.
"The combination of the Newsnight Report and the online speculation had led to Lord McAlpine being incorrectly identified as... [an] abuser."
"Failures by members of the Newsnight team resulted largely from a failure to adhere to the editorial guidelines."
"As a result of the inaccuracy, the audience had been misled."
"The BBC appears to have made inadequate attempts to seek validation for the story beyond what the reporter delivered."
"Newsnight, aware the freelance reporter had interviewed the same interviewee for two previous BBC broadcasts, did not ask for fresh checks to be carried out."
"The Executive cannot explain why a photograph of Lord McAlpine was not shown to the key interviewee prior to transmission. The freelance reporter [Angus Stickler] accepts that this was a terrible mistake."
"Newsnight was aware of online reports that stated the political figure at the centre of the row strongly denied the allegations. Despite this, no action was taken to contact Lord McAlpine.... Some individuals recollect this decision as being informed by legal advice, however, the lawyer does not recall this issue being discussed with him and in any event would have regarded it as a matter that should be addressed."
"Colleagues in BBC Wales had been alerted to the possibility of a significant story about their patch, the doubts about the credibility of his evidence could have been flushed out before any broadcast."
"Programme-makers were aware of suggestions online that Newsnight would 'bottle it again', and that concern about possible 'reputational damage' in that event 'played too large a part' in the decision to proceed with the broadcast."
"The BBC report combined with social media made jigsaw identification possible. This is what led to the naming of Lord McAlpine... However, we should note that case law here is only emerging alongside the social media revolution, that the participants believed that by not naming the political figure on the BBC they were within the area of acceptable risk, and that they took this view in the light of conscientiously-given legal advice."
"This failure occurred in the wake of the decision by Newsnight not to run an investigation into Jimmy Savile... That decision had led to considerable changes in the accountability structure both within Newsnight and beyond. Those changes - as well as changes of personnel within the programme - appear to have contributed to a situation whereby there was a lack of clarity concerning who had overall editorial responsibility."
"The Trustees noted that in normal circumstances they would direct the BBC to make an on-air apology. However, an apology has already been made on air and in court."
"This has been a grave breach which had been costly to all concerned. The Trustees wish to put on record an apology to Lord McAlpine and to the public for this serious failure of BBC journalism."
Newcastle's second relegation from the Premier League in eight years was confirmed on Wednesday.
Shearer told BBC Radio 5 live: "A guy of great stature, a world-renowned coach with his CV managing in the Championship? I can't see it happening.
"I'd love to be wrong. It would be brilliant if he was to stay."
Benitez succeeded the sacked Steve McClaren with Newcastle 19th in the table but could not save the club, winning two of nine league games.
The former Liverpool, Chelsea and Real Madrid manager is believed to have a break clause in the three-year contract he signed in early March, which means the 55-year-old's future with the club is uncertain.
"I know it's a huge football club and I know he's been very impressed with how the fans have taken to him, but I'd be amazed if he stayed," added Shearer, scorer of 206 goals for Newcastle over 10 seasons.
"I'm sure he'll have loads and loads of offers, not only from the Premier League but from around the world."
Last season, Newcastle needed a last-day victory against West Ham United at St James' Park to avoid relegation.
Shearer, who as a short-term manager could not prevent the club from being relegated seven years ago, said relegation had been "coming for a while".
"When you've been flirting with relegation for so long the inevitable will happen," added the former England captain.
"When you don't address problems that have been glaringly obvious for years then, ultimately, you get what you deserve."
In response to managing director Lee Charnley's promise of a full inquest, Shearer said: "That's one thing Newcastle have been good at this season, putting statements out.
"Maybe they should have looked at what went wrong a bit earlier. It might be a bit late to look at it now."
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The Lions pack conceded a couple of crucial penalties towards the end of the 23-22 defeat in Dunedin.
Gatland says Australian Angus Gardner refereed the game differently to how France's Mathieu Raynal handled the Lions' win over the Crusaders.
"Maybe we can get all the Frenchmen in charge of the games," Gatland joked.
"We've gone from single figures [penalties conceded] on Saturday to double figures.
"That really hurt us. We have to make sure we are better in those moments because that's the difference between sometimes winning and losing games."
The Lions led 22-13 in the second half before conceding 10 unanswered points to lose for the second time on tour.
The tourists were exposed in the final quarter at the set-piece, with Marty Banks kicking the match-winning penalty after the Highlanders made a mess of a Lions scrum six minutes from time.
"We've all got to learn from the interpretations of the referee at scrum time," Gatland said.
"I looked at those two penalties against Dan Cole, and I think the first one is a penalty to us.
"There is no doubt they got some ascendancy in the second scrum penalty, and they have got on top of us.
"We need to adapt to that and make sure we work really hard over the next couple of weeks to rectify an issue - if there is - at scrum time."
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The Lions next face the Maori All Blacks in Rotorua on Saturday, with Gatland likely to pick a similar team to the one that impressively beat the Crusaders.
But, while the midweek side have lost both their games, fly-half Dan Biggar insists there will be no splits in the camp.
"We're all in this together," Biggar said.
"If we win on the Saturday, it's a 41-man effort. If we lose on the Wednesday, or whatever, it's a team effort as well.
"That's been the mindset from day one, and it's certainly not going to change now. We have to stick together and try and build momentum with an incredibly tough game on Saturday."
Centre Robbie Henshaw, meanwhile, says he is "extremely frustrated" to have been involved in two defeats in a Lions shirt.
"To be in the red shirt is a privilege," the Irishman said.
"We want to win and we want to do ourselves proud and do the jersey proud."
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Malheeha Mir was sacked after a hearing that took place before Chief Constable Francis Habgood earlier.
A spokesman said she also failed to disclose an association she had with known criminals.
She had already been given a final written warning for accessing police systems for no policing purpose.
Thames Valley Police said she had "breached the standards of professional behaviour relating to discreditable conduct and honesty and integrity".
The men, aged 23, 24, 46 and 50, were held on Thursday at addresses in Glasgow, Renfrewshire and Edinburgh.
They were arrested for alleged assaults and disorder and are expected to appear from custody at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
This brings the total number of arrests following the match to 38. Hibs won the game 3-2.
Immediately after the final whistle, thousands of Hibs fans invaded the pitch to celebrate their team's first Scottish Cup win since 1902.
Some Rangers players were allegedly assaulted and clashes broke out after some Rangers fans entered the pitch.
Det Supt Kenny Graham, who is leading the investigation, said: "This investigation is extensive and involves a significant number of people.
"My officers remain committed to identifying and arresting those involved in the violence and disorder that occurred on 21 May.
"As our investigation progresses, there will be further arrests and continued police action to track down those responsible."
The detective added: "I would ask if anyone has any information or knowledge about people involved or for anyone with information, including footage or images, to contact us."
The hall at Saint Macartans GAA club on the Gargadis Road in Trillick was vandalised sometime between midnight on Friday night and 11:00 GMT on Saturday.
Police have appealed for anyone who noticed any suspicious activity in the area to contact them.
Porter converted Szmodics' cross from close-range before the winger was in on the action himself, arrowing home a 20-yard volley late on.
The first chance of a cagey first half fell to Aaron Pierre but the Wycombe centre-half was unable to steer Danny Rowe's cross into the far corner, despite heading unchallenged from 12 yards out.
Jamal Blackman was the only goalkeeper called into any real action before the break as he saved low to his left after Brennan Dickenson had wriggled into the area from the Colchester left flank.
But the deadlock was broken with just over an hour gone as Porter bundled home Szmodics' cross from inside the six-yard box for his first of the season.
And the Colchester number 10 sealed the points in style, volleying home from outside the area as the visitors registered their third league win in five games.
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Match ends, Wycombe Wanderers 0, Colchester United 2.
Second Half ends, Wycombe Wanderers 0, Colchester United 2.
Attempt saved. Dayle Southwell (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.
Foul by Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers).
Luke Prosser (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Lewis Kinsella (Colchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Corner, Colchester United. Conceded by Marcus Bean.
Sido Jombati (Wycombe Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Sido Jombati (Wycombe Wanderers).
Denny Johnstone (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Luke Prosser.
Substitution, Colchester United. Craig Slater replaces Tom Lapslie.
Anthony Stewart (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Denny Johnstone (Colchester United).
Foul by Marcus Bean (Wycombe Wanderers).
Tom Lapslie (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Colchester United. Alex Wynter replaces Sammie Szmodics.
Substitution, Colchester United. Denny Johnstone replaces Chris Porter.
Matt Bloomfield (Wycombe Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Matt Bloomfield (Wycombe Wanderers).
Brennan Dickenson (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Wycombe Wanderers 0, Colchester United 2. Sammie Szmodics (Colchester United) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Chris Porter.
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Matt Bloomfield replaces Dan Rowe.
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Nick Freeman replaces Garry Thompson.
Anthony Stewart (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Luke Prosser (Colchester United).
Corner, Colchester United. Conceded by Jamal Blackman.
Attempt saved. Brennan Dickenson (Colchester United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Anthony Stewart (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Chris Porter (Colchester United).
Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers).
Tom Eastman (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Foul by Dan Rowe (Wycombe Wanderers).
Kurtis Guthrie (Colchester United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Paul Hayes replaces Sam Wood.
Attempt blocked. Marcus Bean (Wycombe Wanderers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Luke Prosser.
Attempt blocked. Sido Jombati (Wycombe Wanderers) header from the left side of the box is blocked.
Anders Kompass told officials that the UN was failing to properly investigate allegations that French troops abused children as young as eight.
A UN investigation in May 2015 cleared him of sharing confidential documents.
But Mr Kompass says senior officials have still not been held to account.
His resignation takes effect in August.
Mr Kompass is the director of field operations at the UN human rights office in Geneva.
French authorities say they are investigating the abuse allegations and will punish anyone found responsible.
In an interview with the humanitarian news agency IRIN, Mr Kompass said he was departing because of "the complete impunity for those who have been found to have, in various degrees, abused their authority, together with the unwillingness of the hierarchy to express any regrets for the way they acted towards me".
"This makes it impossible for me to keep working there," he said.
In July 2014, Mr Kompass leaked a confidential UN report on the alleged sexual abuse of children by peacekeepers in the Central African Republic to prosecutors in France - the former colonial power - claiming the UN was taking too long to act.
French authorities are now investigating 14 soldiers in connection with the report's findings.
A study by independent experts in December revealed "gross institutional failure" by the UN in the way it responded to abuse allegations.
It said that children as young as nine were encouraged to have sex in exchange for food or money in conflict-ridden CAR.
A UN tribunal last year ruled that Mr Kompass's suspension was unlawful and he should be allowed to return to work.
The Swede has worked for the UN for more than 30 years.
Hillel Neuer, executive director of the monitoring group UN Watch, told AFP news agency that many now see Mr Kompass as "a hero for trying to protect abused children, in contrast to other UN officials".
France intervened in its former colony in December 2013, nine months after a rebel alliance, Seleka, had captured the capital and ousted President Francois Bozize.
The country descended into ethnic and sectarian violence, with thousands of people fleeing their homes and the UN warning that there was a high risk of genocide.
Anna Jura's body was discovered in Penrhiwceiber, near Mountain Ash, on Thursday. Police said her death was being treated as suspicious.
A 72-year-old man who had been helping officers with their inquiries has been released.
The investigation into the circumstances surrounding Ms Jura's death is ongoing.
It follows a National Audit Office (NAO) report, which revealed that the rollout will cost at least £92m less than BT had originally said.
The government said that the spare cash would be ploughed back into offering fast broadband to more remote areas.
BT said that the claim - made by MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) - was "bizarre".
PAC told the BBC it questioned why BT had told the committee it would cost so much more.
"Although it's reassuring that the cost to the public purse could end up being £92m (25%) less than what BT had originally forecast in its bid, I worry that this does not stack up with what BT told my committee in 2013 - that it factors in a contingency of between 5% and 8%, which might not get spent, a much smaller proportion than 25%," Margaret Hodge, chair of the PAC, told the BBC.
"It is very concerning that it looks like BT could have abused its dominant position in the market by vastly overestimating forecast costs in the first place when it put in its original bid, and we also have broader concerns about whether the deal represents value for money."
In response BT said that its initial cost estimates were "based on our initial view of how much it would cost to deploy fibre in rural areas".
"We have come in under budget in several areas which is good news for the taxpayer as we only charge for the costs we incur, not those we first forecast. The savings can now be reinvested to take fibre to additional areas."
"The suggestion we inflated those costs is bizarre as by doing so we would have hindered our chances of winning the work."
"The NAO report this week confirmed our costs were 20% below those others would have charged in a sample area, so we are clearly delivering excellent value for money."
The distribution of broadband is overseen by Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK), part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
The report found "significantly lower" costs than listed in BT's financial model for the first phase of the scheme.
"As at September 2014, BT's total reported capital spend on phase 1 of the programme was £142 million (38%) under the estimated price, including work in progress not yet invoiced," the NAO said.
Taking into account possible further costs, BT would still have spent "approximately £92m less", the report concludes.
This sum will be ploughed back into rural rollouts, the DCMS said.
"The savings realised so far, along with with projected future savings, will be reinvested in extending the current rollout plans."
Several reports have found that rural businesses, schools and homes are at a significant disadvantage because of poor broadband.
Bringing faster services to remote areas has proved to be highly controversial.
Questions have been raised about the time it has taken the government to start the rollout and whether the plans are ambitious enough.
Last year the Public Accounts Committee accused the government of mismanaging the project, and said BT released "wildly inaccurate" estimates of costs.
Mrs Hodge said at the time: "The taxpayer has been ripped off, with £1.2bn going to the shareholders of BT."
BT's status as the only operator providing rural broadband could actually be one of the reasons for costs being cut, said Andrew Ferguson, editor of the ThinkBroadband news site.
"It is interesting that a chunk of the savings are down to the fact that only one supplier won all the contracts, increasing the economies of scale, at the expense of competition," he said.
Mike Kiely, a former adviser to BDUK, has long argued that BT's estimates of the cost of distributing broadband to rural areas were far too high.
He felt vindicated by the findings, saying: "Thirty-eight per cent excess costs have been confirmed in the cost models used to calculate the milestone payments. Those monies - and there will be more - need to be used to extend the fibre rollout further."
He and others argue that BT should think about offering even faster broadband - by taking so-called "fibre-to-the-premise" technology, which offers significantly higher speeds than BT's preferred technology of "fibre-to-the-cabinet".
BT hopes to deliver speeds of up to 500Mbps (megabits per second) to homes via an innovative technology known as G.fast.
"We believe G.fast is the key to unlocking ultrafast speeds and we are prepared to upgrade large parts of our network should the pilots prove successful," chief executive Gavin Patterson said.
The firm expects to offer initial speeds of a few hundred megabits per second to millions of homes and businesses by 2020.
Payne, 28, finished second in a qualification event in Portugal on Saturday to secure her place.
She won silver in the inaugural Olympic 10km event in Beijing in 2008 and fourth in London four years later.
Jack Burnell, who was fifth at the 2015 World Championships, will make make his Olympic debut in the men's event.
The 21-year-old midfielder goes straight into the squad for Saturday's trip to Accrington Stanley.
The former Cheltenham Town and Oldham Athletic loanee has made 38 appearances for City, but has only featured once for the first team this season.
Argyle manager John Sheridan had been looking to strengthen his midfield following the injury to Alex Bray.
Pilgrims coach Sean McCarthy said Reid had made a big impression since arriving at Home Park on Thursday.
"He trained for the first time this morning with his team-mates and he was outstanding," McCarthy told BBC Sport.
"Bobby's a bit different - he's an attacking midfielder who's got two good feet, a good engine and he can play."
"Of course he'd like to get in the first team at Bristol City but you're better off playing first-team games at Plymouth Argyle than playing in the Bristol City reserves."
"The gaffer (Steve Cotterill) told me on Saturday that Plymouth were interested and asked if I'd like to come down," Reid told BBC Sport.
"I spoke to who said it was a nice club with good fans, so it was a no-brainer.
"I'm more of a creative type of player. I try to get goals and assists - my main aim is to help Plymouth win every week."
The Home Office is looking at a funding request for the families ahead of inquests into the 21 deaths.
At a meeting with Home Secretary Amber Rudd on Monday, the families learned no immediate decision was to be made but that they would be told in September.
Campaigner Julie Hambleton said she was "disappointed and frustrated".
Ms Hambleton, whose sister Maxine died in the 1974 atrocity, said although Ms Rudd listened to what relatives had to say, she still felt "in limbo".
The relatives want their lawyers, who have so far worked for free, to be paid out of public funds, the same as police and other agencies who will be in involved in the inquests.
In June, Birmingham's senior coroner ruled there was evidence that still needed to be heard and gave the go-ahead for fresh inquests.
A pre-inquests review is due to be held next month, with a full hearing expected next year.
Ahead of Monday's meeting, two local Labour MPs - Jess Phillips, for Yardley, and Steve McCabe, for Selly Oak - urged the government to agree funding for relatives.
The striker, 31, ended a three-year stay at Old Trafford to join the Turkish side for an undisclosed fee.
He said: "It's part of football, it's part of life. It was a situation where I could see it coming, if I'm really honest."
Van Persie added that he "got used to the idea" of leaving United.
He said: "I had a good moment with the players the day before I came to Istanbul so that was special. Then you see that everyone really appreciated my time there, that was important for me."
The Netherlands international, who praised the "very classy" way in which his transfer was handled by Manchester United chief executive officer Ed Woodward, was unveiled in front of about 10,000 Fenerbahce supporters inside the club's stadium.
He told them: "I promise you one thing - I will do everything in my power to help Fenerbahce win as many trophies to make you happy. Let's do it together.
"I am humbled to see so many great fans come to greet me. I can only imagine what kind of party it would be if we won the league. I hope I can share that with you."
After signing from Arsenal for £24m in 2012, Van Persie hit 58 goals in 105 appearances for United, scoring 26 as they won the Premier League title in 2012-13.
He said he is convinced he can continue to play at the top level for "many years".
Ex-United team-mate Nani joined Fenerbahce, runners-up in the Super Lig last season, for £4.25m earlier this month.
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Dave Sykes will brave temperatures as low as -40C (-40F) as he crosses the Arctic Ocean on his month-long trip.
In 2011, he became the first paraplegic to fly a microlight from England to Australia in a 16,000-mile trip that took him more than three months.
Mr Sykes, from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, said: "I've been called bonkers, mad and crazy."
Family and friends gathered earlier as he took to the skies from Rufforth Airfield, near York.
Speaking before his journey, Mr Sykes said he was feeling "extremely nervous".
"It's actually overwhelming, disappearing into Europe and leaving everyone behind because I'm actually on my own. I've got no ground support or air support, only me."
A member of York Flying Club, the pilot, who is raising money for Martin House Children's Hospice, said he would wear a special heated flying jacket and gloves to avoid frostbite and an adapted helmet to keep out the intense cold.
His journey is expected to cover five countries and will take about four weeks with stop-offs for re-fuelling.
His mother Maureen Sykes said: "I'm worried to death. I won't rest until I see him now; I'll be a bag of nerves all the time.
"I think sometimes he's foolish but nothing will stop him."
In November 1993, a motorbike accident left Mr Sykes with a broken back, clavicle and thigh bone, together with broken ribs and punctured lungs.
Doctors had said he would remain in hospital for at least two years, but he was discharged in May 1994.
Mr Sykes took up microlighting in 2000 and gained his pilot's licence in 2001.
One of the largest camps is in a semi-arid field outside the north-eastern town of Dalori, with row-upon-row of white tents stretching for more than a kilometre.
BBC Africa's Jimeh Saleh met some of the 18,000 residents there and heard how they have survived attacks by the Islamist militant group and how they are now coping.
One of the most noticeable figures in Dalori camp, Mr Mutti limps around using wooden crutches.
The 55-year-old former businessman fled Bama with thousands of others after the militants ransacked the town in 2014.
His left leg was hit by a bullet, leaving his foot dangling.
"I was in bed when they came at dawn; I was nursing the gunshot wound they inflicted on me in an earlier attack," he said.
The insurgents killed his 24-year-old son and also kidnapped his two daughters.
He now lives in Dalori with his two wives, 10 other children and three grandchildren.
The horror he and his neighbours have experienced are concealed by their cheerful children.
Under-18s make up the majority of the camp residents - scampering about, often unaware of the past tragedies and the challenges ahead.
"Tomorrow you shall come again, come again, come again," they chant.
But malnutrition, malaria and other infections are widespread.
"This is by far the worst thing I have seen in my life," said 60-year-old Noah Bwala, the camp clinician.
One of the cooks at the camp kitchen is Mrs Modu, who still does not know the fate of her husband and eight children.
Some of her offspring were taken by militants from her home in the town of Bama and others were kidnapped in school.
"I cry each time I remember them," she says.
She was given the cooking job on compassionate grounds after the camp officials took pity on her because she is without her family.
Among the camp elders is Mrs Ammuna, who says she is 100 years old.
The widow and former milk seller is still pained by the loss of her two houses to Boko Haram in Bama.
The keys to the houses were seized at gun point by the Islamist fighters, she said.
But she is hopeful that now that the army has recaptured most territory previously under Boko Haram control, the soldiers will be able to take her back home when it is safe to return.
Despite the gloom of Dalori, some residents still find time to fall in love.
Thirty-five-year-old Modu Bulama came to the camp after his wife and two children were killed by Boko Haram.
Whilst helping with the distribution of relief material to camp residents, he met a woman who had lost her husband in the conflict.
After exchanging their experiences, he asked her to marry him.
But being in the camp has not stopped tradition, and he had to raise $50 (£34) for the bride price of the woman, who did not want to give her name.
On patrol with soldiers hunting Boko Haram
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The publisher says the software undermines online multiplayer battles and could cause players to lose interest in the title.
It has filed papers with a California court calling for the unidentified programmers to be made to compensate it for copyright infringement.
One industry watcher described the move as "aggressive".
"The only reason that cheats like this exist is because there is demand for them," said Ed Barton, a video games analyst at the consultancy Ovum.
"But the competitive scene for Starcraft is very important, especially in Korea, and Blizzard needs to preserve the fantasy of the core experience."
News of the legal action was first reported by the Torrentfreak news site, which noted that the ValiantChaos MapHack cheats at the centre of the case remained available online if gamers paid a "donation" of $62.50 (£37).
The creators have promoted the hack on Blizzard's own forums as well as other sites.
The science fiction real-time strategy game Starcraft II was released on 27 July 2010, and has subsequently been followed up with expansion packs,
Blizzard's last annual report noted that the Heart of the Swarm add-on was 2013's best-selling PC game at US stores, and the company is still working on a final extension called Legacy of the Void.
Its court filing talks of wanting "to protect the sanctity of the Starcraft II gaming experience" and notes that its terms and conditions explicitly prohibit the use of "hacks, mods or any other unauthorised third-party software" designed to allow a player to boost their ranking and access new weapons and abilities.
"The competitive aspect of Starcraft II's multiplayer environment is one of the driving forces behind sales of the game," it states.
"In fact, the Starcraft game are played as a competitive sport around the world, with professional or semi-professional players competing for national and international titles.
"Additionally, the ability to play the game against skilled human opponents keeps the player experience fresh and interesting, thus ensuring that players return to the game frequently."
The firm adds that it wishes the court to shut down the hacks and make their creators hand over the profits they had made.
The case has echoes of Nintendo's court battles against the Games Genie - a cartridge that allowed players to enter codes to cheat at Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) titles in the early 1990s.
Nintendo also alleged copyright infringement but lost the case after the judge ruled that consumers had the right to "experiment with the product" after paying a fair price for a game. Nintendo's rival Sega later gave its backing to the product and helped fund its marketing campaign.
However, Blizzard has been more successful in this area following 1998's introduction of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which criminalised software designed to bypass digital locks.
In 2010 the firm won a copyright infringement case against MDY Industries, which had sold a software "bot" that automatically played the early levels of World of Warcraft for players.
"The law in this area is relatively new as these forms of online games are only a decade old," Jas Purewal, editor of the Gamer Law news site told the BBC.
"Nonetheless, there have been a number of victories in this area and overall the odds are stacked against hackers and against cheaters once a games company is determined to take legal action."
The withdrawal has led petrol prices to more than double since Monday, prompting anger countrywide.
"We have the total backing of all Nigerian workers on this strike and mass protest," the Nigeria Labour Congress's Chris Uyot told the BBC.
Nigeria is Africa's biggest oil producer, but imports refined petrol.
Both the NLC and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) have agreed to the strike.
NLC spokesman Mr Uyot told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme there was no room for dialogue with the government, which has said it will spend the money saved by removing the subsidy on improving the country's erratic electricity supply, as well as on health and education.
Prices have increased from 65 naira ($0.40; £0.26) per litre to at least 140 naira in filling stations and from 100 naira to at least 200 on the black market, where many Nigerians buy their fuel.
"After exhaustive deliberations and consultations with all sections of the populace, the NLC, TUC and their pro-people allies demand that the presidency immediately reverses fuel prices to 65 naira," a statement signed by the heads of the two unions said.
If the government failed to do so," all offices, oil production centres, air and sea ports, fuel stations, markets, banks, amongst others will be shut down" from Monday 9 January, it said.
"We advise Nigerians to stockpile basic needs especially food and water," the statement added.
There has been a furious reaction this week to the fuel price increase - one protester was killed on Tuesday in Ilorin, Kwara state, and thousands of Nigerians have demonstrated in cities across the country.
Nigeria's Central Bank Governor Lamido Sanusi told the BBC the subsidy - which he said cost the government about $8bn (£5.1bn) last year - was "unsustainable".
"Subsides should be for production and not consumption," he told Focus on Africa.
In December, the government released a list of the people who benefit most from the subsidy, which include some of Nigeria's richest people - the owners of fuel-importing firms.
Years of mismanagement and corruption mean Nigeria does not have the capacity to refine oil into petrol and other fuels.
Several previous governments have tried to remove the subsidy but have backed down in the face of widespread public protests and reduced it instead.
The IMF has long urged Nigeria's government to remove the subsidy.
City leaders want to spend £700,000 on developing blueprints to confirm how much they will have to invest to plug a funding gap and begin tendering.
Councillors will meet on Thursday to discuss a report on the project.
The cost of the new centre has been estimated at £41.1m. The council has a £5.98m funding shortfall.
The new site will feature a 500-capacity outdoor athletics track, synthetic sports pitches, a gymnastics hall, studios, changing facilities, a cafe and meeting rooms.
Andrew Burns, Edinburgh city council leader, said: "This report sets out quite clearly the funding required to turn one of our flagship facilities, which everyone agrees is at the end of its useful life, into a sports venue fit for the 21st century.
"While it is a significant investment for the council, creating a detailed design would give us greater clarity about how much money we need to invest.
"Not only would we see a new Meadowbank but more homes would be built to meet the city's housing needs."
Richard Lewis, Edinburgh city council's culture and sport convener, said: "Transforming Meadowbank into a brand new sports complex would provide a modern, fully accessible high quality sports centre for sports clubs and local communities.
"The new venue will bring health and wellbeing benefits across the city by supporting even more people to become and stay active."
Mary Knowlton, 73, was participating in a role-playing exercise when an officer mistakenly shot her with a live round, the Punta Gorda Police Department said.
She was rushed to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
The police department did not release the name of the officer involved, but said he had been placed on administrative leave.
Mrs Knowlton, a librarian, was one of 35 students participating in a two-hour community training class hosted by the police academy in Punta Gorda, Florida on Tuesday. Â
She was taking part in a "shoot/don't shoot" exercise, in which participants decide whether or not to use simulated lethal force when she was hit with live ammunition.
"I am devastated for everyone involved in this unimaginable event,'' Police Chief Tom Lewis said at a news conference.
`"If you pray, please pray for Mary's family, and for the officers who were involved. Everyone involved in this accident is in a state of overwhelming shock and grief.'"
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigation the incident, Mr Lewis said.
The Queen was presented with an official Games pass as a patron of the event and head of the Commonwealth.
The couple also met Games organisers and saw competitors at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome.
The visit came as tourism bosses said the Games should act as a "springboard" for Scotland's tourism industry.
VisitScotland estimate that up to 1.5 million visitors are due to descend on the city later this month.
The tourism agency has been working with local businesses on projects aimed at boosting the economy, improving services and driving up standards.
It said the Games were an opportunity to reinforce Scotland's reputation for hosting major events.
Last summer VisitScotland announced plans for a £2.5m marketing drive to promote the Games at home and abroad and encourage more visitors to Scotland.
Now with events just weeks away the focus is on the experience those visitors will be offered.
A survey by Glasgow 2014 - of 10,000 spectators - suggested about a fifth of people coming to the Commonwealth Games have never been to Glasgow before.
VisitScotland wants to build on that and ensure spectators leave the city with a desire to return.
Chief executive Malcolm Roughead said: "2014 presents a unique opportunity for Scottish tourism - not only as a chance to promote our country to a global audience, but also to leave a legacy for the industry, developing skills that will pave the way for a Scotland that is more accessible, more sustainable and even more welcoming.
"It is important that visitors coming to Scotland this year, leave impressed not just by our scenery, wildlife and landmarks but by our people and our facilities.
"This helps raise our standing on the international stage and makes Scotland a place of interest for visitors and for other businesses."
Glasgow Welcomes is a scheme involving more than 10,000 staff from hotels, restaurants, bars, shops, transport providers and tourist attractions in the city.
They have been given extra customer service training, up-to-date information about the best places to visit and what's on around the city, as well as facts and figures about Games venues and events.
Glasgow restaurateur, James Rusk said he found the Glasgow Welcomes online module a useful addition to his in-house training.
He said: "It has provided our staff with a unique blend of customer service guidance and destination knowledge that will further enable our staff to deliver an exceptional level of service, with specialist Commonwealth Games knowledge."
Businesses have been offered tips on how to attract more custom and boost profits by becoming more environmentally friendly.
VisitScotland's Greener Glasgow scheme aims to appeal to the 84% of visitors to the UK who say sustainability is important when they are choosing a holiday destination.
There has also been a focus on making the city more accessible to visitors regardless of their physical, sensory and learning disabilities or age.
Firms have been encouraged to produce "access statements" ahead of the Games which detail in words and pictures how visitors can get around their hotel, restaurant, shop or attraction.
Mr Roughead added: "Improving skills and standards helps attract more visitors, which in turn creates more jobs and boosts the economy. For every £50,000 spent by visitors, one new job is created.
"Tourism is one of the country's most important industries and worth £11bn to the Scottish economy, but there is the potential for further growth.
"We must use major events such as the Commonwealth Games as a significant springboard for our future."
Despite that, Victorian explorer Joseph Thomson is almost unknown in his native Scotland.
Thomson was born in Penpont, Dumfriesshire, in 1858, the son of a stonemason and quarry owner. He developed a love for botany and geology and studied at the University of Edinburgh.
But he also had the explorer's bug, leading several expeditions to Africa in the 1870s and 1880s, including one for the Royal Geographical Society to identify a trade route through the territory of the feared Maasai warriors.
"He could have been in mortal danger," said John Hastings-Thomson, the explorer's great grand-nephew, who believes he might easily have been mistaken for a white slaver and killed.
I am making history as the first ever Maasai elder to visit his birthplace...It really means a lot to me as it is something that has been in my mind since I was a child.
Instead, however, Thomson managed to befriend the Maasai and earn their trust, respect and protection. Warriors escorted him along the way, keeping him safe from the dangers of wild animals and other hostile tribes.
Thomson had a motto: "He who goes gently goes safely; he who goes safely goes far."
"I think this encapsulates his way of doing things and ensured his survival," said Mr Hastings-Thomson. "He didn't go blundering in, all-guns-blazing. He was willing to be patient and negotiate his way through."
That is certainly how Thomson is remembered in Maasai-land, now part of modern Kenya.
"One of the things that stands out about Joseph Thomson is his humbleness," said Ezekiel Katato, a village elder in one of the Maasai communities Thomson visited.
"He went through the land and avoided at all cost confrontation with anyone along the way.
"He was also very brave because he was going through a land unknown to him and to the world. He really didn't know what would happen to him the next day, or the next minute."
Mr Katato relates how Thomson endeared himself to Maasai women with gifts of beads, and intrigued the warriors with his dentures!
"They thought he was a magician because he had these teeth that he could remove at will and put back to his mouth," he said. "It's a story that has been passed on from generation to generation!"
Mr Katato learned about, and was inspired by, Thomson as a schoolboy. So much so that he has now travelled to Scotland to trace the explorer's footsteps.
Striding through the sleepy village of Penpont, the tall imposing black man in bright purple robes does look quite incongruous. But no more so than a young white Scotsman would have looked in Africa 130 years ago.
"Today I am making history as the first ever Maasai elder to visit his birthplace here in Penpont," declared Mr Katato with pride. "It really means a lot to me as it is something that has been in my mind since I was a child."
The main reason for his visit is to join family members and supporters to launch the Joseph Thomson Maasai Trust in Penpont on Saturday.
It is being established to promote Thomson's life and legacy in Scotland and further afield and also a Thomson trail that Mr Kakato has developed along 65 miles of the 1,500-mile route the explorer followed.
Mr Hastings-Thomson has already tackled it twice and said it was "an amazing experience".
The aim now is to interest people, especially young people, from Scotland and elsewhere to travel to Kenya to take part in the next walk in June 2017.
"I think it is very important to get young people from all over the world to join the young people of Maasai-land to walk in the footsteps of Joseph Thomson, to bring different cultures together and to use their talents and energies to work for peace and make beautiful memories," said Mr Katato.
"I particularly wanted to organise this walk because of the respect I have for him (Thomson) and to promote his legacy because he is a man worth remembering in our community."
He shares Mr Hastings-Thomson's sadness that Joseph Thomson is today largely forgotten in Scotland.
There is a monument to him in Thornhill where he went to school and he is buried in the town's churchyard. Thomson died in 1895 at the young age of 37.
His life was short, but his legacy long-lasting - at least in Africa.
Crewe started brightly but Blackpool struck after eight minutes when Brad Potts crossed for Nathan Delfouneso, who headed past Ben Garratt from six yards.
But Garratt was on hand two minutes later to prevent the hosts doubling the lead as he denied Kyle Vassell from close range.
The Seasiders were two to the good after 27 minutes, as the ball broke to centre-back Tom Aldred 12 yards out, and he thumped it into the bottom corner.
The Alex continued to threaten and should have scored after 44 minutes, when Chris Dagnall failed to turn home Callum Cooke's cross from a yard out.
David Artell's side did halve the deficit after 62 minutes. A fast counter-attack cut Blackpool open and Dagnall bundled home the rebound after Sam Slocombe saved from George Cooper.
And Crewe snatched their equaliser with two minutes remaining as Jordan Bowery nodded down for Turton to volley past Slocombe from 12 yards.
Match report supplied by the Press Association
Match ends, Blackpool 2, Crewe Alexandra 2.
Second Half ends, Blackpool 2, Crewe Alexandra 2.
Jamille Matt (Blackpool) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by George Ray (Crewe Alexandra).
Foul by Nathan Delfouneso (Blackpool).
Callum Ainley (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Callum Cooke (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Sam Slocombe.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Sam Slocombe.
Attempt saved. Alex Kiwomya (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Alex Kiwomya replaces Chris Dagnall.
Goal! Blackpool 2, Crewe Alexandra 2. Oliver Turton (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jordan Bowery.
Jamille Matt (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by George Ray (Crewe Alexandra).
Attempt saved. Jamille Matt (Blackpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Blackpool. Bright Samuel replaces Colin Daniel.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Jamille Matt.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Eddie Nolan.
Will Aimson (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Jones (Crewe Alexandra).
Attempt missed. George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Chris Dagnall (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Hand ball by Colin Daniel (Blackpool).
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Callum Ainley replaces Ryan Wintle.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Zoumana Bakayogo replaces Jon Guthrie.
Foul by Eddie Nolan (Blackpool).
Ryan Wintle (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Blackpool. Conceded by Ben Nugent.
Corner, Blackpool. Conceded by Ryan Wintle.
Attempt blocked. Brad Potts (Blackpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. George Ray (Crewe Alexandra) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Eddie Nolan.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Nathan Delfouneso.
Attempt saved. Nathan Delfouneso (Blackpool) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Blackpool. Jamille Matt replaces Kyle Vassell because of an injury.
Corner, Blackpool. Conceded by George Ray.
Goal! Blackpool 2, Crewe Alexandra 1. Chris Dagnall (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Chris Dagnall (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Colin Daniel.
Nick Timothy told the Daily Telegraph that Downing Street was also guilty of a breakdown in communication with both the public and Whitehall departments.
The party clearly underestimated Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, he added.
Mr Timothy resigned as the prime minister's joint chief of staff after the Tories lost their majority.
He said: "If the party retreats into a comfort zone that we don't find very challenging, I worry that we will not only fail to address the challenges the country faces but we will also increase the chances of a hard-left government in five years' time."
Mr Timothy was joint chief of staff alongside Fiona Hill, and co-wrote the Conservatives' manifesto going into the general election.
He rejected reports that Mrs May had intended to sack Chancellor Philip Hammond if she increased her Commons majority.
Mrs May is still prepared to walk away from Brexit talks without a deal, he added, but her hopes of reversing the ban on new grammar schools are over.
Mr Timothy said plans for ministers to play a bigger part in the election campaign were overruled by party strategists.
He conceded it "probably is true that there should have been more on the economy during the campaign".
"Overall the lesson of the election for the party and for the government cannot be: 'Oh well, we tried that and we didn't win the election we were hoping for so let's not try it any more'," he said.
"If the party retreats to a much more orthodox Conservative proposition then I worry that won't be sufficient to tackle the big problems that the country has and in five years' time we do risk the election of a dangerous left-wing alternative."
Mr Timothy was interviewed by the Telegraph ahead of starting to write a weekly column for the paper.
Mr Gove was a surprise addition to the race, having been expected to back Boris Johnson, who shocked the political world by ruling himself out.
Minister Andrea Leadsom, MP Liam Fox and Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb are also in the running.
The winner of the contest is set to be announced on 9 September.
The leadership battle has been sparked by David Cameron's decision to step down as prime minister after losing the EU referendum, which saw the country vote by 52% to 48% to leave the EU.
Mr Gove's announcement early on Thursday that he would challenge the leadership was unexpected, as the justice secretary had been expected to throw his weight behind fellow leading Leave campaigner Mr Johnson for Conservative leader.
Explaining his decision, he said: "I have repeatedly said that I do not want to be prime minister. That has always been my view. But events since last Thursday have weighed heavily with me.
"I respect and admire all the candidates running for the leadership. In particular, I wanted to help build a team behind Boris Johnson so that a politician who argued for leaving the European Union could lead us to a better future.
"But I have come, reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead."
By Ben Wright, BBC political correspondent
"Shakespearian" is the word being mumbled by dazed politicians and pundits at Westminster.
The ambitions, rivalries and duplicitous double-dealing unleashed before the Tory leadership contest even got underway has left onlookers groping for fictional comparisons.
It's Richard III meets Scarface, with a bit of Godfather thrown in.
Remember this: David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and George Osborne grew up together - personally and politically. Their families were close. But the EU referendum ripped through old loyalties.
First Michael Gove backed the Leave campaign, knowing the damage it could do to Cameron and Osborne. The chancellor and Gove kept their friendship intact despite the strain of the campaign.
But it was Boris Johnson's decision to lead the Leave campaign and put his own ambitions to be prime minister ahead of loyalty to David Cameron that severed his relationship with the now departing PM, destroyed by Leave's victory.
Boris Johnson believed the crown would be his and naively believed Michael Gove's promises of support. But now Mr Gove, despite polite protestations he never coveted the top job, has ruthlessly dispatched his friend.
What has been going on behind the scenes? The truth will only emerge in memoirs.
But my sense is Mr Gove and his team of advisors clearly did not believe Boris Johnson had the spine to fully divorce Britain from the EU. Nor did a number of Tory Mps trust Mr Johnson to deliver the promises he was making in terms of personnel and jobs.
When Mr Gove made his move, hardened Brexit believers instantly went with him, sinking Boris Johnson.
The irony of course is that Boris Johnson, who did so much to take Britain out of the EU, has seen his own ambitious crushed in the aftermath.
It could be that the big winner from this vicious Tory drama is the woman in charge of law and order - Theresa May.
Setting out his pitch for the leadership, the cabinet minister - best known as a controversial education secretary before becoming one of the faces of the Leave campaign - said: "I want there to be an open and positive debate about the path the country will now take.
"Whatever the verdict of that debate I will respect it. In the next few days I will lay out my plan for the United Kingdom which I hope can provide unity and change."
Conservative MP David Davis told BBC Radio 5 Live Mr Gove's decision must have been taken "very late", as Mr Gove's assistant had asked him on Wednesday night to attend Mr Johnson's campaign launch on Thursday.
Justice minister and Leave campaigner Dominic Raab, who switched his support from Mr Johnson to Mr Gove, told the BBC's Daily Politics that "Boris was cavalier with assurances he made" and had failed to put together a "strong unifying team".
Home Secretary Theresa May: The 59-year-old has overtaken Boris Johnson as the bookies' favourite to win the contest. She's held the Home Office brief - often something of a poisoned chalice - since 2010, and is a former Tory party chairman. She says she can offer the "strong leadership" and unity the UK needs, and promised a "positive vision" for the country's future. She backed staying in the EU.
Justice Secretary Michael Gove: The 48-year-old former newspaper columnist was a key figure in the party's modernisation that led to its return to power in 2010. He was a reforming, if controversial, education secretary between 2010 and 2014, and now holds the Ministry of Justice brief. He was a leading player in the Brexit campaign - which put a strain on his close friendship with David Cameron. He has pitched himself as the candidate that can provide "unity and change."
Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb: The 43-year-old was promoted to the cabinet in 2014 as Welsh secretary, and boosted his profile earlier this year when he took over as work and pensions secretary. A rising star of the Tory party he has promised to unite the party and country following the referendum result and provide stability. Raised on a council estate by a single mother, he has a back story to which many Tory MPs are attracted. Backed Remain.
Energy minister Andrea Leadsom: The 53-year-old former banker and fund manager was one of the stars of the Leave campaign. A former district councillor, she became MP for South Northamptonshire in 2010 and - after serving as a junior Treasury minister and as a member of the Treasury select committee - she was made a junior minister in the energy and climate change department in May last year.
Former cabinet minister Liam Fox: It's second time around for the 54-year-old ex-defence secretary and GP, who came a close third in the 2005 leadership contest. His cabinet career was cut short in 2011 when he resigned following a lobbying row. A Brexit campaigner, and on the right of the party, he has said whoever becomes PM must accept "the instruction" of the British people and not "try to backslide" over EU membership.
Launching her leadership bid in central London, Mrs May - one of the longest-serving home secretaries in history - said the UK needed "strong proven leadership to steer us through this period of economic and political uncertainty and to negotiate the best possible terms as we leave the European Union".
She also pitched herself as the candidate that could "unite our party and our country" and offer "a bold, new positive vision" for the country's future that "works not for a privileged few, but for every one of us".
Although Mrs May - the daughter of a vicar - backed Remain she maintained a low profile during the campaign and, in her speech, insisted she would not back away from last week's vote. "Brexit is Brexit."
But she said Article 50 - the formal mechanism for leaving the EU - should not be triggered until the UK had agreed its negotiating strategy - probably before the end of year.
She set out plans for a new government department to oversee the UK's withdrawal from the EU - and said it would be headed by a pro-Brexit cabinet-level minister.
And she said she would, as prime minister, abandon plans to pull Britain out of the European Convention on Human Rights, saying she did not expect there to be a parliamentary majority for it.
Mrs May acknowledged she was "not a showy politician", adding: "I just get on with the job in front of me" - suggesting that was what the country wanted.
Former Defence Secretary Liam Fox, meanwhile, said any Brexit deal which included free movement of people would be "a betrayal" of the referendum result, as he kicked off his campaign.
He said free movement was a political preference which needed to challenged. And he said the UK should approach the post-EU era with "confidence".
Energy minister Andrea Leadsom, who also announced her candidacy on Thursday, told the BBC that delivering Brexit was an "absolutely top priority" for the next prime minister.
"It's not just about leaving something, it's about re-engaging with the rest of the world," she said.
She also said she had a "real desire to see the social justice in our country turned around" and said her focus, if elected, would be on mental health, improving skills and getting young people into work.
Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb, who was the first to launch his leadership bid and who campaigned to stay in the EU, vowed to make curbing immigration a "red line" in Brexit negotiations - and he ruled out a snap general election and a second EU referendum.
The former Welsh secretary said stability was his aim. He also pledged to confront economic and social divisions across the UK, build a strong economy and improve trade links, if he won the contest.
Speaking before Mr Johnson's decision to pull out Mrs May joked: "Boris negotiated in Europe. I seem to remember last time he did a deal with the Germans, he came back with three nearly-new water cannon."
The then London mayor purchased the riot control water cannon following the riots in the capital city in 2011 - but Mrs May eventually withheld permission for their use.
In a speech that had been billed as his campaign launch on Thursday, Mr Johnson, who has long harboured ambitions to be leader and prime minister, announced he would not be standing.
Mr Johnson said the next Conservative leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.
"Having consulted colleagues and in view of the circumstances in Parliament, I have concluded that person cannot be me," he said, just moments before the noon deadline passed.
Dean Yeats, from Forfar, is alleged to have caused the blaze at King George V Pumping Station on Thursday.
Prosecutors allege he wilfully set fire to a piece of paper and threw it on the pumping station.
It is alleged this caused a fire to take effect, causing "extensive damage." Mr Yeats made no plea or declaration at Dundee Sheriff Court.
The case was continued for further examination and he was granted bail.
It will take at least five years for employment in advanced economies to return to pre-crisis levels, it said.
The ILO also noted that in 45 of the 118 countries it examined, the risk of social unrest was rising.
Separately, the OECD research body said G20 leaders meeting in Cannes this week need to take "bold decisions".
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said the rescue plan announced by EU leaders on 26 October had been an important first step, but the measures must be implemented "promptly and forcefully".
The OECD's message to world leaders came as it predicted a sharp slowdown in growth in the eurozone and warned that some countries in the 17-nation bloc were likely to face negative growth.
In its World of Work Report 2011, the ILO said a stalled global economic recovery had begun to "dramatically affect" labour markets.
It said approximately 80 million net new jobs would be needed over the next two years to get back to pre-crisis employment levels.
But it said the recent slowdown in growth suggested that only half the jobs needed would be created.
"We have reached the moment of truth. We have a brief window of opportunity to avoid a major double-dip in employment," said Raymond Torres from the ILO.
The group also measured levels of discontent over the lack of jobs and anger over perceptions that the burden of the crisis was not being fairly shared.
It said scores of countries faced the possibility of social unrest, particularly those in the EU and the Arab region.
Meanwhile, in its latest projections for G20 economies, the OECD forecast growth in the eurozone of 1.6% this year, slowing to 0.3% next year.
In May, it had forecast growth of 2% per year in both 2011 and 2012.
It also cut its growth forecasts for the US to 1.7% in 2011 and 1.8% in 2012. It had previously expected growth of 2.6% and 3.1% respectively.
The organisation called for G20 leaders, who meet on Thursday and Friday, to act quickly.
"Much of the current weakness is due to a generalised loss of confidence in the ability of policymakers to put in place appropriate responses," the OECD said.
"It is therefore imperative to act decisively to restore confidence and to implement appropriate policies to restore longer-term fiscal sustainability."
It also called for the eurozone to cut interest rates. | An inquiry into Newsnight's shelving of a report on sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile has published its findings.
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Simon Armitage, 65, of Baydale, Clyst St George, Devon, admitted nine counts of fraud and one of forgery.
Exeter Crown Court heard 10 clients were involved. Armitage got away with the fraud for four years until he merged his firm with another.
Judge Francis Gilbert said it was a "very serious breach of trust".
Armitage borrowed money from the clients in the belief he would be able to pay it back but instead got deeper and deeper into debt and responded by stealing even more cash, the court heard.
After the firms merged, a complaint about the handling of a case was made and Armitage admitted he had borrowed money from the account which he intended to repay later.
Adrian Chaplin, prosecuting, said the other firm, Kitsons, embarked on an investigation which uncovered nine more cases dating back to 2009 and involved £430,000.
Judge Gilbert said: "In addition to the losses from your frauds you have caused a very considerable expense to Kitsons, a reputable firm whose reputation has been diminished by what you have done.
"This is a serious offence involving significant sums of money and a very serious breach of trust and the fiduciary duty you owed to your clients."
Stephen Nunn, defending, said Armitage had run a respectable and honest business for many years until he ran into financial trouble in 2009.
The court heard the affected clients had since been reimbursed by the Solicitors' Indemnity Scheme and Armitage has been suspended as a solicitor, and declared bankrupt. | A solicitor who stole £430,000 from the estates of dead clients to pay off his overdue tax bills has been jailed for four years. | 34,607,827 | 348 | 33 | false |
The bongs will sound for the final time at midday on Monday before being disconnected to allow the clock and surrounding tower to be restored.
The Great Bell has sounded on the hour for 157 years.
It last fell silent in 2007 and before that, for major refurbishments between 1983 and 1985.
Parliamentary authorities said stopping Big Ben - the commonly used name for the Palace of Westminster's Elizabeth Tower - would protect workers carrying out the repairs.
It will still sound for important events including New Year's Eve and Remembrance Sunday.
The clock's keeper, Steve Jaggs, said Big Ben falling silent was a "significant milestone" in the project to restore the tower.
"This essential programme of works will safeguard the clock on a long term basis, as well as protecting and preserving its home - the Elizabeth Tower," he added.
The landmark Elizabeth Tower is said to be the most photographed building in the UK.
Scaffolding is up and repair work has already started.
The project's principal architect Adam Watrobski told the BBC the works would install new amenities in the tower, including a lift, toilet and kitchen.
Essential maintenance will also be carried out and the building will be made more energy efficient.
As well as conservation work to the tower, the Great Clock will be dismantled piece-by-piece and its four dials will be cleaned and repaired.
The Ayrton Light, which shines when Parliament is sitting, will also be renovated.
During the repair work, an electric motor will drive the clock hands until the main mechanism has been restored, so it will continue to tell the time.
However, the faces will need to be temporarily covered while the clock is undergoing maintenance.
The wider Parliamentary estate is also in need of repair, and a multi billion-pound programme involving MPs temporarily relocating has been put forward.
Meanwhile BBC Radio 4, which broadcasts the chimes of Big Ben live, has announced it will broadcast a recording when the bells fall silent.
Head of station management Denis Nowlan told the Today programme that various alternatives were considered, including the bells of Nottingham Council House.
"We came very close to using the sound of Nottingham's bells," he said.
However, a spokesperson confirmed: "After considering various options, we've decided that pre-recording Big Ben's chimes offers the most reliable and resilient option whilst the Palace of Westminster carries out its repairs." | Big Ben's famous chimes will fall silent from next week until 2021 to allow essential repair works to take place. | 40,922,169 | 527 | 27 | false |
It shows the actor transformed by prosthetics, complete with glasses and a cigar.
Pride and Prejudice director Joe Wright is at the helm of the historical drama, Darkest Hour.
John Hurt, Lily James and Kristin Scott Thomas also feature in supporting roles.
The film focuses on how Churchill deals with the growing threat of Nazi invasion in the early days of World War Two.
Darkest Hour is due for release in the UK on 29 December 2017.
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Riad Yassin blamed the failure of talks in Geneva on the rebel Houthi side, which he said had stalled progress.
Mr Yassin said that efforts would continue to find a peaceful solution to the conflict, but added no date had been set for a second round of talks.
Yemen's conflict has left an estimated 20 million people in need of aid.
"We really came here with a big hope and still we are optimistic that we will go into a peaceful solution for Yemen under the umbrella of the United Nations," Mr Yassin told reporters.
"But unfortunately the Houthi delegation did not allow us to really reach all progress as we expected. This is not getting as much success as we hoped but it doesn't mean that we have failed."
There were numerous extensions to the talks during five days of diplomacy brokered by UN special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, who was forced to shuttle between the delegations after they refused to sit down together.
But Mr Ahmed said there was "a certain willingness from all the parties to discuss issues around the ceasefire".
"We managed to get suggestions from both sides that we can build upon in coming days in order to reach a permanent agreement," he added.
The government has insisted that the rebels must withdraw from the vast territory they have seized, and has protested that the Houthi delegation is more than double the pre-agreed maximum of 10 people.
The rebels have demanded that air strikes be halted before they will agree to a ceasefire.
Mr Ahmed said he would leave Geneva for New York on Sunday to brief the UN Security Council. He will also ask council members to approve his plans to put civilian observers on the ground in Yemen in the event of a ceasefire agreement.
A Saudi-led coalition of Arab states has been bombing the Houthis and their allies in Yemen since March.
The Houthis seized the capital Sanaa in September before surging on towards the second city of Aden, forcing Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and his government into exile in Saudi Arabia.
Launching the talks, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appealed for a two-week humanitarian ceasefire during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, but fighting continues.
In recent weeks, clashes between Saudi forces and the Houthis have intensified on Yemen's border with Saudi Arabia.
More than 2,600 people have been killed since the bombing campaign began, the UN says.
Also on Friday, the UK announced a £40 million donation to the UN's humanitarian appeal for Yemen. International Development Secretary Justine Greening said the money would pay for emergency shelters, healthcare, water and food assistance. | Peace talks between Yemen's warring factions have failed to produce a ceasefire agreement, according to the country's exiled foreign minister. | 33,205,359 | 599 | 33 | false |
Ghostly pale and totally blind, olms - fondly known by locals as "baby dragons" - only reproduce every 5-10 years and are thought to live to 100.
This clutch of eggs started to appear in January in an aquarium in Postojna Cave, a tourist destination where the creatures have lived for millennia.
Observing baby olms develop and hatch is a rare opportunity for science.
The first of 23 developed eggs hatched on 30 May; a second baby olm (pictured below) was slowly wriggling out of its egg on Wednesday night.
"It is the end of one part of the story and the beginning of a whole new chapter: feeding and living without the egg," said Saso Weldt, who looks after and studies the olms at Postojna Cave.
He told BBC News nobody witnessed the first egg hatching, but the moment was captured thanks to an infrared camera.
"I was in the cave doing some other biological work. Since we have all the eggs on an IR camera, we saw that one was missing. Then you rewind and suddenly you realise, something has happened."
Mr Weldt and his colleagues hope to see a full count of 23 healthy hatchlings within a few weeks.
The staff at Postojna have been consulting amphibian experts to help them care for the fragile eggs, including a French team that has studied the olms in an underground mountain lab since the 1950s.
That laboratory is the only other place where these animals have ever been observed emerging from their eggs.
"In the cave, in nature, they hatch all the time - but nobody here has ever seen a hatchling younger than about two years," Mr Weldt said.
This clutch of eggs, which has captivated the Slovenian public, was laid by a single female over a period of several weeks.
"We did not do a paternity test, so we cannot know if it was a single father or not. But it was one mother," Mr Weldt said. "She's with our colony of proteus and she's doing well."
The eggs have been kept in a separate enclosure and watched very closely.
Originally there were 64, but only 23 embryos developed. The rest of the eggs were unfertilised and decayed, or were lost to fungal infections in the water.
"It's quite normal - the losses are expected," said Mr Weldt.
In fact, the baby dragons' odds would likely be much worse in the wild.
"In nature, out of 500 eggs let's say, two adults may arrive."
Native to the subterranean rivers of the Balkans, these bizarre and iconic animals acquired their nickname in centuries gone by, when floods occasionally washed their pallid, wriggling bodies into the open.
Dragons are legendary in this region - and the pink lizard-like beasts with their unique, frilly gills were taken to be babies of the species.
When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, he cited olms and their sightless, undeveloped eyes as an example of natural selection in action.
Darwin reportedly was offered some olm specimens but refused because he feared he would not be able to keep the sensitive little organisms alive.
Decades earlier, the famous scientist Humphry Davy visited the region and encountered the proteus in caves.
He was fascinated by the immature, tadpole-like appearance of the adults and discussed at length whether science would ever establish how these animals reproduce - or if they were, as it was rumoured, immortal.
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Alistair Love had a header cleared off the line for Rovers and the same player forced a superb save from Graeme Smith.
There was little further sign of a breakthrough until a slack back-pass by the visitors allowed Gemmell in to round Smith and score.
Kevin Dzierzawski had a late chance to draw the sides level, but goalkeeper Ross Stewart saved superbly.
Match ends, Albion Rovers 1, Peterhead 0.
Second Half ends, Albion Rovers 1, Peterhead 0.
Attempt saved. Kevin Dzierzawski (Peterhead) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Goal! Albion Rovers 1, Peterhead 0. John Gemmell (Albion Rovers) left footed shot from the right side of the box to the centre of the goal.
Ricardo Talu (Albion Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Rory McAllister (Peterhead).
Attempt missed. Rory McAllister (Peterhead) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Substitution, Peterhead. Andy Rodgers replaces Jordon Brown.
Substitution, Albion Rovers. Mark Ferry replaces Ally Love.
Attempt missed. Josh Mullin (Albion Rovers) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left.
Cameron Kerr (Peterhead) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ally Love (Albion Rovers).
Substitution, Albion Rovers. John Gemmell replaces Andrew Barrowman.
Foul by Gary Fisher (Albion Rovers).
Jordon Brown (Peterhead) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Jamie Redman (Peterhead) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Gary Fisher (Albion Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Gary Fisher (Albion Rovers).
Jamie Stevenson (Peterhead) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andrew Barrowman (Albion Rovers).
Ally Gilchrist (Peterhead) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Ross Dunlop (Albion Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordon Brown (Peterhead).
Substitution, Albion Rovers. Scott McBride replaces Ross Davidson.
Attempt missed. Cameron Kerr (Peterhead) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Gary Fisher (Albion Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jamie Redman (Peterhead).
Corner, Peterhead. Conceded by Ally Love.
Substitution, Peterhead. Nicky Riley replaces Shane Sutherland.
Foul by Gary Fisher (Albion Rovers).
Scott Ross (Peterhead) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Albion Rovers. Conceded by Cameron Kerr.
Attempt saved. Paul Willis (Albion Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Ally Gilchrist (Peterhead) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Paul Willis (Albion Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ally Gilchrist (Peterhead).
Michael Dunlop (Albion Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Rory McAllister (Peterhead).
Corner, Peterhead. Conceded by Ross Stewart.
Attempt saved. Rory McAllister (Peterhead) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner.
The singer claimed his former manager, Gerald Goldstein, and lawyer, Glenn Stone, had cheated him out of earnings dating back more than 20 years.
"They wanted to punch this poor guy in the face," Stone's defence lawyer, Nicholas Hornberger, said after the verdict.
The 71-year-old is famous for hits like Dance to the Music and Everyday People.
The singer first brought action against Mr Goldstein and Mr Stone, along with their affiliated entertainment company, Even St Productions in 2010.
The jury decided in the musician's favour on Tuesday after two days of deliberation.
Mr Hornberger said the jury would have been justified in awarding even more money.
"The case illustrated how many artists in the music business, as well as the film industry, are victimised by the people who they trust to look after their interests," he said.
The jury awarded $2.5m (£1.7m) in damages against Even St Productions, $2.45m (£1.5m) against Mr Goldstein and $50,000 (£33,000) against Mr Stone.
The singer had claimed he did not receive any royalty payments between 1989 and 2000, and alleged his former manager diverted the money to live a lavish lifestyle.
Defending lawyer Gregory Bodell contended the musician received as much as $9m (£5.9m), but broke a 1988 agreement to make new records as part of a plan to revitalise the singer's career.
"We are very disappointed with the jury verdict. We believe the evidence does not support the number they came up with," Mr Bodell said.
"We believe the jury got it completely wrong."
Stone was the frontman for the 1960s funk group Sly and the Family Stone, who were considered pioneers of the genre.
After scoring hits with songs such as Everyday People, Dance To The Music and Family Affair, Stone went solo in 1975 and released four albums.
In 1987, the singer was arrested and sentenced for cocaine use, after which he appeared to go into retirement.
In 2011, it was reported he was homeless and living in a camper van after falling on hard times and fighting drug addiction problems.
Makkonen became known as the father of SMS after developing the idea of sending messages via mobile networks.
Despite the nickname, he was often quick to point out that he did not invent the technology single-handedly.
In 2012, he told BBC News - in an SMS interview - that he believed texting in some form would be around "forever".
Speaking on the 20th anniversary of the first text message, Makkonen said that he considered the development of SMS a joint effort and that it was Nokia who helped to popularise the service.
"The real launch of the service, as I see it, was when Nokia introduced the first phone that enabled easy writing of messages (Nokia 2010 in 1994)," he said.
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He added that he did not use "txt spk" himself, though he pointed out that texting could be thought of as having had an impact on the development of language.
Jarmo Matilainen, managing director of Finnish telecoms group Finnet Association, had been working with Makkonen, himself a former managing director of Finnet Ltd, in recent years.
He described Makkonen as a "grand old man of the mobile industry".
"It's very sad. He was just going to retire and he should have had many years ahead," said Matilainen, who added that Makkonen's fascination with communications technology had been irrepressible.
"We liked to talk about SMS and that kind of thing, 3G and so on. He liked to talk about this all time," he said.
Although the use of SMS in the UK has begun to fall, it remains popular worldwide with trillions of texts sent every year.
Breaking the Silence said the rules of engagement during the 50-day conflict were "the most permissive" it had seen.
It published testimonies of soldiers, one of whom said they were ordered to shoot to kill any person they saw.
The military said the group had failed to provide any proof of its claims.
The fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza left a total of at least 2,189 Palestinians dead, including more than 1,486 civilians, according to the UN.
On the Israeli side, 67 soldiers and six civilians were killed.
Breaking the Silence, a group of serving and ex-soldiers, said its report contained interviews with more than 60 unnamed active duty and reserve Israel Defense Forces (IDF) personnel who took part in Operation Protective Edge.
The offensive was aimed at stopping rocket attacks from Gaza and the threat of attacks by militants using tunnels.
The group declared that its testimonies painted a "troubling picture of a drastic change in the IDF's combat norms". Guiding values, such as the principle that soldiers use the minimum amount of force necessary, were "devalued and discarded", it added.
A sergeant in the mechanised infantry said: "The rules of engagement are pretty identical: Anything inside [Gaza] is a threat, the area has to be 'sterilised', empty of people - and if we don't see someone waving a white lag, screaming, 'I give up' or something - then he's a threat and there's authorisation to open fire."
Another sergeant, who served in an engineering unit, said: "From the very start they told us, 'Shoot to kill.' As far as the IDF was concerned, there wasn't supposed to be any civilian population there."
Breaking the Silence alleged that destruction of civilian infrastructure and homes occurred "without any clear operational justification". Many homes were shelled in order to "demonstrate presence in the area", or even as an act of punishment, it added.
A sergeant in an infantry unit recalled that armoured bulldozers "didn't rest for a second. Non-stop, as if they were playing in a sandbox. Driving back and forth, back and forth, razing another house, another street."
Israel said militants deliberately operated in residential areas and that it took special measures to try to avoid harming civilians.
The director of Breaking the Silence, Yuli Novak, said there was a "broad ethical failure in the IDF's rules of engagement... from the top of the chain of command", and called for an external investigation to look into the policy behind the rules.
The IDF said it was "committed to properly investigating all credible claims".
"Today, as in the past the organisation Breaking the Silence has been asked to provide any evidence or testimony related to IDF activities prior to publication, in order for genuine investigations to be carried out," a statement said.
"Unfortunately, as in the past, Breaking the Silence has refused to provide the IDF with any proof of their claims."
Following last year's conflict, Israeli soldiers and commanders were given the opportunity to present complaints, and "exceptional incidents" were referred to the Military Advocate General's office for further investigation, the statement added.
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"Nodular sclerosing is the most common of all types of Hodgkin lymphoma in the UK. Nearly six out of 10 of all diagnosed cases are this type and it is the most common type in young adults. It is usually found at an early stage when lymph glands in the neck become enlarged."
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The 28-year-old stopped playing football in March having again been diagnosed with nodular sclerosing Hodgkin lymphoma after previously overcoming the disease in 2014.
Thompson's treatment has included a course of chemotherapy and stem cell replacement in Manchester.
He said on Twitter: "Simple terms, I'm cancer free."
Thompson, who has also had spells with Tranmere, Bury and Southport, rejoined Rochdale, where he began his career in their youth system, from Carlisle at the start of last season.
He made 27 appearances, scoring three goals, in all competitions for his hometown club, who finished ninth in League One, and played his most recent game in the 2-2 draw at MK Dons on 11 March.
The football world was quick to congratulate Thompson on his good news.
Police said SAR Geelani recently organised an event in Delhi against the 2013 hanging of parliament attack convict Mohammed Afzal Guru.
The arrest comes days after a student leader from a top Indian university was charged with sedition over a campus rally against Guru's hanging.
Mr Geelani was also made a co-accused in the parliament attack case, but the Supreme Court cleared him in 2003.
Afzal Guru had always denied plotting the attack, which was carried out by Kashmiri militants and left 14 people dead.
Senior Delhi police officer Jatin Narwal told the PTI news agency that Mr Geelani was arrested on Tuesday after "examining media clips of the 10 February event".
He added that Mr Geelani was the "main organiser" of the function.
"The request for booking a hall for the event at the Press Club was done through Mr Geelani's e-mail and it was proposed to be a public meeting, which did not turn out to be so," the officer said.
The coastguard received a call at about 14:00 GMT reporting a man in the water and an overturned boat at Ness Point.
Attempts were made to revive the man, but he later died. The coastguard said a search for two other people possibly on board would continue overnight.
Coastguard rescue co-ordinator Peter Byatt said the 18ft (5.5m) speedboat had been recovered.
Lowestoft and Southwold Coastguard, RNLI crews from Lowestoft, Southwold and Gorleston and an RAF search and rescue helicopter have all been involved in the search.
Humber coastguard had initially planned to suspend further searches until the morning.
The 33-year-old called out fellow Brit Haye after his third-round knockout of American BJ Flores on 15 October.
Bellew, who won the WBC world title belt in May, is in talks with Haye over a possible fight at heavyweight.
"The dream fight is Denis Lebedev, it really is, but the dream is very hard to make," he told BBC Radio Merseyside.
"In an ideal world my next fight would be Lebedev and then maybe him. But I'll be honest, I really don't know. We'll see where it goes."
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Russian Lebedev holds the WBA and IBF cruiserweight titles, and the winner of any potential contest would become undisputed world champion.
Former world heavyweight champion Haye, 36, initially retired from boxing in 2011 and, after beating Dereck Chisora in 2012, was absent from the ring for three years before announcing his return in 2015.
He most recently won a second-round stoppage against Kosovo's Arnold Gjergjaj in May.
"I might have to bypass Denis Lebedev and the dream of being undisputed unified champion, and just go for it and try to be heavyweight champ - I think it sounds a bit better to be honest," added Bellew.
"We [Bellew and Haye] have been having meetings and we're going over things - both of us want it but we'll see where it goes.
"I've got no problem fighting at heavyweight, not a problem at all.
"I was a heavyweight as an amateur and I've always been pretty sure that I was destined to be a heavyweight as a professional also, so it was only a matter of time."
Full-back Josh Adams went over to give Warriors the lead but Teimana Harrison and Haywood scored to put Saints ahead.
Hooker Haywood touched down from a rolling maul to increase their lead before Bryce Heem scored a consolation try for Worcester.
Stephen Myler kicked nine points for the hosts to seal the result.
It was a first win in three league matches for Saints while Worcester slipped to their 11th defeat of the season, but remain six points above bottom club Bristol.
The visitors went ahead inside the opening 10 minutes when Wynand Olivier's break was finished by full-back Adams.
Northampton drew level through Harrison's first try of the season and Myler's penalty put Saints ahead after 30 minutes.
Saints extended their lead on the stroke of half-time as Nic Groom began a move that was finished by Haywood, and the hosts did not let Worcester get close enough to really threaten the outcome after that.
Saints director of rugby Jim Mallinder told BBC Radio Northampton:
"I'm all about getting a performance and winning; you want to play entertaining rugby but I'd rather win than lose.
"I think the players are all trying, there are some tired bodies but we're working hard and we're back in the top six.
"We're not playing as well as we could be, but we've got a combination of young and old and should be better next season."
Warriors director of rugby Gary Gold told BBC Hereford and Worcester:
"You lose games of rugby in two ways - you're either beaten by a better team or you create the problems yourself, and today I think we largely created the problems for ourselves.
"It's frustration, it's a second week in a row that we've had that - we need to be more clinical in our execution.
"I think Northampton are a very accomplished driving team and we neutralised them very well today and stopped them from exerting pressure."
Northampton: Tuala; K Pisi, Tuitavake, Mallinder, Foden (capt); Myler, Groom; Waller, Haywood, Brookes, Paterson, Day, Gibson, Clark, Harrison
Replacements: Clare, Waller, Hill, Ratuniyarawa, Dickinson, Dickson, Wilson, Estelles
Worcester: Adams; Heem, Olivier, Willison, Humphreys; Mills, Hougaard; Bower, Annett, Schonert, O'Callaghan (capt), Spencer, Dowson, Lewis, Potgieter
Replacements: Bregvadze, Leleimalefaga, Alo, Cavuabti, Mama, Baldwin, Lamb, Pennell
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The failure to fortify flour has caused serious disabilities, including spina bifida, and resulted in terminations and stillbirths, their study said.
The US and 77 other countries already have a policy in place.
The Department of Health said it was currently considering the matter.
This follows the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition recently saying it was in favour of folic add being added to flour for bread in the UK.
Folic acid is found naturally in some foods, such as green vegetables, nuts and granary bread.
It is added to some breakfast cereals, but it is very difficult for pregnant women to get enough from diet alone.
That is why in 1992, the Department of Health in England recommended that women take folic acid supplements before pregnancy to reduce their risk of having a baby with a neural tube defect (NTD) - which involve defects of the brain, spine or spinal cord.
But recent research shows that only 28% of pregnant women take them at the correct time.
However the government has so far been reluctant to force manufacturers to add folic acid to all bread.
This study, published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, said the current policy was not working and the UK should be following the example of the US in fortifying flour with folic acid.
The US has seen a 23% fall in pregnancies with neural tube defects since the policy was introduced in 1998.
The researchers estimated that a similar policy in the UK would have prevented 1,798 pregnancies with NTD in England and Wales, 152 in Scotland and 64 in Northern Ireland over a 14-year period up to 2012.
This equates to a fall of 21% in pregnancies with neural tube defects over that period.
While most of the NTD pregnancies are terminated, around 75 babies a year are born with serious disabilities.
The research team, led by Prof Joan Morris from the Wolfson Institute of Preventative Medicine at Queen Mary University of London, said putting folic acid in flour was safe and could only be a good thing.
"Europe is the only region not to have a policy of fortifying flour with folic acid, despite evidence that it can cut the risk of neural tube defects by around 70%."
Dr Alison Tedstone, chief nutritionist at Public Health England, said too many women had folic acid levels below the new World Health Organization recommendation for women entering pregnancy.
"This highlights the importance for pregnant women, and those trying or likely to get pregnant, of taking a daily folic acid supplement of 400 micrograms - before and up to the 12th week of pregnancy."
Prof Alan Cameron, vice president of clinical quality for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said: "Food fortification will reach women most at risk due to poor dietary habits or socio-economic status as well as those women who may not have planned their pregnancy."
Bowman, 24, has agreed a two-year contract after joining from Gateshead for an undisclosed fee.
Belic, 20, has joined on an initial six-month loan from West Ham United, replacing Marvin Johnson, who moved to Oxford United for an undisclosed fee.
Motherwell manager Mark McGhee told the official website: "Luka is a wiry forward player who can play through the middle or on the flanks."
He continued: "He works extremely hard, particularly without the ball, and knows where the net is. He'll give us competition.
"With the arrival of Ryan, it allows us to set up in a 4-3-3 formation, which has brought great success in the past, particularly last season.
"We've tracked him for some time now, but today's developments have allowed us to go and get him.
"He's been top scorer for his clubs over the last two seasons, he's big, powerful, good in the air and runs in behind."
Bowman scored 16 goals in 41 appearances last season for National League outfit Gateshead - and three goals in seven this season.
He has previously had spells at Torquay United, York City, Hereford, Darlington and Carlisle United.
Bowman said: "It's a different league and a different competition, so it's a challenge, but I'm just excited to get going."
Capped by Serbia up until under-19 level, Belic recently signed a new contract with West Ham.
Meanwhile, Motherwell have released 24-year-old Lee Lucas, the former Cheltenham midfielder having made one appearance after arriving in the summer.
Defender Luke Watt has joined Stranraer on loan until January.
Ince, 23, has made 15 appearances for the Seagulls this term, but has only started one game in the Championship.
The former Chelsea trainee moved to the Amex Stadium in 2013 and signed a new three-year deal in September.
Morocco international Labyad, 22, has had spells at Dutch sides PSV Eindhoven and Vitesse.
Defender Fernando Amorebieta has returned from his season-long loan at Middlesbrough, while defender Kay Voser's contract with the London club has been terminated by mutual consent and Nikolay Bodurov has joined Danish club FC Midtjylland on loan for the remainder of the campaign.
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He joins from the Chinese side Shanghai SIPG, who had loaned him to Al Ahli in the United Arab Emirates last season.
The 31-year-old ends a five-year absence from Europe after he left English club Sunderland in 2012.
Kayserispor have finished just one place above the relegation zone in the Turkish top flight for the last two seasons.
The flights, running since 2007 and currently operated by Citywing and Links Air, gets a £1.2m annual subsidy.
The current contract ends in December and the assembly's Public Accounts Committee said several improvements are needed for the service to continue.
Liberal Democrats said the "wasteful, polluting" subsidy should be scrapped.
Flights currently run twice a day on weekdays, with none on weekends.
The committee heard that the service carried just over 65,000 passengers between May 2007 and April 2013, at an estimated cost to the taxpayer of £9m.
Passenger rates have now fallen by 43% since their peak in 2008-09.
2007/08: 14,133
2008/09: 14,718
2009/10: 9,491
2010/11: 8,719
2011/12: 9,606
2012/13: 8,406
Max number of seats available per year: 18,720
Source: Wales Audit Office evidence to the committee
AMs say it should be marketed more effectively and suggested promoting connecting bus services and the opportunities to get connecting flights.
Committee chair Darren Millar said: "The committee remains concerned that this service is underperforming when it comes to providing value for money for the Welsh taxpayer.
"The lack of reliable, independent data about passenger numbers, including the types of people using the service must be addressed."
North Wales Liberal Democrat AM Aled Roberts, a member of the committee, said his party would "scrap" what he called a "wasteful and polluting subsidy".
"This costly venture does little to address the real problems of public transport links between north and south," he added.
"Rail links are far more important for my region than this service. Any public money should be spent on improving rail links between the north and Cardiff."
Responding to the committee report, a Welsh government official said: "The service improves business connectivity between north and south Wales, as well as boosting tourism opportunities.
"The process to award a future contract for this service has now started and will look for the best service for the travelling public, with the highest economic impact while at the same time minimising the cost to the Welsh government."
The company said details, including names and addresses, had been accessed by using a login to its database of customers eligible for a phone upgrade.
It said the breach then allowed upgrade devices to be "unlawfully intercepted".
On Wednesday the National Crime Agency (NCA) said it had arrested two men from Manchester and one man from Kent as part of its inquiries.
A 48-year-old man from Orpington, Kent, and a 39-year old man from Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, were arrested on suspicion of computer misuse offences, the NCA said.
The third man, a 35-year old from Moston, Greater Manchester, was arrested on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
All three have been released on bail pending further enquiries, an NCA spokeswoman said.
Three, which has nine million customers, is investigating how many accounts were accessed, but said the database did not contain payment, card or bank details.
A spokesman for the company said: "Over the last four weeks Three has seen an increasing level of attempted handset fraud.
"This has been visible through higher levels of burglaries of retail stores and attempts to unlawfully intercept upgrade devices.
"We've been working closely with the police and relevant authorities.
"To date, we have confirmed approximately 400 high value handsets have been stolen through burglaries and eight devices have been illegally obtained through the upgrade activity."
He added: "In order to commit this type of upgrade handset fraud, the perpetrators used authorised logins to Three's upgrade system.
"This upgrade system does not include any customer payment, card information or bank account information."
The company said it has since strengthened its data controls and is contacting the eight handset fraud victims.
The use of a login to access the Three database marks it out from a hacking attack on Talk Talk, which led to the theft of the personal data of nearly 157,000 customers.
Talk Talk was fined £400,000 last month after hackers targeted vulnerable web pages to steal customer information in October last year.
Edinburgh-born Richard Noble is director of the Bloodhound SuperSonic Car (SSC) project.
One of his biggest inspirations was racing driver and speed record setter John Cobb.
Mr Noble saw Cobb's boat Crusader on Loch Ness ahead of an attempt on the world water speed record.
Cobb died while trying to set the record.
Mr Noble told BBC News Scotland online: "I saw John Cobb's jet boat Crusader on Temple Pier in Drumnadrochit in September 1952. I was six years old.
"The boat was truly beautiful and futuristic in design it would not look out of pace today.
"I studied John Cobb and realised he was a truly amazing man who was dedicated to innovation and achievement."
London-based Cobb had already set the land speed record when he attempted to gain the fastest speed on water on Loch Ness on 29 September 1952.
After travelling at 206mph (331.5km/h) his boat broke up and he was killed.
Mr Noble said: "His car the Railton Mobil Special was designed in 1936 and was the first car to exceed 400mph.
"The wheel driven record today is only 458mph so it shows how advanced his team was."
Mr Noble who, along with the Bloodhound SSC team, is preparing to make a record bid in South Africa in 2016, has close connections to the Highlands.
He said: "My Dad was in the Army based in Inverness and we lived in Inverness and later Nairn.
"I once flew the Great Glen in my aircraft and one day I hope to travel the Caledonian Canal in my boat, but we have to get Bloodhound completed first."
But what does an unexpected two month hiatus mean for Parliament, and the people who work there?
Last week, the Leader of the House David Lidington thanked the staff of the House and expressed hope they'd get to "put their feet up" between the dissolution of Parliament and when MPs return, sometime in mid June.
The Parliamentary estate, usually a hive of activity on weekdays from committee hearings at 9am to the rising of the House of Lords at 10pm, will be quieter than usual.
Westminster will temporarily cede its place as the centre of British politics. From 12:01am on 3 May there'll be no sitting MPs and incumbents and their staff will be banned from their Westminster offices entirely.
So what are we missing out on in Westminster while politicians and journalists head out across the country?
With an unexpected election and just a week of parliamentary time left, some government bills will not make it into law, while those that do may be rushed through with concessions to opposition parties.
The Finance (No. 2) Bill, Criminal Finance Bill and the Higher Education and Research Bill are among the pieces of legislation likely to get through (albeit with some tweaks), while the Prison and Courts Bill, and the Vehicle Technology and Aviation Bill are among those which will not make it.
Whether any of these bills will return or not will be up to the incoming government. Almost all of the hundreds of remaining private members' bills, on subjects as diverse as bat habitats and aircraft noise will also fail.
The invitation to explain yourself in front of a select committee is one of the most feared appointments in public life. This parliament has seen explosive question sessions with the likes of Mike Ashley on working conditions at Sports Direct, Sir Philip Green on the collapse of BHS and the bosses of British Cycling.
But from 3 May there'll be no select committees, no questioning and because of the unexpected nature of the election, many of the hundreds of outstanding inquiries will not be concluded.
Others will have reports rushed out. Some will continue where they left off when the Commons returns, but there's no guarantee committee chairs and their priorities will remain the same.
Committee chairs like Culture, Media and Sport's Damian Collins, currently in the midst of high profile inquiries into fake news and doping in sport, are left to hope new committees will pick up where they left off.
They may not have to put themselves up for election, but peers will take an extended break too. All scheduled business for 3 May onwards is cancelled, and the House won't return until after the election.
So don't expect an answer to Baroness Jones of Whitchurch's question on the badger cull, scheduled to be asked on 4 May, anytime soon.
Many events due to be held within the Palace of Westminster will be cancelled.
Any event due to be hosted by an MP after 2 May won't happen. Most poignantly the unveiling of the memorial plaque to the murdered Labour MP Jo Cox in the House of Commons chamber was scheduled for 20 May, but is now cancelled. On Thursday the Speaker, John Bercow, promised the event would take place as soon as possible for after the election.
But for the Palace of Westminster itself, away from the politics, it's business as usual.
Far from staff putting their feet up, maintenance work will continue, commercial functions will be held in the building's hospitality areas, preparations will be made for the new intake of MPs and the lack of sittings will mean there can be more guided tours.
All without the inconvenience of MPs, peers and their legions of staff cluttering the place up...
The 30-year-old midfielder, who won her 100th cap in April, will remain with her club Seattle Reign.
Fishlock did not feature in Wales' squad for two friendlies against Portugal earlier in June.
Wales face Euro 2017 hosts the Netherlands in a full international in Rotterdam on Saturday, 8 July.
The sides will also play a B international at the KNVB Campus in Zeist the following day.
Wales manager Jayne Ludlow has named a squad of 26 for the two games, which are part of their preparations for the 2019 World Cup qualifiers.
Wales squad: Claire Skinner (Aston Villa Ladies) Laura O'Sullivan (Cardiff City Ladies), Loren Dykes (Bristol City), Hannah Miles (Cardiff City Ladies), Hayley Ladd (Bristol City), Sophie Ingle(Liverpool Ladies), Gemma Evans (Cardiff City Ladies), Shaunna Jenkins (Cardiff City Ladies), Chloe Chivers (Cardiff City Ladies), Angharad James (Yeovil Town Ladies), Chloe Lloyd (Cardiff City Ladies), Bronwen Thomas (Brighton & Hove Albion), Georgia Evans (Bristol City), Nadia Lawrence (Yeovil Town Ladies), Alice Griffiths (Cyncoed Ladies), Natasha Harding (Liverpool Ladies), Kayleigh Green (Unattached), Melissa Fletcher (Reading), Rhiannon Roberts (Doncaster Rovers Belles), Peyton Vincze (Oklahoma), Ffion Morgan (Cardiff City Ladies ), Gwennan Davies (Cyncoed Ladies), Amina Vine (Bristol City), Cassia Pike (Liverpool Ladies), Lily Woodham (Bristol City), Elise Hughes (Everton).
11 July 2017 Last updated at 09:32 BST
Watch this whale hanging out with a pack of dolphins just playing in the waves.
The video was taken with a drone off the coast of Western Australia.
Looks like they're having a whale of a time together!!
Pics courtesy of jaimenhudson
Tigers had already secured a home tie in the last eight after finishing top of Pool Four, and Stade progress as one of three best runners-up.
Manu Tuilagi gave Leicester the lead, but the hosts ran in 26 unanswered points to earn the bonus point.
Tries from Dom Barrow and Harry Thacker gave Tigers hope but Stade added a late fifth through Geoffrey Doumayrou.
Stade's victory knocked Ulster out of the running for a place in the quarter-finals, despite their 56-3 victory over Oyonnax on Saturday.
The Parisian side also ended Leicester's unbeaten record in the competition this season.
England centre Tuilagi made only his second start in 15 months against the Top 14 champions, as he continues his recovery from a long-term groin problem.
And he ended his 20-month wait for a try to put Leicester ahead in the first half in Paris.
The Samoa-born British and Irish Lion showed his pace and power to shake off two Stade players and race under the posts, after being sent on his way by Michael Fitzgerald.
Tuilagi was taken off after 50 minutes and will not be available for England's first two Six Nations matches against Wales and Italy as he continues his journey back to full fitness, but may well be considered later in the tournament by new coach Eddie Jones.
Stade Francais knew they needed maximum points from their final group game to finish among the top eight seeds, and after a slow start against Tigers they got what they deserved.
Fly-half Jules Plisson weaved his way through the gaps in the Leicester defence to touch down Stade's first try, which he also converted.
Waisea Vuidarvuwalu finished off in the corner after a sweeping movement across the entire width of the pitch and Rabah Slimani powered over under the posts to make it 19-7 at half-time.
Leicester's Tom Youngs was sent to the sin-bin for scuffling with Slimani after the restart, and Stade got the important bonus point when Raphael Lakafia went over.
It was nervy finish for the French as Barrow just reached over the line to touch down and Tommy Bell thought he had also crossed, only for it to be ruled out for a forward pass in the build-up.
Eventually Leicester did get a third try through Thacker but Stade finished in style when Doumayrou intercepted and raced for the line, with Plisson's fourth conversion the last action of the game.
Stade Français: Hugo Bonneval; Jeremy Sinzelle, Waisea Vuidarvuwalu, Jonathan Danty, Djibril Camara; Jules Plisson, Julien Dupuy; Zak Taulafo, Laurent Sempere, Rabah Slimani; Hugh Pyle, Paul Gabrillagues; Jonathan Ross, Raphael Lakafia, Sergio Parisse (C).
Replacements: Laurent Panis, Emmanuel Felsina, Paul Alo Emile, Pascal Pape, Antoine Burban, Julien Tomas, Morne Steyn, Geoffrey Doumayrou.
Leicester: Mathew Tait; Adam Thompstone, Manu Tuilagi, Matt Smith, Telusa Veainu; Freddie Burns, Ben Youngs; Marcos Ayerza, Tom Youngs (C), Dan Cole; Dom Barrow, Graham Kitchener; Mike Fitzgerald, Tom Croft, Lachlan McCaffrey.
Replacements: Harry Thacker, Logovi'i Mulipola, Fraser Balmain, Sebastian De Chaves, Laurence Pearce, Sam Harrison, Tommy Bell, Peter Betham.
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Djibril Sidibe's header early in the second half sparked a stunning sequence of three goals in just five minutes that saw Spurs' Champions League hopes swiftly fade, grow and fade again.
Harry Kane's penalty, awarded when Dele Alli was pulled back, put Spurs on level terms but, 39 seconds later, Monaco had the ball in the net again through Thomas Lemar.
Victory took Monaco through to the last 16 as deserved winners of Group E ahead of Bayer Leverkusen, who earlier drew 1-1 at CSKA Moscow.
Tottenham, who have won one of their five group matches, are three points behind Leverkusen with one game to play, against CSKA on 7 December, but cannot overhaul the German side because of an inferior head-to-head record.
Spurs knew a draw would be enough to keep their hopes alive, but Monaco were by far the better side and only a superb performance by goalkeeper Hugo Lloris - who saved a penalty from Radamel Falcao - spared the Premier League side further punishment.
The Ligue 1 title hopefuls cut through Spurs with ease from the outset, with full-backs Sidibe and Benjamin Mendy a constant menace.
Spurs defender Kevin Wimmer had a night to forget, but it was centre-back partner Eric Dier at fault for Monaco's first-half penalty, lunging in clumsily on Fabinho. Falcao took the spot-kick, but his effort was tame and Lloris saved.
The French goalkeeper also made a double save from Mendy and Valere Germain but had no chance with Monaco's opener, the hosts again working the ball with ease to the left flank, from where Mendy crossed for the unmarked Sidibe to head in.
Kane's penalty four minutes later was the England striker's first Champions League goal, but Spurs' defensive frailties were again exposed straight from kick-off.
Monaco required just four passes as they worked the ball seamlessly into the area, where Lemar drilled low past Lloris.
Only a quite incredible save from Lloris to keep out Kamil Glik's thunderous strike kept Monaco within touching distance, but a third goal - or indeed a fourth - would not have flattered Leonardo Jardim's side.
Spurs' early exit from the Champions League owes much to their struggles at their temporary Wembley home.
Back-to-back defeats by Monaco and Leverkusen left them with no margin for error heading into this game, which made for a difficult team selection with a vital Premier League match at Chelsea to come this weekend.
Mauricio Pochettino decided to rest key defenders Jan Vertonghen and Kyle Walker in favour of Wimmer and Kieran Trippier, but the decision backfired, with Tottenham's backline appearing disjointed throughout and Wimmer in particular off the pace and at fault for the first goal.
Spurs have one more match to come at the national stadium, but it will be far from the occasion they envisioned at the start of the campaign.
Instead of looking to book their place in the last 16 of the Champions League, they will host CSKA with only third place in the group and Europa League football up for grabs.
Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino on BT Sport: "We are out and we have time to assess and analyse. It is true we feel disappointed but today we missed opportunities.
"I think we made too many mistakes at home at Wembley. We don't deserve to go through to the next round because we didn't show enough quality.
"We will take many things from this defeat, you learn and improve every day. Now we are trying to reduce the gap on the teams above us in the Premier League."
Tottenham striker Harry Kane on BT Sport: "It is disappointing. We got ourselves back in the game at 1-1 and it was schoolboy to concede straight after that.
"We had to try to grind out a win because we were not great - the second goal took the stuffing out of us. I just don't think on the day we were good enough.
"I'm gutted - we wanted to go far but it is something we will have to deal with. Losing two of our home games in this competition - yes, we played at Wembley this year but it has to be a fortress at home.
"We will look back and say it was the home games were we should've been better."
Spurs return to Premier League action with a huge game at leaders Chelsea on Saturday (17:30 GMT), while they complete their Champions League group campaign against CSKA Moscow on 7 December (19:45). Monaco are in Ligue 1 action on Saturday, welcoming Marseille to Stade Louis II.
Match ends, Monaco 2, Tottenham Hotspur 1.
Second Half ends, Monaco 2, Tottenham Hotspur 1.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Benjamin Mendy.
Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Benjamin Mendy (Monaco).
Attempt missed. Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Harry Kane with a headed pass.
Substitution, Monaco. Andrea Raggi replaces Falcao.
Attempt missed. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box misses to the right. Assisted by Christian Eriksen with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Jemerson.
Attempt saved. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Dele Alli.
Moussa Sissoko (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Fabinho (Monaco).
Kieran Trippier (Tottenham Hotspur) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Kieran Trippier (Tottenham Hotspur).
Tiemoué Bakayoko (Monaco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Monaco. Conceded by Eric Dier.
Substitution, Monaco. João Moutinho replaces Thomas Lemar because of an injury.
Substitution, Monaco. Guido Carrillo replaces Valère Germain.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Jemerson.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Moussa Sissoko replaces Harry Winks.
Attempt missed. Tiemoué Bakayoko (Monaco) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Thomas Lemar.
Attempt saved. Falcao (Monaco) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Bernardo Silva with a through ball.
Foul by Victor Wanyama (Tottenham Hotspur).
Bernardo Silva (Monaco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Christian Eriksen with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Kamil Glik.
Attempt blocked. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Vincent Janssen.
Corner, Monaco. Conceded by Hugo Lloris.
Attempt saved. Kamil Glik (Monaco) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Thomas Lemar with a cross.
Foul by Victor Wanyama (Tottenham Hotspur).
Valère Germain (Monaco) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Christian Eriksen replaces Mousa Dembélé.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Vincent Janssen replaces Son Heung-Min.
Foul by Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur).
Bernardo Silva (Monaco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Bernardo Silva (Monaco) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Djibril Sidibe.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Benjamin Mendy.
Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Victor Wanyama tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.
Falcao (Monaco) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Victor Wanyama (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
The commitment means that all staff employed by the football club will receive at least £9.15 an hour if working in London and £7.85 an hour outside the capital.
League Two club Luton Town has also recently signed up to the code.
The voluntary wage, set by the Living Wage Foundation, is based on the amount needed to cover basic living.
The higher living wage levels compare to the minimum wage of £6.50 an hour.
Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck said: "We believe the move to the living wage underlines our commitment to ensuring that all our employees receive a fair rate of pay for their hard work and dedication. Quite simply, it is the right thing to do."
Chelsea said it would ensure the living wage was also paid for staff working for external contractors, at its Cobham training ground and other club operations by July 2017.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson said Chelsea were "setting the right example" with the move.
He added: "They realise their team is more than just the 11 men out on the pitch, and that by putting more pounds in the pockets of their staff they are signing up to a win-win scenario that rewards a hard day's work with a fair day's pay for everyone."
In October, Scottish Championship side Hearts became the first club in the UK to pay their staff the living wage, while non-league outfit FC United of Manchester have also committed to the scheme.
Luton chief executive Gary Sweet said the club were fulfilling a "responsibility" to their staff.
"Not only do we feel that we have a responsibility to our staff, to make sure that their level of pay affords them the ability to have a decent work-life balance, but we also have a desire to attract more talented people when recruiting," he said.
According to a review of football finances this year by Deloitte, Premier League clubs paid a total of £1.78bn in wages during the 2012-13 season.
But a Belfast community organisation is trying to restore respectability to the opinion polls with a novel idea.
The Lagan Village Youth and Community Group, just off the city's Ravenhill Road, is installing bright yellow cigarette bins with a twist in a bid to predict the outcome of the Northern Ireland Assembly election.
People will vote with their butts by slipping their smokes into one of two slots, choosing between the DUP and Sinn Féin.
George Newell from the centre said the ballot-style bins would do their bit for the environment as well as getting people to think about politics.
"Instead of people throwing their cigarette ends on to the street, these butt bins will encourage people to dispense of them in a safe, environmental manner," he said.
"The idea behind these ones is to make a statement with your butt.
"So, we've put a sign on them - who will be the biggest party after the assembly election; will it be the DUP or Sinn Féin?"
And George believes this could spark a new forecasting "trend".
On 3 March, there'll be no ifs, just butts - the bins will be emptied and the cigarettes counted to see if the tobacco-based total matches the election outcome.
But George has already got an idea who will win the battle of Lagan Village.
"Knowing this locality, I don't think the DUP has much of a problem."
It's the dogs that are the danger on the campaign trail in South Down, as one candidate found out on Wednesday.
And Sinn Féin's Barry McElduff has said that life's no different west of the River Bann.
Whether it's an Alsatian or a Yorkshire terrier, hounds pose one of the "perennial challenges" faced by canvassers, particularly in country areas.
"As a canvasser, you've got to try and find out: Will that dog bite you?" he explained.
"Wee dogs, big dogs - they always say the wee terriers are the worst."
For canvassers who come up against a barking dog that's bearing its teeth, our handy tip for those knocking on the doors is to slip it a slice of ham - that'll guarantee you get its vote!
Welfare reform sparked a crisis at Stormont a couple of years ago when the executive parties couldn't agree on their own package of mitigation changes in line with the reforms that were coming into effect in the rest of the UK.
And now it's taken centre stage in this election campaign as the subject of a play.
Entitled is being performed across Northern Ireland until Saturday 25 February, and it looks at the impact of the controversial phasing out of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to Personal Independence Payments, as well as people's use of food banks.
Scriptwriter Fionnuala Kennedy said that when researching for the play she was struck by how many people were unaware of the looming changes to their benefits.
"We interviewed people who were on benefits as research for the play and they were saying: 'I'm on DLA and I was told it was for life, so welfare reform doesn't apply.'
"And we had to tell them, as artists in the room: 'No it does.'
"Then they were asking us for help with benefit forms - that was really worrying."
But she said that her intention with the play is to encourage the audience to take part in the welfare debate.
"It's up to the audience whoever they vote for - it doesn't just stop on 2 March," she added.
"If the politicians you've voted for don't do what they say they were going to do, hold them accountable - we've every right to question our politicians and make them work for us."
BBC News NI's Campaign Catch-up will keep you across the Northern Ireland Assembly election trail with a daily dose of the main stories, the minor ones and the lighter moments in the run up to polling day on Thursday 2 March.
Hear more on BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster and BBC Radio Foyle's The Breakfast Show at 07:40 GMT, and on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra at 17:40 each weekday.
Ashley Talbot, 15, died at Maesteg Comprehensive School in Bridgend county in December 2014.
No action was taken against the teacher driving the minibus, Chris Brooks.
After his inquest, Ashley's family said he was "popular and well-liked", and child safety should be "uppermost in everyone's minds".
A Health and Safety Executive investigation is ongoing.
Concerns had been raised about safety at the school before the crash, with a regular bus driver telling the Aberdare inquest it was an "accident waiting to happen".
The coroner said he would make a "prevention of future deaths" report to raise awareness of concerns he had and minimise the risk to other schools.
Hedley Williams previously told the inquest the end of the school day was a "free-for-all" with children running across the road.
He said he had raised concerns about safety but felt he had not been listened to.
A Bridgend county council spokesman said it had worked with relevant bodies to make improvements at the school, including a drop-off area for buses and a ban on traffic entering and leaving the grounds between 14:55 and 15:15.
In a statement, Mr Brooks said he was travelling at a "safe and appropriate speed" on the day of the crash.
He said he saw something "appear very quickly" as Ashley and another boy emerged from between the buses.
He added: "Instantaneously, there was a bang as an object hit the Peugeot. I saw it was a male pupil I recognised.
"In the same instant I heard a second bang, the passenger side rose up. I prayed it was (the first boy's) bag. There were milliseconds between the bangs. I braked hard and as quickly as I could."
PC Christopher Street, who conducted a forensic investigation of the scene, said Mr Brooks would have had "less than a second to react" after Ashley and his friend ran out in front of the minibus.
The statement from his family said: "Ashley was a fun-loving and enthusiastic boy with a sensitive nature and a sunny disposition.
"Ashley loved nothing more than to make people smile and he will be forever missed by those who knew and loved him.
"The utter loss and devastation following the accident has left the family broken and they will never come to terms with the death of their only son in such tragic circumstances."
It added the family had been campaigning for a change in the law and improved safety on school roads.
"Ashley has been described as being 'popular and well loved' by his class mates, and the family want this to be the enduring memory of him," they said.
The body of Aiden Webb, 22, from Norfolk, was found six days after he set off alone for the climb in June.
Girlfriend Bluebell Baughan had begged him to get help via a series of text and Facebook messages after he got lost on Mount Fansipan, an inquest heard.
Coroner Yvonne Blake recorded an open verdict into Mr Webb's death.
A hearing in Norwich was told Ms Baughan, who was also staying in Vietnam at the time, was in contact by phone after Mr Webb slipped and became hurt.
She said Mr Webb got lost, slipped, then cut his bicep on a rock and hurt his knee, after being forced off the main trail due to a landslide.
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Ms Baughan said he initially refused her pleas to let her call the authorities for help.
She became "very fraught", she said, as they realised he had missed the last cable car and had to stay the night dressed just in shorts.
In a series of messages, Mr Webb told how he had "got extremely lost", then later told her: "I am going to get pneumonia. I can't stop shivering."
He had also messaged to say: "I've just had a huge rock land on my arm. I need stitches or glue."
Mr Webb later said he would set off back down the mountain, and in his last text at 06.18 asked Ms Baughan to finally raise the alarm, but her reply failed to get through.
His body was eventually found in a stream down a ravine.
Local police concluded he had drowned while unconscious after falling into water.
A post-mortem examination was carried out in the UK after his parents asked for it not to be undertaken in Vietnam.
But Ms Blake said the medical cause of Mr Webb's death was "unascertained as he was embalmed".
Parents Simone Taylor and Trever Webb said in a written statement: "Aiden was such a joy to be around.
"We're incredibly close as a family and feel privileged to have been his parents."
But it serves as an important in-depth account of the state of the NHS in England.
The opening pages, inevitably, emphasise the positives - just as a corporate annual report would do. Half a million more patients seen in A&E than in the previous year, more than one million appointments booked or cancelled online, an increase in the NHS workforce, almost £1bn invested over five years in infrastructure to boost research.
But read on and the more difficult truths begin to emerge.
The report, covering the 2016-17 financial year, acknowledges that many of the key performance targets were missed, including the proportion of patients assessed or treated in A&E within four hours, which fell further below the 95% target to 89.1%.
There is understandable emphasis on the increasing pressures on the service with demand rising "above what would typically be expected from population growth and demographics alone" and the NHS delivering record levels of activity.
Looking for reasons for the drop in hospital performance, the report inevitably gets to the issue of delayed transfers of medically fit patients and the resulting bed shortages. The scale of the problem is underlined by the astonishing 24.5% increase in bed days lost because of these delayed transfers, to 2.3 million from 1.8 million the previous year. Hospitals were left full to capacity, sometimes unable to admit new patients.
It's noted that local authorities are working with health leaders in each area to reduce the numbers of patients held in hospital beds because there is no social care package available. There is a bold statement that "this will be an area of improvement in 2017-18".
The government has told NHS England that the delayed transfer number must be reduced to 3.5% of total bed occupancy by September. But it's hard to see much progress in that direction so far.
An interesting analysis by NHS Providers, due out soon, highlights the continuing scale of the delayed transfer problem. The organisation points out that community hospitals have a far higher proportion of beds occupied by people who are fit to leave (20.8% in February) than the larger acute hospitals (5.1%).
Delayed transfers can occur when an NHS community facility is unable to take patients from acute care or when either type of NHS hospital can't discharge patients because social care is not available.
The research also points out that in March this year there were more than three times as many delayed days due to "patients awaiting a care package in their own home" compared with April 2014.
NHS Providers concludes that the September target of 3.5% of beds occupied by patients whose transfer has been held up is looking highly unrealistic. That level has not been achieved for nearly three years and the latest quarterly current figure across all NHS hospitals in England was 5.6%.
The government has pumped £1bn extra into social care in England this year in part to help tackle the causes of the delayed discharges of patients from hospitals. One of the aims is to free up NHS beds to cope with rising emergency admissions and the backlog of routine operations.
But with local authorities pointing out that there are many other social care issues to tackle with the money, it's still not clear whether the new funding will make a significant dent in the delayed transfer numbers.
It's the height of summer and NHS leaders and politicians are preparing for their holidays. Their minds will not be on bed occupancy and social care.
The Department of Health report and the NHS Providers analysis will be parked up in office in-trays and inboxes. But when they return there will be some serious thinking to do as winter pressures begin to loom.
The Information Commissioner's Office's blog post is its first official response to last week's "right to be forgotten" EU ruling.
The ICO will be responsible for resolving complaints in cases where a search firm refuses to remove links.
It noted such action was months away.
"This judgment was only made last week, and the companies will need some time to work out how they're going to handle this," wrote David Smith, the body's director of data protection.
"We won't be ruling on any complaints until the search providers have had a reasonable time to put their systems in place and start considering requests."
The Court of Justice of the European Union set a legal precedent on 13 May when it ruled that a user had the right to have links to web pages about him removed from Google's results because the passage of time had made them "irrelevant".
The Spanish man had complained that Google's links to an auction notice of his repossessed home infringed his privacy.
The takedown demand only applied to search results and not the web page containing the notice itself.
But the court added that others had a similar right to have search results deleted "unless there are particular reasons, such as the role played by the data subject in public life" that would justify keeping the links online.
The court noted that if search engines refused to comply, it would be up to local authorities - such as the ICO - to force their hand.
Google said the ruling was "disappointing" and that it needed time to "analyse the implications".
But Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, has attacked the judgement, calling it "wide-sweeping internet censorship", adding that it would be difficult for search firms to determine what should be removed,
The ICO acknowledged the "right to be forgotten" would be difficult to implement.
"It is important to keep the implications in proportion and recognise that there is no absolute right to have links removed," wrote Mr Smith.
"Our concern remains how this can be achieved in practice and how to set reasonable expectations for the public about how such a right can operate."
He added that the ICO and other data protection authorities would need to issue guidance, and said that the organisation planned to discuss the matter with its European counterparts at the start of next month.
But the year was dominated by concerns about resources.
While the schools budget was relatively protected, if still stretched, higher and further education will face more uncertainty in 2016.
Northern Ireland's two universities suffered cuts of more than £16m from the Department for Employment and Learning (DEL) in 2015.
These funding cuts followed years of previous reductions.
Both Queen's University and Ulster University subsequently announced they were shedding hundreds of staff jobs, and jointly cutting more than 2,000 student places.
Ulster University also decided to close its schools of modern languages and maths, among other cuts to departments, provoking an angry reaction from staff unions and some students.
Queen's are due to announce which courses and subjects they will close in spring 2016, leaving many staff concerned about the future shape of the university.
There is little prospect of increases in public funding, or agreement on whether students should pay higher tuition fees, in the new year.
Further education colleges also faced cuts in 2015, and voluntary redundancy deals were offered to almost 500 staff, over 10% of the workforce, in July.
Meanwhile, the Education Authority (EA) finally came into being in April, seven years after it was proposed.
It replaced the five education and library boards, but the original vision for a more wide-ranging Education and Skills Authority had to be abandoned due to a lack of political agreement.
The EA's chief executive Gavin Boyd embarked on money-saving exercises almost immediately, including seeking to lose about 400 of the authority's 3,500 staff through a voluntary redundancy scheme.
Seven years after unregulated tests took the place of the 11-plus exam, the transfer procedure was in the headlines again.
The BBC revealed details of the draft of a wide-ranging report commissioned by the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM) that recommended ending academic selection.
The Investigating Links in Achievement and Deprivation report also found that pupils in disadvantaged predominantly Catholic areas outperformed their disadvantaged Protestant counterparts.
It set out a "road map" of good practice to change this, but, as yet, the OFMDFM has not said when the final report will be published.
But amid all the controversies and worries about money it is important to remember that Northern Ireland's education system still produces many successes.
Sixty-seven per cent of year 12 pupils achieved at least five GCSEs at grades A* to C, including English and maths in 2014-15, compared with 65.2% the previous year.
This is the first time in Northern Ireland that more than two-thirds of pupils have achieved at least those grades at GCSE since new statistical measurements were introduced in 2008-09.
Northern Ireland schools also continued to deliver learning in innovative ways, leading to national and international recognition for some.
St Patrick's High School in Keady, County Armagh, was voted best secondary school in the UK in the 2015 TES school awards.
About 80% of pupils achieved at least five GCSEs at grades A* to C including English and maths there, making them the highest performing non-selective school in Northern Ireland.
Meanwhile, teachers from as far afield as Russia, Greece, Denmark and Iceland travelled to Fairview Primary School in Ballyclare, County Antrim, in November.
They were there to find out how Fairview became the first primary in Northern Ireland to recycle all of its school waste.
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Pets Blood Bank UK (PBBUK) is holding donor recruitment sessions in Wales throughout July.
But because of geography they say vets in Wales must also know where blood can be sourced locally in an emergency.
PBBUK believes that at any one time they may have no more than a few days' supply of blood and related products.
Its spokesperson Joanne Patterson said the summer was especially problematic.
"While people are planning their holidays they're more concerned about kennelling their dogs and making sure they'll be happy than they are about giving blood," she said.
"But even though the summer is a particular problem, it can be a struggle year-round to ensure we have safe stock levels.
"The feedback we've had isn't so much that owners are reluctant to allow their pets to become donors, it's more that it simply doesn't dawn on them that there's a need for animal blood until their own pet requires it.
"So we're just trying to make all owners and vets aware of the issue whether they go on a local register or donate through PBBUK, or indeed both."
While PBBUK is alone in stockpiling a number of specialised products, Ms Patterson explained that when time is of the essence in an emergency, locally-sourced donors can often be the best solution.
"The advantage of PBBUK is that we have the laboratory facilities to produce not just blood, but also a whole range of derivatives such as plasma for burns or poisoning, white blood cells for immunological problems, and clotting agents for extensive bleeding," she added.
"But given that we're based in Loughborough, often the best option for straightforward emergency transfusions can be local donors, especially in parts of Wales which can be difficult to reach by road in a hurry.
"So whilst we'll always help with any request if we can, vets should also canvass their customers to create a local list of owners who'd be prepared to allow their pets to be donors."
Sheila Stewart, founder of the Capricorn Animal Sanctuary in Padeswood, Flintshire, has done that and is now on call for veterinary emergencies across north Wales.
"We'd always helped out the local vet on an ad hoc basis, until three dogs all needed blood on the same night," she said.
"It made me realise that there was a need to set up a more formal register.
"So now we can call on not only the dogs who we care for ourselves, but also the owners of the dogs we re-home if they're willing, and we've even put the word out for volunteers through local clubs and trainers.
"It's absolutely harmless to the donor dog and they might go their entire life without being called upon in any case. So if it could potentially save another dog's life, then why not?"
Mike Jessop, a vet in Merthyr Tydfil, agreed that the geography of Wales posed particular challenges.
He said: "Owners need to be aware of the need for volunteers, and vets - especially those who're more than an hour away from urban centres - need to have an emergency plan for what they'd do if they were to receive a major trauma requiring more than one transfusion."
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Public Health England said there will no longer be specialist staff based at Birmingham and Manchester airports or at the Eurostar terminal at St Pancras.
It said the threat was now "significantly lower" as the situation improved in West Africa.
The measures at Heathrow and Gatwick, the two main routes of entry from the affected countries, remain in place.
There were just 26 new cases of Ebola reported in West Africa last week. At the peak of the outbreak there were more than 1,000 cases each week.
Health officials introduced extra checks at major routes into the UK for people arriving from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
Temperatures were taken and people were asked to complete a questionnaire to establish whether they had been in contact with anyone infected with the disease.
People were also told what to do if they developed symptoms.
However, people arriving in Birmingham, Manchester airports and at St Pancras station will now be screened over the phone.
All health workers returning to the UK will continue to be screened and monitored until the Ebola outbreak is over.
Prof Paul Cosford, from Public Health England, said: "The risk of Ebola transmission to the UK from West Africa is now significantly lower than when the screening arrangements were originally implemented.
"The risk of further Ebola cases being imported to the UK is now very low and continues to decrease due to the considerable decline in the scale of the epidemic in West Africa, the efforts of the global response to control the virus' spread, the control measures in place in West Africa and the low number of people entering the UK from affected areas."
He paid his respects to soldiers who died fighting for the country by laying a wreath at a national monument in Tallinn's Freedom Square.
During a speech Prince Harry later said the UK and Estonia are "firm friends".
The serving Army officer said he had been "privileged" to serve alongside Estonian troops while in Afghanistan.
Crowds of people, many waving union jacks, earlier watched as Prince Harry laid a wreath alongside two Estonian servicemen.
A handwritten note attached to the wreath read: "In memory of all those who gave their lives for their country - Harry".
"Your armed forces have built a formidable reputation through their professionalism and bravery in the most testing conditions," he told guests during a reception at Estonia's parliament building.
Addressing the guests, which included injured troops, he said: "You get the job done with minimal fuss and I love that."
By Damien McGuinnessBBC News, Tallinn, Estonia
Prince Harry's trip to Estonia is being seen as a sign of Western support amid fears of a resurgent Russia.
He has visited Estonia's monument to national independence and met Estonian soldiers injured in the Nato mission in Afghanistan.
The expectation from the Estonian government is clear: that Nato should now reciprocate by protecting the Baltics if needed.
So the prince's visit to the largest Nato exercises ever to be held in Estonia is significant.
Some in the West fear a military build-up on Russia's border could provoke Moscow.
But for people in the Baltics a strong military presence here is an essential deterrent and Prince Harry's visit a signal that the West has not forgotten them.
Estonia first sent troops to Afghanistan in 2006, and during Prince Harry's last deployment there, he worked with forces from the Baltic state.
The prince served a 20-week deployment in Afghanistan as an Apache helicopter pilot, ending in January 2013.
His first tour of Afghanistan - as a forward air controller on the front line - was cut short in 2008 after 10 weeks because a media blackout was broken.
"As a nation, we are extremely grateful for your support and for the sacrifice Estonia has made alongside us in recent operations. It is something which we will never forget," the prince said.
"Our countries are firm friends but this friendship continues to grow even stronger, through our shared experiences and goals."
The prince, who it later emerged had flown to Tallinn on an Easyjet flight, is due to meet President of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, on the second day of his visit to the country.
He will also watch the largest Nato military exercises ever to be held in Estonia before he is then expected to travel to Italy for the final part of his four-day tour.
A host of other acts have already been announced for the event at the site near Thornhill on 29 August.
Festival director Alex Roberts said that to secure King Creosote for the second edition of the festival was "unreal".
"To have such an iconic musician close the day at such an iconic location is something special," he added.
About 100kgs (220lbs) of the fruit, worth about £300, were stolen from Hill Farm in Lenham Road, Ulcombe.
Kent Police initially said the fruit had been coated with a chemical that could cause "poisoning", but later said the it posed no risk to public health.
It is believed the same people have committed previous thefts from the farm, a police spokeswoman said.
The thieves got into the farm by cutting a fence, before a vehicle was loaded with the strawberries sometime between midnight on Friday and 10:00 BST on Monday, police said.
The force initially said the strawberries had been coated with a chemical which could cause "poisoning to the stomach".
A police spokeswoman then issued a statement saying: "It has come to my attention that the strawberries mentioned below do not pose a risk to public health."
The Opera House issued a statement after the performance of Guillaume Tell apologising for any distress caused.
Director of opera Kasper Holten said: "The production intends to make it an uncomfortable scene, just as there are several upsetting and violent scenes in Rossini's score.
"We are sorry if some people have found this distressing."
Holten said the scene "puts the spotlight on the brutal reality of women being abused during war time, and sexual violence being a tragic fact of war."
Rossini's opera of the Swiss patriot, William Tell, who shoots an arrow that splits an apple atop his son's head, has been directed by Damiano Michieletto and stars Canadian baritone Gerald Finley as Tell and American tenor John Osborn.
Osborn told Reuters after the performance that the scene "maybe it went a little longer than it should have".
"But it happened and I think it's an element you can use to show just how horrible these people were that were occupying this town," he said.
"If you don't feel the brutality, the suffering these people have had to face, if you want to hide it, it becomes soft, it becomes for children."
The Stage gave the production one star. George Hall called it a "dire evening" in which the "gratuitous gang-rape" scene provoked "the noisiest and most sustained booing I can ever recall during any performance at this address".
"Intellectually poverty-stricken, emotionally crass and with indifferent stagecraft, the result is nowhere near the standard an international company should be aiming at", he said.
Michael Arditti, the Sunday Express theatre critic said the production represented a "new nadir" for the opera house and "heads should roll".
Eaves, which is a charity that supports women who have experienced violence, said "sexual violence in conflict can be dealt with in sensitive ways - not gratuitous entertainment - bad call."
The opera house put up an article on its website not mentioning the scene, but asking the audience what they thought of the production.
Tim Moorey responded, calling the production "a disappointment from beginning to end. No wonder it received calls of 'rubbish' and lots of boos during the performance and at the end.
"I should especially single our the gratuitous rape scene which was totally unnecessary and received almost universal disapproval and much booing."
But some were upset at the booing in the audience. Janice Evans wrote she was "in shock at this level of intolerance exhibited in the ROH".
"I felt abused by their aggression and ashamed of their disrespect for the performers."
Mark Valencia writing for What's on Stage pointed out that first night booing is "a fast-growing problem at Covent Garden" that doesn't happen at other opera houses.
"It's become standard practice for the director of practically every new production to be jeered by practised factions in the audience who object to ideas that go beyond the literal reading of an opera," he said.
But at last night's first night "the perpetrators did something unheard of: they booed during the music. And they did so loudly and long."
They also booed at the end of the performance when the production team came on stage for the curtain call.
Alan Charlton, 56, of Bridgwater, Somerset, and Idris Ali, 51, of Cardiff, were jailed in 1991 over the death of Karen Price.
At a brief hearing at London's Court of Appeal on Tuesday, judges dismissed their appeal.
Karen's body was found on Fitzhamon Embankment, Cardiff, in November 1989.
Charlton was jailed for life in 1991 for murder while Ali was freed in 1994 after his conviction was quashed and he admitted manslaughter.
Karen went missing from a children's home in 1981 and when her body was found, it was so badly decomposed it was impossible to establish the cause of her death.
Lawyers for the men argued during their appeal that evidence from the key witness in the trial - a girl from the same children's home as Karen who was known only as D - could not be relied upon.
It was this testimony which implicated the men in Karen's killing.
Ali claims he only confessed to manslaughter in order to get out of prison.
Charlton's representatives claimed police officers involved in the investigation pressurised key trial witnesses.
Some also worked on the 1988 murder of Cardiff prostitute Lynette White, which later triggered an investigation into alleged police corruption.
Lawyers argued if that was known at the time of their prosecution, the evidence from D would have been excluded or viewed differently by the jury.
Nolito, 30, has made just nine Premier League starts since joining City for £13.8m from Celta Vigo last July.
He has struggled to adapt to life in England and said he wanted to leave.
"I've learnt little English. It's hard. Just 'tomorrow', 'good morning', 'good afternoon' and a little more," Nolito told radio station Onda Cero.
He added: "My daughter's face has changed colour - it looks like she's been living in a cave."
Nolito, who signed a four-year contract with City last summer, has scored six goals in 30 games in all competitions, but his last Premier League start was a 3-0 win away at Hull City on 26 December.
"I am under the contract, so the club will decide, but I want to leave," he said.
His wife is due to give birth around the end of May.
"The more important thing is that my wife is due another baby, so that will be my first priority," Charteris told BBC Wales Sport.
"We'll see how that goes, hopefully everything goes well there and then I can make a decision after that."
The child is due to be born in France, where 33 year-old Charteris is in the final months of his contract with Paris side Racing 92 before moving to Bath.
Wales are due to face England at Twickenham on 29 May, before a three-Test tour of New Zealand, also including a fixture against Waikato Chiefs.
The French Top 14 final will not be played until 24 June, only hours before the final Test in New Zealand, and Racing are strong contenders for the title.
"I don't know, I'll cross that bridge when we get there," said Charteris when asked about his Wales availability.
"I want to be doing as well as we can with Racing and put ourselves in a position to win some silverware, and see what happens down the line. The honest answer is I'm not really sure."
Charteris has made three starts and one replacement appearance during the 2016 Six Nations, taking his caps total to 66.
"It's a big end of the season for a lot of boys who were in the World Cup, so it's been a long year," admitted Charteris.
"We'll go back to our clubs now, some will have a bit of rest, some have got big games coming up.
"We look forward to getting back together in a few months time and it's a great way to finish the season off."
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Mohamed Abrini - the so-called "man in the hat" - came to the UK in July 2015 and was given the money in a park, Kingston Crown Court heard.
Zakaria Boufassil, 26, who is accused of handing over the cash, denies preparing for acts of terrorism.
A second man, Mohammed Ali Ahmed, has pleaded guilty to the same offence.
Abrini became known as "the man in the hat" following his suspected involvement in the Brussels terror attack in March this year, which killed 32 people at an airport and metro station, the jury heard.
Prosecuting, Max Hill QC told the court Abrini is also suspected of being connected to attacks in Paris on 13 November 2015, which killed 130 people.
Mr Hill said Abrini travelled to the UK between 9 and 16 July 2015.
He said there "can be no doubt" the money was handed over to him while in the UK "with the intention of assisting acts of terrorism".
"That much is clear from the guilty plea by Mohammed Ali Ahmed. Mr Boufassil, denies that he personally intended to assist in the preparation of terrorist acts.
"We suggest he is lying. We suggest that he was clearly acting together with Ahmed when the money was handed to Abrini," he added.
The court heard that Abrini, a Belgian citizen of Moroccan descent, arrived at Heathrow on 9 July and headed to Birmingham by coach the following day.
There was telephone contact between the men - but also technical evidence that their phones had been in close proximity.
According to analysis of mobile phone masts, during 10 July Abrini's mobile phone and those of Mr Boufassil and Ahmed were logged as being in Small Heath Park in the city.
The following day, the three phones came together again in the same location.
Mr Hill said: "You can be sure that Ahmed, Abrini and Mr Boufassil met that day - that was the handover of the money to Abrini."
The £3,000 allegedly came from a bank account set up by another man who had previously left the UK to fight with the self-styled Islamic State group (IS) in Syria.
Most of it was from benefits payments, the court heard.
"The actual use of the money handed to Abrini is not part of the offence charged," said Mr Hill.
"There is no clear evidence one way or another. If it is suggested to you that Abrini may or did use some of the cash given to him to gamble in a casino, that does not undermine the criminal offence.
"What matters is the conduct in question, the handing over of the cash to Abrini and the intention behind the handover. What they do with it is another matter."
Abrini, currently in custody, was an associate of two men believed to be responsible for the Paris attacks - Salah Abdeslam and Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
His brother had also been killed fighting in Syria for IS, the court heard.
Following the alleged handover, Abrini moved on to Manchester before flying back to Belgium from Birmingham.
He was questioned about the UK trip by Belgian investigators, the court heard.
When his phone was later seized, police found that it contained a photo of Small Heath Park.
The trial continues.
The tourists, who lead 1-0 in the series, will decide on the opener's fitness on Thursday before the toss.
Many of Hales' team-mates have suffered from stomach bugs.
"Nick Compton and Chris Jordan suffered worst. Everyone else hasn't felt quite right at some point," said captain Alastair Cook.
Hales, 27, who scored his maiden half-century in the drawn second Test at Cape Town, trained alone in the nets on Wednesday morning before returning to his hotel room to rest.
If he fails to recover, England are likely to promote Compton to the top of the order and bring in Gary Ballance at number three.
England will win the four-match series with victory at the Wanderers, where South Africa will be led by AB de Villiers.
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Hashim Amla, who scored a double hundred at Newlands, has stepped down as captain and been replaced by one-day skipper De Villiers.
"It's an exciting time to play and we are in a really good position," said Cook.
"The next two games are probably both on result wickets, which means we need to win one of them to win the series.
"That's a great situation to be in. To win away from home, especially against the top-ranked team in the world, is particularly hard, so the guys are buzzing for that."
Asked about Amla's decision to step down mid-series, Cook said: "It's a huge honour to captain your country, but if you don't feel you're the right man for the job or you're not enjoying as much as you should, it's better for South Africa that he's strong enough to make that decision.
"It took a lot of guts from him."
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Despite Dale Steyn's continued absence with a shoulder injury, South Africa are set to have an all-pace attack at the Wanderers after releasing off-spinner Dane Piedt from the squad.
Piedt and reserve batsman Rilee Rossouw will instead play for their franchise teams before rejoining the squad for the fourth Test in Centurion.
South Africa (possible): Stiaan van Zyl, Dean Elgar, Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers (capt), Faf du Plessis, Temba Bavuma, Quinton de Kock (wk), Chris Morris, Kagiso Rabada, Morne Morkel, Hardus Viljoen.
England (possible): Alastair Cook (capt), Alex Hales/Gary Ballance, Nick Compton, Joe Root, James Taylor, Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Moeen Ali, Stuart Broad, Steven Finn, James Anderson.
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Ian Parkhill scored the opener on the half hour, pouncing after home keeper Stefan McCusker had fumbled Jamie McGonigle's shot.
United levelled on 57 minutes through Adam Leckey's glancing header.
But a fine 84th-minute strike by Rodney Brown gave Coleraine their first ever Premiership win at Ferney Park.
It meant a fourth successive league defeat for Ballinamallard who are ninth in the table.
Front man Parkhill had started the match because leading scorer James McLaughlin was injured in the warm-up.
He snapped up the opening goal after McCusker failed to hold on to McGonigle's low shot.
Ballinamallard should have scored before the break but James McCartney shot wide from just a few yards out.
However, the hosts did equalise as big midfielder Leckey headed in from a Jason McCartney corner.
Coleraine secured the victory when Brown got his fifth goal of the season with a superbly-struck shot.
Coleraine manager Oran Kearney: "We never get it easy here and it is great to come away with the three points for the first time.
"It was disappointing to concede from the corner because we aim to limit teams at set pieces.
"But our players found some energy and strength of character from somewhere and found another gear.
"We had other chances before Rodney scored with what was a great strike."
The 30 ft (9m) tall bird, referred to as "Chicken Don", stands between the official residence of the US president and the famous Washington Monument.
Owner Taran Singh Brar said the prop portrays a president who is "afraid".
But some Twitter users were not impressed, with one dubbing the stunt "pathetic".
In a video posted on social media on Wednesday, activist and documentary maker Mr Brar said he hoped to "bring awareness" to what he said was a "bad and destabilising" US president.
"We are out here to criticise our president for being weak and ineffective as a leader," he said in the footage posted on Twitter, adding that Mr Trump also "seems afraid" to release his tax returns.
"He seems afraid to stand up to Putin and now he's playing a game of chicken with North Korea," Mr Brar said.
Permission to set up the inflatable fowl, which was funded through the crowdsourcing website GoFundMe, had to be obtained from the US Secret Service, according to local media.
In April, the large bird appeared at marches across the US as demonstrators called on Mr Trump to release his tax returns.
The balloon was manufactured in China following the success of a Trump-like rooster designed as a prop to celebrate the Chinese New Year in January.
The inflatable's arrival has divided opinion on social media, with Twitter users at odds over whether the stunt was "pathetic" or "cute".
The topic quickly gained momentum and the hashtag #TrumpChicken was trending in the US on Wednesday.
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"Not a comment on Trump or his presidency, but I just kind of love the inflatable chicken w/Trump hair. It is really cute!" wrote Eva Ulrich.
Another Twitter user, Scott Presler, wrote: "President Trump tells nuclear power North Korea there will be 'Fire & fury' and democrats inflate a chicken? Insanity."
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"The left would rather spend $1300 on a #TrumpChicken, than use that money to feed the homeless. The obsession continues," wrote Scott.
This argument was countered by Eugene, with a tweet that simply read: "Now we have a real President. #TrumpChicken."
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One of the eight places, revealed at a Doncaster Council meeting, could act as a rail park-and-ride site with 1,700 parking spaces.
Opponents living in the rural locations in Doncaster, Rotherham and Wakefield said it would "not benefit Yorkshire".
HS2 said the early proposal would provide "additional access onto the railway for a wider area".
More updates on this story and others in South Yorkshire
Proposed sites
The proposed South Yorkshire HS2 route, part of phase 2b of the project, runs east of Sheffield towards the M18, with a separate spur to take passengers to Sheffield city centre.
Paul Griffiths, phase 2 development director at HS2, said: "We've focussed our attention [at the eight sites] because there are already roads and access, but we are at a very early stage of the development.
"There would be public consultations and the secretary of state would take a view as to whether we can manage this in a way which doesn't have too much impact and whether this does make sense as a proposal."
A study looking into the possibility of a "parkway" station is due to be completed later in 2017.
Christine Jackson, chair of Hickleton Parish Council, said: "I presume you would have greenbelt for a car park, people would struggle to get to it due to a busy A road.
"You would lose its sense of being a conservation area, so I can't see anything positive about it."
Grant Morement, who lives in Hooton Roberts, said: "It doesn't help the capacity, it doesn't benefit Yorkshire, it has no economic benefit, there's just no point whatsoever having it up here."
What will the second phase of HS2 involve?
In November, the government confirmed the route for the second phase - from Crewe to Manchester and the West Midlands to Leeds.
A new HS2 station will be built next to Manchester Piccadilly, with a spur to take HS2 to another new station at Manchester Airport.
The decision on how to run the line to Sheffield has been delayed. The government's preferred option is for the main HS2 route to run east of Sheffield but for a spur to take passengers to Sheffield city centre.
What do we know about HS2?
Robert Ferrin was driving a grey Ford Focus which crashed on the north bound carriageway of the A1 Hillsborough Road at about 17:40 BST.
The 61-year-old man was from Belfast, according to police.
Officers have appealed for anyone who witnessed the crash to get in contact with them.
In their first game at Myreside - their home for the second half of the season - Duncan Hodge's side ran in seven converted tries, with captain Neil Cochrane bagging two.
Cornell du Preez, Blair Kinghorn, Mike Allen, Jason Tovey and Damien Hoyland scored the others.
The Romanians' only points came from a Valentin Calafeteanu penalty.
Edinburgh have an unassailable six-point lead at the top of Pool 5, and with 24 points, are guaranteed to be one of the four top-ranked sides in the pool stages, thereby securing a home draw for the last eight.
The club may opt to shift that fixture back to Murrayfield for its greater size as Myreside can hold around 6,000 spectators, less than a tenth of the national stadium's capacity.
Cochrane, on his 50th appearance for the club, grounded the ball after a powerful drive from the home pack to open the scoring, with Duncan Weir converting.
Edinburgh's back row combined smartly in open play to create the second try, with Magnus Bradbury finding fellow flanker Jamie Ritchie, whose basketball-style offload to Tom Brown gave the winger the space to send Du Preez galloping in.
Weir converted, and did so again when Kinghorn snapped up a telegraphed pass to canter in unchallenged from halfway.
Centre Chris Dean set up his midfield partner Mike Allen for the bonus-point fourth try on the stroke of half-time, the fly-half adding the extras once more.
Trailing 28-0, scrum-half Calafeteanu slotted Timisoara's sole points from the tee shortly after the break, but Cochrane's second - converted by Weir - stretched the lead after another rolling maul.
Weir's replacement Tovey and Du Preez combined in the tackle to hold up the Romanians when they threatened the home whitewash.
And the Welsh pivot exploited a gap in the Timisoara defence to dot down for Edinburgh's sixth try, converting it himself.
Scotland winger Hoyland scored the final - and arguably finest - try of the evening, when he sped home off a neat inside reverse pass from replacement scrum-half Sam Hidalgo-Clyne, with Tovey adding the extras.
Edinburgh interim head coach Duncan Hodge: "We got what we needed - a bonus point and a home quarter-final. As ever, there are bits we need to improve on for [playing Munster at Myreside in] two weeks' time, but we've got what we needed.
"The crowd [at Myreside] are closer to the players [than at Murrayfield] so they're incredibly positive about it. You look out and see the stands, and it looks great. I think it's been a huge plus, and it's great to see so many fans here tonight.
"Hopefully they'll come back in two weeks' time, which will be a massive game."
Edinburgh: Kinghorn; Hoyland, Allen, Dean, Brown; Weir, Fowles; Dell, Cochrane (capt), Berghan, Toolis, Gilchrist, Bradbury, Ritchie, Du Preez.
Replacements: McInally, Cosgrove, McCallum, Carmichael, Mata, Hidalgo-Clyne, Tovey, Scholes.
Timisoara Saracens: Fercu; Lemnaru, Sefanaia, Umaga, Shennan; Rose, Calafeteanu; Aholelei, Radoi, Pungea, Popirlan, Drenceanu, Ianus, Lazar, Rus.
Replacements: Capatana, Halalilo, Maris, Muresan, Gorcioaia, Popa, Conache, Manumua.
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The 22-year-old was playing American Donald Young in the first round when he slipped and fell at the baseline.
After courtside treatment to his hip, Kyrgios continued until the tie-break but retired after Young took it 7-3.
Kyrgios withdrew from recent events in Monte Carlo and Rome with a hip injury.
"It just was a sharp pain when I fell," said the world number 20.
"I started feeling it when I was walking, when I was landing on my serve. It's exactly what I was feeling in Paris. I mean, it's tough to play through."
He added: "I felt pretty much everything I was feeling a month ago. It's not great at the moment. But we'll see."
Asked about his chances of recovering in time for Wimbledon, which gets under way on 3 July, Kyrgios said: "I'd play Wimbledon if I was injured pretty bad anyway.
"I'm here anyway. I don't really have time to go home or anything. Yeah, I will be playing, for sure."
And the Australian joked that the enforced lay-off meant he might spend the coming days at a pub in Wimbledon village.
"Dog & Fox," he replied, when asked for his immediate plans.
Kyrgios beat Rafael Nadal on his way to the Wimbledon quarter-finals three years ago, and lost to eventual champion Andy Murray in the fourth round last year.
"This is a big tournament but I think when you've got Wimbledon, or any of the Grand Slams, looming, you don't hang in there," former Davis Cup captain John Lloyd told BBC Sport.
"With Wimbledon coming, you can't take any chances."
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In a 10-part series, BBC broadcaster Barry Davies recalls the most memorable Olympic moments of his 44 years on air from the Games.
It happened to me in the semi-final of Euro '96, when Gareth Southgate missed his penalty. All I said was, "Oh, no!" - and that, with a few adjectives added in, was what most people around the country said.
Commentary has to be spontaneous. You just pray that at the moment when it really matters, as Kenneth Wolstenholme proved all those years ago, you find the right words to add to the picture.
In June, Imran Sherwani - scorer of two goals for GB in the final - recalled the game and Barry Davies' commentary.
"Ah, the famous commentary from good old Barry.
"I always get asked about it. I rarely go a week without someone mentioning it to me.
"Barry is a fabulous supporter of hockey and he has stated that it was one of the greatest moments he has witnessed at an Olympics.
"The fact that I scored two in the final and had the famous commentary puts me to the fore but it was very much a team effort."
At the Seoul 1988 Olympics, like the British hockey team, I had no idea what effect was being had on people back home in Britain. The British men touched a spark with the public which they did not appreciate.
They went to the Games as the number two seeds but right from the start, things were not straightforward. They drew 2-2 with South Korea having been 2-0 up and there was a little bristling on the field, an altercation or two.
Then they lost to West Germany and at the end you could see them looking around, thinking: "That's it, we've blown it."
But other results meant they had not quite yet blown it - provided they won every match from that point onwards. And that concentrated their minds hugely.
They got to the semi-final, a superb game where Britain took a two-goal lead, let Australia back into it, then were saved by a brave goal from Sean Kerly.
The final itself was not as good as that match and, in my mind, I don't think I had any doubt that Britain would go on to win it. They scored good goals at the right times, moved the ball around quickly, and Imran Sherwani had a great game down the left side.
Every player in the team played well and it became a wonderful occasion. People who knew nothing about hockey got up at six o'clock in the morning in Britain to watch it. The team produced something which got a response from the public.
When Britain's third goal was scored - a tap-in from Sherwani - I began recapping it and, as I'm doing that, I'm thinking to myself: Hang on a minute. It's a knife-through-butter situation, there was no defender around. What were they doing, the Germans?
So I said: "Where were the Germans?"
And as I'm saying that, I'm thinking: Who gives a stuff where the Germans were? We're going to win this!
I have to admit the 'we' was there. I was guilty of supporting Great Britain. So then I added: "Frankly, who cares?" Because I didn't, and I doubt if anybody watching in Britain did.
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The game ended with a 3-1 win for Britain and after the match it was total chaos. The ceremony took a long time to come together and that allowed for all sorts of little cameos - the players' wives sat on the rostrum for photographs, the team bowed to the beautifully dressed Korean ladies who had turned up to every match, the minister for sport was lifted off his feet by one of the players, and in the middle of all of this was HRH Princess Anne, walking through the melee with absolute delight.
Sport is nothing without emotion and commentary is the art of finding the right words. You don't always know whether you've found them or not - sometimes, you're stupid enough to find them and then add a few more words which take away from what you have just said.
It's a matter of fortune. All I'm trying to do is open my mouth and hope my foot is sufficiently removed from it.
The foreign affairs committee accused the then PM David Cameron of lacking a coherent strategy for the air campaign.
It said the intervention had not been "informed by accurate intelligence", and that it led to the rise of so-called Islamic State in North Africa.
The UK government said it had been an international decision to intervene.
The action had been called for by the Arab League and authorised by the UN Security Council, the Foreign Office added.
An international coalition led by Britain and France launched a campaign of air and missile strikes against Muammar Gaddafi's forces in March 2011 after the regime threatened to attack the rebel-held city of Benghazi.
But after Gaddafi was toppled, Libya descended into violence, with rival governments and the formation of hundreds of militias, while so-called Islamic State, also known as Isil and Daesh, has gained a foothold.
The committee's key conclusions include:
Mr Cameron has defended his handling of the situation, telling MPs in January action was needed because Gaddafi "was bearing down on people in Benghazi and threatening to shoot his own people like rats".
But the foreign affairs committee said the government "failed to identify that the threat to civilians was overstated", adding that it "selectively took elements of Gaddafi's rhetoric at face value".
The government also failed to identify the "militant Islamist extremist element in the rebellion", the MPs said.
"The possibility that militant extremist groups would attempt to benefit from the rebellion should not have been the preserve of hindsight," the committee said, adding: "UK strategy was founded on erroneous assumptions and an incomplete understanding of the evidence."
This report is effectively Parliament's attempt at a Chilcot inquiry into the Libyan intervention, only quicker and shorter.
And the criticism is weighty: the government's poor intelligence about the threat to civilians in Benghazi, its lack of awareness of Islamist elements among the rebels, the policy drift from saving lives to getting rid of Gaddafi, and David Cameron's lack of strategy for what should happen next.
The subtext is that the lessons of Iraq were ignored.
Yet in truth the report also reveals the uncertainty among policymakers about military intervention, torn between avoiding another Srebrenica-style massacre when the West turned a blind eye to the killings of Muslims by Bosnian Serbs in 1995 and the need to avoid another Iraq-style intervention when Western countries got bogged down in an internal conflict.
What happened in Libya was a half and half policy, of intervention without occupation. And it is a model that did not work.
Crispin Blunt, chairman of the committee, told the BBC: "We were dragged along by a French enthusiasm to intervene, and the mission then moved from protecting people in Benghazi, who arguably were not at the kind of threat that was then being presented...
"Indeed, on the basis of the evidence we took, the threat to the people of Benghazi was grossly overstated."
The committee said "political options" were available once Benghazi had been secured - including through ex-PM Tony Blair's contacts with Gaddafi - but the UK government "focused exclusively on military intervention".
February 2011 - Violent protests break out in Benghazi and spread to other cities. This leads to civil war, foreign intervention and eventually the ousting and killing of Gaddafi in August.
March 2011 - UK parliament approves British participation for military intervention alongside a coalition of nations, including France and the US.
2014 - Militants from so-called Islamic State claim responsibility for several attacks in Libya towards to the end of the year, as the US finds evidence that the group is setting up training camps.
2016 - Following years of conflict, a new UN-backed "unity" government is installed in a naval base in Tripoli. It faces opposition from two rival governments and a host of militias.
By the summer of 2011, the limited intervention to protect civilians had drifted into an opportunist policy of regime change, the committee said.
"That policy was not underpinned by a strategy to support and shape post-Gaddafi Libya.
"The result was political and economic collapse, inter-militia and inter-tribal warfare, humanitarian and migrant crises, widespread human rights violations, the spread of Gaddafi regime weapons across the region and the growth of Isil in North Africa.
"Through his decision-making in the National Security Council, former prime minister David Cameron was ultimately responsible for the failure to develop a coherent Libya strategy."
The MPs said Libya had been the "first test " for the NSC, which was set up in 2010 to coordinate responses to security threats and integrate the work of various relevant government departments.
The committee said there should now be an independent review of the operation of the NSC, which is chaired by the prime minister, to see if it had succeeded in addressing the weaknesses in government decision-making identified in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
The Foreign Office defended the intervention.
"Muammar Gaddafi was unpredictable and he had the means and motivation to carry out his threats," a spokesman said.
"His actions could not be ignored and required decisive and collective international action. Throughout the campaign we stayed within the United Nations mandate to protect civilians.
"After four decades of Gaddafi misrule, Libya undoubtedly faces huge challenges. The UK will continue to play a leading role within the international community to support the internationally recognised Libyan Government of National Accord."
Unlike previous years, when the economy took centre stage, geopolitical concerns will be the hot topic at the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Participants from more than 140 countries are expected to attend.
Almost 900 experts identified protracted global disputes as the "major threats affecting mankind".
Conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East were singled out as being of particular concern.
Environmental threats, including water shortages and the spread of infectious diseases, have also been highlighted in the WEF's annual Global Risks report.
In its presentation to the press, the WEF stressed that more than "25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall," interstate conflicts, and "relics of the Cold War" were now the most likely risks to global stability.
Espen Barth Eide, a former Norwegian defence minister who worked on the report, said the conflicts that posed the biggest risks were not constrained to "direct shooting".
Mr Eide said "major power plays", such as the situation between Russia and Ukraine, were of concern, as were strained relations between Asia's two biggest economies - Japan and China.
He referred to 2014 as the "annus horribilis" of global politics, and warned that for the first time in many years, politics was encroaching on economics and global trade.
Sanctions, such as those imposed on Iran and Russia by Western states, were impinging on business, he added, as was a resurgence of protectionism.
Other risks identified in the report include extreme weather events, the failure of national governance, and rising unemployment.
The threat of cyber attacks, as highlighted by the recent hack of Sony Pictures, and the "increased vulnerability of classified information" were also given prominence by the WEF trend-setters.
"Our appeal [to policy makers] is to invest more into co-operation and diplomacy," Mr Eide told reporters.
Shashi Tharoor wanted to amend Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, saying it "violates the fundamental rights" of the homosexual population.
According to the 153-year-old colonial-era law, a same-sex relationship is an "unnatural offence" and punishable by a 10-year jail term.
Activists say police authorities often misuse the law to harass homosexuals.
The MP tweeted that he "will try again in the future" to amend the law.
India's treatment of homosexuals has been under the spotlight in recent years.
In a landmark ruling in 2009, the Delhi high court had decriminalised gay sex, describing Section 377 as discriminatory.
The Indian Supreme Court reversed the order in 2013, causing global outrage with many describing it as "disgraceful".
Gay rights activists have been demanding Indian MPs to amend the law in the parliament, but successive governments have failed to take up the issue.
Mr Tharoor wrote on the Quint website that "it is time to bring the Indian Penal Code into the 21st century".
"Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code was enacted in 1860, and criminalises 'carnal intercourse against the order of nature' - a term so archaic that it would invite derision in most modern societies," he wrote.
In deeply conservative India, homosexuality is a taboo and many people still regard same-sex relationships as illegitimate.
A report from counter-extremism organisation the Quilliam Foundation says smugglers are also being paid to bring the recruits into Europe.
It says that when the unaccompanied under-18s arrive in the UK, hundreds then go missing from the care system.
A new government strategy in May will address some of the concerns, it adds.
The Quilliam Foundation report says groups like IS are active in refugee camps abroad.
They distribute food and try to buy allegiance from desperate youngsters by funding the first leg of their journey to Europe.
"Children and young people who are indoctrinated and recruited by IS are an important resource," it says.
The foundation's report says extremists may attempt to infiltrate refugee groups and radicalise young minds at any stage of the trip.
And then when the unaccompanied under-18s reach the UK, hundreds are said to go missing from the care system.
Some run away because they fear not being granted asylum, while others fall victim to abduction, trafficking, sexual and economic exploitation, the foundation says.
Citing figures from 2015, the report says more than 340 children went missing between January and September, with 132 remaining unaccounted for by the end of the year.
According to the report, the government's forthcoming strategy for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of unaccompanied child refugees is expected to include measures aimed at increasing available foster placements.
It will also include proposals to expand supported accommodation, and reduce the number of unaccompanied children and trafficked children going missing from care.
The number of subscribers on the continent has grown almost 20% each year for the past five years, the GSM Association report on Africa says.
It expects there will be more than 735 million subscribers by the end of 2012.
Analysts say bad and expensive landline connections in Africa are responsible for the high mobile phone usage.
Peter Lyons, GSMA's director of spectrum policy for Africa and Middle East, told the BBC that mobile penetration in Africa had reached 649 million subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2011.
"That is equivalent to a 65% penetration rate. Out of every 100 people, 65 have some form of mobile connectivity," he told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.
In a report, GSMA says that 96% of subscriptions are pre-paid with voice services currently dominating, although uptake of data services is increasing steadily.
The Kenyan government's abolition of the 16% general sales tax on mobile handsets in 2009 has resulted in handset purchases increasing by more than 200%, it says.
Kenya is at the forefront of mobile money transfers, with 8.5 million users, the report says.
Nigeria has the highest number of mobile phone subscriptions in Africa - more than 93 million, representing 16% of the continent's total mobile subscriptions, GSMA says.
South Africa, with its more developed infrastructure, has the highest broadband penetration - 6%, followed by Morocco with 2.8%, the report says.
"The mobile industry in Africa is booming and a catalyst for immense growth, but there is scope for far greater development," Mr Lyons said.
He said 36% of people in the 25 largest African mobile markets still had no access to mobile services.
"To take full advantage of its potential, African countries need to allocate more spectrum for the provision of mobile broadband services, as well as introduce tax cuts for the industry," Mr Lyons said.
The report says African countries have allocated far less spectrum to mobile services than Europe, the Americas and Asia, which inhibits connectivity to many people in rural areas.
"Sufficient spectrum should be provided for mobile broadband services through 3G, HSPA [High-Speed Packet Access] and LTE [Long Term Evolution] technologies," it says.
The Terriers ended the 2015-16 Championship season in 19th place after a crushing 5-1 home defeat by Brentford, while the Royals lost 3-1 at Blackburn - their sixth defeat in seven matches - to finish 17th.
Just over a year on, it could scarcely be more different. The teams will meet in the play-off final at Wembley on Monday, in a match worth at least £170m to the winner.
How did they turn their fortunes around?
Huddersfield Town - David Wagner
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Terriers chairman Dean Hoyle was clearly delighted with his newest appointment when Wagner took charge in November 2015.
He told the club website: "David's football philosophy is directly in line with ours; he fits for what we need. He will be head coach. He is the club's first from outside the UK and Ireland and he brings a new approach and new ideas."
Hoyle had grown weary of British managers delivering short-term results without a long-term plan and what he believed to be short change on his considerable investment into the club.
The former Borussia Dortmund II boss lost three of his first four matches, but Championship survival was attained while Wagner set about evolving every aspect of the way the team operated both on and off the field.
To the dismay of some players, he moved training sessions in line with when games started and asked the squad to meet for pre-match meals even for home games.
Wagner added 13 new players as he sought to build a side able to play the style of football he had had success with in Germany.
The results were miraculous. Town won eight of their first 11 league matches, finished in the Championship play-off places for the first time and are one win away from ending a 45-year absence from the top flight.
Reading - Jaap Stam
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Following Brian McDermott's rather low-key departure after a second spell in charge of the club that lasted just six months, Reading decided to go Dutch for his successor.
Former defender Stam was the man picked for his first full-time foray into management, having most famously been part of Manchester United's treble-winning side of 1999.
"Reading are very ambitious, like I am, and want to get back to the Premier League," he said in June 2016. "Hopefully we can have a good partnership and get there."
His appointment was not initially warmly welcomed by everyone, as co-chairman Sir John Madejski revealed at Stam's first news conference he had not been behind the decision to sack McDermott.
Stam gave a conservative estimate of how his side might fare in his first season. "There are teams in there who will make it hard to be in the top 10," he said in pre-season. "You can't expect us to end up in the top six."
After winning only one of their first four league games, a few boos could be heard from the home fans as Reading, who have not been in the Premier League since 2013, bedded into Stam's possession-based approach.
Fast forward nine months through a season of just two home defeats and the reality is beyond Stam's and probably many supporters' expectations.
"We never dreamed of getting to this game," Stam told BBC Radio Berkshire. "But I've always had the belief in what I can do. It's not just about me, it's about my staff as a manager can't do it on his own.
"I'm happy we've achieved this in the first season, but it's going to build the expectation for next season as well. So we need to be realistic.
"Let's enjoy it for now and work towards getting that result on Monday."
Huddersfield
Much like great friend and former Borussia Dortmund colleague Jurgen Klopp, Wagner favours a high pressing 4-2-3-1 formation but it would be overly simplistic to say his team are just about gegenpressing.
Wagner puts a great deal of emphasis on quick transitions all around the pitch and there is a lot of onus on all players to put in performances high in both energy and tactical discipline.
The tireless work of the front four in both attacking and defensive situations is often at the expense of personal glory. Town's top scorer this season is Elias Kachunga with 13 goals in 47 appearances.
However, it is this work-rate that often creates the platform for full-backs Chris Lowe and Tommy Smith to advance beyond the forwards and get behind opposition defences.
Wagner is not completely tied to his pressing philosophy and notably changed tactics for August's trip to Newcastle. Huddersfield beat the Magpies 2-1, having spent the majority of the game sitting back and allowing the hosts to dominate possession.
Reading
Possession, possession, possession has defined Stam's Reading this season. His side have averaged 57.4% in the Championship.
As already mentioned, the Dutchman's philosophy has not appealed to everyone. It attracted critics after a 2-0 defeat by Leeds in December when, despite having 77% of the ball, the Royals registered just two shots on target.
Although Stam has not necessarily departed from the approach, there has been a sense of it being sacrificed in pursuit of getting results.
Yann Kermorgant has spent much of the season as a sole striker, but Lewis Grabban - on loan from Bournemouth - has partnered him in attack in recent matches to offer an additional outlet.
Even before the play-off semi-final against Fulham, pundits refused to back Reading's chances of progressing. In both legs, Reading saw considerably less of the ball, but took their opportunities.
Huddersfield
Almost all of the 13 new players signed last summer have played a major part in Town's success, as well as their two January additions.
Aaron Mooy, on loan from Manchester City, was included in the Championship's team of the year after an outstanding season in midfield.
Key to the way Town break teams down are the overlapping runs made by full-backs Lowe and Smith, a player who has been reinvented by Wagner, and the duo have chipped in with 13 assists and six goals between them.
Perhaps most impressively given their achievements this season, Town's record signing is the £1.8m they paid 1860 Munich for centre-half Christopher Schindler in June 2016.
For context, that fee made Schindler the 43rd most expensive signing in the Championship last summer.
Reading
The biggest success of Stam's squad has undoubtedly been a player who was already at the club before his arrival. French striker Yann Kermorgant, at the age of 35, has weighed in with 19 goals.
Another consistent performer has been goalkeeper Ali Al-Habsi. The former Wigan player was man of the match in the play-off semi-final second leg, pulling off a string of saves to deny Fulham an equaliser.
The Oman international was named player of the season for a second successive year in recognition of his 16 clean sheets.
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John Swift, who joined last summer from Chelsea, has contributed eight league goals from midfield and was named EFL Young Player of the Month for January.
"The gameplan's been the main thing this season, everyone working together to get a result," said the 21-year-old.
"After the season, I think we'll all look back on how well we've done. But it's a huge game ahead of us and we can't think too much about that."
Paul Ogden, Huddersfield Town commentator for BBC Radio Leeds:
I would use the two regular season meetings between the teams as a fairly solid indicator for how Monday's game will go.
With both teams having won one apiece - and both by a margin of 1-0 - it would not surprise me remotely if this game were to go beyond the 90 minutes.
Neither team gives much away and neither defence is particularly vulnerable, so I could envisage a game that may not be the most exciting to the neutral.
Should we need extra time, there is no concern that Town's high-energy approach could leave them at a disadvantage on what could be a hot May day at Wembley.
Wagner is a meticulous planner and, straight after beating Sheffield Wednesday, the players went to Portugal for a warm weather training camp.
Tim Dellor, Reading commentator for BBC Radio Berkshire:
Anyone who says they know who will win this game is guessing - it's far too tight to call. With only four points separating the two teams over the 46 games, the stats back that up.
The two teams have reached the most valuable game in football in a similar manner. Statistically, tactically, and managerially there is little difference, leaving us with the mental toughness of the players.
The team that best copes with the stress of the big occasion, the huge crowd and the enormous consequences of success or failure will inevitably be the ones playing in the Premier League next season.
Ayew, 26, signed for Swansea on a free transfer from Marseille in June 2015 and scored 12 goals in his first Premier League season.
The Ghana international won the BBC African Player of the Year in 2011 and signs a four-year deal to become West Ham's record signing.
"The club have a lot of ambition and have a great manager," said Ayew.
"They want to become a bigger club every year and with the new stadium and a new training ground, you can feel they are moving on to another level and I want to be part of this project."
He is the club's fifth signing this summer, as they prepare for their first season playing in the London Stadium.
Sofiane Feghouli, Havard Nordtveit and Ashley Fletcher signed on free transfers from Valencia, Borussia Monchengladbach and Manchester United respectively.
On Monday, the Hammers also completed the transfer of French left-back Arthur Masuaku from Olympiakos in a deal worth a reported £6m.
The £20.5m fee for Ayew eclipses the £15m West Ham paid Liverpool for England striker Andy Carroll in June 2013.
Like Ronald, she was a former Hollywood performer who made it all the way to the White House.
The Reagans' 52-year marriage was once described as the greatest love affair in the history of the American presidency.
"My life really began when I met my husband," she once wrote.
She was born Anne Frances Robbins in New York on 6 July 1921 but was known as Nancy from an early age.
Her father, a car salesman, separated from her mother before she was born.
When she was six, her mother Edith - a stage actress - married Loyal Davis, a wealthy neurosurgeon. Dr Davis adopted Nancy, and she grew up in Chicago.
Intent on becoming an actress, she joined a touring theatre company in 1946. Her stepfather's money cushioned her against the rigours that confront many young would-be performers.
She eventually appeared on Broadway, and finally went to Hollywood, where - as Nancy Davis - she made 11 films between 1946 and 1959. Stardom, however, eluded her.
In 1951 she met Ronald Reagan, who had just divorced his first wife, Jane Wyman. By then he was president of the Screen Actors Guild, and the couple worked together on the film Hellcats of the Navy.
They married a year later and went on to have son and a daughter, Ron and Patti. Reagan also had two children from his first marriage, Maureen, who died in 2001, and Michael.
Nancy Reagan retired from films soon after her marriage and for the rest of her life devoted herself to her family.
When her husband became governor of California - and later president - Nancy, an amalgam of protector and mother confessor, was always just behind his shoulder.
As First Lady, she sought to emulate the style of one of her predecessors, Jackie Kennedy.
To this end, she extensively redecorated the White House, accepted designer dresses worth $1m (£600,000) and a 4,732-piece set of china worth $209,000.
But this spending spree provoked a huge outcry from people outraged by what they saw as profligacy and waste while millions of Americans were losing their jobs.
Public opinion was also swayed by accusations that Mrs Reagan had a frosty personality, often consulted astrologers, and ordered the dismissal of White House chief of staff Donald Regan in 1987.
The former First Lady always rejected the harsh image she acquired during the White House years, and President Reagan himself had to deny that his wife was "some kind of dragon lady".
"I often cried during those eight years," she wrote in her 1989 memoirs My Turn. "There were times when I just didn't know what to do, or how I would survive."
During her time in the White House, Reagan became well-known as an anti-drugs campaigner. Though undoubtedly pithy, her slogan "Just say no" went unheeded by many young Americans who just said "yes" instead.
But there was much public sympathy when in November 1994, Reagan announced that he was in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.
She nursed him as his mental faculties declined and led the nation's mourning when the former president died, aged 93, in June 2004.
She continued to campaign after his death, notably for US government funding of stem cell research; it brought her into conflict with her husband's fellow Republican, President George W Bush, who was opposed to the plan.
Reflecting on her husband's final years, Mrs Reagan was wistful.
"The golden years are when you can sit back, hopefully, and exchange memories, and that's the worst part about this disease," she said in a 2000 interview on CBS television. "There's nobody to exchange memories with... and we had a lot of memories."
She came out in support of Republican John McCain in his 2008 bid for the presidency, making a public appearance with the candidate in front of her home in the affluent Bel Air district of Los Angeles.
Nancy Reagan's political views encompassed opposition to the legalisation of marijuana and abortions, support for the death penalty and horror at the thought of pre-marital sex, even though she was three months pregnant when she married.
Some saw Nancy Reagan as a political innocent, others as a shrewd behind-the-scenes manipulator, who became more and more the power behind White House appointments.
Whatever the case, she was a central figure in her husband's political life and an unswerving supporter of the man known as the "great communicator".
The trouble happened on Saturday night at a school in the west of the country, local media reports.
It began with a few students throwing stones and shouting "our rights", school principal Andrew Otara said.
It is the latest in a spate of arson incidents at Kenyan schools.
The pupils at the Itierio Boys Secondary School in Kisii were not allowed to stay up to watch the Euro 2016 match between Croatia and Portugal which kicked off at 22:00 local time (19:00 GMT), KTN television news reports.
There were also complaints that the state school had introduced new stricter discipline rules but the school has denied this.
Students set fire to seven of the school dormitories and tried to damage property at the neighbouring girls school.
Kisii County Governor James Ongwae wrote on his Facebook page on Saturday that "efforts by the disaster response teams and police to reach the place have been hampered by the unruly students".
He later said that the students caused "millions and millions and millions" of Kenyan shillings-worth of damage, adding that the ringleaders would be punished.
There has been fire damage at 20 schools in the area around Kisii in the last six months, Kenya's Standard newspaper reports.
Kenya's Education Minister Fred Matiang'i said that students from schools hit by arson attacks would only be allowed to transfer to other institutions with permission.
This was to stop future cases of arson and ensure they pay for the damage.
"Don't let the students who burnt schools escape paying for the damage because honestly it would be irresponsible for the government to continue spending billions of shillings repairing schools burnt by students, while they go scot free," Mr Matiang'i said.
A group of men armed with hammers and baseball bats entered McConnell's bar on Main Street at about 18:00 GMT on Wednesday and assaulted the man before driving off in waiting cars.
He was taken to hospital and is being treated for serious but non-life threatening injuries.
Six men, aged between 24 and 38, were arrested during follow-up searches.
Police appealed to anyone who witnessed the attack or who saw the group of men in the area to contact them.
With one game of the regular season remaining, Stenny leapfrogged Peterhead, who were thumped 4-1 by champions Livingston.
Airdrieonians beat East Fife 4-0 to replace them in the play-off places.
Brechin City strengthened their play-off hopes by beating Albion Rovers, while Alloa Athletic earned a late win over Stranraer.
On-loan Hibernian striker Oli Shaw struck either side of half-time as Stenhousemuir, who later had Kieran Miller sent off, gave their chances of avoiding the drop a welcome boost.
It was Shaw's third in two matches, after the 19-year-old struck the only goal in last weekend's win over Peterhead.
The successive victories have propelled Stenny off the foot of the table, and ahead of the Blue Toon by a point.
The new occupants of bottom spot were trounced at Almondvale, with Liam Buchanan, Scott Pitman and Joshua Mullin effectively settling the contest before the interval.
James Redman grabbed a consolation for the visitors in the second half, but Daniel Mullen grabbed Livingston's fourth nine minutes from time.
Andy Ryan scored a hat-trick as Airdrieonians climbed to third, ejecting East Fife from the play-off places in the process.
Christopher Kane was sent off for the Fifers before Iain Russell scored the hosts' fourth.
East Fife are level with Queen's Park, and both are now three points behind Brechin, who occupy the third and final play-off position after Paul McLean scored the only goal in their win over Albion Rovers.
Kevin Cawley netted a last-minute winner for second-placed Alloa against Stranraer, consigning the visitors to a nervy final weekend - they are three points above Stenhousemuir in 10th position and host East Fife on Saturday.
SNP minister Roseanna Cunningham told her party's conference that the plans would undermine industrial relations.
Her plea followed condemnation of the bill by Grahame Smith, the General Secretary of the Scottish TUC.
Mr Smith was the first leader of the Scottish Trade Unions Congress (STUC) to address an SNP conference.
The UK government wants to impose a minimum 50% turnout in strike ballots - with public sector strikes also requiring the backing of at least 40% of those eligible to vote.
Under current rules, strikes can be called if the majority of those taking part in a ballot vote in favour.
The Trade Union Bill, which would apply to unions in England, Wales and Scotland, will also:
Ms Cunningham told the delegates gathered in Aberdeen: "It is our view that all the measures within the bill in combination will affect employees' right to strike, change the relationship between unions and organisations negatively, and lead to greater confusion amongst employees.
"This directly impacts across Scottish business and especially our devolved public services in Scotland. I believe this is not a constructive platform upon which we can pursue our ambitions for Scottish workers."
She added that she had considered the proposals "very carefully" and believed the only solution was to "ask that Scotland is excluded from the entire bill".
There were rumblings about the trade union bill at the SNP conference even before Roseanna Cunningham spoke out this morning.
At a Scottish Police Federation fringe event, Michael Matheson MSP batted away questions about whether he would block the bill in Scotland if he could.
The justice secretary said it would be a matter for the SNP to decide on as a party, but with a resolution on the agenda which described the bill as an "ideological attack", the position was fairly clear from the outset.
This was underlined when Scottish Trades Union Congress secretary Grahame Smith was given a rapturous reception by delegates as he took to the stage to slam the bill.
As well as striking popular chords by railing against the Conservatives in Westminster, he used his speech to urge the huge crowd of activists to join up with trade unions.
This will be worrying for Labour, traditionally the party of the unions, which will need their support as it looks for a way to overcome the SNP's continuing dominance and win back Scottish voters at next May's Holyrood election.
Earlier, from the conference stage, Mr Smith said the bill raised "serious questions about the nature of democracy in the UK".
He added: "It [the bill] should be of concern not just to unions and their members, but to anyone concerned about democracy, human rights and civil liberties.
"The Tories claim that their proposals on ballot thresholds are about outlawing undemocratic strike action. This has nothing to do with democracy.
"I will not take lectures about democracy from a government elected on only 24% of those eligible to vote - and only 10% of those eligible to vote in Scotland - much less, of course, than the proposed thresholds that they wish to impose on strike ballots."
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Two second-half tries from winger Alex Cuthbert, four penalties from Leigh Halfpenny and eight points from Dan Biggar's boot were a fitting reflection of what became a romp.
Wales needed a winning margin of at least seven points to snatch the title from their visitors' grasp, and led by only six at the interval.
But they steamrollered an overwhelmed England side in the second half and ran away with the match as the capacity crowd celebrated wildly.
England seldom benefited from the decisions of referee Steve Walsh but were second best from the first minute as they fell to a first away defeat in the Six Nations under coach Stuart Lancaster.
It represents a remarkable turnaround for Wales, who had lost their last five matches in Cardiff and been dismantled by Ireland in the first half of their last fixture here.
But four successive victories - this last one the best of the lot - mean they top the table for a second season in succession.
In an atmosphere so ferocious it could have re-started a stopped heart, Halfpenny gave the home side the lead with his first three points after Joe Marler was penalised for not rolling away.
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Wales were more composed in the initial storm, with England spilling the possession they had and giving away a flurry of penalties in defence.
The relentlessly reliable Halfpenny made it 6-0 before Farrell's first attempt hit the right-hand upright and fell over the crossbar, but when Walsh ruled against England at a messy scrum the Wales full-back stroked over another penalty from 30m to restore the six-point margin.
When England finally got to work deep in Welsh territory, Ben Youngs' reckless pass was picked off by Biggar, and only a brilliant tap-tackle from England left winger Brown stopped George North from racing away into the vast empty spaces for a certain try.
Brown ran onto a nicely judged grubber from Farrell on the left only for his attempted inside pass to be intercepted, and Farrell then opted to kick deep when a turnover offered a tantalising glimpse of an overlap on the right.
With Biggar pulling a drop-goal wide on the stroke of half-time, Stuart Lancaster's men were closer on the scoreboard than they had been on the pitch.
But the problems at the scrum continued as the minutes ticked on, the red majority in the 74,104-strong crowd roaring their approval as Walsh repeatedly found against the men in white.
"This is better than the Grand Slam last year. We were outstanding."
- Wales coach Rob Howley
"Wales played well, we didn't turn up and didn't match their physicality. It was better than ours."
- England coach Stuart Lancaster
"I never thought that we would play so well in front of a great crowd. The boys were outstanding and everyone worked so hard for each other."
- Man of the match Justin Tipuric
"England had a good Six Nations but when it really came to it, man-for-man, they were not as good as Wales...the bubble has been burst."
- World Cup-winning England coach Sir Clive Woodward
"It was when 70,000 cavorting Wales fans started chanting, "Easy! Easy!" that you finally flushed all pre-match predictions down the gurgler and reached instead for the record books."
- Read more of Tom Fordyce's verdict
Doughty defence from England somehow kept Wales at bay as they went through 23 phases right on the try line, and Halfpenny made it 12-3 after another transgression.
Lancaster threw on the replacements, with Mako Vunipola coming on for Joe Marler, Courtney Lawes for Joe Launchbury and Dylan Hartley for Tom Youngs.
It added to the effort but did little to hone a cutting edge.
With 25 minutes left, the roof almost came off the Millennium Stadium. England were turned over again on half-way, the ball was spread quickly to Cuthbert and the right winger dashed clear of Brown to dive over in the corner.
Halfpenny just missed the conversion from the touchline but Wales were in control, their back-row forwards in the ascendancy and their backs starting to fly.
The impressive Sam Warburton accelerated off the base of a ruck, brushed through Danny Care's tackle and found the galloping Justin Tipuric, who drew the last man before putting Cuthbert over in the corner again.
Biggar drilled over the conversion to make it 27-3 and, as the crowd bellowed "Easy! Easy!", popped over another penalty to complete what was a thrashing.
It was a chastening finale for an England team who had begun knowing a win would give them the Triple Crown, Championship and a first Grand Slam in a decade.
Far less experienced - 10 of their starting line-up had never before played at this great stadium - and out-fought both physically and mentally, they looked shell-shocked by the end as Wales and their capital city kicked off a huge night of celebrations.
Wales: Halfpenny; Cuthbert, Davies, Roberts, North; Biggar, Phillips; Jenkins, Hibbard, A Jones, AW Jones, Evans, Warburton, Tipuric, Faletau.
Replacements: Shingler for Roberts (75), Hook for Biggar (75), L Williams for Phillips (75), James for Jenkins (61), Owens for Hibbard (52), Coombs for Evans (70), S Williams for Warburton (75).
Not Used: Andrews.
England: Goode; Ashton, Tuilagi, Barritt, Brown; Farrell, B Youngs; Marler, T Youngs, Cole, Launchbury, Parling, Croft, Robshaw, Wood.
Replacements: Twelvetrees for Goode (64), Flood for Farrell (67), Care for B. Youngs (64), Vunipola for Marler (44), Hartley for T. Youngs (52), Wilson for Cole (72), Lawes for Launchbury (52), Haskell for Wood (67).
Att: 74,104
Ref: Steve Walsh (Australia).
Ofsted's chief inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, wants to send a message that "satisfactory" is now unsatisfactory and that more schools should be pushing for the higher rating of "good".
This is the latest attempt to improve schools which are seen as "coasting".
The National Union of Teachers criticised such labels as "insulting".
But Prime Minister David Cameron said: "This is not some small bureaucratic change. It marks a massive shift in attitude. I don't want the word 'satisfactory' to exist in our education system. 'Just good enough' is frankly not good enough."
Sir Michael wants to see more schools progressing beyond the current category of "satisfactory", with the change in description intended to emphasise that these schools need to make improvements.
At present, inspectors can judge schools to be "inadequate", "satisfactory", "good" or "outstanding". Subject to consultation, the satisfactory grade will become "requires improvement".
Schools will only be allowed to stay at the "requires improvement" level for three years - and there will be earlier re-inspections, after 12 to 18 months rather than three years, says Ofsted.
Sir Michael was speaking ahead of a Downing Street summit on so-called "coasting" schools - where performance, often in well-off areas, is not necessarily inadequate but has failed to impress.
"There are too many coasting schools not providing an acceptable standard of education," says Sir Michael.
"Of particular concern are the 3,000 schools educating a million children that have been 'satisfactory' two inspections in a row.
"This is not good enough. That is why I am determined to look again at the judgements we award, not only so we are accurately reporting what we see, but so that those schools that most need help are identified and can properly begin the process of improvement.
"I make no apology for making even greater demands of an education system which has to respond with greater urgency to increasingly difficult and competitive economic circumstances."
Prime Minister David Cameron, who hosted the summit, said: "To those who say that this will alienate some schools, I say we've got to stop making excuses and start doing what is best for our children: demanding excellence and confronting complacency wherever we find it."
But teachers' unions criticised the changes - with the NUT claiming that the re-labelled category would be used as a way of pressuring more schools into becoming academies.
"First we had 'underperforming' schools, now we have 'coasting' schools. Labelling schools in this way is derogatory and insulting to pupils, teachers, school leaders and governors," said NUT leader, Christine Blower.
"The government's real agenda behind this change is of course inventing yet another category of schools that it will then seek to force into academy status."
Chris Keates, head of the NASUWT teachers' union, attacked the proposals as "another crude ruse to enable the secretary of state to push more schools into the hands of profit making, private companies".
"The seemingly tough talk we have heard from the government today, may have popular appeal but the reality is that it has nothing to do with raising standards," she said.
"Instead, it is about ratcheting up pressure on schools, without providing the support and resources they need to assist them in securing further improvements.
"This announcement will encourage a culture of vicious management practices within schools which will have a profoundly negative effect on the workforce and children and young people alike."
Labour's shadow education secretary, Stephen Twigg, said coasting schools "need more than just a new label" and criticised the removal of routine inspections of outstanding schools.
"Outstanding schools can quickly slip back, so this measure could undermine confidence in the system and mean parents only get out of date information."
The change to the "satisfactory" category was welcomed by the RSA think tank, which warned about such schools "performing inconsistently".
"What needs to be addressed in particular is the variable quality of teaching. We need to find ways to incentivise the best teachers to join these schools and new ways of helping schools to improve," said the RSA's director of education, Becky Francis.
But head teachers warned that when it came to inconsistency it was Ofsted that needed to get "its own house in order".
"Inspections are too often at the whim of inspectors with little experience in the field they are inspecting and who have already made up their minds before they enter the school," said Russell Hobby, general secretary of the NAHT head teachers' union.
"Heads feel the results can be the luck of the draw. If inspections are getting more severe, then they need to be more consistent and of higher quality or there will be no justice in the findings."
The vulnerable victims, some as young as 14, were exploited by a "cynical organisation", a court heard.
The 17 men and one woman were convicted of rape, supplying drugs and conspiracy to incite prostitution.
Over the course of four trials, 20 young women gave evidence covering a period from 2011 to 2014.
These trials involved 26 defendants, who were mostly Asian, facing a total of more than 100 charges and 22 victims.
Those prosecuted were from the Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Indian, Iraqi, Iranian and Turkish communities and mainly British-born, with most living in the West End of Newcastle.
Of the 26, three people have been jailed. The rest will be sentenced next month.
It also emerged during the court process that police paid a convicted child rapist £10,000 as an informant.
The victims were at first flattered by the attention of the men who apparently befriended them, but were then lured to parties, known as "sessions", by the promise of alcohol and drugs - often mephedrone (or M-Kat), Newcastle Crown Court heard.
Bags of M-Kat were left on coffee tables for the girls to help themselves.
The parties took place at premises around the West End, including the top floor of tower block Todd's Nook, where one teenager said she was raped three times.
The prosecution said they became the "vulnerable victims of an organised, cynical, systematic organisation in which they were passed between their abusers."
Some spoke of being "too intoxicated" to defend themselves, while others became addicted and had to commit sexual acts in return for drugs.
One victim said she had attended about 60 parties and another told of going to an address where there were two older men and a woman, who seemed "frightened and scared, like a slave".
She said: "They told us what she would do for them for money and drugs or she'd get battered."
Another victim said: "I knew that if we wanted drugs or alcohol we would have to do something.
"[He] had us too intoxicated to fight him off. One time, [he] locked the door. I was told I would only be allowed out if I had sex."
Northumbria Police set up Operation Sanctuary in December 2013 to investigate claims of sexual abuse against girls and young women.
The investigation is ongoing and to date has resulted in 461 arrests. Police have spoken to 703 potential complainants and 278 victims have been identified.
Due to its size, the investigation was split into a number of spin-off operations.
Operation Shelter uncovered groups of men in the West End of Newcastle - many of whom were known to each other - who exploited vulnerable young women and girls over a period from 2010 to 2014.
This eventually led to four separate trials, the first commencing in September 2015 and the final one which has just concluded, allowing previous reporting restrictions to be lifted.
Chris Jackson, BBC Inside Out in the North East and Cumbria
Sarah (not her real name) was 19, extremely vulnerable and unable to look after herself.
Along with other at-risk teenagers she was regularly abused by older men.
In the new year of 2014, Sarah told the police she had been raped by Abdul Minoyee.
A police officer took Sarah on a tour of the West End to try identify Minoyee's house and car and other places where these "parties" had taken place.
Sarah's information was a red flag - the abuse was on a much bigger scale.
The detective in charge of Sarah's case told his bosses that what she had said signalled something much bigger.
Days later the officer's hunch was given added weight when two girls in care reported that they had been repeatedly raped by a group of older Asian men.
The girls were aged 14 and 15.
They described being driven into Newcastle where they were plied with alcohol and cocaine before being raped and beaten by several men.
They were given money before being returned home.
One of the victims was in local authority care at the time. Newcastle City Council has launched a serious case review that is due to be published in December.
Council leader Nick Forbes said: "These were vile crimes committed by evil men.
"The victims ... have been brave beyond belief and undoubtedly have made our city safer."
Chief Constable Steve Ashman said: "We have not and will not stop.
"There has been no political correctness here. These are criminals and there has been no hesitation in arresting them and targeting them using all the means at our disposal."
Now that reporting restrictions can be lifted, it can be revealed that a police officer was sacked for failing to investigate a sex offender's phone.
It related to an earlier Operation Sanctuary investigation, which resulted in the conviction of Bahmani Ahmadi.
Mr Ashman said the officer should have been much more diligent, and that his dismissal should provide reassurance that the police culture in Northumbria had changed.
You can see more on this story on Inside Out on BBC One in the North East and Cumbria at 19:30 BST and on the BBC News Channel at 20.30 BST
The break-in at Harmony House in Melrose happened during the early hours of Monday morning when staff had left to join the after-festival party.
Several laptops, tablet devices, a two-figure sum of cash and bank cards were among the items stolen.
Police have asked anyone who saw any suspicious behaviour in the area to contact them.
Festival director Alistair Moffat said: "They have taken items totalling thousands of pounds.
"As well as all our IT equipment, cards and money, we lost our records which is a real blow.
"But we will not let it spoil the open, friendly and welcoming nature of the Borders Book Festival which has made it such a success for this region for more than a decade."
An estimated 25,300 visitors attended the four-day book festival to see dozens of events featuring some of the UK's top authors and politicians.
Police Scotland have appealed for information about the raid which happened at Harmony House in St Mary's Road, Melrose, between midnight and 02:30 on Monday.
Det Con James Harrison said: "Anyone who may have seen suspicious behaviour in the area during this time is asked to come forward.
"I would urge all business owners to remain vigilant and ensure that simple security measures such as the locking of doors and windows overnight are taken."
This year, two men were criticised for visiting the scene of an avalanche while one was dressed in shorts and deck shoes and the other in jeans.
The Snow and Avalanche Foundation of Scotland will bring together the experts at a seminar in Edinburgh.
They will include a creative director in advertising.
Avalanche information specialists from Scotland, Canada and Switzerland will also give presentations at the two-day event, which starts on Saturday.
Among the subjects to be discussed will be the Sportscotland Avalanche Information Service's (SAIS) Be Avalanche Aware initiative. The public information project was started in 2013.
Those attending the seminar will look at how people use the information and how it might be developed.
The avalanche specialists will also give insights into how layers of snow, known as snow packs, create the potential for snow slides.
Mark Diggins, of SAIS, said: "A range of presentations from a variety of experts, including a creative director in advertising and behavioural research information from the Met Office, will enable us to explore why and who engages with adventure activities and how we behave and take on messages.
"Presentations by avalanche specialists from Canada, Switzerland and Scotland will illustrate not only the various snow packs and how they differ but also what approaches are used to inform the public about hazard and what may be the best approach for educating and getting important messages across."
Mr Diggins added: "We consider that the discussions and presentations on avalanche hazard could also be applied to winter environments outside of Scotland, and knowing how people react and behave in benign and hazardous environments will be very interesting, and may provide us with an opportunity to look anew at how we educate and inform in general."
The two men who were criticised earlier this year had stopped to look at the debris on Creag Meagaidh while there was a potential risk of a further snow slide.
In February on the same Munro, an avalanche of a scale big enough to bury a car was recorded.
SAIS provides avalanche hazard information reports covering hills in the Cairngorms, Glen Coe, Lochaber and Torridon for walkers, climbers and skiers between December and April.
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Gray's injury-time header ended a run of 10 losing finals for the Edinburgh club since their last Cup win in 1902.
He admitted "it certainly helps" ease the pain of missing out on promotion after their play-off defeat by Falkirk.
"We are gutted we are not going up but this gives us a lot of confidence we can win the league next year," he said.
"It is what you dream about - scoring a winning goal in the last minute of the cup final. It is Roy of the Rovers stuff.
"We are so disappointed we are not getting promoted - we believe we were good enough to get out of this league [Championship].
"But winning the cup puts to bed everything that has been said about us not having the bottle. It is such a great effort by everyone involved with the club. I am so happy."
Hibs led with an early goal from Anthony Stokes but it appeared they might face further misery when Kenny Miller's header levelled matters and Andy Halliday's superb strike put Rangers ahead after 64 minutes.
But two superbly-flighted corners from substitute Liam Henderson saw Stokes head in with 10 minutes left before captain Gray performed the same trick in added time.
"They say every cloud has a silver lining, and today we have got that silver lining," said Hibs head coach Alan Stubbs.
"I am quite emotional. I probably dreamt this - I thought we were going to win the game 3-1 weeks ago.
"I knew the players were so disappointed last Friday [after their Premiership play-off semi-final defeat by Falkirk] but I saw by their reaction when they came back in on Monday they were ready for this game.
"They are history makers. You work with them every day and they have had a lot of bad luck against them, so to see them achieve it is fantastic."
Stokes, who arrived on loan from Celtic in January, had scored seven goals in 26 games prior to Saturday, but despite missing a host of other chances, his eighth and ninth goals proved his ability on the big occasion.
"I have never doubted my own ability," the striker told BBC Scotland.
"It is down to me to perform and I have done that today. I am just glad this club has got the hoodoo out of the way and finally won the cup."
Many Hibs supporters invaded the pitch as the final whistle blew, leading to some ugly confrontations and Rangers saying some of their players were assaulted.
Mounted police on horses entered Hampden to help keep supporters apart and restore order before the Hibs players were presented with the trophy, while Rangers' received their medals in their dressing room.
"The fans got a bit excited coming onto the pitch," said Hibs midfielder Fraser Fyvie. "But the way they have supported us this season and again today was fantastic.
"It has been a good while since we won a cup so they have maybe got a bit carried away but you can understand it.
"To be honest we wanted promotion and we will go for it again next season but I just want to enjoy this for now."
Defender Francis, 31, was dismissed for a challenge on midfielder Aaron Ramsey as the Gunners came from 3-0 down to rescue a point at the Vitality Stadium.
Cherries boss Eddie Howe said it was a "harsh" decision by referee Michael Oliver to send off Francis, before Olivier Giroud equalised in added time.
"It was a foul but I don't think it was a sending-off," said Howe.
The club expect to hear the outcome of their appeal by the end of the week.
If the appeal is unsuccessful, Francis will miss Saturday's FA Cup third-round tie with Millwall as well as Premier League games against Hull City and Watford.
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The Call the Midwife star is leading the cast of X, Alistair McDowall's claustrophobic, and often terrifying, new play at London's Royal Court theatre.
Set on a research base on Pluto, the skeleton crew have lost contact with Earth and are waiting for help to arrive.
Their sense of isolation grows as the base's digital clock starts to behave strangely - and soon it seems that time itself is breaking down around them.
"I've always hankered to be in something set in a dystopian future," says Raine, whose TV roles such as Midwife, Jericho and Wolf Hall often see her in period costume.
Not so in X, where she gets to wear clothes with a futuristic insignia and watch a colleague vomit into a space helmet.
The actress lists the Alien sci-fi horror franchise among her favourite films.
"I like to think of this as my Ripley moment," she says, adding that X playwright McDowall gave her with an action figure of Ellen Ripley - the character played by Sigourney Weaver in the Alien series.
In X Raine plays Gilda, a nervous crew member who struggles to cope with the isolation of being at the edge of the Solar System.
"I said yes to it because I thought the writing was phenomenal," she says. "I read it on my honeymoon and on the long flight back I couldn't sleep.
"My heart was thumping and I couldn't stop thinking about it. It did something to my physically. I felt like I had to play Gilda."
McDowall describes X as "quite a personal" play.
"I was trying to write about what it means to be alone. There's a lot of stuff that springs from my own childhood and securities. It's been a strange and emotional ride."
The writer, whose previous works include Pomona and Brilliant Adventures, doesn't regard X as science fiction.
"It's a play set in space but I don't think it's a space play. I think of it more as a psychological drama. Like a lot of science fiction, it's not about space or Pluto. It's about people on Earth."
He also reveals he wrote the play by hand.
"I was very aware of its space setting and its genre tropes, so I tried to ground myself as much as possible and wrote it with pen and paper."
Why did he set it on Pluto?
"It's the furthest away place from Earth in the popular imagination. You either say Timbuktu or Pluto. And Pluto's a bit of an underdog. It's not a planet anymore and they didn't know what to call it for a while," says McDowall.
"A huge part of the play is about being being away from home and Pluto is the most extreme position I could set that situation."
X is at the Royal Court's Jerwood Theatre Downstairs until 7 May.
For decades, the Farc extorted money from local people and businesses in areas it controlled.
But Farc leader Timochenko said on Monday that the group would rely on its savings to feed its fighters until a final peace deal was signed.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has said he hopes an agreement can be reached by 20 July.
Timochenko said he had "ordered all the rank and file to stop the collection of taxes".
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The move comes less than two weeks after the Farc and government negotiators announced the two sides would enter into a bilateral ceasefire.
Timochenko said "it was time" the Farc stopped taking money from farmers, cattle ranchers and big business.
He said the money had not been taken "on a whim" but "because we had to eat and we're not just feeding one or two people but thousands of guerrilla fighters".
Timochenko said that with a final peace deal approaching there was no longer a need for what the Farc calls the "revolutionary tax".
"We think we're nearing a final agreement, we can live off what we have until then."
Economist estimate the Farc to be one of the richest guerrilla groups in the world.
Apart from extortion, the group is believed to have amassed vast amounts of money through drug trafficking and kidnapping for ransom.
Timochenko also said that the Farc stopped recruiting new fighters for its ranks three months ago.
He urged members of the Farc to study the partial agreements reached in Havana ahead of "a conference" at which the guerrilla fighters would be asked to approve the agreements.
Comedian Grainne Maguire began tweeting Mr Kenny on Monday to raise awareness about a campaign to repeal the eighth amendment of the Irish constitution.
The amendment equates the life of the foetus to the life of the mother and criminalises abortion in Ireland.
Irish women soon joined Ms Maguire, with #repealthe8th trending in Ireland.
Changes to the constitution can only be made through a referendum.
A coalition of pro-choice groups is calling for a referendum to repeal the amendment and more than 47,000 people have signed a petition by the UK-based human rights group Amnesty International urging Mr Kenny to change the law.
Ms Maguire argued it was only fair to share such details with Mr Kenny since "we know how much the Irish state cares about our reproductive parts".
Women from all over Ireland chimed in with contributions about their menstrual cycles.
Others shared how abortion laws have affected them personally:
Mr Kenny is yet to respond.
In June, a report by Amnesty claimed pregnant women risk putting their health and lives in danger if they remain in Ireland.
"The human rights of women are violated on a daily basis because of a constitution that treats them like child-bearing vessels," said Amnesty's Secretary General, Salil Shetty.
"Women who need abortions are treated like criminals, stigmatised and forced to travel abroad, taking a serious toll on their mental and physical health.
In February a proposed change to the abortion law to legalise terminations in fatal foetal abnormality cases was rejected by the Irish parliament.
Bobby Olejnik, who played almost every game last season, has featured just three times since the start of October.
Christy Pym has taken over as first-choice keeper - playing nine of the last 12 games - while James Hamon has also made two starts.
"The fact of the matter is we have three very good goalkeepers, that's how it should be," Tisdale told BBC Sport.
"All players have light at the end of the tunnel in terms of good performances and I'm comfortable in selecting all three."
In 21-year-old Pym's last five games for his hometown club, City have lost just once - away at high-flying Carlisle in a game they should have won - and moved up to 17th in League Two.
"I will make a selection based on a whole number of topics and analysis and at the moment my choice is Christy," added Tisdale.
"He's played really well over the last three or four games and I don't think anyone would criticise his performances.
"We need competition for places and I've got three very able, selectable goalkeepers all trying very hard.
"There's no poor relationship between them on the training ground, which you often get in these situations, so I'm delighted for all of them.
"They're all good chaps and all pulling in the same direction whether they're selected or not, which isn't always the case."
Andrew Wilkie, an independent, said he wanted the court to assess policies he said were causing "great suffering".
He cited forcible deportations, compulsory detention and detention camp conditions as areas to be investigated.
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison rejected the claims.
"The coalition government will not be intimidated by attention-seeking advocates calling for a return to the failed policies of the past that resulted in unprecedented cost, chaos and tragedy on our borders," he told AAP.
Australia takes a tough line on asylum seekers who arrive by boat. They are held in offshore processing camps in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Nauru, in conditions that have been strongly criticised by rights groups.
If found to be refugees, they will be resettled in PNG or Cambodia, not Australia. No-one has yet been resettled.
In recent months Australian ships have also intercepted boats at sea. Some have been towed back to Indonesia and another returned to Sri Lanka.
These policies have been condemned by refugee advocates and the UN, who say Australia may be failing to meet its obligations under international treaties.
But the government says its aim is to reduce the number of people dying during the dangerous journey to Australia by boat, and maintains that the policies are working.
Mr Wilkie and human rights lawyer Greg Barns said the Abbott government's actions were "criminal", breached global conventions and fell within the jurisdiction of the ICC.
"The effect of the (asylum) policy is that men, women and children are being forcibly relocated and then subjected to arbitrary imprisonment through mandatory and sometimes indefinite detention," the letter to the ICC said.
"The conditions they are forced to endure in detention are causing great suffering as well as serious bodily and mental injury."
It is not yet known whether the ICC would consider taking up the case.
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Sean Clohessy almost gave Orient a second-half lead but his effort on towards what seemed to be an open goal was blocked by Joe Skarz, before Johnny Mullins blocked the follow-up shot.
Moments later, Jobi McAnuff put Orient ahead with a low right-footed shot.
Orient ended with 10 men when Mathieu Baudry was sent off in stoppage time for a late challenge on Kemar Roofe.
The result sees second-placed Oxford fall further behind League Two leaders Northampton Town, who now lead by 14 points, while Orient are inside the play-off places by a point.
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Leyton Orient player-manager Kevin Nolan told BBC Radio London: "I asked the lads for a reaction all week and to be fair, they've been absolutely fantastic.
"The training and everything has been spot on and they've matched it with the performance today.
"It could have been three or four. That's where we've now got to get that ruthlessness going when we're away from home and carving those chances out."
Charlotte Foster, 23, of Newport, Shropshire, who died from a blood clot, had reported breathing difficulties and leg pain to her GP, an inquest heard.
Coroner John Ellery concluded it was more likely than not she would have survived had Dianette been stopped and treatment started when she saw a GP three weeks before she died in January.
She died after collapsing at work.
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Miss Foster was presenting symptoms of a pulmonary embolism during her final GP appointment on 4 January but was instead being treated for lower back pain, the inquest found.
She died after a thrombosis caused a "massive" embolism in her lungs.
Her mother, Celia Foster, told the inquest at Shropshire Coroner's Court her daughter had heart palpitations and had messaged her family on New Year's Eve to say her ribs hurt and she could not lie down or breathe properly.
She said her daughter was angry after a consultation with GP Sunil Simon in Newport on 4 January, as he "did not seem to listen to her" and suggested she go for a massage or a spa day, despite her complaining of leg and back pain and tightness in her chest.
Dr Simon told the inquest he had "no concerns" during the appointment that Miss Foster had been suffering from a pulmonary embolism.
"When I observed Miss Foster during that day, I did not note any signs of respiratory distress or shortness of breath. She did not display any signs of a pulmonary embolism of a deep vein thrombosis," he said.
Miss Foster died at hospital on 25 January, three days after collapsing at her workplace.
The coroner, who recorded findings of fact and a narrative conclusion, said the inquest had raised "areas of concern".
He said he was reviewing whether to make a referral to the General Medical Council.
They take the number of suspended executives to eight.
Tesco said, "We have asked three employees to step aside to facilitate the investigation into the potential overstatement of profits in UK food.
"We will provide an update on the investigation with our interim results on 23 October."
Tesco shocked investors in September with the revelation that it may have overstated its profits by £250m.
At the start of this month, Tesco said it had been notified by the Financial Conduct Authority that it was under investigation over the guidance error.
An internal investigation is being carried out by the accountancy firm Deloitte and law firm Freshfields.
The company has a new boss, Dave Lewis, who took over as chief executive from from Philip Clarke on 1 September.
He has made clear that the actions taken against the Tesco executives are not "disciplinary or an admission of guilt".
How the company came to overstate its future profits by such a sum is not yet clear. In the meantime, billions have been wiped off the value of Tesco's stock market value as a result of the misreporting.
Others who have been suspended include former commercial director Kevin Grace and UK managing director Chris Bush.
Tesco's share price has plummeted 50% in a year as falling sales, boardroom reshuffles, and increased competition from rival supermarkets such as Aldi and Lidl have unnerved investors.
This week, Mr Lewis refreshed his board with the appointment of Compass boss Richard Cousins and former Ikea boss Mikael Ohlsson as non-executive directors.
Tesco still has a 28.8% share of the UK grocery market, according to retail analyst Kantar Worldpanel.
The Massachusetts team found shining a strobe light into rodents' eyes encouraged protective cells to gobble up the harmful proteins that accumulate in the brain in this type of dementia.
The perfect rate of flashes was 40 per second - a barely perceptible flicker, four times as fast as a disco strobe.
The researchers say the approach should be tested in humans.
They are already seeking permission from the US regulator, the Food and Drugs Administration, and have set up a commercial company to develop the technology.
Build-up of beta amyloid protein is one of the earliest changes seen in the brain in Alzheimer's disease.
It clumps together to form sticky plaques and is thought to cause nerve cell death and memory loss.
Researchers have been looking for ways to prevent plaque formation using drugs, but the results have been disappointing.
But Dr Li-Huei Tsai and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology think they have found another way, using light.
The mice that they studied were genetically engineered to have Alzheimer's-type damage in their brain, Nature journal reports.
When the mice were put in front of the flashing light for an hour, it led to a noticeable reduction in beta amyloid over the next 12 to 24 hours in the parts of the brain that handle vision.
Doing this every day for a week led to even greater reductions.
Likewise, light stimulation direct to the part of the brain that deals with memory - the hippocampus - led to reductions of beta amyloid there.
The researchers say the light works by recruiting the help of resident immune cells called microglia.
Microglia are scavengers. They eat and clear harmful or threatening pathogens - in this instance, beta amyloid.
It is hoped that clearing beta amyloid and stopping more plaques from forming could halt Alzheimer's and its symptoms.
Dr Tsai said: "We are optimistic."
The scientists say, in the future, people could wear special goggles or sit in front of a light-emitting device to get a therapeutic dose of the strobe light.
For the patient, it should be entirely painless and non-invasive.
"We can use a very low intensity, very ambient soft light.
"You can hardly see the flicker itself.
"The set-up is not offensive at all," they said, stressing it should be safe and would not trigger epilepsy in people who were susceptible.
Dr David Reynolds, of Alzheimer's Research, UK said: "Studies like this are valuable in revealing new processes implicated in Alzheimer's disease and opening new avenues for further research.
"While mice used in this study showed some key features of Alzheimer's, it is always important to follow up these findings in people."
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About 5,100 drivers caught during the hours of darkness in a two-month window will have their fines returned.
Newcastle City Council said bus lane warning signs were erected before new regulations - which do not require lighting - came into force.
The move will cost the authority £117,500 in refunds.
The two cameras on John Dobson Street have raised a total of £1.3m in fines since they were introduced in February.
Motorist David Crawford-Emery appealed to a tribunal on behalf of his girlfriend, after she received a fine for driving in the bus lane on John Dobson Street.
He won the appeal on the grounds "no offence had been committed", and shared the adjudicator's decision online, where it was shared more than 4,000 times.
"The adjudicator said the yellow and black advance warning sign that had been further down John Dobson Street was not sufficient on its own to give drivers advanced warning of this change.
"It said it was set back from the road, which it was, on the far edge of the pavement, it contained quite detailed information which would be difficult for a driver to fully take in."
Mr Crawford-Emery added: "I shared it for benefit of the fact I thought one or two of my friends may have been caught, and it went viral."
In a statement, the city council apologised and said any drivers due to receive a refund would be contacted directly.
"We are currently reviewing all adjudicators' decisions to see if we need to take any further action," it said.
"During this review we found that we issued 5,100 penalty charge notices during hours of darkness between 23 February and 22 April when the bus gate signs were not lit up.
"This happened because we were working to new Department for Transport regulations, which do not require lighting but which came into force later than we had anticipated."
Barry Speker, a senior consultant at Sintons solicitors, said those fined during daylight hours may have grounds to appeal and could affect "many thousands" of motorists and "hundreds of thousands" of pounds.
The northbound carriageway between junction 5 at Droitwich and 4a at Bromsgrove was due to reopen at 06:00 GMT following overnight works.
But there was difficulty removing the gantry from the carriageway as the available equipment could not lift it.
It reopened at around 16:20, but Highways England said "long delays" remained at that stage.
The troublesome gantry was moved at about 15:50.
Frank Bird, emergency planning officer with Highways England, said they thought they had "covered all the bases".
"There were no indications at all on the previous gantries that we'd dropped this week overnight - all went well, all resulted in the motorway reopening quite early in the morning. It was this last gantry that just caught us out."
Some drivers told BBC Hereford and Worcester they had been stuck on the M5 for up to four hours, while others took to social media to vent their anger over the congestion.
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Brad Hayward tweeted: "Thank you @HighwaysEngland for a well managed closure of #M5. 3hrs stationary and now missed hospital appt."
Chris Newman also criticised the agency: "@HighwaysEngland #getagrip will you now be issuing water to those who have been stuck between M5 6-5 Northbound for 4 hours?
One motorist, @capasphil, tried placating other fraught drivers by offering free hugs - even identifying the car he was in for those who wanted to take up his offer.
Another Twitter user, Emily Baker, wrote: "I hope whoever is responsible for the #M5 traffic is made to sit through it."
Highways England advised northbound motorists to exit at junction 5 and follow diversions.
Operations manager Sioux Hine said: "We can understand the frustration this has caused and it's frustrating for us too. We always try to carefully plan our overnight work to avoid this kind of disruption and we'd like to apologise for the inconvenience.
"Sometimes, things happen which no one can foresee."
A number of southbound lanes were also shut for long periods but have now reopened.
Valerie Deakin, 74, of Udimore, East Sussex, died when an Audi crashed into the Costa branch in Westerham, Kent, on Christmas Eve.
Kent Police said the man had received a court summons for causing her death by dangerous driving.
He will be charged at Sevenoaks Magistrates' Court on 5 July.
Two men and two women were also taken to hospital after the crash. Another woman was treated for minor injuries.
The Gills started the stronger of the two teams, but it was Southend's Anthony Wordsworth who opened the scoring with an opportunistic finish.
Jack Payne spurned a fine chance to double the Shrimpers' lead, smashing the ball into the side-netting.
And Luke Norris made them pay, levelling for Gillingham from close range for his sixth goal of the season.
If you walked past a newspaper stand, or flicked through a news app, this morning then you would have been left with that impression.
Well the short answer, if you're in a hurry, is no.
But something truly exciting is happening - the field of immunotherapy is coming of age.
It will not be a universal "cure" but immunotherapy is fast becoming a powerful new weapon alongside chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery.
Your immune system is your body's internal guardian and protector as it purges anything that is not "you".
It has a series of checks and brakes that prevent the immune system turning on healthy tissue (this is what goes wrong in autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis).
But cancer is a corrupted version of healthy tissue and can masquerade as normal to dodge our immune defences.
It performs the chemical equivalent of shouting "move along, nothing to see here".
And it does this by producing proteins on its surface that perform a chemical handshake with immune system cells to switch them off.
The immunotherapy drugs that have got people excited are like an oven-mitt that covers one of the hands, preventing the handshake.
The field has been developing for some time, but the explosion of front page newspaper headlines was triggered by data presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).
UK-led research showed that 60% of advanced melanoma skin cancers shrank when two immunotherapies were given in combination. The dual treatment stopped some of these deadliest cancers progressing for nearly a year.
The ASCO announcement came two days after another immunotherapy trial showed some lung cancer patients had their life expectancy doubled by immunotherapy drugs.
Smaller trials in a wide range of other cancers have also been presented - suggesting immunotherapy will have a role in many tumour-types.
Exciting? Certainly. A cure? No.
As Prof Karol Sikora, the dean of the University of Buckingham's medical school, told the BBC: "You would think cancer was being cured tomorrow.
"It's not the case, we've got a lot to learn."
So what are the words of caution?
For starters, these drugs do not work equally in everyone. Some people do spectacularly well, some do ok, and some do not respond at all.
The reason why is still unclear. Are cancers susceptible during just a short window in their development? Is it down to the type or quantity of proteins the tumours produce on their surface? We don't yet know.
Also, the therapies are likely to be very expensive, which means targeting the drugs on those who will respond will be key.
Long-term side effects are another a big uncertainty. Will the change to the immune system increase the risk of autoimmune diseases? So far the side effects seem to appear only during treatment, but long-term follow of patients who do respond has not taken place.
The research outside of melanoma and lung cancer is also still at a very early stage.
This is not a sudden breakthrough, or even the first set of really promising immunotherapy data.
The melanoma trial used a combination of two drugs - ipilimumab and nivolumab.
Ipilimumab is already recommended as the primary treatment for advanced melanoma in the UK.
So what we are seeing is a series of advances in a field that holds huge promise for the future. And that's exciting without throwing in the "cure" word.
The man, who was suffering from back pain, was on the Wipeout ride at Pleasurewood Hills in Suffolk.
Firefighters had to use a cherry picker to reach him on Sunday afternoon.
Park-goer Bryony Davies said the incident lasted at least two hours. "Wipeout got stuck at the top and staff did incredibly well to get people down," she added.
Around 20 firefighters rescued the man in his 40s, who was taken to hospital in Gorleston from the park, near Lowestoft.
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Group Commander Ali Moseley said by the time fire crews had arrived, park staff had "managed to get the rollercoaster car down to an elevated platform after it seemed to get stuck in a very high position".
He added: "The car was about three metres off the ground in an awkward position as there was only an angled platform to stand on around the car to get access to him.
"The incident was caused because there seemed to be a fault with the ride. It didn't result in any massive injury, but there was some injury to the individual."
Mr Moseley said the other people on the ride were "quickly evacuated before the fire service arrived".
Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service described it as an "unusual" call-out.
A spokeswoman for Pleasurewood Hills said it was "a minor incident that was dealt with by [our] team".
He may be under fire from his own MPs on Brexit and immigration, and his shadow defence secretary may be "absolutely furious" about his views on Nato, but the Labour leader was relaxed when we met in his Commons office on Thursday morning.
Our conversation took in Brexit, immigration, Welsh council elections and the Welsh Government's record on public services.
Is Carwyn Jones right to suggest that the Corbyn approach to immigration policy is "very London-centric"?
Corbyn: "It's not about being London centric. It's about the economic relationship we have to have in the future. If we want access to the European market, there's going to be negotiations around that. There may well be conditions placed around that - we don't know exactly what those are going to be at this stage.
"That's why I say that the priority has to be making sure that those excellent manufacturing industries and jobs that are going on in Britain do have somewhere to export and sell their goods to - if we cut ourselves off from Europe then we're going to have a real problem with maintaining those industries."
What does he think of Chukka Ummuna's idea of devolving some immigration policy to Wales?
"I think it'd be very difficult to implement it because if you set up a Welsh limit on immigration, or started the same thing for English regions would you then restrict the movement of those people within the UK, what would you do if it was a contracting industry - say building industry that had a contract to do work in other parts of the UK. Would you say that the European workers couldn't go and work on it. I think it's fraught with difficulties."
Stephen Kinnock's idea of a two-tier immigration policy? "It needs to be thought through a lot more than that."
This May marks the 20th anniversary of Tony Blair's election victory. Labour has been running public services in Wales ever since. Its record since then on the NHS, the economy and education, has not been without criticism.
The Corbyn defence? "Children in Wales get breakfasts. People using the NHS in Wales don't have to pay prescription charges. There isn't an internal market in the NHS in Wales.
"The Welsh Government is absolutely dedicated to expanding, developing and improving the education service in Wales, as it is the health service, and because we've got a Welsh Government there's been a great deal of investment gone in, and will continue to go in, in transport infrastructure in Wales, and the joint working between the Welsh Government and lots of businesses and industries has meant an awful lot of development of apprenticeships and good quality jobs in Wales.
"I think there's a lot to be very proud of about what Labour in Wales has achieved."
Football managers say the league table never lies - and some league tables make uncomfortable reading for Labour.
"It's improving. It's developing and the UK Government needs to recognise the needs of Wales and the needs of communities living in a post industrial society - of the levels of poverty that exist in those communities. A Welsh Government is on to this and a Welsh government working hard for the people of Wales is what we've got and and what we'll continue to have."
Despite bleak opinion polls for Labour in Wales, Mr Corbyn said its large membership was "in good heart and good fettle and we're raring to go".
I asked if we'd see him on the campaign trail in Wales.
"You certainly will."
There's more on the interview here.
The 24-hour walkout - the second in three months - affects bus, train, plane and underground services.
Swathes of the capital Buenos Aires ground to a halt after people were unable to reach their jobs.
The country's powerful transport unions are unhappy with the income tax floor and high inflation in the country.
Strikers set up roadblocks on Tuesday morning on the main roads leading into Buenos Aires, closing the city's Pueyrredon Bridge.
With people unable to access parts of the city or use public transport, many businesses and schools were forced to close.
All domestic flights and some international flights were cancelled.
Tuesday's strike also disrupted waste collection, freight transport and port activity after a number of smaller unions joined the protest.
The three transport unions are protesting against a bid by the government of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to cap salary increases at 27%, complaining that the figure does not match the forecast 30% inflation expected this year.
They are also calling for tax cuts as they say the threshold salary subjected to income tax has not been updated to keep pace with inflation, hitting lower earners.
Official figures put inflation in Argentina last year at 24%, but private estimates reckon it was closer to 40%. On Friday the value of the Argentine peso declined to a record low of nine per US dollar.
Juan Carlos Schmid, head of Argentina's dredging workers union, said the strike would send a "strong signal" to the government that takes power after December's general elections
Anibal Fernandez, the government's cabinet chief, called the walkout a "political strike designed to generate confusion."
"They are obstructing people who want to go to work, the vast majority of the population," he said.
The trade union movement in Argentina is divided into those who back the government of President Fernandez and those who think it is not doing enough to help workers.
The transport unions - among the most powerful labour unions in the country - are divided among themselves over support of the government.
Tserin Dopchut only had a small bar of chocolate in his pocket when he wandered into the woodland.
He slept on a dry makeshift bed under a larch tree, The Siberian Times said.
A huge land and air search was launched to find the boy, who may have been following a puppy when he vanished.
The child had been under the care of his great grandmother, local media reported, but he ventured off near the village of Khut, located amid dense forestry in the Tuva Republic when her back was turned.
For 72 hours the child braved plummeting temperatures, the threat of wild animals and the danger of falling into a fast-flowing river before he was eventually rescued by his uncle.
"The situation was very dangerous. The River Mynas is fast and cold. If a small child fell in, it would be certain death," Ayas Saryglar, head of Tyva's Civil Defense and Emergencies agency, told the Siberian Times.
"There are wolves, and bears in the forest. The bears are now fattening for the winter. They can attack anything that moves.
"In addition, it is warm during the day, but at night there are even frosts. If we consider that the kid disappeared during the day, he was not properly dressed - only a shirt and shoes, no coat."
A day and night search operation to find the child involved villagers, local policemen and even a helicopter scouring a vast area of about 120 square km.
Another official told local media that the child was saved after recognising his uncle's voice calling his name. After being hugged, his first question was whether his toy car was okay.
Rescuers were quick to praise the toddler's initiative - he found a dry place under a larch tree and slept between its roots.
"The whole [of his] village is throwing a party to celebrate his survival," regional leader Sholban Kara-Ool was quoted as saying.
The boy has now been nicknamed Mowgli, The Siberian Times reported. Mowgli is the fictional orphan in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book novels,
"It is now predicted he will become a rescuer himself," the paper said, "because he showed incredible stamina for his age by surviving for so long alone in these cold woods."
Doctors say that Tserin suffered no serious injuries from his ordeal.
Gary Ferguson, 47, was found with chest and head injuries at the apartment of fellow English teacher Harris Binotti in Yangon earlier this month.
Local police said Mr Binotti, 25, took a flight to Thailand the day before Mr Ferguson's body was found.
His brother, Martin Ferguson, appealed for help to get "justice" for Gary.
In a statement, he said: "Our goal is to get Interpol into the investigation.
"What measures have been taken by the Myanmar police to stop [Harris Binotti] from travelling abroad? Has his passport been blocked and put in a database?
"As information from the Foreign Office has been little we would hope that press coverage could get us the justice that Gary deserves."
He said the family felt they had been "robbed of a dear brother and father who had so much to offer this world".
Mr Ferguson was the father of a four-year-old boy.
He and Mr Binotti are believed to have gone out drinking two nights before his body was discovered and neighbours reported hearing sounds of a fight.
Both men were teachers at the Horizon International School in Yangon, in the south of the country formerly known as Burma.
Mr Ferguson had worked there for a year and Mr Binotti, who is thought to have connections to Dumfries and Aberdeen, for three months.
Mr Ferguson said Gary had travelled the world extensively and "loved to teach and educate people from all places in life".
"From Zimbabwe, India, Tibet, Korea and Australia, China and Thailand, particularly Asia he adored, the Thai islands, meeting with friends and enjoying music.
"His friends are shocked and in disbelief. So many kind messages from all over the world to say how unbelievable this is for them."
A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "We are continuing to help and support the family of Mr Ferguson at this difficult time and are in contact with the Burmese authorities."
The Swede headed his 24th goal of the season after David Luiz flicked on a corner 17 minutes from time.
PSG maintained their bid to become the first team to complete an entire French top-flight season unbeaten.
Monaco can go second and trim the champions' lead to 21 points with victory at Lorient on Sunday.
Laurent Blanc's side were made to work hard for a ninth consecutive victory.
But once Ibrahimovic had broken the deadlock, they could have gone on to win by a bigger margin as Toulouse left gaps at the back in search of an equaliser.
The sides meet again in Paris on Tuesday in the French Cup.
PSG have lost just once in 31 competitive games this season, a 1-0 defeat by Real Madrid in the Champions League in November.
Toulouse drop to second-bottom after a six-game unbeaten run came to an end.
The government is under pressure to rethink the plans, which opponents say will hit low-income working families.
Shadow Scottish Secretary Ian Murray said he wants the plans delayed.
Lib Dem Jeremy Purvis intends to vote against the moves in the Lords and Scots Tory leader Ruth Davidson has said she wants "movement" on the issue.
The Conservative UK government wants to cut tax credits to save £4.5bn a year from 2016, arguing that most working families will still be better off by 2017, as a result of the introduction of the National Living Wage and changes to income tax thresholds.
But Mr Wishart told the BBC's Sunday Politics Scotland programme: "What we're leaving is hundreds of thousands of families in Scotland, out of pocket who are going to be suffering greatly by what's being proposed.
"What we're seeing is the whole of Scotland standing against it, this is now the whole political community in Scotland almost united against this Conservative government."
Earlier, Labour said it would support the government if it delayed the plans, amid efforts to kill off the proposals entirely.
And Mr Murray told the programme: "If you do postpone over a three year period, you're able to look at the transitional arrangements for the worst off and you're able to kick in with higher wages.
"The government have got this the wrong way around, we do want to see the tax credit bill come down because we don't want to be subsidising poor wages but wages have to go up first."
On Monday, peers will vote on a rarely-used "fatal motion" tabled by the Lib Dems which would scrap the proposed changes entirely.
Lord Purvis said he was determined the "fatal motion" would see the legislation fall at this stage.
He added: "This measure has to be approved by both Houses of Parliament, it cannot proceed unless it has been approved by both Houses of Parliament.
"I will be voting against it tomorrow, I hope the House of Lords will be voting against it tomorrow and the government will therefore have to think again."
Asked about the SNP's opposition to the House of Lords, Mr Wishart said: "We'll accept support from the Devil and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse if it was to get rid of the Tory tax credit cuts."
The three politicians also welcomed reported comments from Ruth Davidson, in the Mail on Sunday, saying: "If we're not the party of getting people into work and making it easier for them to get up the tree, then what are we there for? It's not acceptable.
"The aim is sound, but we can't have people suffering on the way. The idea that there's a cliff edge in April before the uptake in wages comes in is a real practical human problem and the government needs to look again at it."
Ms Davidson said on Have I Got News For You on Friday that she would like to see "some movement" on the issue by the autumn statement.
What are tax credits and what are the changes?
Tax credits are a series of benefits introduced by the last Labour government to help low-paid families. There are two types: Working Tax Credit (WTC) for those in work, and Child Tax Credit (CTC) for those with children.
Under government proposals, the income threshold for Working Tax Credits - £6,420 - will be cut to £3,850 a year from April.
In other words, as soon as someone earns £3,850, they will see their payments reduced. The income threshold for those only claiming CTCs will be cut from £16,105 to £12,125.
The rate at which those payments are cut is also going to get faster. Currently, for every £1 claimants earn above the threshold, they lose 41p. This is known as the taper rate. But from April, the taper rate will accelerate to 48p.
There will be similar reductions for those who claim work allowances under the new Universal Credit.
Read more about the changes
Ryan Lock, who was 20 and from Chichester, West Sussex, was killed on 21 December during a battle for the IS stronghold of Raqqa.
After his death his body had been in the hands of Islamic State militants.
The BBC has been told it has now been recovered and taken to north-east Syria for an official autopsy.
Ryan Lock, who was a chef, had no military experience before travelling to join the Kurdish armed fighting forces known as the YPG in August.
He had told friends and family he was going on holiday to Turkey.
He became the third British man to die fighting with the Kurds against so-called Islamic State.
Mark Campbell, a pro-Kurdish rights activist from KurdishQuestion.com, said: "Ryan's remains are now awaiting repatriation to the UK."
He added: "It is hoped that with the support of the Kurdistan regional government authorities and the UK consulate in Erbil that the process will be able to proceed without delay, although due to the political complexities of the region we expect the process may take some time."
Ryan Lock's parents, who are from Chichester, West Sussex, and Havant, Hampshire, were said to be extremely concerned about the return of their son's remains to the UK.
The father of Konstandinos Erik Scurfield, the first British man to die fighting against IS with the Kurds, visited Ryan Lock's father.
Chris Scurfield told the BBC that his own son's repatriation was paid for by the Kurds and says that they will do the same for Ryan Lock.
"As the Lock family face their son's repatriation, they will experience the British government's kind assurances of help, but only the Syrian Kurds will truly honour their fallen son with practical help and logistical assistance."
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "The UK has advised for some time against all travel to Syria.
"Anyone who does travel to these areas, for whatever reason, is putting themselves in danger."
A PhD studentship has been set up to look at what effects the experimental nuclear power site has had on nearby Thurso and surrounding areas.
Established in the 1950s, Dounreay's buildings - including its landmark sphere - are being demolished.
The site is to be cleared and cleaned up by 2029.
The new PhD has been set up by the University of the Highlands and Islands and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.
Work to demolish the landmark Dounreay Fast Reactor (DFR) sphere could start in seven years' time.
The structure, also known as the dome and the golf ball, has been a feature of the north Caithness coast for almost 60 years.
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has recommended that the DFR be decontaminated by 2022 so it can then be demolished.
There were previous plans to retain the dome.
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Investigators said in their latest update that they still needed several weeks to draft the final report which should be ready by early 2015.
The Police Scotland helicopter crashed onto the busy Clutha bar on 29 November 2013, killing 10 people.
The AAIB said both engines failed but has yet to set out the cause.
The crash killed helicopter pilot David Traill and Pcs Tony Collins and Kirsty Nelis, who were on board.
Those killed in the pub were John McGarrigle, Mark O'Prey, Gary Arthur, Colin Gibson, Robert Jenkins, and Samuel McGhee. Joe Cusker was pulled from the wreckage alive but later died in hospital.
In its update, the AAIB said it had been working closely with partner agencies across Europe and the aircraft manufacturer and operator "to establish the causes and contributory factors that led to the accident".
It said the helicopter was "not fitted and not required to be fitted with crash-protected flight data or cockpit voice recorders" and as a result "significant work was required to extract and analyse the contents of non-volatile memory from micro-chipped equipment known to record data".
The statement said: "This, together with further examination of the aircraft and subsequent tests, has now been completed, to the extent that the investigation team may reach its conclusions.
"Several weeks are still required to complete the draft final report and it is expected that this draft will be circulated to 'interested parties', as defined by the Regulations, for comment early in 2015.
"The final report is expected to be published in the middle of 2015."
Meanwhile, a benefit concert will be held in Glasgow later to launch a charity in memory of those who died almost a year ago in the Clutha crash.
Scots singer Sandi Thom will be among the acts at the Barrowland gig to launch the Clutha Trust, which aims to help disadvantaged young people.
Clutha owner Alan Crossan described the crash as "shocking" and said he still struggles to get his head around the reality of what happened.
He said it was the response of the people of Glasgow - many of whom ran towards the crash scene to help - which prompted him to establish a trust for disadvantaged children and young people by enabling them to become involved in the arts, and music in particular.
"The reaction was incredible and that's why we started the Clutha Trust," he said.
Describing the Clutha as "a pub of music", he told how musicians have managed to raise over £500,000 since the crash to help the families touched by the tragedy.
Establishing the trust was a way of channelling that positive energy, he said.
Friday's concert at the Barrowland to officially launch the trust will have performances across two stages.
Free entry is being offered to members of emergency services as a "thank you", although they are being advised get there early to ensure they can get in.
"The emergency services have been brilliant," Mr Crossan said.
He went on: "I'm going to continue with the Clutha Trust and we'll always remember these people (who lost their lives).
"Hopefully we can make the charity as big as we can and that will be remembered as a legacy to the people who died. That may be a memorial in itself."
A number of events are being held across the city over the weekend to remember those who died and the loved ones they left behind.
An ecumenical memorial service will be held at Glasgow Cathedral at 15:00 on Saturday.
The same day, police officers will face firefighters in a commemorative charity ice hockey match at Braehead Arena.
Police Scotland Chief Constable Sir Stephen House said thoughts at this time of year inevitably turn to the crash victims.
He said: "It was shocking for the whole country - and particularly Glasgow.
"I was very proud of the response and the way we went about the recovery.
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"I was very proud also with the way we worked so closely with emergency service colleagues from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and the Ambulance Service, it was very humbling to see that.
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A police presence remains in the area but officers said they were not seeking anyone else in connection with the incident.
Insp Jo Jollie said: "We appreciate that this was a very concerning incident for the local community and we are treating this with the utmost seriousness.
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Tom Jackson picks up postcards at car boot sales and in charity shops - sharing a picture and one line of text with his 40,000 followers on @PastPostcard.
The content ranges from the mundane - "I wish you were here" - to the surprising - "Dear Auntie - you will be surprised to hear I am going to prison tomorrow."
It has proven such a hit that it is now being turned into a book and an exhibition.
So what makes someone else's holiday so fascinating?
Mr Jackson, 53, says most postcards are "actually pretty boring".
But only sharing part of the message leaves the reader with "more questions than answers" he says.
He started the Twitter account last year during a quiet moment at work, and has since shared nearly 4,000 postcards.
"If seeing the whole card was really interesting, everyone would be buying old postcards," he says.
The account took off after the poet Ian McMillan and comedian Danny Baker retweeted his postcards, he said.
"I do it all the time between things. I haven't spent a fortune, you might pay 50p for an old card in a charity shop."
The book, Postcard from the Past, was published on Thursday. Gatwick Airport will next week display a collection of 250 of the postcards.
Most of his collection was posted in the 1960s and 1970s when holidays - and foreign travel - became more affordable.
Research suggests that we are now far less likely to go to the trouble of writing one ourselves.
Just 28% of people in the UK sent a postcard from their last holiday, compared with 70% in 1997, according to a study of 2,000 adults.
However, the survey, carried out for Gatwick Airport, found that people aged 18-35 - the so-called "millennial" generation - bucked the trend.
Some 38% of millennials said they had sent a postcard from their last holiday, compared with 24% of those aged 35 and over.
"The trend has been for postcards going out of fashion, and perhaps the post being less reliable," says Mr Jackson.
"Maybe there's a small blip canning that trend."
He says people are still "intrigued" by old postcards, especially if they are funny or have a resonance with today.
But anyone who wants to read the rest of a postcard message will be disappointed.
"Sometimes people will want to see the whole message - I don't reply, I never talk on the feed," says Tom.
A financial analysis of the Scottish government's flagship childcare policy reveals local authorities were given an extra £329m to fund the scheme.
But they spent or plan to spend just £189m of it on childcare.
Local authority umbrella group Cosla disputed the figures and said the report was a "crude assessment".
A spokesman for the group said it should not detract from the "overriding success story" of councils delivering free childcare.
The disclosure came on the day of a key debate on childcare in the Scottish Parliament.
Since August 2014, all children aged three and four as well as vulnerable two year olds in Scotland should be offered 600 free hours of childcare a year.
However many families have said they have been unable to access the free hours.
The BBC understands that in the next few weeks government ministers are expected to publish a new blueprint and consultation on childcare.
One expected proposal is a "child account" for every child, to provide a more transparent route through which all funding - public and private - is distributed and to ensure the money follows the child, not the institutions.
It would mean parents could choose how they spend their free hours, including spending it on a childminder.
Carolyn Lochhead, of the campaign group Fair Funding For Our Kids, said the current system does not recognise the "realities" of working life for many families.
And she asked whether local authorities could have used the unspent £140m to better support working families.
"What we hear from parents is that they cannot access their free childcare places because our research shows two thirds of childcare places are provided on a half day basis," she said.
"What that means is that you might have a place between 09:00 and 12:30. You can't pay to have your child there before 09:00 and you can't pay to have them there after 12:30. For most working parents that's completely unusable.
"So it's very frustrating for us to hear that there's funds available that haven't been spent. My question would be that if we'd have spent those funds could we have made the system accessible for working parents?"
The possible introduction of "child accounts" was welcomed by Jackie Brock, the head of Children in Scotland, who said the current childcare model was not "child-centred or family-centred enough".
"We would very much welcome child accounts as part of the solution," she said. "Such accounts could match parental choice with a diverse range of available childcare."
The Scottish government has promised to almost double free childcare hours to 1,140 per child - the same amount of time children spend in school - by 2021.
Mark McDonald, the minister for childcare and early years, told the BBC that several new models of childcare would be piloted early next year.
He said the report showed the government had fully funded councils to deliver 600 hours of care for each child.
"Now it is obviously for councils themselves to account for what they have done in relation to the additional spending that was given," he said.
"But it makes it clear that where that spending was asked for by Cosla and local authorities, we have provided that. This helps us to determine what we need to do in future.
"We need to explore the approach we will take in terms of what funding models we will use and how much funding is going to be required in future and how we deliver that expansion [to 1,140 hours per year]."
Cosla, an umbrella organisation that represents 28 of Scotland's 32 councils, said the report highlighted the "complexities" in delivering an expansion of childcare.
A spokesman said: "We are very concerned that there are parts of this report that paint a very misleading picture and do not reflect the reality of what is happening on the ground.
"This is a crude assessment and it would be extremely unhelpful if this becomes the focus and detracts from the overriding success story that councils have delivered 600 hours.
"Indeed in quoting the government's own report, 'the gap between additional funding and additional expenditure reported here will be an overestimate'."
As MSPs debated the issue of childcare at Holyrood, Mr McDonald revealed that he had held talks with Cosla, "because we want to ensure that where we put a policy in place and funding to follow that policy, that funding benefits those children we want it to benefit".
Mr McDonald said the government was continuing discussions with the organisation about the issue.
Speaking during the debate, Tory education spokeswoman Liz Smith said it was clear there had been an underspend, although it could be disputed "whose fault some of the underspend might be".
She said: "Like parents, the Scottish Conservatives firmly believe we need to completely free up the system so there is a genuine choice and no ability for local authorities to restrict places."
Labour MSP Daniel Johnson welcomed the Scottish government's commitment to childcare, but said more honesty was needed about what was being delivered as well as "realism" about whether it was meeting parents' needs.
He called for more detail on how a massive expansion in capacity was to be delivered.
He said: "The first minister has called childcare the biggest capital project of this parliament, and she's right. It will cost more than the Queensferry Crossing, more than the M8, M73, M74, more than any school or hospital, and its impact will be far greater.
"However, we don't know how much or where the investment is going, when it will be delivered, or even who will be delivering it."
Tavish Scott, Liberal Democrat MSP for Shetland, highlighted the difficulties of expanding childcare in rural and island areas.
He said: "We currently struggle, the council currently struggles, to recruit appropriately-qualified staff to our remoter pre-school settings.
"The challenge of greater hours of entitlement will become even more so and therefore what are the government's plans to support workforce development in those most remote and rural areas?"
He said this was as clinicians were getting on and doing the job.
Mr Wells was speaking in his first interview since it emerged almost 200 operations would be postponed due to pressures on emergency departments.
He said there was not a problem and the public should feel reassured.
Mr Wells was attending a public lecture given by former Health Secretary and Labour MP Alan Johnson.
The theme was the National Health Service at "66 and a half".
Current health problems both locally and nationally were discussed including the role of politicians within the service.
When asked to respond to recent criticism about his apparent absence over the past fortnight, Mr Wells had this to say.
"I only need to make any public statement to the media when I believe there is a problem," he said.
"What I saw was people who were too busy dealing with the huge surge in demand and who did not have time to have me following them around and they were doing a great job.
"And I was content they were getting through it and the statistics released last Friday showed we did get through it."
During Wednesday's Stormont health committee session, officials said all cancelled operations would be dealt with within the next three to six weeks.
Some non-urgent operations in Northern Ireland did not go ahead this week as a result of ongoing pressures in emergency departments.
Patients in the Belfast, South Eastern and Western health trusts have been affected.
The public were notified in advance by letter or telephone.
All of Northern Ireland's five trusts cancelled some operations last week in one of a series of measures to tackle demands on the emergency system.
The trial scheme on beaches in the Newquay and Padstow areas comes as RNLI cover comes to an end after the summer season.
It follows the deaths of three people at Mawgan Porth a year ago when there were no lifeguards on duty.
RNLI cover on Cornwall beaches ends in November until spring.
Beaches involved in the trial include Crantock, Fistral, Tolcarne, Porth, Watergate, Mawgan Porth and Harlyn.
RNLI lifeguard supervisor Anton Page said: "We will provide keys to the huts so they have access to defibrillators, oxygen and all of that sort of stuff.
"It can reduce the time for someone to get vital aid while we are waiting for the emergency services."
The RNLI is warning people to take extra care if using the sea during half term.
Ten beaches in Cornwall will have lifeguard cover - Praa Sands, Sennen, Porthmeor, Gwithian, Porthtowan, Perranporth, Polzeath, Widemouth, Fistral beach in Newquay and at Summerleaze in Bude.
RNLI lifeguards will run voluntary patrols with help from members of Bude Surf Lifesaving Club throughout half term.
Rachel Dunn, 42, and Kevin Reynolds, 44, both from St Austell, Cornwall, and Stuart Calder, 52, from Leeds, died after getting into difficulty in a rip current at Mawgan Porth last October.
Residents and business owners have successfully campaigned for better signs on the beach.
The airport is strategically important. Government forces have now abandoned the main part of it, from where they have been able to shell rebel positions inside nearby Donetsk - the largest city held by the militants.
Its capture could help the rebels to resupply - allowing munitions, hardware and manpower to be airlifted into the conflict zone.
But its significance is as much symbolic as it is practical. It has long been viewed in Kiev as an emblem of "Ukrainian fighting spirit".
Ukrainian troops defending the airport were called "cyborgs" for their toughness in repulsing constant attacks, and for many they symbolised a new Ukrainian army.
Social media users say the destruction of the airport looks like Stalingrad, the Russian city reduced to ruins in World War Two.
Satellite photos taken before the fighting and drone images taken last week offer a stark comparison.
Ukraine's 'cyborg' defenders at Donetsk airport
The Sergey Prokofiev International Airport was built ahead of the Euro 2012 football championships co-hosted by Ukraine and Poland.
It was estimated to have cost around $860m (£537m; €685m).
Images on its website still show a gleaming glass terminal, smiling faces and spotless waiting lounges.
Latest footage shows the extent of the destruction, with barely the shell of the building remaining.
Some experts have pointed out that the runway could still be used for flying in supplies, which is proving difficult for the rebels. But the airport's infrastructure is otherwise completely destroyed.
The separatists have been trying to capture the airport since May, allegedly with backing from the Russian military.
They view the airport as part of their capital and, as long as it remained in government hands, a bridgehead for a potential Ukrainian offensive.
"Ukraine's control of Donetsk International Airport not only ensures Ukrainian presence on the outskirts of the city, but also might prove crucial in preventing the spread of instability to other areas of Ukraine," warned Euromaidan, Ukraine's pro-Europe protest group, in October 2014.
"A pro-Russian territory with an international airport of Donetsk's size would be a valuable asset for the territory's smuggling capabilities... de-stabilising other parts of Ukraine because of the unchecked flow of illicit weapons, drugs, and fighters."
Dr Mark Galeotti, Clinical Professor of Global Affairs at New York University, highlighted the combination of both strategic and symbolic significance in a January blog post.
"Kiev's forces have, to be charitable, a mixed record in fighting this conflict," he says.
"For them to have lost the airport, that advance intrusion into the heart of the rebellion, would have been a serious blow to their morale and the credibility of the government."
The Waterboys, Lucy Spraggan and Tide Lines are to perform at the music event which is held annually in Stornoway on Lewis.
Next year's festival will be held from 19 to 22 July.
This summer's acts included Julie Fowlis, King Creosote, Astrid, Runrig and Bella and the Bear.
18 February 2014 Last updated at 06:17 GMT
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A total of 79,965 people were left with unmanageable debts last year, down 19% on 2014, official figures from the Insolvency Service show.
This was the fifth successive decrease in the annual total.
Despite the annual fall, the figures show a rise in personal insolvencies in the final three months of the year.
The total grew to 20,404, a 3.6% increase on the previous quarter, and the second quarter-on-quarter rise in a row. However, this was 10.5% lower than the same quarter in 2014.
Bankruptcy: The traditional way of escaping overwhelming debt. Ends after one year, but you are likely to lose all your assets, including your house, to pay something to the creditors
Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA): A deal between you and your creditors, overseen by an insolvency practitioner. Less stigma, less chance of losing your home, but involves paying some of your debts in one go.
Debt Relief Orders: Introduced in April 2009, these allow people with debts of less than £15,000 (£20,000 since October 2015) and minimal assets to write off debts without a full-blown bankruptcy
An estimated total of 14,629 companies entered into insolvency in 2015, which was 10% lower than the total in 2014 and the lowest annual total since 1989.
The number of companies that faced a compulsory winding up order in 2015 was at its lowest level for 34 years.
Analysts say companies are dealing with debt earlier and banks are seeing little value in shutting them down for unpaid debts.
Andrew Tate, vice-president of insolvency professionals trade body R3, said: "There has been a general trend of companies looking to turn things around before reaching a position where they need to enter a formal insolvency process.
"Creditor forbearance is playing a part too: banks, in particular, are much more willing to work with companies in financial trouble than they were in the early 90s.
"Compulsory liquidation is often seen as less dynamic process, which is less likely to lead to a rescue of the business than other insolvency procedures. It is generally used by creditors as a last resort when a company doesn't pay.
"Finally, the 'zombie business' phenomenon could play a role. 'Zombie businesses' are those that can service the interest on their debts but not the debt itself; they can keep going but have little short-term prospect of turning things around. Numbers of companies in this position have fallen recently, but they have acted as a drag on insolvency numbers since the recession."
Ian Gould, business restructuring partner at BDO, said: "We see creditors increasingly viewing compulsory liquidation as a risky tool for recovery, given the additional costs it incurs and the fact that the process typically ends with a liquidation which, historically, offers little returns for creditors."
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Carmarthen Q 21 - 20 Cross Keys
Pontypridd 16 - 25 Llandovery
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Penallta 24 - 21 Skewen
Swalec Bowl, Semi Finals
Burry Port 29 - 27 Aberdare
Cambrian Welfare 11 - 14 Taffs Well
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Abertysswg 12 - 28 Pill Harriers
Caerleon 30 - 17 Pontypool Utd
Croesyceiliog 26 - 0 Abergavenny
Fleur de Lys 7 - 58 Cwmbran
Ynysddu 13 - 18 Abertillery/BG
Division 2 East Central
CR Cymry Caerdydd 29 - 17 Abercynon
Dinas Powys 27 - 7 Treherbert (Match abandoned after 35 mins, referee unable to continue)
Pontyclun 11 - 18 Llantrisant
Porth Quins 26 - 12 Barry
Division 2 North
Colwyn Bay 18 - 15 Bro Ffestiniog
Wrexham 5 - 38 Shotton Steel
Division 2 West Central
Maesteg Celtic 30 - 21 Aberavon Green Stars
Nantymoel 22 - 13 Cwmllynfell
Neath Ath 53 - 5 Cwmgors
Taibach 27 - 34 Penlan
Ystradgynlais 15 - 19 Brynamman
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Aberystwyth 98 - 0 Amman Utd
Fishguard & Goodwick 24 - 23 Pontyberem
Hendy 20 - 15 Pontarddulais
Tycroes 15 - 6 Camarthen Ath
Division 3 East A
Abercarn 29 - 21 Oakdale
Blackwood Stars 12 - 16 RTB Ebbw Vale
Caldicot 15 - 0 Caerphilly
Llanhilleth 0 - 30 Chepstow
New Tredegar 35 - 27 Monmouth
Division 3 East Central A
Cilfynydd 33 - 12 Treharris
Fairwater 33 - 29 Llantwit Major
Llandaff North 24 - 24 Pentyrch
Wattstown 11 - 28 Llandaff
Ynysowen 12 - 28 Old Illtydians
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Newtown 62 - 7 Rhosllanerchrugog
Rhyl & District P - P Porthmadog
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Abercrave 40 - 17 Bryncethin
Briton Ferry 39 - 14 Bryncoch
Glyncorrwg 17 - 35 Nantyffyllon
Pontycymmer 21 - 25 Morriston
Resolven 32 - 8 Swansea Uplands
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Laugharne 20 - 67 Haverfordwest
St Clears 12 - 27 Milford Haven
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Beaufort 0 - 78 Usk
Machen 78 - 12 Tredegar Ironsides
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Cefn Coed 17 - 18 Tonyrefail
Cowbridge 8 - 50 Tylorstown
Glyncoch 0 - 43 Abercwmboi
St Albans 28 - 21 Canton
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Alltwen 12 - 20 Banwen
Cwmgwrach 18 - 32 Birchgrove
Porthcawl P - P Rhigos
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Aberaeron 13 - 28 Penybanc
Betws 25 - 13 Llandeilo
Lampeter Town 50 - 5 Furnace Utd
Tumble 33 - 19 Llangadog
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Trinant 39 - 7 Pontllanfraith
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Llanrumney 19 - 27 Hirwaun
Whitchurch 19 - 49 Cathays
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Crynant 54 - 5 Fall Bay
Cwmtwrch 10 - 60 Pontardawe
Ogmore Vale 22 - 31 Tonna
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Pantyffynnon 6 - 51 Cefneithin
Pontyates 14 - 6 Bynea
Division 3 East D
Abersychan 0 - 103 Markham
Cefn Fforest 40 - 11 Cwmcarn Utd
Forgeside 0 - 15 Girling (Abandoned after 38 minutes due to Forgeside injury)
Rhayader 26 - 10 Old Tylerians
Tref y Clawdd 0 - 28 Malpas
Mr Obama had experienced a sore throat over "the past couple weeks", which appeared to be caused by acid reflux, his doctor said.
Mr Obama had a fibre optic exam, followed by a CT scan, on Saturday.
Acid reflux, where stomach acid leaks up the throat, is a common condition and is not considered serious.
The initial fibre optic exam "revealed soft tissue swelling in the posterior throat", Mr Obama's doctor, Ronny L Jackson, said in a statement.
Dr Jackson said that he decided "further evaluation with a routine CT [computerised tomography] scan was prudent".
Mr Obama was given a CT scan at the Walter Reed military hospital. The results of the scan were normal, and Mr Obama would be treated for acid reflux, Dr Jackson said.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said that the quick scheduling of the scan was "a matter of convenience for the president, not a matter of urgency".
The health of US presidents and presidential candidates can generate considerable media interest in the US.
Candidates for president and vice-president often release medical documents or letters from their doctors to the media to demonstrate that they are healthy.
The footage, released on social media, shows people filling large bags with crates of water from a Deptford water station, as competitors run past.
Event director Hugh Brasher said organisers "deplore the scenes".
"We will be investigating the matter further, in conjunction with the Metropolitan Police", he added.
The footage is believed to have been shot by a volunteer who worked on the station, who can be heard sarcastically saying that it is "obviously hard times in Deptford".
A spokesperson for Nestle Waters, who supply Buxton water used in the event, said the drinks are meant "for the benefit of runners".
London Marathon policy is for any spare water not drunk by competitors to be collected and used at other events.
Mr Brasher said it was "very disappointing to see water being stolen in this way".
He said volunteers are told "not to get into altercations if this kind of thing happens" and "in future, we will be providing... additional security measures on race day,"
It is understood the footage was taken when most runners had passed through Deptford, which is eight miles into the 26.2 mile course.
There has been no complaints from runners about a lack of water being available during the race.
The Met said no allegations of theft had been made over the water.
McCulloch, 39, has been in interim charge since the departure of Lee Clark, and steered the club clear of a relegation battle.
The former Rangers and Scotland player is expected to sign a three-year contract at Rugby Park.
Killie start their 2017-18 season with League Cup first-round group fixtures in July.
They have been drawn in Group E with Annan Athletic, Ayr United, Clyde and Dumbarton.
After a playing career that took in spells at Motherwell and Wigan Athletic and resulted in 18 international caps, McCulloch joined Kilmarnock as part of manager Gary Locke's backroom team in 2015.
When Locke left Rugby Park in early 2016, McCulloch was in charge of the first team for two games until Clark was appointed.
Clark left for Bury in February and McCulloch guided Killie through their remaining 14 games of the season, winning four and drawing four.
Since Jim Jefferies' near eight-year spell in charge at Rugby Park ended in 2010, Kilmarnock have had seven different managers, including McCulloch.
In recent weeks, Kirsten Callaghan has been appointed as the club's new chief executive and former chairman Michael Johnston has resigned from his positions as a director and the company secretary.
Peterhead power station and the White Rose scheme in North Yorkshire were the bidders in the competition.
Mr Sturgeon said at FMQs on Thursday that Wednesday's decision was "utter folly" and "downright wrong".
Shell and SSE are behind the Aberdeenshire plans.
The project could have created hundreds of jobs at Peterhead power station.
The decision was announced after Chancellor George Osborne's Autumn Statement.
In a stock exchange announcement, the government said: "Following the Chancellor's Autumn Statement, HM Government confirms that the £1bn ring-fenced capital budget for the Carbon Capture and Storage Competition is no longer available.
"This decision means that the CCS Competition cannot proceed on its current basis.
"We will engage closely with the bidders on the implications of this decision for them."
Shell, SSE and local politicians all expressed disappointment in the wake of the news.
It is understood Supt Gerry Murray, who is head of road policing in Northern Ireland, was suspended from his post last month.
The 60-year-old, who recently featured in a BBC documentary, is one of the PSNI's longest serving police officers.
Last year, he led a group of officers as they marched for the first time at the St Patrick's Parade in New York.
The officers walked alongside members of An Garda Siochana.
The boat's occupants made a 999 call to the Coastguard but were unable to give a precise location.
Independent lifeboats from Gosport, Hamble and Ryde, along with the Portsmouth RNLI lifeboat, conducted a search through the central Solent.
The struggling boat was located by lifeboats and a Coastguard helicopter.
A Coastguard spokesman said: "The vessel, which had five people on board, had suffered engine failure and because of the weather conditions, began taking in water.
"No-one on board was able to provide a clear position, which was partly a result of having no positioning equipment or navigational aids."
This caused emergency services to search over a wide area.
The Coastguard rescue helicopter based at Lee-on-the-Solent began an initial search and was spotted by the occupants of the boat, which meant that its location could then be determined.
It was then found by both the lifeboats and the helicopter and all on board were transferred to Hamble lifeboat where the paramedic from the Coastguard helicopter carried out initial medical assessments.
They were then taken to Lee-on-the-Solent where they were met by Hill Head Coastguard Rescue Team and an ambulance.
Steve Mann, senior maritime operations officer, said: "If you're going out to sea, make sure you're properly prepared and that you have some way of being located if you get into difficulty.
"VHF DSC sets are readily available. When you use them, we can then pinpoint your location and get to you more quickly."
The proportion of self-employed in the workforce in Wales is 13%, slightly below the UK average of 14%.
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) says self-employment has risen since the financial crisis began in 2008.
The numbers in Wales rose 4,000 to 177,000 in Wales over a four year period.
The rise has been particularly steep across the UK since 2011. The most common occupations are taxi drivers, construction, carpenters and farmers.
There are now 367,000 more people working for themselves across the UK than in 2008.
The number of self-employed workers increased in all nations and regions except Northern Ireland where the number fell.
The ONS figures, which look back over a four-year period, show that five out of six of the increase in people working for themselves are men over the age of 50.
They are likely to work longer hours than employed people.
Only 5% of workers between 16 and 24 work for themselves.
What is particularly interesting is the change in the picture of self-employment in the first few years of the economic downturn compared with the 12 months to last summer.
Different picture
The typical newly self-employed person in 2008 was over 65 years old, a woman and working fewer than 30 hours a week.
That changed in 2011. Since then most of the newly self-employed workers have been men, between 50 and 65 and they typically work more than 30 hours a week.
This is especially interesting to those people who are surprised that unemployment is not higher, considering the continuing fragility of the economy.
The numbers of people working for themselves may be part of the answer to that.
The difference in the average number of hours worked by employed people and self employed may be small - just two hours a week on average.
But look at the extremes and there's a different picture:
Examining the proportion of people working more than 60 hours, you find that 13% are self employed compared with only 3% of employed people.
It would be interesting to know how many people who work for themselves would prefer to be employed by someone else instead.
What we do know is that one in 10 of the newly self-employed would like to work more hours. They may well have to wait for the economy to pick up before they have that choice.
The British & Irish Boxing Authority (BIBA) hopes to use the device at an event in Bradford on 26 February.
Mike Towell died from head injuries sustained in a bout in September, six months after Nick Blackwell was hospitalised with a bleed to the brain.
BIBA will offer use of the scanners to fighters who compete under the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC).
But the BBBofC told BBC Sport it "does not recognise" BIBA - known as the Malta Boxing Commission until 2016 - and that it will continue to do its own research and use its own medical practices.
BIBA vice-president Gianluca Di Caro told BBC Sport: "It's not about us and the fighters we work with versus fighters with other organisations. It is about all the fighters.
"If there is a fighter anywhere, who has been suffering with headaches, he needs to know we will go to him and do a scan. Sometimes we will just have to move quickly to ensure that any boxer can be helped.
"We will have one scanner by 22 February, another is on order and our aim is to have 10. I will raise the sponsorship to do that."
Towell had been suffering with headaches in the run-up to a bout days before his death after a fifth-round loss to Welsh fighter Dale Evans.
Upon hearing news of the introduction of scanners, his girlfriend Chloe Ross posted on Facebook: "I'm glad to be finally seeing something good coming from what happened to Michael. It shouldn't take someone's life for these things to be used but if it saves someone else's life then that can only be a good thing."
Through sponsorship from an Australian backer, BIBA has purchased two scanners at a cost of $15,000 (£12,000) each and intends on using them to check on fighters before and after fights.
Scanners, which operate by shining a light laser beam into the head, can detect brain bleeds with an accuracy of 90% and take around three minutes to complete. Their use by BIBA will form part of a broad medical undertaken by fighters before bouts, including cognitive testing.
In addition to Towell's death and Blackwell's injury, 2016 also saw amateur boxer Kuba Moczyk, 22, die after sustaining a severe head injury in his first bout.
22 March 2017 Last updated at 06:49 GMT
It lives in New Zealand, and is known for being super-smart, playful and a bit crafty.
But scientists have recently made an interesting discovery about them.
They found that Keas have an infectious laugh, which when heard by other parrots makes them join in and feel happier.
This discovery is a world first, as previously scientists only thought mammals like humans and chimpanzees could make animals laugh in the same way.
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The temporary price cap, which comes into effect in April, was one of the measures recommended by the Competition and Market Authority after its two-year investigation of the energy market.
The levels of the cap vary for gas and electricity by meter type and region.
It will be updated every six months and is expected to stay until 2020.
That is when the roll-out of smart meters is set to be completed, which will benefit prepayment customers who have a smaller choice of tariffs available to them.
However, there have been some concerns about the roll-out of the smart meter programme.
Many prepayment meter customers pay through token or coin operated machines. Some of these customers may have had difficulties paying in the past. Others include some tenants whose landlords have the meters installed in properties.
Competition among suppliers for prepayment customers is less developed than for those who pay by direct debit, cash or cheque, according to Ofgem. This means that there are fewer tariffs available and they are generally more expensive.
Ofgem chief executive Dermot Nolan said: "We want all consumers to enjoy the benefits of a more competitive energy market, regardless of their circumstances.
"Customers who prepay for their energy are denied the best deals on the market available to those using other payment methods.
"They are also more likely to be in vulnerable circumstances, including fuel poverty. This temporary cap will protect these households as we work to deliver a more competitive, fairer and smarter market for all consumers."
Figures published in August last year showed that prepayment customers paid an average of £220 a year more than those on the cheapest deals, so the £80 reduction has been given a guarded welcome by consumer groups.
Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said: "This cap should stop some of the poorest households paying over the odds to heat and light their homes.
"It will help millions save money but action shouldn't stop there.
"The government has rightly expressed concern that loyal customers on standard tariffs are paying over the odds for their gas and electricity.
"It could help more struggling households, including low-income pensioners and families, by extending this cap to people eligible to receive the Warm Homes Discount."
At the end of December 2015, there were four-and-a-half million prepayment electricity accounts and three-and-a-half million gas accounts - representing 17% and 15% respectively of all accounts in the UK.
Lawrence Slade, chief executive of Energy UK, which represents the major suppliers, said: "The industry is committed to ensuring the remedies work to help all consumers, including those on prepayment meters.
"Only last October, the industry launched new prepayment principles to provide improved safeguards for prepayment customers, showing further commitment from the industry to supporting the most vulnerable consumers.
"These principles, coupled with the rollout of smart meters, will improve the experience of prepayment customers and give customers more control over their energy usage and bills, allowing them to both save energy and money."
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Official numbers showed industrial production increased by 3.3% from a month earlier, marking the the biggest monthly increase since late 2014.
In January, the export dependent nation saw production fall by 2.1%.
South Korea's economy has been hurt in recent times by softer demand from China, one of its most important trading partners.
However, the latest data beat expectations, which were for a fall in output of 0.2% in February
For all industries, including mining, gas and the electricity sector, output grew 2.4% in February from a year earlier.
Following a raft of disappointing economic data, South Korea's government unveiled new stimulus measures in February designed to help boost exports and domestic demand.
South Korea, which is Asia's fourth largest economy, saw its economy expand by 3.1% in the three months to December compared to a year earlier.
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McGeady, 31, was brought in from Everton for an undisclosed fee, just five days after Grayson's appointment as Black Cats boss.
The former Celtic player scored eight goals in 35 games last term.
"I didn't know the manager much but he gave me a licence to express myself," McGeady told BBC Look North.
"It was the best thing that could have happened to me, I played the best football I've played for a few years and re-found that love and enjoyment of the game that maybe I'd been missing."
Despite spending three and a half seasons at Goodison Park, Republic of Ireland international McGeady was limited to 43 appearances in all competitions and spent time on loan to Sheffield Wednesday and North End.
He has joined a Sunderland side hoping to turn around their fortunes following relegation last season and a turnover of personnel at the Stadium of Light.
"Obviously the club coming down from the Premier League I suppose we've gone back to basics a bit where they have to start again and build a steady platform," he added.
"The last few years has been battling against relegation, with the new manager and new players we'll reinvigorate the fans and players who are looking to get back up."
Belgian police are meanwhile raiding six properties in and around Brussels, linked to suspected Paris attackers Bilal Hadfi and Salah Abdeslam.
It remains unclear whether the suspected organiser of the attacks was killed in Wednesday's raid in Paris.
Friday's attacks killed 129 people.
Joaquin Gomez Hernandez, 24, attacked 33-year-old escort worker Vanessa Santillan, then tried to blame one of her clients, the Old Bailey was told.
The court heard Gomez Hernandez, who denied murder, launched the attack after earlier finding Ms Santillan with a client at her London flat in March.
He was told he must serve a minimum of 14 and a half years in prison.
The court heard unemployed Gomez Hernandez was jealous and resented having to rely on Ms Santillan for money since their arrival in London from Mexico, two months before her death.
He became angry when Ms Santillan entertained a client after the pair had been out with friends, later attacking her, inflicting massive head and neck injuries, the jury was told.
The court heard he then pretended to find her body and suggested to police that one of her clients had killed her.
Sentencing him to a mandatory life term, Judge Richard Marks QC told Gomez Hernandez: "Vanessa had extensive head injuries and suffered manual strangulation.
"You left her on the floor, naked from the waist down. You then engaged in a pretence and lied to the police.
"Your subsequent conduct - taking Vanessa's property including money and telephones and visiting prostitutes after the attack - was callous in the extreme."
An impact statement from Ms Santillan's family said: "This loss cannot be remedied or changed. It is something that has greatly affected us and hurts a lot.
"Our family will never be the same again without Vanessa. We cannot stop thinking how unjust her death was."
Autonomy's ex-chief financial officer Sushovan Hussain said HP wanted to "cover up its mismanagement of the Autonomy integration".
Mr Hussain's San Francisco court filing is the latest salvo in an ongoing legal battle between HP and Autonomy.
HP dismissed Mr Hussain's complaint as "preposterous".
HP paid $11.1bn for Autonomy, but a year later said it was worth $8.8bn less.
HP and its shareholders have been fighting a legal battle, accusing both Autonomy's founder and former chief executive Michael Lynch, as well as Mr Hussain, of misleading them over the true value of the company.
On 5 August, in a San Francisco court filing, HP said that shareholders and management agreed "that [Mr] Hussain, along with Autonomy's founder and CEO, Michael Lynch, should be accountable for this fraud".
And it accused Mr Hussain of being "one of the chief architects of the massive fraud on HP".
In Tuesday's response, Mr Hussain said he wanted to "shine a light on what HP wants to keep in the dark" and address its "ploy to falsely accuse others".
"HP's opposition swells with bile, but its sound and fury signify nothing," he wrote.
But HP countered Mr Hussain's filing in strong terms.
"The bottom line is that Sushovan Hussain's interests and those of HP and our shareholders are diametrically opposed," the company said in a statement.
"It's preposterous for him to complain about HP and our shareholders joining forces and holding him accountable for the massive fraud that both believe he perpetrated upon the company.
"If [Mr] Hussain is truly interested in clearing his name, he should welcome the coming suit."
More than a year ago, the UK's accounting regulator, the Financial Reporting Council, (FRC) began an investigation into Autonomy's reporting for the accounting period of January 2009 to June 2011, before it was bought by the US firm HP.
That is still under way.
The UK's Serious Fraud Office and the US Department of Justice are also investigating.
Autonomy said at the time it was "fully confident in the financial reporting of the company".
The HP board members that championed the takeover have since left the company.
Meg Whitman took the helm at HP in September 2011, as the Autonomy takeover was being completed.
HP is currently in the middle of a restructuring plan that involves deep job cuts.
Philip Hollobone made the plea in the Commons in support of the wholegrain rectangles, which are produced in his Northamptonshire constituency.
He said the "great British breakfast cereal" should be served at all early meetings held by environment ministers.
Environment Secretary Liz Truss told him she kept a box of the cereal on her desk "for all visitors to see".
"It's a real example of linking farm through to fork," she said.
However, she did not go quite as far as agreeing to the request made by Mr Hollobone, the Conservative MP for Kettering.
In response to the exchange, Speaker of the House, John Bercow, quipped: "We've learnt more about [the secretary of state's] domestic arrangements."
The House of Commons website said it "actively champions the producing, buying and eating of British food".
The seed is from a pumpkin which weighed 2,323lbs (1,054kg) - believed to be a world record.
Ipswich-based seed company Thompson & Morgan won the auction which took place at the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth World Conference held in Hampshire.
Paul Hansord, a company director, said: "Getting hold of this seed is the equivalent of buying Red Rum for stud use."
The 2,323lb pumpkin was grown in Switzerland in 2014 by Beni Meier and it holds the world record for weight, according to the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth organisation.
Thompson & Morgan sponsored the conference which took place in Lymington.
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The company is now looking for a grower who can nurture the seed on its behalf.
Mr Hansord said: "Our spend on the Swiss seed may seem a high price to pay, but it will boost the genetics of UK plants moving forward and give us the best chance of seeing the world title brought to the UK for the first time.
"We're looking for someone with the passion, dedication and time to produce a giant specimen."
The firm said the world record holder needed feeding with 150 gallons (680 litres) of fertilized water each day at its peak.
Real were again without the injured Cristiano Ronaldo, who also missed the goalless first leg of their Champions League semi-final at Manchester City.
Striker Karim Benzema was also absent but Bale filled the void with his 19th goal of the season.
Real play the return leg against City on Wednesday night.
Relive how Real Madrid kept their title hopes alive.
Bale had missed a number of chances as Zinedine Zidane's side chased a 10th successive league win to keep the pressure on title rivals Atletico Madrid, who later beat Rayo Vallecano 1-0, and Barcelona, who went back to the top after beating Real Betis 2-0.
But the Wales international, 26, who scored twice as Real beat Rayo Vallecano a week earlier, enhanced Real's chances of a first title success since 2012 when he powerfully headed home a cross from Lucas Vazquez.
Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane: "I am happy for him (Bale) because he has had problems this season with injury. But when he is fit you notice.
"We could have scored earlier in the first half, but we had to work until the end against a difficult side.
"I am happy with the performance and to get three points once again."
Rabbis Mendel Epstein and Martin Wolmark asked for more than $50,000 (£32,000) to hire "tough guys" to attack a recalcitrant husband with cattle prods, authorities said.
The men and eight other suspects appeared in federal court on Thursday.
Under Orthodox Jewish belief, a husband must grant permission for a divorce.
The permission comes in the form of a document known as a get.
In some Orthodox communities a woman who has not obtained a get may not marry again even if a civil divorce is finalised.
She may sue in rabbinical court, but some men ignore an unfavourable ruling, even if it means being estranged from the religious community.
The FBI investigation took place in Ocean and Middlesex counties in New Jersey and Rockland County in New York, and involved raids in both states, according to agency officials.
Two undercover FBI agents posing as a woman seeking a divorce and her brother called Rabbi Wolmark for help, and he connected them to Rabbi Epstein, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in New Jersey.
The undercover agents videotaped their meeting.
"Basically, what we are going to be doing is kidnapping a guy for a couple of hours and beating him up and torturing him and then getting him to give the get," Rabbi Epstein is quoted as saying during the conversation, according to the complaint.
He added that the "tough guys" would use electric cattle prods and handcuffs and place a plastic bag over the man's head, according to the complaint.
Rabbi Epstein also allegedly told the undercover agents that such instruments were unlikely to leave a mark, avoiding attention from authorities.
"Basically the reaction of the police is, if the guy does not have a mark on him then, uh, is there some Jewish crazy affair here, they don't want to get involved," he said, according to the criminal complaint.
The FBI said the price was more than $50,000, including $10,000 for a rabbinical court to approve the action. They had wired $20,000 to the accused before the arrests.
"They did it for money," Assistant US Attorney Joseph Gribko said during a hearing on Thursday.
"They didn't do it out of religious conviction."
Rabbi Wolmark's lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, argued his client was caught up in a case where religious law involving "an old tradition" collided with federal statutes.
No pleas were entered for the suspects, and all ten have been ordered held in federal custody until a hearing currently scheduled for next week.
The Egyptian-born Google marketing executive first played a role in organising the opposition through Facebook, only to disappear into police custody for 12 days.
Emerging again, he denied he had done anything heroic at all, instead paying tribute to the young activists who had been on the streets since 25 January.
But his return to the public eye - marked by an emotional TV interview on 7 February which gripped Egyptian viewers - re-energised the movement just as it seemed to be losing steam.
The fact that hundreds of thousands of protesters returned to the streets of Cairo the day after he spoke testifies to his appeal.
He was hailed on Facebook and Twitter as a hero, Egyptian blogger Issandr el-Amrani noted.
"You know how this has been a leaderless movement and they're saying they want to designate him as a leader of the youth component in this movement," Mr Amrani told the BBC World Service.
Mr Ghonim walked free after a campaign waged by Google on behalf of its marketing manager for the Middle East and North Africa.
The search engine giant may not have been aware that its Dubai-based manager had been running a popular Facebook page, with 400,000 Egyptian followers, outside of office hours, BBC technology correspondent Mark Gregory reports.
Named after Khaled Said, a businessman who died in police custody in Alexandria last year, the page played a crucial role in organising the protests.
The "We are all Khaled Said" website became a rallying point for a campaign against police brutality. For many Egyptians, it revealed details of the extent of torture in their country.
The 30-year-old executive says he was blindfolded for most of his time in custody, threatened with torture but not actually hurt.
Soon after being freed, he appeared live on one of Egypt's most watched talk shows, on the Dream 2 television channel.
"This is the revolution of the youth of the internet, which became the revolution of the youth of Egypt, then the revolution of Egypt itself," he said.
"I'm not a hero, I slept for 12 days," he continued.
"The heroes, they're the ones who were in the street, who took part in the demonstrations, sacrificed their lives, were beaten, arrested and exposed to danger."
He was shown video of some of those who had died during the protests, events he was seeing for the first time.
He burst into tears, insisting it was the fault of the authorities, not the campaigners, and left the studio - a human response that provoked a wave of sympathy.
"Ghonim's tears have moved millions and turned around the views of those who supported [Mubarak] staying," the website masrawy.com wrote two hours after the interview.
At least 130,000 people have joined a Facebook page titled "I delegate Wael Ghonim to speak in the name of Egypt's revolutionaries" since the interview, the Associated Press news agency reports.
Addressing the giant rally on Tahrir Square on 8 February, Mr Ghonim declared: "We won't give up."
Fifi Shawqi, a 33-year-old upper-class housewife, said she had come to the square with her three daughters and sister for the first time after seeing the interview with Mr Ghonim, whom she had never heard of before the TV appearance.
"I felt like he is my son and all the youth here are my sons," she told AP.
During his TV interview, the Google executive came over as a passionate Egyptian patriot, who even expressed some empathy for the officers who had interrogated him because they, too, seemed to love their country.
"They were 100% convinced that foreigners are behind us, that someone manipulates and finances us," he said.
"But if I was a traitor I would have stayed in my villa with my swimming pool in the Emirates. We are not traitors."
Google issued a statement welcoming its employee's release, without commenting on his political role.
Mr Ghonim has thanked Google for its support, explaining that he tricked the corporation into allowing him to return to Egypt from Dubai last month, citing a "personal problem".
It is not yet clear what, if any, political ambitions the young executive harbours, beyond "putting an end to all the rubbish" in Egypt.
Shaun Maloney's deflected shot off John O'Shea just after half-time clawed the Scots back into a match they had barely been part of in the opening period.
Jon Walters had given the Irish a deserved lead, tapping in from an offside position.
The result leaves Scotland third, on 11 points, and Ireland fourth on nine.
Poland lead the group on 14 points, with world champions Germany second, two points above the Scots, after thrashing Gibraltar 7-0.
The result in Dublin certainly favours the visitors, particularly after they were under the cosh for the first 45 minutes.
Republic boss Martin O'Neill had spoken all week about the need to begin the match on the front foot and from the outset the hosts looked sharper, stronger and hungrier for victory.
They snapped into challenges, pressurising the Scots who appeared nervous, none more so than defender Craig Forsyth, starting his first competitive international.
The Irish exploited that, with Seamus Coleman consistently finding space and time on the right, the only saving grace the full-back's poor delivery.
David Marshall had not had a save to make, however, until he tipped over a Daryl Murphy header.
From the resultant Robbie Brady corner, Murphy again forced a save from the keeper, but this time it fell beautifully for Walters to tap in, with the officials failing to notice he was in an offside position.
It was no more than the Republic deserved, but the match turned on the first moment of class from Scotland, seconds after the interval.
Maloney combined with Steven Naismith and the man whose goal beat the Irish in November curled the ball goalwards and into the back of the net via O'Shea's back.
That buoyed the Scots, though they could have fallen behind again minutes later, Marshall blocking Murphy's shot with his legs.
The tension was palpable as the match wore on, with the home side still dominating, though Given had to claw away a deflected Ikechi Anya cross that might have found a way into the net.
But to the anguish of the majority of the crowd inside the Aviva Stadium, there was to be no late goal as there had been here against Poland.
At the end of a pulsating battle, Scotland remain better positioned to challenge for an automatic top-two qualification spot for next summer's finals in France.
But the major winners of the day in Group D were leaders Poland, who are now three points above the Scots, after beating Georgia 4-0. Robert Lewandowski scored a hat-trick in the final two minutes of the game.
After arriving with other leaders of G20 nations for a summit in the city of Hangzhou, Mr Obama said: "History will judge today's effort as pivotal."
CO2 emissions are the driving force behind climate change.
Last December, countries agreed to cut emissions in a bid to keep the global average rise in temperatures below 2C.
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The Paris deal is the world's first comprehensive climate agreement. It will only come into force legally after it is ratified by at least 55 countries, which between them produce 55% of global carbon emissions.
Members of China's National People's Congress Standing Committee adopted "the proposal to review and ratify the Paris Agreement" on Saturday morning at the end of a week-long session.
This is a big step towards turning the Paris climate agreement into reality.
Other nations will still tussle over their own ratification, but this will put pressure on G20 nations over the weekend to move faster with their pledge to phase out subsidies to fossil fuels.
But even if enough other players step forward to make the Paris deal law, huge challenges lie ahead.
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Before China made its announcement, the 23 nations that had so far ratified the agreement accounted for just over 1% of emissions.
The UK has yet to ratify the Paris deal. A spokesman for the prime minister told BBC News that the government would ratify as soon as possible - but gave no date.
The White House issued a statement on Saturday morning announcing the US move.
In a speech in Hangzhou, Mr Obama said the Paris deal was the "single best chance that have to deal with a problem that could end up transforming this planet".
He praised US and Chinese leadership on the climate issue, saying: "We are moving the world significantly towards the goal we have set."
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon praised Mr Obama for what he called "inspiring" leadership.
Mr Ban said Mr Obama and China's President Xi Jinping had both been "far-sighted, bold and ambitious".
However, analysts warn that the target of keeping temperature rises below 2C is already in danger of being breached.
For 14 consecutive months meteorologists have recorded the hottest month on record, and the UK's Met Office has forecast that 2016 is likely to hit temperatures 1.1C above pre-industrial levels.
Average temperatures worldwide are likely to increase more in the coming years as the effect of previous carbon emissions makes itself felt.
Environmental campaigning group Friends of the Earth welcomed the move by China and the US.
But spokesman Asad Rehman added: "The Paris agreement is a step in the right direction, but the reality is it's too weak and delays action to the next decade.
"What's needed is comprehensive and urgent action now to slash emissions and build a low-carbon future."
The G20 summit in Hangzhou starts on Sunday.
This is expected to be Mr Obama's last trip to Asia as US president.
However, as he arrived there was a security dispute on the tarmac at Hangzhou airport as White House officials, including National Security Adviser Susan Rice, and reporters tried to get closer to the president. A Chinese official shooed them away shouting: "This is our country! This is our airport!"
Anthony Grainger, 36, from Bolton was killed when he was shot in the chest during a Greater Manchester Police operation in Cheshire on 3 March 2012.
He was shot through the windscreen of a stolen Audi in a car park in Culcheth.
The inquiry into his death heard firearms officers involved did not give full statements for six days.
Liverpool Crown Court heard an officer, referred to as W9 to protect his identity, told the court that on 8 March 2012 there had been a meeting with firearm officers involved in the investigation which led to Mr Grainger's shooting death and V53, the officer who fatally shot 29-year-old Mark Duggan in Tottenham, north London in 2011.
W9 said it was held to discuss their welfare and post-incident procedure.
Q9 - the officer who shot Mr Grainger - also attended.
W9 told the inquiry he could not recall if Q9 and V53 went for a private meeting.
Leslie Thomas QC, representing Mr Grainger's family, asked W9 if he thought it "a bit odd" the man who shot Mark Duggan - came up to Manchester for a meeting with all the firearms officers in this case.
W9 said: "No, because we'd not been in that situation before.
"He's saying what's happened to him, he's not giving, or he wasn't giving me, advice."
The inquiry heard details of the meeting had only come to light on Tuesday.
W9 told the court some officers were getting a "bit frustrated" at the delay in giving statements.
The inquiry heard the officers were all taken to the same room - which had a flip chart with details about the day on - to write statements on 9 March.
W9 said it only had information such as timings which could have been found on logs.
Q9 a serving officer who had be began giving evidence to the inquiry earlier. He said he had been an authorised firearms officer for six years when Mr Grainger died.
The inquiry continues.
Luis Enrique confirmed he will leave Barcelona at the end of the season, and former defender Koeman is being linked with a return to the Nou Camp.
The Everton boss, 53, won four league titles and the European Cup in his six years there as a player.
"For me personally and the lads, we obviously hope he stays," said Toffees defender Williams.
"He's started building a team here and we're all confident the future looks good for Everton.
"But he might have his own ambitions. I can't speak for what he wants from his managerial career but from our point of view, definitely we enjoy working with him," the 32-year-old added.
Koeman took over as Everton boss in June 2016 and his team are on course to finish in the top seven of the Premier League for the first time in three years.
Until Sunday's 3-2 defeat at Tottenham, they were unbeaten in nine league matches.
Thirteen factory workers were forced off a bus and executed by shabiha members in a village near Qusair, in the west of the country, they said.
Correspondents say the video shows a group of bodies with hideous injuries.
The UN Human Rights Council has meanwhile begun an emergency session to discuss the violence in Syria.
It is expected to blame pro-government forces for last week's massacre in Houla, in which more than 100 people died, including 49 children.
On Thursday, a Syrian government investigation into the killings blamed armed rebel groups seeking to trigger foreign military intervention.
The US permanent representative to the UN, Susan Rice, dismissed the finding as a "blatant lie", for which there was no factual evidence.
On Thursday evening, activists posted on the internet two videos showing the bodies of the 13 men who they said had been killed in al-Buwaida al-Sharqiya, a village between Qusair and the city of Homs, earlier that day.
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One video showed a group of bodies sprawled on the ground, with hideous injuries consistent with their having been shot dead at close range in the head or stomach, reports the BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut.
Another video showed the bodies laid out on the floor of a building, with relatives grieving over them, our correspondent adds.
Activists said the murdered men were workers from a fertiliser factory whose bus was intercepted by shabiha members. They first of all robbed the workers, then took them off the bus, forced them to chant pro-government slogans and executed them, the activists added.
The account cannot be independently verified, but twice in the past week, UN ceasefire observers on the ground have corroborated similar claims from activists - most recently the killing of 13 men in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour, and before that, the massacre in the Houla area of Homs province.
Residents of the village of Taldou said the shabiha had been sent into their village early on Saturday after the Syrian army unleashed a barrage of heavy weapons late on Friday in response to a local anti-government protest.
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said most of the 108 victims had been shot at close range or stabbed. No more than 20 had been killed by tank and artillery fire preceding the raid, it added.
The UN Human Rights Council, the world's top human rights body, is
meeting in emergency session to discuss Syria
and is expected to condemn the Houla massacre in the strongest possible terms.
A draft resolution refers to "the wanton killings of civilians by shooting at close range and by severe physical abuse by pro-regime elements and a series of government artillery and tank shellings of a residential neighbourhood", and demands that Syria allow in human rights investigators and aid agencies immediately.
But the BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Geneva says the 47-member council has no real power. It cannot impose sanctions on Syria, neither can it order the UN Security Council to act.
And, our correspondent adds, with continued disagreement within the UN - neither Russia nor China supported the council meeting - and continued fighting in Syria, the prospect of an end to human rights violations, let alone the prosecution of those responsible, seems a very long way off.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to face pressure over Syria from the leaders of Germany and France when he visits Berlin and Paris. Russia has blocked Security Council action against Syria's government.
UK Foreign Secretary William Hague is meanwhile scheduled to meet representatives of the Syrian opposition in Turkey.
Mr Hague told the BBC that the situation was so grave and deteriorating so rapidly that all options were still on the table.
He warned that military intervention would have to be on a much bigger scale than in Libya and have to have "very broad international support".
Bale, 25, was the subject of criticism from fans and media as Real failed to win La Liga and the Champions League.
The Wales forward was linked with a return to the Premier League but has said he will stay at the Bernabeu.
"My own opinion is that we will probably see, for one reason or another, Cristiano move from Madrid before Gareth," Toshack said.
Forward Ronaldo, 30, has been a Real Madrid player since signing from Manchester United for £80m in 2009.
Bale joined Real from Tottenham for a world-record fee of £85.3m in 2013, helping the Spanish club claim their 10th European title in his first season.
The Welshman scored 22 goals in his debut campaign followed by 17 in his second.
"You do need time to adapt and obviously for the money they paid for Bale and at the age that he is, he's still got a lot to do," Toshack added.
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"I hope Gareth will get the opportunity to play in an area of the field where he can do most damage.
"I'm not so sure wide is Gareth's best position. I think Cristiano has got a bit do with that.
"He was always a number seven, but likes to play left side and I think Gareth suffers a bit for that."
Toshack, who was Wales manager when Bale made his debut as a 16-year-old in 2006, had two spells at Real Madrid. The Spanish side appointed Rafa Benitez as their new coach on 3 June.
Former Liverpool and Chelsea manager Benitez was in Cardiff recently to see Bale score in Wales' 1-0 win over Belgium in a Euro 2016 qualifier.
Ex-Liverpool and Cardiff City striker Toshack now coaches Moroccan side Wydad Casablanca and believes Benitez is a good choice as Carlo Ancelotti's successor.
"Rafa's got all the credentials, there's no question about that," Toshack added.
"Rafa was at Madrid at the time I was there, working with the junior sides.
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The Justice 4 Michael Ross group has launched a website which alleges police lost a diary belonging to the victim.
Michael Ross was convicted in 2008 of murdering Bangladeshi waiter Shamsuddin Mahmood in a restaurant in Kirkwall.
Police Scotland declined to comment on the website's claims.
In 2014, Ross failed in a bid to have his conviction re-examined.
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The 35-year-old loose-head made his debut for the region in 2004, and has played 164 times for the the Blues.
In addition to his 121 Wales caps, Jenkins has played five Tests for the British and Irish Lions.
"We are very pleased that Gethin has signed to extend his career at Cardiff Blues," said head coach Danny Wilson.
"Gethin is a vastly experienced prop who demands the highest standards from himself and those around him.
"[He] will also be the ideal role model and mentor for the talented young players within our squad and those coming through our system."
Jenkins made his international debut in 2002 and played in the sides that claimed the Six Nations Grand Slam titles in 2005, 2008 and 2012.
His latest Wales appearance came in the 27-23 win over Scotland on Saturday, 13 February when he was a second-half substitute.
Jenkins started his career at Pontypridd before joining the Celtic Warriors when regional rugby was introduced in 2003 and then the Blues following the Warriors' demise.
He has been at the Arms Park ever since, apart from one season in Toulon in 2012-13, when he played in and won the Heineken Cup final.
Morris hopes to announce the recruitment of a top-order batsman "in the not too distant future."
Captain Jacques Rudolph and coach Toby Radford both pointed to the small numbers in the senior squad as a reason for their decline in the Championship.
"It stretched us in the second half of the season," Morris said.
"Quite understandably a number of players didn't have a lot of petrol in the tank at the end of the summer."
Glamorgan won four and drew four in the first half of their four-day campaign, but lost four and drew four in the second half.
"We want to create competition within the squad, we've got some good young players coming through, though some of them are very young," said Morris in his end-of-season review for BBC Wales Sport.
"We want to try and strengthen our seam bowling department, we are actively speaking to people, and we need to create more competition at the top of our batting order.
"we hope to make an announcement in the not-too-distant future."
Fast-bowling all-rounder Craig Meschede is now back on Somerset's books after a year on loan at the SSE Swalec Stadium.
Glamorgan went up from eighth to fourth in the Championship, but missed out on the knockout stages of both T20 and One-Day Cup cricket, the latter campaign being wrecked by a second points deduction for pitch problems.
Morris summed up; "We've made encouraging strides forward. We're not the finished article by a long way. As far as white-ball cricket is concerned I thought we were a bit unlucky, I thought we played really well away from home in Twenty20 cricket but not so well at home."
Captain Jacques Rudolph has spoken of the need to improve the Cardiff pitch for batting, with head groundsman Keith Exton leaving the county after the abandonment of the Hampshire game.
"It's important to try to get the right balance between bat and ball and that's what we always try to produce" was Morris's response.
"It's a good opportunity for Robin Saxton who's been announced as our head groundsman for the next 12 months, he's a very enthusiastic and committed man and he'll be working with the groundstaff to produce the best pitches we can."
Morris says the county is "really pleased" with the staging of England's Test and T20 matches against Australia in 2015.
The men's and women's double-header was sold out, where only 70% sales had been budgeted for.
Cardiff will not host an Ashes Test during the next Australian tour in 2019, while the allocation of games from 2020 onwards has been put on hold.
But with games in the 2017 Champions Trophy and the 2019 World Cup heading to Wales, Morris believes there will be enough high-profile games to boost the county's coffers.
"We've got two global events which we're hosting in Cardiff, which will create a huge international audience which will be great for the club, for Cardiff and for Wales," the former England batsman said.
And that's its conclusion taking an "optimistic" view. The pessimistic conclusion from the report is £1,700 per household.
Where has that come from? The CEP is predicting 1.3% to 2.6% fall in GDP, which is the value of everything produced in the economy, currently about £1.8tn a year. Take 1.3% of that and divide by the 27 million households in the UK and you have your answer.
That's not the same as saying it would cost every household £850. A drop in GDP equivalent to £850 per household would be expected to cut household incomes, but probably not by that much.
So beyond that, is it true? No, almost certainly not - it's a result of economic modelling.
The problem is that any such predictions involve making big assumptions about what would happen in the event of the UK leaving the EU.
The conclusions are extremely sensitive to such assumptions. For example, the losses double if you move from the "optimistic" to "pessimistic" conclusions about what sort of trade deal a post-Brexit UK would reach with the EU.
The losses would be tripled if you moved the trade model from static to dynamic (dynamic models include changes that happen over time such as trade increasing competition or efficiency). In the long run, the report says the losses could get up to between £4,200 and £6,400 per household per year.
The optimistic scenario assumes that the UK reaches a Norway-style deal, which retains full access to the single market, but only predicts a 17% fall in the UK's contribution to the EU Budget (in line with Norway). But nonetheless, trade falls as a result of non-tariff barriers to trade, which are things like rules and quotas that are designed to stop competition from another country's products.
Is that an optimistic view? If you were being really optimistic you could predict that the UK manages to negotiate a fabulous deal that allows full access to the single market without any contributions to the EU Budget. You could also optimistically predict that leaving the EU ushers in a golden age of entrepreneurship and productivity growth, making trade go through the roof.
Similarly, the CEP's pessimistic view is that the UK ends up as just another member of the World Trade Organization, but you could have a really pessimistic view in which the rest of Europe is so cross about the UK leaving that it refuses all deals, deliberately blocks UK products and trade goes through the floor.
So when you look at any economic modelling it's important to look at who is doing it. The CEP is made up of many top-notch, hugely-respected economists from an institution with an excellent reputation. I would have no hesitation in quoting them in a BBC article.
But Vote Leave has pointed out this morning that the CEP is part-funded by the European Commission and in 2000 published a paper by Willem Buiter, who had just left the Bank of England's interest rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee, calling for the UK to adopt the euro.
"These ridiculous claims lack credibility as they come from the same economic sages who said we would better off scrapping the pound," said Matthew Elliott, chief executive of Vote Leave.
Nobody knows what would happen if the UK were to leave the EU, so well-qualified people are trying to guess. There is little reason to believe they are guessing correctly. Predicting things is a thankless task - remember those opinion polls at last year's general election?
Incidentally, this isn't just a point about this particular report. I would say much the same thing about the Civitas study that concluded there was a cost of between £15bn and £40bn to staying in the EU, or the Open Europe model that estimated a cost of Brexit of somewhere between a 2.2% fall in GDP and a 1.6% rise.
If economic modelling should not be guiding your thinking, then why are we covering it?
Because you can bet your last pound or euro that next week somebody supporting staying in the EU will say in a speech that leaving the EU will cost between £850 and £1,700 per household.
And I don't want you to be left wondering where the figure came from.
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John McGahan, 71, and Philip Noel Thomson, 64, were charged after a 2012 Police Ombudsman report into the case.
Lt Stephen Kirby was shot by the IRA in February 1979.
In the late 1970s the RUC charged four teenagers with the soldier's murder. They were acquitted of the murder charges and other offences in 1998.
On Monday, the two officers charged with perverting the course of justice, in connection with their case, appeared at the Crown Court in Belfast.
Within minutes of a jury being sworn in, a judge directed the 12 members to find the two former police officers not guilty, after the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) offered no evidence.
In December, the PPS said at the opening of men's trial that it did not intend to offer any evidence against Mr McGahan and Mr Thompson as a result of information it had received from the Police Ombudsmans office.
The PPS said the information was not available to it when a decision to prosecute the two men had been taken.
Responding on Monday to the collapse of the case the four men who were originally charged as teenagers by the RUC, said they had been failed by the PPS.
In a letter to the director of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Barra McGrory QC, they said: "The PPS spent two years reviewing the files and materials before deciding to initiate this prosecution; two more years of our lives where we were forced to sit and wait for institutions of the state to make decisions that profoundly impact on our lives.
"In this two-year period, during which the PPS reviewed, examined, analysed, sought legal advice, sought additional advice, why did the PPS not seek and examine all of the materials relating to this case?
"Why was it left to the 11th hour, once a trial date had been set, for the PPS to finally examine all the materials and then decide not to proceed?"
The theme likely to dominate the political year - the EU - will confront them, almost immediately, in the shape of a statement from the prime minister. They can also expect plenty of discussion of the flooding with a statement to the House.
Elsewhere the Commons ticks over with some serious legislating, a bit of backbench business and some opposition day debates, but the focus may be on internal debate within the Conservatives (on the EU) and within Labour (on the rumoured shadow Cabinet reshuffle).
Here's my rundown of the week ahead.
Tuesday 5 January
MPs return to their Chamber at 2.30pm for Health questions.
Then it's the week's biggest event - the prime minister's statement on the EU summit held just before Christmas, in which he made his pitch for a renegotiation of British membership terms. This could be the opening shot of the referendum campaign (a deal done at the February summit could mean a referendum in June).
The key thing to watch here is the reaction of Tory backbenchers. Hard core "outers" savaged the Europe Minister, David Lidington, when the renegotiation objectives were announced - and can be expected to be tough on their leader; but will he get a rough ride from some unusual suspects? That could portend real trouble ahead.
There will also be a statement on the floods, presumably from the DEFRA Secretary, Liz Truss.
The Labour MP Mike Kane will seek leave to bring in a Ten Minute Rule Bill on Mesothelioma Compensation. This looks like a revival of the bill he introduced last March, just before the election. It would have required a statutory contribution to research into the deadly lung cancer, mesothelioma, from each of the estimated 150 insurance company firms active in the employers' liability insurance market.
After that MPs turn to the detail of the Housing and Planning Bill - report stage. The official Labour amendments from shadow housing minister John Heeley would broaden the purpose of the bill to expanding the supply of all housing, rather than focusing on starter homes, and would call for adequate infrastructure to support them. They also want affordability of starter homes to be defined in relation to local economic conditions, and they want a price cap in London, which could only be changed in consultation with the Mayor.
There are all kinds of amendments from other sources including one from the Lib Dem Leader Tim Farron, which would ensure that new developments include a range of affordable housing options, to rent and buy.
And there's an intriguing alliance of the Conservative former Cabinet minister, Maria Miller and Labour's John Mann. Their new clause would require all starter homes not only to be subject to the statutory regime of building inspection controls, but also to comply with a requirement for site inspection records and a report on compliance, which would be available to home buyers. Mr Mann also has a hand in another amendment (along with Alex Cunningham) to require resilience against flooding to be a consideration in the zoning and design of new housing.
The day ends with an adjournment debate on the future funding for S4C - led by the Welsh Conservative, Simon Hart.
Meanwhile, in Westminster Hall, one of the hard core of "better off out" Tories, Philip Hollobone, will lead a debate from 9.30am to 11am on the renegotiation of UK membership of the EU - an appetiser for events in the Chamber later.
The other mini-debates in Westminster Hall are on: regional theatre (Will Quince) from 11am to 11.30 am; safer neighbourhood policing in London (Karen Buck) 11.30am - 1pm; health effects of air pollution (Paul Flynn) 1pm - 1.30pm and the relationship between the UK and Kazakhstan (Bob Stewart) 1.30pm - 2.30 pm.
Wednesday 6 January
The Commons day opens at 11.30am with Scotland Questions, followed, at noon by Prime Minister's Question Time.
The day's Ten Minute Rule Bill is from the Lib Dem ex-health minister Norman Lamb, who has long called for a process to build a national consensus around the future of the NHS and social care. His bill would establish an independent commission to examine the future of the National Health Service and the social care system.
The day's main debate will be on an Opposition motion - not yet announced, but my guess is flooding and flood defences.
In Westminster Hall the subjects for debate are: child prisoners and detainees in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (Sarah Champion) 9.30am - 11am; assistance to refugees in Calais (Andy Slaughter) 11am - 11.30am; food security (Derek Thomas) 2.30pm - 4pm; broadband speeds in Northern Ireland (Margaret Ritchie) at 4pm - 4.30pm and healthcare in the Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre (Kate Osamor) 4.30pm - 5.30pm.
Thursday 7 January
The Commons action begins at 9.30am with Energy and Climate Change questions, followed by the weekly Business Statement, announcing forthcoming Commons debates, from the Leader of the House. Will he announce a vote on Trident renewal?
Then MPs turn to two debates on subjects chosen by the Backbench Business Committee. The first is on the effect of the equalisation of the state pension age on women - raising concerns that the acceleration of equalisation directly discriminates against women born on or after 6 April 1951 and gives them only a few years to make alternative arrangements. The motion calls for the government to bring in transitional arrangements. The SNP's Mhairi Black leads the debate.
The second debate is on children in care - calling for the government to take steps to help reduce the number of children entering the care system by bringing forward measures to support more children to remain safely at home with their family or extended family. Lucy Allan and Alan Johnson lead.
In Westminster Hall (1.30pm) the subject for debate is the Armed Forces Covenant Annual Report 2015 - which details the government's efforts to deliver a better deal for service personnel on issues like health education and getting on the property ladder. Anne-Marie Trevelyan, Tom Tugendhat and Johnny Mercer lead the debate.
The Commons will not be sitting on Friday.
The Most Reverend Justin Welby, also condemned the treatment of Christian communities in the Middle East.
"They are driven into exile from a region in which their presence has always been essential," he will say.
The Archbishop of Westminster also talked about the plight of Christians who are persecuted for their faith.
Archbishop Welby, who was enthroned in March, spoke at morning service in Canterbury Cathedral.
He said: "Christians are attacked and massacred and we see terrible news in South Sudan, where political ambitions have led towards ethnic conflict. On Saturday I was speaking to a bishop under siege, in a compound full of the dying."
By Robert PigottReligious affairs correspondent, BBC News
Oppression and poverty have preoccupied Christian leaders this Christmas, and the Archbishop of Canterbury has made an explicit link between them.
Justin Welby said the persecution of Christian minorities overseas and destitution at home each represented a form of injustice.
The message is that suffering does not lie only in the visible form of oppression and violence, but is also hidden in private destitution.
Archbishop of York John Sentamu followed his passionate condemnation of malnutrition and inadequate housing, by warning that it rendered people invisible and voiceless.
It comes at the end of a year in which the new leaders of the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England have frequently inveighed against a capitalist system they believe is too indifferent to the plight of the poorest people.
Both Pope and Archbishop are determined that Christianity should be seen as a champion of the poor and persecuted alike.
The Archbishop challenged "the causes of poverty".
The former oil company executive - who this year launched a campaign against payday lending firms - referred to "injustices at home... even in a recovering economy".
He added: "Christians, the servants of a vulnerable and poor saviour, need to act to serve and love the poor, they need also to challenge the causes of poverty."
The Archbishop of Canterbury also posted a brief Christmas video message on the photo-sharing website Instagram and tweeted a link to the clip through his Twitter account.
He said: "Christmas means that, through Jesus, God shows unconditionally that he loves us. I pray that he gives you a very blessed Christmas."
Lambeth Palace said the video message was part of a Church of England campaign which aims to encourage congregations and clergy to let people know what they see as the "joy and meaning of Christmas".
It urges Anglicans across the world to complete the sentence: "Christmas means..." and send their message through Twitter.
Archbishop Vincent Nichols, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, in his address, said many Christians, especially in the Middle East, were risking their lives to worship.
Speaking at Christmas midnight Mass in Westminster Cathedral, Archbishop Nichols told the congregation to give "a special thought and prayer" to those Christians.
"Christians are the most widely persecuted religious group in the world today and this evening we think especially of the Middle East, especially of Egypt, Iraq and Syria," he said.
During his speech, Archbishop Nichols cited similar concerns voiced by the Prince of Wales this month during a visit to the Coptic and Syrian Orthodox communities in Hertfordshire and London.
"As Prince Charles said last week: 'Christianity was literally born in the Middle East and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters'," he said.
"We come to this Cathedral this evening freely and relatively easily, ready to give a simple act of witness to our faith," he said.
"But for many, going to church is an act of life-risking bravery. We thank them and seek to be inspired by their courageous faith."
Meanwhile, in his Christmas message, the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, described poverty as a stain on the conscience of the nation.
He added the Church still has a big influence on today's society and said an estimated 15 million people in England would attend services on Christmas Day.
But he said he would have "no problem" playing against Pakistan bowler Mohammad Amir, who served a five-year ban for the lesser crime of spot-fixing and is set to tour England this summer.
"Amir has served his time," said Cook, 31. "If you get caught match-fixing you should be banned for life."
England face Sri Lanka in the third Test at Lord's starting on Thursday.
Left-arm pace bowler Amir, 24, was jailed for three months for his part in a spot-fixing scam against England at Lord's in 2010 which also involved team-mates Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif.
Amir has been named in Pakistan's squad for the four-Test series starting on 14 July, although he is waiting to find out if he will be granted a UK visa.
"It's kind of ironic that his first Test match back will probably be here at Lord's," said Cook.
"He was punished for what he did, and quite rightly so because we've got to protect the integrity of the game.
"That's not to say Amir should not come back, because the rules were probably different then."
Cook confirmed that England will be unchanged for the final Test against Sri Lanka after convincing wins at Headingley and Chester-le-Street, meaning all-rounder Chris Woakes keeps his place ahead of uncapped seamer Jake Ball.
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The idea is controversial as prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing can be unreliable, throwing up false positive results that can cause undue worry and even treatment over something benign.
Swedish researchers say checking every man aged 45-49 would predict nearly half of all prostate cancer deaths.
Their findings, in The BMJ, come from a study of more than 21,000 men.
There is no routine screening programme for prostate cancer in the UK.
Men over 50 can request a free PSA test on the NHS if they wish.
A recent prostate cancer screening trial in Europe, ERSPC, showed that screening reduced mortality by 20%. However, this was associated with a high level of "over treatment". To save one life, 48 additional cases of prostate cancer needed to be treated.
In 2010, when the UK National Screening Committee in England last reviewed the issue, it again decided screening should not be introduced.
But Prof Hans Lilia and colleagues from Lund University in Sweden and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in the US say there could be a strong case for routine PSA testing and that men in their late-40s are prime candidates.
Source: Cancer Research UK
They looked back at a study carried out between 1974 and 1984 involving 21,277 Swedish men aged 27-52. All the men had donated blood samples at the start of the study. The researchers used these stored samples to run PSA tests.
Armed with the results, they then checked to see if the PSA reading predicted what had happened to the men in terms of clinical outcomes - ie had those with high/positive PSA results gone on to develop prostate cancer.
A high PSA was linked with an increased risk of prostate cancer.
The researchers then checked the results to see if there was a best age at which men should be screened.
Screening too young - below 45 years of age - detected too few deadly cancers.
And delaying screening until after a man's 50th birthday missed too many.
Screening men at the age of 45-49, however, spotted nearly half (44%) of the cancers that went on to be deadly.
In the study, 1,369 of the men had prostate cancer, 241 had advanced disease and 162 died from it.
They say all men should be offered a PSA test in their mid-to-late 40s. Those with a high result would return for frequent screening and checks (and treatment if necessary), while those with normal results could wait until their early 50s for their next PSA test.
"At least half of all men can be identified as being at low risk and probably need no more than three PSA tests in a lifetime," they say in the British Medical Journal.
"This is likely to reduce the risk of over-diagnosis while still enabling early cancer detection among those most likely to gain from early diagnosis," they say.
Dr Anne Mackie, Director of NHS Screening Programmes at Public Health England, said they reviewed evidence for screening on a three-yearly basis to make sure that the programmes offered by the NHS are based on the best and most up-to-date information available.
She said they would consider the findings of the BMJ study.
"We are currently in the process of a scheduled review for a screening programme for prostate cancer and will make a recommendation towards the end of 2013," she said.
The Prostate Cancer UK said more research efforts should be channelled into finding a better screening test for the disease.
Ms Kagezi was targeted on her way home by motorbike gunmen, officials say.
The trial of the men, accused of links to the 2010 Kampala suicide bombing which killed 76 people, has been suspended.
Last week, the US embassy in Uganda warned of a possible "terrorist" attack.
Ms Kagezi, the senior principal state attorney, headed the directorate of public prosecution's anti-terrorism and war crimes division.
Kampala police spokesman Patrick Onyango said: "They were trailing her on a motorcycle... They shot her dead."
Ms Kagezi was taken to the main hospital in the capital but died on the way.
Her children were with her in the car but weren't harmed in the shooting, according to a statement by the Ugandan Information Minister Jim Muhwezi in the Daily Monitor.
The BBC's Catherine Byaruhanga in Kampala says some Ugandans are now wondering whether Ms Kagezi was given enough protection.
Our correspondent says there is now an increased presence of policemen and soldiers on the streets of the Ugandan capital.
Last week the US said it had "received information of possible threats" at city locations where Western nationals gather.
Uganda's government said the US had warned of a possible suicide bomber trying to enter the country.
Uganda was under threat because it is a key contributor to the African Union mission fighting al-Shabab inside Somalia, a spokesman said.
McLaren has adorned its cars with #BillyWhizz stickers for the Russian Grand Prix, which begins on Friday,
It is understood other teams will be joining McLaren in a show of solidarity for Billy.
The 17-year-old from Charlwood, Surrey, hit the back of another car on 16 April and had to be airlifted to hospital.
Woking-based McLaren said it had consistently showed its support for Billy over the last fortnight. It "felt this gesture was appropriate", and added given the sense of communality in Formula 1, it was no surprise the other teams were rallying round in a similar way.
Williams Racing confirmed it would be putting on a similar display, and is also auctioning off a race suit worn by Felipe Massa and signed race boots worn by Lance Stroll.
So far the items have raised £2,600 on ebay, and this money is being donated to a Just Giving page set up by Steven Hunter, head of Billy's team, Derbyshire-based JHR Developments. It will help support the teenager through his life-changing injuries.
More than £760,000 has been donated so far following the crash during the Formula 4 British Championship at Donington Park in Leicestershire.
Formula 1 driver Jenson Button and F1 driver Max Verstappen have both donated £15,000, while Billy's F4 former rival Devlin DeFrancesco gave £26,000.
The Russian Grand Prix begins on Friday with practice sessions, before qualifying on Saturday and race day on Sunday.
The fragment, said to be the inboard section of the right, outboard flap of the plane, was recovered in June.
MH370, flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, had 239 people on board when it vanished in March 2014.
The Boeing 777 is presumed to have crashed into the southern Indian Ocean after veering off course.
The piece is now being examined for any evidence that may indicate how the flap was operating at the time of separation from the wing, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said in a report.
This could help throw light on whether the plane was being flown when it came down in the sea.
The part numbers and a date stamp on the piece, recovered on Pemba island, helped the investigation.
In addition to the Boeing part number, the report said, the identification stamps had an "OL" number, both unique identifiers to part construction.
The Italian part manufacturer then recovered build records for those numbers, confirming that they belonged to the missing plane.
Very slowly, the clues are piling up. All these pieces that keep washing ashore could eventually help to build a picture of the plane's final moments.
Scroll down the Australian investigators' report and you find this, important paragraph:
"At the time of writing, the flap section was being examined for any evidence of interaction with mechanisms, supports and surrounding components (such as the flaperon, which abuts the inboard end of the outboard flap) that may indicate the state of flap operation at the time of separation from the wing."
In plain English, it means that this piece MIGHT just help them work out if the flaps were extended when the plane hit the water. If they were, it COULD indicate that the aircraft was being flown by someone at the end. Flaps never extend automatically. So that starts to suggest a deliberate act.
Equally, if the flaps weren't extended, it points more to an accident. To be clear though, none of this will give anything close to definitive answer. It's just a little clue as to what happened.
A number of other pieces of debris, some confirmed to have come from MH370, have been found in recent months off the coast of neighbouring Mozambique and Madagascar.
They include a section of the wing called a flaperon, found on Reunion Island, and a horizontal stabilizer from the tail section and a stabilizer panel with a "No Step" stencil discovered in Mozambique.
All the debris are believed to have been driven westwards from the presumed crash site on ocean currents.
Australia has been leading the search for the missing aircraft, using underwater drones and sonar equipment deployed from specialist ships.
The search, also involving Malaysia and China, has led to more than 105,000 sq km (40,500 sq miles) of the 120,000 sq km search zone being scoured so far.
But countries have agreed that in the absence of "credible new information" the search is expected to end later this year.
Meanwhile, state school pupils have too few opportunities to forge careers in the arts, Sir Peter Bazalgette said.
"I personally don't see why all the male actors getting Baftas should come from Eton," he told Sheffield Doc/Fest.
"Good for them, and great actors, but why should they all come from Eton?"
Eton has produced actors including Damian Lewis, Dominic West, Tom Hiddleston, Eddie Redmayne and Harry Lloyd.
Other private school graduates include Benedict Cumberbatch, who went to Harrow; Hugh Bonneville, who attended Sherborne; and Rory Kinnear, who studied at St Paul's.
Chiwetel Ejiofor, who won this year's best film actor Bafta for 12 Years A Slave, went to the fee-paying Dulwich College - some years after Sir Peter attended the school.
Sir Peter made his name as a TV producer, is president of the Royal Television Society and became Arts Council England chairman last year.
"Seven per cent of the population go to private schools, and in those private schools they get an absolutely, crackingly good education in the performing and visual arts," Sir Peter said.
"Ninety-three per cent don't go to those private schools and, in some state schools, people get a wonderful education in visual and performing arts as well. But in quite a lot of them they don't.
"Visual performing arts have been marginalised in some areas in the curriculum as the curriculum becomes more instrumentalist and focused on what's known as the Stem agenda - science, technology, engineering and maths.
"If there is one message, we say Steam, not Stem - put the 'a' for arts in."
He pointed to British talents including London 2012 Olympic cauldron designer Thomas Hetherwick, Apple creative guru Jonathan Ive and vacuum pioneer James Dyson as proof that people need "a combination of creative flair and technological ability".
His comments follow concerns from Dame Helen Mirren, who recently warned that acting was becoming the "prerogative only of kids who have money".
And Shakespeare's Globe artistic director Dominic Dromgoole told the BBC last year: "It's becoming harder for children and young actors without means to get into drama school and I think that's an enormous shame."
The musician had gone to a US court, seeking to regain the rights to 267 of the band's classic tracks.
He has been trying to get them back since the 1980s, when Michael Jackson famously out-bid him for the rights.
Jackson's debt-ridden estate sold the songs to Sony last year, along with others including New York, New York.
Sir Paul's legal case, filed in a Manhattan court in January, was over what is known as copyright termination - the right of authors to reclaim ownership of their works from music publishers after a specific length of time has passed.
He claimed that he was set to reacquire the Beatles songs in 2018, but said Sony had not confirmed that it would transfer the copyrights to him.
"The parties have resolved this matter by entering into a confidential settlement agreement," Sir Paul's attorney Michael Jacobs wrote in a letter to US District Judge Edgardo Ramos.
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But to do that he needs to encourage more people in the suburbs to take to two wheels.
At the moment, for an example, in Enfield only 0.5% of journeys are done by bike and the ambition is to increase this to 5%.
There is much more emphasis on using cars to get around.
What the mayor and his transport commissioner are doing is focusing money on "three mini Hollands" - three boroughs where Transport for London (TfL) fund council improvements to cycling.
Previously TfL spending in outer London on cycling was £3m, but it will now rise to £100m. Of that there will be £30m each for Kingston, Enfield and Waltham Forest.
But there is opposition.
Take Enfield in north London.
In Enfield Town they want to close Church Street to all traffic apart from buses and bikes.
They also want to create a network of segregated cycle lanes and a much nicer environment for pedestrians.
The argument is it will regenerate the town centre.
TfL and Enfield say these improvements will benefit business and they claim there is evidence funding cycling infrastructure increases turnover.
Some traders though remain completely unconvinced and believe their businesses are intrinsically linked to cars.
They do not want to change the status quo although they are adamant they are not anti-cycling.
Those who live on nearby roads also have concerns the traffic which currently uses the high street will be diverted onto their residential roads.
Enfield Council says it is listening and will change its plans after a consultation.
The reality is City Hall says it could withdraw the £30m if the plans are not up to scratch.
There are various consultations now going on.
If changes are to succeed there is certainly a battle for the hearts and minds of some in Enfield and the suburbs who have no connection at all with cycling and Mr Johnson's cycling revolution - and frankly at the moment don't want it.
1994 Singapore becomes the first nation to convict a FIFA referee, T Rajamanickam, for match fixing. He's jailed for nine months.
1995 Singapore-based footballers Abbas Saad and Michal Vana found guilty of being part of a conspiracy to fix results in the Malaysian Premier League competition. Abbas fined. Vana jumped bail, fled the country and remains a fugitive in the Czech Republic.
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1995 Wilson Raj Perumal jailed in Singapore for a year for giving $2,400 to a football team captain to lose a match in September 1994.
1997 Rajendran Kurusamy jailed for 27 months for trying to bribe three S-League players.
1999 Perumal found guilty of bribing a football referee.
2000 Perumal jailed for his role in attacking S-League footballers Max Nicholson and Ivica Raguz with a baseball bat.
2001 Singapore's professional football league, the S-League, becomes the first to introduce compulsory polygraph tests for its players.
2008 Six players from former S-League club Liaoning Guangyuan jailed for match-fixing. The club, originally from China, was thrown out of the league. The players were bribed to intentionally lose S-League matches in 2007.
2009 A Zimbabwe Football Association's (Zifa) internal probe concludes that national team players were paid to lose matches by an Asian betting syndicate. Zimbabwe lost 3-0 to Thailand and 6-0 to Syria. At the same time, two Singaporean "businessmen" were arrested in Syria on allegations of match-fixing. They were imprisoned for a short period and then released, following rumours of torture and bribery.
September 2010 Perumal, posing as an accredited match agent, fixes a friendly between Bahrain and Togo. The Togo team is made up entirely of imposters.
November 2010 In Italy, the players of a third division side, Cremonese, suddenly felt tired in a game against Paganese. One player crashed his car on the way home. They had been drugged. The Cremonese goalkeeper, Marco Paolini, had promised to fix the match to pay off his gambling debts. He spiked the team's water bottles. He later receives a five-year football ban. The subsequent probe finds a syndicate link to Singapore's Dan Tan. There is still a warrant for Tan's arrest in Italy.
April 2011 Fifa's then head of security, Chris Eaton, tells The New Paper in Singapore that Fifa had unearthed an "an academy" of match-fixers in the country. Eaton had informed Fifa president, Sepp Blatter, that south-east Asian syndicates had been rigging matches worldwide for a decade.
June 2011 In a Finnish courtroom, Perumal, claims to be one of six key members of a multinational match-fixing consortium. He also claims to have fixed "tens of matches around the world" and earned five to six million euros ($6.7 - 8.1m) in the process. He admitted trying to fix 11 Finnish league matches. Four of his attempts were successful.
July 2011 Finnish authorities hand Perumal a two-year jail sentence. He had been charged with bribing players, entering Finland with a forged Singapore passport and obstructing the duties of government officials by trying to escape from custody. Suspended sentences were handed to seven Zambian and two Georgian players from Rovaniemi Football Club for accepting bribes from Perumal.
February 2012 Perumal completes a year of his sentence and is extradited to Hungary. Under house arrest, he continues to assist Hungarian authorities with their match-fixing probe.
February 2013 Europol investigators claim that 680 matches worldwide were fixed by syndicates with links to Singapore and Dan Tan in particular.
March 2013 German news magazine, Der Spiegel, published what the magazine claimed was an email interview with Dan Tan in which he admitted rigging a game in September 2001 between Barcelona and Fenerbahçe. He said he bribed four technicians to turn off the floodlights once the game reached 3-0. But the lights came back on with the aid of an emergency generator. He claimed to have lost $3 million.
June 2013 In Singapore, three Lebanese match officials found guilty of accepting free sex as an inducement to rig an AFC Cup. All three are jailed.
September 2013 Six members of Victorian Premier League Southern Stars arrested in Australia and charged over an alleged international match-fixing ring. The syndicate has alleged links to Mr Perumal.
September 2013 Fourteen individuals with alleged links to a match-fixing syndicate, including its leader, are arrested following a 12-hour operation in Singapore. Local media reports that Dan Tan is the "leader" arrested.
October 31, 2013 The trial of Eric Ding will resume. The Singaporean businessman is accused of providing prostitutes for the three Lebanese match officials. He denies the charges.
14 April 2016 Last updated at 16:40 BST
She will be playing Madison the daughter of one of the show's most famous couples - Scott and Charlene.
Their wedding was seen by more than 20 million people back in 1988.
The show has been on air for more than 30 years.
This is Sarah's first acting role and Ricky went to meet her.
Neighbours, Channel 5, 1.45pm and 5.30pm
Schoolchildren from across Ruthin helped to make the poppies to mark the centenary of the battle of Mametz Wood.
It is part of events being held in the town, which have been organised by Ruthin Community Group.
Its events organiser, Ron Bell, said the commemorations had been "designed to bring all generations together".
The 38th (Welsh) Division attacked Mametz Wood between 7 and 14 July 1916, with more than 4,000 of them killed or injured.
Mr Bell said: "The aim is to help people not only remember World War One but to learn about the sacrifice their predecessors made for their freedoms."
The commemorations have been funded by the Heritage Lottery World War One programme and the Big Lottery Awards for All.
Ten men have been detained in connection with the incident, which happened early on Saturday morning.
But none of them resemble the six alleged attackers who were caught on CCTV burgling the convent before the 74-year-old nun was raped.
The nun is being treated in a Kolkata (Calcutta) hospital.
"Time was when West Bengal had a slightly better record than most other parts of the country as far as the safety of women was concerned, but the state is badly slipping on that count," says the Hindustan Times.
Other papers too have been giving prominent coverage to the "inhumane and barbaric crime".
Papers have highlighted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed "deep concerns" over the incident.
The Hindustan Times wonders if religious tensions also played a role in the crime.
"There are various reasons for rape and among them one could be is inter-community tension. In this case, this could have been the most potent one. When there is a dispute between two communities and the administration is found to be slack, one that has a greater local heft tries to browbeat the other by means of calculated violence. And in the process women become soft targets," it says in an editorial.
The DNA criticises the main opposition Congress party for failing to raise the issue in the parliament.
"A nun was gang-raped at a missionary school and an under-construction church was demolished. It was left to Communist Party leader D Raja to raise the issue after the Congress walked out of the upper house over the so-called snooping incident," the paper says.
India's BJP-led government has denied allegations by the Congress party that it snooped on its vice-president Rahul Gandhi.
Meanwhile, the state government in the northern state of Haryana has banned beef consumption and killing of cows.
Haryana has followed the western state of Maharashtra, which has also banned beef and "cow slaughter".
"The new law [in Haryana] will also promote conservation and development of indigenous breeds of cows and establish institutions to keep, maintain and take care of the infirm, injured, stray and uneconomic cows," reports the NDTV website.
The move has sparked anger in a section of the media and opposition parties have also criticised it.
"India is a diverse country and in a diverse country people have different culinary habits. Beef is also a poor man's protein. So, this is nothing else but a political agenda," a report on the Zee News website quotes Congress leader Manish Tewari as saying.
The Hindu nationalist BJP is the ruling party in both Haryana and Maharashtra states.
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It's a material found in elephant tusks and China buys and sells more of it than anywhere else in the world.
Prince William has spoken passionately about trying to stop the ivory trade in the past and will use his speech to urge the Chinese government to ban it.
Here is Newsround's guide on why the ivory trade is such a big concern and why China seems so obsessed with it.
Ivory is a hard white material that is found in the tusks of elephants and other tusked animals like hippos and walruses. Although rhinos have similar looking horns, these aren't actually made from ivory. However, rhinos are also illegally hunted for their horns because they are used in lots of medicines in China and the Far East.
Lots of elephants die as a result of hunters taking their tusks because removing the ivory almost always kills the animals.
It's estimated that up to 30,000 African elephants die every year because they are hunted for ivory.
Selling ivory was banned worldwide in 1989, but the ban has been lifted several times, so there is still a lot of ivory on sale. As well as this, a lot of ivory is sold by poachers who kill elephants illegally.
In China and Hong Kong, ivory is seen as precious material and is used in ornaments and jewellery. It's also sometimes used in traditional Chinese medicine.
Some rich Chinese people think that owning ivory makes them look more successful. Others think that ivory will bring them good luck.
China has the biggest ivory trade in the world and wildlife experts believe that around 70 per cent of the world's ivory ends up there.
This year China agreed to ban ivory tusks and ornaments coming into the country for twelve months.
The government has said it wants to completely ban ivory sales soon but it is still legal to sell older carvings and ornaments.
Some people don't want ivory to be banned in China because they say that carving it is an old Chinese tradition that should carry on.
But more and more people in China disagree. A recent survey found that 95 per cent of people there wanted ivory to be banned to protect the elephants.
Mr Yameen claimed bomb-making materials had been found during raids on Ahmed Adeeb's associates.
The president was unhurt in the blast on his speedboat, which left his wife and two others slightly injured.
In recent years, the Maldives has been rocked by political infighting.
"The vice-president is being detained for the safety and security of the entire nation," Mr Yameen said in a televised address.
He said the investigation pointed to links between Mr Adeeb and two soldiers who were arrested for tampering with evidence on the boat soon after the blast.
President Yameen and his wife were travelling to the capital Male from the island where the airport is located when the device went off under a seat normally - but not in this instance - occupied by Mr Yameen.
Turbulence in paradise
Soon after the blast, speculation began to grow that Mr Adeeb was involved, reports said. Under the Maldivian constitution, the vice-president succeeds the president if he dies, is incapacitated or resigns.
Mr Adeeb, who is among seven people being held for questioning, has denied any links to the explosion.
A court ordered his detention for 15 days to give police more time to investigate.
Earlier, the government said Mr Adeeb would be charged with "high treason".
But the president said he would not fire Mr Adeeb until his case had been decided by a court.
Mr Adeeb became vice president in July at the age of 33. Mr Yameen was instrumental in his rise, sacking the previous vice-president, also on charges of treason, and lowering the minimum age for the president and vice-president from 35 to 30.
The Maldives became a multiparty democracy in 2008 and is a popular upmarket tourist destination, but its image has suffered in recent years due to prolonged political unrest.
Theresa Villiers said there were "risks on both sides of this debate" but the "safer option" was to leave.
Ms Villiers said the UK could then "negotiate a new deal based on free trade and co-operation".
So far, she is one of five full members of the cabinet in favour of leaving the EU, with 16 supporting staying.
Others who have joined the Leave campaign are Michael Gove, Chris Grayling, Iain Duncan Smith and John Whittingdale.
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Mr Cameron has warned that leaving the European Union would be a "leap in the dark", as he urged voters to back his reform deal.
The PM said: "Those who want to leave Europe cannot tell you if British businesses would be able to access Europe's free trade single market, or if working people's jobs are safe, or how much prices would rise.
"All they're offering is a risk at a time of uncertainty - a leap in the dark."
Ms Villiers, who was an MEP for six years, said she did not think the EU system was "capable of changing in a way that would be the right option for us".
She said: "In the decades ahead we face a European project that is ever more determined to integrate, to take more powers and we could be outvoted many times over the years to come.
"So there is no stable status quo for us to cling to.
"Even with this deal [negotiated with EU leaders by David Cameron] we will still be subject to the Court of European Justice who may still do its best to unpick the deal that's been agreed."
Ms Villiers said she was "profoundly optimistic" about the UK, which she said could "flourish outside the EU".
She said Mr Cameron had won "important concessions" in Brussels.
"But the reality is a really radical way to change our relationship is to vote to leave and then negotiate a deal based on the trade and co-operation that people thought we were signing up to when we joined the European Union.
"It's long overdue that people have a right to decide on this, David Cameron is delivering that."
Ms Villiers said there had been "a sense of history" at Saturday's cabinet meeting at which ministers discussed which way they would vote in the referendum in June.
"It was quite emotional. It was also very measured, very objective, very sincere," she said.
"There was a determination that we wanted it to be a high-quality debate so people can make an informed choice, and to work courteously with each other even if we find ourselves on different sides."
She said it was "very difficult to be on a different side" to Mr Cameron but she didn't believe the divisions in the cabinet would lead to civil war in the Conservative Party.
"Ultimately, [it is] the arguments about what is good for our future, what will generate the best prosperity, what will make us most secure that will determine how people vote in the referendum - not how each cabinet member will vote."
The Republic of Ireland's main opposition party criticised Ms Villiers' decision, saying it was "wrong for Northern Ireland" and "deeply worrying".
Fianna Fail spokesman on foreign affairs Brendan Smith said: "Secretary Villiers is entitled to her own views on this matter and that must be fully respected.
"However, I believe it is clear that a Brexit would be bad for Northern Ireland and bad for Irish-British relations."
Commentators rushed to criticise the fashion house's choice of the 16-year-old son of David and Victoria Beckham for the shoot, instead of an established industry professional.
"Insulting to every artist out there"; "completely disrespectful to the artist community"; and "so tired of these celebrities buying their kids into everything" were some of the printable reactions.
But Burberry boss Christopher Bailey suggested it might have been Brooklyn's 5.9 million Instagram followers, rather than his parents, that got him the gig.
"Brooklyn has a really great eye for image and Instagram works brilliantly for him as a platform to showcase his work," he said.
And this is the new reality: the choice of Brooklyn as photographer was less about how well-connected famous people can get their kids into competitive professions than a reflection of just how much social media has shaken up the fashion industry.
It's now the number of followers on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter, rather than your experience necessarily, that can secure you a top job.
"You don't want to be a commercial photographer unless you're famous," says Scott Galloway, clinical professor of marketing at the NYU Stern School of Business in New York, and founder of "digital benchmarking" firm L2.
The influence of social media has also rapidly changed how models are chosen.
Kendall Jenner, who shot to fame thanks to the Keeping Up with the Kardashians reality TV show, has been dubbed the "ultimate Instagirl" for her huge social media fan base: 48 million followers on Instagram and 15.3 million on Twitter.
It was probably this status as the most-followed model on Instagram, as much as her looks or talent, that scored her the top job as the face of cosmetics giant Estee Lauder, says Mr Galloway.
"You're seeing a reshaping of an industry," he argues. "My friends don't forward me a picture of a really great air conditioner, but forwarding fashion is fun and interesting."
While trying to work out whether sales are directly linked to social media campaigns is difficult, companies with higher levels of engagement on Instagram are tending to grow their online sales faster than their less clued-up rivals, turning the traditional fashion hierarchy on its head.
In L2's Digital IQ Index, which ranks fashion brands according to their website offerings, e-commerce, digital marketing and social media awareness, US women's clothing designer Tory Burch beats well-known global luxury brands such as Gucci, Hermes and Chanel.
Domenic Venneri, founder of digital marketing agency Vokent, says his firm always looks at the social media profiles of people before deciding who to use in a campaign.
In some cases, not just the models but the entire backstage team - including the make-up artists, stylists and producers - are selected according to their influence on social media.
"We won't do a photoshoot that goes on a billboard somewhere unless everyone involved has some sort of [social media] following and some sort of leverage," says Mr Venneri.
For fashion firms, the appeal is two-fold: it's cheaper and it seems more personal and authentic.
Lee Friend, founder of fashion photography company Fashot, says that photos firms share on social media are often at the very bottom end of the budget range.
"They're trying not to make it look too slick. It's meant to be loose and conversational rather than structured and professional," he says.
For customers, the appeal is obvious: they think they're getting a peek inside a famously exclusive and private world.
The reality is rather different, says Emma Parlons, head of digital at fashion and beauty public relations agency Push PR.
"They don't reveal too much. What we see is highly curated. Yes, fashion houses are using social media to engage with their fans, but it's in a very controlled way."
Controlled or not, she says it's effective, bringing in a new, typically younger audience than the customers who use a brand's website or shops.
"It's a walking, living magazine," she says. "People think 'oh that's what it looks like with a denim skirt'."
The three key platforms for fashion houses are Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, says Ms Parlons.
It's worked for Burberry. Behind-the-scenes pictures and videos shared on its Instagram and Snapchat feeds of the Brooklyn shoot had some 15 million impressions in the eight hours the shoot was live.
The fashion retailer has nearly 40 million followers across 20 different social media platforms and openly admits that it has become as much a media content producer as a design company.
It was the first of the big fashion houses to "live stream" its catwalk shows over the internet. On some platforms customers can click through to buy certain garments as soon as they see them on the catwalk. And it has its own Instagram-style micro-site - Art of the Trench.
In September, it debuted its spring/summer 2016 collection on photo messaging app Snapchat ahead of the official show.
While the company is coy about the exact breakdown of online versus shop sales, it says the "majority of traffic" to its website now comes from mobile, its "fastest growing digital channel".
Yet not all the big fashion houses have embraced social media due to concerns over the potential loss of control over their brand image.
This may be a risky approach, however.
Online sales in 2014 accounted for just 6% of the $250bn (£172bn; €224bn) global market for luxury goods, but they're growing at a much faster rate than shop sales, according to management consultancy McKinsey.
Its latest research, based on analysis of 7,000 shoppers, found that three out of four luxury purchases, even if they still take place in shops, are influenced by what consumers see, do and hear online.
"The question is no longer if and when luxury brands should embrace the digital opportunity, but how they should go about doing it," it said.
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The Englishman, 36, who won his four games in Europe's Ryder Cup win in September, produced eight birdies in his first 15 holes to take control.
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Overnight leaders Lee Westwood and Louis Oosthuizen only managed rounds of level par, and Poulter came from four shots back to win by two.
Ernie Els and Phil Mickelson were in a four-way tie for second.
United States duo Jason Dufner and Scott Piercy also finished two shots behind Poulter.
Poulter, who finished fourth at the BMW Masters last week, said: "It's been an amazing five or six weeks with the Ryder Cup and then coming here in good spirits.
"I played well last week and took a lot from that. I knew that if I stayed patient I'd be right there at the end.
"I feel confident with the putter right now. It's so nice to get my hands on another trophy and get back in the winner's circle."
1. Rory McIlroy (NI) - 3,407,300 euros
2. Peter Hanson (Swe) - 2,642,524 euros
3. Justin Rose (Eng) - 2,566,323 euros
4. Ian Poulter (Eng) - 2,270,851 euros
5. Branden Grace (SA) - 2,081,961 euros
Westwood led by three shots in the early stages but a double bogey at the short fifth stopped his momentum, before three bogeys on the back nine ended his hopes and he finished tied sixth with Oosthuizen.
With the overnight leaders out of contention, Mickelson, Els and defending champion Martin Kaymer were Poulter's biggest threats, only for the German to triple-bogey the short 17th.
Els, failed with a 45-foot birdie attempt at the last, with a bogey on the penultimate hole meaning Mickelson had to hole his second shot on the 18th to force a play-off.
The three-time Masters champion could only manage a par and now goes on to play at next week's Singapore Open.
1. Rory McIlroy (NI), 2. Tiger Woods (US), 3. Luke Donald (Eng), 4. Lee Westwood (Eng), 5. Justin Rose (Eng), 6. Adam Scott (Aus), 7. Jason Dufner (US), 8. Webb Simpson (US), 9. Brandt Snedeker (US), 10. Louis Oosthuizen (SA), 11. Bubba Watson (US), 12. Steve Stricker (US), 13. Phil Mickelson (US), 14. Keegan Bradley (US), 15. Ian Poulter (Eng), 16. Nick Watney (US), 17. Matt Kuchar (US), 18. Dustin Johnson (US), 19. Peter Hanson (Swe), 20. Ernie Els (SA)
"I'll see if I can improve one spot there," he said. "It was good for me to come back after having not played since the Ryder Cup and pick up where I left off."
Another man who will be in Singapore is Rory McIlroy, who along with Tiger Woods, skipped Mission Hills but holds a 800,000 euro lead at the top of the European Tour money list after nearest challengers Justin Rose and Peter Hanson finished in a tie for 24th.
McIlroy tweeted his congratulations to Poulter, saying: "Ballsy up and down at the last, wouldn't expect anything less!"
Poulter, only the second European after Darren Clarke to win two WGC events, has climbed to fourth in the Race to Dubai and 15 in the world rankings.
"Two world championships are great, of course, but a major is the biggest dream," he concluded. "People keep asking all the time 'when, when, when'. I don't know when and I'm trying really hard - I'll do my best next year."
Parts of the plane were excavated from Holme Fen in Cambridgeshire in October, where it crashed 75 years ago.
Lead archaeologist Anthony Haskins said a new technique called "photogrammetry" was being used to create the models.
He believes it is the first time in the world such technology has been used in aviation excavation.
The technique involves taking lots of photos of the hole and crater and, using software to stitch them together into a complex image, eventually creating a three-dimensional model.
Archaeologists are also hoping to make a model of the plane's engine and its components.
Mr Haskins, field work project officer for Oxford Archaeology East, said the models would enable the team to answer some of the questions about why and how the plane crashed.
"One of the things about creating a crater is trying to work out the angle of plane impact, at least to study it, and get a better understanding of how he crashed," Mr Haskins said.
"We're tying to understand the story behind what happened."
Although the models will be helpful, Mr Haskins said he does not think they will provide definitive proof of what caused the crash.
"Unfortunately I don't think we're going to be completely able to prove why it crashed but we'll have a better understanding.
"We won't be able to understand the original impact as we only have a partial record - in the 1940s their focus was recovering the pilot's body rather than investigating.
"We've done the only aviation excavation using this technology in the UK for definite and as far as I'm aware in the world."
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It is with tears in her eyes that Denny recounts how she woke up one day to find a bump the size of a football in her lower back.
She could not walk or bend down, and the pain was intense.
Even before she saw a doctor, Denny, a 35-year-old Venezuelan lawyer, knew the bump must be a side-effect of liquid silicone that had been injected in her buttocks.
It had moved into her back and was putting pressure on her spine.
"It was a terrible shock. I couldn't walk. That's how my agony started," she says.
Buttock injections are one of many common cosmetic procedures Venezuelan women undergo to achieve what society deems to be beautiful.
The injections were banned by the government in 2012, six years after Denny had them.
But the practice continues in spite of the ban. Up to 30% of women between 18 and 50 choose to have these injections, according to the Venezuelan Plastic Surgeons Association.
Men also get injected to boost their pectoral muscles, though the numbers are lower.
The injections are made using a biopolymer silicone. The fact that this is injected freely into the body makes it more dangerous than implants, where silicone gel is contained within a shell.
The big attraction is that they are much cheaper than implants. An injection can cost as little as 2000 bolivares (£191, $318) and the whole procedure doesn't take more than 20 minutes.
But the risks are incredibly high.
"The silicone can migrate into other areas of the body, because it doesn't have any barriers. The body can also react immunologically against a foreign material, creating many problems," says Daniel Slobodianik, a cosmetic surgeon.
He adds that symptoms can appear years after the procedure.
Patients can suffer from allergic reactions and chronic fatigue. If the liquid migrates to other areas of the body it can cause intense joint pain.
In Denny's case, the silicone moved up into her back, putting painful pressure on her spine and making it difficult to walk.
But to some extent she was lucky.
Figures are unclear, but the Venezuelan Plastic Surgeons Association fear that at least a dozen women die every year from these injections.
Dr Slobodianik is only one of two specialists in the country who operate to remove tissue affected by the injections.
He says he has a long waiting list, and Denny had to wait for a year until she could get the surgery.
Many cannot even afford to be operated, because the surgery alone costs around 60,000 bolivares.
Hours before the delicate surgery, Denny explains that she prefers to withhold her full name because some of her family members don't know why she got ill.
They think she has a back problem - which is also what she thought for years, before the bump appeared.
She says she would have not taken the same decision if she had been aware of the risks.
She describes the peer pressure that pushed her to get injected.
"There was a boom. In the office all the women had such nice buttocks. The last straw was when a judge I work with walked in, looking good. Her buttocks looked like two balloons, they were so beautiful," she says.
"I was never obsessed with perfect measurements, but then I let myself be dragged along by the idea that Venezuelan women should look like Barbie dolls."
Venezuelans have won Miss Universe seven times, giving the country a reputation as a factory of beauty queens.
According to Carolina Vazquez Hernandez, a counsellor specialising in women's issues, societal pressure is huge here - even more so than in other countries.
"We Venezuelan women don't have a clear identity of our roots. Because of this lack of identity, our self-esteem is very weak, and we are able to subject ourselves to anything that will develop our self-esteem," says Ms Vazquez Hernandez.
Astrid de la Rosa agrees. She is one of the leading campaigners of the No to Biopolymers association, a non-profit organisation set up to offer support to victims of silicone injections.
She says she decided to undergo the procedure herself because her partner was about to leave her.
"I thought that a person will love you because of the way you look," she says.
Shortly after, she started feeling sick. Doctors said her immune system had been affected and diagnosed her with leukaemia.
The government ban on biopolymer injections was partly thanks to the work of the No to Biopolymer association.
But Ms de la Rosa says it is not enough.
She says she still receives weekly calls from women who get injected, even though it is now illegal.
"It is not a matter or gender or social class. Women and men do it, there are politicians, actors that have done it," she says. "Where is the help for us?"
While the government has banned biopolymer injections because of their health risk, insurance companies do not cover any costs for remedial treatment, because they don't recognise the side-effects of the injections as an illness.
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Lying face down in her bed after the surgery, she knows it will take her three weeks until she has finally recovered, and the scar will remain forever.
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Washington and co-star Viola Davis will reprise the roles they won Tonys for in a revival of the play on Broadway in 2010, according to Variety magazine.
The 1987 August Wilson play explores race relations in 1950s America.
Paramount Pictures' Brad Grey said the "important and beloved" work had "been a passion of Denzel's for many years".
It will be Washington's third time as director, following his 2002 debut Antwone Fisher and 2007's The Great Debaters.
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Assistant Chief Constable Malcolm Graham said officers were called to more than 900,000 incidents last year.
But only about one in five resulted in a crime being recorded.
ACC Graham said many of the non-criminal call-outs involved missing people, mental health incidents or sudden deaths.
In a written submission to Holyrood's justice committee, he said non-criminal incidents were placing an increasing demand on police time and resources.
Officers attended more than 42,000 incidents in 2014/15 involving mental health or distress.
A study in West Lothian found officers spend, on average, four hours and 20 minutes dealing with a single incident relating to mental health, self-harm or attempted suicide.
ACC Graham also highlighted research indicating that the cost for managing missing-person inquiries in Scotland each year could range from £43m to £80m - the equivalent of 3% to 5% of the annual policing budget.
He wrote: "We know that the demands on our services are changing and that public requirements of policing in Scotland are more complex than just responding to, and preventing, crime.
"While I recognise the often devastating impact that crime has on individuals and communities, the impact of non-criminal incidents is just as evident.
"Many of the most time-consuming incidents relate to concerns for persons, missing/absconded persons and dealing with sudden deaths.
"These calls are often linked to vulnerability and people in crisis; recorded crime alone is therefore not an accurate measure of demand on policing services".
He said the force had some successful pilot projects with other organisations to reduce demand on police time and better address the issues involved.
Doctor's organisation BMA Scotland also submitted written evidence to the committee, saying health bodies regularly collaborate with police in cases of people with dementia, those suffering from acute psychotic symptoms, mental health difficulties and personality disorders, as well as those intoxicated with drugs or alcohol.
It said: "Our members say the police do a good job, often in difficult circumstances - often feeling, quite realistically, that they are dealing with things outwith their remit.
"That said, the police do have a role to play and they are very effective in managing an immediate response to people who are in distress or mentally ill, and to people behaving in a way that is violent or could be deemed a threat to the public."
The association warned that any major changes to the current situation would need "major investment in health and social care services".
The justice committee has been examining the demands of non-criminal incidents on police time, and how public bodies and voluntary organisations can work together with the police to ease some of the pressure on officers.
Its meeting on Tuesday morning will feature representatives from Police Scotland and the BMA, as well as Alzheimer Scotland, the Bethany Christian Trust, the Scottish Drugs Forum, Social Work Scotland and the Scottish Police Federation.
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Northamptonshire Police found Ian Caffel guilty of breaching standards of professional behaviour.
A panel heard he made comments to seven women and had a sexual relationship with a vulnerable colleague between March 2010 and August 2016.
Mr Caffel was not present at the hearing and no mitigation was offered.
He was dismissed without notice.
The hearing, chaired by Chief Constable Simon Edens, was also told Mr Caffel, who had been with the force for almost seven years, had previously received management advice from Bedfordshire Police following an investigation into his conduct with younger female colleagues at that force.
After finding the eight allegations proven, Mr Edens said the evidence had been "clear and compelling" and had shown Mr Caffel "blatantly abused his position".
"I have no hesitation in concluding that the allegations against Mr Caffel are true," he said.
"It is indisputable that he has failed in his duty to maintain the standards expected of him and that he has failed to modify his behaviour following a previous investigation by Bedfordshire Police.
"There is no place for anybody at Northamptonshire Police who behaves in this way."
Det Supt Mark Behan from the professional standards department said: "Mr Caffel was held to account by his own employers, demonstrating our commitment to upholding the standards of professional behaviour and the honesty and integrity of our officers and staff."
Elizabeth Nash, 37, of Kirkhill, near Inverness, has been jailed at the High Court in Livingston for three years and four months.
She pleaded guilty to distributing class A drugs between 16 November 2016 and 5 January this year.
Judge Lord Burns said she was "central" to an illegal drugs operation.
Three men from Liverpool have also been jailed for their parts in supplying drugs from England to Inverness, Elgin and surrounding areas.
Lord Burns told Nash: "You were a central figure, you received substantial sums of money, operated bank accounts and acted as a runner handing out drugs.
"You persisted in being part of the chain after being released from custody.
"I have concluded that the public interest requires a custodial sentence. You were deeply involved in this scheme for a prolonged period."
The court heard that a "Mr Big" based in Spain was said to have directed the supply of controlled drugs from Liverpool.
Terence Hodson, 32, was jailed for four years and nine months, Joseph Waters, 20, for three years nine months and Thomas McKay, 31, was sentenced to three years after admitting to charges of supplying drugs.
The four were arrested as part of a police surveillance campaign called Operation Dorena which targeted dealers in the north west of England sending drugs to Scotland.
They were removed using an emergency law that came into force earlier this month following July's failed coup.
The mayors are being replaced by trustees appointed by the government.
Tens of thousands of people have been purged from government jobs since the coup, accused of links to terrorist organisations.
Some 200 people were dispersed by tear gas and water cannon after gathering outside the city hall in Suruc, the private Dogan news agency reports.
Four people, including a deputy mayor, were detained after a skirmish in Hakkari province, Dogan said.
Some Turkish media reports said that the internet and electricity had been cut off in the affected cities.
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Turkey's Anadolu Agency said that, 24 of the removed mayors are suspected of links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Another four are thought to be linked to Fethullah Gulen, the US-based cleric accused by the government of being behind the coup attempt.
"Mayors and town councillors, who come to power through elections, must perform their duties according to the law," Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag wrote on Twitter.
"If [they] finance terrorism by transferring public funds allocated to them to serve the people, and allow the use of municipal vehicles, equipment and capabilities in terrorist activities, they lose their democratic legitimacy."
The pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), whose mayors were principally affected, condemned the move as "coup by trustees".
"This unlawful and arbitrary action will only deepen the existing problems in Kurdish towns and cause the Kurdish issue to be even more unsolvable."
Tens of thousands of people have died in a decades-long insurgency by the PKK, who want more self-rule for Kurdish people.
Meanwhile, the Turkish Nobel-winning writer Orhan Pamuk has said Turkey is becoming a "regime of terror".
He was writing in Italy's La Republicca newspaper in response to the arrest on Saturday of leading journalist Ahmet Altan and his brother Mehmet, a renowned economist.
"In Turkey, we are progressively putting behind bars all people who take the liberty of voicing even the slightest criticism of the government," he wrote.
He said the crackdown was being driven by "the most ferocious hatred".
"Freedom of thought no longer exists. We are distancing ourselves at high speed from a state of law and heading towards a regime of terror."
The Celtic midfielder retired in August before the start of the 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign.
But the Scots have had poor results before trip to Wembley on 11 November.
"He probably recognises that someone he respects hugely is in a difficult position because of injuries to some key players," Rodgers said.
"He decided he wanted to give it a go for this game and then see what happens after that."
After thumping Malta 5-1 away from home, the Scots drew 1-1 at home to Lithuania and lost 3-0 in Slovakia.
That left Strachan's men three points behind leaders England in fourth place in Group F.
Hull City midfielder Robert Snodgrass is a major doubt for the match in London.
Meanwhile, club-mate Andrew Robertson and a second left-back, Celtic's Kieran Tierney, have been ruled out through injury.
Former national captain Brown's U-turn means he will almost certainly be named in Strachan's squad on Wednesday for next month's game.
"He wanted to retire and concentrate on his career with Celtic," Rodgers told BBC Scotland.
"But, knowing Scott as I do, he is a very loyal guy. The type of guy Scott is, he wants to help someone in that position."
Rodgers said he was fully behind the decision by a player who has blossomed this season since deciding to end his Scotland career after earning his 50th cap.
"I gave him my thoughts of what the benefits and issues might be, but I back him 100%," the Celtic boss added.
"I will always support the players even though my interest is only Celtic.
"But it is a short career and Scott has always stood up for his country and he knows his country needs him.
"He wants to go and help Gordon, someone he has huge respect for, and it is a decision I support 100%."
Petty Officer Edward Devenney, 29, from Northern Ireland, was remanded in custody at Westminster Magistrates' Court.
He was arrested in Plymouth on Tuesday morning and charged on Wednesday night.
He is accused of communicating information on 28 January 2012 "which could be deemed to be useful to an enemy of the state".
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police, which made the arrest, said several searches had been carried out as part of the operation but it was unable to give any more information about the incident.
PO Devenney did not enter a plea to the charge of disclosing information gained in contravention of section 1 of the Official Secrets Act 1911.
He is due to appear at the Old Bailey on 14 June.
He is also wanted for drug-related charges in the United States but the Mexican authorities are yet to decide on whether he should be extradited.
Guzman was the world's most wanted drug lord before his capture last weekend.
The head of the Sinaloa cartel was arrested in his home state, 13 years after escaping from prison.
He is thought to have smuggled more drugs to the US than anyone else.
On Tuesday, two separate courts charged Guzman with new drug-related offences.
The decisions means Guzman will remain in a maximum security prison in Mexico for the immediate future.
Mexican investigators are expected to try to extract "much information" from Guzman to advance "the process against insecurity in Mexico", the country's Interior minister, Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, told the Spanish news agency, Efe.
Guzman was detained in the beach resort of Mazatlan on Saturday without a shot being fired.
A spokesman for the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York said prosecutors there "planned to seek his extradition".
In 2001, Guzman escaped from a high-security jail in Mexico hidden in a laundry basket. He was eight years into his 20-year sentence.
Guzman's Sinaloa cartel is believed to be one of the biggest criminal organisations in the world, trafficking drugs into more than 50 countries worldwide.
Forbes magazine has estimated Guzman's fortune at about $1bn (£600m).
Barry Meyer, 52, of Walthamstow, crushed Alan Neve with the lorry's front and back wheels, causing "almost instant death", the court heard.
Mr Neve, from Poplar, was hit during morning rush hour in High Holborn on 15 July 2013 and died at the scene.
Blackfriars Crown Court banned Meyer from driving for 10 years.
Meyer had previous convictions for drink driving and admitted causing the 54-year-old's death.
He was also guilty of driving without insurance and a licence.
CCTV footage of the crash showed Meyer also drove through a red light.
Sentencing Meyer, Judge Worlsey said the harm the lorry driver had caused was "devastating beyond all measure."
Mr Neve's widow Penelope was in court when her statement was read out.
It said: "I want to start by telling you that I loved Alan with all my heart and that he made me happier than anyone else in the world."
"There is not one area of my life that has not been affected," she added.
The court heard how when Mr Neve's rucksack was brought home from the scene, his wife took out the sandwich he had made for his lunch and froze it. It is still in the freezer.
She also folded up the last bedding he used and stored them in a wardrobe.
"His pyjamas are still under his pillow. I smell them and imagine he is here," she said.
London Cycling Campaign welcomed the jail term and 10-year driving ban, but said: "We believe, however, that a lifetime driving ban is essential to keep such dangerous drivers off the road."
Crews were called to Albert Road, Southsea, after the fire broke out in the shop shortly before 06:00 GMT.
About 40 firefighters in 10 fire engines with an aerial ladder were used to bring the fire in the terraced building under control.
Police closed a section of the road between Victoria Road South and Fawcett Road, and advised motorists to avoid the area.
The fire service said no-one was in the property.
An investigation is under way to establish how the fire started.
The event pits America against an international team, that excludes Europe, at Liberty National Golf Club in New Jersey from 26 September.
"It is a great honour for me to be even a small part of the Presidents Cup," said Trump, who said he has watched the tournament since it began in 1994.
"It gets better with age. This will be the greatest of them all."
PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said organisers look forward to Trump being involved "in any capacity his schedule allows".
Former American president Barack Obama twice performed the role as honorary chairman during his term in office.
The move is expected to result in 16 and 17-year-olds being allowed to vote.
The measure was part of the package agreed by the Smith Commission.
It has been brought forward ahead of the other proposals so it can be implemented in time for next year's Holyrood election.
Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael told the Commons the move towards extending the franchise to 16 and 17-year-olds across the UK was "irresistible".
Mr Carmichael said it was "unthinkable" that 16 and 17-year-olds would not be able to vote in the 2020 general election.
Shadow Scottish secretary Margaret Curran warned against the emergence of a "two-tier voting" system, as opposition parties pressed for 16 and 17-year-olds to be given the vote in UK general elections.
The SNP's Westminster leader Angus Robertson also said it was "shameful" that the vote was not being extended to the age group for UK Parliament elections.
He said it was evidence of Conservatives in England ignoring the democratic will of the Scottish people, as 58 out of 59 Scottish MPs belong to parties who favour lowering the voting age.
Concluding the debate on the new regulations, Mr Carmichael said it was clear "all sorts of practical reasons" would stop 16 and 17-year-olds voting in May's general election.
Mr Carmichael, who told MPs he was speaking personally, added: "I think it is unthinkable that by the time we come to an election in 2020 that we will not see that election on a franchise that includes 16 and 17-year-olds.
"I think the move in that direction is now irresistible but, of course, that will be for the House to decide on another day."
Speaking earlier as he introduced the secondary legislation, Mr Carmichael commended the involvement of young people in last year's Scottish independence referendum, which he said was "truly historic and inspirational to witness."
For Labour, Ms Curran said: "If our young people in Scotland have what it takes to decide the future of their country in a referendum and soon the shape of the Scottish government, they have what it takes too to decide the shape of the UK government."
"That is why Labour would extend the franchise in all UK elections so that 16 and 17-year-olds can vote too in UK general elections."
Mr Robertson said: "I think all of us having gone through the independence referendum experience would want to make sure that that is not a one-off.
"And the fact that we can do it for Scottish Parliament elections is great, the fact that it will happen for local government elections is fantastic.
"The fact that it won't happen for Westminster elections is frankly shameful."
The transfer of powers to lower the voting age is being carried out through what is known as a section 30 order.
Prime Minister David Cameron has said he is personally opposed to votes for those under the age of 18.
But he agreed during a meeting with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in December that it was appropriate for Holyrood to decide.
Sophie Lou Butler, 20, from Stoke-on-Trent, killed Norasab Hussain after an argument about her speaking to another man, Staffordshire Police said.
Mr Hussain, 33, was found dead the day after he made an emergency call asking for an ambulance.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating.
Staffordshire Police said following the stabbing at the couple's flat in Bromley Court, Hanley on the evening of 30 May, Mr Hussain had made a 999 call asking for an ambulance.
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Miss Butler remained inside the flat all night, police said, refusing to answer the door to ambulance staff or police.
Emergency services staff were not able to get into the flat until the afternoon of the following day where Mr Hussain's body was found.
Butler pleaded guilty to manslaughter at Leicester Crown Court and was jailed for six years and three months.
Det Ch Insp David Giles of Staffordshire Police said: "Their relationship was volatile and the court heard how domestic abuse was a toxic feature which undoubtedly contributed to an unhealthy relationship and ultimately this untimely death.
"Miss Butler presented evidence to the court in which she described how living in an abusive relationship had had a corrosive effect on her mental health."
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Fr Stephen Crossan is reported to have sniffed coke through a £10 note on a night of drinking in July 2015 in Banbridge, County Down.
He was in a room with Nazi memorabilia and seemed to say "I shouldn't" as he snorted, the Sun on Sunday reported.
In a joint statement, the leaders of 18 nations and the EU recognised the US decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.
However, they also said other G20 members remained committed to the "irreversible" accord.
Deadlock over the issue had held up the last day of talks in Hamburg.
A final agreement was eventually reached and the joint summit statement was officially released on Saturday.
The statement also said the US would seek "to work closely with other countries to help them access and use fossil fuels more cleanly and efficiently".
The Paris accord sets targets for greenhouse gas emissions aimed at curbing global temperature increases.
In her closing news conference, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who hosted the summit in Hamburg, said she still deplored Mr Trump's position but that she was "gratified" the other 19 nations opposed its renegotiation.
However Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan later said that his country's ratification of the Paris accord was now in doubt, as the US withdrawal jeopardised compensation for developing countries.
Mr Erdogan said that when Turkey signed the accord, France had promised that Turkey would be eligible for compensation for some of the financial costs of compliance.
"So we said if this would happen, the agreement would pass through parliament. But otherwise it won't pass," Mr Erdogan told a news conference, adding that parliament had not yet approved it.
Mr Trump also won a concession on trade, with leaders underlining the right of countries to protect their markets with what they referred to as legitimate trade defence instruments.
He later tweeted: "The #G20Summit was a wonderful success and carried out beautifully by Chancellor Angela Merkel. Thank you!"
Mr Trump held his final talks of the event with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and the two leaders discussed efforts to rein in North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
The US president told his Chinese counterpart that "something has to be done" after Pyongyang tested an intercontinental ballistic missile on Tuesday with the potential to hit the US state of Alaska.
President Xi said he supported denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, and said the China US relationship had made "progress... despite some sensitive issues", state news agency Xinhua said.
Mr Xi suggested visits between the two countries' defence ministers, Xinhua added.
There were violent protests in the early hours of Sunday, with demonstrators setting cars on fire and throwing projectiles.
Hamburg has seen several days of anti-G20 demonstrations, with some of the rallies turning violent.
Police say 213 officers were injured, and 143 people were detained at the protests.
The demonstrators were protesting against the presence of Mr Trump and Vladimir Putin, as well as climate change and global wealth inequalities.
The Northern Ireland deputy first minister made the proposal on BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme and reiterated the suggestion during an election debate on UTV.
DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds said he thought the issue should be decided by the assembly.
Ulster Unionist MLA Danny Kennedy also said he could not support the proposal.
The SDLP's Mark Durkan said he had no objection to holding such a referendum.
Alliance deputy leader Naomi Long said that the assembly was making itself increasingly irrelevant on the issue and she would consider the option.
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The collision involving a black BMW happened on the A836, near the A99 junction and the Seaview Hotel, at about 23:40 on Friday..
Police Scotland said: "Very sadly, a man in his thirties was struck by a car and died at the scene as a result of his injuries."
The road was closed for several hours for investigation work but later re-opened.
No details of the man's identity were released. Officers are liaising with his next of kin.
West Dorset District Council earlier gave the go-ahead for phase 2b of the Brewery Square scheme in Dorchester.
The development will create a cultural quarter, including a hotel, shops, restaurants, a theatre, fountain and ice rink.
The 12-strong development committee voted unanimously in favour of the former Dorchester Brewery site plans.
Among the approved proposals is the conversion of the 130-year-old former brewery building into a hotel and spa, and homes.
The Grade II listed brewhouse will be transformed into a 52-bedroom hotel and 17 apartments.
New homes and shops will also be built on the site.
Phase one of the scheme, which is now complete, involved the construction of a new health centre and the redevelopment of the old Eldridge Pope building into shops and apartments.
Phase two, due for completion in October, includes a new cinema on Brewery Square.
Citalopram and escitalopram, which fall into this drug group, can trigger a heart rhythm disturbance, a new study in the British Medical Journal shows.
UK and US regulators have already warned doctors to be extra careful about which patients they prescribe these medicines to.
And they have lowered the maximum recommended dose.
The UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) says people with pre-existing heart conditions should have a heart trace before going on these drugs, to check for a rhythm disturbance known as long QT interval.
Experts reassure that complications are very rare and that in most cases the benefits for the patient taking the drug will outweigh the risks.
QT interval is measured with an electrocardiogram (ECG) and varies with the heart rate - it gets longer when the heart beats slower and is shorter when the heart beats faster.
Some variation is normal, but if it gets too long it can upset the timing of heartbeat with potentially dire consequences - dizziness, faints and, rarely, sudden death.
To assess how common a problem long QT linked to SSRI use might be, US researchers decided to look at the medical records of more than 38,00 patients from New England.
Most of these patients had been prescribed an SSRI antidepressant, and some were patients who had been prescribed methadone. The researchers included the methadone patients for comparison because this drug (used for pain relief and to wean addicts off heroin) is known to prolong QT interval.
All of the patients had recently had an ECG.
Both citalopram and escitalopram, as well as methadone, was linked with a small but significantly longer QT interval.
This effect increased at higher doses.
But the researchers say that while longer QT interval is a risk factor for abnormal heart rhythms, these abnormal rhythms are still extremely rare, and the actual increase in QT observed was modest - so for the vast majority of patients, the potential benefits in treating depression or anxiety would far exceed the risk.
June Davison of the British Heart Foundation said: "Having a long QT interval can potentially increase the risk of a serious abnormal heart rhythm. However, as these abnormal rhythms are very rare, the potential benefits in treating depression would exceed the risk for most patients.
"People taking these drugs shouldn't be alarmed and shouldn't stop taking their medication without speaking to their doctor. If you've got any concerns, speak to your GP or pharmacist."
A spokesman for the MHRA said: "The potential risks associated are well known and restrictions have been placed on the level of dosage for particular groups of patients.
"This report acknowledges that the benefits of this medicine outweighs the risks but it is important that these factors are carefully considered by healthcare professionals for patients with pre-existing health conditions such as certain heart conditions."
Helen Williams, from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, said: "Patients should be reassured that the effects on QT noted by the study researchers were small and the risk of any adverse outcome associated with these changes is very low.
"The study results may however assist clinicians distinguish between different antidepressants drugs when prescribing - choosing a lower risk agent for patients where there is an established increased risk of arrhythmias."
Officers from the Metropolitan Police's counter terrorism command detained the man in Ealing, west London, at about 06.50 BST.
He was taken for questioning at a south London police station as detectives searched two addresses in Ealing and Hillingdon, also in west London.
A force spokesman said: "Inquiries are ongoing."
The Most Reverend Justin Welby was speaking before receiving an honorary degree from Durham University, where he studied for ordination.
Speaking in Durham Cathedral the 59-year-old said he was "very grateful" for the "very unmerited" honour.
He also spoke in support of the "good and important value" of free speech.
Previously an executive for Elf Aquitaine in Paris, he said: "The French are like the British, a country of enormous resources and strength, of great courage, who have recovered from worse than this before."
Asked to comment on religion being used as an excuse, he replied: "Religion is a very easy hook to hang other conflicts on - always has been."
Dr Welby was the Durham diocese's bishop before being promoted to the Church of England's most senior role.
The prisoners were identified as Australian Shaun Edward Davidson, Bulgarian Dimitar Nikolov, Indian Sayed Muhammad and Malaysian Tee Kok King.
Prison governor Tony Nainggolan said he believed the men were still on the resort island.
Prisons in Indonesia are dealing with an influx of people arrested for drug offences, and breakouts are common.
The four men were serving jail terms for a mix of drug and fraud offences.
They are believed to have escaped through a 50cm by 70cm hole found in the outer wall which connects to a 12m-long (36-foot) narrow tunnel, officials said.
Some reports said it was an existing tunnel used for water drainage.
Staff noticed they were missing on Monday morning during a routine check.
Australian Shaun Davidson had less than three months left of his sentence to service, according to the jail governor.
About 200 prisoners broke out of an overcrowded jail on Sumatra island in May after being let out of cells for Friday prayers.
Inmates had accused some guards of being violent and complained about their treatment in jail.
The Italian, 26, who scored two goals last season as Sunderland were relegated to the Championship, will have a medical on Thursday.
The Black Cats signed Borini for £10m in 2015, following a loan spell during the 2013-14 season.
The former Swansea and Roma player made 93 appearances in total for Sunderland and scored 17 goals.
Ahmed Nazif, who was prime minister from 2004 until last year's uprising, has also been ordered to pay a fine of 9m Egyptian pounds (£900,000; $1.5m).
Last year, Ahmed Nazif was given a one-year suspended sentence after he was charged for unlawful gains in a business deal.
Nazif is one of several Mubarak-era senior officials on trial.
He was arrested months after leaving his job in January 2011, shortly before President Hosni Mubarak stood down.
About a dozen former Egyptian officials have been charged either with conspiring to kill protesters or with various crimes related to corruption.
Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison in June for complicity in the killing of protesters.
The airline cancelled 248 flights on Wednesday and 340 flights on Thursday, making it one of the operators worst hit by the two-day strike.
No cancellations were expected on Friday, but Easyjet said some affected passengers still needed flights.
Two more stoppages are expected in the coming weeks.
French air traffic controllers have scheduled the first from 16 April to 18 April and the second from 29 April to 2 May.
Some passengers have been stranded in European cities after Easter breaks following the latest strike, prompting Easyjet to operate five "rescue" flights on Friday.
The flights will bring three parties of schoolchildren back to the UK.
The additional flights will run from Luton to Paris, Paris to Barcelona, Barcelona to Luton, Gatwick to Madrid, and Marrakech to Gatwick.
"EasyJet recognises that there are a number of passengers across the network who have been affected by these cancellations and still require flights as soon as possible," a spokesman said.
The airline said it was extending opening hours of its call centres to help those who still needed to rearrange travel. It said it took 13,000 calls on Wednesday and 12,820 calls on Thursday.
Some other airlines were affected by the strike action on Wednesday and Thursday, which affected flights to and from France, as well as flights over French airspace.
Ryanair said it had been forced to cancel more than 500 flights over the past two days.
A spokeswoman for the airline said: "All operations are running as normal. All customers affected by the two-day ATC strike have been contacted and advised of their options."
Among those affected were Nathan Thorne, 23, from Goole on Humberside, and his sister Olivia, 14, who had their Ryanair flight from Limoges to Leeds Bradford cancelled on Thursday.
Mr Thorne, who is with the army's Royal Logistics Corps, is anxious to get back as he begins a six-month tour of duty in the Falkland Islands on 22 April. His sister needs to get back for school on Monday.
"All the flights before next Thursday are booked up and the Eurostar train is extremely expensive," he said.
Short-haul and medium-haul flights operated by Air France were also affected by the strike.
A BBC investigation has sought to find out where people fleeing lawful custody actually go and why.
There were 13 prison escapes and 105 cases of absconding in 2015/2016.
While a significant number of offenders simply go home, where they are usually caught quite quickly, some manage to leave the country.
The BBC asked the Prison Service and every police force in the country where those on the run in the past three years had fled from; where they were caught; how long they were on the loose; and why they decided to flee in the first place.
The results of the investigation come amid the ongoing police hunt for Liverpool killer Shaun Walmsley who fled police in an armed escape outside Aintree University Hospital earlier this week.
Source: Ministry of Justice
The Ministry of Justice said it did not "routinely gather" or keep such information and refused the BBC's request for information.
However, data supplied by police forces and media reports suggests that the average distance travelled by escapees or absconders is 36 miles (57km) before they are caught.
Although most police forces do not record the reasons inmates go on the run, some do.
Suffolk Police, for example, told how one prisoner who absconded from HMP Hollesley Bay spent nine weeks at large. He claimed he was the victim of repeated bullying and theft in the prison. A second inmate on the run for four weeks told police when caught he absconded as a result of drugs in prison and because he "didn't get on with the Muslims".
Avon and Somerset Police, which provided the most comprehensive information of any force, told of an absconder who fled to try to "visit his ill mother in Australia", another who "wanted to go back to Nottingham and get a job" and a third who wanted "to harm his ex-girlfriend's new partner and move to West Bromwich".
Another, who absconded from HMP Leyhill, claimed he did so because of "continuous offers of drink and drugs".
Faith Spear, the former chairman of the Independent Monitoring Board at HMP Hollesley Bay, has spoken to a number of prisoners who have either absconded or thought about it.
The usual reasons given, she said, were concerns about the distances from family or visits proving too costly.
"Or," she said, "they are (prisoners on) Imprisonment for Public Protection and have given up on the system and can not see another way out."
Former prisoner Phil Aldis, who served sentences at both HMP Chelmsford in Essex and HMP Wayland in Norfolk, said personal problems - such as relationship breakdowns, sick family members or desperation at being in prison - were the key reasons why inmates fled.
"There is not a lot of support in prison," said Mr Aldis. "Prisoners do not like speaking to anybody about emotional stuff because they are very worried about being seen as weak.
"Prison can be an extremely lonely place and you keep your emotions bottled up and that causes frustration and desperation."
One of the longest escape distances reported involved Ashley Fulcher, originally from Great Yarmouth and later of Selby, who fled in 2015, apparently for extradition reasons, 5,377 miles (8,653 km) to Costa Rica in Central America.
He was caught by Det Con Chris Ryan, of North Yorkshire Police, after an exhaustive intelligence-based operation in which "little bits of information" and close liaison with the Costa Rican authorities revealed his whereabouts.
Fulcher was trying to board a plane to Mexico when he was caught by the Costa Rican authorities on visa offences, Det Con Ryan said.
Det Con Ryan put on his police uniform at Heathrow Airport to arrest Fulcher, who told officers he fled because he was scared of a long prison sentence.
"You've been staring at a photograph of this guy for a long time and you've been doing all this work," the officer said. "You can't wait to get hold of him and put the cuffs on.
"On the drive back up to Yorkshire, Fulcher said he was actually quite pleased to be back in the UK. He had been a big fish in his home town.
"In Costa Rica, there are criminals with guns. He was genuinely quite glad to be back."
Although there are more than 100 prisons across the UK, the story of prison absconds can be encapsulated in just a single prison.
Take HMP Leyhill in Wotton-under-Edge for example. Avon and Somerset Police have 14 records of absconders from the Category D prison over the period 2014-2016.
Two of those who absconded were found in their parents' homes, while a further two simply handed themselves in to police after travelling up to 130 miles (210km).
One was found in woods by police close to the prison and a second was spotted in a road just a few miles away.
The most intriguing case is that of Robert Hennessey who walked out of HMP Leyhill in November 1998 while serving a life sentence for the manslaughter of his aunt in Plymouth in 1978.
Using false documents, including a fake passport, he travelled extensively before ending up in the Queensland area of Australia. It was here that he was jailed for credit card scams before being deported back to the UK in 2015. He admitted evading lawful custody and was sentenced to 16 months.
Officials said Mohammed Abdulrahman Abu Niyan, a Saudi citizen, confessed to the murders which took place in the capital, Riyadh, earlier this month.
He received instructions, cash and weapons from IS elements in Syria, the interior ministry said in a statement.
Saudi Arabia is keenly aware that it is a key IS target, correspondents report.
IS has vowed to take over Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam and site of its holiest mosques - and last year issued a call for followers to carry out attacks against Saudi targets.
Abu Niyan confessed to the 8 April attack on the police officers in a patrol car in the capital, the interior ministry said in its statement carried by state media.
The 23-year-old is also said to have admitted wounding two other policemen in a similar shooting in March.
According to officials, he carried out the attacks after contact with an IS representative in Riyadh.
The ministry said it was also offering a bounty of 1 million riyals ($270,000; £176,000) for the capture of an accomplice, Nawaf bin Sharif Samir al-Anzi.
The Sunni Muslim-dominated Saudi kingdom is part of a US-led coalition waging an air war against IS, which has seized swathes of Syria and Iraq.
Thomas, 21, had handed in a transfer request to the management and was cleared to move to Victoria Park.
He had made 21 appearances for the Stags so far this season, following a summer move from Motherwell.
"I'm pleased to get Nathan because we've needed a bit of quality in the wide areas," Pools boss Ronnie Moore said.
"It was disappointing that we lost Kal Naismith but now Nathan is here and he has quality.
"He's a genuine left-footed player who will bring a bit of sparkle to the team and he's one of those who can excite the supporters when he picks the ball up and runs."
The Ingleby Barwick-born forward returns to the north east to add to previous spells at Newcastle, Sunderland and Darlington.
"He's only a 'baby' and has been around the country to try and settle and plant some roots for him and his family [during his early career]," said Stags boss Adam Murray.
"An opportunity presented itself for Nathan where he has more security - a move which takes him back home. I have let him go with a heavy heart."
Pools boss Ronnie Moore will have Thomas, who has also played for Plymouth, available for Saturday's visit of Wycombe Wanderers.
The 49-year-old Frenchman replaced Tim Sherwood on a three-and-a-half-year deal in November, but departs after six successive defeats.
His last game in charge was a 1-0 defeat at Swansea City on 19 March, a result that left Villa 12 points from safety with seven games remaining.
Villa won only two of their 20 league games during Garde's tenure.
A club statement thanked the former Arsenal player for his efforts "during a difficult period" and said Eric Black would take temporary charge.
The decision to part company with Garde followed eight days of negotiations that concluded late on Tuesday, according to BBC Sport's Pat Murphy.
The announcement came on the day the club said it had begun working with former Football Association executive Adrian Bevington.
Birmingham businessman Steven Hollis has already become the club's new chairman in a boardroom reshuffle.
Former Governor of the Bank of England Lord King, ex-Football Association chairman David Bernstein and former manager Brian Little have also become directors.
Chief executive Tom Fox and sporting director Hendrik Almstadt left the club earlier this month.
Owner Randy Lerner, who put Villa up for sale last May, has upset fans who are unhappy about the lack of investment and the decision-making at the club.
Former Lyon boss Garde was said to be considering his future at the club after being unable to make any signings during the January transfer window.
He has also been among those who have criticised the players for a perceived lack of desire.
Garde had become increasingly dispirited by performances and said he felt "humiliated" after a 6-0 defeat by Liverpool last month. It was the first time the Midlands club had let in six at home in a league game since October 1983.
His only victories came against Norwich City and Crystal Palace in the league, and League Two Wycombe Wanderers in the FA Cup.
He recently refused to comment on reports Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas is keen for him to return to the Ligue 1 club next season.
Villa's next Premier League match is against Chelsea at home on 2 April.
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BBC Radio 5 live football reporter Pat Murphy:
Asked about the timing of the decision, announced during England's friendly with the Netherlands on Tuesday, Murphy said: "A good day to bury bad news? I honestly don't think so.
"Negotiations have been tortuous and labyrinthine. I think it's just the usual cock-up, yet another farcical period in Villa's recent history.
"Garde didn't think much of the players and the feeling was mutual. He was promised players when he signed, but Lerner turned the tap off and he felt badly let down.
"I don't think Villa could go any lower. But the players who got them into this situation are still standing. They should be looking over their shoulders."
Murphy says Villa approached former Everton, Manchester United and Real Sociedad manager David Moyes last year, but he was "unimpressed".
However, Murphy says Moyes, who was sacked by the La Liga club in November, would now "like talks".
Other candidates include Burnley's Sean Dyche, Hull's Steve Bruce, Ipswich boss Mick McCarthy and former Leicester manager Nigel Pearson.
The Monarch of the Glen, painted by Sir Edwin Landseer in 1851, features an iconic image of a Highlands stag.
A partnership between NGS and the painting's owner, drinks firm Diageo, was agreed in November last year.
Under the agreement, Diageo will gift half the painting's value to allow the gallery to buy it for £4m by 17 March.
This will allow the painting to remain in public view in Scotland.
The campaign has already raised £3.25m towards the final target, supported by donations such as the Heritage Lottery Fund, which pledged £2.75m, and Art Fund, which gave £350,000.
Sir John Leighton, director-general of the National Galleries of Scotland, said: "There has been a great response to the news that we have a fantastic opportunity to acquire this iconic image for Scotland.
"However, we still have some way to go to reach our £4m target and with only one month left until the deadline, we are keen to reach out to the public to help ensure that The Monarch of the Glen can stay in Scotland to be enjoyed for generations to come."
Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop said: "I congratulate the National Galleries of Scotland on securing significant sums from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Art Fund to support their acquisition of the iconic Monarch of the Glen painting.
"I wish them every success with their campaign to raise the remaining funding to ensure the painting can remain in public display in Scotland so that visitors from across Scotland and around the world can continue to enjoy it."
The Monarch of the Glen has been in private and corporate collections since it was painted.
He cited the Budapest government's treatment of refugees, independence of the judiciary and freedom of the press.
"Hungary is not far away from issuing orders to open fire on refugees," he suggested.
Hungary said Mr Asselborn "could not be taken seriously".
EU leaders meet in Slovakia on Friday to discuss the union's future.
Mr Asselborn's interview with German daily Die Welt is likely to inflame passions ahead of the summit.
The EU could not tolerate "such inappropriate behaviour", he said, and any state that violated such basic values "should be excluded temporarily, or if necessary for ever, from the EU''. It was "the only possibility to protect the cohesion and values of the European Union,'' he said.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto hit back, saying that his Luxembourg counterpart had "long left the ranks of politicians who could be taken seriously". Mr Asselborn was a "frivolous character", he said, adding that he was "patronising, arrogant and frustrated".
Mr Asselborn's remarks also drew condemnation from Latvia's foreign minister, who spoke of "megaphone diplomacy".
And German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a personal friend of the Luxembourg minister, said while he could understand some in Europe were "becoming impatient, it is not my personal approach to show a member state the door".
Hungary joined the EU in 2004 and while the European Union can reject or delay a candidate from joining, it is not thought to have the power to expel an existing member state.
When the far-right Freedom Party joined Austria's government in 2000, EU member states responded by freezing bilateral diplomatic relations with Austria. Later that year the EU ended Austria's diplomatic isolation.
Hungary was caught up in an enormous influx of migrants and refugees a year ago as more than a million people headed through central Europe from the shores of Greece towards Germany and other Western European countries.
Eventually, it sealed its borders with Serbia and Croatia and built a 175km (110-mile) razor-wire fence to stop people crossing on their way to Austria. Some 10,000 police and soldiers have been deployed to guard the frontier.
Hungary's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has reacted with fury.
The head of Hungarian diplomacy described his Luxembourg counterpart as a "classic nihilist" who worked tirelessly to destroy Europe's security and culture. By way of contrast, Hungary was defending not only its own territory, but that of the EU as well, the foreign minister insisted.
"Only Hungarians have the right to decide who they wish to live with."
The number of migrants trying to enter Hungary has fallen dramatically in recent weeks.
At the Horgos Transit Zone on the Hungary-Serbian border, only 80 were waiting on Monday, down from 800 on some days in July.
Beside the Kelebia Transit Zone there were about 60, mostly from Syria and Iraq. Some had been living in atrocious conditions next to the razor wire fence for more than 10 weeks.
Approximately 4,500 migrants are currently in camps in Serbia. Most are now trying alternative routes to Europe through Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia.
A referendum takes place on 2 October when Hungarians will be asked to decide on an EU quota to take in refugees. Prime Minister Viktor Orban has strongly criticised the EU's plans to relocate 160,000 refugees across the bloc and his government has campaigned vigorously for a No vote.
Mr Asselborn, whose country is a founder member of the EU, complained that Hungary's border fence was getting higher, longer and more dangerous.
His remark that Hungary was not far from ordering live fire is likely to refer to a decision by police earlier this month to recruit 3,000 "border-hunters". The new force will carry pepper spray and pistols with live ammunition as part of their task to keep migrants out.
In the Treaty on European Union (Article 2) EU values are spelt out as "human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities".
The EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights became legally binding on national governments as well as the EU's institutions, as part of the 2009 Lisbon Treaty.
Those rights and freedoms range from freedom of thought and expression to the right to asylum, a fair trial and fair working conditions.
As a condition of membership of the EU, a candidate country has to fulfil 35 separate chapters of requirements including an independent judiciary.
The eponymous hero of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is so bored with his job as a manager at Sunshine Desserts that he fakes his own death so that he can start a new life.
Forty years on from Reggie Perrin's world, the default retirement age has been scrapped and the government is urging those over 50 not to down tools and leave the labour market.
So, if we really are all going to be working across four or even five decades into our late 60s or beyond, how do we avoid the Perrin-esque feeling of heading down a cul-de-sac?
The career path many of us embark on could be described as follows: learn the job, do the job, get promoted, become a manager - and perhaps stop doing the job that we've actually got quite good at.
In some cases that promotion might come after what Clive Hutchinson, the owner of engineering firm Cougar Automation, calls "the tap on the shoulder".
In his industry that tap heralded a move from engineer to the better paid role of project manager. But in his opinion that convention didn't play to people's strengths.
"You'd have a really good engineer who wanted more money and more status and recognition, and it took him away from being a really good engineer and often into being a really bad project manager."
When Clive and his business partner took over the company in 2003 they decided that, in order to meet their target of giving their customers the best possible service, they needed to change the way they looked at career progression - to reconcile people's desire to get on with keeping them in the roles they were best suited to.
Their answer was to make both the salary and the grading structure much more flexible.
They introduced a transparent pay system and a martial arts-based framework of banding for all the roles within the company.
Project managers were no longer automatically paid more than the rest of the team, it was easier to move to different projects, and the new freedom meant experienced engineers felt they had more options than before.
"I got very frustrated," says Jim Allen, a software engineer at Cougar, of his experience of being a manager. "I just didn't enjoy coming in in the mornings.
"At the time I thought, 'What can I do? I've got no way out of this, perhaps move offices, move companies even, and go back to engineering.' And fortunately here they said, 'There's no problem coming back to being an engineer.'"
Jim returned to a job he describes as "massively broad" with the added incentive of a "bit of a pay rise", but as an engineer with 20 years' experience, he says that at his stage the job is actually more about how well the project went than large leaps in salary.
Research backs him up on that. Figures from one study suggest that workers might see pay growth of 60% in their 20s, but then see that increase slow, with a salary peak for women at 39, and for men at 48.
That leaves a lot of years of work ahead.
Dr Jill Miller, a research adviser at the CIPD, the professional body for HR and career development, says the secret to keeping motivated is what she calls lifelong learning, as much as salary.
"It's more about development opportunities," she says. "So it's work that's fulfilling, inspiring, engaging and it challenges people because I think... being bored sometimes can have detrimental effects of being stressed and that's what's going to cause people to be demotivated and leave the organisation."
Ros Toynbee, director of The Career Coach, agrees. She sees people who are often a few years into their working lives and have suddenly found they've fallen out of love with their workplace, whether it's because they've reached a milestone in their lives or they're not getting the opportunities they want.
"It may be that they're being ignored by a boss, they're not being recognised," she says. "They want to be able to progress, but are finding for some reason they can't."
So what advice does she give most often to those who feel their career has run into the sand?
"The most important thing is to keep on doing interesting things that keep you employable. Be looking out for trends, and training yourself. Don't expect your company to pay for you, because many will not."
Ms Toynbee's advice to choose skills that will ensure "longevity of career" is echoed by professional bodies such as the CIPD, as it anticipates a workplace populated by an increasing number of over-50s.
It's a change that is already happening - in 2016 there were 9.8 million people over 50 in employment in the UK, compared with 5.7 million 20 years earlier.
Nevertheless, the proportion of older workers in employment drops sharply between the ages of 53 and 67.
In its report on how we can achieve longer and more fulfilled working lives, the CIPD suggests employers should adopt a system of career reviews for older workers where their development needs are discussed.
And it says the UK could follow the example of countries such as Denmark, where many companies regularly hold "senior conversations" with their employees, covering all aspects of their career.
Would a senior conversation with his unappealing boss, CJ, have made Reggie Perrin feel less despairing about his job? Maybe not.
Better advice for him, perhaps, comes from the CIPD's Dr Miller who thinks we could all take a leaf out of the millennial generation's book by not expecting a job for life and being content with moving sideways, rather than up.
"Younger workers perhaps have more of a mindset that they have more options," she says, "that it's not like you need to choose a career when you first enter and stick with it and grow within it. They've got more of a fluid mindset."
The Shore was filmed on Terry George's family cottage at Coney Island near Ardglass.
It stars major Northern Ireland actors, including Ciaran Hinds, Maggie Cronin and Conleth Hill.
Mr George was twice previously nominated for his screenplays for Hotel Rwanda and In the Name of the Father.
He paid tribute to the people of Northern Ireland after receiving the Oscar.
"Our little film was inspired by the people of Northern Ireland, Protestant and Catholic, who after 30 years of war, sat down, negotiated a peace and proved to the world that the Irish are great talkers," he said.
"I want to dedicate this to them.
"This is about reconciliation in Northern Ireland, it is really close to my heart."
He also praised his daughter Oorlagh, who raised money for the film and acted as its producer.
"I'd like to thank the Academy because now I don't have to wait for her wedding to tell the world how brilliant she is," he said.
The Shore is about a man who emigrated to America 25 years ago to escape the Troubles and is now bringing his daughter back to meet his childhood friends, while harbouring a dark secret.
Maggie Cronin said she was thrilled to learn of the film's success at the Oscars.
"We were leaping about the place," she said.
"It ticks all the right boxes, it looks beautiful and I think it is a film we can all be proud of.
"It was a very good shoot to be involved with carried by some lovely performances."
Northern Ireland Culture Minister Carál Nà ChuilÃn said the award was a "fantastic achievement" by the Northern Ireland film industry.
"It is wonderful that local talent and hard work is being recognised on the global stage," she added.
Richard Williams, chief executive of Northern Ireland Screen, said an Oscar triumph represented "the best possible international industry endorsement for film talent worldwide".
"Terry and Oorlagh George have done us proud," he said.
"With their help, the profile of both the film industry in Northern Ireland and indeed the beauty of our place have received a major boost.
"Hundreds of thousands of short films are produced every year around the world and for Northern Ireland to win one really underlines the world class talent we have working in the industry here.
"The Shore is a beautiful, poignant and funny film."
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"When Terry first conveyed the powerful vision of Northern Ireland he wanted to communicate to the world, we had no hesitation in getting involved," he added.
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After the matter was raised by the opposition he said "it was my event so I take responsibility for it".
The marble table cost A$590 ($428; £277) when it was purchased more than twenty years ago.
Mr Abbott was toppled as leader by Malcolm Turnbull last month after being plagued by poor polls.
Cleaners discovered shards of the marble table on 15 September, the day after Mr Abbott's ousting, a parliamentary committee that viewed pictures of the table heard.
The committee also heard from an email written by a Department of Parliamentary Services (DPS) official suggesting the table "may have been damaged by persons standing or dancing on it".
Mr Abbott said in a statement: "On the night of the leadership change I hosted drinks in the cabinet ante-room for staff and colleagues. During this event, a coffee table was damaged."
"I have asked my office to have the Department of Parliamentary Services invoice me for the value of the table."
"Quite a party," said senator Penny Wong from opposition Labor.
But Cory Bernardi, from the governing Liberals, urged caution over the matter saying the email suggesting the cause of the damage was "largely speculative".
The Department for Health said the test on the elderly woman, who landed at Gatwick Airport, came back negative on Sunday afternoon.
Some 728 people have died of Ebola in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone this year, in the worst-ever outbreak of the disease.
Public Health England says the risk to the UK remains very low.
The Ebola virus spreads through human contact with a sufferer's bodily fluids.
Initial flu-like symptoms can lead to external haemorrhaging from areas like eyes and gums, and internal bleeding which can lead to organ failure. The current mortality rate is about 55%.
The woman, believed to be in her early 70s, had been a passenger on a Gambia Bird flight that arrived at Gatwick on Saturday morning.
She collapsed at the airport and was later pronounced dead in hospital.
A Department of Health spokeswoman said the passenger's symptoms had not suggested she was an Ebola victim but the test was carried out because she had travelled from West Africa.
Dr Brian McCloskey, director of global public health at Public Health England (PHE), said: "There was no health risk to other passengers or crew, as the passenger did not have symptoms during the flight.
"It was considered very unlikely to be a case of Ebola but testing was done as a precaution, and was negative.
"The correct procedures were followed to confirm there was no reason to quarantine the airplane, the passengers or staff. PHE can confirm there was no public health risk around the sad death of this individual."
A Gatwick spokeswoman said the aircraft, as well as some airline and airport staff, were isolated "as a precaution" but that the plane was later cleared for its return journey.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has said the government is taking the outbreak, and the threat to the UK, "very seriously".
Ministers have discussed what precautionary measures could be taken if any UK nationals in West Africa become infected with Ebola.
Public Health England has advised UK medical staff to watch out for unexplained illnesses in patients who have visited West Africa.
It said no cases of imported Ebola have ever been reported in the UK.
The US is to send at least 50 public health experts to the region to help fight the disease. They are expected to arrive in the next month.
Meanwhile, American Ebola patient Dr Kent Brantly is improving in hospital after returning to the US from Liberia. Another infected US citizen, aid worker Nancy Writebol, is expected to arrive in the US soon.
The message of a new, cross-party campaign vying to get the UK to leave the EU could hardly be clearer.
On Friday, the group, which contains politicians and, crucially, financial backers from across the political spectrum, launches officially.
The date of the actual referendum on our membership of the EU is not yet set, but it is becoming clear who will shape up on each side.
This new campaign, Vote Leave, is funded by major Conservative donor and City millionaire Peter Cruddas, John Mills, Labour's biggest private financial backer, and Stuart Wheeler, for years a Tory donor but more recently a supporter of UKIP.
The expectation is that they will spend up to £20m, around half the amount the Tories spent in the 12 months before the election.
And it will fold in three existing campaign groups: Conservatives for Britain, Business for Britain and the Labour Leave campaign.
They already have the backing of politicians like Lord Lawson, Kate Hoey from Labour, and Douglas Carswell from UKIP, and their hope is to build support and credibility across the spectrum.
The campaign will begin with its "take control" plea to voters - citing the £350m it will claim is paid by UK taxpayers each week to the EU.
The campaign's argument is simply that the EU has too much control over too much of our lives.
But stand by for clashes over how much money we get back, compared with what we put in.
The arguments over whether we really gain or lose economically will be a central strand of the referendum debate, with the government, most of the Labour Party, the SNP, the Liberal Democrats and much of the business world pressing the case that the rewards of being in the EU are much greater than the costs.
But Vote Leave has money, campaign muscle, a plan to build a politically broad-based group, and a clear message.
It is also confident it will end up becoming the official campaign, designated by the Electoral Commission, rather than the campaign Leave.EU that includes the UKIP leader, Nigel Farage and UKIP's multi-millionaire donor, Aaron Banks.
The two groups, Vote Leave and Leave.EU, have had talks and may eventually join forces, but for now they are being run as separate campaigns.
On the other side, the In campaign, which makes the case for the UK's EU membership, is expected to launch early next week.
But, by the time you are reading this, Vote Leave will already be trying to flood the internet with its message, trying to establish not just its arguments but itself as the established campaign group making that side of the argument.
This debate may last as long as two years, but the race is already on.
People living close to the tip at Long Lane, Great Heck, North Yorkshire, have said their health is being affected.
Sarah Webster has three children, aged three, six and eight, and said they had all been "really poorly" due to the smell.
The tip was run by Wagstaff TWM Ltd which has gone into liquidation, the Environment Agency said.
The agency said it was investigating alleged waste offences and monitoring the odour from the site, near the M62 motorway, that stockpiled mixed recyclable waste.
It said any health concerns should be discussed with a general practitioner.
It is thought there could be more than 10,000 tonnes of rotting rubbish that could cost £1m in landfill tax to dispose of.
Graham Brocklesby, the owner of the site, said: "We need some help... whoever can lighten the impact of the cost that is going to be incurred here."
Laura Watkinson-Teo, a campaigner, said the smell was "awful, pungent and it lingers - you get a sensation at the back of your throat and it's nauseating."
During a visit to the site Nigel Adams, Conservative MP for Selby, said the smell was "absolutely rancid".
It was "altogether unacceptable as well as unpleasant", he added.
No one from the business was available for comment.
According to its website the company is a "responsible and professional total waste management company".
Pauline Pridcock lay undiscovered for three nights after falling while on a day trip from Paphos.
The 64 year old and her husband had set off for Omodos with a tour group.
After a major four day search, Mrs Pridcock was found unconscious on Sunday morning. She died in hospital on Monday morning.
Emergency services, volunteers and terrain specialists were involved in the search, which lasted from Wednesday to Saturday and followed a number of reported sightings.
Mrs Pridcock's cousin Steve Dykes said she was badly dehydrated and had suffered cuts and bruises.
He said she died in Limassol General Hospital and that it was possibly because of a "heart attack or organ failure due to dehydration".
"She was making progress up until Sunday evening, but three days and three nights out in the countryside with the possible added dehydration unfortunately took its toll," he said.
A young woman - who does not wear an Islamic headscarf - caused a stir on social media when she declared that Hamas was "best to protect students' rights".
But there was shock when the Islamist movement, which controls the Gaza Strip, went on to win the elections at Birzeit University last month.
It is usually a stronghold of its secular, Western-backed, political rival, Fatah.
"It was not that Hamas advanced, rather that Fatah went backwards," bemoans a Fatah youth activist in Ramallah, Madelene Manna.
"Even some students who were with Fatah voted for other factions as a protest."
The outcome was widely seen as another sign of dissatisfaction with the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority (PA) and its ageing leader, President Mahmoud Abbas.
"To a degree, the results reflect public opinion," says George Giacaman, a Birzeit University politics professor.
"The PA is suffering from a severe crisis of legitimacy. It's failed to achieve anything substantial as far as ending the occupation or taking concrete steps to establishing an independent, Palestinian state."
The PA was set up as an interim administration for the major Palestinian cities in the West Bank and Gaza after the 1993 Oslo Accord.
It was envisaged that a comprehensive treaty would be concluded within five years.
Born in Safed, but his family fled to Syria during the 1948 Middle East war.
Graduated from the University of Damascus, where he studied law.
In the mid-1950s, became heavily involved in underground Palestinian politics, joining a number of exiled Palestinians in Qatar.
Recruited to become a member of Fatah in 1961.
In 2004 endorsed by Fatah's Revolutionary Council as its preferred candidate for the presidential election.
Elected with 62% of the vote as President of the Palestinian National Authority in 2006.
However, more than two decades of talks with Israel have failed to achieve a final peace settlement and an independent Palestinian state. The last round of negotiations collapsed a year ago.
The authority continues to manage Palestinian affairs in parts of the West Bank. However, it lost control of Gaza to Hamas in bloody fighting in 2007 - a year after the group won the last legislative elections.
Although Fatah and Hamas formally agreed a unity deal and a technocratic government, deep divisions remain, resulting in political paralysis.
This has been more apparent since last summer's devastating war between Hamas militants in Gaza and Israel, in which more than 2,100 Palestinians were killed, including hundreds of civilians, and thousands of homes destroyed. On the Israeli side, 67 soldiers and six civilians were killed.
The United Nations brokered a deal with Israel to ease its blockade of the coastal enclave - which it says it imposes because of security reasons - and allow in large amounts of building materials.
However Hamas is not handing control of border crossings to the PA as the agreement requires.
Meanwhile, Fatah accuses Hamas of trying to create an independent Islamic state in Gaza; Hamas provokes Fatah by saying it avoids new general elections as it fears losing them.
Mr Abbas, now 80, is currently serving the 10th year of what was initially meant to be a four-year term in office.
Long disliked in Gaza, his popularity in the West Bank has also declined.
From the start of the year until last month, the PA could not fully pay civil servants' salaries, exacerbating economic woes.
This was because Israel withheld tax revenues after the Palestinians joined the International Criminal Court (ICC) intending to challenge military action in Gaza and the expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories.
There have been clashes in refugee camps as Palestinian security forces carried out raids for weapons. While the PA insists it is tackling crime, many view this as part of its controversial security co-ordination with Israel.
"They are arresting people from the camps for political reasons. At the same time we are going to the ICC?" says Mohammed, an exasperated community leader in Bethlehem's Dheisha Camp.
"We are tired from all these leaders. We need new ones. The elite make themselves more rich, even Hamas. Once they have power they want to keep it."
Mr Abbas, a plodding, grey politician, has not openly cultivated a successor as he has focused on keeping his grip on power. His image has often been tarnished by Fatah infighting.
The wealthy, Gaza strongman, Mohammed Dahlan, continues to openly challenge the president. He was expelled from Fatah in 2011 and the two men have traded charges of corruption.
But the Palestinian leader - also known as Abu Mazen - continues to be backed by key foreign donors - the United States and the European Union - and is tacitly accepted by Israel.
His avowed commitment to non-violence stands in stark contrast to Hamas, which believes in armed struggle and is classified as a terrorist group by the US, Israel and others. Its 2006 election win led to international isolation.
However there is also an Israeli perception of him as weak.
"I have to say, he's been a bit of a disappointment," said Udi Segal, the veteran Israeli diplomatic correspondent who most recently interviewed him for Channel Two News.
"In negotiations with Israel he didn't have courage enough to face his own people and tell them the basic truth of compromise."
The new Israeli government includes right-wing, religious and nationalist parties that are uninterested in restarting peace talks. Its one-seat majority is likely to make it unstable.
At the same time, Palestinians lament their broken democracy.
After the Birzeit upset, human rights groups condemned the detention of several students affiliated with Hamas by Mr Abbas' security forces.
And amid concerns about further friction, other West Bank institutions - al-Najah University in Nablus and Hebron University - delayed their elections.
Ofsted found "widespread and serious failures" in the services for children in need of help and protection.
It criticised "elected members and senior leaders" and inspectors said "corporate failure leaves children... at continued risk of significant harm".
Worcestershire County Council said it was "beginning to see improvements".
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The report, which covered an inspection period between 24 October and 17 November last year, said "inconsistent leadership and an insufficient number of staff at all levels contributed to a fundamental weakness in practice".
It added the response to child sexual exploitation was "not thorough enough."
The report said social workers "were not always using the risk assessment tools, and children identified as being at higher risk of exploitation are not diligently tracked by managers and partners to assess the effectiveness of their work".
The council said it was proposing to invest "an extra £3.5m into safeguarding children from April".
The authority's chief executive, Clare Marchant, said Ofsted "recognises progress is being made".
But she also stated she wanted to apologise to families and children "where the level of service that we have provided has not been good enough".
Ms Marchant continued: "We have significantly reduced the time it takes to complete care proceedings when they are required and we have made progress in recruiting more permanent front line team leaders to increase the stability of our workforce."
An NSPCC spokesman said although changes were now being made "Ofsted says services remain fragile".
He said: "Relying less on agency workers, and reducing caseloads for staff, will be key to stabilising the workforce and ensuring sustained improvements are made."
The Labour MP Chuka Umunna told BBC Newsnight each of the 13 strands that make up the overall inquiry should have their own dedicated head as a way of heading off concerns that the new overall chair of the inquiry has a background in social work, an industry many survivors say failed them.
Some of those survivors have criticised the recent appointment of Professor Alexis Jay. She was appointed as chair following the departure in August of her predecessor Judge Lowell Goddard.
Abuse of children in care in the London borough of Lambeth, which includes Mr Umunna's constituency, is one of the inquiry strands.
Mr Umunna, who also serves on the Home Affairs Select Committee and is standing to replace Keith Vaz as chair of the committee, told BBC Newsnight: "I think there is a way of moving forward where you have Professor Jay at the top of a federal like structure, encompassing people heading each of the different 13 investigations. I think that way perhaps we can move forward in a way that the survivors will feel comfortable with."
Mr Umunna said it was Professor Jay's background as opposed to anything she personally had done that was the problem: "The issue with Professor Jay is not personal to her. She is widely respected in her profession and beyond but it is more to do with the profession generally which of course let down a huge number of people and helped lead to an environment in which they were treated in the most appalling and abominable way that one can imagine."
Under Mr Umunna's plan Professor Jay would remain as head of the overall inquiry.
Professor Jay received widespread praise for her 2014 report into child protection failures in Rotherham.
Last week the leaders of what is believed to the largest group representing survivors of abuse said he was recommending to his members that the group no longer cooperate with the independent inquiry.
Raymond Stevenson, from the Shirley Oaks Survivors Group, cited the appointment of Professor Jay as a reason for him wanting his group to relinquish their role as core participants in the inquiry.
Mr Umunna told the BBC the inquiry had to get survivors on side. He said: "I don't see how the inquiry is going to be able to report without commanding the support and the confidence of the survivors concerned and here you have by far the biggest survivors group of over 600 individuals saying that they don't currently have confidence in the inquiry.
"Now that is a really big, big problem. It can't be swept under the carpet and ignored. It's been far too much sweeping under the carpet over the decades as it is. I think it needs to be dealt with."
Mr Stevenson told BBC Newsnight last week: "The new chair has spent 30 years in the social services department. That [someone other than her] would have been another condition for us [staying] because we are suggesting the social services department also being part."
Following Professor Jay's appointment last month Andi Lavery from the White Flowers Alba survivors group said: "She's a social worker, when one of the key aspects of this inquiry is looking at the abject failure of the social work profession."
Professor Jay, who stepped up to be chair of the inquiry after previously sitting on its four person panel, won widespread respect for her 2014 report into child abuse in Rotherham.
She is the inquiry's fourth chair since it was established just over two years ago.
In a submission to the Home Affairs select committee last week Judge Goddard suggested the inquiry should be restructured so it focuses on the present and future rather than the past.
But Home Secretary Amber Rudd insisted the focus on the past should remain. She told MPs: "Understanding what happened is so important to getting right what we think is going to help now and in the future."
Mr Umunna said the focus on the past must continue and also called for Judge Goddard to appear before the Home Affairs Select Committee to answer questions on the written evidence she submitted to MPs last week.
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse did not respond to an invitation to comment.
Streather, 29, failed to make a Premiership appearance last term and was released at the end of the season.
He joined the club from Nottingham in 2013 and went on to make 30 appearances in all competitions.
"With the medical advice I have received, there is no other option for my long-term health and well-being," Streather said.
"I've been lucky to have enjoyed my time in the game, with Nottingham in the Championship and four amazing years at Saracens.
"I leave the game having made so many wonderful memories on and off the pitch and I've made some friends for life along the way."
The girl, named Hajar, said she had been sexually abused by three different members of her family since the age of 14.
Often crying, she also said she was eight months pregnant by one of her abusers.
It emerged during her appearance on Ala Chebbi's show Andi Mankolek, or I've Got Something to Tell You, that poverty had forced her to give up school aged 14 to work on the family farm.
She also said that her father was frequently absent because of work, and that her relationship with him and her stepmother was poor.
Hajar's elder brother, Allala, who appeared alongside her on the show earlier this month, said he had approached the show out of despair after her father, ashamed at her pregnancy, had kicked her out of the family home.
Although Tunisia is seen as relatively progressive on social matters among Muslim-majority countries, traditional attitudes are still widespread, and pregnancy before marriage is regarded by some as a matter of shame, regardless of the cause.
When Hajar's father joined the programme, Chebbi suggested to him that "whoever did it should marry her to close the case" and "contain the situation".
He asked Hajar who the father is, and she told him that she was not sure, but suspects the brother of her stepmother.
Told by her brother that all three alleged abusers were married, Chebbi added that "at least, he can recognise his child and give him his name".
He then chided her for not reporting any of her abusers, and urged her to ask her father for forgiveness for being pregnant without being married. "Admit that you are at fault," he added.
The remarks prompted an outcry on social media.
"Even though she was raped and abused by her relatives, he asks her to justify herself," tweeted freelance cartoonist Tawfiq Omrane.
Thousands of people joined a Facebook page called "'Marry your rapist,' he says. 'We will see you in court,' we reply."
The page uses a widely-shared photo of the show's studio with a text overlaid that says: "Mr Ala: The punishment for rape is imprisonment, not marriage."
It has addressed a letter to the minister for women, family and childhood, Samira Merai, calling for action to end violence against women and children.
There was also criticism of a law - Article 227 - that requires rape charges to be dropped if the perpetrator marries the victim.
The women's ministry has drafted a bill to abolish the article, but this still needs to be ratified by parliament.
Chebbi insisted his remarks were taken out of context, telling Mosaique Radio FM he had only suggested marriage in light of what he called a lack of evidence proving that rape had taken place.
He said he believed the abusers should be punished if proven guilty of rape, but again reiterated his view that Hajar had made a mistake in remaining silent.
"This is the case of many Tunisian girls who have been raped and did not say anything," he said. "Silence is the core of this case."
But Tunisia's media regulator has sided with his critics, suspending the programme for three months after finding it to have "violated human dignity".
Radia Saidi, a spokeswoman of the Tunisian Independent High Authority for Audiovisual Communication, told the BBC's Rana Jawad that Chebbi had judged the victim, rather than questioning her."There was no excuse to break Tunisian laws and international laws for the protection of minors and of privacy," she added.
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The 25-year-old joined the Owls from Leeds United in 2014, and has since made 92 appearances, scoring twice.
He played 42 times last season as Wednesday reached the play-off final, which they lost to Hull City.
"I'm really happy here," said Lees. "Like any player, I want to play in the Premier League. I am convinced we can achieve these ambitions together."
Evans is expected to be named on Friday in Michael O'Neill's squad for the World Cup qualifier with Norway in Belfast on 26 March.
The 26-year-old has been sidelined since 2 January because of a chronic groin problem.
Evans has started his country's last two World Cup qualifiers.
New Rovers manager Mowbray made it clear there would be no club-versus-country row if Evans were to face the Norwegians.
"I don't really get involved in the international set-ups. What I do know is footballers like to play for their countries, they want to play for their countries," he said.
"If he gets called up, there will no problem. If anything it will be a benefit if he gets some game time and some intense training to build him up.
"He has trained with us for almost a week now. I would have to say he looks a very talented footballer, my type of footballer. He picks really lovely passes, he's got quick feet and a really good appreciation of the football.
"He needs to get fit. If he gets called up, there will no problem."
Former Celtic boss Mowbray was appointed Blackburn manager on 22 February, succeeding Owen Coyle.
Sean Anderson said they would leave the Malheur complex on Thursday morning, in a live broadcast on the internet.
Earlier, the FBI moved in on the group, which had been entrenched for 40 days.
They are protesting against federal government control of local land. One activist died in an earlier confrontation with police.
Agents were placed behind barricades near the self-styled militia's encampment, an FBI statement said.
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All four of the militia - a husband and wife and two other men - were said to be present during a discussion, broadcast live online, about how they would put down their weapons and walk out of the refuge at 08:00 local time (16:00 GMT).
They will meet a Nevada lawmaker, Michele Fiore, and a preacher who are travelling to meet them. Ms Fiore, a Republican member of the Nevada state assembly, was also on the live conference call.
She said that the FBI had "given us their word that they are going to stand down tonight" on the understanding that the four would leave the complex in the morning.
The live stream of events inside the refuge has been a strange mixture of prayer and paranoia, of fear and defiance.
The occupiers have repeatedly accused the federal government of persecuting them and they have attacked President Barack Obama for trying to "take away guns from people who are depressed".
With tens of thousands listening, the militia revealed that they had been eating well, talking about hearty cooked breakfasts, pork fried rice and steaks.
At one point, an occupier compared himself to the Scottish patriot William Wallace, suggesting that he too would rather die than give up his freedom.
"Remember Braveheart? Braveheart took it to the end even when he was tortured," he said.
At other times members of the quartet have sounded despairing, repeatedly expressing the fear that they will be shot dead.
As well as Mr Anderson, 48, the other occupiers have been named as Sandy Anderson, 47; David Fry, 27; Jeff Banta, 46.
The four had refused to leave despite the arrest of the group's leader Ammon Bundy last month. He has urged those remaining to stand down.
On Wednesday night Ammon's father, Cliven Bundy, was arrested by the FBI at Portland International Airport.
Local media reported that he faces federal charges in relation to a 2014 confrontation at his ranch. The stand-off between federal agents and Mr Bundy's supporters was the culmination of a two-decade dispute over grazing rights on federal land.
The Malheur National Wildlife Refuge was seized early in January. The armed takeover was sparked by the return to prison of two Oregon ranchers accused of burning federal land.
It developed into a wider protest demanding the return of government-controlled land to locals.
Mr Bundy and others were arrested late in January in a confrontation with police that left one of the activists, LaVoy Finicum, dead.
The FBI said its agents moved in on the four on Wednesday after one of them drove a vehicle outside barricades erected by the group.
"We reached a point where it became necessary to take action in a way that best ensured the safety of those on the refuge, the law enforcement officers who are on scene, and the people of Harney County," the statement said.
In October, a federal judge ruled the sentences on two Oregon ranchers, Dwight and Steven Hammond, for burning federal land were too short and jailed them for about four years each.
Angered by the ruling, Nevada native Ammon Bundy began a social media campaign backing them and travelled to Burns, Oregon, organising meetings.
His group attracted supporters from across a number of states and Mr Bundy called it Citizens for Constitutional Freedom. On 2 January the armed militiamen took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge - and widened the range of demands.
It is an extension of the Sagebrush Revolution of the 1970s and 1980s that demanded the transfer of federal land in many western states to local control.
Mr Bundy's own father - a Nevada rancher - had been involved in a protest over cattle-grazing rights in 2014. One policy is to try to persuade ranchers to tear up their federal grazing contracts.
Although many local residents are sympathetic with its cause, many also oppose the occupation of the refuge. Even the local ranchers who are serving the longer sentences distanced themselves from the militia.
The term has a complex history and generally refers to those outside the official military who can be called on in times of need. The US Constitution refers to the president having command of "militia of several states" and that Congress "can call forth militia" to tackle insurrection and invasion.
Those who form such militias cite the constitution and various references in federal and state law as granting them legality.
Profits at Google parent Alphabet increased 28% year-on-year to to $5.4bn (£4.2bn), boosted by advertising on mobile phones and the popular YouTube video service.
Amazon profits climbed more than 40%, to $724m (£560.8m). It was its eighth quarter in a row of profit.
Microsoft also had a strong quarter, with profits up nearly 28%, while chipmaker Intel's profits rose 45%.
Amazon said its growth was propelled by sales for web services and retail subscriptions, such as Amazon Prime.
The firm highlighted its international activity, noting expansion in India, Mexico and the UK. But executives told investors that more spending on content, products and warehouses for distribution lies ahead.
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"Although Amazon's sales advanced by a respectable 23% over the quarter, the pace of growth at the online behemoth remains much slower than it was over most of the prior fiscal year," said Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData Retail.
"Some of this is the result of a less favourable exchange rate diluting contributions from the international business. However, some is also down to a more challenging demand environment in North America, which has limited spending uplifts on products within Amazon's core territory."
Microsoft was lifted by its cloud computing products, such as Azure, which were $4.8bn, up 28% compared with the previous year.
"Our results this quarter reflect the trust customers are placing in the Microsoft Cloud," said Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella.
"From large multinationals to small and medium businesses to non-profits all over the world, organisations are using Microsoft's cloud platforms to power their digital transformation."
Microsoft also received a boost from social network LinkedIn, which it bought for $26bn in June last year.
It contributed $975m in revenue in the quarter, $25m more than analysts had predicted.
Chipmaker Intel's profits rose 45% to $2.9bn, with revenue up 8%. The growth was driven by its memory division, which recently launched a new technology, with revenue up 55%.
At the Democrats Abroad watch party in downtown Toronto, the faces were glum.
Eric Mintz, a statistician, realised earlier than some that pollsters missed the significance of Donald Trump support, and that the Republican looked likely to clinch the win.
He described the atmosphere as "slowly descending into gloom".
"It's an extinction moment - he's an extinction candidate," Mr Mintz said, saying he feared that America as it exists now will come to an end.
"I think he's extraordinarily dangerous in policy and personality."
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A few blocks away at the swanky Albany Club, a well-heeled crowd of politicians, diplomats and businesspeople were watching with disbelief as the results rolled in.
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne had backed Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, but her concern was rooted in more than just politics.
"Our fate is absolutely inextricably linked to the United States," the premier of Canada's most populous province told the BBC.
"If we have a partner south of the border that isn't interested in getting a softwood lumber deal or making sure we continue our relationship with the auto sector, that's very, very bad for the province and it's bad for the country."
Her number one issue in the Canada-US relationship? "Trade."
Canada and the US share the longest peaceful border on Earth.
Canada's economy, based largely on foreign trade, is tied to that of the US. America is by far the country's largest trading partner, with some CA$2.3bn ($1.7 bn/£1.4bn) in goods and services crossing the Canada-US border daily.
So how Mr Trump handles trade, especially the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), matters to Canada. He has called the agreement a "disaster" and has vowed to either renegotiate it or axe it completely.
Mr Trump has also said he would pressure allies to pay their fair share into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato).
Nato guidelines say member states should spend at least 2% of their gross domestic product on defence. Most countries in the military alliance, including Canada, lag behind on that figure.
Canada also shares close ties with the US when it comes to tackling shared national security concerns, climate change, and the war against so-called Islamic State.
But Mr Trump is a possible ally on one file: the Keystone XL pipeline, which the Obama administration rejected in 2015. The company behind the controversial Alberta-to-Texas pipeline says it is still committed to the project.
Canada had lined up largely behind Clinton.
Not everyone though.
David Woolley, 26, a communications professional, was proudly sporting a Make America Great Again baseball cap.
Once a supporter of Mrs Clinton's primary rival Bernie Sanders, Mr Woolley gravitated towards Trump. He said the real estate mogul held positions similar to Mr Sanders, such as curbing free trade and limiting American interventions abroad.
"We're flipping the coin with [Mr Trump], whereas we know Hillary will continue to represent the banksters and represent the neoconservatives," he said.
On the other side of the border, Americans were looking northward for hope. Canada's immigration website crashed as Trump wins continued to mount.
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Canadian prime ministers and their US counterparts have not always got along.
And from policy to temperament, it can be hard to imagine two men who have less in common than Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump.
Mr Trudeau, 44, is young, optimistic, a self-declared feminist.
Mr Trump, 70, will be the oldest man ever elected US president. He painted a pessimistic view of America throughout the campaign, and has been forced to defend his treatment of women.
Mr Trudeau has made tackling climate change one of his key policy issues. Mr Trump has said he would cut all US federal climate change spending and wants to dismantle the Paris climate agreement.
Mr Trudeau has made openness to refugees part of his brand. Mr Trump has warned admitting refugees from certain regions presents a serious threat to US national security.
But the two nations are close allies. From national security to the economy, to ensuring goods and people can move across the border, they tend to work in tandem on issues of mutual interest.
So while Mr Trudeau's relationship with Mr Trump not be the immediate "bromance" Mr Trudeau formed with Barack Obama, both will have to find a way to make it work.
With more than £600,000 of prize money on offer, including a first prize of £120,000 for the big race, the cast list will be a 'Who's Who' of the National Hunt world.
Having won more than £1m at the Cheltenham Festival last month, Irish champion trainer Willie Mullins is on course to dethrone current British champion trainer Paul Nicholls.
Both men are heading to Ayr knowing the title could be clinched with a big race win, while another Irish trainer, Mouse Morris, is aiming for a unique National treble after triumphs in last Saturday's Grand National with Rule The World and last month's Irish Grand National with Rogue Angel.
There's no doubt about who's going to be champion jockey following the retirement last year of 20-times winner, Sir Anthony McCoy, or AP as he's better known.
Perennial runner-up Richard Johnson will be at Ayr with the title already wrapped up, having ridden more than 220 winners - almost 100 more than his nearest rival.
It is exactly 50 years since the Scottish Grand National was first run at Ayr - African Patrol, ridden by Johnny Leech, was the inaugural winner - following the closure of the racecourse at nearby Bogside in 1965 where it had been staged for nearly a century.
Over those last 50 years, the gruelling marathon has been won by a cast list that includes many of the sport's great names - equine and human.
But there's one name that stands out - Red Rum. The winner of the Aintree Grand National three times, "Rummy" came north in 1974 having just won the second of his three Nationals.
Despite some suggesting it bordered on cruelty to run a horse in two such gruelling races within days of each other, he simply ran his rivals into the ground to claim the Scottish National too.
Red Rum remains the only horse to win both big races in the same year.
The achievement was so remarkable that Ayr Racecourse commissioned a statue in the horse's honour.
As for Saturday's race, Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary is flying high at the moment as the owner of both the Irish Grand National winner Rogue Angel and Grand national winner Rule The World.
He has entered several horses for Ayr - including Rogue Angel.
But what odds a Scottish-trained winner? Well, around 14/1 according to the bookies, who reckon Seeyouatmidnight could give Borders trainer Sandy Thomson his greatest moment by far.
"We gave him a quiet couple of weeks and now we're building him up, we're delighted with him," said Thomson. "We're really looking forward to it."
The last Scottish winner of the race was in 2012 when Merigo, trained near Lockerbie by Andrew Parker, gained his second success having previously won it two years earlier.
Great jockeys such as AP McCoy, Ruby Walsh, Peter Scudamore and Richard Johnson have all ridden the winner of the Scottish Grand National while legendary trainers David Nicholson, Jenny Pitman, Martin Pipe and Nigel Twiston-Davies all have it on their CVs.
That's maybe why the 'Sold Out' signs have gone up on the Club Enclosure as the racecourse nears its capacity of 16,500.
On Saturday, another chapter will be written in the rich history of the great race as 30 runners negotiate 27 fences over a stamina-sapping four miles, hoping to add their names to the roll of honour.
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has said the government is "very open" to the idea of changing the law to tackle what he said was a "growing problem".
But charity Women's Aid urged the government to go further and support victims through the justice system.
Lib Dem peers are attempting to make the practice a criminal offence.
Ministers may take "appropriate action" in the autumn, the justice secretary has said.
The term "revenge porn" is used to describe the phenomenon of people posting explicit images of former partners online - either obtained consensually or stolen - to humiliate them following a break up.
Mr Grayling told MPs the practice was becoming a more significant problem in the UK.
He was responding to a question from fellow Conservative Maria Miller.
The former culture secretary has called for a change in the law to tackle the "appalling" practice, saying the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill could be used to toughen up the necessary legislation.
Mr Grayling said Mrs Miller had "done a very important job in raising this issue".
"It's clearly becoming a bigger problem in our society," he told her.
"What I'd say to you today is the government is very open to having a serious discussion about this with a view to taking appropriate action in the autumn if we can identify the best way of doing so."
But Polly Neate, chief executive of the Women's Aid charity said: "To be meaningful, any attempt to tackle revenge porn must also take account of all other kinds of psychological abuse and controlling behaviour, and revenge porn is just another form of coercive control.
"That control is central to domestic violence, which is why we're campaigning for all psychological abuse and coercive control to be criminalised. We urge Mr Grayling and the Home Office to go further, and ensure victims can get the support of the criminal justice system for all the abuse they experience."
She said it was "hard to know how many people are affected" but that anecdotally it was thought those "experiencing domestic violence will face the threat or reality of revenge porn".
Laura Higgins, of the UK Safer Internet Centre, said she supported the suggestion of criminalising "revenge porn" and that the organisation was frustrated with the current lack of cohesion surrounding the issue.
But she pointed out that there were already laws in place that had failed to prevent abuse because of how they are applied.
Sarah Green, of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, said: "The impacts of revenge porn can be devastating, from the impact on your everyday life of work and relationships, to the feeling of violation and abuse.
She said it was critical that victims were able to "access support services whether or not they report to the police".
The issue demonstrated how schoolchildren should be educated in issues such as respect, equality and consent in relationships, through compulsory sex and relationships education - she added.
Lawyer Rupinder Bains told BBC Radio 5 live there are provisions within existing legislation to tackle images posted online.
"If the police are onside - and this is where a big issue currently lies, the education for the police in recognising this is a real issue - they can proceed under harassment legislation.
"We have things in place that control electronic images being used for a purpose to cause alarm and distress.
She said it was possible to take out injunctions to get images removed from the web but that this was costly and time consuming.
Hannah, 21, told BBC's Newsbeat how her ex-boyfriend posted explicit photographs of her on Tumblr.
She said that when she went to the police about it she was told "the most they could do was file a domestic incident report in case his behaviour escalated".
Two peers, Lord Marks and Baroness Grender, have put forward an amendment to the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill which would allow for a one-year jail term for publishing these kinds of images.
The proposal follows a campaign by Lib Dem MP Julian Huppert who has highlighted the issue in the Commons.
He said: "We need to make a criminal sanction available when people share indecent images in the knowledge that consent would not have been given."
Lord Marks said he and Baroness Grender hoped to work closely with the Ministry of Justice "to ensure that this offence reaches the statute book".
But Gabrielle Guillemin, legal officer of international free speech campaign Article 19, has cautioned against "revenge porn" legislation.
She told the Lords Communications Committee: "We have seen a lot of legislation, for example in the United States, to address this particular issue, but you would question whether it is for the criminal law to get involved in what is very often, ultimately, the fallout of failed relationships.
She questioned whether "civil remedies" were not "more appropriate to deal with these kinds of issues".
Legislation criminalising the practice has been introduced in the US states of Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, New York, Maryland, California and New Jersey.
However, the laws in California do not cover self-taken shots, which some campaigners claim may represent up to 80% of all revenge porn.
The 51-year-old driver was dropping off a man in Irvine when the passenger threatened him with a knife and demanded money.
The victim handed over a small amount of cash before the suspect made off in an unknown direction.
Police said the robbery took place on Warrix Avenue last Wednesday at about 18:40.
The driver had picked the suspect up at Irvine train station a short time earlier.
Police said the taxi driver was uninjured but badly shaken by his ordeal.
The suspect was described as being a slim white man in his late teens with a local accent. He was wearing a light-coloured hooded top.
Det Con Alex Greig said: "The victim was simply doing his job when he was threatened at knifepoint for fares he had collected.
"Although uninjured, this was a traumatic incident for the driver and we are doing all that we can to trace the man responsible.
"Our inquiries are continuing and we continue to analyse CCTV in the area. We are seeking assistance from the public to help trace the suspect."
The demand being made by the Welsh education schools group, Cymdeithas Ysgolion Dros Addysg Gymraeg (Cydag).
It highlights severe delays in publishing Welsh language textbooks, with examples of teachers giving up summer holidays to translate.
The Welsh Government said it was "committed" to Welsh-medium resources.
But Cydag, which represents about 57 Welsh-medium schools, has voiced their concerns in a letter to the education secretary Kirsty Williams.
The body told BBC Wales' Newyddion 9 that it wanted "principled" Welsh Government decisions and called the current situation a "crisis."
Cydag secretary Arwel George said: "We see documents and policies which state that the Welsh Government intends to treat both languages equally and encourage more pupils to study through the medium of Welsh.
"The implementation of policies falls very short of this."
Nine new GSCE and six A level courses will be introduced in 2017, yet only two have so far been approved by the regulator, Qualifications Wales.
Cydag claims any delay will give the examining board, WJEC, little time to prepare Welsh language resources.
"Qualifications Wales and WJEC are working closely together in the development of specifications and sample assessment materials for those subjects planned for first teaching in September 2017," a spokesperson for Qualifications Wales said.
"The process is on schedule and draft specifications are available in all subjects bilingually. We currently expect final approved materials to be available in line with the schedule published on our website."
"We are absolutely committed to getting the right resources available to support teaching and learning through the medium of Welsh," stated a Welsh Government official.
"That is why we invest over £2.6m annually in developing and publishing Welsh-medium resources across all curriculum and vocational subjects for 3-19 year olds.
"We understand the challenge in getting texts by commercial publishers translated.
"We expect WJEC to work with publishers to make sure that this process continues to improve."
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The fifth-tier club became the first non-league team in 103 years to reach the last eight with the biggest shock of the competition so far on Saturday.
Holders Manchester United play Chelsea, and Millwall, who beat Premier League champions Leicester, play Tottenham.
Middlesbrough face Manchester City or Huddersfield, who drew 0-0 on Saturday.
"It's a win-win," Lincoln manager Danny Cowley said on BT Sport. "We wish Sutton all the best tomorrow, I genuinely hope they can do it."
Sutton, who are the lowest-ranked team still left in the cup, play at home to the Gunners in a 19:55 GMT kick-off on Monday that will be live on BBC One.
The replay between Manchester City and Huddersfield is provisionally set for Tuesday, 28 February at Etihad Stadium.
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There are 88 places between National League leaders Lincoln and Arsenal. Sutton are in the same league as the Imps but are in 17th - 104 places below the Gunners.
Lincoln boss Cowley said his side had achieved a "football miracle" after beating Burnley 1-0 at Turf Moor with an 89th-minute winner.
It is the first time in the club's 133-year history that they have reached the quarter-finals.
Their next match is away to North Ferriby United on Tuesday, while they are also still in the FA Trophy and play Boreham Wood for a semi-final place on Saturday.
Queens Park Rangers, who joined the Football League in 1920, were the last non-league team to make the FA Cup last eight, in 1914. They were beaten 2-1 by Liverpool in their quarter-final at Anfield.
It comes after the Court of Appeal ruled in May that it had imposed the curfews unlawfully.
The law firm that took the Home Office to court says potentially thousands of people may be entitled to compensation.
Those subject to curfews cannot leave their home for up to 12 hours at a time.
The curfews are not directly linked to time served in prison, but some immigration detainees have committed a crime. Others have overstayed their visas or are seeking asylum.
Lisa Matthews, from human rights organisation Right To Remain, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that immigration curfews are "highly damaging" to people's lives.
"The policy was unjustifiable, unnecessary, punitive and unlawful. We believe that if the Home Office believes it is above the law, this is a danger for us all."
Nabil Abdullah, 30, has been subject to an immigration curfew for three years. He lives with his partner Claire Cummings and their baby Sydney in Middlesbrough, having moved to the UK as a child.
Eleven years ago, he served a year in prison for street robbery and was eligible for deportation as a foreign national, but Sudan - where he was born - refused to accept him back on four occasions, leaving him stuck in the British immigration system.
He is currently on bail from immigration detention. The curfew was imposed by the Home Office.
Mr Abdullah has been ordered to stay inside his home during the curfew hours of 20:00 to 08:00 every day. If he breaks his curfew, it is a criminal offence.
Because of the curfew, Mr Abdullah recently missed his grandmother's funeral and had to get written permission to attend the birth of his baby.
He does not know if, or when, the curfew will be removed. Currently, he is not allowed to work or study and is not entitled to benefits.
"The way I look at it," he said, "it's like I'm dead. I can't do anything. All I'm hoping for is all these things will disappear, put a full stop to it."
Ravi Naik of ITN solicitors, the law firm that took the Home Office to court, said the curfews suggested an alarming disregard for the rule of law by the government - whether or not people have sympathy for those subject to them.
"The fact the Home Office [admitted in court] it had 'assumed' there was legal authority for these curfews until this challenge was brought, really underlines how the Home Office has treated these individuals."
Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said the immigration curfews "are in some cases more severe" than those handed out as part of bail from prison, which she found "quite extraordinary".
"It shows that once you get lost in the immigration system, people think that the normal rules of natural justice don't apply to you.
She says the Home Office must "review each and every one of these cases".
The Home Office told the BBC it was "reviewing all cases in which a curfew is in place as part of electronic monitoring to ensure the validity of the curfew".
It added: "We have taken action to simplify bail powers as part of the Immigration Act 2016."
But in cases where curfews have been historically imposed unlawfully, the government could be facing a large compensation bill. Mr Abdullah, for example, is considering taking legal action.
The Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.
Arnautovic, who also had an effort ruled out for offside, exploited a huge gap in the Villa defence early in the second half to finish off the post.
Villa created little bar a credible Jordan Veretout appeal for a penalty.
Tim Sherwood's side have not won since the opening day and lie 18th, four points from safety.
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Sherwood said after last week's defeat at Liverpool that his team were already in a relegation battle and, in an attempt to turn the tide, opted for a change of system.
Jack Grealish, who pledged his international future to England this week, was left on the bench as Sherwood employed a wing-backs system, one that left the hosts' forwards short of service.
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When Grealish was introduced for Joleon Lescott at half-time, Villa reverted to a back four, with centre-halves Micah Richards and Jose Angel Crespo separated to provide space for Arnautovic's goal.
Villa may be right to feel aggrieved that they were denied a penalty when Cameron clumsily challenged Veretout in the first half, but, in truth, they were toothless for large periods, managing only two shots on target.
They are without a win at home all season and have taken only 71 points from their last 74 games at Villa Park, a run that dates back to December 2011.
Some eye-catching summer recruitment saw Stoke bring in the likes of Xherdan Shaqiri, Ibrahim Affelay and Glen Johnson to the Britannia Stadium, but an early run of six games without a win did not match the pre-season optimism.
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However, on the back of victory over Bournemouth last week, Stoke claimed their third successive win at Villa Park and extended an unbeaten run at Villa that goes back to 2009.
Without the injured Shaqiri, the trio of Arnautovic, Bojan and Jon Walters inter-changed behind Mame Biram Diouf to create regular problems for the Villa defence, while at the other end a solid rearguard resulted in the Potters' first clean sheet of the season.
Arnautovic was perhaps unfortunate to have a first-half effort ruled out - he looked to be level with the last defender before volleying past Brad Guzan - but there was no doubt about his second-half strike, played into space by Johnson before finishing from the corner of the six-yard box.
The only sour note for City was a late injury to Diouf, who left field on a stretcher.
Stoke midfielder Charlie Adam found the net with a wonder goal against Chelsea in April, collecting the ball inside his own half and lobbing Thibaut Courtois from 65 yards.
The Scot almost embarrassed Guzan in similar fashion, unleashing a left-footed effort from deep inside his own half, not even as far advanced as the centre circle.
Guzan just managed to scramble back, leaping to tip the ball around the post.
"It was on and I felt it might have been close. I thought it was in and he did well to get back," said the Scot.
Adam has now provided the goalkeepers of the Premier League with plenty of warning about wandering off their line.
Aston Villa manager Tim Sherwood: "I am very disappointed, we needed to win the game at home to a team that we could have leapfrogged.
"We failed to capitalise and it was not good enough. I think a draw would have been a fair result, both teams were average.
"The situation is getting worse, it is alright saying ifs, buts and maybes, but we are not picking up the wins and that is why we are down near the bottom of the league.
"We are all in this together but as the manager I take all the responsibility.
"I will use the international break to get my players fitter because they are not fit enough yet to play the way I want them to play. For some of them it will be like a mini pre-season."
Stoke manager Mark Hughes: "I was pleased with what we produced, it was a performance that we have been looking for. The first half was some of the best stuff we have played in terms of controlling the game.
"In the second half, we knew they would come at us, but we defended really well.
"I thought Marko was excellent today, offensively and defensively. He puts a shift in. It wasn't an easy chance, but thankfully he took it.
"It would have been hard to take had we not taken maximum points today and now we have a lot of time to prepare for the next game at Swansea."
It does not get easier for Villa. After the two-week international break, they face a daunting trip to Chelsea on Saturday, 17 October (15:00), while Stoke go to Swansea on the following Monday evening.
Populous, who designed the London Olympic Stadium and the O2 arenas in London, Berlin and Dublin, was chosen from a shortlist of five.
Bristol Arena, a 12,000-seat venue set to open in 2017, will be built in the Temple Quarter enterprise zone.
The council said more than 50,000 people viewed the five designs online and it had received about 550 comments.
The judging panel, which included the mayor, Bristol City Council and the Royal Institute of British Architects, said it "took the comments fully into consideration when scoring the designs".
Populous was praised by the panel for its "unique innovative concept that allows for smaller capacity theatre style events, while quickly converting to larger configurations for sporting events, major conventions or exhibitions".
Mayor George Ferguson said: "The Populous team has presented an innovative design for a horseshoe-shaped arena that will allow us real flexibility for programming, for now and into the future".
Nicholas Reynolds, from Populous said: "We believe Bristol Arena will be the catalyst for the creation of a vibrant new quarter in the city."
The project is funded by the city council and the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership, through its Economic Development Fund.
The council said it expected to "break even within ten years" and hoped the arena would "bring some of the greatest acts and events as well as millions of pounds of economic growth to the region".
The arena is set to be located on the former diesel depot site next to Bristol Temple Meads railway station, in the Bristol Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone.
At Prime Minister's Questions she said: "Typical Labour, take the advantage and pull up the ladder behind you."
Mr Corbyn had accused the government of finding money for Mrs May's grammar school "vanity project" while cutting funding for other schools.
The Labour leader's son Ben went to a North London grammar school although Mr Corbyn was reported to be against it.
The issue is said to have led to the break-up of Mr Corbyn's second marriage in the late 1990s, with his then wife Claudia insisting that the child should not attend a local Islington comprehensive school.
During Wednesday's clashes in the Commons Mr Corbyn accused Mrs May of "betraying a generation of young people by cutting the funding for every child" with a new funding formula for schools in England.
"Children will have fewer teachers, larger classes, fewer subjects to choose from and all the Prime Minister can do is focus on her grammar school vanity project that can only ever benefit a few children."
He said the government found no extra money in the Budget for schools but offered £320m for Mrs May's grammar school project.
The prime minister said the funding formula would be fair to all but stressed that it was still at the consultation stage and had not been finalised.
She then rounded on Mr Corbyn and his front bench team, listing those who attended a private school or a grammar school.
"He sent his own child to a grammar school, he himself went to a grammar school," she added, pointing at Mr Corbyn and accusing him of hypocrisy.
Theresa May's government has form on changing its mind when it's clear a policy is heading into a political quagmire. After all, it was only seven days ago the chancellor junked the planned tax rises for two million or so self-employed people.
Is there another U-turn in the offing? Parents and schools in different parts of the country are cross. Labour, some Tory backbenchers and local councillors around England are riled. And accusations are building again that the Tories would be breaking another manifesto commitment - their 2015 promise to protect the amount of cash that is spent on each pupil at school.
There is no question that school budgets are already under a lot of pressure, with many schools having to cut back because money is already short.
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Mr Corbyn insisted he wanted a "decent, fair opportunity" for every child in every school.
Mrs May told him: "He says he wants opportunities for all children, he says he wants good school places for all children - then he should jolly well support the policies we're putting forward."
The prime minister went to a grammar school in Oxford, Wheatley Park, which became a comprehensive while she was there.
The government is planning to overturn a long-running ban on opening new grammar schools, which select pupils by ability, but says it has no plans to bring back the 11-plus exam.
Education Secretary Justine Greening is consulting on a new formula for schools in England, to address what it calls the "unfair, opaque and outdated" distribution of money.
It says more than half of schools will receive a cash boost and protections will be put in place to ensure no school loses more than 6% of their budget in real terms.
But it has sparked criticism from head teachers and governors, who have said it does not take account of rising costs and will leave some schools desperately short of cash.
The Northern Irishman, 27, said he was verbally abused when he was walking to the eighth tee, stopping to point the offender out to officials at Hazeltine.
"Someone said a few derogatory things I thought were over the line," said McIlroy after winning a third point.
"That particular guy, who is in a small minority, just took it a bit too far."
It is unclear if the man was escorted off the course and McIlroy said he was "unsure if the man had been removed".
Europe, who trail the United States 9½-6½ after the opening two days, need 7½ points from Sunday's 12 singles matches to retain the trophy.
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McIlroy and rookie Pieters were the only winners for Europe in the afternoon fourball session as the home side, spurred on by a partisan crowd in Minnesota, won the final three matches.
"It's a tough environment but we expect that," said McIlroy.
"There have been some boundaries crossed. I let it get to me a couple of times which I probably shouldn't have.
"You have to keep your concentration out there and it's been a long day and sometimes emotions run high.
"It fuelled me a lot. The more they shouted, the better we played, so I hope they shout at us all day on Sunday."
Europe team-mate Sergio Garcia, who is playing in his eighth Ryder Cup, said that the atmosphere had "been quite poor". One fan was heard to shout "Sergio, you suck" during the fourballs, leading Tom Lehman, one of the US vice-captains, to tell people to calm down.
The Spaniard, who, alongside German Martin Kaymer, was beaten two and one by Phil Mickelson and Matt Kuchar in the fourballs, told BBC Radio 5 live: "85% of people are great.
"I love playing in America and my girlfriend is American, but the 15% that are really bad makes them look bad, and I feel ashamed for my girlfriend."
Ian Poulter, one of Europe's vice-captains after injury prevented him qualifying, tweeted: "Irrespective of the score the US players are policing the fans as they are embarrassed of their behaviour. Shame some spoiling this."
Captain Darren Clarke tried to play down the issue, saying "people are exuberant and enjoying themselves," before adding, "people just seemed to enjoy themselves a little bit too much at times".
US player Jordan Spieth tried to quieten spectators during the foursomes match involving Garcia, and said: "There were times it would quiet down and you would get a fan or two that would just yell and single people out.
"We wanted to hush them down so they were able to hit under the same conditions we were. I think that's fair.
"We wanted to beat them at their best and we thought it would be fair to make sure we did our part in giving them the opportunity we had when we were hitting shots."
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Nintendo will not reveal official sales figures until April.
But games magazine Famitsu says more than 330,000 units were sold in the first three days in Japan, way more than its previous console the Wii U.
Media reports suggest European and US sales have also been strong.
The Daily Telegraph quotes sources at Nintendo Europe saying Switch sales were better than any previous piece of Nintendo hardware.
And The New York Times reported the head of Nintendo America had claimed sales had surpassed the Nintendo Wii, which launched in 2006 and went on to sell more than 100 million consoles.
On Wednesday, Nintendo shares climbed 1.2% to a two-month high in Tokyo trade.
The Switch can be seated in a dock to play games on a television, or used as a stand-alone portable device.
The early sales figures suggested "Nintendo's fans like it best when it innovates," according to Sam Reynolds, gaming analyst with IDC.
"While a solid launch for Nintendo in Japan is expected, what's even more impressive is its success in North America," he told the BBC.
According to Mr Reynolds, first weekend sales for Nintendo Switch were "miles ahead" of the Wii, the Wii U, the N64 and the Game Cube.
The stakes are high for the Japanese firm, after the Wii U failed to replicate the success of the original Wii.
And it has not been plain sailing for the firm.
Thousands of customers have complained about dead or stuck pixels - which they say create distracting and annoying dark squares on their screens.
Nintendo said such pixels were "normal and should not be considered a defect".
Meanwhile some critics have said the Switch launched with too few games.
America's space agency Nasa said it was "saddened by the loss" of the retired spaceman.
Captain Cernan was one of only three people to go to the Moon twice and the last man to leave a footprint on the lunar surface in 1972.
The final words he spoke there were: "We leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return with peace and hope for all mankind."
He was the commander of the Apollo 17 mission at the time.
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In a statement, Cernan's family said he passed away on Monday following ongoing health issues. They did not give any further details.
"It is with very deep sadness that we share the loss of our beloved husband and father," the statement said.
"Our family is heartbroken.
"Even at the age of 82, Gene was passionate about sharing his desire to see the continued human exploration of space and encouraged our nation's leaders and young people to not let him remain the last man to walk on the Moon."
Before the Apollo 17 mission, Cernan had travelled into space twice - in 1966 and 1969.
A qualified naval aviator, he was selected into the third group of Nasa astronauts in 1963.
He retired in 1976, going into private business and contributing to US television channels on a variety of issues.
Cernan also produced a documentary film about his life, which he discussed at length in this BBC interview in 2014.
Born on 14 March 1934 in Chicago, his full name was Eugene Andrew Cernan.
He is survived by his wife Jan Nanna Cernan, his daughter and two step-daughters and also nine grandchildren.
His family said details regarding his funeral would be announced in the coming days.
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Same-sex marriage is not legal in Australia.
If the postal vote goes ahead and shows support for changing the law, the results will not be legally binding.
However, PM Malcolm Turnbull has said it could prompt a parliamentary vote to legalise same-sex marriage this year.
The postal plebiscite, as it is known, has been criticised by opponents as an unnecessary delay in resolving the debate, which they say could be settled immediately in parliament.
It will also face a legal challenge over whether it is constitutional.
The government had hoped to hold a compulsory national plebiscite, which, like the postal version, would not have bound MPs to a position.
However, the plan was voted down by the Senate in November and again on Wednesday, following opposition from Labor and other senators.
Opponents of the plebiscite did not necessarily oppose legalisation, but said the vote would be costly and fuel hate campaigns. They argued the matter should be put to a parliamentary vote.
Mr Turnbull's ruling conservative Coalition, which is split on the issue, believes a postal vote can be held without parliamentary approval.
Recent polls have regularly shown a majority of people favour changing the law.
According to one released last week, 67% of women and 59% of men want to see same-sex marriage legalised.
The government has said ballots could be sent to Australians as early as 12 September. Responses would be due by 7 November, and the result would be public by 25 November.
Mr Turnbull said it would cost taxpayers A$122 (£74m; $96m) and be overseen by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
However, same-sex marriage advocates - including an independent MP - have already planned a legal challenge to its constitutionality.
One point of contention is expected to be whether the ABS, rather than the Australian Electoral Commission, has the authority to oversee the vote.
If the postal vote proceeds and there is majority support for same-sex marriage, government MPs will be allowed a free vote to amend Australia's Marriage Act.
However, they will not be bound to vote in line with the public.
Labor Senator Penny Wong said the move was expensive and would expose children to hatred, citing one lobby group's comments from 2013.
"The Australian Christian Lobby described our children as the stolen generation," Ms Wong, who is gay and has two children, told the Senate on Wednesday.
"We love our children and I object, as do every person who cares about children, and as do all those couples in this country, same-sex couples who have kids, to be told our children are a stolen generation."
However, government Senator Mathias Cormann said he was confident that Australians would debate the issue civilly.
"I agree with [Senator Wong] it is going to be very important for this debate to be conducted with courtesy and respect," he said.
The country town, about 215km (133 miles) north of Sydney, was the hardest hit by storms that have also battered other parts of the state.
Dungog sits in the middle of the catchment for a major river system and the town is now flooded by swollen rivers.
Dungog Shire councillor Glenn Wall described a tragedy unfolding in the town where at least three people have died.
"It has been raining for about 24 hours now but in the early hours of this morning it really started coming down heavily," he told the BBC.
"Every river system that we have up here is in severe flood mode," said Mr Wall, who lives in a property in Gresford about 26km from Dungog.
"I have heard that four houses have been inundated and washed away," he said.
"I have real concern about the next 24 hours because there are reports of another storm front coming in from the north."
Dungog has a population of about 2,000 people. Mobile phone and landline connections have been cut off, and the roads into the town are inaccessible.
Mr Wall said he had had trouble contacting people in the town, but had been told by officials that as many as four houses and several bridges and roads had been washed away.
Reports say the three people killed were all elderly - two men and a woman - and were washed away with one of the houses.
"People are used to this kind of thing but not to the loss of life," he said.
"Just about every town and village in the area is isolated [by the rising water]," he said.
He said he had also heard that a bridge to the village of Torryburn had been washed away, isolating about 200 residents.
Mr Wall said when the floods eventually subside, there would likely be considerable livestock losses and damage to fences and road infrastructure.
Figures released to mark World Malaria Day show death rates have fallen by 40% since 2000 - but the disease still claims 600,000 lives every year.
Cardiff Met's African Partnership Initiative has been working to reduce levels of malaria, particularly among children, in rural areas of Uganda.
It has helped 40 households take measures to fight the disease.
The homes, all containing children under five or pregnant women, have received equipment, nutritional advice and repairs to their houses.
They are also used as training grounds for their home communities and people from other villages.
Source: Ugandan Ministry of Health
The African Partnership Initiative, which has received funding from the Welsh government and expertise from Cardiff and Vale Local Health Board, has also trained locals to act as community health workers.
Cardiff Met Professor George Karani said: "This work has delivered huge benefits and will continue to do so due in the long-term due to the sustainable elements such as community health workers."
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Danny Whitaker broke the deadlock from the spot after Reece Styche was brought down by Braintree's Sam Habergham.
Styche set up Danny Rowe to score from close range before John McCombe headed in Whitaker's cross to extend the lead.
Simeon Akinola pulled one back, but Braintree stayed one place below the play-off spots as Macclesfield made it six league games without defeat.
The 53-year-old, who has also coached at Llanelli and Cardiff Blues, will sit on the WRU's executive board.
John will step up from elite coach development manager to one of the two new WRU positions replacing the old head of rugby Josh Lewsey.
"I'm looking forward to working with the regions and Premiership clubs so Wales reaches its potential," he said.
John returned to the Wales set-up - which has won four Six Nations titles, including three Grand Slams since 2005 - in September 2015.
John had worked as Canada's high performance manager and sevens coach before joining Australia as director of sevens and sevens head coach.
"Geraint has impressed everyone since his return to Welsh rugby last year," said WRU chief executive Martyn Phillips.
John will work alongside a new WRU new head of rugby participation - a role that has not yet been filled, which will concentrate on improving the amateur game.
Following reports that new legislation was being prepared, the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure told the BBC the draft had not yet been finalised.
The hardware would record the decisions made by a car's computer while being used in autonomous mode.
It could pinpoint the cause of a crash.
The draft law was expected to be sent to other ministries for approval this summer, Reuters reported.
Self-driving car technology has been under close scrutiny following the fatal crash of a Tesla vehicle being operated in Autopilot mode in May.
Tesla has repeatedly stated that its Autopilot functionality is still in development and is not intended to be used as a fully autonomous driving solution.
The first cars were allowed back onto the crossing at 05:20 after engineers welded a splint onto damaged steelwork.
Heavy goods vehicles will remain banned until further work is carried out, with this scheduled for completion by "mid-February".
The bridge was closed to all traffic on 4 December after a crack was discovered in a truss under the carriageway.
Five heavy lorries have been turned away from the bridge since it reopened.
Bridge operating company Amey said vehicles weighing over seven and a half tonnes are prevented from using the bridge until permanent repairs to a cracked steel truss are made.
Scottish Infrastructure Secretary Keith Brown met the Freight Transport Association and the Road Haulage Association to discuss the problems being caused to operators by the ban on heavy lorries.
Mr Brown said: "Today's discussions with the freight trade associations were very constructive and we have agreed a five point plan to keep HGVs moving as works continue on the Forth Road Bridge.
"Both associations stressed the importance of the relaxation of drivers hours being extended to allow continued flexibility. I assured them that we are taking this forward with the UK Government and European Commission, based on evidence from the freight associations.
Director of the Road Haulage Association in Scotland Martin Reid said: "The RHA welcomes the ongoing dialogue with the minister and Transport Scotland as it is imperative that the interests of road hauliers are recognised, particularly while the essential maintenance is being undertaken at the Forth Road Bridge.
"It is absolutely essential for the Scottish economy that delivery routes are as free of congestion and hindrance as possible especially while hauliers are faced with additional costs due to the diversions in place."
The FTA's Head of Policy for Scotland Chris MacRae said: "The Freight Transport Association is grateful to Transport Scotland and the Scottish government for recognising the importance of keeping freight traffic moving at the busiest time of year for the industry.
"We will seek feedback from our members on how they are being affected by the extended closure of the bridge to goods vehicles in excess of 7.5 tonnes."
In normal operation, the bridge handles 80,000 vehicles each day and closure had caused significant disruption.
Bridge operator, Amey, said: "Traffic has been running very well all day since the bridge reopened. There have been no queues and no delays."
The partial re-opening is ahead of schedule, with officials having previously estimated that the temporary repairs would not be completed until after the Christmas holidays.
Police officers were stationed at both ends of the bridge on Wednesday to redirect any vehicle over 7.5 tonnes.
A police spokesman said the continued ban on HGVs was being well adhered to. By midday five lorries had been turned away.
HGVs account for 32% of the weight the bridge normally carries despite making up approx 9% of overall traffic.
Scottish government transport minister Derek Mackay said the estimated reopening date for HGVs of mid-February "felt accurate" based on the work programme but it was weather dependent and assumed no further faults were found.
He told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: "I am very certain that we'll meet that date of mid-February for the bridge to be open to HGVs.
"Of course it's good news this morning that it's open to 90% of traffic and HGVs should follow early next year. Mid-February is as accurate a date I can give based on engineers' opinion at this time."
Mr Mackay said the revised date for full reopening was based on data gathered from load testing.
"We weren't satisfied with the results. That's why further strengthening works are required. It's partly a precautionary measure to give us absolute certainly that it's safe and effective to allow HGVs across from mid February."
The study looked at how the visual, shadow flicker and noise impacts predicted by developers at the planning stage compared to reality.
Climate change body ClimateXChange looked at 10 wind farms in Scotland.
It concluded that in some cases what was set out in planning applications did not match the actual impact.
The test sites included wind farms at Dalswinton in Dumfries and Galloway, Achany in the Highlands, Drone Hill in the Borders, Hadyard Hill in South Ayrshire, Little Raith in Fife and West Knock Farm in Aberdeenshire.
It also found that efforts to engage with the public had not always adequately prepared residents for the visual, shadow flicker and noise impacts of a development.
The information was gathered through a combination of residents' surveys and assessments by professional consultants.
Project manager Ragne Low said: "As the study has focused on issues relating to the planning process, we are confident that the findings will feed into improved practice in measuring the predicted impacts of proposed wind farms and in communicating this to decision-makers and those likely to be affected.
"The findings point to several possible improvements in planning guidance and good practice.
"Some have been implemented in the time between the case study wind farms being planned and built, and the present. The study will contribute to building on these improvements."
Linda Holt, spokeswoman for the campaign group Scotland Against Spin, welcomed the findings.
She said: "For too long, people who have complained about wind farms have been dismissed as nimbies and we applaud the energy minister Fergus Ewing for commissioning this work.
"The recommendations show that the planning system is ill-equipped to address potentially adverse impacts on wind farm neighbours and we urge the Scottish government to lose no time in implementing them.
"For too long, decision-makers on wind farms have been asked to determine applications while blind-folded about the true impacts of placing enormous industrial machines near people's homes."
A spokesman for Scottish Renewables said: "This study highlights the high standards of guidance available for those planning an onshore wind farm in Scotland, and we were pleased to see the sector has been putting these into practice.
"The industry has long worked with government and its agencies to put these high standards in place and this report demonstrates how much we have continuously improved, while identifying areas for further improvements for future schemes."
A Scottish government spokeswoman said: "We welcome the publication of the wind farm impacts study report which is the first of its kind in the world and presents the findings of a two-year study involving a wide-range of interest groups.
"The report shows improvements have already been made in our planning system, which is rigorous and ensures appropriate siting of wind farms, and studies like this will make sure this improvement continues, and we look forward to considering the recommendations carefully.
"Our policy on wind farm applications strikes a careful balance between maximising Scotland's huge green energy potential and protecting environmental interests and residential amenity."
Lily Partridge collapsed by the side of the pitch after being injured at North Tawton's ground in Devon on Sunday.
Her life-support machine was switched off in hospital in Exeter on Monday night, her family confirmed.
Her club said she had suffered "a couple" of concussions previously, but had taken out the recommended time from playing and had consulted a doctor.
"She took a month off and was symptom free before she returned to playing," said Katie Lunnon, captain of the Topsham-based Exonian Ladies team.
The RFU is investigating the circumstances of the injury, which happened during the women's development tournament.
Ms Partridge, who was a part-time teacher and also worked at Shaldon Zoo, had played for Exonian Ladies for about 18 months. She was also the club's social secretary.
Her parents Jeff and Liz, from Exeter, said: "No-one ever had a bad word to say about Lily. She was the glue that stuck everyone together.
"She was stubborn and would say, 'I can do this and I can do that'. She was her own person and that is what we loved about her.
"She broke down barriers. She was a brilliant star in our lives for 22 years."
They added that her organs had been donated to help other people.
"Hopefully one, two, three or more people will have a better quality of life thanks to Lily," they said.
25%
of injuries during rugby matches are to the head
6 concussions in every 1,000 player hours of professional rugby, around 1 in every 3 games
1.2 concussions per 1,000 player hours in amateur rugby, around 1 in every 21 games
95 concussions per 1,000 hours in amateur horse racing, 13 in professional boxing and 0.4 in football.
Reports of concussions in rugby have doubled in five years and both the English and Scottish rugby unions have said they are trying to increase awareness of concussion.
RFU guidelines state that adult players should have at least 19 days off after suffering concussion and after being cleared by a doctor.
Topsham Rugby Club called Ms Partridge a "talented, vivacious and universally-loved founding member of Exonian Ladies rugby team", adding that members were "utterly heartbroken".
More than 150 people have sent tributes to Lily on the BBC Spotlight Facebook page.
Source: NHS Choices
Among them, Bud Rosewall wrote: "Very sad news from a tragic accident. Our thoughts are with the family, friends and the club at this very sad time. The Roseland RFC, Cornwall."
Naomi Gruitt wrote: "An absolute beaut of a girl and amazing friend and player."
In October 2014, a 23-year-old female rugby player died from brain injuries a month after she was injured in a tackle in a match.
Sarah Chesters, a full-back with Longton RFC, walked off the pitch and declined medical treatment. But a month on she felt sick and dizzy and died in hospital a week later.
Kinlochshiel went second in the table courtesy of a 1-0 victory away to Glasgow Mid Argyll, while Glenurquhart's 2-1 home win over Lovat sent them third.
Shiel and Glenurquhart both leapfrogged Oban Camanachd, whose game at Kilmallie was postponed following the death of Oban's 1996 Camanachd Cup winning captain Neil "Nonny" MacInnes, who was 46 years old.
In the MacTavish Cup, second tier side Fort William lost 2-0 to holders Newtonmore. Artemis MacAulay Cup holders Kyles also progressed after a 7-1 win over Bute in Rothesay.
Kingussie scored their two goals in the first half, both coming from Martin Dallas. At Yoker, Oliver MacRae got the only goal of the game for Kinlochshiel after 42 minutes and Mid Argyll were unable to respond.
Greg Matheson put Lovat ahead after 43 minutes, but James MacPherson's goal and a late Fraser Heath winner swung the game Glenurquhart's way. At An Aird, Newtonmore had been expected to overwhelm Fort William but after Iain Robinson's opener a quarter of an hour in, Glen Mackintosh's clincher did not come until midway through the second half.
Newtonmore now progress to a home quarter final against another second tier side Caberfeidh.
Grant Irvine and Roddy MacDonald both got hat tricks for Kyles against Bute.
Sandy MacKenzie was Kyles' other scorer and Duncan Davidson got Bute's consolation early in the second half. Kyles will now welcome Aberdour or Glasgow Mid Argyll in the last eight.
Leading Scotland scorer Kevin Bartlett, who has just returned to Caberfeidh from Lovat, grabbed two including a penalty as Cabers beat Oban Celtic 4-2 in Strathpeffer in the National Division. In the same league, Strathlass and Inverness drew 1-1 in Cannich.
Speaking during a visit to a refugee camp in Jordan, Filippo Grandi said the crisis "cannot only concern the countries neighbouring Syria".
Jordan is hosting 633,000 of the 4.39 million Syrians registered as refugees with the UN.
Many Syrian refugees are also sheltering in Turkey and Lebanon.
Hundreds of thousands of others have sought refuge in the European Union in recent years.
"I think we need to be much more ambitious'' about resettling refugees, Mr Grandi, an Italian diplomat, said at the Zaatari refugee camp.
"What is needed is a better sharing of responsibilities," he added.
His comments came as the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said the number of Syrians stranded on the Jordanian border had risen sharply to about 17,000 people.
Mr Grandi also said the UNHCR would organise a conference in Geneva in March to find host nations for Syrian refugees, after a fund-raising event in London planned for next month.
The Syrian conflict erupted in 2011 with mass protests against President Bashar al-Assad.
More than 230,000 people are estimated to have been killed since then.
Sir Elton John said he was "a giant of a man and a brilliant songwriter", while Boy George called him a "poignant force of energy".
Russell Crowe thanked the Hallelujah songwriter for "the perspective, the wry smiles and the truth".
JK Rowling tweeted the singer's lyrics: "There is a crack in everything, That's how the light gets in."
Actress Mia Farrow and Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda were among others to quote the songwriter's lyrics on Twitter, while Carole King tweeted her respects with "RIP".
Peter Gabriel said Cohen's "unique voice painted unforgettable pictures" and that "there is a big hole where he stood".
"Anyone looking at an empty page trying to write a song lyric sits in the shadow of the mountain that was Leonard Cohen," he wrote.
"Another magical voice stilled," wrote Bette Midler, while Justin Timberlake said Cohen had "a spirit and soul beyond compare".
In a lengthy tribute, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Cohen had "managed to reach the highest of artistic achievement".
"His ability to conjure the vast array of human emotion made him one of the most influential and enduring musicians ever."
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also paid tribute, describing him as "a great creator" and "a talented artist".
An impromptu vigil has been held outside the singer's Montreal home, with fans lighting candles and leaving messages and flowers.
Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler thanked Cohen "for so many years of music", while Canadian singer Alanis Morissette marked his passing with a crying face emoji.
British singers Lily Allen and Paloma Faith also paid tribute, with the latter describing his death as "a tragic loss".
"As if the week could get any worse," tweeted Allen, one of a number of celebrities to allude to this week's election results in America.
US comedian Sarah Silverman said his death would make people "remember songs like Come Healing which is a good one for these days".
Duran Duran singer Simon Le Bon wrote: "Spent a good deal of my early teens, just me & #LeonardCohen alone together in my suburban bedroom. It was a gentle & fulfilling love affair."
Alexandra Burke, whose cover version of Cohen's Hallelujah was the Christmas number one after she won The X Factor in 2008, said: "Leonard Cohen, a lyrical legend, a man who will continue to inspire. A voice that will always live on. Thank you for the memories."
Nick Cave, who covered Cohen's Avalanche on his 1984 album From Her to Eternity, said he was "the greatest songwriter of them all - utterly unique and impossible to imitate, no matter how hard we tried".
Neil Portnow, chief executive of the Recording Academy, which celebrates music through the Grammy Awards, described Cohen as "one of the most revered pop poets and a musical touchstone for many songwriters".
"His extraordinary talent had a profound impact on countless singers and songwriters, as well as the wider culture," he added.
"Unmatched in his creativity, insight and crippling candour, Leonard Cohen was a true visionary whose voice will be sorely missed," Cohen's manager Robert Kory told Rolling Stone.
"He leaves behind a legacy of work that will bring insight, inspiration and healing for generations to come."
BBC DJ Mark Radcliffe said Cohen had been "incredible to watch" when he performed at the Glastonbury Festival in 2008.
"There were 70,000 people in front of that stage but he made it feel like a tiny club," he recalled.
Like the late David Bowie, he went on, Cohen had "made great music right to the end with the enigma intact."
Producer John Lissauer, who worked with Cohen on such albums as New Skin for the Old Ceremony and Various Positions, said he had been "an iconic figure."
"He was so consistent in his devotion to the craft and his devotion to recording and performing," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
Appearing on the same programme, former chancellor Lord Darling said seeing Cohen play a gig in London had proved uplifting as he coped with the financial crisis.
"I went along prepared to be even more gloom-filled than I was feeling in the summer of 2008 and actually I came out of it very cheered up," he told the BBC earlier.
"It's no surprise he inspired so many people."
Singer Jennifer Hudson thanked Cohen for his "dedication to music", accompanying her Twitter post with footage of a performance of Hallelujah she gave in 2014.
Yusuf, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, said Cohen's death had "once again exposed... the fragileness of life".
Canadian author Margaret Atwood said his death had made her "very sad", sentiments echoed by Hobbit actor Luke Evans.
Other actors to have paid their respects include Annette Bening, who described Cohen as "the most inspiring performer" and "a genius".
Antonio Banderas called him "a great poet", while Kiefer Sutherland described his countryman as "a brilliant Canadian artist".
Appearing on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show, music critic Neil McCormick described Cohen as "an Old Testament poet combined with a hard-boiled comedian".
"I've never met someone who took much care with his phrasing and words," he said. "He could say the darkest things about the human condition, but lace it with a humour that made it palatable."
Singer Frank Turner, appearing on the same programme, likened Cohen's songs to psalms - "perfect creations that felt like he had discovered them rather than wrote them."
"He sets a standard for all songwriters everywhere," Turner continued. "He wrote words that will stand the test of time and give the rest of us something to aspire to."
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The opening day, 1 July 1916, remains the bloodiest in the Army's history.
A total of 19,240 British troops were killed within 24 hours, and almost a tenth of those who died that first day were from the 36th Ulster Division.
Commemorations have been held in towns and cities in Northern Ireland and at Dublin's War Memorial Gardens.
When the first guests arrived at the Ulster Tower, the atmosphere was convivial and almost festive.
Many smiling faces had their photo taken in front of the tower, with poppy-spotted fields behind them.
Some had arrived in military uniform, others wore rows of medals belonging to those they were here to remember.
But as the commemoration drew near, there was no mistaking the reverence and solemnity of the occasion.
In France, the village of Thiepval is close to where the 36th Ulster Division began their attack on German lines on 1 July 1916 and is now the site of the Ulster Memorial Tower, a 70ft (21m) monument that commemorates their sacrifice.
Men from all over the island of Ireland fought at the Somme, and the British, Irish and French governments were represented during a ceremony at the tower on Friday.
The Queen led the UK's national commemorations from London, having opened an overnight vigil on Thursday in Westminster Abbey.
First Minister Arlene Foster travelled to France to lay a wreath on behalf of the people of Northern Ireland.
In Northern Ireland, an overnight vigil took place at the Somme Museum near Newtownards in County Down.
It was followed on Friday morning by a number of military, civil and religious ceremonies in cities and towns, including Belfast, Lisburn, Londonderry, Enniskillen and Hillsborough.
Just before 07:30 BST, the 206 (Ulster) Battery Royal Artillery fired one of their L118 light guns at Hillsborough Castle in County Down, the Queen's official residence in Northern Ireland.
At about the same time, soldiers at Thiepval Barracks in Lisburn in County Antrim mustered at the Thiepval Memorial for an ecumenical commemoration service.
The 36th Ulster Division was one of the few divisions of the Army to make significant gains on the first day of the battle, but it suffered terrible losses.
Many people from Northern Ireland, including relatives of Somme veterans, have travelled to France for the commemoration events.
Prime Minister David Cameron and several senior members of the Royal Family, including Price Charles, were joined by the French President Francois Hollande at the Thiepval Memorial.
The government was represented by Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers.
Irish President Michael D Higgins and the Irish Heritage Minister Heather Humphreys also travelled to France to pay tribute to the estimated 50,000 Irishmen who were killed while serving in the British, Commonwealth or US armies in World War One.
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn also made the journey to Thiepval and paid tribute to Irishmen who died at the Battle of the Somme.
He said the commemoration events were "deeply moving" and brought back "the horrors of war".
At the UK's national ceremony in London, a 24-year-old soldier, originally from Newtownards, played a rendition of the Flowers of the Forest.
L/Cpl Ritchie Spence, who is a member of the Irish Guards, joined the Army when he was 16 and was shot and wounded in the arm while serving in Afghanistan in 2010.
Back in Belfast, the annual wreath laying ceremony took place at the Cenotaph at Belfast City Hall, remembering men from both the 36th (Ulster) Division and 16th (Irish) Division who lost their lives at the Somme.
Londonderry marked the centenary with a parade, a drumhead service and the launch of a World War One memorial in the grounds of St Columb's Cathedral.
In County Fermanagh, a commemoration service was held at 07:00 BST at Enniskillen Castle, where tributes were paid to all the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers killed on the first two days of the battle.
On Friday evening, an ecumenical service of reflection will take place in St Macartin's Cathedral in Enniskillen, where a new memorial window will be dedicated in the regimental chapel to all the Inniskillings casualties of World War One.
From the £45.2m investment for the 2015-19 cycle, areas "demonstrating membership growth and attaining performance targets" are rewarded.
The record expenditure is up £3m from the 2011-15 period.
The new phase covers the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games and Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in 2018.
Of the funding coming from the Scottish Government and the Lottery, Scotland's Minister for Sport Jamie Hepburn said: "This record investment in Scottish sport's governing bodies will benefit all participants - our clubs, volunteers, performance athletes, and coaches.
"It will help us to continue to increase capacity in sport, building on the hugely successful and inspirational 2014 Commonwealth Games.
"The positive impact of hosting the Commonwealth Games has been felt right across the sporting spectrum, boosted by other high-profile events like the Ryder Cup and the Davis Cup."
Olympic and Paralympic sports are midway through their investment 2013-17 cycle, so the funds do not impact on preparations for Rio 2016.
Judo, a huge success for Scotland at the 2014 Glasgow Games, has been dropped for the Gold Coast event, with basketball taking its place in Australia.
However, judo will receive a 3.17% funding increase, while Basketball Scotland is currently mid-cycle, so there is no new money being announced.
Aquatics once again leads the way with more than £5m, although the figure is marginally down by 0.62%.
Spending on athletics is down by 2.08% to £3.76m, with cycling, hockey, rugby and gymnastics also receiving more than £3m.
The boxing budget leaps up by almost 45% to just over £2.5m, with netball getting £2.07m (up 35%).
Scotland's lawn bowlers won three gold medals and one silver at Glasgow 2014, with funding rising by almost 30% to £1.84m.
Curling continues to receive healthy support, with £2.87m (up 1.66%), with snowsports getting a 41.34% boost to £1.85m.
Maggie Murray, chief executive of Netball Scotland, said it would take time for the sport to be a "respected elite sport for women" and welcomed the cash boost.
She said: "We are very pleased about their increased commitment and support to help realise our ambition to be the first choice sport for girls and women."
The last spending cycle, she noted, was "one of the most productive and progressive phases in our history resulting in a 58% increase in membership over four years and an improvement in our World Ranking from 17th to 11th."
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Wales host Italy on Saturday with home coach Warren Gatland saying the Azzurri deserve their place, but backing a one-up, one-down play-off in the long term.
On current standings Italy would play Georgia for a place in 2017's event.
"I think it is a stupid question because I think Italy do a lot for this tournament," said number eight Parisse.
"Imagine teams like Ireland, Scotland or even France being last in the tournament and going to play other nations after being relegated," he said.
"You think a federation like Ireland or France are going to accept that to take a risk? Or is it just because we are Italy?"
Italy, badly affected by injuries, have lost all four of their games in the tournament so far this year.
But Parisse, capped 118 times by his country, doubts whether the second-tier nations could perform as well as they have in recent years.
"I think we need to remember what has happened in the past," he said.
"We are really respectful of all the nations like Georgia and Romania and at their level they show a lot of progress but they haven't got the results we have. They haven't beaten France, they haven't beaten Ireland twice.
"They haven't got the historic results we have so we deserve to be here, it's as simple as that."
The tournament became the Six Nations in 2000 when Italy joined.
They have beaten Wales, Scotland, France and Ireland, but never beaten England or finished better than fifth in the table.
Wales finished bottom of the table in 2003.
The NHS Information Services Division analysed the 526 drug deaths in that year, the latest for which full figures are available.
They said 273 children lost a parental figure.
Almost half of females who died a drug-related death had children under 16, compared with about a third of males.
The fifth report from the National Drug Related Deaths Database (NDRDD) for Scotland looks in greater detail at the official figures for drug deaths which were released in August last year.
The analysis is carried out to help develop interventions to reduce drug-related deaths, which have been slowly coming down.
But the number is still about 50% higher than 10 years ago.
The report said 76% of those who died were male and half lived in the most deprived areas of Scotland.
The percentage of deaths among individuals aged 35 and over increased from 50% in 2009 to 66% in 2013, the figures showed.
Almost two thirds (63%) of those analysed in the figures had a psychiatric condition recorded in the six months before they died.
Heroin was the drug most frequently implicated in death but in almost all cases multiple drugs were present in the body at death.
Methadone, heroin, morphine or buprenorphine were implicated in 76% of cases.
A group of teenagers made the find behind a row of shops in the town of Humpty Doo on Sunday.
The heads belonged to saltwater crocodiles, a protected species in Australia's Northern Territory.
There is a lucrative trade in the area for crocodile skins, many of which go to make handbags and shoes.
Anyone found guilty of killing protected wildlife can face a fine of up to A$76,500 (£36,000; $56,000) or five years in jail.
"There was quite a bad smell and maggots around everywhere," Tommy Nichols, a senior wildlife ranger specialising in crocodile management, told ABC.
"A lot of people keep some strange things in freezers."
Saltwater crocodiles, the largest of the species, can grow up to 7m (23ft) in length and weigh up to a tonne.
There are believed to be up to 200,000 saltwater crocodiles in the wild in Australia, where they were made a protected species in 1970.
For the second time in a month Martin Slumbers, the chief executive of the R&A, has been forced to deflect questions generated by the Republican front runner's election campaigning.
Trump's outspoken plans to ban Muslims from entering the US and building a wall on the Mexican border are at odds with golf's ethos of becoming a more inclusive sport.
The American billionaire owns Turnberry, the Ayrshire course that last staged the Open in 2009. Inevitably Slumbers is being quizzed over whether Trump is a suitable host for the world's oldest major championship.
Last month, Slumbers, who in 2015 took over as chief of the St Andrews-based governing body, told BBC Sport that Turnberry is not being considered as an Open venue until 2022 at the earliest. He, therefore, reasons there is no need for any definitive statement at this stage.
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On Monday Slumbers held a media conference with the UK's golf correspondents and was peppered with more questions regarding Trump and Turnberry's future on the Open rota.
Again he played the kind of straight bat that is currently so craved by the top order in English cricket. Slumbers would not be drawn on the subject.
He is understandably more guarded than his predecessor Peter Dawson, who marked his departure from St Andrews last September by dismissing the notion that Turnberry's Open status could be affected.
"To think that we are going to determine where an Open Championship is held because of something somebody said on the political trail in America is absurd," said the outgoing boss.
"I don't think that's going to happen. We have other priorities, but that's for a future committee to judge."
Dawson was right in the sense that it is for other people to decide, but it is becoming a difficult situation for his successor. At the moment Slumbers is playing for time because he knows to jump either way would be dangerous.
If he took Dawson's line, the new chief executive would be open to criticism that golf's more politically correct outlook is a mere sham. Slumbers wants the game to be open to all yet would be giving a huge platform to a man prompting such outrage.
Equally, if he said that the Open should have nothing to do with Trump, he would deprive the championship of one of its finest venues.
How would Trump react to his resort being demoted from the top table of golfing venues? Would he continue to pour his millions into redeveloping Turnberry's famous hotel and golf course?
It is fair to assume playing host to the Open was one of the attractions for Trump when he bought the place. And were he to pull out, what would that mean for the Ayrshire economy?
Slumbers insists the current noise surrounding Trump is not problematic. "I wouldn't say it is making life difficult," he told BBC Sport.
"I'm pretty clear about what I believe and I'm pretty clear about where we are going and we are pretty clear about where we are going to be until 2021.
"So I think it is just part of the challenge of the responsibility we are trying to discharge."
Slumbers confirmed that Turnberry does remain among the pool of courses considered suitable for staging the Open but he offered no guarantees over when the course might hold its next championship.
The PGA Tour are wrestling with a similar dilemma regarding the WGC Cadillac Championship which will be staged at Trump's Doral Blue Monster course next week.
They have indicated they will look for a new venue for the 2017 running of an event that traditionally attracts all the world's top players.
"Mr Trump's comments are inconsistent with our strong commitment to an inclusive and welcoming environment in the game of golf," the Tour said in a recent statement to Golf.com.
"Immediately after the completion of the 2016 tournament, we will explore all options regarding the event's future."
PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem can expect a similar grilling to the ones endured by Slumbers if he talks to reporters at the south Florida venue next week.
There are no easy answers, especially when you consider Trump's current prominent position in the US polls.
And regardless of whether he goes on to become the next President of the United States, he will remain the owner of several very significant golfing venues.
Assuming his controversial views remain similarly intact, golf will have some difficult choices to make.
Right now the game's bosses are understandably stalling but there will come a time when that will not be enough.
Japan's Nikkei 225 was up 0.28% at 20,529.94 points in early trade.
Earlier this week, the index ended its longest winning streak since 1988.
In Australia, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 was down 0.59% at 5,550.80 points despite the positive lead from US stocks.
Investor sentiment in the country was hit earlier this week after the Reserve Bank of Australia gave no clear indication that it would cut its benchmark lending rate again soon.
Better-than-expected economic growth numbers released by the government on Wednesday further dampened investors' hopes of a rate cute in the near future.
In South Korea, the benchmark Kospi index was flat, up just 0.03% at 2,063.75 points in early trade despite some positive economic growth data.
Latest figures from the country's central bank showed growth in Asia's fourth largest economy had marginally beaten estimates to expand 2.5% during the first three months of 2015 compared with a year earlier, boosted by construction and construction investment.
The Bank of Korea had estimated annual growth of 2.4% for the period.
Quarter-on-quarter growth came in at 0.8%, in line with expectations. Manufacturing and private consumption also contributed to the nation's economic expansion.
Analysts had predicted that the country's growth would remain soft in the first quarter of 2015 before picking up pace later in the year.
The Shanghai Composite index closed flat on Wednesday after two previous sessions of strong gains.
A raft of initial share offerings this week was widely expected to draw liquidity from the mainland's markets.
According to local reports, the share offerings are expected to lock up 8.3tn yuan ($1.34tn; £873bn) of cash.
Meanwhile, the largest shareholder in technology giant Lenovo is expected to gain approval for an initial public offering in Hong Kong today.
The Chinese conglomerate, Legend Holdings, aims to raise as much as $2bn from investors.
The 20-year-old, from County Down, dominated the race and is now leading the World Cup ranking in the event.
He has secured back-to-back gold medals after winning the points race in the second World Cup round in Apeldoorn.
"This one means a lot more to me than Apeldoorn because of the fashion in which I won," said Downey.
"It was my first time racing at altitude so I needed to be careful.
"My pre-race tactic was to chill for 30 to 40 laps and then to come to the front and turn the gas on. I made three key moves in the race."
Ireland's Lydia Boylan was sixth in the Women's Omnium, having made a blistering start by winning the first event, the scratch race.
Leading 1-0 from the first leg, Milan scored three first-half goals through Jeremy Menez (2) and Alessio Romagnoli.
Alessandria brought more than 15,000 fans to the San Siro, but an own goal by Roberto Sabato and Balotelli's late strike ensured there would be no shock.
Milan will play Juventus or Inter Milan in the final.
The fire broke out on the third floor of the old workhouse - an unoccupied building - on the Castlebalfour Road on Friday evening.
Six fire engines were called to tackle the blaze.
But firefighters had to withdraw because the building was at risk of collapse.
Ian Brown, 59, of Morpeth, Northumberland, saved Rick Haines' life when his donated marrow was flown to the United States in 1991.
Now Mr Brown has made the trip to attend the wedding of Marissa Haines.
He himself tied the knot last week to second wife Lorraine Scott and is making the trip part of his honeymoon.
Mr Brown, who was widowed in 2011, said: "Basically, before his transplant Rick was terminally ill and only had a few weeks to live and his biggest regret was that he would never walk his little girl - who was three or four at the time - down the aisle.
"He asked me many years ago how he could ever repay me for donating the bone marrow that saved his life and my answer was to let me see that very thing happen."
Mr Brown joined the Anthony Nolan register in the 1980s when his nine-month-old son Michael, now 34, was being treated for testicular cancer.
In 1991, he received a call to say he was a match for a patient in the USA.
He travelled to a clinic in London and his marrow was immediately flown to the USA on Concorde.
The transplant took place that evening.
Engineer Mr Haines, aged 44 at the time, was suffering from aplastic anaemia when he had the transplant.
Mr Haines, from Delaware, later contacted Mr Brown to thank him and the pair first met in 1996. They have since had family holidays together.
Mr Brown said: "We were in contact pretty much immediately and wrote letters, although everything was anonymous and censored - it was a bit like being in a prison camp. We were then asked if we wanted to be properly in contact after six months and we did.
"Five years later in Florida we finally met up, which was a tremendous experience."
Mr Haines' daughter Marissa is due to marry her fiance Dustin later on Saturday in Pennsylvania.
The EFL says 20% of all fans attending matches in the Football League are now aged under 16.
The increase has been credited to clubs improving the matchday experience for families.
The BBC's Price of Football study found more than two thirds of ticket prices across the UK have been either cut or frozen for the 2016-17 season.
Championship side Cardiff City's family season membership has increased from 459 to 7,000 over a four-year period after making changes, including a turnstile system that recognised children's birthdays on entry.
Colchester, who were relegated from League One last season, reported an 11% increase in overall attendances, helped by an introduction of live music, concourse activities and an online matchday timetable for families.
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SP Energy Networks wants to build a new line from South Ayrshire to Cumbria - most of it in Dumfries and Galloway.
It has now published its report on public feedback on the plans.
It said a further round of consultation would be required later this year but said changes in the industry could affect the "scope of the project".
More than 1,600 pieces of feedback were provided during the first round of consultation - the majority from Dumfries and Galloway where most of the proposed power line route would run.
A number of points about the scheme were raised, including:
The company said that since the consultation was launched, there had been a "number of significant developments in the wider energy sector" which could affect the project.
However, it said it remained the case that investment was required to replace "ageing infrastructure in the Dumfries and Galloway region".
There will now be "further analysis" to determine the extent to which changes to "subsidy arrangements for onshore wind farms and the future mix of power generation in Scotland" would alter their plans.
SP Energy Networks transmission director Pearse Murray said: "In our initial documentation published last year, we indicated our intention to undertake a second round of consultation in 2016 on the preferred routes and substation sites.
"Given the further analysis work we are doing with National Grid, we believe it is necessary to take more time to consider the issues in order to ensure that the most appropriate proposal is taken forward to the next stage of the process.
"Once we have the results of the studies that are under way, we will be in a position to set out any implications on the scope of the project and our plans for the next round of consultation.
"We expect that this will be in the summer of this year."
Alan Jones, of campaign group Dumgal Against Pylons, said it welcomed the recognition that "external factors" had changed since the consultation was launched.
"While we have always recognised the need to replace the existing system because of its age, and add some future-proofing, this 'pause for thought' aligns with our thinking," he said.
"It will give Scottish Power the time they need to take into consideration not only the extensive feedback but also to reflect on how best to meet the changing external environmental circumstances."
He added that a stakeholder liaison group for the project should now be expanded and also called for independent research on the potential impact of the scheme.
Andrew Roddison, 41, of Flatts Lane in Treeton, was accused of sexually assaulting a female councillor following a parade in Rotherham in May.
The Labour councillor for the Brinsworth and Catcliffe ward denied the charges, but he was found guilty at Leeds Magistrates' Court.
At the court hearing, he was given an indefinite restraining order.
He was also sentenced to a six-month curfew order, told to pay £500 in legal costs and given an £85 victim surcharge, the Crown Prosecution Service said.
In a statement, his solicitor Steve Smith said: "Having considered the financial options open to Mr Roddison it has been decided with great reluctance not to appeal.
"His income has been taken from him, and consequently he is resigning his position as a councillor."
Roddison, who was elected as a councillor in May 2011, had "given very good service to the council hitherto", Mr Smith added.
No official letter of resignation had been received from Roddison, said Rotherham Council.
A statement from the council said: "The leader of the council has already written to Councillor Roddison, making it clear that his behaviour has been unacceptable and urging him to stand down from his seat with immediate effect in the best interest of the community and the council."
The US company uses the UK firm's chip technology in its iPhones, iPads, and iPods under a licensing agreement.
Apple's royalty payments account for about half Imagination's revenues.
Shares fell 165p to 103p, valuing the company at about £250m - down from about £765m before the announcement was made on Monday morning.
Imagination said Apple, its largest customer, would stop using its products in "15 months to two years".
Apple is developing its own technology, but Imagination said this would be difficult without infringing patents.
Apple has told Imagination that it is "working on a separate, independent graphics design in order to control its products and will be reducing its future reliance on Imagination's technology".
Imagination, like the UK's ARM Holdings, is at the forefront of computer chip technology globally. ARM was sold last year to Japan's Softbank, a deal criticised as selling out of the UK's winners.
The Financial Times reported last year that Apple, which owns 8% of the UK company, had held talks about buying Imagination.
In its statement, Imagination questioned whether Apple would be able to develop its own computer chip designs without breaching its intellectual property rights.
The UK company said: "Apple has not presented any evidence to substantiate its assertion that it will no longer require Imagination's technology, without violating Imagination's patents, intellectual property and confidential information. This evidence has been requested by Imagination but Apple has declined to provide it.
"Further, Imagination believes that it would be extremely challenging to design a brand new GPU architecture from basics without infringing its intellectual property rights, accordingly Imagination does not accept Apple's assertions."
Imagination said in its latest annual report that it has other licensing deals with customers, but described the Apple contract as "essential".
Last year, Apple paid about £60.7m in royalties to Imagination and it is forecast to pay about £65m for the current financial year.
Apple's decision to go it alone with the graphics chip technology inside its devices could help the tech giant cut costs and better set the pace of innovation. But doing so risks a legal clash with its former ally, Imagination.
Doesn't Apple already make its own chips?
Apple does indeed design the A10 chip in the iPhone 7, and has developed A-series chips dating back to the original iPad.
But these "system-on-chips" are made up of different components, one of which is a graphics processing unit (GPU). Until now, these GPUs parts have always been customised versions of Imagination's PowerVR designs.
Apple tweaks Imagination's designs to maximise the battery life and performance of its devices.
Why may Apple have an issue with using Imagination's tech?
While Apple has made impressive year-on-year gains with the A-series chips' central processing unit (CPU), improvements to the GPU have been more mixed.
Most recently, Apple has said the GPU in the A10 is twice as fast as the previous generation, but tests show it can only maintain this peak performance for a relatively short amount of time before risking overheating.
That means it has to be throttled back. As a result, testers have given a higher rating to rival GPU tech made by Qualcomm.
What's the difference between a CPU and a GPU?
In basic terms, a CPU calculates a single sets of instructions more quickly (or two sets of instructions simultaneously if a dual-core chip is involved), while GPUs specialise in carrying out many calculations at the same time.
This makes GPUs better suited for "parallelisable" tasks - jobs that can be broken down into several parts and run simultaneously because the outcome of any one calculation does not determine the input of another. As the name suggests, powering graphics is one example, but others include speech recognition and pattern matching.
Shouldn't Imagination have expected Apple to go it alone?
Although Apple already designs its CPUs, it bases them on designs from another UK chip architecture specialist, ARM, to whom it pays licence fees.
Imagination has said it doubts Apple can design mobile GPUs in-house without violating its PowerVR patents and other intellectual property.
Apple is not just Imagination's biggest customer, it also owns a stake in the business and had been in discussions to take it over completely at one point.
Apple has, however, hired several former Imagination workers including the former chief operating officer and hardware engineering boss.
According to AppleInsider, at least 25 engineers and managers have quit Imagination and gone on to work at Apple over the past two years.
So even if the current relationship between the two firms is set to end, Apple may still face having to pay Imagination for some time to come to avoid a legal battle.
MEPs will vote on Wednesday on whether to give final approval to new powers for Europol, the EU police agency, and new residence rights for non-EU students.
But aside from the usual votes on topical motions and minor legislation, the main interest will lie in debates undertaking a tour d'horizon of a number of EU policies.
The Commission's latest proposals to revise EU asylum law will be debated on Wednesday afternoon, along with the long-term future of the Schengen area.
With another emergency get-together of eurozone finance ministers taking place on Monday, MEPs will also take the chance on Tuesday to review the latest impasse over releasing funds from Greece's bailout deal.
Here's what's coming up this week...
After a speech from Parliament President Martin Schulz to mark Europe day, MEPs will kick off the sitting by debating the EU's "cohesion policy".
Cohesion spending, which accounts for around a third of the EU's budget, covers various investment schemes designed to reduce economic differences between different regions in the EU.
Via two motions and an oral question, MEPs will prod the Commission into encouraging greater flows of funds towards smaller business and cut-off mountainous regions whose economies depend heavily on farming and tourism.
After that, there will be an update from the Commission on controversial plans to double the capacity of the Nord Stream gas pipeline running from Russia to Germany via the Baltic Sea.
The consortium behind the project includes a number of European energy companies - including Eon, BASF and Shell - as well as state-owned Russian energy giant Gazprom.
Last December MEPs passed a motion expressing concern that the extension could undermine the EU's attempts to reduce the dependency of the bloc on Russian energy imports.
The Commission is examining whether the project could fall foul of the same EU competition laws that scuppered the South Stream pipeline project in 2014.
Following this, they will debate a motion calling for a clearer system for labelling the origin of fish.
It comes after an environmental group published a report based on DNA sampling which showed that around a third of fish sold in Brussels restaurants was mislabelled.
The group's survey was based on samples from 150 restaurants in the Belgian capital, including the restaurants of the European Commission and European Parliament.
In the evening, they will discuss whether to ratify the renewal of a wide-ranging fisheries agreement between the EU and Mauritania, and the EU's first-ever fishing deal with Liberia.
The sitting will begin with a debate on whether the EU should grant market economy status (MES) to China.
China was not granted MES when it joined the World Trading Organisation (WTO) in 2001, but argues that the terms of its membership mean it should automatically get it at the end of this year.
Others disagree - and are eagerly awaiting the results of the EU Commission's public consultation on the matter, expected sometime next month.
Changing China's status could change the way the EU calculates anti-dumping tariffs on "dumped" Chinese exports, and is likely to face huge opposition from European industrial unions.
MEPs - who would eventually have to approve any change - will set out their current position in a motion vote on Thursday.
After the lunchtime voting, the afternoon sitting will begin with a debate on the state of negotiations over releasing funds to Greece from its EU-IMF bailout, following the latest meeting of Eurozone ministers on Monday.
The scale of government cuts to release the next batch of loans has been the subject of months of fraught negotiation.
After debating the EU's contribution to this month's World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, MEPs will also take stock of EU trade talks with the Mercosur bloc of Latin American countries.
Having been stalled for years, the chances of reaching a deal improved last month when the two sides agreed to renew their negotiation efforts, with "market offers" to be exchanged this month.
In the evening, MEPs will also debate the continuing economic and political crisis in Venezuela.
It comes after last week the opposition presented the country's electoral authorities with a petition calling for a referendum to oust President Nicolas Maduro.
Many Venezuelans are furious because of a deep recession, food shortages and a power crisis that has cut supply to four hours a day in most cities.
The sitting will begin with a debate on proposed new powers for Europol, the EU's Hague-based police agency.
Under legislation proposed in 2013, the agency is set to get additional powers to set up specialised units to combat certain types of crime and terrorism.
However, there will also be new rules governing its use of personal data, and greater oversight of its work from the European Parliament and national MPs.
MEPs reached a deal on the new rules with national ministers last November, which they will put to a final vote at lunchtime.
The morning session will also see a debate on new entry and residence rules for non-EU students on the European Voluntary Service.
The plans would introduce an EU-wide right for students to stay at least nine months after finishing their studies, and work at least 15 hours a week whilst completing their degrees.
The UK, Ireland and Denmark have all used their treaty rights to opt out of the legislation - which will also face a final vote at lunchtime.
The afternoon will begin with the debate on the EU's proposed new asylum rules.
The Commission's latest scheme would see the essentials of the Dublin regulation kept in place, with refugees still normally required to claim asylum in the EU member state in which they arrive.
However an automatic relocation scheme - backed by big fines for states that refused to comply - would kick in if a country receives more than 150% of its annual "share" of asylum seekers, based on population and economy.
The plans would require support from most member states as well as MEPs - the UK and Ireland can opt out of asylum policies, whilst Denmark is also exempt.
MEPs will stay on a similar theme after that, with a set-piece debate scheduled on the future of the passport-free Schengen zone.
After this they will discuss EU tax transparency rules announced at the start of this year which would force national tax authorities to share information about their tax rulings for multinationals.
MEPs are obliged to give their view on the measures before they can be adopted - although they do not have the power to block or amend them.
In the evening they will ask the Commission for an update on investigations into the involvement EU states had in facilitating alleged human rights abuses by the CIA.
The allegations relate to interrogation techniques used by US security services between 2001 and 2006 at "secret prisons" situated in a number of EU states.
They will also discuss whether the EU should introduce new labelling rules requiring the country of origin to be marked on dairy produce and on processed meat such as sausages and ready meals.
Mandatory country-of-origin labelling rules already exist for fresh beef, pork, chicken, lamb, fruit and vegetables, fish, olive oil and honey.
A majority of MEPs support extending this to cover processed meat and milk - but the EU Commission says this should remain voluntary so as not to increase costs for consumers.
The shorter final day of the session will open with a debate on the enforcement of parental leave rights within the EU.
At lunchtime MEPs will vote on a draft motion which expresses concern at the "disparities" in how different member states have implemented previous EU laws.
After this they will discuss a motion calling on EU member states to do more to protect potential victims of human traffickers.
The draft text, drawn up by Liberal Democrat MEP Catherine Bearder on behalf of the Women's Rights Committee, says EU anti-trafficking law is not being properly implemented.
Attention will then turn to this month's motions on topical human rights cases - with the Crimean Tartars, Djibouti and the Gambia all in the spotlight.
The voting session will come after this, when MEPs will put all of their rights motions to a vote, as well as the motion on whether the EU should grant market economy status to China.
Please note: This agenda is subject to modification at the opening of the session on Monday afternoon.
A guide to how the European Parliament's plenary sessions can be found here.
With a 220-run lead and seven second-innings wickets still in hand, they are firmly in the box seat, and if they can get through the first hour tomorrow with no mistakes, they can aim to declare just before tea on day four and give themselves a great chance of bowling the West Indies out for victory.
The star performer of the day for England was off-spinner James Tredwell. Tredwell isn't a flashy sort of bowler, and last year he couldn't even get in Kent's four-day team, but he bowled beautifully here to claim four wickets.
It was a first-class display of old-fashioned off-spin bowling: he tossed the ball up and varied his pace subtly. His dismissal of the dogged Shivnarine Chanderpaul was a particularly fine piece of classical spin-bowling: setting the batsman up against a cleverly-set field.
He's given the England selectors a real headache ahead of the second Test in Grenada next week. Moeen Ali, England's first-choice Test spinner last summer, has been added to the squad, but it won't be a question of Tredwell just stepping aside - he's put himself right in contention for selection.
The seamers also bowled well, in particular Stuart Broad. He got himself revved up and bowled with genuine pace and hostility, which is exactly the right way to get back in rhythm when you've been struggling.
However, there are still question marks hanging over the batting. At the moment there is a serious problem brewing at the top of the order.
Captain Alastair Cook has now gone 33 innings without a Test century and the pressure will continue to grow on him after another cheap dismissal, caught at gully for 13.
I actually thought he was shaping up pretty well today - his footwork looked good, his bat was straight, but the shot he got out to was poor.
His partner Jonathan Trott, playing in his first Test series since leaving the 2013/14 Ashes tour with stress-related problems, is also under big pressure after two failures in this match.
Trott has been a magnificent servant for England, but at the moment he has a significant technical flaw, in that he's trying to play towards mid-on, which is a recipe for disaster against the swinging ball.
The selectors have a big call to make on Trott. Do they really see him opening the batting against Australia in Cardiff this summer? If not, they need to seriously consider the claims of Yorkshire's Adam Lyth for the next Test match.
One big positive from England's batting today was the return to form of Gary Ballance after a lean patch. He showed again what a calm young player he is, and if he can get his head down tomorrow, he has every chance of scoring his fourth Test century.
Jonathan Agnew was speaking to BBC Sport's James Gheerbrant.
William Dick, 25 was convicted at Dumfries Sheriff Court last month of killing a buzzard in April 2014.
Witnesses said they saw Dick, of Kirkmahoe, Dumfries, throw rocks at the bird and repeatedly stamp on it.
A spokesman for the Crown Office said one witness described the incident as "sickeningly violent".
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Two walkers watched Dick attack the bird, after they came across him on the Newlands Estate, Kirkmahoe, according to the Crown Office.
They saw him place a bundle wrapped in his jacket into a dark grey 4x4 pick-up truck before driving away.
The witnesses contacted the Scottish SPCA, who got in touch with Police Scotland.
Investigators found a dead hare, feathers and a rock with blood on it at the scene of the killing.
The feathers were tested by Scottish government scientists who found DNA which confirmed they came from a buzzard.
Dick was convicted despite claiming he was on his way home from a training course, more than 100 miles away, at the time of the offence.
A solicitor for Dick said his client would not be able to work as a gamekeeper for a considerable period.
It is understood an appeal against conviction is being lodged.
Helen Nisbet, of the serious and organised crime division of the prosecution service, said: "Birds of prey are given strict protection by our law.
"It is highly important to preserve Scotland's natural heritage, including the wildlife that forms part of it.
"We take people breaking our wildlife laws very seriously. This conviction highlights that message."
She added: "The Crown will continue to prosecute such cases where appropriate to ensure that offenders are brought to justice."
Scottish Gamekeepers Association Chairman Alex Hogg said it had a "clear and consistent policy" and did not condone wildlife crime.
"It is our understanding that an appeal has been lodged in this particular case so it would not be appropriate for us to comment until such times as the legal process has concluded."
A spokesman for Scottish Land & Estates said it had a clear and long-established policy of condemning all forms of wildlife crime.
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A quick calculation suggests almost three million people would vote for Geert Wilders. Anti-Islam and anti-immigration, Mr Wilders was found guilty on Friday of inciting discrimination and of insulting a group of Moroccan immigrants, although no penalty was imposed.
So where are the PVV's voters?
The traditional method for tracking down PVV supporters down generates zero results, says political scientist Andre Krouwel.
"The PVV has no party organisation or local branches, no member or activist base, he is the only member of the party."
A party source recommends a cosy pub opposite parliament to find supporters. But when the owners discover I am a journalist, they become edgy and are reluctant to talk politics.
The Twitter hashtag #stempvv (vote PVV) throws up plenty of anonymous profile pictures - a car, a sunflower and an angry cartoon character.
Many PVV supporters say they would prefer not to talk to journalists - a combination of distrust and fear of being stigmatised or misrepresented.
"It's socially not acceptable to vote PVV, they're considered extremist-right wing," journalist Wierd Duk told the BBC.
"They would be excluded from their social circle, work, they'd lose friends, promotion opportunities. If you out yourself as a PVV supporter you're seen as a threat to the dominant ideology of tolerance and consensus."
Mr Duk invited Wilders supporters to email him to explain their motivation.
"I expected 'hate Islam, love Wilders' kind of thing, that's how the PVV voter is framed, the angry white man, but it's much more complex now. It's entrepreneurs, teachers, Church leaders, people who feel the traditional parties on all sides of the spectrum simply aren't listening to their concerns.
"Whereas mainstream politicians think it's a matter of human decency not to talk about whole sections of the population as a threat to society, Geert Wilders doesn't have such reservations."
His election pledges include a ban on the Koran and a plan to deport repeat offenders who hold dual nationality. He was put on trial for inciting hatred when he asked a room full of supporters if they wanted "more or fewer" Moroccans in the Netherlands.
When the government recently proposed a partial ban on the Islamic full veil in some public areas (worn by some 300 women in the Netherlands) it was seen by many as a cynical effort to claw voters back from Geert Wilders.
Health Minister Edith Schippers said recently: "We stand for freedom and those who don't accept that do not belong here".
It took some effort to track down proud PVV supporters.
All of them speak of a loss of faith in the mainstream, of broken promises and politically correct tip-toeing around the real issues affecting their lives, primarily radical Islam, immigration and the influence of the EU.
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"Wilders is the only politician I trust. The others don't take us seriously", explains graduate Bastiaan Sietsema. "They say Wilders is the problem but actually he's a product of this neglect.
"Muslims have a completely different view on society, gender, sexuality, different values. In some cities whites are a minority now. People don't feel at home. They feel unsafe."
Does Bastiaan know any Muslims? "No." He lives in a village. His clearly well-researched views mostly come from the internet - "opinion pieces".
Gert Jan Mulder describes himself as a farmer, economist and father of six. "It's very simple, he's always right," he explains. "His core business is his stance regarding Islam. He's a visionary."
Eventually Geert Wilders' views will be vindicated, he believes, pointing to jihadists posing as refugees to enter Europe, the UK voting for Brexit and Donald Trump's victory in the US.
But not all his supporters are so in thrall.
"His approach is often too aggressive." says Peter van Dijken, who writes for an online magazine. "Even if he does win power, there's no way he'd be able to introduce all the major plans he has because of our coalition system in the Netherlands. But people like me are fed up. Other parties need to realise this."
Geert Wilders' support has morphed beyond the core, white working-class.
He homes in on, and highlights, popular concerns - the influence of non-Dutch people on Dutch society, loss of culture, loathing of mainstream parties' apparent inability or unwillingness to acknowledge these issues.
And he presents himself as the only solution, astutely showing he is prepared to venture into territory where others are afraid to tread.
His approach appears to be paying political dividends, although until now he has struggled to translate high poll ratings into seats in parliament.
It is one thing to express discontent, but perhaps another when you are inside a polling booth choosing who is best equipped to run the country.
But this time might be different. No longer does anyone underestimate the ability of populist leaders to harness the voters' desire to be heard.
The standard gauge loco known as Taff 28 was built in 1897 and completed its journey on the back of a lorry, via Cardiff Bay's Coal Exchange, on Friday.
It is going on display at the Gwili Steam Railway with the only Welsh-built standard gauge carriage.
The train was restored in workshops at Llangollen Steam Railway.
Edwards, 30, has been included in Wales' 29-man pre-Euro 2016 training camp to be held in Portugal.
Manager Chris Coleman will name his final 23-man squad for the tournament on Tuesday, 31 May.
"I know it's going to be tough to get into the squad," Edwards told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
"I would probably say maybe four or five central midfielders are definitely in like Aaron Ramsey, Joe Ledley, Joe Allen and Andy King.
"But then you've obviously got me, Emyr Huws and David Vaughan.
"There's a lot of quality there and I just hope I can do enough personally.
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"I played a bit of a part in the [qualifying] campaign and getting there so it will be real special getting in the squad. It's everyone's dream to play in a major tournament."
Shrewsbury-born Edwards has played 31 times for Wales, including five appearances during the Euro 2016 qualifiers.
Edwards was out for two months earlier in the season following surgery on a broken bone in his foot.
He missed Wales' friendlies against Northern Ireland and Ukraine in March but has played six times for Wolves since making his comeback in April.
"When I was injured my driving force was the carrot of being at the Euros," Edwards said.
"It was always my aim, when I was injured, to get back fit and playing. I did that and obviously this is the next step.
"I'm looking forward to going there and hopefully doing enough in the week in Portugal to get on that plane to France."
The attack came after a blue Peugeot and a red Audi crashed on Oldham Road in the Newton Heath area of Manchester about 13:30 on Wednesday.
The victim, who was in the Peugeot, remains in a stable condition in hospital.
Both the Peugeot and Audi were abandoned at the scene.
Greater Manchester Police had been called to reports of a fight in Oldham Road but the group had left when they arrived.
The member of the public's van, which the victim had got into for his safety, was rammed by a white Volkswagen Golf as it was driving along The Gateway.
The Golf's occupants then dragged him from the van before repeatedly stabbing him and driving off.
The van driver took the injured man to Central Park Police Station on Northampton Road. From there he was taken to hospital.
Det Ch Insp Paul Walker said: "This is an absolutely terrifying sequence of events, which must have been extremely frightening for other motorists and people who were in the area at the time, especially for the member of the public who took the man to the police station."
Any reports of gun crime would be taken very seriously, he added.
He appealed for witnesses and anyone with dashcam footage to come forward.
Sgt Alexander Blackman received a life term for murder in 2013, but his conviction was reduced to manslaughter last month.
Wife Claire led the campaign alongside author Frederick Forsyth and the Daily Mail.
The 42-year-old was known as Marine A during the original trial process.
After his release from Erlestoke Prison in Wiltshire on Friday, he told the Daily Mail: "She [Claire] has saved me. Her determination to keep on fighting for me has been nothing short of incredible."
Blackman, from Taunton, Somerset, was released after serving more than three years of a reduced seven-year sentence.
He added: "I will be eternally grateful to Claire and I cannot put into words how wonderful she is.
"Other inmates often said how lucky I was to have her fighting so hard for me."
Blackman's original murder conviction was quashed in March.
Judges at the Court Martial Appeal Court were told Blackman had a recognised mental illness at the time of the killing in September 2011.
He said: "'Being out of prison is an immense feeling, but I am very conscious that my sentence is not complete.
"I have been released on licence, and there are certain conditions which I must - and I will - respect."
Mrs Blackman, 45, told the paper: "I watched the clock all afternoon. Al finally arrived in the middle of the night, and I felt such a surge of happiness.
'It still feels like a dream. We have spent so long on this rollercoaster ride and have always steeled ourselves for the worst-case scenario.
"Now we have got Al out, the result we always hoped for, it is taking time to sink in."
Blackman had more than 13 years of service and had previously been deployed to Iraq on three occasions and to Afghanistan in 2007.
The killing on 15 September 2011 took place during the final month of 42 Commando's six-month tour of duty to Helmand province - a deployment which saw the unit lose seven men.
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Footage from an unofficial helmet-mounted camera of another marine was found during an unrelated investigation and showed Blackman shooting the Afghan prisoner in the chest at close range with a 9mm pistol.
The shooting took place after a British patrol base came under fire. One of two insurgents was seriously injured by gunfire from an Apache helicopter sent to provide air support, and the marines from 42 Commando found him in a field.
Two other marines from 42 Commando tried alongside Blackman in 2013 were acquitted.
Blackman lost an appeal against his conviction in May of the following year, but his 10-year minimum term was reduced to eight years.
Watch: Panorama's programme on Marine A's case
The Criminal Cases Review Commission later granted him a fresh appeal after his lawyers submitted expert evidence relating to his mental state at the time of the offence.
His supporters had hoped the quashing of the murder conviction would lead to his reinstatement to the Royal Marines.
However, the judges at the appeal hearing said his dismissal from the service should remain.
The 29-year-old, who was appointed vice-captain of the side last month, has scored more than 10,000 runs since his first-class debut in 2002.
"I am delighted to have signed for the next four years," he said.
"Our success over the past decade has been great to be part of and I look forward to continuing that."
Nash, who joined the county at the age of nine, scored just shy of 1,000 runs and took 21 wickets in the County Championship last season while also contributing with bat and ball in both one-day formats.
He added: "Personally, I want to continue my good form across all competitions again next season and continue to push for higher honours."
Sussex coach Mark Robinson was delighted that Nash, who is currently spending his winter playing club cricket for Western Province in South Africa, has prolonged his stay at Hove.
"It is good news to know that Chris will be here for a minimum of the next four years, as we embark on an important time for the club," Robinson said.
"It is not only Chris's proven abilities with the bat and ball that we will be relying on, but also his ability to support and lead the team in his role as vice-captain."
The love note "Del ♥ Kelly" had been visible from the A835 near Ullapool before the trunk roads maintenance company acted on a complaint about it.
The message was repainted by persons unknown before being blocked out again.
Bear Scotland, facing a petition opposing it actions, said it would not be removed if it reappears again.
A spokesperson for the company said: "We work hard to maintain the routes we manage across the north west to the highest possible standards and after a public complaint, we removed the graffiti in line with our contractual obligations.
"However, the note is clearly significant to the local community and it will not be removed should it reappear."
So far, more than 270 people have signed the petition called "Del ♥ Kelly! Give the Highlands some love on the rocks! BEAR Scotland, show some heart!"
As well asking for the graffiti to be restored it asks Bear Scotland to instead focus attention on what the petition's organisers say are more serious problems on the road.
Ullapool hit the headlines last year for another piece graffiti on the A835.
Last August, a phrase with strong language was sprayed next to a pothole in the road where it passes through the town.
Highland Council said at the time that graffiti should not be used as a means of alerting it to potholes.
Legkov, 30, won gold by only 0.7 seconds - the second narrowest margin ever in an Olympic 50km race - to edge Maxim Vylegzhanin into silver.
Their compatriot Ilia Chernousov took the bronze, while Britain's Andrew Musgrave crossed the line in 53rd.
Victory gave Russia 12 gold medals, ensuring they finish above Norway.
The hosts later picked up a 13th gold in the men's four-man bobsleigh.
Legkov's success was his second medal of the Games after he won silver in the men's 4x10km relay.
"This is priceless," said Legkov. "It's more valuable than my life, I can't express how I feel. For 15 years I've been trying for this result."
Britain's Musgrave added: "I didn't feel so great. I am little bit ill, I had a bit of a fever last night.
"But I thought I may as well race. It is the Olympics and it comes around once every four years and it might have gone well."
Earlier, Austria's Johannes Duerr, a contender in the 50km cross-country, was suspended after failing a drugs test.
Joanne Williams of Meek Road, Newent, is charged with killing Marc Hastings, 43, of Hillcrest Road, Berry Hill, near Coleford.
Ms Williams was arrested on 12 August when police were called to her home and Mr Hastings' body was found.
She is due to appear at Cheltenham Magistrates' Court on Monday.
The 24-year-old centre-back was told he would be released at the start of the month after making 69 appearances over five years at Craven Cottage.
Burn started his career at Darlington and also had loan stints at Yeovil and Birmingham City.
"He is a powerful defender, but he likes to play as well," boss Gary Caldwell told the club website.
He joins Stephen Warnock and Alex Gilbey as new signings so far this summer for the Latics, who won the League One title in 2015-16.
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Now the British firm is going on a strut of its own, as its board puts the business up for sale.
Valued at about £700m, analysts believe Jimmy Choo could attract attention from rival luxury houses along with Chinese, Middle Eastern and Russian buyers.
As well as shoes, Jimmy Choo produces a range of luxury goods, but has seen sales slow in recent years.
The move received backing from Jimmy Choo's main shareholder JAB Holdings, which said on Monday it was also prepared to offload Bally, the Swiss heritage shoe and handbag-maker.
A sale would be the latest twist for Jimmy Choo, which started as a bespoke shoemaker in east London.
The firm was co-founded by Malaysian shoemaker Jimmy Choo, who trained at the renowned Cordwainers Technical College in London, and former Vogue journalist Tamara Mellon in 1996.
It quickly built up a dedicated client list of musicians, actresses and royalty. The Duchess of Cambridge is a fan of the British shoe designer, as is singer Beyonce and Oscar winning actress Emma Stone.
But it has gone through a number of different owners over the years. Ms Mellon and the first of several different private equity suitors bought out Mr Choo in 2001.
Ten years later Ms Mellon left the business to launch her own clothing line. In 2014, Jimmy Choo listed on the London Stock Exchange, by which time JAB, owned by the German billionaire Reimann family, was the main shareholder.
Jimmy Choo's shares hit a record high on news of the possible sale, closing up 10.68% in London.
The firm said in a statement: "The board of Jimmy Choo announces today that it has decided to conduct a review of the various strategic options open to the company to maximise value for its shareholders and it is seeking offers for the company.
"Jimmy Choo has discussed the strategic review process with its majority shareholder, JAB Luxury GmbH, and JAB Luxury has confirmed that it is supportive of the process."
The fashion house said it had not received any bids yet and was also weighing other options.
JAB Luxury, which owns 68% of Jimmy Choo, said on Monday it backed the move.
But JAB, also an investor in Krispy Kreme doughnuts and household goods giant Reckitt Benckiser, added there was "no certainty that a sale" would take place.
Over the years, Jimmy Choo, which has more than 150 stores worldwide, has moved into men's shoes and launched a wide range of luxury goods, from handbags to sunglasses.
But its sales growth slowed to 2% in 2016 compared with 7% in 2015 and 12% in 2014, analysts at HSBC noted last month.
It seems the owner of Jimmy Choo is more interested in coffee than killer heels.
JAB, the investment firm backed by the billionaire Reimann family, has been on a spending spree in recent years.
Just a few weeks ago, it struck a deal to buy the US bakery business, Panera Bread, for $7.5bn (£6bn).
That's in addition to the controlling stakes it's already acquired in brands such as Keurig Green Mountain, Douwe Egberts, and doughnut maker Krispy Kreme.
It all adds up to a fast growing food and beverage empire. So owning a luxury goods company may no longer be a good fit.
It's only three years since Jimmy Choo's stock market flotation. Its share price has had a bumpy ride since 2014. But Jimmy Choo has more recently been outperforming the luxury sector and shares have bounced back.
Not a bad time, perhaps, to put the business up for sale.
Viewers were left wondering who Rey's parents were at the end of the last movie.
Daisy Ridley was reportedly asked about the possibility of Han Solo being Rey's father, to which she replied: "We will see in a year. Just sit tight on that question."
Star Wars: Episode VIII is expected to be released in 2017.
A Star Wars spin-off, Rogue One, is out in December, which won't feature Rey.
The Wales Under-21 international has made 40 appearances in all competitions for the club so far this season.
Centre-back Lockyer, 21, began his career at Rovers and has played in 140 competitive games since 2012.
Left-back Lee Brown has also signed a new contract extension for Rovers, who are fourth in table, two points off an automatic promotion place.
The stadium in Lille, France, and Cardiff's fan zone erupted with cheers when the final whistle blew in the Euro 2016 quarter final game, which ended 3-1 against Belgium.
It was billed as Wales' biggest game since the 1958 World Cup.
The team will now play Portugal in Lyon on Wednesday.
In an exhilarating game in northern France, Wales went one better than their 1958 predecessors who reached the last eight of the World Cup.
However, the game got off to a tense start after Wales fell behind to Radja Nainggolan's strike in the first 15 minutes.
But the team thundered back with Ashley Williams, Hal Robson-Kanu and substitute Sam Vokes proving the goal-scoring heroes.
Thousands of Wales fans travelled to Lille for the quarter-final match, with many congregating in the fan zone.
Some had faced hours of travel delays at the Eurotunnel to reach the stadium.
After the final whistle, Neil Davies, 49, from south Wales, said Wales had played "brilliantly" and he had tears in his eyes.
He said: "I thought if Belgium went 1-0 up then that would be it. They did and I thought that's us done. To come back the way we did - unbelievable."
Paula Hart, 41, from Swansea, said: "It's just been immense. The Belgian fans have been the best, so fair play to them.
"I'm now thinking about the final. Portugal haven't been great so why not start thinking about it?"
Julian Richards, 31, of Pontypool, said: "It feels absolutely fantastic.
"What we've had in the quarter-final and what I think we'll have in the semi-final is belief. Belief breeds confidence."
Mr Richards, who was in the Lille fan zone, said: "One thing I will say is Belgian fans, best in the world."
He took his 14-year-old son, Joel, to Lille and he said the Belgian fans had given him flags and glasses.
Geraint Thomas, 51, of Menai Bridge, Anglesey, said: "Here with the proper fans [in the fan zone] it's worth the £200 you would have to pay for a ticket."
And he was unequivocal about where Wales were headed in Euro 2016.
"Next weekend we've going to the final. Forget Portugal, we're going to the final."
After the game, Aaron Ramsey tweeted: "What a performance, to a man absolute quality. We have the best staff and fans in the world."
Gareth Bale wrote: "DON'T TAKE ME HOME!" which has become a song popular with fans enjoying their time following Wales in France.
Gary Lineker ended the BBC's Match of the Day programme saying it was "the greatest night in Wales' footballing history".
Welshman and Hollywood actor Ioan Gruffudd wrote: "What a come back."
First Minister Carwyn Jones added: "Incredible! Magnificent! Historic!"
The aim is to launch the operation next month, with a headquarters in Rome under an Italian admiral, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said.
The EU is struggling to cope with a surge in illegal migrants from Africa and the Middle East crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe.
Ms Mogherini was speaking after talks with EU foreign and defence ministers.
The UK is playing the lead role at the UN Security Council in drafting a resolution that would give the EU a legal basis for using military force against people traffickers.
There would be three phases in the naval operation, the EU foreign policy chief explained:
"It is not so much the destruction of the boats but the destruction of the business models of the (smugglers') networks themselves," she explained.
Britain's Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said the plan was in the early stages, but the UK would help to develop it further.
"We are seconding some planning staff to think through the details of how it will work," he added.
"Any destruction of boats will require some legal authority and that has to come from the United Nations but we are not at that stage yet."
Ms Mogherini stressed that co-operation with officials in Libya, a country torn apart by feuding militias, would be vital to make the operation succeed.
"We are looking for a partnership - there is a responsibility the Libyans themselves have to take on their territory, for the land and sea borders."
The EU would have to work closely not only with the recognised government in Tobruk - represented at the UN - but also with rival officials in Tripoli and Misrata, to dismantle the smuggling networks, she told a news conference in Brussels. "The [Libyan] municipalities might have an important role to play," she said.
The Mediterranean mission will be led by Adm Enrico Credendino, an Italian commander who ran the EU's anti-piracy mission off Somalia, Operation Atalanta.
More than 1,800 migrants have died in the Mediterranean in 2015. That is a 20-fold increase on the same period in 2014.
Disrupting the people-smuggling networks is part of a wider EU plan for tackling the migration crisis. The European Commission has urged EU states to adopt national quotas for housing migrants, to ease the pressure on Italy, Greece and Malta.
The EU also aims to tighten co-operation with migrant transit countries in Africa, to make it easier to send economic migrants home. Too many irregular migrants with no right to asylum manage to stay in Europe, the Commission says.
Analysis - Rana Jawad, BBC North Africa Correspondent, Tunis
Neither of Libya's rival governments, recognised or not, have yet shown any desire to co-operate with this plan. Both have so far criticised it. Some Libyans have been incensed by the proposal and see it as a pretext for "boots on the ground".
For nearly a decade Libya's smuggling networks included not only professional gangs but also some local communities - and even the parts of Libya's coastguard looking to make extra cash. Add the hundreds of militias that have ruled Libya since 2011 to that mix and the challenge grows exponentially.
It is not clear how destroying boats at sea would stem the flow of migrants. If there are plans to destroy boats on standby before they leave Libyan shores then that would require a significant amount of intelligence on the ground. EU member states have no official presence in Libya.
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Some 60,000 people have already tried to make the perilous crossing from Libya this year, the UN estimates.
Many are fleeing conflict or poverty in countries such as Syria, Eritrea, Nigeria and Somalia.
The mission could mean operating in areas controlled by a potentially hostile Islamist militia, and EU forces taking considerable risks to destroy boats and infrastructure used by smugglers.
The EU's Operation Atalanta off Somalia is regarded as a model for the new Mediterranean mission. In 2012 EU forces raided Somali pirate bases on land.
A UN mandate that allows EU operations on Libya's coast would require a chapter seven UN resolution and Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has already cautioned against a military solution.
Analysis: Chris Morris, Europe correspondent, BBC News
There is plenty of operational planning still to do before the mission actually starts.
Much will depend on when Britain is able to shepherd a resolution through the UN Security Council, and what precisely the resolution approves.
The idea is that the mission will begin with intelligence gathering, which is already taking place anyway, and then operations against smugglers on the high seas.
But phase three is the most risky part - naval operations within Libyan territorial waters, close to or on the Libyan coastline.
EU officials have said repeatedly that there will be "no boots on the ground". But there will need to be an effort to disrupt the onshore operations of the smuggling gangs if the mission is to achieve its objectives.
That could well involve the use of special forces, something that will not be advertised in advance. And there will be huge risks involved for the EU - political and military.
It's just that doing nothing is an even less attractive option.
Gilgamboa came in fourth with Goonyella completing the top five.
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Place, horse, odds, jockey
1. Rule The World 33-1 (David Mullins)
2. The Last Samuri 8-1 (David Bass)
3. Vics Canvas 100-1 (Robert Dunne)
4. Gilgamboa 28-1 (Robbie Power)
5. Goonyella 12-1 (Jonathan Burke)
6. Ucello Conti 25-1 (Daryl Jacob)
7. Vieux Lion Rouge 66-1 (James Reveley)
8. Morning Assembly 16-1 (Davy Russell)
9. Shutthefrontdoor 12-1 (Barry Geraghty)
10. Unioniste 28-1 (Nick Scholfield)
11. Le Reve 50-1 (Harry Skelton)
12. Buywise 33-1 (Paul Moloney)
13. Pendra 50-1 (Aidan Coleman)
14. Triolo D'Alene 50-1 (Jeremiah McGrath)
15. Just a Par 40-1 (Sean Bowen)
16. Many Clouds 8-1 (Leighton Aspell)
Non-finishers:
Fence 1: Hadrian's Approach (unseated)
Fence 2: First Lieutenant (fell), Holywell (fell)
Fence 8: The Romford Pele (unseated)
Fence 12: Rocky Creek (pulled up)
Fence 14: Silviniaco Conti (pulled up)
Fence 15: Sir Des Champs (pulled up), On His Own (fell)
Fence 18: Gallant Oscar (unseated)
Fence 19: Ballynagour (unseated)
Fence 21: Wonderful Charm (pulled up), The Druids Nephew (pulled up), Black Thunder (pulled up) Soll (pulled up), Home Farm (pulled up)
Fence 22: Onenightinvienna (unseated), Katenko (fell), Boston Bob (pulled up), Aachen (pulled up)
Fence 26: Double Ross (pulled up)
Fence 27: Kruzhlinin (pulled up)
Fence 29: Ballycasey (unseated)
Fence 30: Saint Are (pulled up)
Non-runner: O'Faolains Boy (lame)
The Oxford-educated son of Indian immigrants, Mr Jindal is known for his policy credentials.
As governor, he overhauled his state's health and education systems.
However, in recent months Mr Jindal has sought to appeal to conservative voters, taking hard lines on gay rights and Islamic extremism.
He has stood by controversial statements in which he said in January that parts of Europe were "no-go zones" for non-Muslims.
Mr Jindal is the 13th Republican candidate to join race. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker are also expected to run.
Many in the crowd gathered in a convention hall near New Orleans acknowledged their governor, Bobby Jindal, has a long road ahead in his quest for the Republican presidential nomination.
He's far back in the polls - disliked by a majority even in Louisiana - without the fundraising might that could give him a boost.
A lot of the statements here are prefaced with "I hope", "if only" and "with a little luck" - noting the toll that battles against teachers' unions and attempts to reform a corrupt state government have taken on his popularity.
"I just want him to get in the top 10 to debate," says Phil Luchsinger, referring to a poll-based debate participation rule that currently has Mr Jindal on the outside looking in.
The consensus among political commentators is even more pessimistic, including implications that the governor should aim a bit lower.
As Allahpundit of the HotAir blog put it: "Bobby Jindal to announce he's running for (vice) president".
In his video announcement on Wednesday, the 44-year-old played up his extensive experience in public service, saying he was "the youngest candidate with the longest resume".
He said he plans to appeal to Christian conservatives, a group of voters already being aggressively courted by rival candidates such as Texas Senator Ted Cruz and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.
Unpopular in his home state after a budget shortfall, Mr Jindal faces an uphill battle for the nomination. Recent polls put him at the bottom of the pack.
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The UK bank is 33% owned by the UK government.
The bank has increased its overall pool of bonuses for all staff to £395m, up from £365m the previous year.
Lloyds Bank also reported a pre-tax profit, of £415m, for the first time since its £20.5bn bailout.
Lloyds made a loss of of £606m in 2012.
In all, 78% of the bonus pool is in the form of shares. Mr Horta-Osorio's shares cannot be cashed in until 2019.
Mr Horta-Osorio told the BBC: "I strongly believe you should link compensation with performance, and having increased our underlying profits by 140%, we thought it was appropriate to increase the bonus pool of the bank by 8%.
"I have also agreed to have additional conditions to my bonus... which is fully paid in shares, which aligns my interests with the interests of the taxpayer, so if the strategy we are pursuing proves itself wrong, that money can be clawed back."
The Unite union said Lloyds had given staff at branches and call centres a 2% pay rise this year and cut more than 35,000 jobs since its bailout.
Unite national officer Rob Macgregor said: "The chief executive's £1.7m bonus, on top of shares worth millions awarded at the end of October, is a kick in the teeth to the taxpayer, and to hard-working staff who don't know if they will be next in line for the chop."
Alastair Blair, head of consultancy group Accenture's UK and Ireland banking practice, disagreed: "Clearly the shareholders are more comfortable with this - the government approved it. And secondly, this bonus won't be paid for another five years, so there's a lot of water to pass under the bridge."
Underlying profits in 2013 for the banking group rose 140% from £2.6bn to £6.2bn.
The bank put aside another £1.8bn in the fourth quarter of the year to cover compensation to customers for the past mis-selling of payment protection insurance (PPI) plans.
That brings the total provision made last year for PPI compensation to £3.5bn. Since new rules were introduced in 2011 to tighten up the selling of PPI, Lloyds has put aside a total of £9.8bn - more than any other bank - to cover compensation claims or "legacy" issues.
Mr Horta-Osorio said: "The legacy issues were much higher than we had anticipated or than the regulator thought then, and we were absolutely committed to cleaning them and doing the right thing for customers... It is not a matter of financials, it is a matter of principle."
The bank said it expected to apply to the Prudential Regulatory Authority in the second half of this year to restart dividend payments "at a modest level". Investors have not had a dividend from Lloyds shares since 2008.
UK Financial Investments, which manages the government's 33% stake, sold a 6% shareholding in the bank last September.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has said he wants to sell more shares in the bank to the public before the election in 2015.
Mr Horta-Osorio said: "We have continued to improve the bank and the price [of Lloyd's shares] is substantially above the price at which the first tranche was sold in September - 75p - and the bank is ready to sell another tranche, but it is absolutely up to the UK Treasury to decide when and how to do it."
Alex Potter, equity research analyst at Mirabaud Securities, said the latest numbers suggested "a decent dividend payout".
He said: "The management is clearly dropping the hint that it'll move fairly sharply to a big payout ratio, which could imply a £3bn annual payout, which would give a yield near 5% in 2015-16."
Lloyds rebranded and separated its other retail banking business, TSB, last September.
It is negotiating with the European Commission over issues of state aid before selling it in a public share offering this year, and admitted the cost of the separation and rebranding was some £1.6bn.
Lloyds Bank Group is registered in Scotland and owns the Bank of Scotland brand. Mr Horta-Osorio said that the vote on Scottish independence was strictly a matter for Scottish people.
"That decision goes far beyond economics," said Mr Horta-Osorio.
"If the final vote is a 'Yes' vote, given that there will 18 months before a separation takes place, we believe we have more than enough time to assess the consequences."
A "small number" of children in Angus have fallen ill from the bug and a playgroup has been temporarily closed.
NHS Scotland said initial information suggested there may be a link to an outbreak associated with Dunsyre Blue cheese, made by Errington Cheese Ltd.
Food Standards Scotland (FSS) has issued a ban on all cheese made by the South Lanarkshire-based producer.
Errington Cheese has previously been linked to the E. coli outbreak, in which a three-year-old girl has died.
The company has disputed the evidence and insists its cheese is safe.
The ban involves Dunsyre Blue, Dunsyre Baby, Lanark Blue, Lanark White, Maisie's Kebbuck and Corra Linn.
People have been advised not to eat the cheese, and to return it to the seller.
Two cases with the same outbreak strain were confirmed on Thursday, bringing the total to 22 since July.
The outbreak was initially declared over on 5 September, but the incident management team (IMT) monitoring the outbreak was reconvened when new cases were identified.
The chairman of the team, Dr Alison Smith-Palmer, said: "Our epidemiological investigations have identified Dunsyre Blue cheese as the most likely cause of the outbreak.
"To date, the IMT has established that 19 of the 22 confirmed cases had eaten blue cheese prior to becoming ill. Of these, 15 are known to have eaten Dunsyre Blue while others cannot be certain about the brand of blue cheese they have consumed. Investigations are ongoing on the other cases."
Dr Smith-Palmer said a large number of cheese samples had been taken as part of the investigations being carried out by South Lanarkshire Council and Food Standards Scotland.
"These have identified a number of different cheeses produced by Errington Cheese Ltd containing organisms with the potential to cause serious illness including O157 E. coli and toxin producing non-O157 E. coli," she added.
The outbreak in Angus is being investigated by NHS Tayside Health Protection Team and Angus Council.
In a statement, NHS Scotlandsaid: "The IMT are in contact with those managing this investigation and initial information suggests that there may be a link to the national outbreak and investigations are ongoing."
Errington Cheese has issued a statement on its website, re-confirming its position that its own testing found "no trace" of E. coli O157.
"We have used micro-testing laboratories in the UK and Europe and found no trace of pathogens, we have shown results of all our testing and all local authority testing to date to various microbiological experts which has enabled us to come to this decision," it said.
Food Standards Scotland said it was "fully aware" of the impact of issuing a food alert, but the agency has disputed Errington Cheese's claims that it has found no trace of E. coli in its products.
An FSS spokesman said: "Errington Cheese Ltd has publically commented that E. coli O157 has not been found in its cheese. This is inaccurate.
"Some samples submitted for testing by SLC [South Lanarkshire Council] have tested positive for E. coli O157 and for another (non-O157) strain of E. coli. These organisms are considered a serious risk to public health."
Fiona Thornewill, from Nottinghamshire, joined American climber Hans Florine for the ascent of "The Nose" of El Capitan in Yosemite, California.
Mr Florine jointly holds the record for the fastest ascent of The Nose, and this was his 100th attempt.
The pair were joined by writer and adventurer Jayme Moye.
Mrs Thornewill considers herself to be an amateur climber and did not intend to break the speed record of two hours and 23 minutes.
Writing on Facebook, her husband Mike Thornewill gave a "massive thank you" to Hans Florine.
"Both ladies have been very fortunate to share this gentleman's rope," he wrote.
"As well as leading the climb it should be remembered that Hans has pulled the heaviest bag and also carried the heaviest responsibility - for that the girls owe him a lot of beer."
Mrs Thornewill, 49, undertook the climb to celebrate her 50th year.
The ascent of the steep mountain face, called The Nose, is considered one of the most difficult rock climbs in the world as it rises almost a kilometre straight up from its base.
Ms Thornewill set the record for the fastest ski trek to the North Pole by a woman in 2001 at 56 days and was the fastest woman to reach the South Pole solo in just under 42 days in 2004.
She was appointed an MBE in the 2006 and was given an European Women of Achievement Award in 2004.
Her latest challenge has raised money for the BMC Access and Conservation Trust.
Two gunmen fired on his car in the busy Liaqatabad area, police said. Sabri died on his way to hospital.
A faction of the Pakistani Taliban has told the BBC it carried out the attack.
Sabri was a leading exponent of Sufi devotional music, known as Qawwali. Sufism, a tolerant, mystical practice of Islam, has millions of followers in Pakistan but is opposed by extremists.
The Pakistan Taliban, who view Sufism as heretical, have been blamed for previous assaults on targets linked to Sufi Islam.
But there have been no such attacks in the past couple of years, the BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad reports.
Sabri, who was among the sub-continent's top Qawwali singers, was hit by five bullets, police said. Another person, thought to be a relative, was wounded in the shooting and is said to be in a critical condition.
"It was a targeted killing and an act of terrorism," a senior police officer, Muqaddas Haider, was quoted by AFP news agency as saying.
There have been the usual calls to identify and arrest the killers, but also voices of despair over the continued failure to end militancy in Pakistan.
Karachi has been under a military operation for more than three years, but the gunmen have shown they can still hit their targets at will.
Amjad Sabri came from a family which traces its musical links to the 17th Century court of India's Mughal empire. The family adheres to the Sabiriyah branch of Sufi Islam, hence the name Sabri. It migrated to Pakistan when India was divided in 1947, and has been based since then in Karachi.
The band led by Amjad's father, Ghulam Farid Sabri, dominated the Qawwali scene in India and Pakistan during the 1970s and 80s. Amjad himself was considered a great performer who produced both traditional and commercial music and also sang for movie soundtracks in India and Pakistan.
He apparently presented a soft target with a wider shock value.
A blasphemy case was filed against Sabri last year after he mentioned members of the Prophet Muhammad's family in a song.
It is not known if the shooting is related to that incident.
As news of the attack spread, a large crowd gathered outside Sabri's home to express their sorrow and comfort relatives.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif condemned the killing and said the singer would be immensely missed.
"Totally shocked to hear the news of @AmjadSabri. May Allah bless him with Jannah (heaven) for he praised Him & His Prophet beautifully all his life," Ayaz Sadiq, the speaker of Pakistan's parliament, wrote on Twitter.
"Terrible loss of Amjad Sabri. His voice touched so many hearts & souls across the globe. Let's not be numbed by these murderous terrorists," tweeted journalist and publisher Najam Sethi.
Journalist Amir Mateen, who formerly worked for the BBC Urdu service, tweeted his dismay at a familiar "pattern" of events. "Politicians cry; public huffs & puffs; then back to normal until next tragedy. Shame," he said.
Twenty "listeners" met and spoke to prisoners suffering from depression and mental health problems, including some who were suicidal.
Details of the number of calls have been released to mark the 10th anniversary of the scheme.
It operates in Maghaberry and Magilligan prisons.
There are currently more than 1,300 prisoners in the two jails.
The prison authorities have been strongly criticised in a series of inspection reports for treatment of vulnerable prisoners, including those with mental health problems.
The scheme is run by the Samaritans, who provide a 12-week training course for prisoners who pass an initial selection and vetting process.
Volunteers working for the charity outside the prison answered a further 1,500 telephone calls from prisoners in Northern Ireland last year.
The Listener scheme has been operating for 25 years in prisons across the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Case study: The Listener who helps fellow inmates
The Samaritans said it is essential because research shows that prisoners are eight to 10 times more likely to die by suicide than the rest of the population.
According to the charity, around 23% of male prisoners and 46% of women prisoners suffer from anxiety and depression.
The first Listener programme in Northern Ireland began operating in Magilligan prison near Limavady in 2002.
The scheme in Maghaberry started in 2006.
A programme for women prisoners and young offenders is being developed at Hydebank in south Belfast.
Gillian McNaull, the Samaritans' regional prisons support officer, oversees the Listener scheme.
She said it works well because many prisoners prefer to talk to fellow prisoners.
"The prisoners who are suffering emotional distress know that the Listeners know what life in prison is like and know what they are going through," she said.
She believes those who volunteer to help their fellow inmates also benefit.
"I think there is something very redemptive about the process in that people who are in prison for punishment are being given a chance and are being trusted," she said.
"That can be really restorative for an individual to see that the people around them don't stigmatise them but trust them to provide this service."
A number of former Listeners have continued to help the Samaritans after being released from jail by helping to train volunteers dealing with calls from prisoners.
The man was struck by the tree when it fell during high winds in Kings' Park in Retford, Nottinghamshire, at 13:50.
Nottinghamshire Police confirmed the man, whose age is not yet known, had been riding through the park on a mobility scooter when he was hurt.
Paramedics attended but the man was pronounced dead at the scene. The local council said it had closed all of its parks as a precaution.
The tree, believed to be about 40ft high, fell directly on to a path.
Speaking about the park closures, a spokesperson from Bassetlaw District Council said: "We apologise for this inconvenience, however the safety of the public is of paramount importance and we would ask all residents to avoid these areas."
Several other parks in the Nottinghamshire area were closed on Thursday as strong winds battered the region.
Rufford Abbey Park was closed because of falling trees while Wollaton Park and Newstead Abbey were closed because of safety concerns.
Elsewhere in the East Midlands, fallen trees continued to cause disruption on roads and railways and three lorries overturned on the M1 motorway.
More than 11,500 homes were also left without power.
Michael Clarke from Western Power Distribution said: "We have got everyone we can out dealing with the incidents.
"We continue to work extremely hard in difficult conditions to restore electricity to these properties as quickly as we can and will do so until all have their power back."
In Lincolnshire, the Environment Agency issued 31 flood warnings across the region with around 18,000 homes in Boston said to be at risk of flooding.
The ex-West Indies captain was fined A$10,000 (£4,900) by Melbourne Renegades for "inappropriate conduct" to TV journalist Mel McLaughlin.
Gayle hit two sixes before being caught in the deep as the Renegades managed 155-6 from their 20 overs.
Former England batsman Kevin Pietersen then plundered 67 not out from 43 balls to get the Stars home in 18 overs.
McLaughlin was in the Network Ten studio at Etihad Stadium as the Stars recorded their fourth win from six matches.
She was conducting a pitch-side interview with Gayle in the Renegades' previous match when he said: "To see your eyes for the first time is nice. Hopefully we can have a drink afterwards. Don't blush baby."
Melbourne Renegades said his comments were "completely inappropriate and disrespectful" and apologised to McLaughlin and to the public.
In recent years, countries like Mongolia and Uganda have been praised for making great strides in improving palliative care, which focuses on managing pain and discomfort caused by serious illnesses like cancer, HIV and strokes.
In India, however, the situation is dismal. Most Indians who need palliative care simply don't get it and die in excruciating pain.
Home to 1.3 billion people, India ranked 67 out of 80 countries in a study released last year comparing end-of-life care. The report considered the United Kingdom as the best place in the world to die.
India faces major shortages in specialists, awareness and facilities.
But the southern state of Kerala is an exception.
It has more palliative care centres than the rest of the country put together and its extensive programme is bolstered by thousands of volunteers who give up their time to tend to those who are incurably ill, bedridden or nearing the end of their lives.
Every week, people like Radha Upasarna assist specially trained physicians and nurses treating patients at home. They check for bedsores, deliver food, and often just listen and chat.
Mrs Upasarna says what she does is not only a service to her community, but a way to overcome bouts of loneliness she has experienced after her husband's death in 2014.
"It doesn't feel like work," she said. "It's just something I want to do."
Care-givers say also what makes a huge difference is that morphine is available in Kerala's hospitals and at homes for patients who need it.
Despite being the gold standard to treat severe pain, access to the opium-based drug has been highly restricted in India over fears of addiction and misuse.
That means although India is the leading global producer of legal opium, almost all of it is exported to the West.
In 2014, in what was seen as a major step forward, the parliament amended national law to simplify procedures for doctors to prescribe morphine, but it has so far had little impact on the ground, experts say.
In Kerala, access is vastly better because the state changed its narcotic regulations almost 20 years ago.
Zubair, 55, had a series of amputations to his right leg as treatment for a bone tumour. Due to the agonising pain he continues to suffer even after being cured, he has been taking morphine since 1994.
MR Rajagopal, the doctor who first prescribed the painkiller to him, says he's an example of what morphine can do to a person even when a disease is not terminal.
Dr Rajagopal estimates that 99% of Indians who need morphine don't get it and "their lives are destroyed and they [often] take their own lives".
But for Zubair, who lives in the city of Kozhikode (formerly Calicut), "morphine restored me back to life".
Although other states in India have largely failed to provide access to effective painkillers and palliative care, particularly in rural swathes, initiatives are slowly emerging outside of Kerala.
Nadia district in the eastern state of West Bengal, for example, started a home-care programme in 2014 to assist hundreds of needy villagers.
Called Sanjeevani (which means life giving in Sanskrit), the programme has benefitted patients like Dayal Durlav, who is battling oral cancer.
The 62-year-old's family refuses to look after him, believing that his illness is contagious because the same type of cancer claimed his brother's life. Dispelling such myths is a part of what the programme's volunteers, nurses and doctors have been trained to do.
"I'm grateful they come to see me," Mr Dayal said. "I'm old and I need their help."
This report was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Follow Atish on Twitter @atishpatel
Cyril Banks, 91, of Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, had £9,000 stolen from him by fraudsters in June.
Thousands of pounds were raised for him within hours on a GoFundMe page.
Mr Banks has donated all the leftover money, including £2,000 to a footballer who lost his legs in a car crash.
On Friday night, Mr Banks presented cheques to other charities at a concert he organises annually at Ugley village hall in Essex.
"Cyril does the concert every year, but this one's extra special as it shows what a generous, lovely, giving person he is," said his friend Annie Riley.
He gave money to the Not Forgotten association, which helps serving and ex-service men and women, the Royal British Legion's poppy appeal, the Salvation Army and Think Jessica, which works to warn elderly and vulnerable people about scams.
Mr Banks also gave £2,000 to footballer Shaun Whiter, 27, who was seriously injured in a hit-and-run in Newmarket on 1 July.
"He's done the right thing by giving the leftover money away - it would have been wrong of him to have kept more, but it was so kind of people to give it to him," Ms Riley said.
"It's given him a new lease of life to talk about what happened to him and to warn others about scams," she added.
"If we hadn't done it, it could have gone horribly wrong and finished him off - he was so upset when it first happened to him."
Hertfordshire Police said the investigation into the theft from Mr Banks was ongoing.
Shell began work last month, but was allowed to drill just the top sections of two wells, off the coast of Alaska.
Environmental campaigners are against the drilling which they say could harm the region.
But the US government said it was monitoring Shell's work "around the clock" to ensure the "utmost safety".
"Activities conducted offshore Alaska are being held to the highest safety, environmental protection, and emergency response standards,'' added Brian Salerno, director of The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), which issued the final permit.
A Shell spokesperson also emphasised the firm's focus on safety. "We remain committed to operating in a safe, environmentally responsible manner and look forward to evaluating what could potentially become a national energy resource base," the spokesperson said.
The final permit - granted after the firm repaired a key piece of equipment - is an extension to one issued in July, and will allow Shell to drill into oil-bearing rock below the ocean floor for the first time since its last exploratory well was drilled over two decades ago.
The company has already committed about $7bn (£4.5bn) to the controversial project, and is confident it will find huge quantities of oil in the region.
Experts believe that more than 20% of the world's undiscovered oil and gas resources can be found in the Arctic.
Environmentalists argue vehemently that the oil should be left well alone, as the risks of damaging this pristine environment are too great.
But Shell believes that despite the environmental risks, oil can be extracted safely - oil that it argues will be needed to meet burgeoning demand for energy across the world over the coming decades.
The 19-year-old smashed past Wojciech Szczesny from inside the box to cancel out Mesut Ozil's close-range finish.
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Everton's Tim Howard had earlier denied Aaron Ramsey and Olivier Giroud, before Szczesny thwarted Kevin Mirallas.
Giroud hit the bar in injury-time, but the point moves Arsenal five clear of Liverpool at the top of the table.
Everton manager Roberto Martinez, who was relegated with Wigan on his last visit to the Emirates, praised his side's "lack of fear" in recent matches and Deulofeu's late strike spoke volumes for the Blues' character as they remain the only side with one loss in the Premier League.
Arsenal, who have now led in 13 of their 15 league matches, will be frustrated to have squandered the advantage having battled to break down their visitors with Ozil's fourth league goal of the campaign.
Their manager, Arsene Wenger described the visitors' midweek win over Manchester United as a "warning" for his side, but with the two best defences in the league on show, early chances were sparse despite spells of crisp passing.
Everton, who last won at Arsenal in 1996, enjoyed large bouts of possession and drew protestations from Wenger for the intensity of their pressing without the ball.
Everton's defeat at Manchester City in October remains their only league loss of the season. No side in the Premier League have proven harder to beat.
Sylvain Distin swiped a volley wide for the visitors, before Ross Barkley, operating behind Romelu Lukaku, fed Mirallas on a breakaway but the Belgian's effort was wasteful.
Martinez described Arsenal's attacking-play as "as good as it gets" in the run up to the fixture and late on in the opening period, Wenger's side began to showcase the guile which had earned them four consecutive wins.
Howard, seeking a fourth successive clean sheet, dived at the feet of Giroud to block after a neat Ramsey pass, before the Arsenal charges reversed roles.
This time Giroud dummied to release the Welshman, but Howard was again swift and brave to block at his feet.
The Gunners started the second period with the intensity their opponents had the first and Carzola headed tamely at Howard after a delightful interchange with Wilshere.
The intricate play was not lost on Martinez's side and Steven Pienaar collected Barkley's confident flick to warm the hands of Szczesny in Arsenal's goal.
Ramsey, whose eight goals make him the Premier League's most potent midfielder, was denied by Howard before the influential Barkley blasted straight at Szczesny at the other end.
After making four changes from the midweek win against Hull, Wenger highlighted the strength of his bench ahead of the match and the introduction of Theo Walcott, Tomas Rosicky and Mathieu Flamini backed up his confidence.
Flamini instantly shot wide, before Rosicky and Walcott combined to present Ozil with the opener.
The German, who now has four goals and six assists in his last 12 Premier League matches, volleyed high past Howard from six-yards, sparking relief amongst home supporters.
Their emotion was soon swung by Deulofeu, who had been on the field just five minutes when he collected a pass inside the area to unleash a shot past Szczesny.
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Giroud's volley from 30 yards at the death almost offered a dramatic end to a pulsating final 10 minutes of play, but the ball cannoned back of the angle of post and crossbar to ensure the points were shared.
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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger:
"It was a good game and Everton played well. Overall it took us time to get into it and in the first 25 minutes they were stronger.
"After that we had three one against ones in the first half and that's the regret I have.
"We didn't take our chances very well and the other regret is that we gave the lead away with seven minutes to go. But credit to them, they always looked dangerous. In the end, we are disappointed to get caught but it's still a point."
Another six players could win their first caps from the bench.
With 12 Wales players in New Zealand with the British and Irish Lions, tour coach Robin McBryde named 13 uncapped players in his initial 32-man squad.
Ospreys' Sam Davies starts Friday's match at fly-half, with Cardiff Blues' Gareth Anscombe at full-back.
Front-row trio Ryan Elias, Wyn Jones (both Scarlets) and Dillon Lewis (Blues) are among those likely to make their debuts from the bench, along with Newport Gwent Dragons flanker Ollie Griffiths, Gloucester back Owen Williams and Scarlets scrum-half Aled Davies.
Blues' Seb Davies is alongside Cory Hill of Dragons in the second row.
Wales have capped only three new players since the 2015 World Cup - fly-half Davies, flanker Ellis Jenkins, who is on the bench on Friday, and Hill.
Harlequins centre Jamie Roberts will captain Wales for the first time on his 95th appearance, partnering Scarlets' Scott Williams.
Roberts and Blues wing Alex Cuthbert were both Lions in Australia in 2013.
Scarlets blind-side flanker Aaron Shingler returns, while scrum-half team-mate Gareth Davies has another chance to impress in the absence of Lions tourist Rhys Webb.
Ospreys loose-head Nicky Smith is back in a starting front row completed by Blues hooker Kristian Dacey and Exeter tight-head Thomas Francis.
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McBryde is leading the team as Warren Gatland guides the Lions and Rob Howley is one of his assistants.
Ex-Wales and Lions hooker McBryde says having so many keen young players at his disposal led to difficult selection discussions.
"To be honest, I didn't expect to have the headaches that we've had as coaches looking at the selection for the first game because of the way that these youngsters have put their hands up," he said..
"The enthusiasm they've brought to every training session has been outstanding."
McBryde added: "It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our players to be taking part in this match at Eden Park, and we expect them to make the most of it."
Wales' game against Tonga is a warm-up match before New Zealand play Samoa at the same venue.
McBryde then takes his Wales squad to Samoa to face them in Apia on Friday, 23 June.
Tonga: Dave Halaifonua; Nafi Tuitavake, Siale Piutau (capt), Vili Tahitua, Cooper Vuna; Latiume Fosita, Tane Takulua; Latu Talakai, Paula Ngauamo, Ben Tameifuna, Leva Fifita, Steve Mafi, Dan Faleafa, Nili Latu, Valentino Mapapalangi.
Replacements: Suliasi Taufalele, Sila Puafisi, Phil Kite, Sione Tau, Mike Faleafa, Leon Fukofuka, Kali Hala, Kiti Taimani.
Wales: Gareth Anscombe (Cardiff Blues); Alex Cuthbert (Cardiff Blues), Scott Williams (Scarlets), Jamie Roberts (Harlequins, capt), Steffan Evans (Scarlets); Sam Davies (Ospreys), Gareth Davies (Scarlets); Nicky Smith (Ospreys) Kristian Dacey (Cardiff Blues) Tomas Francis (Exeter Chiefs), Seb Davies (Cardiff Blues), Cory Hill (Newport Gwent Dragons), Aaron Shingler (Scarlets,), Thomas Young (Wasps), Josh Navidi (Cardiff Blues).
Replacements: Ryan Elias (Scarlets), Wyn Jones (Scarlets), Dillon Lewis (Cardiff Blues), Ellis Jenkins (Cardiff Blues), Ollie Griffiths (Newport Gwent Dragons), Aled Davies (Scarlets), Owen Williams (Gloucester), Cory Allen (Ospreys).
Officers said they believed they had apprehended a key member of the group DD4BC, while another suspect was also in custody after raids.
Forces from various European countries, including Scotland Yard detectives, worked together on the operation.
The group is accused of taking down companies' websites and demanding ransoms to stop.
Its name, which stands for Distributed Denial of Service for the online currency Bitcoin, is an apparent reference to its alleged tactics.
In September last year, a report from the net firm Akamai alleged that the group had carried out more than 140 attacks in the previous 10 months on banks, media groups and gaming firms.
Europol said that "key members of the organised network" were tracked to Bosnia-Herzegovina by officers from the Metropolitan Police, who were working with the European Union's law enforcement agency.
On 15 and 16 December, officers from Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Germany, as well as those from the United Kingdom, worked together to carry out raids.
They were assisted on "Operation Pleiades" by their colleagues from Australia, France and Japan, as well as Romania, USA and Switzerland. The international agency Interpol also helped, Europol said.
In a statement released on Tuesday, it added that the operation "resulted in the arrest of a main target and one more suspect detained. Multiple property searches were carried out and an extensive amount of evidence was seized."
Europol did not say under which power the second person was detained and a spokesman was not immediately available for comment.
A Distributed Denial of Service attack takes down a website by overwhelming it with traffic. Once a critical point is reached, users will find the site difficult to access. The group is accused of co-ordinating such attacks and demanding money to cease them, thereby allowing normal traffic to flow to the targeted website once more.
The attacks "remain a considerable threat in the European Union and beyond", Europol said.
"This type of extortion attack has become a well-established criminal enterprise and has affected thousands of victims globally, with the number of unreported incidents believed to be much higher. The absence of reporting by private companies and individuals poses particular difficulties in law enforcement's efforts to prosecute these cyber-threats."
It said that the DD4BC group was "exploiting the increasing popularity of pseudonymous payment mechanisms and has been responsible for several Bitcoin extortion campaigns since mid-2014".
According to police, DD4BC "primarily targeted the online gambling industry, but has recently broadened their activity to the financial services and entertainment sector as well as other high-profile companies. Businesses that pay the ransom to the blackmailers risk appearing vulnerable and being targeted again for a higher amount."
Wil van Gemert, Europol's deputy director of operations, said: "These groups employ aggressive measures to silence the victims with the threat of public exposure and reputation damage." | Dutch voters choose a new government in March 2017 and if the polls are right, the right-wing Freedom Party (PVV) of populist leader Geert Wilders is surging ahead of his rivals and is set to win 35 seats.
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Bradford East MP David Ward said in a blog post he had been "trying to make clear that everybody needs to learn the lessons of the Holocaust".
He had made his initial comments ahead of Sunday's Holocaust Memorial Day.
On Friday, his party "condemned" his "use of language".
He was also summoned to a meeting with party whips next week.
Last week he said he was "saddened that the Jews, who suffered unbelievable levels of persecution during the Holocaust, could within a few years of liberation from the death camps be inflicting atrocities on Palestinians in the new State of Israel and continue to do so on a daily basis in the West Bank and Gaza".
But in a blog posting on Saturday he apologised, saying: "I never for a moment intended to criticise or offend the Jewish people as a whole, either as a race or as a people of faith, and apologise sincerely for the unintended offence which my words caused.
"I recognise, of course, the deep sensitivities of these issues at all times, and particularly on occasions of commemoration such as this weekend."
He said his criticisms "of actions since 1948 in the Palestinian territories in the name of the state of Israel remain as strong as ever".
He added: "I will continue to make criticisms of actions in Palestine in the strongest possible terms for as long as Israel continues to oppress the Palestinian people."
In the article published on his website on Friday, Mr Ward had looked ahead to Holocaust Memorial Day, which marks the 68th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp.
More than one million people - mostly Jews - died at the camp.
The article said he supported efforts "to combat prejudice and racism today" by the Holocaust Educational Trust and had honoured "those who were persecuted and killed during the Holocaust" by signing "a book of commitment".
His initial comments drew criticism from his own party, as well as the Holocaust Educational Trust and the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
The Israeli embassy said Mr Ward's comments demonstrated a "shocking insensitivity to the feelings of both Holocaust survivors and Israeli victims of terrorism".
Embassy spokesman Amir Ofek said: "David Ward's comments show a troubling ignorance of the brutal campaign of terrorist attacks waged against Israeli children, women and men by Palestinian terrorist groups, and of the extraordinary efforts made by Israel to protect its citizens in an effective and humane manner."
Earlier in the week, Mr Ward's party said: "This is a matter we take extremely seriously. The Liberal Democrats deeply regret and condemn the statement issued by David Ward and his use of language which is unacceptable."
On Saturday, a party spokesman said this position had not changed and he was still set to meet party whips.
Mr Ward had, at first, reacted by telling BBC News he had chosen his words carefully and did not regret the timing of the statement.
"I've spoken to the chief whip and he's got his views. I don't feel bad about it in any way. They consider my comments regrettable - I consider their reprimand regrettable," he added.
Update August 2013: This story has been amended following a complaint to the BBC Trust's editorial standards committee which was partly upheld.
The 903kg (1,990lb) haul of the drug, also called ice, is estimated to have a street value of A$898m (£546m; $680m), Justice Minister Michael Keenan says.
The drugs were found hidden in 70 boxes of wooden floorboards at a warehouse in Melbourne, according to the Australian Federal Police (AFP).
Two men have been charged with drug trafficking offences.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull praised the police operation, describing drug traffickers as "merchants of death".
"This was nearly a tonne of ice, so this is a great credit to our border protection and our police in confiscating this enormous shipment," he said.
The operation followed an investigation into an international group. Authorities said the drugs probably originated in Asia, but they did not say where.
"You can see a fairly sophisticated concealment methodology where organised crime groups are going to great lengths to try and thwart the activities of law enforcement, particularly our border controls," AFP Assistant Commissioner Neil Gaughan said.
"But we are united in bringing these people to justice."
The arrested men, both from Melbourne, are aged 53 and 36. Police were looking for two other suspects.
In 2015, Australia's government established a national taskforce to tackle the growing use of crystal methamphetamine, which has become the most common illicit drug in the country.
The move followed a report by the Australian Crime Commission that found ice posed the highest risk to communities of any illegal substance.
American Horror Story: Freak Show and mini-series Olive Kitteridge received 19 and 13 nominations.
House of Cards, Mad Men are up for 11 nominations while Downton Abbey and Wolf Hall are up for eight.
Wolf Hall's Mark Rylance is up against Ricky Gervais and David Oyelowo in the best actor in a mini-series or film category.
Gervais is shortlisted for his role in the Derek Special while Oyelowo has been recognised for his role as Peter Snowden in Nightingale.
Rylance's co-star Damian Lewis is nominated for best supporting actor for his role as Henry VIII in Wolf Hall.
Emma Thompson is up for best actress in a mini-series or film for her part in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street Live From Lincoln Center - she is up against Maggie Gyllenhaal for her role in the BBC drama The Honourable Woman.
Queen Latifah, Jessica Lange, Felicity Huffman and Frances McDormand have also been nominated in that category.
Notable omissions include Jim Parsons from The Big Bang Theory who has won four times for best actor in a comedy and is the best paid actor on US television.
Julianna Margulies, who won best actress in a drama series for The Good Wife last year, didn't get a nomination and hit show Empire missed out on a best drama nomination.
There are nominations for former Friends co-stars - Matt Le Blanc, who played Joey, has been nominated for his part in comedy series Episodes while Lisa Kudrow aka Phoebe has made the shortlist for her part in The Comeback.
Gervais's Office collaborator Stephen Merchant has landed a nomination for his TV movie Hello Ladies: The Movie - he has a writing nod for that film too.
It is up against ITV's Agatha Christie's Poirot: Curtain, Poirot's Last Case, Bessie, Killing Jesus, Nightingale and the critically maligned Grace of Monaco.
Jim Carter and Joanne Froggatt have been nominated for their roles in Downton Abbey.
While Peter Dinklage, Emilia Clarke, Lena Headey and Diana Rigg from Game Of Thrones all make the acting award categories.
Uzo Aduba from Orange is the New Black and Cat Deeley presenter of So You Think You Can Dance announced the nominees for the 67th annual awards.
Their shows were nominated and they received personal nominations for awards too.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Andy Samberg will host the ceremony in Los Angeles on 20 September.
Then I watched as Helena, an 18-year-old with a fear of lifts, got into a series of them as a psychologist attempted to treat her phobia.
And finally, I saw a group of children take a tour of the Dulwich Picture Gallery without leaving King's College Hospital where they are long-term patients.
In case you had not guessed, these were all examples of the use of virtual reality, which looks likely to be the big technology trend of 2016.
Given the amount of investment by players from Facebook to Sony to HTC, it will be a big disappointment if VR does not finally become, well, a reality in many homes this year.
My ascent of Everest, for example, came courtesy of the HTC Vive VR headset and a game developed by the Icelandic firm Solfar Studios.
The HTC Vive, seen by many as providing the best VR experience, was due to launch late last year but its debut was delayed for some further tweaking.
Now, it should join Sony's PlayStation VR and Facebook's Oculus Rift headset on the market in the next few months.
The games industry is betting big on virtual reality, but there may be questions about the breadth of content available to players at first.
Games like Everest provide a great immersive experience.
But turning virtual reality from a "wow that's amazing" moment into a game that provides months of entertainment won't be easy.
Whether many hardcore gamers will rush to invest in the technology remains to be seen.
I suspect that, just as Microsoft found with its Kinect motion sensor, many gamers will see VR as no more than a gimmick.
But just as Kinect's technology has found lots of uses beyond games, virtual reality may still prove a ground-breaking technology in many areas of life.
Two London psychologists, Dr Ashley Conway and Dr Vanessa Ruspoli, certainly believe that is the case. They have developed a system that uses Oculus' Rift headset to treat patients with phobias.
Their company Virtual Exposure Therapy aims to give patients exposure in a virtual world to the thing they fear.
We filmed Helena, who's always been scared of getting into lifts, being guided into a series of smaller and smaller spaces.
Dr Ruspoli kept on checking her anxiety levels as she entered each lift, and after a while the anxieties dropped.
"It's not the real world but a very visceral experience," Dr Conway explained.
"You get a physiological reaction. It's a really good bridge between not being able to do something and doing it in the real world."
The psychologists hope to use the system to treat a range of phobias, from fear of flying to agoraphobia, where semi-realistic exposure to the feared environment might help.
After her treatment, we persuaded Helena to get into a noisy old-fashioned lift.
She told me VR had made a difference - she'd have opted to take the stairs just a few weeks earlier.
Many businesses and public bodies may soon use VR as a way of interacting with consumers - estate agents will be able to give virtual tours of properties, kitchen designers will be able to give customers a better idea of what they are buying.
Cheaper and simpler systems like Google's Cardboard VR headset, where you slot in a smartphone, may provide most people with their first virtual reality experience.
Among the organisations now trying to use the Google headset as a way to deliver VR is the Dulwich Picture Gallery.
It made quite a simple virtual tour of the gallery and tried it out on some young patients at nearby King's College Hospital.
Their reactions were a delight.
"You do get the feel of being there and seeing the paintings, it's really cool", said Lucy.
"You can definitely see it's fake," added Maya, "but for a little person they probably think it's the most amazing thing in the world."
But Edward pointed out: "It's not as good as the actual thing, it's not like a real museum."
Virtual reality will bring new ways for all sorts of organisations and businesses to talk to us.
This year we may find out whether, in Edward's words, it's as good as the actual thing.
Read more about the new virtual reality systems in our CES preview, which will be published on 2 January.
The train service, Y Gerallt Gymro, is funded by the Welsh government and provides a reduced journey time to the Welsh capital from Anglesey.
Aimed at business users, it is the only service on the route with hot meals.
The new funding deal will see Arriva Train Wales continue to operate the express until the end of the current Wales and Border franchise in 2018.
Announcing the agreement, Transport Minister Edwina Hart said: "I am committed to improving journey times and transport links between north and south Wales to promote economic growth."
The service calls at the major stations on the north Wales coast, including Bangor, Rhyl and onto Wrexham and Chester, before heading along the Welsh Marches, and into south Wales - knocking nearly an hour off the return journey.
The 20-year-old has made one City appearance in the FA Cup and spent last season with Dutch club NAC Breda.
"He is a player that I have admired for a long, long time," said Hibs boss Neil Lennon. "He is a very exciting young player.
"When I was manager at Bolton I went to see him on a couple of occasions and I was really impressed."
Barker, capped by England at youth level, could be included in the squad for Saturday's home game with Hamilton.
"The manager said that it is a good place for me to come and carry on learning my trade and that it is a great platform for me to come and show everyone what I can do," he said.
"He believes in me, so hopefully I can make everyone else believe in me."
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The election - which has been postponed three times this year after months of wrangling - is the first to take place since current leader Andry Rajoelina ousted his predecessor Marc Ravalomanana four years ago.
The 2009 coup led to a devastating economic crisis in Madagascar after sanctions were imposed on the country as a whole, as well as several individuals involved in the takeover, including Mr Rajoelina. As a result, the economy has been in a state of paralysis and foreign aid, which once accounted for almost half the country's budget, has been suspended.
Why were the elections postponed repeatedly?
After seizing power, Mr Rajoelina announced that there would be a new constitution and elections within 24 months. In May 2009 it was agreed that all former presidents would be allowed to stand in the election. However, these failed to take place in 2009 or 2010.
In January this year Mr Rajoelina and Mr Ravalomanana both agreed not to stand in the polls, in line with a plan by the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a regional bloc that Madagascar belongs to.
The first round of this election was set to take place in July 2013 but was pushed back to August because Mr Ravalomanana's wife and former first lady, Lalao - and then Mr Rajoelina himself - decided to run, prompting donors to suspend financing for the poll.
Mr Rajoelina and Lalao Ravalomanana were then barred from standing and the electoral court also struck former President Didier Ratsiraka from the list of candidates after the three refused to withdraw. The African Union had said it would not recognize the results if any of the three were declared the winner. The electoral commission then set the elections for 25 October so that it could change the list of candidates to exclude the three.
Proxy candidates are running for Mr Rajoelina and Mr Ravalomanana, who lives in exile in South Africa. However, he still commands a lot of support in the country.
What state is the country in?
According to World Bank statistics, more than 92% of Madagascar's population of some 21 million live on less than $2 a day. There are 47.4 deaths for every 1,000 live births and the average lifespan is 65 for men and 69 for women.
Who are the main candidates?
Thirty-three candidates are taking part. The front-runners are:
Is there a free media?
Most of Madagascar's newspapers and broadcast media are owned by politicians but only two of the presidential candidates actually own newspapers or broadcast houses themselves. According to Freedom House, media in the country is "partly free".
In the final run-up to the polls, the electoral commission and state broadcaster ORTM (Office de la Radio et de la Television Malgache) have allocated 15 minutes of free paid-for airtime for each candidate every day.
Who is managing the elections?
The Independent National Electoral Commission of the Transition (Cenit) - an independent electoral body funded by the United Nations - is in charge of the polls.
Presidential candidates must be Malagasy citizens and have lived in Madagascar for at least six months before applying to stand, a condition that Mr Ratsarika and Lalao Ravalomanana both failed to meet.
No firm date has been set to announce the results but if no candidate receives more than 50% of the votes cast, a second round will be held on 20 December, along with the parliamentary elections.
Cenit says there are 7,697,382 registered voters and 20,115 polling stations in Madagascar, a country the size of France with a scattered population. Some media reported that distribution of voting cards did not begin until 10 October and some registered voters in the capital, Antananarivo, had still not received them by 16 October.
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A review found pupils from Wales are less likely to get into Oxbridge than those in England and Northern Ireland.
The first three of 12 centres offering specialist support are set to start in south, north and south west Wales.
Oxford applications in 2013 were the lowest since 1999, figures show.
A total of 105 students from Wales were accepted at Oxford and Cambridge, down from 144 five years earlier.
A review led by former Welsh secretary Paul Murphy found low self-esteem and a lack of academic self confidence were part of the problem.
In 2013, Cambridge had 255 applications from Welsh students, just below its average in recent years.
Oxford has not yet published its 2014 figures but a spokeswoman said: "Fluctuations in application and acceptance numbers from year to year are entirely normal.
"In fact, for 2014 entry, Oxford made the highest number of offers to Welsh candidates in four years."
Education Minister Huw Lewis said successful applicants often benefited from the help of a particular teacher with experience of the admission process.
"The idea of the hubs is that they remove this element of chance and allow our most academically talented pupils to develop their skills, confidence and intellectual thinking in a supported environment," he said.
Mr Murphy, a history graduate from Oriel College, said: "Studying at Oxford University was a life-changing experience for me and I want more Welsh students to have the kind of opportunities I had."
A lot of the discussion around the declining numbers of pupils from Wales getting into the best universities has centred around the Welsh Baccalaureate.
Paul Murphy, the Oxbridge ambassador for the Welsh government, said the baccalaureate was raised repeatedly as a concern for teachers "as it does not currently meet the requirements of academically more able and talented students" and takes up valuable space in their timetable.
There will be changes to the baccalaureate from September this year; it will be more challenging, it will be graded and will more closely resemble academic courses.
These changes have been widely welcomed but there are also those who say the changes should have been made much sooner.
Another reason given by Mr Murphy for fewer Welsh pupils getting into the top universities was that upper-end A-level performance declined between 2008 and 2012.
Put simply - if the pupils are not getting the grades, there is no way they will get in.
That situation has started to improve - last year's A-level results at A and A* were better than 2013, though still not at the same level as 2008.
So, while there is still disappointment at the current low numbers of pupils from Wales getting into Oxford and Cambridge, it seems the circumstances could be changing so the picture may well improve in future.
The Women in Love author directed the insult at Pangbourne while inquiring about cottages to let in August 1919.
He wrote: "Pangbourne is repulsive - it sort of smells - women use scent on their clothes, and petrol plus river plus pavement... I suffer by the nose".
The note was sold by auctioneers Lyon and Turnbull in Edinburgh on Wednesday.
It was addressed to his friend Bertie Herbert Farjeon at a time when Lawrence was leading an itinerant lifestyle after being forced out of his Cornwall home following accusations of spying.
After asking Bertie whether the cottage he wanted was vacant, the writer declared that he was "so sick of mankind".
Three months after the letter was posted he left Britain for good as part of a self-imposed exile.
Lawrence, whose other novels included Lady Chatterley's Lover and The Rainbow, was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in 1885 and died in France in 1930 aged 44.
Adam Evans, 35, was stopped on the M62 near Goole, East Yorkshire, on 9 May.
He pleaded guilty at Scunthorpe Magistrates' Court to speeding and driving while over the limit.
Evans was also given a 12-month community order and told to complete 250 hours' unpaid work.
He was also ordered to pay £295 in costs.
The court heard Evans, of Mount Avenue, Hemsworth, recorded 78 micrograms of alcohol per 100 ml of breath when he was stopped. The legal drink drive limit is 35 micrograms.
Speaking after the hearing, his solicitor Neil Davies said Evans was "exceptionally remorseful for the mistake he's made".
"A substantial element of the offence involved drinking heavily the night prior to driving, which, of course, is a mistake that many people sometimes make and something we all need to be very conscious of."
The accident happened in the early hours of Sunday between junctions 15 and 14 on the eastbound carriageway, close to the Membury Services.
Wiltshire Police said the woman who died was a passenger in an Audi A4 which collided with a Vauxhall Zafira.
The Audi driver, a 60-year-old man from south-east London, suffered life-changing injuries.
His back seat passenger, a 59-year-old woman, was seriously injured.
They were taken to Great Western Hospital in Swindon where their condition is said to be "serious but stable".
The Zafira driver, a man from west London who also suffered life-changing injuries, was taken to the John Radcliffe in Oxford for treatment.
"For reasons unknown a Vauxhall Zafira travelling towards London left the carriageway, hit the nearside crash barrier and bounced back into carriageway before coming to rest broadside-on in the middle lane," a police spokesman said.
"As the driver exited his vehicle he was struck by the Audi travelling in lane three.
"The Audi then struck the offside of the Zafira. The impact caused the Zafira to cross the carriageway and come to rest on the nearside verge with the Audi coming to rest against the central reservation."
Anyone who witnessed the accident, which happened just after 02:00 BST, is asked to contact Wiltshire Police.
Two groups are believed to have been involved in an altercation outside Moo Bar on Russell Street at about 01:00 BST.
A man in his 20s was assaulted and taken to hospital but died from his injuries, Warwickshire Police said.
Two 30-year-old men from Birmingham have been arrested on suspicion of murder.
The force is appealing for witnesses to come forward.
Adeyemi Olugbuyi, who was known as "Big Man", was last seen in North Holme Court, Thorplands, in Northampton in September 2013.
His remains were discovered by litter pickers in nearby Billing Brook Road.
Two men from Northampton, aged 43 and 29, were arrested on suspicion of murder in February by Northamptonshire Police and have been released on bail.
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The event in the northern Brazilian city of Palmas officially gets under way on Friday and will end on 31 October.
President Dilma Rousseff is expected to attend the lavish opening ceremony.
On Thursday, the participants took part in a traditional fire-lighting ceremony in Palmas's central square.
Indigenous peoples from countries including Ethiopia, Mongolia and Brazil sang and danced at the ceremony, dressed in traditional outfits.
The football tournament also began on Thursday.
Among the sports included in the games are archery, spear tossing, canoeing and a race through the forest.
There will be non-competitive events showcasing the many different traditions of indigenous ethnic groups involved, such as a football-style game called xikunahity in which the ball is controlled only with the head.
It is played in the Matto Gross region of Brazil.
As well as peoples from across the Americas, there are delegations from Australia, Russia, the Philippines, Ethiopia and New Zealand.
From Brazil alone, 24 different indigenous groups are taking part.
On Thursday, a small group of indigenous people protested against the cost of staging the games, saying the money would have been better spent on improving the lives of Brazil's indigenous people.
The flag was taken from an 80ft (24m) post at Trump International Golf Links on the Menie Estate between Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning.
Police are keen to trace a white van seen in the area shortly before 22:00 on Monday.
The flag and its pole were the subject of a planning wrangle after being erected without council permission.
Trump International took its case against Aberdeenshire Council to the Scottish government, which later ruled in its favour.
The 29-year-old Fiji international is one of 18 players to leave Sixways, and is the ninth addition to Dean Richards' Falcons squad for next season.
Cavubati has made 15 Test appearances, and was a member of Fiji's 2015 World Cup squad.
"Tevita offers us some outstanding carrying and offloading ability," director of rugby Richards said.
"He is already familiar with Premiership rugby from his time at Worcester Warriors, he is an experienced international and this is the sort of quality signing which will help us build on the improvements we have already shown this season."
Falcons have not confirmed the length of the contract.
On Friday, Poundland claimed it had been advised to remove food from its Corporation Street store because of nearby "road works".
But the council's environmental health team said it had received complaints of mice and, after a visit, concluded there was an "imminent risk".
Poundland said it had followed advice.
In a statement, it said: "All food is now back on sale and the prohibition notice has been lifted. The company's primary concern is for the health and well-being of its customers and it reacted swiftly to resolve the situation."
In a previous statement, released on Friday, the firm said: "Poundland has removed food from display at its Corporation Street store in Birmingham following advice from the local environmental office.
"This advice relates to issues caused primarily by the extensive building and road works in the area."
Birmingham City Council said food went back on sale in the store on Monday.
The foreign secretary reportedly told a Czech paper the UK was likely to leave the EU customs union post-Brexit - but still wanted to trade freely after.
However, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch finance minister, said such an option "doesn't exist" and was "impossible".
Number 10 said a decision on membership of the customs union had not been made.
Mr Johnson reportedly told the Czech newspaper Hospodarske Noviny he did not believe the UK would remain in the EU customs union after Brexit.
He was quoted as saying he believed such a move could be done while "maintaining free trade" with EU states, suggesting the UK could remain within the single market.
The customs union allows members to move goods without the imposition of tariffs on each other.
However, members also have to apply the same tariffs to goods that are imported from outside the union - which is seen as a disadvantage by some Brexit supporters who want the UK to be able to negotiate its own deals.
Speaking to the BBC's Newsnight, Mr Dijsselbloem - who is also president of the eurozone's Eurogroup - said Mr Johnson was putting forward options that "are really not available".
"He's saying things that are intellectually impossible, politically unavailable, so I think he's not offering the British people a fair view of what is available and what can be achieved in these negotiations," he said.
EU leaders have continually warned that the UK cannot expect access to European markets after Brexit unless it accepts the free movement of labour.
Mr Dijsselbloem said that while firms in the UK currently have full access to European markets "without any hindrance or customs duties", some of that "will disappear".
He said it would be "a step back", adding: "The UK will be outside the internal market and there will be some hindrances."
The Dutch minister told the programme that both the UK economy and the European economy would be in "a worse situation" post-Brexit.
"There is no win-win situation. It's going to be a lose-lose situation and in the best case if we set aside all emotions and try to reach an agreement that is least damaging to both of us we can minimise the damages," he added.
"We can do our best to minimise damages but it's going to be a step back and that is what Boris Johnson should start talking about."
Downing Street has insisted that the government's position has not changed and no decision has been taken on the future membership of the customs union.
Mr Johnson also reportedly said it was a "complete myth" that free movement was one of the fundamental freedoms of the European Union.
In response, the European Parliament's lead negotiator on Brexit, Guy Verhofstadt, tweeted: "Can't wait to negotiate with @BorisJohnson, so that I can read him Article 3 of the Treaty of Rome."
The section includes removing "obstacles to freedom of movement for persons".
On Monday Downing Street "wholeheartedly" rejected comments in a memorandum leaked to the press describing cabinet "divisions" over Brexit.
Prime Minister Theresa May wants to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty - beginning the formal two-year process for leaving the EU - by the end of March next year.
An international study led by the university said there was "strong evidence" of metformin's anti-inflammatory properties.
The researchers said this "may prove significant" in relation to non-diabetic cardiovascular disease (CVD).
Metformin has been in use for more than 50 years.
The study said the drug "continues to reveal significant possibilities for treatments other than those for diabetes."
The drug is also undergoing new clinical trials to determine if it can promote healthy ageing.
The study is being led by Professor Chim Lang and Dr Graham Rena, from the university's division of molecular and clinical medicine.
Professor Lang said: "The anti-inflammatory effects of the drug were observed, not only in those with diabetes, but also in a cohort of non-diabetic heart failure patients."
Dr Rena said: "We found that this drug acts differently to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs by inhibiting a different target."
Dr Rena said the next step would be to establish exactly how the drug inhibits this target and to identify "specific non-diabetic" patient groups that benefit from the anti-inflammatory properties.
Prof Jeremy Pearson of the British Heart Foundation said: "These findings offer further evidence that old drugs can perform new tricks.
"Repurposed medicines can much more quickly benefit patients.
"If this existing and affordable drug can be repurposed as a heart disease treatment, then this is excellent news for the 2.3 million people in the UK living with the condition.
"We look forward to seeing how the research progresses in patient studies."
It is the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising, the seminal event that led to Irish independence and in some ways to the creation of Northern Ireland.
But who owns the legacy of 1916, especially in an election year?
The 1916 Pathé news footage clearly shows the destruction to the centre of Dublin arising from the Easter rebellion.
The bombed-out General Post Office (GPO) from where the Republic of Ireland was proclaimed has no roof, it is windowless and its front is scarred by the firing of artillery.
The buildings near it either have collapsed or are in a poor state of repair.
On 27 March, Easter Sunday, people will again gather outside the GPO to commemorate the events that paved the way towards the foundation of a new state.
Last August, the Irish state began its centenary commemorations by marking the funeral of the Fenian leader Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa.
Padraig Pearse, one of the rebellion's leaders, gave the graveside oration, where he famously said that "Ireland unfree shall never be at peace".
The Irish army, officially known as Oglaigh na hEireann, played a key role in that commemoration and will do so again over the coming months.
Irish politicians want to celebrate the foundation of the state, but without giving succour to dissident republicans and the violent republican tradition.
The 1916 rebels had no democratic mandate, but it could be argued that nobody had, because there was no universal suffrage not every adult had a vote.
Regina Doherty, a member of the Irish parliament with Fine Gael, the main government party, said 2016 belongs to everyone on the island and provided a chance for stock-taking.
"For me it's not about Sinn Féin or Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael," she said.
"It's about the inclusivity of the government programme and is a chance for us all to reflect on what has been achieved over the last 100 years.
"But more importantly it's also about our ambitions for the next 100 years.
"And that's the responsibility of everyone on this island, north and south."
Sinn Féin, while taking part in state commemorations, has also organised its own, including one last August for O'Donovan Rossa, where party activists re-enacted the funeral dressed in costumes of the time.
Simon Reeves, presenter of the BBC programme Ireland with Simon Reeves, noted that the centenary was the extraordinary story of the birth of a nation.
"Irish nationalism has in many ways gone into the background in the Republic," he said.
"It's not front and centre in people's minds - they've got other concerns and this is part of a series of events Sinn Féin is using to try to awaken that sense of Irish national identity, of one island."
Sinn Féin is also planning a major event at the GPO on the calendar date of the Rising at the end of April.
There will be marches and vigils at important sites of the Rising and for at least six months from February there will be an exhibition of artefacts from the Rising at the Ambassador venue at the top of O'Connell street.
Sinn Féin parliamentarian Aengus O'Snodaigh said the party is not trying to claim ownership of the centenary.
"Sinn Féin has been organising commemorations since 1917 throughout the country," he said.
"We'll be doing in 2016 what we've always done and adding to it because of the significance of the 100 years.
"We're not trying to compete. Indeed, we're trying to make sure that our events aren't directly competing with the state events.
"We've timed them at different times."
The details of the state's Easter Sunday plans have yet to be announced, but they are expected to include a military march past the GPO where senior state figures and other VIPs will be gathered on a podium.
To date the centenary has not proved divisive or controversial, possibly because the general election is due to happen before it and so no one party can seek electoral advantage from the events of 100 years ago.
But it will be interesting to see if that changes over the coming weeks and months.
A draft of the report contained a chapter on the Great Barrier Reef and references to Kakadu and Tasmania.
But Australia's Department of the Environment requested that Unesco scrub these sections from the final version.
A statement from the department said the report could have had an impact on tourism to Australia.
It also said the report's title, Destinations at Risk, had "the potential to cause considerable confusion".
"In particular, the World Heritage Committee had only six months earlier decided not to include the Great Barrier Reef on the in-danger list and commended Australia for the Reef 2050 Plan," the statement said.
"The department was concerned that the framing of the report confused two issues - the world heritage status of the sites and risks arising from climate change and tourism.
"Recent experience in Australia had shown that negative commentary about the status of world heritage properties impacted on tourism."
Prof Will Steffen, an emeritus professor at the Australian National University and head of Australia's Climate Council, was one of the scientific reviewers on the paper.
He told the BBC that he was "amazed by the apparent overreaction that's gone on".
"I don't understand it at all. I think it was a very balanced report. There was nothing in that report that was not already known," he said.
Prof Steffen was sceptical about official explanations that the report risked causing confusion over the status of the reef and could impact tourism.
"There's no substance to either of those arguments," he said.
"There was no mention at all that the Great Barrier Reef might be listed as endangered. There was also a paragraph at the end that discussed steps the Australian government is taking to mitigate risks to the reef."
Prof Steffen also noted that distribution of the report, which summarises risks to World Heritage areas in many nations, would likely be limited to specialists who worked in associated fields.
"You wouldn't expect to see it on a bestseller list," he said.
The report was created by Unesco in partnership with the Union of Concerned Scientists and the United Nations Environment Program.
It is not clear why Unesco agreed to the government's request to remove the passages.
The 47-year-old took over at Valley Parade in August 2011 and helped the club to promotion from League Two in 2012-13.
He guided the Bantams to the League Cup final in that same year and last season led them to the FA Cup quarter-finals.
"I'm very proud of my record here so far but I've been very lucky to receive the backing I've had from the chairmen and board," he told the club website.
"You always need good people around you as a manager, and I think we have a very good team both above me at boardroom level and around me at the training ground.
"We are all still striving to keep improving - that is the key. Hopefully we can continue to do that and make this season a successful one.
"It is a fantastic honour to be the manager of this football club. Every time I drive to the ground for a match day, I always get a feeling of immense pride that I am the manager of Bradford City."
Parkinson's assistant Steve Parkin, goalkeeping coach Lee Butler and head of sport science Nick Allamby have also signed new three-year deals.
The Bantams are currently 11th in League One with eight points from their first six matches this season.
The blaze happened at Papa Busty's take-away, on Waterloo Street, at about 16:30 BST on Monday. The take-away has only been open for five weeks.
The Fire and Rescue Service said the blaze was started accidentally.
On Sunday the Rainbow Chinese take-away on Carlisle Road was also damaged by fire.
Paul Quinn's 21-year-old son, Darren, owns the pizza business. Mr Quinn said he was devastated.
"It's a new business, he came back from England with his girlfriend, it's only open five weeks," he said.
"Business was picking up great, they were very happy with it. They put everything into it so it's very upsetting.
"It's just unfortunate, but I'm just glad there were no lives lost or people hurt."
Jonathan Tate from the Fire and Rescue Service said it was a very difficult blaze to deal with.
"There were 30 firefighters here to deal with the incident. The damage to the take-away is significant."
Mr Tate told BBC Radio Foyle that the inside of the business was "destroyed".
The take-away is on the bottom floor of a three-storey building. The two flats above the restaurant are derelict.
That is the conclusion of The Committee for the Protection of Journalists, who together with the internet giant Google SA, have gathered African journalists together in Johannesburg's financial hub Sandton to take stock in the wake of the North African uprisings.
In recent months we have seen the traditional means of blocking content continue.
Uganda, for instance, turned off social networking sites in April during the peak of the "walk-to-work" campaign.
Though it denied doing so at first, the Uganda Communications Commission wrote to service providers asking them to "block the use of Facebook and Twitter" and "to eliminate the connection and sharing of information that incites the public".
The BBC saw a copy of the letter.
In June, the Rwandan site Umuvugizi was blocked as its editor was sentenced in absentia to more than two years in jail for insulting the President Paul Kagame in an opinion piece.
And in Swaziland, SMS and the Facebook site were suspended during the much-trumpeted protest marches that failed to take off at the start of April.
But these "technical blocks" are fast becoming surpassed by "more sophisticated and targeted tools using Malware", says Danny O'Brien from the CPJ.
He says a tactic that was previously used in China, Malware enables an individual's website to be infiltrated via a virus or spyware designed to damage a user's system and "suck out important content".
It also enables the "infiltrator" to clone the original system and send out information that would be hard to detect as being fake.
There is evidence that this sophisticated tool is being used in Tanzania and Sudan, according to Tom Rhodes, CPJ's East Africa lead.
JamiiForums, a Swahili language version of Wikileaks, is being "cloned" by Tanzania's government to disrupt conversations of opponents, he says.
There has been no comment from the Tanzanian authorities on this.
Nevertheless with Chinese influence in Africa growing rapidly, should journalists and bloggers be more concerned?
Google thinks so.
The company has found its search engine periodically blocked by China over the past decade and Ory Okolloh, its feisty government relations manager, is a trailblazer for media freedom.
She was the brainchild behind the Kenyan site Ushahidi, which used mapping technology and mobile phones to help identify sites of post-election violence in 2008.
Given the events in the Middle East and North Africa, Ms Okolloh argues that there is a "growing need among individuals and organisations in the forefront of online freedom of expression, to learn about the complex issues surrounding news technology products and social media tool".
Journalist defence networks agree.
"Governments now have unprecedented access to the wires and pipes of the internet," says Mr O'Brien.
What is more, with 80% of those Africans using the internet accessing it via mobile phones, the breadth of information that can be gleaned is much greater.
Mobile phones require government licences and greater co-operation between providers and the authorities, and so the pressure to suspend services cannot be underestimated
Internet accessed by smart phone users not only tells a hacker what sites are being monitored and who they are talking to, but it will also gather information on their precise geographical location and what they are seeing.
This is no longer the stuff of sci-fi movies but the everyday reality of citizen journalists everywhere.
Timothy Kalyegira was in a Ugandan prison cell facing charges of criminal libel last week.
A few days later the Ugandan journalist and blogger was out on bail as one of the delegates of the meeting in a plush hotel in Sandton.
Mr Kalyegira's "crime" in the eyes of the Ugandan government was to stray into the sensitive territory of security issues.
On his website, the Uganda Record, he questioned whether it really was the Somali Islamist organisation al-Shabab that was behind last year's World Cup bombings in Kampala.
He faces criminal charges.
Some will undoubtedly appreciate Uganda's argument that is an issue of national security, but many of the other delegates who joined Mr Kalyegira in Sandton have felt the strong arm of the law for what may seem far more "benign" reasons.
For instance simply posting a view on Facebook, publishing a cartoon or publishing a few tweets on Twitter.
These men and women earn a pittance from their online work; they do not enjoy the diplomatic cover that big news organisations receive when things go wrong; but they are rapidly becoming the voices of dissent.
Just like the "samizdat" illegal publications in cold war Europe were the engine of change in the late 1980s, so the voices of the Rwandans, Ethiopians, Ivorians and Nigerians gathered in Sandton are making contributions that are rattling governments continent wide.
The 23-year-old has agreed a two-and-half-year deal with the Daggers.
"Ollie is a player we have watched for some time and everyone who saw him was impressed," boss John Still told the Dagenham website.
"I decided I would try and sign him in this transfer window and the fact that I changed clubs is Dagenham's gain."
Hawkins becomes the former Luton Town manager's fourth signing of the January transfer window.
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The conviction of Jeffrey Davies, 45, at Newport Crown Court follows an investigation by the force, managed by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
The rapes happened in 2002 and 2003 while he was a serving officer in the Rhondda.
He was convicted on Thursday and will be sentenced at a later date.
Davies was dismissed from South Wales Police in 2013 after being convicted of other sexual assaults and the latest rape allegations followed publicity from those cases.
He was convicted of raping one woman in 2002, who he met through work and drove up to the Bwlch mountain in Rhondda Cynon Taff where he attacked her, and another woman who he raped in 2003.
Chief Supt Dorian Lloyd, head of South Wales Police's professional standards department, said: "He abused his position as a police officer and gave no regard to the traumatic effect that his actions would have on his victims.
"These were vulnerable women who, having encountered Davies, found themselves subjected to an appalling abuse of trust."
IPCC Commissioner for Wales, Jan Williams, said: "Jeffrey Davies was a sex offender hiding within the police service, who committed fundamental breaches of the trust placed in him as a serving officer."
Roland, one of a pair of swans at Markenfield Hall near Ripon, was found dead in the moat on 14 April.
Staff at the 14th Century manor later managed to capture the suspect otter on film.
Owner Ian Curteis said the otter was caught on camera after his swan was "completely savaged" by some unknown creature last week.
He said footage from a motion-sensor equipped camera revealed "a three and a half foot otter, virtually wiping his mouth with his napkin and putting down his knife and fork".
Roland's female partner, Sylvia, has been removed from the moat for her own safety. Staff said they hoped the otter would eventually move on.
Otters are a protected species in the UK and cannot be killed, captured or sold.
The black swan is native to Australia and was largely brought into the UK for ornamental purposes.
One of the strikes hit near the Bayan hospital in the eastern Shaar district, activists and a monitoring group said.
Video footage, purportedly of the aftermath, showed bodies being pulled from burning and destroyed buildings.
It was not clear who was responsible, but government forces are seeking to regain control of the divided city.
In a defiant speech on Tuesday, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad promised to retake "every inch" of the country from his opponents.
Aleppo, he said, would be "the graveyard where the hopes and dreams" of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan - a key backer of the rebels - would be "buried".
The speech to Syria's newly-elected parliament was Mr Assad's first major address since UN-brokered indirect peace talks in Geneva broke down in April.
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Aleppo, once Syria's commercial and industrial hub, has been divided since 2012, with the government controlling the western half and rebel factions holding the east.
But in recent months, government forces backed by Russian air strikes have almost encircled the rebel-held areas and cut off one of the rebels' two routes to Turkey.
The battle for the city led to the collapse of a cessation of hostilities negotiated by Russia and the US, which supports the opposition, at the end of February.
The Local Co-ordination Committees (LCC), an opposition activist network, reported that Tuesday's air strikes had resulted in multiple casualties in the Maadi, Haidariya and Shaar districts.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, said children were among at least 10 people killed when the Bayan hospital was hit.
The Syria Civil Defence, whose volunteer search and rescue workers are known as the White Helmets, said 15 civilians were killed in Shaar and that the hospital was hit by two suspected barrel bombs.
The government has denied that its forces drop barrel bombs - oil barrels, fuel tanks or gas cylinders packed with explosives, fuel, and metal fragments - and other unguided weapons, but their use has been widely documented.
The Independent Doctors Association, which describes itself as a cross-border Syrian humanitarian organisation, said an air strike had hit its children's hospital in Aleppo, destroying one floor.
Almost 740 medical workers have been killed in more than 360 attacks on hospitals and other medical facilities since the uprising against Mr Assad began five years ago, according to Physicians for Human Rights.
In April, an air strike blamed on government forces destroyed a hospital in Aleppo, killing at least 50 people including one of the city's last remaining paediatricians.
Three-year-old, Maisie Phillips, had been taking her first trip on Nottingham's new tram line to Clifton with her parents on Tuesday evening.
Her father Anthony Phillips said he tried opening the doors but the driver refused to stop "for safety reasons".
Nottingham Express Transit (NET) said "lessons had been learnt" from it.
Mr Phillips said he got off at the next stop and ran half-a-mile back to Maisie, who was being looked after by another passenger.
"I'm glad Maisie didn't go wandering off anywhere, anything could have happened to her," he said.
"I was shouting to the driver but she said we had to wait until the next stop.
"I understand these are new trams but the doors closed stupidly quickly. If someone was disabled or elderly they wouldn't have got out quick enough."
Maisie had been spotted by Angela Wilkinson who had got off at the same stop.
She said: "I noticed she was on her own and was running away shouting 'mummy', 'daddy'. I just couldn't leave her.
"She was absolutely devastated. It was awful."
An NET representative apologised and said while the driver had closed the doors too quickly, she was "unable to stop once the tram was moving for safety reasons".
Their statement added that "lessons had been learnt" and drivers have since been reminded to look out for passengers who might need extra time or assistance getting on and off the trams.
Ex-serviceman, Robert McNamara, 24, of Scarborough, pleaded guilty at Chester Crown Court to attempting to enter as a trespasser with intent to steal.
The alarm at the footballer's £6m property in Prestbury, Cheshire was reportedly triggered on 3 August.
McNamara will be sentenced on 21 December.
Judge Nicholas Woodward said there were "very worrying features" in the case and ordered a pre-sentence report to be carried out by the probation service.
Rooney, his wife Coleen, and their three sons, Kai, Klay and Kit, were attending the charity tribute game against his first club, Everton, when the break-in bid took place.
McNamara of Newby Farm Crescent, Scalby, was arrested six days later.
The prosecution case was not outlined during the brief hearing but the court heard that McNamara had recently been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and that his family had sought help from Combat Stress, a veterans' mental health charity, earlier this year.
After Tuesday's 1.9% devaluation, China's central bank cut the guiding rate for the yuan for a second day.
The fall in the yuan has hit commodity prices, driving down share prices in the big UK-listed mining companies.
The FTSE 100 was down 93.35 points at 6,571.19, with shares in mining giant Glencore falling 5.7%.
The losses were echoed across other major European stock markets, with Germany's Dax index and France's Cac 40 down 3.3% and 3.4% each.
Companies with direct exposure to China came under pressure. Shares in fashion house Burberry, for which China is an important market, fell 3.5%, having dropped more than 4% on Tuesday.
Shares in Unilever were down 4.3% after Goldman Sachs cut its rating on the consumer goods company to "sell" from "neutral".
Randgold Resources was the top riser in the FTSE 100, climbing 5.4%, after the price of gold rose.
Gold is traditionally seen as a safer asset in times of market turmoil, and the spot price of gold touched a three-week high of $1,119.80 an ounce on Wednesday morning before slipping back.
On the currency markets, the pound fell sharply against the euro after signs of a slowdown in UK wage increases pushed back market expectations of when interest rates might rise.
Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics showed unemployment rose slightly in the three months to June, while earnings growth - including bonuses - slowed to an annual rate of 2.4%.
The pound fell by 1%, more than one euro cent, against the euro to €1.3959 but edged up 0.42% against the dollar to $1.5638.
The result eased Clyde's relegation fears, moving them up to eighth in Scottish League Two.
Edinburgh City beat Arbroath 1-0, with bottom club Cowdenbeath picking up a vital win over Stirling Albion.
Forfar Athletic remain top despite a 1-0 loss at Montrose, while Berwick drop to ninth after a 2-1 defeat by Annan.
Clyde faced criticism for signing Goodwillie, 28, on a deal until the end of the season after a court judgement in January ruled he and a former team-mate raped a woman.
But the former Dundee United striker made the most of the chance afforded to him with a 12-minute hat-trick to cancel out first-half goals from Elgin's Chris McLeish and Chris Dodd.
Goodwillie's first goal for the club got Clyde back into the game after 52 minutes, he added his second five minutes later and completed his treble with a well-taken third shortly after Elgin's Thomas Reilly had a penalty saved by Kyle Gourlay.
Basement side Cowdenbeath grabbed a much-needed victory as they eased to a 3-0 win at Stirling.
The Blue Brazil opened the scoring in the fourth minute when the home side failed to clear a corner and Dale Carrick turned the ball home.
It was 2-0 after 21 minutes when Kris Renton was left unmarked to hammer in his 10th goal of the season, and former Hearts striker Carrick added a third with another close-range effort to seal the points.
Clyde's victory coupled with Ryan Porteous' last-gasp winner for Edinburgh City at second-placed Arbroath meant it was a crucial three points for Cowdenbeath.
Table-topping Forfar succumbed to Chris Templeman's magnificent seventh-minute winner for Montrose, as he took advantage of a poor clearance from goalkeeper Grant Adam to curl the ball into an empty net from 30 yards. Forfar remain a point clear at the league summit.
At Galabank, Darren Ramsay broke the deadlock for the hosts from the penalty spot in the 52nd minute after Lee Hamilton had fouled Aidan Smith.
Berwick levelled through Steven Thompson's sublime free-kick after 68 minutes, but Smith's low finish into the corner won it for Annan.
Republic boss Martin O'Neill described Elliot's injury as "serious".
"It's a real disappointment and obviously a dampener on the evening," said O'Neill after the 2-2 draw.
Elliot, 29, was hurt as he tried to keep out Miroslav Stoch's opening goal in the Aviva Stadium game.
"He was going really well at Newcastle and looking forward to the game and coming here into the squad with a lot of confidence," added O'Neill.
"I have just spoken to the doctor and he's not happy."
Newcastle later tweeted that the full extent of Elliot's injury would be assessed on Wednesday.
Elliot's misfortune further increases the chances of a recall for veteran Stoke keeper Shay Given.
The 39-year-old was working as a TV pundit at Tuesday's game in Dublin and spoke to O'Neill about his own recovery from a knee injury.
Jack Butland's broken ankle suffered on England duty against Germany has increased Given's chances of featuring for Stoke during the club's Premier League run-in.
Elliot has earned praise for his club performances since coming into the team in place of injured Dutchman Tim Krul in October.
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O'Neill declared himself satisfied with his team's performance as first-half penalties by Shane Long and James McClean earned the Republic a draw against their fellow Euro 2016 qualifiers.
"We played some nice attractive football, particularly in the first half," he said.
"There were a lot of substitutions made by both teams and that disrupted things in the second half.
"Overall, there were some good performances. The cohesion we had was surprising given how much we had changed things around for this match."
McClean, eager to seal his place in O'Neill's squad, revealed he is a novice at taking penalties.
"I took the second penalty because Shane was a bit sore after taking a knock," said McClean. "I had never taken one before so there was a bit of pressure on it."
The US actor played Paul, a member of Kiefer Sutherland's blood-sucking gang, in the 1987 horror comedy film.
In a statement, his "heartbroken" family said he died on Tuesday "from the genetic liver condition alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AAT)".
The message describes McCarter as a "loving son, brother, father, uncle, cousin, nephew and friend".
The Facebook statement added: "We appreciate your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time."
Born in 1963 in Philadelphia, McCarter was a high school athlete and model before landing his best-known screen role.
As blond-haired "lost boy" Paul, he met a grisly end after being knocked by a dog into a bath full of garlic-infused holy water.
Unlike some of his co-stars, who included Jason Patric, Corey Feldman and the late Corey Haim, McCarter did not go on to pursue a full-time acting career.
Instead he worked in the telecommunications industry while also making music and occasionally appearing at horror conventions.
According to People magazine, the father-of-one died from liver failure at his home in Tampa, Florida, after having been admitted to hospital earlier this year.
Actor Alex Winter, who played vampire Marko in The Lost Boys, paid tribute to his former co-star on Twitter.
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The Portuguese, 46, has taken over at Ibrox after signing a three-year contract.
"They need to spend some money to bring in better players to try to bridge the gap," said Johnston, who played for both Celtic and Rangers.
"It's a huge gap, how many points is it at the top of the championship, 33?"
Defending champions Celtic are within two wins of a sixth straight top-flight title while Rangers, who won promotion last season, trail second-placed Aberdeen by eight points with 10 games to play.
While Johnston, 53, says Caixinha's appointment is a risk, the former Scotland striker believes the manager's three-year spell in Mexico with Santos Laguna will help him as he adjusts to the demands of Scottish football.
"It's a big gamble, [Caixinha] doesn't really know much about Scottish football," said Johnston, who lives in the United States and previously managed New York Red Bulls and Toronto.
"I don't think you can prepare yourself for the Old Firm.
"He was in Mexico - which is very similar to Major League Soccer - for three years, [and] he won three trophies.
"I don't think you can compare the MLS and Mexico to the Premiership [because the] MLS is a little bit better.
"He's a good coach, but he needs investment, that's all he needs."
Johnston expected Rangers to lose on their visit to Celtic Park on Sunday and says the Ibrox side will take plenty of belief from their hard-fought performance for when the two sides meet again in April's William Hill Scottish Cup semi-final.
"It was a great draw, because they're so far behind in the Premiership," Johnston added. "They'll take a lot [of confidence from it].
"When I was coming back [to the UK], you're thinking Celtic are going to run away with it, but the game was a little bit different. Rangers played well in the last 20 and deserved the draw.
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The qualifier took three of the four frames played on Saturday and his seven century breaks was a record for the most centuries in a Crucible match.
He beat the record held by Ronnie O'Sullivan and Stephen Hendry.
In the other semi-final, world number one Mark Selby beat Hong Kong's Marco Fu 17-15.
That match featured the longest frame in Crucible history and delayed the Ding-McManus encounter by 37 minutes.
But the 29-year-old from China wasted little time extending his overnight lead from 14-10.
World number 17 Ding shared the first two frames with his fellow qualifier McManus - at 45 the oldest player to play in a Crucible semi-final since Ray Reardon in 1985.
He moved to within a frame of victory with the 10th ton scored in the match, which also further extended the record for most centuries in a World Championship game.
And he wrapped his seventh win since beginning his qualifying campaign in early April, taking a scrappy 28th frame.
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The closing stages of the last-four meeting were always unlikely to provide the same drama and excitement of Friday's two sessions.
Ding was eager to stay calm, saying: "I wanted to make the final but I feel normal. The tournament hasn't finished yet.
"I want to keep focused. Last season and this season, I didn't play good but in March and April I started to play well.
"Now I am confident to play any matches and play anybody."
McManus took comfort from his remarkable run to the last four, the first time he managed that feat since 1993.
His performance at the Crucible will also see the world number 29 climb back into the top 20 in the world when the rankings are finalised at the end of the tournament.
McManus said: "The best man won and you have to face that. The scoring Ding produced was up there with anything I have ever seen before.
"He was pretty hot. I expected that. I felt I could really give him a game because I felt good, but I didn't take enough chances.
"I felt last night I should have been 13-11 at the worst, not 14-10.
"Being four behind and then having a couple of setbacks, he was just too strong."
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Wrexham's Gerry McDonagh had the best opportunity of the first half but he missed from six yards.
Home keeper Rory Watson denied Callum Powell and John Rooney twice fired wide as Wrexham drew a third successive game.
A point was enough to see North Ferriby move off the bottom of the table.
Wrexham remain 14th in the table and Dean Keates' side are nine points off the play-off places.
Wrexham manager Dean Keates told BBC Radio Wales Sport: "You look at the overall game and there was only one clear cut chance, on the stroke of half-time, and he's [McDonagh] got to score.
"It was very frustrating with not enough chances created on our behalf.
"It wasn't good enough and the intensity wasn't high enough. We played the game at their tempo and let them slow it down."
Match ends, North Ferriby United 0, Wrexham 0.
Second Half ends, North Ferriby United 0, Wrexham 0.
Substitution, North Ferriby United. Ross Armstrong replaces Ryan Fallowfield.
Callum Powell (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, North Ferriby United. Ryan Kendall replaces Reece Thompson.
Substitution, North Ferriby United. Connor Robinson replaces Kyle Wootton.
Substitution, Wrexham. Khaellem Bailey-Nichols replaces Gerry McDonagh.
Substitution, Wrexham. Antony Barry replaces Leo Smith.
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Substitution, Wrexham. Chris Dunn replaces Shwan Jalal.
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The winger has rejected a new deal but Reds boss Brendan Rogers expects the 20-year-old to see out the remaining two years of his contract at Anfield.
Henderson, who could play alongside Sterling for England on Sunday, also dismissed criticism of his team-mate.
"He is not who people think he is," said the 24-year-midfielder.
Sterling has caused controversy by rejecting a new £100,000-a-week contract with the club while his agent Aidy Ward reportedly said the player will not sign a new deal even if he was offered "£900,000 a week".
Henderson, speaking to Radio 5 live's John Murray, said: "He gets a bit of criticism because of how things have been dealt with, but I know him better as a person.
"I could not fault him as a person or a player. He is a great lad and gives everything for the team.
"For such a young lad he is so mature and does not let the outside world affect him.
"His work ethic is amazing. He is improving all the time. I hope we can keep him at Liverpool for many years, he can blossom here and become a top player."
Liverpool were thrashed 6-1 on the final day of the Premier League season to end a disappointing campaign for Rodgers' side which saw them fail to qualify for the Champions League and lose an FA Cup semi-final to Aston Villa.
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But Henderson, who often deputised as captain for the now departed Steven Gerrard, thinks the team will learn from their mistakes.
He is also relishing the prospect of playing with new signing and fellow England international James Milner, who has signed from Manchester City.
"The result at Stoke was not acceptable and we know as players it was embarrassing for us and the club," said Henderson.
"It was a very up and down season, very disappointing but a lot of the younger lads will be able to learn from the experience.
"Milner is a fantastic signing, not only as a player for his quality but as person in the dressing room, on the training field and the experience he has got - it is a massive signing."
England are unbeaten in nine games and have not lost since their defeat to Uruguay at the World Cup in Brazil just under a year ago.
They visit Republic of Ireland in Dublin for a friendly on Sunday afternoon, and Henderson said: "I do not think it will be like a friendly. We are unbeaten and want to keep that run going as long as possible, it doesn't matter if it is a friendly or a qualifier.
"We want a win against Ireland, we need to be winning. The Scotland game was similar. The atmosphere that day was brilliant, it was a good performance form the team and we hope for the same on Sunday."
US researchers say the jab was almost 96% effective in tests on around 270 men who were using it, with four pregnancies among their partners.
However, a relatively high number developed side effects, including acne and mood disorders.
Researchers have been investigating potential for male hormonal contraceptives for around 20 years.
They have all been looking for an effective way of suppressing sperm production without causing unpleasant or unbearable side effects.
Because men constantly produce sperm, high levels of hormones are needed to reduce levels from the normal sperm count of over 15 million per millilitre to under one million/ml.
This study was published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, and published by the Endocrine Society.
It looked at men aged 18-45 who had been in monogamous relationships for at least a year - and whose partners had agreed to take part.
The men's sperm counts were checked at the beginning of the study, to ensure they were normal.
They then had two hormone injections (progesterone and a form of testosterone) every eight weeks, and were monitored for up to six months until their sperm count fell to under a million.
They were then asked to rely on the jab, which they continued to have at the same interval, as their only form of contraception during the efficacy stage of the study, which lasted for up to a year,
Once they stopped having the injections, they were monitored to see how quickly their sperm counts recovered.
Eight men had not recovered their normal sperm counts a year after the study ended.
Dr Mario Festin, of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, who carried out the study, said: "The study found it is possible to have a hormonal contraceptive for men that reduces the risk of unplanned pregnancies in the partners of men who use it."
The researchers stopped taking on new participants in 2011 after concerns were raised about side effects such as depression and other mood disorders, as well as muscle pain and acne.
Such side effects caused 20 men to drop out of the study and were reported by many others,
Dr Festin said other researchers were now looking at combining different levels of the same hormones, and different ways of delivering them, such as gels.
He added: "This has been one step in a long journey of finding the right combination for male hormonal contraception."
Allan Pacey, professor of andrology at the University of Sheffield, said: "There is certainly an unmet need for an effective reversible contraceptive for men, along the lines of the hormonal contraceptive for women.
"However, none of the preparations that have been developed and tested to date have managed to become a commercial reality for one reason or another."
He said the contraceptive in this study was "extremely effective and therefore certainly has promise" and that the number of side effects seen was a concern.
But he added: "It is noteworthy that 75% of the men who took part in the trial would be willing to use this method of contraception again.
"So perhaps the side-effects weren't all that bad after all."
Shuri Castle stands on a hill above the Okinawan capital, Naha.
It used to be the seat of the Ryukyu kings, who ruled over an archipelago south of Japan and north of Taiwan.
It is an elegant red pavilion where the kings received emissaries and conducted trade across Asia.
Now the castle is a tourist attraction in Japan's southern-most prefecture. It looks down on densely-packed apartment blocks and offices.
Heading north from the castle, the roads are gridlocked. For 20km, almost without a break, US bases stand on one or other side of the road.
High fences with "Keep out" signs make it clear that these areas are off limits to Okinawans.
Opposite them bars and shops sell used cars and Mexican food. Cargo planes and fighter jets fly overhead.
The bases occupy almost a fifth of the island. They constitute 74% of all US bases in Japan, on less than 1% of its landmass.
Okinawans have been saying for decades that this is not fair. And in April 90,000 residents gathered to protest, in the biggest show of opposition for 15 years.
"Okinawans understand there are national security needs, but they do not understand why Okinawa has to have such a large proportion of the US bases," says Naoya Iju of the prefectural government's Military Base Affairs Division.
"Many people think: 'We are all Japanese so why do just Okinawans have to bear this burden?"
Okinawa was forcibly incorporated into Japan in the late 19th Century. Sho Tai, the last Ryukyu king and master of Shuri Castle, died in Tokyo in 1901. A process of Japanisation began.
After the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II, Tokyo ceded Okinawa to temporary US control.
The US seized land for bases which now serve as the foundation for the US-Japan security alliance. Simply put, the US will protect Japan if Japan hosts and pays for its troops.
Today 26,500 US military personnel are in Okinawa, on more than 30 different bases.
These include the huge air base at Kadena and a massive jungle training area in the north. Plus, of course, Futenma, the Marine Corps airbase right in the middle of Ginowan city, where houses and schools nestle right up against the fence.
Both the Japanese and US governments say they are vital for maintaining security in an unstable and increasingly competitive region.
Supporters say there are benefits. Okinawa is Japan's poorest prefecture and base-related income provides about 5% of its income.
More than 9,000 residents are employed by the bases. Generous rents are paid to families whose land is used, as are subsidies to local authorities hosting bases.
But opponents point to aircraft noise and traffic disruption - they have to drive around the bases. They complain about high levels of base-related crime. They say Okinawans - who have the highest birth-rate in Japan - desperately need the land back to live on.
They also argue that the bases are eroding Okinawa's cultural identity and the subsidies creating a dependency culture. They say that if the base land were returned, it could be made more economically productive.
Protest over the issue has gone in waves. One came in 1972, when Okinawans found that reversion from US to Japan rule did not result in base closures.
Another came in 1995 after the gang-rape of a 12-year-old girl by three US troops.
Profile: Japan's Okinawa
The latest wave was triggered by Yukio Hatoyama, elected prime minister in June 2009, who suggested Futenma airbase could be moved off Okinawa altogether, instead of to the north of the island as previously agreed.
"Until then no politician had suggested moving the base out of Okinawa," said Susumu Inamine, the mayor of Nago, the northern city proposed as the relocation site. "The fact that the DPJ [Democratic Party of Japan] said it could gave people hope."
Amid this wave of hope, Okinawans elected four anti-base MPs to the national parliament. That same wave, in January, helped Mr Inamine fight the Nago mayoral election on an anti-base platform and win.
The huge April rally was held. The Okinawan prefectural assembly unanimously backed a letter demanding the removal of the base off the island. Seventeen thousand people formed a human chain around Futenma.
But - after intense US pressure - Mr Hatoyama back-tracked. In May he said he had been unable to find an alternative site for the base. His "heart-breaking conclusion" therefore, was that the relocation should go ahead as planned. Then he stepped down.
Okinawans were furious. Local media described it as a betrayal. Why, people asked, was it more acceptable to put bases in Okinawa than anywhere else in the country?
Since then, the anger has not gone away. Cars and buses sport signs calling for a "peaceful" Okinawa. So do some buildings. Local media remain militant.
Professor Tetsumi Takara, Dean of the Graduate School of Law at Ryukyu University, says the issue is much bigger than just the relocation plan.
Okinawans feel that their voices have been ignored by the Japanese government for decades, he says.
Since becoming part of Japan they have had no control over their fate - during World War II, when Okinawa was the site of Japan's only land battle, in the 1960s when US nuclear weapons were located in Okinawa, in 1972 when US rule ended but the bases stayed.
The rights of Okinawans, he says, have been consistently subordinated to Japanese security concerns. "Okinawans are being discriminated against. That is the fundamental problem," he says.
He says this point is not adequately understood on the mainland.
"When we protested in April, they thought we were protesting about the US military but that wasn't it," he said. "It was more about the questionable treatment we are getting from the Japanese government."
Naoya Iju, of the prefectural government, says that many people think that Okinawans are being treated as second-class citizens.
Mr Hatoyama's flip-flop even appears to have engaged young people, who have only ever known Okinawa with the bases.
"My mother worked on a base and I learned English because of the bases," said one young civil servant. "But now more and more people are starting to think that there is something wrong here."
The relocation plan that sparked the wave of protest is currently stalled pending the Okinawa governor's election in November.
It is the governor who can grant or deny permission for the plan to go ahead - and the staunchly anti-base mayor of Ginowan, Yoichi Iha, is challenging an incumbent whose view on the relocation plan remains ambiguous.
An Iha victory could force the Japanese government to choose between over-ruling its own citizens and their democratically-elected representative or jeopardising its key security relationship.
Okinawans, says Prof Takara, do not protest on the streets every day. But they watch and they wait and many, he says, are looking to the election as a chance to make their feelings felt.
For months, they have been protesting against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
The early snowstorms of the season are rolling across the prairie. Temperatures frequently drop below freezing at night.
"We are prepared for the worst," says Noah Morris, an assistant medic based in the Oceti Sakowin Camp. "But the spirit of the people is good."
Since April 2016, when the campaign to stop the pipeline began, the indigenous protest camps have transformed into an organised community.
They lie spread across a valley near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, housing as many as 6,000 people in three distinct groups.
The Sacred Stone Camp is dense, close to the Cannonball River, sheltered from the wind by a steep bank and clusters of trees.
Oceti Sakowin Camp is sprawling, home to an estimated 4,000 people, huddled around sacred fires, chatting with friends, sheltering from the cold in trucks, tepees, tents and yurts.
The Red Warrior Camp has become a command centre, a base from which disruptive "actions" are launched against the pipeline.
"Once this has all ended, we hope to establish something permanent here [near Standing Rock]," says Linda Black Elk, a resident of the camps and a member of the Catawba Native American nation.
"The level of organisation we have is incredible," she added. "Some of the facilities are better than nearby towns. People are travelling here just to receive treatment in our medical clinics."
Doctors, traditional healers and psychologists provide care free of charge in the Oceti Sakowin camp, out of a series of shelters close to the central fire pit.
Storage tents, pinned down against the wind with tarpaulins, are piled high with donated gloves, hats and sleeping bags.
"I talked to folks in the kitchens," said Dallas Goldtooth, a campaign organiser for the indigenous environment network, in a recent Facebook Live.
"They could build structures for days with the amount of rice and beans they have."
Many of these developments have been funded by social media campaigns. One GoFundMe page has generated over $140,000 (£112,485) in charitable donations for the camps.
Although the vast majority of Dakota Access oil pipeline has been built, the section closest to the Standing Rock Sioux reservation - which will pass beneath the Missouri River - is still awaiting federal permits and approval.
A permit was initially granted by the Army Corps of Engineers, but the Department of Justice and other agencies intervened to override the decision on 9 September.
The government has been reassessing the situation ever since, including the possibility of a "reroute", according to US President Barack Obama.
But the struggle between the coalition of over 200 indigenous tribes and the oil company Dakota Access LLC has intensified in recent weeks.
On 25 November the US Army Corps of Engineers issued a letter calling for the Oceti Sakowin camp, which sits on federally owned land, be evacuated by 5 December.
This was followed by a similar evacuation order from the governor of North Dakota.
Those who leave will be permitted to continue their protest in a "free speech zone" south of camp's location, the letter states.
Those who stay will be subject to fines as high as $1000 (£800).
The Army Corps claims this removal will help "prevent death, illness, or serious injury… due to the harsh North Dakota winter conditions."
Protesters, who prefer to be called "water protectors", disagree.
"The most dangerous thing we can do is force well-situated campers from their shelters and into the cold," David Archambault II, the Chairman of the Standing Sioux Tribe, said in a statement on 28 November.
"If the true concern is for public safety, then the governor should clear the blockade and the county law enforcement should cease all use of flash grenades, high-pressure water cannons in freezing temperatures, dog kennels for temporary human jails, and any harmful weaponry against human beings."
The United Nations Human Rights office has criticised local law enforcement and Dakota Access LLC security staff for committing abuses against indigenous protesters, issuing a statement on 15 November
"Marking people with numbers and detaining them in overcrowded cages, on the bare concrete floor, without being provided with medical care, amounts to inhuman and degrading treatment," the report stated.
The local Morten County police are being sued for excess force by a number of camp residents.
They deny any violations, and have repeatedly accused the self proclaimed "water protectors" of acting illegally.
"Protestors continue to violate federal regulations by using drones to harass and surveil law enforcement, endangering those below the device," stated a published report on 24 November.
"Protesters also continue to target law enforcement aircraft with laser beams which is a Federal offense."
Representatives of Dakota Access LLC have criticised the protest movement while stressing the company's cooperation with authorities.
"We have been working diligently with local enforcement officials in North Dakota in their efforts to protect our construction workers and peacefully remove protestors who are trespassing on private land," stated a press release in early November.
According to Kelcy Warren, the CEO of Energy Transfer Partners, delays in pipeline construction have cost the company over $450m ($362m) so far.
Pipeline workers have also been adversely affected.
"A lot of people have gone out there for a job, and found out they won't get paid because of a protest," says Kevin Pranis, a manager with the Labourers District Council, a union with 600 members working on the pipeline.
"Construction workers are paid on an hourly basis. When things get held up, it has a direct impact on people's lives."
Ron Ness, the Chairman of North Dakota's Petroleum Council, believes the disruption will soon be over.
"The project is almost complete," he said. "The indications are that Donald Trump will approve this pipeline on day one of his Presidency."
President-elect Trump, who will take office in January 2017, is assumed to be friendly to energy concerns and has a personal connection with the pipeline.
In May 2016, the Republican's financial disclosures revealed he had investments in companies affiliated with the pipeline, though the Dallas Business Journal interviewed a spokeswoman from Trump's transition office who claimed he sold all or most of these assets in July 2016.
Campaign finance records show that Kelcy Warren, the CEO of Energy Transfer Partners, donated more than $100,000 (£80,437) to Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
Still, the protesters don't plan to give up.
"There are a lot of questions people have about what we are going to do," said Dallas Goldtooth, one of the leaders of the #NoDapl movement, via a Facebook Live on 27 November.
"We refuse to give in to fear. The only statement we can make is if we move, it's on our terms."
Kenman Holdings, which has a number of properties in the Lewis town, claimed the privately-run apartments were being developed using public money.
Western Isles Council - Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - is leading the redevelopment of Lews Castle.
Kenman has failed to secure a judicial review of the apartments contract.
Judge Lord Tyre at the Court of Session in Edinburgh found in favour of the local authority, ruling that the legal challenge had been delayed "for an unreasonably long time".
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar has been leading a project to redevelop 19th Century Lews Castle, which has been closed for 25 years.
Council leader Angus Campbell said: "The comhairle was always confident that its processes in the awarding of the contract were proper and competent.
"The restoration and development of Lews Castle is hugely popular and will provide a major economic boost for the islands when the museum and the luxury hospitality development opens next year."
A consultation launched in October has finished and the firm confirmed it would cut staff numbers by about 25% at its Worksop offices and supply chain.
A spokesman said the changes were being made so it could "react quickly to the fast moving retail environment".
The business faced a "challenging" situation but was "financially robust", he added.
The chain, which started with a single shop in 1930, has more than 370 stores across the UK.
It employs about 23,000 staff and has annual sales of more than £1.5bn.
4 February 2017 Last updated at 00:06 GMT
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Cheek scored 19 goals in 44 National League games for the Iron last season, but could not help them avoid relegation.
The 25-year-old spent two seasons at Braintree, having previously played for National League South club Chelmsford.
Cheek is the Daggers' fifth signing since the end of the 2016-17 campaign.
When the adult female was finally captured north of Brisbane on Tuesday, she was also carrying a baby kangaroo, Australia Zoo said in a statement.
Doctors performed surgery to remove the arrow, which came very close to her skull and brain.
The kangaroo and her joey (baby) were released back into the wild after the operation.
The animal was captured by Australia Zoo and the RSPCA near Toorbul and taken to the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital for treatment.
The arrow "actually grazed the skull and came millimetres from her eye socket and optical nerves", the Australia Zoo statement said.
It said the animal was sedated from when she arrived until when she was released back into the wild.
"She wouldn't have even known she was there, but she will be waking up in the wild much more comfortably without the arrow," the statement said.
"This type of deliberate cruelty towards animals is horrific, illegal and could have caused a certain slow, painful death for this mother kangaroo and her young joey."
South Gloucestershire Council wants to create Adoption West to give social workers access to a bigger pool of potential adoptive parents.
The proposal would see the creation of a regional agency, with councils working together to find homes for children.
The new service could be up and running from April 2018.
South Gloucestershire Council has been working with Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol City, Gloucestershire County, North Somerset and Wiltshire councils and six agencies to create the agency.
It replicates Adopt South West - which Somerset, Plymouth City, Devon County and Torbay councils and two voluntary adoption agencies already operate.
Cabinet member Paul McClaine said: "When you've got children, you've got to look at what's best for them.
"To have a much wider range of potential adopters to choose from has got to be a really good thing."
The 36-year-old suffered swelling and bleeding to his lip in the altercation, which took place in a hotel in North Yorkshire.
He was also subjected to a prolonged verbal tirade and drove himself to hospital believing he had lost his job.
The incident saw Clarkson dropped by the BBC after an internal inquiry.
In a statement Mr Tymon's lawyer, Paul Daniels, said: "Mr Tymon has informed the police that he doesn't want to press charges.
"The events of the last few weeks have been extremely unpleasant for everyone involved. The matter has taken a great toll on Oisin, his family and his friends.
"Quite simply, Mr Tymon just wishes to return now to the job at the BBC he loves, as soon as possible.
"Further, the BBC have, in his view, taken action with a view to addressing the issues at hand.
"Mr Tymon agrees with the BBC's stated view that all parties should now be allowed to move on, so far as possible."
The producer, who previously described Clarkson as a "unique talent", has come under sustained abuse on social media for his involvement in the dispute.
Speaking outside his home on Thursday, Clarkson asked fans to show restraint.
"I wish people would leave Ois alone because none of this was his fault," the presenter told reporters.
Mr Tymon never lodged a formal complaint with the BBC following the altercation with Clarkson, which took place on 4 March.
The internal investigation was prompted after the presenter reported himself to Danny Cohen, the corporation's director of television.
The investigation found that Mr Tymon was subject to an "unprovoked physical and verbal attack".
The physical altercation lasted "around 30 seconds and was halted by the intervention of a witness," said the report's author, Ken MacQuarrie.
As a result, the BBC's director general, Tony Hall, said he would not renew Clarkson's contract.
"For me a line has been crossed," he said on Wednesday.
"There cannot be one rule for one and one rule for another dictated by either rank, or public relations and commercial considerations."
Lord Hall said he "not taken this decision lightly" and recognised it would "divide opinion".
Following Mr Tymon's decision not to press charges, North Yorkshire Police said the force was still investigating the incident.
"We are grateful to Mr Tymon for clarifying his position, as we can now take this fully into account," said a spokesman.
"We have some final interviews to complete with guests who witnessed the incident as their perspectives also need to be considered.
"When these conversations are complete, we will issue a statement on our website as appropriate."
At a parliamentary hearing, members of the Commons Transport Committee said the carmaker had treated some customers like "second-class citizens".
They also said there had been inconsistencies in GM's investigations of the fires.
The firm apologised and said it was working to compensate owners.
More than 234,000 Vauxhall Zafira B cars were recalled for a second time last year over a technical problem that had caused some models to burst into flames.
Vauxhall have said the blazes were caused by improper repairs to the heating and ventilation system.
Evira Toelkes, vice-president of quality at GM Europe, told MPs the firm had written 1.2 million letters to owners seeking a recall and managed to fix 165,000 cars.
She also said that extra technicians had been deployed to speed up the repairs.
However, SNP politician Stewart Malcolm McDonald said customers had made numerous complaints about the firm's handling of the process, with some forming a group to lobby Parliament.
"Some customers were made to feel like a nuisance or were met with disgust at dealerships," he said.
"Vehicles were often returned to them with further problems with the heating and ventilation system."
He added: "I can't think of another product in the United Kingdom at the moment where people have set up a campaign group and come to Parliament to try and resolve it."
Helen Foord, head of government relations at GM, said the firm's dealers had since been issued with guidance on how to handle the complaints better.
"Our dealers were trying to make the recall process as smooth and easy for customers as possible, but we understand that might not be the case the whole time and we apologise for the additional inconvenience," she said.
The executives were also criticised for having launched 59 investigations into the damaged vehicles, despite knowing of 287 reported fires.
Thomas Berenz - director of global safety and field investigations at GM - said GM had not been able to access all of the vehicles.
This was because customers had not always given permission to investigate, while some vehicles may have been scrapped, he said.
21 January 2016 Last updated at 11:45 GMT
Back in 1981, the so-called "Gang of Four" senior Labour politicians broke off - partly in protest at the leftward drift of their party.
Could history repeat itself? Very possibly, according to two surviving members of the Gang of Four - Shirley Williams and David Owen. They spoke to BBC Newsnight's Lewis Goodall as part of a look back at that landmark moment.
A court ruled that Meriam Ibrahim, who was raised by her Christian mother and married a Christian, was Muslim in line with her father - which she rejects.
David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg said the case appalled them.
A Sudanese government official later told the BBC there was no doubt the woman would be released.
Abdullahi al-Azreg - under-secretary at Sudan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs - said the country guarantees freedom of religion and the government was committed to protecting her.
The UK Foreign Office said it was "urgently seeking clarification" from Sudan that Ms Ibrahim was to be freed.
Officials had been urging the Sudanese government "to do all it can" to overturn the death sentence, a spokeswoman added.
Ms Ibrahim, who has appealed against her sentence, gave birth to a daughter in her cell on Wednesday.
David Cameron said her treatment had "no place in today's world", while Lib Dem leader Mr Clegg and Labour leader Mr Miliband both said her case was "abhorrent".
Meanwhile, former defence secretary Liam Fox said the UK should reconsider whether it was "acceptable" to give aid money to "states which allow treatment such as that handed out to Meriam Ibrahim".
But that suggestion was dismissed as "totally perverse" by Justine Greening the international development secretary.
"British aid to Sudan only goes on helping the very poorest Sudanese people via the UN and NGOs, and not a penny is given to the Sudanese government," she said.
Mr al-Azreg insisted international pressure had had no bearing on the decision to release Ms Ibrahim, which he said followed a "judicial process".
"I don't have any doubt that Meriam will be released and will not be executed, make no mistake about it," he said, adding that the "complicated" case had touched on tribal and social issues.
Ms Ibrahim's husband, Daniel Wani, who is a US citizen, told the BBC he was hopeful his wife's appeal would succeed.
He said he had seen his new daughter in prison on Wednesday, and that they were both doing well.
But he said he was most concerned about his 20-month-old son, who has been living with his mother in prison since February.
"His attitude has changed a lot," Mr Wani said.
"He used to be a happy boy. When I went there, he just looked at me. No smile."
Ms Ibrahim, 27, was brought up as an Orthodox Christian, but a Sudanese judge ruled earlier this month that she should be regarded as Muslim because it had been her father's faith.
She refused to renounce her Christianity and was sentenced to death by hanging for apostasy.
The court said she would be allowed to nurse her baby for two years before the sentence was carried out.
Her Christian marriage, in 2011, has been annulled and she has been sentenced to 100 lashes for adultery because the marriage is not considered valid under Islamic law.
Mr Cameron said: "Religious freedom is an absolute, fundamental human right."
"I urge the government of Sudan to overturn the sentence and immediately provide appropriate support and medical care for her and her children."
Deputy Prime Minister Mr Clegg said the sentence was a "flagrant breach of international human rights".
Mr Miliband said the incarceration of Ms Ibrahim was "utterly appalling and an abhorrent abuse of her human rights".
"Nobody should be persecuted because of the religion they practice or the person they fall in love with," he said.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair described the case as a "brutal and sickening distortion of faith", the Times newspaper reported.
Human rights organisation Amnesty International has launched a petition calling for the Sudanese government to release Ms Ibrahim.
Sudan has a majority Muslim population and Islamic law has been in force there since the 1980s.
The Irish looked to have shackled the Sri Lankans, as 4-15 from leg-spinner Ciara Metcalfe reduced them to 59-5 in the 10th over.
But Eshani Lokusuriyage (35 not out) and Prasdani Weerakkody (32) dragged them to 129-7.
Isobel Joyce (24) had Ireland well placed at 87-4 after 15 overs, but after she fell they slipped to 115-8.
Metcalfe said she was delighted with her own performance but disappointed by the loss.
"I am obviously happy with the way I bowled, but the defeat has hurt us," she said. "We thought we should have won, but we will take it in our stride and continue to improve."
Ireland are next on action on Wednesday when they take on South Africa in Chennai.
Ireland sit bottom of Group A with two defeats from two matches and will be eliminated if they lose to South Africa on Wednesday.
In Sunday's other game, West Indies eased past Bangladesh by 49 runs.
West Indies posted 148-8 and then bowled out Bangladesh for 99 to go top of Group B, which also contains England.
Bangladesh, with three defeats from three games, go out.
With rampant unemployment, some are promising jobs and others cash hand-outs as they appeal for votes.
Given his record, winning this election ought to be easy for incumbent Hassan Rouhani - but his re-election is by no means a certainty.
Mr Rouhani managed to strike an historic deal in 2015 with world powers over Iran's controversial nuclear programme, resolving a long-standing crisis with the West.
International sanctions were lifted as a result, but average Iranians say they do not feel the economic benefits in their daily lives.
"For the past two years, many have stayed away from the property market, first with the hope prices would fall post-sanctions and now for the fear of what happens in the elections," says Ali Saeedi, a real estate agent.
"Many of my colleagues left their jobs because the market is dead," Mr Saeedi, 33, says.
Iran's housing sector shrank 13% in the year to March 2017, while the country's overall economy grew by almost 6.6%, estimates International Monetary Fund.
That growth came mostly from increased oil exports following the lifting of sanctions.
For young Iranians like Ali Saeedi there is no shortage of promises these days.
Tehran Mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, who is running for president, says he will create five million jobs in four years, if elected.
Iran's highest record in the past four decades has been creating 600,000 jobs a year.
Iran's current unemployment rate stands at 12.7%, up 1.7% over the past year. That puts the number of those with absolutely no employment at 3.3 million.
But when it comes to young people, one in every three of those aged 15-24 is jobless. In that age group, every other woman is unemployed.
For those without a job, Mr Qalibaf is also offering a 2.5m rial ($66) monthly unemployment benefit, a first in the 38 years since since the Islamic Revolution.
The price tag for this election promise alone is a staggering $2.6bn. Mr Qalibaf does not say where he will find the money, nor how he will manage to double Iran's job creation record.
Ebrahim Raisi, another conservative candidate, topped Mr Qalibaf's promise with a bid of his own, pledging to create six million jobs.
The 57-year-old cleric and former prosecutor, who runs the Shia shrine in north-eastern city of Mashhad - and its financial empire - also promised to triple cash hand-outs for the poorest 30% of Iranian population.
As compensation for removing fuel subsidies, Iranians receive 455,000 rials a month. Tripling that stipend for 24 million people would amount to $3.5bn a year.
Mr Raisi, too, has failed to specify where that money will come from.
"It's as if they are bidding in an auction. The economy does not work like that," says Ahmad Alavi, an Iranian economist based in Stockholm, Sweden.
"Those words are attractive, but what the populist candidates forget is that memories of Mr Ahmadinejad are fresh."
Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in his two terms (2005-2013) started cash hand-outs when removing subsidies, offered low-interest loans for small businesses and launched massive projects of affordable housing for the poor.
But when Mr Ahmadinejad left office the economy was shrinking by 7% a year and inflation reached 40%. He blamed international sanctions. Economists blamed Mr Ahmadinejad's populist policies and his mismanagement of the economy.
President Rouhani has brought GDP growth back into the black, inflation into single-digits and trade deficit into a surplus.
But expectations are high and Mr Rouhani himself is to blame, having promised miracles once the sanctions were lifted.
Most members of Iran's fledgling private sector say they will give Mr Rouhani another chance.
"We want him to improve the business environment and free the economy from rent-seeking, corruption and monopoly," says Hamid Hosseini, chief executive of Soroosh oil refinery in Iran.
Mr Hosseini is a board member of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Mines and the founder of the country's oil products export union.
He says a large group of private sector executives have come together to support Mr Rouhani.
"His government has given the society hope with lifting sanctions, increasing growth and tourism, attracting foreign investment and should be confident in this race," Mr Hosseini says.
But the choice for some young Iranians like Ali Saeedi is not crystal-clear.
"All I care about is that the property market moves. The real contenders are the lawyer [Hassan Rouhani], the cleric [Ebrahim Raisi] and the mayor [Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf]," he says.
"I may vote for the mayor, but the cleric will win!"
Ritchie pounced after Daniel Agger hesitated following a through ball from Scott Brown and the winger steered it wide of goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel.
Denmark, looking for a second successive win under new coach Age Hareide, had the better of the game.
But several excellent saves from Craig Gordon prevented an equaliser against a Scottish side with a completely new starting line-up to the one that won in the Czech Republic.
Former Scotland defender Willie Miller, who won 65 caps from 1975 to 1989, was at Hampden Park and here he gives his marks out of 10 for each of the Scotland players.
The Celtic man was not tested too much, but it is a mark of a good international goalkeeper when he makes saves when called upon and he had three or four, including a great double stop to deny Martin Braithwaite.
He started off brightly, but his runs forward quickly dried up. He hasn't been playing much for Norwich City and it showed, especially in the second half.
The Celtic 18-year-old was very good in the early stages of his debut before Scotland started to get pinned back. He only played the first half because Gordon Strachan brought on Charlie Mulgrew for his extra height, but Tierney will have done his international future a lot of good.
Apart from Tierney, I don't think the back four played well as a unit and were fortunate not to be breached. Greer has not played a lot of football for Brighton and it showed, with the Danes being able to create too many chances.
The Blackburn Rovers centre-half has a good attitude and, as usual, was up for the battle, but at international level you have to think a bit more than he did on the night.
I thought the Bournemouth man gave the ball away too much and, as a winger, I would want him more involved further up the pitch. But he put in a good shift and he took his goal well.
I thought the Celtic captain was not as influential as he has been and found it difficult to control the midfield. However, he had to guide young John McGinn through his debut and he played a captain's role.
The Hibernian midfielder was Scotland's star man on his international debut. The 21-year-old was fabulous, showing a positive attitude and always trying to make passes that meant something. He is definitely one for the future if he continues to progress.
The Hull City winger was not as influential as he is capable of, but that was largely down to the team being forced to defend, although his set-pieces were decent as ever.
He is normally an out-and-out striker with Sunderland and now on loan to Marseille and playing just behind Leigh Griffiths is not his position, so Scotland were being overrun in that area of the park.
The Celtic striker has waited a long time for his chance to start up front, but he received no service whatsoever and he was a lonely figure.
The Watford winger scored the winner in the Czech Republic last week and he was quite bright when he came on again with his perkiness and directness.
The Celtic defender gives you composure at the back and is never flustered. On this occasion, he replaced Kieran Tierney at left-back to combat Denmark's aerial power and did well.
The midfielder on loan to Leeds United from Sunderland did not have time to make much of a contribution other than a terrible tackle on Erik Sviatchenko. It was uncalled for in a friendly international and could have left the defender badly hurt.
In the short time that he was on the pitch, the Derby County striker took up more threatening positions than Griffiths and Fletcher had before him and showed that he is a poacher.
The 18-year-old Nottingham Forest midfielder was only on the field for a matter of minutes but had one strong run that almost led to a goal for Chris Martin.
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The Met Office said over the four-hour period from midnight to 04:00 there was a "notable" amount of lightning.
Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service reported strikes at eight properties, and a BT box on a telegraph pole was destroyed.
Cornwall's fire service reported "properties and businesses" had been struck.
The events were caught on camera by members of the public across the region.
The Met Office said it was most likely the storm began to form over northern Spain before moving north over to Devon and Cornwall.
A spokesperson said: "Yesterday's high temperatures in the region, coupled with the approach of a weather front made a good recipe for the stormy conditions."
They added the "high-based clouds" produced a "noteworthy amount of lightning" and intense localised rainfall.
Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service said it began receiving calls "shortly after midnight" to properties which had been "struck by lightning, activating alarms and on some occasions causing small fires".
The 18-year-old will join Posh upon the expiry of his deal at Championship side Birmingham, which ends in June.
Tibbetts, who failed to make a first-team appearance at Blues, had been training with Peterborough last season.
"He is one for the future and he is here to push the new number one who we are working on at the moment," said Posh manager Grant McCann.
He becomes Posh's third summer signing, after the arrivals of Ricky Miller and Danny Lloyd.
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The Sun newspaper reported he voluntarily attended a police station to speak to detectives after a complaint was made.
The alleged attack is said to have taken place at a Eurovision results party in his constituency in May.
Mr Howlett, 30, has not been arrested, and said he "strenuously denied any wrongdoing".
He said: "The Sun newspaper and others have published stories concerning allegations about me today.
"My legal team is closely looking into this. I strenuously deny any wrongdoing. I will be making no further comment on this matter."
Avon and Somerset Constabulary said Mr Howlett had not been arrested and inquiries were continuing.
A Conservative Party spokesman said it would be "inappropriate to comment" while a police investigation was ongoing.
The event was held on forest tracks near the Highland village at the weekend.
Most of the mountain bike endurance event is held in darkness.
The second leg of the Europa League first qualifying round tie will be played at Solitude next week.
Lavery's headed effort ensures that Gerard Lyttle's side take a crucial away goal into that game.
New Reds goalkeeper Jason Mooney saved from Yeye Jordann early on but Omar Er Rafik found the net in the 38th minute.
After the break, home keeper Julien Weber made a fine stop from Martin Donnelly.
Cliftonville secured their place in the competition by winning the first-ever Irish League Europa League qualifier, with a dramatic 3-2 victory over Glentoran in May.
Lyttle had to plan without suspended defender Jaimie McGovern but Jason McGuinness started his first competitive fixture for the north Belfast outfit following his move from St Patrick's Athletic.
Cliftonville manager Gerard Lyttle: "The aim was to come here and at least get a goal and we worked very hard against a team we knew very little about.
"We sussed them out well in the first half and were a different team in the second half. We had a wee go at them and all the boys were first class.
"Ross came through our youth system and I am delighted for him. Tonight is a dream come true for him and he has lots of talent, ability, energy and strength."
Having also won with Le Havre in 2009, Rouget sent out the son of former Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere winner Wootton Bassett, to win by a length and a half.
Zarak came with a late rattle to claim second spot, with Dicton also putting in good late work to take third place, another length and three-quarters away.
Rouget also saddled leading fancy Mekhtaal, but he failed to challenge.
After Harry Dunlop's Robin Of Navan had made most of the running, jockey Jean-Bernard Eyque brought Almanzor through with a well-timed finish.
Following the win, Almanzor was installed as a 16-1 shot for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in October.
Chief executive Katrina Percy resigned on Tuesday following pressure over the way Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust investigated patient deaths.
Ms Percy's salary is quoted in the trust's annual report as between £180,000 and £190,000.
Sara Ryan said: "It is a scandal... it doesn't happen in the real world."
An NHS England-commissioned probe found 272 of the 722 deaths over the last four years at the trust were dealt with properly.
In June, the trust accepted responsibility for the death of Ms Ryan's 18-year-old son Connor Sparrowhawk, who drowned in a bath at Slade House in Oxford.
Southern admitted it caused the death of Connor, who had suffered an epileptic seizure before he died in July 2013, and offered his family £80,000 compensation.
Talking about Ms Percy's new job, Ms Ryan said: "This is public money that is paying for this ridiculously over-inflated salary.
"She failed as a chief executive. How she could possibly keep the same salary?"
Gail Hanrahan, from the Oxfordshire Family Support Network, said people were "really angry".
She added: "It's typical NHS culture, just shifting the deck chairs.
"There seems to be no consequences for her after years of documented failure... nothing surprises me anymore with what the trust do.
"They seem to go against everything that makes sense to everybody.
"It makes you wonder what you have to do to get sacked from a high powered NHS job."
Rob Greig, the former Department of Health director for learning disabilities, said the salary was not appropriate for an advisory role.
"Any reputable job evaluation process would not conclude that those two jobs merited the same salary."
The trust's chairman Tim Smart described the job as an "alternative role working with local GP leaders providing strategic advice on the transformation of local health services".
"There is vital work that needs to be done for which she is ideally suited," he said.
Hamilton won his third title in 2015 as he and Rosberg combined for 12 one-two finishes over 19 races, but the year was soured by clashes between the two.
Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff has warned he could replace one of the drivers if their relationship damages the team.
But Hamilton said: "It is never going to be all fine and dandy."
The 30-year-old added that Mercedes "can't really complain" about the results they are delivering.
"It is never going to be perfect. But we have a winning formula. We always get a one-two when the car is ready to give a one-two," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
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A year of simmering tensions came to a head at both the Japanese and US Grands Prix, when Rosberg felt Hamilton had been too aggressive while passing him at the start of the races.
After his win in Texas, which secured him his third world title, Hamilton tossed Rosberg the cap he had to wear on the podium only for his team-mate to throw it straight back at him.
"The team hired myself and Nico to do a job. We have done exactly that. We are racing and competing against each other," Hamilton added.
"It is not a family game. It is not a fun event. We are both committed to Mercedes for the long run."
The court upheld his claim that some of his treatment amounted to "inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment".
After the judgement, Breivik's lawyer, Oystein Storrvik, called for his solitary confinement to be repealed.
Breivik, a right-wing extremist, killed 69 people at a summer camp for young centre-left political activists on the island of Utoeya in July 2011.
Earlier that day, he set off a car bomb in the capital, Oslo, killing eight people.
In her ruling, judge Helen Andenaes Sekulic said the right not to be subjected to inhuman treatment represented "a fundamental value in a democratic society" and also applied to "terrorists and killers".
Breivik had challenged the government over his solitary confinement, which saw him kept alone in his cell for 22 to 23 hours a day, denied contact with other inmates and only communicating with prison staff through a thick glass barrier.
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His prison regime deviated so markedly from that enforced upon any other prisoner in Norway, regardless of the severity of their crimes, that it had to be considered an extra punishment, the judge said.
However, article three of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) required that prisoners be detained in conditions that did not exceed the unavoidable level of suffering inherent in detention, given the practical requirements of the particular case, she said.
The prison authorities had also not done enough to counteract the damage he had suffered from being in isolation, she said.
Judge Sekulic also noted that Breivik had been woken up every half hour at night over a long period of time and on some occasions subjected to strip searches with female officers present, which he found particularly difficult.
"Taken together with the other stringent restrictions which he was subject, this was regarded as degrading treatment in the Convention sense," said the judge, Norwegian national broadcaster NRK reported.
State lawyer Marius Emberland said the government was surprised by the verdict but had not decided whether to appeal.
If neither side appeals within four weeks, the prison is obliged to make Breivik's regime more lenient in line with the judge's remarks, NRK reported.
The prison must work to bring in other prisoners and "facilitate a community", the judge said.
However, the judge ruled that strict controls on Breivik's correspondence were justified and his right to a private and family life under article eight of the ECHR had not been violated.
The court also ordered the Norwegian state to pay Breivik's legal costs of 330,000 kroner ($40,000; £28,000).
Eskil Pedersen, a survivor of the shootings on Utoeya island, said he was "surprised, and then angry and upset" by the ruling.
"It was like being punched in the gut that the perpetrator won such a public victory," he told NRK.
Another survivor, Bjorn Ihler, tweeted that the judgement in Breivik's favour showed Norway had a "working court system, respecting human rights even under extreme conditions".
Lisbeth Kristine Roeyneland, who runs a support group for the victims' families, told NRK she was surprised and "a little disappointed", but also relieved that the ruling prevented him making contact with other extremists.
After she has made sure no-one can overhear us, she tells me about the realities of living in Buenaventura, Colombia's biggest Pacific port.
"Nowadays you cannot move freely between neighbourhoods," she says.
"If I tried to go over there," she says nodding in the direction of a nearby neighbourhood, "they would hit me, or disappear me, or kill me."
She says sometimes people in the city's oldest neighbourhood of San Jose, also knows as Sanyu, just disappear.
"They capture them, take them away, chop them to pieces, put them in bags and drop them in the sea," she explains.
"Sometimes you come across an arm, different body parts, a head," she adds.
The "they" she is referring to are members of Colombia's notorious criminal gangs.
The gangs have been around for years, their numbers swelled by former right-wing paramilitaries who demobilised as part of a peace process but then returned to a life of criminality.
But the torture, disappearances and dismemberments of victims which is currently plaguing Buenaventura is a recent development.
The escalation of violence is blamed on a turf war between two rival gangs - the Urabenos and La Empresa - for this strategic spot for the drugs trade.
According to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released on Thursday, entire neighbourhoods are dominated by powerful "paramilitary successor groups" which restrict residents' movements, recruit their children, extort their businesses, and routinely engage in horrific acts of violence against anyone who defies their will.
"In several neighbourhoods, residents report the existence of casas de pique - or 'chop-up houses' - where the groups slaughter their victims," reads the document.
The HRW researchers say that several residents told them they had heard people scream and plead for mercy as they were being dismembered alive.
The fear is that these are not isolated cases. Between January 2010 and December 2013 more than 150 disappearances were reported in Buenaventura; twice as many as in any other Colombian municipality.
But with many victims' relatives too scared to speak out, the actual figure could be much higher.
The Sanyu resident says no one can be trusted. "Even eight-year-old kids are involved in the violence. You believe they cannot be evil, but they're evil. You might be talking to your enemy," she explains.
Evil is a word also used by Buenaventura's bishop, the Right Reverend Hernan Epalza. "It is as if all the evil of Colombia has gathered here in Buenaventura," he says.
"Disappearing and dismembering people? I cannot think anything worse," he tells the BBC.
Buenaventura's police commander Col Jose Correa thinks these extreme methods are used like brutal calling cards.
He says his force has managed to capture or kill a number of criminal leaders and the resulting vacuum has further fanned the violence as lower-ranking criminals use all the brutality they can to assert their authority.
But he says he is confident the security forces will soon have the situation under control.
Bishop Epalza, however, thinks a more integral approach is needed to combat the poverty and lack of opportunities which he believes feed the extreme violence.
He says the poorest inhabitants are being further marginalised by the increasing importance of the port city.
More than half of the country's cargo already goes through Buenaventura and the flow is set to increase as Colombia looks for new markets in Asia and tries to consolidate its links with Mexico, Peru and Chile.
He says the violence is forcing those at the bottom of the ladder to sell up and leave, something he says may be a desirable effect for some.
"We have to asked ourselves: who's behind all of this, who's fostering all this?" he asks.
Back in Sanyu, the local residents say it does feel as if much of the violence is designed to push them out.
Their neighbourhood is one of Buenaventura's poorest.
Currently, it is nothing more than a collection of derelict wooden huts built upon wooden pillars on land reclaimed from the sea by the descendants of African slaves which first settled here almost five centuries ago.
But its proximity to the water makes it of great strategic value for those intent on smuggling drugs and weapons.
And its potential worth could be huge if the city decides to expand the port to this area.
Already, residents have started to leave.
In 2013, 19,000 people were forced to flee their homes in Buenaventura, ensuring the port city a third place in the list of Colombian cities where forced displacement is highest.
But there have been signs that the tide might be turning.
Last week people took to the streets to protest against the violence.
President Juan Manuel Santos visited the city a few days later and set up a task force to deal with the crisis, promising more security and huge social investments.
There seems to be some hope among residents who before only felt fear.
But according to HRW executive for the Americas Jose Miguel Vivanco, Buenaventura is just an "extreme example of a reality that exists in different regions of Colombia".
He told the BBC that the criminal gangs which sprang from the demobilised right-wing paramilitary groups should be a sobering reminder of the importance of a proper demilitarisation of former combatants.
On Thursday, government negotiators will begin the 22nd round of peace talks with the country's largest rebel group, the left-wing Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).
So far, they have taken over a year to agree on two items of their six-point agenda.
But as the negotiations continue, the hope is that the lessons learned from the flawed demobilisations of the past will mean that Colombia's dreams for the future will not turn into the stuff of nightmare as it did in Buenaventura.
Speaking after Dayasiri Jayasekara told Sri Lanka's players they were too fat at the Champions Trophy, Malinga said: "This is like a monkey getting into a parrot's nest and talking about it."
He added he did not care for criticism "from those who are warming chairs".
After apologising, Malinga was given a one-year ban - suspended for a year - and fined 50% of his next match fee.
That match is likely to be a one-day international against Zimbabwe in Galle on Friday, for which he is now available.
Sri Lanka have put former South Africa and Hampshire wicketkeeper Nic Pothas in temporary charge of the team after head coach Graham Ford stepped down.
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased by 0.7%, up from 0.6%, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The upward revision is mainly due to manufacturing industry having done better than thought.
The ONS cut its estimate for growth in 2016 as a whole to 1.8%, down from the 2% it forecast last month.
This downward revision pushes UK slightly below Germany, with an estimate of 1.9%, in the G7 growth league, said John Hawksworth, chief economist at PwC, "though the difference is well within the margin of error on any such early GDP estimates."
The downward revision appeared to have been prompted by weaker North Sea oil and gas production during the first six months of 2016, and did not reflect the underlying strength of the UK economy, he added.
"Excluding oil and gas output, estimated UK GDP growth might actually have been revised up in 2016," added Mr Hawksworth.
The third revision of the figures will be on 31 March, after the Budget on 8 March.
"Unfortunately, this means that the chancellor won't be able to say that the UK was the fastest-growing G7 economy in 2016 in his upcoming Budget - Germany grew by 1.9%," said Capital Economics UK economist Paul Hollingsworth.
The ONS also said there had been a slowdown in business investment, which fell by 1% compared with the three months to the end of September.
It attributes that to "subdued growth" in investment in information and communications technology equipment, as well as "other machinery and equipment".
Shilen Shah, a bond strategist at Investec Wealth & Investment, said: "Somewhat disappointingly, business investment fell on the quarter, with hints that Brexit uncertainty is hitting business confidence."
However, the dominant services sector continued to grow steadily, "due in part to continued growth in consumer spending, although retail showed some signs of weakness in the last couple of months of 2016, which has continued into January 2017," according to ONS head of GDP Darren Morgan.
"UK GDP may have gained some momentum into the end of 2016, but recent news from UK seems to have shown that that momentum has been lost in the early weeks of 2017," said Jeremy Cook, chief economist at the international payments company, World First.
"Services growth is set to slow, buffeted by rising inflation and slowing real wage gains and a consumer that is not waving but drowning."
This was a point picked up by Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, who tweeted. "UK GDP breakdown shows real household spend up 0.7%, even though employees' compensation grew by just 0.1%. This is not sustainable growth."
Police arrested the suspected attacker who was heard shouting "Allahu Akbar" ("God is great"), according to French newspaper JDD (in French).
A police source said the victim was in distinctive Jewish dress. His life is not believed to be in danger.
Local police told BBC News the attack was "not terrorist-related".
According to the police source quoted by AFP news agency, the suspected attacker has a history of mental illness.
Alexandra Gonzalez, crime journalist for French digital TV channel BFMTV, tweeted (in French) to say that the injured man's life was not in danger.
She also quoted a source close to the inquiry as saying that "no anti-Semitic motive had yet been established".
Strasbourg is home to a large Jewish community.
Jewish people have been targeted by Islamist militants in France in recent years, with a kosher supermarket attacked in Paris in January of last year and a Jewish school in Toulouse attacked in March 2012.
The chain, which is owned by US retailing giant Walmart, saw sales fall 4.7% over the year as a whole.
Parent company Walmart also reported falling profits. Net income for the fourth quarter fell 7.9% to $4.57bn.
Andy Clarke, president and chief executive of Asda, said 2015 had been a "difficult year".
Asda's figures contrast with those of the other "big four" UK supermarkets. Morrisons and Tesco both beat forecasts while Sainsbury, the weakest, saw sales fall just 0.4% over the fourth quarter, which includes the vital Christmas period.
Discounters Aldi and Lidl, are both thriving and expanding fast.
Mr Clarke said the UK retail market was undergoing "significant and permanent structural change".
He said competition had been fierce and that Asda's market share had come under pressure. Bearing that in mind, he said results for the year had been "commendably stable".
Asda is competing hard on price and concentrating less on one-off promotions. It decided not to participate in the retail discounting event, Black Friday, last November.
The company forecast that 2016 was likely to be another tough and competitive year for the sector as a whole.
George Scott, senior analyst at Verdict Retail, said Asda's strategy was not yet working: "Asda's now prolonged story of negative [sales growth] shows that it has not done enough to broaden its appeal beyond price.
"Away from price, Asda has a relatively weak reputation for quality... it also needs to do more to improve its staffing levels, adding reasons to visit, if it is to claw back ground from the discounters."
Parent firm Walmart, the biggest retailing chain in the world, is faring better than its UK subsidiary in terms of sales.
Despite the steep fall in profits, Walmart's sales rose 0.6% over the fourth quarter, its sixth quarterly rise in a row.
But Walmart trimmed its sales forecast for the year. It said it now expected sales to be flat.
The company's shares fell 4% in afternoon trading.
A suicide bomber targeted the humanitarian organisation Care in the Shar-e-Naw area and gunmen then stormed the building, Tolo News TV reported.
Police were exchanging fire with the attackers, the report added.
Earlier, a series of blasts left at least 24 people dead and nearly 100 others wounded.
An army general and two senior police officers were among the dead from those attacks, a ministry of defence spokesperson told the BBC.
The Taliban, who have carried out frequent attacks in Kabul, said they were responsible for the blasts.
In the latest incident, a car bomb was detonated at the gate of the compound, officials say.
A police spokesman told the BBC that six other people were wounded, and that 31 people have been rescued from the building.
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Some opened early to allow those with the condition to shop in an environment with lower lighting and no in-store music.
Stores offered personal shopping sessions and some offered sensory rooms.
The organisers, autism charity Sparkle Sheffield, said it was understood to be the first such event in the UK.
Major chains such as John Lewis, Marks and Spencer, Debenhams, Primark and Starbucks joined the initiative from 07:30 BST to 10:00 as part of World Autism Awareness Week.
Myra, who has a son with autism, said that shopping with her boy can be a "belittling" experience.
She said: "The judgmental stares... assuming that a child is naughty.
"It's about a child having sensory overload. The mum's already in panic mode trying to get that child to calm down."
Lewis Elwin, a trainee electrician, was stabbed in the chest in Tooting, south London, in front of parents picking up their children from school on 18 April.
Ahead of the church service, family and friends of Mr Elwin marched against knife and gang crime.
They carried anti-knife placards and wore T-shirts bearing his picture.
Mr Elwin's older brother Byron Douglas-Letts said: "We're tired of hearing about youth getting killed on our streets.
"We want to send out a clear message that we're not going to stand for this, there needs to be something done. There's enough talking, we need to take action."
He said it was not down to just one parent, the schools, or the government, but instead the community had to take action.
Mentorships needed to be set up and young people needed to be given something to do, such as a job they could be passionate about, he added.
"These kids are lacking self-esteem, they're lacking confidence, they need to be shown that they're worth something."
He added: "Lewis was very, very determined and aspirational. He was a loving, caring guy.
"Sometimes he made wrong decisions but that doesn't mean he should lose his life."
Family friend Nina Petrie said: "Young people please put down your guns, please put down your knives - life is for living.
"Gangs are not your family - gangs are prison and death."
Two 19-year-old men who were arrested on suspicion of murder have been bailed.
The Met has released a picture of a silver Peugeot with the registration KP03 ZTD and are urging any of the occupants to come forward.
It was in the same area when Mr Elwin was murdered and was later found abandoned and burnt out in Putney Park Lane.
The Department of Justice alleges more than $4.5bn (£3.5bn) was stolen from Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB by public officials and their associates.
Their latest lawsuit is looking to recover an additional $540m in assets linked to the scandal-ridden fund.
1MDB routinely denies any misconduct.
The case continues to place pressure on Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, who was identified as 'Official 1' in the DoJ filings.
There have been large street protests in the capital Kuala Lumpur in recent years calling for Mr Najib, who used to chair 1MDB's advisory board, to step down.
The scandal has also spawned investigations in at least five countries including Singapore, Hong Kong and Switzerland.
Mr Najib has consistently denied corruption allegations and an investigation by the country's attorney-general also cleared him of any wrongdoing.
"These cases involve billions of dollars that should have been used to help the people of Malaysia, but instead was used by a small number of individuals to fuel their astonishing greed," said Sandra Brown, an acting US attorney.
"We simply will not allow the United States to be a place where corrupt individuals can expect to hide assets and lavishly spend money that should be used for the benefit of citizens of other nations."
A press secretary for Mr Najib said in a statement that the government would co-operate with any "lawful" investigation, but stressed that the US claims remain unproven.
The secretary, Datuk Seri Tengku Sariffuddin, also said there was "unnecessary and gratuitous naming" in the case.
"Malaysia stands firm in its support of transparency and good governance," he said. "That includes ensuring that accusations have a basis in fact, rather than smears briefed by political opponents."
Overall, the DoJ has filed complaints to recover more than $1.7bn worth of funds allegedly pilfered from 2009 through 2015.
In court papers submitted on Thursday, prosecutors said some of the stolen money was used to buy a pink diamond necklace for Mr Najib's wife and a 300-foot luxury yacht called The Equanimity that comes with a helicopter launching pad and movie theatre.
Stolen funds were also used to buy the Picasso painting 'Nature Morte au Crane de Taureau', which was later given to actor Leonardo DiCaprio as a birthday gift.
The money was also used to fund Hollywood films including 'The Wolf of Wall Street' and the Jim Carrey movie 'Dumb and Dumber To'.
Red Granite Pictures, which financed both of those films and was founded by Mr Najib's stepson, is currently in settlement talks.
Attorney Jim Bates, who represents the firm, said it is "fully co-operating" and remains an active production company.
Mr DiCaprio, who starred in the Wolf of Wall Street, said last year he was co-operating with the investigation and would return any gifts tied to the fund.
Those named in earlier complaints, including the family of Malaysian financier Jho Low, who authorities say was a key player in the affair, have fought the seizures.
Broad Plain Boys' Club in Bristol sold the work, which appeared in a doorway in April and sparked an ownership dispute with the council.
Banksy then wrote to the hard-up club saying it was theirs.
A mural to thank the artist was unveiled earlier. It was created with the Young Bristol Creative Team.
Mobile Lovers showed a couple embracing while checking their mobile phones.
The piece, attached to a piece of wood and screwed to the wall on Clement Street, was removed by members of the youth club with a crowbar.
Club owner Dennis Stinchcombe said: "Within 12 months we could have been closed, which means 120 years of exceptional youth work in Bristol would have been lost.
"That would have been a tragedy for Bristol."
Broad Plain will be sharing a portion of the proceeds with a number of other voluntary sector youth clubs across the city.
The Met says it has removed almost 250,000 items since it began focusing on the problem in 2010.
The right-wing items include videos of meetings and demonstrations, and there were videos posted by so-called Islamic State designed to attract recruits.
Det Ch Supt Clarke Jarrett said the removal of the material was "crucial".
"We are seeing more and more material being put out by terrorist and extreme right-wing groups on the internet," he told the BBC.
"They are looking to spread extremism and radicalise others.
"We think it is really important to remove that material where we can from the internet and to stop vulnerable people finding it easily on social media sites."
Referrals from the public via an anonymous site have doubled since 2012, and 2,000 items are removed every week on average.
Specialist Met officers dealing with internet extremism say racist videos and social media posts - including content by the group National Action, which was banned by the government this month - are adding to their core task of dealing with radical Islamist propaganda.
The Met's Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit team makes requests to 300 internet companies around the world to take down material which is illegal under UK law.
Officers say their relationships with social media services are generally good, but declined to name companies which prove more difficult to persuade.
They would like more of an international effort to tackle the problem, senior officers say.
The Met team was the first of its kind, but the European policing authority Europol has also set up its own unit.
Counter-terrorism officers said videos posted by so-called Islamic State also included "hearts and minds" propaganda aimed at the families of those it hopes to attract.
The biggest risk is that vulnerable or mentally-ill internet users will find extremist material online, encouraging them to carry out attacks, police said.
Journalists were shown one video in which a jihadist speaking English urged viewers who were unable to get hold of an assault rifle to buy a knife instead.
The announcement came after tens of thousands of people turned out at funerals for dozens of protesters shot dead on Friday.
Earlier, Yemen's ambassador to the UN became the latest official to resign in protest at the killings.
At least 45 people were killed on Friday after gunmen in civilian clothes fired on an anti-government rally.
Despite firing his government, President Saleh has asked the cabinet to remain in place until a new one could be appointed, Yemen's official news agency reported.
President Saleh has faced a string of resignations over Friday's crackdown, which have caused widespread anger in Yemen.
The resignation by Yemen's ambassador to the UN, Abdullah Alsaidi, followed those of the ministers for human rights and tourism, several senior ruling party officials, the head of the state news agency, and the Yemeni ambassador to Lebanon.
Protests: Country by country
Mourners in the capital, Sanaa, gathered on Sunday in a square near Sanaa University.
The university was at the centre of Friday's crackdown, and bodies of many of the victims were laid out as people paid their respects.
Opposition parties joining the procession said they had changed their position from a demand for political reform to a demand of President Saleh's departure, the Associated Press news agency reported.
"This is an acknowledgment of the failure of the security in repressing the revolution, and the crowds that came out today are a signal of the readiness to put forth more sacrifices," said opposition spokesman Mohammed al-Sabry.
Demonstrations were also reported in several other regions.
President Saleh declared a state of emergency following Friday's shootings, which he denied had been carried out by his security forces.
But opposition accused the president of presiding over a "massacre".
President Saleh has been in power for 32 years. He has recently been challenged by a separatist movement in the south, a branch of al-Qaeda, and a periodic conflict with Shia tribes in the north.
He has promised political reforms and said he will not seek another term in office in 2013, but has also vowed to defend his regime "with every drop of blood".
Cork and fellow midfielder Ki Sung-yueng believe there was an improvement despite their 2-0 FA Cup exit at Hull.
Cork said: "He [Clement] has given us a bit of confidence. You could see we played some good stuff at times and it's looks like we're trying to go in the right direction."
"I think the players have the confidence back," Ki added.
Cork contends that even in Clement's first game in charge after succeeding American Bob Bradley and replacing caretaker Alan Curtis, Swansea looked a better team.
Abel Hernandez opened Hull's scoring and Josh Tymon struck late on to send Hull into the fourth round.
"We were comfortable really and just unfortunate that we conceded a late goal that finished the game off for us," said Cork.
"We're trying to impress the new manager, we're really trying to impress the fans, trying to make up for the first half of the season.
"Everything felt a lot more organised. Everyone knew their position to be in. We'd been working on it all week."
Ki highlighted Clement's background, where he has worked alongside Carlo Ancelotti at Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, before taking over at Liberty Stadium.
"He knows football very, very well and has experience in a big club so he knows how to improve ourselves as a team and as individuals," said Ki.
"As we go through the season I think we'll get much better than you saw at Hull.
"And then hopefully we will go back to the philosophy we used to play, the passing and moving and maybe there is more to come."
The world number 35 rattled the jaw of the pocket against Anthony McGill in the fourth frame of their final qualifying round to level at 2-2.
The miss cost him an £8,500 bonus, plus the £1,000 highest break prize.
He also missed the black on 140 against Neil Robertson in the third round of the UK Championship in December.
The 30-year-old later claimed he did not know that there was a £44,000 prize for a maximum.
Un-Nooh, who has never qualified for the World Championship, currently trails Scotland's McGill 6-3 at the interval.
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A study of more than 1.3 million births found there were just over seven deaths per 1,000 babies delivered at weekends.
This compared with 6.5 deaths per 1,000 births on weekdays.
The Imperial College London team said if all days had the same death rate as Tuesday, which has the lowest, there would be 770 fewer deaths per year.
The researchers said that while the death rates were low, the difference was significant and raised fresh concerns about standards of care at the weekend.
In September, a separate study suggested that patients admitted for care at weekends had a higher risk of death within 30 days than those admitted during the week.
That research has been used by ministers in their drive to increase the availability of services at weekends - a policy that has put them at loggerheads with the medical profession and led junior doctors to vote in favour of taking strike action, starting from next week.
The latest study - published in the British Medical Journal - looked at the numbers of stillbirths or deaths within seven days in hospital from 2010 to 2012.
It took into account risk factors such as deprivation and the age of the mother, along with the fact that planned Caesarean sections, which carry low risks, normally take place during the week.
In total, there are on average 4,500 deaths a year from 675,000 births.
Infection rates for mothers and injuries to the babies, including anything from cuts to brain damage, were also higher at weekends.
Researchers said they could not identify the cause of the higher risks.
They looked at staffing levels in terms of which hospitals were compliant with the guidelines for consultant cover, and found little difference between those that were and those that were not.
But they said much more data was needed on staffing before it could be ruled out.
Lead researcher Prof Will Palmer said the higher rate of deaths and other problems was "concerning" and needed further investigation.
A spokeswoman for NHS England said: "Most mums say they get excellent NHS maternity care, but for a small number of families that is not the case and it's vital that we take every step to continuously improve quality and safety.
"We have commissioned a wider independent review of NHS maternity services, which will assess how best we can respond to England's growing birth rate and the need for well-staffed and safe services that give mums more say over their care."
Dr David Richmond, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said: "Although no definitive conclusions can be drawn from these results, they emphasise the need to identify the possible causes in order to ensure that women are receiving high-quality care at any given day of the week."
Irish setter Jagger died after the event in Birmingham earlier this month, having allegedly eaten beef laced with poison.
A post-mortem examination found two "fast-acting" poisons in the meat but Jagger showed no signs of illness until he was back in Belgium, the club said.
It said it was "inconceivable" the dog was poisoned at Crufts.
Jagger, who came second in his class at Birmingham's NEC on Thursday, is owned by Belgian Aleksandra Lauwers and Leicester-based breeder Dee Milligan-Bott and her husband, Jeremy Bott.
His Leicester-based co-owners declined to comment when contacted by the BBC.
They have previously said he must have been poisoned "while on his bench" at the show at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC).
Three-year-old Jagger, whose pedigree name is Thendara Satisfaction, died on 7 March after returning to Belgium with fellow owner Aleksandra Lauwers.
A spokesman for the Kennel Club said: "There has been a lot of concern about whether the poisoning happened at Crufts and we are now able to reassure all dog lovers who came to Crufts that this could not have been possible.
The spokesman added it was "highly likely that the poisons, thought to be on a piece of beef, were eaten in Belgium, shortly before Jagger's death".
Severe symptoms from the two poisons - carbofuran and aldicarb, which are banned in the EU - would usually occur within 30 minutes to three hours, the club said.
The spokesman said that because Jagger showed the first clinical signs associated with the poisons shortly before his death in Belgium, "we must conclude that it is inconceivable that he could have been poisoned at Crufts on Thursday 5 March, some 28 to 36 hours earlier".
"Furthermore, the poison is thought to have been given on a piece of beef that was still largely undigested when the autopsy was performed on Saturday 7 March morning, and food is usually absorbed in dogs within six hours," he added.
Speaking at the time of Jagger's death, co-owner Jeremy Bott said he did not think the dog was specifically targeted, but the culprit may have been acting on "a grudge against dogs or the Crufts show".
Days after the dog's death, The Telegraph published claims from other exhibitors stating their dogs were sick after the event but Crufts said it could not look into the claims as it had "no direct information".
There were also claims another dog - a shih tzu - was fatally poisoned, but the club said it had not received any information about it and confirmed no shih tzus were seen by vets at the show.
The club said on Monday: "We have a lot of security measures in place to protect the dogs at our show and we continually review our procedures because the welfare and safety of the dogs is our first and main priority.
"Regardless of the fact that the poison was not ingested at Crufts a dog has very sadly died and we must now respect the owners' privacy and give them time to grieve."
A study, in the British Medical Journal, showed a sudden fall in antidepressant prescriptions and a rise in suicide attempts after media reports of the connection.
The team at Harvard Medical School said the unintended effect was "disturbing".
Experts said similar changes had been seen in other countries.
In 2003, there were concerns about an increased suicide risk from some antidepressants. It led to the US Food and Drug Administration changing the medicine warnings and widespread media reports.
However, there was concern that the reports were exaggerated and missed out the benefits of antidepressants.
The study, which followed 2.5 million teenagers and young adults between 2000 and 2010, showed an immediate impact of the warnings.
Prescriptions fell by a third in teenagers and by a quarter in young adults.
The number of suicide attempts increased by 22% in teenagers and 34% in young adults. Overall it led to an additional 77 attempts, the researchers estimated.
The report concluded: "It is disturbing that after the health advisories, warnings and media reports about the relation between antidepressant use and suicidality in young people, we found substantial reductions in antidepressant treatment and simultaneous, small but meaningful increases in suicide attempts."
One of the researchers, Prof Stephen Soumerai, said: "This is an extraordinarily difficult public health problem, and if we don't get it right, it can backfire in serious ways.
"These drugs can save lives. The media concentrated more on the relatively small risk than on the significant upside."
Prof Keith Hawton, the director of the centre for suicide research at the University of Oxford in the UK, said: "The results of this study are important.
"Such findings illustrate the powerful impact that such announcements can have on clinician behaviour.
"Until now there has not been convincing evidence that such changes in practice have affected suicidal behaviour.
"The US study suggests that this may have happened, although fortunately without evidence of an increase in actual suicides."
Dr Christine Lu, of Harvard, told the BBC: "There are several lessons for us to consider. Drug risk communication is a big field and we need to be better next time. Any communication can have intended and unintended consequences.
"And I think a key message is to remind ourselves not to consider only the new evidence on any drugs, but also consider its risk and the benefits, and undertreating the original condition itself."
Police said they attended Meadowhead Community Infant School and Nursery in Shorrock Lane, Blackburn, at about 15:00 GMT on 17 March.
Five Blackburn women, aged between 18 and 46, were held on suspicion of affray before being bailed.
Headteacher Sue Mellor said the school, which has 270 pupils aged between three and seven, was helping police.
"We would like to reassure parents and the public that the safety of our pupils, parents and staff is of the utmost importance to us," she added.
The 1766 edition of the Book of Common Prayer was originally given to Worthenbury Church, Wrexham, on 6 October 1773 by the then Rector Philip Puleston, according to an inscription.
It has now been donated to the same shop that had an 1837 Welsh Bible handed in earlier this year.
The prayer book is to be given back to Worthenbury Church on Tuesday.
John Donnelly, of Nightingale Hospice shops, said: "We are used to all sorts of unusual items being donated to our shops, but this one really did take us aback.
"To hold something with so much history is absolutely fascinating so we set to work researching all we could glean from the contents."
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, Sue Sim said she feared how other women might be being treated in the force.
The claim appeared in an official report which cleared Ms Sim, who retired in June, of misconduct.
Northumbria Police said it was disappointed and does not accept the accusation.
Ms Sim said the formal report into complaints about the way she spoke to officers revealed she was treated differently by some senior officers because she was a woman.
She described elements of policing as "rather old fashioned" and said some senior officers expected to maintain posts until they retired, regardless of their performance.
Ms Sim told 5 live Daily: "I was absolutely shocked that my senior male colleagues treated me differently than they would have done a male chief constable.
"It does make me wonder if they treat me as the chief constable differently than they would a male colleague, then what will they be doing with their more junior colleagues?
"So I think we probably still do have some way to go."
Ms Sim was cleared of misconduct, but an official inquiry criticised her management style and recommended she apologise to some officers.
She admitted she was "robust" and said she and her senior officers were paid well to serve the public.
Ms Sim has now made a complaint against the officers who accused her and asked police and crime commissioner Vera Baird to investigate why the allegations were made.
A Northumbria Police spokesman said: "It is disappointing and a real shame that Mrs Sim has chosen to express these views in this way.
"We do not accept the criticism that she has directed at Northumbria Police, an organisation that she personally was in command of for five years."
This suggests that the chemistry needed to gather the molecular ingredients for life could be more common than previously recognised.
Earth scientists from Japan carried out experiments to mimic comet impacts that occurred on early Earth. They found chemical reactions to make the primordial "soup for life" can occur anywhere that comets collide.
Presenting their work at the Goldschmidt conference of geochemists in Prague, Dr Haruna Sugahara and Dr Koicha Mimura reported that after mixtures of ice, amino acids and rock were impacted with a projectile, the amino acids joined up to make complex organic molecules, peptides, which are important building blocks in biochemistry.
Reactions to make peptides could, therefore, occur widely on bodies across the Solar System, including places like comets, as well as around other stars across the Universe, it seems.
Prof Mark Burchell, from the University of Kent, UK, who was not involved in the work, commented to BBC News: "What this new work does is to show that if a comet containing such material were to hit a planet, the energy from the impact will drive further chemistry to help form short peptides, chains of amino acids that are useful to make proteins"
Scientists have already seen that amino acids and complex organic molecules exist on comets, from space missions like Stardust (a US space agency mission that returned cometary samples from comet 81P/Wild-2 in 2006) and the recent data from the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission.
Dr Sugahara said: "This finding indicates that comet impacts almost certainly played an important role in delivering the 'seeds of life' to the early Earth. It also opens the likelihood that we will have seen similar chemical evolution in other extraterrestrial bodies, starting with cometary derived peptides."
The idea that life, or the precursors to life, is present in outer space and was delivered to Earth on comets or meteorites to allow life to start here is not new. These results suggest that the impact of such comets themselves might also be key to building the ingredients for life, however.
"Space could have been the source for the Earth of some of the ingredients for life, but of course we are still talking pre-biotic chemistry. We still don't know how or where chemistry became life," Prof Burchell told BBC News.
The verdict comes in an official report by the Care Inspectorate which is conducting a series of reviews on services across the country.
Inspectors visited Scotland's fourth largest local authority between October and November last year.
Their report expressed confidence that North Lanarkshire's services were improving the lives of local children.
They carried out a review of the children's services provided by the council and its partners, including Police Scotland, Scottish Fire and Rescue, NHS Lanarkshire and the Children's Reporter.
The inspectors met almost 100 children, their families and care staff as part of their findings into the standard of care they were receiving, and the difference it was making to their lives.
Their report looked at young people under the age of 18 - or up until they are 21 years and beyond if they have been looked after.
The joint inspection report awarded six "very goods" and three "goods" from nine key categories identified as being essential to improving the lives of young people.
Inspectors agreed one area for improvement with the partners: to ensure consistency of practice in the multi-agency response to child protection issues.
This had already been identified as an issue by the council and its partners.
The report also highlighted some examples of good practice in North Lanarkshire, including a partnership with Motherwell Football Club Community Trust.
The Trust uses the influence of the football club and sport to deliver programmes to tackle issues including sexual health, smoking, alcohol and substance abuse.
Some of the programmes involve footballers and coaches from Motherwell FC's first team as role models with programmes being delivered in the SPFL club's Fir Park Stadium.
A 27-year-old Polish man was taken to hospital after he was discovered at a property in Boston on Saturday.
The men, aged 25 and 32, of Larkspur Croft, were charged with grievous bodily harm and false imprisonment. The 32-year-old was also charged with possession of a firearm.
They appeared at Lincoln Magistrates' Court on Wednesday and were remanded.
They will next appear at Lincoln Crown Court on 29 June.
Three other arrested men remain on police bail until August.
The injured man is recovering in hospital.
Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller will not have his five-year mandate as Catholicism's chief theologian renewed.
The German's departure will open the way for his "meek" second-in-command to take the role.
The 69-year-old was named as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith by Pope Benedict in 2012.
Pope Francis was elected the next year.
The two did not see eye-to-eye, with Cardinal Müller questioning Pope Francis's attempts to being more open to "imperfect" Catholics, like those who are divorced.
Earlier this year, a victim of sexual abuse within the Church accused Cardinal Müller's department of impeding the Pontiff's efforts to stop internal cover-ups of abuse.
His replacement, Archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, is described as "speaking the same language" of the Pope, a priest told the Reuters news agency.
"Ladaria is someone who is meek. He does not agitate the pope and does not threaten him," he said.
The priest, who works in the Vatican and asked not to be named, added: "Clearly, the Pope and Cardinal Müller have not been on the same page for five years."
The change was announced by the Vatican two days after Cardinal George Pell was granted leave of absence from his position as treasurer to fight charges of historical sex offences in his native Australia.
It was brought by US owners of pickup trucks and SUVs whose claimed their frames could rust through.
The proposed settlement covers 1.5 million Tacoma compact pickups, Tundra full-size pickups and Sequoia SUVs.
Court papers alleged that the vehicles had received inadequate rust protection, and that corrosion could jeopardise their structural integrity.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs estimated the cost of frame replacements at about $3.375bn.
That was based on a cost of about $15,000 per vehicle and inspection costs of about $90m, at $60 per vehicle.
The Japanese carmaker Toyota admitted no liability or wrongdoing in the proposed settlement.
"We want our customers to have a great ownership experience, so we are pleased to resolve this litigation in a way that benefits them and demonstrates that we stand behind the quality and reliability of our vehicles," Toyota said in a statement.
Under the terms of the agreement, Toyota will inspect the vehicles for 12 years from the day they were first sold or leased in order to ascertain if frames need to be replaced at company expense.
They will also reimburse owners who previously paid for frame replacement.
The settlement covers Tacoma trucks from the model years 2005 to 2010, Sequoias from 2005 to 2008 and Tundras from the 2007 and 2008 model years.
The 23-year-old was signed by former manager Gianfranco Zola in January on a three-and-a-half-year contract for a fee believed to be around £2.2m.
Frei made 13 appearances for the Championship side, 10 of them from the substitute's bench.
His only goal for the West Midlands club came in a 1-1 draw at Rotherham.
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The match was called off at 9:30 GMT after referee Anthony Taylor had inspected the playing surface.
Altrincham are currently 19th in the table, while Dover occupy the last play-off spot in fifth.
Michael Bolingbroke, 50, will join the East Kilbride-based five-a-side football venue specialist on 13 June.
The move follows the appointment last week of a veteran leisure industry figure to lead Goals.
Mark Jones is leaving the Rank Group to become chief executive on 1 July.
Mr Bolinbroke, who joined Inter Milan in 2014, was chief operating officer of Premier League football club Manchester United from 2007.
He was previously a senior vice-president at Cirque du Soleil and a senior vice-president at The Jim Henson Company. He is also a qualified chartered accountant.
Mr Bolingbroke said: "I am delighted to be joining Goals at this important time in its development.
"I am passionate about all forms of the game and pleased to now be involved in this fast-developing area of the sport.
"I look forward to helping the company realise its significant potential."
The appointments follow a major review by Goals of its operations and the firm's performance in recent years.
It was set up after the company reported its first annual loss in 12 years.
Goals currently operates 46 centres in the UK and one in California.
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 is up by a little over 1% and hovering around 5,200 points.
If the gains continue, Australian shares are headed for their seventh straight day of gains.
Shares of major oil and gas producer BHP nudged up by nearly 5% in early Thursday trade.
But Australia's largest trading partner - China is missing out on the rally. The benchmark Shanghai Composite has started the Thursday session down by 0.3% at around 3,622.
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index is up by 0.06% to 22,184.
In South Korea the benchmark Kospi is up, holding on to early morning gains, up by 0.45% to 2,007 points.
Shares of Hyundai Motor are also higher, up by 0.6%, on hopes that the car maker's union will be able to reach a deal with management over pay.
Union members will reportedly cast their vote on Monday, on a 4% rise in pay. Workers have gone on partial strike since the middle of December.
Meanwhile in Japan the Nikkei 225 index returns to trade with a jump by 0.85% to 19,050 points. The market there was shut on Wednesday for a public holiday.
The Bank of Japan has released the minutes from its November meeting on monetary policy. The minutes showed that policymakers at the central bank are confident the Japanese economy has continued to "recover moderately, although exports and production have been affected by the slowdown in emerging economies".
Overnight in the US, stocks rallied on Wall Street, led by energy stocks. A rebound in oil prices led to renewed appetite for shares of oil and gas companies.
The oil producers' group Opec has said it expects oil prices to recover to $70 a barrel by 2020. Prices are currently around $37 a barrel due to oversupply and slowing demand.
Elsewhere in Asia, financial markets in Manila, Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia are closed on Thursday for public holidays.
The posts are at Tech Mahindra, a firm that provides business support to its client companies.
The company, which has its headquarters in India, set up in Northern Ireland in 2007 with the help of Invest NI.
The posts are at risk because it has lost a major contract with EE, the mobile and internet provider.
The BBC understands its workforce was informed of developments on Monday.
The work with EE is due to finish in early January.
A spokesman for Tech Mahindra told the BBC the EE contract was the "primary source" of its work in Belfast.
He added it was not yet clear how many jobs could be retained.
The company has its offices in Lanyon Place.
EE announced last month it was no longer going to subcontract work related to its broadband services.
That is what is currently done in Belfast by Tech Mahindra staff.
The Bees defender has yet to agree a new contract and was left out for their first two Championship games.
However, the 26-year-old returned in Tuesday's 2-2 draw against Bristol City, with Nico Yennaris wearing the captain's armband.
"Harlee was excellent and he didn't need the armband to show he could lead," Smith told BBC London.
"I understand his reasons [for not signing a new deal] and I have no problem with that. I didn't feel it was right for the other players who are committed to the club that he carries the armband."
Dean, who is out of contract at the end of the season, has made more than 200 appearances for Brentford since joining them on a permanent deal from Southampton five years ago.
The fire in Grantham began at 17:15 GMT and caused disruption to journeys on the East Coast Main Line, with trains having to pass the site at lower speed.
Five fire crews remained at the scene in Spring Hill Gardens, London Road, along with police and engineers.
Western Power Distribution said power had been restored to most customers but about 1,300 were still without supply.
Rail delays on Virgin East Coast services were expected to last until at least 21:30 GMT, the company said.
The fire has also caused severe disruption and delays on local roads including the A52 London Road.
Lincolnshire Police said no-one was thought to have been injured in the blaze and the cause was unknown.
Residents in the area of the fire have been advised to keep windows and doors closed by Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue.
The owner had written negative comments about Garadget's kit on both Amazon and the start-up's own site after having problems with its app.
People have expressed concern about the US firm's actions.
The block has been reversed and founder Denis Grisak agreed his first reaction was not the "slickest PR move".
But he noted that Tesla's Elon Musk had once cancelled a customer's order after criticising the automaker online.
Garadget's kit is designed to let owners open their mechanised garage doors remotely to let visitors in, and to offer a way to check the doors have not been left open by mistake after leaving home.
The product raised nearly $63,000 (£50,000) on the crowdfunding site Indiegogo last year and has since gone on sale elsewhere.
But on 1 April, a buyer named Robert Martin complained on Amazon that the product was "junk", and referred to it with a swear word on the firm's own community board.
The next day, Mr Grisak replied: "The abusive language here and in your negative Amazon review, submitted minutes after experiencing a technical difficulty, only demonstrates your poor impulse control. I'm happy to provide the technical support to customers on my Saturday night but I'm not going to tolerate any tantrums."
He added that he had denied a server connection to Mr Martin as a consequence and suggested Mr Martin ask Amazon for a refund.
When another user accused Mr Grisak of breaking the law by "bricking" the kit, he denied this saying he had not changed its hardware or firmware.
However, other board members also complained. One compared Mr Grisak to a "petulant child" while another claimed "sales are going to tank if people think you have a kill switch to be fired any time they say something you don't like".
Mr Grisak has said he has no intention of repeating his action.
But one tech industry consultant was also critical.
"The bottom line is that it's already a hard sell to get people to embrace the so-called internet-of-things," said Ben Wood from CCS Insight.
"In particular, there's a huge amount of trust involved in having something that can open your doors.
"When incidents like this happen, it makes it even harder to get these kind of products into people's homes. This was a very ill-advised move."
Shenley Academy in Birmingham said it was closed to all Year 7, 8, 9 and 10 pupils after travellers ignored an eviction notice issued on Saturday.
The group which officers said included 20 caravans, a horse and dogs, has since left the site.
West Midlands Police said it had helped evict the group after the city council served an immediate eviction demand.
The academy remained open to pupils in Years 11, 12 and 13 who were told to avoid using the main entrance and were escorted on to the site by police and staff.
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School principal Lucy Monk said of the partial closure: "I recognise that this situation is detrimental to the education of our students, and it is certainly not a decision which has been taken lightly."
Mrs Monk said in a statement later, the travellers had left the site and all students could return to school on Tuesday.
They left behind a horse, which was tied to the school fence.
The school is looking after it at the moment but it will go to the RSPCA if it is not reclaimed.
Margaret, from the group of travellers, told the BBC more traveller sites were needed.
"If there were more sites this wouldn't happen, she said. "There's going to be an awful lot more of this up until summer until the kids break up from school."
"There's no uproar about these children [from travelling community] not going to school or not having a home for themselves to live in," she added.
However, local police sergeant Dave Cotter said the travellers' behaviour was "totally unacceptable" and had caused huge disruption.
"The group ignored a notice to leave, which gave them 24 hours to move on, and in the end we were left with no option but to force them to leave the school grounds," he said.
Meanwhile, the travellers are believed to have moved on to a site in Kings Norton.
A resident told the BBC they had been evicted from the same place two weeks ago.
She automatically took a colouring book and crayons as she showed them to their table.
Mr Lusted, 26, stands 3ft 7in tall. His now fiancee Miss Roberts, 20, is 5ft 7in.
"I said, 'thank you very much' to the waitress, and as soon as she heard my voice she knew I wasn't a child," Mr Lusted said.
"She hid the colouring book behind her back and didn't disturb us again."
Thankfully the couple from Colwyn Bay, Conwy, both saw the funny side.
Mr Lusted was born with Diastrophic Dyslasia - a rare genetic condition that causes dwarfism - despite his parents both being of average height.
He has led an eventful life. He left school at 16 and is now a TV presenter and motivational speaker.
He has twice represented Great Britain in the World Dwarf Games and has been the UK champion at Class One badminton for nine years. He carried the Olympic torch when it travelled through Wales in 2012.
But his life has been far from easy. His condition has meant that he spent a lot of his early life in and out of hospital.
He said: "I have had constant treatment on my neck and to straighten my limbs.
"Dad had to use a spanner every day to twist the nuts on my frame to straighten my legs and sometimes you could hear the bones creaking.
"The toughest time of my life was when I was 14 to 15.
"I had a tough year because I was being bullied that year. I don't know why or if it is because of how I was.
"I remember I had a knife thrown at me. I was pinned up against the wall with my little legs dangling there and it really affected me."
He added: "I have often thought from an early age who would want to marry me, a dwarf from Wales."
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But he has found happiness with Miss Roberts and recently asked her to marry him.
Miss Roberts said: "All little girls dream about having their tall, dark and handsome prince charming.
"Never in my life did I think I'd date someone like James.
"Some people took a little longer to get used to the idea because he is a dwarf and I'm not."
The couple now face pressure from family members to have genetic tests if they have children to see if they would also be affected by James's condition.
Miss Roberts said: "A few of my family members would prefer me to be tested to see if I would have a dwarf child, but even if there was a chance of having a dwarf kid, it wouldn't change my mind."
Mr Lusted said: "When we're married, we'd love to have children and having a dwarf wouldn't bother us at all."
He added: "Even if we didn't have a dwarf, I don't think we'd think twice about adopting one. Their life is just as precious as our and we want to give them an opportunity too."
Perez, 23, joined the Magpies in 2014 from Benitez's former club Tenerife and scored six top-flight goals last term.
"This year we have received two offers (for Perez)," Benitez told BBC Newcastle. "We don't want to sell him.
"He has been working very hard during the summer, he is doing well. Directly, one coach was calling me, asking for him, with a good price to be fair."
Newcastle added Senegal midfielder Mohamed Diame and Republic of Ireland defender Ciaran Clark to their squad on Wednesday, after meeting release causes for both.
And Benitez says he would still like to add to his squad, with the Magpies' Championship campaign starting away to Fulham on Friday, 5 August.
"We are still looking for two or three players, if it is possible," he added. "We know that we need something, to give a little bit more balance."
The former Liverpool and Chelsea boss also spoke about speculation linking France midfielder Moussa Sissoko with a move away from Newcastle.
"We will try to do the best for us," said Benitez. "If he has to go because we have the right offer, fine.
"If he stays with us, fantastic. We are doing what we have to do to protect Newcastle United and to help Moussa Sissoko, the professional.
"If he goes because we have the right offer, it has to be good for the club too. Sometimes it is worse to keep players if they are not happy."
Briton Froome, 32, finished fourth on Thursday's tough stage 18 and has a 23-second lead over France's Romain Bardet with three stages remaining.
But the fight shown by his rivals means a third Froome victory in a row is not certain, Hayles told BBC Radio 5 live.
"He hasn't won it yet. He should, but this has been a tough battle," he said.
"The way these guys fought up the side of this mountain, they absolutely turned themselves inside out," added the former Olympic track cyclist.
Team Sky's Froome also believes overall victory is not yet certain despite having completed "the toughest part of the Tour".
Following a flat route on Friday's stage 19, the riders face the final individual time trial on Saturday in the penultimate stage in Marseille.
"It's nice to get through the Alps feeling good and looking forward to the time trial now in Marseille," added Froome.
"Rigoberto Uran is my biggest threat in Marseille. From the general classification group, he is the next strongest in time trials. He's only 29 seconds behind so he will be the guy to look out for."
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Froome is targeting his first stage victory on the 2017 Tour in Marseille, but says he will "have no regrets" if he rides into Paris wearing the yellow jersey without winning a stage.
"I'll do my best to try to win the stage and ride for the jersey. I've already seen the time trial course. It's a very fast 22km course. I'll do my maximum for sure," he said.
The Briton could become only the seventh man to win the Tour without securing a stage victory, but Hayles disagrees with claims this would be Froome's easiest yellow jersey.
"I've seen a couple of comments saying this is a dull win - this is anything but," said Hayles.
"Everybody tried to put pressure on Chris Froome but ultimately they failed. It didn't happen.
"He has had to try so hard, the margins are so tight - it's not over yet, he hasn't won it yet."
The pipeline was discovered on the bed of the river Chu, which forms the border between the two countries.
They suspect thousands of litres of pure spirit have passed through it.
It is unclear how officials made the discovery, but a search is now on for the smugglers behind the pipeline.
Local media has reported that the pipeline was found just a few kilometres from a border checkpoint.
Correspondents say that Kazakhstan is one of the biggest grain producers in Central Asia and spirits are far cheaper there than in neighbouring countries.
Kazakhstan is also a recent member of a customs union - along with Russia and Belarus - which has made it far more expensive for neighbouring countries to import alcohol without paying hefty duties.
Border guards recently discovered a similar pipeline used to smuggle oil products, including petrol and diesel.
It was set up because Kazakhstan is also a big oil producer - and oil products are much cheaper there than in its neighbours.
Lots of schools have now broken up for the summer holidays - so that means a few weeks of fun!
We want to know what you've got planned for the holidays - will you be seeing a film at the cinema or trying to read as many funny story books as you can?
Perhaps you're going on a holiday or plan to build a den in your garden with your friends or family?
This chat is now closed, here is a selection of your comments.
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I am going to Aldeburgh for 7 weeks
Sasha
I'm going to loads of camps then to Los Angeles! I'm so excited!!!!!
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I am going to London zoo and also going to the London tower to see the crown jewels.
Thomas
I'm going to Deerpark Forest in Cornwall. It is very fun! I went there last summer. There's even a duck race.
Nikita
Over the summer I am going to travel all over the country competing in canoe slalom!
Isobel, Staffordshire
I'm going to see Despicable Me 3 on Sunday with my mates.
Joseph, 14, Northamptonshire
In the summer holidays I am going to Tenerife. I am going with all my family. I am most looking forward to going on the beach because then I can play cricket.
Harry, 7, Wokingham
Ann-Marie James, 33, was stabbed in the chest at a flat in Wolverhampton by Melvin James, West Midlands Police said.
The 36-year-old is then understood to have turned the knife on himself and died at the scene.
Their mother, 59, has undergone surgery for abdomen wounds and remains critical. Two officers were also injured attempting to arrest James.
Police used stun grenades when they stormed a first-floor flat in Leasowes Drive, Merry Hill on Wednesday.
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One officer received a "stab wound to the arm" and another sustained a leg injury after being chased by the suspect, the force said.
A post-mortem examination showed both Ms James and her attacker died of stab wounds.
Det Insp Warren Hines, who is leading the investigation, said: "The family are absolutely devastated at the loss of Ann-Marie and Melvin, two people who were really dear to them.
"They have asked that their privacy is respected so they are able to grieve at this difficult time."
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Schurrle, who becomes manager Jose Mourinho's first signing since returning to the club, has signed a five-year deal.
"It is an honour for me to play for this club, with this team and for these great fans," Schurrle said.
The 22-year-old scored 11 goals in 34 league games for Leverkusen in 2012-13.
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The visitors pressured their in-form hosts and were rewarded when they took the lead with a fortuitous goal.
Stanley defender Tom Davies' clearance hit Jimmy Spencer 12 yards out and the ball bounced into the bottom corner.
The home side grabbed a vital equaliser when on-loan winger Tariqe Fosu found the bottom corner from 10 yards after a quick breakaway.
Accrington slipped from third to fifth in the table, with Cambridge still 12th, five points off the play-off places.
The four-time Ballon d'Or winner, whose current deal expires in the summer of 2018, is yet to agree new terms.
Bartomeu said: "All of Barca believe this is how it has to be, because he is the player that in the last few years has brought us sporting success."
He was speaking at the announcement of a new shirt deal with Japanese retailer Rakuten that could rise to over £200m.
With add-ons the deal could become the highest in football sponsorship history.
The 29-year-old Argentina forward has scored 433 times in 456 appearances during his time at the Nou Camp.
Reports in Spanish newspaper suggested the club legend had rejected an offer of a new contract.
But the Barcelona president added: "I believe we've got a team with incredible players, all of them.
"There is nonetheless a leader of course, Leo Messi, he is well known and popular all over the world.
"We're all convinced, we're all positive Leo Messi will end his sporting career in Barca."
Online retailer Rakuten revealed defender Gerard Pique and his popstar wife Shakira helped the Catalan club secure the new four-year £47m-a-year shirt sponsorship deal.
"Gerard Pique and his wife Shakira are very close friends with Mr Mikitani [Rakuten CEO]," Bartomeu said.
"It was in the summer of 2015, Gerard organised a dinner in San Francisco during our summer tour.
"At that dinner we met Mr Mikitani. We talked about the future, about his interest in FC Barcelona and we started at that moment conversations."
The deal eclipses their Qatar Airways deal by £17m each year.
Manchester United signed a record £47m-per-year deal with Chevrolet in 2014, while Chelsea's deal with Japanese company Yokohama Rubber is reported to be worth £40m a year.
That figure could rise to £53m - with £1.3m on offer if Luis Enrique's side are crowned La Liga champions, and a bonus of £4.3m if they win the Champions League.
The deal includes access to players for advertising purposes and an agreement to hold at least one match in Japan during each year of the deal.
But we also rely heavily on the rail network and, at the risk of stating the obvious, if there is a rail strike then it is London, the south east and many commuter towns that will bear the brunt.
According to the latest figures from the Department for Transport (DfT), there are more than 10 times the number of peak rail commuters coming into London than the next biggest city in the UK.
This is not to demean the impact on the line in the North, say between Leeds and Manchester, but more people will be impacted in the south east.
The report from the DfT says: "London had a much higher number of passengers travelling in and out of the city centre compared to any other city, with 545,000 arrivals in the morning peak on a typical weekday in 2013 compared to 39,000 in Birmingham, the second busiest city."
Over the course of the day 981,000 people arrived in London by rail, according to Dft figures from 2012.
In 2013 there were 1.6bn passenger journeys in the UK, of which 70% were on London & South East operators, 22% were on regional operators and 8% on long distance operators. the Office of Rail Regulation says.
There are also parts of south London where reliance on the network is further increased because there are very few public transport alternatives.
So just shy of one million people could be affected by the 24-hour strike that starts on bank holiday Monday on 25 May.
(In practice this figure may be lower because some parents may be off work for childcare reasons during half term.)
Pay talks have been going on for some time and the conciliation service ACAS is involved. There had been some positive signals but that initial optimism seems to have evaporated.
The unions are particularly aggrieved about a non-consolidated £500 payment for the 2015 part of the four-year pay deal.
They also have concerns about the 'no compulsory redundancy' part of the deal which they want extended beyond 2016.
Earlier Network Rail threatened legal proceedings against TSSA, one of the unions involved the "white collar" bank holiday strike, because of alleged strike ballot irregularities.
Sources at Network Rail say they have to try every avenue to keep the railways running, but the move will be seen as provocative by the unions.
In negotiations there is always an element of brinkmanship. The language hasn't shown much compromise so far.
Lots of people ask me if next week's rail strike will go ahead. The answer is a fudge: I'm afraid you have to assume it is on - until it is called off…
She is from the Upperlands area of Maghera.
The collision happened on the Agivey Road in Kilrea at about 08:15 BST on Thursday.
A second person has been taken to hospital with injuries that are not life-threatening. The Agivey Road remains closed.
Three men detained in early morning raids on Friday are facing terror charges. Three other people were held but later released.
The plot involved the use of explosives and other weapons, police say.
The alleged targets included high-profile locations around Melbourne, such as St Paul's Cathedral, Federation Square and the main train station.
Six men and a woman were detained in Friday's raid on suspicion of "preparing or planning a terrorist attack", police say.
The woman and two men were later released.
Three other men, named as Hamza Abbas, 21, Ahmed Mohamed, 24, and Abdullah Chaarani, 26, did not enter pleas and are due to appear in court in April. Another man remains in custody.
Victoria State police chief Graham Ashton said that following Friday's arrests, there was no longer a threat to the public.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the plot was one of the most substantial that has been disrupted in recent years.
"They want to frighten Australians, they want to divide Australians, they want us to turn on each other, but we will not let them," he said.
Four of the initial suspects were Australian-born and of a Lebanese origin, while the fifth was an Australian of Egyptian origin, Mr Ashton told reporters.
Those being held had been "self-radicalised" but inspired by propaganda of the so-called Islamic State (IS), he said.
Mr Ashton said the raids on five locations in Melbourne's north and west came after weeks of police surveillance.
"We believe that there was an intention to conduct what we call a multi-mode attack, possibly on Christmas Day," he said.
Melbourne's Flinders St Station, Federation Square and St Paul's Cathedral occupy three corners of what is arguably the city's most iconic intersection.
The area is only a short distance from the Melbourne Cricket Ground where up to 100,000 people are expected to attend the Boxing Day Test between Australia and Pakistan.
The operation included 400 officers from Victoria Police and the Australian Federal Police. The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation was also involved.
Conservative Damien Moore won 18,541 votes, securing a majority of 2,914 - a swing of 7.6% from the Liberal Democrats who came third.
Liberal Democrat Sue McGuire, who was selected after former MP John Pugh retired, won 12,661 votes. Labour's Liz Savage was second with 15,627 votes.
Elsewhere in Merseyside, Labour retained all of its seats.
There was a turnout of 69.1% in Southport, where Liberal Democrat MP John Pugh had stepped down in May after 16 years representing the town.
He said in April he would retire as he he did not want to work through "the nightmare chaos of Brexit" in the next parliament.
Mr Moore said he will be "hard working" and that people in Southport had told him their priority was to get on with the business of leaving the European Union.
Labour's Liz Savage said coming second was an "historic occasion" for the party.
Labour's Margaret Greenwood retained Wirral West, a marginal seat that was targeted heavily by the Conservatives after they lost it in 2015 when Esther McVey was ousted after just one term.
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Ms Greenwood got 54.3% of the vote and an increased majority of over 5,000 from 417, while Conservative Tony Caldeira came second on 42.1%.
She said she believes Labour have done better than expected because more young people voted.
"People really value public services... and realise that you need a Labour government to get them", she said.
There was a clean sweep for Labour in Wirral as Alison McGovern also held Wirral South, winning 25,871 votes.
Former Labour leadership candidate Angela Eagle retained her seat in Wallasey with 72% of the vote and an increased majority.
She said Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn "fought a great campaign" and praised his "authenticity and honesty".
Labour MP for Bootle Peter Dowd took a sideswipe at Theresa May in his victory speech after he was re-elected on 42,259 votes with a 36,200 majority.
"We've moved from strong and stable to definitely weak and wobbly," Mr Dowd, who was first elected to the seat in 2015, said.
"Theresa May was walking through wheat fields this week - it's not wheat fields she's walking through tonight, it is something much more smelly."
Labour's Dan Carden retained the party's stronghold in Liverpool Walton, winning 85.7% of the vote.
His 36,175 votes marked an increase of 4.4% on predecessor Steve Rotheram, who is now the party's mayor of the Liverpool City Region.
Laura Evans of the Conservatives came second with 3,624.
Labour's Luciana Berger remains Liverpool Wavertree MP with a sizeable 79.6% share of the vote.
"The result is a very strong indication of people's support for Labour values today... we saw an increase in turnout - it's very heartening - of young people", she said.
Meanwhile in Cheshire, Chris Matheson increased his majority in the marginal seat of Chester by more than 9,000, gaining 32,023 votes. He was defending a majority of 93.
The British duo, who have both secured places at the Rio Olympics this summer, finished with a score of 444.48.
The pair's latest medal comes after their silver at the European Championships and bronze at the World Cup in Brazil.
Meanwhile, compatriots Tonia Couch and Lois Toulson took gold in the women's 10m synchro in Sheffield.
European silver medallists Alicia Blagg and Becky Gallantree won the title in the women's 3m synchro, while Ross Haslam and James Heatly also claimed gold in the men's event.
The GB athletes will miss the rest of 2017 and Ellington posted a picture to his Instagram account saying he is "truly blessed" to be alive.
The 31-year-old has a suspected broken leg in two places and both men have a suspected broken pelvis.
Ellington said he is "overwhelmed" by the public's support.
He added: "I truly am blessed as I do not know how me or my training partner Nigel are still alive.
"Me and him are both strong characters and will be looking to bounce back from this horrific accident."
British Athletics says its staff are with the athletes and are liaising with doctors over treatment.
However, they are still waiting to find out the severity of their injuries from specialists. There will be no definitive update from doctors until the weekend or next week.
Ellington and Levine say they were riding a motorbike when they were struck head on by a car travelling on the wrong side of the road.
The incident happened on Tuesday evening, with Ellington and Levene part of a British Athletics group taking part in a warm-weather training camp.
Any pelvic injuries to sprinters are potentially career-threatening and both athletes will need significant rehabilitation.
"We will not be releasing further information on the severity of their injuries at the present time," a British Athletes statement read.
"Both athletes are receiving medical treatment and are conscious and stable."
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Ellington, 31, is a 100m and 200m specialist and a two-time Olympian who was part of the gold medal-winning 4x100m relay teams at the 2014 and 2016 European Championships.
Levine, 27, is a 400m runner who was born in Trinidad and raised in Northamptonshire.
He won a European outdoor relay gold in 2014 and an indoor relay gold in 2013.
Melania Trump's speech at the Republican National Convention has notable similarities with a speech given by current first lady Michelle Obama in 2008.
But Mr Trump's team said Mrs Trump used "common words" and blamed Hillary Clinton for the row.
"There's no cribbing of Michelle Obama's speech," said Paul Manafort, Mr Trump's campaign manager.
"I mean, this is, once again, an example of when a woman threatens Hillary Clinton, how she seeks out to demean her and take her down,'' he added.
Brad Francis, an English teacher at Davis Middle School in Evanston, Wyoming tweeted that he was "'jazzed" to have a "perfect video to teach my 8th graders students about the dangers of plagiarism".
"Melania's speech is probably the most blatant example that I have ever seen. Eighth grade students need very literal examples, and her speech is basically verbatim to Michelle Obama's. It will help them learn absolutely what not to do in their writing," he told BBC News.
"I have students who try to copy and paste material from the internet all the time to pass it off as their own. That speech was Michelle Obama's intellectual property."
Other teachers expressed similar thoughts:
Dr Declan Kavanagh, Director of the Centre for Gender, Sexuality & Writing at the University of Kent, thanked Melania earlier this morning. We asked why he thought it illustrated the perils of plagiarism so well:
"It completely undercut everything else she was saying and it means people don't trust or believe her words."
"The proper thing to do would have been to reference Michelle's speech and build upon it, but plagiarising is very embarrassing."
"Part of academic practice is referencing. Students are encouraged to use other people's ideas but to then reference them and interrogate them."
"It would have been fine for Melania to reference Michelle's speech and advance on her ideas. "
"But if you pass other sources off as your own you come across as robotic. You don't want to come across as a ventriloquist's dummy for other people's ideas."
Dr Alex Goodall, Chair of the Board of Examiners in UCL's History department, said Melania Trump " has done a service for all people out there who have to teach students about the dangers of plagiarism".
"This is a fantastic 'teachable moment'. Students at university normally get caught up in academic misconduct procedures because they don't properly understand what plagiarism is.
"Melania's speech offers us a graphic example of plagiarism in action, from the highest levels of American politics.
"Melania has responded by saying that her speech came from 'fragments that reflected her own thinking' which made it a success.
"In today's cut-and-paste digital culture, students often struggle to distinguish between citing other peoples words when they agree with them, and passing those words off as their own.
"This case offers an intuitive demonstration of the difference. "
"Plagiarism is typically the result of stupid decisions made under intense time pressures. Writing a speech for the Republican National Convention puts a bog-standard undergraduate 'essay crisis' somewhat into the shade, but I wouldn't be surprised if the choices taken by Melania's speechwriters were not all that dissimilar to those of a panic-stricken undergrad."
Finally, there's been some comment that Melania's speech may have also copied from another famous figure:
"He will never ever give up, and most importantly he will never ever let you down"
No prizes for guessing who that's from
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Oldham had condemned death threats made during the negotiations to sign the convicted rapist, but said "significant financial pressure" was the reason the club pulled out of any agreement.
Evans said "the more radical elements of our society" had the "desired influence on some sponsors".
He said Oldham's new stand might not have been built had he joined.
In a statement on his personal website, the 26-year-old said: "The most significant issue for me was that owing to the threat of funding opportunities being withdrawn, which may jeopardise the building of Oldham's new stand, it would mean that workers would lose their jobs and others would be put at risk - that would simply not be fair.
"Sadly the 'mob rule' tactics employed by the more radical elements of our society and the constant media reporting has had the desired influence on some sponsors and the club would face significant financial pressure if I joined them."
He also apologised "for the effects" of his actions in 2011 that led to his rape conviction - "not least [on] the woman concerned" - but continued to maintain his innocence.
Prime Minister David Cameron told BBC North West Tonight that it was "unrealistic" for Evans to expect to get straight back into the sport.
He said: "Perhaps he needs to do more to put back in to the community some sense of atonement for what he's done before he restarts his career."
PFA chairman Gordon Taylor said it would be "very difficult" for Evans to stay in football following the League One club's change of heart.
There would need to be "quite a difference in the tide of opinion" for Evans to play professional football again, he said.
Oldham decided not to sign the former Manchester City and Sheffield United player on Thursday after days of deliberations.
A club director said a staff member was told that a named relative would be raped if the deal went ahead.
There had also been "enormous pressure from sponsors", the board member said.
Latics chief executive Neil Joy said: "We deplore the vile and abusive threats, including death threats, made to our fans, sponsors and staff."
Joy said the club were always "prepared to withstand the barrage of abuse that is evident within the country and on social media" over any agreement to sign Evans and praised the player and his team's "professionalism at all times".
"The whole issue has divided opinion and the club has been put under unbearable pressure as a result.
"Proceeding could have placed significant financial pressure on the club and continued to be a divisive influence. As a consequence the deal could not go ahead."
Greater Manchester Police's chief constable Sir Peter Fahy said his force would investigate threats to Oldham's staff and their families.
But GMP later clarified that no threats were currently being investigated as they had yet to receive any complaints.
Evans was jailed in April 2012 for raping a woman, 19, at a north Wales hotel.
The UKIP leader said those wanting to downplay the subject in the run-up to the vote, fearing it would strike too divisive a tone, were wrong.
The EU had "sent a message" that millions of migrants were welcome.
UKIP will launch its own campaign to leave the EU, not join other groups.
His comments come as record numbers try to enter Europe and in the wake of the deaths of 71 people in a lorry in Austria last week - most of whom were thought to be Syrians fleeing the country's civil war.
The tragedy has prompted calls both for more rights for migrants and for border controls to be tightened up across Europe.
Mr Farage said the authorities should be making it "more difficult" for people to cross borders, and said the EU had "lost sight" of the difference between genuine refugees fleeing from war and persecution and economic migrants wishing to better their lives.
"The problem we have now is if you look at the definition of the EU's asylum policy, it includes anybody who comes from a war-torn country and it even includes people leaving extreme poverty," he told Radio 4's Today programme.
"The EU have sent a message that anybody who comes across the Mediterranean or comes through Turkey, once they have set foot in an EU country they will be accepted. That's sent a message to hundreds of thousands of people that they can come.
"The problem we've got is potentially we've opened the door to an exodus of biblical proportions, meaning millions and millions of people," he added.
Also speaking on Monday, Labour leadership campaigner Yvette Cooper said EU nations had failed to work together to respond to the challenge of the current crisis and had a responsibility to separate asylum policy from debates about managing immigration.
Mr Farage said UKIP would play a "unique role" in the referendum on the UK's future in the EU, to be held by the end of 2017, but again insisted he would not lead the official No campaign urging withdrawal.
The Electoral Commission has yet to decide which group to designate as the official No campaign for the referendum, with two groups currently vying for the role. Designation brings with it the benefits of higher spending limits, television broadcasts and a grant.
Mr Farage said UKIP, which will launch its own campaign on Friday, would work alongside whichever "umbrella" group was chosen as well as Eurosceptics in other parties.
"The unique role that UKIP can play within this is that we have 50,000 members, hundreds of branches across the country and we can do the ground campaign."
Mr Farage suggested UKIP's performance in the 2014 European elections, when it topped the polls in the UK, showed it could deliver nearly two thirds of the votes needed to win a referendum on EU membership.
He added: "It is no different to the Yes campaign... already the SNP have said they will do their own thing and not join up with anybody and do their own thing. It is the same on both sides."
Analysis by political correspondent Robin Brant
Nigel Farage believes UKIP has the structure in place to mobilise thousands of activists that could prove invaluable to any No campaign, placing his party is at the heart of the effort.
Mr Farage also thinks the other No camps lack his combination of political nous and reach outside of Westminster. Nonetheless he paints a picture of harmony on the No side.
He says he speaks to senior figures in the other camps several times a week. He is also inviting them to UKIP's conference in Doncaster at the end of September. He wants to see them up on the stage addressing his faithful.
What of the Yes camp? Easyjet chief executive Carolyn McCall had been thought to be the person being eyed up to front the campaign - but Business for New Europe have now said she will not lead it.
Behind the scenes, early funding is coming from Lord Sainsbury and there is already a cross-party consensus in place with Peter Mandelson, Danny Alexander and Damian Green the self-appointed political figures.
Strategy is quite advanced. University students arriving for the start of term are likely to face a concerted effort from a Yes campaign that wants to take advantage of political activists already in place on campuses across the country.
But the decision risks muddying the water on the No side, with effectively three rival campaigns in existence - the Business for Britain group featuring well-known Westminster figures, UKIP donor Aaron Banks' group The Know.eu, as well as UKIP.
Mr Farage said he hoped the two other groups would come together to fight the No campaign as one, which he suggested could be fronted by a non-politician, such as someone from the worlds of business and entertainment.
He added: "What I do know is the Yes campaign is very active. Over the course of the last few months we have seen Richard Branson, Tony Blair and Lord Mandelson. They are out there campaigning and we need to get cracking."
Ann-Marie Strong's son, Aaron, 19, died after taking a mixture of prescription drugs and alcohol.
Figures from the PSNI show that 10,000 fake diazepam tablets are shipped into Northern Ireland every week.
Prescription drugs have been linked to a number of deaths across Northern Ireland recently.
Aaron's mother said her son was in a coma for six days before they decided to turn off his life-support machine earlier this month.
She said he had taken tramadol, lyrica, diazepam and alcohol before falling into a coma.
"My heart was broken watching him in intensive care," said Mrs Strong.
"All I wanted to do was open his wee eyes and tell him that I loved him. But, I knew he was dead."
Mrs Strong added that she does not want another life to be lost in the same tragic circumstances.
She said: "Please kids, stop, don't do it. One tablet and that's you gone."
It is understood a number of young people have died in recent weeks from a taking a mixture of prescription drugs and alcohol.
But, it is impossible to say officially how many because they are usually recorded as heart attacks.
Diazepam is sold on the streets, along with tramadol and lyrica, under names likes blues and yellows.
There have been a number of drug raids, seizures and arrests across west Belfast targeting those selling prescription drugs.
Ch Insp Norman Hazlett, who works in west Belfast, said prescription drug abuse was a "significant" problem in the area but he added that the Police Service of Northern Ireland was "doing all we can to try and counter the issue".
Speaking on the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme, the officer said the number of drug seizures, arrests and prosecutions had all increased across Northern Ireland over the past year.
"Since the first of April we have searched over 15 premises in west Belfast, we have made some significant finds of drugs including £60,000 of cocaine, £100,000 worth of suspected cannabis and a significant number of prescription tablets.
"We've had 10 arrests in total for varying offences including possession of Class A/Class B drugs and possession with intent to supply."
Alex Bunting from the charity, Addition NI, told the same programme that the abuse of prescription drugs - often taken in combination with alcohol and illegal drugs - was causing "huge concerns" for his organisation and a "collective" solution was needed.
"In terms of or prescribing rates and our GPs - they have to take some responsibility, but ultimately the people within our communities who are using these substances need to look at that as well," Mr Bunting said.
"We need to educate young people, we need to take away the demand for these drugs, rather than the supply."
Terry Maguire, a community pharmacist, said the drugs can be extremely dangerous.
"They all affect the brain and in affecting the brain, they will affect the way certain body organs work - particularly the heart," he said.
"In any circumstances, death is very often a consequence of misuse of prescription drugs."
The "very ornate" urn was discovered at 02:00 on Sunday 30 April.
Police in Edinburgh posted a message on their Facebook page on Tuesday to say the urn had been claimed.
It said: "Good news folks! As a result of your help in sharing our wee appeal to find the owner of an urn, a man has come forward to claim the item."
BBC Scotland drama Shetland is leading the field with four nominations and TV series Outlander has three.
The awards, including two Outstanding Contributions, will be presented by Edith Bowman at a ceremony in Glasgow on Sunday.
Bafta Scotland said they recognised the best talent in film, television and games produced in Scotland last year.
Shetland has been nominated in the Actor Television, Director Film/Television, Television Drama and Writer Film/Television categories.
Outlander is up for awards in Actor Television, Actress Television and Television Drama.
Brian Cox joins Peter Mullan and Jack Lowden competing in the Actor Film category. Actress Film sees Kate Dickie, Ruth Negga and Alison Peebles all receive a nomination
A full list of nominations in all categories is available on the Bafta Scotland website.
Bowman, a returning host of the ceremony, said: "Scotland continues to produce world-class talent and is showing no signs of slowing down. I'm so excited to be part of celebrating this.
"The British Academy Scotland Awards is such an important platform to praise these incredible practitioners and, as you can see from this year's nominations, we're set for another incredible ceremony. I can't wait to see who wins on the night."
Henrique Capriles told the BBC that 80% of the population wanted change and he would be able to collect 4m signatures and force a recall referendum.
"We are having the worst situation in our history," he said.
Oil accounts for most of Venezuela's export revenues but plummeting prices and economic mismanagement have brought the country to economic collapse.
Last month pro- and anti-government demonstrations attracted hundreds of thousands of people.
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Opposition supporters blame Mr Maduro for Venezuela's economic crisis and accuse the electoral commission of delaying a referendum that could shorten his stay in power.
But Mr Capriles said he believed he could force a referendum to take place.
"We have to collect signatures," he said.
"It's four million people and that is going to be so important that it is going to open the door for the referendum and the people are going to vote and we are going to have a new government in our country.
"It looks very difficult to have it, but so important that it is going to be very difficult for Maduro to avoid the referendum."
Mr Maduro accuses the opposition of trying to stage a coup.
The Civil Aviation Authority said such planes would be "limited to flypasts", and all Hawker Hunter jets have been temporarily grounded.
At least 11 people died after a Hawker Hunter crashed into traffic on the A27 in West Sussex on Saturday.
Sussex Police have named another victim as Maurice Abrahams of Brighton.
Mr Abrahams' family released a tribute to the 76-year-old chauffeur, who was a former soldier and police officer.
"Maurice is a well-respected and loved father and husband," the statement said.
"He enjoyed his work chauffeuring his beloved Daimler car and he enjoyed gardening."
Meanwhile, the plane wreckage has been removed by crane and no further victims have been found, Sussex Police said.
Assistant Chief Constable Steve Barry added: "However, until we have fully completed the search of what is an extensive scene, I must caution that there is still the possibility that we may discover evidence of further victims..."
Police have also said that more than 200 people have called in to report concerns for missing relatives or friends since the incident.
A spokesman for the CAA said the flying restrictions would remain in place until further notice, and it would be conducting "additional risk assessments on all forthcoming civil air displays".
Since the restrictions were announced a host of air shows have been forced to alter their schedules.
The regulator stressed that individual display pilots were only granted approval to fly "following a thorough test of their abilities".
Andrew Hill, the pilot of the crashed jet, has been put in medically-induced coma after being pulled from the wreckage.
The 51-year-old from Sandon, near Buntingford in Hertfordshire, suffered multiple injuries and is in a critical condition.
Mr Hill was set to fly the plane at the Battle of Britain 75th anniversary show in Duxford, Cambridgeshire, the Imperial War Museum (IWM) said.
A spokeswoman for the museum said the event would still take place on 19 and 20 September, but it would be "revised" following the tragedy.
Similarly, Dartmouth Royal Regatta in Devon - which features an air display - will go ahead from Thursday but the routine of a Strikemaster jet has been restricted.
Shoreham air crash: The victims
Meanwhile, the Royal Air Forces Association (RAFA), which organises Shoreham Airshow, has defended the event's safety record.
"The team at Shoreham have many years of experience in running air shows throughout the UK and all aircraft have to be certificated and all pilots authorised by the CAA before they are allowed to undertake display routines at any air show," a spokesman said.
West Sussex coroner Penny Schofield warned that work to identify the victims would be a "slow and painstaking operation" as she appealed for the public's "patience and understanding".
She said it may take "several weeks" before all investigations were completed.
"The fire was so intense and the scale of the damage so vast, it means that we must very carefully remove the remains in a way that will lead to a formal identification," she added.
The A27 will need major repairs as a result of the impact of the crash, and is expected to be shut for several days.
Books of condolence have been opened and the flag is flying at half-mast at County Hall in Chichester.
Two of the victims were amateur footballers and the Football League has announced that a minute's silence will be observed prior to all Capital One Cup Round 2 matches on Tuesday and Wednesday as a mark of respect to all those who died.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has offered his condolences to those who have died.
He said: "The government is offering its full support to both the Civil Aviation Authority and the Air Accidents Investigation Branch to ensure everything possible is being done to find out what happened and ensure air displays take place safely and follow the highest standards."
Saturday's crash is the second incident at the Shoreham Airshow, one of the premier air shows in the UK, in recent years.
In September 2007 James Bond stuntman Brian Brown, 49, died when he crashed a World War Two Hurricane after carrying out an unplanned barrel roll at a re-enactment of the Battle of Britain.
Pramerica Systems Ireland currently employs 1,250 people in Letterkenny.
A subsidiary of US-based Prudential Financial, it provides business and software support for its parent company.
It is building a new campus in the town that could accommodate 1,800 staff, and it says there is the potential for further growth.
The firm, founded in County Donegal in 2000, will be recruiting senior IT managers, project managers, business analysts, data scientists, actuaries and accountants.
It will also have roles in technology support and professional services.
Pramerica vice president Gerard Grant said it was an exciting time for the company.
"We've been here for 15 years and have just had a fantastic experience - we started off originally with just eight employees and we've grown to 1,250," he told BBC Radio Foyle.
"Today we're announcing the 330 jobs expansion and, off the back of that, a brand new campus just a kilometre away to house that expansion."
Mr Grant said salaries would be highly competitive.
"We are immediately hiring and there's nearly 70 openings on our website right now for people across legal, digital, data science, software development and a range of support jobs," he said.
"These are professional jobs, not low paid jobs - there's a lot of talent out there that we would hope to attract to Donegal."
Gunmen opened fire at the Derbent citadel, a Unesco World Heritage site in the North Caucasus, on Tuesday evening.
A statement posted to IS's main channel on the Telegram messaging app said the attack had targeted Russian intelligence agency officers.
The gunmen fled the scene.
Moscow is fighting an Islamist insurgency in the mostly Muslim North Caucasus, with attacks commonly occurring in Dagestan.
State news agency RIA has reported that one Federal Security Service (FSB) member was killed and another injured in the shooting, quoting anonymous sources.
The citadel in Derbent, one of Russia's oldest cities, is considered a tourist site. It was listed by Unesco in 2003.
IS established a franchise in the region in June, and in September claimed responsibility for an alleged attack on a Russian army base in southern Dagestan.
The al-Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda linked group active in Syria, had called on jihadists to organise attacks in Russia in retaliation for the country's bombing campaign in support of the Syrian government.
Russia has been bombing IS and other groups it considers terrorists, some of which are backed by Western powers. On Wednesday, the Russian military said it flew 121 sorties over Syria in two days, hitting 424 targets.
Nearly 2,900 Russians have travelled to Iraq and Syria to fight alongside militants, according to the FSB.
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East Thurrock's Mitchell Gilbey hit the post before Franks' spectacular shot from 25-yards hit the back of the net.
Goalkeeper David Hughes made a number of outstanding saves from Marlon Harewood and Michael Duckworth to keep the Ryman Premier side in the match.
However, the part-time electrician let the ball slip through his hands to allow Franks to head in his second.
Hull's sixth league victory in a row sets up an exciting contest at second-placed Warrington Wolves on 10 June.
They led 6-4 after a competitive first half, Carlos Tuimavave replying to Rhys Hanbury's early try for the Vikings.
Kirk Yeaman, Josh Bowden, Danny Houghton and Jamie Shaul all crossed for the hosts after the interval, with Chris Dean adding a Widnes consolation.
Shaul's score was the pick of Hull's efforts, racing from inside his own half to touch down.
Marc Sneyd kicked all five of his attempts at goal as Hull's excellent second-half display saw them to a comfortable success.
Widnes were the early pacesetters in Super League, hammering Hull 46-6 and topping the table in March.
However, a run of nine defeats in 10 league games has seen them slip to eighth spot and just three points above ninth-placed Hull KR.
Hull FC coach Lee Radford: "They've got an unbelievable amount of confidence in each other, to come back and clinch wins like they have.
"That's what was disappointing after the Widnes defeat last time around. People asked questions about our togetherness and that frustrated me.
"When you put a new side together like we have, you have to learn the hard way and you can see now that we have naturally progressed."
Widnes coach Denis Betts: "We came in at half-time 6-4 down, having had early chances, but we didn't get over the line.
"They were punching through the line, played with a lot of pace and we wasted a lot of energy in that first half. We got into their 20-metre zone once.
"I thought we had regrouped and talked about building pressure, but they're a quality side and showed why they are top of the league."
Hull FC: Shaul; Michaels, Fonua, Yeaman, Talanoa; Tuimavave, Sneyd; Taylor, Houghton, Bowden, Minichiello, Manu, Ellis.
Replacements: Green, Thompson, Hadley, Washbrook.
Widnes Vikings: Hanbury; Thompson, Runciman, Bridge, Marsh; Mellor, Brown; Cahill, White, Dudson, Houston, Dean, Leuluai.
Replacements: Buchanan, Manuokafoa, Sa, Whitley.
Referee: J Smith
Two men, who say Kenyan police forced them to undergo the procedure to prove they had had gay sex, launched the case, calling for the tests to be declared unconstitutional.
Judge Mathew Emukule, in the coastal city Mombasa, said there were grounds in Kenyan law for the testing.
Homosexual acts are illegal in Kenya, punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
The judge dismissed claims by the two men that they were sexually discriminated against.
Their lawyer confirmed that they will appeal against the decision.
A recent investigation by the rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) found that many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people have "daily safety concerns".
Their report, written with local rights group Persons Marginalised and Aggrieved (Pema) Kenya, details six incidents since 2008 where they say LGBT people were threatened near Mombasa.
The group added that in most cases the police did protect the LGBT people, but it alleges that the perpetrators were not arrested.
A 12-year-old boy, who was watching the event, on Sunday evening in the town of Cuajinicuilapa, is among the victims.
Another seven people were injured.
There are conflicting accounts of the incident - with some reports saying that it was caused by a row between rival groups at the fight, others that gunmen stormed the venue.
Officials told the AFP news agency that the shootout broke out after an argument between two groups who were watching the event.
But local media said that the victims were killed by unidentified gunmen, who stormed the arena just after 21:00 local time (03:30 GMT) and began shooting randomly.
Mexico's powerful criminal gangs are active in Guerrero, one of the country's most troubled states. Last year's disappearance of 43 students in the town of Iguala exposed the depth of the problem.
When it was launched 75 years ago this week, in war-ravaged 1942, the BBC's Welsh hymn-singing programme Caniadaeth y Cysegr was only broadcast throughout Britain because of a lack of transmitters to split the Welsh and English home service signals.
But when the end of World War Two saw more masts returned to the BBC from military use and Caniadaeth y Cysegr became a Welsh-only broadcast, the BBC was inundated with complaints from listeners in England.
In the light of this apparent universal popularity, a hymn-singing television series was created by BBC Wales in January 1961- Dechrau Canu Dechrau Canmol.
Shortly after, the format was adopted in English by the BBC in London.
Caniadaeth y Cysegr can therefore also lay claim to being the "grandmother" of Songs of Praise.
Welsh composer Richard Elfyn Jones believes he understands the appeal Caniadaeth y Cysegr held for a pan-British wartime audience.
"I have no doubt that the Welsh heritage excels somewhat, especially in the quality of the hymns, compared to the material from other nations, including in English," he said.
In the year of Caniadaeth y Cysegr's debut, the Allies launched a doomed raid on the German-occupied French port of Dieppe, another British radio stalwart took to the air in the form of Desert Island Discs, the Queen registered for War Service and soap rationing was introduced.
According to the Radio Times for that week, the first programme on 15 February was presented by Idris Lewis with singers Cantorion Llanelli and conducted by DH Lewis.
Other radio programmes that day included Marching Songs of Britain and Sincerely Yours, Vera Lynn.
The news bulletin at 17:00, Newyddion, was also presented in Welsh.
Nowadays, Caniadaeth y Cysegr is broadcast on BBC Radio Cymru on Sunday afternoons at 16:30, online at bbc.co.uk/radiocymru and on BBC iPlayer Radio.
Radio Cymru Editor Betsan Powys said: "Caniadaeth y Cysegr is a jewel in the crown of Radio Cymru and an important part of the station's story.
"2017 is a milestone for Welsh language broadcasting as Radio Cymru marks its 40th year and Caniadaeth y Cysegr celebrates 75.
"It's good to know that the series has had such an influence in Wales and beyond."
However, current producer Ceri Wyn Richards has a warning for the next 75 years.
"I've been producing Caniadaeth y Cysegr for five years and it's a real privilege," she said.
"I am concerned, however, that the number of Cymanfa Ganu festivals is on the decrease and the tradition of singing in 'SATB' has weakened during my relatively short period as a producer.
"Although there are strongholds which respect the tradition, we've all got a duty - if we're interested in the history of our hymn singing - to ensure the continuity of this important heritage."
The Welshman held a 15-second lead over two-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador heading into the final stage.
Contador attacked on the final climb of the race and Team Sky's Thomas cracked 1km from the summit but he made up 30 seconds on the descent to take the win.
Thomas joins Tom Simpson and Bradley Wiggins as British winners of the race.
Simpson was the first in 1967, while Wiggins, who was also riding for Team Sky, won in 2012 - the year he went on to win the Tour de France.
Thomas, who won the Volta ao Algarve stage race earlier in the year, said: "It's the biggest win for sure of my whole career."
It was an incredible finish to an enthralling "Race to the Sun", which had seen stage three cancelled because of heavy snow.
Tim Wellens of Belgium won the final stage on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice with Contador crossing the line second to pick up six bonus seconds.
However, 29-year-old Thomas, who was superbly helped by team-mate Sergio Henao in the final kilometre of the ascent of Col d'Eze, finished in a group just five seconds adrift of Contador to ensure he won.
"I felt good, I felt strong, in control [when Contador first attacked]," said Thomas.
"But when he went halfway up Col d'Eze, my legs went away. I thought it's going to be all over, but Sergio stayed with me.
"I had a 54 chain ring on in the descent and I needed that - I went just full gas to finally catch up in the last few kilometres."
It is a fourth win in five years for Team Sky after Wiggins' 2012 victory and Richie Porte's successes in 2013 and 2015.
Australian Porte, who now rides for BMC Racing, finished third on the final stage to take third overall.
Final classification:
1. Geraint Thomas (GB/Team Sky) 27hrs 26mins 40secs
2. Alberto Contador (Spa/Tinkoff) +4secs
3. Richie Porte (Aus/BMC Racing) +12secs
4. Ilnur Zakarin (Rus/Katusha) +20secs
5. Jon Izagirre (Spa/Movistar) +37secs
6. Sergio Henao (Col/Team Sky) +44secs
7. Simon Yates (GB/Orica GreenEdge) +44secs
8. Tony Gallopin (Fra/Lotto) +51secs
9. Romain Bardet (Fra/AG2R) +1min 00secs
10. Rui Costa (Por/Lampre) +1min 07secs
Stage seven result:
1. Tim Wellens (Bel/Lotto) 3hrs 16mins 09secs
2. Alberto Contador (Spa/Tinkoff) Same time
3. Richie Porte (Aus/BMC Racing)
4. Tony Gallopin (Fra/Lotto) +5secs
5. Simon Yates (GB/Orica GreenEdge) Same time
6. Arnold Jeannesson (Fra/Cofidis)
7. Rui Costa (Por/Lampre)
8. Jesus Herrada (Spa/Movistar)
9. Romain Bardet (Fra/AG2R)
10. Jon Izagirre (Spa/Movistar)
Selected:
11. Geraint Thomas (GB/Team Sky) Same time
The first minister was speaking after holding talks with David Cameron at Downing Street.
She said she was not seeking "special treatment for Scotland", while the UK government promised a deal that "will stand the test of time".
The two leaders also agreed "ever-closer liaison" on security matters.
Mr Cameron agreed in September 2014 to hand substantial new powers to Scotland in the event of a No vote in last year's independence referendum.
After Scotland voted to remain in the UK, the Smith Commission was set up to decide the extent of the new powers and the future funding of Scotland, which has been based for decades on the Barnett formula. The Smith recommendations were embodied in the Scotland Bill, which is now being debated by the UK Parliament.
Analysis by Glenn Campbell, BBC Scotland political correspondent
New tax and welfare powers for Scotland were agreed by the Smith Commission after the "No" vote in the 2014 independence referendum.
The package has been translated into the Scotland Bill which is currently in the Lords and is due to become law before next year's Holyrood elections.
The UK and Scottish governments must first agree the financial arrangements that will underpin the new powers. The key issue is how to adjust the block grant Scotland receives from the Treasury each year to take into account the full devolution of income tax rates and bands.
As Scotland raises more of the cash it spends on services like the NHS, education and police - the amount it receives from the Treasury is reduced accordingly. It is relatively easy to work out what that figure should be in the first year but much harder to agree a method to calculate the adjustment for decades to come.
Other issues include the extent of Scotland's borrowing powers and how they interact with UK fiscal targets, funding set-up and administration costs especially for devolved welfare and independent scrutiny of Holyrood's new financial responsibilities.
Both sides say they want to reach a deal that is fair to both Scotland and the rest of the UK. Without such an agreement, SNP ministers have said they will block the Scotland Bill, by withholding Holyrood's consent for the legislation.
A deal was supposed to be reached by the end of the autumn. The talks are now expected to continue into the new year.
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Monday's meeting followed months of negotiations between Scotland's Deputy First Minister John Swinney and Chief Secretary to the Treasury Greg Hands.
In a statement released afterwards by Downing Street, Scotland Office Minister Lord Dunlop said: "If the powers contained in the Scotland Bill are used well by the Scottish Government, Scotland will do well.
"This is as it should be, and represents a good deal both for Scotland and for the rest of the UK."
Earlier Ms Sturgeon said it was vital that Scotland did not lose out and that the deal was fair.
She said: "The Smith Commission was clear that the Barnett formula must continue unaltered, and that the Scottish or UK governments should be no better or worse off simply as a result of the transfer of powers - before any policy decisions are taken.
"It is absolutely crucial that future Scottish governments can use the new tax and spending powers, to create a fairer society and grow the economy, without losing out.
"Today is not about agreeing a final deal but I hope we can make significant progress in agreeing that the deal must be a fair one."
The Scottish government will announce its annual Budget on Wednesday, with the SNP vowing to defend public services from spending cuts which it claims are being imposed from Westminster.
Measures to tackle so-called Islamic State were also discussed by Mr Cameron and Ms Sturgeon.
Mr Cameron appealed for SNP support for the Investigatory Power Bill, which would increase the authorities' surveillance powers.
It was agreed that the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre in London would share more reports with the Scottish government, while Ms Sturgeon will receive more frequent security briefings, Downing Street said.
The first minister also criticised the government's Trade Union Bill, which she described as a "an assault on the trade union movement".
Mr Cameron was "happy to talk further to see if we could find any common ground", she said afterwards.
If it is passed, the Bill would introduce a threshold for strike ballots, new measures on picketing and would allow companies to hire agency staff to cover for striking staff.
Madeleine, from Leicestershire, was three when she disappeared from Praia da Luz in the Algarve in May 2007.
Portugal's attorney general said "new elements of evidence" justified the "continuation of the investigation", which was shelved by police in 2008.
Madeleine's parents said they hoped for "the answers we so desperately need".
Scotland Yard began a review of the case in May 2011 - codenamed Operation Grange - and opened a formal investigation in July this year.
Portuguese police said a review team had been working since March 2011 to look back through information from the original investigation - and this process had uncovered potential new lines of inquiry.
The decision comes after Scotland Yard said at a briefing earlier this year that the Portuguese inquiry would not be re-opened until judges there were convinced there were solid grounds to do so.
It would appear that this decision is highly significant, BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said.
Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley and Det Ch Insp Andy Redwood met senior Portuguese police in Lisbon last Thursday for a briefing on the new lines of enquiry, which are "separate" to those being followed by the Met.
Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, were also briefed on the case during the meeting.
They said they were "very pleased" the Portuguese inquiry, which will run alongside the Met operation, was being reopened.
"We hope that this will finally lead to her being found and to the discovery of whoever is responsible for this crime," they said.
"We once again urge any member of the public who may have information relating to Madeleine's abduction to contact the police in Portugal or the UK."
Mr Rowley, assistant commissioner for specialist crime and operations, said the meeting was "very positive" and both forces had a "shared determination" to solve the case.
"I believe that we have the best opportunity yet to finally understand what happened to Madeleine," he said.
UK Home Secretary Theresa May welcomed the development, saying: "I hope what we are going to see is a resolution of this case for the sake of Maddie's parents and family."
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Madeleine went missing from her family's holiday apartment on 3 May 2007, as her parents dined with friends at a nearby tapas bar.
The three-year-old and her brother and sister were left in the apartment at 20:30, with their father checking on them at 21:05.
Mrs McCann raised the alarm at 22:00 when she realised Madeleine was gone.
Since then there has been much speculation about what happened to the youngster.
In July, the Met said new evidence had come to light, and last week an appeal launched on BBC Crimewatch prompted 2,400 responses.
Met detectives released two e-fits of a man seen carrying a child in Praia da Luz at 22:00 on the night Madeleine went missing and it was revealed that they now suspected Madeleine could have been taken later than previously thought - just before her mother returned to the apartment to check on her.
The Met are offering a £20,000 reward for information.
They say their inquiries have led to the "accepted version of events" surrounding Madeleine's disappearance being significantly changed.
Det Ch Insp Andy Redwood said further appeals on similar programmes in the Netherlands and Germany had led to hundreds of calls.
The next stage of the appeal will be in Ireland later this month.
On Wednesday, Met Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe defended the way Portuguese police had handled the initial investigation into Madeleine's disappearance.
"I'm sure for them that must have been a challenge. Anybody can go back after two, three, five, six years and say 'why didn't you do that'? That's easy in hindsight," he said.
Thistle held their own for the opening half hour, but Niko Kranjcar crashed the ball high into the net after good work from Barrie McKay.
Seven minutes later, midfield colleague Andy Halliday curled in the second.
That was enough for Mark Warburton's side to secure a win that moves them up to fifth place and remain seven points behind leaders Celtic.
Thistle stay stuck at the bottom of the Premiership after a run without a victory of seven games.
Rangers have now gone 24 meetings with the visitors from Maryhill since January 1993 without suffering a defeat.
Croatian midfielder Kranjcar has failed to be convincing since joining Rangers in the summer, but this was a performance scattered with moments of aplomb.
Even though the 32-year-old does not have the physical capability to impose himself on a game for 90 minutes, he still has the skill and awareness to be an influence.
His first effort on goal came after four minutes, but with Rangers manager Mark Warburton watching from the stands as he served a one-game touchline ban, the home side were nervous until Kranjcar opened the scoring in the 33rd minute.
After a smart exchange of passes with Jason Holt, he expertly made space in a crowded penalty area to lash the ball high into the net. His last involvement was to rifle a free-kick high over the bar, but there was an impact to his overall play.
Krancjar's goal was only the third time this season that the Ibrox side has opened the scoring in a Premiership game. That would have been pleasing for Warburton, but more significantly his side managed to deliver a clean sheet.
Only Motherwell, Kilmarnock, Hamilton and Inverness Caledonian Thistle had conceded more goals than Rangers before kick-off and the goalkeeper, Wes Foderingham, had only kept one clean sheet in the league this season.
There were moments of alarm, with the goalkeeper having to stop a Ryan Edwards header, and also good fortune. After the break, Chris Erskine scurried through on goal and his shot bundled beneath Foderingham, but the ball did not have enough pace to roll over the line before it was cleared.
Rangers were two goals ahead by then after Halliday converted a Martyn Waghorn cross with a low, composed finish.
Alan Archibald's side has not won a Premiership game since the beginning of August and, although the Thistle manager has been satisfied with performances in recent weeks, the slump in results will be worrying for him.
Thistle are capable of assured football, but they lack decisiveness in the final third. They were the league's lowest scorers before kick-off and there is a growing sense that their good play is undone by a failure to create clear chances.
The defence survived further scares, with Waghorn just failing to convert a Barrie McKay cross and Holt twice trying his luck with shots, but Thistle remain a side that needs an immediate fillip.
Rangers assistant manager David Weir: "We've spoken the last few weeks about performances and not getting the result - and I think today it was probably more about the result than it was about the performance.
"Ideally, you get both, but if we're being honest, the result was probably more important.
"It was different being on the touchline. It was unusual. I was in contact with the manager via the phone.
"But we're very similar in our thoughts and we know the team well enough to know what's going well, what's not going well, what we need to be better at. Our views are very similar.
"Hopefully he'll be back on the touchline next week and I'll enjoy being back on the bench."
Partick Thistle manager Alan Archibald: "You have got to score goals when you get chances and we never took our chances.
"I thought Chris Erskine's shot was going in. He had one similar last week he took it on his right foot.
"But this is why we are in the position we are in. We don't put away our chances."
Match ends, Rangers 2, Partick Thistle 0.
Second Half ends, Rangers 2, Partick Thistle 0.
Corner, Partick Thistle. Conceded by James Tavernier.
Attempt blocked. Declan McDaid (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Rangers. Conceded by Ziggy Gordon.
Attempt missed. Sean Welsh (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Declan McDaid (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Andy Halliday (Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Christie Elliott (Partick Thistle).
Danny Wilson (Rangers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Declan McDaid (Partick Thistle).
Substitution, Partick Thistle. Declan McDaid replaces Adebayo Azeez.
Corner, Partick Thistle. Conceded by Danny Wilson.
Harry Forrester (Rangers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ziggy Gordon (Partick Thistle).
Substitution, Partick Thistle. Sean Welsh replaces Chris Erskine.
Substitution, Rangers. Harry Forrester replaces Niko Kranjcar.
Christie Elliott (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Kenny Miller (Rangers).
Attempt missed. Niko Kranjcar (Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Niko Kranjcar (Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ryan Edwards (Partick Thistle).
Attempt saved. Jason Holt (Rangers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Partick Thistle. Christie Elliott replaces David Amoo.
Delay in match Joe Garner (Rangers) because of an injury.
Foul by Joe Garner (Rangers).
Liam Lindsay (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Rangers. Joe Garner replaces Martyn Waghorn.
Substitution, Rangers. Joseph Dodoo replaces Barrie McKay.
Attempt saved. Jason Holt (Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Rangers. Conceded by Callum Booth.
Corner, Rangers. Conceded by Ryan Scully.
Attempt saved. Jason Holt (Rangers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Ziggy Gordon (Partick Thistle) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ziggy Gordon (Partick Thistle).
Andy Halliday (Rangers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Niko Kranjcar (Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by David Amoo (Partick Thistle).
Lee Wallace (Rangers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Partick Thistle. Conceded by Lee Wallace.
The ex-taxi driver from Swindon was convicted of the murder of Becky Godden, 20, on Monday.
He is already serving life for the murder of Sian O'Callaghan in 2011.
Det Supt Sean Memory, who led the Godden case, believes Halliwell may have killed others.
Halliwell will be sentenced at Bristol Crown Court on Friday.
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Det Supt Memory, of Wiltshire Police, said: "It is fair to say that there may be other victims as there is an eight-year gap, however I am not linking him to any other investigation at this time."
A spokeswoman for Wiltshire Police said the detective would be contacting police forces across the UK to widen the scope of the investigation.
Miss O'Callaghan's mother Elaine Pickford, 54, believes the former ground worker would have killed other women.
"I don't think a man started killing at the age he killed Becky and I don't think he'd have gone the length of time between Becky and Sian without needing his fix," she said.
Jane Monckton Smith, a senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Gloucestershire, said Halliwell appeared to have a personality disorder and it was probable he had other victims.
She said his decision to deny the killing and defend himself in court was evidence of him craving attention.
Dr Monckton Smith, an independent domestic homicide reviewer for the Home Office, said: "This is all about his ego, which is not uncommon with narcissistic psychopaths.
"It is extreme psychopathic behaviour.
"Most serial killers are psychopaths - he has got two murders to his name now and the police think there are more because his stories are inconsistent.
"The eight-year gap - although it is possible for somebody who is as extreme in his narcissism as he is, I think it is more probable than possible."
The 12-time Grand Slam champion secured a 6-1 7-6 (7-4) 6-2 victory in an entertaining match in Melbourne.
World number nine Rafael Nadal earlier reached the second round with a commanding display.
The injury-hit Spaniard, who lost in the first round last year, beat Germany's Florian Mayer 6-3 6-4 6-4.
World number two Djokovic will next face Denis Istomin or Ivan Dodig while Nadal, attempting to win his first Grand Slam title since 2014, will play Marcos Baghdatis.
Djokovic, 29, was hardly stretched as he took the first set inside 31 minutes as Verdasco, who received warm support from the crowd, badly mistimed several shots.
But Verdasco broke straight away in the second set, putting Djokovic under pressure. He eventually forced a tie-break despite a slew of unforced errors.
However, his inconsistency meant he could not capitalise on Djokovic's errors and the Serb went on to secure his place in the second round.
"It feels like home," said Djokovic. "It feels like coming to the place where I have an amazing number of incredible memories.
"When I saw the draw I thought to myself, this is going to be the only match I could focus on."
Nadal, 30, had played just four matches since September's US Open after struggling last year with a wrist injury.
He dominated Mayer from the start, taking just over two hours to secure a straight-set victory in 39 degree heat.
"I was healthy enough to practise the way I wanted to, so that's important for me," Nadal added.
"I've had a longer period of time here in Australia, it was great experience and I was able to play in Brisbane."
Third seed Milos Raonic went through with a comfortable 6-3 6-4 6-2 victory over Germany's Dustin Brown.
The 26-year-old Canadian, a semi-finalist last year, hit 18 aces and 46 winners, and will next face either Luxembourg's Gilles Muller or American Taylor Fritz.
Brisbane International champion Grigor Dimitrov beat Australia's Christopher O'Connell 7-6(2) 6-3 6-3, while France's Richard Gasquet also advanced after a 6-4 6-4 6-2 over Australian Blake Mott.
Croatia's Ivo Karlovic and Argentine Horacio Zeballos played out a mammoth match on court 19 lasting five hours and 14 minutes.
Karlovic, the 20th seed, eventually took the fifth set 22-20 after a total of 84 games. He won 118 of the 226 points played.
The match, which Karlovic won 6-7 (6-8) 3-6 7-5 6-2 22-20, is the longest at the Australian Open in terms of games since tie-breaks were introduced for the first four sets in the 1970s.
It is the joint-second longest in terms of time, alongside Nadal's semi-final win over Verdasco in 2009 and behind only Djokovic's defeat of Nadal in the 2012 final.
However, it falls almost six hours short of the longest match in history - John Isner taking 11 hours and five minutes to beat Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon in 2010 in a match decided 70-68 in the final set.
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The Welsh Premier League's newest boss took charge of his first game on weekend aged just 24.
Ever since a 37-year-old Mourinho took charge Benfica in 2000, football managers have been getting younger.
Eddie Howe was 31 when he was first appointed by Bournemouth in 2008, while MK Dons handed the reins to a 29-year-old Karl Robinson back in 2010.
McGuinness was born in the same month as Starbucks opened its first coffee shop (other coffee shops are available) and now he is the toast of a town once famous for its iconic Suncentre.
"I'm a huge Manchester United fan so obviously Sir Alex Ferguson is someone I respect massively," said the new Rhyl manager.
"But for a young manager like me, Jose Mourinho is obviously my greatest inspiration as he took the same path I am currently on.
"He didn't play professionally and concentrated on coaching from an early age and what he has gone on to achieve - Champions League and league titles at massive clubs like Chelsea, Real Madrid and Inter Milan - is incredible."
Rhyl's home-town manager will surely never have to buy another brew again should he guide the town's football team clear from relegation.
The Seasiders are second bottom of the Welsh Premier with just three wins from 25 games this season - and have not won since October.
McGuinness has been promoted from academy coach - and to help him, the man who is thought to be the youngest manager in any European national league had only one man in mind to be his assistant, dad Laurie.
"It's a pleasure to work with him," McGuinness jr says.
"It's a big thing in football to trust and respect and we've got that and he's got the experience, knowledge and passion.
"We'll bounce off each other and we'll give ideas to one another. It means a lot to us and there's no one that will try any harder than us two and the team."
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McGuinness' father was in the coaching team in Rhyl's treble-winning season of 2003-04 when they won the league, Welsh Cup and League Cup.
McGuinness himsef was at Wrexham's academy before joining home-town club Rhyl. He has been involved in Rhyl's youth set-up for six years and retired at 22 to concentrate on coaching after becoming academy boss.
"It was a big decision but I thought my future lay with coaching ," he said.
"I'd begun coaching at 19 so managing was always in the pipeline for me but I hadn't planned for it to happen this early.
"Has it come a little bit early? Yes, but I grabbed the opportunity and I'll thrive off the opportunity I've been given.
"With me being a Rhyl lad, this job is close to my heart."
McGuinness recently passed his Football Association of Wales Youth A licence qualification and he will need all of the help he can get with Rhyl seven points from safety with seven games remaining.
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"There aren't any easy answers," says Justine Greening.
"It's a very complex question but we need to get on with a process which helps resolve these issues."
Later this month she will launch a discussion paper which will try to tackle this political hot potato once and for all.
During a visit to Southend Airport to open its new terminal she gave us an insight into her thinking.
"We've got to make sure there is the level of capacity at our airports that we need, not just in the next 10 to 15 years but the next 20 to 30 years."
"We are getting to the stage where there is a question mark over whether we've got the capacity to meet the country's needs."
"In the short term we've always been clear that we need to make the most of the capacity we do have.
"We need to use what we've got better and more effectively and we're looking at how we do that, but we also need to look ahead."
And it's that concern that has prompted the consultation.
Ms Greening does not want to prejudice proceedings but says the debate must be based on "real facts and figures and details around logistics, operations and airspace - then we'll have some of the information we need to make the right decision".
She will not be drawn on whether the ultimate conclusion of this consultation will be a call for more runways or a new airport but she does rule out a third runway at Heathrow which is "not the right answer".
Proposals to build a new airport in the Thames are met with a more sanguine response.
"This is the time for people to bring forward proposals on this issue," she says.
The aviation industry has been pushing for some time for the government to tackle this issue.
"There is a capacity issue in the South East - it's probably a bit late but now is the time to do it," says Carolyn McCall, chief executive of Easyjet.
"There is a real opportunity to have an aviation policy which is long term and which addresses the need for a hub airport but also looks at needs elsewhere."
The transport secretary was opening the new £100 million terminal at Southend Airport.
Next month Easyjet will launch services to nine European destinations, and other airlines are expected to move in as well.
"This is a real vote of confidence in Southend," said Ms Greening, who pointed out that this bit of airport expansion has created 500 extra jobs.
It's also the first piece of airport expansion in the South East for more than 20 years.
Southend hopes to handle two million passengers a year.
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They were in a Defender, towing a horse box, on the A82 near Loch Lomond when a Discovery driven in the opposite direction was in collision with them.
The 47-year-old woman driving the Defender and her 13-year-old passenger are being treated in hospital for serious injuries.
The horse that was being carried in the trailer died at the scene.
The crash happened between Duck Bay and the Stoneymollan roundabout.
The 59-year-old driver of the Discovery was not injured.
Insp Adam McKenzie, of Police Scotland, said: "This was a very serious road crash and I would appeal to anyone who witnessed what happened to please get in touch.
"If you were on the A82 around the time of the incident and may have seen either of the vehicles involved driving on the road, or witnessed the actual collision, you may be able to assist with our inquiries, and it is important that we speak to you."
World number 58 Evans, the British number four, lost 6-3 6-1 to Czech Republic's Jiri Vesely in Rome.
But British number three Bedene beat Argentina's Renzo Olivo 6-3 6-4 in the final qualifying round.
World number one Andy Murray, who received a bye in the first round, will play Italy's Fabio Fognini on Monday.
Britain's number two Kyle Edmund is also in action on Monday, against Portugal's Joao Sousa in the first round.
The man was seen trying to bounce his way through the dual carriageway Marketgait underpass, which has no pedestrian footpath, at about 03:00.
One witness said the man "looked very drunk" as he was chased down the tunnel by officers.
Police Scotland confirmed that the man had been spoken to, but no formal action was taken.
Witness Jamie Shankland told BBC Scotland's Newsdrive programme it was a surreal sight.
He said: "It was like a scene from the movie The Hangover."
Mr Shankland said he stopped his car because a police car was blocking the lane and there was a "commotion".
"As I pulled out past the police car I noticed there was a big red balloon on the road," he said.
"It wasn't until I passed and saw the two horns on top of it that I noticed it was a space hopper.
"I can only assume that the gentleman was space hoppering for some time because there is no path there."
Mr Shankland said the man was being questioned by police when he saw him.
"You could tell from the sheepish look on his face that he knew he was doing something wrong but he did not know what it was," he said.
"He looked very drunk to be honest."
Mr Shankland added: "He was coming towards the oncoming cars, he wasn't bouncing away from them, so it could have been a worse story to tell."
Environmental activists disrupted the west London airport's M4 spur road as a number of groups demonstrated on Saturday over the government's recent decision to approve a third runway.
Fifteen arrests were made for obstructing the highway or public order offences.
Traffic was disrupted but there was no reported impact on flights.
Protesters from the environmental organisation Rising Up! also locked themselves together as they blocked the East Ramp road near the airport.
Other campaigners gathered on the flyover to chant "No ifs, no buts, no third runway" and "No more runways".
A Heathrow spokesman warned passengers to allow extra time to travel or to use public transport where possible.
A spokesman for Rising Up! said: "The government's decisions to expand Heathrow, despite mass opposition from local residents and the fact that doing so is incompatible with the UK's own laws on climate change, leaves us with no morally acceptable option but to resist."
Neil Keveren, a resident of nearby Harmondsworth, said: "Democracy has failed us.
"As a direct result, the quality of life and life expectancy of the population here will be shorter.
"This is against our human rights and must be defended. Who is left to correct this injustice when our politicians will not?
"The answer is us - you and me."
A spokeswoman for Heathrow said: "Independent analysis by the Airports Commission has found that building and operating an additional runway at Heathrow is compatible with the UK meeting its long-term climate change reduction targets.
"The Independent Committee on Climate Change has also shown that a 60% growth in passenger numbers in the United Kingdom can be achieved within the UK's Climate Change Targets."
The @MetPoliceEvents account confirmed the arrests on its Twitter feed.
The firm says the MacBook Pro's Touch Bar provides software-specific commands that are more "intuitive" to use than the function keys it replaces.
The announcement was not a surprise, however, because of an earlier leak.
Apple had not updated its MacBook Pro laptops since May 2015. Its MacBook Air models were two months older still.
That has impacted sales. Earlier this week Apple revealed that it had sold 10% fewer Macs in the year ending 24 September than over the prior 12 months.
Researchers suggest the wider PC market has also shrunk, but to a lesser extent.
"The lack of updates was part of the problem, but it's also the case that the competition has got a lot stronger," commented Roberta Cozza from the tech consultancy Gartner.
"Over the past year we've seen more interest from both business customers and consumers in Windows 10 computers, which have benefited from both the new operating system as well as better designs and better pricing from their manufacturers.
"For some time, Apple's main focus has been the iPhone - which accounts for much of its revenue - and making the iPad a better productive tool. But there are still many users who want PC-grade performance, and they needed this Mac refresh."
There was no update to the MacBook or MacBook Air laptops, nor to the firm's iMac or Mac Pro desktop PCs.
Source: Gartner
The figures include desktops and laptops - including hybrid models with detachable touchscreens - but not dedicated tablets such as the iPad Pro
Apple's software chief Craig Federighi gave several examples of how the new Touch Bar could be used, including ways to:
The innovation helps address the fact the laptops' main displays are not touchscreens and cannot be used with a stylus, as is the case with many Windows 10 PCs as well as Apple's iPad Pro.
"It works as a miniature tablet built into the keyboard, allowing users to seamlessly move between keys and a much more nuanced touch interface without lifting a hand," commented Rhoda Alexander from the tech consultancy IHS Markit.
"By contrast, the beauty of a stylus is that it allows you to bring the fluidity of pen input across a myriad of applications, without having to use a particular graphics program to support it.
"The Touch Bar approach may lack some of the fluidity of the stylus solution but offsets that with convenience, the ability to seamlessly blend key functionality and touch input."
Apple did deliver innovation. The Touch Bar is a smart way of giving users a new interface with their computers while differentiating the MacBook Pro from the touchscreen iPad.
But it took 90 minutes to unveil a new and rather limited TV app and an upgrade, albeit a significant one, to just one computer.
Apple surely needs to quicken the pace of innovation if it is to prove that Mac is still cooler than PC.
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The new Touch ID fingerprint sensor is designed to be used as a way to authenticate payments as well as to quickly switch between different users' accounts.
Apple also said the new 13in and 15in MacBook Pro laptops were thinner and lighter than before, and featured bigger trackpads.
New processors will improve handling of 3D graphics and both versions of the machines now feature four Thunderbolt 3 ports - into which USB-C cables can be plugged.
But there are no longer separate power, HDMI, SD card or USB 3 ports, meaning many users will need adapters to use old peripherals.
Apple did not, however, remove the audio jack, as was the case with the iPhone 7.
The Touch Bar-enabled 13in MacBook Pro will start at $1,799 and the 15in version at $2,399.
In the UK they will be £1,749 and £2,349 including VAT - prices that reflect the weaker pound.
By comparison, Microsoft's new Surface Book laptop - which has a 13.5in detachable touchscreen - starts at $2,399, while Lenovo's Yoga 910 - which has a 13.9in detachable display - starts at $1,330.
Apple also revealed a new app for its TV set-top box, iPhone and iPad, which is simply called TV.
It brings together pre-recorded programmes and movies - available for free or purchase - from a variety of third-party services as well as Apple's own iTunes store.
It is designed to provide an easier way for users to keep track of content they are already part way through viewing as well as discovering new show via recommendations from the firm's team of curators.
The idea is to save the user having to click in and out of other apps searching for content.
But the on-stage demo made no mention of Netflix being included, and it has only been announced for launch in the US at this point.
Tim Cook also revealed that Microsoft's popular video game Minecraft would be coming to the Apple TV before the end of the year.
He added that were now 8,000 apps on the platform, which launched a year ago.
However, the firm opted not to release a new version of the hardware to support 4K resolution video, as had been rumoured, putting it at a disadvantage to rivals including Amazon Fire TV and Roku.
Apple released the last version of its top-end desktop computer way back on 19 December 2013, but opted not to update it at its latest event.
The "trash can" was targeted at video editors, 3D graphics artists, engineers and other professionals who wanted a powerful workstation.
But three years is a very long time to go without a refresh, and a lot has happened in both tech and beyond in the interim.
To give an idea of how long it's been, all the events below have occurred since the computer went on sale:
The work is a portrait of Van Dyck's close friend Olivia Porter and was painted around 1637.
The tax bill covered was for £2.8m but the full value of the painting has not been disclosed.
Owned by the same family since the 17th Century, the portrait will now go to the Bowes Museum in County Durham.
Adrian Jenkins, director of the Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle, said: "We are delighted to have the opportunity to celebrate the gift of this wonderful portrait.
"It will also of course enhance the museum's permanent collection."
Born in Antwerp, Van Dyck is thought of as one of the most important Flemish painters, in particular portraitists, of the 17th Century.
He was heavily influenced by Rubens and the Italian artists, especially Titian, and is best remembered for his elegant representations of Charles I and his court after he settled at the English court in 1632.
Olivia Porter was a lady-in-waiting at the court, who married Van Dyck's friend Endymion Porter, the king's picture agent and diplomat.
The portrait of Olivia - who became the subject of more than one of the artist's portraits - is thought to have been commissioned by her husband.
Its quality and vibrancy reflect the close friendship of the couple with the artist.
Van Dyck chose to paint Olivia in a timeless classical costume - red with golden highlights - reminiscent of Venetian painters such as Titian.
Edward Harley, chairman of the panel which advises the government on offers in lieu of tax said: "The acceptance-in-lieu scheme continues to enrich our public collections.
"I am delighted that this exceptional portrait, which is one of the great Van Dycks, has been allocated to the Bowes Museum in County Durham."
The painting will form part of a major exhibition, The English Rose - Feminine Beauty from Van Dyck to Sargent, which opens at the Bowes Museum in May 2016.
Police received a report on Tuesday of bones being found "several years ago" at the property in Stalisfield Avenue, Norris Green.
A 50-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of preventing the lawful and decent burial of a body.
Merseyside Police said work was under way "to locate these bones and to establish if they are animal or human".
The force said the investigation was at an early stage and the woman had been released on bail.
Commanders said they were within two kilometres of the centre. They said they had no choice but to go in after coming under attack.
Bani Walid and the other loyalist-held towns have been given until Saturday to surrender to the interim government.
There has also been fierce fighting near the Gaddafi-held city of Sirte.
The anti-Gaddafi forces near Bani Walid said they had made quick progress so far, but that they were not engaging in a full military assault as they still wanted to minimise casualties.
They said four people had so far been killed, including three pro-Gaddafi fighters, and a number of people had been injured.
The BBC's Richard Galpin near Bani Walid says there have been reports of hand-to-hand combat with what have been described as professional fighters on the Gaddafi side - but also reports that some had been throwing away their weapons as the anti-Gaddafi forces approached.
Abdallah Kanshil, a senior official from the interim Libyan leadership, the National Transitional Council (NTC), told Reuters: "[Anti-Gaddafi] fighters are in the north of the city fighting snipers, we have also entered from the east."
Earlier in the day, there were reports of a barrage of Grad missiles being fired from the town by pro-Gaddafi forces.
By Paul WoodBBC News, near Sirte
A stretcher carrying a moaning, semi-conscious anti-Gaddafi fighter is hurriedly loaded on to an ambulance. As the rebels get closer to Sirte the casualties are mounting. But though their deadline for the loyalists to surrender runs out on Saturday they're still a long way from the town - 45 miles on the eastern approach.
We're at the anti-Gaddafi fighters' most forward position. They've just taken a lot of incoming Grad and mortar fire. The Grads have paused for the moment... heavy anti-aircraft guns are being used to fire back.
The anti-Gaddafi forces are having to fight very hard for every mile of territory. Their threatened assault won't begin immediately on Sirte, partly because they're so far away and partly to give tribal talks more time to succeed.
The NTC says it has been trying to negotiate a peaceful resolution to stand-offs in Gaddafi-held Bani Walid, Jufra, Sabha and Sirte, but Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril had warned NTC troops would respond if attacked.
NTC forces have also been preparing munitions near Sirte.
There was a heavy exchange of fire about 60km east of the city, in the Red Valley region which the NTC announced it had captured on Thursday.
The BBC's Paul Wood, with the anti-Gaddafi forces near Sirte, witnessed the incoming rocket and mortar fire from loyalist forces.
He says the rebels fired back with anti-aircraft guns, but they are still a long way from the city.
The anti-Gaddafi forces told him they will keep pushing forward and although Sirte may not fall according to their leaders' timetable, they are sure that it will fall.
AFP news agency said the arrival of 10 pro-Gaddafi vehicles on the frontline had sparked two hours of heavy fighting, but that the NTC troops held their position.
Meanwhile in Tripoli, tens of thousands of people on Friday took part in a march to remember those who were killed by Col Gaddafi's forces near the eastern district of Tajoura on 25 February during the early phase of the Libyan uprising.
The BBC's Peter Biles in the Libyan capital says it turned into a huge victory parade, with residents all waving the red, black and green flag of the new Libya and clogging both sides of the main road with their vehicles.
In New York, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on the UN Security Council to establish a new mission in Libya for an initial period of three months.
The mission would be tasked with helping Libyans organise elections, give advice on the judicial system and help develop an effective police force.
Diplomats hope to approve a resolution on the new UN mandate by the end of next week.
Separately on Friday, Ali Kana, a senior general in Col Gaddafi's forces who commanded troops in the south, was reported to have fled to Niger.
Officials in the town of Agadez said a convoy of at least three vehicles carrying a dozen people, including Gen Kana, had arrived.
Several convoys of former loyalists are said to have streamed over the border with Niger over the past few weeks.
A number of Col Gaddafi's aides - including his chief of security Mansour Daw - have reached the capital, Niamey.
Officials in Niger, which recently installed democracy after decades of authoritarianism, said they were letting in many sub-Saharan Africans from Libya on humanitarian grounds.
However, the head of President Mahamadou Issoufou's cabinet, Massaoudou Hassoumi, said on Friday it would respect its commitments to the International Criminal Court (ICC) if Col Gaddafi or his sons entered the country.
The ICC has issued a warrant for crimes against humanity against Col Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam and spy chief Abdullah al-Sanussi.
Interpol on Friday issued an arrest warrant for the three.
According to the electoral office, 60,433 people are not currently able to vote in the upcoming Assembly elections on 2 March.
The drop is attributed to a canvassing of households which took place in 2016 to update voter details.
Anyone who did not return their form, as required by law, was removed from the register.
Voters still have until 14 February to re-register.
"A total of 60,433 names were removed from the electoral register on 1 December 2016," a spokesperson told the BBC.
"These were the names of people who did not return an electoral registration form during the last canvass of electors in 2013.
"The Electoral Office for Northern Ireland has written several times to all of those affected by this - most recently last autumn. Anyone who did not return a form at this time was, as required by law, removed from the register.
"Anyone wishing to vote at the Northern Ireland Assembly election on 2 March must complete and return an electoral registration form by Tuesday 14 February."
The electoral office added that it will be launching a public awareness campaign in the coming days.
Voters removed by constituency
You can check if you're registered to vote by calling 0800 4320 712 or you can visit your local electoral office, here.
Juliet Luporini, chairwoman of the city's business improvement district, said businesses wanted a fixed date before committing to the city.
Network Rail said electrification would arrive between 2019 and 2024, but the exact date was "to be confirmed".
The line is being electrified to speed up journey times from London to Wales.
Swansea has two new university campuses opening and there are ambitious plans to revamp the city centre.
Mrs Luporini, who is also on the Swansea Bay City Region board, said Network Rail should be able to give "certainty" over dates and costs.
She believes the fact they have not could have a knock-on effect for business planning and inward investment into the city.
"It's really disappointing that we don't have the electrification date secure, with a costing, so that we know exactly what is happening," she added.
"We don't want a perception that business stops at Cardiff."
Electrified trains were originally due to arrive in Cardiff by 2017 but that deadline has now been put back.
Network Rail's programme manager Anthea Dolman-Gair said that it had now been "set a challenge" to complete electrification to Cardiff by 2019 and Swansea by 2024.
"We're on track to do that," she said.
Costs for work between London and Cardiff have increased from an initial £1.6bn to an estimated £2.8bn.
A review in 2015 found that original proposals were "unrealistic and undeliverable" and Network Rail has said the cost of electrifying between Cardiff and Swansea was "to be confirmed".
A Network Rail statement said: "Completion of electrification between London Paddington to Cardiff is planned to be completed within control period five (2014-2019) within the estimated total cost of £2.8bn.
"Electrification beyond Cardiff to Swansea is now planned to be completed within control period six (2019-2024) with the specific date and costs to be confirmed."
Pascal Fauret and Bruno Odos were convicted of drug smuggling by a Dominican court earlier this year and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
They had been placed under judicial supervision while they were appealing against the sentence.
They reportedly escaped by boat to the French Antilles and from there by plane to France.
Their lawyer said their arrest was "unnecessary" as the two men had placed themselves at the investigating judge's disposal.
Last week the lawyer said that the two pilots were intent on clearing their name.
They were arrested in the Dominican resort of Punta Cana in 2013 after police found 26 suitcases on their plane stuffed with 680kg (1,500lb) of cocaine.
They, and two other Frenchmen arrested with them, have always maintained their innocence.
The Dominican Republic has asked for their extradition, but legal experts said that was unlikely to happen.
Smart meters send information on energy usage directly back to the energy supplier, which eliminates the need for meter readings.
Crucially, they also let the customer know just how much electricity or gas they are consuming during the day. This revelation is expected to change our behaviour, so that we switch off lights, turn down heating, and generally use less energy.
The EU has said that all its members must provide smart meters by 2020 as long as there is a positive economic case to do so.
Germany employed accountancy firm Ernst and Young to conduct a cost-benefit analysis and they concluded it did not make economic sense, because most householders did not use enough energy to make it value for money. As a result, Germany declined to stage a mass roll-out.
Other countries have adopted smart meters with varied success. Auditors in Australia and Canada found it was too expensive.
Andrew Evans, from the auditor general's office in Victoria, Australia, said there would not be any overall benefit to consumers, and the net cost was $320m (£170m) paid by consumers through higher energy bills.
The British government has committed to getting 53 million smart meters into our homes and small businesses by the end of 2020, at an estimated cost of £11bn. That does not include Northern Ireland, which is still assessing whether smart meters would be in consumers' interests.
There are already two million meters installed in households and businesses in the rest of the UK.
Pensioner Maureen Fenlon and her husband Viv opted to have smart meters installed in their Lincolnshire bungalow a year ago. Mrs Fenlon was proud to show me the small "in-home display" which shows the cost of electricity and gas used during the day.
She said seeing the real cost of using appliances has encouraged her to use her microwave more than her oven, which has saved money on bills.
That kind of behaviour may cut our bills, it is claimed, by an average £26 a year per household up to 2020. According to government estimates, that could mean a total saving of around £6bn by then.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change says: "Smart meters will help families and businesses take control of their energy use, bringing an end to estimated bills and helping bill payers to become more energy efficient."
However, the cost of the roll-out is high, and the estimated savings rely on millions of us being willing to change our behaviour.
Meanwhile, the second stage of introduction is running late. This involves a second generation of smart meters, and a new national communications network which will allow the transmission of data between smart meters and all energy suppliers.
There has been criticism of how the entire smart meter project has been planned.
In other countries, a central administration has handled the roll-out whereas in the UK, the government left it up to the energy companies.
Some homes do not get enough wireless signal for the current generation of smart meters to work.
If someone like Mrs Fenlon switches suppliers today, the in-home display may not work with the new supplier's technology; the first-generation smart meter effectively becomes "dumb". That should change in the next couple of years when the new communications network is up and running.
The so-called big six energy suppliers are hoping to introduce a new kind of pricing to go with smart meters, a system used elsewhere in the world called time of use tariffs.
This could mean that you are charged much more at peak times, say between 16:00 and 20:00, for using electricity. The idea is that you are being nudged to use your appliances when it is cheaper.
Critics worry that this might have damaging effects on vulnerable groups of people such as the elderly and those on low incomes.
According to Stephen Thomas, Emeritus Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Greenwich, older or vulnerable people who are faced with extra high costs of using energy on a cold winter evening may choose to switch off and be cold.
The answer is that these "time of use" tariffs will be purely voluntary, according to Rosie McGlynn, director of new energy services at Energy UK. She argues people will be able to plan ahead better and save on their bills when they have a smart meter, and those currently on pre-payment meters will pay lower prices than they do now.
Smart meters are not compulsory, although the publicity campaigns do not give that fact much prominence. The energy companies are footing the bill for installing smart meters, but they acknowledge they will pass costs on to the customer. So, even if you do not want one, you are going to be paying part of the £11bn cost.
Listen to the Moneybox special on smart meters on BBC Radio 4 at 12:00 GMT on Saturday, 26 March
The victim was woken by an intruder in Argyle Street, Saltcoats, at 02:00 on 25 June.
He assaulted her before escaping with some of her possessions in what officers said was a "very distressing experience".
Police said they had arrested a 27-year-old man over the incident. He is expected to appear in court on Monday.
The discovery of the Epstein Barr virus - named after British doctor Anthony Epstein - resulted from his specialist knowledge of viruses which caused tumours in chickens plus his skills gained using one of the first commercially-available electron microscopes.
His hunch was assisted by a longer than expected journey of some tumour cells from Uganda, which were nearly thrown in the bin.
But it would never have happened if Epstein's curiosity hadn't been fired up by a lecture by the Irish doctor turned "bush surgeon", Denis Burkitt.
In the lecture, billed as a staff meeting on "The Commonest Children's Cancer in Tropical Africa", Burkitt described how he had noticed a number of cases of debilitating tumours which grew around the jawbone of children in specific regions - particularly those with high temperatures and high rainfall.
We now know this as Burkitt lymphoma.
Sir Anthony Epstein, now 93, speaking to the BBC's Health Check programme, recalls: "I thought there must be some biological agent involved. I was working on chicken viruses which cause cancer. I had virus-inducing tumours at the front of my head. I thought... [it] was being carried by some insect vector, or some tic. That's why it was temperature-related."
The Epstein Barr virus belongs to the family of herpes viruses - and is linked to a number of different conditions, depending on where you live.
Most people are infected with the Epstein Barr virus. It's best known in high-income countries for causing glandular fever which causes a sore throat, extreme fatigue and swollen glands in the neck.
According to Dorothy Crawford, emeritus professor of microbiology at Edinburgh University, up to 95% of all adults are infected with the virus.
"The virus is spread in childhood at different rates - in the saliva, so through close contact. In African countries most children have it by the age of two because they share cups in their household.
"The rate is lower in middle-class areas of England, so if you haven't already been exposed by your early teens it can cause glandular fever."
This has given it the nickname the kissing disease because, she explained: "People kissing in the back row of the cinema exchange more saliva than young children sharing toys."
Epstein asked for samples of the tumours from Burkitt and they were sent back on overnight flights from Uganda.
For almost three years Epstein's efforts to retrieve virus from the tumour cells failed, despite trying several culture methods used successfully for other viruses like influenza and measles.
In the end bad weather came to the rescue.
Fog delayed one flight which was diverted to Manchester, 200 miles from London. So the sample taken from the upper jaw of a nine-year-old girl with Burkitt lymphoma didn't get to Epstein until late one Friday afternoon on 5 December 1963.
At that point it looked past its sell-by date.
"The fluid was cloudy. This suggested it had been contaminated on the way," Epstein said.
"Was it full of multiplying bacteria? Before we threw it away I looked at it under a wet preparation microscope and saw huge numbers of free-floating, healthy looking tumour cells which had been shed from the edge of the tumour."
Traditionally, growing cells successfully in culture had involved sticking them to a glass surface for support, but the lymphoma cells seemed to favour growing in a suspension.
Once all other conventional tests for identifying the virus from the cultured cells had failed, Epstein tried electron microscopy. The very first grid square he viewed included a cell filled with herpes virus.
Exhilarated by what he'd seen, Epstein went for a walk in the winter snow and came back feeling calmer.
"I was extremely frightened in case the electron beam [of the microscope] burned up the sample. I recognised at once the herpes virus - there were five then, now nine. Any of the then-known ones would have wiped the culture out when they were replicating but this wasn't happening. I had the feeling that this was something special."
Our understanding of this pervasive virus, named after Epstein and one of his PhD students Yvonne Barr who helped to prepare the samples, has increased over the years since Epstein confirmed his findings with American virologist colleagues.
Burkitt's data helped to identify that the tumour named after him was seen in children with chronic malaria, which reduced their resistance to the Epstein Barr virus, allowing it to thrive.
But most of us live quite happily with the virus.
"If you disturb the host-virus balance in any way then changes take place which lead to very unpleasant consequences," says Epstein.
"Once the link between Epstein Barr virus and Burkitt lymphoma was established, other seemingly unrelated conditions followed. These include a cancer at the back of the nose which is the commonest cancer seen in men in southern China and the second commonest in women in the same region.
There is also a link to Hodgkins lymphoma, a cancer of the white blood cells.
"Each one came out of the blue," according to Epstein, "and we've just heard about another. About 20% of Japanese cancers of the stomach are associated with the virus."
Yet another connection was made by Professor Dorothy Crawford, while waiting for the lift at the Royal Free hospital in London.
"It's such a tall building everyone meets outside the lifts. I was standing next to a renal [kidney] transplant surgeon and overheard him say they'd just had their first case of post-transplant lymphoma. So I went with him to the pathology department and asked for some sections of the tissue to look at under the microscope."
Burkitt lymphoma can now often be treated successfully with chemotherapy.
At a recent meeting in Oxford of the Epstein Barr Virus Association future directions for research were explored.
Attention is now focusing on a vaccine for the Epstein Barr virus - and some efficacy has already been demonstrated.
Epstein hopes that a vaccine will lead to the kind of success seen in other cancers caused by viruses - such as Hepatitis B and the human papillomavirus, which cause liver and cervical cancer respectively.
Koeman told Belgian newspaper HLN that Lukaku, 23, has potential "greater and higher" than his current club.
George McKane, a founding member of the Everton Supporters' Trust, said Koeman is acting in Everton's best interests.
"It makes a pleasant change for someone to tell the truth," he told BBC Sport.
"What he's saying is what a lot of Evertonians are thinking."
McKane said Dutchman Koeman's comments on Lukaku, who reportedly handed in a transfer request this summer, could be aimed at raising the Belgium international's price.
Lukaku joined Everton for a club record £28m in July 2014, having scored 16 goals in all competitions during a season on loan from Chelsea.
He scored 20 goals in 2014-15 and 25 last season, and has seven of Everton's 15 Premier League goals this season. He is under contract until 2019.
Dave Kelly, chairman of supporters' group Blue Union, said Lukaku is not yet at the level of a Champions League striker, but that more Everton players should be trying to attract the interest of Europe's top sides.
"He should have ambition. Why should Romelu Lukaku have any responsibility to stay at Everton? He's not an Evertonian," Kelly said.
"I would love him to stay, but every player has his price. It's unfortunate that more of our players are not getting looked at by the European leagues.
"There needs to be a statement of intent from our owner, that if clubs want to buy our players it will be on our terms and for top dollar."
The figure was worked out by weighing the land from space.
The American West Coast has been hit by big storms in recent days, but this rainfall is only expected to make a small dent in California's problems.
Researchers described their research at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting in San Francisco.
The US space agency (Nasa) used its Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (Grace) satellites in orbit to help make the calculations.
These spacecraft measure the very subtle variations in Earth's gravity as they fly around the globe.
This shifting tug results from changes in mass, and this is influenced by the rise and fall in the volume of water held in the land.
Figures quoted by Nasa on Tuesday are for California's Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins - the state's "water workhorses".
Grace data indicates total water storage in these basins - that is all snow, surface water, soil moisture and ground water combined - has plummeted by roughly 15 cubic km a year.
This number is not far short of all the water that runs through the great Colorado River (nearly 20 cubic km), which is one of the primary sources for import into the state.
Jay Famiglietti from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California said: "We've shown that it's now possible to explicitly quantify previously elusive drought indictors like the beginning of the drought or the end of the drought, and importantly the severity of the drought in any point in time.
Can science find new ways to provide fresh water for a growing population?
"That is, we can now begin to answer the question: how much water will it take to end the drought?
"We show for the current drought this quantity peaked in 2014 at 42 cubic km of water. That's 11 trillion gallons, or about one-and-a-half times the volume of Lake Mead.
"So, no - the recent rains have not put an end to the current drought at all, but they are certainly welcome."
Rather worryingly, a lot of the deficit - two-thirds - is accounted for by reductions in ground water, which constitutes an unsustainable level of extraction.
"Ground water is a strategic reserve in times of drought and we need to be very careful how we manage it," Dr Famiglietti told BBC News.
New aeroplane surveys of the snow fields in the mountains that supply California with much of its water tell a similar story.
The Airborne Snow Observatory, as it is known, shows the size of these fields has probably been overstated by 100%.
In other words, the state probably has even less water in reserve than it thought.
"The 2014 California snowpack was the worst on recorded. It [battled] it out with 1977 through the year, but finally won out. But in 1977, we had half the population that we have today," commented Airborne Snow Observatory Principal Investigator Tom Painter of JPL.
"Besides resulting in less snow water, the dramatic reduction in snow extent contributes to warming our climate by allowing the ground to absorb more sunlight. This reduces soil moisture, which makes it harder to get water from the snow into reservoirs once it does start snowing again."
None of this will cheer the state's 38 million residents, many of whom have been flooded out this week by big Pacific storms.
The National Weather Service says much more rain will be needed to end the drought.
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Neymar, 25, joined the French club for 222m euros (£200m).
Bartomeu says the money will be spent with "prudence, rigour and serenity".
Liverpool's Philippe Coutinho, Borussia Dortmund's Ousmane Dembele and PSG's Julian Draxler have been linked with moves to the Nou Camp.
Neymar's departure from Barcelona breaks up the feted attacking trident he formed with Argentina captain Lionel Messi and Uruguay forward Luis Suarez.
He scored 105 goals in four seasons at Barca, winning seven major trophies including the Champions League once and La Liga twice.
The player said he moved to France for a "bigger challenge", and denied it was motivated by money.
Speaking at the World Congress of Penyes, Bartomeu said: "He wanted to leave. We didn't agree with that decision but no player is bigger than Barca."
It will be the first BBC facility in the UK to use the Internet Protocol (IP) technology across both its production and broadcast operations.
It moves away from more-conventional plug-in digital technology.
IP will allow different devices dotted around the BBC's new Central Square building to recognise and "talk" to each other.
It will bring the latest internet technology into different aspects of broadcasting - from controlling cameras, TV editing to output.
IP will also help in producing programmes and items from remote locations.
The new approach to carrying data and signals is aimed at giving the broadcaster greater flexibility - especially as technology further develops, whether in higher bandwidth or better-quality video resolution.
The BBC will work with Canadian company Grass Valley and the US technology giant Cisco on the development.
Unlike the system currently used by most UK broadcasters, IP allows data and signals to flow in every direction.
It could mean, for example, an IP-enabled microphone can be controlled by any sound desk anywhere in the building, while any TV gallery could control any IP-enabled camera.
The technology is also geared towards a better interactive experience for viewers, including the potential for added content.
Gareth Powell, BBC Wales' chief operating officer, said: "This will give us a level of creative freedom about how we produce our content that we've never had before.
"We want to harness the benefits of IP technology to provide the best-possible tools to our content-makers and to free them from many of the historic constraints we've faced at our current HQ in Llandaff."
Prof Andrew Blyth, an expert in forensic computing and cyber security at the University of South Wales, said the BBC would have to take the appropriate cyber security measures to combat risks, but IP was the future for the BBC and other broadcasters.
"Indeed if the BBC didn't move into this area it might be accused of dragging its feet and being a dinosaur," he said.
"You only have to look at the likes of Netflix and the way the world has already changed. As a viewer, we watch on demand, when we want to, gone are the days when we all sit down and watch EastEnders at 7.30pm.
"This is the future of broadcasting, of TV - and it's already here."
Work started at the end of 2015 and the new building is expected to be fully open in 2019, with 1,200 staff moving to the city centre.
More than 60 firefighters have been tackling the blaze in Hickman Avenue, near East Park, since about 14:30 BST.
A man was taken to hospital for a minor burn after trying to put the fire out, West Midlands Fire Service said.
A working men's club and nearby buildings were evacuated until fire crews moved the cylinders to safety.
Three car repair units and two tyre storage units have been affected by the severe fire which is now under control, the spokesman said.
Fire crews said they managed to save two coaches inside one of the buildings and part of a gym, but the roof of the tyre unit was destroyed.
It is thought the fire started inside one of the repair garages, the spokesman said.
Twelve fire engines were sent to the scene as police closed nearby roads and dealt with subsequent traffic problems.
Nearby residents were urged to keep their windows shut due to the large quantities of smoke.
Vicious has been created by Will and Grace writer Gary Janetti and award-winning playwright Mark Ravenhill.
The show, to air next year, will also feature Rising Damp actress Frances De La Tour as their feisty best friend.
Sir Ian will play ageing actor Freddie who has lived in a cramped flat with Sir Derek's Stuart for nearly 50 years.
Their worlds are turned upside down when a young man called Ash moves in upstairs.
Writer and co-producer Janetti, who has also worked on award-winning US comedy Family Guy, said he was "incredibly excited" to be working with "this unbelievable cast".
ITV's comedy commissioning editor, Myfanwy Moore, said the broadcaster was "thrilled this exciting and bold sitcom, with stellar performers and writing talent is to join the increasing slate of new look comedy shows on the channel".
Next month Sir Ian will be seen reprising the role of wizard Gandalf in Lord of the Rings prequel The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
The film, which co-stars Martin Freeman, Elijah Wood and Benedict Cumberbatch, is due in UK cinemas on 14 December.
Ridden by Tom O'Brien, Finian's Oscar was making his grade one bow, having won on his hurdling debut at Hereford.
Chalonnial led for much of the contest, but the 11-10 favourite powered home to win by five lengths from Capitaine.
Tizzard also trains Thistlecrack, who won the King George VI Chase, and Native River, winner of the Welsh National in December.
Gubbins was dropped on 22 but reached his ton off 191 balls on day one at Lord's after the hosts slumped to 97-4.
Pace bowler Jack Brooks (3-45) continued his fine form for Yorkshire, trapping Sam Robson and Nick Compton lbw before bowling Stevie Eskinazi.
Middlesex collected their first bonus point before bad light ended play at 208-5, with Gubbins still there on 120.
Victory over the White Rose county will hand Middlesex the title for the first time since 1993.
But third-placed Somerset are now just eight points behind after reaching 322-9 against relegated Nottinghamshire at Taunton and picking up three batting bonus points.
Under overcast skies in London, Yorkshire chose not to contest the toss and gave their four pace bowlers a chance to make early inroads.
Brooks claimed two quick scalps as Robson departed for a duck and Compton left a straight ball that jagged back in before David Willey bowled Dawid Malan via an inside edge to reduce the hosts to 57-3.
Despite the testing conditions, 22-year-old Gubbins remained assured at the crease - despite being put down at point by Azeem Rafiq, who has signed a contract extension for next summer - and was particularly strong on the off side as he rebuilt Middlesex's innings.
He shared half-century stands with John Simpson and James Franklin and having grafted to reach 96, Gubbins opened his shoulders to pull Ryan Sidebottom over the square leg boundary for six to reach three figures.
Shortly after Yorkshire took the new ball, the teams were taken off as the light deteriorated with 14 overs lost.
Middlesex batsman Nick Gubbins said:
"I'll remember this knock for a long time but there's still plenty of work to do in the morning.
"I don't know what's going on at Taunton. Somerset have had a good day, it will be an interesting finish from what I hear.
"We can only focus on what we do, whatever happens, happens - it's going to be a fun week of county cricket.
"It's been pretty steady, let's see how day three and four goes. We can't look too far ahead, Yorkshire need to win as well."
Yorkshire coach Jason Gillespie said:
"I thought we bowled really well all day. It would be nice to take the chances when they come though.
"The disciplines were excellent - you just have to look at the run rate. We'll bowl worse than that and be rewarded better.
"At the end of the day you've got to take the chances when they come - three they should have taken.
"The lads work really hard at their fielding, but it's not ideal to shell them on a day like today.
"We can't worry about what happens at Somerset too much - we've got to concentrate on what we're doing here. We've got a new ball tomorrow, and it will do a little bit off the surface early.
"We feel we can create a few chances - but we've got to take them."
"French Londoners, France loves you," he told a rally, urging them to come home because their country needed their drive and expertise.
He cited the frequently aired claim that London was France's sixth-largest city, with an estimated 200,000 French residents. In fact it would rank about 30th.
But what drew Mr Macron to the UK was perhaps not so much the number as the type of French people living in its capital. Many are young, educated, upwardly and geographically mobile - exactly the constituency he has galvanised at home.
Opinion polls suggest he has a chance of reaching the second-round presidential run-off in May and could even win the presidency.
Queuing to hear him speak in Westminster on Tuesday was Elise Siouve, 25, a biotechnology postgraduate at Cambridge University, who felt Mr Macron "understands the need to adapt to social and economic changes".
Another Cambridge student, Benjamin Vendrand-Maillet, 24, has set up a unit of Macron supporters at the university. For him, the centrist's market-friendly policies would work "for all French people, whether rich or poor, young or old" and he was best placed to defeat the populist Front National.
The main challenge for French candidates campaigning abroad is that turnout is low among expats. In the UK, it is typically about 30%. Why bother to vote when you have decided to make another country your home?
But Mr Macron could benefit from the UK's vote to leave the EU, which he deeply regrets. French residents who may suddenly be unsure of their long-term status in the UK could find renewed interest in politics back home.
This is the case for Sylvie, a Macron fan who is studying for a doctorate in Oxford.
"I lost interest in France for four years because I found what was going on there dispiriting," she says. "Since Brexit I've realised that I might have to go back to France, so I'm much more involved now."
Restating the message he had delivered to UK Prime Minister Theresa May earlier in the day, Mr Macron promised the crowd of about 2,000 that he would attract talent back to France by freeing up the economy and encouraging risk-taking and enterprise.
He said he had been shocked when a French person he met on the Eurostar train to London had told him that he had gone to Britain to establish his start-up business because he had found it impossible to do so at home.
"What is at stake in this campaign," he said to loud applause, "is making sure that women and men who are willing to create jobs and wealth, who want to change their own lives and that of others, can never say 'I tried to do it in France but it's better to do it a two-hour Eurostar ride away'. I don't want to hear that ever again."
Mr Macron is hoping to buck an international trend towards anti-globalisation populism in a country where market reforms have never been popular.
The five-horse race for the French presidency remains wide open.
In recent weeks polls have consistently placed far-right leader Marine Le Pen ahead in the first round on 23 April. But they have also suggested she would lose the run-off two weeks later.
That suggests the top prize in this election could go to the initial runner-up.
Mr Macron surged ahead of his rivals in January but his support has wobbled over the past week, following an outcry over his comment that the colonisation of Algeria had been a "crime against humanity".
Mainstream conservative Francois Fillon appears to be staging a comeback after damaging allegations over payments to his wife. Two left-wing candidates are not far behind.
But what is clear is that the winning candidate will be the one most able to mobilise his constituency - hence the potential importance of the expat vote in this race.
"It is too close to call," says Benedicte Paviot, London correspondent for France 24 television. "French presidential candidates can't afford to ignore French nationals abroad."
Roberto Natto and Erika Reiser, both in their 60s, had been kidnapped and shot several miles from their ranch.
Government officials say they were killed by a left-wing guerrilla group, the Paraguayan People's Army.
Their bodies are due to be repatriated to Germany as an investigation into the killings continues.
The couple had been held along with four ranch workers on their farm outside Yby Yau, around 395km (245 miles) from Paraguay's capital, Asuncion.
The workers had escaped but both Germans were killed.
A government investigator said police had found the bodies after a shoot-out with fighters they allege belonged to the guerrilla group.
The investigators said the guerrillas had been demanding money and food from local ranchers to be given to the poor as compensation for alleged deforestation.
The Paraguayan People's Army (EPP) is estimated to number between 50 and 150 people.
It has been blamed for a series of killings in the last few years.
In May 2013 it was accused of killing Luis Lindstron, a former city mayor and owner of a logging operation.
Various political leaders have tried to eliminate the EPP.
In 2010, Fernando Lugo, who was president at the time, declared a state of emergency and sent 200 crack troops to find the rebels.
In 2011 the government tried again, this time sending about 3,000 troops and police.
Some arrests were made, but the group remained elusive.
Correspondents say the EPP appears to be changing its strategy, focussing less on kidnappings and more on attacking ranches and trying to extract payments from landowners.
Although little is known about them, the EPP appears to oppose industrialized agriculture, feeding off resentment in rural areas over the growth of large soybean farms, many of which are Brazilian-owned.
They also draw on, and sometimes coerce, support from poor farmers in areas where the public services are minimal.
Before his death from colon cancer at 69 in July, Ken Stabler requested his brain be donated to research into chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
The New York Times reports Stabler was found to have a "quite severe" case.
Stabler was the NFL's Most Valuable Player in 1974 and led the Oakland Raiders to the Super Bowl in 1977.
He threw for 194 career touchdowns and 27,938 yards over 15 seasons and was a four-time Pro Bowl selection.
Some 5,000 former players have sued the NFL, claiming it hid the dangers of repeated head trauma.
CTE is associated with symptoms such as memory loss, depression and progressive dementia.
The disease, which can only be diagnosed after death, has been found in the brains of dozens of former American football players.
The former players suing the NFL agreed to a settlement which is under appeal, but could cost the league $1bn (£685m),
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State officials announced on Friday they would be telling nearly 100 water rights holders to stop pumping from three separate waterways.
This is the first time in decades that officials have forced thousands of farmers to draw back water use.
These farmers' rights to water were decided more than 100 years ago.
Water rights holders in the Sacramento, San Joaquin and delta watersheds will have to stop getting water from those streams.
California has ordered water use cuts for other farmers in other cities across the state.
The move has been expected for weeks, the Los Angeles Times reports. It effects will be varied, with a lot of water harvesting work continuing on as usual.
The charges related to the violence that followed the 2010 presidential poll when her husband, Laurent, refused to accept defeat to Alassane Ouattara.
The majority of the judges dismissed the prosecution's argument that Simone Gbagbo, 67, headed a crisis cell and tried to buy weapons.
She is already serving a 20-year prison term for undermining state security.
Ivory Coast has refused to extradite her to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, where Laurent Gbagbo is on trial for crimes against humanity.
The ICC has issued a warrant for Simone Gbagbo on similar charges.
More than 3,000 people died in the violence after the 2010 presidential poll.
Laurent and Simone Gbagbo were arrested in 2011 after troops stormed a bunker where the pair had taken refuge in the main city, Abidjan.
Rosberg and Hamilton set the pace on one flying lap on Friday but in race trim Ferrari could have an advantage over the world champions.
Rosberg said: "We are very quick on one lap again and Ferrari are very dangerous on the long run.
"They have serious pace. It looks like they are a genuine threat."
Hamilton added: "Ferrari will be very close. From what I can see, they look good on the long runs."
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Rosberg pipped Hamilton by 0.115 seconds on outright lap times, with the Ferraris of Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen about half a second behind.
But when the teams did their 'race-simulation runs', on which they fill up the cars with fuel to see how the tyres might last in the race, Ferrari were quicker.
Vettel was on average 0.6secs a lap faster than Rosberg when they were both running the 'soft' tyre, which will be the main one used in the race.
Hamilton did not do a representative run on the soft and the exact fuel loads in the cars - which can make a significant difference to lap time - are not revealed by the teams.
Mercedes are haunted by their experience in Malaysia two races ago, when the Ferrari's more gentle tyre usage in the race helped Vettel to victory.
Hamilton said he felt Mercedes were not in the same position as they were there, saying: "It is not going to be as hardcore as Malaysia from what I can see."
Rosberg agreed, but said he was concerned about the Ferrari's outright speed in race trim.
"The pace of the Ferraris is very worrying," Rosberg said. "In qualifying we are much quicker but in the race they are quick.
"Tyre wise, it is pretty straightforward; both tyres are quite robust. It is just the absolute pace which is important."
Vettel, who finished third behind Hamilton and Rosberg in cooler conditions in China last weekend, said: "It looks pretty close but we know that Mercedes are turning up their engines for qualifying. They are still bit ahead. The closer we can get, the better it is."
Asked about his chances of winning, Vettel said: "It is always possible. Most important, we feel good inside the car and we have a good platform to work from. We will try to improve overnight and go from there.
"In the end, we need to be quick with whatever conditions we have. China was a lot cooler and I don't think we were slow. Also you need to understand that Mercedes has a strong package and it doesn't disappear.
"If we can be a bit closer this weekend, it is already a big step."
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Back in 2012, the former coalition government's controversial plan to put elected police and crime commissioners in charge of the nation's constabularies was sold with one simple idea: people power.
Chief constables were to come under the direct local control of powerful civilians elected by you and me.
But what a revolution it wasn't. The turnout in 2012 was so low that many of those elected to hire and fire chief constables hadn't even convinced 10% of the electorate to support them. The Essex PCC took office with the support of less than 5% of voters. Almost 200 miles away in the Bettws ward of Newport, nobody turned up at all to put their X on the ballot paper.
The elections had been scheduled for miserable grey November and didn't coincide with any local polls. With a lack of publicity through people's doors and few candidates on the stump, the public struggled to get it.
So what's changed four years on?
This time around the turnout vastly improved - but it has largely remained low, with some notable exceptions that I'll come to.
In 2012, the national turnout was 15%. It's now risen by more than 10 points and there is one really obvious reason why: the PCC vote was held on the same day as local elections to the Welsh Assembly and English councils.
Whether voters liked it or not, they were handed a ballot paper at the polling station and given a choice.
The turnout in 2012 in Essex was just over 12% - it's now more than doubled to 25%.
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The elections for Merseyside and West Midland Police - predominantly covering Liverpool and Birmingham - saw big rises in turnout, almost certainly a knock-on effect from the well-oiled party machines in both cities cranking into gear.
But the biggest turnouts were in Wales.
Ddfyed Powys is now official the most pro-PCC place in Britain. Were the voters queuing out of the doors in scenes reminiscent of the first free elections in post-apartheid South Africa?
Were they hooked on the idea of who was going to run the force? Gripped by the strategic procurement delivery challenges of modernising crime fighting technology?
No, but a whopping 49% of people voted. Constituencies in the region had some of the largest turnouts for the Welsh Assembly - and that probably proves that people will vote for PCCs if they are already going to the ballot box for another reason.
The scheduling of the poll with other elections has, however, brought about the most important change since 2012.
Supporters of the PCC concept, including their Conservative architect Lord Wasserman, had argued they were a huge opportunity for local people to choose locally talented independents - people with the right mixture of expertise and profile to deliver crime-fighting results and boost public confidence.
A total of 12 independents took power in 2012. Today? There are three.
"The Conservatives have picked up what they would argue would be theirs in the first place," says Bernard Rix of Policing Insight, which monitors policing governance. "We've seen a lot of Conservative gains at the expense of the independents."
Labour have had three significant successes at the expense of the Conservatives, taking Humberside, Cheshire and Leicestershire. An important win for the party was South Yorkshire where the incumbent Alan Billings was returned amid the rolling scandals of Hillsborough and street sexual abuse in Rotherham.
The big winners in Wales were Plaid Cymru, who took control of both Dyfed Powys and North Wales police.
Both PC candidates were given permission to describe themselves on the ballot paper in a way that not only spelled out their party affiliation, but also their policing links - "former intelligence analyst" and "former policing inspector" respectively.
Was this a deciding factor for voters in the dark? The defeated Conservative candidate for Cheshire, John Dwyer, is a retired assistant chief constable - but the ballot paper didn't describe him as such.
In total, the Conservatives now hold 20 PCCs. Labour has 15 plus the London mayor, who has responsibility for policing, and the transitional similar position for Greater Manchester.
With Plaid Cymru on two and three independents, this is a delicate balance of power across England and Wales which could lead to some interesting policing politics when the commissioners have to work together to get what they want out of the Home Office.
So do the public now love their PCCs?
The turnout seems to suggest otherwise and many candidates will argue that the big issue remains the lack of national publicity from central government and proper funding for local awareness.
But Mr Rix argues there is a bigger failure that the candidates and elected PCCs need to address - with many of the 2012 crop having been largely invisible for the past four years.
"They may well complain that government has done nothing to support them [with publicity], but the PCCs individually and collectively, are also to blame," he says.
"It's wrong to blame others when you could do more to help yourself."
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December was the wettest month ever recorded in Scotland, with heavy rain causing the River Dee to burst its banks.
In the village of Braemar in north east Scotland, a bridge which links it to other villages and towns, has just re-opened.
Martin has been to see how people there are coping after the floods.
The 26-year-old Belgium international has signed a three-year deal.
Pocognoli has won 12 caps but was not selected for the World Cup after missing the final six weeks of the season through injury.
West Brom head coach Alan Irvine said: "He's joined us with a real hunger to prove himself at Albion and get back into the international set-up."
Pocognoli won the Dutch title with AZ Alkmaar and has also played for Genk and Standard Liege in Belgium.
Irvine added: "Sebastien is an experienced left-back who has played at a high level for many years."
He becomes the club's fourth summer signing, after deals for Craig Gardner,Joleon Lescott and Chris Baird.
Britain initially qualified only one ride for the event in Pontal, Rio.
The 30-year-old Welshman's inclusion comes after several competitors from other nations suffered crashes in the road race on Saturday and withdrew.
"I'm looking forward to racing again on Wednesday," said Thomas, who also crashed but is fit to race.
"Whilst I'm thrilled to represent my country in a second event in Rio, the circumstances surrounding my inclusion are unfortunate and I'd like to wish all those who withdrew through injury a quick recovery.
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"I lost quite a lot of skin in my crash and my hip took a pretty big knock, but other than that my legs are feeling good."
Australia's Richie Porte and Vincenzo Nibali of Italy are among those to have withdrawn following crashes in the road race on Saturday, which left them both with fractures - Nibali a double collarbone break, and Porte a shoulder blade.
Dutch rider Annemiek van Vleuten also went to hospital with severe concussion and three small fractures in her lower back after crashing as she led the women's race on Sunday.
Britain's Froome is one of the favourites for Wednesday's time trial, which takes place on a 54.5km course that includes the Grumari climbs, which featured in Saturday's road race.
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Edward Loden, who commanded the unit involved in the Bloody Sunday shootings in Northern Ireland, was on holiday when he was shot on Saturday evening.
The attack happened after armed men forced their way into the compound in the Langata suburb.
A family statement described Col Loden as a "devoted family man" and said his death was a "brutal tragedy".
The BBC's East Africa correspondent Gabriel Gatehouse said he died on the way to hospital.
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A former colonel in the Parachute Regiment, Col Loden served on numerous operations around the world and was awarded the Military Cross for service in Aden in 1967.
In 1972, he was in command of a Parachute Regiment unit that fired more than 100 shots during a civil rights march in Londonderry.
Thirteen civilians were killed at the scene and a 14th victim died from his wounds five months later.
Col Loden was exonerated by the Saville Inquiry into the killings, which said that he did not realise his soldiers might be firing at people who did not pose a threat.
He retired from the Army in 1992, and after following a career in business management, retired to pursue his love of sailing in 1999, his family said.
The statement added: "Edward, married to Jill, father of Jamie and Will, was a devoted family man and proud grandfather of Oliver, Amelia, Joshua, Harry and Emily.
"Jill and her sons would like to say thank you to all the overwhelming messages of love and support from wider friends and family, and request that the family be given time to come to terms with this brutal tragedy."
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Col Parkinson, an ex-commander of a base in the area, and his wife were attacked after a gang of suspected robbers, armed with machetes and a gun, smashed their way into the house.
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David Caminal had to have his oesophagus removed after swallowing the drink at The New Conservatory in Leeds.
Leeds Magistrates Court heard the liquid served by a staff member looked like a pale ale but was in fact beer line cleaner.
Director Nick Bird admitted failing to protect the health and safety of customers and was sentenced earlier.
Prosecutors for Leeds City Council said Mr Caminal became ill after drinking at the Albion Place bar on 19 July 2014.
He suffered "exquisite pain" immediately after swallowing the liquid and was taken to hospital with severe internal injuries.
Mr Caminal, a TV producer from Spain, was placed in an induced coma and eventually had to have surgery to remove his gullet.
Peter Smith, mitigating, said Mr Bird, who owns TNC Cafe Bars and Music Ltd, was "devastated" by what happened.
The court heard Mr Caminal asked to taste a pale ale called "Sunbeam" and on swallowing it, began gasping and vomiting.
The bartender who served it did not know the line was being cleaned at the time, as the liquid which came out of the pump was a similar colour to the beer.
An investigation revealed a new member of staff had inadvertently turned the beer badge on the pump to face customers prior to the drink being served, not realising turning it the other way indicated it was unavailable.
Passing sentence, District Judge David Kitson said the line cleaning system at the bar was flawed.
"A system that relies on a beer badge not being inadvertently turned around the other way and staff being aware potentially exposes people to risk.
"This is not a case of saying, 'Oh well, if only we knew then what we know now', because the coming together of these events were, to an extent, waiting to happen."
The company and Mr Bird, 31, of Back York Street, Leeds, were also ordered to pay costs of almost £18,000.
Mr Smith said "serious lessons" had been learned from the incident.
Councillor Mark Dobson, executive member for environmental protection and community safety said: "What started out as a day off sightseeing in Leeds ended in tragedy for Mr Caminal.
"When taken on their own, the events that led to this incident seem minor but the knock-on effects had a catastrophic outcome."
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Evans, ranked 51 in the world, started off promisingly as he traded blows with the Frenchman before winning the opening set on a tie-break.
But Tsonga's heavy hitting and big serving took its toll as the 12th seed won the next three sets.
Tsonga will play 2014 champion Stan Wawrinka in the quarter-finals.
Evans, who reached his first ATP final this month and beat former US Open champion Marin Cilic and home favourite Bernard Tomic to reach the last 16, survived long enough to be the last remaining Briton in the men's singles after Andy Murray's shock defeat by Mischa Zverev.
"He was just a bit too strong for me," said Evans. "I played pretty well. I was pretty sore.
"He was so physical. To win the first set took too much out of me. There was a long game at the start of the second set where I got broke. It was uphill from there."
Evans had to fend off four break points in the first set, while having only one on the Tsonga serve, before threatening to repeat the shocks of earlier rounds by taking the tie-break.
However, Tsonga heeded the warning and quickly went 4-0 up in the second set as he began to dominate the Briton with his powerful and accurate hitting.
While Evans sporadically threatened the 2008 finalist, and managed 43 winners to Tsonga's 59, the Frenchman was always in control after the first set and won the match with a service game to love.
"Dan played good tennis and he had nothing to lose," said Tsonga.
"It was difficult for me because he was hitting the ball really early. After that the game was pretty difficult, then I went over him and finished strong.
"I've played pretty good since the start of the tournament. It will be a good challenge against Stan Wawrinka - he's playing unbelievably."
Birmingham-born Evans described his exploits at the Australian Open as the best and "most exciting" week of his tennis career.
He now plans to go home before joining up with the Great Britain team for their Davis Cup tie in Canada from 3-5 February.
"I need to maybe get a bit fitter," added Evans. "I think today I was flagging pretty much after the first set. I did feel that.
"My body was sore. Maybe that's something I can improve on a bit.
"But, you know, I've still come a long way from where I was last year."
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It was just an amazing run for Dan. He's played unbelievably well.
Getting two top 10 wins - beating Dominic Thiem and Marin Cilic in the space of a week - really tells him where he's at just now in terms of his level, never mind his ranking, what his level could be.
His schedule suddenly looks a lot different to this time last year when he was setting off to Asia for some Challenger matches and now he can get ready for all the Masters Series events.
So it's changed days and exciting times for him.
Lennon, who was taking charge of Hibs for the first time, was sent to the stand shortly after protesting against a disallowed Jason Cummings goal.
The 45-year-old will be banned for the Europa League second qualifying round second leg in Denmark next Thursday.
Speaking to BBC Scotland, Lennon said he felt the goal, which was ruled offside, was "perfectly legitimate".
Should Hibs overcome Brondby, they will face Germans Hertha Berlin in the third qualifying round.
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Brad Lyons put Coleraine 1-0 up early in the second half but James Singleton headed holders Glenavon level.
McLaughlin nodded in from Eoin Bradley's cross to clinch the victory.
Linfield sealed their place in the 6 May showpiece when Stephen Lowry scored in the 89th-minute to secure a 1-0 semi-final win over Dungannon Swifts.
Lowry had earlier failed to convert from the penalty sport when Andy Coleman saved after Dougie Wilson's trip on Jamie Mulgrew.
Just before the decisive goal, keeper Roy Carroll made a superb save for Linfield who lost to Glenavon in last year's final.
Lowry's goal was his 13th of the season and came when the match appeared to be heading for extra-time.
The former Coleraine player controlled the ball on the right side of the area with one touch and then slotted a low finish past keeper Coleman.
The first half had few chances, but the best one fell to Dungannon when Wilson headed off target from a Jarlath O'Rourke corner.
After the break, Linfield got a penalty for Wilson's mistimed tackle on Blues skipper Mulgrew, but Coleman did well to keep out Lowry's spot-kick.
Then Aaron Burns headed in for Linfield but it was disallowed for a push on David Armstrong.
Linfield's former Northern Ireland keeper Carroll reacted superbly to palm away a deflected Wilson shot and that proved crucial as Lowry popped up with the late winner.
It was another tight contest at a sunny Ballymena Showgrounds with Coleraine edging through courtesy of McLaughlin's late goal.
Chances were squandered by both sides in the first half before the Bannsiders made the breakthrough three minutes after the break.
Ciaron Harkin delivered an inswinging corner and Brad Lyons sneaked in to net from close range.
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The opener sparked a strong response from Glenavon and Greg Moorhouse headed over before a deserved equaliser arrived on 68 minutes.
Again it came from a corner, with the unmarked James Singleton directing his header into the Coleraine net from eight yards.
A frantic finale saw misses at both ends but substitute McLaughlin made no mistake as he headed home from Eoin Bradley's pinpoint cross.
Linfield manager David Healy: "I am absolutely delighted to be in the final.
"We were poor in last year's final and didn't turn up, but now the players have the opportunity to redeem themselves."
Coleraine manager Oran Kearney: "James McLaughlin is the man for the big occasion. I just had a feeling that, no matter what came our way, today was going to be our day.
"It is hard to find words - I'm euphoric.
"Our players have gone too long without the big day they deserve."
First, it shows that building houses is more profitable than building shops - at least in some parts of the UK.
And second, that controversial supermarket "land banking" (buying up swathes of land for potential retail development) has largely run its course.
It is likely that other supermarkets will follow suit, releasing land for housing and smaller retail developments.
Which could be good news for a government keen to see lots more houses built.
I asked Alan Stewart, Tesco's chief financial officer, how many houses could be built.
"It certainly will be thousands, I think it will depend on council by council, site by site exactly what the development turns out to be," he said.
Sources close to the business tell me that as many as 10,000 homes could be built on the sites Tesco has just sold, from Bath to London and the south-east of England.
"These sites were all bought because we intended to put a store [in] and then develop residential around them," Mr Stewart told the BBC.
"We wanted to ensure that we would work with the communities and the council in order to develop and build housing and the other projects as quickly as possible and in a way that is sympathetic to the community."
The 14 sites sold are just a small part of the 49 projects Tesco announced earlier in the year it was abandoning.
The others remain largely unsold and derelict, leading to criticisms from local MPs such as Pat McFadden, MP for Wolverhampton South East, who said the local community felt let down.
I asked Mr Stewart if he had sympathy with the critics.
"Of course, and I think it's in these sort of sites and these communities [that] it's very difficult.
"These were difficult decisions we made [to abandon the developments].
"They weren't made without a lot of contemplation, a lot of thought and we'll do everything we can to try to get the developments that were expected in these areas, developed as quickly as possible.
As quickly as possible, yes, but Mr Stewart knows that selling lucrative sites in the south-east of England is somewhat easier than more marginal sites across the north of England, for example.
As yet, there is still no timeline for selling the rest of the sites, which for the moment will remain padlocked and unused.
The report by the House of Bishops called for a "culture of welcome and support" for gay Christians.
But it maintained that marriage in church should only be between a man and a woman, and services should not be held to bless same-sex relationships.
The motion was defeated by the House of Clergy, following hours of debate.
The House of Bishops voted overwhelmingly (43-1) in favour of the report, and the House of Laity backed it by 106 votes to 83.
But to win approval the report had to win backing in all three houses and the Clergy rejected it by 100 votes to 93, with two abstentions.
Bishops will now have to produce a new report on the issue.
The decision was welcomed by LGBT rights campaigners, some of whom had staged a protest ahead of the debate.
Lucy Gorman, an activist and Synod member from York said: "Thank you Synod. With that vote we've sent a message to the outside world."
Concluding the debate, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who supported the report, called for a "radical new Christian inclusion".
He said: "There are no problems here, there are simply people."
He added: "The current report is not the end of the story. We will - as the bishops - think again and go on thinking. We will seek to do better.
"It was right that this needs to be about love joy and celebration of our humanity, of our belonging to Christ, all of us without exception, without exclusion."
By Martin Bashir, BBC religious affairs correspondent
There is no easy way to dress up what has been an embarrassing night for the senior leadership of the Church of England.
After three years of so-called shared conversations costing the church more than £300,000, General Synod has chosen not to take note of the Bishops report.
It was neither the Bishops nor ordinary members of the church (the laity) who chose to reject the report. It was the vicars, rectors and priests that decided they could not continue with the current prohibition on blessing or marrying same sex couples in church.
For lesbian and gay Christians, there is widespread rejoicing. But conservative evangelicals are dismayed, the vote confirming what they say is their worst fear that the authority Scripture is no longer the rule of faith and practice.
The Bishops had said that the report was not the "final word" but rather a stepping stone toward greater inclusiveness.
But General Synod's decision not to "take note" means that it can no longer play any part in future discussions. The slate is wiped clean; who gets to write the next chapter is at this stage unclear.
Opening the debate, the Bishop of Norwich, Graham James, said he regretted "any pain or anger" the report may have caused.
The Bishop of Willesden, the Right Reverend Pete Broadbent, apologised to members who felt alienated by the report.
"I do want to apologise to those members of Synod who found our report difficult, who didn't recognise themselves in it, who had expected more from us than we actually delivered, for the tone of the report," he said.
"On behalf of the House, and without being trite or trivial, I'm sorry."
Before the debate, protesters gathered outside the Church of England headquarters and champions of LGBT rights sang hymns.
The group, organised by the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement and Changing Attitude now known collectively as One Body One Faith, with the support of Out and Proud African LGBTI and rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, called for the rejection of the bishops' report.
Mr Tatchell said the Synod's vote was a "victory for love and equality".
The Reverend Bertrand Olivier, who's gay, told the BBC the Church needed to reflect modern society.
He said: "I was ordained as an openly gay candidate then and it's been going backwards ever since at the same time as the nation has moved on and we now have legal same-sex marriage."
But the Right Reverend Pete Broadbent had said campaigners may be asking too much.
He said: "Our role is to hold the Church together and say we can only go as far as the whole church can agree. Campaigners are actually wanting us to go further, more hurriedly, than we necessarily can."
The Synod earlier unanimously passed a motion urging the government to bring forward proposals to reduce the amount gamblers can stake on on fixed-odds betting terminals from £100 to £2.
The Bishop of St Albans, Alan Smith, said the debate concerned a "very focused form of betting which has caused huge suffering".
Elland Bridge, in West Yorkshire, had to be rebuilt at a cost of £5m after it partially collapsed during the 2015 Boxing Day floods.
It was reopened to walkers and cyclists on Tuesday. Vehicles are expected to have access later this month.
A temporary footbridge across the Calder and Hebble Navigation was installed while the work was completed.
Joanne Wood, who runs a nursery in Elland, was among the first people to cross the restored bridge.
"It's a fantastic day. We've been waiting for this for just over a year now," she said.
"This is a bridge that is used by so many people and we you do not realise how much you use it until it's not there."
Philip Morrison, 40, denies killing 24-year-old Derek Sheerin, in 1994 in Glasgow.
The High Court in Glasgow heard how he gave a police statement hours after Mr Sheerin's body was found near the Celtic Supporters' club on London Road.
In it he said Mr Sheerin was depressed and had talked of taking his own life and making it look like an accident.
Retired police inspector James Wallace, 51, told prosecutor Iain McSporran QC that he was approached by Mr Morrison hours after Mr Sheerin's half-naked body was found by three schoolgirls in September 1994.
Mr Morrison was then taken to London Road police station where he gave a voluntary witness statement.
He had said Mr Sheerin had been badly affected by the recent death of his uncle Pat and had talked about suicide for five or six minutes.
Mr Morrison said to officers: "He went on like that for five or six minutes.
"I told his mother and sister and they were concerned, but didn't think he would do it."
The court heard that Mr Sheerin and Mr Morrison were staying at Mr Sheerin's sister's house.
Mr Morrison had said: "Derek left the house at 6.30pm and said he was going to his mate's.
"When he left I saw him walking towards London Road. That's the last time I saw him."
It is alleged Mr Morrison compressed Mr Sheerin's neck with a belt and robbed him of a watch, tobacco and £20.
The trial before judge Lady Rae continues.
There has been warm praise for his decision to head straight from the airport to a meeting with Iran's Supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei.
And the encounter apparently went so well that Iran's veteran former foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati was moved to describe it as "the best and the most important in the whole history of the Islamic Republic".
Although few details have emerged of what was said between the two, the Iranian media has widely quoted a comment attributed to Mr Putin, assuring the Ayatollah that "Unlike some others, we never stab our allies in the back".
It is clear that for Tehran, getting Moscow on side for the campaign in Syria has been a big foreign policy coup.
It was also a huge relief after a difficult summer in which it was becoming increasingly clear that Iran and its allies Hezbollah and the Syrian army were struggling to support Bashar Assad on the ground.
With the death toll of Iranian revolutionary guards forces rising weekly, President Putin's decision to bring Russia into the conflict was clearly good news for Iran and has helped for now to stabilise the Syrian regime.
But not all Iranians are convinced an alliance with Russia is a good idea and President Putin's visit has prompted many to take to social media this week to remind their compatriots of some of the less successful moments of recent Iranian-Russian cooperation.
"That lousy nuclear plant you've been building for us in the last 20 years, was meant to be operational ten years ago, it's not even half finished," said one user, raising the thorny issue of the much-delayed Russian-built Bushehr nuclear plant.
You never even once voted against the Security Council Resolutions which have made our lives like hell in the last ten years," said another. "Name three good things that Russian has ever done to Iran"
Behind this scepticism is a difficult shared history between between Iran and Russia stretching back centuries.
For most Iranians, the Russians are the dangerous and unpredictable enemy in north: the people with whom they have fought big battles and suffered bitter defeat.
The Treaty of Turkmenchay in 1828, which set the borders between the Persian and Russian empires, and forced the Persians to concede large swathes of territory to Russia, is still a bye-word in the Persian language for a unfair settlement or contract.
Many question whether a marriage of convenience between two states with such a history of adversary can last, but for now it is clear that Russia and Iran's leaders see their new alliance as their best chance to maintain influence in Syria and in the region as a whole.
And it comes at a time when tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia show no sign of abating.
President Hassan Rouhani's pledge to reach out to Saudi Arabia and improve relations has so far failed to achieve results and neither has it attracted much popular support.
Increasing numbers of Iranians now see the Saudis as "the enemy" - the country that supports so-called Islamic State (IS) and is therefore a direct threat to Iran.
Agreement between Persia (modern day Iran) and the Russian Empire, which concluded the Russo-Persian War (1826-28).
Signed on 10 February 1828 in Torkamanchay, Iran.
Persia ceded to Russia control of several areas in the South Caucasus: the Erivan Khanate, the Nakhchivan Khanate, and the remainder of the Talysh Khanate.
The boundary between Russian and Persia was set at the Aras River.
These territories now make up parts of modern-day Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey.
Such is the animosity that many ordinary Iranians used to criticizing the Revolutionary Guards force as oppressors at home are now hailing them as heroes risking their lives to defend Iran and the Middle East from the extremism of IS.
Viewed from this perspective the Russians have come to the aid of Iran just at the right time to help it in its lonely fight against the extremists moving ever closer to its borders.
And the fact that Moscow's intervention has resulted in some military success on the ground in Syria, means the new alliance is paying dividends.
But many possible fault-lines could open up in Russia's relationship with Iran in the coming months.
One issue could be the future of President Assad.
Iran has made it clear that President Assad must stay on, and his future is non-negotiable.
In Tehran this week both Mr Putin and Ayatollah Khamenei reiterated support for Bashar Assad, but elsewhere Moscow has hinted there may at some stage be more room for manoeuvre.
President Putin came to Iran promising big plans for cooperation and investment in a wide range spheres from oil and gas to construction, power generation and railways.
Hopes are high but with both states now experiencing an economic downturn, how much of this becomes a reality remains a question.
And in Russia some analysts are already warning that in moving closer to Iran, and with it Hezbollah and the Syrian regime, Moscow must be careful not to alienate Sunni countries and risk losing influence in the wider Middle East.
There is a saying in Persian to describe hell: it is a place with scorpions so horrible and venomous that you would find no choice but to find shelter with serpents.
Beyond the smiles in Tehran this week it's a saying Iran and Russia might have cause to remember as their Syrian joint venture unfolds.
Repairs have also begun in Lee High Road, near Lewisham, the Met Police confirmed, although the road remains shut.
A major incident was declared by police when the main burst on Saturday night.
Some people were moved to a temporary shelter while many local residents were left without any water supply.
Thames Water apologised and said the repairs were "complicated".
London Fire Brigade (LFB) said it had assisted 40 tourists from the stranded coach which was carrying 90 people, while 40 local residents had to be evacuated from their homes.
A Lewisham Council spokesman said the tourists were later put on another coach to continue their journey without needing to stay the night.
The spokesman for LFB said six fire engines had been sent to the scene, where 50 shops and businesses had been affected.
Thames Water said the burst 60cm (24in) pipe had affected supplies for people living in large parts of south-east London, including those in SE3, SE10, SE12 and SE13.
The water company said it had "successfully re-routed the water", as the pipe could not be repaired before the coach was removed.
Foyeg Ahmed Kazi, who runs a restaurant in Lee High Road, said he had been told to remain closed until repairs had been made to the pipe, which he said had cost him a lot of money.
About 3,000 homes were at one point thought to be without a water supply and bottled water was being made available at a number drop-off points.
At about 18:00 GMT on Sunday, Thames Water tweeted it had "completed some works on the network" and those affected should see their supplies returning to normal.
Lee High Road remains closed, with police warning it will be shut "for some time".
The scheme will see Westminster and Holyrood give £500m each in additional grant funding to the city and its surrounding areas.
Glasgow and neighbouring councils will supplement this by borrowing £130m.
The cash will be used to pay for major transport and employment programmes. It is hoped the City Deal will boost the area's economy by £2.4bn annually.
It was announced last year that Glasgow would be the first city in Scotland to benefit from City Deal status - an agreement between the UK Treasury and a city region.
Similar deals are already in place in Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool.
The City Deal was signed on Wednesday by Glasgow City Council leader Gordon Matheson; Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander; Scottish Local Government Minister Derek Mackay; UK Minister for Universities, Science and Cities Greg Clark and and leaders of the other participating local authorities.
Councillor Matheson described the signing of the City Deal as "a momentous day".
"The benefit this funding will bring to our infrastructure, economy and labour market will be felt for decades through tens of thousands of new jobs and increased competitiveness," he said.
"I look forward to working with all of our partners to deliver this hugely important project in the years to come."
The UK government has already claimed the investment could create 28,000 new jobs over the next 20 years, and could eventually generate around £1.75bn of economic growth in Glasgow every year.
Mr Alexander said the deal would have a lasting impact on Glasgow and its surrounding area.
He said: "This is fantastic news for residents of the city and the Clyde Valley region, as it means those who know Glasgow best - the people who live and work here - can decide where this investment can benefit them and their families most."
Mr Mackay added: "As our largest city, Glasgow is central in driving economic growth.
"That is why the Scottish Government has agreed to invest £500m in a city deal for Glasgow and the Clyde Valley that delivers significant benefits for the region and Scotland as a whole."
Robin Maughan - who is best known for his Frankie Valli act - had sex with a 14-year-old boy and 15-year-old girl and exchanged indecent photos with other children online.
Leicestershire Police believe there could be more victims of the 34-year-old than they know about.
They have encouraged other victims to get in touch.
Det Con Rob Waddington, the investigating officer, said: "Officers are here to help and will take all reports seriously, no matter how long ago the offences took place.
"If you have been a victim, please come forward."
Maughan, of Western Avenue, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, admitted 21 offences at Leicester Crown Court.
The offences were:
Police initially started investigating when they received information about his online activity.
They checked his devices and discovered he had been talking to children online, sending sexual images of himself to them and encouraging them to send sexual images of themselves in return.
Police also discovered Maughan had been trading indecent images of children with adults online.
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and Russian leader Vladimir Putin hailed their co-operation as a "comprehensive strategic partnership".
The agreements include Russian investment in a hydroelectric plant and a nuclear power plant in Argentina.
There was also a memorandum of co-operation on defence.
Correspondents say the Kremlin is keen to boost trade relations with Latin America to offset the effects of sanctions imposed by Europe and the US over the Ukrainian crisis.
Argentina is looking for foreign investment as its battles US hedge funds thwarting its effort to restructure defaulted debt.
Among the framework agreements was a Russian pledge to finance a hydroelectric power plant on Argentina's Neuquen River.
Russia's Rosatom nuclear corporation also agreed to build a new reactor at Argentina's Atucha 3 nuclear power plant.
Rosatom chief Sergei Kiriyenko said he hoped the final deal would be signed by the end of the year.
Mr Putin said the project would bring "the latest Russian technology" to Argentina.
He also said the two countries had agreed to expand co-operation between their defence agencies.
He added that Russia "supports Argentina" in its attempts to have direct talks with the UK over the disputed Falkland Islands, known in Argentina as the Malvinas.
Another 180 people were injured and 53,000 displaced when the cyclone hit the country's north-east on Tuesday.
Officials revised the death toll and number of injured on Friday, having originally reported that just four people had lost their lives.
Enawo diminished in strength after making landfall, and has been downgraded to a tropical depression.
But not before the cyclone destroyed roads and cut off communications to the north-eastern Antalaha district.
It dumped 12 inches of rain across the region in 12 hours on Tuesday, with winds reaching up to 300km/h (185mph).
Speaking on Friday, Thierry Venty, executive secretary of the National Bureau of Risk and Disaster Management, said: "The damage is enormous wherever the cyclone has gone."
Bennett joined Glasgow from Clermont Auvergne in 2012 and made his international debut two years later.
The 24-year-old will follow Duncan Weir in moving east from the Warriors, the Scotland fly-half having joined Edinburgh last year.
Meanwhile, Glasgow have announced that forwards Josh Strauss and Gordon Reid will also leave this summer.
South Africa-born back-row Strauss and prop Reid joined Bennett in the Scotland squad for Sunday's 22-16 defeat by France, with Strauss starting.
"A key factor in my decision was that there's a young squad at Edinburgh, who are going in the right direction and I can feel like I can add to that," Bennett told Edinburgh's website.
"At 24 I think I could be one of the older boys in the Edinburgh backline, which would be a new experience for me, but one that I'm looking forward to next season.
Acting head coach Duncan Hodge added: "He's a phenomenal player.
"Having worked with Mark over a number of years, I know he is ambitious and motivated to develop his own game as well as providing leadership to those around him."
Reid turned professional with Glasgow and has made over 100 appearances for the club.
Strauss joined the Warriors from Super Rugby side Lions in 2012 and after three years residency qualified to play for Scotland in time for the 2015 World Cup.
"Although there is a lot of rugby still to be played this season, I'd like to acknowledge and thank Gordy, Josh and Mark's invaluable contributions since they joined the club," head coach Gregor Townsend told the Glasgow website.
"We look forward to them ending their time at the Warriors with the same commitment and skill they have shown already this season and wish them well in the next stages of their careers."
University and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas) statistics revealed 19,320 Welsh students have had their applications accepted as of 1 September - 14 days after A-level results.
Of those, 10,920 are due to study in Wales and 8,260 in England.
This is up from 17,790 who entered higher education at the same point in 2012.
According to Ucas, 140 Welsh students are set to attend university in Scotland while just 10 will study in Northern Ireland.
Figures also showed 1,310 Welsh students had won a place through clearing.
A breakdown across the UK shows a 15% rise in English students being accepted into higher education in the past four years along with a 19% increase in Scottish students and a 14% rise in Northern Irish students.
In total, 498,270 students across the UK have been accepted into universities so far.
There are still places available at universities across Wales via clearing - although Cardiff University said on its website that vacancies for 2016 have been filled.
Olivia Jones, of Universities Wales, said it was encouraging that the majority of Welsh students have chosen to study in Wales.
"With 92% of graduates from full time first degree courses in Wales employed or in further study six months after leaving - a higher percentage than the UK average - this is an attractive offer for prospective students," she said.
"Universities across Wales are committed to increasing opportunities for people from a diverse range of backgrounds to higher education and firmly believe that every person, regardless of circumstance, should have the opportunity to access a higher level learning experience that is appropriate, relevant and valuable."
The company ran a steam train to mark its first-ever excursion organised by Mr Cook.
It was 1841 when Mr Cook, a cabinet maker, arranged for a train to take 500 people at a shilling a head on the 12 miles from Leicester to Loughborough.
Ex-Baptist preacher Mr Cook wanted people to attend a temperance meeting, which promoted abstinence from alcohol.
Born in Melbourne, Derbyshire, he said he did not start the company to make money - yet the firm's annual report in 2015 stated that it had 20m customers, 21,813 staff and sales of £7.8bn.
Paul Smith, the company's archivist, said: "He wasn't in it for the money; it was very much this idea of moral and social improvement.
"Thomas's idea was to approach the Midland Counties Railway and say if they halved their price, he could guarantee twice as many people would travel.
"It was all about trying to negotiate with transport providers and later hotels to offer cheaper prices so that more people could experience travel."
Mr Smith said it was Thomas Cook's son John who was more "commercially minded" and later "internationalised" the company with offices in the US, Egypt and India.
He added: "[Thomas Cook would] be amazed and quite surprised his name is still around and adorns all of these shops, brochures and aeroplanes, and I'm sure he'd be very proud of his part in it."
To celebrate the milestone, Leicester railway station staff sold tickets to Loughborough for five pence (one shilling) to the first 175 passengers travelling after 10:00 BST on Tuesday.
Leicester's mayor Peter Soulsby also laid flowers at Thomas Cook's statue and launched a new walking trial for visitors to the city.
Source: Thomas Cook 175
Barclays and RBS were among the hardest hit, with their shares sliding nearly 30% at the start of trading before staging a partial recovery.
Meanwhile, Morgan Stanley could relocate up to 2,000 London-based investment banking staff, the BBC understands.
This could add to fears about potential job losses in the UK financial industry, which employs 2.2m people.
Shares in the FTSE 100's five big banks fell 21% on average as markets digested the results of the referendum, with Barclays suffering the biggest one-day fall in its share price. The price eventually recovered to stand 16% down in late afternoon trading.
Shares in Europe's other main banks fell heavily, with Germany's Deutsche Bank down more than 13% and France's Societe Generale more than 20% lower.
"The UK and European banking system has been hit particularly hard as there was already fears about their health, and now there are worries about the linkages between European and British banks," said Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets.
Senior banking figures sought to ease fears about the impact of the vote. But there is still uncertainty about whether banks will eventually move some jobs away from London and how the UK's withdrawal from the EU will affect staffing.
JP Morgan, which employs 16,000 people in the UK, said it would maintain a large presence in the UK despite the outcome of the referendum.
But the US bank told employees in a memo that it "may need to make changes to our European legal entity structure and the location of some roles."
Earlier this month, Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan's chief executive, said the bank could move up to 4,000 jobs after a Brexit, which he said would be "a terrible deal" for the UK economy.
Meanwhile, Douglas Flint, chairman of HSBC, said the lender's commitment to Britain was "undiminished."
"We are today entering a new era for Britain and British business," he said.
And Jes Staley, chief executive of Barclays, said: "We are a transatlantic consumer, corporate and investment bank, anchored in the UK and the US. That remains the core of our strength and the Barclays of the future."
But, concerns about the UK banking sector were fuelled by suggestions that Morgan Stanley was stepping up a process to relocate up to 2,000 staff to Dublin or Frankfurt.
Sources within the bank told the BBC that it had set up a taskforce looking into staff relocations.
Colm Kelleher, Morgan Stanley's president, told Bloomberg two days ago that Brexit would be "the most consequential thing that we've ever seen since the war".
In a statement on Friday, Morgan Stanley flatly denied reports that it has begun the process of relocation. The bank said: "The UK's vote to leave the European Union is a very significant decision which will have a considerable impact, the extent of which will not be known for some time. There will be at least a period of two years before an actual exit takes place, so there will be time to implement any changes required to adjust our business to the new environment."
The British Bankers Association said any effects of the referendum result on "passporting", which allows financial services firms to operate more easily between countries, "could take some time to resolve and any changes to banking would take place over a long period of time".
Anthony Browne, the BBA's chief executive, also said there would be no disruption to Britain's banking services despite the turmoil caused by the vote and that people would still be able to withdraw money from cash machines and exchange currency.
The City of London Corporation also said that a "mass exit" of banks and financial institutions from London was unlikely.
"The general view of the City is that the government should push for the UK to retain our access to the single market," said Mark Boleat, policy chairman for the corporation.
Grand slam winners, Paralympians and Wimbledon champions have gone head-to-head at a new tennis championship.
Thirteen of the world's best wheelchair players competed at the first Surbiton Wheelchair Tennis Tournament as a warm-up to Wimbledon.
It's the first time players have had a chance to try out their grass-court game in a tournament setting before heading to SW19, where three British players will be defending titles.
Wheelchair tennis is played on a regular size court with the same balls and rackets but the athletes use specialist wheelchairs and the ball can bounce twice each side of the net.
Double Paralympic bronze medallist Lucy Shuker took up the sport after she was paralysed from the waist down in a motorbike accident.
She has represented Great Britain at three Paralympics and won a bronze medal in the doubles at both London 2012 and Rio 2016, alongside Jordanne Whiley.
"When I first started everyone said I was too disabled to compete," says Shuker.
"I'm the most disabled girl on the tour and, as much as it's tough, I've managed to develop a chair and straps that help me with my body to compete, but it's challenging every day."
"It's made me stronger, it's made my body better so dealing every day with my disability is easier."
The top players travel the world to play the game with the four Grand Slams taking place in Melbourne, Paris, Wimbledon and New York.
Fresh from winning the men's singles at this year's French Open, Britain's Alfie Hewett has a title to defend after winning the men's doubles at Wimbledon last year with fellow Briton and world number one Gordon Reid.
Hewett started playing in 2005 and made his Paralympic debut in Rio. He came away with two silvers - in the doubles with Reid, and in the singles after Reid defeated him.
He says: "Playing on grass requires a different approach. We've not previously had the opportunity to play competitive matches on grass ahead of Wimbledon, so this tournament will form a crucial part of my preparations."
Reigning Australian Open champion, and world number two, Gustavo Fernandez beat Hewett on day one in a reverse match in Surbiton, soon after the Briton's triumph in Paris.
The Tennis Foundation, which organised the event, says it hopes the warm-up tournament will give the players the edge for Wimbledon, where the wheelchair events start on 13 July.
The Karachi Kings opener, 27, has been charged by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and has 14 days to respond.
Shahzaib has played in three one-day internationals and 10 T20s with Pakistan.
Former Pakistan opener Nasir Jamshed was arrested in February but was later released on bail.
Pace bowler Mohammad Irfan was provisionally suspended on 14 March, with the same action being taken against batsmen Sharjeel Khan and Khalid Latif a month earlier.
The vaccine will cover four flu strains, instead of the usual three, including two influenza B strains.
There were 90,000 cases of flu in Australia during their 2015 winter - 25,000 more than the previous year.
The UK's vaccine for adults protects against three strains, as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO).
It sets out which strains of the virus should be included in flu vaccines in advance of the season for the condition. which in the northern hemisphere happens each February.
During Australia's recent winter, most of the flu cases were thought to have been caused by circulating influenza B strains.
As a result, the new vaccine will include both the Brisbane and Phuket B strains of the flu virus.
Australian Health Minister Sussan Ley said the move to a "quadrivalent" vaccine would mean the best possible protection would be available free to the people who most needed it.
In the UK, the flu vaccine used last winter had an unusually low effectiveness of 34% against the main circulating strains.
A trivalent vaccine is being offered to vulnerable adults in the UK this winter to protect against three types of flu virus:
Each year, the viruses that are most likely to cause flu are identified in advance and vaccines, recommended for worldwide use by the WHO, are made to match them as closely as possible.
Children are given a nasal spray flu vaccine which protects against four strains of virus, including a strain that was active in 2008.
Youngsters are given extra protection because they are the main spreaders of flu so this helps to protect the general population.
Public Health England says that although it's not possible to fully predict the strains that will circulate in any winter season "flu vaccine remains the best protection we have against an unpredictable virus which can cause severe illness and deaths each year among at-risk groups".
The at-risk groups include:
Dr Richard Pebody, head of flu surveillance for Public Health England, said more than 3.3 million children across England would be offered the nasal spray flu vaccine this winter, based on a quadrivalent vaccine, which includes two influenza B strains.
"Influenza infection is more common in children than adults and as a result the childhood programme aims to control influenza better by both protecting the children themselves, but also by reducing transmission across the population," he said.
The proposals would raise $320 billion (£211 billion) over a decade, to fund benefits such as tax credits.
The speech is the centrepiece of the US political diary and may shape both Mr Obama's legacy and the 2016 election.
But the president faces resistance to his proposals, with Republicans controlling both Houses of Congress.
With the US economy growing, President Obama will stress that it is time for ordinary US families to feel the benefits.
According to US officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the plans include:
The revenues would raise more than enough to fund the proposed benefits for the middle class, according to the officials.
These include tripling child tax credits, help for families with two working spouses and extra incentives to save for retirement.
There's growing confidence in the White House about the strength of America's economic recovery - as President Obama told the UK Prime Minister David Cameron last week, "we must be doing something right".
But there's also an awareness that for many middle class Americans wages still feel stagnant.
A growing theme in US politics is the need to make sure the economic recovery extends to all and that there's social mobility for those with aspirations.
Of course, as well as the freedom afforded him by the improving economic picture, there's also the fact that the president isn't seeking re-election himself.
It means Mr Obama can help set the political weather for the 2016 election, even though he knows these new tax rises will provoke opposition in the new Republican Congress.
Still, there's a desire not to frighten the horses too much. The White House is stressing 99% of these increases will fall on the richest 1%.
The speech is also set to include a plan to expanding free community college education and proposals on cyber-security.
The State of the Union speech will be President Obama's first since the Republicans seized control of the two Houses of Congress at elections last November.
His proposals have already been dismissed by some in the party.
"Slapping American small businesses, savers, and investors with more tax hikes only negates the benefits of the tax policies that have been successful in helping to expand the economy, promote savings, and create jobs," Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin G Hatch said.
Administration officials hope to find some common ground with their opponents.
They also say the increase in capitals gains taxes, likely to be resisted by many Republicans, returns the rate to what it was under President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.
The New York Times said the decision to present the tax plan during Tuesday's speech marked the start of a debate over taxes and the economy that will shape both the president's legacy and the 2016 presidential campaign.
Michael O'Leary said air passenger duty (APD) was to blame for a reduction of flight routes.
"I think it's inevitable overtime that the Glasgow and Liverpool services will migrate to Aldergrove," he said.
The comments were made during an announcement of 11 new routes for Belfast International.
On Monday, details were released of a £7m Stormont rescue deal to support the struggling Londonderry airport.
The money will be used to attract new airlines and develop its infrastructure.
The funding package has been made available immediately while negotiations are ongoing with a company interested in using the airport as a maintenance hub.
Last week it was confirmed that Ryanair was to drop a number of services from the city.
The budget airline has guaranteed its services to Glasgow and Liverpool up until Summer 2017.
The Airports Commission proposed the West London airport be expanded instead of Gatwick to increase airport capacity in the south east of England.
But Mr Johnson said building a third runway at Heathrow meant "investing in decline".
Heathrow said the expansion would "keep Britain as a leading aviation hub".
Mr Johnson claimed figures "buried" in the commission's report, released in July, showed expanding Heathrow would offer six fewer long haul destinations a day and only four UK cities would have a connection to the hub by 2030, down from the current seven.
He also described the noise data published by the commission as "incomplete", making proper scrutiny "almost impossible".
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Mr Johnson, the Conservative MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, said: "The Airports Commission has spent several years in the production of a gigantic ball of wool that they are now attempting to pull over the eyes of the nation.
"Their report very clearly shows that a third runway will fail both London and the UK on every level.
"Our great nation is sleepwalking its way towards becoming a bit part player in the aviation world."
Heathrow was chosen by the commission because it was predicted it would add £147bn in economic growth and 70,000 jobs by 2050.
Sir Howard Davies's report said the new runway should come with severe restrictions to reduce the environmental and noise effects and the government should make a parliamentary pledge not to build a fourth runway.
The government will give its official response to the commission in the autumn and it is estimated that, if given the go-ahead, any new runway would take more than a decade to build.
The Mayor of London had previously proposed a new airport should be built in the Thames estuary, but the plan dubbed "Boris Island" was dismissed by the commission.
Fifteen kilograms of the drug were discovered in a haulage vehicle that had just arrived at Dublin Port from the UK.
It followed a joint operation between the Revenue Commissioners Customs Service and the police.
A 36-year-old man was arrested and has been charged with drug trafficking offences.
He remains in custody and will appear in a Dublin court on Monday morning.
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Eric Snowden, director of design for Adobe, showed off the device at Apple's launch event on Wednesday by editing a photo of a woman's face.
The demo was met by applause in the auditorium, but was criticised online.
"Apple could have Photoshopped anything... coloured in the stripes on a zebra," wrote Biz Carson for Business Insider.
"Apple just wasn't aware enough of the connotations - especially in the context and scrutiny surrounding tech and diversity - to sidestep the landmine."
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The book about a family who leave their house in search of a bear has been popular with children for more than 20 years!
Now it's getting made into an animation for a whole new generation to enjoy this Christmas.
Martin went along to check it out with a few of you guys to find out what you thought.
So will it be as enjoyable as the book, or will Michael Rosen have to "bear" some criticism from our reviewers?!
Pictures of We're Going on a Bear Hunt from Channel 4.
The film, tentatively titled The Newest Hottest Spike Lee Joint, is about "human beings who are addicted to blood. Funny, sexy and bloody".
More than 28 backers each paid $10,000 (£6,300) to sit next to Lee courtside at a New York Knicks basketball game.
Self-described "indie filmmaker" Lee said: "I put my own money in my films."
Writing on the site, he continued: "Indie filmmakers are always in search of financing because their work, their vision sometimes does not coincide with studio pictures.
"I self-financed Red Hook Summer. My fee for Malcolm X was put back into the budget. The truth is I've been doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter."
Lee pointed to the recent successes on Kickstarter, such as Scrubs actor Zach Braff raising more than $3m (£1.9m) to direct his next film, and fans of the cancelled TV show Veronica Mars who raised more than $5m (£3.1m) for a film based on the series.
Lee acknowledged critics who have questioned the ethics of successful directors asking fans for money and raising the potential for hurting young filmmakers who struggle to find funding outside of the Hollywood system.
He defended his campaign by saying: "This is another fallacy. The fact of the matter is I'm bringing exposure to Kickstarter, backers to Kickstarter who have never even heard of Kickstarter before."
Lee also defended his decision not to disclose much about the project. He said: "It's a thriller. In order for a film of this type to work the less details the better. For this film to work with the audience, they can't know a whole lot before they sit down in a theatre to see it.
"What I can tell you is this. I have never made a film like this and it excites me very much. I'm doing a semi-genre film about addiction. These people are addicted to blood. However, they are not vampires. It's going to be sexy, humorous and bloody. To me that's a unique combination."
Lee's latest film, a remake of the Korean film Oldboy, starring Josh Brolin, is due to be released in the UK in December.
A tunnel under Stonehenge on the A303 and 1,300 new miles of extra lanes will be added to motorways and A roads as part of a £15bn plan.
Pretty or polluted, congested or clear, these asphalt arteries are a part of our landscape and a vital part of our life.
We'd be lost without roads.
There are 245,700 miles of road in Britain.
That's almost 10 times the circumference of the Earth, which is a surprisingly small 24,859.82 miles.
Or, in road trip terms, you could drive 79 times across North America, using US route 50, driving from Ocean City, Maryland on the Atlantic Ocean to West Sacramento, California.
Since 1993, when the UK Statistics Authority first began estimating road length in this way, road length in Britain has increased by 6,600 miles or 2.7%.
That means The Proclaimers would have to walk their initial 500 mile pledge just over 13 times, or if they were to make good their second pledge to "walk 500 more" they could walk the new roads 6.6 times over.
Or, if they decided to split the route because they are twins, they would walk their promise 3.3 times each.
They'd have to navigate 18,994 roundabouts but there would be 112 motorway service stations to stop at, according to figures from Ordnance Survey (we don't advise walking on the motorway).
The only traffic cones owned by the Highways Agency are those used by the Traffic Officer Service (a lot of the cones you see on the roads belong to private contractors).
According to the latest data from the Highways Agency has around 4,500 traffic cones at a cost of £53,000. A cone therefore costs around £12 each.
The Agency has had to buy 755 replacement cones so far this year.
Traffic cones seem to be orange beacons of joy for the light-fingered.
Every year police forces and local councils around the country issue traffic cone amnesties where people can return cones they may have stolen but no longer have any use for.
Devon County Council was forced to have an amnesty in August last year after 180 cones went missing at Sidmouth Folk Week. That's about a quarter of all the cones they put out for the event.
The Duke of Wellington statue in Glasgow is perhaps one of the most famous cone-wearers.
His Grace is believed to have sported his orange urban headwear since the 1980s.
However, the practice is discouraged by Glasgow City Council and police as it is both dangerous and the statue is a listed monument.
Plans to end the tradition by raising the plinth, which stands outside the Gallery of Modern Art, were abandoned after a social media backlash.
The Duke, complete with cone, is ranked at number 45 out of 127 attractions in Glasgow, according to TripAdvisor.
Motorway enthusiast website Pathetic Motorways lists a number of motorways they consider secretive, unmapped or suffering from an identity crisis.
One of those listed is the M96, a four-lane motorway in Moreton-in-Marsh which you've probably never travelled on.
It's only a mile long and it's not open to the public. It's used by the Fire Service College to simulate large-scale traffic collisions and spillages.
Emergency services, helicopter personnel and medical staff can train there.
Several incidents can be simulated at the same time without causing traffic or having to shut functioning roads to allow training.
The BBC used this secret motorway in 2003 to film disaster mockumentary The Day Britain Stopped.
It dramatised a rail strike, traffic congestion and a mid-air plane collision.
For the purposes of the programme, the motorway was temporarily rebranded the M91. The M91 does not exist.
You might not have clocked it, but every sign has its own colour.
Blue is the colour of motorway signs which are mostly rectangular. Primary, or often used, routes are given a green background.
Local routes are written on white signs with a black border.
The brown signs are used for tourist attractions or facilities.
You can apply for a brown sign if you feel your site is worthy of tourist attraction status, but you'll have to pay for the sign yourself.
A single sign may cost £8,000 to £20,000 to design and install on a single or dual carriageway (larger signs cost more).
A motorway sign can cost from £17,000 to £40,000.
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Claire Lomas was told she would never walk again when she damaged her spinal cord in a riding accident in 2007.
But now Ms Lomas, from Leicestershire, has taken 30 steps using the £43,000 ReWalk unit at a rehabilitation centre in Ottringham, East Yorkshire.
The mother, who is the first person in the UK to use ReWalk, says she wants to complete the London Marathon in April.
The centre is run by Cyclone Technologies, whose managing director Dave Hawkins described the ReWalk technology as similar to that seen in the film Robocop.
He said: "It's an externally fastened on system with motors that assists with the hip and the knee joints to give a walking gait pattern, so you can actually walk in a normal manner."
Users wear a backpack device and braces on their legs. Leaning forwards activates sensors setting the robotic legs in motion.
The exoskeleton system was developed by an Israeli company, set-up by an engineer who was paralysed after breaking his neck.
Ms Lomas, of Melton Mowbray, said she had been lobbying the company to be given the opportunity.
"I heard about it about two years ago, before I got married, " she said.
"I wanted it to walk up the aisle, but it wasn't going to happen that soon."
She said her one-year-old daughter, Maisie, was helping to keep her motivated.
"We're having a bit of a competition to see who can walk first," she said.
"We're about level at the moment, but young brains learn quicker, so I'm not sure whether she is going to overtake me soon."
She estimated it would take her between one to two weeks to complete the 26-mile (41km) London Marathon, raising money for the charity Spinal Research.
Ms Lomas said using the system was not just about regaining the ability to walk.
"Emotionally, to be stood up. How you feel when you are out and stuff, just to be at the same height as everyone else."
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Dr Edward Walker, giving evidence at the new inquests, reported to Sheffield's Northern General Hospital after seeing the disaster unfold on TV.
He told the hearing the volume of patients meant they were not able to consider the identity of each person.
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Dr Walker, at the time a junior anaesthetist based at a Rotherham hospital, told the jury he got to the Sheffield hospital at 15:20 BST and treated "nine or 10" casualties that afternoon.
The eighth was a boy aged around 15.
Dr Walker said medics were already trying to resuscitate him when he first saw him. He sedated the boy so that he could insert a tube to help him breathe.
Referring to a statement he made in 1989, Dr Walker said "it appears that I transferred him to the intensive care unit, so he was presumably relatively stable at that stage".
He confirmed the boy would have had a heartbeat but would not have been breathing on his own.
The jury heard police officers said "one possible candidate" for Dr Walker's eighth casualty was 14-year-old Adam Spearritt.
Judy Khan QC, a barrister representing bereaved families, said the jury "will hear evidence that [in the case of] Adam Spearritt - that it was possible to establish a pulse and he was transferred [to intensive care], although tragically he subsequently died".
She then asked: "So does that confirm, in a sense, your description of what you did with that casualty and where he ended up? Does that fit in?"
Dr Walker replied: "I don't know about the word 'confirm'. Yes, it bears a strong resemblance to what I did.
"There is nothing that would suggest that it is not Adam Spearritt."
Christina Lambert QC, for the coroner, asked: "At the time when you were providing care, you wouldn't have been troubling yourself at that stage to find out the name or identity of the person to whom you were providing treatment?"
Dr Walker replied: "No. There was no time to even consider that and there was no paperwork on which to make any notes anyway."
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The jury also heard about the treatment given to the youngest victim of the disaster, 10-year-old Jon-Paul Gilhooley.
A retired police constable told the hearing an ambulance officer trying to save his life was "obviously distressed" and in tears.
Mark Llewellyn said he went over to the ambulance and offered to help Jane Moffatt, as she gave Jon-Paul CPR.
Mr Llewellyn said: "The ambulance woman was obviously distressed and trying to work on the young lad, so I offered assistance.
"She was obviously crying. She asked me to try and continue working on him."
The officer travelled in the ambulance as it took Jon-Paul and another critically ill patient to the Northern General.
He said the boy was "unresponsive" and "unconscious". Mr Llewellyn added: "It was obvious that the young lad was not breathing."
The court heard how Jon-Paul's death was confirmed by a doctor at around 15:50 BST.
His father, Ronald, was told at 23:10 BST that his son was "feared to be one of those who died in the crush".
Mr Gilhooley then travelled to Sheffield and, at 03:30 BST on April 16, identified his son's body in the city's Medico-Legal Centre.
The inquests will resume on Monday.
The rebels, including tribal militants and former army personnel organised in military councils throughout the Sunni areas, see American and international guarantees as crucial to any such deal.
"We don't want guns from the Americans, we want a real political solution, which the US should impose on those people it installed in the Green Zone," said Abu Muhammad al-Zubaai, referring to the Iraqi political leaders who took over after the US-led occupation in 2003.
"The IS problem would end. If they guarantee us this solution, we'll guarantee to get rid of IS," said Mr al-Zubaai, a tribal leader from Anbar province speaking on behalf of the rebels, using a nom de guerre.
The tribal and military rebels, who had been fighting government forces since January, played a role in the spectacular advances scored after IS - in its previous guise as Isis - erupted into Iraq from Syria in June and captured the second city, Mosul, among other mainly Sunni areas.
But since then, the Sunni groups have been suppressed, with IS ordering them to join its own ranks or disarm.
"Living with IS is like holding burning coals in your hand," said Mr al-Zubaai. "They do not tolerate any other flag to be raised. They control all Sunni areas now."
He said tribal militants from the military councils clashed with IS at Garma, near Falluja recently, killing 16 of the Islamic radicals.
"We had to choose between a comprehensive confrontation with IS, or ceding control of that area and keeping a low profile," he said.
"We decided to stand down, because we are not ready to fight IS in the current circumstances - who would we be fighting for?"
Events of the past three weeks have heightened the dilemma of the Sunni rebels.
The lightning IS strikes on Iraqi Kurdistan have drawn the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters into the fray in many areas, imposing economic blockades on Sunni townships because of the IS presence there.
With the Americans and other powers becoming involved, the rebels fear they will simply be tarred as IS terrorists and the Sunni areas reduced to rubble.
"The Sunnis feel that everybody is ganging up on them, that they are targeted by everybody," said Mr al-Zubaai.
"The worst thing is to realise that you have nothing to lose any more. The situation is very bad and getting worse. It's enough to make you blow yourself up. This is where the political process has taken us.
"Our biggest concern now is a political solution. A security solution will achieve nothing. The bombing has to stop."
Under Nouri Maliki, who remains as commander-in-chief of the armed forces in a caretaker capacity until the new government is formed, towns like Falluja and many other Sunni areas have been bombed daily, with heavy casualties among civilians.
Caught between two fires, the position of the Sunni rebels has changed sharply since the IS operation began in June.
In the early phases, they hoped a joint effort would carry the Sunni insurgency into the heart of Baghdad, ousting Prime Minister Maliki and overturning the current constitution and political order.
At that stage, they said, they would have turned on the IS militants and driven them out, as they did with al-Qaeda in Iraq in 2007.
But they feel bitterly deceived by that earlier process, and betrayed by Mr Maliki, who failed to carry out commitments given to the Sunnis and gradually drove them into a position of outright revolt after the bloody suppression of peaceful protest demonstrations from 2012.
That is why they are seeking international guarantees for a new power-sharing deal. They do not trust the Shia, and fear that under Mr Maliki's nominated successor Haidar al-Abadi, who comes from the same party, things may not change.
"Appointing someone from the same Dawa party to succeed Maliki is like appointing a Baathist to replace Saddam Hussein," said Mr al-Zubaai.
The tribal and military rebels are proposing a national reconciliation conference under international auspices, with all factions invited except for IS and also the Shia militias, which they regard as equally bad as, or worse than, IS.
A similar high-level "national accord" conference was held in Cairo in 2005, but the outcome was never followed up.
They dismiss as unrepresentative the Sunni politicians who are currently involved in intense negotiations in Baghdad over the formation of a new government under Mr al-Abadi, who has until 10 September to present his cabinet.
"These people have been involved in the political process since 2003, and they achieved nothing," said Mr al-Zubaai.
But as well as pressing for a good allocation of portfolios in the cabinet, the Sunni leaders in Baghdad have been demanding changes to the way power is shared.
If they help hammer out a deal that many Sunnis regard as fair, the rebels may find themselves with no choice but to sign up, or risk finding themselves politically isolated and physically under threat from both IS and a US-backed coalition on the ground.
But the Sunni rebels, who say they can mobilise 90% of the tribes, believe that only they can tackle IS, with outside help.
The Iraqi army has shown little capability or cohesion in the field, and to defend Baghdad, Mr Maliki had to rely heavily on mobilising Shia militias and volunteers.
If such forces are thrown into battle against IS-held Sunni areas with US air support under a new al-Abadi government, the Americans might find themselves doing what they have been trying to avoid - backing one side in a sectarian civil war involving horrendous carnage and destruction.
But if the tribal and military rebels were on board, it would, by their own account at least, be an entirely different affair.
They say they have written to the Americans, but received no substantive response.
Mr al-Zubaai warned against allowing the situation to drift.
"If things stay the same, a new generation will emerge, beyond the control of the US or Iran or Syria - hundreds of thousands of young men will join up with IS," he said.
"This is a danger the West should be aware of - they have millions of [Muslim] youths, free to embrace the ideology of IS, to wave its flag in the streets."
The home side had reached 74-1 in their second innings, a lead of 252, when bad weather arrived at 14:45 BST to wipe out the rest of the day.
Under-pressure opener Keaton Jennings was reprieved twice to reach 34 not out.
South Africa were earlier bowled out for 175, with Toby Roland-Jones completing a five-wicket haul on debut.
The Middlesex man, who took four wickets on day two, is the first England pace bowler to take five in an innings on his Test debut since Graham Onions in 2009.
His efforts have helped the hosts take a firm grip on the match, leaving them in a good position to take a 2-1 lead in the four-match series.
The weather forecast is much better for days four and five, with England captain Joe Root perhaps set for a decision on when to declare on Sunday.
Durham's Jennings made a century on his Test debut in India, but has since registered three ducks in eight innings.
With time perhaps running out for the left-hander to secure a place in the England side he came through two scares - first when he was dropped at third slip by Dean Elgar off Vernon Philander and again when he was given out lbw to Kagiso Rabada, only to overturn the decision on review.
In between, he emerged from uncertainty to play some handsome square cuts and has the opportunity to make a telling contribution on the fourth day.
At the other end, Alastair Cook had only seven when he was removed by Morne Morkel, who once again bowled beautifully.
From round the wicket, Morkel angled the ball in to the left-hander, only for it to straighten and hit the top of off stump.
Cook's replacement, Tom Westley, again looked at home on his Test debut, driving with authority in his unbeaten 28.
With South Africa eight down on the second evening, England had the chance to conclude their innings because Philander was in hospital with a stomach complaint.
They were denied by Temba Bavuma and Morkel, who, from 126-8, extended their stand to 47 in the best batting conditions of the third day.
The diminutive Bavuma showed touches of class through the off side in his 52, with Morkel occasionally muscling the ball to the leg side.
After Roland-Jones and Stuart Broad initially shared the ball, it needed James Anderson to make the breakthrough, having Morkel caught at first slip for this third wicket.
It was previously thought that Philander, who had been on a drip, would play no part on Saturday. However, he arrived at number 11 to add 14 more runs with Bavuma.
Roland-Jones was not as accurate as his second-day burst, but did get Bavuma to edge behind and once again led England from the field.
Former England captain Alec Stewart: "Just looking at the forecast for tomorrow and Monday, there's a fair bit of sun about and therefore it will be a good place to bat.
"The timing of England's declaration is going to be crucial because - famous last words - you're not going to roll them over in 40 overs, or at least you shouldn't do if the sun is out.
"I'd bat proactively on Sunday morning, and then an hour or 50 minutes after lunch play white-ball cricket: smash it around the place and then see if we can bowl South Africa out.
"You'd want a few more than 400 if you can, but 400 is the minimum. If it's going to be cloudy, 350 should be plenty - but the forecast is saying it won't be.
"If you go with too small a total and there's a bit of a partnership, you lose the catching men and therefore the ability to take wickets disappears."
England's James Anderson, speaking to BBC Sport: "Hopefully the next couple of days are dry and we can concentrate on batting for a while.
"We might need a day and a session to bowl them out, so batting until tea on Sunday would be the ideal scenario.
"We will play it by ear a little bit tomorrow. We will have to play properly for a while then hopefully speed up towards the end."
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Thomas, 29, was crowned champion after finishing fifth in the final stage.
The Team Sky rider can now look ahead to the season's classics, having beaten former Tour de France champion Alberto Contador and three-time World Time Trial winner Tony Martin.
"It's definitely a great confidence boost," he told BBC Wales Sport.
"Coming here as the sole leader of the team as opposed to last year, when I was part of a two-pronged attack with Richie Porte.
"I took on that extra responsibility and it was a super-strong field as well with Contador and [Fabio] Aru, who both won grand tours last year.
"So to come away with a win and take some big scalps along the way is really special."
The prestigious week-long Paris-Nice and one-day Milan-San Remo races await in March, while April's schedule includes classics such as the Tour of Flanders and Liege-Bastogne-Liege.
"I've got two weeks training now and a big block of racing, some really big races," Thomas added.
"I'm sure a lot of those big names are going to step up again, so it's going to be tough, but hopefully I can take something out of the next few months."
Thomas could be among the favourites for some of the classic one-day races, having impressed in several last year.
The two-time Olympic team pursuit gold medallist also caught the eye with a strong display at the 2015 Tour de France.
Thomas' rise has seen him tipped as a future grand tour leader by Team Sky boss Sir Dave Brailsford, and he is relishing the added expectation.
"I guess with the profile in the peloton and with wins like this, you're watched a bit more," said Thomas.
"But I really enjoy it and enjoy that responsibility. It's a different mindset.
"Over the last two to three years, I've slowly taken more and more responsibility in races and fortunately the success has followed that."
However, the bill would reduce the budget deficit, the non-partisan Congressional Budgetary Office said.
Similar legislation passed by the House was also said to leave millions uninsured. Some Republicans have voiced reservations about the plan.
But the White House disputed the CBO's figures.
Responding to Monday's report, it said: "The CBO has consistently proven it cannot accurately predict how healthcare legislation will impact insurance coverage."
The report is a review of draft legislation unveiled by the Republican party last week.
It is unlikely to be approved by Democrats, who see the proposals as cruel and unfair.
The CBO said that 15 million more people would be uninsured by 2018 under the proposed legislation than under current law, largely because the penalty for not having insurance would be eliminated.
Donald Trump called the House healthcare bill that resulted in 23 million additional uninsured by 2026 "mean". How might he describe a Senate version that only reduces those numbers to 22 million?
Less affluent Americans currently on government-managed Medicaid insurance, many of whom supported the president, will see a 26% reduction in their programmes funding over the next decade, resulting in fewer covered and skimpier benefits.
That is a tough pill for moderate Republicans, who will be under enormous pressure from their constituents to vote against the bill.
There is some good news in the CBO report, of course. Thanks to the cuts, the Senate measure would reduce the budget deficit by a total of $321bn (£252bn) in 2017-2026 - even with Obama-era tax cuts rolled back. The personal health insurance marketplace is estimated to remain largely stable, and premiums will go down (after a spike next year).
The bottom line, however, is that the CBO report is a blow to the Senate bill's chances of success. House Republicans weathered a similar beating and rallied to pass their version, so it is much too early to write a political epitaph. That assumes, of course, that their efforts are not undermined by the man in the Oval Office.
President Donald Trump's Republican party is struggling to secure the 50 votes it needs to get its bill through the Senate when it comes to the floor.
On Thursday, Republicans Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson, Mike Lee and Rand Paul said they were "not ready to vote for this bill", but were "open to negotiation".
Their concerns about the measure include its rollback of the expansion of Medicaid, the public health program for the poor and disabled.
Mr Johnson said on Sunday there was "no way" there should be a vote on the legislation this week.
The Senate bill would slash taxes for the wealthy offering less help for working families to buy medical insurance.
Top Democrat Nancy Pelosi earlier warned that "hundreds of thousands" of Americans would die if congressional Republicans pass their healthcare legislation.
Republicans have rejected the notion that anyone will die as a result of their healthcare plan.
More than 5,000 trains were delayed by 30 minutes to two hours between July and September, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) data showed.
Govia Thameslink Railway had on average nine severely delayed trains per day while Great Western Railway had seven.
Operators said a busier network meant incidents had a greater knock-on effect on other services.
But the Campaign for Better Transport said the companies should make more effort to ensure passengers received compensation for significantly delayed trains.
According to analysis by the Press Association, the Caledonian Sleeper - which runs overnight trains between London and Scotland - was the operator with the highest percentage of its services suffering severe disruption with 3.7% or one in 27 trains.
Passengers using Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) - which is responsible for Thameslink, Southern and Gatwick Express services - suffered from the largest year-on-year rise in the number of significantly late trains up 73% to 816 over the three-month period.
*The figures do not include trains that were at least two hours late.
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James MacColl of the Campaign for Better Transport said: "Late-running trains can be very frustrating, but far too few passengers understand when they're due compensation or how they should go about claiming it."
Since July, passengers have also been able to claim compensation in cash, rather than receiving vouchers against future travel.
But campaign groups wants customers to be told - for example, by a public announcement on the train - that they are entitled to get some money back and compensation forms to be handed out.
Just over half the country's train operators offer compensation after a 30-minute delay, under what is known as the Delay Repay scheme.
A spokesman for the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators and Network Rail, described timetables as a "promise to passengers" and insisted "we never want people to suffer delays or disruption".
He added: "Train operators and Network Rail are working hard together every day to deliver a better, more punctual railway and to give people better information when things do go wrong."
Baird, 24, never recovered from a slow start in his match against world number eight Stuart Bingham and lost 10-2.
The world number 83, who had to win four qualifying rounds just to reach the World Championship, said: "I'd like to come back and have another go.
"It was tough to get here and hopefully I can get back. It's a great place to play," he told BBC Sport.
Baird, from Devon, admitted he did not do himself justice in the first-round tie and was unable to replicate the sensational form that saw him reach the home of snooker.
His four victories in qualifying included a stunning 10-3 success over former world semi-finalist Joe Perry in the final round.
"I felt alright so I was disappointed I couldn't turn that into a bit of a better performance," he said.
"There were nerves but not as many as I thought.
"I must admit I would like another go. I would like that match again if you offered me it.
"It's not like any other place to play. The atmosphere is a lot better and much different. People are very close and there is not much room around the table."
Baird was 8-1 behind after the first session and said that left him with very little chance of salvaging anything.
"I just wanted to try to enjoy it and hopefully get a few frames on the board and then you never know," he said about the second session.
"But I lost the first one and then it was uphill from there and I was just trying to prolong it as much as possible.
"He started to miss a few after I won my first frame (on Wednesday) and I could have nicked at least one of the last two frames.
"Trailing 7-2 is a lot better than 8-1 but at the time I was just so glad I had the frame on the board because I was fearing 10-0. It was a little ray of light."
Jackie Baker, 59 of Morriston, was diagnosed with the degenerative condition last February.
Her daughters Tara O'Reilly and Rose Baker had started a fundraiser to send their mother to the assisted dying facility.
Ms O'Reilly has confirmed her mother travelled to Switzerland last week.
A spokesman for South Wales Police said the force was aware of Ms Baker's "tragic" death.
Back in July, Ms O'Reilly told BBC Wales that the family had thought long and hard about their mother's wishes.
Ms O'Reilly said: "My mother spoke to me and my sister about it and she said if it gets worse, which it has, she wanted to go to Switzerland.
"We were distraught, because it's unthinkable.
"But as the months have gone, and we've seen how much she has deteriorated, unable to feed herself, dress herself.
"It's cruel. You wouldn't let your cat or dog suffer, you'd take them to the vets. It's kind.
"This is not kind. Having to wipe your mother's mouth, feed her and give her drinks through a straw."
Ms O'Reilly was later forced to cancel a fundraising event after she said police warned her that she could face prosecution.
On-loan Barnsley striker Stefan Payne's first goal for Shrewsbury was enough to earn Paul Hurst's side a first win since 28 February.
Payne struck in the 16th minute when he broke into the box and clinically fired a low shot past advancing goalkeeper Conrad Logan.
Midfielder Bryn Morris twice went close for the hosts either side of the goal, driving wide from 20 yards and then hammering a powerful shot from just inside the penalty area narrowly over the bar.
Rochdale carried little first-half threat, with a free-kick from Nathaniel Mendez-Laing which cleared the bar, their only notable effort.
Shaun Whalley lifted a free-kick over for the hosts in the second half while Junior Brown and substitute Stephen Humphrys both flashed efforts just off target.
Rochdale's Keith Keane drilled a 20-yard shot wide for the visitors as Shrewsbury boosted their battle to beat the drop.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Shrewsbury Town 1, Rochdale 0.
Second Half ends, Shrewsbury Town 1, Rochdale 0.
Attempt missed. Stephen Humphrys (Shrewsbury Town) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is high and wide to the left.
Substitution, Shrewsbury Town. Ryan Yates replaces Bryn Morris.
Corner, Rochdale. Conceded by Mat Sadler.
Foul by Ian Henderson (Rochdale).
Jack Grimmer (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Shrewsbury Town. Freddie Ladapo replaces Shaun Whalley.
Attempt missed. Junior Brown (Shrewsbury Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right.
Steve Davies (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Aristote Nsiala (Shrewsbury Town).
Attempt missed. Keith Keane (Rochdale) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Corner, Shrewsbury Town. Conceded by Jimmy McNulty.
Corner, Rochdale. Conceded by Aristote Nsiala.
Substitution, Rochdale. Steve Davies replaces Oliver Rathbone.
Substitution, Shrewsbury Town. Stephen Humphrys replaces Stefan Payne.
Foul by Harrison McGahey (Rochdale).
Mat Sadler (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Nathaniel Mendez-Laing (Rochdale) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Substitution, Rochdale. Keith Keane replaces Matthew Lund.
Attempt missed. Shaun Whalley (Shrewsbury Town) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Matthew Lund (Rochdale) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Matthew Lund (Rochdale).
Junior Brown (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Nathaniel Mendez-Laing (Rochdale) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Junior Brown (Shrewsbury Town).
Attempt missed. Callum Camps (Rochdale) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Nathaniel Mendez-Laing (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Alex Rodman (Shrewsbury Town).
Foul by Louis Dodds (Shrewsbury Town).
Jimmy McNulty (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stefan Payne (Shrewsbury Town).
Jimmy McNulty (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Rochdale. Reuben Noble-Lazarus replaces Donal McDermott.
Second Half begins Shrewsbury Town 1, Rochdale 0.
First Half ends, Shrewsbury Town 1, Rochdale 0.
Donal McDermott (Rochdale) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Alex Rodman (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Donal McDermott (Rochdale).
Corner, Rochdale. Conceded by Aristote Nsiala.
Mobile security firm Lookout said the virus, called NotCompatible, was the most sophisticated it had seen.
The cyberthieves behind it had recently rewritten its core code to make it harder to defeat, it said.
Mobile malware aimed at smartphones is steadily getting more complex, said security company Wandera.
Jeremy Linden, a security analyst at Lookout, said: "The group behind NotCompatible are operating on a different plane to the typical mobile malware maker."
Usually, he said, mobile malware campaigns lasted only a couple of weeks but the NotCompatible creators had been operating for more than two years.
The bug first appeared in 2012 and was now on its third iteration, he said, adding that the latest version had been rewritten recently and was now as sophisticated as the malware aimed at desktop computers.
"They are successful enough to make it worth ripping out the back end of the malware to make it be much more stable and resistant to efforts to take it down," he said.
This latest version employed end-to-end encryption, peer-to-peer networking technologies and stealthy operating procedures to help it avoid being spotted and removed, he said.
Phones infected with NotCompatible were enrolled into a network that is now being rented out to any crime group that needs a ready source of Android users.
Mr Linden said compromised phones had been used in a variety of scams including sending spam, attacking Wordpress blogs and buying tickets for popular events in bulk that would then be resold at a significant profit.
"This is the most technically sophisticated threat we are facing and it's the most worrying to us," said Mr Linden.
NotCompatible is being spread via spam and websites seeded with booby-trapped downloads, he said and urged Android users to be wary of any app that required a security update to be installed before it was run.
Mobile malware was growing in popularity among cybercrime groups because smartphones were now so central to modern life, said Eldar Tuvey from mobile security monitoring firm Wandera
"We're definitely seeing the bad guys focus their attention on mobiles," he said. "That's because more time is now spent on apps on phones than desktops."
While Android had long been a target of malware makers, the appearance of the Wirelurker and Masque malware families that both targeted Apple gadgets showed the growing confidence of cybercriminals, he said.
They were keen to get a foothold on a phone so they could harvest useful data that they could sell or use to make phishing emails look more plausible, or to lever open accounts for social networks or other web-based services.
With 70% of people reusing passwords across many different sites and services, it was no surprise that criminals regularly got access to these accounts, he said.
Many were aided by "leaky" apps that passed around log-in names, email addresses and other credentials in unencrypted text, said Mr Tuvey.
"The trend is only moving in one direction," he said. "The criminals are sharing information between themselves and they are learning about how to improve the efficiency of their attacks."
Prof Shankar Balasubramanian, a chemist from the University of Cambridge, has received a knighthood.
Prof Ottoline Leyser, director of the Sainsbury Laboratory, and Prof Amanda Fisher from Imperial College London were both made dames.
Prof Jane Francis, who has led the British Antarctic Survey since 2013, becomes a dame, also.
The newly opened Francis Crick Institute in London can now boast a knighthood for its director of research, Prof James Smith.
And Prof Sir Alec Jeffreys is appointed to the very select group of outstanding achievers who hold the title Companion of Honour. It was Sir Alec's research in the 1980s that led to "genetic fingerprinting".
IBM Research director Dr David Watson and Royal Horticultural Society director-general Sue Biggs become CBEs.
Prof Balasubramanian is an internationally recognised authority in the field of nucleic acids, which are essential for all forms of life and are responsible for holding and transmitting genetic information.
His work is considered to be at the forefront of research in the battle against cancer. He is also a senior group leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.
Prof Ottoline Leyser receives her damehood in recognition for her services to plant science, as well as for her work in equality and diversity within science.
Her work focuses on plant hormones and plant development. She was awarded the Royal Society's Rosalind Franklin award in 2007.
Another researcher to be made a dame is Prof Amanda Fisher, from Imperial College London, for her services to science. Her work focuses on cellular biology within humans. and she heads the college's Institute of Clinical Sciences.
Sue Biggs, director-general of the Royal Horticultural Society, becomes a Commander of the British Empire (CBE). Each year, the society hosts a number of flagship shows to promote the sector, including the Chelsea and the Tatton Park flower shows.
Other scientists to be made CBEs in the New Year Honours list include Prof Michael Depledge, chairman of Environmental and Human Health at the University of Exeter Medical School, and John Pyle, professor of chemistry at the University of Cambridge.
The officer was attacked in Havelock Square in Swindon town centre at 13:15 GMT on Friday, Wiltshire Police said.
A man, 45, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of assault. Whilst trying to restrain the man, another PC and a security officer were also assaulted.
The force is appealing for witnesses and said it is possible the attack may have been recorded on a mobile phone.
Police said the officer was taken to hospital as a precaution and has since returned to work.
Supt Gavin Williams said: "This was a nasty, unprovoked attack on a PCSO who was carrying out her normal duties in Swindon town centre.
"Fortunately, she only suffered minor injuries, however any attack on a member of police staff is totally unacceptable and the person responsible will be dealt with accordingly."
The Department for Transport used to take random cars off the road and then test the levels of dangerous gases coming from the exhaust pipe.
But a Freedom of Information request for the BBC shows that the spot-check scheme was dropped in 2011.
That left the carmakers to police themselves.
The chair of the Transport Select Committee, Louise Ellman, has called the news "deeply disturbing".
The committee is currently investigating vehicle emissions after VW admitted cheating pollution tests in the US.
"I will be pursuing both the VCA (Vehicle Certification Agency) and the Department for Transport on how this happened when they appear in front of the committee as part of our ongoing enquiry," said Ms Ellman.
However, the government has not broken any rules.
EU regulations only oblige carmakers to test their own vehicles. Manufacturers hand their results over to the relevant type-approval authority, but it would appear no-one independent sits in the lab, double-checking what's going on.
Although the UK government has stopped double-checking ordinary cars, some other governments still do it.
The Swedes and the Germans both have a programme. The Americans also spot-check cars based on a number of criteria. Sometimes they pick a model at random. They also select vehicles based on the manufacturer's data and on inquiries and complaints from the public.
John German is one of the key people who helped catch VW cheating. He is from a group called the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) and he told me that the latest available figures show spot-checks had some effect in the US.
"Based upon this in-use testing, as well as defect reports, there were 42 voluntary and mandatory emission-related recalls in 2009, 39 in 2010 and 53 in 2011," he said.
Meanwhile, his colleague Peter Mock said he was "convinced that it is very important for governments to carry out vehicle tests".
"Even though of course the testing itself is only one part of it," he adds. "The other part is to ensure that the vehicles chosen for testing are representative and not specially prepared, that the testing is carried out under realistic conditions, and that anything suspicious found would trigger thorough investigations and ultimately also penalties."
The UK government argues that it unearthed only two problems in a decade, and that taxpayers' cash was better spent elsewhere.
"Manufacturers have always been required to conduct 'in-service' testing to ensure their vehicles continue to meet regulations," a spokesman told the BBC.
"The Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA) previously conducted additional testing on top of this, but a decision was taken in 2011 to divert resources to improving our understanding of the effect after-market alterations are having on vehicle emissions."
In other words, they stopped checking normal road cars and moved to an important, but more specialist area, vehicles that had been "chipped" by customers. That's where the software is changed to improve performance.
They changed tack and they also cut the budget. It used to be about £200,000 a year. Last year, they spent just £42,300.
"We are fully committed to improving air quality and have led calls at a European level for Real Driving Emissions testing that will mean all new cars have to adhere to robust real-world standards from as early as next year," the government spokesman added.
So, what is 'in-service' testing?
The rules say that older cars must still pass an official, European emissions lab test. It's there to protect public health, because scientists estimate that pollutants from cars kill tens of thousands of British people each year.
Manufacturers have to double-check their own vehicles and pass on the results to the government, whose experts can order more tests if they suspect a problem.
Since 2005, government inspectors tested around 10 different models per year. Details seen by the BBC show they checked a number of VW and Skoda diesels in that time.
Some of those cars could potentially have been fitted with a defeat device, although don't forget it was well hidden in the computer, and inspectors were not allowed to look at computer software.
Between 2005-06 and 2010-11, 227 individual tests were completed (76 petrol and 151 diesel) and 87 vehicles failed to achieve a "pass" for all pollutants (14 petrol and 73 diesel). When cars failed, they carried out more tests.
Overall, the government says there were just two model failures in a decade, a Mitsubishi Carisma Petrol, (2005-06 test) and a BMW Mini One D (2008-09 test).
In the case of the BMW Mini, the government says that the German approval authority (KBA) was told "to enable them to take action". It does not say what that action was, if any.
And with the Mitsubishi, the manufacturer was contacted directly and they found "a number of anomalies in the test vehicle that could account for the failed result".
After further talks with the manufacturer, "no further action was taken".
In a decade, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency has never taken action against a car maker because of "in-service" testing.
Testing has re-started again.
After the VW scandal, the UK government actually began car spot-checks again. The BBC was invited to see them in action.
But it's a one-off programme and it will stop in the spring.
Zambia had their captain and former Africa Cup of Nations winner, Christopher Katongo, to thank for their victory after he scored just before the break.
The result put Zambia top of Group D with a maximum six points from two games.
Katongo, who captained Zambia to their Nations Cup victory in 2012, was thrown out of the senior national team two years later after a row with the coaches.
But the 33-year-old was given a reprieve and picked for the CHAN squad. He now plays for Green Buffaloes in Zambia and can therefore play at the African Nations Championship which is for locally-based players only.
His 41st minute header against Uganda helped Zambia become the third team to qualify for the quarter-finals, joining hosts Rwanda and DR Congo in the last eight.
Earlier in Group D, a solitary goal from Moussa Sissoko was enough to give Mali a win over Zimbabwe in their second fixture.
It ended Zimbabwe's hopes of progressing further, after they had already been beaten 1-0 by Zambia in their opening match of the group.
Mali broke Zimbabwe hearts eight minutes from time, as Sissoko volleyed in from close range to score.
The final Group D games take place on Wednesday 27 January.
Uganda play Zimbabwe and Mali face Zambia.
The Swedish furniture giant has spent £4m to improve junctions and access to a new store planned for Pincents Lane Retail Park in Reading.
Construction is now set to begin immediately on the site.
A church minister in Calcot asked what Ikea would do for residents to compensate for the "disruption they are going to experience".
Yinka Oyekan, of Reading Community Church, said:"Do they have any plans for apprentices, are they planning to take kids from the local area? It would be great to know there are programmes for youngsters."
Ikea says it is focused on having "a positive impact on people, communities and the environment" and promises to work together on "sustainability projects and social initiatives that focus on children".
A £10m three-level store was approved in 2012 but the furniture company reduced its proposal to two storeys last year to reflect the "ever-changing retail environment".
Some residents and businesses had objected to the original plans because of traffic congestion fears.
Theale councillor Alan Macro said he was still concerned about traffic congestion and parking.
"In the latest plans there's no reserved parking for staff," he said.
The 53-year-old has spent only three days in his new post after leaving the Chiefs in his native New Zealand.
"Dave said he was just going to watch for a couple of days, but you can already see the influence he's got on the coaches and players," skills coach Blair said.
"There's a bit of an edge about training - an increased intensity."
In his six years at the Chiefs, Rennie won back-to-back Super Rugby titles in 2012 and 2013 and led the franchise to the tournament's knockout stages in each of the four seasons since.
Blair, who earned 85 caps, finished his playing career with Glasgow in 2016 and was appointed skills coach by Rennie's predecessor, the current Scotland boss, Gregor Townsend.
"When Gregor told me he'd be taking the Scotland job, I was quite disappointed, thinking selfishly about the Glasgow side," Blair added.
"He said, don't worry, you certainly won't be disappointed by who is going to come in instead.
"I'm looking forward to working with Dave and I know the other coaches are as well.
"The guys had spoken to Dave on Skype a couple of times - some really awkward Skype conversations with it [the connection] dropping in and out - but there was a good, nervous apprehension I think.
"The guys are putting their best feet forward and saying they want to be picked for these games to come."
After being named Townsend's successor a year ago, Rennie was eager to retain off-contract Scotland internationals such as Stuart Hogg, Tommy Seymour and Alex Dunbar, while recruiting 11 new players.
He has been joined too by Jason O'Halloran, his lieutenant for four years at Manawatau, and Jonathan Humphreys, both of whom have swapped assistant coach roles with the national team for Glasgow.
Kenny Murray, like Blair, retains his assistant's position to complete the coaching staff and the former Ayr boss says, amid the upheaval, the club must retain its strong ties with the community.
"I'm probably the guy that has to speak the slowest so Dave can understand me," Murray said.
"We've got a lot of Glasgow-based players in the squad. I've always said that's really important for a team, that they've got guys who have come up through local clubs and the local community.
"It gives a much stronger sense of belonging, not only for those guys but also for the fans.
"A lot of the fans that come and watch us are from schools and clubs that those players have been at, so that's really important for the club in terms of the culture.
"It's great to get the different experiences that guys like Humphs, Jase and Dave are going to bring in and match that with what Mike and I have experienced in the last few years."
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The Olympic and European champions streaked clear of New Zealand and USA on Lake Aiguebelette in France to preserve a four-year unbeaten run.
In the men's event, Matt Langridge and James Foad repeated their 2014 silver.
Britain also took silver in the men's and women's lightweight double races and bronze in the men's four.
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Glover and Stanning - who won gold in a world record time in Amsterdam last summer - won by almost four seconds after a dominant display.
"We spoke about the 'just in case' scenarios and the pressure but it didn't come," Glover told BBC Sport. "We probably were a bit surprised that it was kind of won at the halfway mark.
"We've just won the World Championships in a way that feels like a training row in a sense."
In the lightweight double, Kat Copeland and Charlotte Taylor - who hold the European title - lost out to New Zealand in a high-calibre contest.
"I'm a bit overwhelmed," Taylor said. "We just knew we had to believe in ourselves and put everything on the line.
"Sport gives you emotions you never feel anywhere else and I'm a bit of a wreck right now."
European Championships runners-up Richard Chambers and Will Fletcher were once again beaten by France in the lightweight double, but were encouraged by their performance against a crew who have dominated the event this season.
"We're a lot closer to the French than we have been but it's all about next year and hopefully the medal will be a different colour," said Fletcher.
The men's four of Scott Durant, Stewart Innes, Tom Ransley, Alan Sinclair were within 0.26 seconds of yet another silver medal, but the European champions lost out to a fading Australian quartet.
"It was great to get a medal but we were fractions off getting an even better one," Durant said.
Langridge and Foad - who took the European crown in Poland in May - were well beaten by reigning world and Olympic champions New Zealand.
"We thought we could challenge them but it wasn't our best row - we were racing for silver," Langridge said. "They are Olympic champions for a reason."
In the last final of the day, British men's quad of Pete Lambert, Sam Townsend, Charles Cousins and Graeme Thomas were unable to secure a sweep of medals after finishing fourth.
By reaching their respective finals, all six British boats had already qualified for the Olympics next summer.
The women's double of Katherine Grainger and Vicky Thornley have secured their place ahead of their final, while both the men's and women's eight know that they will be going to Rio as long as they do not finish last in Sunday's final two events.
The men's double, single and lightweight four must all avoid the same fate in their 'B' finals to ensure the British team fulfil their pre-championship target of earning qualification in 12 Olympic disciplines.
All four British Paralympic crews - the men's and women's single, mixed double and mixed coxed four - will also be in Brazil next year.
Steven Stewart was working for Technic Concrete Floors on a new cinema complex at Fort Kinnaird Retail Park in Edinburgh when the incident happened.
Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard he was walking over a floor under construction when he tripped on 16 May 2014.
His foot dislodged an unsecured wooden panel covering a void in the floor.
He landed on steel mesh grids.
Mr Stewart, who was sub-contracted to work for the firm, sustained serious injuries to his back and a broken foot.
The Lancashire-based flooring company pleaded guilty at Edinburgh Sheriff Court to contravening part of the Health and Safety Act.
Gary Aitken, head of the Crown Office health and safety division, said: "This was an accident that resulted in life-changing injuries that could have been avoided if the appropriate measures had been in place at the time.
"This incident could well have proved fatal and it has irrevocably changed Mr Stewart's life.
"Falls from height are usually the greatest single cause of death and serious injury to workers within the construction industry.
"Hopefully this prosecution will remind other employers that failure to fulfil their obligations can have terrible consequences and that they will be held to account for their failings."
Rob Evans crossed early for Wales but fine tries from England backs Luther Burrell and Anthony Watson cut the visitors' lead to 13-10 at half-time.
Ben Youngs gave England the lead with a sniping try before Jack Clifford showed good pace to go over from distance and Marland Yarde crossed out wide.
England fly-half George Ford missed six out of seven kicks at goal.
England's three-Test series against Australia begins in Brisbane on 11 June, the same day Wales' series against New Zealand begins in Auckland.
England handed a debut to Northampton's New Zealand-born flanker Teimana Harrison, Burrell returned at inside centre and Clifford started at number eight.
George Kruis and Maro Itoje having played for Saracens in the Premiership final on Saturday, Joe Launchbury and Lawes resumed their second-row partnership.
Ross Moriarty replaced injured Wales captain Sam Warburton in the back row, slotting in at blind-side flanker with stand-in skipper Dan Lydiate switching to open-side.
It was Wales who started the brighter at a sunbathed Twickenham and prop Evans made the most of their early pressure, crashing over from close range after an inside pass from Rhys Webb.
But England gradually worked their way into the game and Burrell scored their first try, choosing a great angle and smashing through a tackle from Dan Biggar.
Watson finished magnificently to cut Wales' lead further, the Bath wing shrugging off tackles from Biggar and George North before touching down behind his head.
England might have been ahead had it not been for some ragged goal-kicking from Ford, who missed with three regulation efforts from the tee.
However, Wales also turned down three kicks at goal towards the end of the first half that Biggar surely would have attempted had more been at stake.
Youngs scored a classic scrum-half's try shortly after the restart, sniping through at the back of a line-out, before Ford missed another straightforward conversion attempt.
Ford could hardly miss when Clifford scored a runaway try under the posts, although replays suggested Dan Cole knocked the ball forward during the build-up.
Yarde extended England's lead with a try in the right-hand corner, after a tremendous hand-off by Lawes on Roberts, as Wales began to disintegrate.
Prop Ellis Genge, hooker Tommy Taylor and Ollie Devoto, who came on for Ford at fly-half, all made debuts from the bench late on as England cantered to victory.
Wasps lock Launchbury has been eclipsed in the England set-up by Itoje, who made such an impact in this year's Six Nations Championship.
But the 25-year-old showed he has not give up on regaining a spot in the starting XV in Australia with a barn-storming, man-of-the-match performance.
"Everyone has a bad day missing goal kicks - Tiger Woods misses putts.
"It's just one of those things. I think Ford played exceptionally well for us. I thought he was outstanding."
Read the rest of what Jones had to say.
England: Brown; Watson, Joseph, Burrell, Yarde; Ford, Youngs; Mullan, Hartley, Cole, Launchbury, Lawes, Harrison, Haskell, Clifford.
Replacements: Daly for Joseph (65), Devoto for Ford (75), Care for Youngs (55), Genge for Mullan (65), Taylor for Hartley (76), Hill for Cole (68), Attwood for Lawes (62), Kvesic for Haskell (62).
Wales: L Williams; North, S Williams, Roberts, Amos, Biggar, Webb, Evans, Baldwin, Lee, Ball, AW Jones, Moriarty, Lydiate, Faletau.
Replacements: Anscombe for S Williams (55), Priestland for Biggar (55), L Williams for Webb (65), Jenkins for Evans (55), Dacey for Baldwin (55), R Jones for Lee (62), Turnbull for AW Jones (57), King for Lydiate (23).
Att: 81,128
Ref: Marius Mitrea (Italy).
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Williams, who can also play at centre, has made three appearances for Bath since joining the club from the England Sevens side in April 2015.
The 26-year-old scored 39 tries in 22 games for the England Sevens after making his debut in 2012.
"It's a great environment to be in and I feel like I'm constantly improving," he told the club website.
"Bath is a fantastic city to live in, and I've really settled in well so I didn't have any hesitation about staying."
A study suggests that cows contract the disease by coming into contact with infected faeces and urine in pasture.
The scientists involved suggest that advice given to farmers to control the spread of the disease may need to be reassessed.
The research has been published in Ecology Letters.
Scientists have known for 40 years that badgers transmit TB to cattle and, more recently, probably vice versa. But no one knows exactly how the disease is transmitted.
To find out whether it is by direct contact, researchers tracked the movement of hundreds of cattle and badgers using collars with GPS and proximity sensors across 20 farms in Cornwall.
Despite the fact that the collared cattle spent the equivalent of nearly 15 years in the home ranges of GPS collared badgers, the two species were never found in close proximity.
The researchers found there was not a single instance of direct contact and there was also some evidence that if anything badgers avoid the bigger animals, with the tracking data indicating that the creatures preferred to be at least 50 metres away from the cattle.
Current control measures recommended by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) assume that direct contact is an important method of transmission.
According to the lead author, Prof Rosie Woodroffe of the Zoological Society of London, advice to farmers will now need to be re-assessed.
"There are loads and loads of things that farmers are being advised to do and there is no certainty that any of them will actually work and because of this, hardly any farmers implement any of these sorts of measures," she told BBC News.
"If we can focus on the things most likely to work on that massive array of things farmers are being advised to do more people will do them."
Prof Woodroffe and her colleagues are now trying to identify how the disease is transmitted. The most likely possibility is that it is through badger faeces and urine which may leave the TB infection in grazing pasture for many months.
This would help to explain why it takes so long for culling badgers to have an effect - because the infection they have left in the environment can last for months.
If that is the case it raises the possibility that some cattle-to-cattle transmission is happening through the environment. That is important because TB in cattle is managed as a contagious disease and assumes that cows need to be in close contact with each other to get the disease.
If there is a possibility that some cattle-to-cattle transmission is happening through the environment, Defra will have to consider whether to modify its control measures further, according to Prof Woodroffe.
"We are now beginning to identify how the transmission happens and that ought to open up an array of finely tuned management approaches instead of the blunt instrument we have now," she says.
In response to the findings of the study a Defra spokesperson said:
"Our comprehensive strategy to beat bovine TB includes tighter cattle controls, good biosecurity and badger control in areas where the disease is widespread, and a number of measures are in place to prevent the spread of infection.
"These include frequent testing and rapid removal of infected cattle, pre- and post-movement testing and wildlife proofing of high risk units. To reduce the risk of cattle-to-cattle transmission from contaminated environment, farmers are required to carry out cleaning and disinfection and to keep cattle out of fields grazed by reactors for two months after their removal. There are also rules about the use of manure and slurry on infected farms to mitigate the risks associated with their spread."
Defra is expected to extend its badger cull to seven new parts of South West England to help control the spread of the disease at the end of this month.
The department is understood to have received 29 applications and expressions of interest for extensions of the cull in areas thought to include South Devon, North Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and North Cornwall.
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The 34-year-old man and a woman, aged 30, were arrested after the baby from Newcastle died on Monday.
The boy from Velville Court was taken to hospital on Friday with injuries police described as "non-accidental".
Northumbria Police said the pair were released on bail pending further inquiries.
The teenager from Surrey was a passenger in the convertible Mercedes which crashed in Hordle, in the New Forest, on Tuesday evening.
Two other children, aged eight and 10, were taken to Southampton Hospital.
The driver, a 34-year-old man from Hordle, is charged with causing death by careless driving while over the drink-drive limit.
The ship, with 205 containers on board, is now being searched, Mombasa Police Chief Francis Wanjohi told the BBC.
Elite Kenyan police units, including members of the narcotics squad, launched a surprise raid at midnight local time (21:00 GMT Thursday), sealing off all entrances to the port.
The main entrance to the port has now been reopened.
The berth holding the cargo ship, which had sailed from the Indian port of Mumbai, is still closed off.
Last month, Kenyan authorities blew up a yacht off the coast of Mombasa, after heroin worth $290,000 (£185,000) was found on board.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime has on several occasions cited Kenya as a transit point for the re-packaging and trans-shipment of drugs to Europe and America.
I know I am not the only one expecting a special season. I have never known so much anticipation leading up to a new campaign, and there are lots of reasons people are so excited.
Last year, other than the champions Leicester and, at times, Tottenham, the standard of play was pretty poor.
This time, with all the big-name managers involved and the money they have spent - including a world-record fee for Paul Pogba - I am expecting much bigger and better things.
I agree with MOTD host Gary Lineker that Leicester will not retain their title - but that still leaves six teams who can win it: Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham.
A lot can happen between now and the transfer window but, speaking before a ball is kicked, I think it will come down to a fight between the Manchester clubs.
If you pushed me, I would go with City because of new manager Pep Guardiola and the quality of their squad, but it is going to be very close.
Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino spent most of last season playing down his side's chances even when they were challenging for the title.
He is not the only manager to do that but, whatever any of them say publicly, all six managers will believe they can win it this time.
Pochettino's side came so close last time out, he will not want them to fall away. He has not spent a fortune in the transfer market this summer, but Spurs were already strong in most positions so there was no need to.
Yes, it will be tough for them to improve on third place but they have a very young team and there is no way they have peaked.
Spurs faded in the final month of last season, which might have been down to pressure. If they are in the same position this time, they will have learned from what happened and be stronger for it.
On top of that, they have got several England players who will be desperate to prove a point after their disappointment at Euro 2016. They will desperate to get back under way and make amends, and I see them challenging again.
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Jose Mourinho is not afraid to come out and say United want to win the title because he knows he is at one of the biggest clubs in the world and that success is what they demand.
He has spent a lot of money this summer and it looks like he has got the players he wants and is ready to have a charge at the title.
As well as Pogba, Zlatan Ibrahimovic is one of the players I am most looking forward to seeing in the Premier League this season.
I don't think you can do anything but admire Ibrahimovic for what he has achieved in his career. He has massive belief in his own ability but so he should and I don't mind him telling everyone about it either because, when you have won as much as he has, you can basically say and do what you want.
His career statistics back up his self-belief and I am really looking forward to seeing how he copes with the Premier League's intensity, pressure and pace.
Zlatan has been a huge success wherever he has played so I am still expecting him to score goals for United, even though he is now 34.
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Again, it is going to be very interesting to see how Guardiola gets on in English football because the variety of styles you get in the Premier League will be very different to the football he has experienced where he has managed before.
In Spain and Germany the vast majority of teams want to play on the floor but here it changes every week and there are teams who will try to be physical against City or kick it long.
Guardiola will learn what it takes though, and so will Antonio Conte at Chelsea, who is another manager new to the English game.
Conte enhanced his reputation with the way Italy performed at Euro 2016 and he has already made two very good signings in N'Golo Kante and Michy Batshuayi.
Chelsea not having any European football will be a big help because it gives Conte more time to work on the training ground with his players.
It is the same for Liverpool and I can understand the optimism around Jurgen Klopp at Anfield after his first few months in charge.
Klopp might upset one or two rival managers with his touchline antics but he will be great to watch and he has got something about him that makes me think Liverpool will do very well.
Arsenal will be up there again too although, of the teams I have mentioned, they are the ones that need to strengthen the most in the next couple of weeks if they are to be champions for the first time since 2004.
I have been saying the same thing about them for the past five or six years now. Even before they got these injuries to centre-halves Gabriel and Per Mertesacker, I didn't think their squad was big enough or good enough to win the title.
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It all adds up to being the most open title race I can remember but I do not see the champions being in the mix this time.
Leicester were the best team by a mile last season and fully deserved their title but I do not see it happening again and the top four is a big ask for the same reasons.
It will be very different for them this year with Champions League football to contend with and some teams spending a fortune to try to catch them up.
I know from winning the Premier League with Blackburn in 1995 that it is very difficult to do it again the following year. Everyone is gunning for you because you are champions and they all know how you play and have had time to work out how to stop you.
We finished seventh in 1996 and my guess at the moment is that is where Leicester will finish too, even if they avoid significant injuries like they did last season.
When you consider who else they are up against, that would still be a big achievement.
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The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said both "directly pressured" young players to pay subscriptions.
It said Moshi Monsters told children that members would be "super popular", while Bin Weevils' options to pay subscriptions were phrased as commands.
The publishers said they were cooperating with the ASA.
"Although it was possible to play the games without spending real money or sharing the game, certain activities required participation in a paid-membership system, which entitled members to additional benefits," the ASA said.
"Both games contained language and prominent calls to action that put pressure on young players to purchase a subscription to take part in additional gameplay. We considered that text, including "Become a Member", "JOIN NOW", directly exhorted children to purchase membership subscriptions as well as in-game 'currency'."
It said that phrases used in Moshi Monsters - such as "The Super Moshis need YOU" - put pressure on children. In Bin Weevils' case, it said that it used imperative phrases, such as "DOSH Top Up" that could be read by children as orders to pay.
It said that putting such pressure on children was prohibited by its advertising code and ordered that the ads should not appear again in those forms.
The ASA added that it would remind publishers to take care with in-game purchase mechanisms aimed at children.
Mind Candy, which publishes Moshi Monsters, said it took its "responsibilities very seriously with regards to how we communicate with all of our fans, especially children".
In a statement, it said: "We have been working with the ASA to ensure that we adhere to best practice and have made changes to the Moshi Monsters game accordingly. We will continue to work with the ASA in any way possible."
The Bin Weevils publisher, 55pixels, said: "As soon as [we] were made aware of the complaint made to the ASA about a potential breach, and once we had understood the area for concern, we changed all our membership pages to comply with their recommendations.
"They subsequently upheld the complaint about the original wording but referenced that we now complied, in the text of the ruling."
The 26-year-old turned down a one-year Saddlers deal after scoring four goals in 44 appearances last term, helping them to the League One play-offs.
Cook played under Hatters boss Nathan Jones in Charlton's under-21 side.
"Jordan is one I've known for a long time and he's one I never felt fulfilled his true potential at Charlton," Jones told the club website.
"He's got a lot more to give and hopefully we'll see that at Luton."
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Sixteen-year-old Ali, who is now living in Peterborough, has also explained to BBC South Today reporter Emma Vardy why he was forced to leave his family behind in a bid to flee the Taliban.
There are currently more than 4,000 asylum seeking children in the care of councils in England.
Dorset's Police and Crime Commissioner Martyn Underhill has called on border force to review its security at Poole Port where it is believed Ali made it to England from Cherbourg.
The claim: The UK and USA can quickly negotiate a trade deal
Reality Check verdict: The earliest we could possibly get a deal is 2019, when the UK leaves the EU under the government's current timetable. The complexities of the process mean a trade deal with the US could take considerably longer.
The president-elect said: "We're going to work very hard to get it done quickly and done properly."
How quickly depends what you mean by quickly and what kind of deal you want, because EU treaties prohibit the UK from conducting formal negotiations while it is still a member of the EU.
Also, remember that this is the same Donald Trump who has attacked American companies that use NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, to build cars in Mexico and sell them in the USA, and has criticised a proposed pan-Pacific trade deal as the "rape of our country".
He is also opposed to TTIP, the current talks between the USA and EU to reach a trade deal.
But given he seems all in favour of a free trade deal with the UK, how long will it take and what will it involve? Even the easiest trade deal between perfectly willing partners would take years and we won't even be able to begin formal negotiations until we leave the EU, probably in two years.
We will be able to have unofficial talks though, as the prime minister's spokesman put it on Monday: "When she [Theresa May] visits the States she can have an early discussion, but we will abide by our obligations while in the EU."
Technically therefore, the quickest we would be able to get a deal is by 2019, but it is very unlikely to be that quick, not least because the deal the UK ends up doing with the EU would have an impact on the deal it gets with the US.
The first part of any negotiations would be relatively easy.
Tariffs, which are taxes on goods entering a country, are already quite low between the USA and the EU: they average 3%.
A free-trade deal would aim to bring them all down to zero, but it is non-tariff barriers that are the real problem.
This covers everything from bank regulations and car safety standards to animal welfare and environmental protection.
The easiest deal would be for the USA to accept all our standards and regulations and for us to accept all theirs.
But this is where it can get messy.
For instance, the UK has much stricter rules on food standards, GM crops and hormones in farm animals.
Just letting American food into the UK could undermine those standards and put British farmers at a disadvantage.
Then there is the thorny issue of the NHS; do we open it up to competition from US medical companies or do we seek to protect it?
Negotiating an optout for the NHS is perfectly possible, but it would take time and America might ask for something else in return.
The EU and the USA agreed to start negotiating a trade deal in 2011, and those talks have become bogged down because of a whole host of such issues, including how to resolve disputes once a deal is signed.
The UK should be a quicker and nimbler negotiator than the EU, which has 27 governments to keep on board, but that doesn't mean the issues are any less controversial.
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Mark Mason, 48, from Rhyl, died after being stabbed at the town's Home Bargains car park on 27 October 2016.
Anthony Baines, 30, from Liverpool, denies murder and malicious wounding with intent.
James Davies, 20 and Mark Ennis, 30, also deny the charges.
A fourth Liverpool man, Jake Melia, 21, has admitted all charges.
On Tuesday, a jury at Mold Crown Court heard Mr Baines had been at the scene but was not part of any "premeditated plan".
The prosecution had previously argued Mr Baines was the leader of a group of men who attacked Mr Mason and two others.
They claimed it was a revenge attack for one Mr Mason was believed to have carried out on them earlier that day.
But John McDermott QC, representing Mr Baines, said his client did not know beforehand what they were going to do.
He told the court: "If Anthony Baines did plan an assassination it was particularly inept for a man of his experience."
He added that "everything could have been done so much more cleverly".
The jury also heard Mr Davies had only been working for Mr Baines for a week at the time - recruited because he had to pay off a drug debt.
Patrick Harrington QC, representing Mr Davies, said: "This wasn't his battle, was it? He was the street level drug dealer.
"He was doing it to pay off a debt. He wasn't the person behind this."
Nigel Power QC, representing Mr Ennis, told the jury it was an "unappealing truth" that his client had been dealing class A drugs since at least 2005.
But on the many occasions he had been arrested, he said Mr Ennis had never been found to be carrying a weapon.
He said the prosecution wanted the jury to "run with the idea" that drug dealing was dangerous.
Mr Power said if the men had planned to kill Mr Mason, they could have easily lured him away to a place where their actions would not be caught on CCTV.
Instead, he said the defendants "were going into territory they knew was dangerous as far a surveillance is concerned".
Speaking of the attack, Mr Power said there was "no sensible basis on which you could conclude that Mr Ennis was in possession of a knife".
He asked the jury to look carefully at the CCTV footage and said the first flash of a blade caught on camera happened before his client go to the van where Mr Mason was stabbed.
He also said the footage showed Mr Ennis moving back from the van just seconds after the attack began.
The trial continues.
Blissett has been relegated to the substitutes' bench since the arrival of Kieffer Moore on loan.
But the target man came on to inspire the Gulls to just their second away victory of the season.
"When he came on, it turned the game around in our favour," Nicholson told BBC Radio Devon.
Blissett scored eight goals in 16 league starts for the Gulls last season, helping Torquay stave off relegation.
But this season he has struggled to repeat that form, while Moore has now scored five goals in four games since joining on loan from Forest Green.
"He set up two other great chances, if not three, he's worked and worked and worked and he's allowed Kieffer to get hold of it," added Nicholson.
"It's probably strange being the 6ft 4in usual target to then being the guy that's playing off the big man, so it's a change for him, but I thought he was fantastic when he came on."
Emergency services were called in St Brides Major at 18:50 GMT following the incident involving a black Fiat 500 and a green Renault.
South Wales Fire and Rescue Service cut one person free and they were taken to the Princess of Wales hospital in Bridgend.
A second casualty managed to escape and was later taken to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.
The road was expected to remain closed until accident investigations were complete.
Loose-head prop Evans replaces the injured Gethin Jenkins, while Francis comes in for Samson Lee at tight-head.
Centre Jamie Roberts starts after going through return-to-play protocols following a blow to the head last week.
The All Blacks have an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series and Warren Gatland's side are looking to avoid a whitewash.
The tourists began the three-Test series with a 39-21 defeat at Eden Park, before a 36-22 loss in Wellington last weekend.
Wales have lost 28 consecutive matches against the world champions, with their last win coming in 1953.
Second-row Jake Ball is on the bench after recovering from soreness and a dislocated finger, with props Lee and Aaron Jarvis joining the replacements.
Wales are without injured forwards Jenkins, Bradley Davies and Josh Turnbull who have returned to the UK.
British and Irish Lions prop Jenkins, 35, suffered a calf injury in Wellington, while lock Davies has a knee concern.
Back-row Turnbull picked up a shoulder injury in the 40-7 loss to the Chiefs.
Wales coach Warren Gatland commented: "We have played some good rugby in the first two Tests and we want to finish the tour on Saturday with an 80 minute performance that we are happy with.
"We improved going into the second Test and fought to the end and this weekend we have to have the belief and confidence that we can take the victory.
"Playing under the roof in Dunedin will be a great atmosphere and a quick track and we need to take our game to the All Blacks."
New Zealand have made five starting changes for the game, with Beauden Barrett replacing Aaron Cruden at fly-half.
New Zealand: Israel Dagg; Ben Smith, George Moala, Ryan Crotty, Julian Savea; Beauden Barrett, Aaron Smith; Joe Moody, Dane Coles, Charlie Faumuina, Brodie Retallick, Sam Whitelock, Elliot Dixon, Sam Cane, Kieran Read (capt).
Replacements: Codie Taylor, Wyatt Crockett, Ofa Tu'ungafasi, Luke Romano, Liam Squire, Tawera Kerr-Barlow, Lima Sopoaga, Waisake Naholo.
Wales: Rhys Patchell, Liam Williams, Jonathan Davies, Jamie Roberts, Hallam Amos, Dan Biggar, Rhys Webb, Rob Evans, Ken Owens, Tomas Francis, Luke Charteris, Alun Wyn Jones, Ross Moriarty, Sam Warburton (capt), Taulupe Faletau.
Replacements: Scott Baldwin, Aaron Jarvis, Samson Lee, Jake Ball, Ellis Jenkins, Gareth Davies, Rhys Priestland, Scott Williams.
The review found a "wide consensus" among those with experience of the system that rules could be exploited, also identifying methods of doing so.
It follows claims before the Rio 2016 Paralympics that classifications could be manipulated to boost medal chances.
Yet, there is "no substantive evidence" to suggest widespread cheating.
A four-person panel, chaired by Paralympic wheelchair racer Anne Wafula Strike, conducted the review between November and February, with its findings revealed on Tuesday.
It concluded the system could be abused, "should an athlete or support personnel be sufficiently motivated, have an understanding of the classification process and have an impairment that lends itself to exaggeration."
The classification system puts athletes into groups depending on the level of their impairment to try to ensure fair competition.
However, the UKA review found various methods of undermining those rules, including:
Employing such methods could allow an athlete to exaggerate their level of disability and gain an unfair advantage, potentially increasing their chances of medals.
Baroness Grey-Thompson, an 11-time Paralympic champion, has previously raised concerns over athletes abusing the system, adding the issue "goes to the heart of the integrity of the sport".
British sprinter Bethany Woodward, who has cerebral palsy and was not selected for Rio, gave an interview before the Games saying she had lost faith in the way the team was selected.
As part of the review, 26 individuals with experience of the classification system were invited to interviews - 20 of whom accepted - including current and former athletes, coaches and support staff, some of whom had also previously expressed issues with the system.
The findings also drew on other expertise, as well as that of the panel members Wafula Strike, Professor John Brewer of St Mary's University, Iain Gowans of the British Paralympic Association and Peter Taylor of the UKA board.
The report also highlighted difficulties in detecting classification abuses from performances alone, with Para-athletics a "young sport" where records are "broken frequently, sometimes by large margins," while systems of classification are also still developing.
Yet it also warned that the issue "is not exclusive to athletics" but can be seen across Paralympic disciplines.
Despite focusing on UKA's classifications system, the review also noted possible discrepancies between the UKA and the system used by World Para Athletics (WPA).
UKA handles classifications for track and field athletes in the UK, while the WPA controls international competitions classification and other sports regulate their own classification.
Those interviewed by the panel also raised uncertainties that coaches and athletes understood both systems, as well as concerns over the lack of a forum to explain athlete classifications and the absence of an appeal process against potential incorrect allocation that is independent of UKA.
UKA chair Ed Warner confirmed that a number of recommendations made by the report will be implemented in full, including improving the standard of medical documentation, with particular focus on those with fluctuating conditions.
The review also calls for an oversight committee, independent from UKA, to manage the appeals process, as well as a panel of independent clinicians to review medical data.
Despite the issues raised, the panel also found UKA's classification to be "robust" and often cited as "an exemplar of best practice", with Wafula Strike hoping the implemented recommendations mean UKA continues "leading the way" in ensuring the integrity of Para-athletics.
Brewer added: "Many of the recommendations we have made will, we believe, allow the process in the future to be more flexible, responsive to change and - if appropriate - open to challenge and closer review."
Reports claim some of the gang were carrying knives and bats when they set about the teenagers at a park in Ely.
A boy was taken to the University of Wales Hospital in Cardiff with a broken jaw while a school minibus's windows were broken during the attack.
Police are investigating and three boys, one aged 16 and two 15-year-olds, were arrested and released on bail.
Pupils from Fitzalan High School and Glyn Derw and Michaelston Federation were playing in the game at Trelai Park on Wednesday when the gang approached.
The gang reportedly had no link to either school and PE teachers from both schools stepped in a bid to protect the children from the attackers.
A Cardiff council spokesperson confirmed the police were called to the park during the game.
The council said that "a number of individuals not involved in the match are believed to have assaulted some of the players."
"Both schools are now working to support the young people involved and a police investigation is now underway."
The channel was originally supposed to become an online-only brand in autumn 2015, but its boss said the shift would not now occur until "after Christmas".
"We won't be rushed. We will do what's right for our fans, not to satisfy deadlines," said Damian Kavanagh.
The Trust is expected to deliver its decision on the move in June.
It is currently holding a public consultation into the proposals.
"Once we have the Trust's final decision, we'll start doing more online and in social [media], building up to a move online," Kavanagh told Broadcast magazine.
"You simply can't turn around something as groundbreaking as this overnight."
The youth channel was earmarked for closure as a linear TV channel by BBC director general Tony Hall last year.
Under current proposals, it will be remodelled as an online platform, offering tailored content based around comedy and thought-provoking programming.
Programmes will not just live on iPlayer, but will be distributed on third party sites including YouTube and Facebook.
The removal of the channel from digital terrestrial television will make room for a BBC One+1 service, while CBBC will be extended by two hours in the evening.
But critics have said the delay in approving the proposals have turned BBC Three into a "zombie channel", with confusion over its future leading to a "logjam" in commissioning new programmes.
Jimmy Mulville, managing director of Have I Got News For You production company Hat Trick, argued that the channel was already being dismantled.
"Already assets are being taken off BBC Three. They are destroying the value of BBC Three as we speak," he told the Guardian.
"They are actually setting up and putting resources into a BBC online channel which is yet to be ratified by the trust. This speaks to the very heart of how the BBC is governed."
Mulville, along with Jon Thoday of Avalon productions, has approached the BBC Trust with a plan to buy BBC Three and run it independently.
The corporation has insisted the channel "is not for sale".
The combined value of deals across the 20 top flight clubs is £99.75m, up from £71.8m last season, according to research from Sporting Intelligence.
The previous record was set by Germany's Bundesliga last season.
The downturn-beating sponsorship growth has been largely driven by huge new deals struck by individual clubs.
Liverpool's £20m-a-year contract with Standard Chartered is worth more than double its previous agreement with Carlsberg.
And Manchester United's fresh £20m-a-season deal with insurers Aon replaces the previous arrangement worth £14m a year with AIG.
Last month it emerged that Tottenham Hotspur, which has signed a £10m -a-year contract with Autonomy, was looking at negotiating deals to sponsor shirts in each competition the team play in.
However, seven clubs have deals worth £1m or less - including newly-promoted West Bromwich Albion who have signed a £750,000 agreement with Homeserve after spending the previous two season without a permanent sponsor.
At £500,000-a-year, Blackpool's sponsorship is the least valuable, according to the report.
Deals remain unchanged for eight clubs including Everton, West Ham and Birmingham.
Shirt sponsorship typically makes up between 2% and 10% of total club revenues, industry figures suggest.
But Alex Miller, who carried out the study, said there was "an increasing chasm between the haves and the have-nots".
"You've got the really big earners and then the rest. For some of them, the amount they can command for shirt sponsorship is almost beer change, especially when compared with television revenues."
But he added the Premier League would be pleased to now have more valuable kit deals than the Bundesliga.
"It shows how successful the English top flight is when firms will pay such huge sums for their brands to be seen in stadiums and, crucially, on television around the world."
Mr Miller warned there may be a too-heavy reliance on online gambling firms, which sponsor seven of the Premier League clubs.
"These companies appear to be coming in with fairly short-term deals with the aim of raising their profile quickly and then getting out.
"I don't think we'll be seeing any long-term partnerships as we did with, say, Liverpool and Carlsberg for example."
Gareth Moore of the consultancy Sport+Markt agreed that the gap between the clubs at the top and bottom of the sponsorship table was too large.
He said the deals of the lower-placed teams were valued at about the same level as some of the agreements in Germany's second division.
The Tykes were under severe pressure at the back when substitute Armstrong, brought in from Newcastle, outwitted Alex Baptiste before curling home.
Barnsley had gone ahead in the first half when Sam Winnall slid home Marley Watkins' cross from close range.
Aiden McGeady's 25-yard strike levelled the scores, but Preston failed to make the most of their other chances.
The Lilywhites went into game next to bottom in the Championship table, having failed to win any of their eight previous home matches, a run stretching back to last season.
Boss Simon Grayson started with all three pre-deadline signings, McGeady, Marnick Vermijl and Alex Baptiste, while Barnsley had four new faces, including Armstrong, on the bench.
The Tykes started brightly, although keeper Adam Davies had to dive to tip a Paul Gallagher free-kick on to the post as it eluded everyone in the box.
Once McGeady had cancelled out Winnall's opener following a short corner, Preston carried the greater threat and Jordan Hugill's header forced a good save from Adam Davies before Callum Robinson blazed over from a good position.
But Armstrong, who scored twice at the start of a loan spell for Coventry last season, had the final say as he backheeled the ball past Baptiste and picked his spot beyond goalkeeper Anders Lindegaard.
Preston manager Simon Grayson:
"I think if anyone watched the game they will see how well we've played. We dominated the ball, the chances and the play.
"We limited them to hardly any possession second half, so to get hit on the sucker punch is very difficult to take.
"We've not deserved to lose that game, but that's football. It can be cruel at times. We just have to keep believing in what we are doing and eventually the breaks will come for us."
Barnsley manager Paul Heckingbottom:
"We earned the right to play a bit more football late on and we saw the game out with a fantastic goal.
"We changed the formation as the game went on and we felt that if we could get someone behind their two midfielders it could cause them a problem.
"We know we weren't at our best on the ball, but we really put our bodies on the line. I'm very proud of them and I think the fans are proud of them as well because that passion is what they want to see.
"We have shown we can score goals and win games at this level and we've shown two different ways to win."
Match ends, Preston North End 1, Barnsley 2.
Second Half ends, Preston North End 1, Barnsley 2.
Foul by Greg Cunningham (Preston North End).
Josh Scowen (Barnsley) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Barnsley. Conceded by Alex Baptiste.
Foul by John Welsh (Preston North End).
Josh Scowen (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Barnsley. Cole Kpekawa replaces Adam Hammill.
Adam Davies (Barnsley) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt missed. Aiden McGeady (Preston North End) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by John Welsh.
Attempt saved. Tom Clarke (Preston North End) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Simon Makienok.
Offside, Barnsley. Adam Hammill tries a through ball, but Conor Hourihane is caught offside.
Andy Yiadom (Barnsley) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt missed. Adam Hammill (Barnsley) right footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Conor Hourihane following a corner.
Corner, Barnsley. Conceded by Tom Clarke.
Attempt blocked. Conor Hourihane (Barnsley) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Preston North End. Simon Makienok replaces Eoin Doyle.
Jordan Hugill (Preston North End) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jordan Hugill (Preston North End).
Adam Hammill (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Preston North End 1, Barnsley 2. Adam Armstrong (Barnsley) left footed shot from the right side of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Conor Hourihane.
Attempt saved. Callum Robinson (Preston North End) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Greg Cunningham.
Substitution, Preston North End. Daniel Johnson replaces Paul Gallagher.
Offside, Preston North End. Tom Clarke tries a through ball, but Jordan Hugill is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Callum Robinson (Preston North End) left footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Aiden McGeady.
Attempt missed. Paul Gallagher (Preston North End) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Callum Robinson (Preston North End) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Paul Gallagher.
Attempt saved. Jordan Hugill (Preston North End) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Paul Gallagher with a cross.
Foul by Josh Scowen (Barnsley).
Paul Gallagher (Preston North End) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Aiden McGeady (Preston North End) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Eoin Doyle.
Offside, Barnsley. Andy Yiadom tries a through ball, but Marley Watkins is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Paul Gallagher (Preston North End) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Eoin Doyle (Preston North End) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Callum Robinson with a cross.
Substitution, Barnsley. Sam Morsy replaces Sam Winnall.
Goal! Preston North End 1, Barnsley 1. Aiden McGeady (Preston North End) left footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Paul Gallagher following a corner.
Corner, Preston North End. Conceded by Angus MacDonald.
Attempt blocked. Eoin Doyle (Preston North End) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by John Welsh.
Attempt missed. Jordan Hugill (Preston North End) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Eoin Doyle with a cross.
Substitution, Barnsley. Adam Armstrong replaces Ryan Kent.
Bryant had to wear the mask after breaking his nose during the 2012 All-Star game where he passed Michael Jordan as the All-Star Game's leading scorer.
He wore it for four Lakers games, earning the nickname 'The Masked Mamba'.
The auction house describes the mask as "a Hall of Fame worthy piece that every NBA fan would be shocked to see in person".
Bryant previously auctioned another mask he wore in the same season, securing $67,000 (£54,498) for the Kobe and Vanessa Bryant Family Foundation.
Clint McKay added 65 with the bat as the visitors posted 427 in Cardiff, and then took 2-38 as he and Ben Raine (3-48) pressed home the Foxes' advantage.
Aneurin Donald top-scored with 57 for the hosts but his stand of 60 with Jacques Rudolph (39) was the only real resistance from Glamorgan.
At 172-8, Glamorgan lead by just 93 runs going into day four.
Glamorgan's Aneurin Donald told BBC Wales Sport: "It was a disappointing batting performance though they bowled really well.
"We had a couple of good balls, a couple of poor shots and I was involved in a run-out (with David Lloyd) and played a poor shot.
"I was pleased with the way I got myself in but disappointed to get out when I was set and really needed to kick on.
"But we showed a bit of fight at the end with Waggy (Graham Wagg) and Hoges (Michael Hogan), so if we can scrape together a lead of 120 to 150 plus, we're in the game.
"They're going to play their shots and if they get in, they'll get a few quickly and they'll be dangerous in the morning."
Leicestershire all-rounder Wayne White told BBC Radio Leicester: "We batted 130 overs, the last four wickets added 180, we put some overs on their legs, and you can usually see the difference when you're bowling at a tired line-up.
"The bowlers were fresh, we went hard at it, and we created a lot of chances.
"We made things happen. We hit a good length, and the energy in the field was great to see.
"There's plenty to do though, batting last on a day four pitch is never easy but we have put ourselves in a good position."
The on-loan Bolton striker scored in each half and although Paul Anderson pulled a goal back, Dion Donohue sealed Chesterfield's first win in five games.
The Spireites caught Northampton flat in the seventh minute when Jon Nolan played Wilkinson in on the left and his low shot went in off the far post.
Northampton almost conceded again in the 24th minute when Gboly Ariyibi's cross was deflected goalwards, but Zander Diamond made a great clearance to put the ball over the crossbar.
It needed a good save from Adam Smith to deny Northampton in the 40th minute when Matt Taylor's 20-yard shot was turned over, but their hopes of a comeback were dented nine minutes later when Wilkinson was allowed to turn on the edge of the area to score with a deflected shot.
Town reduced the deficit in the 63rd minute when Anderson was unmarked at the back post to beat Ryan Fulton, only for Donohue to break away in the 70th minute and score with a 20-yard shot.
Reports supplied by the Press Association.
REACTION: Chesterfield boss Danny Wilson speaks to BBC Radio Sheffield
Match ends, Chesterfield 3, Northampton Town 1.
Second Half ends, Chesterfield 3, Northampton Town 1.
Corner, Chesterfield. Conceded by Matthew Taylor.
Foul by John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town).
Jay O'Shea (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Chesterfield. Ricky German replaces Kristian Dennis.
Foul by Marc Richards (Northampton Town).
Sam Hird (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Matthew Taylor (Northampton Town) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Alex Revell (Northampton Town) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Foul by Alex Revell (Northampton Town).
Gary Liddle (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Kristian Dennis (Chesterfield) is shown the yellow card.
Matthew Taylor (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Gboly Ariyibi (Chesterfield).
Substitution, Northampton Town. John-Joe O'Toole replaces Jak McCourt.
Jon Nolan (Chesterfield) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Matthew Taylor (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jon Nolan (Chesterfield).
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Sam Hird.
Attempt blocked. Sam Hoskins (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Chesterfield. Dan Gardner replaces Conor Wilkinson because of an injury.
(Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Marc Richards (Northampton Town).
Goal! Chesterfield 3, Northampton Town 1. Dion Donohue (Chesterfield) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jay O'Shea.
Foul by Matthew Taylor (Northampton Town).
Jon Nolan (Chesterfield) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Paul Anderson (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Kristian Dennis (Chesterfield).
Foul by Marc Richards (Northampton Town).
Paul McGinn (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Gary Liddle.
Goal! Chesterfield 2, Northampton Town 1. Paul Anderson (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Matthew Taylor.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Marc Richards replaces Harry Beautyman.
Foul by Alex Revell (Northampton Town).
Gary Liddle (Chesterfield) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Conor Wilkinson (Chesterfield) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Alex Revell (Northampton Town) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Goal! Chesterfield 2, Northampton Town 0. Conor Wilkinson (Chesterfield) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Gboly Ariyibi.
Second Half begins Chesterfield 1, Northampton Town 0.
That's the theory of a hackathon.
To find out how they work, I enter one held during Music Tech Fest, which is on tour in Boston.
The event is dedicated to music technology, my favourite topic.
On Saturday, I arrive at Microsoft's New England Research and Development Center (yes, the Nerd Center) and at half past one, it's time to start - hackathon organiser Adam John Williams energetically shouts "go".
You wouldn't know it, though - people are just sitting and chatting. Where's the intensity? Where's the urgency?
It feels like someone's bought a whole load of ingredients for a cake, but no recipes.
Some people have, however, come here with ideas in mind. For example, Sean Manton, a gifted musician, biomedical researcher, coder and fire dancer.
He would like to use his dragon staff - a pole that he spins - to control music playback-speed during a performance. Physical designer Elio Icaza Milson has agreed to help Sean 3D-print a holder for a micro-sensor.
The sensor should detect rotation speed and send data wirelessly to a computer - assuming it can be attached to the staff.
It's all quite fun. But I don't have any ideas yet, so I help MJ, a pan-piping beatboxer, record a track.
Ten hours in, we move to a TV studio up the road for the overnight segment.
RedStar Union is a cool venue with a stage, musicians and a room full of kit to stream music content live on the web.
Tonight it's rammed with Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets and computers in the front room, and hackers and kit wherever we can fit.
It's a pretty intensive experience, and not without some mischief. After being cooped up in a small room for most of the evening, we decide to storm the stage for some very loud creative idea exchanges.
One of my stage cohorts is CJ Carr, another musician and hacker specialising in machine-generated music and music therapy.
He's making what he's calling a Hexadecipus - a 16-legged music controller made from a playable painting.
It's about 3am, so I compose some music for the Hexadecipus. It's in 17/4 time signature... because it has 16 legs and a head.
At 4am I ask Music Tech Fest founder Michela Magas why people take part in hackathons. She says it is an opportunity to "collide with another wonderful mind who has been researching something different from you - you two might find synergies and something magical might happen".
It's fun collaborating amid the chaos.
We are hacking, playing, colouring and occasionally breakdancing through the night.
There are also horrible potato crisps that I keep eating to make sure they're horrible.
Sean's flatmate has brought his piano in amid the music and wires and crisps and caffeine - and there's not a single spare plug socket in sight.
I'm having a great time.
I wonder whether staying up all night lowers barriers to creativity, or just makes us go a little crazy.
At around 8.30am (19 hours in) inspiration strikes over breakfast when I say a doughnut tastes of D major. For the first time in my life, people hear that and think: data set. So, they ask a few more questions and we eat a few more doughnuts.
I don't normally talk about my synaesthesia, but one of the connections is that is I hear music when I eat things.
Synaesthesia is where the senses are mixed together - for example seeing colour when listening to music - or tasting food and hearing chords.
Developers Alex Dorsk and Danny Kirschner are fascinated by this, and together we have the idea to make an app that pairs music with food.
Alex uses Balsamiq, a sketching program to help us imagine the app layout and what we'd like it to do. Dan works on the actual mechanics of the app on a program called Ruby on Rails.
Meanwhile I am working out which data the user needs to enter and what the app needs to return - basically how the app and the user will ultimately interact.
It feels fantastic to hack through the night - though that could be the sleep deprivation. We finish the first draft just in time, so it's back to the Nerd Center to present our idea, which we've called SoundBites.
Thirty hours in and full of coffee, we present our app along with doughnuts for the audience to eat at the same time as us.
Our sugar bribe helps the presentation go down well. Sean's dragon staff also works - the faster he spins it, the faster the music plays. And CJ's Hexadecipus controller is also a triumph, playing musical snippets determined by the colour pressed.
They each win the prize in their category, and to top it all, our team wins the prize in the synaesthesia category!
Alex, Dan and I are continuing to work on the app together on collaborative coding site GitHub - which I guess means I'm now a fully-fledged music hacker.
After a few final hours going out dancing to celebrate our respective wins, I finally fall to sleep after a mere 40 hours on the go. Not bad for my first (and definitely not last!) hackathon.
The plan also includes new time frames for cases where children are taken into care and compulsory mediation awareness sessions for separating couples.
Justice Minister Simon Hughes said it was "a hugely important change" to what had been a "very dysfunctional system".
But the chief executive of the Family Rights Group charity said some of the changes could "work against children".
There are about 270,000 new family cases each year dealing with issues such as local authority intervention, divorce, domestic violence and adoption.
By Clive ColemanLegal correspondent, BBC News
Removing a child from their parents and placing them in local authority care, is arguably the most draconian thing that the state does to a family. It is critical that care proceedings are conducted as comprehensively and efficiently as possible in the courts.
Babies, toddlers and teenagers going through care proceedings have been removed from their parents for their own well being and are seeking a decision on a permanent and secure home. The Family Justice Review in 2011 found care cases taking on average 56 weeks.
The new 26-week time limit should mean speedier and better outcomes for vulnerable children. But there are risks. If a biological parent is on a drug or alcohol rehabilitation programme lasting a year, it is unclear whether the time limit for the care case will be extended.
There is a power to extend the 26-week period if it is necessary to resolve the case justly, but this is new law and no one quite knows how it will be applied.
A review carried out in 2011 found that vulnerable children were having their "futures undermined" by excessive delays, with care and supervision cases taking an average of 56 weeks.
Although that has come down, the reforms address a range of shortcomings. They include rules to ensure:
There are also changes to the way in which children are dealt with in family cases, with the abolition of labels such as "residence" and "contact", which were thought to focus on the rights of parents rather than the needs of the child.
The changes are also intended to ensure the right level of judge is appointed for a particular Family Court case, and that it is held in the most suitable location.
Justices' clerks and their assistants will be authorised to assist all judges across the Family Court.
BBC legal correspondent Clive Coleman said: "The new 26-week time limit should mean speedier and better outcomes for vulnerable children. But there are risks.
"There is a power to extend the 26-week period if it is necessary to resolve the case justly, but this is new law and no one quite knows how it will be applied."
Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division, said: "Today marks the largest reform of the family justice system any of us have seen or will see in our professional lifetimes.
"Taken as a whole, these reforms amount to a revolution. There has been, indeed there had to be, a fundamental change in the cultures of the family courts. This is truly a cultural revolution.
"I have visited every care centre to see for myself how it is taking shape."
Family Justice Minister Simon Hughes told the BBC that under the previous system "the battle over children went on for weeks and weeks and months and months absolutely against the interests of the child".
The new rules would provide "security and certainty", he predicted, and would prevent children being "moved from pillar to post".
But Family Rights Group chief executive Cathy Ashley told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the reforms were a "hotch potch".
"There are some positive measures, but also some provisions will potentially work against children", she said, raising concerns about safeguards when care proceedings are speeded up.
She also said proposals to allow foster carers to go on to adopt children they are looking after could make it harder for children to be placed with their extended family.
Family lawyer Marilyn Stowe questioned the move to force separating couples to attend compulsory mediation awareness sessions.
Mediation should be "complementary" to the court system, she said.
Often seen wearing a turban, he became CAR's first Muslim ruler, plunging the country into a religious conflict between the Muslim minority and Christian majority.
In January 2014, at a meeting in Chad organised by regional leaders to try to end the violence - which was attended by CAR's entire transitional assembly - Mr Djotodia resigned and headed into exile in Benin.
Although Mr Djotodia had officially disbanded the Seleka rebel group that propelled him to power, its fighters have been involved in a vicious cycle of attacks and counter-attacks with Christian militias, known as anti-balaka.
"While Seleka fighters have notional inclinations for political Islam, they share a strong sense of communal identity and a will to avenge previous CAR regimes and their beneficiaries identified as Christians (not much of a discriminating factor, as the CAR population is more than 75% Christian)," says French researcher Roland Marchal in an article published in September.
US anthropologist Louisa Lombard, who was once based in CAR, says Mr Djotodia always pursued his political ambitions "fervently".
"Hearing the stories of his ambition during my research, I almost felt embarrassed on his behalf - he seemed like a Jamaican bobsledder convinced he'd win gold," she wrote when he seized power.
Born in 1949 in what Ms Lombard describes as CAR's "remote, neglected, and largely Muslim north-east", Mr Djotodia led the Union of Democratic Forces for Unity (UFDR) into a coalition with other rebel groups to form Seleka, which spearheaded the offensive to overthrow Mr Bozize.
For Mr Djotodia, this was sweet revenge: Mr Bozize's rebel forces had toppled his political boss, then-President Ange Felix-Patasse, in 2003.
Mr Djotodia had served in Mr Patasse's government as a civil servant in the ministry of planning after studying economics in the former Soviet Union.
According to Ms Lombard, he ended up staying for 10 years in the USSR, where he married and had two daughters.
He became fluent in several languages, "which made him useful when it came to representing the UFDR to foreigners and the media", she says.
"People in Tiringoulou [village in CAR] tell of one day, long before the rebellion, when a plane of Russian hunters unexpectedly arrived. Upon hearing Djotodia's rendition of their language, [they] declared him not Central African but Russian and brought him along for their tour of the country," Ms Lombard adds.
Mr Djotodia also worked in CAR's foreign ministry and was named consul to Nyala in neighbouring Sudan's Darfur region.
He was said to have used his time there to cultivate alliances with Sudanese militias and Chadian rebels in the area.
"It was these fighters from the Chad/Sudan/CAR borderlands who became the military backbone of the Seleka rebel coalition... The UFDR fighters I knew - tough guys, but a bit ragtag, especially compared to their counterparts in places like Chad or Sudan - could have put up a decent fight against the CAR armed forces on their own, but the 'Chadians' were what made them so unstoppable," Ms Lombard says.
Mr Djotodia was jailed in Benin in November 2006 for using the country as a base for his rebellion against Mr Bozize.
According to rights group Amnesty International's 2009 report on CAR, Mr Djotodia and another rebel leader, Abakar Sabone were, detained without trial in Benin for more than a year, before being released at Mr Bozize's request in the hope that it would the end the conflict raging at the time.
It was probably Mr Bozize's biggest political mistake, as it opened the way for Mr Djotodia to shrewdly play the dual role of peace-maker and rebel leader until he finally seized power in Bangui.
And first-time buyers need all the help they can get, with relatively high property prices and stricter rules on getting a mortgage.
The Help to Buy ISA is an offer from the government to top up your savings for a deposit.
Critics say the move will push house prices further out of people's reach, with a lack of new homes available.
There are also questions over the financing of the policy, with researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies claiming the plan is "unfunded".
But if you're interested, here's how it works.
For every £1 you save the government will give you 25p. It'll match that up to a maximum of £200 each month, up to a total of £12,000. So you save £12,000 and you'll actually have £15,000 to play with.
Help to Buy ISAs should be available from autumn 2015 (ministers still need to finalise the details with industry) and will stay open to first-time buyers for four years. Once you've got one though there's no time limit on how how quickly you have to save and no time limit on when you can use the government's bonus.
Help to Buy ISAs are only for people (or groups of people) buying their first home to live in. So wannabe property moguls who want to use them to help with their buy-to-let empire need not apply.
If you're buying a home on your own you can use one Help to Buy ISA. If you're buying it with someone else you can both get one. If three of you are buying a house together you can all still get one each and use all three Help to Buy ISAs to help get you started. And so on.
The Help to Buy ISAs won't be available until later this year, but you'll be able to open one with (up to) a £1,000 deposit. That way ministers say first-time buyers can start saving now and still won't lose out if they've got £1,000 together by then.
The Help to Buy ISA will only be available on homes worth up to £250,000 (or £450,000 in London). So if you've just won the lottery or come into some inheritance money you can't get this bonus payment from the government for a million pound mansion.
Help To Buy ISAs are the latest way the government is hoping to help first-time buyers and boost the construction industry.
Here are some of the other schemes already in place.
Announced in October 2013, this scheme was aimed at providing nearly £10 billion for almost 200,000 home buyers. For anyone who's got a 5% deposit the government said it would put up 20% in a loan (up to a maximum property value of £600,000, interest free for five years) which can be repaid at any time or when the property is sold.
Shared ownership schemes are provided through housing associations. People buy a share of their home (25% to 75% of the home's value) and pay rent on the remaining share. There are different rules on who can apply but it's aimed at council tenants, first-time buyers and people with a family income of less than £60,000.
Another scheme launched in 2013 that lets anyone, not just first-time buyers, buy a new build home with a 5% deposit. This one is run by the housing industry though and people still need a mortgage to pay for the rest of the property's value.
Under this scheme, the government offers a guarantee to lenders (banks/mortgage providers/building societies) that provide mortgages to people with a deposit of between 5% and 20%. This one isn't available for people wanting to buy a second home or buy-to-let property though.
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The departure of Huw Irranca-Davies, who's quitting Westminster to seek a seat in the Welsh Assembly, has created an opening for a chair of the Environmental Audit Committee - which he has only held for a couple of months. That committee chair has been allocated to the Labour Party - but all MPs across all parties have a vote in the election, which will be held next week.
Nominations close on Monday, and so far three runners have emerged: former leadership candidate Mary Creagh, Co-Op party stalwart Geraint Davies and Barry Gardiner. That last name is an interesting one, because Mr Gardiner - an acknowledged energy policy expert - is part of Labour's shadow energy team.
He says his leadership are completely relaxed about his attempt to swap the front bench for the committee corridor. An effective chair is crucial to the impact a select committee has, and Environmental Audit, with its cross-government remit, could become a real powerhouse, under the right leadership.
Looking at the membership of the special select committee peers voted to set up, to consider the impact of the Trade Union Bill on party funding (there were warnings that its provisions could cut funding for the Labour Party by £6m), I suspect there might be.
The crossbench peer and former Treasury mandarin Lord Burns is the chairman, and batting for the government are four Conservatives: Lord Callanan, Lord de Mauley, Lord Robathan and Lord Sherbourne of Didsbury. Labour field ex-union officials Baroness Dean (former Leader of SOGAT), Lord (Larry) Whitty (ex GMB) and Baroness Drake (a former President of the TUC) plus the former Leader of the House, Lord Richard. The Lib Dem contingent consists of Lord Tyler, who first proposed this committee, and Lord Wrigglesworth.
And the team is completed by the newly arrived Crossbencher, the Earl of Kinnoull.
Looking at that cast of characters, the committee will probably end up providing a line of argument helpful to the Labour-Lib Dem cause when it reports at the end of February, tee-ing up hostile amendments which could well be voted through at report stage - unless both Crossbench peers repeatedly side with the Conservatives.
Last week saw a relative rarity; a meeting of the Commons Privileges Committee, which deals with matters touching the rights of the House. It was a private meeting so I don't know what they talked about - but just about the only privileges issue in their in-tray is the complaint from the last parliament that three witnesses, Tom Crone, Colin Myler and Les Hinton, and that the company they had worked for, News International, misled the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee….
This dates all the way back to 2012 when, on a majority vote, the committee included that claim in their report on the phone hacking scandal.
While there were a number of live criminal trials of other individuals accused of hacking offences, the Privileges Committee postponed any action - but the coast is now clear. Could we see a final act in the hacking scandal? Will witnesses like Les Hinton (he issued a rebuttal of the committee's claims, which he called "unfair, unfounded and erroneous") be re-examined, or will the complaint be dropped as quietly as possible. Watch this space.
When an MP is arrested, for whatever reason, the fact is recorded in the Commons business papers; this is an immemorial convention dating back to the days when such an arrest may well have been an attempt by the Crown to interfere in the workings of Parliament. But these days it can highlight an allegation against an MP at an early stage, far earlier than would be the case for non-MPs.
Next month the Commons will vote on a proposal to change that, so in future arrests will only be reported where the Clerks consider that what has happened is, in some way an infringement of the rights of Parliament; so an arrest for, say, a bar-room brawl, would not be publicised in the Commons business papers; but the Damian Green case, where an MP's Commons office was searched, would.
Of course this would not stop Her Majesty's Press finding out in other ways....it just wouldn't be via an official Commons publication.
Blink and you'd have missed the one overt sign of it, but behind the scenes, there's a considerable spat under way about the game-playing over private members' bill debates on a Commons Friday. Last week, private members' bill terminator Chris Chope was so annoyed at the government's tactics that he shouted "object" - and blocked an attempt to give an unopposed second reading to an uncontroversial measure to tidy up an MPs' hardship fund, set up after World War II, much to the visible annoyance of the bill's promoter, Sir Paul Beresford.
A minimal morsel of revenge, perhaps, but it presages a bigger problem. You see, the supply of private members' bills is drying up.
So many of the current crop of bills were killed off at second reading, that there are only a handful left to return to the Commons for report stage and third reading - and there are still plenty of sitting Fridays scheduled: on 29 January, 5 and 26 February, and 4 and 11 March. If there are no bills left to come back to the Commons, where they would take priority for debate, then all sorts of presentation bills and ten minute rule bills might suddenly end up being debated.
Bills on subjects like human trafficking, ovarian cancer, bat habitats, BBC privatisation and much, much more might surface for debate.
And since most of them emanate from Mr Chope and his usual suspect colleague, Peter Bone, they will mostly be on subjects the government would prefer not to have debated and not to have to respond to. I particularly like the sound of Mr Bone's Prime Minister (Temporary Appointment) Bill, which currently tops the agenda on 4 March.
The 19-year-old will return to the Serb club on loan and join up with the Premier League side on 1 July.
"I'm very excited and so proud to be here," said Grujic, who won the Under-20 World Cup with Serbia in 2015.
The Reds outbid Anderlecht and Stuttgart and saw off interest from Russian sides CSKA Moscow and Zenit St Petersburg.
Grujic, who has also represented his country at under-21 level, has scored five goals in 22 games for Serbian Super Liga leaders Red Star this season.
He is Jurgen Klopp's first signing as Liverpool manager since his appointment in October.
"He's a good boy, a young boy but plays an important role at the moment at Red Star, who are the best team in Serbia," said the German.
"He's a tall boy, but quick and good at technical things. He can play passes and can dribble."
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Documents uncovered by the Associated Press show the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) warned Russian athletics chiefs in 2009 that the blood levels of their athletes were "putting their health and even their own lives in very serious danger".
The 2009 letter from the IAAF to Valentin Balakhnichev, then the president of the All-Russia Athletic Federation (Araf), said results from tests at that year's World Championships in Berlin were "startling".
Balakhnichev was banned for life last week for breaching anti-doping violations.
On Thursday, a World Anti-Doping Authority (Wada) independent report is expected to reveal details of the IAAF's alleged complicity in covering up doping in the sport.
The first part of the report, published in November, led to Russia's athletes being banned from international competition because of "state-sponsored doping".
Russia won 13 medals at the 2009 event, but its athletes recorded "some of the highest values ever seen since the IAAF started testing", said the letter, written by the IAAF's general secretary Pierre Weiss.
The results "strongly suggest a systematic abuse of blood doping or EPO products", Weiss wrote.
The correspondence took place before the IAAF introduced the blood passport, which monitors abnormal results over a longer period of time to identify and ban cheats.
At that time, the results on their own were not enough to sanction athletes and it was down to the country's own anti-doping authorities to tackle cheats.
According to news agency AP, further correspondence before the 2012 London Olympics showed the IAAF proposed "discreet" handling of doping cases for less well-known Russian athletes.
The athletes could be removed from competition, with the world governing body not publishing the sanction, and they would be given a two-year ban, rather than four, if they agreed to the deal.
But the note said it would be "impossible" to take this approach with Russia's elite athletes without their absence from competition raising questions, so their bans would have to be made public.
The IAAF said these proposals were never put into action, and Balakhnichev told AP they never reached him.
The documents show that the IAAF already had grave concerns six years before it took action against Russia.
In the 2009 letter, Weiss asks Balakhnichev what internal sanctions the athletes with suspicious blood tests will face. He says the situation is "so serious" that "immediate and drastic action" is needed.
Yet it took the publication of the Wada report, based on the evidence of a 2014 German TV documentary, for the IAAF to rule that "the whole system has failed the athletes, not just in Russia, but around the world".
IAAF chairman Lord Coe said at the time: "This has been a shameful wake-up call."
IAAF spokesman Chris Turner told AP: "No cases were concealed or suppressed. The IAAF simply tackled them in order of importance."
He said every athlete was investigated and the IAAF has successfully brought 33 blood passport cases against Russian athletes, with "more pending".
"In 2011, there was a huge influx of suspicious profiles coming through," Turner said in a statement.
"There was a need to prioritise, and in particular to expedite those cases which involved potential medal winners ahead of the 2012 Olympic Games."
He described Weiss' letter as a "clear, open warning" to Russia and insisted the IAAF had been "very strong".
IAAF deputy general secretary Nick Davies has stepped aside while an investigation takes place over a separate plan to delay naming Russian drug cheats, before the 2013 World Championships in Moscow.
In an email sent 22 days before the competition to former IAAF marketing consultant Papa Massata Diack, Davies wrote about the need to discuss "Russian skeletons in the cupboard" with the anti-doping team.
The Englishman told Diack "we need to be smart" about releasing names.
Davies has denied any wrongdoing. The proposals contained in the email were never carried through.
After Russia's competition ban for alleged "state-sponsored doping", Lamine Diack, the former IAAF president, was placed under criminal investigation over allegations he took payments for deferring sanctions against Russian drugs cheats. He denies wrongdoing.
Three athletics figures - Diack's son Papa Massata Diack, Balakhnichev and fellow Russian official Alexei Melnikov - were given lifetime bans after a report claimed they "conspired" to blackmail a Russian athlete in order to cover up her doping violations.
Lamine Diack's successor and former vice-president Lord Coe has pledged to double the anti-doping budget, establish a separate integrity unit for athletics before Rio 2016, and double the international testing pool of athletes to 1,000.
On Monday, UK Athletics chief Ed Warner suggested that world records should be reset as part of a 14-point manifesto to start a new "clean era" for the sport.
A celebratory open top bus tour will leave from Cardiff Castle and Manic Street Preachers will play to an expected sell-out crowd of more than 33,000 fans at Cardiff City Stadium.
It will be followed by a player presentation.
Wales fans have praised the team's heroics at Euro 2016, saying it had changed Welsh football forever.
Tickets for the homecoming concert were being offered first to supporters who were members of the Euros qualifying campaign.
They were then going on general release to the public from 12:30 BST on Thursday - with two tickets being allocated per person.
Football Association of Wales chief executive Jonathan Ford said: "We feel this event is a great way of everyone celebrating what has been a historic period for Welsh football.
"The scenes we have seen both at home and over in France have been fantastic and we hope that our passionate supporters can enjoy another moment with the players to end a memorable few weeks."
All roads in the city centre will be closed from 14:30 until 17:30 for the open top bus parade, while a few streets will remain closed to traffic until 18:00.
The players will board the bus at Cardiff Castle at 16:00, before it makes its way down High Street and St Mary Street on to Wood Street.
There it will turn right on to Westgate Street, before turning left at the Holiday Inn and crossing the River Taff.
The tour will proceed down Wellington Street, turn on to Leckwith Road, then finish at Cardiff City Stadium at 17:30.
Events at Cardiff City Stadium will begin at 17:15, with turnstiles open at 17:00.
A player and staff presentation and question and answer session will begin at 18.45.
BBC Wales will follow the homecoming celebrations on television, radio and online in English and in Welsh.
Rhodri Talfan Davies, director of BBC Wales, said: "The Wales football team has inspired a nation during this tournament, which has seen record numbers of viewers in Wales watch, share and be part of their historic achievements."
Almost half Wales' population watched last night's ITV match coverage, with figures peaking at 1.327 million viewers.
From kick-off to final whistle, the match averaged an audience of 1.2 million, a 74% share.
Across the UK, the number of viewers peaked at 15.4 million.
The figure is just behind 1.379 million viewers who watched the Olympic opening ceremony in 2012 - the highest peak audience in Wales this century.
First Minister Carwyn Jones praised both the team and the Welsh fans, and said it had been "a thrilling journey and one which had gripped the nation".
"We have a unique culture, unique values and unique people - something which is now recognised by billions of people all over the world," he said.
"The performance on the pitch has been magnificent, the impression our fans have left on France and the rest of the world equally so - you've all done your country very, very proud."
Meanwhile, the Welsh Conservatives have backed a campaign for a north Wales homecoming event.
Montgomeryshire AM Russell George said: "Following the tournament, it'd be fantastic for people in all parts of Wales to have the opportunity to welcome the team back."
Ahmad won 34 of the 54 votes in the election, which was held in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa on Thursday.
The result means a change in leadership for the first time since Cameroonian Hayatou took charge in 1988.
Ahmad, who appeared very emotional, becomes only the seventh Caf president in the body's 60-year history.
The 57-year-old, who goes by a single name, told BBC Sport afterwards: "I can't talk at this time. Only one thing - I thank God, I thank my team.
"We worked hard but we won. That was the first step. The second step is to develop African football.
"Some days I thought I would win - today I didn't (think I would win)."
The result was greeted by cheers at the Caf congress as Ahmad was carried on the shoulders of jubilant supporters to the podium after the result was announced.
In contrast, Hayatou was led from the auditorium by aides but he told reporters as he departed: "It is not that bad."
Ahmad later added: "When you try to do something, you mean that you can do it. If I can't do it, I never stand.
"This is sweet victory. When you work hard for years and months and you succeed, that is great.''
Ahmad, who became Madagascar FA chief in 2003, takes over as Caf president on an initial four-year term, and has promised to modernise the body and make it more transparent.
His first job, he said earlier on Thursday, would be to introduce a new code of ethics and he has also pledged to extend ethics checks on African football officials.
The departure of Hayatou is a huge change for African football and the 70-year-old will also lose his Fifa position and his place on the ruling council of world football's governing body.
He had been challenged for the Caf presidency only twice before and both times won with landslide victories.
This time he won only 20 votes, ending his hopes of winning an eighth term in office that would have seen his presidency extend for more than three decades in total.
"His excellency Issa Hayatou has done a lot for African football (but) it is time for him to step back," said George Afriyie, vice president of the Ghana Football Association.
Liberia Football Association President Musa Bility added: "Africa has made an emphatic decision that we are ready for change."
That is the view of the man in charge of training, with 400 places unfilled.
Prof Derek Gallen believes a perception of Wales is a problem, with junior doctors knowing Cardiff but not sure where Hywel Dda or Betsi Cadwaladr is.
But, Deputy Health Minister Vaughan Gething disagreed, saying changing health boards' names was not the solution to attracting junior medics.
Prof Gallen also says a shortage of junior paediatricians puts pressure on rotas and in turn hits the quality of their training.
As the postgraduate dean for the Wales Deanery, Prof Gallen oversees training for doctors across the country from when they qualify until they become fully fledged GPs or consultants.
He says geography and perception of Wales are issues he comes across, and recruiting to north and west Wales is a particular problem.
Prof Gallen also believes some junior doctors think they have to speak Welsh to work here.
"There's a perception they don't understand the geography, that they will have long commutes between trusts on their rotations and that they will have to speak Welsh," he said.
Prof Gallen believes students and junior doctors are struggling to easily identify areas of Wales outside Cardiff and the Vale due to the health board names.
"When you're applying for jobs you'd have to work quite hard to find out where that is in Wales, and what it's near, so that is certainly an issue.
"In a collective sense it's difficult for people to know the whole of the Pembrokeshire coast is Hywel Dda. Most of middle class England holiday here but there's a perception they don't want to work and live here - and the work-life balance is fantastic.
"It would be good to try [changing the names] to see if would make a difference."
However Mr Gething disagreed, saying training was the key factor in attracting junior doctors.
"Junior doctors look at the quality of training opportunities as the biggest factor on whether they're going to go and train somewhere," he said.
"That has to be the primary focus for the NHS in Wales."
After they qualify from medical school many junior doctors return home, or gravitate towards the big hospitals of London.
So to compete, Prof Gallen argues the NHS in Wales needs to prove it can provide better training than elsewhere.
There are worries of a vicious circle existing in some specialist areas - like paediatrics - with shortages of junior doctors meaning they are pressed hard on to rotas, leaving less time to study.
It has led to "unacceptably low" exam results in the specialism.
Three years ago, the imbalance in training and having to care for patients saw junior doctors withdrawn from places at one south Wales hospital - with medical wards forced to close.
Dr Phil Banfield, chair of the British Medical Association in Wales, said that situation could happen again.
He told BBC Wales that there are "discussions going on daily" on how to cover rotas as trainees are moved around hospitals.
"There's a potential collapse of service in as little as six weeks time," he warned.
Prof Gallen said the pressures facing junior doctors adds to the argument to centralise more specialisms.
He told BBC Wales that in order to compete with popular places like London, Wales needs to offer better experience for junior doctors.
He argues that plans to centralise some specialist services at fewer large hospitals need to go further.
There are currently 400 vacancies for the 2,900 places in Wales, with the problem worse beyond the M4 corridor.
But quality is still more important than quantity.
"Filling the posts is secondary to filling them with the best people," said Prof Gallen.
"I'd have fewer and better rather than filling all 2,900 posts."
The Welsh government said it invests more than £350m supporting more than 15,000 students studying a range of health-related programmes.
"We are committed to working with Welsh NHS organisations and others such as the Deanery to continue to recruit and retain staff," a spokesman added.
The 24-year-old came through QPR's youth system but only featured 16 times for the Rs and spent most of his professional career out on loan.
He has spent the much of the past two seasons on loan at Swindon, making 34 appearances in total.
Doughty will join his new team-mates on the League One club's pre-season training in Spain later on Thursday.
He told the club website: "I have experience of playing in this league and it can be a gruelling league. However, teams have shown, like Fleetwood, that you don't need to be the biggest club in the division to have success.
"I like the way the team play and that suits my game, but the biggest thing for me is winning. I hate losing, you only have to ask my girlfriend that."
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Williamson capitalised on Frazer Shaw's tame back pass to round O's keeper Alex Cisak and slot the ball home.
The visitors struck again through Williamson's low drive before Orient pulled one back through substitute Armand Gnanduillet's neat finish.
Jimmy Spencer buried Williamson's cross on his debut to seal victory for the U's, who climb to 11th in League Two.
Nolan had started with two victories for the O's after being appointed on 21 January. His side drop three places back to ninth, two points above Cambridge.
Leyton Orient player-manager Kevin Nolan told BBC Radio London:
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"We were very sloppy. You don't want to gift a side who've come to your turf a goal and that's what we did.
"I've said to the lads, when you're playing at this level you can't afford to make mistake after mistake after mistake because if you do that you're going to get punished and we did.
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Leicestershire moved to the verge of victory as Glamorgan suffered a disastrous collapse late on day three.
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Northampton's 31-game unbeaten run in league matches came to an end when a Conor Wilkinson double helped Chesterfield to victory at the Proact Stadium.
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A Soviet-trained civil servant who turned into a rebel commander, Michel Djotodia fulfilled his long-held ambition of becoming leader of Central African Republic (CAR) when he overthrew President Francois Bozize in March 2013.
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Liverpool have signed Red Star Belgrade midfielder Marko Grujic for £5.1m on a four-year contract.
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The watchdog found that the UK's biggest mobile network broke a billing rule on two occasions.
Users who called its 150 customer services number while roaming within the EU were incorrectly charged as if they had called the US.
That meant customers were charged £1.20 a minute, rather than 19p.
As a result, more than 32,145 customers were overcharged a total of £245,000.
Despite calls or texts to the 150 number from within the EU becoming free from 18 November 2015, EE continued to bill more than 7,600 customers until 11 January 2016 who were overcharged £2,203.
Lindsey Fussell, Ofcom's consumer group director, told the BBC: "We all rely on big companies to get the most basic things right, and that includes charging the right bills... we uncovered a catalogue of errors."
The fine will go to the Treasury.
Asked whether fining companies worked, Ms Fussell said: "We think that it's a significant fine and that they are a good deterrent."
EE said it accepted the findings and apologised unreservedly to customers affected.
Most customers have been refunded, although EE could not identify at least 6,900 who were more than £60,000 out of pocket.
EE has donated about £62,000 to charity in lieu of this sum, but Ofcom has ordered the company to make further attempts to trace and refund every customer who was overcharged.
Shekhar Raj Dhain, an EE customer, said he was incorrectly billed last year by the mobile operator, which BT took over last year.
"I rang three times about this and in the end was exasperated and quite disgusted. Eventually they credited back the difference - after ranting, which I shouldn't have to - and gave me £20 compensation. It's left a sour taste," he said.
Current and former customers who believe they have been overcharged can contact EE on 0800 956 6000.
In October, Ofcom fined Vodafone a record £4.6m for "serious" breaches of consumer protection rules.
The regulator found the mobile operator had misled more than 10,000 pay-as-you-go customers, charging them for top-up credit but "providing nothing in return", and had broken the rules on handling customer complaints.
Gigginstown boss Michael O'Leary was furious with some of the weights allocated by handicapper Phil Smith.
Devil's Bride, Clarcam, Tiger Roll, A Toi Phil and The Game Changer were also taken out, but eight Gigginstown contenders remain in the 8 April race.
A total of 95 entries go forward, with a maximum final field of 40.
Fifteen horses were withdrawn at the latest entry stage. The others are: Champagne West, Devils Bride, Triolo D'Alene, Vieux Morvan, Gallant Oscar, Tour Des Champs, Dromnea and Otago Trail.
Trainer Gordon Elliott had indicated Outlander would not run as soon as he was allocated top weight of 11st 10lb, and Ryanair boss O'Leary has lived up to his vow to withdraw several of his leading hopes.
Road To Riches and Rogue Angel are among his horses still in the marathon contest, for which the weights are now headed by Carlingford Lough, with last year's runner-up The Last Samuri next on the list.
Smith has denied the suggestion there might be an anti-Irish bias. He said British handicappers keeping their own performance figures for Irish races has "given our handicaps greater equality and fairness".
Less than four weeks from the assembly election, the parties are promising reforms to the current system.
People can currently keep £24,000 of their assets before having to pay to go into a care home.
Labour want to increase that figure to £50,000, while the Conservatives want a £100,000 limit.
Labour said it was estimated about a fifth of people in residential care in Wales were paying for it themselves, and 28% of those in nursing homes.
Health Minister Mark Drakeford said his party was "committed to giving people extra help in their old age, giving a fairer deal to people who have played fair and paid in".
"There are more than 15,000 people, aged over 65, living in either care or nursing homes across Wales," he said.
"People regularly raise with me the amount of this care they have to self-fund.
"By more than doubling the capital limit to £50,000, thousands of people in Wales will be able to keep £26,000 more of their hard earned savings to help them meet their needs in later life."
In March, the Conservatives announced they would raise the limit to £100,000.
Leader Andrew RT Davies said he would lead "a government that delivers dignity and security in old age".
Plaid Cymru want to scrap social care charges altogether, at a cost of £226m over two assembly terms.
It is another indicator of just how warm conditions in the polar north have been of late.
Temperatures of -5C have been logged when -25C would be the norm.
Ice extent - the two-dimensional measure of frozen ocean surface - is also well down, running currently at just over 9.4 million sq km.
Ordinarily, it would be at least a million sq km higher.
The latest volume assessment comes from the Earth-orbiting Cryosat mission.
This European Space Agency satellite carries a radar altimeter designed specifically for the purpose of studying marine floes.
At present, it is the only way to monitor sea-ice volume across the entire Arctic basin.
What is interesting in its new data is that average sea-ice thickness stands today at roughly 130cm.
This represents the 5th thickest November in the Cryosat record, meaning the low volume is pretty much all down to the low extent.
This is most evident at southerly latitudes in the Beaufort, East Siberian and Kara seas, where the warm October/November conditions have been very keenly felt.
"When the Autumn freeze-up occurs, it is the low latitudes that would normally see the fastest growth in ice, in areas of open water or over thin floes. But because of the warm autumn, these regions simply haven't been able to build this volume," said Dr Rachel Tilling from the Nerc Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling at Leeds University, UK.
Cryosat's volume determination on Monday was for 10,200 cu km.
Scientists expect perhaps 300 cu km to be added to floes in the last days of the month.
The resulting 10,500 cu km would then match what was seen in November 2011 and 2012, taking account of the errors that exist in such measurements.
"There is no doubt that sea-ice growth this Autumn has been sluggish and with Cryosat we've witnessed the smallest November growth on record," explained Dr Tilling.
"Usually, it grows by about 160 cu km per day, but this November it's been 139 cu km per day - just under 10% lower."
Volume is really the key metric when considering the status of Arctic sea-ice.
Only thinking about extent, or area, can hide the fact that winds will sometimes spread out the floes and sometimes pile them up.
Talking in terms of volume captures more of the overall behaviour in the Arctic system.
Cryosat gauges volume by first measuring the difference in height between the top of the floating part of the sea-ice and the sea surface.
Knowing the size of this "freeboard" enables scientists to estimate the overall thickness of the ice. Multiplying by the area then gives gives the volume.
"Being able to measure sea-ice thickness means that we can be sure how much is actually there, because changes in melting, snowfall, and drift all affect how thick the ice pack is and this is hidden in maps of extent alone," emphasised Leeds' Prof Andrew Shepherd, the principal scientific adviser to the Cryosat mission.
"It's also of interest for ships attempting to navigate the Arctic's ice-infested waters. Because Cryosat is the only sensor able to do this, it's an essential tool for climate scientists and maritime operators alike."
Launched in 2010, Cryosat is now operating beyond its design lifetime.
How long the spacecraft can continue working is anyone's guess.
It has enough fuel to sustain itself into the early 2020s but component failure in the harsh environment of its orbit, 720km above the Earth, is an ever-present risk.
Europe's research ministers meeting in Lucerne, Switzerland, on Thursday have been asked to consider funding R&D for a replacement satellite.
This Cryosat follow-on spacecraft - if eventually approved for full development - would likely carry an even more sophisticated radar altimeter than the present mission.
It would be multi-frequency in operation and able better to discern the depth of snow sitting on top of the ice. This is one of the factors that adds uncertainty to the calculation of sea-ice thickness and ultimately volume.
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Gate receipts, broadcasting, sponsorship, advertising and commercial income together went down from just over £37m to just over £31m.
Players' wages and salaries were reduced from £30.8 million to £25.4m.
The accounts show a loss of £9.469m, but a club statement indicated investment would continue.
"Our aim remains to attain promotion back to the Premiership at the earliest possible time," CEO Ken Choo said.
A club statement added: "While their funding is not guaranteed, the investors have indicated that, providing the business develops as planned, they will continue to support the company in the foreseeable future and provide additional finance in order that it can settle its liabilities."
The latest accounts also indicate the club "paid exceptional costs of £2.2 million relating to the change of football and senior management, including termination costs together with payments to other football clubs in compensation for the release of employee's contracts."
Cardiff replaced manager Russell Slade with Paul Trollope in May 2016, before sacking Trollope and appointing Neil Warnock in October.
The Championship club will also face a payment of £1.75m to holders of "unsecured redeemable loan stock" if they are promoted to the Premier League, but "all other debts to this concern have been settled".
Cardiff City Supporters Trust chairman Keith Morgan - a chartered accountant by trade - says fans should not be "alarmed" at the loss.
But he says the Bluebirds' financial situation underlines why there is "hard work" ahead for club chiefs to provide the means for manager Neil Warnock to launch a 2017-18 promotion push.
"I think Neil Warnock has already made reference to the fact that he may have to sell players to free up cash and have a wage budget to bring in the players that he wants, that he feels with strengthen the squad," Morgan said.
"I wouldn't be at all shocked in the summer to see some fringe squad players or possibly one or more first team regulars depart the club to refresh the squad, as it were."
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The Jamaican, who is retiring after the event in London, beat Great Britain's James Dasaolu into second (10.13) but was frustrated with his start.
"I'm not fond of these blocks," said Bolt. "I have to get this together."
The USA's Justin Gatlin, twice suspended for doping, was booed when he came out to race but eased through.
Britons Reece Prescod (10.03) and Chijindu Ujah (10.07) took top-three spots to reach Saturday's semi-finals.
Prescod's mark was a lifetime best and earned him third place in a heat where Jamaica's Julian Forte produced the fastest time of the night to win in 9.99 seconds.
The British champion said: "My first World Championships I come out with a PB in the first round - I can't really complain.
"Being in front of a home crowd it's great, this is what athletics is all about - I loved it."
Bolt in contrast looked like he needed to work hard through the middle of the race before tapering down and shaking his head after crossing the line.
The 11-time world champion has only run under 10 seconds once this year and in what was his fourth race of 2017 over the distance he has made his own for a decade, he pointed to his starting blocks as a source of frustration.
"It's shaky because when I did the warm up it [the blocks] pushed back," he told BBC Sport. "It's not what I am used to."
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Former Great Britain sprinter Darren Campbell on BBC Radio 5 live: "This is what we mean by athletes believing they can beat Usain Bolt.
"Two or three in this field have run quicker than him. Where he would have liked to step it up a bit and look easy, he had to work and then started looking across. He expected more. But we know he loves the rounds.
"He tends to make mistakes in the early rounds but I'm sure he wont make the same in the semi-finals."
Four-time Olympic champion Michael Johnson on BBC One: "The race didn't look like normal Usain Bolt. He obviously felt something in the blocks he didn't like and it affected him in the race. He normally doesn't race in the first round and just runs what he needs to run, but he was actually competing and it just looked a little weird."
American champion Christian Coleman - the fastest man in the world this year - looked comfortable, easing down to a 10.01 victory.
His win came in the first of six heats, with three men qualifying from each as well as six fastest losers, cutting a 48-man field down to 24 athletes for the semi-finals.
Jamaican Yohan Blake - the second fastest man in history behind Bolt - looked slightly laboured in placing second in 10.13 behind 18-year-old Abdul Hakim Sani Brown of Japan (10.05).
American Justin Gatlin cruised to a 10.05-second victory but it was Jamaica's Forte who set the marker on the night as the only man to break 10 seconds.
He edged out Ivory Coast's Ben Youssef Meite and Prescod in a race where Akani Simbine disappointed in coming fourth. The South African has run sub-10 on eight occasions this season but required a fastest-loser spot to progress.
Research by the BBC found the shortfall facing 22 hospital trusts in the region had risen by 63% compared to 2013-14.
NHS Providers, a lobby group representing NHS organisations, said the level of debt represented about a quarter of the UK's total NHS debt.
The government said it had managed to increase the NHS budget by £2bn.
Of the 22 trusts, only four - Luton and Dunstable, Bucks Healthcare, Papworth and James Paget - predict surpluses in 2014-15.
Ipswich Hospital forecasts a £12m deficit, while the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn, Norfolk, predicts a £14.9m deficit. Northampton Hospital predicts a £16.7m deficit.
NHS Providers said "sustainable" funding solutions were needed.
Saffron Cordery, its director of policy and strategy, said the whole NHS faced a £1bn deficit.
"We've reached a point where we're at genuine risk of damaging quality of care for patients," she said.
Allyson Pollock, a University of London professor of public health research and policy, said it was likely hospitals would look to generate cash through providing "non-NHS services, such as more private patients".
Political blogger Iain Dale said: "I don't think there is a short-term solution. Any future government will at some point have to write-off debts."
Richard Murray, director of policy at the King's Fund think tank, called for less "premium agency nursing" to be used and more care in the community.
Both Ipswich and Bedford hospitals said their deficits were linked to increased demand from patients, with people living longer.
Nick Hulme, chief executive of Ipswich Hospital, said there was a "systemic problem" with NHS funding, in that there were "more sicker patients and patients living longer".
The Luton and Dunstable Hospital, which expects a £19,000 surplus, said it had not "sacrificed quality" and was meeting targets.
A Department of Health spokesman said: "We've been able to increase the NHS budget by an extra £2bn for the next financial year, and NHS England's own chief executive Simon Stevens acknowledged we had 'listened and responded with the funding [needed] for next year to sustain frontline NHS services and kick-start transformation'."
It could significantly reduce the number of women needing invasive testing, which can cause miscarriage.
The study at Great Ormond Street Hospital will assess how and when the blood test could be introduced across the NHS.
In the UK, 750 babies are born with Down's syndrome each year.
All pregnant women in the UK are offered screening for Down's syndrome.
Currently a woman's risk is assessed, based on her age, an ultrasound scan and markers in the blood. Those deemed at high risk of a child with Down's are offered an invasive test.
It involves using a needle to take a sample of either placental cells or of the fluid that bathes the baby - but this procedure carries a one-in-100 chance of miscarriage.
The aim is to reduce the number of women having the invasive testing by more accurately assessing the risk.
The new blood test, which is already available privately, looks for tiny fragments of DNA from the placenta and the foetus floating in the mother's bloodstream.
Down's syndrome is caused by an extra copy of a massive stretch of DNA - a part or even all of chromosome 21. The test can analyse the free floating DNA for extra copies.
It is thought to be 99% accurate. Those with a positive result will still be offered the invasive procedure to confirm the result.
Prof Lyn Chitty, from Great Ormond Street who is leading the trial, told the BBC: "It could very significantly reduce the number of invasive tests and increase detection, this is seriously exciting stuff and it would be great to get it into the NHS.
"What we are trying to do is give information on how and when to introduce it into the NHS."
The NHS National Institute for Health Research funded trial will analyse the scale of the benefit and the best way to inform mothers and train staff, including midwives, about the test.
"One of the very important aspects of our study is looking at ways to ensure women understand the test and the implications of the results so that they can choose whether or not to have it," she said.
Dr Anne Mackie, from the UK National Screening Committee, said: "Early indications suggest that using Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) to screen women who are found to be at a higher risk of having a baby with Down's syndrome would enable earlier and safer detection of the condition.
"[We have] been working in close collaboration with Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, particularly in looking to ensure the new test does not affect the quality of the current service offered to pregnant women."
Carol Boys, the chief executive of the Down's Syndrome Association said: "We would be delighted if tests which lead to miscarriage were discontinued.
"We understand that the new test is approximately 99% accurate for those women who have already been established as having a high chance of carrying a baby with Down's syndrome, and are interested to see if that accuracy is maintained in women where this has not already been established. The studies for this are still under way."
She said the information and education provided to women and health professionals would be important.
A survey of 601 employers by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) found 31% expect the economy to worsen, with only 28% expecting it to improve.
Employers' confidence has worsened since the last survey in July.
REC chief Kevin Green said the decline should "raise a red flag" and called for greater clarity over Brexit.
"The jobs market continues to do well despite growing uncertainty," he said. "Businesses are continuing to hire to meet demand, but issues like access to labour, Brexit negotiations and political uncertainty are creating nervousness."
The REC's measure of confidence has turned negative in the space of a month. In July the number of those employers who felt confident about the economy outweighed the pessimists by 6 percentage points.
The fall is matched by declining consumer confidence. In June the market research group GfK's consumer confidence index fell to the level last seen in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote.
The REC's JobsOutlook survey showed that 40% of employers had no spare capacity and one in five planned to take on more permanent staff to meet additional demand.
However, their biggest problem was finding the right candidates, especially in the construction industry, for either temporary or permanent positions.
Mr Green said: "Employers in the construction sector are especially concerned as they rely heavily on EU workers to meet the growing demand for housing and to support the government's infrastructure plans.
"The added factor of dropping consumer confidence is putting some businesses on edge. If people reduce their spending, businesses will be impacted.
"The government must do more to create an environment where businesses have clarity. That means clearly laying out what Brexit plans look like and how employers can keep recruiting the people they need from the EU."
Labour MP Mary Creagh, part of the Open Britain campaign group, said the government's refusal to guarantee the rights of EU citizens living in the UK was damaging business confidence.
"To protect jobs and our economy, they need to give citizens and businesses certainty that all EU workers living in Britain will have their rights guaranteed, and that Brexit will not be used as an excuse for a self-defeating crackdown on immigration from Europe," she said.
A government spokesperson said: "We recognise and value the contribution that EU citizens make to the social, economic and cultural life of the UK and that's why last month we outlined our offer to protect the rights of EU citizens in the UK and UK nationals in the EU."
Heavy casualties have been reported at al-Anad airbase, north of Aden, after intense fighting there in recent days.
It comes after pro-government forces, backed by air strikes from a Saudi-led coalition, retook Aden two weeks ago.
The Saudis are leading a campaign to defeat the rebels, who control much of Yemen, and restore the government.
Troops and armoured vehicles from the United Arab Emirates - a key member of the coalition - are also said to have arrived in Aden in recent days.
Military officials quoted by the AP news agency say the foreign troops are helping the pro-government forces operate sophisticated weapons, including tanks. The New York Times said the troops had been involved in the fighting at al-Anad.
However, local journalists told the BBC that Emirati troops had recently disembarked in Aden and were deployed as advisers, rather than in combat, while a Yemeni military official denied foreign troops had landed in Yemen.
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The reported deployment of tanks and other armoured vehicles from the United Arab Emirates, which have been seen unloading in Aden over recent days, represents the first major ground involvement by the Arab coalition ranged against the Houthi rebels.
It is a signal that the air campaign launched in March has its limits and it is a sign too that the Saudi-led coalition is willing now to become more engaged in the fighting. The reinforcements may already have had a hand in the recapture of al-Anad airbase: an important asset that could provide a launch-pad for more extensive operations against the rebels.
It is a significant but also risky step. Heavy armoured forces may not be best suited to this kind of struggle and there is always a danger they could become bogged down when facing more nimble opponents. The Arab coalition's military gamble also risks exacerbating regional tensions - Iran has given some support to the Houthi rebels. But it represents a demonstration that, in the wake of the US nuclear deal with Iran, Washington's Gulf allies are determined to do whatever they believe is necessary to ensure their security.
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Al-Anad used to be a base for US troops overseeing drone attacks on al-Qaeda. It was overrun by Houthi rebels as they advanced south in March, forcing President Abdrabbo Mansour Hadi to flee.
"The al-Anad airbase is now back in the hands of President Hadi's men," Nasr Alkaid, a spokesman for the pro-government forces, told the BBC. He said the loyalists were still battling rebels about 4km (2.5 miles) from the base.
Bashraheel Bashraheel, the editor of Yemen's Al Ayyam newspaper, told the BBC that the rebels were overstretched and outgunned.
"The Houthis aren't in an environment that supports them so their defeat was a matter of time," he said. "Their lines of supply have been cut off... and that's why we are seeing this quick collapse."
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There has been no comment from the Houthis on the claims that the base has fallen.
Its recapture could remove a major obstacle for government forces on the road to Taiz, Yemen's third-largest city, where pro-Hadi militia have been clashing with rebels. The rebels remain in control of the capital, Sanaa, and areas to the north.
Sunni power Saudi Arabia regards the Houthis as proxies of Shia rival Iran. It alleges Iran has provided the Houthis with weapons, something Iran and the Houthis deny.
The rebels - backed by forces loyal to the former President, Ali Abdullah Saleh - say they are fighting against corruption and marginalisation of their northern powerbase by Mr Hadi's government.
The conflict has killed almost 4,000 people, nearly half of them civilians, since it escalated with the Saudi-led campaign in March, according to the United Nations.
In other developments:
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Irishman Bertram Allen looked to have posted an unbeatable jump-off time of 30.45 seconds with Quiet Easy.
Whitaker, 55, clocked 32.05 on Viking but was awarded the title after 20-year-old Allen was disqualified because of blood on his horse.
Germany's Ludger Beerbaum was promoted to second spot on Chiara.
The rules specify mandatory disqualification if there is bleeding on the horse's flank, in the mouth or nose, or marks indicating excessive use of the spur or whip.
Allen appealed but a committee upheld the disqualification.
Another German, Marcus Ehning, moved to third aboard Gin Chin van het Lindenhof.
Switzerland's former world number one Pius Schwizer had made a flying start to the show's final at Olympia by winning the thrilling Holly Speed Stakes.
Just 60-hundredths of a second separated the top-four finishers in the one-round speed class.
Schwizer recorded a time of 52.34 on Leonard de la Ferme to edge out Irish 2012 Olympic bronze medallist Cian O'Connor, riding Coco II.
Britain's Ben Maher, a London 2012 team gold medallist and runner-up in Sunday's World Cup Jumping qualifier, was the last of 22 starters aboard Quabble, but though he tested Schizer's time he had to settle for fourth place in 52.94.
There was also a disqualification earlier in the International Six Bar competition, affecting Norway's Victoria Gulliksen, who had tied for victory with Spain's Eduardo Alvarez Aznar.
Organisers said that 23-year-old Gulliksen had entered the competition when the rules had specifically stated that she was only invited to take part in Olympia's Alltech Puissance event last Thursday.
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Around 90,000 people will pack into Wembley Stadium on Saturday to see IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua attempt to add the vacant WBA belt to his collection when he faces the division's once dominant force Wladimir Klitschko.
A 14-year age gap between the 27-year-old Briton and a fighter he once assisted as a sparring partner means some pundits have styled the bout as apprentice meets master.
But it's Joshua who starts as odds-on favourite. Does he justify that status? BBC Sport asked some familiar faces from the world of boxing about how they see things shaping up and, of course, we want your verdict too.
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Lennox Lewis, the last man to be undisputed heavyweight champion, told BBC Radio 5 live: "Now is the perfect time for Joshua, because Wladimir Klitschko has a chink in his armour in getting beaten by Tyson Fury.
"With the age aspect of Klitschko, he doesn't have the legs, the power that he used to. There are a lot of different factors going on in his life as well.
"I believe Joshua is more focused. Does he want to be undisputed champion? Absolutely."
Did you know? Lewis, Joshua and Klitschko all won Olympic gold but only Joshua and the late Joe Frazier became world champions while still Olympic champion.
Former world super-middleweight champion Richie Woodhall: "Klitschko controls the fight better when people are going to him. He's a master at adjusting his feet and keeping a gap, an absolute master.
"I think the victory for Joshua will come by boxing at a distance and making Klitschko come forward.
"I see Joshua winning the fight in the mid to late rounds, around the seventh or eighth. I think Joshua will stop him eventually and catch him with a solid shot.
"At 41, you have to ask how long Klitschko can go on at this level. It will take a hell of a performance to beat Joshua, who I don't think will come out swinging, but will box intelligently. If he goes wading in, he could walk in to a trap."
Did you know? Joshua has spent less than two hours in the ring as a professional on his way to 18 knockout wins in 18 fights.
Former super-middleweight world champion Carl Froch, who beat George Groves at Wembley Stadium in 2014: "This is Joshua's first real test at world level. This is his acid test and against a veteran who can punch, box and move to survive when he needs to.
"I think Joshua will be nervous. Wembley Stadium will add to those nerves and I don't think they will help him. I don't think he will enjoy it like I did. Purely because there is a lot of pressure on him - he's expected to win and has this massive task.
"He needs to try and enjoy it. They say cometh the hour cometh the man. He really needs to switch on and live up to what everyone expects of him."
Did you know? Joshua's weight of 17st 12lbs is the heaviest of his career to date.
Peter Fury, who trained nephew Tyson to beat Klitschko, told BBC Radio 5 live: "Klitschko probably folds his bed sheets a certain way. So what do you give someone who is a perfectionist? Give him everything he hates. Upset his rhythm, fire shots from all angles.
"I think it's too soon for Joshua. I think his boxing skills leave a lot to be desired. I think he gets hit far too easy, especially with the jab. On a world level you can't be open like that.
"I think a lot of it is inexperience. Ultimately if you've got a leaky defence in the heavyweight division, I don't care if you have dynamite in both hands, you are coming unstuck sooner or later."
Did you know? Klitschko has knocked out 53 of his 68 opponents.
Former two-weight world champion Paulie Malignaggi: "It's a matter of how much Klitschko has left. At his age, it's probably not a good thing to have had a long lay-off. If he has anything left, he can trouble Joshua. The flicking of the jab, following it with the right hand - it can hurt Joshua, who doesn't have a lot of head movement.
"I think Joshua is going to try to take it to Klitschko and be the boss. Joshua will try to counter the jab with his own right hand. In the end, I think youth will be too much, but Klitschko does have that dynamite right hand."
Did you know? Klitschko could become one of the oldest world heavyweight champions, though George Foreman leads the way, capturing the honour aged 45.
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Former world heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko told BBC Radio 5 live: "I've never seen my brother so concentrated.
"I want to say that Joshua is a great fighter, and has great skills, but he has never been at such a high level. He looks relaxed, like it will be easy. It will not be.
"Everyone has weaknesses; Wladimir's is his concentration. If he is 100% concentrated, Joshua has no chance. Ask me about speed, power, experience, Wladimir is better."
Did you know? Vitali had three spells as world heavyweight champion. Wladimir has two to his name so far.
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BBC Radio 5 live analyst Steve Bunce: "I don't think Joshua can outbox Klitschko. I want to see a little bit of nerves, I want to see him sucking in some air, I want to see some sort of fear. If we don't see that then whisper it, it makes him almost inhuman.
"Can Wladimir look like any of the old Wladimirs? Even a bad old Wladimir should be enough to beat this kid Anthony Joshua. I think an awful lot has been placed on the assumption, the dream, the hope, that Wladimir at 41 has nothing left. If that's not the case then we are in for a tricky night.
"Joshua used his brain at the Olympics. That side of his game is there. Has he enough brain against a decent Klitschko?"
Did you know? Anthony Joshua only took up boxing in 2007, five years prior to his Olympic win. He had athletic pedigree though and ran 11.6 seconds for 100m aged 14.
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WBC world heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder: "My heart is with Joshua, my mind is with Klitschko. I think experience will play its part. With experience you've seen things before and are more able to capitalise when you face them again.
"Can you pull the trigger? Can your body react as fast as you see it? That's the only thing with Klitschko. Sometimes age is nothing but a number and it's about what's in your head."
Did you know? Klitschko weighed in 5lbs lighter than when he lost to Tyson Fury in 2015.
Promoter Eddie Hearn told BBC Radio 5 live: "There is a chance in this fight Joshua could be completely out of his depth. And there is a chance he goes out there and is the fighter we believe he is and he dismantles Klitschko.
"I love Klitschko because he's a competitor. To tame the young lion would probably be the greatest night of his career.
"If Joshua wins he becomes the biggest star in British sport and in the world of boxing."
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The incident took place at about 00:10 on Dalmellington Road in the Crookston area of the city.
The taxi driver's victim, a 24-year-old man, is in a critical condition in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
The driver did not stop after the incident and drove off along Dalmellington Road towards Crookston Road.
The driver of the taxi has been described by police as of Asian appearance, aged 30-40, medium build, with short dark hair and wearing a pink top.
Det Insp Greig Wilkie said: "From our investigations so far, it would appear that the two men had left a party nearby and had asked the taxi driver to get a lift home, however, the driver, for whatever reason, refused to take them. It then appears that the injured man went on to the road which is when the taxi deliberately drove at him.
"The taxi didn't stop and drove off along Dalmellington Road, towards Crookston Road at Raeswood Road.
"On hearing a commotion outside, people from nearby houses came to assist the man until the ambulance arrived arrival of the ambulance. We are in the process of tracing them and others who were in the area, including the occupants of another black Hackney taxi who had been dropped off nearby just at the time of the incident, however, we have yet to trace the driver of that taxi and indeed another Hackney taxi driver who we know, were also in the area at the time."
He added: "This was a shocking incident, which has left a young man very seriously injured.
"I would appeal to the taxi driver who involved to come forward to police himself as soon as possible."
There are questions over whether the event can continue to attract top talent and retain its position as one of the movie world's leading festivals.
Alberto Barbera said a major new cinema complex would be built despite being abandoned in 2011 due to lack of funds.
He said: "We cannot host a modern event and attract film-makers without it."
He added: "So yes, it has to happen. It was one of the conditions for me taking the role.
"We know we have this reputation for quality. It's our greatest asset, and it's a privileged position."
Barbera has cut the number of films being screened and has faced criticism over the number of stars attending this year.
Venice has come under increasing competition from the Toronto Film Festival, which overlaps with its Italian rival. Since the economic crash of 2008, Hollywood studios and celebrities have often preferred to show their movies there.
A new, state of the art cinema complex was due to open in Venice in 2012, but work was shelved last year when asbestos was discovered. That left a 100ft crater next to the Palazzo Del Cinema.
But Barbera promised the new buildings would be finished by 2015.
"It's a deal, it is signed and sealed," he told BBC News. "We will start work either later on in the year or in 2013."
Local authorities, including the city of Venice, will now fund the renovations, he added.
The film festival is the oldest in the world, and will show more than 60 world premieres over the next 10 days, including Wednesday's screening of Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, starring Kate Hudson and British actor Riz Ahmed.
Barbera, who used to head Italy's Museum of Cinema at Turin, also said he had other plans to change the event, including introducing a five-day film market starting this year, and giving a first time film-making prize, which would involve the festival funding three movies by new directors.
The Observer film critic Jason Solomons blamed the exodus of top films and stars on the high cost of conducting press interviews in the city and accommodating film talent.
"A few years ago, Joe Wright's Atonement had its world premiere at Venice," he said. "Now he's made Anna Karenina, again starring Keira Knightley. It's a period film all about decadence and decay, and it belongs in Venice. It should be here. But they can't afford to launch it here now."
Another problem, according to Solomons, was the recent closure of the Hotel Des Bains on the Lido island - the setting for the 1971 film Death in Venice. The hotel is being turned into luxury flats.
"Death in Venice says it all," Solomons continues. "By closing the Des Bains, the stars have nowhere to stay."
Critics, though, still say they rate the festival highly. As well as The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the event will also show Tree of Life director Terence Malick's To The Wonder and Robert Redford's The Company You Keep.
Meanwhile, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix will star in The Master, the story of a religious cult during World War Two, directed by Magnolia's Paul Thomas Anderson.
"They've actually gone against the grain by reducing, not increasing, the amount of films on offer, and that's brave," suggested The Independent's Kaleem Aftab.
"It looks like less will be more from now on in order for Venice to overcome the impression that this is a festival on the wane. But on paper, it's delivered some big names this year."
The Venice Film Festival runs until 8 September.
The IEA says unless more money is spent exploring for, and developing, new oil fields, then demand may outstrip supply in the early years of the next decade.
That could see prices surging again, says the IEA, which is an autonomous body with 29 member countries.
Investment in new oil supplies last year was at its lowest since the 1950s.
"We estimate that, if new project approvals remain low for a third year in a row in 2017, then it becomes increasingly unlikely that demand... and supply can be matched in the early 2020s without the start of a new boom/bust cycle for the industry," says the IEA's World Energy Outlook report.
Over-supply of oil has driven down crude prices in recent years.
They have fallen from their recent peak of more than $100 a barrel in 2014, to less than $30 a barrel earlier this year.
As a result, investment in new oil fields has also fallen from $780bn in 2014, to $580bn in 2015, and then to $440bn this year.
The IEA says world-wide investment must now rise to at least $700bn a year because it takes between three and six years for a new oil field to start producing.
The Opec oil producers' cartel made a similar point last week.
"While the recent oil market environment has been one of oversupply, it is vital that the industry ensures that a lack of investments today does not lead to a shortage of supply in the future," said Opec's annual report.
The crude oil price is currently about $46 a barrel, have fallen dramatically over the last two years.
The 25-year-old Victoria and Melbourne Stars player will be available to play in all three formats of the game.
He made his Test debut in November 2016 and scored 105 as Australia beat Pakistan this month.
"We are getting a guy who is on the up. He is young and wants to prove himself on the biggest stage," said Yorkshire head coach Andrew Gale.
He also scored 54 in Australia's second Test win over Pakistan.
Hicks, who spent five-and-a-half years in the US prison, called Attorney General George Brandis a "coward" when he refused to answer questions.
His outburst came as Mr Brandis was speaking at a gathering in Sydney.
A scathing US Senate report earlier said the CIA carried out "brutal" interrogations of al-Qaeda suspects.
The report also concluded the agency misled politicians and the public about the 2001-2007 programme for terror suspects.
The CIA has defended its actions in the years after the 9/11 attacks on the US, saying they saved lives.
Hicks shouted at Mr Brandis after the attorney general finished speaking at a human rights awards gathering in Sydney on Wednesday.
"Hey, my name is David Hicks!" he said. "I was tortured for five-and-a-half years in Guantanamo Bay in the full knowledge of your party. What do you have to say?"
Mr Brandis, who was a member of PM John Howard's government when Hicks was at the US military prison in Cuba, walked off stage without answering.
"He's run away," Hicks said, describing the minister as a "coward".
Mr Brandis later described Hicks as a "terrorist".
"David Hicks, both in his book and also in his plea bargain document, confesses to acts which under Australian law... we define as terrorism offences", he said at a Senate committee hearing, according to Australia's ABC broadcaster.
He said he never felt his personal safety was threatened, although one senator raised concerns over security arrangements at the gathering.
Hicks - who is widely known as "the Australian Taliban" in Australia's media - was seized in Afghanistan in 2001 on suspicion of fighting alongside Taliban militants and sent to Guantanamo Bay the following year.
In 2007, he was transferred to a jail in Australia after being convicted of providing material support for terrorism.
Hicks later retracted his confession, claiming it was obtained under duress.
He alleged that he had been beaten and drugged in the US prison.
The Scunthorpe-based company said it would be dividing a million shares between all of its employees, except contractors and agency workers, because it had delivered consistent profits.
Further shares will be given out on an annual basis in June.
Staff also returned to full pay after sacrificing 3% of their salary for Tata's sale of the venture to Greybull.
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The business has reported a £47m profit a year after its launch and said it had "significantly improved" profitability despite a 44% increase in the cost of raw materials.
About 500 workers have been recruited during its "remarkable" transformation, it said.
Managing director Paul Martin said: "Every one of our employees has contributed to the turnaround of this business - they are the foundation of our recent achievements and, just as importantly, they are critical to our future.
"It is therefore important that we not only reward them for their efforts during the last 12 months but, as we move forward and grow the business further, they continue to share in any ongoing success."
Those on fixed-term contracts and apprentices would be exempt from receiving any shares and staff who leave the company are required to relinquish their stake.
It was "totally separate from the bonus scheme and does not replace it", the company said.
Paul McBean, multi-union chairman at British Steel's Scunthorpe headquarters, said he "warmly" welcomed the move.
"They have helped transform the company and it is fantastic to see they will share in the success we are starting to see," he said.
British Steel said it had invested £39m in the business in the last financial year.
Investment firm Greybull bought the business - which had suffered losses of £79m in the previous financial year - a year ago and renamed it British Steel.
It has supplied 57km (35 miles) of rail track for the £16bn Crossrail project in London.
Tata announced the sale of its plant in April 2016, with the move safeguarding nearly 5,000 jobs.
For the deal to be sealed, workers accepted a pay cut and less generous pension arrangements.
British Steel also has sites in Cumbria, North Yorkshire, Teesside and France.
They were angry because the government wants to tighten the system still further by penalising radio stations if they just keep playing the same French hits over and again in order to fulfil their quota obligation.
It's all a reminder of how in France cultural protection - an official policy of defending the national language and culture - is still very much alive.
In France, no government ever got elected with an arts policy that said: "OK, from now on you guys - artists, film-makers, musicians - we think you have to stand for yourselves.
"We think the state spends far too much on culture, and the taxpayer won't put up with it any longer.
"So we're going to start taking down some of the trade barriers that spare you too much foreign competition. We don't think that kind of protection does you any good, does the arts any good - does France any good."
That kind of discourse won't wash in France - because if you ask most people, they agree that the country does indeed need to preserve what's referred do portentously as its "cultural exception".
What this amounts to in practice is a set of policies, in place for decades now, that are supposed to fend off the damaging effects of a globalised culture that is dominated by the US and, to a lesser extent, Britain - but above all by the English language.
French governments worry terribly that their island of culture is disappearing under a global tide of Anglo-Saxon pulp.
This radio quota row is a perfect example.
To keep French music production alive, there is a rule that radio stations have to play a minimum of four songs in 10 that are French.
Otherwise (the fear is) DJs just play all the big international American blockbusters, the kids would briefly rave, but the French stars of tomorrow would never get a look-in.
But living in the real world, the radio stations are chafing at the bit.
For one thing these days there's nothing stopping anyone who wants to hear only US rubbish from tuning in over the internet to a streaming site.
Radio has to compete with that.
And second, irony of ironies, more and more French music production is actually in English - because the truly talented performers want to sell outside of just the protected Francophone market.
In other words, true talent does not need protection.
That is the terrible danger that lurks behind the French policy of so many years.
It's all very well saying: "Look how we've kept the French film industry alive," or, "Look how we protect French music production," but if the end-products are only satisfying a dwindling domestic market, their quality will suffer, and they will cease to be the world-class flag-wavers for France that governments want them to be.
Arguably, this is what is already happening.
Shored up by myriad aid schemes, French cinema pumps out hundreds of films every year, but with rare exceptions they have little impact abroad.
Too many are self-indulgent rubbish.
The French literary scene is helped by a minimum book price and state aid to bookshops.
But the number of novelists who break into the international market is very small.
Too much Paris theatre is divided between the ultra-highbrow and embarrassingly out-of-date farces.
The great risk attached to over-protection of the arts is that they become incestuous, self-promoting and inward-looking.
1. Celine Dion - D'eux (1995)
2. Francis Cabrel - Samedi soir sur la terre (1994)
3. Supertramp - Breakfast in America (1979)
4. Patrick Bruel - Alors Regarde (1989)
5. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
6. Michael Jackson - Thriller (1982)
7. Various artists - Starmania (1978)
8. The Beatles - 1967-1970 (1973)
9. Jean-Jacques Goldman - Entre gris clair et gris fonce (1987)
10. Louise Attaque - Louise Attaque(1997)
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You don't have to be a rabid economic liberal to see that competition is the best cure for stagnation.
Of course, it is possible argue it both ways: maybe without protection the French cultural scene would be helpless against the dreaded Anglo-Saxon invader.
The fact that there is a French film industry at all is partly thanks to the generous help it gets from the state.
But the music scene actually points the other way.
Today there are several French stars who have made it on the international scene.
Groups like Daft Punk, Phoenix, and Air, the DJ David Guetta: they all hold their own with the best the world has to offer.
None of them received a euro of state aid.
Ganesh Joshi, a legislator from the northern state of Uttarakhand, allegedly beat the animal with a stick.
Veterinarians told reporters they had no choice but to amputate as gangrene was spreading in the animal's body.
Police told the BBC they were searching for others involved in beating the horse, named Shaktiman.
Mr Joshi denies assaulting the animal.
"The footage which the electronic media is showing by linking with an old clip - in which I am lifting a stick in front of the horse - has no connection at all [to the incident]," Mr Joshi told the BBC.
"The horse fell down when someone pulled its saddle and the animal sustained a fracture on its leg," he added.
Mr Joshi's arrest on Friday sparked protests in the state.
The incident took place near the legislative assembly in the state capital, Dehradun, on Monday when the BJP was holding a protest against the Congress party-led state government.
An earlier surgery was believed to have saved the leg, but rapid infection necessitated the amputation, vets said.
The Uttarakhand state government has vowed to give Shaktiman the "best possible treatment".
The incident caused outrage in India with many taking to social media to express their anger.
On Twitter, the hashtag #IsHorseAntiNational - prompted by a tongue in cheek newspaper headline that read, "BJP MLA beats up a horse. No confirmation whether the horse was anti-national" - was trending for most of Tuesday.
Dan y Wenallt, starring Rhys Ifans and Charlotte Church, was chosen by Bafta as the UK's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film award.
Submissions will be shortlisted in December, with the final five nominees announced in January 2016, ahead of the ceremony in February.
Director Kevin Allen said he was "absolutely thrilled".
"It's a shot in the arm for both versions of our back-to-back Under Milk Wood productions," he said.
A partnership between fFatti fFilms, Tinopolis, Ffilm Cymru Wales, Goldfinch Pictures and S4C, it was the first film adaptation of the play since 1972, with both Welsh and English language versions filmed at the same time.
Two previous S4C foreign language film submissions have led to nominations - Hedd Wyn in 1994 and Solomon a Gaenor in 2000.
Bob McCoubrey, the owner of the Mourne Seafood Bar, said the executive "needs to focus".
"They need to make life easier for independents in Belfast and Northern Ireland to survive," he added.
Business owners have been reflecting on a year-long celebration of food and drink in Northern Ireland.
Mr McCoubrey told the BBC's Inside Business programme that the initiative, where every month was dedicated to a unique foodstuff or beverage, "ticked the box" for tourism.
"Hopefully we will get more people travelling here because there's a lot more to Northern Ireland food than potatoes, bacon and cabbage," he said.
Inside Business will be broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster at 13:30 GMT on Sunday 18 December.
Phillips, capped 77 times by his country, met club officials on Saturday and was told his contract was to be cancelled.
The 31-year-old will receive official confirmation by letter on Monday.
Phillips joined Bayonne from Ospreys in 2011 and was under contract with the French Top 14 club until June 2014.
He left for Wales on Sunday to join up with the national squad ahead of the November internationals.
Phillips appeared before the Bayonne board on Tuesday to answer allegations he turned up to a video analysis session under the influence of alcohol.
Two fellow players, New Zealand back row Dwayne Haare and fly-half Stephen Brett, also had to answer allegations at that meeting and were fined but not suspended.
Phillips was left out of the squad for Friday's Top 14 game against Montpellier, which Bayonne won 24-19.
On Thursday evening Phillips had apologised in French to Bayonne fans "for this situation" on his Twitter account, adding: "I am behind the team wholeheartedly tomorrow night. Good luck."
The British and Irish Lions scrum-half was suspended by Bayonne last year for off-field misconduct and by Wales in July 2011 after a confrontation with a doorman in Cardiff city centre.
Bayonne have not yet officially confirmed the departure of Phillips, who played 39 matches in the Top 14.
Wales coach Warren Gatland showed support for the 77-times capped player when he named him in a 35-man squad earlier this week.
"We will just sit down and have a quiet chat about where his head's at and what he's doing," said Gatland. "But there will be no sanctions for him here in this set-up."
On Thursday, the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) opened a case into Kevin Thornton's "alleged abuse of Flogas Sunset Cruise" at an event in France in October.
He denies "whipping it to death" and says his name will be cleared.
"I've had every kind of threat you can imagine," Thornton told BBC Sport. "I know the facts, I know what happened."
He added: "I had threats that I would be burned alive, have my fingers removed and beaten to within an inch of my life.
"People were saying I was a murderer and an animal abuser. I'm confident my name will be cleared."
Flogas Sunset Cruise died on a non-competition day at a GPA Jump Festival at Cagnes-sur-Mer on 11 October.
The FEI told BBC Sport it "cannot give any further comment" on the ongoing investigation, including the post mortem examination on the horse.
Thornton says that, according to a veterinary witness who attended the examination on his behalf, he will be cleared by its findings.
"What we know from the autopsy, it clears me of any wrongdoing," Thornton said.
"The FEI has to do their job and I don't know what I can say, but I just know it shows I did nothing bad against the horse, and that the cause of death was inconclusive."
In a statement released in October, Thornton said the allegations of abuse came about because people had mistakenly assumed he had been riding the same horse for three hours.
He said there was "confusion" because he had been riding three different horses which looked alike.
He claimed he whipped Flogas Sunset Cruise "once or twice" to encourage movement forward. He said the horse showed no signs of physical discomfort and the death had been a shock.
"The people who were around me know I rode three horses that day, one after the other. I had six horses with me and three of them were grey," he said.
"I'm afraid that no matter what happens, people will remember the bad side because they don't know all the facts.
"It hasn't been simple but now we just have to keep going. It's all for horse welfare, which is the most important thing."
Dunbar, 25, has not played in a dark blue jersey since tearing knee ligaments 12 months ago during the build-up to facing England.
The injury ruled him out of last year's World Cup and he has more recently been recovering from a thigh strain.
"It's been frustrating," Dunbar told BBC Scotland.
"You do all the hard work to come to fitness, play a game and feel good then go on to the next game and you pick up something that means you can't lace the boots up for two weeks.
"But I feel good now. Hopefully it lasts."
Dunbar played the first half of Glasgow's victory over Cardiff Blues on Sunday but was withdrawn at half-time by head coach Gregor Townsend, who told the media it was a decision made after discussions with the Scotland coaching team.
Vern Cotter called Dunbar into the national squad the following day and he is now in contention to face France.
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"You never know," a smiling Dunbar said. "I don't pick the team. I'd be in if I did!
"The games I've been back playing for Glasgow I've done all right. I feel good just now and fresh so if I get the chance then I'd jump on it."
Dunbar, who has 14 senior caps, has been analysing matches during his recuperation and hopes to add elements he has watched to his own game.
"You see bits and pieces from games and how certain teams play," he explained. "Some teams want to go out and attack and score tries while others are a bit more physical and the games are more of a tactical affair.
"Some bits you think you could add to your game. You've just got to go out in training and work on it.
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"There's a great buzz around the squad. Boys are laughing and joking and it's all pretty positive. Things are just a bit more relaxed and it takes the pressure off."
Assistant coach Nathan Hines says Scotland are focussed on their own game rather than developing a game-plan to combat the physicality of Sunday's visitors.
"We're obviously looking at what they do and what they've got the potential to do," he said.
"But most of the focus is on us and improving on what we did against Italy."
Motorway police stopped the driver at junction five of the M5 at Bromsgrove in Worcestershire on Thursday.
The motorist had two grandchildren, his daughter and wife in the vehicle, which was seized by police.
The Central Motorway Police Group officer involved tweeted that the man had been driving longer than the officer had been alive.
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The 25-year-old beat Jana Cepelova at the Topshelf Open in 's-Hertogenbosch before boyfriend Martin Emmrich joined her on court to propose.
Krajicek met Emmrich, a 29-year-old German doubles player, at the Netherlands venue a year ago.
Krajicek said: "It was a huge surprise. It's such a special place to do it."
Krajicek, the half-sister of 1996 Wimbledon men's singles champion Richard Krajicek, added: "I'm really happy and I feel so lucky he did it like this.
"For the first 10 or 15 seconds when he came on the court I thought, 'OK, it's nice to see him, but this is strange'. But then I saw he had tears in his eyes, and I realised what was going to happen.
"I was so focused on him the whole time I didn't hear anything he was saying.
"I just knew I was for sure going to say 'yes'."
The Surrey Mirror said it had received a letter from Surrey County Football Association advising it not to print scores of under-7 to under-11 matches.
Surrey FA chief exec Caroline McRoyall said: "Youngsters are not interested in results long after the game."
Editor Deanne Blaylock said the paper would continue to publish the scores.
The Surrey County FA said the guidance followed changes brought in by the FA Youth Review designed to make youth football more child centred and less results orientated.
The Surrey FA has also told clubs and leagues not to publish results on their websites or on social media.
Ms McRoyall said: "It's about not publishing results, it doesn't mean that they can't put some sort of report into the paper."
She added: "The game will be competitive when they play it... but after that they want to move on to the next thing," she said.
Research by the FA found thousands of misconduct offences committed by adults at youth football matches including offensive remarks to referees and physical fights between parents or opposing club managers.
Somerset-based Woodspring JFL wrote to parents and clubs to ask them to stop verbally abusing referees - some of the officials were as young as 14.
Gary Lineker has attacked "maniacal parents on the touchline spouting nonsense at their children".
The FA's Respect Guide advises parents to focus on children's developing skills rather than on winning matches. And it says losing can be as valuable as winning.
The Surrey Mirror said it had asked youth football managers and parents whether they wanted to see their children's names and achievements in the paper.
Out of dozens of comments received, on social media and via email and letter, only one was in favour of the Surrey FA's demand.
"We have asked the Football Association for more information on what the penalties would be for breaking the directive and what exactly we are not allowed to publish," said Ms Blaylock.
"Until we receive a response, the Surrey Mirror will continue to publish match reports sent in by youth clubs, including the final scores, in the manner we have always done; responsibly and sensitively."
Jack Sollis, a sports coach based in Guildford, said publishing results was creating unwanted pressure that could discourage young people from playing the game.
"I think the FA... just want to create an environment in which the players can learn under less pressure and without much concern for the final score," he said.
But Adam Virgo, an ex-Brighton and Bristol Rovers player who now coaches young players, disagreed.
"I think growing up is learning about life - and you have to coach kids to learn to win, and to learn to lose," he said.
"Always protecting the kids that are always losing... is not actually helping them."
The baby girl was delivered at 34 weeks through a Caesarean operation in Melbourne on 1 August.
After years of failed IVF procedures, the new mother, whose partner is 78, conceived using an embryo sourced from an overseas donor.
She and her daughter are recovering at a private hospital in Melbourne. Neither has been publicly named.
The previous Australian record was held by a woman who gave birth to her first child at 60 in 2010.
A Romanian woman named Adriana Iliescue set the record for being the world's oldest mother when she gave birth in 2005 aged 66.
An Australian reproduction specialist said "responsible" IVF clinics refused treatment to women over the age of 53, which he described as the "end of natural pregnancy".
"That child will need looking after for 20 years, and there's a possibility she won't be able to do that," Monash University professor Gab Kovacs told the Herald Sun newspaper.
"Our bodies weren't designed to have children in our 60s."
The tower leans 0.26 degrees to the north-west, putting it out of alignment by about 0.5m at its highest point.
The lean was discovered when Transport for London commissioned a report, because the extension of the Jubilee Line passes under Parliament.
Experts are unsure what is causing the tower to lean.
But one theory is that the London clay on which the tower was built is drying out.
Mike McCann, keeper of the great clock, told BBC London: "We have been monitoring it since 1999, so we've got some pretty good data.
"Our resident expert believes it will be between 4,000 and 10,000 years before it becomes a problem.
"So it's not significant today, but we do need to keep an eye on it."
The 0.26 degree angle is one 16th of the Leaning Tower of Pisa's tilt.
Mr McCann continued: "There's no real proof what has caused it.
"But it is built on London clay and that can dry out and that can cause movement."
There is no evidence the lean was caused by work on the Underground.
Big Ben is the name of the bell contained within the Clock Tower, according to a spokeswoman at the Houses of Parliament.
But in the recent years the tower, which was called St Stephen's Tower by Victorian journalists, has been known colloquially as Big Ben.
William Grant and Sons said the whisky industry currently enjoyed "substantial support" from the UK government and its worldwide embassy network.
It is understood to have given in the region of £100,000 to Better Together.
The Scottish government has argued that independence would benefit the whisky industry.
William Grant, which produces brands including Glenfiddich malt whisky, had a turnover of more than £1bn last year. It is one of the few Scotch whisky producers to remain in family ownership.
The company is said to have also donated smaller sums of money to other groups who are campaigning for a "No" vote ahead of the independence referendum, which will be held on 18 September.
Industry trade body the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) has not formally backed either side in the independence debate.
Its chief executive, David Frost, said in April he was seeking reassurances about what he described as the potential "risks" of independence for the industry.
However, Mr Frost also said the industry would succeed regardless of the result.
And Diageo, which owns several Scotch whisky brands, has previously said the firm was "there [in Scotland] to stay" whatever the outcome of the referendum.
In a statement, William Grant and Sons Holdings Limited said: "We can confirm that the company has made these donations.
"We support the stance of the SWA over independence and would refer you to their recent statement that the Scotch whisky industry enjoys substantial support from the UK government and its worldwide embassy network and from lack of trade barriers within the EU."
A spokesman for Better Together said: "We are delighted to have received this support. More and more companies, individuals and families are saying no thanks to separation."
Scotch whisky was responsible for more than £4bn of exports last year, which the SWA said accounted for about 85% of Scottish food and drink exports and nearly a quarter of the British total.
In its White Paper on independence, the Scottish government argued that the biggest threat to the Scotch whisky industry was a potential in/out referendum on the UK's membership of the EU.
It said: "Scotland's food and drink industry does an excellent job promoting the Scottish brand, but Scotland is constrained by the current constitutional settlement, which prevents it from directly engaging on a level footing with other countries.
"The UK's planned in/out referendum on EU membership threatens our food and drink industry's current access to Europe's single market of 500 million citizens and 20 million businesses.
"There is also a real concern, particularly for the whisky industry, that if the Westminster government takes Scotland out of the EU, we will lose the backing of the EU's trade negotiations with countries like India, the United States and China."
On Tuesday, the Electoral Commission is due to publish details of recent donations to both Better Together and the pro-independence Yes Scotland campaign.
Better Together declared donations of £2.8m between May 2012 and December of last year. Since then, it has received a £1m donation from Harry Potter author JK Rowling.
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Vijay (126) was dropped on 66 and Pujara (124) successfully reviewed an lbw decision on 86 in a stand of 209.
After Pujara slashed Ben Stokes to slip, Vijay and Amit Mishra fell in the final two overs to give England the breakthroughs they deserved.
India closed on 319-4, 218 behind, with Virat Kohli unbeaten on 26.
The late wickets, to Adil Rashid and Zafar Ansari respectively, were just reward for an England side that stuck to their task on a surface that only began to offer greater assistance to the spinners at the end of the day.
Further success on the fourth morning could provide the tourists the opportunity to force a victory, though two more sessions of Indian batting would probably leave the hosts as the only team able to win.
"Maybe, in the end, England have just shaded the day," said ex-England batsman Geoffrey Boycott on BBC Test Match Special.
"England will be thinking positively now. If they get a couple of early wickets tomorrow, especially Kohli, cor blimey."
England were buoyant when Stuart Broad, in his 100th Test, trapped Gautam Gambhir lbw with his first ball of the day.
The tourists, though, had to wait 67 overs for another breakthrough.
In the heat, England bowled tidily and remained energetic in the field - the three spinners were collectively more economical than on the tour of Bangladesh, Broad accurately probed, Chris Woakes was hostile and Stokes returned from a poor first spell to remove Pujara.
Still, it looked as though India would go to the close just two wickets down, only for England to strike twice in the space of four deliveries.
First Vijay failed to deal with a Rashid googly and popped a simple catch to Haseeb Hameed at short leg, then nightwatchman Mishra inside-edged left-armer Ansari to the same fielder.
"That's a little boost and you can't begrudge it for England," said former England spinner Vic Marks on Test Match Special. "It's particularly pleasing that it's Ansari and Rashid who have taken the wickets and the second was a better catch from Hameed, who took it low down by his ankles."
Pujara hit 382 runs before being dismissed against England four years ago, then went 14 innings without passing 55.
Here, he recovered from being hit on the head three times in as many overs by Woakes to make his ninth Test century.
Scoring almost exclusively off the front foot, Pujara played drives on both sides of the wicket and the occasional tickle fine off the hips.
Given out lbw to Ansari, he was reprieved when a review suggested the ball was going over the top of the stumps.
Though he was made to wait on 99 during tea, Pujara celebrated reaching three figures in the first Test on his home ground, before being held by captain Alastair Cook off Stokes at a wide slip position.
Vijay, who made 25 of India's overnight 63-0, was more sedate than Pujara, watchfully defending and leaving during almost eight hours at the crease.
Only sporadically did he break the shackles, dancing down the pitch to loft England's spinners for four straight sixes.
He was given a life on 66, when a diving Hameed could not cling on to a low, catchable chance off Broad at short cover.
When Pujara fell, Vijay and Kohli added 41 and looked set to defy England and remain overnight.
Now, after the late drama, captain Kohli will be joined by Ajinkya Rahane in the morning and it is that pair who are likely to shape India's chances of getting towards, or even beyond, England's 537.
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England assistant coach Paul Farbrace told TMS: "I think we would be pretty satisfied with our day today. It's been an excellent day - the bowlers stuck to their guns and their plans really well.
"We think we're in a good position. We do expect the wicket to turn and we expect it to be a little more up and down as well. We have seen a few misbehave over the last couple of days and I think it will start to happen more often. Any advantage you can have will be a massive advantage.
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"Our spinners, who took a bit of stick after Bangladesh, have shown that they are capable of improving. They are not suddenly going to be world-class spinners overnight but they have shown today a real resolute way of getting the ball in the right area more often that not.
"To nick a couple out at the end makes our dressing room a happier place tonight. You'd take any lead but we're certainly not thinking about that at this stage."
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Councillors agreed to award the tender for the city's Christmas and Hogmanay festivities to Underbelly, the operator of Edinburgh's Christmas since 2013.
Unique Events has had the contract for Edinburgh's Hogmanay previously.
In January City of Edinburgh Council said funding for Edinburgh's winter festivals had been cut by £450,000 with no money being allocated for Christmas.
Ed Bartlam and Charlie Wood, of Underbelly, said: "We're absolutely delighted to have been given the opportunity to produce Edinburgh's Christmas and Hogmanay.
"We've hugely enjoyed helping to develop Edinburgh's Christmas for the last four years and we couldn't be more excited about the next three years.
"We're honoured to be building on the extraordinary work and success of Pete Irvine and Unique Events since the start of Edinburgh's Hogmanay. We look forward to announcing our plans for both events in due course.
"We can however confidently say that our plans for both events are exciting and hugely ambitious and will see an expansion and growth of Edinburgh's Winter Festivals rather than any diminishing of them. Watch this space."
Richard Lewis, Edinburgh's festivals and events champion, said: "Edinburgh's winter festivals provide the city and Scotland with unrivalled promotion and shape the Capital's reputation as a great place to live, work and visit.
"Last year, the combined economic impact of the events were estimated at £160m demonstrating the huge importance these events place on the success of Edinburgh's winter economy.
"The appointment of these contracts is confirmation for the city that, despite the financial pressures facing the council, these important events will continue to operate for the benefit of the people of Edinburgh and our many thousands of visitors.
"I am sure Underbelly's activities will build on the huge success of Edinburgh's winter festivals to date. Along with Council officers past and present, I wish to thank Unique Events for continuously providing the city and Scotland with Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations over two decades."
Edinburgh's official Hogmanay celebrations were established by the City of Edinburgh Council in 1993.
A Unique Events spokesman said: "Unique Events are deeply disappointed in the recent tender process held by City of Edinburgh Council with regard to Edinburgh's winter festivals and hugely saddened by the decision not to continue with our services as producers of Edinburgh's Hogmanay, a festival which we created and have produced for over 24 years."
The new SNP leader unveiled the ambitious plans at the party's conference in Perth.
It would see the number of free hours increase from 16 to 30 every week.
Ms Sturgeon said she wanted to give every child - regardless of background - the best opportunity in life.
And she said a call earlier this week by business lobby group the CBI for an extension of free childcare showed that industry leaders recognised its importance, not just to the lives of children, but also to the economy.
The SNP had made free childcare a central part of its campaign ahead of September's independence referendum.
Ms Sturgeon told delegates at the conference: "In the referendum, we proposed free comprehensive provision for all children from aged one. We didn't win the referendum, but I am determined that we will make progress.
"With the powers we have now, we will push forward. We already deliver 16 hours a week of free childcare for all three and four years old.
"From August next year, that entitlement will extend to 27% of two year olds as well. That is more hours of childcare than in any other part of the UK and we should be proud of that.
"But so important is good quality, extensive childcare to the school performance and life chances of young people, that we will go further still."
She pledged that the SNP's manifesto for the 2016 Holyrood election would set out an "ambitious plan" to increase childcare provision.
"By the end of the next parliament, my commitment is that all three and four year olds and all eligible two years olds will receive, not 16 hours, but 30 hours of free childcare each week," she said.
Ms Sturgeon acknowledged that the scale of the plan would require major investment, including capital investment in school and nursery buildings.
She added: "Our flagship infrastructure project in this parliament has been the new Forth Bridge - the Queensferry Crossing.
"I want to make one of our biggest infrastructure projects for the next parliament a different kind of bridge.
"I want it to be comprehensive childcare, giving our young people the best start in life and a bridge to a better future."
Recalling her own childhood, Ms Sturgeon said she had grown up in a working class family, went to a state school and, thanks to "hard work, great parents and free tuition", became the first person in her family to go to university.
She said: "Education - above all else - is what has made it possible for me to stand here today.
"Not everyone can be first minister. But everyone - regardless of background and circumstance - should have the opportunity to fulfil their potential.
"For too many of our young people today, that is not the reality. Stories like mine are still too often the exception. We must change that and, conference, I am determined that we will."
The 30-year-old midfielder, who was born in France, was a free agent after a spell with Kuwaiti club Al-Arabi.
Matmour has spent most of his career in Germany, where he came to the attention of Huddersfield boss David Wagner.
The Terriers have received international clearance and he could make his debut at Brighton on Saturday.
"It is not normal that we would be able to get a player of his quality with no transfer fee," Wagner told the club website.
"He can play in all four attacking positions; on the right, on the left, as a number 10 or number nine.
"This strengthens our forwards and will help me make good decisions to keep them fresh."
Matmour played for four clubs in Germany and appeared in the Bundesliga for Borussia Moenchengladbach and Eintracht Frankfurt.
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"Nobody wants a long period of limbo. Neither the British people nor the European member states. Everyone has an interest that the preparations are conducted in a thorough manner, that the positions are clear, and I think it is absolutely understandable that Britain needs a certain amount of time for this." (Joint news conference with Theresa May, 20 July, via Reuters)
"I think we can expect that Britons will act as quickly as possible to end this period of uncertainty in Britain and in Europe." (Interview with Reuters, 20 July)
"Despite Brexit, we need the cooperation with Britain in our international relations, particularly in these times of crisis." (Interview with Reuters, 20 July)
"The faster clarity is created, the better it is for limiting the possible risks." (Speaking after a meeting with US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew in Berlin, 14 July, as reported by Handelsblatt)
"As Britain and the EU begin negotiating the new terms of their partnership, America is rooting for and will do all we can to try to encourage and assist in the development of the smoothest possible transition and a highly integrated and collaborative EU/UK relationship." (News conference with Boris Johnson, via Express)
"The British have told us that they can't sign any kind of new trade agreement... until they are no longer a member of the EU. So there is a time period here no matter what, the process that may take at least a couple of years before anyone can contemplate some kind of agreement." (News conference with Boris Johnson, via Reuters)
"The United Kingdom's departure from the European Union happens under good conditions, but not to the EU's detriment. It is not a question of weakening Europeans." (about Boris Johnson, interview with French Europe 1 radio, 14 July)
"I am not at all worried about Boris Johnson, but you know very well what his style, his method is... Did you see what his style was during the campaign? He lied a lot to the British. Now it is he who is up against it in terms of defending his country, as well as for ensuring that the relationship with Europe is clear." (about Boris Johnson, interview with French Europe 1 radio, 14 July)
"At first I thought it was a joke. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. But I know that it's not a good thing if irresponsibility in politics is rewarded." (About Boris Johnson's appointment as foreign secretary, 14 July, statement on her website)
"The discussion and negotiations that take place over the next period should take into account the possibility, however far out it might be, that the clause in the Good Friday Agreement might be triggered, in that if there is a clear evidence of a majority of people wishing to leave the United Kingdom and join the Republic, that should be catered for in the discussions. Because if that possibility were to happen, you would have Northern Ireland wishing to leave the United Kingdom, not being a member of the European Union, and joining the Republic, which will be a member of the EU." (Speaking to reporters on 19 July, via the Irish Independent)
"Told PM @Theresa_May today that we need an orderly, calm #Brexit, something like a 'velvet divorce'." (Tweet after talks with Theresa May on the telephone, 19 July)
"Japan will try and cooperate [with Britain during the Brexit process]. We will convey our thoughts to the British government to help minimise the damage to its economy." (Speaking to the Japanese news agency Kyodo, 19 July, via The Mainichi)
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The 19-year-old, who was born in Canada, made his Blues debut on the final day of last season against Premier League champions Leicester.
Tomori has signed in time to be involved in the Seagulls' Championship game at home to Cardiff on Tuesday.
"He'll give us good defensive cover for the first-team for the second half of the season," said boss Chris Hughton.
Brighton are second in the table but will go above leaders Newcastle if they win their game in hand against the Bluebirds.
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The announcement was made in Egypt, which has been leading mediation efforts.
People in Israel and Gaza give their reaction to the news:
I'm now really satisfied that after eight days of bombing we have a ceasefire. We were really scared about a possible ground invasion, especially after leaflets were dropped.
We've lost a lot of people this week. I know of a family about half a mile from my house that has been wiped out. I haven't been outside since the operation started but I will go out tomorrow and I expect I will see lots of damage.
People are celebrating in the streets, we've been in a war but we are now hopeful that the siege might be lifted.
I studied a Masters degree at Oxford and only returned to Gaza just two weeks before the bombing started. I'm unemployed at the moment but I hope to start looking for a job.
I hope the ceasefire will last, I believe both sides want peace.
I'm quite upset that we have a ceasefire. I believe Israel hasn't achieved anything. About an hour after it was declared I heard one of the Iron Dome rockets bringing down a missile.
Public opinion here is that we don't want a ceasefire. I believe we've lost in the eyes of the world - I think in a few months time we'll pay for this.
There is great sympathy for the Gaza citizens; they're as much victims of Hamas as we are.
I've amazed myself with how stoic I've been recently. Were it not for my partner I wouldn't have gone to the stairwell of my home as I feel that living on the north-east side of the building we occupy is a safe spot.
People are amazed when they see me out in the town shopping, but I've been very pragmatic about this whole situation. I'm not going to leave Ashkelon. I've been here for six months and my partner is Ashkelonian.
We realise that the average man in the street in Gaza is not the enemy, we should be working with them. What we need is peace.
I've just seen on the TV that the ceasefire has been announced. I am delighted. It is what we want.
I am the breadwinner looking after 11 family members including my wife, two children, parents and five sisters.
We have spent a whole week now in the house since the escalation of air strikes. It is very hard to go outside, it's just not safe. The bombs are targeting civilians and they fall from the air and also come from warships. We are watching the news all the time when we can and we haven't slept.
Every day, the electricity is turned off for eight hours. It's winter here so it is cold but inside the house we are OK. We have enough food and water but medicines are running out. My elderly father has a heart condition and I haven't been able to get any medicine for him. Everything is closed. I can't go to work and I can't go to the shops.
Lately I've seen lots of trucks evacuating people from north of Gaza. The refugees are staying in UN schools.
People don't want this situation to continue, we all want this ceasefire. There has to be an end to this cycle of violence.
I worry so much for my children. My son, who is five years old, has started to think that this way of life is normal. He was watching the TV looking at the children dying, my wife quickly jumped up and turned off the TV but he shouted: "I want to see this." Later he said that he didn't want to do his homework "until the war ends". I am so worried that he knows what war is like.
The ceasefire is good. I'm glad, I believe that many people had hoped for more to be achieved at the peace talks in Egypt but it's good to have some time out from the conflict.
I've lived through previous ceasefires and obviously they haven't worked to bring about long-term peace. Sadly, I don't think this ceasefire is any different. Hamas wants to eliminate Israel, so they won't give up.
I wish they would give up.
My friend in the south hasn't left his home in a week now. He says that riding the bus is too dangerous so everyone is staying indoors. Also, some universities have closed and a lot of the students have moved to the north where it is a bit safer.
I heard on the news about the bomb blast which hit a bus. But it was quite far from where I am. In Tel Aviv it has actually got a bit better because all the attacks are in the south. Generally, Tel Aviv has had fewer rockets so no alarms.
Life is a bit better but it is very depressing.
Kimmich turned in Franck Ribery's low cross from close range, just as the home side looked set for a point.
Home goalkeeper Rene Adler had made a series of fine saves, most notably from Robert Lewandowski's close-range shot.
Bayern did suffer a setback when centre-back Mats Hummels came off with a knee injury soon after half-time.
Hummels will be assessed before Wednesday's Champions League trip to Atletico Madrid.
Hamburg coach Bruno Labbadia, a former Bayern striker, has been under intense scrutiny after his team's poor start to the season, with just one point taken from four matches before Saturday.
There had been suggestions that Labbadia, who saved Hamburg from relegation two seasons ago, could lose his job if his players failed to perform against the champions.
As it was, the home side put it a spirited display, despite falling to a fourth successive league defeat.
Bayern had the bulk of the possession, and turned up the pressure considerably after a sleepy first half.
But Adler was inspired - reacting brilliantly early in the second half when Lewandowski turned Thiago's corner goalwards, and later beating away a David Alaba free-kick before turning Thomas Muller's effort wide.
Lewandowski also had a penalty appeal rejected as Emir Spahic seemed to drag him back when he was clear, but Bayern found a way to score as time was running out.
Match ends, Hamburger SV 0, FC Bayern München 1.
Second Half ends, Hamburger SV 0, FC Bayern München 1.
Attempt missed. Pierre-Michel Lasogga (Hamburger SV) header from the right side of the six yard box is too high. Assisted by Filip Kostic with a cross following a set piece situation.
Foul by Thiago Alcántara (FC Bayern München).
Michael Gregoritsch (Hamburger SV) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Michael Gregoritsch (Hamburger SV) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Michael Gregoritsch (Hamburger SV).
Attempt missed. Pierre-Michel Lasogga (Hamburger SV) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Gideon Jung following a corner.
Attempt missed. Gideon Jung (Hamburger SV) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Filip Kostic with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Hamburger SV. Conceded by Jérôme Boateng.
Attempt blocked. Michael Gregoritsch (Hamburger SV) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Johan Djourou.
Substitution, Hamburger SV. Pierre-Michel Lasogga replaces Albin Ekdal.
Goal! Hamburger SV 0, FC Bayern München 1. Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Franck Ribéry following a fast break.
Offside, FC Bayern München. Jérôme Boateng tries a through ball, but Thomas Müller is caught offside.
Substitution, Hamburger SV. Michael Gregoritsch replaces Bobby Wood.
Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München).
Filip Kostic (Hamburger SV) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Attempt blocked. Franck Ribéry (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by David Alaba.
Attempt saved. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by René Adler.
Attempt saved. Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Robert Lewandowski.
Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gotoku Sakai (Hamburger SV).
Foul by Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München).
Albin Ekdal (Hamburger SV) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Philipp Lahm.
Attempt missed. Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by David Alaba with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Franck Ribéry (FC Bayern München) is shown the yellow card.
Franck Ribéry (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Gotoku Sakai (Hamburger SV).
Attempt saved. David Alaba (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Douglas Santos (Hamburger SV) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Douglas Santos (Hamburger SV).
Javi Martínez (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Filip Kostic (Hamburger SV).
Celtic could not take a first-leg advantage to Norway in the Champions League third qualifying round tie.
The two meet again at the Lerkendal Stadion in Trondheim on Wednesday.
"I thought Celtic would win it - it's more open than I thought," former Norway striker Brattbakk told BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound.
"I still think Celtic are stronger but Rosenborg have always been strong at home.
"This is a good opportunity for Rosenborg. They don't have to attack in the first minute or the 30th minute, they can wait until a good chance comes in the second half.
"The goalless draw has made it a more exciting game than I was hoping for.
"Both teams know that it's a matter of not conceding a goal, so I think we will see two cautious teams at the beginning of the match. But I don't think either of the teams will aim for extra-time because that will be even harder. There will be chances in the 90 minutes."
Brattbakk had three spells with Rosenborg and was involved in many famous European nights with goals against Real Madrid and AC Milan.
He also famously scored twice against Celtic shortly after ending his two-year spell in Glasgow as Rosenborg defeated them 2-0 in a Champions League tie in 2001.
The 46-year-old says some of his fellow Norwegians were surprised at the result in the first leg as Rosenborg, who are already 17 games into their domestic season, have been criticised for their performances.
"They haven't actually played as well as people would expect," explained Brattbakk. "It surprised a lot of people they came away with such a good result, but also the way they came away with that good result.
"It wasn't a fluke, it was hard work."
Brattbakk is best known in Scotland for his goal in a 2-0 over St Johnstone that helped seal the league title for Celtic in 1998, which in turn stopped Rangers claiming 10 league titles in a row.
Nineteen years on the Norwegian says he feels "humbled" to have been part of that achievement.
"Obviously it meant a lot to the club," he added. "I was so happy to be a part of it.
"Now that Celtic have won six in a row they can be the team that wins that [10 in a row], and being part of preventing Rangers from getting 10 in a row is something that will obviously stick in supporters' minds."
The RNLI has been using its Birnbeck Pier base since 1882 but the derelict pier has become increasingly unsafe.
It has set up a fundraising appeal to build a new station but the charity says this will take time to achieve.
The 50ft container has been extensively modified to house the D Class rapid response lifeboat.
A spokesman for the RNLI in Weston said the charity was committed to remaining in the town but added a new HQ would require "significant funds".
He added the lifeboats on Birnbeck would now only launch if there was "a known risk to life" which could not be covered by the temporary facility.
In the meantime volunteers have constructed an interim base on Knightstone Causeway but because of the tides it is not always possible to launch the lifeboat around the clock.
The charity is now "actively looking" for a second temporary base to house its remaining fleet from Birnbeck Pier - which would be able to launch at any time.
It would then be able to vacate the site it has used for more than 130 years.
The BBC Sport website and app will stream the live radio and TV highlights from the Open, while a daily live text commentary will provide latest scores, analysis and the best of social media, plus up to six minutes of in-play video clips every day.
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Tuesday 18 July
13:45-14:45, BBC Two - Chronicles of a Champion Golfer
BBC Sport takes a look back at some of the most iconic Open Championship triumphs. This one-hour documentary focuses on the exploits of Tiger Woods, Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus, featuring first-person accounts from the American trio.
21:30-22:30, BBC Radio 5 live - The Open Preview Show
Wednesday 19 July
13:00-14:00, BBC Two - Chronicles of a Champion Golfer
This episode looks at the exploits of Darren Clarke, Sir Nick Faldo, and Rory McIlroy and promises to be a rollercoaster of emotions, not least with Clarke reliving his tearful 2011 triumph.
Thursday 20 July
10:00-12:30, BBC Radio 5 live
13:00-17:00, BBC Radio 5 live
17:30-19:00, BBC Radio 5 live
20:00-22:00, BBC Two - The Open highlights
Friday 21 July
10:00-12:30, BBC Radio 5 live
12:30-14:00, BBC Radio 5 live sports extra
14:00-17:00, BBC Radio 5 live
17:30-19:00, BBC Radio 5 live
20:00-22:00, BBC Two - The Open highlights
Saturday 22 July
12:00-19:00, BBC Radio 5 live
20:00-22:00, BBC Two - The Open highlights
Sunday 23 July
13:30-19:00, BBC Radio 5 live
20:00-22:00, BBC Two - The Open highlights
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The 10-day event drew to a close in Dumfries on Sunday after a string of music, comedy and theatre performances.
Among the biggest successes was the Le Haggis cabaret which accounted for more than half of total audience figures.
This year saw a venue switch to the Easterbrook Hall from the Spiegeltent in the town centre and a survey is to examine feedback on that change.
Executive producer Graham Main: "This is a festival of the people, and they will help us decide what future direction we take.
"We are incredibly fortunate to have an audience that are as passionate as ours.
"They make it very clear what they like and what they don't like, and we will spend the next month listening to as much of their feedback as we can before planning for 2018 commences."
Plans for next year's event are expected to be announced in March.
Mr Main said the festival had continued to make a significant financial contribution to the area.
"Local businesses have been quick to tell us that they have also maintained the economic impact that the festival gives them and that means that the impact of our work is far and wide," he said.
"That's great for both the future of the arts and our incredible town."
He also paid tribute to the festival's volunteers who he described as "shining stars".
"You just never know when one of them is going to jump onto the stage or burst into song, and that gives Big Burns Supper its unique atmosphere," he said.
A third of 748 GPs in Wales surveyed by the British Medical Association (BMA) said they were thinking of quitting within that period.
The Welsh government said it was "working hard" to attract GPs.
Dr Phil White, from BMA in Wales, said a Welsh GP shortage was "inevitable".
He told BBC Radio Cymru's Post Cyntaf programme: "We are facing a serious situation. We already have problems in areas such as Conwy and the Llyn Peninsula where you have one GP serving 5,000 patients".
The proportion of Welsh GPs polled who said they were considering retirement in the next five years was on par with the rest of the UK.
As part of the BMA survey of 15,000 doctors in the UK, 10% of Welsh GPs polled said their workload was manageable.
A Welsh government spokesman said: "In this UK-wide survey around half of those who responded were over 50, compared to 41% in Wales, so the results may overstate GPs' intentions to retire.
"There are now more than 2,000 GPs working in the Welsh NHS, an increase of 10.5% since 2004."
King Arthur Pendragon claims the cremated bones discovered in 2008 are the remains of members of the royal line and wants them re-interred.
Having lost a High Court bid to have the bones reburied in 2011, permission to take the case to a full judicial review has also been refused.
But the druid leader said it was "by no means the end of the campaign".
The cremated remains of more than 40 bodies, thought to be at least 5,000 years old, were removed from the burial site at the ancient stone circle in Wiltshire in 2008.
But Mike Pitts, one of the archaeologists who found the remains, said they did not uncover "individual burials" but bone fragments that were "very small and damaged".
"What we're attempting to do is to isolate individual people, to recognise bits of bone that came from individuals, within this mass of bone that was just dumped in a mass like broken up Weetabix at the bottom of this pit," he said.
"So studying these is an extremely detailed, time consuming and forensic process."
Ministers gave permission to allow the bones to be examined at Sheffield University until 2015.
But Mr Pendragon has vowed he will continue his fight to have the remains reburied.
"The judge in refusing to let me take this particular case did say that if they [the remains] do not go back in the ground in 2015 - which the current licence says they've got to be - that I will take another case against them," he said.
"And the judge has given me permission to do that."
Chief executive Dr Andrew Goodall has launched his second annual quality statement for the health service.
Despite growing demands on emergency departments, frontline staff were "broadly able to meet these pressures".
He stressed a focus on the individual. "We need to change our question to 'what matters to the patient', rather than 'what is the matter?'"
Dr Goodall thanked staff for delivering in services with challenges in terms of demand and difficulties in recruitment in some areas, saying many "go that extra mile" to keep improving services.
84,000 staff
£18m a day budget
18m contacts in primary care a year
3m outpatient attendances
750,000 hospital admissions
78m prescriptions issued
He said the NHS could boast of many examples of world-beating services but where things could be better, staff were "working tirelessly" to make improvements.
Meanwhile, in a survey of nearly 8,000 patients, 98% felt that they were treated with dignity and respect and 95% felt they were given full information about their care.
The annual quality statement for NHS Wales is an overview of all the work going on to improve the quality of care.
Among the areas covered:
Good practice includes a pilot at Wrexham Maelor Hospital where patients are asked to give star ratings for how they were looked after in wards and departments, with weekly feedback to staff. The NHS is looking to extend it across Wales.
There is also praise for "virtual wards" in Powys, which allow elderly and frail people to be cared for in their own homes and has helped reduce emergency admissions to hospital by 12%.
A "one drink one click" app developed by Public Health Wales to help people monitor alcohol consumption has been taken up in England.
"Despite the challenges posed by increasing demand for our services, we remain fully committed to providing safe, compassionate care, focused on the individual and the core principles the NHS stands for," said Dr Goodall.
ON STAFF FROM EU COUNTRIES
Dr Goodall also promised the Welsh Government would do all it could to "look after" NHS staff from the EU working in Wales following the referendum result, saying they play an important part.
There are more than 500 doctors alone who were trained in EU countries.
"We have to wait and see the detail and the plans that emerge after such a significant decision," he said.
"We have very committed staff working in the NHS more generally who have joined us from both an European and international context.
"We've had very recent recruitment campaigns across Wales. I think it's important for us to just recognise the hard work they've put into making the NHS in Wales improve and the support they provide to Welsh communities."
ON RECRUITING DOCTORS FROM ENGLAND
Dr Goodall said the NHS in Wales would offer a "very warm welcome" to any staff who choose to work here after a bitter dispute in England about a new junior doctor's contract.
Ministers in England are paving the way to impose new work patterns on junior doctors in England after the profession rejected the deal that had been agreed between union negotiators and UK ministers.
The UK Government said the new contract will help the NHS in England become a truly seven day service, while critics claim it will lead to less safe services for patients.
The Welsh Government has said consistently it would not impose a new contract on junior doctors in Wales but would negotiate any future changes to work patterns in the spirit collaboration.
Asked about the impact on Wales of the dispute in England, Dr Goodall told BBC Wales: "Obviously we're going to have to take a serious look about what that means.
"But it's absolutely right to say the Welsh Government has not had any intention to impose a contract. I think we've worked in a very collaborative manner with our medical staff and doctors in Wales and the BMA as well."
Recent figures suggest a significant rise in junior doctors recruited by NHS Scotland but Dr Goodhall said the trend had not been replicated in Wales.
Vanessa Young, director of the Welsh NHS Confederation which represents health boards, said the achievements had been delivered while the NHS "continues to carry out a staggering level of activity each and every day".
"However we are not complacent. We know there are areas where improvements can be made and our members will continue to work hard to deliver great care to patients and meet the challenges ahead," she said.
"I felt obligated to join," said Boseman, who plays superhero Black Panther in two upcoming Marvel films.
Rita Wilson said it was the right time to join because the Academy was "open to hearing what the issues were".
The organisers of the Oscars intend to double the number of female and minority members by 2020.
The move follows complaints about the lack of ethnic diversity among this year's nominees. The Academy had been criticised over a lack of diversity amongst Oscar nominees, with no non-white nominees in the acting categories.
Boseman, speaking at an Oscars event in the US, added: "After a certain number of years when... you feel like there are worthy films that should be nominated or presented, yeah, you have to join.
"You have to be a voice."
Wilson, who recently appeared in My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, said #OscarsSoWhite prompted her to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her husband Tom Hanks has been active with the organisation for years.
"I have never been a member and I thought this is the right time," she told a reception for new members in West Hollywood, California, on Monday.
"It feels right because it seemed to me the Academy was really open to hearing what the issues were, not only with colour but with women and all sorts of diversity."
Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs told guests: "You are proof that the Academy is committed to, and working toward, its goal of inclusion."
Screenwriter Phyllis Nagy said she wants to "open up the diversity issue" now that she's an academy member.
"I think we have to address everything," the writer of Cate Blanchett film Carol said.
"It's not just Oscars so white. It's Oscars so male, Oscars so straight. Hopefully the new member initiative that the Academy announced will help."
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It was a remarkable result for the Black Cats, who continually soaked up pressure from their opponents and found themselves a man down when Steven Pienaar was sent off in the 59th minute.
The Cherries took an 11th-minute lead when Dan Gosling converted Adam Smith's cross from close range for his third goal of the season.
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The Black Cats lost 4-1 at home to Arsenal last week and once again looked vulnerable at the back, with Junior Stanislas and Joshua King both going close after the opener. But they surprisingly drew level in the 33rd minute when Victor Anichebe smacked his six-yard shot high past the reach of keeper Artur Boruc.
Sunderland began the second half well but were dealt a huge blow when Pienaar was shown a second yellow card for a late challenge on Stanislas.
Despite being a man down, David Moyes' side still pressed and were rewarded with a spot-kick when Anichebe was fouled by Adam Smith in the area. Defoe converted against his former team as his current side hung on for a morale-boosting win.
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This match looked like a home-win banker, more so after Gosling used his stomach to give Eddie Howe's side the lead.
The visitors' defence, which had conceded three against Everton and Palace and four against the Gunners, looked set for another uncomfortable day.
Moyes started with a 4-4-2 formation, but changed to 4-5-1 after going behind to stem the flow of Bournemouth's attacks from the wings. It worked and gave Sunderland the chance to focus on troubling the home side.
The change in tactic paid off as Defoe, playing deeper, fed Anichebe in the area. The striker used his 6ft 3in physique to hold off his marker, turn and then crack a shot past Pickford to equalise. That was the former Everton player's first Premier League goal since scoring for West Brom against Newcastle in May 2015 - 546 days ago.
Moyes - watching from the stands as he served a suspension - must have thought the footballing gods were not on his side when Pienaar was deservedly sent off with 31 minutes remaining.
But the spirit that had drawn Sunderland level was again present when they drove forward and Anichebe, once again tussling in the area, fell under the challenge of Smith. Some might have deemed it a weak challenge but Mike Dean pointed to the spot and Defoe dispatched the ball high into Boruc's net.
The Cherries had only lost one game at home this season and it appeared highly unlikely that Saturday's contest would result in a second, as they fired in 22 shots and enjoyed 70% of possession.
But they found Sunderland keeper Jordan Pickford, 22, in exceptional form. The England Under-21 keeper made great saves to deny Jack Wilshere and Joshua King. Junior Stanislas also saw a sidefoot shot come off the post and substitute striker Benik Afobe, who has not scored since March, twice screwed good opportunities wide.
For manager Eddie Howe it must have been a sense of déjà vu, with another North-East club, Newcastle, surviving a similar onslaught during the 2015 Guy Fawkes weekend to come away with their first win of the season. Of course, they were eventually relegated.
"It was about the shift Anichebe put in," Match of the Day pundit Jermaine Jenas said.
"He was playing with a cracked rib at one point so no-one can question his desire and he is just so strong.
"He was a real asset for Sunderland because they were under so much pressure but he was a great focal point for them to hold up the ball."
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Sunderland boss David Moyes: "Anichebe was terrific today. He has an awful lot going for him and his all-round performance was terrific. He got an injury early on - he thought he broke his rib."
On the second yellow card shown to Steven Pienaar: "At the time I thought there was nothing in the tackle, I thought he got the ball, but now I can see why it can be given.
"It is only one win. We need two, we need to just keep picking up the points. Hopefully it will show people there is a great spirit and commitment among the players and desire to do well.
"We went to a factory this week, showing the players it is much better to be a footballer than working in a factory."
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Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe: "In the last two games we've had some gilt-edged chances. We scored six against Hull, but it's frustrating when you have a hatful of chances and can't put them away.
"We should have gone 2-0 ahead as we had chances in the first half which we didn't put away. You feel the red card would swing the game back in our favour, we battered their goal for the next 15 minutes and that's when we needed to find the killer touch, but we didn't. We left the back door open and conceded what was a poor goal for us."
After the international break, Sunderland are at home to fellow strugglers Hull on 19 November and Bournemouth are away at Stoke on the same day. Both are 15:00 GMT kick offs.
Match ends, Bournemouth 1, Sunderland 2.
Second Half ends, Bournemouth 1, Sunderland 2.
Attempt blocked. Lynden Gooch (Sunderland) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Patrick van Aanholt.
Lynden Gooch (Sunderland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jack Wilshere (Bournemouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lynden Gooch (Sunderland).
Substitution, Sunderland. Lynden Gooch replaces Jermain Defoe.
Attempt missed. Lys Mousset (Bournemouth) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ryan Fraser with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Bournemouth. Conceded by Papy Djilobodji.
Attempt missed. Dan Gosling (Bournemouth) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Simon Francis.
Attempt missed. Jack Wilshere (Bournemouth) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Benik Afobe.
Substitution, Sunderland. Donald Love replaces Duncan Watmore.
Jack Wilshere (Bournemouth) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Victor Anichebe (Sunderland).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Victor Anichebe (Sunderland) because of an injury.
Corner, Bournemouth. Conceded by Jordan Pickford.
Attempt saved. Joshua King (Bournemouth) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Benik Afobe with a headed pass.
Attempt missed. Steve Cook (Bournemouth) header from the left side of the six yard box misses to the left following a set piece situation.
Ryan Fraser (Bournemouth) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Duncan Watmore (Sunderland).
Ryan Fraser (Bournemouth) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Billy Jones (Sunderland).
Dan Gosling (Bournemouth) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jermain Defoe (Sunderland).
Attempt missed. Benik Afobe (Bournemouth) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Lys Mousset.
Substitution, Bournemouth. Ryan Fraser replaces Junior Stanislas.
Foul by Lys Mousset (Bournemouth).
Victor Anichebe (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adam Smith (Bournemouth).
Victor Anichebe (Sunderland) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Dan Gosling (Bournemouth).
Jason Denayer (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joshua King (Bournemouth).
Patrick van Aanholt (Sunderland) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Bournemouth. Lys Mousset replaces Harry Arter.
Attempt missed. Benik Afobe (Bournemouth) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Goal! Bournemouth 1, Sunderland 2. Jermain Defoe (Sunderland) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.
Adam Smith (Bournemouth) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Penalty conceded by Adam Smith (Bournemouth) after a foul in the penalty area.
Motorists pay £1.50 for a one-way car journey across the bridge or £1.35 for drivers using an electronic tag.
The Humber Bridge Board said there would be no increase until 2021 despite plans to install a glass lift at the bridge and create a visitor centre.
Chairman Rob Waltham said the toll had been "significant in growing the Humber economy".
A planning application for the proposed tourist development at the site was submitted in June.
Project costs have not been released by the board but Bridge Master Peter Hill said it would be financed by the bridge board and "not be funded from bridge tolls".
The tolls were halved in April 2012 after the government cut £150m from the bridge's outstanding debt.
Source: Humber Bridge Board
The pair failed to win places in Team GB's women's eight for the Rio Olympics, but are expected to be selected in the double scull.
Their cause will be helped after they reached Sunday's final in Poznan.
They qualified in second place from the repechages, behind New Zealand.
Grainger, 40, and Thornley, 28, had led before being caught on the line by the Kiwis.
"We were much better in the first half of the race today - that's a step-up from the heats yesterday," said Wales' Thornley.
"We have stuff to work on but now we can enjoy the final and see how much speed we can get out of the boat".
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Grainger and Thornley had dissolved their double scull partnership in May to focus on earning spots in the larger boat but they were not on the list of 43 names announced by Team GB on 9 June.
Should she win a medal at her fifth Games in Rio, Grainger would become Britain's most decorated female Olympian, having also won silver medals in Sydney, Athens and Beijing.
British Rowing performance director Sir David Tanner said it was his "confident intention" to get them back into the doubles boat.
Great Britain will have plenty of medal prospects on the final day of competition in Poland, as London 2012 Olympic bronze medallist Alan Campbell won his men's single scull semi-final, while Alan Sinclair and Stewart Innes won their men's pair semi.
Their rivals for Rio selection, Nathaniel Reilly O'Donnell and Mat Tarrant, were second in the other semi-final, which was won by the Olympic and world champions New Zealand.
Britain's two lightweight men's Olympic boats were in repechage action and booked their places for Sunday with two second-placed finishes.
Will Fletcher and Richard Chambers were narrowly beaten by Ireland in the men's double sculls semi-final, while Chris Bartley, Mark Aldred, Jono Clegg and Peter Chambers were second to the French in the men's four.
Rachel Morris won gold in the women's para-rowing single scull, while Oliver Cook, Callum McBrierty and cox Henry Fieldman took the title in the coxed pair.
World champions Sam Scrimgeour and Joel Cassells maintained their unbeaten record in the lightweight men's pair.
More than one assault a day was reported in England and Wales, an investigation by File on 4 revealed.
Some care workers said they were not always given full information about who might pose a risk.
The Care Quality Commission, the health regulator in England, said it was the responsibility of care providers to protect residents from harm or abuse.
Alison Wallace Wood's father, Allan Wallace, died less than three weeks after being assaulted at Mapleford Nursing Home in Accrington, Lancashire, in October 2015.
"They found my father on the floor in a very distressed state, bleeding from head wounds," she said.
"It appeared that he'd been kicked in the head and the chap was wearing steel toe cap boots which nobody was aware of. He was very, very bruised, very incoherent, semi-conscious really. Bruising around the ears, around the head, on the hands. He looked a mess."
Allan, who was 86 and had dementia, never recovered from the altercation. An inquest into his death ruled that he died from natural causes contributed to by the injuries he sustained.
The other resident also had dementia and had previously spent time in a psychiatric unit and other care homes.
He arrived at the home in July 2015 but very quickly staff asked the authorities to relocate him.
General manager Julie Hammond said: "After two weeks, we'd already served him notice knowing that we wouldn't be able to meet his needs. He was too unpredictable and he could be a danger to other residents. We wanted him moving."
The home said it was only after the assault that they found out the man had previously shown challenging behaviour.
"He'd been in two or three care homes and there'd been similar incidents, serious incidents in which there was aggression and serious injury to other service users.
"We weren't aware of that information. If we'd have known that we wouldn't have accepted that gentleman into this home," Julie Hammond said.
At the inquest it was found that additional requested external support was not provided in a "timely and appropriate manner".
A review is due to be carried out by Lancashire Safeguarding Adults Board.
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, who placed the man at Mapleford Nursing Home, said: "When challenging behaviour is a factor this can lead to difficulties and delays in trying to find suitable care home placements that are able to accommodate people with such needs."
Figures obtained by File on 4 show that assaults among residents are not uncommon.
Some 28 of the UK's 45 police forces responded to Freedom of Information requests asking how many resident-on-resident assaults were recorded by the police at care, nursing and residential homes for adults during the three-year period from 2014 to 2016.
Some forces also provided brief descriptions of alleged incidents including a resident who assaulted another by kicking and pushing, causing the other resident to suffer a fractured arm.
Another said: "Care staff attends residents room to find two residents, both bloody and confused. Neither can provide an account of what happened."
Professor Martin Green, chief executive of Care England, which represents providers, said: "That it's being reported to the police is a good thing, because that shows care homes are not keeping this information to themselves.
"As we see more people with different types of dementias and exhibiting more challenging behaviours, we have to have a system that's ready to respond to that."
The Care Quality Commission (CQC), which monitors and regulates care homes in England, told the programme: "People living in care homes should feel safe and be protected from harm - and it is the responsibility of those who are in charge of running these services to ensure this happens. Should CQC find this is not happening, we will always take action that holds providers to account."
Margaret Willcox, president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), said: "In cases where a person's behaviour is more challenging for a care home to manage, it is essential the person is assessed, preferably by both a social care professional and the NHS."
ADASS added there was a need for more providers who can care for those with challenging behaviour.
Listen to more on this story on File on 4, on Tuesday 23 May at 20:00 BST on BBC Radio 4.
A statement from the prosecutor's office said a serving MP is among those who have been charged.
The offences include the bribery of voters and incitement to violence.
Kenya's 8 August vote comes nearly a decade after disputed election results fuelled violence that left more than 1,000 dead and 500,000 displaced.
However the last elections in 2013 passed off relatively peacefully.
The prosecutor's office also ordered investigations over violent incidents in five regions in different parts of the country.
Analysts say that the primaries have been so hard fought because becoming an elected official brings many financial benefits.
In addition, in the regions where one party is dominant a victory in that party's primary is seen as a near guarantee of the candidate being elected.
The prosecutor's statement also said that a team of 135 prosecutors are on standby to deal with hate speech and incitement to violence cases to ensure a " secure environment for a free, fair and peaceful election".
Kenyans will be voting for candidates in four positions: the president, members of parliament, county governors and members of county assemblies.
President Uhuru Kenyatta is seeking a second term and will be facing his political rival Raila Odinga, who was picked last week as the presidential candidate by a coalition of opposition parties.
Conservative MSP Liz Smith said there needed to be "absolute clarity and transparency" over the matter.
The government had stated the one-off sum was given to help fund the "successful transition" of the festival to its new home at Strathallan Castle.
It was relocated over concerns of an oil line at the former site in Kinross.
Festival organisers DF Concerts were forced to move on from Balado, the annual event's home since 1997, after the "substantial" concerns were raised by the Health and Safety Executive about the Forties pipeline, which runs underneath the site.
The group examined more than 100 potential venues across Scotland and the north of England before settling on fellow Perthshire estate Strathallan.
Councillors gave permission for the annual event to be held there for three years, following a public consultation.
The move drew criticism from some local residents.
On the issue of the £150,000 in funding, Ms Smith conceded it was "not unusual" for festival events in Scotland to receive Scottish government grants.
She said: "I have written to Ministers to ask the specific questions, the most important of which relate to exactly when the Scottish government was first approached about the provision of additional funding for T in the Park at Strathallan and by whom.
"What were these additional funds used for, particularly as the Scottish government's own website appears to imply that the move to Strathallan was only 'temporary'?"
She added: "The taxpayer surely deserves to know the details."
A spokeswoman for T in the Park said: "Many events in Scotland - often with smaller audiences and less economic impact than T in the Park - receive public funding.
"There is nothing secret at all about the award of £150,000 to the festival, the awards process has been as transparent as it is for any other event or organisation."
The organisers cited "exceptional circumstances" in their application for funding.
The spokeswoman added: "T in the Park was forced to move from Balado - it was not a decision made by us - and switching site is a hugely complicated and expensive process. In fact, it is the biggest move ever undertaken by a music festival of this scale in the UK, organised in just a few short months."
T in the Park said it had invested a seven-figure sum towards moving the festival, which organisers said had brought hundreds of millions of pounds to the Scottish economy over 20-plus years.
The Scottish government said the funding was consistent with its major events policy.
A spokeswoman added: "T in the Park is one of Scotland's most popular and successful annual cultural events, which last year generated £15.4m for the Scottish economy as well as employment opportunities in the staging and delivery of the event.
"Recognising the economic and tourism benefits T in the Park delivers for Scotland, the Scottish government invested £150,000 to support relocation of the event."
MSP Liz Smith had previously raised concern over the event. In a letter to the chief executive of Perth and Kinross Council she called for a "major review" of the festival's move to Strathallan Castle, claiming that "public safety was compromised" during this years event, which was held earlier this month.
DF Concerts issued apologies for transport issues on each day of the festival, with long queues forming at pick-up and drop-off points.
The association says it is the biggest survey that has been done so far, and the results suggest there could be millions more cameras in the country than previous records show.
It's thought Britain could have more CCTV cameras than any other country in the world.
Paul Phillips, from the BSIA said: "Internationally it seems there are more CCTV cameras here than elsewhere." But that could be because other countries might not keep a full record of their CCTV cameras.
Footage from CCTV cameras is often used by police as evidence to convict criminals, and some people believe this helps prevent crime.
However, there are others who believe such a high number of CCTV cameras is an invasion of privacy, and charities like Big Brother Watch campaign against them.
We asked you what you thought about CCTV.
"I think CCTV cameras are a great idea and they ensure that no criminals get away with destructing the United Kingdom."
Lucy, Inverness, Scotland
"Without CCTV cameras Britain would be a dangerous place to live. For example, shop lifters would get away with stealing a lot more easily causing shops and companies to close down."
Jessie, Hertfordshire, England
"I think CCTV cameras are bad because if a criminal got to be in control of them they would be able to see everything."
Fred, Grangemouth, Scotland
"I think there are too many and invade privacy, like if you're picking your nose; it would be recorded on tape and everything, so embarrassing!"
Alanna, Pontypool, Wales
"They are there to keep you safe and CCTV cameras are a positive thing!"
Ellen, London, England
"I think CCTV cameras are excellent for the UK. Children in the UK are being protected as they are being fitted into schools, even though sometimes they do invade privacy."
Thomas, South Yorkshire, England
"It's an invasion of privacy, but it's for our own good."
Nerius, Hounslow, England
"I think that CCTV is a good way to help solve crimes, but also invades privacy."
Kelly, Bedford, England
"I think that CCTV are really good because they alert the police if someone is not being good."
Rahma, Birmingham, England
"I think CCTV cameras are a good idea! If police were tracking down a criminal, and the criminal had been spotted in a shop, they could look at the CCTV film and find out more about the criminal."
Alex, Ashford, England
"I think Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) is a good idea because it helps the police and private security companies track potential criminals without them even knowing."
Matthew, Sheffield, England
"They are there to keep you safe and CCTV Cameras are a positive thing!"
Ellen, London, England
"I think CCTV cameras are excellent for the UK. Children in the UK are being protected as they are being fitted into schools, even though sometimes they do invade privacy."
Thomas, South Yorkshire, England
People are being encouraged to buy shares in a solar co-operative to power public buildings. The minimum purchase is £250 per person.
If the project raises enough money to install panels on all sites, it will be the UK's largest community-owned urban renewables scheme.
It aims to save a thousand tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year.
Although the panels will be put on council buildings the scheme is being run by the Edinburgh Community Solar Co-op.
Once complete it should generate enough green energy to build a £1m community fund.
It is hoped the scheme will see 25 of the city's schools, community and leisure centres become solar powered.
Investors should receive a return on their money with any excess energy being sold to the national grid.
Edinburgh council has a target of reducing carbon emissions by 42% by 2020.
Dr Richard Dixon, director of Friends of the Earth Scotland and co-op chairman, said: "This share offer is a great way for residents of Edinburgh - and beyond - to become part owner of a renewable energy scheme.
"Anyone in Scotland, in fact anyone in the UK, can apply to buy shares, but preference will be given to people living within the city of Edinburgh Council area.
"In total we are looking to raise £1.4m, and if the offer is, as we hope, oversubscribed, Edinburgh folk will be first in line.
"Every co-op member is projected to receive a return of five per cent on their shares, and any surplus the co-op generates will go towards a Community Benefit Fund which will support new sustainable energy projects across the city."
The claim: Leaving the EU would make the UK economy grow more than staying in.
Reality Check verdict: This is not a mainstream view - but they are reputable economists. It is an optimistic vision of how the UK economy might fare outside the EU, although some of its assumptions are questionable.
They predict that, in 2020, the UK economy would grow 3.4% if the UK left the EU, while it would grow only 2.5% if the UK remained.
Their conclusions are outside the current economic mainstream on Europe, with most models assuming that free trade, free movement and open economies are automatically a good thing.
While we have previously warned about the uncertainties involved in economic modelling, that is why it is no surprise organisations such as the IMF, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Treasury and the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) have all predicted considerable losses to the economy following a Brexit.
This means the Economists for Brexit have had to demonstrate in their paper that the EU is restricting UK trade.
The basis of their assumptions is that after leaving the EU, the UK would trade under World Trade Organisation rules and immediately drop all tariffs on imports from everywhere in the world to reduce the prices of products for people in Britain.
One problem with this is that they also predict a fall in the value of the pound, which would be good news for exporters, but bad news for UK consumers buying imported goods.
The weaker pound might go some way to making up for the likelihood that EU countries would impose tariffs on UK exports, which is included in the model.
How does this compare with other models?
The analysis from the CEP, an influential group based at the London School of Economics, considered what would happen if the UK unilaterally removed all tariffs.
It still predicted a negative effect on the economy from leaving the EU, but said going tariff-free improved the outcome by 0.3 percentage points.
Another problem with the Economists for Brexit report is it says the UK currently sends 70% of its exports to countries with which we have no free trade agreement, so trading that way with the other 30% should not be too hard.
We've looked at this claim before, and, as we know about 44% of UK exports go to the EU, there is no way 70% can go to countries with which we do not have free trade arrangements (see below for update on this figure).
The report assumes the UK's net EU Budget contribution of 0.8% of gross domestic product (GDP) would be used to cut income tax.
It also assumes a big benefit from reduced regulation, although there has been some doubt about how much regulation could be reduced if the UK left the EU and wanted to continue trading with it.
Among the areas the report highlights as having too much regulation is energy.
"European governments have been more emphatic than the global average about the dangers of climate change," the report says.
It also talks about saving companies money by reducing social regulation such as the Working Time Directive and Gender Equality Directive and getting rid of "interferences" with financial regulation such as the cap on bankers' bonuses.
But the extra growth predicted for the economy in this study is not big.
And the margin of error with such forecasting is large.
So it should be remembered that the difference between a small increase as this model predicts and a small fall as others suggest is well within the range of uncertainty of the methods used here.
We've had an explanation from Prof Patrick Minford of where the 70% figure comes from.
It is based on there not being a free trade agreement covering services (that's things like insurance, cleaning or hairdressing where goods are not involved) in the EU.
So the 70% covers all our exports of services - including to other EU member states - and about half our exports of goods.
This ignores the EU's freedom of movement, which is particularly beneficial to the service sector and it's fair to say contributes to the level of services exported to other EU countries. There are also rules in financial services such as passporting, which helps banks to export.
To be fair, Prof Minford does sometimes phrase the statistics to make them clear, like this: "We already sell all our non-EU exports and all our exports of services around the world under WTO rules, about 70% of all our exports."
But in the Economists for Brexit press release he is quoted as saying: "70% of our exports are traded outside the EU already under World Trade Organisation rules", which is not the case.
We've also heard Boris Johnson phrase it like this: "Don't forget that 70% of our trade currently takes place with countries with whom we have no trade deals at all."
So as is often the case, it is the words that give the wrong impression, even if the numbers can be justified.
Read more: The facts behind claims in the EU debate
3 August 2017 Last updated at 16:06 BST
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The torch will be carried through 40 towns on a week-long journey before being flown to the UK ahead of the Games, which begin on 27 July.
BMW is one of several international conglomerates that have agreed to pay for the 10-17 May event.
The flame will be lit in Olympia, in southern Greece, on 10 May.
The country's British-born 10-km swimming world champion Spyros Gianniotis will be the first torchbearer, and some 500 people will carry the flame on its 3,000-km (1,800-mile) tour of most of the Greek mainland and the island of Crete.
The Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) did not say how much the Greek leg of the relay - previously partly funded by the Greek government - would cost.
HOC chief Spyros Capralos told the BBC's Mark Lowen in Athens that the contribution of sponsors meant the event would not have to be scaled back due to Greece's difficult financial circumstances.
"On the contrary, the relay will not be affected adversely because it is too important an opportunity to promote Greece," said Mr Capralos.
'It's going all around the country... to remind all our fellow countrymen of the importance of the torch, the importance of the Olympic Games, that everything started from here.''
Greece has been hit by a five-year recession and is being kept afloat by rescue loans from other eurozone countries.
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Last year, the country was stripped of the 2013 Mediterranean Games over budget cuts, and the event was moved to Mersin, Turkey.
After the Greek relay, the Olympic flame will be handed over to London 2012 at a ceremony in the Panathinaiko stadium, Athens before flying to Britain on 18 May.
In the UK, the torch will be carried by 8,000 people - 7,300 people who were nominated and 700 athletes and celebrities.
Games organisers aim to bring the flame within 10 miles of 95% of the population.
Its 70-day journey, which will begin at Land's End on the morning of 19 May.
Another 29 people were injured, said Nigerian military spokesman Col Dahiru Abdussalam.
The market in Potiskum, Yobe state, was set on fire by gunmen armed with explosives.
Police say the attack may be in revenge for the killing by traders of a man who had earlier tried to steal cattle.
The joint taskforce, a combined operation between Nigeria's army and police, is pursuing the "unidentified gunmen", Col Abdussalam said.
"A group of gunmen armed with around 20 explosives and assault rifles attacked the Potiskum cattle market," police spokesman Toyin Gbadegesin told the AFP news agency.
"They threw explosives and shot indiscriminately, setting fire to the market, killing lots of livestock and wounding many people, mostly cattle dealers," he said.
A gang of men locked the gate of Potiskum's fenced cattle market, trapping many traders and livestock inside, residents told the BBC.
The market - a bustling trading hub, with cattle on sale from neighbouring Chad, Cameroon and Niger - was razed to the ground late on Wednesday and many animals were also burned to death, residents say.
Witnesses say they saw several bodies being removed from the market.
Correspondents say the attack does not appear to be the work of the radical Islamist group Boko Haram, which has carried out deadly bombings and shootings across northern Nigeria, including Potiskum, in the past 20 months.
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The 30-year-old ex-RC Lens player spent three seasons with Venlo, including one top-flight Eredivisie campaign.
He previously had spells with Willem II and AZ Alkmaar.
"I wanted another goalkeeper, alongside David Stockdale and Casper Ankergren to compete for the first-team slot," boss Chris Hughton told the club website.
"Like all our other recruits this summer, Niki's got plenty of top-flight experience, including games at international level.
"Having already played in France and Holland, he is now keen to prove himself in English football."
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The 28 EU members renewed a ban on economic ties with Crimean businesses, including a block on EU tourism and investment in the Black Sea peninsula.
The annexation drew international condemnation. It happened after pro-Russian forces seized Ukrainian bases in Crimea and then held a referendum.
Other EU sanctions target top Russian officials over the Ukraine insurgency.
Crimea has a Russian-speaking majority, but the referendum organised by the new authorities there was deemed illegal by the West.
After the Crimea annexation, in April 2014 pro-Russian insurgents seized power in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine. The EU, US and some other countries then ratcheted up their sanctions against Russia.
After the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991 Russia retained control of the important Black Sea naval base in Sevastopol. But Ukraine had control of the rest of Crimea until the 2014 crisis.
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Mr Cameron said it would be better not to have to resort to new taxes but said that "what matters is we do make progress" on obesity.
The PM was speaking to journalists following reports a tax on sugary drinks was being considered.
Number 10 previously said he "doesn't see a need for a tax on sugar".
In October a report by Public Health England recommended a tax of between 10 and 20% on high-sugar products as one of the measures needed to achieve a "meaningful" reduction in sugar consumption.
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has also campaigned for such a move, while a new study in the British Medical Journal said Mexico's sugary drinks tax led to a 12% reduction in sales.
Asked at a press conference in Hungary whether he was ready to reverse his previous opposition to the policy, Mr Cameron said: "I don't really want to put new taxes onto anything but we do have to recognise that we face potentially in Britain something of an obesity crisis when we look at the effect of obesity on not just diabetes but the effect on heart disease, potentially on cancer."
The PM said the government would come up with a "fully worked-up programme" to tackle obesity, with details announced later this year.
He added: "We shouldn't be in the business of ruling things out but obviously putting extra taxes on things is not something I aim to do, it's something I would rather avoid."
A Downing Street spokeswoman said more needed to be done to reduce obesity and urged the food and drink industry to develop more alternative products that do not have high sugar levels.
The Food and Drink Federation has said it does not agree evidence supports the introduction of a tax on sugary products and that industry is "determined" to help tackle childhood obesity.
Prime Music will provide access to more than one million songs and around 500 specially created playlists.
Amazon's answer to Spotify, Deezer and Google Play follows the launch of Apple Music and Jay-Z's Tidal this year.
Music streaming in the UK has almost doubled over the last 12 months.
Last week, figures from The Official Charts Company revealed the number of streams had passed the 500 million a week for the first time, with Ed Sheeran the most-streamed artist of the year so far.
"Consuming music is evolving and we want to maintain pace with that evolution," Paul Firth, head of music for Amazon UK, told the BBC - adding that they wanted to take music streaming "to the masses".
"What has happened in the last few weeks is that knowledge amongst the British public of music streaming services has increased," he continued, referencing last month's Apple Music launch.
Firth said Amazon was focused on their own customers rather than what their "competitors are doing", but added: "For many people £120 a year is a lot of money to spend on music."
Apple Music is currently available for a free three-month trial, before the £9.99 or £14.99 family subscriptions kick in, while services such as Spotify offer a £9.99 subscription or a free service that includes advertisements.
Prime customers currently pay £79 a year for a range of services including on demand video streaming, free next-day delivery from Amazon's online store and a Kindle lending library.
Amazon said the US launch of Prime Music last year had been "incredibly successful".
"If you were to take a lot of the other better-known streaming services out there like rdio, Rhapsody, Deezer, Tidal and Google Play All Access, we have more active users in any given month than all those ones have combined," said Steve Bernstein, director of Amazon Digital Music UK
"We don't know how Apple Music will fit into everything, but in the last six months we've already seen our number of active users grow by over 100% on a monthly basis, also on a weekly and daily basis as well."
Amazon said it had created the UK service "from the ground up", based on "what we think British music fans want."
Patrick Clifton who runs Amazon Digital Music in the UK said the service had combined "fifteen years of Amazon sales data" with the specialist knowledge of a team of "musical experts", including a "champion hip-hop DJ", music journalists and bloggers and record labels.
Following Taylor Swift's recent public battle with Apple Music over how much artists are paid for streaming services, her music is now available exclusively on Apple.
Songs like Shake It Off and I Knew You Were Trouble will not appear on Prime Music unless you have already bought her albums on Amazon, in which case the digital files will automatically appear in your library.
"There's a lot of big artists who aren't on streaming at all and so we won't have those either," said Firth.
He said Amazon has struck deals with a range of major and indie record labels, but would not broach the controversial subject of royalty payments.
"Our deals are with the rights holders and the publishers, so we can't comment on what they pay artists," he said.
However, Bernstein said the company was actually "expanding the pie" by engaging more customers with music, adding: "We're creating a new base of fans and a new royalty stream for rights holders and artists."
Subscribers will access Prime Music through the Amazon Music app, or the Amazon website.
They will be able to browse playlists according to genre or activity, ranging from "background beats for work" to "acoustic hangover cure" or "pumping running tracks", as well as getting suggestions from the "recommendation engine" based on what they have already listened to.
Firth added: "The only thing we can say with certainty is that we're going to see the way people to listen to music change.
"Being the one place where you can make all those choices in the same place, you can buy CDs and vinyl, you can buy downloads or you can stream - I think that's the best place to be right now."
The Gunners beat Stoke 4-1 on Saturday to move one point behind fourth-placed Liverpool.
Sections of the club's support have called for Wenger, who is yet to announce his future plans, to leave.
The 67-year-old said: "I want to focus on football and all the rest is, for me, less important."
Wenger, who is out of contract at the end of the season, has been in charge of Arsenal since 1996.
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He led the club to two league and cup Doubles within the first six years, but they have not won the Premier League since 2004 and have only won two trophies - the FA Cup twice - in the past 12 years.
Olivier Giroud scored twice in the victory at Stoke, with Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez also on target.
Wenger said: "I am paid to do my job for a club I love. I will do that as long as I am here, with full commitment, and I am not influenced by that at all.
"I am not in politics, I am in sport. I love sport, I give 24 hours a day for what I love and all the rest - I am in a public job, some agree with me, some do not."
When told about reports in France suggesting he will sign a new one-year deal, he said: "There is no information about that, nothing."
Former Arsenal striker Ian Wright: "People are saying that when the pressure is on Arsenal don't react. But in the last few games they have reacted to being out of the Champions League places.
"I believe if they win the FA Cup that's got to be a good season. You've got to take silverware."
With two fewer players on each side than a normal basketball game, played on half a court with only one basket to score in, the world of three v three makes for rather fast-paced basketball and very little room for error.
On Friday, the best female players in the UK continue the early stages of a new three v three tournament, that you can watch during half-time of London Lions v Bristol Flyers on the BBC Sport website, Connected TV and on the BBC Sport App.
"From an audience perspective I think three v three is easier to follow," said Christina Gaskin of Barking Abbey Crusaders.
"With a normal basketball game when you have 10 people on the floor you have to know a little bit of the game to understand what's going on when people run offenses.
"When you run three on three it's more exciting and played at a quicker pace."
For the tournament the WBBL teams have been split into three groups - North One, North Two and South - and play everyone else in their group once.
The winners of North One will face the winners of North Two in the semi-finals and the top two in the South group will play each other for a place in the final.
So what is it like to play in?
"The energy is different when you play three v three. You realise there's a lot more pressure because you don't have as many opportunities to score.
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"You have to make sure you get a good shot every time and defensively you're working hard and getting those stops.
"You don't have that help defensively behind you so if you mess up, they're going to score.
"There's that sense of pride that it's me against that person I'm playing against, as opposed to having extra team-mates to help you out. That makes it more intense."
More than 150,000 people braved the rain to line the parade route sporting gold hats and waving flags.
The procession started at the Museum of Science and Industry and ended in Albert Square where 400 athletes gathered on stage.
London will have its own celebration on Tuesday in Trafalgar Square.
Team GB set an Olympic record in Rio 2016 by winning 67 medals - two more than they managed at London 2012.
The Paralympians also beat their previous performance with 147 medals - 27 more than four years ago.
Manchester was chosen for the first parade to reflect the contribution made by athletes from across the UK, the government said.
The city has become the hub for Team GB and Paralympics GB's all-conquering cyclists and para-cyclists since the opening of Britain's first indoor Olympic cycling track in 1994.
Singer Rebecca Ferguson and Kaiser Chiefs performed live to the crowds in Albert Square, where the parade ended.
Sports stars including Jessica Ennis-Hill, Dame Sarah Storey, Max Whitlock, Jade Jones and Nicola Adams were among the athletes who attended.
Ennis-Hill, who announced her retirement from athletics last week, said even though she was "a bit wet" it was "a really nice occasion to come here and be on the float, celebrating Rio, and also saying goodbye to everyone".
Team GB's Women's Hockey Team were also there although goalkeeper Maddie Hinch, who saved all four penalties in the shootout in the final against the Netherlands, nearly missed the parade.
Her flight from the Netherlands, where she now plays, was cancelled but luckily three hours later she was on the way.
Paralympians were also out in force including Jonnie Peacock, Jody Cundy, Ellie Robinson, Ellie Simmonds and Richard Whitehead.
Sue Murphy, deputy leader of Manchester City Council, said: "We couldn't be more thrilled to host the national parade."
She added: "The city has been a medal factory, pumping out golds as the home of British Cycling and British Taekwondo."
Many of Team GB's heroes and the Paralympic stars have lived and trained around Greater Manchester.
BBC One will broadcast a 30 minute highlights show from 20:30
On Thursday, India approved the $14.7bn (£9.7bn) deal for Japan to build the high-speed train line.
The highly-anticipated multi-billion-dollar deal is being seen as one of the biggest foreign investments in India's ageing infrastructure.
China is also bidding to build high-speed bullet train lines in India.
Mr Abe will meet business and government leaders and visit Prime Minister Narendra Modi's constituency of Varanasi on Saturday.
The two leaders are expected to discuss defence ties and a civil nuclear agreement, in addition to finalising the agreement on the train line.
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told the AFP news agency that the visit would strengthen cooperation in a "wide range of fields".
Mr Abe and Mr Modi had agreed at a 2014 summit in Tokyo to accelerate talks on a nuclear energy pact.
They also agreed to strengthen security ties and Mr Modi welcomed Japan's easing of restrictions on exports of defence equipment and technology.
The two leaders enjoy a close friendship and Mr Modi chose Japan as the destination for his first bilateral visit outside South Asia after he was elected prime minister in May 2014.
In announcing his purchase, Mr Demoulas told workers, who had gone on strike in July to protest against his firing, "You are simply the best".
The 70-plus stores belonging to the chain are mostly located in the northeastern United States.
It was estimated the company was losing $70m (£42m) a day during the strike.
Late on Wednesday, Mr Demoulas announced that he had reached an agreement to purchase the 50.5% of the company he did not control from a rival faction controlled by his cousin, Arthur S Demoulas, for $1.5bn.
"Words cannot express how much I appreciate each and every one of you," Mr Demoulas said while addressing workers outside the company's Massachusetts headquarters on Thursday morning.
The company employs roughly 25,000 people in the area.
The saga - which had shades of a soap opera - began in June, when Mr Demoulas was ousted as chief executive of the company by a rival faction of his family, which controlled 50.5% of the firm.
The dispute was said to have been over a series of investments Mr Demoulas had authorised, which led to large losses and smaller payouts for Market Basket's shareholders.
However, the dispute simmered for a month until the new management fired eight workers who had protested against Mr Demoulas's demise in July.
That is when a campaign led by Market Basket workers and customers to "Save Market Basket" began to gather steam.
Workers went on strike, truck drivers refused to deliver fresh produce and meat, and shoppers boycotted stores, leading to empty shelves and the near-collapse of the firm.
Efforts on social media also paid off, with an anonymously-run Facebook page to save the firm gathering over 90,000 likes and the hashtag, #MarketBasket, trending often on Twitter.
This brought national and international attention to the plight of the workers, stunning many in the industry both because the workers were not unionised and because they were campaigning for an almost-unheard of thing: the reinstatement of their boss.
Although negotiations between Mr Demoulas and his cousin, Arthur S Demoulas, continued through July, tensions were further agitated when Market Basket's new co-chief executives announced a job fair in early August to hire replacement workers.
'In awe'
Now, those workers are breathing a sigh of relief.
Many tweeted pictures of newly-stocked shelves at several stores where meat counters and fresh produce areas had been empty for the past few weeks.
The question now is whether the chain, which has been essentially not in operation for two months, can recover from the essential collapse of its operations.
Boycotting customers said they would return to shop at the store immediately, as the chain is known for its lower-than-average prices.
"See you at 7 AM tomorrow to buy anything on the shelves!!!! I don't even have a dog but I'll buy dog food if needed!!" wrote one.
Mr Demoulas, in finishing his address to workers before going to inspect several processing facilities, echoed the sentiments of many participants and observers when he said:
"I am in awe of what you have all accomplished."
They will set off on 8 April next year from Southampton to retrace RMS Titanic's route across the Atlantic.
A special memorial ceremony will be held on board the cruise ship Balmoral at the time the ship went down.
Titanic hit an iceberg at 23:40 on 14 April and sank two hours and 40 minutes later, with the loss of 1,517 lives.
The wreck still rests on the seabed where it sank, 375 miles south east of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Jane Allen, from Devon, said: "We wish to commemorate our relative, Thomas Pears, who died on the Titanic.
"His story has been a big part of our lives. His widow Edith survived in Lifeboat 8."
Philip Littlejohn, grandson of Titanic survivor Alexander James Littlejohn and the only Titanic relative to have made the dive to the wreck site, will also make the trip.
He said: "I'm sure my grandfather, a First Class steward on Titanic, would be proud to know his story will be shared.
"It will be an emotional moment when we are over the wreck site, where I dived in 2001, and where my grandfather left Titanic rowing Lifeboat 13."
Another relative taking part will be author Arthur Cropley, the great-nephew of Charles Lightoller, the second officer of the Titanic.
Mr Lightoller survived the sinking, helping with the evacuation of passengers.
He was portrayed by actor Kenneth More in the 1958 film A Night To Remember, with the character also featuring in the Oscar-winning 1997 film, Titanic.
Mr Lightoller helped in the evacuation of British troops at Dunkirk in 1940. He died, aged 78, in 1952.
The Balmoral will be joined by another cruise ship, Azamara Journey, which will sail from New York to take part in the ceremony.
Azamara Journey will call at Halifax, where guests will visit Fairview Lawn Cemetery where 121 of Titanic's unclaimed victims were buried.
A referendum will be held on 5 May on adding about £25 a year to the bill of the average band D property in Devon and Cornwall.
Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Tony Hogg said a 15% the rise could save 350 officers.
It came as the government said changes to the way money was allocated to police would be delayed.
Figures between a 10% and 25% increase were being considered, but senior police sources told the BBC a 15% option was considered a "workable compromise".
Devon and Cornwall Police is expecting a budget cut of £54m a year, with the loss of up to 760 police officers and all 360 community support officers.
The Home Office said: "Crime has been falling, and the police can still find further efficiencies without harming frontline services."
The public consultation will run until Christmas and a YouGov opinion poll will be commissioned as part of the consultation costing under £10,000, Mr Hogg added.
If a referendum is held in May, on the same day as the PCC elections, the estimated cost is about £2m.
Mr Hogg said he had decided not to stand for the role again for family reasons.
Elsewhere, a public consultation and referendum to raise an extra £4.5m for Bedfordshire Police was rejected in May.
Police minister Mike Penning, who announced the delay in allocating money to forces, apologised to the Commons for a "statistical error" in the new formula, which assesses population size and other data to calculate force funding.
The issue had caused "a great deal of concern to police forces", he added.
Andrew White, chief executive to the Devon and Cornwall PCC, who uncovered the error, said the force was "delighted" that the changes were delayed and as the process had lost credibility.
Mr White added: "This is what we have been calling for for some time as the process gradually lost credibility and the admission of the significant errors last week were the final nail in the coffin."
Having won the 2005 World title and 2008 UK crown, Murphy stays on course for a career 'triple crown', after making two breaks of 103 to advance.
He will meet Mark Allen who beat Joe Perry 6-4 earlier in the day.
"For long periods of that match, it was embarrassing," Allen told BBC Sport. "I just could not get anything going.
"I was delivering the cue so badly."
Allen went 3-1 ahead, before England's Perry made breaks of 50, 68 and 67 to make it 4-4. But Northern Irishman Allen made a break of 55 and then clinched the 10th to progress.
Allen went through into his second Masters semi-final but will have to improve significantly if he is to trouble Murphy.
Scotland's Maguire opened with breaks of 137 and 67, before Murphy responded with 103 as he levelled at 2-2.
Some superb potting allowed Englishman Murphy to go ahead in the match for the first time at 4-3, and another century plus the 10th frame gave him victory.
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Adrian Hinchliffe guided Laugher and Chris Mears to Team GB's first ever Olympic diving gold in Rio.
He is employed by Leeds City Council and worked for British Diving as a consultant but wanted to make a full-time switch to prepare for Tokyo 2020.
However, British Diving failed to make an offer and Hinchliffe has joined Australia Diving as head coach.
"He's achieved things as a coach that no-one in this country has ever done before and it's a massive insult to me and to Ady," Laugher told BBC Look North.
"British Diving and the national performance director [Alexei Evangulov] have really overlooked how much of a key part he is.
"To have someone like Ady say 'sack this I'm leaving', well it should never have got to this point."
In a statement, British Swimming, of which British Diving is a part, said: "British Diving is obviously disappointed with Ady's decision to move on to work in Australia, as he has done great things for the sport.
"We were aware that he wanted to work with the sport full-time and we were in the process of beginning discussions but unfortunately timescales didn't allow these to conclude.
"We'd like to thank him for all of his hard work and dedication, and we wish him well for the future in Australia."
In addition to Laugher and Mears, Olympic bronze medallist Daniel Goodfellow, Commonwealth champion Rebecca Gallantree and world junior medallists Lois Toulson and Katherine Torrance are all based at the City of Leeds set-up.
Like Hinchliffe, Plymouth Diving's head coach Andy Banks has enjoyed success - initially with Tom Daley and more recently with the likes of Tonia Couch and Sarah Barrow - and is also employed by the local council.
Tom Daley's current coach, Jane Figueredo - who heads Dive London at the 2012 Olympic Aquatics Centre - is employed by British Diving on a full-time contract.
As a result of the squad's successes in Rio and potential for medals in Tokyo, British Diving was awarded a funding increase - from £7.5m to £8.8m - by UK Sport heading into the next Games.
"After the Games it's really tough for sports not knowing what they'll receive, but ours actually went up, but unfortunately we haven't seen that money travel to the coaching staff which is a real shame," Mears told the BBC.
Hinchliffe feels he was left with "no option" but to accept the role with the Australian Diving team.
"To really help those like Jack and Chris as well as the other superstars we had out in Rio keep improving, I needed to be in a full-time role," said Hinchliffe.
"Coaches tend to be humble by their nature - it's the athletes who go up on the podium - but it's such an important role.
"British sport is so successful at the moment and we need to examine all of the components behind that, but in my particular case I just don't think that's happened."
Although he did not place a value on the works, Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota said the gift "greatly enriched the national collection of art".
The nine works have been donated by Austria-based philanthropists Mercedes and Ian Stoutzker.
The works will go on show at Tate Britain in London later this year.
Freud's painting Girl in a Striped Nightdress, or Celia, dates from 1983-85 and shows his lover Celia Paul lying on a bed.
The Hockney work, Savings and Loan Building (1966), is one of a series of paintings he made of a glass building in Los Angeles.
Also included is Rachel Whiteread's commission Maquette for Trafalgar Square Plinth, a translucent cast of the square's fourth plinth that was displayed upon it for four months in 2001.
Other donated items include pieces by Peter Doig, George Shaw and Conrad Shawcross.
Announcing the donation at Tate Britain on Tuesday, Sir Nicholas said the gift had been an act of "pure philanthropy" and there was no tax benefit behind it.
The works represent two generations of British artists - artists from the 1960s and 1970s and younger ones who emerged in the 1990s.
Sir Nicholas said the Stoutzkers had approached him saying they had a number of works that could "fill some gaps" in the Tate's collection.
"In the current climate they were very keen to make this public rather than for it to come on their death, because they wanted to encourage others to give works to the national collection," he said.
"They see that as part of a general wish to encourage philanthropy in this country."
All nine works will be exhibited together at Tate Britain in October at the time of the Frieze Art Fair.
Sir Nicholas said the couple's decision had not been affected by the announcement in the Budget of a cap on tax relief for charitable giving.
"The conversation began well before the announcements," he said.
"But it would not have been affected by the announcement because they are not receiving any tax benefit from making this gift."
"There is a generous giving culture in this country," added Culture Minister Ed Vaizey.
"I'm sure that, as the Chancellor has said, he will listen to the representations about how the changes that he's proposed should be implemented."
In the last quarter of 2016, the firm saw net outflows of £10.5bn, which were partially offset by market gains of £3.3bn.
Aberdeen reported that the bulk of outflows were "largely low margin and anticipated".
It said investor sentiment "stalled" following the US election result.
Assets under management fell by 3% over the quarter to £302.7bn.
The firm said the rationalisation of its US fixed income business accounted for £2.2bn of the reduction.
It added that a further £2.4bn was scheduled to be withdrawn from lower-margin portfolios during the current quarter.
In a trading update, Aberdeen said it continued to make "encouraging progress across all asset classes, with a healthy level of client interest and demand".
Chief executive Martin Gilbert added: "Investor sentiment had been improving steadily in the early part of the quarter, but stalled following the US presidential election result with investors putting asset allocation decisions on hold.
"Encouragingly, despite the market volatility our equity strategies produced strong returns for the year.
"While growing interest in a number of our strategies is likely to continue to be masked, in the short-term, by significant withdrawals by a small number of clients, I am encouraged by the progress being made.
"Overall Aberdeen remains in good shape, we have a strong balance sheet, a global client base and wide range of capabilities to meet the needs of investors."
The company's share price fell in early trading, following the update. At 11:30, it was down about 3.4%, at 249.40p.
Mr Kicillof's talks with "hold-out" investors ended late on Tuesday night in New York without agreement.
They are demanding a full pay-out of $1.3bn (£766m) on the bonds they hold.
A US judge has ruled that the "hold-outs" must be paid by Wednesday night if no deal is agreed.
But thousands of miles away in Buenos Aires, many are sceptical that there can be any agreement.
The government's rhetoric has been clear.
The "hold-outs" are US hedge funds that bought debt on the cheap during Argentina's darkest hours and never agreed to restructuring.
President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner calls them vultures, accusing them of taking advantage of Argentina's debt problems to make a big profit.
What makes the problem worse is that if the "hold-outs" get their way, other bondholders who agreed to take cuts of up to 70% in what they are owed may also demand full repayment.
Ask people on the street about their view on Argentina's debt troubles and most admit it is too complicated for them to understand.
But the two words they do know are "fondos buitres" - "vulture funds" in Spanish.
Despite the defiant tone of the government, many people seem resigned. Argentina has defaulted before and it will do it again.
I met Carina Etchegaray, the mother of two children aged 14 and 16.
When Argentina last defaulted at the end of 2001, she lost huge amounts of savings.
She had wanted to buy a house for her young family. But at the end of 2001, the government introduced what was known as the "corralito". It literally means a small enclosure in Spanish, but refers to when the government partially froze bank accounts and people were stopped from taking money out.
"When we finally had the money, because of devaluation, we could only buy a car for the same quantity of money we had for a house," she says.
But she is also practical.
"We live with this shadow of crisis. You have to continue with your life because you have children and have to work.
"You have to adapt - in this country, it's the way of life."
And that is what entrepreneur Federico Dumas is doing too - but not in the way that Argentina would hope.
He has a software company, but says he is not investing as he would like to.
"I'm afraid of everything and my customers are not willing to invest, so that will affect my business," he says, adding that he is hopeful Argentina's problems will be solved reasonably.
"But if the country goes into default, I'm very afraid of what's going to happen to my business and my employees."
Default or not, when I met Guillermo Nielsen, the man who led the negotiations when the country was restructuring its debts in 2005, he said what is happening in Argentina is something he had never foreseen.
"I never imagined this - not in my wildest dreams," he says.
"People, although they were unsatisfied and they were very tough negotiations, they knew that Argentina was not able to pay, so that's a very big difference.
"Today, Argentina has the money - back then, we didn't have the money. In my own perception, I think the incoming negotiations are going to be much tougher than the ones we had to go through."
His worry is that if the country defaults, it could trigger what is known as an acceleration clause.
It would mean creditors could make Argentina repay bonds within a much shorter timeframe than previously set out. That, he says, is a real concern.
But all this is speculation. With just a few hours to go, no decisions have been made and it is all still talk.
The detail of what has been discussed is still unclear. As people here say, the Argentine way of doing things will mean talks until the 11th hour.
The vultures will keep circling until then.
It is the first film of Bin Laden to emerge since al-Qaeda released a video address by him in 2007. The Pentagon released the video with the audio removed.
Here is what the clips show:
A relatively long clip of Bin Laden making a statement to camera. He is wearing a white headcovering, a white shirt and a golden robe, and his delivery is in a style similar to that of previous video addresses by the al-Qaeda leader.
He is reading from notes on the table in front of him. He has his hands laid flat on the table, though he occasionally raises his right index finger for emphasis. He is wearing a ring on the little finger of his right hand.
Pentagon officials said it was a message to the United States.
There is no confirmation it was shot at the compound in Abbottabad where Bin Laden was found, but that is where he is said to have been living for the last few years.
Shows Osama Bin Laden watching footage of himself on television. The television is on a small table with what looks like a satellite box next to it.
The al-Qaeda leader is seen sitting in front of the table, apparently cross-legged on a carpeted floor, using a remote control.
He has a blanket over his shoulders and is wearing a black woolen hat. He strokes his beard, which looks grey - not black as in the other video clips.
Two other monitors, both switched off, can be seen in the room. There is what looks like a black sheet to the left of the TV, possibly covering a window.
At the start of the clip a list of channels come up, and it appears that Al-Jazeera is selected.
The images playing on the TV seem to be old footage of the al-Qaeda leader, including shots of him walking in the mountains.
There is also an image of the twin towers in New York in flames on 11 September 2001, with a still photo of Bin Laden superimposed on top of it and Arabic script.
The first of three videos in which Bin Laden appears to be rehearsing for a video message.
He is wearing the same clothes as in the first video, but with a bare wooden panel or door as a backdrop.
A white sleeveless vest is visible under his white shirt.
Here too, Bin Laden seems to be rehearsing.
He starts to talk, then glances to his right uncertainly before continuing to speak to the camera.
He is again wearing a white shirt and hat, though not the gold robe.
The backdrop is plain and dark brown.
Another short clip of Bin Laden dressed in white shirt, hat and golden robe, speaking to camera.
This time the backdrop is what looks like a crumpled blue sheet.
As in the previous videos, he occasionally looks down to read from notes.
The trust opposed the development because of its proximity to the Unesco world heritage site.
It brought a judicial review after Environment Minister Alex Attwood granted planning permission.
Developers have said that work will now start as soon as possible on the resort at Runkerry.
Dr Alistair Hanna, who has been driving the proposals, said it would be one of the "most spectacular golf developments ever seen in Ireland".
"Not only will the resort provide a world-class golf links course and facilities attracting thousands of visitors each year, it will also protect the vulnerable topography of the coastal area which has been left vulnerable following decades of neglect," he said.
Mr Attwood approved the plan to build the complex in February 2012.
The development, on a 365-acre site, is to be known as Bushmills Dunes Golf Resort and Spa.
The plan includes an 18-hole golf course, a five-star 120-bedroom hotel and 70 golf lodges.
Last year, it was reported that the project could create up to 360 new jobs.
However, the trust had argued that the minister should have consulted Unesco before making his decision as it could affect the Causeway's status as a world heritage site.
During the judicial review hearing last month, a lawyer for the trust claimed the minister had been improperly advised.
On Wednesday, Mr Justice Weatherup rejected all grounds of challenge to Mr Attwood's decision.
He backed a counter submission by the Department of the Environment that world heritage convention guidelines have no standing in UK law.
"The court must step away from seeking to implement, directly or indirectly, what obligations there may or may not be under the convention.
"I must not grant to citizens of the state a right that only exists in international law, if it exists at all."
However, he added that there were "a multitude of reasons why the National Trust was warranted in bringing this application and I'm minded not to make any order for costs".
Mr Attwood welcomed the judgement and said "the economic benefits of tourism in the north potentially knows no bounds".
"My decision to grant permission was finely balanced but I was strong in my opinion that it was the right decision on the planning merits. This has now been endorsed by the courts," he said.
In a statement the National Trust said it was "bitterly disappointed" at the decision and that it was convinced the development was wrong.
"We still believe that if a development of this scale does go ahead in this location, the message is that nowhere in Northern Ireland, no matter how important or protected, is safe from development," it said.
"The ruling today has served to highlight aspects of very serious concern for those partners involved in the care and protection of the world heritage site."
The North Antrim MP, Ian Paisley, said it was right that the development goes ahead and that the trust knew they had "no case".
"Their actions I still believe have been disgraceful and damaging for the Northern Ireland economy, but we must take heart in today's decision and look to move forward as the course progresses," he said.
Among those who said the hotel should be built was golfer Darren Clarke.
He said that he "didn't get how" the plans would damage the area when they were further away than a hotel and car park adjacent to the site which is owned by the Trust itself.
The 2011 Open champion called those opposing the plan "treehuggers".
Emergency services were called to the scene near Gower View Foods factory, Cross Hands, Carmarthenshire, at 08:05 BST. The man died at the scene.
A second man was taken to Llanelli's Prince Philip Hospital as a precautionary measure, said the Welsh Ambulance Service.
The Health and Safety Executive is assisting police with their inquiries.
The incident was on the site of a new factory being built for Gower View Foods and next door to its original plant.
Gower View Foods director Jon Lewis said: "We are devastated for the builder and for the family. It's a very sad situation."
A digger has been cordoned off at the scene.
An ambulance service spokesman said: "We sent a rapid response car and two emergency ambulances to the scene, where sadly a man was pronounced dead."
An HSE spokeswoman said: "There was a fatality this morning at Gower Foods in Cross Hands. The HSE is aware and we are assisting police with their enquiries at this stage."
Police said the incident happened on Cardinal O'Fiaich Square.
The square has been closed while police conduct an investigation into the incident.
Robert Ford left the Syrian capital, Damascus, in late October.
He had angered Syrian authorities by showing solidarity with activists involved in an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's rule.
Meanwhile, France's ambassador returned to Damascus on Monday having been recalled last month, according to AFP.
News of Mr Ford's return came as the US secretary of state met seven members of the opposition Syrian National Council in Geneva.
Hillary Clinton said that democratic transition in Syria - where the UN estimates that more than 4,000 people have been killed since the beginning of the uprising in March - meant more than removing Mr Assad.
"It means setting Syria on the path of the rule of law and protecting the universal rights of all citizens, regardless of sect or ethnicity or gender," she told journalists.
A senior US state department official told reporters that Mr Ford was expected to leave for Damascus later on Tuesday.
"Ambassador Robert Ford has completed his consultations in Washington and is returning to Damascus this evening," the unnamed official said.
Mr Ford left Syria on 24 October as the government crackdown on protesters and a nascent armed insurgency against Mr Assad intensified.
In return, Syria recalled its own envoy in Washington.
An Arabic-speaker who has served in several Arab countries, Mr Ford had expressed solidarity with protesters as well as denouncing Syria's crackdown on its opponents.
He originally arrived in Damascus in January as the first US ambassador to Syria for more than five years.
The French ambassador to Syria, Eric Chevallier, was recalled to Paris on 16 November after attacks on French diplomatic missions in the country.
A spokesman for the French foreign ministry, Romain Nadal, told the AFP news agency that Mr Chevallier's return did not mean that the subjects of concern had disappeared.
"France is more than ever at the side of the Syrian people," he said.
The rock-bottom Sky Blues were punished for defensive errors and have now taken just two points from their last 14 League One outings.
Oldham, who started the day in 21st, led after eight minutes as Ryan Flynn crossed from the right and Coventry defender Kevin Foley horribly miscued his clearance, scoring an own goal from six yards.
The visitors were level just a minute later when Marcus Tudgay seized possession 25 yards out and hit a powerful shot which dipped under the crossbar.
Callum Reilly almost put Coventry ahead with a curling effort against the bar, while George Thomas was denied by Oldham goalkeeper Connor Ripley.
Yet the visitors were guilty of another howler on 66 minutes as keeper Reice Charles-Cook dropped a simple high ball which allowed Oldham skipper Peter Clarke to bundle into the empty net.
The Latics quickly made it 3-1 as Ryan McLaughlin sprinted through half-hearted tackles before drilling into the bottom corner from 14 yards.
Coventry regained hope on 76 minutes as substitute Kwami Thomas buried a header from Ryan Haynes' left-wing cross, but Oldham held on for a vital three points.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Oldham Athletic 3, Coventry City 2.
Second Half ends, Oldham Athletic 3, Coventry City 2.
Corner, Oldham Athletic. Conceded by Nathan Clarke.
Attempt missed. Aiden O'Neill (Oldham Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Paul Green.
Attempt saved. Callum Reilly (Coventry City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Anthony Gerrard.
Attempt missed. Kwame Thomas (Coventry City) header from the centre of the box is too high.
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Rob Hunt.
Attempt blocked. Ruben Lameiras (Coventry City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Coventry City. Ruben Lameiras replaces George Thomas.
Foul by Oliver Banks (Oldham Athletic).
Callum Reilly (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Oldham Athletic 3, Coventry City 2. Kwame Thomas (Coventry City) header from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Ryan Haynes.
Foul by Brian Wilson (Oldham Athletic).
Jodi Jones (Coventry City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Coventry City. Conceded by Brian Wilson.
Michael Ngoo (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Farrend Rawson (Coventry City).
Substitution, Coventry City. Jodi Jones replaces Kyel Reid.
Goal! Oldham Athletic 3, Coventry City 1. Ryan McLaughlin (Oldham Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner following a fast break.
Attempt missed. Aiden O'Neill (Oldham Athletic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Coventry City. Kwame Thomas replaces Vladimir Gadzhev.
Attempt missed. Aiden O'Neill (Oldham Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Farrend Rawson (Coventry City) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.
Hand ball by Farrend Rawson (Coventry City).
Goal! Oldham Athletic 2, Coventry City 1. Peter Clarke (Oldham Athletic) header from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Corner, Oldham Athletic. Conceded by Farrend Rawson.
Corner, Oldham Athletic. Conceded by Reice Charles-Cook.
Attempt saved. Chris Taylor (Oldham Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Aiden O'Neill (Oldham Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Corner, Oldham Athletic. Conceded by Kevin Foley.
Attempt blocked. Paul Green (Oldham Athletic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Oldham Athletic. Oliver Banks replaces Ousmane Fane.
Substitution, Oldham Athletic. Michael Ngoo replaces Ryan Flynn.
Attempt blocked. Kyel Reid (Coventry City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Callum Reilly (Coventry City) because of an injury.
Foul by Peter Clarke (Oldham Athletic).
Callum Reilly (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
For girls in particular, they found the longer spent watching TV, the more likely children were to put on weight.
Researchers say there is now an urgent need to see if similar patterns exist with laptops and mobile phones.
Experts said high levels of screen time exposed children to a damaging combination of risks to health.
Published in the International Journal of Obesity, the study analysed data from more than 12,000 young children in the UK.
Scientists found more than half the children had TVs in their bedrooms at the age of seven.
Parents were also asked to rate how many hours a day children generally spent watching TV.
Later, when the children were 11, researchers plotted their body mass index (a ratio of height and weight) and looked at the percentage of body fat.
Girls who had TVs in their bedrooms at the age of seven were 30% more likely to be overweight when they were 11, compared to children who did not have TVs in their bedrooms.
For boys, the risk was increased by about 20%.
Researcher Dr Anja Heilmann, said: "Our study shows there is clear link between having a TV in the bedroom as a young child and being overweight a few years later."
Researchers say they cannot be sure why the link between TVs and being overweight exists, but suggest it may be down to children getting less sleep when watching TV in their bedrooms or snacking in front of their screens.
And they hypothesise that the stronger link between the hours girls spend watching TV and being overweight could be influenced by girls being less likely to be physically active than boys at this age.
Researchers are calling for strategies designed to prevent childhood obesity to do more to tackle this issue.
Writing in the journal, they say: "While our screens have become flatter, our children have become fatter."
Prof Nick Finer, consultant endocrinologist and bariatric physician at University College London, said the study was "powerful" although it couldn't prove that a bedroom TV directly caused weight gain.
But he added: "It is hard not to think that parents concerned about their child's risk of becoming overweight might appropriately consider not putting a TV in their young children's bedrooms."
Prof Russell Viner, from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) said the findings should be taken seriously.
"With a third of 11-year-old children in England overweight and almost one in five obese, urgently tackling the childhood obesity epidemic is absolutely vital.
"We know that high levels of screen time expose children to increased risks of being overweight on a number of fronts, creating a damaging combination of a more sedentary lifestyle, increased exposure to junk food advertising, disruption to sleep and poorer ability to regulate eating habits when watching TV."
Prof Viner said the study supported their call for a ban on junk food advertising on TV before the 21:00 watershed.
Niall McGinn helped Northern Ireland to a 2-0 win over Ukraine but could be unavailable for Aberdeen's European campaign, which starts on 30 June.
"Derek McInnes is aware that Northern Ireland's success could hamper our progress a little," said Brown.
The Dons enter the Europa League at the first qualifying stage.
They will find out their opponents when the draw is made on Monday 20 June.
Brown is confident that McInnes will find a way to compensate if he is forced to do without forward McGinn for the first qualifier.
"I'm sure he's got contingency plans in place if that's the case," said Brown, who managed the Dons from 2010 to 2013.
"For a long time, for example, last season Peter Pawlett was unfit. Now, if Peter gets himself fit, that's a further challenge in that position that Niall was playing so very well last year.
"I have great faith in our manager and he will unearth someone, albeit temporarily, to replace Niall.
"We just wish Niall all the best and his team-mates - the same for Wales and England."
Northern Ireland's victory over Ukraine kept their hopes of qualifying for the last 16 alive with one group match against Germany still to play.
With the likes of Kilmarnock striker Josh Magennis and Hamilton Academical goalkeeper Michael McGovern appearing at Euro 2016 for Michael O'Neill's side, Brown believes current national coach, Gordon Strachan, should place more faith in players playing in Scotland.
"In the last game we played, there wasn't one player playing in Scotland that started the game, they were all playing in England," Brown commented.
"It was quite surprising to see the starting team against France every player played outwith Scotland.
"We hope that this year Gordon will be so impressed with the standard that he will have to pick players that are playing in Scotland because they'll be doing so well."
The man, in his 50s, got into difficulty at about midnight on Monday when crossing land being developed as housing in Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
He fell into the trench, which was "shoulder-width", and became stuck.
A hazardous area response team managed to pull him free using an aerial ladder platform.
He is thought to have broken his ankles, a West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said.
"Given the nature of the location, a building site, there was a very real risk of the trench collapsing, so safety was the number one priority," added the spokesman.
Guy Williams, from Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service, told BBC Radio Shropshire there was an "irony" as firefighters had been practising a similar rescue scenario in a training exercise earlier that evening.
Network Rail said no trains would run in or out of Huddersfield and Dewsbury on Saturday and Sunday. But a replacement bus service was in place.
It is replacing the signal boxes at the stations with a digital Regional Operating Centre in York.
The company said it would result "in a more reliable, modern and cost-effective railway".
August train delays and how to avoid them
Network Rail say up to 25 replacement buses are running between Leeds, Manchester, Manchester Airport, Halifax, Wakefield, Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Stalybridge and Bradford.
TransPennine Express said it was not running any trains between Manchester and Leeds because of the work.
Its services from Newcastle, Middlesbrough, Scarborough, Hull, Manchester, Sheffield, Doncaster and Cleethorpes was also affected.
However, Northern Rail said it would be running trains between Manchester Victoria and Leeds via Halifax and Bradford during the works.
Rob McIntosh, managing director for the London North Eastern and East Midlands route, added: "The signalling system in this part of West Yorkshire is approaching the end of its operational life and we are taking this opportunity to replace it with the latest signal technology which will increase reliability, thereby reducing delays, while cutting the cost of running the railway for the taxpayer.
"There is never a good time to disrupt passengers but this work has been carefully planned over several years to maximise every minute available to us during this weekend."
Network Rail said this was the first of three weekend closures. It is also planning to shut the same stations during 28-29 October and 20-21 January, when the work is expected to be completed.
The BA website initially suggested that customers should make a claim on their travel insurance for expenses such as meals during the delays.
But the Association of British Insurers (ABI) and consumer rights experts say responsibility is with the airline.
BA has now updated the language, removing any reference to insurance.
Saturday's IT fiasco grounded hundreds of flights and disrupted the travel plans of tens of thousands of passengers around the world.
Passengers travelling in the EU are entitled to compensation, but insurers were angry with the airline for claims over non-flight expenses such as hotels, meals and phone calls.
BA's website had said: "You should make a claim with your travel insurer in the first instance. If you have expenses that either you were not successful in claiming or which are not covered by your policy, you may claim for only these expenses in the form below."
However, the ABI contacted the airline earlier in the week pointing out that the initial claim should be to the airline, and only if that was unsuccessful would some policies pay out for these costs. A payout from the airline means passengers are more likely to get the full refund, rather than be liable for an insurer's excess.
Revised wording was regarded still to be misleading by the ABI, until all reference to travel insurance was eventually removed from the online form by mid-afternoon.
In an interview on Thursday, Willie Walsh, the head of British Airways' owner IAG, said: "Clearly we will do everything we can to make up [for] the disruption they suffered."
The airline said: "We have been encouraging customers that were affected by the weekend's events to submit claims for their expenses, including those beyond flights, so that we can compensate them.
"We have created a dedicated page on ba.com providing customers with additional information on how to make a claim."
It has now also added a link on its homepage for compensation advice.
Questions still remain over exactly how the IT fiasco occurred. The airline said on Wednesday that a loss of power to a UK data centre was "compounded" by a power surge that took out its IT systems.
An email leaked to the Press Association suggested that a contractor doing maintenance work inadvertently switched off the power supply, although this has not been confirmed.
The email said: "This resulted in the total immediate loss of power to the facility, bypassing the backup generators and batteries... After a few minutes of this shutdown, it was turned back on in an unplanned and uncontrolled fashion, which created physical damage to the systems and significantly exacerbated the problem."
We have all been asked by IT support to "turn it off and on again" - but reports are circulating that doing so was spectacularly catastrophic at BA.
The story that an engineer accidentally disconnected a key data centre's power supply has not yet been confirmed by the airline and its IT contractor has said such speculation is "not founded in fact".
It is possible that a loss of power was compounded by back-up systems that failed to come online in time, but many are still questioning how that could be the case.
In other words, why would a single switch be a fail point for BA's entire operations?
Some IT professionals continue to question whether the age, quality and resilience of equipment in the airline's data centres may not also be to blame.
Until British Airways reveals some details about what happened, we can only keep guessing.
Estyn said by the end of primary school, many pupils in Wales have developed a good understanding of basic concepts such as gravity and magnetism.
Nearly all understand the importance of undertaking investigations carefully.
But the report said primary schools need to reduce the achievement gap between pupils eligible for free school meals and their classmates.
It added they should ensure the more able pupils also find science lessons challenging.
In February, Estyn said more able learners' progress was being stifled.
Estyn's report, looking at science and design and technology for seven to 11-year-olds, recommended schools make sure they know their strengths and weaknesses so they can improve.
It recommended local authorities and consortia should provide more training opportunities for teachers.
"I have no sympathy," the Afghan leader told me in his palace in Kabul. He is calling on his countrymen to remain in the war-ravaged nation and join in the effort to rebuild it.
But do his words carry the weight they should, in a country that is increasingly feeling frustrated with the political elite, and a sense of hopelessness about their future?
Convincing people to stay feels like an impossible task for what is perhaps one of the toughest jobs in the world, being Afghanistan's president. Ashraf Ghani was sworn in in September 2014 after controversial elections.
This led to the formation of a national unity government with his main rival, Abdullah Abdullah, appointed as chief executive officer. Since then, Mr Ghani has had to deal with a shrinking economy, high unemployment, a perilous security situation thanks to a resurgent Taliban and an ineffective government, further weakened by his troubled partnership with Dr Abdullah.
It is no wonder, then, that Afghans make up the second largest group, after Syrians, to flee to Europe. In the past year alone, 180,000 nationals have fled instability and economic hardship at home.
But who should take responsibility for the tens of thousands of Afghans who have turned up on European shores? In a wide-ranging interview, Ashraf Ghani said that people shouldn't take the risky journey in the first place.
"We have spent hundreds of millions of dollars [on people] who want to leave under the slightest pressure. You need to have the will if you want to have a country." The president may be taking a defiant position, but many Afghans at home and abroad feel resentment towards Mr Ghani for not calling on his own children, who live in the United States, to return.
While he has inherited some of the problems he faces today, his approval rating continues to plummet with many Afghans feeling he has failed to manage expectations. And these latest statements are likely to cause a further drop.
It is not yet two years since he came to power and already in Kabul there is a sense of nostalgia for the past, with many referring to the era of his predecessor Hamid Karzai as the "good days".
The president is very much aware of the situation on the ground and believes Afghans should confront it. Last year, more than 11,000 civilians were killed or wounded in the country. One in four were children. That's the highest number recorded since the US-led invasion 14 years ago.
The United Nations says if Afghanistan's national unity government survives 2016, it will consider it a success. The bar is pretty low. And the Afghan people feel increasingly frustrated. A recent BBG-Gallup survey indicated that nearly 69% of people say their lives have got worse in the past year. Some 81% of people are dissatisfied with the government and 76% with Ashraf Ghani.
It appears that no matter what assurances the president gives people about how he intends to boost the economy and create jobs, the fact remains that this is a nation that continues to be heavily dependent on the international community for both security and economic assistance.
The deteriorating conditions also highlight the international community's failure to deal with the insecurity in Afghanistan. Nato and its partner nations have roughly 12,000 troops stationed there, yet the Taliban's reach is wider than at any time since 2001.
When President Ghani was sworn in, he immediately oversaw the signing of a controversial pact with the US known as the bilateral security agreement. It's controversial because Hamid Karzai had incensed the Obama Administration by refusing to agree to the deal until his demands had been met, souring relations between Washington and Kabul.
This was something Ghani had vowed to mend. With Nato troops remaining in the country, it was supposed to protect Afghan interests and make Afghanistan safer. The security situation now is the worst it's been since 2001.
The insurgents have been invited to the negotiating table many times but say they won't be coming while foreign troops remain in the country. And why would the Taliban bother striking a peace deal with the government when they have made such significant gains in the battlefield?
When I asked the Afghan president about growing concerns that the southern province of Helmand could collapse to the Taliban, he dismissed them. "Every place they've made gains, we've reversed them. Concerns are one thing, I'm talking fact, you're talking fiction."
But according to the independent Afghan Analysts Network, the Taliban are now better organised, better equipped and have developed sanctuaries in Afghanistan. In a report released this month, the AAN has given a detailed breakdown of the districts the Taliban are currently in control of in Helmand province.
There is no doubt that the Afghan president is in a tough position. He and his fragile unity government face the difficult balancing act of stabilising the security situation and providing assurances to the Afghan people that their future prospects are not entirely doomed.
But with 60% of the population under the age of 20, it is clearly proving hard for the Afghan leader to convince them that there is hope for a better future if they remain in the country.
The central government also fears that it is mostly the educated middle class who are leaving. This means it will be an even greater struggle to rebuild Afghanistan after years of conflict.
Ambassador Mark Lippert is recovering in hospital after Kim Ki-jong attacked him with a knife on Thursday.
During the attack, Mr Kim called for reunification of the two Koreas.
Police said they were also investigating Mr Kim's links with North Korea, after it was revealed he had made multiple visits.
"We are investigating whether there is any connection between the suspect's visits to North Korea and the crime committed against the US ambassador," Yoon Myeong-seong, head of Seoul's central Jongno district said according to Reuters.
Mr Kim also had a history of nationalist militant activity, media reports said.
A small group of people in South Korea see the US as the main obstacle to the reunification of a divided Korean peninsula.
Mr Yoon said authorities wanted to charge Mr Kim, 55, with attempted murder, violence against a foreign envoy and business obstruction, Yonhap news agency reported. Police have requested a formal detention warrant.
Mr Kim, who was apprehended after the incident, told police that he did not intend to kill Mr Lippert.
Mr Yoon also said they were considering charging him with violating South Korea's National Security Law, which bans South Koreans from publicly sympathising with the government of North Korea.
Mr Kim also shouted opposition to annual US-South Korean military drills, which began Monday, during the attack.
North Korea traditionally opposes the drills, which it describes as a rehearsal for invasion. Late on Thursday, it described the attack as "just punishment for US warmongers", in a statement on state media.
Mr Lippert, 42, was given 80 stitches to the deep cut on his face and underwent surgery to repair nerve damage to his hand.
Doctors said he would be discharged early next week.
The attack raised questions about security for diplomatic personnel. Mr Lippert had a bodyguard with him when the attack took place. Police were also there, but not at the request of the US embassy or the organisers of the event.
The responsibility for the safety of diplomats lies with the host nation.
After the incident, the South Korean government ramped up security for diplomatic missions, including the US embassy. Police said they were providing protection for Mr Lippert.
Kim Ki-jong's militant past
The 10-year-old won 12 of his 65 starts and was placed on a further 14 occasions, earning over £2m in prize money.
He burst onto the scene when running out a shock 100-1 winner of the Nunthorpe Stakes at York in 2010.
"He was a great horse, but time waits for no man and he's been retired," said Lynam.
Sole Power landed consecutive renewals of the King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot in 2013 and 2014 before regaining his Nunthorpe crown three years ago.
His final appearance came at last month's Dubai Carnival where he ran three times, finishing sixth in the Meydan Sprint.
Lynam added: "I've been training since I was 21 and I'm 55 now. I was a nobody until he came around and he's taken me to places I never felt were possible to go to."
Forward Bale, 26, returned to action on Saturday after two months out with a recurrence of a calf injury.
"Does he want to risk injuries every season or look for a club with very professional approach and a very healthy injury record," said Verheijen.
"There are not many, but they are there."
After scoring as a substitute in Real's 7-1 La Liga win over Celta Vigo on Saturday, Bale made his first start since 17 January in Tuesday's Champions League win against Roma.
Dutchman Verheijen was an assistant to the late Wales boss Gary Speed, who died in November, 2011 aged 42.
Verheijen told BBC Wales Sport: "Staying at that club is basically playing Russian roulette with your career."
Real Madrid have been asked to comment on Verheijen's thoughts but are yet to respond.
Former Tottenham player Bale missed Wales' friendly defeat by the Netherlands in November and his latest injury raised concerns for his country with Euro 2016 in the summer.
Bale played a starring role in Wales' qualifying campaign, playing in all 10 of their matches and scoring seven of their 11 goals as they reached their first major tournament finals since the 1958 World Cup.
HMS Queen Elizabeth is due to sail into Portsmouth following extensive preparations at the naval base.
The exact date is weather-dependent but is expected to be no later than 22 August.
The 65,000-tonne ship has been undergoing sea trials since setting sail from Rosyth dockyard in June.
Sir Michael Fallon said the 280m (900ft) long carrier would have a window for entering Portsmouth which would open on 17 August.
"In just two weeks' time, the most powerful warship ever built for Britain's famous Royal Navy is set to sail into her proud new home in Portsmouth," he said.
"HMS Queen Elizabeth will be the Royal Navy's flagship for the next 50 years, keeping us safe by deploying across the seven seas, using her strike power to deter our enemies."
The carrier currently cannot deploy planes but flying trials are due to begin next year, with 10 F-35 Lightning II jets and 120 aircrew preparing for the task in the US.
Preparations for the arrival of the future flagship of the fleet saw more than 20,000 items ranging from a human skull to sea mines dredged up from Portsmouth Harbour.
The Ministry of Defence said specialist dredging vessels have removed 3.2 million cubic metres of sediment - the equivalent to 1,280 Olympic swimming pools - during the dredging operation carried out to deepen the harbour mouth to enable the Queen Elizabeth to reach Portsmouth naval base.
Their position is only 19 places better than their worst ever ranking of 160th place, which they occupied in 2010.
The west African country have been has high as 73rd spot, in 2001, when they could still field former world player of the year George Weah.
Nigeria and Tunisia have swapped in the only moves in the African top 10.
Africa's top 10 in Fifa's rankings for April (last month's rankings in brackets):
1 (1) Egypt
2 (2) Senegal
3 (3) Cameroon
4 (4) Burkina Faso
5 (7) Nigeria
6 (6) DR Congo
7 (5) Tunisia
8 (8) Ghana
9 (9) Ivory Coast
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At Bristol Crown Court, Tony Davies, 37, from Hallen, was ordered to carry out 200 hours of community service for causing Freddie Hussey's death through careless driving.
He was also disqualified from driving for six months.
Freddie's parents called the sentence a "joke" and described Davies as "scum".
Scott and Donna Hussey's outburst came in the courtroom after Judge Geoffrey Mercer handed down Davies's sentence.
Mr Hussey swore at Davies, and Mrs Hussey called the sentence "disgusting" and "no justice at all".
She also shouted at Davies: "I hope you rot in hell. You are scum. He was a beautiful little boy".
The trailer Davies was towing became detached and mounted a kerb on Parson Street in Bedminster, Bristol, on 27 January.
It struck a wall, then hit Freddie, who was walking along the pavement behind his mother.
He suffered head injuries and died in hospital.
Passing sentence, Judge Mercer said there was "no suggestion" that Davies was driving "anything but entirely properly".
"The carelessness lies between the coupling of the Land Rover and the trailer," he added.
In a prepared statement, Freddie's family said: "No sentence will ever reflect the enormous loss and devastation we as a family have suffered.
"We have to find a way to live with this, but we're relieved the court process is now over."
Davies had admitted causing death by careless driving at an earlier hearing.
Avon and Somerset Police called it a "tragic case" and urged drivers to take care when securing trailers.
Ali Qasemi, 45, was attacked in Peterborough in the early hours of Sunday 8 May. He died in hospital two days later.
Mark Lintott, 29, of Shrewsbury Avenue, Peterborough, and Joel Lawson, 25, of Goodhale Road, Norwich, have both been charged with manslaughter and robbery.
There were both due to appear before Peterborough Magistrates.
The victim had two children and his widow was pregnant.
In a statement, issued through Cambridgeshire Police at the time of his death, Mrs Qasemi said: "My husband was my everything; my best friend, my soul mate, my life partner and an amazing father."
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The league leaders were travelling to Trabzon airport, following their 5-1 victory over Rizespor, when the shooting happened.
The driver was taken to hospital but no players were injured in the attack.
"As Fenerbahce, we think it's unavoidable to suspend the league until this dark attack is enlightened," a club statement read.
"It is the end of the football and blood has been spilled. Fenerbahce's irrevocable priority is for the culprits to be found and punished immediately."
The club said they would release a further statement after an emergency board meeting on Monday.
The 70km road on which the team bus was travelling in north-east Turkey connects Rize to Trabzon, where Fenerbahce's bitter rivals Trabzonspor are based.
Fenerbahce striker Emmanuel Emenike said he and his team-mates had been left stunned by what happened.
"I was on the phone with my brother when I heard the loud sound and I thought one of our tyres had busted because the bus was swerving on the road," the Nigeria international told BBC Sport.
"But when I found our security officer in front of the bus I knew something must have gone awfully wrong.
"We quickly realised the security guy was the one who hit the brake, and he said the driver [who was already soaked in blood] had been shot.
"The word 'shot' came as a big shock but when we saw blood and the shattered driver's side window, it quickly turned into a scary moment for everyone on the bus."
Fenerbahce and Trabzonspor are banned from taking away fans when they play each other and a game between the sides last season at the Avni Aker Stadium in Trabzon was abandoned after objects were thrown on to the pitch.
"There had been other violent attacks over the years," the official said. "Every time we go to Rize, the police take tight security measures, place police officers and cars every 100 metres on the road.
"The security measures would end at the entrance of Rize. But there would always be Trabzonspor fans attacking our bus with stones. In 2004 one of our players was injured after a stone hit his head.
"Two years ago, against Trabzonspor, their fans pulled out a gun towards the administrator's bus but did not shoot. It was recorded on a live TV programme. We could see it coming.
"We have no problem at Rize. But playing in Trabzon is like playing in a rebel zone."
Fenerbahce, who have former Premier League players Dirk Kuyt, Raul Meireles and Emre Belozoglu in their side, are the defending champions of the Super Lig and have won the major domestic competition 19 times.
Saturday's win took the Istanbul team to the top of the table, one point ahead of rivals Galatasaray.
The 25-year-old died on Thursday, two days after being struck in the neck during a domestic match in Australia.
Thousands of people have posted photographs on Twitter, using hashtags #putoutyourbats and #putyourbatsout.
Cricket Australia chief James Sutherland said: "People are putting bats in their back yard and in their front window. We thank them for that."
The idea has captured the imagination, with professional players and amateurs joining in as a mark of respect.
The actress's mother, Gladys Pearl Monroe, had ancestral links to Scotland, according to Clan Munro USA.
It believes that an ancestor of Monroe, an alternative spelling of the Scottish surname Munro, was a Highland soldier banished to America in the 1650s.
The society has offered free DNA test kits to Munro men of Highland origin in the hope of learning more.
The search was unveiled to coincide with what would have been Monroe's 90th birthday earlier this month. The star of Some Like it Hot died of an overdose at 36 in August 1962.
Since the launch, Clan Munro USA - which is being assisted in its efforts by the Clan Munro Association in Scotland - has started receiving replies to its offer of DNA kits.
It will take several months to complete the testing and analyse the results.
Clan Munro USA hopes to trace Monroe's Scottish roots through YDNA testing. The Y chromosome is only carried by men and is passed virtually unchanged from father to son.
The society has already tracked down and tested a living descendant of Monroe's great grandfather.
The results were compared to the others in its Munro DNA Project, a database of hundreds of samples provided by Munros living all over the world whose family trees have been studied.
The project includes the descendants of Munros from Easter Ross in the Highlands, also the fifth US president James Monroe and Scots soldiers who were imprisoned and then banished to Britain's America colonies after the Battle of Worcester in 1651.
Worcester was the last battle of the English Civil Wars and involved thousands of Scots combatants.
Texas-based Mark Monroe, of Clan Munro USA, said the YDNA test already done had shown that the Hollywood actress was a descendant of one of those soldiers, said to be a Highlander whose family came from Aldie, near Tain, in the Munro clan's Easter Ross stronghold.
Mr Monroe said: "The YDNA sample marker values matched with other YDNA samples in the Munro YDNA project that then tied her ancestry to a John Munro who settled in Bristol, Rhode Island, after being captured at the Battle of Worcester in 1651 and banished to America."
"We do not know the ancestry of John Munro, but there are likely male Scots living today who have the same characteristic YDNA marker values and, thus, could prove to be cousins of Marilyn Monroe."
A car was damaged by fire. Shops, banks and a police vehicle were also damaged.
The violence forced the authorities to cancel some of the festivities planned for the city's 460th anniversary.
Earlier, some 2,500 people took to the street to complain about the costs of staging the World Cup in Brazil.
They marched through central Sao Paulo waving flags, carrying banners and chanting: "There will be no Cup".
Other Brazilians protested on Twitter, saying "Fifa go home", in reference to football's world governing body. There were similar small protests in Rio de Janeiro and other cities.
"We are against the millions and millions of dollars being spent for the Cup," university student Leonardo Pelegrini dos Santos told the Associated Press news agency.
"It is money that should be invested in better health and education services and better transportation and housing."
Saturday's peaceful protest was marred by sporadic acts of vandalism which turned into clashes with the police.
Some demonstrators attacked an empty police car and tried to overturn it, while others torched a small car. They also burned tires and targeted banks and others businesses.
The Sao Paulo state Governor Geraldo Alckmin condemned the violence.
Fifteen people were also reported to have been detained at a protest near the World Cup stadium in Natal, a city in north-eastern Brazil.
Last year, more than a million people took to the street in dozens of Brazilian cities over poor public services, corruption and the high cost of the World Cup.
The wave of protests prompted Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff to propose a referendum on political reform.
She also pledged to invest 50 billion reais ($25bn, £16bn) in public transport, one of the protesters' main grievances.
BMC's Tejay van Garderen, who began the day second overall, 10 seconds behind Froome, was involved in a crash and lost time on the Team Sky rider.
Orica-Scott's Esteban Chaves moves up to second, 11 seconds behind Froome.
Froome, 32, is aiming to become the third man to win the Vuelta and the Tour de France in the same year.
Van Garderen crashed when descending the day's final climb, on which Froome had defended himself from several Alberto Contador attacks.
At one point Van Garderen was almost two minutes behind Froome's group, but the American managed to reduce that gap, finishing only 17 seconds slower, despite suffering a second crash in the closing kilometres.
He is now in fourth place overall, 27 seconds behind Froome.
Spaniard David de la Cruz, who started the day in fifth, also lost 17 seconds on Froome, and he fell to sixth, with Italy's Vincenzo Nibali moving above him.
Poland's Marczynski was one of three breakaway riders contesting a sprint finish at the end of Thursday's 204.4km ride from Vila-real to Sagunt, in Valencia province.
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The Lotto-Soudal rider's countryman Pawel Poljanski of Bora-Hansgrohe was second, with Spain's Enric Mas of Quick-Step Floors in third.
With just under 14km to go it appeared the breakaway was about to be reeled in and the lead group's fourth rider, Luis Leon Sanchez, rejoined the peloton with the split down to six seconds.
However, the three remaining riders managed to break clear once again, and Spaniard Sanchez eventually finished fourth, eight seconds off the pace.
Froome's group finished 26 seconds further back.
"The guys did another amazing job today from start to finish. They were all over that race and I've got them to thank for still being in this jersey," he said.
"Alberto [Contador] may have already lost time in the overall standings but I have to follow when he goes. He's still a danger and has shown just how strong and tenacious he is. He will fight all the way for the rest of this race I'm sure."
Friday's stage is a 207km ride from Lliria to Cuenca that takes in three category-three climbs.
1. Tomasz Marczynski (Pol/Lotto-Soudal) 4hrs 47mins 02 secs
2. Pawel Poljanski (Pol/Bora-Hansgrohe) Same time
3. Enric Mas (Spa/Quick-Step Floors)
4. Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa/Astana) +8secs
5. Jan Polanc (Slo/UAE Team Emirates)
6. Warren Barguil (Fra/Sunweb) +26secs
7. Giovanni Visconti (Ita/Bahrain-Merida)
8. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky)
9. Fabio Aru (Ita/Astana)
10. Jack Haig (Aus/ Orica-Scott)
1. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky)
2. Esteban Chaves (Col/Orica-Scott) +11secs
3. Nicolas Roche (Ire/BMC) +13secs
4. Tejay Van Garderen (US/BMC)+27secs
5. Vicenzo Nibali (Ita/Bahrain-Merida) +36secs
6. David De La Cruz (Spa/Quick-Step Floors) +40secs
7. Fabio Aru (Ita/Astana) +49secs
8. Adam Yates (GB/Orica-Scott) +50secs
9. Michael Woods (Can/Cannondale) +1mins 13secs
10. Simon Yates (GB/Orica-Scott) +1mins 026secs
It records when a user speaks to friends, receives emails, watches a movie and other smartphone actions.
In addition the Android app receives data from a new, small piece of wearable hardware called the Core that acts as an activity tracker.
The software then uses this information to try and determine if the user was walking, resting or in a vehicle.
It is likely to raise privacy issues coming so soon after revelations about how spy agencies have forced tech companies to hand over information stored about their users.
However, the Japanese firm attempted to play down the issue.
"Sony treats the security and privacy of our users' personal data with the utmost stringency and integrity, adhering to legalities and ensuring it remains protected under appropriate technological procedures," it told the BBC.
"Upon first sign-in to Lifelog app, we make it clear absolutely clear what data users are submitting, how it is being used and provide them with option of opting in or out before proceeding."
Sony did, however, acknowledge that younger users were more likely to be willing to let their activities be logged with the service than older ones.
The announcement was made at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Lifelog is Sony's take on what is termed "the quantified self" - the ability to better understand and change behaviours by gathering data about ourselves.
"Today's alternatives can log your sleep and steps," Jun Makino, a senior product manager at Sony told the BBC.
"But there's more to life. We want to help you rediscover the best memories from the past as well as make smarter decisions for the future."
The kinds of data collected by the app from Android phones include information about when and where:
Sony is also releasing an application programming interface (API) to allow other apps to share information.
The Core is a plastic device containing an accelerometer that is supposed to be worn around the clock. It will provide data about the user's movements, which can then be used to try to work out what they were doing and how many calories were burned.
Sony said its algorithms would be able to distinguish between whether the user was on a train, using a bicycle or resting.
The device also features LED lights and a vibration motor to alert the owner to notifications sent to their phone. A "life bookmark" button can also be pressed to highlight special moments on the timeline.
It will initially be sold with a waterproof wristband.
But in time Sony aims to release accessories letting it to be worn around the neck, in shoes or even attached to a tennis racket among other options.
The firm added it also envisaged information being gathered from its other products, including Smart TVs and PlayStation 4 games consoles, to build up a more detailed record.
Those who sign up to the app will be able to get information telling them how much time they spent carrying out different activities to help inform their choices.
"If you have not reached your daily goal perhaps you should take a walk rather than a taxi," Mr Makino gave as an example.
This is a similar to the idea behind other wearable activity trackers made by companies including Jawbone, Fitbit and Nike.
However, one wearable tech expert attending CES suggested that what was needed were more insights rather than just more information.
"The end goal for these companies is to provide actionable advice and not just data logging," said Daniel Matte from the tech consultancy Canalys.
"I don't think the average user frankly cares if, for example, they slept eight or nine hours. What they want to know is whether that was adequate and what they can do to sleep better, eat better etc.
"Creating change should be the primary goal these technologies are striving for."
Sony said it might also make use of the data gathered by the app to help it better understand how people used their phones and to spot bugs.
However, it said that it would make users' identifies anonymous before carrying out this analysis to protect their privacy.
North Wales Police said it would stop assisting police at the protest at Cuadrilla's site near Preston.
PCC Arfon Jones praised the decision but campaign group Backing Fracking said it was "disgraceful" given he opposes shale gas extraction.
Mr Jones said he was "one influence".
The force has had one sergeant and six constables at the site, where demonstrations have been taking place since January.
There have been between 50 and 80 officers at the site assisting Lancashire Constabulary every day, including officers from Cumbria, Merseyside and north Wales.
Mr Jones had tweeted: "No more @NWPolice officers will be going to facilitate Cuadrilla's business in Lancs. Let them pay for their own security. #capacity."
He said he had been an environmental campaigner before becoming a PCC and opposed fracking as he "considered it a danger in many respects but mainly because of potential pollution of water".
But Backing Fracking has described his actions as "cronyism".
A spokesman said: "It is disgraceful that Mr Jones thinks he can use his political appointment to try and downgrade the policing response to the daily fracking protests seen in Lancashire, especially given that he is opposed to shale gas extraction.
"That's the very definition of cronyism and an abuse of power.
"Not only that, just imagine the furore it would cause if this were being done in reverse - the proud people of north Wales would never stand for it if they thought that Lancashire's Police and Crime Commissioner was meddling in the affairs of their police force."
Responding on Tuesday, Mr Jones said his opposition to fracking may have been one influence on the force's decision.
"The operational decision of deploying resources to Lancashire Police is a matter for North Wales Police and not for me," he said.
"But I'm there to represent the views of the people in north Wales and I'm sure they wouldn't be very happy bearing in mind the demand on us during the summer months that we're deploying like that.
"There's also a question whether taxpayers' money should be used to provide security guards for corporate giants without any compensation.
"And the third point is whether Welsh police officers should be sent to police fracking protests when fracking is more or less illegal in their own country."
North Wales Police said it had decided to stop sending further reinforcements "due to high demands in north Wales over the holiday season".
Lancashire Constabulary declined to comment.
Infrastructure bosses said a combination of high tides and strong winds could cause disruption to those living in exposed coastal locations.
High tides are forecast for 22, 23 and 24 January and 20 and 21 February 2015.
Infrastructure minister Phil Gawne said homeowners should "remain vigilant" in coming months.
In particular those living in the seafront areas of Douglas, Castletown, Ramsey, Laxey and Port St Mary are being warned to "be prepared."
The Department of Infrastructure said it would deploy about 20,000 sandbags to mitigate the risk of flooding.
Mr Gawne said: "We will do whatever we can to provide assistance but people should take steps to protect their properties."
Sandbags can be collected free of charge from local amenity sites across the Isle of Man.
This year several areas including Douglas, Castletown, Ramsey, Laxey, Peel and Gansey experienced tidal flooding in January and February.
Needing to match Port Vale's result at Fleetwood to assure survival, Gillingham started brightly and Josh Parker fired over, while the Cobblers went close when Brendan Moloney's shot was deflected wide.
Gillingham then wasted a glorious chance to settle the nerves in the ninth minute when David Buchanan impeded Cody McDonald in the box, but David Cornell saved Josh Wright's ensuing spot-kick.
Cornell also turned Jake Hessenthaler's low drive around the opposite upright before comfortably dealing with Lee Martin's curling effort.
The Cobblers offered little in attack until the closing stages of the first half. Shaun McWilliams saw his fierce drive deflected over, while Marc Richards somehow managed to guide his far post header wide and Zander Diamond headed over from a corner.
Gillingham upped the tempo after the restart and Cornell denied Ryan Jackson, Parker's shot was deflected wide and Mark Byrne was just off target.
However, Gillingham's initial threat petered out and they were left relying on Port Vale not getting the result they needed, before it was confirmed the Valiants had also only managed a draw.
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Match ends, Northampton Town 0, Gillingham 0.
Second Half ends, Northampton Town 0, Gillingham 0.
Shaun McWilliams (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mark Byrne (Gillingham).
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Max Ehmer.
Zander Diamond (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cody McDonald (Gillingham).
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Adedeji Oshilaja.
Brendon Moloney (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mark Byrne (Gillingham).
Foul by Marc Richards (Northampton Town).
Adedeji Oshilaja (Gillingham) wins a free kick on the right wing.
David Buchanan (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Cody McDonald (Gillingham).
Brendon Moloney (Northampton Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Brendon Moloney (Northampton Town).
Lee Martin (Gillingham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Shaun McWilliams (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Adedeji Oshilaja (Gillingham).
Corner, Gillingham. Conceded by Zander Diamond.
Attempt missed. Mark Byrne (Gillingham) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Corner, Gillingham. Conceded by Paul Anderson.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Keshi Anderson replaces Hiram Boateng.
Attempt missed. Marc Richards (Northampton Town) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Corner, Gillingham. Conceded by Hiram Boateng.
Corner, Gillingham. Conceded by Lewin Nyatanga.
Attempt blocked. Josh Parker (Gillingham) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Brendon Moloney (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lee Martin (Gillingham).
Attempt missed. Zesh Rehman (Gillingham) header from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt saved. Ryan Jackson (Gillingham) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Marc Richards (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adedeji Oshilaja (Gillingham).
Foul by Hiram Boateng (Northampton Town).
Josh Wright (Gillingham) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Alex Revell (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ryan Jackson (Gillingham).
Attempt missed. Cody McDonald (Gillingham) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Second Half begins Northampton Town 0, Gillingham 0.
First Half ends, Northampton Town 0, Gillingham 0.
Mason, 25, clashed heads with Blues defender Gary Cahill 13 minutes into the Premier League match.
He was taken to St Mary's Hospital in London, where he had surgery.
"Ryan and his family have been extremely touched by the overwhelming support," added the statement.
"They would very much like to thank all of those who have posted such positive comments both on social media and in the press over the last 24 hours."
Hull added Mason would continue to be monitored at the hospital "over the coming days".
Tigers captain Michael Dawson, club doctor Mark Waller, head of medical Rob Price and club secretary Matt Wild visited Mason in hospital on Monday.
Cahill, Chelsea captain John Terry and assistant manager Steve Holland had visited on Sunday to check on Mason's well-being, and spent time with his family.
Mason, Hull's record signing, fractured his skull as he attempted to head the ball clear of his own box following a cross from Pedro.
He got to the ball a split second before Cahill, who was already committed to his attempted header, and the pair collided.
Both players spent a lengthy period receiving treatment, though Cahill was able to continue.
Mason joined Hull from Tottenham last August for a club-record undisclosed fee.
He has scored one goal in 16 Premier League appearances for the Tigers.
Prior to his move, he made 53 top-flight appearances for Tottenham, and had loan spells at Yeovil, Doncaster, Millwall, Lorient and Swindon.
Hull lost Sunday's game 2-0 as goals from Diego Costa and Cahill gave Chelsea a victory that took them eight points clear at the top.
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When head trauma happens, doctors are obviously concerned about how much damage there might be to the brain.
Some skull fractures need little or no treatment and will heal by themselves with time. Others need urgent treatment.
Any bits of bone that have been pressed inwards can be removed and returned to their correct position. If necessary, metal wire or mesh may be used to reconnect the pieces.
Once the bone is back in place, it should heal.
Source: NHS Choices
Peter McCabe, chief executive of brain injury association Headway, said the reaction of the medical teams was "exemplary".
McCabe, who was at Stamford Bridge, added: "Headway has been critical of the way in which head injuries have been treated in many high-profile football incidents in recent years, but it is positive to see that lessons appear to have been learned."
It says it is the biggest investment in broadband infrastructure in the UK for more than a decade.
Virgin said the investment would also create 6,000 new jobs of which 1,000 would be apprenticeships.
Virgin Media currently has five million customers.
The company is already in the process of expanding its network to 110,000 homes across east London, Glasgow, Sunderland and Teesside.
Virgin Media said the additional £3bn in broadband investment would be worth £8bn in terms of stimulating UK economic activity.
However, the money will be spent on filling in gaps in its existing network rather than widening the network to rural areas, which critics say has long been neglected by communications companies such as Virgin and BT.
Speaking to the BBC, Virgin chief executive Tom Mockridge said it was BT's job to do more to bridge the so-called "digital divide".
Virgin Media chief executive Tom Mockridge compares the expansion of its broadband network to the building of the railways by the Victorians or the rollout of the motorways in the 20th Century.
That sounds just a touch hyperbolic, but this is indeed one of the biggest investments we've seen in the UK's internet infrastructure, made possible by the deep pockets of Virgin's owners, Liberty Global.
What the money will do is fill in the gaps left in the network when the old cable companies ran out of money in the 1990s. That will mean that streets in urban areas where BT's superfast broadband is the only game in town should now get a choice of supplier.
What it won't do is bring high-speed services to what's known as the final third - rural Britain, where it is hard to make the economics of laying fibre cables to every home add up.
That job is being left to BT - aided by public funds, mainly money set aside from the TV licence fee. BT, which is preparing to take over EE and become the dominant player in fixed and mobile broadband, may quietly welcome today's announcement.
A stronger Virgin Media network may make regulators less inclined to worry about its dominance.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I think an investment of this size is unambiguously helping to close the digital divide. Everything can't happen at once so we are really focusing on the areas where we can bring ultra fast broadband as quickly as possible and as effectively as possible."
He also called on BT to do more to invest in improving existing infrastructure to help speed up internet services in the countryside.
The investment comes at Virgin Media announced a 2.3% increase in total revenues to £4.214bn for the year to the end of December compared with a year earlier.
Virgin said the increase in revenue was largely the result of increased cable subscription revenue, which grew 3% last year.
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has told patient groups it is expecting to continue in that state all winter.
At this state of alert patient safety could be compromised, NHS England guidelines say.
The trust said its staff were "working hard" to give patients the emergency care they needed and give them a bed.
In a statement it said: "Our emergency departments are extremely busy with very high numbers of acutely unwell people.
"[This] is coupled with low numbers of patients who no longer need acute hospital care being discharged, and this inevitably impacts on the availability of beds."
The trust runs two acute hospitals, the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton and the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath. It treats more than three quarters of a million patients each year.
One patient, Barry Salvage, said he had to sleep on a trolley in A&E all night and it made him feel "terrible".
When he asked a nurse for bed, he was told they did not have any.
David Liley of Healthwatch said patients were being sent home "as soon as they are ready", increasing pressure on support systems in the community, which were forced to "swing into action".
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS is at the highest level of alert - known as Opel 4
NHS England's Operational Pressures Escalation Levels (Opel) Framework aims to bring consistency nationally in times of pressure.
It means the trust:
At least three other trusts in Kent and Sussex were at the highest level of alert last week - Medway Foundation Trust, Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust and East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.
Patricia Marquis of the Royal College of Nursing said its members were "at the end of their tether".
She said: "They have been working at these really high levels of intensity for weeks and weeks."
Last year, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust was placed in special measures after inspectors deemed it unsafe and poorly-led.
On Friday a spokesman said it was "making improvements" to help with the flow and discharge of patients.
He asked that people use A&E appropriately and considered "the many alternative services available".
The 26-year-old batsman has scored more than 5,000 first-class career runs, with 449 runs at an average of 44.90 in 13 County Championship innings since joining before the start of the season.
"Colin is a fine player and has become an important part of our team," said head coach Pierre de Bruyn.
"Colin has a batting style that suits all formats and bowls good off-spin."
The Commons Education Committee's inquiry was launched after Ofsted found more than a third of schools were failing to provide age-appropriate SRE.
Committee chairman Graham Stuart MP said "young people have a right to information that will keep them safe".
The government said it would consider the findings carefully.
In 2013, Ofsted reported that personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE), of which SRE is a part, required improvement in 40% of schools.
The MPs said: "This situation would not be tolerated in other subjects, and yet the government's strategy for improving PSHE is weak.
"There is mismatch between the priority that ministers claim they give to PSHE and the steps taken to improve its delivery in schools," they added.
In particular, they said, there was a lack of clarity on the status of the subject.
The committee said the subject should be given statutory status.
This call is echoed in a wide-ranging report from the Office of the Children's Commissioner, published on Tuesday.
Deputy Commissioner Sue Berelowitz said "age-appropriate relationships and sex education" should be made a statutory part of the school curriculum.
The report from the Commons committee noted primary schools were not required to provide sex-and-relationships education beyond the basic biology dictated by the national curriculum, while at secondary level the national curriculum required schools to cover sexually transmitted diseases with 14- to 16-year-olds.
It said academies and free schools (about half of schools) were not bound by the national curriculum, though all schools must have regard to government guidance from 2000 if they teach the subject.
The current position meant the relationships aspect of the subject may be particularly squeezed, the report said.
The committee said the subject's lack of statutory status meant it was too often sidelined, with teachers denied continuous professional training.
It recommended:
Mr Stuart said there was overwhelming demand from teachers, parents and young people for SRE to become compulsory.
"SRE forms an important part of any school's efforts to safeguard young people from abuse and is particularly needed to protect the most vulnerable children," he said.
"PSHE builds character and resilience and will help young people to live happy and healthy lives."
A Department for Education spokeswoman said high-quality PSHE teaching played a vital role in developing young people's personal and emotional wellbeing, "supporting them to make informed choices and stay safe".
"That's why we are working with schools and experts to ensure the PSHE and relationships education that young people receive is appropriate and of a high standard," she said.
"We have already set up a new expert subject group on PSHE to identify key areas where teachers need further support."
However Sarah Carter, from the campaign group, the Family Education Trust believes many parents would be "horrified" by the materials used to teach sex education in primary school.
"It is not often age appropriate," she says. "Children develop at different ages, they have different levels of maturity.
"It would be our recommendation that parents always check what's being taught."
Lucy Emmerson, co-ordinator of the Sex Education Forum, said sex education was neglected in too many schools and urged all political parties to make a manifesto commitment to change the law to make the subject statutory.
PSHE Association chief executive Joe Hayman said statutory status for the subject would be "a huge step forward".
Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt said Labour would make age-appropriate sex and relationship education compulsory in all state schools.
"Children and young people should be taught the importance of respect and healthy relationships and to understand the role of the family - in all its forms," said Mr Hunt.
For almost the entire film, she is the only woman on screen.
"It's something you don't see in cinema," says the British actress. "Even though there are a lot of women in law enforcement, we just don't make films about them."
Blunt says her character, Arizona FBI agent Kate Macer, is the film's moral compass.
At the beginning of Sicario - which in Mexico means hit-man - Kate uncovers a horrifying "house of death" connected to a Mexican drug cartel. She is then recruited to a covert black-ops mission headed by mysterious Colombian Alejandro (Benicio del Toro) and special agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin).
Blunt had no back story to work on for Kate "except that she just got a divorce and she needs a new bra", so she fleshed out the role by talking to real-life female FBI agents.
"I based the character on one in particular who had an inner steeliness," she says. "She spoke very softly and she was quite shy and yet she worked on a kidnap response team.
"It was a very physical job. She worked with these big men on the Swat team and was unfazed by it."
While promoting Sicario at last month's Toronto film festival, Blunt revealed a potential backer had wanted screenwriter Taylor Sheridan to rewrite the lead character as a man in order to attract further investment.
Had that shocked her? "Sadly, I'm not surprised," she says. "But I'm thrilled by Taylor's reaction, which was to consistently walk out of those rooms. And that's why it took him a while to get the film made.
"I don't think it's a blip. It happens a lot. Numbers are crunched on films that have done well. When you do that, you are making films that are derivative of something else."
But she remains optimistic that the Hollywood landscape might be changing, citing recent the performances by Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road and Rebecca Ferguson in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation.
Blunt says: "There are a lot of films that are coming out that embrace stronger roles for women - more complicated roles, not just about being strong or having a gun. That's so boring."
Blunt and Ferguson are about to work together on the film adaptation of the bestselling book The Girl on the Train.
Blunt will play the girl of the title - an alcoholic divorcee who fantasises about a couple she sees from her train. The film, directed by The Help's Tate Taylor, is set for release in 2016.
"I'm about to play a blackout drunk," says Blunt, "and what I think readers have responded to with that book - and hopefully the film audience will too - is less the thriller aspect of it but the portrayal of these three incredibly damaged women, which I think is more interesting to people."
Last year, Blunt's big screen appearances included musical Into the Woods and sci-fi thriller Edge of Tomorrow.
She is an actress who bounces comfortably between genres. She came to international attention opposite Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada, and her other film roles include The Adjustment Bureau, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and Looper. She played the title role in The Young Victoria.
Her acting career started on stage, with Blunt making her West End debut in 2001 opposite Dame Judi Dench in The Royal Family. Although she hasn't been on stage for more than a decade, Blunt is keen to "do a new play" in the US, where she recently became a citizen.
Is there any genre that has eluded her? "I haven't done a Western... but Sicario... is kind of a Western. I try not to base my ambitions on genre or type of movie. I try not to strategise the next move, The roles I take on are the ones I'm surprised by and challenged by."
Sicario's Kate Macer is just such a role. Blunt says director Denis Villeneuve's film will stay with people.
"That's so thrilling to me," she says. "Often people leave a cinema and they don't discuss a film because they've seen something derivative. I think this will be a film people will discuss for days afterwards."
Sicario is released in the UK on 8 October.
Able Seaman Ryan Donovan, 23, shot Lt Cdr Ian Molyneux, 36, of Wigan, Greater Manchester, at close range on HMS Astute in Southampton.
He had been on a two-day drinking binge before the attack in April 2011.
Recording a narrative verdict, Coroner Keith Wiseman said he would recommend that random breath testing for Royal Navy personnel be implemented.
Donovan was jailed for life in September 2011 with a minimum term of 25 years after pleading guilty at Winchester Crown Court to the murder of the father-of-four.
The 23-year-old, of Hillside Road, also admitted the attempted murders of Lt Cdr Hodge, 45, Petty Officer Christopher Brown, 36, and Chief Petty Officer David McCoy, 37.
Mr Wiseman said it was "a miracle" no-one else had died during the gun rampage during a civic visit by Southampton's mayor and also schoolchildren who had just left when Donovan started firing.
He said a culture of drinking to excess had to stop, and a system of alcohol testing prior to duty should be introduced.
The inquest at Southampton Civic Centre heard Donovan had drunk more than 20 pints of cider and lager over two days prior to the attack.
He had also drunk vodka and cocktails before being put on guard duty with a gun while more than three times above the alcohol limit for driving.
Tests revealed Donovan's blood would have contained 139mg of alcohol per 100ml - 76% above the drink-drive limit.
Police investigating the murder were so concerned about binge drinking by the crew while ashore, that the senior officer wrote to Hampshire Constabulary Chief Constable Alex Marshall to highlight the issue and it was passed to military authorities.
Lt Cdr Molyneux suffered a single gunshot wound to the top of his head, six inches above his right ear, fired from 5cm away.
Home Office pathologist Dr Basil Purdue said the position in which he was found, lying face down on the floor, was consistent with him rushing forward to tackle the gunman.
Lt Cdr Molyneux received a posthumous George Medal for his actions.
The Royal Navy has since tightened its rules on alcohol consumption before duty.
At the time sailors were allowed 10 units in the previous 24-hours with no alcohol in the 10 hours before duty. This has now been changed to five units.
Neighbours saw smoke coming from the house on Lowes Hill in Ripley, Derbyshire, just before 10:30 GMT.
An air ambulance was called and the man, described as elderly, was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham.
Fire officers said the most likely cause of the blaze was coals falling out of an unguarded fire.
Andy Parker, who was renovating a house nearby, said: "There was smoke, the ambulance, fire engines and then the firefighters got the breathing apparatus on and went in. Very dramatic.
"We were told to keep inside as there was a small risk of explosion and a neighbour said it was a fire in the kitchen."
Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service said it would be offering extra fire safety advice to people living in the area.
The high court in Bihar said the ban was "illegal, impractical and unconstitutional".
The ban, which was imposed in April, was Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's campaign promise during last year's assembly elections.
It was supported by most women because they link drinking by men with domestic violence, harassment and poverty.
Mr Kumar had claimed the ban would usher in "social change" in Bihar.
But critics described the ban as draconian with punishments for even family members of anybody caught consuming or possessing liquor.
Some 13,000 people have been arrested in Bihar for defying the ban since 5 April.
In August, 13 people in one Bihar village died after drinking some lethal home-brewed hooch during Independence Day celebrations.
Alcohol is also completely banned in the western state of Gujarat while the southern state of Kerala and some other Indian states have imposed a partial ban.
The US actor will be the show's first non-British host in its 39-year history.
"Matt's a lifelong fellow petrolhead and I'm thrilled he's joining Top Gear," said Chris Evans of his new on-screen colleague.
Additional Top Gear cast members will be confirmed shortly, the BBC said.
"As a car nut and a massive fan of Top Gear, I'm honoured and excited to be a part of this iconic show's new chapter," said LeBlanc. "What a thrill!"
Joey's motoring experience not taken into account
The 48-year-old is best known for his role as Joey Tribbiani in Friends and has more recently been seen, as himself, in BBC Two sitcom Episodes.
"Acting out our craziest car notions on screen is a dream job and I know we'll both be debating some epic road trip ideas," continued Evans in a statement.
"We can't wait to share what we've been up to on screen later this year."
LeBlanc has twice appeared on Top Gear on its popular "star in a reasonably priced car" segment and holds the record for the fastest ever celebrity lap.
Alan Tyler, the BBC's acting controller for entertainment commissioning, called LeBlanc "a class act and a brilliant signing".
Evans was named as Top Gear's new host last year after the BBC opted not to renew Jeremy Clarkson's contract in the wake of his much-publicised "fracas" with a Top Gear producer.
Clarkson subsequently signed up with streaming service Amazon Prime to present a new motoring show with Richard Hammond and James May, his former Top Gear co-presenters.
Tabloid editor turned broadcaster Piers Morgan is among those to have welcomed LeBlanc's appointment, calling him "a brilliant choice [with] huge global recognition" on Twitter.
LeBlanc himself hinted at his new role on Wednesday, telling his Twitter followers he had "very cool news coming in the next day or so".
Last year the actor presented Top Gear: The Races, a stand-alone spin-off made for BBC Store, the corporation's digital download service.
According to the BBC, he will join production on the new series of Top Gear "immediately".
Stephen Mangan, LeBlanc's co-star on Episodes, responded to the news by suggesting he is "The Stig" in the picture released with the BBC's press release.
"Still annoyed they made me wear that helmet," the British actor joked on Twitter.
Last year LeBlanc revealed he had "one more season of Episodes to shoot.... starting in April".
The actor won a Golden Globe in 2013 for his role in the sitcom, a co-production with Showtime, in which he plays an exaggerated version of himself for comic effect.
Steve Berry, who co-presented Top Gear in the 1990s, told BBC News that LeBlanc was "an odd choice", despite having "international recognition".
"It does seem odd that the BBC will use an actor in a factual entertainment show," he said, suggesting that the strength of the show's most recent line-up lay in the fact that they were "all experienced motoring journalists".
"When Jeremy Clarkson gives you an opinion you can respect it," he went on. "When an actor says that line, does it have that authority?"
Doctors at a Brisbane hospital are refusing to discharge the girl, Asha, who is expected to be sent back to the Australian-run detention centre.
The daughter of asylum-seeker parents suffered serious burns at the camp.
Former immigration minister Scott Morrison said the policy would continue "absolutely" and "completely."
The government says its controversial offshore detention policy is necessary, and aimed at preventing asylum seekers trying to reach Australia on unseaworthy boats.
Australia's High Court upheld Australia's asylum policy as legal under the country's constitution in a decision handed down at the beginning of February.
Doctors at Brisbane's Lady Cilento Children's Hospital say they won't release Asha unless a "suitable home environment is identified".
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said no decision would be made to risk the "health or security of any individual".
"It is a difficult job, because we have to do it in a way that gives no incentive to the people smugglers," Mr Turnbull said.
The decisive moment came midway through the first half, as Sean Maguire nodded into the path of Hugill, who chested down before firing in.
Reading goalkeeper Vito Mannone made saves from Maguire, Tom Barkhuizen and Stephy Mavididi to keep his side in it.
The Royals went closest when Joseph Mendes' header from a free-kick was saved by Chris Maxwell.
Having already gone a goal down, Reading were also forced into two substitutions before half-time with midfielders John Swift and Liam Kelly limping off and replaced by George Evans and Joseph Mendes.
And the latter almost made an instant impact, getting his head to Pelle Clement's free-kick only for Preston keeper Maxwell to hold it.
The home side, though, were again looking more likely to score after the break, but Mannone's saves and some determined defending from Liam Moore gave Reading hope.
However, their attacking threat was summed up by efforts from debutant Leandro Bacuna and Evans, who both cleared the bar.
Preston manager Alex Neil:
"I'm extremely satisfied. I thought we were the better side and created numerous opportunities. The only disappointment is that it finished 1-0.
"It was an incredible effort from the lads. I thought they were top, top drawer.
"We worked extremely hard, our shape was excellent and we had a lot of individual great performances."
Reading boss Jaap Stam:
"If you play against a side like Preston you have to bring everything to the game including physique, pace, aggressiveness.
"Hopefully you can play your own game. We didn't get what we expected from it.
"I am not happy in how we played and what we did. We gave a lot of balls away and that brings them into the game to create opportunities."
Match ends, Preston North End 1, Reading 0.
Second Half ends, Preston North End 1, Reading 0.
Chris Gunter (Reading) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Chris Gunter (Reading).
Stephy Mavididi (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Stephy Mavididi (Preston North End) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Alan Browne with a headed pass.
Chris Gunter (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alan Browne (Preston North End).
Chris Gunter (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Hugill (Preston North End).
Attempt saved. Callum Robinson (Preston North End) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ben Pearson.
Substitution, Preston North End. Stephy Mavididi replaces Sean Maguire.
Attempt saved. Daniel Johnson (Preston North End) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Darnell Fisher.
Foul by Joseph Mendes (Reading).
Darnell Fisher (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Ben Pearson (Preston North End) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jordan Hugill.
Substitution, Preston North End. Callum Robinson replaces Tom Barkhuizen.
Corner, Reading. Conceded by Ben Pearson.
Joseph Mendes (Reading) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Paul Huntington (Preston North End).
Joseph Mendes (Reading) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ben Davies (Preston North End).
Corner, Reading. Conceded by Ben Pearson.
Attempt blocked. Adrian Popa (Reading) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Garath McCleary (Reading) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ben Pearson (Preston North End).
Attempt missed. Tom Barkhuizen (Preston North End) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Jordan Hugill with a cross.
Substitution, Preston North End. Alan Browne replaces Josh Harrop.
Foul by Leandro Bacuna (Reading).
Jordan Hugill (Preston North End) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Liam Moore (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Hugill (Preston North End).
Offside, Reading. Tyler Blackett tries a through ball, but Adrian Popa is caught offside.
Substitution, Reading. Garath McCleary replaces Pelle Clement.
Attempt blocked. Ben Pearson (Preston North End) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Modou Barrow (Reading).
Joshua Earl (Preston North End) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. George Evans (Reading) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt blocked. Jordan Hugill (Preston North End) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Barkhuizen with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Daniel Johnson (Preston North End) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
The Netherlands defence ministry identified the man as a 26-year-old air force sergeant. It said he had been suspended from service and his access to military intelligence revoked.
Authorities are investigating radicalisation in the Dutch military.
The Dutch air force is currently operating in Jordan, taking part in an operation against IS in Iraq.
Sources say the sergeant was not involved in the mission, according to Netherlands' public broadcaster NOS.
The allegations are being investigated by the public prosecutor, the defence ministry said in a statement.
Defence Minister Jeanine Hennis Plasschaert said it would be "unpleasant" if it turned out that one man had "joined up with evil" while his colleagues "risked their lives for other people's freedom".
Prime Minister Mark Rutte said the allegations were "extremely serious and painful", especially for the sergeant's colleagues.
Officials have stressed that travelling overseas to join IS is a crime in the Netherlands.
The case would be the first time a serving member of the Dutch army has gone to Syria to join IS.
In January the country's then Security Minister Ivo Opstelten said 180 Dutch jihadists were believed to have travelled to Iraq and Syria.
Several members of a Dutch motorcycle club, who were ex-servicemen, travelled to northern Iraq last year to help Kurdish forces fight against IS.
Dutch prosecutors told BBC News at the time that signing up with organisations like IS or the Kurdish militant group PKK was banned but joining a foreign armed force was no longer forbidden.
Goonhilly Earth Station in Cornwall and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd plan to send a "mother ship" to transport satellites beyond Earth's orbit.
It is being called a "new model of low-cost, high-value, space exploration".
The SSTL-GES Lunar Pathfinder team wants the project to appeal to organisations worldwide, including space agencies.
SSTL's executive chairman, Sir Martin Sweeting, said he hoped the project would address the high cost of sending satellites to space - "a common barrier to the international development and exploration of our local solar system".
Goonhilly Earth Station is upgrading one of its antennas as part of the development of a commercial deep space network and will provide a mission operations centre in Cornwall.
Dr Tamela Maciel, from the National Space Centre in Leicester, said the project would provide exciting opportunities.
"It would be exciting to see the science that's coming out of it, but also the educational possibilities.
"Imagine if you're a university student and you get to work on developing a mini satellite that's going to be sent to the Moon...
"How amazing would that be to put on your CV?"
The billionaire told ITV News that he "did everything possible" to keep the business from going under.
BHS, sold by his Arcadia Group for £1 last year, collapsed with the loss of 11,000 jobs and a big pension deficit.
Earlier on Tuesday, lawyers for Sir Philip hit back at MPs over a report into the BHS failure.
The MPs were accused of making "very serious factual and legal errors" in their report.
Sir Philip's ITV interview comes as parliament prepares to debate stripping him of his knighthood.
He told the broadcaster: "I want to start with saying how sad and very, very, very sorry I am for all the hardship and sort of sadness caused to all the people who worked there, and all the pensioners.
"I hope and believe all the people that worked very closely with me at BHS for all those years, and some for the whole journey, will know it was never my intention for the business to have the ending it did."
He said he was in a "very strong dialogue" with the pensions regulator to find a solution, but would not put a number on the level of financial support he would be willing to give.
"I can't get into a conversation with you about any of the detail," he said.
"The answer is, it will take what it takes to resolve it. We are in that discussion. There are some things outside of my knowledge... how it works, how the funds are deployed, how they're invested. The whole thing just needs to come together."
Sir Philip said the sale of BHS to former racing driver and bankrupt Dominic Chappell "was clearly, categorically the wrong buyer".
Sir Philip added: "But we made that decision and, you know, for the last year, and on a daily basis, I, and my family, have got to live with this horrid decision, and trust me, these are not fun days."
Before the interview was broadcast, details of a review commissioned by the retail tycoon, and carried out by two QCs, were released.
MPs criticised Sir Philip for the money he took out of BHS while leaving it with a £571m pensions deficit.
But Lord Pannick QC and Michael Todd QC called the MPs' findings "bizarre" and "unsupportable".
They claimed Sir Philip's decision to sell BHS to Mr Chappell was an "honest mistake".
A statement issued by Sir Philip's holding company, Taveta Investments, said: "The Taveta directors very much regret the terrible impact that the failure of BHS has had on former BHS staff and BHS pensioners and we accept that, with hindsight, it was a mistake to sell BHS to Retail Acquisitions Limited and Dominic Chappell.
"But it was an honest mistake and the sale was made in good faith to a buyer who retained a large team of well-known professional advisers, including Olswang and Grant Thornton."
However, it added: "There was nothing unlawful, improper or even unusual about Taveta and Sir Philip Green's decision to assist Dominic Chappell and Retail Acquisitions Limited in the purchase of BHS. The select committees' criticism in this regard is bizarre."
The QCs' review claimed that the select committees' inquiry process was "so unfair that, if parliamentary privilege did not prevent a legal challenge, a court would 'set aside' the report".
A joint report by MPs on the Business and Work and Pensions select committees has held Sir Philip responsible for leaving BHS with the pensions black hole, taking about £400m in dividends from the department store chain, and then eventually selling it to Mr Chappell for just £1.
The retailer's collapse resulted in the loss of 11,000 jobs and has left 20,000 pensions in limbo as the Pensions Regulator remains in talks about the scheme's future.
The Taveta statement said: "These dividends were lawful and were paid at a time when the BHS pension schemes were in surplus. BHS was not sold until 10 years later."
"The law does not prevent a company from paying dividends because of a risk that the company might become insolvent many years later.
"The main causes of the pension deficit were the increasing longevity of pensioners and the global financial crisis in 2008," the company added.
Iain Wright, chair of the Business select committee, accused Sir Philip of trying to "wiggle off the hook for his responsibilities".
"The report from Sir Philip Green's no doubt expensively appointed lawyers is just the latest wheeze by Sir Philip to wiggle off the hook for his responsibilities to BHS pension holders," he said.
Frank Field, chairman of the Work and Pensions committee, said the report was agreed unanimously by MPs on two committees and based on "huge amounts of evidence".
"MPs are entitled to have views and to take those views with them into parliament," he said. "But the House will draw its own conclusions later this week," he added.
A debate in the House of Commons on Thursday will discuss whether Sir Philip's knighthood, awarded in 2006 for services to retail, should be removed.
They were given 15-month suspended jail terms and ordered to pay €165,000 (£145,000; $185,000) each, with half the sum suspended.
They were accused of holding more than 20 servants they brought with them on a 2008 visit in near slavery.
But they were acquitted of the more serious charge of inhumane treatment.
The princesses had denied all the charges.
Their lawyer, Stephen Monod, said he was "satisfied to note that the Belgian justice has appropriately assessed this case which has generated many misconceptions for nearly 10 years".
Raped, pregnant and afraid of being jailed
Kuwait's abused domestic workers have 'nowhere to turn'
He was unable to confirm that his clients would pay their fines, saying they had not yet decided whether to appeal.
Sheikha Hamda al-Nahyan and her seven daughters did not attend the trial and rights activists said it was highly unlikely that the UAE would extradite them had they been jailed.
The case came to light when one of the servants escaped from the hotel where the princesses had hired a floor of luxury suites.
They said they were forced to be available 24 hours a day, had to sleep on the floor, were never given a day off, were prevented from leaving the hotel and were forced to eat the princesses' leftovers.
But the case took nine years to get under way, partly due to legal challenges to proceedings by the defence.
Myria, a Belgian rights group which helped bring the case to court, said the importance of Friday's judgement "can hardly be overstated".
"Not because it is the end stage of a procedure that has been epic in length and complexity, nor because the location of the transgression was a prestigious hotel and the main perpetrators princesses.
"Domestic personnel hailing from all over the world, employed in an administrative and social limbo, in a secluded area presumed beyond the reach of the rule of law, were heard in a court of law and recognised as victims of human trafficking."
At the time of the trial, Nicholas McGeehan, an expert on migrant workers in the Gulf for Human Rights Watch, told the BBC that it would be "hugely significant" if one of the wealthiest families in the world was publicly linked with trafficking and slavery.
He argued that despite being abolished in law, domestic slavery continues in Gulf states - "perpetuated by ruling elites for whom it serves an important societal purpose in conferring status".
He added: "It's top-down and tolerated."
Eugenijus Tulauskas, 43, from Lithuania, was arrested by Harbour Police on Sunday.
The captain faces a charge of having excess alcohol while on duty as a professional master of a ship.
No further details of the alleged offence were disclosed at Belfast Magistrates' Court. He is to be granted bail when accommodation can be found.
Mr Tulauskas must surrender all travel documents and report daily to police as part of the bail conditions. An exclusion zone has also been drawn up to stop him boarding the ship again.
The court heard the company that owns the vessel intends to fly in another captain to take over the ship.
Mr Tulauskas is next due to appear in court on 10 October.
The Scot, 22, was a game and 18-16 down against Denmark's Anna Thea Madsen before winning 17-21 21-18 21-19.
Second seed Gilmour will meet Spain's Carolina Marin in the final after the top seed beat Line Kjaersfeldt 23-21 21-15 in La Roche Sur Yon, France.
In the men's singles, England's Rajiv Ouseph took a second successive bronze medal after losing his semi-final.
Ouseph, the silver medallist in 2014, was beaten 21-11 21-16 by last year's champion and top seed Jan O Jorgensen of Denmark.
On reaching the final, Gilmour said: "I feel happy, feel relief, I feel excited, tired - all of those things. I am just delighted.
"Remaining calm on court, not getting ahead of myself, not thinking too much was the key."
Sean Rigg, 40, who had schizophrenia, died at Brixton police station, south London, in August 2008.
The IPCC said it followed a review of its original investigation into the death of Mr Rigg.
The Metropolitan Police said "it was fully supportive of this course of action".
Mr Rigg was arrested in Balham, south London, after attacking a man.
The arresting officers restrained Mr Rigg for several minutes on the ground and then took him to the police station.
Last year the inquest into his death found that officers had used "unsuitable force". Earlier this year a review by the IPCC found that the watchdog should look again at whether police officers should face misconduct proceedings.
The IPCC's original investigation was slammed by Mr Rigg's family as "extremely poor and ineffective".
IPCC commissioner Mary Cunneen said: "I have consulted with Mr Rigg's family, the officers involved in the arrest, restraint and detention of Mr Rigg, the Metropolitan Police Service and the forensic medical examiner that I was minded to reopen the investigation and last month informed them that we have now done so."
The IPCC said it has been informed that Scotland Yard planned to seek a judicial review of the decision to reopen the investigation - not because it opposed it, but because it believed the findings of the original investigation should first have been quashed by a court.
The seven-member group - known as Bangtan Sonyeondan in Korean or "Bulletproof Boy Scouts" - won Top Social Artist, voted for by fans.
They beat Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande and Shawn Mendes in the category.
The win marks a breakthrough for the K-pop genre, which has long tried to crack Western markets.
"We still cannot believe that we are standing here on this stage at the Billboard Music Awards," the group said in their acceptance speech.
"It's so great to see all the artists we admire. To be in this category with such great artists, [we are] just really honoured."
The band - made up of members Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Rap Monster, Jimin, V and Jungkook - later tweeted that the win was a "dream come true".
The group use hip hop and R&B styles to sing about issues including bullying and mental health. They have released albums in Korean and Japanese and have almost 10 million followers on social media.
Despite not singing in English, BTS have already toured the US and sold out venues in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.
Their success marks a high point for Korean music in the West following South Korean rapper Psy's 2012 global hit Gangnam Style, which has so far racked up almost 3 billion views on YouTube.
Psy then concentrated on the huge Chinese music market, collaborating with pianist Lang Lang for a series of smash hits there, although in 2014 he did release Hangover alongside US rapper Snoop Dogg, which has had almost 300 million YouTube views.
K-pop was conceived in South Korea in the 1990s as a Western-Asian hybrid and is now a multi-million dollar industry, part of the so-called 'Korean Wave' - the spread of Korean music, drama and film to the rest of the world.
Large numbers of boy and girl bands attempt to make their mark each year.
However, there has been controversy over the extent of control exerted over the young stars by their record companies. Members of some groups are expected to abide by a set of behavioural rules.
Discussing politics has also been considered taboo - Chou Tzuyu, a 16-year-old Taiwanese singer and dancer in the Korean girl group Twice, was required by her record company to issue a video apology for waving a Taiwanese flag ahead of the island's election last year.
JYP Entertainment denied coercing her into the apology to appease audiences in mainland China, which sees Taiwan as a renegade province.
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The 30-year-old was arrested in February after being spotted driving a Mini Cooper S in Maxwellton Street, Canal Street and High Road.
The court heard from a witness who said he saw Mr Nutini order vodka in a Paisley bar before driving off.
Mr Nutini denies a charge of drink driving.
The witness, Colin May, told Paisley Sheriff Court he reported the singer to police when he saw him driving a car shortly after leaving DeBeers Bar.
Mr May said he had earlier seen Mr Nutini and a friend ordering rounds in the bar.
He said the singer, who was with another man and woman, ordered one round while the man bought another two.
Fiscal Depute Frank Clarke, prosecuting, asked Mr May: "Were you able to hear what was ordered?"
He replied: "From memory, I believe it was vodka, more than one, but I could not be certain of that."
Mr May was later asked about seeing Mr Nutini in the driving seat of a black Mini at traffic lights on Maxwellton Street and Canal Street in Paisley.
He continued: "I had seen him drinking at the bar having more than what would be the legal limit of one to two drinks.
"At first I was a bit thrown and continued my journey home, then I called the police to tell them what I had seen."
Cross-examined by defence agent Massimo Franchi, Mr May was asked: "He goes back to his table and you don't know what happens, those drinks could have been spilled, you don't know?" Mr May agreed.
Mr Franchi put it to the witness: "You don't know if he drank vodka or soda and lime?"
Mr May replied: "I heard vodka being ordered."
When pressed by the sheriff if he could say what Mr Nutini was drinking, he answered: "No I can't."
The trial continues.
Normally the stuff of science fiction in Star Trek or Star Wars, physicists at the university used an ultrasound array to exert force on an object and pull it towards the energy source.
They say it is the first time such a beam has been used to move anything bigger than microscopic targets.
The technology could be put to use in medicine, helping to develop ultrasound-based clinical techniques.
Dundee researchers worked alongside colleagues in Southampton and Illinois on the project, the results of which have been published in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters.
In another sci-fi inspired project, the same team from the university's Institute for Medical Science and Technology (Imsat) created a Doctor Who-style "sonic screwdriver", also using ultrasound.
"This is the first time anyone has demonstrated a working acoustic tractor beam and the first time such a beam has been used to move anything bigger than microscopic targets," said Dr Christine Demore of Imsat.
"We were able to show that you could exert sufficient force on an object around one centimetre in size to hold or move it, by directing twin beams of energy from the ultrasound array towards the back of the object."
The team used an ultrasound device that is already clinically approved for use in MRI-guided surgery.
The team's work was carried out as part of a £3.6m programme initiated by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, combining expertise at four UK universities in Bristol, Dundee, Glasgow and Southampton with industrial firms.
Professor Sandy Cochran, of the University of Dundee, said: "Our partnership with industry has been vital to developing devices and capabilities that are delivering unprecedented sophistication in the field of ultrasound."
William Swann quit as a member of the Crofting Commission last week.
BBC Alba has since learned that he had told crofters he would resign if he felt the commission was not dealing with their case in a fair manner.
The commission has been in dispute with the crofters in Mangersta and Upper Coll about how they manage their common grazings committees.
The commission dismissed both committees, whose members are crofters, earlier this year and appointed officials to run the grazings, which are shared areas of land for raising livestock.
Western Isles Council - Comhairle nan Eilean Siar - and commission chiefs have met to discuss the matter.
MSP Rhoda Grant has tabled a question in the Scottish Parliament asking the Scottish government if it would establish an inquiry into the Crofting Commission handling of the situation.
Catriona MacLean, of the Crofting Commission, said normally such issues were resolved "quietly" and not in the public domain.
She said the meeting with the comhairle had involved discussion on a "range of topics" and had allowed the commission to "explain a lot of things".
Ms MacLean said she could not comment on Mr Swann's resignation, but said the commission was working effectively and within the law.
The US president's order shows he "wants to stand up for all Americans, including the unborn," his press secretary Sean Spicer said.
The executive order - known as "the Mexico City Policy" - is likely to concern pro-choice groups, already wary of his anti-abortion stance.
Mr Trump supports a US abortion ban.
But this is not the first time a foreign funding ban has been put in place. Republican President Ronald Reagan first created the Mexico City Policy in 1984 introducing the ban, only for the Democrats to later rescind it under the Clinton administration.
The policy requires non-governmental organisations receiving federal funding to agree to "neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations".
For decades, it has been the case that no US money can be spent on overseas abortions but the Mexico City policy takes that a step further.
In 2009, Barack Obama ended the policy, which had been reinstated under President George Bush's tenure.
Pro-choice groups have criticised the move by Mr Trump.
"It's telling that one of Trump's first executive actions combines two of his favourite things: silencing anyone who disagrees with him and repressing women," a statement from advocacy group Naral Pro-Choice America.
"Just two days after the historic Women's March and one day after the anniversary of the historic decision in Roe v. Wade, Donald Trump's misguided priority is to reinstate... a policy that silences health workers at the expense of their patients."
On the campaign trail, the formerly pro-choice Republican told MSNBC "there has to be some sort of punishment for the woman" if abortion was banned. He later retracted the statement amid a widespread outcry.
His campaign said Mr Trump believed decisions on the legality of the procedure should be left up to individual states, with any criminal penalties being reserved for abortion providers.
He has said he supports an abortion ban exception for "rape, incest and the life of the mother".
Mr Trump has also promised to fill a Supreme Court vacancy with a socially conservative judge.
Meanwhile, Congress has signalled its intention to withdraw federal funding from Planned Parenthood, a group that provides reproductive health services in the US and overseas.
The four-day convention in Manhattan normally attracts tens of thousands of people, many dressed as their favourite fictional characters.
Peter Capaldi has previously attended San Diego Comic Con, but his appearance this weekend will be his first at the New York event.
He will be joined by Pearl Mackie, who plays the Doctor's new companion Bill.
The show's writer Steven Moffat and actor Matt Lucas will also appear alongside the shows's stars.
Former Doctor Who star Matt Smith and his ex-castmates Jenna Coleman and Alex Kingston will take part in a separate panel called Tales from the Tardis.
New footage from the show will be screened at the event, ahead of this year's Doctor Who Christmas special and the new series set to air in 2017.
Several other TV shows will also be previewed as part of the event.
The new Doctor Who spin-off series Class, set in Shoreditch in east London, and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, starring Lord of the Rings actor Elijah Wood, will be previewed by the BBC.
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Last year's New York Comic Con attracted approximately 167,000 fans.
The event, now in its 11th year, is vying with San Diego Comic Con, which takes place in July, for the title of the world's most popular comic convention.
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Those who knowingly buy wild animals illegally hunted could also face a sentence of up to three years.
There are 420 species of animals considered endangered by the government, including giant pandas, Asian black bears and pangolins.
The practice of eating wild animals or their products has fuelled poaching.
Repeated crackdowns failed to stem such activity and, according to the Xinhua news agency, many buyers of rare animals were walking away unpunished.
Lang Sheng, deputy head of the legislative affairs commission of China's National People's Congress, told lawmakers earlier this week: "Buyers are a major motivator of large-scale illegal hunting."
Those who eat rare animals or their products in China and other parts of Asia believe the practice helps to strengthen the body or ease symptoms of illnesses.
The rules came into force as a new interpretation of China's criminal law was approved by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.
In traditional Chinese medicine, the roasted scales of the pangolin are thought to help detoxify the body and relieve palsy, while the animal's meat is considered a luxurious delicacy.
Bear bile is thought to help treat various ailments. Animal rights organisation Animals Asia claims at least 10,000 bears are being kept in farms in China and milked for their bile.
Some consume or serve these products for "ostentatious reasons" such as displaying social status and respect for guests, according to a study quoted by a recent United Nations report on illegal wildlife trade in East Asia and the Pacific.
The same report also found that China is the largest consumer market for wildlife in the region.
US President Barack Obama and Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev said Mr Jobs had changed the world.
Microsoft's Bill Gates said it had been "an insanely great honour" to work with him. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg remembered his "mentor and friend".
The Twitter microblog site struggled to cope with the traffic of tributes.
Apple itself said Mr Jobs had been "the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives" and had made the world "immeasurably better".
Thousands of celebrities and ordinary people went on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to record their tributes and memories of the man behind products such as the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad.
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Thousands of people all over the world have also been attending Apple stores to leave flowers, notes, and apples with a bite taken from them to mimic the company's logo.
Apple's leading rivals such as Microsoft, Google, Sony and Samsung all chipped in with glowing tributes.
GS Choi, chief executive of Samsung, which is embroiled in a major court battle with Apple on patents, said Mr Jobs was an "innovative spirit" who "introduced numerous revolutionary changes to the information technology industry".
In his statement, Bill Gates said: "The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come. For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honour."
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A single bunch of flowers - still in their plastic wrapper - were the only outward sign of the passing of Steve Jobs outside Apple's flagship London store in Covent Garden.
Ginnie Leatham, a brand director in the media industry, from West Sussex, hand delivered a single red Gerbera to staff inside the store.
She said: "I was really sad when I woke up this morning. I had a real lump in my throat and felt quite tearful.
"I was thinking about it on my commute into work. I always walk past the Apple store and I just thought 'I'm going to stop'.
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Mr Zuckerberg wrote on Facebook: "Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend. Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world. I will miss you."
His comments were "liked" by more than 200,000 people within hours.
In his own tweet, Barack Obama wrote: "There may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented."
Web users in China have reportedly posted almost 35 million online tributes.
Tim Cook, who was made Apple's CEO after Mr Jobs stood down in August, said his predecessor had left behind "a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple".
UK Prime Minister David Cameron said: "Steve Jobs transformed the way we work and play; a creative genius who will be sorely missed."
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg said that the US had "lost a genius who will be remembered with Edison and Einstein".
News Corp's Rupert Murdoch said: "Steve Jobs was simply the greatest CEO of his generation."
People also gathered outside Mr Jobs's home in California's Silicon Valley to lay floral wreaths, while flags were flown at half mast outside the Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California.
A statement from Mr Jobs's family said they were with him when he died peacefully on Wednesday.
"In his public life, Steve was known as a visionary; in his private life, he cherished his family," they said, requesting privacy and thanking those who had "shared their wishes and prayers" during his final year.
Mr Jobs built a reputation as a forthright and demanding leader who could take niche technologies - such as the mouse and graphical user interface, using onscreen icons rather than text - and make them popular with the general public.
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He introduced the colourful iMac computer, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad to the world. His death came just a day after Apple unveiled its latest iPhone 4S model.
With a market value estimated at $351bn (£227bn), Apple became the world's most valuable technology company.
More than almost any other business leader, Mr Jobs was indistinguishable from his company, which he co-founded in the 1970s.
As the face of Apple, he represented its dedication to high-end technology and fashionable design.
And inside the company he exerted a level of influence unheard of in most businesses.
Mr Jobs also provided major funding to set up Pixar Animation Studios.
In 2004, Mr Jobs announced that he was suffering from pancreatic cancer. He had a liver transplant five years later.
In January, he took medical leave, before resigning as CEO in August and handing over his duties to Mr Cook.
In his resignation letter, Mr Jobs said: "I believe Apple's brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role."
However, Mr Jobs stayed on as Apple's chairman.
Despite his high profile, he remained fiercely protective of his private life.
He married his wife Laurene in 1991, and the couple had three children.
Mr Jobs also leaves a daughter from a previous relationship, and as an adult he discovered that he had a biological sister, US novelist Mona Simpson.
Two hundred more people claimed jobseekers allowance in June according to a Labour Market Report from the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency.
While figures were up slightly in June, in the year as a whole unemployment has fallen by more than 10,000.
The total number of people claiming unemployment-related benefits in Northern Ireland stood at 44,000.
The other unemployment measure, the Labour Force Survey, rose to 6.2%.
This is above the UK average of 5.6%.
More people are leaving the labour market in the form of the economically inactive - groups like students, those who are sick or disabled.
That figure has also increased slightly to more than 27%, the highest rate in the UK.
The figures also suggest that the number of people employed in the public sector is beginning to fall.
Enterprise Minister Jonathan Bell said: "Although unemployment measures show an increase over the most recent period, the levels and rates remain below those recorded a year ago.
"The latest figures highlight the continued challenges faced by the Northern Ireland labour market and the impact of continued uncertainty in global markets.
"The Northern Ireland unemployment rate (6.2%) continues to compare very favourably to the April 2015 rates for the European Union (9.7%) and the Republic of Ireland (9.7%).
Mr Bell added: "Local businesses continue to attract significant investment both locally and internationally, due to the benefits of Northern Ireland as a cost-competitive location, with developed infrastructure and a highly-skilled workforce.
"Invest NI is instrumental in securing significant investment in the economy and I continue to encourage local companies to explore the range of tailored support programmes from Invest NI, in order to expand existing markets and improve competitiveness."
A breeding family was first spotted last year, although it is not known how they came to be there.
DNA results have shown the beavers are Eurasian rather than North American.
Devon Wildlife Trust said the confirmation moved them a step closer to releasing the animals, currently being kept in an artificial lodge.
Natural England has given the green light to a five-year trial to monitor and manage the impact of beavers on the river.
Earlier in March, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) confirmed the beavers were free of tapeworm.
The government initially decided that the animals represented a possible threat to health and the countryside and should be taken in to captivity.
But a licence for them to stay was granted in January, dependent on the adult beavers being found clear of the parasitic disease echinococcus multilocularis.
Beavers were hunted to extinction about 500 years ago for their highly valuable fur and oil, but have survived in captivity.
Firefighters and vehicles were targeted in incidents in south Wales, Salford, West Yorkshire and Essex, marring the 5 November celebrations.
Crews in Scotland also had missiles and fireworks thrown at them.
Dave Green, from the FBU, said the attacks were unacceptable and had a "debilitating" effect on staff morale.
In Oldham a teenage girl was seriously hurt after being hit by a firework.
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) crews had were attacked as they attended numerous call-outs.
One firefighter was hit by a stone in Bingham, Edinburgh, as his crew helped tackle a rubbish fire.
In south Wales two fire crews were attacked by youths as they dealt with separate incidents, following an incident of a crew being attacked with fireworks in Cardiff on Tuesday.
"We condemn entirely people attacking firefighters in the course of duty," Mr Green said.
"This just goes beyond the pale and I think 99.9% of people would agree with us. It is just not acceptable and we ask people to consider that these firefighters are doing a job and the last thing they expect is the very people they're trying to help attacking them."
Elsewhere, youths threw fireworks at firefighters in Salford, and cars were set alight, while a fire engine had its window smashed in West Yorkshire and fireworks were fired at police officers in Basildon, Essex.
"Aside from the physical issue and the fear for their safety, the effect on morale is quite debilitating," added Mr Green.
"You're trying to help these people and they are turning on you. We are a humanitarian service."
Mr Green said substantial cuts to personnel, with 10,000 fewer firefighters than in 2010, had reduced the ability to build relationships within communities, a tactic which had helped break down the image of an "authority" service.
"This is something we experienced 15-20 years ago when it happened a fair amount," he said. "We thought we had nipped it in the bud.
"Attacks from 2000 to 2010 went down by 50% but since then, anecdotally, they appear to be back on the increase.
"It cannot be a coincidence and it reflects the amount of work we do in the community."
Abdullahi Ahmed Jama Farah, 20, created a UK "hub of communication" for like-minded extremists, from his mother's Manchester home, the Old Bailey heard.
Following a trial he was found guilty of preparing for terrorist acts.
Jama Farah, of South Grove, Manchester helped Nur Hassan, 19, also of the city, get to Syria, the jury heard.
Farah is related to Zhara and Salma Halane, who at the age of 16 left their home in Chorlton in Manchester, in June 2014, and are believed to have married IS fighters.
Prosecutor Gareth Patterson told jurors it was clear Farah supported so-called IS from what was found on his computer and mobile phone.
As well as helping Nur Hassan travel to Syria, the court heard he had been in contact with friends abroad via messaging service Whatsapp and social media.
The jury convicted Farah, who is of Somali origin, for helping Hassan and for his communication with Khalil Raoufi who was killed in combat.
Farah was in contact with close friends Khalil Raoufi, Raphael Hostey, and Mohammed Javeed who headed from north west England to Syria on 6 October 2013, to join IS, the court heard.
Raoufi, who was also known as Abu Layth, was killed in February 2104 , Hostey or Al Qaqa, was shot in the foot.
Javeed, nicknamed Prinny, ended up in Iraq, where he blew himself up in a suicide attack.
The friends subsequently discussed "doing a prinny", the court heard.
Farah's cousin Ahmed Ibrahim Halane, from Manchester, went to Somalia in September 2013, where he is thought to have joined the terrorist group al-Shabaab.
Halane, brother of the "terror twins", is currently in Copenhagen, banned from returning to the UK.
During the trial, Farah denied any wrongdoing.
His defence claimed he was an over-excited teenager in contact with his friends and passing on phone numbers, concerned for their welfare.
Det Ch Supt Tony Mole, head of the North West Counter Terrorism Unit, said: "Although he may not have been there committing these acts himself, his actions helped facilitate what they [his friends] were doing and I hope his conviction will send a message to all those who are even considering offering a helping hand to terrorists."
Karl Holmes, 44, from Homelawn in Tallaght, was attacked and beaten during a row in Avonbeg Gardens on Thursday evening.
He was seriously injured and later died in hospital.
Police believe a group of people were standing outside houses when a row broke out at about 17:30 local time.
RTÉ reports that more people, including Mr Holmes, became involved and the row escalated and became violent.
Mr Holmes sustained several blows.
He was taken to Tallaght Hospital but died there about an hour later.
An incident room has been established at Tallaght Garda Station and house to house enquiries are ongoing.
A post-mortem examination is due to take place later at Tallaght Hospital.
Mr Holmes had criminal convictions for a number of offences, including breach of the peace and public order.
In 2009, he was sentenced to a year in prison for defrauding the revenue of more than €50,000 (£36,600) as part of a construction scam run by professional criminals.
He was also jailed for five years in 1994 for grievous bodily harm.
In an interview with the BBC, Nicola Shaw said that a partial or total sell-off "was absolutely on the table; it can't not be."
Ms Shaw was drafted in by the government after Network Rail's upgrade plans fell apart last summer.
Work to electrify key lines had been dogged by delays and mounting costs.
Ministers paused two of the projects, in the Midlands and across the Pennines, and replaced the chairman, while a number of reviews are carried out.
Ms Shaw, who is the boss of Britain's only high speed line, HS1, was asked to come up with a report before the Budget next spring.
She said there were a whole range of issues that had to be considered and she was keen to hear what people had to say.
She said she would also recommend changes to the regulator if necessary.
"I don't believe there is one perfect answer. I think there is something that we'll go forward with for the next period of evolution of the railway. I don't think there has to be a big row. The challenge for me is how to bring people together. To find a way forward that people will support."
The future of Network Rail - which controls 2,500 stations as well as tracks, tunnels and level crossings - has been up in the air ever since the embarrassing admission last June that, just one year into a five year upgrade plan, the company had lost control of timetables and budgets.
Problems came to a head when the company was re-classified as a public sector body in September last year.
Overnight, it meant it could no longer borrow extra money from private sources to fill the funding gap.
I've been told by those close to the situation that the impact of those changes took everyone by surprise.
It also meant the company's £37.7bn debt moved onto the government's books.
One source suggested that before the change "ministers might turn a blind eye" to the extra costs, as long as the job was done. This is no longer possible.
Insiders also talked of a failure to check if they had sufficient numbers of qualified engineers to carry out the necessary work.
And they underestimated how difficult it would be to upgrade and electrify the Great Western Line, which dates from Victorian times, while running a service on it.
Three reviews are under way.
Ms Shaw has a difficult job, navigating a wide range of views, including those of the unions and the new Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn who wants to see the railways back in public hands.
"I am talking to unions, and to representatives of staff and to other members of different parties so I hope we have strong engagement because I think it matters."
The party claimed a legal limit of £500m to be used only for an M4 relief road was too low and too restrictive.
Plaid leader Leanne Wood said schools, hospitals and transport links needed urgent investment.
The UK government said it was committed to supporting the Welsh economy and funding would rise by 2020-21.
The Welsh Government said it was asking the UK government to set the borrowing limit higher.
From April 2018, ministers in Cardiff Bay will have the power to borrow up to £500m of capital money to pay for infrastructure projects.
Under an agreement with the UK government, that money will be available earlier if it is spent on the planned M4 relief road around Newport.
Ms Wood - who opposes Labour's vision for the relief road - said there should be no restrictions on how the money is spent.
She argued the threat of an economic slow down after Brexit meant the powers should be "updated".
"The borrowing powers delivered to us in 2014 are out of date before they've even been used," she said.
"We're talking about powers for Wales agreed in principle almost four years ago.
"Events are moving ahead quickly and we need both the scale and scope of our borrowing powers to now be expanded and updated."
A Treasury spokesman said: "UK government capital funding for the Welsh Government will rise by over 17% in real terms by 2020-21 and we are also investing directly in Wales' infrastructure, including a £500m contribution to the Cardiff City Deal."
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "We are pressing the case with the UK government now for a higher borrowing limit as part of a new fiscal framework for Wales.
"We have long argued that borrowing powers are vital for our infrastructure investment and the fact that we secured early access to borrowing to take forward an M4 enhancement scheme before devolved taxes come into effect in April 2018 is hugely important and significant."
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said: "It's rather ironic that just at the moment Plaid Cymru are using Brexit to justify their latest calls for Welsh independence, they are simultaneously asking for the ability to borrow more money from the UK government."
Andrew Beadie, 20, had just been released on licence when he used the 25cm (10in) blade in an alleyway near the Bow Bells pub in November.
Beadie, from Basildon, was cleared of attempted murder but found guilty of assault and wounding with intent.
The Old Bailey heard Beadie thought the officer was a crack addict who was out to get him.
The court was told the stabbing on 22 November happened moments after Beadie beat up another man because he bumped in to him.
Beadie, of Claremont Road, already had a number of convictions, including battery and possession of a knife.
During the trial Det Ch Insp Gary Holmes told the jury it was a "cowardly, unprovoked and sickening knife attack on a police officer" and it was "just sheer luck" the injuries were not life-threatening.
The vessel's exquisite craftsmanship is not the only parallel with the distinguished instrument. Every inch of the 65ft (20m) vintage schooner is a testament to the meticulous maintenance and expertise needed to keep her pristine and functioning.
Her colourful past includes devastation by both hurricane and fire before being bought by Mr Rainier in 2004 and painstakingly restored to her former glory.
This April, along with dozens of other venerable vessels, Mary Rose will once again compete at Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta, now in its 30th edition.
For Mr Rainier, who visits each year from Vienna, it is a chance to share his passion with enthusiasts from across the globe.
Sailing a classic boat requires the precision of a symphony orchestra, each crew member playing a vital role, he tells the BBC.
"With a modern yacht, you can force your will upon nature and it won't break. There's not a chance of doing that with a classic, it will fall apart. It's a love affair; she needs TLC [tender loving care] or she will rebuke you - and, unlike people, boats are not forgiving."
"To care for them, you have to use the same techniques used when they were built."
Preserving the 1926 vessel is a full-time job. "It takes the equivalent of one person working eight hours a day, nine months a year," Mr Rainier continues.
That involves thoroughly sanding and varnishing the wood biannually to protect it and prevent cracking.
Up to two months a year are spent keeping rust at bay on everything from the engine, generator and frames to the thousands of bolts holding the planks in place.
On top of that, housekeeping of the interior consumes an hour each day.
Inside, Mary Rose, the last schooner designed and built by the acclaimed Nathaniel Herreshoff, is largely unchanged from her heyday.
What she lacks in space she makes up for in warmth thanks to her mahogany panels and leather decor, Mr Rainier says. The only nod to modernity is a fridge. Even the kettle is 80 years old.
Safety, and insurance policies, necessitate GPS and an electronic chartplotter for navigation.
"But, like in old times, we still have charts on the table and every 30 minutes we mark we are," he adds.
Long-term Antiguan resident Carlo Falcone is an Olympian sailor who has traversed oceans in his beloved 1936 79ft ketch Mariella.
But, although she is fitted with GPS, he still has an old-fashioned sextant too which determines a boat's position by measuring angles between celestial objects and the horizon.
"I did not have GPS when I first sailed to Antigua," Mr Falcone, originally from Italy, says. "Before, you were travelling with the stars - GPS took some of the magic away.
"It's a special feeling being in an old boat with a wooden mast in the middle of the Atlantic, far away from everyone," he continues, "and you have to be able to fix everything yourself. The engines, sails and generator all need maintenance, as with modern boats, but it's actually simpler because there's no electronics.
"You can repair them easier too; you don't need an engineer like most motor yachts."
Mariella's decks are cleansed with salt water each night to tighten and protect the teak. Her underwater hull is treated annually with antifouling paint to prevent barnacles and she is re-varnished every few weeks.
The authentic interior boasts original portholes and panelling. Even the toilets still have their original brass hand pumps. Both the stove and dining table are self-stabilising to stay horizontal in stormy weather.
"The accommodation is much smaller and narrower than a modern yacht," Mr Falcone says, "but it has a warmer, more harmonious feeling.
"We call this the 'dog house'," he continues, pointing to a tiny berth at the top of the stairs. "Actually everyone loves to sleep here because you get such a great view through the windows."
Contemporary vessels lack the "depth" of a classic, he believes.
"Like a special dish, a classic has taste. You are a part of history; unlike a modern boat, a classic is one of a kind, it's unique."
Mr Rainier agrees.
"When you buy a new boat, after two years it's old. An old-timer is an antique; it always feels like a new boat," he says.
"Elegance is what sets them apart. When these old ships were built, they knew what elegance was - and true elegance never fades."
They were held to a 2-2 draw by Group B winners Senegal in a match they had to win to have any chance of avoiding an embarrassing early exit.
Islam Slimani scored both their goals, a two-yard volley and a scuffed effort that wrong-footed Algeria's goalkeeper.
But Senegal twice equalised, Papakouly Diop and then Moussa Sow both firing in efforts from the edge of the area.
Algeria went into the tournament as one of the favourites for the trophy but leave with their reputation damaged by three underwhelming performances.
After being held to a shock draw by Zimbabwe in their opener and then beaten by neighbours Tunisia, who booked their quarter-finals with a 4-2 win over Zimbabwe on Monday, Algeria have had a tournament to forget.
Their misery was compounded at the last by the fact they were held by Senegal's second-string side, which featured 10 changes from their last game.
Senegal coach Aliou Cisse had taken the opportunity to rest his first-choice players given the Teranga Lions had already won the group ahead of their final fixture.
And Cisse will be pleased by the resilience of his reserves who fought back to hold their own against a full-strength Algeria and ensure Senegal ended the group stage unbeaten.
Algeria might have signed off with a win but Slimani missed a chance to grab his hat-trick and a modicum of consolation when he shot wide when clean though.
Senegal will play Cameroon in the quarter-finals on Saturday.
Match ends, Senegal 2, Algeria 2.
Second Half ends, Senegal 2, Algeria 2.
Corner, Algeria. Conceded by Saliou Ciss.
Yacine Brahimi (Algeria) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Idrissa Gueye (Senegal).
Substitution, Senegal. Keita replaces Moussa Konate.
Foul by Faouzi Ghoulam (Algeria).
Famara Diedhiou (Senegal) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Adlène Guédioura (Algeria) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Khadim N'Diaye (Senegal) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Riyad Mahrez (Algeria) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Rachid Ghezzal.
Foul by Aissa Mandi (Algeria).
Famara Diedhiou (Senegal) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Algeria. Conceded by Zargo Toure.
Attempt saved. Mohamed Diamé (Senegal) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Moussa Sow (Senegal) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mohamed Diamé.
Substitution, Algeria. Rachid Ghezzal replaces Sofiane Hanni.
Corner, Algeria. Conceded by Idrissa Gueye.
Offside, Algeria. Liassine Cadamuro tries a through ball, but Faouzi Ghoulam is caught offside.
Offside, Senegal. Khadim N'Diaye tries a through ball, but Famara Diedhiou is caught offside.
Substitution, Algeria. Baghdad Boundjah replaces Islam Slimani.
Substitution, Senegal. Idrissa Gueye replaces Papa Alioune Ndiaye.
Foul by Faouzi Ghoulam (Algeria).
Famara Diedhiou (Senegal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Islam Slimani (Algeria) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sofiane Hanni.
Offside, Senegal. Papa Alioune Ndiaye tries a through ball, but Moussa Konate is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Sofiane Hanni (Algeria) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Adlène Guédioura.
Famara Diedhiou (Senegal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Aissa Mandi (Algeria) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Famara Diedhiou (Senegal).
Riyad Mahrez (Algeria) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Saliou Ciss (Senegal).
Corner, Senegal. Conceded by Aissa Mandi.
Foul by Yacine Brahimi (Algeria).
Saliou Ciss (Senegal) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Senegal. Famara Diedhiou replaces Kara.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Khadim N'Diaye (Senegal) because of an injury.
Foul by Islam Slimani (Algeria).
Twitter's Amplify product will insert advertising into relevant videos based on categories chosen by the advertiser.
It bears similarities to the model used by YouTube, which offers payment to YouTubers for featuring short ads before their own content.
Twitter has not yet revealed what cut of advertising revenue it will take.
Pre-roll ads are currently only available to US advertisers and video publishers, though Twitter has said it plans to roll out the feature globally over time.
The BBC understands that the company will take a 30% cut of revenue, with the rest going to publishers who agree to have ads played before their content.
Many of the ads are likely to be repurposed from television, according to IHS analyst Eleni Marouli.
"It's a way to compete with TV ad budgets, which are the biggest in the industry," she said.
"Every online platform is trying to grab a piece of those ad budgets."
Ms Marouli added that part of the reason for increased interest in video advertising was that people who want to watch videos might turn off ad-blocker programmes which remove advertising from web pages.
Otherwise, there would be no way of watching the desired video.
This is unlike ad-blockers for banner ads and pop-ups, which simply appear beside or next to online content.
"If a user wants to watch a video they will turn off the ad-blocker," she said.
However, Ms Marouli also commented that Twitter might have a hard time getting users to feel comfortable with pre-roll ads on the platform compared with YouTube.
"With Twitter it's a little bit more challenging because they have this more immediate, 140 character scroll-through product," she said.
More than 100 staff at Vibixa in Cheltenham were told last month they will lose their jobs when the Kingsditch Lane site closes early next year.
The company, which is owned by Weetabix, said it had offered an increased redundancy package.
A spokesman for the Unite union said the new offer was "not good enough".
Mike Meredith, who has worked at the factory for 12 years, said he was disappointed with the way Weetabix had handled things.
"We never seem to get any reasons why it's happened. We're a company that has made a profit and we feel we've been treated wrongly."
He said the protest was to "get a fair offer" for workers, some of whom have have served the company "for over 30 or 40 years".
Andy Hewlett, from Unite, said the redundancy package was "not good enough".
"These people have been making a million pounds profit each year. Weetabix think they can make more more by sending the work somewhere else.
"They've offered these people just over statutory redundancy for that. We don't think that's fair at all."
"I'd like to see them come back and give these people a fair offer. We've put proposals in that would give an enhanced package to older workers and workers who've worked here for a very long time."
A spokesman for Weetabix confirmed a "phased closure" of the business would begin in early 2015.
"An enhanced redundancy package has been offered and we will be supporting employees to find new roles with out-placement support and a number of local companies have already been in touch to make us aware of vacancies.
"Throughout this period we will be providing support to employees in the search for alternative employment."
The spokesman added it had been a difficult decision "and we appreciate it affects all of our people and their families".
The fight erupted at Elland Road's Centenary Pavilion, on Saturday night, causing the event to be called off.
Footage of the brawl shows chairs being hurled across the venue and a woman being knocked to the floor.
West Yorkshire Police said it was investigating the "large-scale disorder". No arrests have been made.
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A force spokesman said officers were called at 22:27 GMT.
"Around 40 people were involved in the disorder at an organised boxing event at the stadium," he said.
"Officers attended and the crowd dispersed. Three people suffered minor injuries and were taken to hospital."
Writing on Facebook, event organisers Golden Gloves Boxing League said: "I'm so sorry to announce the Main Event has been called off, due to crowd trouble."
Promoter Danny Morgan later said he had 22 security staff on duty and the event had been "absolutely brilliant until that trouble broke out".
He added: "It takes months to put something like this together; people have no idea how much time, effort and money it takes to set this up."
A spokesperson for Leeds United FC said the club was "disgusted by the violent scenes" and was working with police to identify those involved.
The Moelfre crew was called to Porth Wen, near Bull Bay, just after 17:30 GMT on Saturday by the owners of the bichon frise called Flossy.
Coastguard teams had located the dog in an isolated gulley at the bottom of the cliffs and a lifeboat was deemed the safest option for rescue.
The crew said Flossy appeared "visibly shaken but miraculously uninjured".
They used a blanket and hold-all to secure the dog and carried her back to the inshore lifeboat.
Flossy was then reunited with her owners, who had been out walking with the dog when she disappeared at the top of the cliffs.
The couple said they had been having a "peaceful mobile phone-free" walk, which meant they had a 20-minute run to the nearest farm house to raise the alarm when they realised Flossy was in trouble.
Vince Jones, station mechanic and helm at Moelfre, said: "Flossy was extremely lucky to have come away unscathed from the fall, although she wasn't too keen on our crews in their bright yellow dry-suits."
The bandstand in the town's Memorial Gardens took three years to complete and cost £50,000.
Funds for it were raised by Withernwick Wind Farm Community Fund and East Riding of Yorkshire Council, along with money from the Lions' shop.
Beverley Brass Band and violinist Kate Chruscicka will perform for the bandstand's inaugural concert.
Other concerts will take place throughout summer, paid for by a grant from the Big Lottery Fund.
Lions Clubs International is a non-political community organisation with clubs and members all over the world.
World champion Van Gerwen, 27, had set a new record of 44 televised games without defeat by beating James Wade.
That win and Peter Wright's loss to Phil Taylor left Van Gerwen one point clear at the top of the table.
But Van Gerwen then lost 7-5 to fellow Dutchman Van Barneveld, who missed double 12 for a nine-dart finish.
It was Van Gerwen's first defeat on television since losing to Taylor in the final of the Champions League of Darts in September and his new record passed the mark set by Taylor between November 2004 and July 2005.
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The defending Premier League champion was in action twice in Manchester, having missed round five in Exeter with a back injury.
Elsewhere, Belgium's Kim Huybrechts and Jelle Klaasen of the Netherlands were eliminated from the competition following defeats by Gary Anderson and Adrian Lewis respectively.
The pair will appear for the final time in Cardiff on 30 March, before the field is reduced to eight players.
Michael van Gerwen (Ned) 7-4 James Wade (Eng)
Kim Huybrechts (Bel) 2-7 Gary Anderson (Sco)
Peter Wright (Sco) 5-7 Phil Taylor (Eng)
Jelle Klaasen (Ned) 5-7 Adrian Lewis (Eng)
Raymond van Barneveld (Ned) 7-5 Michael van Gerwen (Ned)
The Daily Mirror reported that the star used the n-word in a nursery rhyme, although the paper claims it was later edited out of the BBC broadcast.
Clarkson responded to the claim in a video on Twitter saying he loathed the word.
In it he said he was "horrified" that it sounded as though he'd used it.
The presenter added he was "begging forgiveness" that it appeared that way.
He said in two takes he mumbled where it was supposed to appear in the rhyme. In a third take he used the word "teacher" instead.
Earlier he'd tweeted: "I did not use the n word. Never use it. The Mirror has gone way too far this time."
The newspaper said the footage was studied by audio forensic experts who told them the star could be heard chanting "Eeny, meeny, miny moe".
The experts claim that he then mumbled the rest of the racist rhyme while comparing two cars.
In a statement the BBC said: "Jeremy Clarkson has set out the background to this regrettable episode.
"We have made it absolutely clear to him, the standards the BBC expects on air and off. We have left him in no doubt about how seriously we view this."
His Top Gear co-host, James May, came to his defence on Twitter saying: "Jeremy Clarkson is not a racist."
"I wouldn't work with one. #ThatIsAll."
The story comes days after the show's producer apologised for broadcasting a "light-hearted" joke by Clarkson that led to the BBC show being accused of racism.
An episode of the show, filmed in Burma and Thailand and shown in March, featured a scene in which the presenters built a bridge over the River Kwai, and as an Asian man walked over it Clarkson said: "That is a proud moment, but there's a slope on it."
Somi Guha, an actress who complained to the BBC, said the use of the phrase was an example of "casual racism" and "gross misconduct".
The BBC Two show's executive producer, Andy Wilman, said: "When we used the word slope in the recent Top Gear Burma Special it was a light-hearted word play joke referencing both the build quality of the bridge and the local Asian man who was crossing it.
"It has subsequently been brought to our attention, that the word slope is considered by some to be offensive, for example in Australia and the USA.
"If we had known that at the time we would not have broadcast the word in this context and regret any offence caused."
Clarkson is well known for courting controversy. In recent years he has been cleared of breaching the broadcasting code by media watchdog Ofcom after comparing a Japanese car to people with growths on their faces.
He previously faced protests from mental health charities after calling people who throw themselves under trains "selfish".
He was forced to apologise for telling BBC One's The One Show that striking workers should be shot.
The motoring show has also faced complaints from Indian and Mexican politicians over remarks made about their countries while filming on location.
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Edinburgh Airport said it handled 770,265 passengers last month - with international traffic up by 30.4% on a year ago.
Glasgow Airport saw 582,879 passengers travel through its doors, representing an annual increase of 14.1%.
However, both Aberdeen and Glasgow Prestwick airports reported falls in traffic.
Edinburgh Airport chief executive Gordon Dewar said: "February's passenger numbers have broken another monthly record and act as further indication of just how big Edinburgh Airport's global ambitions are.
"Edinburgh Airport and our partner airlines are continuing to offer greater choice with more routes and more destinations - and passengers are responding by flying in and out of Edinburgh directly in greater numbers than ever before.
"People ask me how much more Edinburgh Airport can grow in a country with little over five million people; it is not the five million I am worried about - but how the other seven billion across the globe get to visit us."
Glasgow Airport, which this year is marking its golden anniversary, said its figures for February had been boosted by strong demand on European routes to Berlin, Reykjavik and Milan.
Aer Lingus also added capacity on its Dublin service, and Eurowings reported particularly strong demand on its Dusseldorf route.
Domestic traffic increased by 14.8%, with Flybe's services to Exeter and Cardiff performing strongly. British Airways, easyJet and Ryanair also reported strong demand for their London services.
Glasgow Airport managing director Amanda McMillan said: "This year marks a huge milestone for the airport as we celebrate our golden anniversary year.
"What makes that even more exciting is the fact that we are continuing to see our passenger numbers grow at record rates, following our success in 2015 securing more than 30 new routes and services.
"We are continuing to make improvements in our airport to accommodate this growth and will be investing significantly this year in a comprehensive airside terminal redevelopment which will include new catering and retail outlets."
Meanwhile, nearly 220,000 passengers travelled through Aberdeen International Airport during February - a fall of 13.3% compared to the same period last year.
Domestic traffic was down 16.3% to 126,849 passengers, which the airport said was due in part to the withdrawal in September of Little Red's Heathrow service.
International traffic dipped by 1.8% to 59,332 passengers.
Carol Benzie, managing director of Aberdeen International Airport, said: "It is no surprise that our passenger numbers are continuing to be affected by the performance of the wider economy.
"Despite this, we had cause for celebration when we welcomed Icelandair's inaugural Reykjavik service earlier this week, which is one of a number of new routes we will launch during 2016."
Glasgow Prestwick Airport said passenger numbers fell year-on-year by 5% last month, to 18,314 but added that the total was "in excess" of what had been forecast.
A spokeswoman added: "With additional flights confirmed for summer and winter 2016 schedules, we expect to see increased passenger numbers over the course of this year."
The Court of Appeal ruled Angela Waring, of Crickhowell, Powys, was jointly responsible for the nuisance caused to neighbours by terrier Scally.
The dog lived with Ms Waring's daughter Kim Eacott in Hereford, but her mother owned the cottage.
She challenged her liability after both women were hit with a £31,000 bill for legal costs.
Miss Eacott was also ordered to pay £3,500 in damages and her mother £1,000.
That bill was increased on Wednesday, potentially by thousands of pounds, after Mrs Waring lost her appeal against a county court ruling on liability.
Complaints about Scally were made by Bryn and Diane Cocking, who lived in the cottage adjoining Mrs Waring's property.
They said the excessive barking began in 2004 and they kept a detailed log from 2008.
A judge at Worcester County Court previously found Mrs Waring became aware of the complaints from 2009 and had written a letter defending her daughter.
Scally had "separation anxiety" and would bark constantly.
Mrs Waring wrote to her daughter saying: "If Scally barks when you are not there, there is a dog whisperer in Abergavenny who can cure him in a gentle way."
She argued she should be legally regarded as her daughter's landlord and therefore could not be held responsible for the nuisance.
But three appeal judges ruled she was liable because she was "in control of the property, notwithstanding that she did not live there".
Mrs Waring paid all the bills and maintained the property, even though the pair had fallen out and were estranged. Ms Eacott moved out of the cottage in 2014.
It is the second time he has been attacked with zelyonka ("brilliant green" in English) this year.
The dye is a common antiseptic in Russia and has been used in protests there and in Ukraine.
"It looks funny but it hurts like hell," Mr Navalny tweeted.
It is not clear who carried out the attack, which happened near the offices of the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK) that he founded.
According to one report (in Russian) he was diagnosed with a chemical burn to the eye.
Mr Navalny is one of the foremost Russian critics of President Vladimir Putin and has announced his intention to run for president himself.
But his intentions may be thwarted - he has been convicted of embezzlement, which would bar him from running for office, although he denies it.
A mild antiseptic known as "brilliant green" has recently become a weapon of choice against government critics in Russia.
Mr Navalny has been doused with it twice this year. One of Russia's most popular bloggers, Ilya Varlamov, had it thrown at him twice on the same day on 26 April. And pro-Western politician Mikhail Kasyanov had it splashed in his face at a rally commemorating murdered opposition activist Boris Nemtsov.
So why brilliant green? It stains the skin and is hard to wash off, which can be a problem if you want to take the media spotlight. Also, it doesn't do any lasting damage, which means attackers will not be facing charges of grave bodily harm.
But the attackers don't always have the last laugh. When Mr Navalny was last doused he turned his green face into an internet meme and was imitated by his supporters.
Mr Navalny was among 500 people arrested after organising an anti-corruption rally last month. Rallies across the country were the biggest opposition demonstrations in Russia in several years.
He has said repeatedly that he wants to challenge Vladimir Putin's control of the Kremlin and expose what he claims is the "myth" that Mr Putin commands more than 80% popular support.
Meanwhile a separate opposition group, Open Russia, says its office has been raided by police, a day after the group was blacklisted by the authorities.
Activists said more than 20 riot police raided the office and removed computer equipment and 100,000 flyers for an unsanctioned rally planned for this weekend.
Open Russia was founded by former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who lives in exile after spending 10 years in a Siberian prison on fraud charges, which he says were politically motivated.
Chris May, 28, was last seen at his home in Kelvedon, Essex, on 25 May 2015.
His Volkswagen Golf was found abandoned about 10 miles away in the village of Fairstead.
Essex Police has now confirmed the case is no longer being treated as a missing person inquiry but as an unsolved homicide case.
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The fact the case had been reclassified from a missing person case to an "unsolved homicide" case only emerged after the BBC found the case listed in a Freedom of Information request response from a member of the public.
It shows the case was being treated as a homicide as far back as February - though police made no announcement of that fact.
The reclassification from missing person to murder investigation was withheld from the public as part of the investigation, the force said.
Det Ch Insp Marina Ericson said Mr May was a drug user and dealt in ecstasy, cocaine and mephedrone.
"There is a strong likelihood that Chris' involvement with drugs is linked to his death," she said.
"There are a number of questions I still need to answer and I am appealing for the public's help to get that information."
Essex Police said four letters from anonymous authors have been sent claiming to have information about what happened to Mr May.
The first two letters received by the force have been established as hoaxes, the force said, although it believes the sender may hold vital information about the case. The first one had claimed Mr May was dead.
Second hoax letter sent to police
Whoever sent that last letter it a hoax
Chris is OK he is staying with me he is sorry for all he has put people through a specially his family and friends and the police we never thought it would get this much attention.
He had to go missing as there is a heavy drug firm after him as he owes them money how can you tell your family and friends that he is going to stay with me until he thinks it can be sorted
He will contact his family soon when he thinks it's safe he sead [sic] he loves them all but is not in good mind state who can help he sead [sic] he loves them all
Contact will be made again soon
Love you all xxx
Det Ch Insp Ericson said: "I am appealing for the person who wrote either of these letters, or anyone with knowledge as to who wrote them, to contact me or my team.
"We continue to investigate these two letters as it is my belief that the author or authors have knowledge of Chris' death."
The Conservative MP for Cleethorpes, Martin Vickers, was speaking ahead of the 10-year anniversary of the Soham murders.
However, Mr Vickers said he did not support the return of the death penalty.
Speaking to BBC Look North, Martin Vickers said: "I do believe that people like Huntley should be in jail for life and it should be a spartan regime while they are there.
"In regards to the death penalty, my fear is that if we have juries that are making decisions over life and death it will make them more reluctant to convict and there will be more dangerous murderers on the streets than there are now."
Ian Huntley is serving a life sentence for the 2002 murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, who were both 10 years old.
In 2005, a High Court judge ordered that Huntley must serve at least 40 years in prison.
Although there is little chance of capital punishment being restored in the UK - it is currently illegal under EU law - a number of MPs still support the death penalty.
Conservative MP Philip Davies recently travelled to Florida, where 73 people have been executed since the death penalty was reintroduced in the US state in 1979.
Lethal injection is now the main method of execution in the 'Sunshine State'.
Speaking to BBC Sunday Politics on his visit to the USA, Mr Davies said: "I am confident this is the right system of justice.
"When the backlash does come, it is not inconceivable that the UK does decide to bring back the death penalty."
Recent online petitions have called for the return of the death penalty, but there are currently no plans to debate the subject in Parliament.
MPs voted to suspend capital punishment in 1965 and it was abolished altogether for most crimes in 1969.
Various attempts to restore the death penalty in subsequent years have been defeated in the House of Commons.
The University of Aberdeen team said conceptions within six months were less likely to result in another miscarriage or preterm birth.
Previous advice had urged women to wait at least six months before trying to conceive following a miscarriage.
However, the team behind the study said the latest results were categorical.
It follows similar results after a study of women from across Scotland in 2010. The fresh review has been published in Human Reproduction Update.
Dr Sohinee Bhattacharya, a senior lecturer in obstetrics at Aberdeen University, told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: "We found that the best outcomes of pregnancy were actually obtained if women got pregnant within six months of having a miscarriage.
"The advice that comes out through this evidence base is that couples should not delay pregnancy because they think it might improve their chances of having another successful pregnancy, but should actually try and conceive as soon as they feel mentally and physically ready."
She added: "It is not clear why this is the case. One explanation might be that if somebody has had a miscarriage they might take particularly good care of themselves, be more motivated and may even be more fertile - but that is just speculation at this point."
Dr Bhattacharya said there was now enough evidence to change World Health Organisation guidelines that state couples should wait.
Janine Elson, spokesperson for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), said: "Unfortunately, miscarriages are very common with one in five women experiencing a miscarriage in the first three months of pregnancy.
"A miscarriage affects every woman differently and it can be devastating for her partner as well.
"We welcome this robust review by the University of Aberdeen which confirms previous findings that conceiving less than six months following a miscarriage is not associated with a risk of repeat miscarriage and has no impact on the risk of stillbirth, pre-eclampsia or low birth weight babies.
"This study provides couples with reassurance that trying to conceive soon after a miscarriage is safe, however, it is important that they both feel physically and emotionally ready before trying to conceive again.
"Counselling should be offered to help manage the psychological stress miscarriage can cause. Women must ensure that any pain and bleeding has stopped and they are taking folic acid before resuming sexual activity."
Ruth Bender Atik, national director of the Miscarriage Association, said: "This review is very important.
"It encourages couples who want to try to conceive soon after miscarriage, and also reassures those who worry that they may have miscarried because they conceived too soon after a previous loss.
"Above all, it confirms that couples can choose to try again whenever they feel ready to do so."
The pop star wrote on Instagram her gig on Friday at the city's Allianz Stadium "would not be going ahead as planned... due to the tragic events".
The Nice Jazz Festival, due to start on Saturday, has also been cancelled.
Many figures from the entertainment world have expressed shock at the news, with Simon Cowell among those sending "thoughts and prayers to all affected".
Rihanna, currently in Europe with her Anti tour, was in Nice at the time of the attack but was said to be "safe" by her representative.
The makers of the sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey - which had been filming on location in the south of France - also said everyone working on the film had been accounted for and was "safe and sound".
Producer Dana Brunetti circulated the statement on Facebook, saying it was "another sad day for France and the world".
Boy George tweeted his "heart breaks for France", while Cyndi Lauper said she was "so sad for the people of Nice".
Comedian Amy Schumer, actress Mia Farrow and TV personality Kim Kardashian West are among others to express their sympathies.
At least 84 people were killed when a lorry ploughed through a crowd during Bastille Day celebrations in Nice on Thursday evening.
The driver drove 2km down the city's Promenade des Anglais at about 23:00 local time, before being shot dead by police.
Youssou N'Dour, Melody Gardot and Britain's Laura Mvula were among those who had been scheduled to appear at Nice's Jazz Festival.
The event was to have run from Saturday to Wednesday but has now been cancelled, as have some of the city's other Bastille celebrations this weekend.
Festival organisers told the BBC all tickets would be refunded and thanked ticket holders "for their understanding".
US singer George Clinton, who had been due to perform at the festival on Sunday, sent his "sincere condolences and prayers to the families of the victims".
London-based rapper Tiggs Da Author, who was also scheduled to appear on Sunday, is another performer to have sent "thoughts and prayers" via Twitter.
Thursday's events have cast doubt on whether Bastille Day, an action thriller starring Britain's Idris Elba, will continue to be shown in French cinemas.
A spokesperson for distributor StudioCanal told the BBC it would let cinemas decide whether to show the film and would support them if they chose to withdraw it.
The UK release of the film - which features a bomb blast in central Paris - was put back two months to 22 April following the terror attacks that took place in the city in November last year.
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Princes Gate, which produces and bottles organic spring water in Narberth, is investing £5.5m in the hope of expanding its operation.
It aims to create 25 new jobs over the next three years - bringing the total number it employs to 50.
The investment is supported by £250,000 business finance from the Welsh government.
The company will also introduce a new bottling line, capable of producing 37,000 bottles an hour.
Tries from Tim Visser and Charlie Walker helped the home side into a 17-0 lead by half-time.
Saracens clawed themselves back with a Richard Wigglesworth try immediately after the break before a Ben Spencer penalty further reduced the deficit.
Harlequins had lock James Horwill sin-binned late on but held on to ensure a memorable win on home turf.
Harlequins had won just one of their opening three matches while Saracens had a 100% record, but it was the hosts that flew out of the blocks.
Tim Sweil landed an early penalty before Scotland international Visser read Alex Lozowski's floated pass to add a converted interception try.
The home side's dominance continued as Walker finished a simple overlap out wide to extend their lead to 17-0.
For 40 minutes, Saracens looked uncharacteristically flustered, making key handling errors and unable to trouble the scoreboard.
Last year's Premiership and European Champions Cup winners hit back early in the second half, with winger Mike Ellery the instigator.
The former England sevens winger set up scrum-half Wigglesworth with a well-weighted chip and Lozowski added the conversion, but the fly-half missed two further penalties for the north Londoners.
Despite Horwill's yellow card for offside and another Saracens penalty, this time from the boot of Spencer, Harlequins kept their heads for a second win of the season.
Harlequins director of rugby John Kingston told BBC Radio London:
"The whole performance, both when we had the ball and when they had the ball, was tremendous.
"You know the level at which you've got to play to down the European champions.
"What we've got to do is try to follow that through and realise that those are the levels we've got to be at if we want to be at the top table.
"The whole all-round performance was exceptional. Twenty-two players got on and it was a 22-man effort on the field and many more off-field as well. I was really pleased with it."
Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall told BBC Radio London:
"It's disappointing to lose, it always is. It's our first set-back in a while and over the last couple of years, we've always responded well to these types of situations.
"I'm hoping we can do the same again this week.
"Harlequins are a good side, who have a lot of good players and you need to be on it wherever you go. When you're 17-0 behind, it's a bit of a mountain to climb.
"But, we gave ourselves a chance in the second half, which is encouraging."
Harlequins: Brown; Walker, Hopper, Roberts, Visser; Swiel, Care (capt); Marler, Buchanan, Collier, Merrick, Horwill, Robshaw, Wallace, Chisholm.
Replacements: Gray, Lambert, Sinckler, Twomey, Ward, Dickson, Jackson, Alofa.
Saracens: Goode; Ellery, Bosch, Barritt (capt), Wyles; Lozowski, Wigglesworth; M. Vunipola, Brits, Du Plessis, Itoje, Hamilton, Rhodes, Wray, B. Vunipola.
Replacements: George, Barrington, Figallo, Brown, Spurling, Spencer, Tompkins, Gallagher.
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Paul Briggs, 43, of Merseyside, suffered a brain injury in a crash in July 2015.
Lindsey Briggs told Manchester Court of Protection he would not have wanted to live and would have been "horrified knowing his daughter was scared of him".
Doctors are opposing the application.
Mr Briggs, a Gulf War veteran, suffered a bleed on the brain, five fractures in his spine, bruising to internal organs and several other severe injuries in the collision and is being kept alive through medical intervention.
His wife and mother to his daughter Ella, five, said he did not recognise her or respond to her when she went to see him.
The court heard medical experts predicted even in a best case scenario, PC Briggs would remain severely physically disabled and could live nine or 10 years.
Mrs Briggs said he valued his independence and having this taken away would be "torture" for him.
She said: "I think he would see it as torture, just as hell, that everything he believes in and he lives for would just be taken away from him.
"He would be living for no reason."
Mrs Briggs told the court her husband had been active, sociable and a "hands on father" before the crash.
When asked what her husband might think of his situation now, she said he would be horrified and "horrified for his daughter, that she's scared of him".
PC Briggs's mother, Jan, said she agreed with her daughter-in-law, adding it was "very, very difficult" to see him as he is now.
She told the court: "I just don't want him to suffer any more."
Conrad Hallin, representing Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust and Wirral Clinical Commissioning Group, said doctors had noticed some signs of improvement in his condition.
Chelsea Rowe, 26, was given a 12-month prison term in July after admitting causing serious injury to PC Briggs by dangerous driving in Birkenhead.
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The hearings have focussed on the death of Arthur Horrocks, 41.
Nicola Stewart recalled hearing Mr Horrocks give her encouragement before he lost consciousness himself.
His nephew also described trying to rouse him after seeing that his eyes were closed as if he had gone to sleep standing up.
The inquests are investigating the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans who were fatally crushed at the FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest on 15 April 1989.
Mr Horrocks travelled from his home in Wirral with his brother Malcolm Horrocks, two nephews David and Keith Golding, and Keith's girlfriend Nicola Stewart.
The court heard how they went through the turnstiles at Hillsborough at about 14:45 BST then went into pen three on the Leppings Lane terraces.
In Ms Stewart's 1989 statement, she said that the "pressure just continued" to build among the crowd and "then there was one almighty surge".
She continued: "I couldn't move at all. My arms were pinned to my side.
"My feet were pinned to one position on the ground.
"I was screaming and all around me people were screaming as well because the pressure around was so unbearable.
"I was gasping for air, but there was nothing there. I wasn't able to expand my lungs because of the pressure we were all suffering from.... I could feel myself passing out."
Ms Stewart added: "Arthur Horrocks was just behind me. The last thing I remember him saying to me was 'keep your head up, keep breathing' and then he said to Keith 'I can't breathe'. I know I almost went."
David Golding, who gave evidence in court, said that Mr Horrocks was in front of him "within touching distance".
In his 1989 statement David remarked that "as the players came on to the pitch there was a big cheer" and as he looked to his left "I saw that Arthur's eyes were closed and his arms were down by his side".
He told the court: "I tried slapping his face, telling him to wake up. Keith was in a distressed state at this time, and Nicola.
"I said to them 'try and keep your arms up from your sides' so you had a bit of leverage if you needed to push anybody off you.
"But Arthur was just still and his eyes were as though he had just gone to sleep on his feet."
Mr Golding said that slapping his uncle and talking to him had no effect.
He said that shortly after he fell to the floor in the pen and his legs were trapped under bodies and Arthur also fell down.
Mr Golding added: "I didn't see him fall. I just saw him lying on this - what appeared to be bodies."
Former police constable Douglas Earls told the court he went into pen three and gave "six quick breaths and six chest compressions" to casualties he found inside, including Arthur.
Mr Earls said: "By this time I had organised other fans to pass people over the spiked fence to the other side to get him out of the pen."
In his 1989 statement Mr Earls said that Arthur was not breathing and did not have a pulse.
The jury saw video footage of Arthur being carried out of the pen and onto the pitch timed at about 15:25 BST, 19 minutes after police had stopped the match.
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Mr Earls said that after they had left the pen Mr Golding recognised his uncle and said "That's Arthur, it's Arthur, make him breathe".
The retired officer said he assisted an ambulance crew to give Arthur CPR and accompanied him to Sheffield's Northern General Hospital.
The ambulance carrying Arthur was seen on CCTV footage leaving the stadium at 15:48 BST.
He continued to receive chest compressions and resuscitation, but a doctor at Sheffield's Northern General Hospital said that he had died.
His body was initially taken to a temporary mortuary set up in the hospital's plaster room.
It was then sent back to the stadium's gymnasium where Malcolm Horrocks, Arthur's brother, identified his body.
The inquests, sitting in Warrington, Cheshire, continue.
Kelly Ackrill and Ashleigh Davidson, 28, from Ivybridge in Devon, had due dates two weeks apart in January.
But as soon as Kelly went into labour, so did Ashleigh and their babies River and Louella followed soon after.
Ms Ackrill said: "We are really close, we spend a lot of time with each other - but this is amazing."
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River was born at 18:40 GMT on Christmas Eve at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth and his cousin Louella followed at 16:00 GMT the following day.
Both sisters are hairdressers and, although not identical, look alike. But there the similarities end.
"We have never experienced anything like it before but it's really odd how they are so close together," said Ms Ackrill.
"At 30 weeks I went into hospital having contractions.
"A few days before I went into hospital Ashleigh messaged me and asked me if I was OK because she kept on getting pains.
"She was convinced she was feeling the same labour pains that I was feeling.
"Ashleigh had been having contractions on Christmas Eve but it was not regular.
"Then I gave birth and the next day she went in and gave birth."
Ms Ackrill now has three sons, including River, and one daughter with partner Aaron Craig. Her sister Ashleigh now has two daughters with husband Tim.
The sisters also found out they were pregnant within days of each other.
"I had a feeling that we we would give birth closer than two weeks apart anyway," added Ms Ackrill.
"There's definitely something there."
Leave racked up 104,166 votes in the county and won with 57% - compared to Remain which secured 78,987 of ballots totalling 43%.
In Telford and Wrekin, the Leave campaign claimed victory with 63% after a total of 56,649 of votes - while Remain took 32,954 - 37% of votes.
The turnout in Shropshire was 77% and in Telford and Wrekin 72%.
EU referendum reaction
Daniel Kawczynski, Conservative MP for Shrewsbury & Atcham, said he was elated by the result.
"It is time to stand proud and tall as the fifth largest economy in the world, a permanent member of the UN security council and a member of the G7.
"This country punches above its weight and I have every confidence in our future."
But Richard Yates chairman of the Shropshire Branch of the National Farmers' Unions said he was concerned for the future of the country and his business.
"I fear it will lead to a break up of the UK. As a farmer and a businessman I am in unknown territory."
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Lucy Allan, Conservative MP for Telford, said she was pleased the Leave campaign won. She said: "I think it's to do with feeling under-represented, ignored, cut off from the political elites.
"Also it's a question of low wages being undercut by people coming in - those are the issues that people tell me they have concerns about."
Mark Pritchard, Conservative MP for Wrekin who had campaigned to remain in the EU, said the most important thing now was to restore stability in Britain and negotiate the best exit terms.
Gavin Denton, a commuter in Telford who voted to remain, told Radio Shropshire the result was "shocking" and rejected the agreement for a peaceful Europe after World War Two.
"I don't think anyone expected that it would happen," he said.
"I've felt European all my life."
But William Mantle, from Bridgnorth, was happy to be leaving the EU.
"Finally the glasses are off and people can really see what the European Union is all about," he said. "It's a corrupt organisation for the elite."
Thomas Holt, a winemaker who brings his produce from Spain to Shrewsbury, said the result has had an "instant impact" on his business by making his products more expensive.
"I'm very worried about the future, and I think it's a dark day for the UK," he said.
Adam Fejfer, a Polish man working in Shropshire, also said he was worried about the future.
He said: "Probably I will have to spend a few good quid for my British citizenship, which will be expensive for me and my family. I am really scared."
Workers have walked out for 48 hours in the long-running dispute with parent company Govia Thameslink (GTR) over the role of guards on new trains.
RMT spokesman Garry Hassell said the dispute "could last until Christmas".
Southern said the action would "achieve nothing" and it was pressing ahead with its plans.
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A Southern spokesman said: "This two-day strike will achieve nothing. After many months of trying to reach agreement with the RMT, we are now moving forward with our plans.
"We have guaranteed all our onboard staff a job until the end of the franchise, with no reduction in salary. Our plans are safe, and will mean fewer cancelled trains."
The rail operator said it was running 65% of the 2,020 trains detailed in an enhanced temporary timetable, but conceded many routes would have fewer trains and some would have no service at all.
The latest action follows a series of one-day strikes since April and a five-day walkout last month that was called off after three days.
Speaking to BBC South East Today, regional executive Mr Hassell said: "It could last until Christmas if the company continues not to take on meaningful talks - I believe we've been the doves in this dispute.
"The game's not up because whatever trains they bring, and whatever the name of the company is, the train service must be run safely."
Meanwhile, RMT general secretary Mick Cash said the strike was "rock solid and determined".
Mr Cash claimed it had been "forced" on workers "by the arrogance and inaction of Govia Thameslink and the government, who have made it clear they have no interest in resolving this dispute or in tackling the daily chaos on Southern".
The RMT is fighting moves to re-categorise conductors as "on-board supervisors", with drivers taking over responsibility for opening and closing carriage doors.
The union maintains it has legitimate concerns over safety and job cuts.
The rail operator, which imposed the changes on 21 August after several strikes went ahead, insists the plans are safe and will mean fewer cancelled trains.
The RMT said its fight was with "the company and the government, who have dragged this franchise into total meltdown".
"We cannot sit back while jobs and safety are compromised on these dangerously overcrowded trains," Mr Cash said.
Speaking on Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Cash accused Southern of "trying to railroad through their plans by getting rid of a second safety-critical person", saying the move was "detrimental to passengers and the disabled".
Alex Foulds, Southern's passenger services director, responded: "Our priority is to make our services more accessible, not less.
"There will be an on-board supervisor rostered to work every single train on which we currently have conductors and, because they'll be able to work any of our routes, we'll find it much easier to cover someone who goes sick at the last minute, for example.
"Those on-board staff will be more visible and better able to offer passenger assistance for everyone, including those with disabilities."
Analysis: Richard Westcott, BBC transport correspondent @BBCwestcott
There's more to this strike than meets the eye.
It's become a critical battle in a wider war over how the railways are staffed in future.
The government wants to save money and that inevitably means changing the roles of some of the people who work there. Moving to driver only operated trains in franchises is a way to cut costs.
The unions say that threatens jobs, so they've drawn a line in the sand. No more driver-only trains.
Both sides have a lot at stake. Whatever happens with Southern could set the tone for other rail franchises coming up in the future.
Rail bosses said the strike was taking place in the same week Southern reinstated more than a third of train services it had removed from the timetable in July to cope with ongoing disruption.
When the reduced timetable was brought in, the rail company blamed issues with crew availability.
Industrial action by RMT members and high levels of staff sickness had contributed to disruption of Southern services from the south coast into London, but the union denied claims that staff illness was unofficial industrial action.
Rail Minister Paul Maynard said: "Passengers want a railway that works for them and delivers the timely, modern and convenient service they expect.
"They should not have to suffer any further disruption from strikes as the unions try and prevent the delivery of a modern railway, with additional capacity and improved performance."
Customer advice issued by Southern said routes it would have no service on included:
Mohammed Alloush is the political leader of the powerful, Saudi-backed group Jaysh al-Islam (Army of Islam).
Both the Syrian government and its staunch ally, Russia, consider Jaysh al-Islam a terrorist organisation.
The opposition committee also warned that it would pull out of the talks if a third party was invited to attend.
Russia wants opposition groups tolerated by President Bashar al-Assad to participate in the negotiations on a political solution to the conflict in Syria, which has left more than 250,000 people dead since 2011.
Kurdish groups, which control large parts of the north, also want to attend.
An unprecedented meeting of Syrian opposition politicians and rebels in Riyadh last month led to the creation of a committee to oversee the talks with the government.
On Wednesday, the head of the Supreme Commission for Negotiations, Riad Hijab, announced Mr Alloush's appointment as its chief negotiator.
Jaysh al-Islam controls much of the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus. Its leader, Zahran Alloush, was killed in an air strike last month.
Russia says Jaysh al-Islam differs little from the jihadist group Islamic State (IS), but the two are violently opposed to each other and Zahran Alloush said before his death that he favoured allowing Syrians to decide whether they wanted Islamic rule.
Asaad al-Zoubi, a former Syrian army general, will serve under Mr Alloush as head of the opposition negotiating team, while his deputy will be George Sabra of the Syrian National Council.
Mr Hijab warned that the committee would not accept any attempts by foreign parties to "inject individuals in the form of a so-called third delegation, justifying their presence under unfounded pretexts merely to disrupt the political process and prolong the fighting in the name of combating terrorism".
The former prime minister also said that the opposition could not negotiate while Syrians "suffer from shelling, starvation and siege" by government forces.
"Dates are not sacred," he added. "Debased political bartering at the expense of the Syrian people is tantamount to callous extortion which we will not accept under any circumstance."
The UN has said it will not issue invitations to the peace talks until major powers backing the government and opposition had agreed on who should attend.
After a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Switzerland on Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters they were not considering postponing the talks.
"We hope the negotiating process will begin this month," he said. "I stress that this will be just the start, because of course it will take a lot of time, a whole range of arduous tasks are to be resolved."
The paper said the printer found the front-page article "too sensitive". Tuesday's entire newspaper, however, can still be viewed online in Thailand.
King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 87, is currently in a Bangkok hospital.
Thailand has strict lese majeste laws that can result in jail terms for anyone who insults the monarchy.
Critics say the laws are used liberally by the military government to silence discussion about the royal family and the succession to the throne.
The Thai authorities have blocked a number of other news websites, notably the UK-based Daily Mail, after one article last year which included salacious details of Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn's private life. That censorship precedes last year's military coup, although it has increased since the military takeover.
The military has shown itself to be extremely sensitive to any reporting on the royal family, with both the number and harshness of convictions for lese majeste rising sharply after the coup.
As the New York Times details in its article, Thais have been jailed for an overheard conversation in a taxi, a hand gesture, a university play, bathroom graffiti and most recently, two sentences of 28 and 30 years for Facebook posts.
Military ruler Prayuth Chan-ocha has also become visibly more irritated by media criticism of his performance, threatening to tape journalists' mouths shut, and to find other ways of punishing them.
Last weekend prominent journalist Pravit Rojanaphruk was detained, driven blindfolded to a secret military base outside Bangkok, and held for two days in a windowless room while being interrogated over his alleged links to anti-military conspiracies. He says it was made clear to him this was punishment for speaking out.
Thailand's lese majeste laws explained
The International New York Times (INYT) emailed subscribers in Thailand saying that Tuesday's edition was not printed as "it includes an article that our locally contracted printer deemed too sensitive to print".
"This decision was made solely by the printer and is not endorsed by the International New York Times," it said.
The article notes that the king has been in and out of the hospital in recent months and discusses his successors, particularly Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn.
Written by the paper's South East Asia correspondent Thomas Fuller, who is based in Bangkok, it also comments that lese majeste laws have stifled discussion on the issue in Thailand.
The last update on King Bhumibol released by palace authorities was in August when they said he was recovering from hydrocephalus, or excessive build-up of fluid on the brain.
The monarch has had frequent bouts of ill health in recent years. His health is closely watched in Thailand as he is seen as a unifying symbol and pillar of stability in a society that has seen increased political divisions and violence.
Nathan Matthews admits killing his 16-year-old stepsister but denies murder and conspiring to kidnap her.
The 28-year-old told Bristol Crown Court his intention was to "shock and scare" her because of the way she treated his mother.
Mr Matthews said he had "thoughts about doing it for a couple of months, on and off".
He described going to her house, where he tried to knock the teenager out in a struggle to get her into a suitcase.
Mr Matthews said he was wearing a mask when he handcuffed her and put Sellotape over her mouth and eyes.
He told the court the teenager struggled as he tried to put her into the suitcase and described how her breathing slowed.
"I remember I couldn't hear any breathing, so that's when I thought something's not right," he said.
"So I checked her for a pulse and there wasn't a pulse. She didn't have a pulse. Then I shut the suitcase."
After putting Becky's body in the boot of his car, he said he returned to the house and slammed the door so his girlfriend and co-accused Shauna Hoare would think Becky had gone out.
He told the court he sat on the sofa thinking "act normal".
In court: BBC Points West's Fiona Lamdin
Nathan Matthews is at times very distressed.
His mother Anjie was crying and her husband Darren had his arm around her, with the two gripping each other's hands in the public gallery.
When Mr Matthews is asked about his mother he sobs, leaning on the witness box by his elbows, hanging his head low.
He is squeezing a piece of paper and a tissue in his hands. Most of the time he is looking down, not giving any eye contact.
Asked why he did not go to the police and admit what he had done, Mr Matthews said: "Because then everybody else would find out and would be hurt."
Becky went missing from her family home in St George, Bristol on 19 February and her dismembered body was found in a shed several days later.
Mr Matthews, 28, of Hazelbury Drive, Warmley, South Gloucestershire, also admits perverting the course of justice, preventing Becky's burial and possessing a prohibited weapon.
Becky's best friend Courtney Bicker, 17, told police in a recorded interview that Becky said Mr Matthews had "graphically" described how he would kill her.
Mr Matthews denied threatening to kill her and said: "No, I can't say for 100% [that] I didn't make a random joke about something, but I never threatened Becky."
He denied that he conspired with his Ms Hoare to kidnap his stepsister.
Asked if he was controlling in his relationship with her, he said "she did mention it" but "it was not all one-sided" and "she had control over me as well."
He told the jury he suffered from anxiety and anger issues and said "if I am shown violence then I will show it back".
Mr Matthews admitted there was violence in his relationship with his partner and he had "scared her".
He said he had thrown her phone against a wall, shoved her head against a window while driving and pushed her into a lock on a door.
Ms Hoare, 21, of Cotton Mill Lane, Bristol, denies murder and conspiracy to kidnap, a weapons charge, perverting the course of justice and preventing a burial.
Two other men, Donovan Demetrius, 29, and James Ireland, 23, deny assisting an offender.
The trial continues.
Britain will be without their most successful female Olympian, Laura Kenny, who is pregnant with her first child.
Kenny's husband Jason is also taking a break following Rio 2016.
"It's a young squad and anyone has the chance to unseat someone more senior," said Dyer.
"The guys here are looking to make their own mark."
Archibald and Barker won gold alongside Laura Kenny and Joanna Rowsell-Shand, who has retired, in the team pursuit at Rio 2016.
Archibald is part of a new-look team pursuit squad and will also contest the scratch race, omnium and individual pursuit in Hong Kong, where the championships start on Wednesday.
Barker will also challenge for the points race and the madison.
"Laura has ruled the roost in the omnium in the past but Katie and Elinor are pretty good bunch race riders in their own right, as we've all seen," added Dyer.
"The most important thing with these World Championships is that those who have been committed to team events now have the freedom to commit a little bit stronger to individual stuff."
At the age of 23, Archibald is a senior member of the 20-strong Great Britain squad, which features 10 World Championship debutants.
They will be hoping to match their table-topping five gold medals from last year's event in London.
"The biggest change for us going into this World Championships is Laura not being here, along with Joanna and Ciara Horne," Archibald told the BBC's Rob Hatch.
"Myself and Elinor have somehow been thrust into the position of being the elders, aged 22 and 23. It's daunting.
"It's a fairly obvious truth that Laura Kenny is Olympic and world champion. You've got to expect that if she had continued training she would have had the form to make that selection.
"But she is not here and there is still a huge amount of competition. I feel quite privileged to have this chance and have this omnium spot. I want to be competitive."
Barker has relished being able to focus on her individual performances, winning gold in the Track World Cup points race in the Netherlands in November.
"I've done more racing in the last six months than I did in the year and a half before the Olympics," she told BBC Sport.
"I've made the most of being able to ride independently. I've changed my goals slightly and put my focus on the bunch races rather than the team pursuit."
The madison - one of the oldest and most exciting events in track racing - is part of the women's programme at the World Championships for the first time in Hong Kong, meaning women and men now compete in exactly the same events.
The race, similar to the points race but with riders in teams of two, was taken off the men's Olympic programme for the 2012 London Games.
But there are hopes it could be reintroduced for both men and women at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
Archibald said: "It's going to be pretty exciting. When you make something an Olympic event, every nation pays attention and commits to it.
"For madison racing, there is a fantastic conversation going on. We all want it to be an Olympic event and this will be the first major trial."
Dyer added: "We know the UCI have been working hard behind the scenes.
"In the last year we've seen the women's madison come to the fore and that looks like a genuine attempt to achieve equality between men and women."
Olympic champions Steven Burke and Callum Skinner have also been named in the squad of 20 riders.
Women's endurance: Katie Archibald, Elinor Barker, Ellie Dickinson, Neah Evans, Emily Kay, Manon Lloyd, Emily Nelson.
Men's endurance: Matt Bostock, Steven Burke, Kian Emadi, Chris Latham, Mark Stewart, Andy Tennant, Oliver Wood.
Sprint: Jack Carlin, Katy Marchant, Lewis Oliva, Ryan Owens, Callum Skinner, Joe Truman.
Carter, 35, a two-time World Snooker Championship finalist, was fighting cancer for a second time after he had battled testicular cancer in 2013.
He said on Twitter: "Two beautiful words that I've been waiting for 'all clear'. I can now concentrate on getting my life and career back.
"I will be glad when this year is over. Some better things to come in 2015."
Carter's manager Steve Daintry told BBC Sport: "He went in for tests on Monday and had full body scans and blood tests.
"He has been on tenterhooks all week and on Friday, professor Neville Davidson said he was completely all-clear, with nothing to worry about. It couldn't have gone any better.
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"Although things had been looking good, this was the biggest test to see how his body had responded to the treatment.
"It's a big weight off Ali's mind. He can get back to a normal life and put the cancer behind him."
Essex-based Carter, who has won three ranking events during his professional career, finished as runner-up in the 2008 and 2012 World Championships.
After his diagnosis in May, he missed the first five months of the 2014-15 snooker season, before winning the General Cup, a non-ranking event held in Hong Kong in October.
He then played in the Champions of Champions event in November and got a standing ovation from the crowd in his first ranking event match at the UK Championship later that month.
"It has been a crazy, hard year for Ali and this is just a massive relief for him," added Daintry.
"He is a very down to Earth guy and he is very popular - the reaction and support he has had from his family, his friends, his fans and from the snooker family has been brilliant.
"The main thing for him is to get some normality back in his life. He wants to get back playing snooker and has a different perspective on life now."
Jacqueline Perry, 49, admitted nine counts of theft from semi-conscious patients at Swansea's Morriston Hospital.
Swansea Crown Court heard Perry, of Morriston, stole while working at the hospital between November 2014 and January 2015.
She will be sentenced in May.
An earlier hearing at Swansea Magistrates' Court heard Perry stole a 22 carat gold wedding ring belonging to 89-year-old Nancy Thomas.
The cancer sufferer also lost two other gold rings of "sentimental value," with all three collectively worth £1,800.
Perry also stole a gold ring from a patient recovering from surgery for stomach cancer and wallets containing small amounts of cash from chronically ill patients.
The 26-year-old tested positive for benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine, after Thistle's Premiership match against Celtic on 3 December last year.
He was banned for two years in April by the National Anti-Doping Panel.
Following an appeal by McMillan, the NADP reconvened in Glasgow in July and upheld the original decision.
McMillan's suspension runs from 18 December 2014 to 17 December 2016.
The player does not deny the validity of the test but has always said he consumed the cocaine without knowing he had done so.
McMillan says that, while at the home of his partner's parents, he drank from the wrong glass, not realising the drink had been mixed with cocaine by a friend of his partner's family, who had tried to hide his drug consumption.
McMillan's agent, Tony Asghar, told Ukad: "He was oblivious to the fact that it contained any other substance [than alcohol] and thought nothing of it."
Ukad chief executive Nicole Sapstead stressed the importance to all athletes of "strict liability".
She said: "They are solely responsible for any banned substance that is found in their system, regardless of how it got there or whether there was an intention to cheat or not.
"The principle of strict liability can be challenging for athletes. They have to ensure that they understand the anti-doping rules and that their family, friends, coaches and athlete support personnel understand them too.
"They need to be aware of the risks their career faces if they test positive, and ensure they manage that risk at all times."
McMillan began his career at Rangers and had loan spells at Hamilton, Queen of the South and Wrexham before joining Dunfermline in January 2012.
He joined Partick Thistle the following March and was sacked by the Jags on 28 February this year following an investigation by the club.
Swedish-based Minesto has applied to fix its underwater energy 'kites' in the sea off Holyhead on Anglesey.
It is part of plans for a 10MW underwater power plant, supplying the power needs of about 8,000 households.
A six-week consultation with Natural Resources Wales for a licence is now under way.
The scheme secured £11m in European Regional Development Funds in 2015, administered through the Wales European Funding Office (WEFO).
Developers said it would be the first full-scale operation of its kind in the world, following quarter-scale ocean testing off Northern Ireland.
The technology uses tidal currents to force water through a turbine as the underwater kites "fly" through the sea.
The initial installation in 100m (328ft) of water at Holyhead Deep will deliver a 0.5MW power plant, with more kites added over the months, until the 10MW site is fully operational.
Minesto said it remained "fully committed" to the project and developing a base in north Wales, despite the vote backing Brexit in June.
"During the period when Britain negotiates the conditions for leaving the EU, the question marks for every overseas business looking to invest in the UK will gradually be answered," said chief executive, Dr Martin Edlund.
"What we do know now is that our financial support from WEFO remains in place.
"This EU-funded project has already seen several new jobs created in Holyhead and Minesto is fully committed to develop our first tidal energy array and to build our future assembly facilities in north Wales."
The company hopes the first part of the project will be in place by 2017, if permission is granted for the marine licence.
The new inside sales centre will employ 500 staff, selling the company's services remotely.
It will sell software and services to customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Hiring is expected to start immediately, and positions will be filled over the next six months.
100 further positions are also being created across Microsoft's other operations in Ireland.
These include roles in finance, operations, engineering and sales.
Microsoft has been in Ireland since 1985 when it opened a small manufacturing facility employing 100 people.
Since then it has grown its presence considerably and currently has 1,200 full-time employees and 700 full-time contractors.
Its Irish operations include software development and testing, localisation, operations, finance, IT, HR and sales and marketing, serving both the domestic and Europe, Middle East and African markets.
Tries from Graham, Ross McCann and Callum Hunter-Hill gave Scotland a 19-12 lead after an open first half.
Will Jones and Ioan Nicholas had scored to keep Wales in touch, before Arwel Robson squeezed over in the corner to put them 25-22 up with 10 minutes left.
But Scotland wing Graham crossed six minutes later to set up a fifth-place play-off against Australia on Sunday.
Even if they lose against the Wallabies, sixth would be Scotland's highest ever competition finish.
Wales' defeat means they will face Italy in a play-off for seventh place, also on Sunday.
It could have been a different story had they capitalised on a strong start, as captain Jones cantered over after centre Owen Lane had intercepted a pass from Scotland fly-half Connor Eastgate.
Scotland responded in fine fashion as wing Graham touched down in the corner before centre McCann burst through some weak Welsh tackling to put his side 14-5 ahead.
Nicholas' incisive finish brought Wales back into contention, only for Scotland captain Hunter-Hill to force his way over from a driving maul.
Scotland were denied a second try from a maul on the cusp of half-time when the ball was held up over the Welsh try line.
A kicking battle then ensued between the two fly-halves, with Wales' Robson converting two penalties to Eatsgate's one to cut Scotland's lead to 22-18.
Robson added a try to his tally as he resisted a last-ditch tackle from Matt Fagerson to touch down in the corner.
He then struck a superb touchline conversion to give Wales a 25-22 lead after 70 minutes.
But Scotland had the final say, patiently going through several phases before Graham raced clear to avenge their 65-34 defeat against the same opponents during this year's Six Nations.
"We were disappointed with the result but we played some good stuff at times," Wales Under-20 coach Jason Strange told BBC Wales Sport.
"We scored four tries against three and that was a real positive for us and I thought there were some good individual performances.
"I felt ultimately our basics and fundamentals let us down and we lacked possession throughout the game and that was probably the difference.
"Overall there have been three narrow defeats, results are a part of it but what is important for us is the development of the players and the team, and the learning we take from this.
"A lot of the players are making a real good progress throughout the tournament."
Wales U20: Will Talbot-Davies (Newport Gwent Dragons); Jared Rosser (Newport Gwent Dragons), Ioan Nicholas (Scarlets), Owen Lane (Cardiff Blues), Ryan Conbeer (Scarlets); Arwel Robson (Newport Gwent Dragons) Dane Blacker (Cardiff Blues); Rhys Carre (Cardiff Blues), Ellis Shipp (Newport Gwent Dragons), Kieron Assiratti (Cardiff Blues), Will Griffiths (Ospreys), Sean Moore (Pontypridd), Shane Lewis-Hughes (Cardiff Blues), Will Jones (Ospreys, capt) Aled Ward (Cardiff Blues).
Replacements: Owen Hughes (Newport Gwent Dragons), Tom Mably (Cardiff Blues), Steff Thomas (Scarlets), Callum Bradbury (Cardiff Blues), Syd Blackmore (Bath Rugby), Reuben Morgan-Williams (Ospreys), Connor Edwards (Newport Gwent Dragons), Phil Jones (Ospreys).
Scotland U20: Blair Kinghorn, Robbie Nairn, Ross McCann, Stafford McDowall, Darcy Graham; Connor Eastgate, Andrew Simmers; George Thornton, Fraser Renwick, Adam Nicol, Alex Craig, Callum Hunter-Hill (captain), Luke Crosbie, Matt Fagerson, Tom Dodd.
Replacements: Robbie Smith, Fergus Bradbury, Daniel Winning, Hamish Bain, Archie Erskine, Charlie Shiel, Josh Henderson, Lewis Berg.
Shadow fire minister Chris Williamson said it would be "worth consulting" on the policy after such crimes doubled in the past five years.
However, Labour colleagues have criticised the move as "normalising attacks".
Party leader Jeremy Corbyn first suggested the policy during his leadership election campaign in 2015.
Mr Williamson, MP for Derby North, highlighted figures from the British Transport Police, showing 1,448 sexual offences on trains had been reported in 2016-17, compared with 650 incidents in 2012-13.
He told PoliticsHome that women-only carriages - which have been tested in countries including Japan, Brazil and Mexico - could create a "safe space".
Later, he told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show: "I'm not saying we should go down this road at all, I'm merely suggesting that we consult on it.
"If there is support for it, then providing an additional carriage to provide that safe space for people if they wanted it, offering that choice I think is worth looking at."
He told the programme there was a "clear need" for better security and more guards to tackle the problem, but that gender-specific trains could be an "idea worth exploring".
But he agreed there was a need to "push for behaviour change" so that "everybody can travel on public transport in complete safety".
The UK has seen these types of carriages before. Dating from as far back as the 1840s, British Rail had ladies-only compartments to protect women from public and verbal harassment.
About 100 still existed on services between London and Essex when the decision was made to phase them out altogether in 1977.
Earlier this year, the Ladies' Special train in Mumbai, India, marked 25 years since its first journey.
The Mumbai service - since copied in other cities around India - is exclusively for women and runs alongside gender-specific carriages on other services.
Commuters shared their stories of the Ladies Special train with the BBC in an article from 2009.
Sangeeta spoke of women being harassed by men often on other trains: "They touch and pinch…[but]… here nobody passes lewd comments.
"Nobody teases us - it's great."
Student Charu Dua said: "We can laugh, we can sit where we want, we can do whatever we want, we feel free. We can sing a song, as loud as we want."
But one man, Satya Pal, told the BBC the policy was "not practical", because it meant men had to travel separately from their wives, daughters or sisters.
Laura Bates, from Everyday Sexism, a website which documents instances of daily sexism, told Victoria Derbyshire she would "never suggest segregation is the answer".
"It has to be about sending a clear message that this issue, which is already so normalised in our society, can be further normalised by the idea that women should simply go somewhere else."
The idea for women-only carriages was dropped by Mr Corbyn two years ago after fellow members of his party criticised it, including senior Labour MPs Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall.
And Mr Williamson's comments have again been attacked by colleagues.
Walthamstow Labour MP Stella Creasy tweeted: "Can we make all carriages safe for all passengers rather than restricting where we can go?
"[It] doesn't keep women safe to restrict their movements - it normalises attacks. We need to be clear they [the attackers] are problem, not women's seating plans."
Jess Phillips, Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, said the policy was an "absolutely terrible idea".
She tweeted: "It is essentially giving up on trying to prosecute assaults. Also, men should be incredibly annoyed by [the] suggestion they can't control themselves.
"Sexual violence isn't about urges, it's about power. If you take your feminist cues from Saudi Arabia, you've gone wrong."
Labour's former Transport Secretary Lord Adonis told BBC 5 live women-only train carriages were an "absolutely crazy idea" and women would find it "grossly insulting".
"The idea that they would be herded into separate carriages when the point at issue is a very tiny number of men who don't behave properly...
"And I doubt that many women would use them, so what you'd find is that the carriages would be empty."
The Women's Equality Party said it had not changed its opinion since the Labour leader first proposed women-only trains in 2015.
The party's co-founder, Catherine Mayer, tweeted that it was "not a good idea", as the party "vigorously pointed out" when it was first suggested.
More than eight out of 10 parents want to be consulted more, according to an annual survey from PTA UK, representing parents groups in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The biggest concern for parents was about bullying in school.
PTA UK head Emma Williams said: "Parents want to have a say in education."
"Many of the decisions made by government and schools affect parents one way or another, so it's only right that they should be able to contribute their views," said Ms Williams.
She said without proper engagement, parents would remain an "untapped resource" for schools.
According to the survey, almost half of parents did not expect the government to listen to them on school policy.
Bullying and cyber-bullying were the top issues where parents wanted schools to take action.
There were also concerns about the costs associated with school - with almost three-quarters saying parental payments were increasing for costs such as school trips and uniforms.
More than a third had been asked to make donations to school funds.
The parent-teacher organisations said the education system needed to pay closer attention to the views of parents on such issues of costs and funding.
"PTA UK calls on the government, education authorities and schools to redouble their efforts to involve and engage all parents," said Ms Williams.
Operation Julie involved more than 800 officers from 10 forces, and smashed two LSD production and distribution networks thought to have been supplying up to 90% of the UK's market in the drug.
In a mission which, at times, took on a comic element, specially trained officers spent most of 1976 undercover in the Welsh countryside, disguised as hippies.
In order to divert suspicion they staged fights with local police, who were largely unaware of the "hippies'" true identity.
On one occasion they were left listening to Radio Cymru for an entire day, when sheep gnawed through the bugging devices they had planted in the Tregaron home of ringleader Richard Kemp.
Down the road in Llanddewi Brefi, another group of male officers garnered unwelcome attention when they were suspected of being a "gay cult".
This necessitated the introduction of female officers, including Sgt Julie Taylor, after whom the operation would eventually take its name, and who was immortalised in The Clash's song Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad.
But despite these more light-hearted elements, when police finally swooped in March 1977, they seized 6.5 million LSD "tabs", along with share certificates and Swiss bank accounts valued in the millions.
Lyn Ebenezer, author of Operation Julie: The World's Greatest LSD Bust, was working as a freelance journalist in the area at the time.
He believes it is this juxtaposition between comic and gravity which has caused Operation Julie to live on in the memory through numerous books, films and TV and radio dramas.
"Cardiganshire was at the time the counter-culture capital," he said.
"The likes of the Rolling Stones, John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix had all made pilgrimages to the area, so perhaps it's no surprise that it became the centre of LSD production.
"But we didn't have a clue what was going on with these strange groups who'd moved in.
"To be honest, if anyone seemed more likely to be drug dealers then it was the police acting as hippies, as the actual dealers were all educated professional people who stood their round and blended in really well into the community.
"The dealers and the police would all be drinking in the pub together, getting up to all sorts of daft capers, so when the raids finally came we all had one hell of a shock."
Police were first alerted to the possible existence of the drugs network in 1975, when a Range Rover belonging to Liverpool University chemist Richard Kemp was involved in a fatal crash near Machynlleth.
A search of the vehicle found shreds of a wrapper, which when reconstructed, spelt the words "hydrazine hydrate", a key ingredient in the manufacture of LSD.
Kemp had been recruited in 1969 by Cambridge author David Solomon to manufacture the drug, initially at least, as part of a social experiment to bring world peace through "mind-expansion".
Unable to effectively distribute the LSD they had made, they turned to Henry Todd to handle sales, but by 1973 the group had fallen out, and Kemp and Solomon moved production from Cambridge to West Wales, creating two distinct LSD networks.
Julie's "hippies" put Kemp's Tregaron home under Surveillance, and noted his regular 50 mile commutes to Plas Llysyn, an old mansion in Carno near Llanidloes.
Another group of "hippies" monitored the mansion from an old caravan, and when they secretly broke in, water samples taken from the cellar chemically matched LSD samples the police had previously seized.
Raids on 87 addresses in Wales, London, Cambridge and France between March and December 1977 would eventually turn up laboratory equipment, over £1m in cash and shares, and enough LSD for 6.5 million doses.
A total of 120 arrests were made, resulting in 15 convictions and prison sentences totalling 120 years.
As a result the price of an LSD "tab" rose overnight from £1 to £5.
Nevertheless, Mr Ebenezer does not necessarily believe Operation Julie was entirely the success it has often been portrayed as.
"I wrote my book because I think previous works have made out that Operation Julie was some major breakthrough in the war against drugs, but in actual fact it did do some harm," he said.
"The reason Kemp and Solomon split from the Cambridge gang was because Kemp wanted to produce more pure, safer LSD, and after he was caught the drug became much more dangerous as the people who came after weren't as choosy over what they cut it with.
"Kemp, his girlfriend Christine Bott, and several of the others were welcomed back into west Wales life after their prison sentences, whereas the dealers who came after them were a much nastier breed. So I'm not sure how much of a success you can really call it."
However, operation Julie does remain the blue print for cross-force drug operations and ushered in a new era of policing.
In 2010 Welsh actor Matthew Rhys bought the rights to Mr Ebenezer's book, although production on a film is yet to start.
They have been charged in the US with conspiring to intentionally cause damage to protected computers.
They were said to have targeted firms that refused to process payments for WikiLeaks, the whistle-blowing site founded by Julian Assange.
The group flooded services with large amounts of traffic in an attempt to overwhelm the sites.
This method - known as a Distributed Denial of Service attack, or DDoS - is a typical tactic of the hacktivist movement.
The accused allegedly targeted groups or businesses they felt did not share the philosophy of Anonymous to make all information free for everyone, regardless of copyright laws or national security considerations.
Those hit included governments, trade associations, law firms and financial institutions.
Court documents said that from September 2010 to January 2011, Anonymous members waged a campaign they dubbed Operation Payback.
In December 2010, the conspirators are alleged to have discussed possible targets related to WikiLeaks, the whistle-blowing site that struggled to receive funding after several payment processing companies, including Mastercard and Visa, refused to facilitate the transfer of donations to the group.
The Swedish prosecutor's office was also hit, in connection with arrest warrants for sexual crimes issued for Mr Assange.
The accused were also said to have gone after music industry bodies in retaliation for action taken against The Pirate Bay, a Sweden-based file sharing website devoted to the illegal downloading of copyrighted material.
Darren Brownlie gave the hosts a 39th-minute lead, heading home from Mark Millar's corner.
Dunfermline drew level thanks to Jason Talbot's fantastic volley from the edge of the area and Kallum Higginbotham home from Joe Cardle's cross.
But, with 12 minutes left, Dobbie was allowed a tap-in after Sean Murdoch had failed to gather Derek Lyle's low pass.
His 16th goal of the season ensured that Queens remain sixth, one place and three points ahead of Dunfermline.
However, the Pars and Ayr United have been joined on the 17-point mark by Dumbarton after the Sons' win over Falkirk.
Match ends, Queen of the South 2, Dunfermline Athletic 2.
Second Half ends, Queen of the South 2, Dunfermline Athletic 2.
Foul by Ross Fergusson (Queen of the South).
Jason Talbot (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Callum Fordyce (Dunfermline Athletic) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top left corner following a corner.
Corner, Dunfermline Athletic. Conceded by Jordan Marshall.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Ross Fergusson replaces Derek Lyle.
Andy Dowie (Queen of the South) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Andy Dowie (Queen of the South).
Nicky Clark (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Queen of the South. Conceded by Sean Murdoch.
Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nathaniel Wedderburn (Dunfermline Athletic).
Corner, Queen of the South. Conceded by Rhys McCabe.
Foul by Owen Moxon (Queen of the South).
Joe Cardle (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Queen of the South 2, Dunfermline Athletic 2. Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Derek Lyle.
Attempt missed. Daniel Carmichael (Queen of the South) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Owen Moxon replaces Grant Anderson.
Goal! Queen of the South 1, Dunfermline Athletic 2. Kallum Higginbotham (Dunfermline Athletic) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Joe Cardle.
Attempt missed. Michael Moffat (Dunfermline Athletic) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Dunfermline Athletic. Joe Cardle replaces Paul McMullan.
Jordan Marshall (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Nicky Clark (Dunfermline Athletic).
Attempt missed. Callum Fordyce (Dunfermline Athletic) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right following a set piece situation.
Foul by Chris Higgins (Queen of the South).
Nicky Clark (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Grant Anderson (Queen of the South) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Attempt missed. Michael Moffat (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt saved. Nicky Clark (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Queen of the South 1, Dunfermline Athletic 1. Jason Talbot (Dunfermline Athletic) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner.
Corner, Dunfermline Athletic. Conceded by Andy Dowie.
Attempt saved. Michael Moffat (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Grant Anderson (Queen of the South) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Grant Anderson (Queen of the South).
Jason Talbot (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Grant Anderson (Queen of the South).
Jason Talbot (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Second Half begins Queen of the South 1, Dunfermline Athletic 0.
First Half ends, Queen of the South 1, Dunfermline Athletic 0.
The prospect of demanding extra time from other EU nations to complete a leave deal was a "bit scary", he said.
Asked how long a negotiation would take, he cited a Cabinet Office paper which said it could be up to a decade.
But Out campaigners say the UK could negotiate its withdrawal at any time.
The UK will decide in a referendum on 23 June whether to remain a member of the European Union or to leave.
EU vote: All you need to know
Under the process set out in the Lisbon Treaty, a nation has two years to complete a deal once it formally declares that it will withdraw from the EU.
Extra time is possible only if all the remaining nations agree.
"Obviously at the end of two years anything we haven't negotiated has to be extended by unanimity of a vote excluding us so that's a bit scary," Lord O'Donnell - who advised three successive prime ministers as cabinet secretary between 2005 and 2011 - told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"I'm in that camp that doesn't think we can do it in two years," he said, adding that negotiating a deal to leave was a "very complex process".
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A leave vote on 23 June would not immediately part the UK and the European Union.
First, they would have to decide what their relationship would be like in the immediate future.
Once Britain formally tells the European Council it is leaving, it has two years to negotiate the terms of its withdrawal. Extra time would only be allowed if the remaining 27 states all agreed.
Lord O'Donnell fears complex talks would take much longer than that, and if the EU refused an extension to the negotiating period, the UK could face higher trade tariffs.
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He said: "We have to negotiate our entry to the single market, we have to negotiate our future relationship with the EU and then we have to negotiate our trade treaties with all other countries. So there's a lot to be done."
He told Today the Article 50 rules on the process were "not written in a neutral way" and warned it would be a "rather biased playing field".
It could also be "very difficult" to achieve positive results with Germany and France facing elections in 2017, he said.
"The politics works completely the wrong way for us", he added.
If the UK failed to get a deal within two years, the country would revert to World Trade Organization rules, which would include significant tariffs, he added.
Greenland's decision to withdraw from the European Community, the organisation that preceded the EU, in 1985 offered the only precedent, he said.
"Greenland has a slightly smaller population than Croydon and it has one issue, and that's fish," he said.
"So with one issue, small population, it took them not two years but three. We have multiple issues. The idea that we can do it all in two years I think is highly unlikely."
While Lord O'Donnell did not declare himself a supporter of the Remain campaign, his argument was very similar to the government's - whose position is to remain in the union.
The Vote Leave campaign, a cross-party group campaigning for EU exit, rejects the idea that negotiations would have to take place along the lines set out in the European Treaty. It says the UK could negotiate its withdrawal at any time without triggering the formal process.
Lord O'Donnell's comments come as Out campaigners step up their warnings about what they say are the risks to UK security of remaining in the EU.
Justice Minister Dominic Raab used a speech in London to argue being in the EU makes it harder for the UK to stop serious criminals and those with suspected terror links entering the country.
Speaking to the Today programme, Mr Raab rejected Lord O'Donnell's argument.
He said the former civil service boss was not a diplomat or an international lawyer, adding: "I used to negotiate treaties and I can tell you that if we voted to leave we could do so and negotiate an exit agreement."
He said the UK was the fifth biggest economy in the world and a key export market for the EU: "Of course we'd strike a new deal, and relatively soon, with transitional arrangements if necessary."
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The family was also sent a "hate-filled letter" containing threats.
The Polish Embassy confirmed a consul would visit the family and said "we are very saddened by this attack".
Insp Darren Green, of Devon and Cornwall Police, said: "I am appalled by this crime. Hate crime has no place in Plymouth and we will do everything possible to locate those responsible."
Yet early reviews have not been as welcoming of wonder.land, for which the Blur frontman wrote the music.
The show tells the story of a 21st Century teen who immerses herself in a psychedelic online game.
Albarn played a short surprise set after Thursday's premiere on an outdoor stage in Manchester's Albert Square.
Directed by the National Theatre's Rufus Norris, wonder.land features many of the outlandish creatures from Lewis Carroll's Alice books.
However, according to the BBC's Vincent Dowd, Moira Buffini's book and lyrics only use Carroll's work "as a starting point".
Its heroine Aly is an inner-city teenager who takes refuge from her troubled life at home and school by entering a virtual world.
Dowd said the show "was billed in advance as being about the role of the internet in our lives" but is "really about... being a teenager".
Albarn himself has said the story of wonder.land is "very different" from the Carroll's original story and the show was "bound to be a little controversial".
The show would not be like many modern musicals, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme, which he said were "homogenous".
In his three-star review in the Daily Telegraph, critic Dominic Cavendish called wonder.land "disappointing" and "lacking in the wonder stuff".
Albarn's score, he wrote, "isn't much cop", going on to say "many of the songs drift in one ear and out the other".
"Albarn's music makes a somewhat ponderous and even analogue start," wrote the Daily Mail's Patrick Marmion in his three-star critique.
"There are only glimpses of the anthemic melancholy that made Albarn's name. But his score is no more hit and miss than Norris's production."
The Stage's Mark Shenton struck a more positive note, praising the show's "brilliantly vivid projections" and "stunningly costumed creatures".
The show, he wrote in his three-star review, "is as playful as it is frequently peculiar" and "overall... fantastically strange".
The Manchester Evening News, meanwhile, gave the show a rave review, calling it "a dizzying spectacle with a young and contemporary message".
The musical, wrote Sarah Walters, is "surreal, silly [and] super charged with energy" and "loses none of the madness" of Carroll's originals.
wonder.land runs in Manchester until 12 July, transfers to the National Theatre in London in November and has a Paris run scheduled in 2016.
Albarn's previous stage ventures include Monkey: Journey to the West, a Chinese opera that had its premiere at the first Manchester International Festival in 2007.
He and Norris also premiered Dr Dee, an opera about the 16th Century alchemist and astrologer John Dee, at the 2011 edition of the biennial arts event.
wonder.land really only takes Lewis Carroll's extraordinary 150-year-old work as a starting point. The central character Aly (played by Lois Chimimba) is a teenage girl from a troubled family who encounters her avatar Alice online.
The designs by Rae Smith (who designed War Horse) are witty and colourful: working with 59 Productions she reaches a new level of stage magic. But all ears will be on Damon Albarn's score.
Though there are a few echoes of the Blur years, Albarn has worked to develop a new idiom for the stage. There are hints of Broadway sweetness but also something more acerbic. If Walt Disney had commissioned Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht to write the songs for Mary Poppins, the score might have turned out this way.
At times you feel the actors wanting to soar in song but the notes aren't quite there. Chimimba as headstrong but actually quite sensible Aly does well, as does Rosalie Craig who has fun as Aly's online self.
But the show is stolen by Anna Francolini as school headmistress Ms Manxome. Imagine a combination of Cruella de Vil, Matilda's Agatha Trunchbull and Lady Thatcher.
wonder.land was billed in advance as being about the role of the internet in our lives. But it's really about that troublesome, tangled thing - being a teenager.
The central moment is when the caterpillar asks Alice - and all of us - "Who are you?"
Joe Henson, who founded the Rare Breeds Survival Trust in 1973, was made an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for his services to conservation.
Mr Henson attended a Windsor Castle ceremony with his wife Gill, daughter Louise and son Adam - a farmer and television presenter.
The Henson family has also owned and run the Cotswold Farm Park since 1971.
Mr Henson said: "I'm delighted to receive recognition of the work that I've done to save our rare breeds, and thrilled that this continues to be born out through the work of The Cotswold Farm Park.
"I was particularly pleased that it was Princess Anne who gave it to me because she is very involved with rare breeds as well."
Divers have recovered a series of objects from the ship called The London, which exploded off the coast of Southend in 1665.
The haul so far includes pewter spoons, coins and navigational dividers.
A project spokesman said: "The artefacts we can recover may be similar in scope to those... from the Mary Rose, but 120 years later in date."
The Mary Rose saw 34 years of service before it sank while leading an attack on a French invasion fleet in 1545. Around 19,000 artefacts were found on board after it was raised from the seabed of the Solent in 1982.
The London was built in Chatham in Kent and mysteriously exploded on a journey along the coast to Gravesend in 1665.
Specialist divers have undertaken 10 dives of the site of the wreck, which lies in two parts on the seabed.
Mark Dunkley, a maritime archaeologist at English Heritage, said: "There are still five dives to go but what we have confirmed so far is that the well preserved and vulnerable remains of the wreck of the London are consistent with the historical records that she did in fact blow up."
Steve Webster, project manager at Cotswold Archaeology, said: "This two-year project is the only ongoing excavation on an underwater wreck in England.
"This will allow us to better understand a whole range of changes that occurred between the first half of the 16th Century and the second half of the 17th Century, a period that saw the expansion of Britain's sea power and marks the start of the British Empire."
The London was rediscovered during preparatory works before the start of the London Gateway Port development in Thurrock in 2005.
The objects found will be curated by Southend Museums Service.
Edwards, 37, returns as captain of holders Vipers for the second edition of the T20 competition this month.
"It might be my last one, but I haven't made a full decision on it yet," she told BBC Radio Solent.
"The body and mind need to be at the best to play in this competition, I'm looking forward to the next few weeks."
Edwards, who retired from international cricket in 2016, was a radio and television pundit as England won July's Women's World Cup in dramatic fashion at Lord's.
After a number of weeks behind the microphone, the right-hander - who led England to World Cup and World T20 titles in 2009 - is keen to return to playing.
"I'm carrying a bit of a hamstring niggle at the moment, but it's been a long summer so far and I'm looking forward to playing," she said.
"This is a really good tournament at this stage of the season and T20 is a great format to market women's cricket. I love being around this group of players."
The Vipers start their Super League defence on 10 August against Western Storm at the Ageas Bowl in a repeat of last season's final.
Praveen Sood told the BBC that police officers had reviewed footage from almost 70 CCTV cameras.
But he said police were looking into isolated incidents in other parts of the city that night.
A number of women have told the media they were assaulted by groups of men.
Some have described being surrounded by unruly mobs, and being groped and harassed.
Praveen Sood said police had responded to footage from a member of the public who said a woman had been attacked by two men on a motorbike near his home.
"We had a look at it. We saw it was quite a clear case of serious molestation. We didn't wait, we didn't even bother with whom the victim is. We didn't ask her, we wanted to protect her identity. We have registered a criminal case," he said.
But, Mr Sood said, the alleged attacks in the centre of Bangalore never took place. The incidents are said to have occurred in the MG road area as a crowd of 10,000 people gathered there to see in the New Year on Saturday.
He said the footage being used by the media to make allegations of mass molestation was actually that of the melee that had resulted from a baton charge by police who were trying to disperse the crowds.
"People ran, there were a lot of girls there. There was panic, there was a melee, they got separated, they were crying… so that 30 seconds of confusion is being projected as a mass molestation. I categorically say that nothing of that sort has happened," he said.
Six people held on Wednesday were detained over an incident in a different part of the city, he said.
Mr Sood said that despite a public appeal, no one had come forward to record a complaint of molestation or harassment.
He said, however, that he had seen some women telling the media that they were touched inappropriately and that the police were ready to treat those statements as complaints and begin an investigation.
One woman, a marketing professional who asked to be identified only as Pooja, told the BBC that she was assaulted both in a bar and as she walked to meet a friend.
Even when she formed a circle with another group of girls to try and walk to safety, "there were guys who were trying to touch here and there", she said.
"There was not a single face you could make out or who was doing it," she said, pointing out how difficult it would be to file a complaint.
Another woman, photographer Chaitali Wasnik, told the BBC she was groped in another part of Bangalore on New Year's Eve.
She said a man approached her and tried to grab her breasts, but ran away when she fought back.
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The Labour MP Chuka Umunna told BBC Newsnight each of the 13 strands that make up the overall inquiry should have their own dedicated head as a way of heading off concerns that the new overall chair of the inquiry has a background in social work, an industry many survivors say failed them.
Some of those survivors have criticised the recent appointment of Professor Alexis Jay. She was appointed as chair following the departure in August of her predecessor Judge Lowell Goddard.
Abuse of children in care in the London borough of Lambeth, which includes Mr Umunna's constituency, is one of the inquiry strands.
Mr Umunna, who also serves on the Home Affairs Select Committee and is standing to replace Keith Vaz as chair of the committee, told BBC Newsnight: "I think there is a way of moving forward where you have Professor Jay at the top of a federal like structure, encompassing people heading each of the different 13 investigations. I think that way perhaps we can move forward in a way that the survivors will feel comfortable with."
Mr Umunna said it was Professor Jay's background as opposed to anything she personally had done that was the problem: "The issue with Professor Jay is not personal to her. She is widely respected in her profession and beyond but it is more to do with the profession generally which of course let down a huge number of people and helped lead to an environment in which they were treated in the most appalling and abominable way that one can imagine."
Under Mr Umunna's plan Professor Jay would remain as head of the overall inquiry.
Professor Jay received widespread praise for her 2014 report into child protection failures in Rotherham.
Last week the leaders of what is believed to the largest group representing survivors of abuse said he was recommending to his members that the group no longer cooperate with the independent inquiry.
Raymond Stevenson, from the Shirley Oaks Survivors Group, cited the appointment of Professor Jay as a reason for him wanting his group to relinquish their role as core participants in the inquiry.
Mr Umunna told the BBC the inquiry had to get survivors on side. He said: "I don't see how the inquiry is going to be able to report without commanding the support and the confidence of the survivors concerned and here you have by far the biggest survivors group of over 600 individuals saying that they don't currently have confidence in the inquiry.
"Now that is a really big, big problem. It can't be swept under the carpet and ignored. It's been far too much sweeping under the carpet over the decades as it is. I think it needs to be dealt with."
Mr Stevenson told BBC Newsnight last week: "The new chair has spent 30 years in the social services department. That [someone other than her] would have been another condition for us [staying] because we are suggesting the social services department also being part."
Following Professor Jay's appointment last month Andi Lavery from the White Flowers Alba survivors group said: "She's a social worker, when one of the key aspects of this inquiry is looking at the abject failure of the social work profession."
Professor Jay, who stepped up to be chair of the inquiry after previously sitting on its four person panel, won widespread respect for her 2014 report into child abuse in Rotherham.
She is the inquiry's fourth chair since it was established just over two years ago.
In a submission to the Home Affairs select committee last week Judge Goddard suggested the inquiry should be restructured so it focuses on the present and future rather than the past.
But Home Secretary Amber Rudd insisted the focus on the past should remain. She told MPs: "Understanding what happened is so important to getting right what we think is going to help now and in the future."
Mr Umunna said the focus on the past must continue and also called for Judge Goddard to appear before the Home Affairs Select Committee to answer questions on the written evidence she submitted to MPs last week.
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse did not respond to an invitation to comment.
Streather, 29, failed to make a Premiership appearance last term and was released at the end of the season.
He joined the club from Nottingham in 2013 and went on to make 30 appearances in all competitions.
"With the medical advice I have received, there is no other option for my long-term health and well-being," Streather said.
"I've been lucky to have enjoyed my time in the game, with Nottingham in the Championship and four amazing years at Saracens.
"I leave the game having made so many wonderful memories on and off the pitch and I've made some friends for life along the way."
The girl, named Hajar, said she had been sexually abused by three different members of her family since the age of 14.
Often crying, she also said she was eight months pregnant by one of her abusers.
It emerged during her appearance on Ala Chebbi's show Andi Mankolek, or I've Got Something to Tell You, that poverty had forced her to give up school aged 14 to work on the family farm.
She also said that her father was frequently absent because of work, and that her relationship with him and her stepmother was poor.
Hajar's elder brother, Allala, who appeared alongside her on the show earlier this month, said he had approached the show out of despair after her father, ashamed at her pregnancy, had kicked her out of the family home.
Although Tunisia is seen as relatively progressive on social matters among Muslim-majority countries, traditional attitudes are still widespread, and pregnancy before marriage is regarded by some as a matter of shame, regardless of the cause.
When Hajar's father joined the programme, Chebbi suggested to him that "whoever did it should marry her to close the case" and "contain the situation".
He asked Hajar who the father is, and she told him that she was not sure, but suspects the brother of her stepmother.
Told by her brother that all three alleged abusers were married, Chebbi added that "at least, he can recognise his child and give him his name".
He then chided her for not reporting any of her abusers, and urged her to ask her father for forgiveness for being pregnant without being married. "Admit that you are at fault," he added.
The remarks prompted an outcry on social media.
"Even though she was raped and abused by her relatives, he asks her to justify herself," tweeted freelance cartoonist Tawfiq Omrane.
Thousands of people joined a Facebook page called "'Marry your rapist,' he says. 'We will see you in court,' we reply."
The page uses a widely-shared photo of the show's studio with a text overlaid that says: "Mr Ala: The punishment for rape is imprisonment, not marriage."
It has addressed a letter to the minister for women, family and childhood, Samira Merai, calling for action to end violence against women and children.
There was also criticism of a law - Article 227 - that requires rape charges to be dropped if the perpetrator marries the victim.
The women's ministry has drafted a bill to abolish the article, but this still needs to be ratified by parliament.
Chebbi insisted his remarks were taken out of context, telling Mosaique Radio FM he had only suggested marriage in light of what he called a lack of evidence proving that rape had taken place.
He said he believed the abusers should be punished if proven guilty of rape, but again reiterated his view that Hajar had made a mistake in remaining silent.
"This is the case of many Tunisian girls who have been raped and did not say anything," he said. "Silence is the core of this case."
But Tunisia's media regulator has sided with his critics, suspending the programme for three months after finding it to have "violated human dignity".
Radia Saidi, a spokeswoman of the Tunisian Independent High Authority for Audiovisual Communication, told the BBC's Rana Jawad that Chebbi had judged the victim, rather than questioning her."There was no excuse to break Tunisian laws and international laws for the protection of minors and of privacy," she added.
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The 25-year-old joined the Owls from Leeds United in 2014, and has since made 92 appearances, scoring twice.
He played 42 times last season as Wednesday reached the play-off final, which they lost to Hull City.
"I'm really happy here," said Lees. "Like any player, I want to play in the Premier League. I am convinced we can achieve these ambitions together."
Evans is expected to be named on Friday in Michael O'Neill's squad for the World Cup qualifier with Norway in Belfast on 26 March.
The 26-year-old has been sidelined since 2 January because of a chronic groin problem.
Evans has started his country's last two World Cup qualifiers.
New Rovers manager Mowbray made it clear there would be no club-versus-country row if Evans were to face the Norwegians.
"I don't really get involved in the international set-ups. What I do know is footballers like to play for their countries, they want to play for their countries," he said.
"If he gets called up, there will no problem. If anything it will be a benefit if he gets some game time and some intense training to build him up.
"He has trained with us for almost a week now. I would have to say he looks a very talented footballer, my type of footballer. He picks really lovely passes, he's got quick feet and a really good appreciation of the football.
"He needs to get fit. If he gets called up, there will no problem."
Former Celtic boss Mowbray was appointed Blackburn manager on 22 February, succeeding Owen Coyle.
Sean Anderson said they would leave the Malheur complex on Thursday morning, in a live broadcast on the internet.
Earlier, the FBI moved in on the group, which had been entrenched for 40 days.
They are protesting against federal government control of local land. One activist died in an earlier confrontation with police.
Agents were placed behind barricades near the self-styled militia's encampment, an FBI statement said.
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All four of the militia - a husband and wife and two other men - were said to be present during a discussion, broadcast live online, about how they would put down their weapons and walk out of the refuge at 08:00 local time (16:00 GMT).
They will meet a Nevada lawmaker, Michele Fiore, and a preacher who are travelling to meet them. Ms Fiore, a Republican member of the Nevada state assembly, was also on the live conference call.
She said that the FBI had "given us their word that they are going to stand down tonight" on the understanding that the four would leave the complex in the morning.
The live stream of events inside the refuge has been a strange mixture of prayer and paranoia, of fear and defiance.
The occupiers have repeatedly accused the federal government of persecuting them and they have attacked President Barack Obama for trying to "take away guns from people who are depressed".
With tens of thousands listening, the militia revealed that they had been eating well, talking about hearty cooked breakfasts, pork fried rice and steaks.
At one point, an occupier compared himself to the Scottish patriot William Wallace, suggesting that he too would rather die than give up his freedom.
"Remember Braveheart? Braveheart took it to the end even when he was tortured," he said.
At other times members of the quartet have sounded despairing, repeatedly expressing the fear that they will be shot dead.
As well as Mr Anderson, 48, the other occupiers have been named as Sandy Anderson, 47; David Fry, 27; Jeff Banta, 46.
The four had refused to leave despite the arrest of the group's leader Ammon Bundy last month. He has urged those remaining to stand down.
On Wednesday night Ammon's father, Cliven Bundy, was arrested by the FBI at Portland International Airport.
Local media reported that he faces federal charges in relation to a 2014 confrontation at his ranch. The stand-off between federal agents and Mr Bundy's supporters was the culmination of a two-decade dispute over grazing rights on federal land.
The Malheur National Wildlife Refuge was seized early in January. The armed takeover was sparked by the return to prison of two Oregon ranchers accused of burning federal land.
It developed into a wider protest demanding the return of government-controlled land to locals.
Mr Bundy and others were arrested late in January in a confrontation with police that left one of the activists, LaVoy Finicum, dead.
The FBI said its agents moved in on the four on Wednesday after one of them drove a vehicle outside barricades erected by the group.
"We reached a point where it became necessary to take action in a way that best ensured the safety of those on the refuge, the law enforcement officers who are on scene, and the people of Harney County," the statement said.
In October, a federal judge ruled the sentences on two Oregon ranchers, Dwight and Steven Hammond, for burning federal land were too short and jailed them for about four years each.
Angered by the ruling, Nevada native Ammon Bundy began a social media campaign backing them and travelled to Burns, Oregon, organising meetings.
His group attracted supporters from across a number of states and Mr Bundy called it Citizens for Constitutional Freedom. On 2 January the armed militiamen took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge - and widened the range of demands.
It is an extension of the Sagebrush Revolution of the 1970s and 1980s that demanded the transfer of federal land in many western states to local control.
Mr Bundy's own father - a Nevada rancher - had been involved in a protest over cattle-grazing rights in 2014. One policy is to try to persuade ranchers to tear up their federal grazing contracts.
Although many local residents are sympathetic with its cause, many also oppose the occupation of the refuge. Even the local ranchers who are serving the longer sentences distanced themselves from the militia.
The term has a complex history and generally refers to those outside the official military who can be called on in times of need. The US Constitution refers to the president having command of "militia of several states" and that Congress "can call forth militia" to tackle insurrection and invasion.
Those who form such militias cite the constitution and various references in federal and state law as granting them legality.
Profits at Google parent Alphabet increased 28% year-on-year to to $5.4bn (£4.2bn), boosted by advertising on mobile phones and the popular YouTube video service.
Amazon profits climbed more than 40%, to $724m (£560.8m). It was its eighth quarter in a row of profit.
Microsoft also had a strong quarter, with profits up nearly 28%, while chipmaker Intel's profits rose 45%.
Amazon said its growth was propelled by sales for web services and retail subscriptions, such as Amazon Prime.
The firm highlighted its international activity, noting expansion in India, Mexico and the UK. But executives told investors that more spending on content, products and warehouses for distribution lies ahead.
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"Although Amazon's sales advanced by a respectable 23% over the quarter, the pace of growth at the online behemoth remains much slower than it was over most of the prior fiscal year," said Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData Retail.
"Some of this is the result of a less favourable exchange rate diluting contributions from the international business. However, some is also down to a more challenging demand environment in North America, which has limited spending uplifts on products within Amazon's core territory."
Microsoft was lifted by its cloud computing products, such as Azure, which were $4.8bn, up 28% compared with the previous year.
"Our results this quarter reflect the trust customers are placing in the Microsoft Cloud," said Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella.
"From large multinationals to small and medium businesses to non-profits all over the world, organisations are using Microsoft's cloud platforms to power their digital transformation."
Microsoft also received a boost from social network LinkedIn, which it bought for $26bn in June last year.
It contributed $975m in revenue in the quarter, $25m more than analysts had predicted.
Chipmaker Intel's profits rose 45% to $2.9bn, with revenue up 8%. The growth was driven by its memory division, which recently launched a new technology, with revenue up 55%.
At the Democrats Abroad watch party in downtown Toronto, the faces were glum.
Eric Mintz, a statistician, realised earlier than some that pollsters missed the significance of Donald Trump support, and that the Republican looked likely to clinch the win.
He described the atmosphere as "slowly descending into gloom".
"It's an extinction moment - he's an extinction candidate," Mr Mintz said, saying he feared that America as it exists now will come to an end.
"I think he's extraordinarily dangerous in policy and personality."
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A few blocks away at the swanky Albany Club, a well-heeled crowd of politicians, diplomats and businesspeople were watching with disbelief as the results rolled in.
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne had backed Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, but her concern was rooted in more than just politics.
"Our fate is absolutely inextricably linked to the United States," the premier of Canada's most populous province told the BBC.
"If we have a partner south of the border that isn't interested in getting a softwood lumber deal or making sure we continue our relationship with the auto sector, that's very, very bad for the province and it's bad for the country."
Her number one issue in the Canada-US relationship? "Trade."
Canada and the US share the longest peaceful border on Earth.
Canada's economy, based largely on foreign trade, is tied to that of the US. America is by far the country's largest trading partner, with some CA$2.3bn ($1.7 bn/£1.4bn) in goods and services crossing the Canada-US border daily.
So how Mr Trump handles trade, especially the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), matters to Canada. He has called the agreement a "disaster" and has vowed to either renegotiate it or axe it completely.
Mr Trump has also said he would pressure allies to pay their fair share into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato).
Nato guidelines say member states should spend at least 2% of their gross domestic product on defence. Most countries in the military alliance, including Canada, lag behind on that figure.
Canada also shares close ties with the US when it comes to tackling shared national security concerns, climate change, and the war against so-called Islamic State.
But Mr Trump is a possible ally on one file: the Keystone XL pipeline, which the Obama administration rejected in 2015. The company behind the controversial Alberta-to-Texas pipeline says it is still committed to the project.
Canada had lined up largely behind Clinton.
Not everyone though.
David Woolley, 26, a communications professional, was proudly sporting a Make America Great Again baseball cap.
Once a supporter of Mrs Clinton's primary rival Bernie Sanders, Mr Woolley gravitated towards Trump. He said the real estate mogul held positions similar to Mr Sanders, such as curbing free trade and limiting American interventions abroad.
"We're flipping the coin with [Mr Trump], whereas we know Hillary will continue to represent the banksters and represent the neoconservatives," he said.
On the other side of the border, Americans were looking northward for hope. Canada's immigration website crashed as Trump wins continued to mount.
Can they make it work? Jessica Murphy, Canada editor, BBC News
Canadian prime ministers and their US counterparts have not always got along.
And from policy to temperament, it can be hard to imagine two men who have less in common than Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump.
Mr Trudeau, 44, is young, optimistic, a self-declared feminist.
Mr Trump, 70, will be the oldest man ever elected US president. He painted a pessimistic view of America throughout the campaign, and has been forced to defend his treatment of women.
Mr Trudeau has made tackling climate change one of his key policy issues. Mr Trump has said he would cut all US federal climate change spending and wants to dismantle the Paris climate agreement.
Mr Trudeau has made openness to refugees part of his brand. Mr Trump has warned admitting refugees from certain regions presents a serious threat to US national security.
But the two nations are close allies. From national security to the economy, to ensuring goods and people can move across the border, they tend to work in tandem on issues of mutual interest.
So while Mr Trudeau's relationship with Mr Trump not be the immediate "bromance" Mr Trudeau formed with Barack Obama, both will have to find a way to make it work.
With more than £600,000 of prize money on offer, including a first prize of £120,000 for the big race, the cast list will be a 'Who's Who' of the National Hunt world.
Having won more than £1m at the Cheltenham Festival last month, Irish champion trainer Willie Mullins is on course to dethrone current British champion trainer Paul Nicholls.
Both men are heading to Ayr knowing the title could be clinched with a big race win, while another Irish trainer, Mouse Morris, is aiming for a unique National treble after triumphs in last Saturday's Grand National with Rule The World and last month's Irish Grand National with Rogue Angel.
There's no doubt about who's going to be champion jockey following the retirement last year of 20-times winner, Sir Anthony McCoy, or AP as he's better known.
Perennial runner-up Richard Johnson will be at Ayr with the title already wrapped up, having ridden more than 220 winners - almost 100 more than his nearest rival.
It is exactly 50 years since the Scottish Grand National was first run at Ayr - African Patrol, ridden by Johnny Leech, was the inaugural winner - following the closure of the racecourse at nearby Bogside in 1965 where it had been staged for nearly a century.
Over those last 50 years, the gruelling marathon has been won by a cast list that includes many of the sport's great names - equine and human.
But there's one name that stands out - Red Rum. The winner of the Aintree Grand National three times, "Rummy" came north in 1974 having just won the second of his three Nationals.
Despite some suggesting it bordered on cruelty to run a horse in two such gruelling races within days of each other, he simply ran his rivals into the ground to claim the Scottish National too.
Red Rum remains the only horse to win both big races in the same year.
The achievement was so remarkable that Ayr Racecourse commissioned a statue in the horse's honour.
As for Saturday's race, Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary is flying high at the moment as the owner of both the Irish Grand National winner Rogue Angel and Grand national winner Rule The World.
He has entered several horses for Ayr - including Rogue Angel.
But what odds a Scottish-trained winner? Well, around 14/1 according to the bookies, who reckon Seeyouatmidnight could give Borders trainer Sandy Thomson his greatest moment by far.
"We gave him a quiet couple of weeks and now we're building him up, we're delighted with him," said Thomson. "We're really looking forward to it."
The last Scottish winner of the race was in 2012 when Merigo, trained near Lockerbie by Andrew Parker, gained his second success having previously won it two years earlier.
Great jockeys such as AP McCoy, Ruby Walsh, Peter Scudamore and Richard Johnson have all ridden the winner of the Scottish Grand National while legendary trainers David Nicholson, Jenny Pitman, Martin Pipe and Nigel Twiston-Davies all have it on their CVs.
That's maybe why the 'Sold Out' signs have gone up on the Club Enclosure as the racecourse nears its capacity of 16,500.
On Saturday, another chapter will be written in the rich history of the great race as 30 runners negotiate 27 fences over a stamina-sapping four miles, hoping to add their names to the roll of honour.
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has said the government is "very open" to the idea of changing the law to tackle what he said was a "growing problem".
But charity Women's Aid urged the government to go further and support victims through the justice system.
Lib Dem peers are attempting to make the practice a criminal offence.
Ministers may take "appropriate action" in the autumn, the justice secretary has said.
The term "revenge porn" is used to describe the phenomenon of people posting explicit images of former partners online - either obtained consensually or stolen - to humiliate them following a break up.
Mr Grayling told MPs the practice was becoming a more significant problem in the UK.
He was responding to a question from fellow Conservative Maria Miller.
The former culture secretary has called for a change in the law to tackle the "appalling" practice, saying the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill could be used to toughen up the necessary legislation.
Mr Grayling said Mrs Miller had "done a very important job in raising this issue".
"It's clearly becoming a bigger problem in our society," he told her.
"What I'd say to you today is the government is very open to having a serious discussion about this with a view to taking appropriate action in the autumn if we can identify the best way of doing so."
But Polly Neate, chief executive of the Women's Aid charity said: "To be meaningful, any attempt to tackle revenge porn must also take account of all other kinds of psychological abuse and controlling behaviour, and revenge porn is just another form of coercive control.
"That control is central to domestic violence, which is why we're campaigning for all psychological abuse and coercive control to be criminalised. We urge Mr Grayling and the Home Office to go further, and ensure victims can get the support of the criminal justice system for all the abuse they experience."
She said it was "hard to know how many people are affected" but that anecdotally it was thought those "experiencing domestic violence will face the threat or reality of revenge porn".
Laura Higgins, of the UK Safer Internet Centre, said she supported the suggestion of criminalising "revenge porn" and that the organisation was frustrated with the current lack of cohesion surrounding the issue.
But she pointed out that there were already laws in place that had failed to prevent abuse because of how they are applied.
Sarah Green, of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, said: "The impacts of revenge porn can be devastating, from the impact on your everyday life of work and relationships, to the feeling of violation and abuse.
She said it was critical that victims were able to "access support services whether or not they report to the police".
The issue demonstrated how schoolchildren should be educated in issues such as respect, equality and consent in relationships, through compulsory sex and relationships education - she added.
Lawyer Rupinder Bains told BBC Radio 5 live there are provisions within existing legislation to tackle images posted online.
"If the police are onside - and this is where a big issue currently lies, the education for the police in recognising this is a real issue - they can proceed under harassment legislation.
"We have things in place that control electronic images being used for a purpose to cause alarm and distress.
She said it was possible to take out injunctions to get images removed from the web but that this was costly and time consuming.
Hannah, 21, told BBC's Newsbeat how her ex-boyfriend posted explicit photographs of her on Tumblr.
She said that when she went to the police about it she was told "the most they could do was file a domestic incident report in case his behaviour escalated".
Two peers, Lord Marks and Baroness Grender, have put forward an amendment to the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill which would allow for a one-year jail term for publishing these kinds of images.
The proposal follows a campaign by Lib Dem MP Julian Huppert who has highlighted the issue in the Commons.
He said: "We need to make a criminal sanction available when people share indecent images in the knowledge that consent would not have been given."
Lord Marks said he and Baroness Grender hoped to work closely with the Ministry of Justice "to ensure that this offence reaches the statute book".
But Gabrielle Guillemin, legal officer of international free speech campaign Article 19, has cautioned against "revenge porn" legislation.
She told the Lords Communications Committee: "We have seen a lot of legislation, for example in the United States, to address this particular issue, but you would question whether it is for the criminal law to get involved in what is very often, ultimately, the fallout of failed relationships.
She questioned whether "civil remedies" were not "more appropriate to deal with these kinds of issues".
Legislation criminalising the practice has been introduced in the US states of Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, New York, Maryland, California and New Jersey.
However, the laws in California do not cover self-taken shots, which some campaigners claim may represent up to 80% of all revenge porn.
The 51-year-old driver was dropping off a man in Irvine when the passenger threatened him with a knife and demanded money.
The victim handed over a small amount of cash before the suspect made off in an unknown direction.
Police said the robbery took place on Warrix Avenue last Wednesday at about 18:40.
The driver had picked the suspect up at Irvine train station a short time earlier.
Police said the taxi driver was uninjured but badly shaken by his ordeal.
The suspect was described as being a slim white man in his late teens with a local accent. He was wearing a light-coloured hooded top.
Det Con Alex Greig said: "The victim was simply doing his job when he was threatened at knifepoint for fares he had collected.
"Although uninjured, this was a traumatic incident for the driver and we are doing all that we can to trace the man responsible.
"Our inquiries are continuing and we continue to analyse CCTV in the area. We are seeking assistance from the public to help trace the suspect."
The demand being made by the Welsh education schools group, Cymdeithas Ysgolion Dros Addysg Gymraeg (Cydag).
It highlights severe delays in publishing Welsh language textbooks, with examples of teachers giving up summer holidays to translate.
The Welsh Government said it was "committed" to Welsh-medium resources.
But Cydag, which represents about 57 Welsh-medium schools, has voiced their concerns in a letter to the education secretary Kirsty Williams.
The body told BBC Wales' Newyddion 9 that it wanted "principled" Welsh Government decisions and called the current situation a "crisis."
Cydag secretary Arwel George said: "We see documents and policies which state that the Welsh Government intends to treat both languages equally and encourage more pupils to study through the medium of Welsh.
"The implementation of policies falls very short of this."
Nine new GSCE and six A level courses will be introduced in 2017, yet only two have so far been approved by the regulator, Qualifications Wales.
Cydag claims any delay will give the examining board, WJEC, little time to prepare Welsh language resources.
"Qualifications Wales and WJEC are working closely together in the development of specifications and sample assessment materials for those subjects planned for first teaching in September 2017," a spokesperson for Qualifications Wales said.
"The process is on schedule and draft specifications are available in all subjects bilingually. We currently expect final approved materials to be available in line with the schedule published on our website."
"We are absolutely committed to getting the right resources available to support teaching and learning through the medium of Welsh," stated a Welsh Government official.
"That is why we invest over £2.6m annually in developing and publishing Welsh-medium resources across all curriculum and vocational subjects for 3-19 year olds.
"We understand the challenge in getting texts by commercial publishers translated.
"We expect WJEC to work with publishers to make sure that this process continues to improve."
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The fifth-tier club became the first non-league team in 103 years to reach the last eight with the biggest shock of the competition so far on Saturday.
Holders Manchester United play Chelsea, and Millwall, who beat Premier League champions Leicester, play Tottenham.
Middlesbrough face Manchester City or Huddersfield, who drew 0-0 on Saturday.
"It's a win-win," Lincoln manager Danny Cowley said on BT Sport. "We wish Sutton all the best tomorrow, I genuinely hope they can do it."
Sutton, who are the lowest-ranked team still left in the cup, play at home to the Gunners in a 19:55 GMT kick-off on Monday that will be live on BBC One.
The replay between Manchester City and Huddersfield is provisionally set for Tuesday, 28 February at Etihad Stadium.
Full FA Cup quarter-final draw:
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There are 88 places between National League leaders Lincoln and Arsenal. Sutton are in the same league as the Imps but are in 17th - 104 places below the Gunners.
Lincoln boss Cowley said his side had achieved a "football miracle" after beating Burnley 1-0 at Turf Moor with an 89th-minute winner.
It is the first time in the club's 133-year history that they have reached the quarter-finals.
Their next match is away to North Ferriby United on Tuesday, while they are also still in the FA Trophy and play Boreham Wood for a semi-final place on Saturday.
Queens Park Rangers, who joined the Football League in 1920, were the last non-league team to make the FA Cup last eight, in 1914. They were beaten 2-1 by Liverpool in their quarter-final at Anfield.
It comes after the Court of Appeal ruled in May that it had imposed the curfews unlawfully.
The law firm that took the Home Office to court says potentially thousands of people may be entitled to compensation.
Those subject to curfews cannot leave their home for up to 12 hours at a time.
The curfews are not directly linked to time served in prison, but some immigration detainees have committed a crime. Others have overstayed their visas or are seeking asylum.
Lisa Matthews, from human rights organisation Right To Remain, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that immigration curfews are "highly damaging" to people's lives.
"The policy was unjustifiable, unnecessary, punitive and unlawful. We believe that if the Home Office believes it is above the law, this is a danger for us all."
Nabil Abdullah, 30, has been subject to an immigration curfew for three years. He lives with his partner Claire Cummings and their baby Sydney in Middlesbrough, having moved to the UK as a child.
Eleven years ago, he served a year in prison for street robbery and was eligible for deportation as a foreign national, but Sudan - where he was born - refused to accept him back on four occasions, leaving him stuck in the British immigration system.
He is currently on bail from immigration detention. The curfew was imposed by the Home Office.
Mr Abdullah has been ordered to stay inside his home during the curfew hours of 20:00 to 08:00 every day. If he breaks his curfew, it is a criminal offence.
Because of the curfew, Mr Abdullah recently missed his grandmother's funeral and had to get written permission to attend the birth of his baby.
He does not know if, or when, the curfew will be removed. Currently, he is not allowed to work or study and is not entitled to benefits.
"The way I look at it," he said, "it's like I'm dead. I can't do anything. All I'm hoping for is all these things will disappear, put a full stop to it."
Ravi Naik of ITN solicitors, the law firm that took the Home Office to court, said the curfews suggested an alarming disregard for the rule of law by the government - whether or not people have sympathy for those subject to them.
"The fact the Home Office [admitted in court] it had 'assumed' there was legal authority for these curfews until this challenge was brought, really underlines how the Home Office has treated these individuals."
Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said the immigration curfews "are in some cases more severe" than those handed out as part of bail from prison, which she found "quite extraordinary".
"It shows that once you get lost in the immigration system, people think that the normal rules of natural justice don't apply to you.
She says the Home Office must "review each and every one of these cases".
The Home Office told the BBC it was "reviewing all cases in which a curfew is in place as part of electronic monitoring to ensure the validity of the curfew".
It added: "We have taken action to simplify bail powers as part of the Immigration Act 2016."
But in cases where curfews have been historically imposed unlawfully, the government could be facing a large compensation bill. Mr Abdullah, for example, is considering taking legal action.
The Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.
Arnautovic, who also had an effort ruled out for offside, exploited a huge gap in the Villa defence early in the second half to finish off the post.
Villa created little bar a credible Jordan Veretout appeal for a penalty.
Tim Sherwood's side have not won since the opening day and lie 18th, four points from safety.
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Sherwood said after last week's defeat at Liverpool that his team were already in a relegation battle and, in an attempt to turn the tide, opted for a change of system.
Jack Grealish, who pledged his international future to England this week, was left on the bench as Sherwood employed a wing-backs system, one that left the hosts' forwards short of service.
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When Grealish was introduced for Joleon Lescott at half-time, Villa reverted to a back four, with centre-halves Micah Richards and Jose Angel Crespo separated to provide space for Arnautovic's goal.
Villa may be right to feel aggrieved that they were denied a penalty when Cameron clumsily challenged Veretout in the first half, but, in truth, they were toothless for large periods, managing only two shots on target.
They are without a win at home all season and have taken only 71 points from their last 74 games at Villa Park, a run that dates back to December 2011.
Some eye-catching summer recruitment saw Stoke bring in the likes of Xherdan Shaqiri, Ibrahim Affelay and Glen Johnson to the Britannia Stadium, but an early run of six games without a win did not match the pre-season optimism.
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However, on the back of victory over Bournemouth last week, Stoke claimed their third successive win at Villa Park and extended an unbeaten run at Villa that goes back to 2009.
Without the injured Shaqiri, the trio of Arnautovic, Bojan and Jon Walters inter-changed behind Mame Biram Diouf to create regular problems for the Villa defence, while at the other end a solid rearguard resulted in the Potters' first clean sheet of the season.
Arnautovic was perhaps unfortunate to have a first-half effort ruled out - he looked to be level with the last defender before volleying past Brad Guzan - but there was no doubt about his second-half strike, played into space by Johnson before finishing from the corner of the six-yard box.
The only sour note for City was a late injury to Diouf, who left field on a stretcher.
Stoke midfielder Charlie Adam found the net with a wonder goal against Chelsea in April, collecting the ball inside his own half and lobbing Thibaut Courtois from 65 yards.
The Scot almost embarrassed Guzan in similar fashion, unleashing a left-footed effort from deep inside his own half, not even as far advanced as the centre circle.
Guzan just managed to scramble back, leaping to tip the ball around the post.
"It was on and I felt it might have been close. I thought it was in and he did well to get back," said the Scot.
Adam has now provided the goalkeepers of the Premier League with plenty of warning about wandering off their line.
Aston Villa manager Tim Sherwood: "I am very disappointed, we needed to win the game at home to a team that we could have leapfrogged.
"We failed to capitalise and it was not good enough. I think a draw would have been a fair result, both teams were average.
"The situation is getting worse, it is alright saying ifs, buts and maybes, but we are not picking up the wins and that is why we are down near the bottom of the league.
"We are all in this together but as the manager I take all the responsibility.
"I will use the international break to get my players fitter because they are not fit enough yet to play the way I want them to play. For some of them it will be like a mini pre-season."
Stoke manager Mark Hughes: "I was pleased with what we produced, it was a performance that we have been looking for. The first half was some of the best stuff we have played in terms of controlling the game.
"In the second half, we knew they would come at us, but we defended really well.
"I thought Marko was excellent today, offensively and defensively. He puts a shift in. It wasn't an easy chance, but thankfully he took it.
"It would have been hard to take had we not taken maximum points today and now we have a lot of time to prepare for the next game at Swansea."
It does not get easier for Villa. After the two-week international break, they face a daunting trip to Chelsea on Saturday, 17 October (15:00), while Stoke go to Swansea on the following Monday evening.
Populous, who designed the London Olympic Stadium and the O2 arenas in London, Berlin and Dublin, was chosen from a shortlist of five.
Bristol Arena, a 12,000-seat venue set to open in 2017, will be built in the Temple Quarter enterprise zone.
The council said more than 50,000 people viewed the five designs online and it had received about 550 comments.
The judging panel, which included the mayor, Bristol City Council and the Royal Institute of British Architects, said it "took the comments fully into consideration when scoring the designs".
Populous was praised by the panel for its "unique innovative concept that allows for smaller capacity theatre style events, while quickly converting to larger configurations for sporting events, major conventions or exhibitions".
Mayor George Ferguson said: "The Populous team has presented an innovative design for a horseshoe-shaped arena that will allow us real flexibility for programming, for now and into the future".
Nicholas Reynolds, from Populous said: "We believe Bristol Arena will be the catalyst for the creation of a vibrant new quarter in the city."
The project is funded by the city council and the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership, through its Economic Development Fund.
The council said it expected to "break even within ten years" and hoped the arena would "bring some of the greatest acts and events as well as millions of pounds of economic growth to the region".
The arena is set to be located on the former diesel depot site next to Bristol Temple Meads railway station, in the Bristol Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone.
At Prime Minister's Questions she said: "Typical Labour, take the advantage and pull up the ladder behind you."
Mr Corbyn had accused the government of finding money for Mrs May's grammar school "vanity project" while cutting funding for other schools.
The Labour leader's son Ben went to a North London grammar school although Mr Corbyn was reported to be against it.
The issue is said to have led to the break-up of Mr Corbyn's second marriage in the late 1990s, with his then wife Claudia insisting that the child should not attend a local Islington comprehensive school.
During Wednesday's clashes in the Commons Mr Corbyn accused Mrs May of "betraying a generation of young people by cutting the funding for every child" with a new funding formula for schools in England.
"Children will have fewer teachers, larger classes, fewer subjects to choose from and all the Prime Minister can do is focus on her grammar school vanity project that can only ever benefit a few children."
He said the government found no extra money in the Budget for schools but offered £320m for Mrs May's grammar school project.
The prime minister said the funding formula would be fair to all but stressed that it was still at the consultation stage and had not been finalised.
She then rounded on Mr Corbyn and his front bench team, listing those who attended a private school or a grammar school.
"He sent his own child to a grammar school, he himself went to a grammar school," she added, pointing at Mr Corbyn and accusing him of hypocrisy.
Theresa May's government has form on changing its mind when it's clear a policy is heading into a political quagmire. After all, it was only seven days ago the chancellor junked the planned tax rises for two million or so self-employed people.
Is there another U-turn in the offing? Parents and schools in different parts of the country are cross. Labour, some Tory backbenchers and local councillors around England are riled. And accusations are building again that the Tories would be breaking another manifesto commitment - their 2015 promise to protect the amount of cash that is spent on each pupil at school.
There is no question that school budgets are already under a lot of pressure, with many schools having to cut back because money is already short.
One of the tough things for the government is that they are hoping to push through a reform where there will be plenty of financial losers at a time when cash is already short, and falling in real terms. But are ministers ready to give up this time? No, or perhaps, not yet
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Mr Corbyn insisted he wanted a "decent, fair opportunity" for every child in every school.
Mrs May told him: "He says he wants opportunities for all children, he says he wants good school places for all children - then he should jolly well support the policies we're putting forward."
The prime minister went to a grammar school in Oxford, Wheatley Park, which became a comprehensive while she was there.
The government is planning to overturn a long-running ban on opening new grammar schools, which select pupils by ability, but says it has no plans to bring back the 11-plus exam.
Education Secretary Justine Greening is consulting on a new formula for schools in England, to address what it calls the "unfair, opaque and outdated" distribution of money.
It says more than half of schools will receive a cash boost and protections will be put in place to ensure no school loses more than 6% of their budget in real terms.
But it has sparked criticism from head teachers and governors, who have said it does not take account of rising costs and will leave some schools desperately short of cash.
The Northern Irishman, 27, said he was verbally abused when he was walking to the eighth tee, stopping to point the offender out to officials at Hazeltine.
"Someone said a few derogatory things I thought were over the line," said McIlroy after winning a third point.
"That particular guy, who is in a small minority, just took it a bit too far."
It is unclear if the man was escorted off the course and McIlroy said he was "unsure if the man had been removed".
Europe, who trail the United States 9½-6½ after the opening two days, need 7½ points from Sunday's 12 singles matches to retain the trophy.
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McIlroy and rookie Pieters were the only winners for Europe in the afternoon fourball session as the home side, spurred on by a partisan crowd in Minnesota, won the final three matches.
"It's a tough environment but we expect that," said McIlroy.
"There have been some boundaries crossed. I let it get to me a couple of times which I probably shouldn't have.
"You have to keep your concentration out there and it's been a long day and sometimes emotions run high.
"It fuelled me a lot. The more they shouted, the better we played, so I hope they shout at us all day on Sunday."
Europe team-mate Sergio Garcia, who is playing in his eighth Ryder Cup, said that the atmosphere had "been quite poor". One fan was heard to shout "Sergio, you suck" during the fourballs, leading Tom Lehman, one of the US vice-captains, to tell people to calm down.
The Spaniard, who, alongside German Martin Kaymer, was beaten two and one by Phil Mickelson and Matt Kuchar in the fourballs, told BBC Radio 5 live: "85% of people are great.
"I love playing in America and my girlfriend is American, but the 15% that are really bad makes them look bad, and I feel ashamed for my girlfriend."
Ian Poulter, one of Europe's vice-captains after injury prevented him qualifying, tweeted: "Irrespective of the score the US players are policing the fans as they are embarrassed of their behaviour. Shame some spoiling this."
Captain Darren Clarke tried to play down the issue, saying "people are exuberant and enjoying themselves," before adding, "people just seemed to enjoy themselves a little bit too much at times".
US player Jordan Spieth tried to quieten spectators during the foursomes match involving Garcia, and said: "There were times it would quiet down and you would get a fan or two that would just yell and single people out.
"We wanted to hush them down so they were able to hit under the same conditions we were. I think that's fair.
"We wanted to beat them at their best and we thought it would be fair to make sure we did our part in giving them the opportunity we had when we were hitting shots."
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Nintendo will not reveal official sales figures until April.
But games magazine Famitsu says more than 330,000 units were sold in the first three days in Japan, way more than its previous console the Wii U.
Media reports suggest European and US sales have also been strong.
The Daily Telegraph quotes sources at Nintendo Europe saying Switch sales were better than any previous piece of Nintendo hardware.
And The New York Times reported the head of Nintendo America had claimed sales had surpassed the Nintendo Wii, which launched in 2006 and went on to sell more than 100 million consoles.
On Wednesday, Nintendo shares climbed 1.2% to a two-month high in Tokyo trade.
The Switch can be seated in a dock to play games on a television, or used as a stand-alone portable device.
The early sales figures suggested "Nintendo's fans like it best when it innovates," according to Sam Reynolds, gaming analyst with IDC.
"While a solid launch for Nintendo in Japan is expected, what's even more impressive is its success in North America," he told the BBC.
According to Mr Reynolds, first weekend sales for Nintendo Switch were "miles ahead" of the Wii, the Wii U, the N64 and the Game Cube.
The stakes are high for the Japanese firm, after the Wii U failed to replicate the success of the original Wii.
And it has not been plain sailing for the firm.
Thousands of customers have complained about dead or stuck pixels - which they say create distracting and annoying dark squares on their screens.
Nintendo said such pixels were "normal and should not be considered a defect".
Meanwhile some critics have said the Switch launched with too few games.
America's space agency Nasa said it was "saddened by the loss" of the retired spaceman.
Captain Cernan was one of only three people to go to the Moon twice and the last man to leave a footprint on the lunar surface in 1972.
The final words he spoke there were: "We leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return with peace and hope for all mankind."
He was the commander of the Apollo 17 mission at the time.
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In a statement, Cernan's family said he passed away on Monday following ongoing health issues. They did not give any further details.
"It is with very deep sadness that we share the loss of our beloved husband and father," the statement said.
"Our family is heartbroken.
"Even at the age of 82, Gene was passionate about sharing his desire to see the continued human exploration of space and encouraged our nation's leaders and young people to not let him remain the last man to walk on the Moon."
Before the Apollo 17 mission, Cernan had travelled into space twice - in 1966 and 1969.
A qualified naval aviator, he was selected into the third group of Nasa astronauts in 1963.
He retired in 1976, going into private business and contributing to US television channels on a variety of issues.
Cernan also produced a documentary film about his life, which he discussed at length in this BBC interview in 2014.
Born on 14 March 1934 in Chicago, his full name was Eugene Andrew Cernan.
He is survived by his wife Jan Nanna Cernan, his daughter and two step-daughters and also nine grandchildren.
His family said details regarding his funeral would be announced in the coming days.
Gene Cernan's death comes just weeks after that of another Nasa astronaut, John Glenn.
It is four years since Wales were mauled 6-1 in Novi Sad, but it only takes a word for the humiliation to come flooding back.
It was a fourth loss in Coleman's fourth game in charge of his country, the worst start by any Wales manager in history.
It was Wales' heaviest defeat for 16 years, no mean feat for a nation which had languished outside of the world's top 100 for much of that time.
All this - and the nightmare of the game itself - is indelibly etched on Coleman's mind.
The wretched defending, the fury of the travelling Welsh fans, the loneliness of the walk from the pitch back to the changing room - it is all as vivid as ever.
"They [the fans] paid a lot of money and travelled a long way to watch a shambles and that was my fault. I had to take responsibly for that," says Coleman.
"I've never been afraid of criticism - my skin's thick enough to accept anything that comes my way. There's nothing worse than when you feel like you've let your country down and I did that in a big way.
"It still haunts me, to be honest. But I think that's quite good for me as well. You never want to experience that ever again."
The thrashing in Serbia was a nadir for Coleman and his players, who drew a line under the embarrassment and vowed never to plumb such depths again.
They beat Scotland in their next match and, after an uplifting end to their ultimately unsuccessful 2014 World Cup qualifying, Wales have since risen to historic new highs.
In qualifying for Euro 2016, Wales reached their first major tournament for 58 years, and once they were in France, a string of stirring displays saw them reach a maiden semi-final before bowing out to eventual winners Portugal.
On Saturday, they continue in their quest to qualify for the 2018 World Cup when they host Serbia in Cardiff.
Serbia are top of Group D with seven points from their first three matches, while Wales are two points behind in third place.
When the draw was made for the qualifying groups, Coleman says he "had a right smile on my face".
"The last two times we played them [Serbia] we conceded nine goals - we've also got a bit to thank them for," he adds.
"Sometimes you need an electric prod and that certainly came from them."
By his own admission, Coleman was "hanging on" to his job and some players' international futures were in doubt after such a damaging defeat.
However, Coleman persevered and his stock is at an all-time high, with his nomination for Fifa's men's coach of the year award crowning a remarkable year.
The players also stuck it out and, of the 11 who started in the 6-1 defeat in 2012, seven are in the squad for Saturday's match at Cardiff City Stadium.
"It's not the success that you learn from and that shapes you, it is the defeats," Coleman says.
"It's how you get through those tough times - that's what hardens and shapes you. I have seen the players grow up a hell of a lot.
"We have to have a high level of focus and our energy levels and our concentration has to be tip-top. It wasn't for the last couple of games."
After an opening 4-0 win over Moldova and a creditable 2-2 draw in Austria, Wales' qualifying campaign hit an unexpected snag with October's 1-1 home draw against Georgia.
That result has increased the pressure of what was already shaping up to be a significant match against Serbia, who seem to be realising the potential which they have failed to fulfil so badly in recent years.
Appointed in May, manager Slavoljub Muslin has at his disposal a squad of genuine international quality and strength in depth, featuring Premier League players such as Chelsea midfielder Nemanja Matic and Southampton winger Dusan Tadic.
Tadic scored his first goal for Serbia in the 2012 thrashing in Novi Sad, and Coleman has warned Wales they must improve to avoid another defeat to their familiar foes.
"For myself and for the players, we have to get back to doing what we do best - and that means our concentration levels have to be absolutely fantastic," he says.
"They will be against Serbia, who are very aggressive offensively. They take chances, so this is going to be a tough test for us."
On that day in 2005, Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, and Hasib Hussain, 18, left Leeds to carry out their deadly mission in London.
People from different religions are joining the "peace journey" to mark the 10th anniversary of 7/7 on Tuesday.
Imam Qari Asim said it was aimed at breaking down barriers between faiths.
Christians, Jews, Muslims, Sikhs and atheists aged 18 to 25 will travel 200 miles on the train from Leeds to London.
They will lay flowers at King's Cross and visit the Hyde Park memorial to the 52 victims of the attacks.
This is a lively group of 15 young people travelling from Leeds to London.
A few tell me they have decided to make this journey to learn more about communities and to gain insight into how people dealt with the aftermath of 7/7.
When we arrived at the memorial I noticed a change in the mood within the group, sombre and reflective.
Usman, a young Muslim man from Wakefield, came over and told me he felt sad, sad that local lads carried out the attacks. Sad that lives were lost. He said: "There are Muslim names also on these pillars, terrorists attack all communities."
The group walked away from the memorial in silence, heading to a synagogue where Muslims and Jews will gather to deliver messages of tolerance and interfaith.
The group will also visit an Alyth synagogue in north London that lost one of its members in the bombings.
Mr Asim, from the Makkah Masjid mosque, said: "This is a very sensitive and symbolic journey.
"We have young people from the city which was home to three of the perpetrators going to meet members of a synagogue who suffered so terribly from the 7/7 attacks.
"We're going down with a completely different mindset to the bombers.
"Their aim was destruction and causing mayhem, our journey is all about building castles of peace."
The event, organised by Leeds Citizens, is part of a project to bring together young people from different backgrounds who would not ordinarily share their experiences with one another.
Mr Asim said: "It has been an eye-opener for them and us.
"They have been able to air their views and learn from each other rather than being lectured at."
The department was subject to a Serious Case Review after the death of five-year-old Tyler Whelan, murdered by his mother's former partner in March 2011.
Ofsted found no children "inadequately protected or at risk of significant harm" and praised "rapid improvements".
Service director Sue Westcott said there was "no room for complacency".
The Conservative-led council had been subject to an Ofsted "notice to improve" since June 2010, following an inspection in March of that year.
A re-inspection of children's services in August 2011 again found the overall effectiveness of the department to be inadequate.
The review of the Tyler Whelan case, published in May last year, found it was one of many agencies that missed "numerous opportunities" for "more rigorous and incisive" interventions.
Elvis Lee, 34, kicked and bit Tyler Whelan, who died in hospital after collapsing at his home in Sheepwalk, Paston, near Peterborough.
The new rating of adequate by the education standards authority means the service "meets minimum requirements".
It follows an eight-day unannounced inspection of the department by five Ofsted officers in January.
"They found the lessons of the past had been taken very seriously and [the council] had invested considerably in additional social workers," Mrs Westcott said.
Investing in more staff meant the use of agency workers had been reduced and social workers' caseloads were now "more manageable", she added.
Nick Sandford, leader of the Liberal Democrat group on the city council, said: "There were some really important issues surrounding child safety but the council has recognised those significant failures and addressed them."
He described the improvements as "encouraging" but questioned whether the council could maintain the required level of investment.
Earlier this week city councillors agreed ??17m worth of cuts, including to children's play centres and adult social care services.
Mrs Westcott said: "The money that's been invested [in children's services] has been absolutely worthwhile."
Services are rated by Ofsted as inadequate, adequate, good or outstanding.
The Danes won 28-26 to earn their first handball medal at an Olympic Games and their second gold in Rio and 15th medal in total.
Denmark led 16-14 at the break and maintained their advantage in the second half with Mikkel Hansen scoring eight times in the match.
Earlier, Germany beat Poland 31-25 to win the bronze medal.
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The Living Memory project has won the support of broadcaster and journalist Kirsty Wark, whose great uncle fought at the Somme.
She has urged people to visit war graves - including those in more than 1,200 cemeteries across Scotland.
She said people should remember the casualties, and find out their stories.
The campaign was launched at the Western Necropolis on Glasgow which contains the graves of 355 service personnel killed during World War One - the earliest Pte L Maskell, who died on 26th October 1914.
They are maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which looks after memorials in more than 150 countries and in every continent apart from Antarctica.
Kirsty Wark said her relative, James Wark, fought and survived the entire 141 days of the Battle of the Somme, to die of Spanish Flu "just days after the Armistice in 1918".
"He had the most poignant letter in his kit bag, which the family now have, saying how much he looked forward to coming home," she said.
"Sadly, as we know, he never made it, but thanks to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, he is buried and remembered at the Ascq Communal Cemetery in France."
Jennie Sweeney, from the commission, told BBC Radio Scotland's Newsdrive programme that the initiative was "about raising awareness."
She said most people know about the cemeteries in Belgium and France, but she called graves in Scotland and the rest of the UK "the forgotten front."
She added: "We're looking to mark the Battle of the Somme by encouraging community groups to go, find, research, visit, explore and commemorate their local war graves."
The commission has launched a resource pack to help people organise events, and find graves near them or the details of casualties from their local area.
Jennie Sweeney said: "Some people, for example, have wanted to find people from their street. And people are coming to us with their research, and telling us that they've found a Somme casualty in their village, town or city."
The commission claims most people on the UK mainland are no more than three miles from at least one of its graves.
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Chilean Pellegrini, whose team remain in contention for four trophies this year, will be replaced by Pep Guardiola at the end of the season.
The announcement was made on Monday, 24 hours before City beat Sunderland 1-0.
"It was never going to be a distraction. We're here to win titles, Manuel's here to win titles," said England international Hart.
"We back him, we love him as our manager."
Hart, 28, made a number of fine saves at the Stadium of Light, where Sergio Aguero's early goal gave City a hard-fought win.
The goalkeeper added: "We appreciate we have a job to do this season. Next season is next season."
Victory - in Pellegrini's 100th match in charge - kept the Blues three points behind Premier League leaders Leicester, who visit Etihad Stadium on Saturday.
Pellegrini's side will play Liverpool in the Capital One Cup final, and face Chelsea and Dynamo Kiev next in the FA Cup and Champions League respectively.
The 62-year-old appeared reluctant to discuss Monday's announcement, but defender Gael Clichy joined Hart in supporting his manager.
Asked if he was excited about Guardiola's appointment, the Frenchman said: "I can assure you the only excitement we have was to win the game today.
"It is big news, I think the club did what they felt was needed. As a player, you play for the fans, the chairman, the manager and yourself. Today it was for Pellegrini."
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Now a seven-metre wide model of the giant peach that features in one of Dahl's most well-known books, James and the Giant Peach, has hit Cardiff's streets as part of the City of the Unexpected event.
Scenic artist Frankie Locke told BBC Wales that working on the peach is "the most unusual job she's ever had."
The items were intended to be used to help raise money at an event for people with disabilities.
Charity The 1st Sensory Legion has since received more than 500 replacement toys in what it described as an "epic" response.
Police are investigating the theft that happened in Peterborough last week.
The items - worth an estimated £1,000 - were stolen from temporary storage in a garage.
They were to be used as tombola prizes to raise funds for the charity's Feel the Force Day event - an annual sensory sci-fi convention for people with disabilities.
"People love the event so much that total strangers are getting in touch," the event's co-founder JJ Lucia-Wright said.
Children have been sending their Star Wars dolls, and one woman who said she had "some Star Wars books" turned out to have 300 albums, he added.
The major supermarkets have also pledged to donate items for the tombola.
"It's been epic, and really restores your faith in human nature," he said.
The Feel the Force Day event started in Peterborough in 2013 with 20 deaf/blind adults who wanted to learn about Star Wars.
The charity now holds three events each year, attracting 32,000 people from across the UK.
Feel the Force Day uses toys and props, tactile costumes and smell jars to help include those with disabilities, additional needs and sensory impairments in film and TV culture.
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The balloon was brought down by Matt Rate in Hilldrop Road, Northampton, on Friday evening.
Mr Rate said the wind had suddenly dropped and if he had left the landing any later he could have come down over the town centre.
Resident Ian Callaghan, of Digital Torque, filmed the balloon as it came in to land.
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Lord Advocate James Wolffe said this could happen if current levels of European law enforcement co-operation were lost.
He said it was in the UK's interests to ensure effective arrangements were put in place when it leaves the EU.
"It is hugely important the right choices are made," he said.
A UK government spokesman insisted that Brexit negotiations would include talks over "continued co-operation on security, law enforcement and criminal justice".
Lord Wolffe made his comments during a visit to Police Scotland's International Assistance Unit which was last year responsible for the arrests of 78 people on Europol's wanted list and handled 34 requests for cross-border surveillance.
A total of 71 people wanted by EU member states were extradited while a further 23 suspects wanted in Scotland were arrested under European arrest warrants overseas.
Officers also handled 950 inquiries from the international police organisation Interpol.
Visiting the unit at the Scottish Crime Campus at Gartcosh with Justice Secretary Michael Matheson, Mr Wolffe told BBC Scotland: "It's absolutely essential that as we go through this process we make the right choices in order to preserve the benefits of international co-operation that we currently enjoy.
"One of the risks if we had, for example, no robust legal arrangements for the extradition of individuals wanted for trial in other countries, is that we would become a safe haven for criminals.
"Equally, if we were unable to extradite to Scotland people who we wish to prosecute then plainly our criminal justice system would be prejudiced. If we were not members of the EU the extradition process would be significantly more cumbersome, both slower and more difficult to operate.
"Ultimately, it will be a matter for negotiation what arrangements are put in place, but from my perspective as the prosecutor of crime in Scotland, it's hugely important that the right choices are made and the right priority is given to those particular arrangements."
Mr Wolffe and Mr Matheson's visit included them meeting two EU national Romanian police officers who are currently assisting with investigations involving Romanians as victims, perpetrators and witnesses of crime.
Mr Matheson said the unit's work reinforced the importance of international co-operation on policing.
Speaking before a meeting of the Serious Organised Crime Taskforce, he said: "Organised crime and terrorism do not respect borders and it is vital that our police service can work with counterparts in Europe and across the world to help keep Scotland safe.
"The excellent results achieved by our international assistance unit shows that this collaboration is currently working well. Yet dragging Scotland out of the EU places huge doubts over our Europol membership and participation in the European Arrest Warrant.
"This would have serious implications for the safety of Scottish communities, meaning it is much harder to identify, arrest and extradite criminals who travel here - as well as making it more difficult and time consuming to apprehend Scottish criminals who flee overseas."
He later told BBC Scotland: "We are very concerned about the potential impact that Brexit will have on our ability for our police here in Scotland to engage with their partners across the rest of Europe and to share information.
"There is no doubt that if we lose our access to Europol in the way in which we have at the present moment, we will be able to have a level of shared intelligence, a level of co-operation but it certainly will not be to the level we have at the present moment.
"It will be a slower process and we won't have that live data that we are able to get from Europol at the present time."
The average time for Police Scotland receiving a European Arrest Warrant to arrest or surrender is 42 days, compared with an average of nine months before the system was in place, the government said.
A spokesman for the UK government said: "The prime minister has been clear that one of her 12 negotiating objectives is continuing to work with the EU to preserve European security, to fight terrorism, and to uphold justice across Europe.
"As part of the negotiations, we will discuss with the EU and its member states how best to continue co-operation on security, law enforcement and criminal justice."
So pledges being made this week on fares by the 2016 mayoral contenders are worth examining closely.
Mind you, how far such retail offers affect voting intentions is a difficult one.
In 2012 Ken Livingstone pledged to cut fares and opinion polling suggested it was popular. But it wasn't enough to return him to City Hall.
Yet Boris Johnson was definitely worried by the Livingstone pledge and knew he had to pull out the stops to counter it.
It clearly affected his thinking.
In 2008 Johnson had promised to deliver consistent annual fare rises of two per cent above inflation to allow TfL's business plan to be fulfilled and maintain levels of investment.
He explicitly ruled out stop-go fare decisions.
But two years into his second term - and with a general election looming - he and the Conservatives too succumbed.
For three years now, fare increases have been pegged to the rate of inflation only.
Now Labour's Sadiq Khan is promising a four-year freeze in cash terms - in other words, not even allowing them to go up in line with inflation.
He claims this will cost £450 million a year, which he says will be compensated for by efficiencies and better property deals.
Caroline Pidgeon - if Liberal Democrat mayor - would introduce half-price fares before 7.30am at a cost, she estimates, of £30m a year.
The Greens' Sian Berry promises a flat fare and the abolition of zones which, taken together with other measures, would cost about £260m a year.
With all the pledges, the big unknown is how much extra income might be generated from a resultant increase in ridership.
The Conservative Zac Goldsmith has said that it is rash to promise fare freezes, not least when the Chancellor is turning off the grant tap - cutting £2.8bn over the next four years.
This will all revive the debate about whether over these last few years Londoners have been paying fairly today for improvements tomorrow.
And whether the burden has been shared reasonably - with taxpayers across the country - of modernizing the transport system of the "engine-room" of the UK economy.
But in the end, fares will be just one - albeit important - area which voters chuck into the mix when they consider the candidates' overall credibility and credentials to be mayor.
Denbighshire council's cabinet have agreed the plan, which means closing Ysgol Mair and Blessed Edward Jones High School, will go to consultation.
The Diocese of Wrexham and Denbighshire council want to build a new school for children aged between three and 16.
The plan is to build the school on the site of Ysgol Main and Blessed Edward Jones and open in September 2019.
The formal consultation will take place from 14 February until 27 March.
"There have been very positive discussions with the Diocese of Wrexham and the schools to deliver this exciting project that would transform Catholic education for pupils in the Rhyl area," said councillor Eryl Williams, Denbighshire's lead member for education."
The council aim to report the findings of the consultation back to Denbighshire council's cabinet in the summer.
Bishop of Wrexham, the Right Reverend Peter Brignall said the proposal was an "exciting venture".
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Indeed, if Alastair Cook's men had recorded anything less than their 2-0 series win, then some questions might have been asked.
As it is, that final scoreline was the right outcome for the cricket that has been played.
However, great credit must be given to Sri Lanka for the way they have improved as the three Tests progressed.
After a horrific start in difficult conditions at Headingley they showed that, with the right attitude and the willingness to learn, you can get to the standard required.
The best example of this was the way openers Kaushal Silva and Dimuth Karunaratne played on the fourth evening of the final Test at Lord's. With James Anderson and Stuart Broad roaring in, they knuckled down to get through to the close. It was excellent batting.
In the end, the rain spoiled what could have been an intriguing final day. I'm not sure Sri Lanka would have chased their target of 362, but they might have shown some spirit in pursuit of a consolation win.
Overall, it was a pretty good series for England. Some questions were answered, while others remain.
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I would be very surprised if Nick Compton, who averaged 12.75, is picked again.
He's worked very hard and done a lot of the right things in terms of preparation, but you have to get the runs. It just didn't happen for him.
The selection process has to have an integrity and you can't keep going back to someone if they are not performing. Maybe a batsman with a career average of 50 would be given more time, but Compton doesn't have that sort of credit in the bank.
The one slight doubt is that we can't say what might happen between now and the first Test against Pakistan. Compton might get a stack of runs for Middlesex and Scott Borthwick, the man who seems to have earned an opportunity, might struggle for Durham.
Another man who has not taken his chance in the England top order is James Vince, but he will probably be given the Pakistan series to prove he is good enough.
Still, that might not be at number five, with the possibility of him moving to three depending on what happens to Compton.
Taking all of this into account, it is quite dangerous to try to select the team for the first Test against Pakistan at Lord's on 14 July.
While others in England's top order struggled, opener Alex Hales had a brilliant series.
Before the first Test I thought he was lucky to have kept his place after an indifferent time in South Africa, but he returned with 292 runs at an average of 58.
I previously read some nonsense about him coming into the side and banging the ball about, but that's not what Test cricket is and that is not how you play it.
Hales, a quick learner, realised that and the way he knuckled down is fantastic. In Test cricket you have time, once you get yourself in, to expand an innings. The attitude he showed is exactly what you need.
Pakistan, who have a more dangerous attack than Sri Lanka, will test him more around off stump, but his confidence will be higher and he should be better equipped to deal with that.
Jonny Bairstow, England's man of the series, was quite incredible with the bat, but the mistakes he made with the wicketkeeping gloves are a concern.
This winter, with two Tests in Bangladesh and five in India, will be a supreme challenge for a wicketkeeper, spending long hours standing up to the stumps for the spin bowlers.
I'm not being critical of Bairstow, because he will know he is missing too many chances. He is a competitive and determined man who will not rest on his laurels - he must maintain the work he is doing with England wicketkeeping coach Bruce French.
Is he going to be England's wicketkeeper in two years' time? I can't say for certain. With how much batting England have in their lower order, they might even be able to pick a specialist keeper.
When Ben Stokes returns to fitness, England will have a tricky decision to make between Chris Woakes and Steven Finn.
Finn is a natural wicket-taker, even when he's not bowling well, but he can bowl better than he has in this series.
At his best he gets the ball to an awkward height at good pace, quicker than he is currently bowling and that could yet click in the cricket he plays between now and the Pakistan series.
The pressure on his place comes from the fact Woakes has had a really good couple of games since coming in to the side as a result of Stokes' knee injury. In two Tests he's taken eight wickets and averaged more than 50 with the bat.
At the moment, if they are both fit, I would stick with Finn, but Woakes is a man who provides England with a lot of options.
The one-sided nature of the first Test in particular led to lots of talk about a two-tiered structure in Test cricket, one International Cricket Council chief executive Dave Richardson went on to endorse.
I'm firmly opposed to that because it could be the death knell of Test cricket in some countries. Disenfranchised players could go off to play in the various Twenty20 leagues and their national sides would never recover.
If you speak to the players, they will all say that you need to play against the best to improve. The difference between Sri Lanka at the end of this series when compared to the beginning is proof of that.
That is not to say Test cricket does not need to be scrutinised, because a root-and-branch review is required.
Structure it correctly so the players can do it justice. Give them enough time to prepare, don't shunt games to outposts, stop making some series two matches long and others five.
If we are serious about Test cricket, then treat it seriously.
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It follows a deal made by the UK government on behalf of the devolved governments with the drug manufacturer Glaxo Smith Kline.
Negotiations over the cost of the vaccine had gone on for months.
The delay in availability angered campaigners who said children's lives had been put at risk.
It is likely the vaccine will be available in Scotland from September.
The announcement follows lengthy discussions between the UK government with another drugs supplier - Novartis - which used to own the vaccine, called Bexsero.
GSK acquired the vaccine from Novartis, which resulted in the price of the vaccine being reduced and the deal being struck, UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said.
Health advisers recommended a year ago that the vaccination be made available to all babies in the UK.
'Routine immunisation'
Meningitis B is a bacterial infection that particularly affects children under the age of one.
It commonly affects children under five years of age, and is also common among teenagers aged 15 to 19.
Health Secretary Shona Robison said: "The Scottish government has been consistent in its support for the introduction of the Meningitis B vaccine, Bexsero.
"We will now work to roll out the vaccination programme as quickly as possible.
"The Meningitis B vaccine will now form part of the routine childhood immunisation programme in Scotland, underlining our commitment to ensuring the health and wellbeing of our children."
The vaccination will be given in three doses at two, four and 12 months, with all babies in Scotland aged two months at the point of introduction being eligible.
There are about 1,870 cases of the infection each year in the UK.
Symptoms include a high fever with cold hands and feet, confusion, vomiting and headaches.
'Step forward'
Most children will make a full recovery with early diagnosis and antibiotic treatment, although it is fatal in one in 10 cases.
About one in four of those who survive is left with long-term problems such as amputation, deafness, epilepsy and learning difficulties.
Sue Davie, chief executive of the charity Meningitis Now, said: "To know that babies will be protected against MenB is fantastic and another great step forward in our fight against meningitis."
A total of 33 people at the Kuehne and Nagel depot in Draycott-in-the-the-Clay, Staffordshire, were assessed by paramedics.
Two men and two women were taken to hospital in Burton-upon-Trent, and a man and a woman taken to Royal Derby Hospital. Their conditions are unknown.
The BBC has approached Kuehne and Nagel for a comment.
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West Midlands Ambulance Service said the incident was initially sparked shortly before 13:00 GMT after a woman reported feeling ill and it "quickly became apparent" she was suffering from the effects of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Ambulance officials added: " "A number of other patients then began coming forward. Ambulance staff worked quickly to assess them all in order to establish the severity of their conditions."
Exeter Chiefs, bidding to reach English rugby's top flight for the first time in their history, have just beaten Nottingham in front of 4,084 fans.
Without a major trophy in the cupboard and having never counted an England international in their ranks, Rob Baxter, only named head coach seven months previous, is the man tasked with leading them to the Premiership.
Success is far from a foregone conclusion.
But roll forward to 30 January 2015 - five years, three England Test stars, two Heineken Cup campaigns and later - and now the club are celebrating another first.
The - Geoff Parling - has been announced.
"They still talk about West Country folk like we've got straw coming out of our ears but we're reasonably intelligent, especially when it comes to rugby," said BBC Radio Devon summariser, and former Exeter captain, John Lockyer.
"We have a European Challenge Cup quarter-final in April, and now there's a world-class lock signing. I say many times on the radio that the club is living the dream - sometimes I pinch myself to make sure it's all real.
"People say Gloucester when they're talking about West Country rugby and that's just over 50 miles from Birmingham. This is the real West Country and Exeter's putting it on the map."
In 2010 Chiefs started doing just that, ending the south west's wait for a top-tier rugby club, and going on to give the region its first piece of major silverware only eight months ago.
Parling will hope to add to that, given the 31-year-old's current club has a trophy cabinet packed to the rafters. Since the Heineken Cup was launched in 1995, Leicester have competed at the top level of European rugby in every season that English teams have entered.
On top of that, last term's ended Tigers' run of reaching nine league finals in a row.
Chiefs were midway through a 13-year stay in the Championship when Leicester started that run, and were still housed at the County Ground - a stadium with just 750 seats.
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"I know it seems like a big difference between Tigers and Exeter but it isn't," said BBC Sport rugby union analyst Jeremy Guscott.
"Rob Baxter's established a top Premiership club now. Sometimes you need a move to freshen things up and Parling can help take Exeter to the next level."
Since 2011, the England national team has operated a policy whereby anyone playing club rugby outside the Premiership is ineligible for selection unless in "exceptional circumstances".
From next season, the division's basic salary cap will with clubs also able to name a second player whose wages are excluded from this, as long as he arrives from outside the Premiership.
Internationals such as Toby Flood, and Delon and Steffon Armitage play in France's Top 14 where there the wage limit is currently 10m euros (£7.8m).
"Geoff will have looked at all the options available to him, I'm sure," said Guscott, who represented England 65 times, as well as the Lions on eight occasions, as a player.
"When most players at what you'd consider the top teams reach their 30s, they look for an extended contract, and unless they're exceptional, those clubs aren't giving them out.
"But Parling is a class player. It's a huge signing for Exeter and I think the fact he's probably turned down big money offers from France shows just how far they've come, and what they're trying to achieve."
Last year, making him the first England international to move to Sandy Park.
Parling's arrival sees the pair reunited in the pack after their time together at Welford Road.
"With Geoff, this is an investment in the man - we're wanting so much more than just a player," Exeter coach Baxter told BBC Spotlight.
"He'll add so much because of his quality, but also his experience and the sort of character he is. We want him to have an impact in helping develop the players we already have at the club.
"He fancied a change, still wants to learn but also wants to contribute to what we're building here.
"I've said exactly the same to him as I did to Tom Waldrom when we signed him - 'we want a lot out of you for a good few years'.
"I'm sure he can deliver."
Rob Baxter was speaking to BBC Spotlight's Dave Gibbins.
But the main reason for learning it in the Republic of Ireland is "to pass exams", the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has said.
Attitudes in the Republic of Ireland are positive among adults but they do not use Irish widely, the report said.
The language is more likely to be used by young people in the Republic and Catholics in Northern Ireland.
Among the adult populations, 45% from Northern Ireland said they support the Irish language, while 67% of the respondents in the Republic of Ireland felt positive about it.
But 41% of respondents in Northern Ireland have "no particular feelings" regarding it.
The ESRI produced the report, drawing mainly on the 2013 Irish language survey, funded by Foras na Gaeilge, which promotes the language in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
More than 2,000 people across Ireland were interviewed in person about the language for that survey.
It found a significant difference in fluency across the two jurisdictions.
In the Republic of Ireland, 11% said they could conduct most conversations in Irish, compared to 2% in Northern Ireland.
Culture Minister Carál Ní Chuilín said the report strengthened the case for an Irish language act in Northern Ireland.
"More people in the north are interested in the language, there is a greater level of fluency, more people are learning Irish and more families want their children to learn Irish," she said.
"It is pleasing to see that local people want to learn the language for the pure joy of it."
Dr Merike Darmody, one of the report's authors, said that while passing the language through family generations was important, that needed to be supported by opportunities to use it in a social context.
"Despite the language policy development in recent decades, without the active engagement from people it is hard to see how Irish can flourish in future," he added.
Mohammed Ali Abboud, attacked 27-year-old Agnieszka Szefler in January 2015, at the Bridge of Earn home they used to share.
Abboud will serve at least 20 years after being found guilty of inflicting 21 stab wounds on the teacher, who was originally from Poland.
Judge Lord Uist told Abboud he had committed a "savage and brutal murder".
He said: "She was unable to defend herself and you showed her no mercy. Even after she had escaped into the garden you pursued her and repeatedly stabbed her yet again.
"You thereafter took steps, which included inflicting knife injuries on yourself, in an attempt to make it appear that she had attacked you with a knife.
"Your account of events at police interview was just ridiculous and rightly disbelieved by the jury."
An eight-day trial at the High Court in Edinburgh heard that Abboud attacked Miss Szefler, who was known as Aga, as she packed her remaining belongings after ending their six-year relationship.
After biting and stabbing her, Abboud chased Miss Szefler into his back garden where he inflicted the fatal knife wound.
He then attempted to cover his tracks by stabbing himself with the knife, before cleaning it and placing it under Miss Szefler's body.
The attack was witnessed by neighbour Chloe Forbes Kindlen, who told the court that she went into shock after seeing Abboud plunge the knife into Ms Szefler.
In her 999 call, Ms Forbes Kindlen said: "I saw somebody getting stabbed. The guy was stabbing her in the garden."
The jury heard that the couple met in 2008 when Miss Szefler was studying at Perth College. Miss Szefler moved to Kuwait in 2013.
When Abboud would not move there to be with her, she ended the relationship in November 2014.
Miss Szefler texted Abboud to say she would be visiting Scotland in January 2015.
She received a call from her new partner as she packed her belongings in Abboud's house shortly before the attack.
The jury at the High Court in Edinburgh took two-and-a-half hours to return a verdict of guilty of murder.
They also returned a guilty verdict to a charge that Abboud attempted to defeat the ends of justice and had taken active steps to avoid arrest by tampering with evidence.
The UK regulator, the Vehicle Certification Agency, will work with car makers to re-run lab tests where necessary.
It will then compare the results against "real-world" driving emissions.
Meanwhile the EU has also said that there should be a Europe-wide investigation into emissions testing.
UK Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said: "The Vehicle Certification Agency, the UK regulator, is working with vehicle manufacturers to ensure that this issue is not industry wide.
"As part of this work they will re-run laboratory tests where necessary and compare them against real world driving emissions."
"My priority is to protect the public as we go through the process of investigating what went wrong and what we can do to stop it happening again in the future."
Separately, the European Commission said in a statement: "We invite all member states - in addition to the ones who are already doing so - to carry out all the necessary investigations.
"We need to have the full picture of whether and how many vehicles certified in the EU were fitted with defeat devices, which is banned by EU law."
VW is preparing to release more details about which brands and models could be affected and the next steps to be taken by the company and drivers.
The company will cover any costs involved, having already set aside €6.5bn (£4.7bn).
At present affected drivers in the US should probably expect a recall at some point in the next year, but there are no details yet as to whether the same will happen elsewhere.
There is no suggestion that the cars are in anyway unsafe to drive, so owners can carry on motoring as normal.
That is particularly important in the UK where diesel cars account for 50% of sales.
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Mike Hawes, chief executive of the UK's Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders said: "This is ... an issue affecting just one company and there is no evidence to suggest that any other company is involved, let alone that this is an industry-wide issue."
The scandal started last Friday when the German car giant said it had used software in the US to provide false emission test results.
It led to the resignation of the group's chief executive Martin Winterkorn on Wednesday. His replacement is expected to be announced on Friday.
VW has already set aside €6.5bn (£4.7bn) to pay for the costs of the crisis.
The 22-year-old has scored eight tries in 38 appearances for Quins since making his debut for the club in 2012.
"Jack is one of a new breed of players coming through the system," director of rugby Conor O'Shea said.
"For me he has the potential to become one of the very best players in world rugby and to be a great leader within the group."
Clifford captained England to the Under-20 Six Nations title and victory in the Junior World Cup in 2013.
"I have been associated with Harlequins for close to 10 years and I can't think of anywhere better to be as I continue to gain experience and develop my career," he said.
"There are a number of influential and experienced players within the squad and I am looking forward to continuing to learn within such a competitive and highly-skilled back row."
Harlequins have not disclosed the length of Clifford's new deal at the Twickenham Stoop.
Donaldson stabbed into an empty net for the opener before converting Jon Toral's pass from close range for 2-0.
Jonathan Kodjia got the final touch on Joe Bryan's square pass to pull one back for Bristol City, before a penalty completed Donaldson's treble.
Kodjia volleyed home his second but it was merely a consolation as Jonathan Grounds' header sealed the points.
Bristol City have now slipped to 21st in the Championship, only a point above the relegation zone.
Donaldson scored his first goal inside 10 minutes, stabbing into an unguarded net after being found by David Cotterill.
And he was on hand to score his second converting a low pass first time when unmarked from close range with Bristol City claiming offside.
Bristol City had a lifeline when Kodjia finished from close range before Marlon Pack struck the outside of the post with a curling free-kick.
But Blues earned a penalty when Jon-Miquel Toral was brought down by Baker and Donaldson made no mistake from the spot to restore his side's two-goal lead.
Pack then came close to pulling a goal back for the visitors but his strike from the edge of the box curled just wide of the Birmingham goal.
Bristol City were eventually back in the game with Kodjia's second of the match - a hooked volley from 10 yards after good work by Aden Flint.
However, Grounds' header from Cotterill's corner ensured there was no nervy finish at St Andrew's.
Birmingham City manager Gary Rowett told BBC WM:
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"I was really pleased with the performance, particularly for the first 60 minutes. After that we allowed the game to become a little too open. I think this was due to Bristol City's formation and the way they tried to attack.
"We took a little bit of gamble with our tactics by playing our wingers higher up the pitch. We felt this could give their wing-backs a problems and we got a little reward for it.
"Where I felt we could have done better was their two goals as we were a little open. I've made my point in the post-match talk."
Bristol City manager Steve Cotterill:
"We created enough chances to have won. We definitely feel hard done by with the penalty. It was a big moment in the game for us just after we had hit the post.
"It was never a penalty. It was actually a booking. The referee must have been the only person in the ground who thought it was a penalty.
"I'm frustrated because I feel we conceded soft goals. We created enough chances but we've got to take them."
The 35-year-old's challenge on Leeds Rhinos player Liam Sutcliffe was given a Grade D ranking in terms of the severity of the incident.
Westwood does not have the option of an early guilty plea, as he has submitted one previously in the past 12 months.
His case will be reviewed at Tuesday's hearing by an independent panel.
Leeds centre Jimmy Keinhorst has been given a Grade A charge of dangerous contact for an incident in that same game but does have the EGP option.
If he submits one, the potential one-game suspension would be ruled out, but he would not be able to use an EGP for another 12 months.
Leigh back-rower Gareth Hock has a Grade B charge of foul and abusive language towards a match official without an EGP available which would carry a one or two-game ban.
Catalans prop Sam Moa has the EGP to offer for his Grade A charge of raising the knee in a tackle from the same match.
St Helens centre Mark Percival could submit an EGP for his Grade A charge of disputing the referee's decision.
The actor's large ranch was engulfed by a bush fire in San Luis Obispo, located between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Galecki's representative told Variety the actor was not at the property at the time of the 1,200-acre fire.
The spokesman added Galecki had not yet seen the damage, but would visit the scene once the fire was contained.
The actor's rural holiday home was one of several properties which were destroyed following the blaze, which began on Monday night.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said on Tuesday night the fire was 60% contained.
Galecki is best known for playing Dr Leonard Hofstadter in the hit US sitom, which was recently renewed for two more seasons.
"My heart goes out to all in the area who are also experiencing loss from this vicious fire, the threat of which we live with constantly, which may seem crazy to some but we do so because living in our beautiful, rural area makes it worthwhile.
"It's never the structures that create a community - it's the people. And if the people of Santa Margarita have taught me anything it's that, once the smoke has cleared, literally and figuratively, it's a time to reach out and rebuild.
"We've done it before, and will need to do it together again, and it will make our community even closer and stronger. Endless thanks to CalFire and the Sheriff's Office. I know you guys are fighting the good fight to keep us safe. So very relieved no one has been hurt."
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The pair helped Hull gain promotion to the English Premier League with a 1-0 win over Sheffield Wednesday in the play-off final at Wembley.
The attacking full-back has won rave reviews at the KC Stadium since his move from Dundee United two years ago.
"I hope he stays with us but it'll be very hard to keep a hold of him," he told BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound.
Robertson missed a great chance to put Hull ahead when he blasted over with just the goalkeeper to beat, but Snodgrass praised his performance.
"We had a laugh and a joke about it, but the young kid, he's in those positions and that's the most important thing for me," Snodgrass said of the 22-year-old.
"I said to him 'don't lose that' because that is what's got you here in the first place, that drive and ambition to be in that sort of area."
It was Snodgrass' lay-off to Mohamed Diame which led to the wonder strike that settled a nervy Wembley final and ensured Hull returned to the top flight at the first time of asking.
It was a fine end to the season for the 28-year-old former Livingston, Leeds United and Norwich midfielder, who had to battle back from a dislocated kneecap which kept him out of the side for 15 months, only returning in November.
"Everyone says that going up through the play-offs is the best way. After yesterday you realise they're not wrong," he said.
"From start to finish it was probably one of the best days of my career.
"You do think at the start of rehab 'Am I going to come back from this?' and little doubts start to creep in. But as a man of character you need to puff your chest out and do the long hours of rehab. Sometimes you're not leaving the swimming pool until 6pm.
"When I came back I thought 'I've got a job to do here, I'm not just here to make up the numbers, I'm here to get in, help my team-mates and get promotion'.
"I've played the last 25 games and I've not looked back."
Snodgrass has also backed Steve Bruce to remain in charge, with the manager's position unclear after he said he will take time to consider his future.
"You've got to look at his record for Hull City alone, never mind his playing record and the experience he brings. I just think as a man he fits the bill," he added.
"I don't think you can look by Steve Bruce. He knows the division, he knows the players."
Snowdonia National Park tops the entries from Wales in Lonely Planet's Ultimate Travelist, ranked 181st.
Tintern Abbey was the top venue in south Wales, St Davids Cathedral (west) and Brecon Beacons National Park (mid).
The other three making the list are Clough Williams-Ellis's Portmeirion Village, Caernarfon Castle and St Fagans National History Museum.
At 15th, London's British Museum was the highest placed British attraction, with The Temples of Angkor in Cambodia voted the world's must-see location.
Deputy Tourism Minister Ken Skates, said: "This recognition from a well known and respected travel expert such as the Lonely Planet is excellent news for Wales."
The Ultimate Travelist describes Snowdonia as being "full of beauty and myth", with particular praise for the hikes to be had on craggy Tryfan and Cadair Idris, as well as its zip wire and newly-opened inland surfing lagoon.
Emyr Williams, chief executive of Snowdonia National Park Authority, said: "We are very fortunate to have spectacular and diverse scenery, wealth of wildlife and a strong cultural heritage and identity which has been carefully managed over the centuries and continues to be managed by conscientious and caring landowners."
Home of 1960s cult TV show The Prisoner, the guide highlights Portmeirion's colourful Italianate buildings and florid tableware, describing them as "all rather captivating and slightly odd - it could only be in Britain".
Lonely Planet waxes lyrical about the cathedral's "stunning location on the bucolic banks of the River Alun, on the wild Pembrokeshire coast where Wales looks across the Celtic Sea to Ireland" drawing attention to the dusky purple hue of its sandstone.
Erected between 1283 and 1330, as well as outlining the castle's role in the Norman conquest of Wales, the guide points out the "fairy-tale aspect" of its "colour-banded masonry and polygonal towers".
As well as the natural beauty, the guide compliments the sheer range of scenes on offer in the Beacons, shaped by 8,000 years of human occupation.
Mel Doel, chairwoman of the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority said: "There is always a warm welcome here so we hope people won't wait to visit us."
Describing the abbey as "cloaked in romance" and "nibbled by lichen and ruined to just the right degree", the guide goes on to mention how Tintern inspired the paintings of Turner and poetry of Wordsworth.
St Fagans is "no boring history class" according to Lonely Planet. It marvels at the "still-smoky-scented 16th Century farmhouses" and the "time-travel through miners' cottages".
Bethan Lewis, Head of St Fagans National History Museum added: "Travellers to Wales often have a list of places they simply have to see and we're so proud to be on that line-up."
BBC Sport takes a look at a selection of his most memorable pre and post-match moments during his 16-year managerial career. Eagles supporters can expect more of the same from the quotable Bristolian's time at Selhurst Park.
"To put it in gentleman's terms, if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, you've done what you set out to do. We didn't look our best today but we've pulled. Some weeks the lady is good looking and some weeks they're not. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She may not have been the best looking lady we ended up taking home but it was still very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much and let's have coffee."
QPR boss Holloway came up with the quote of the century to describe his team's lacklustre performance against Chesterfield in 2003.
"Every dog has its day - and today is woof day! Today I just want to bark."
After QPR's promotion-clinching win at Sheffield Wednesday in 2004.
"If we're talking lookalikes, he's Toad of Toad Hall, isn't he?"
Holloway had his own ideas on what Avram Grant should be called after he took over from Jose Mourinho at Chelsea.
"I couldn't be more chuffed if I were a badger at the start of the mating season."
Holloway was quite pleased after QPR beat Cardiff.
"I watched Arsenal in the Champions League the other week playing some of the best football I've ever seen and yet they couldn't have scored in a brothel with two grand in their pockets!"
On Arsenal failing to take their chances from a match in 2006.
"I think the Bosman thing is a pile of donkey dung."
BBC Sport columnist Holloway contemplates one of the biggest changes in football in 2007.
"It's still in my body and I'll have to pass it at sometime but my passing's absolutely diabolical. That's what I told the doctor: "What chance have I got of passing anything - did you see me play?!"
Holloway speaks about his kidney stone in 2007.
"He's six-foot something, fit as a flea, good-looking - he's got to have something wrong with him. Hopefully he's hung like a hamster! That would make us all feel better!"
Holloway searches for a chink in the armour of Cristiano Ronaldo in his BBC column in 2008.
"One minute I was painting the lounge, the next I'm being asked to manage a Championship side. My wife will have to finish the glossing."
Holloway bounces back into management with Blackpool in 2009.
I love Blackpool. We're very similar. We both look better in the dark
Search for more Holloway gems from his BBC Sport columns between 2006 and 2008
"Why haven't they got cameras? The officials can speak to each other easily enough now. Why aren't we using laptops that are linked up and can give a decision in five seconds? A chimpanzee could do it - with not much training.
"We might as well go back to being cavemen, grab our girl by the hair, drag her into the cave whether she wants to come in or not because we may as well live in that age. We've come forward, haven't we?"
The Blackpool boss makes the case for video technology in his own inimitable style in October 2009.
"If you're a burglar, it's no good poncing about outside somebody's house, looking good with your swag bag ready. Just get in there, burgle them and come out. I don't advocate that obviously, it's just an analogy."
Holloway on his Blackpool players after the 4-1 defeat by his future employers Crystal Palace, also in October 2009.
"I am more than happy [at Blackpool] and I am afraid the chairman will need a hell of a tub of cream to get rid of me - I'm like a bad rash and not easily curable."
Holloway denies reports he is ready to leave Bloomfield Road in January 2010.
"In the first half we were like the Dog and Duck, in the second half we were like Real Madrid. We can't go on like that. At full-time I was at them like an irritated Jack Russell."
Holloway after his Blackpool side fought back to draw 2-2 against Palace in March 2010.
"I love Blackpool. We're very similar. We both look better in the dark."
"Paul Furlong is my vintage Rolls Royce and he cost me nothing. We polish him, look after him, and I have him fine-tuned by my mechanics. We take good care of him because we have to drive him every day, not just save him for weddings."
"'I have such bad luck at the moment that if I fell in a barrel of boobs I'd come out sucking my thumb."
"[Plymouth defender] Hasney Aljofree's bust his hooter. He can smell round corners now."
"I am a football manager. I can't see into the future. Last year I thought I was going to Cornwall on my holidays but I ended up going to Lyme Regis."
"Most of our fans get behind us and are fantastic, but those who don't should shut the hell up or they can come round my house and I will fight them."
"It was lucky that the linesman wasn't stood in front of me as I would have poked him with a stick to make sure he was awake."
Independent watchdog Transport Focus interviewed 1,244 Welsh commuters in its latest survey.
Since its last poll in Autumn 2016, those satisfied with how delays are dealt with and ticket value for money have dropped by four percentage points to 38% and 57%, respectively.
But overall, 83% were satisfied with Arriva Trains Wales' service.
Satisfaction with other aspects, such as stations (76%) and crowding levels (72%) remained largely unchanged.
Noting other points, Anthony Smith, the watchdog's chief executive, said: "Arriva Trains Wales passengers have clocked an improvement in satisfaction with aspects of their stations including the availability of staff.
"They are also happier with ticket buying facilities, cleanliness and personal security at stations."
The watchdog said results were in line with another recent survey it carried out relating to what passengers expect when a new rail contract is awarded in October 2018.
Four companies, including Arriva Trains Wales, are competing to run the Wales and Border franchise and develop a South Wales Metro system.
Mr Smith said passengers appreciated service from staff and wanted to see more seats on better quality trains.
Arriva Trains Wales has faced criticism about overcrowding and the age of carriages as rail user numbers continue to rise.
Barry Lloyd, head of customer experience for Arriva Trains Wales, said: "The fact we've improved in these areas shows we've really listened to customers from past surveys, investing in new technology for ticket buying and training our staff to give the best service possible.
"Our mobile phone tickets, new machines on stations and longer booking office opening hours are testimony to this as well as multiple examples of great service by our staff week in week out and during the Champions League, which attracted national media coverage."
The incident happened in the Templehall area of Kirkcaldy on Saturday morning.
A man followed the woman into her house in Harris Drive as she entered at about 10:00, then assaulted and threatened her.
The man is due before Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court on Tuesday.
Det Insp Charles Duncan, of Kirkcaldy CID, said: "I would like to thank the public for their positive response during the last 48 hours. Whilst this was an isolated incident, officers will continue to be in the Harris Drive area to offer support and reassurance to the local community."
Their study,in the Journal of Breath Research, investigated using it to help convert stem cells from human teeth into liver cells.
The scientists claimed the gas increased the purity of the stem cells.
Small amounts of hydrogen sulphide are made by the body.
It is also produced by bacteria and is toxic in large quantities.
A group in China has already reported using the gasto enhance the survival of mesenchymal stem cellstaken from the bone marrow of rats.
Researchers at the Nippon Dental University were investigating stem cells from dental pulp - the bit in the middle of the tooth.
They said using the gas increased the proportion of stem cells which were converted to liver cells when used alongside other chemicals. The idea is that liver cells produced from stem cells could be used to repair the organ if it was damaged.
Dr Ken Yaegaki, from Nippon Dental University in Japan, said: "High purity means there are less 'wrong cells' that are being differentiated to other tissues, or remaining as stem cells."
One of the concerns with dental pulp as a source of stem cells is the number that can be harvested.
However, the study did not say how many cells were actually produced.
Prof Chris Mason, a specialist in regenerative medicine at University College London, said: "It would be interesting to see how hydrogen sulphide works with other cells types."
The announcement follows the handing over to Mongolian officials on Monday of a 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus bataar at a ceremony in New York.
The latest group includes two more Tyrannosaurus bataars, six Oviraptors and several Gallimimuses.
The Mongolian government has announced its intention to open a dinosaur museum to display the skeletons.
"The recovery of this treasure trove of dinosaur fossils is the latest significant step in returning missing pieces of the Mongolian people's history that were literally dug out from under them," US Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.
"We simply cannot allow the greed of a few looters and schemers to trump the cultural interests of an entire nation... We look forward to returning these fossils to their rightful owner - the government of Mongolia," US customs official James T Hayes said.
A Florida fossils dealer admitted smuggling the bones of the Tyrannosaurus which was handed back on Monday, which sold at auction for more than $1m (£643,000).
US officials say the dinosaurs were smuggled into the US between 2010 and 2012.
The export of fossils is banned under Mongolian law.
While most UK police can retire at 60, Civil Nuclear Constabulary officers must work until 65 under a new law.
But the Civil Nuclear Police Federation says it will be "physically impossible" for officers in their mid-60s to protect the public from terrorism.
It is taking its case to London's High Court to try to get the rule changed.
The standard retirement age for almost all police in the UK is 60, with many able to leave on a full pension in their 50s.
But under new laws affecting public service workers due to take effect next April, Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) officers will have to work until they are 65, and eventually 68, to receive their pension.
The federation believes this is due to a legal anomaly, and will try to persuade the High Court at a hearing on Wednesday that its officers should be exempt from the retirement age rise.
By Danny Shaw, BBC home affairs correspondent
Unlike other forces that are in the headlines nearly every day - the Met, West Midlands and Greater Manchester Police for example - you don't hear a lot about the Civil Nuclear Constabulary.
Much of its work goes unseen, guarding nuclear sites in remote corners of the UK and protecting material in transit.
However, it is vital work, particularly at a time when the terrorism threat level is graded "severe" with an attack assessed as "highly likely".
That's one reason why its officers are incensed - and baffled - by pension changes which mean they'd have to work until at least 65 before retiring.
The problem, it seems, is that when the new rules were being drawn up under the coalition government, the CNC, which is the responsibility of the energy minister, wasn't treated the same as other forces, which were permitted by the home secretary at the time, Theresa May, to maintain a retirement age of 60.
The federation says its officers have the most physically demanding role in the police service and will not be able to maintain their standards of fitness and weapons proficiency into their 60s.
Chief executive Nigel Dennis said it was "regrettable that we have been forced to take legal action".
"As a police force the CNC is the fittest body in the UK because of our role in protecting nuclear assets and our more recently acquired role of protecting the wider public against terrorist outrages," he said.
"It makes no sense that we should be saddled through inappropriate legislation with a retirement age which we have little or no hope of reaching.
"Neither can I believe that the public will feel protected if eventually we have aggressively armed police officers in their mid-60s being deployed against terrorists."
The BBC has asked the Department for Work and Pensions for a response.
Defender Marc Bartra fractured his wrist in the incident, which led to Tuesday's Champions League quarter-final being postponed.
Chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke said: "In such a crisis situation, all of Borussia will pull together.
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"The team and coaches were shocked. Now we must channel it in some way."
Dortmund said Bartra had an operation later on Tuesday after "breaking the radial bone in his arm and getting bits of debris lodged in his hand".
Captain Marcel Schmelzer said: "We're all in shock and our thoughts are with Marc. We hope that he will make a speedy recovery."
The bus was damaged at 18:15 BST on Tuesday - 90 minutes before kick-off - when it was about six miles from the Westfalenstadion in Dortmund.
Police said there were three explosions in the vicinity of the coach. They called it "a targeted attack" and found a letter at the scene, but did not disclose its contents.
Kick-off was initially delayed, before, with thousands of fans already inside, the match was finally postponed 15 minutes before the scheduled kick-off, with Monaco fans chanting in support of their opponents.
Fifa president Gianni Infantino condemned the incident, while Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin said he was "deeply disturbed" and praised the decision to postpone the game.
Police are preparing for a "large deployment" at Wednesday's match - which is scheduled to kick-off at 17:45 BST.
Watzke said: "I have to express a huge compliment to our fans, who have dealt with it very well, objectively, reasonably and solidly.
"It will not be easy to get that out of the mind. I think the team will feel it on Wednesday."
With the second leg in Monaco set for next Wednesday 19 April, Watzke said that there was no choice but to play the game on Wednesday as Monaco have a domestic game against Dijon on Saturday.
Soon after the match was rearranged, people in the Dortmund area offered to host Monaco fans who chose to stay in Germany for an extra night or two using the hashtag #bedforawayfans.
And Monaco offered to reimburse their supporters staying in Germany with up to £67 (80 euros).
But the Liverpudlian, 34, admitted that an offer for one further fight could be too lucrative to turn down.
"I don't know how many times more I can put my body and family through this," Bellew told BBC Radio 5 live.
Asked whether the Haye bout would be his last, he added: "It's an option. It's something I'm thinking about."
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WBC cruiserweight champion Bellew defied most predictions to beat Haye, who was affected by a torn Achilles tendon, on his heavyweight debut, and he now has 29 wins and a draw from 32 fights.
Promoter Eddie Hearn said on Sunday that representatives of American WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder and WBO champion Joseph Parker of New Zealand had contacted him about a potential fight.
Bellew told BBC One's Breakfast programme: "I have a lot of options. If people want to come and talk to me... I don't know what's going to happen, but it will have to be something special.
"I am the best heavyweight in the world outside the champions, and none of them have a name like David Haye on their record, so what does that mean?
"David Haye was like the bogeyman of the division. Nobody wanted to fight him but the fat cruiserweight did. And you know what? He beat him too. Just let that sink in."
Meanwhile, Haye says his surgery to reattach his Achilles has been a success and that the surgeons are "very confident of a 100% recovery back to full fitness".
Researchers have identified a compound which targets aggressive tumour cells found in breast, pancreas, colon and prostate cancers.
The discovery has now been licensed to biotech investors Tiziana Life Sciences.
It is hoped the compound can eventually be developed for clinical trials.
The research was conducted by Cardiff University's European Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute (ECSCRI) and the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Scientists revealed details of the compound - called OH14 - on Thursday morning when the deal with Tiziana was made public on the London Stock Exchange.
Tiziana already has an established relationship working with Cardiff University.
Italian investor Gabriele Cerrone named the company after his partner who died three years ago from breast cancer.
Pro-Kurdish lawmakers say this is essentially a move to expel opposition members from parliament.
The measure is seen as targeting the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) as well as the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP).
Turkey has led an offensive against the insurgent PKK, accused of being a terrorist group.
A ceasefire ended weeks after elections in June 2015. The renewed conflict has claimed hundreds of lives on both sides, particularly in the south-east.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for pro-Kurdish MPs to face terrorism charges and this vote could be a first step towards making that happen.
The bill was backed by 376 MPs in the 550-seat legislature, which means it will become law directly without being put to a referendum, parliamentary Speaker Ismail Kahraman said.
The pro-Kurdish HDP party says the government is using trumped-up charges to push their party out of parliament and allow President Erdogan to change the constitution and boost his own powers.
The government rejects that claim, saying MPs should be accountable before the law. In a country with faith in its democracy and judicial independence, that would be the accepted view.
But in Turkey there are deep misgivings about both and Mr Erdogan is seen by critics as increasingly authoritarian - hence the concerns.
If several HDP MPs are arrested, there are fears it could spark worse violence in Kurdish areas, where people could feel deprived of a voice in parliament. And so this is a dangerous moment for Turkey and a test of how far Mr Erdogan is willing to go to secure his position.
Violent scuffles marred parliamentary debates this month, with frustrated lawmakers exchanging fisticuffs and kicks.
Friday's vote was not without incident as CHP lawmakers walked out in protest.
Mr Erdogan said the vote was "historic" during a televised speech in his hometown of Rize.
"My people do not want to see guilty lawmakers in this parliament," he said as lawmakers voted.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman said she would raise concerns over the state of democracy in Turkey when she met Mr Erdogan next week.
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At that year's Beijing Olympics, Hoy became the first Briton in 100 years to claim three gold medals at one Games.
Hoy won two further gold medals at the London Olympics and is the most successful British Olympian of all time in terms of gold medals.
He was knighted in 2009.
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Jamia al-Hudaa Residential College in Nottingham lodged an appeal in 2016 after it was ordered to stop taking boarders due to poor Ofsted reports.
A new inspection in January found progress in areas such as promoting British values but continued issues with safeguarding and teaching.
Overall, Ofsted said the school did not meet all national minimum standards.
The school opened in 1996 and has 237 pupils, including 153 boarders.
After a series of Ofsted reports which highlighted concerns over cultural awareness, careers advice and facilities for boarders, the Department for Education placed restrictions on its intake.
But the Madni Trust, which runs the school, challenged this and is currently allowed to operate normally.
Following the recent inspection, Ofsted said progress continued to be "variable" with the attainment of year 11 pupils well below the national average.
The report added: "The level of the secular-based courses is too low to ensure that students achieve qualifications that enable them to prepare effectively for life after they leave the school."
It also said national standards were not met in aspects of safeguarding, bullying prevention, health and safety and leadership.
However, the standards were reached in teaching respect for English law, precluding partisan political views and ensuring basic standards in accommodation.
A spokeswoman for the Department for Education said: "Independent schools that are not meeting the independent school standards must improve.
"Where there is evidence to suggest that children do not have access to a good quality education, or other standards are not met, we will take action to enforce improvement."
While the school has yet to comment to the BBC, it told the Nottingham Post it had been told to improve "minor things" and it would organise an "independent" inspection.
Mills might switch boats to the 49erFX class for the 2020 Olympics after winning Rio gold with the now retired Saskia Clark.
The 29-year-old did return to 470 action and won a World Cup series event with new partner Eilidh McIntyre.
They will compete in the World Championships and Mills said: "It's going to be hard."
She added: "It's supposed to be light winds out in Greece so that will be challenging.
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"In lighter wins it takes a while to get your feel back and I have been out for so long."
The British pair won the World Cup event in Santander after only sailing for a few days together but McIntyre was the training partner out in Rio before the Games with Mills and Clark.
"We were chuffed to get the win," Mills added.
"We were surprised with how we went."
"She has got good experience and brings a lot to a new team."
Mills has not ruled out also competing in the 49erFX global equivalent later this year if she can find a female partner.
"It was good fun to be back in the 470 boat," said Mills.
"I loved the racing and it's a bit different to the 49erFX I have been doing. There are pros and cons to both.
"I love the competition and that's what it's about for me."
The park, in the Toshima ward in central Tokyo, has been fenced off.
Authorities recorded up to 480 microsieverts per hour at one spot - nearly half the recommended annual limit of exposure for a person.
The incident comes days after a drone with traces of radiation landed on top of the prime minister's office.
The drone at Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's office was discovered on Wednesday morning, carrying a small bottle with the radioactive symbol.
Tests found it was carrying a small amount of radioactive caesium, reported Kyodo news agency.
Japan's NHK reported that local officials had received a call about suspected radioactivity at the Tokyo park on Wednesday.
Following two rounds of testing, officials found high levels of radiation on a section of the playground equipment.
Authorities believe that the radiation could be coming from something buried underneath the park.
Yukio Takano, the mayor of Toshima district, said the risks were minimal, but that the area was being cleaned to reassure local residents, AFP news agency report.
According to the International Commission on Radiological Protection recommendations, members of the public should not be exposed to more than 1000 microsieverts per year.
Japan has seen heightened concern over radiation since the 2011 failure of a nuclear plant in Fukushima following an earthquake and tsunami, which led to leaks of radioactive water,
All of Japan's nuclear reactors were taken offline following the incident. Recent attempts to restart some of them have been met with vocal opposition by local residents.
The Clwyd West MP has been appointed minister of state at the Department for Exiting the European Union.
He led the Welsh arm of the Vote Leave campaign for the EU referendum.
Following the appointment, Mr Jones tweeted saying he was "honoured".
Elsewhere, Guto Bebb and the former leader of the Welsh Conservatives Lord Bourne have retained their junior ministerial positions in the Wales Office.
He had never gone under the surgeon's knife during his entire 11-year professional career and had made his international debut for Ireland only a year before.
But he had been suffering repeated concussions.
For a while he had been able to manage the splitting headaches, memory loss, light sensitivity and trouble sleeping.
But he was tired and irritable, and got annoyed for no reason with his wife and young daughter.
It wasn't just the times he had been knocked out that had affected him. It was also the smaller "bangs" to the head that he didn't even realise were concussions.
He started to worry when, a few months after retiring in 2010, he was still getting headaches, having emotional difficulties and experiencing memory loss - a result, he believes, of two concussions in his final match for Leinster against Treviso.
"I started really worrying about my brain. After maybe three or four months it settled but the symptoms didn't all go away."
Now research from the US into the long-term effect of repeated concussions on athletes playing collision sports is shedding new light on a sports injury about which relatively little is known.
Rugby's governing bodies are keen to stress the differences between their sport and those played in America.
However the news that repeated head impact has led to a form of dementia in a small group of American football and ice hockey players prompted former Scottish international, John Beattie, to become the first rugby player to promise to donate his brain to neuroscience.
The research by scientists at Boston University revealed that a degenerative brain disease called Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) had been found in the brains of 30 former NFL players. Prior to death, their symptoms had been the same found in boxers suffering from CTE's more widely known name, punch drunk syndrome.
It's a form of progressive dementia with symptoms including memory loss, depression, speech problems, mood changes and trouble walking.
Dr Bob Cantu, a professor of neurosurgery at Boston University and one of the drivers of the research, said he is certain athletes from sports outside American football have also developed CTE.
"We've studied brains of deceased NFL players and National Hockey League players," he said.
"In the brains of both, we've found CTE and I would be amazed if we did not find the same in rugby players, or at least some rugby players who played rugby for a long period of time and had taken quite a bit of head trauma over the course of their careers."
However, since no work has yet been done to examine rugby players' brains after death, there is no hard evidence for his claim.
British neuropathologist Dr Willie Stewart is one expert who urges caution.
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He said the brains of every American footballer who died would need to be studied to get an idea of the prevalence of CTE, and cited studies that show that only between 10-20% of boxers who have taken heavy head punishment develop symptoms.
"It would seem quite remarkable if repeatedly injuring the brain in some way at a low level didn't leave you with some sort of damage," he said.
"But if we followed the research from the US word for word, we would expect whole swathes of rugby players to be clogging up nursing homes, but they aren't."
Bodies including the International Rugby Board, Rugby Football Union (RFU) and the Scottish Rugby Union (SRU) are taking the issue seriously and say they have already adopted new measures and are trying to educate medical staff and players at all levels of the game about concussion management.
According to the RFU, concussion is the fourth most common injury in the English professional game, with five instances per 1,000 hours of play. Among amateurs it's slightly less. But those figures assume that players are aware of all concussion symptoms and are reporting them.
The RFU's head of sport medicine, Dr Simon Kemp, said measures to identify and treat concussions are improving every year.
"The thesis is, if you manage the acute concussion well, your risks of a bad outcome in the long term are a lot less.
"Players are warriors, they don't want to leave the field and assessing someone's cognition, balance and symptoms in the middle of a game is difficult. You rely on the player being honest in reporting his symptoms."
Another former Leinster and Ireland player, Bernard Jackman, admits he often failed to report symptoms of concussion when he was playing.
He suffered more than 20 concussions in his final three seasons before retiring and sometimes had to watch the match back on video the day after because he couldn't remember the score.
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No-one was injured in the incident at Comet Ping Pong in an affluent neighbourhood of the nation's capital.
A 28-year-old man from North Carolina was taken into police custody.
Conspiracy theorists said the pizzeria was the base of a child sex ring run by ex-US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her aide, John Podesta.
Edgar Maddison Welch, the man arrested on Sunday, told police he went to the restaurant to "self-investigate" the theory, dubbed "pizzagate".
Explained: Pizzagate and the spread of fake news
The suspect allegedly walked into the restaurant and pointed the rifle at an employee, who managed to flee. He later fired the weapon.
He has been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon.
The "pizzagate" theory originated on alternative message board 4chan, based on emails hacked from the Democratic Party and leaked by Wikileaks.
The restaurant's owner, James Alefantis, a Democratic Party donor, appears in the emails in relation to organising a Democratic fundraiser.
Users of 4chan and another message board Reddit had claimed that words in the emails, such as cheese, hot dog, and pizza, were code for young children and sex acts.
Mr Alefantis said after Sunday's incident: "Let me state unequivocally: These stories are completely and entirely false, and there is no basis in fact to any of them.
"What happened today demonstrates that promoting false and reckless conspiracy theories comes with consequences."
The bizarre and unfounded theory has been spread online by right-wing blogs such as Infowars, which is run by Donald Trump supporter Alex Jones.
Mr Jones, a conspiracy theorist and talk radio host, said Mr Trump called him the day after the election to thank him and his followers.
The theory was also pushed online by Michael Flynn Jr, son of General Michael Flynn, Mr Trump's choice for national security adviser.
Mr Alefantis, the owner of Comet Pizza, has received hundreds of threatening messages on Instagram and Facebook.
There have also been protests outside the eatery.
The conspiracy theory was one of a number of fake news stories related to the US election that have spread both before and after the poll.
Tim Martin, an ardent supporter of Brexit, used his company's profits statement to attack a host of targets, including the CBI, the IMF, Goldman Sachs and the former prime minister.
They and others warned the economy would suffer post-Brexit.
Data on the UK economy showed a dip in July but has been positive for August.
Wetherspoon's itself saw annual profits rise 12.5% after exceptional items to £66m.
In a detailed and extended statement, Tim Martin lambasted those who had failed to "see through the flaws" of the European Union, and said their forecasts had been proved wrong following the 23 June referendum.
Using striking language, he told the BBC: "We were told it would be Armageddon from the OECD, from the IMF, David Cameron, the chancellor and President Obama who were predicting locusts in the fields and tidal waves in the North Sea."
Closely-watched economic surveys have shown a sharp rebound for UK services and manufacturing in August after the industries took a hit in July.
Mr Martin also suggested that the UK did not need a trade deal with the EU, adding that an unsigned agreement with a major supplier had worked perfectly well for his business for a number of years.
"Common sense ... suggests that the worst approach for the UK is to insist on the necessity of a 'deal' - we don't need one and the fact that EU countries sell us twice as much as we sell them creates a hugely powerful negotiating position," he said in the trading statement.
In May, Mr Martin printed 200,000 beer mats criticising the head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, for saying that a vote to leave the EU would be "pretty bad to very, very bad".
In contrast to Mr Martin at Wetherspoon, pub and restaurant chain, Greene King, said it was cautious about the impact of Brexit on the pub business.
The company reported a 1.7% rise in like-for-like sales for the 18 weeks to 4 September, crediting the European football championships and decent weather for what it described as a "strong start" to the year.
It said that uncertainty surrounding the UK's future withdrawal from the EU had translated into a weakening of some economic indicators and a reduction in consumer confidence.
It said it had noted a number of recent industry surveys flagging risks to leisure spending and said it was "alert to a potentially tougher trading environment ahead".
The divergent messages saw the shares move accordingly. Wetherspoon shares were up 5% and Greene King down 5%.
BBC Newsnight has heard that witness criticisms of police who had been at the scene were not properly recorded.
This is the first time fans have come forward to question how West Midlands police took their statements.
The force declined to comment pending ongoing inquiries and the forthcoming inquests into the deaths of 96 fans.
The Liverpool fans died when a crush developed on an overcrowded terrace at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough ground, during an FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest in April 1989.
The Hillsborough Independent Panel reported 18 months ago that 164 accounts from South Yorkshire police - the local force - had been changed, apparently to shift the blame for the disaster from the police on to the fans.
Nick Braley, who was a teenage student at the time, said that when he told West Midlands officers three weeks later that South Yorkshire police failings had caused the disaster, he was told he could face prosecution.
He says he was "scared and intimidated" by a West Midlands officer.
"I'm a 19-year-old boy, three weeks out of Hillsborough, traumatised, and he's threatening me that he's going to put together a case for wasting police time because he didn't like my evidence," he says.
Newsnight has found that his experience is typical of those cited by a number of Hillsborough survivors.
Some of the West Midlands officers seemed to regard them not as vulnerable and invaluable witnesses keen to make truthful statements, but more like suspects.
"John" - not his real name - was 17 when he went to the match.
He struggled to survive in pen three, behind the goal on the Leppings Lane terrace.
At one point he lost consciousness and came to among the dead and dying.
"I remember standing next to a guy with dark, greasy hair, obviously from the sweat. We were totally pushed against each other in such a way that it's impossible to describe," he says.
"It was just me and him fighting for our lives. And I don't know if he was one of the 96 [who died], but I know that I had to stand on him to get out."
Once on the pitch, John helped carry bodies to the gymnasium before collapsing. "I was broken," he says.
He tells how when two West Midlands officers arrived to take his statement at his home in Huyton, Merseyside, they sent his parents out.
John told them of police mismanagement at Hillsborough and how he planned to join the police to help prevent anything like it recurring.
According to John, the officers refused to let him read his own statement, saying, "I've written what you told me. All you need to do is sign this now."
He says he felt physically intimidated and powerless as the pair stood around him. He signed.
Nick Braley went to the semi-final as a neutral, excited to have been given a ticket by a friend.
He says the officer taking his statement was not impressed.
"I'd been wearing a Free Mandela T-shirt," he says.
This prompted aggressive questions. "Was I a student agitator? Was I a member of the Socialist Workers Party? I'm just a fan at a game of football. He then turned on me and said I was a criminal with a grudge against the police."
At one point, he says, the police suggested he had not even been at the game. When he produced his ticket, he was told he could have found it.
Professor Phil Scraton, of Queens University, Belfast, who was the main author of the Hillsborough Independent Panel's report, which led to the scrapping of the 1990 inquest verdicts and the setting up of two fresh investigations, believes many witnesses were subjected to what were effectively interrogations.
He sees a clear parallel between the way South Yorkshire police questioned the bereaved on the night of the disaster - asking whether they or those they had lost had been drinking and checking for criminal records - and the statement-taking of the West Midlands force.
He says both forces shared the same mindset and this has deepened the trauma for survivors.
For John, what he calls "survivor guilt" reached a peak 15 years after Hillsborough.
He was a detective in the Metropolitan Police's murder squad, frequently blotting out his feelings about Hillsborough with drink.
By 2004, overwhelmed, he attempted suicide by driving his car into a tree. He resigned from the force after a disciplinary hearing.
Following the independent panel report, he finally got to see the statement he was refused sight of 25 years ago. He says there were no surprises: "It's as I thought. It's not my account." He says it even places him in the wrong part of the ground.
Nick Braley also feels his statement does not reflect the truth. He's also now got access to internal West Midlands police memos and notes referring to his case. And there, handwritten, are the lines "came across as totally anti-police... at first doubted had been at the match".
And then there's his Nelson Mandela T-shirt. "Was wearing a 'left wing' type 'T' shirt, actual motif not known."
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Puea Thai Party sources said Ms Shinawatra left Thailand last week.
It was revealed on Friday that Ms Yingluck, who is charged with negligence, had gone abroad but the destination was not known.
When she failed to appear in court, an arrest warrant was issued and her bail was confiscated.
Dubai is where her brother, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, lives in self-imposed exile. He went there to avoid a 2008 jail sentence for corruption.
"We heard that she went to Cambodia and then Singapore, from where she flew to Dubai. She has arrived safely and is there now," a senior member of the Shinawatras' party told Reuters.
Deputy national police chief Gen Srivara Rangsibrahmanakul said police had no record of Ms Yingluck leaving the country and were following the matter closely.
Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam said Ms Yingluck's location would "be clear soon".
Judges have postponed the negligence verdict until 27 September.
Ms Yingluck, 50, has denied any wrongdoing in the rice subsidy scheme, which cost Thailand billions of dollars.
If found guilty at the end of the two-year trial, she could be jailed for up to 10 years and permanently banned from politics.
Analysis by Jonathan Head, BBC News, Bangkok
Yingluck Shinawatra was the most high-profile criminal defendant in Thailand and was constantly monitored by the military authorities. So how was she able to leave the country just hours before the verdict was due to be read out? Immigration authorities say they have no record of her leaving the country.
However, it is a poorly-concealed secret that some in the military government would have been happy to see her leave the country before the verdict.
Had she been convicted and jailed, she could have been seen as a victim by her supporters. The government was nervous about their reaction. Acquitting her, though, would have been equally unacceptable to her hard-line opponents, many of them very influential.
That would also have undermined the justification for the military coup which overthrew her government. So it is unlikely anyone tried to stop her leaving, or that they will try to get her back.
Ms Yingluck's lawyer had requested a delay in the ruling, telling the Supreme Court that she had vertigo and a severe headache and was unable to attend.
But the court said in a statement that it did not believe she was sick as there was no medical certificate, and that the alleged sickness was not severe enough to prevent her travelling to court.
"Such behaviour convincingly shows that she is a flight risk. As a result, the court has issued an arrest warrant and confiscated the posted bail money," the statement said.
Ms Yingluck posted $900,000 (£703,000) bail at the beginning of her trial.
Friday's turn of events took many by surprise, including the hundreds of people who turned up outside the Supreme Court in Bangkok to support Ms Yingluck.
Ms Yingluck, who became Thailand's first female prime minister in 2011, was impeached in 2015 over the rice scheme by a military-backed legislature, which then brought the legal case.
The scheme, part of Ms Yingluck's election campaign platform, was launched shortly after she took office.
It was aimed at boosting farmers' incomes and alleviating rural poverty, and saw the government paying farmers nearly twice the market rate for their crop.
But it hit Thailand's rice exports hard, leading to a loss of at least $8bn and huge stockpiles of rice which the government could not sell.
Though it was popular with her rural voter base, opponents said the scheme was too expensive and open to corruption.
During her trial, Ms Yingluck had argued she was not responsible for the day-to-day running of the scheme. She has insisted she is a victim of political persecution.
Her time in office was overshadowed by controversy as well as strong political opposition.
The youngest sister of Mr Thaksin, she was seen by her opponents as a proxy for her brother, who was controversially ousted by the military in 2006.
Both siblings remain popular among the rural poor, but are hated by an urban and middle-class elite.
Their Puea Thai party has - under various different names - won every election in Thailand since 2001.
May 2011- Yingluck Shinawatra is elected PM, and shortly afterwards begins rolling out her rice subsidy scheme
January 2014 - Thailand's anti-corruption authorities investigate Ms Yingluck in connection to the scheme
May 2014 - She is forced to step down from her post after Thailand's constitutional court finds her guilty of abuse of power in another case. Weeks later the military ousts what remains of her government
January 2015 - An army-backed legislature impeaches Ms Yingluck for corruption over her role in the rice scheme, which effectively bans her from politics for five years. It also launches legal proceedings against her
August 2017 - Ms Yingluck fails to appear at court for the verdict, claiming ill health. It is later revealed she left for Dubai
The Rugby Football Union (RFU) says its focus will switch to the sevens game after the tournament, which starts in Ireland next month.
England's retired World Cup winner Maggie Alphonsi said the news was "very disappointing".
It is understood several current squad members will move to a sevens contract.
New XVs contracts will then be awarded in preparation for the 2021 Women's Rugby World Cup.
England, who won the World Cup for the first time in 20 years in 2014, begin their defence against Spain in Dublin on 9 August.
News on their contracts emerged at a time when there is increased focus on women's sport, with England lifting the Women's Cricket World Cup at Lord's and the football side winning their first two matches at Euro 2017.
England named a 28-player squad in June for next month's tournament.
Reports suggest there are a total of about 50 England players who are on a mixture of full-time and part-time professional contracts, with only 17 full-time professional fixed-term deals set to be handed out in September, purely for the sevens programme.
The move was criticised by two female Labour MPs.
Barbara Keeley, MP for Worsley and Eccles South, called it "a shameful decision" and Gower MP Tonia Antoniazzi said on Twitter: "Another huge blow for women with contracts being slashed by England RFU."
The RFU, which announced record revenues last year of more than £400m, says its priorities shift between the XVs and sevens programmes, with the Rugby World Cup Sevens and Commonwealth Games taking place next year.
It says the XVs side will continue to take part in competitions, and stresses it has invested millions of pounds in the women's game, including £800,000 annually on a new domestic club competition aimed at increasing and improving the talent pool available for selection for England.
"The women's squad were always aware that contracts would end in September, after the World Cup," said RFU director of professional rugby Nigel Melville.
"The current XVs squad was informed in April that the next contracts will be focused on sevens, reflecting the cyclical nature of the women's game. The squad fully understands the position and are focused on the World Cup in Ireland next month."
But what is the ozone layer and why is it important?
The ozone layer is the part of the Earth's upper atmosphere where ozone, a form of oxygen gas, is found.
It absorbs UV radiation, preventing most of it from reaching us on the ground. This is important as UV radiation can harm humans, animals and plants.
Scientists first noticed a dramatic thinning of ozone above Antarctica in the 1980s.
It was being destroyed by gases called CFCs that were found in things like hairsprays, fridges and air conditioning units.
The scientists say that in September 2015 the hole had shrunk by 4 million sq km since the year 2000 - an area roughly the size of India.
They think it's because CFC gasses were banned around the world.
Paramedics and a GP tried to resuscitate Glen Yates, also known as Colin Atkinson, but he was confirmed dead at Maelor Hospital, Wrexham.
Mr Yates, 36, of Mold, had been diagnosed as schizophrenic in 1999.
A coroner told an inquest in Ruthin he had no on-going concerns about how the matter was handled.
John Gittins, the coroner for North Wales East and Central, said: "It was clearly a very rare occurrence."
Mr Yates, a former forestry worker, became a patient at the mental health rehabilitation unit Delfryn House, near Mold, in March 2014.
Laura Rogers, head of care at the unit at that time, said he had physical health problems including diabetes and heart and respiratory problems but often did not take his medication.
"He was aware that he had a diagnosis of schizophrenia but did not agree with it," she said.
In May 2014, he discharged himself from hospital against medical advice.
In October that year, Mr Yates was struggling to breathe and sweating but he refused to go to hospital by ambulance. His GP in Mold, Sekela Mwambingu, told him he would die if he did not.
She and doctors at Delfryn House agreed Mr Yates did not have the mental capacity to refuse admission to hospital.
Dr Mwambingu said: "It was a very difficult case and I felt that I did what I did in the patient's best interests. I didn't think there was an option not to sedate him."
But she added with hindsight, she would have ensured there was an antidote to the sedative available and would have consulted a more senior medical colleague.
A post-mortem examination found Mr Yates died of respiratory tract infection and heart failure, with diabetes a contributory factor.
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said a review into the case found all the actions were in the patient's best interests.
Recording a conclusion of natural causes, the coroner said he did not see the need to issue a report aimed at preventing future deaths as it was evident that lessons had been learned.
The retailer Brantano has 200 outlets across Britain, employing about 2,000 people.
It has shops at Aberystwyth, Broughton in Flintshire, Cardiff, Carmarthen, Holyhead on Anglesey, Pembroke Dock and Rhyl in Denbighshire.
Administrators said the shops would continue to trade while a decision was taken over the future of the business.
"Like many others, Brantano has been hit hard by the change in consumers' shopping habits and the evolution of the UK retail environment," said Tony Barrell, lead administrator for PwC.
"The administrators are continuing to trade the businesses as normal whilst we assess the trading strategy over the coming days and weeks.
"Staff will be paid their arrears of wages and salaries, and will continue to be paid for their work during the administration."
Forest face Ipswich Town on Sunday and must match or better Blackburn Rovers' result away against Brentford to be certain of staying in the Championship.
Forest's longest-serving player Cohen, 30, told BBC Radio Nottingham his deal "will all be sorted next week".
"I am just concentrating on winning on Sunday - that's what matters."
"I have always wanted to stay no matter where we are. Hopefully that will be in the Championship."
Forest are only above Blackburn Rovers by one goal.
Blackburn will survive if they better Forest's result. If they match Forest's result, Rovers must effect a two-goal swing on Forest to finish above them, as Forest's goal difference is better by one and they have also scored nine more goals. Blackburn will go down if both clubs draw.
But if Forest beat Ipswich then they could also finish above Birmingham City - if the Blues fail to win their final match of the season at Bristol City.
Meanwhile, Switzerland international midfielder Pajtim Kasami has left the club, reports BBC Radio Nottingham.
The 24-year-old's loan deal from Greek side Olympiacos was not due to expire until the end of the season.
Kasami made 27 appearances this term, but has not played under new manager Mark Warburton.
The players, including Test captain Alastair Cook, made the contribution to a fund organised by Taylor's partner Josephine Naylor and her siblings.
Batsman Taylor, 26, was forced to retire from all cricket in April because of a serious heart condition.
The fund's initial target was £3,000.
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The 58-year-old was speaking about her transition from being Robert Millar, one of Scotland's best ever cyclists.
She went public about her gender change last month, more than a decade after she completed the transition.
Philippa told BBC Scotland's Kaye Adams programme that she had first had the feeling that she was the wrong gender when she was five years old.
"I did function as a boy when I was younger and most of the time I was fairly happy, but there was always that feeling in the background that I didn't really want to be a boy," she says.
Philippa, who was then Robert, became one of Scotland's most successful ever road cyclists after taking up the sport as a teenager.
Millar finished fourth in the Tour De France in 1984. At the time it was the highest position recorded by any UK cyclist, and was only recently bettered by Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome.
The Glaswegian cyclist also won the King of the Mountains prize, awarded to the racer who performs best on the lung-busting, high-altitude stages of the race.
Philippa says of the King of the Mountains title: "It seems rather inappropriate now but that's what it was."
She says: "A lot of trans people find themselves in macho situations. I'm not sure why that is.
"I think you are trying to prove that you can function in that environment."
Born: 13 September 1958
Birthplace: Glasgow
Amateur clubs: Glenmarnock, Glasgow Wheelers, ACBB (Paris)
Amateur record: Scottish junior champion, British National champion, 4th World Championships
Pro teams: Peugeot, Panasonic, Fagor, Z,TVM, Le Groupement
Selected pro highlights: Tour de France King of the Mountains 1984, 4th Tour de France 1984, 2nd Tour of Spain 1985 and 1986, 2nd Tour of Italy 1987, winner Tour of Britain 1989, winner Dauphine Libere 1990
Philippa says the world of high level competitive sport is a strange one.
"There are lots of people who have got issues, because normal people wouldn't do those things," she says.
"Basically you are proving yourself every day. It is rather stressful, so not everybody can cope with it.
"It is a very different world the one I live in now. I wouldn't say it is the complete opposite but there aren't many similarities."
Born in Glasgow in 1958, the teenage Millar got into cycling as a way of getting out of the city and seeing the surrounding areas.
Almost immediately Millar became an amateur racer and turned professional at the age of 21.
The 1984 Tour De France success was followed by second place finishes in the Tour of Spain and the Giro D'Italia in the following years.
A few years after retiring in 1995, and returning to the UK from France, the cyclist began to seek medical help for gender reassignment.
"It is not an easy decision to make," Philippa says.
"It is something I had been considering for a long, long time beforehand.
"Eventually you come to a point where you have to make some sort of decision over how your life is going to move forward.
"For my happiness and everybody's happiness around about me I decided to seek help with it."
Philippa was married with children when she made the decision, but they did not know about her "internal struggle".
"I didn't really share that stuff until I came back to the UK and then I started dealing with it properly," she says.
Philippa was about 42 when she started the transition process and says it was not easy for anyone.
She says: "It is not a nice thing to deal with for your family. There are a lot of issues that come up.
"It is a process that takes a long time. During it you have crisis, depression, moments of high and lows.
"It is like a mini adolescence over again, except you are a fully grown adult."
Eventually though she felt confident to be Philippa.
"Because it takes so long there was no one date when you think I've done it, I'm going to live as Philippa now," she says.
"It's a gradual thing, it creeps up on you. Now I'm fine with who I am. I'm a middle-aged woman."
Philippa disappeared from public life for many years during and after her transition.
She made a statement about it last month in preparation for a return to commentary with the ITV4 team covering the Tour De France.
She says: "My children and the people around about me have got used to the idea and the offer came along from ITV to do a bit of commentary work.
"It would have been difficult to just appear without explaining what had happened to Robert."
The woman aged in her 30s and her child were abducted by two men from Redcar seafront at lunchtime on Friday.
Cleveland Police said the pair were taken about four miles to Longbeck Lane, near Yearby, where the woman was raped by both men.
A 31-year-old man from Redcar had been arrested on suspicion of rape.
A force spokesman said the man, who was arrested earlier, has been released without charge and inquiries are ongoing.
Police had previously said the woman's screams as she and her child were bundled into the car would have been heard by passersby.
The government money will be used to revamp Ness Point in Lowestoft, Suffolk, which is currently marked only by a circular stone plaque.
The council hopes to turn the semi-derelict promenade area into an attraction similar to Land's End and John O'Groats.
Ness Point visitor centre will celebrate the area's maritime heritage.
New cycle links and footpaths are also planned along with an area dedicated to cultural events such as festivals.
It is one of 30 coastal projects to benefit from up to £40m of government funds.
Up to 250 coastal communities bid for a share the Department for Communities and Local Government funding, which Communities Secretary Sajid Javid said was to "back the Great British Coast... to create new jobs, boost economic growth and increase tourism".
"There's a range of exciting projects set to benefit across the country, from a new conference centre for Blackpool to new beach huts and lifeguards for Hastings.
"This new funding will help attract even more tourists to our coast and help our seaside towns and coastal areas thrive," he said.
Coastal tourism is worth £8bn to the economy each year, Mr Javid added.
Also set to benefit is the West Norfolk Coastal Corridor, where cycling paths and walking trails will be improved and Ipswich town centre, where £750,000 will boost an £8m scheme to regenerate the Suffolk waterfront and dock area.
Funding has also been secured for a new conference centre planned for Blackpool's Winter Gardens, and on Merseyside, Southport Pier will use its share of the money to help promote the area to birdwatchers.
Money has also been awarded to Plymouth History Centre to improve visitor attractions ahead of the Mayflower 400 celebrations in 2020, and the White Rock area of Hastings will receive funds to boost lifeguard numbers and build new beach huts.
Since 2012, £120m has been invested in more than 200 projects through the Coastal Communities Fund across the UK, the government said.
The striker was suspended by the League One club last week after a "breach of discipline" and will not be allowed to play until the inquiry is over.
On Wednesday, the 25-year-old admitted an online banking fraud, but the suspension is believed to be unrelated.
It is expected the investigation will be concluded by the end of January.
"The club does not wish to pre-judge the circumstances and awaits the outcome of the Football Association's review and assessment before the club makes its own decision surrounding Nile's future," a club statement said.
"The club recognises the difficulties Nile Ranger has suffered in the past and, although to a lesser extent, that continues to impact on the present.
"It is therefore fair that the club comes to a decision only when all the facts, and factors, are to hand.
"A negative decision, and consequential termination of Nile's contract, would effectively undo all the good work the club, manager Phil Brown and his team mates have achieved to date. However, no player is more important than the club."
The mid-point net income of all households in the UK was up 3% after inflation.
That meant average income before housing costs reached £473 per week - around £24,600 a year, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said.
This income had fallen during the financial crisis.
There was little change in the gap between rich and poor, as has been the case since 2011-12, the figures showed.
However, the data revealed that on one measure child poverty had increased, and in two other measures it was unchanged in 2014-15 compared with the previous year.
"Child poverty isn't inevitable - the government needs to invest in our children so we can all share the rewards of a stronger economy and a fairer society," said Alison Garnham, chief executive of Child Poverty Action Group.
Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb said: "There is of course still more to do and that is why our Life Chances Strategy will look at the root causes of poverty whether that is worklessness, debt or addiction, family breakdown or educational attainment. It is only by doing this that we can truly tackle poverty and ensure everyone succeeds in life."
Nicola Payne, 18, of Coventry, disappeared while crossing wasteland near her parents' house on 14 December, 1991. Her body has never been found.
The new searches in Coombe Abbey Country Park have so far produced "nothing of relevance" but followed "credible evidence", police said.
Two men were cleared of murdering Ms Payne last year.
After the court case, West Midlands Police pledged to continue investigating her disappearance.
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The force said officers have been searching the woods for eight weeks with help from scientists and dogs trained to find bodies.
Ms Payne's family has been kept updated and supported by family liaison officers.
A lake at the 500-acre site was searched in April last year.
Det Ch Insp Martin Slevin said: "These searches come after we received credible evidence from an eye witness concerning the sighting of two men in this area on the day Nicola disappeared.
"West Midlands Police is as committed as ever to finding Nicola's remains. We promised her family following the acquittal of two men last year that we would continue to investigate this crime and bring those responsible for her abduction and murder to justice.
"We will endeavour to bring them the closure they deserve."
He said "many items" had been submitted for examination but although nothing of relevance had so far been found, searches would continue until they either eliminate the site from the investigation or do find something important.
Anyone with information was urged to contact police as they may hold the "piece of jigsaw we are seeking," he added.
Nigel Barwell and his brother-in-law, Thomas O'Reilly, both 51 and of Coventry at the time of the hearing, were found not guilty of murder by a unanimous jury at Birmingham Crown Court last November.
Barclays had been the biggest UK lender not to support the facility.
The bank offers rival facilities of its own - including bPay and Pingit - but had faced pressure from some customers to support Apple's effort.
However, Barclays said it had no plans to join Android Pay or Samsung Pay when they come to the UK later this year.
"We are passionate about helping customers access services and carry out their day-to-day transactions in the way that suits them," said Barclays UK's chief executive Ashok Vaswani.
"Adding to the existing choice, from today both Barclays debit and Barclaycard credit card customers can use Apple Pay to make payments with their Apple device across the UK."
When questioned about its lack of commitment to similar services for Android-based handsets and tablets, a spokeswoman noted the bank already provided a way to take advantage of the devices' NFC (near field communication) chips.
"In January this year, we introduced a contactless mobile payment feature to the Barclaycard Android app that allows customers with an Android phone to make contactless payments for £30 and under, and at some retailers for up to £100, using their mobile device," she explained.
"Alongside this they can manage their account on the go and have lost, stolen and damaged cards instantly replaced on to their phone."
At present, Apple does not allow third-party apps to make use of the NFC chips in its devices.
Apple Pay allows debit and credit card details to be added to an iPhone, iPad and/or Apple Watch. The devices can subsequently stand in for the physical cards at contactless payment terminals.
In addition, it can be used as a way to pay for goods within compatible apps without a user having to type in the linked card's three or four-digit security code.
Apple has yet to disclose any data about how widely the service has been used since it was launched in the UK in July 2015.
However, the Memo news site recently reported that that just 0.4% of Transport for London's daily pay-as-you-go journeys had used the service over the last six months of 2015 despite support for Apple Pay being publicised at Tube stations.
Even so, one expert said it would be wrong to suggest it had flopped.
"The adoption of device-based payments will be more of a marathon than a sprint," said Ben Wood from the CCS Insight tech consultancy.
"The tech firms have to get consumers to engage in a behavioural change away from using their cards and cash.
"But Apple Pay - and Android Pay - are already in a strong position given the amount of support they are getting."
Apple's recent introduction of the iPhone SE could also help.
It is the US firm's first entry-level handset to feature a fingerprint sensor, allowing the smartphone to support Apple Pay.
Several of the smaller UK lenders that do not yet support the service have also indicated their desire to join.
Metro Bank told the BBC it intended to join Apple Pay within a few months, while Virgin Money said it was looking into adopting it later.
"The banks have felt they had to support Apple Pay and similar services for use at stores' contactless card terminals," commented Dave Birch, a payments specialist at Consult Hyperion.
"But I personally think all of these payment mechanisms will eventually be subsumed into applications.
"In the future, when you go to Tesco's - for example - you will pay via a Tesco app, and it will use Barclays bPay, Apple Pay, PayPal or whatever."
The Colombian pop star was photographed with the ex-PM in Switzerland, briefly causing much confusion on social media.
But Shakira explained they had been speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos about global education - something she's a known campaigner for.
"With Gordon Brown discussing the next steps to secure new major financing for education," she tweeted.
The World Economic Forum is an annual festival where politicians, business moguls and campaigners meet to discuss the state of the world.
In this case, Shakira - who is best-known for her hip-shaking pop hits - was calling on business leaders to help support new parents who want to spend more time at home with their children.
Shakira is a global ambassador for Unicef, while Mr Brown recently served as the United Nations Special Envoy on Global Education.
It's actually not the first time the pair have met.
Shakira visited Mr Brown in Downing Street in 2006, and two years ago she presented him with a petition signed by more than 10 million people calling for all children around the world to have access to education.
The singer has previously said of Mr Brown: "I know for a fact that he is one of those leaders who is committed to promoting universal education. That conversation was quite serious."
It's not the first unusual politician-celebrity friendship.
Angelina Jolie met former Conservative party leader William Hague several times while he was UK foreign secretary.
The pair appeared at a London summit dedicated to ending war rape and visited Bosnia and Herzegovina together to meet rape victims.
A whole host of celebrities were keen to be associated with Barack Obama when he first ran for US president in 2008, with Will.i.am campaigning on his behalf and Beyonce singing it his inauguration.
Some musicians would prefer their encounters with politicians to be forgotten, however.
While Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher was happy to meet with the then prime minister Tony Blair in 1997 during the New Labour movement, he later said he regretted the famous photographs of them together.
He told the New Statesman in 2013 that while he was proud to have endorsed Labour, he "did regret that picture at No 10 that night... I can still smell the cheese!"
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The big question - YES or NO - Should Scotland be an independent country?
Before long, facts, figures, demographics and projections would become a battleground of claim and counterclaim.
As the campaigns began to build up, so did the leaflets, newsletters, flyers, badges and car stickers.
The indyref very quickly became a hotbed of social media activism - serious, not so, or a bit of both - like Lady Alba going a bit Gaga.
Scottish actor James McAvoy also brought some light relief to the campaign, issuing the Ice Bucket Challenge to some of the key players.
But there could be no doubt that the serious issues were being debated across the country - as Alistair Darling and Alex Salmond clashed in a series of debates.
And as the debates unfolded on screen - the reaction across social media mirrored the flashpoints of the arguments.
Meanwhile, official broadcasts drove home the campaign messages - some creating more of an impact than was maybe intended.
Out on the streets, there were grassroots events and soap box politicians - with Jim Murphy even taking an egg for his troubles.
The road leading to the indyref vote had of course been a long one, and BBC correspondent Allan Little wrote a long read to take a long look back.
As momentum grew so polls narrowed in the weeks running up the historic vote - a big moment coming with one showing independence in the lead.
And TV studios, town halls and streets across the Scotland became an arena for intense political debate.
At the same time as connecting and dividing Scots, the indyref energised and informed the country - drawing attention throughout Europe and across the globe.
At home, some Yes supporters even took their message to the steps of the BBC.
But among the TV showdowns, new online media ventures, tweets and Facebook groups it was an old fashioned newspaper front page which delivered the big pitch from the Better Together parties.
Efforts to win votes continued right up to the wire, with the outcome still considered to be on a knife-edge.
And then, late into 18 September 2014, the votes themselves began coming in.
The overall result was slightly wider than predicted with 55% No to 45% Yes.
For Alex Salmond it was the end of a long night, and would signal the end of his term as first minister, but he insisted his dream of independence would never die.
The vote had been No and the promise had been for a "once in a generation" decision. Alex Salmond had altered his phraseology to talk about once in a "political generation".
The Scottish referendum fallout, the general election and the Brexit aftermath have left Mr Salmond, David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg in their wake.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has now said an indyref2 is highly likely - if two years can indeed be a lifetime in politics, how long exactly is a generation?
It is one secret scientists at the National Botanic Garden of Wales and Aberystwyth University are trying to unlock.
Butterflies see a broader spectrum of light than humans and the team wants to know how it affects how they cope in captivity.
The garden hopes it may help make those in its butterfly house "happier".
"How we can see the world around us is very different from how a butterfly sees it. The butterfly world, in some ways, is actually more complicated than ours," said Dr Natasha de Vere, head of science at the National Botanic Garden of Wales.
"It's really important. If they're finding a mate, if they're finding their food plants, they've got to be able to see those and they have got to be able to see those with the light levels that they would normally be used to."
The garden, near Llanarthney, Carmarthenshire, opened its butterfly house in June last year.
At any one time, it has about 300 butterflies of 20 different species.
Dr de Vere said the research could help them improve conditions for the insects during winter, when there is less light than in their natural habitats.
Depending on the results, the garden could, for instance, install specially-designed lights to mimic the conditions best suited to the insects.
"They should definitely be happier, because first of all it should be easier to find a mate and the same for food plants," she added.
She said it could also help to shed light on how different conditions affect butterflies in the wild, assisting with regeneration work after a forest has been cleared and when it comes to releasing captive butterflies into the wild.
Zoologist Dr Roger Santer, of Aberystwyth University, said there is still a lot to be learned about how butterfly species perceive colour.
Human colour perceptions are based on three kinds of cone photoreceptor cells in the eye which respond to light - blue, green and red, he explained.
This means colours for humans are made up of different amounts of blue, green and red, which is why TV and computer screens use them to represent different shades for our eyes.
But butterflies have more types of photoreceptors with different sensitivities, spanning from UV wavelengths to red wavelengths, meaning they have "different colour perceptions than we do".
This allows them to spot certain UV "signposts" which exist in the natural world on plants and on members of the same species, including some markings on their wings and on flowers.
Dr Santer said the team will be running behavioural experiments on different varieties of butterfly.
This could see them picking between differently-coloured stimuli - for example, flowers of varying hues containing sugar rewards - in conditions with UV light and without.
"It might be the butterflies are able to adjust in a glass house or it might be they are unable to," he added.
Roma defender Anthony Rudiger was repeatedly subjected to racism from Lazio fans during the first half.
The chanting died down after the stadium announcer warned that the tie would be interrupted if it continued.
Sergej Milinkovic-Savic and Ciro Immobile scored as Lazio beat their rivals for the first time since 2013.
Lazio went ahead when Felipe Anderson burst down the right and pulled the ball back for Milinkovic-Savic to fire into the roof of the net.
Italy forward Immobile then tucked home their second from close range.
The second leg takes place on 5 April.
Juventus beat Napoli 3-1 in the other semi-final first leg.
It said the forthcoming referendum on European Union membership and elections in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland would cool the housing market.
Rics said the Stamp Duty increases for landlords that came in on 1 April were another factor.
The Halifax has also said that the EU vote is likely to slow the market.
"Elections inevitably bring with them periods of uncertainty in the market, and our figures would suggest that next May's devolved elections are no exception," said Simon Rubinsohn, Rics chief economist.
"Likewise, the EU referendum, is likely to be an influencer in terms of the damper outlook for London in particular."
The survey showed that most surveyors in London expect prices to fall over the next three months.
The number of surveyors expecting a price fall outweighed those expecting a rise by 38%.
However in other parts of the country, surveyors were much more optimistic.
In north west England and in Northern Ireland most survey respondents expect prices to rise significantly over the spring and early summer.
And in the longer term, Rics expects house prices to rise by more than 4% a year in England and Wales - whatever the results of the EU referendum and the elections.
"The imbalance between demand and supply will still exert a strong influence on the market, with house prices expected to rise by close to 25 per cent over the next five years," said Mr Rubinsohn.
Recent estimates of house price inflation vary from 10.1% in the year to March by the Halifax - to 5.7% by the Nationwide.
His double took his tally to 37 and helped Tigers to a 24-10 interval lead.
Paddy Flynn and Ben Crooks also grabbed first-half tries, with Oliver Elima and Glenn Stewart replying.
Crooks and Flynn added further tries, with the Tigers holding on to win as Eloi Pelissier, Louie Anderson and Richie Myler ran in late scores.
Solomona broke the record set by former cross-code international Lesley Vainikolo for Bradford in 2004.
And with his conversion of the former Melbourne Storm winger's first try, Luke Gale brought up 500 career points for the Tigers.
At 34-10 down with 19 minutes to play, the Dragons mounted a comeback despite the sin-binning of Ben Garcia, with Pelissier and Anderson both grabbing tries while they were a man down.
Castleford's triumph spoiled Gregory Mounis' farewell appearance at Stade Gilbert Brutus prior to his retirement at the end of the season.
Catalans Dragons: Gigot; Sigismeau, Garcia, Duport, Broughton; Stewart, Myler; Anderson, Mounis, Horo, Elima, Aiton, Casty.
Replacements: Taylor, Bousquet, Pelissier, Seguier.
Castleford Tigers: Dorn; Flynn, Minikin, Webster, Solomona; Hampshire, Gale; Patrick, McShane, Cook, Savelio, O. Holmes, Milner.
Replacements: Crooks, McMeeken, Maher, Douglas.
Referee: Phil Bentham (RFL)
Thirty areas across England are to receive funding from the £1.2bn "Starter Homes Land Fund" for new developments on brownfield sites.
Buyers must be aged between 23 and 40 and will receive a discount of at least 20% below market value.
However, one housing expert told the BBC that the timescale for the programme was too ambitious.
The Starter Homes Land Fund was first announced by the coalition government in 2014 and aims to help more people buy a home.
The discounts will apply to properties worth up to £250,000 outside London, or £450,000 in the capital.
Housing Minister Gavin Barwell said: "This government is committed to building starter homes to help young first-time buyers get on the housing ladder.
"This first wave of partnerships shows the strong local interest to build thousands of starter homes on hundreds of brownfield sites in the coming years. One in three councils has expressed an interest to work with us so far."
The first 30 local authorities were chosen on the basis of their ability to build the properties quickly enough. They include Blackpool Council, Bristol City Council, Sheffield City Council and Luton Borough Council. The properties are expected to go on sale in 2018.
But speaking to the BBC, Christine Whitehead, Emeritus Professor in housing economics at the London School of Economics, said the "timescale is much too short, it's not that easy to build on land that quickly, and we are anyway short on skills".
John Healey, Labour's shadow housing secretary, said: "These so-called starter homes are a symbol of the Conservative record on housing.
"Ministers launched them in 2014 but will only start to build the first in 2017, promised they'd be affordable for young people when they'll cost up to £450,000, and pledged to build 200,000 by 2020 but no-one now believes that's possible."
Prof Whitehead said that, even with government help, some young people were not in a strong enough financial position to participate in the scheme: "[They] often haven't got very strong jobs, they're insecure about their future, they're paying high prices in the rental market and therefore can't afford the deposit."
This is the government's second announcement this week on measures to tackle the UK's housing shortage. On Monday, it revealed proposals for England's first garden villages on 14 sites spread across the country from Cornwall to Cumbria. It said the new developments could provide 48,000 homes.
In addition, it said three new garden towns would be built at Aylesbury, Taunton and Harlow & Gilston, in addition to seven already in the pipeline.
Later this month, the government is due to publish its White Paper on housing supply in which it will set out its plans for building new homes.
The Beige Book - a review of economic activity from the Federal Reserve - showed modest growth in the economy between mid-August and October.
It also noted that wage growth across the country was "subdued".
The report will contribute to the Federal Reserve's decision on whether to raise rates in October.
The central bank is widely expected to raise rates for the first time since the financial crisis before the end of the year - but most economists predict the move will come in December.
"Producers continued to cite weak oil and gas activity along with a strong dollar as key reasons for the sluggish activity," the report said.
It also suggested that wages across the country remained stagnant, a problem that has dogged the US labour market for the past several years.
But the report added that businesses were "generally optimistic about the near-term outlook".
The strong dollar has hurt tourism as well. The exception was Philadelphia where the Pope Francis's visit helped drive "modest growth".
"The brief papal visit to Philadelphia shifted significant spending from Centre City stores and restaurants to mountain and shore destinations, as the region's population made way for tourists from around the nation and around the world," the report noted.
The Beige Book is a survey of anecdotal data compiled from businesses across the Federal Reserve's 12 districts.
The event requires funding from Northern Ireland's government but is at risk after the collapse of Stormont.
Louise Martin, the federation's president, had set Thursday as the deadline to release funding.
Northern Ireland is due to be handed the event next month at the closing ceremony of the 2017 games.
Stormont collapsed in January and a deadline to restore the devolved institutions passed on Thursday.
Talks between Northern Ireland's political parties will now continue until Monday.
The Commonwealth Games Federation said it has been encouraged by political support but "empathises with the administration's current circumstances".
Sources have told the BBC that the federation will monitor political developments over the weekend before a decision is taken on the games' future.
The business case for funding the games has been with the Department of the Economy, but was not approved by former DUP economy minister Simon Hamilton so was not brought to the executive table.
The department said the games were not "value for money", but the BBC understands that ministers could still have approved the project if it had been discussed, and backed, by the executive.
All five main political parties attended a meeting with games officials in Belfast last Tuesday to try to find a way forward.
About 1,000 young athletes are due to take part in the games, which would have been a landmark event for Northern Ireland's centenary year.
Sports stars like Carl Frampton, Michael Conlon, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Beth Tweddle and Louis Smith have all taken part in previous events.
The independent investigation found the camera-maker had concealed business and investment losses that ultimately rose to 132.22bn yen ($1.7bn; £1.09bn).
The panel is urging legal action against those who were involved in the cover-up.
It has also said that those who knew about the situation should be replaced.
The 178-page report was commissioned by the Olympus board and undertaken by an independent panel.
It was headed by a former Supreme Court judge, Tatsuo Kainaka, and its findings are based on voluntary hearings and company computer analysis.
The panel recommended significant changes to the board and listed 10 reasons why the scandal took place at the 92-year-old company.
They ranged from poor quality personnel management to incompetent external auditing.
The panel laid the blame for cooking the books over 13 years mostly on two executives, former executive vice-president Hisashi Mori and ex-internal auditor Hideo Yamada.
The panel found no evidence that either executive had gained personally and both have resigned since the scandal came to light.
According to the report, the aim of the two men was to hide losses made from bad investments during the 1990s as the Japanese stock market crashed.
They pointed to the involvement of "external players" that allowed the fraud to persist. "[They] assisted in the concealment while knowing full well that such accounting practices were illegal," the report said.
The independent committee was also critical of Olympus' auditors during the years under investigation, KPMG AZSA and Ernst & Young ShinNihon.
However, in the final analysis, the panel blamed bad corporate governance by the executive management team. "Past [Olympus] presidents had low esteem for transparency and governance," said the report.
Olympus shares have plunged since its sacked chief executive, Michael Woodford, blew the whistle over his concerns about dubious accounting practices at the firm.
The controversy surrounds the payments made by Olympus to financial advisers as part of its acquisition of companies including British firm Gyrus.
The payments came to light when Mr Woodford claimed that he had been forced out of the company for raising questions about these and other accounting practices in October 2011.
Olympus originally denied any malpractice, but eventually acknowledged that it had used acquisitions, including that of Gyrus, to hide investment losses.
Mr Woodford told the BBC that the report showed "the existing directors are 'yes men' who did not react... and have passed their sell-by date".
Mr Woodford resigned from the board last week to concentrate on a campaign to oust the other board members of Olympus. He told the BBC, "They [the Olympus board] should not choose the next management team."
Mr Woodford also said he was in talks with several of Olympus' shareholders. He has said he would be prepared to return to the chief executive position.
He added that there needed to be a change in the whole of Japanese company culture: "Japan has to change its corporate governance and have powerful non-executives."
Shinsuke Amiya, an MP and member of the Japanese ruling party's panel on corporate governance, said they would use the Olympus report to discuss how to recover market trust. They could make it mandatory to appoint external board members.
Although the report is stronger than expected, it does not contain any real new evidence about what happened at the company.
The independent panel which compiled the report was not authorised to pursue a criminal investigation.
Olympus remains under joint investigation by Japanese police, prosecutors, the markets regulator, UK's Serious Fraud Office and the FBI in the United States.
After the report was released, trading in Olympus shares was halted in Tokyo.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange says it is assessing the report and may consider delisting Olympus.
The exchange has already warned that the company may be delisted if it fails to file its accounts report by 14 December.
Even if Olympus hits the deadline, the Tokyo Stock Exchange can still delist the company if it finds it has mis-stated its accounts or had dealings with organised crime.
Britain's Johanna Konta will play, along with Garbine Muguruza, Karolina Pliskova and Angelique Kerber, who will return to world number one on Monday.
BBC Sport understands Sharapova will be offered a wildcard for Birmingham.
The Russian, who returned from a 15-month doping ban last month, lost to Eugenie Bouchard in Madrid on Monday.
Her involvement in Spain, courtesy of another wildcard, ended in the second round courtesy of a 7-5 2-6 6-4 defeat to the Canadian, who had been critical of the Russian, calling her a "cheat" and saying she should never have been allowed to play again.
She also received a wildcard for Stuttgart in April, where she reached the last four.
The line-up for Birmingham is the strongest ever seen at the grass-court event.
Of the current top 10, only Svetlana Kuznetsova and Serena Williams, who recently announced her pregnancy, are missing.
The event runs from 17-25 June and is one of three tournaments - along with the Aegon Open in Nottingham and the Aegon International in Eastbourne - in the lead up to Wimbledon in July.
Sharapova, who has not played a Wimbledon warm-up event since she reached the final in Birmingham in 2010, remains some way adrift of direct entry into the Wimbledon main draw.
She will need to reach the semi-finals in Rome next week to make sure. A first-round defeat could cost her a place in qualifying unless the All England Club offers her a wildcard.
Doctors performed pioneering surgery on Frankie Lavis, who has spina bifida, when mother Gina was 24 weeks pregnant.
Frankie's was the first NHS-funded operation of its kind and was carried out in Belgium.
Prof Jan Deprest, who performed the surgery, found Frankie flourishing when he was reunited with her shortly before her first birthday.
Spina bifida occurs when a section of the spinal column does not form properly, which can expose the spinal cord to toxic chemicals in the womb.
Gina Lavis said she was "overwhelmed" and "devastated" when her baby's spina bifida was diagnosed at the 20-week scan.
Having carried out online research and spoken with doctors in Plymouth she went to Belgium four weeks later to undergo surgery carried out by Prof Deprest.
He cut through the womb and operated on the baby's spine to close the hole caused by spina bifida.
The operation aims to avert further damage and prevent the build-up of potentially harmful fluid.
Mrs Lavis gave birth at 35 weeks and was thrilled to see the success of the operation.
"She came out screaming and kicking her legs," Mrs Lavis told BBC's Inside Out South West.
Prof Deprest came to Plymouth ahead of Frankie's first birthday and said her progress was "exceptional".
"We expect an improvement but we do not necessarily expect that it returns to normal," he said.
Dr Ross Welch, consultant at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, said: "I'm astonished by Frankie. The improvement over what we would have expected without the prenatal surgery is really very impressive."
Mrs Lavis said Frankie was growing into a "normal, healthy little girl".
She said: "Frankie is Frankie. Spina bifida is just a small part of her."
Mrs Lavis was the ninth woman to have the surgery at Leuven Teaching Hospital.
The surgery was first developed at the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia in the US, where it has been performed more than 200 times.
Watch BBC Inside Out on BBC One in the South West at 19:30 BST for more on this story.
Although a Sunderland fan, six-year-old Bradley made a real impact on Everton when he was a mascot first against them, then for them.
Bradley died on 7 July having been diagnosed with neuroblastoma when he was 18 months old.
Everton, which previously donated £200,000 to his appeal, will host a celebrity match on 3 September.
Bradley's mother Gemma said the support the family had received was "fantastic".
Evertonians formed a special bond with the youngster, initially during Everton's match at Sunderland in September 2016 and then when he was a guest at Goodison Park for two matches in January and February this year.
Everton Chairman Bill Kenwright said: "I didn't know him for long but from the second he walked out onto the pitch with his beloved Sunderland against us, I felt an overwhelming need to support him.
"He was the loveliest lad - still an imp, but with the biggest heart."
Funds are being raised for the Bradley Lowery Foundation, a charity set up by his family which aims to help other families with children with cancer.
The North West Ambulance Service said two children were "critically" injured in the 15:20 GMT crash in Belvidere Road.
The driver of the Peugeot car, a woman in her 80s, was also injured and treated at the scene.
Seven of the girls were taken to hospital by ambulance, with one attending voluntarily.
Read the latest updates on this story and more from across Merseyside.
Consultant paramedic Mike Jackson, who was first on the scene, said in addition to the two "critical" injuries, a further three of the girls were likely to have fractured limbs or head injuries.
He described the remaining three victims as "walking wounded".
Belvedere Academy, a nearby girls school, posted a statement on its website which said: "Unfortunately there has been a road traffic accident outside the academy.
"School bus service will be significantly delayed. Please make arrangements to collect your daughter as soon as possible."
Several roads in the area have been closed, including Belvidere Road, the junction at Devonshire Road and Admiral Street and the junction between Princess Gate and South Street.
The first 90 minutes of the game produced very little in the way of quality football and ended goalless.
Koffi Boua, Atcho Djobo and Serge N'Guessan scored the goals for coach Michel Dussuyer's (pictured) side.
The Ivorians will now play the winners of Sunday's Tunisia against Mali quarter-final in Thursday's semi-final.
Boua headed in a cross from Krahire Zakri five minutes into extra-time.
The second was also a header this time from Djobo as he connected with a corner taken by captain Serge N'Guessan on 102 minutes.
The third goal was a spectacular strike from N'Guessan, who shot from just over the half-way line in the 112th minute, having spotted the keeper off his line.
Armed robbers struck six times in two days at properties in Bradford, Leeds and Kirklees.
West Yorkshire Police said the men from Bradford, aged 26 and 39, were overnight and are being held in police custody.
The robberies took place on Monday and Tuesday.
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The percentage of A* or A grades is 22.7%, down from 23.1% and the lowest since 2010 when the A* grade came in.
The overall pass rate stayed at 97.3%.
Exam board WJEC called the fall in top grades "disappointing" while the education secretary said some subjects could learn from improvements in maths and history.
A-level performance remains lower than England, which remained at 98.1% while top grades were down 0.1% on 2015.
As thousands of students collected their results, the main points are:
As well as overall grades, there is always interest in performances in the most popular A-level subjects - maths and English.
More students in Wales have been getting top grades in maths over the last six years than in England - and this continues with 43.2% getting the top grades in Wales compared to 41.6% in England.
But in English, Wales has been trailing and there is still a gap of 3.2% with those students over the border.
There have also been more students getting D and E grades in English (23.2%) than those getting A* and A (15.9%).
Education Secretary Kirsty Williams said: "The number achieving the highest grades is encouraging, we can be proud of our pupil's performance in maths and the progress when it comes to the Welsh Baccalaureate.
"However, there are some areas where we are not where we would want to be.
"I will be looking closely at the full details of these results and those we expect next week to see what lessons we can learn and what we can do differently.
"Our performance at the top grades in maths show what Wales can achieve."
For the first time this year, students got their results for 14 new AS subjects including English, Welsh, history and the sciences.
These qualifications are usually taken by 17 year olds a year into the A level course and account for 40% of the final grade. AS-level passes were up in Wales, including 18% getting the top A grade.
Wales has the lowest percentage of A*-C grades - 73.8 - of any area - including every English region.
It also has the lowest for A* and A - apart from the North East of England.
Gareth Pierce, chief executive of the WJEC, said comparisons with England had been fairly similar over a number of years.
"Maybe there are questions that Wales needs to look at in terms of the extent of investment in excellence of provision which includes everything from the opportunity to study and the teaching workforce," he said.
A-levels in Wales: All you need to know
Shadow Conservative education minister Darren Millar said: "While our students and teachers are due congratulations, the first minister and his cabinet secretary for education deserve no such praise.
"Their failure to close the gap on educational standards is a damning indictment of their ability to properly govern the nation.
"It is frustrating to see that the number of students achieving the highest A-level grades is down, marking a consistent year-on-year decline - and yet again we are being outperformed by the rest of the UK."
Plaid Cymru's education spokesman Llyr Gruffydd said the drop in students gaining the top A* or A grades further underlined the need to introduce curriculum, teacher training and professional development reforms.
"These are all important to ensure the Welsh education system improves," he said.
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) cautioned against sweeping conclusions.
"We will have to examine the reason for the marginal fall in the very top grades, although it should be recognised that last year's result was the high water mark for these grades since 2010," said David Evans, secretary in Wales.
Rob Williams, Welsh director of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) praised the collective effort of students and teachers but said: "One area of potential concern is the decline in entries to certain subjects at both AS and A Level - including French, drama and music.
"Plans for the new curriculum in Wales call for balance and breadth and schools will need support in order to ensure that this can be achieved."
Altogether there are 23,740 students from Wales applying to universities in the UK, around half of them 18-year-olds who picked up their results on Thursday.
So far, 16,600 students from Wales have secured places, which is the highest number at this point for five years.
Around 4,000 are now using the clearing system to find their university place.
Ucas says clearing has "transformed into a respected and important route" into higher education but Welsh universities have been finding competition tough from colleges in England.
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Counties are allowed to field two overseas players in Twenty20 games, with up to four registered for that competition, although only two can be registered at any one time, and registrations must be for a minimum of 10 days.
Only one overseas player is permitted in the County Championship and One-Day Cup competitions.
Kolpak contracts are signed by foreign players, using a loophole in European Union law to avoid counting against the quota of one overseas player per club.
Players who moved counties or retired during the 2014 season are included on the 2014 list. Have we missed anyone? Please let us know.
Overseas player: Martin Guptill (New Zealand, for first three Championship matches); Tillakaratne Dilshan (Sri Lanka, June and early August until end of the season), Nathan Rimmington (Australia, for Twenty20); Hashim Amla (South Africa, from 10-29 May); Hamish Rutherford (New Zealand, from mid-June to the end of July)
Ins: Shiv Thakor (Leicestershire), Will Davis (YTH), Adam Wheatcroft (YTH), Harry White (YTH), Wayne White (Lancashire), Matthew Critchley (YTH), Tom Milnes (Warwickshire, month's loan from 23 July)
Outs: Tim Groenewald (Somerset), Mark Turner (REL), Matt Higginbottom (REL), Gareth Cross (REL), Jonathan Marsden (REL), Cheteshwar Pujara (Yorkshire), Wayne White (REL on 5 August, subsequently joined Leicestershire), David Wainwright (REL on 26 August, subsequently signed for Shropshire)
Other news: Wes Durston took over as captain in the One-Day Cup and T20 Blast.
Overseas player: John Hastings (Australia)
Ins: Jack Burnham (YTH), James Weighell (YTH), Barry McCarthy (YTH), Gurman Randhawa (ex-Yorkshire, had been playing for Shropshire)
Outs: Gareth Breese (REL), Rammy Singh (REL), Phil Mustard (Lancashire, loan from 11 September until end of season)
Overseas player: Jesse Ryder (New Zealand), Shaun Tait (Australia, for Twenty20)
Ins: Callum Taylor (YTH), Liam Gough (trial until May, will be registered for first team), Aron Nijjar (trial, June-Sep), Saf Imtiaz (trial, 2015 season), Daniel Lawrence (YTH), Adeel Malik (three-month contract from May), Liam Dawson (Hampshire, loan from 6-18 July); Ravi Patel (Middlesex, loan from 18 July-7 August)
Outs: Ben Foakes (Surrey), Sajid Mahmood (REL), Tom Craddock (REL), Tim Phillips (RET), Tymal Mills (Sussex), Tanveer Sikandar (REL), Adeel Malik (REL, see above)
Other news: Coach Paul Grayson left the club by mutual consent on 2 September.
Overseas player: Jacques Rudolph (South Africa); Wayne Parnell (South Africa, for Twenty20 until 28 June)
Ins: James Kettleborough (Northants), Craig Meschede (Somerset, season-long loan), Colin Ingram (KPK), Andy Carter (Nottinghamshire, month-long loan from start of season, then loan for Championship cricket only, from 19 June to end of July)
Outs: Murray Goodwin (RET), Gareth Rees (RET), Stewart Walters (REL), Tom Lancefield (REL), Mike Reed (REL), Jim Allenby (Somerset), Will Owen (RET on 17 August)
Other news: Rudolph took over as captain in all formats.
Overseas player: Michael Klinger (Australia, from June)
Ins: Tom Hampton (Buckinghamshire), Kieran Noema-Barnett (UKP), Geraint Jones (Kent), Peter Handscomb (UKP)
Outs: Will Gidman (Nottinghamshire), Alex Gidman (Worcestershire), Graeme McCarter (REL), Dan Housego (REL), Tom Shrewsbury (REL)
Other news: Former players Richard Dawson and Ian Harvey were named as coach and assistant coach following the departure of director of cricket John Bracewell. Geraint Jones stepped down as four-day captain in early July and was replaced by Ian Cockbain.
Overseas player: Jackson Bird (Australia, until August); Yasir Arafat (Pakistan, for one-day cricket); Ryan McLaren (South Africa, from 1 September)
Ins: Andre Adams (Nottinghamshire, short-term deal as player-coach), Yasir Arafat (Sussex), Gareth Berg (Middlesex), Fidel Edwards (KPK), Brad Wheal (UKP), Joe Weatherley (YTH), Mason Crane (YTH), Ryan Stevenson (Devon)
Outs: David Balcombe (Surrey), Michael Bates (Wiltshire, subsequently joined Somerset), Ruel Brathwaite (REL), Matt Coles (Kent), Andre Adams (RET on 8 June), Liam Dawson (Essex, loan from 6-18 July)
Other news: Twenty20 captain James Vince became one-day skipper as well at the start of the season - then took over as interim Championship captain on 18 July after Jimmy Adams stepped down.
Overseas player: None
Ins: Sam Weller (YTH), Ryan Davies (YTH), Joe Denly (Middlesex), Matt Coles (Hampshire), Hugh Bernard (YTH), Sean Dickson (UKP)
Outs: Geraint Jones (Gloucestershire), Robbie Joseph (REL), Mark Davies (RET), Brendan Nash (REL on 20 August)
Overseas player: Peter Siddle (Australia, first four games of the season), James Faulkner (Australia, from end of IPL season to end of August)
Ins: Nathan Buck (Leicestershire), Haseeb Hameed (YTH), Matthew Parkinson (YTH), Saqib Mahmood (YTH), George Edwards (Surrey), Alviro Petersen (Somerset, as KPK), Toby Lester (YTH), Phil Mustard (Durham, loan from 11 September until end of season)
Outs: Andrea Agathangelou (REL, subsequently joined Leicestershire mid-season), Oliver Newby (REL), Kabir Ali (REL), Wayne White (Derbyshire), Andrew Flintoff (played Twenty20 only last season)
Other news: Director of cricket Mike Watkinson stepped down and was replaced by Ashley Giles, Tom Smith was named as captain in place of Glenn Chapple who moved into a player-coach role.
Overseas player: Clint McKay (Australia, from 26 April), Grant Elliott (New Zealand, for Twenty20, initially for first 10 matches); Umar Akmal (Pakistan, for Twenty20, 12-26 June)
Ins: Aadil Ali (YTH), Zak Chappell (YTH), Neil Pinner (YTH), Mark Cosgrove (UKP), Kevin O'Brien (Surrey, for Twenty20 from 15 May-26 June), Andrea Agathangelou (ex-Lancashire), Greg Smith (Nottinghamshire, loan for Championship cricket only, 5-18 July), Michael Burgess (Loughborough MCCU), Wayne White (Derbyshire)
Outs: Shiv Thakor (Derbyshire), Nathan Buck (Lancashire), Josh Cobb (Northants), Greg Smith (Nottinghamshire), Anthony Ireland (REL), Michael Thornely (REL), Matt Boyce (RET on 23 July)
Other news: Former director of cricket Phil Whitticase left the club, while ex-Australia all-rounder Andrew McDonald joined as head coach. Cosgrove was appointed captain, with Ned Eckersley as his deputy.
Overseas player: Adam Voges (Australia, until mid-May); Joe Burns (Australia, early May until mid-July); Kyle Abbott (South Africa, for first half of Twenty20 season); Mitchell McClenaghan (New Zealand, for second half of Twenty20 season); Junaid Khan (Pakistan, from 27 July)
Ins: Max Holden (YTH), George Scott (YTH), Robbie White (YTH), Nick Compton (Somerset), James Franklin (New Zealand - as EUP), Nathan Sowter (YTH)
Outs: Gareth Berg (Hampshire), Adam Rossington (Northants), Ollie Wilkin (REL), Joe Denly (Kent), Ravi Patel (Essex, loan from 18 July-7 August)
Other news: Voges replaced fellow Australian Chris Rogers as Middlesex's Championship captain, but was then called up to the Australian Test squad. David Houghton joined from Somerset in January to become batting coach, replacing Mark Ramprakash who took up the same role with England.
Overseas player: Rory Kleinveldt (South Africa), Shahid Afridi (Pakistan, for Twenty20 until mid-June)
Ins: Josh Cobb (Leicestershire), Adam Rossington (Middlesex), Saif Zaib (YTH), Richard Levi (KPK), George Munsey (Scotland), Ben Sanderson (ex-Yorkshire), Richard Gleeson (Cumberland)
Outs: David Sales (RET), Andrew Hall (REL), Matthew Spriegel (RET), James Middlebrook (Yorkshire), James Kettleborough (Glamorgan), Michael Leask (REL), Stephen Peters (RET on 7 August)
Other news: Alex Wakely became captain in all formats.
Overseas player: Vernon Philander (South Africa, start of season until early June), Ben Hilfenhaus (Australia, from early June until mid-July), Darren Sammy (West Indies, for Twenty20 from 31 May-12 June); Dan Christian (Australia, 19 June - end of July, then for One-Day Cup semi-final on 7 September), Imran Tahir (South Africa, 30 July until 6 September)
Ins: Will Gidman (Gloucestershire), Greg Smith (Leicestershire), Brendan Taylor (Zimbabwe, as KPK), Matthew Carter (YTH), Billy Root (YTH)
Outs: Phil Jaques (REL), Andre Adams (Hampshire), Sam Kelsall (REL), Ajmal Shahzad (Sussex), Andy Carter (Glamorgan, month-long loan from start of season, then for Championship cricket only from 19 June to end of July), Luke Fletcher (Surrey, loan for three Championship matches from 18 May - 3 June), Greg Smith (Leicestershire, loan for Championship cricket only, 5-18 July)
Other news: Ex-England coach Peter Moores joined Notts on 30 June on a three-month coaching consultant contract.
Overseas player: Abdur Rehman (Pakistan, until 30 July), Sohail Tanvir (Pakistan, for first half of Twenty20 season), Chris Gayle (West Indies, for Twenty20 from 29 May - 12 June, possibly returning if they make the knock-out stages), Luke Ronchi (New Zealand, for Twenty20 from 26 June - 17 July, then for County Championship from 1 September)
Ins: Tim Groenewald (Derbyshire), Ollie Sale (YTH), Tim Rouse (YTH), Sam Wyatt-Haines (YTH), Jim Allenby (Glamorgan), Tom Cooper (EUP), Michael Bates (ex-Hampshire), Adam Hose (YTH)
Outs: Chris Jones (RET),James Burke (Surrey), Nick Compton (Middlesex), Craig Meschede (Glamorgan, season-long loan), Alviro Petersen (Lancashire, as KPK), Craig Kieswetter (RET on 5 June), George Dockrell (Sussex, month's loan for Championship cricket from 15 June), Alfonso Thomas (Sussex, month's loan for One-Day Cup from 24 July)
Other news: Matthew Maynard replaced Dave Nosworthy as director of cricket, while high performance director Andy Hurry left to take up a role with England, and batting coach David Houghton left to take up the same position at Middlesex. Alfonso Thomas became one-day captain.
Overseas player: Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka); Moises Henriques (Australia, for Twenty20 and as cover for Sangakkara, in June), Wahab Riaz (Pakistan, for two Twenty20 games on 15 & 16 May), Dean Elgar (South Africa, as cover for Sangakkara & Henriques, from 21 June - 1 July)
Ins: Ben Foakes (Essex), James Burke (Somerset), David Balcombe (Hampshire), Luke Fletcher (Nottinghamshire, loan for three County Championship matches from 18 May - 3 June), Sam Curran (YTH)
Outs: Tom Jewell (REL), Kevin O'Brien (Leicestershire), Jack Winslade (REL), George Edwards (Lancashire), Tim Linley (Sussex, month's loan from 15 June), Chris Tremlett (RET on 21 August)
Other news: Gareth Batty replaced Gary Wilson as captain.
Overseas player: Steve Magoffin (Australia); Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka, for Twenty20 until mid-June); George Bailey (Australia, for second half of Twenty20 competition)
Ins: Tymal Mills (Essex), Ajmal Shahzad (Nottinghamshire), Oliver Robinson (ex-Yorkshire), George Dockrell (Somerset, month's loan for Championship cricket only from 15 June), Tim Linley (Surrey, month's loan from 15 June), Peter Burgoyne (ex-Derbyshire, non-contract), Alfonso Thomas (Somerset, month's loan for One-Day Cup from 24 July)
Outs: Yasir Arafat (Hampshire), Jon Lewis (RET, is to become the club's bowling coach), Rory Hamilton-Brown (RET), Matt Prior (RET on 11 June)
Other news: All-rounder Luke Wright became Twenty20 captain.
Overseas player: Jeetan Patel (New Zealand); Brendon McCullum (New Zealand, for Twenty20 from 26 June)
Ins: Andrew Umeed (YTH), Mark Adair (YTH)
Outs: Paul Best (RET), Jamie Atkinson (REL), Tom Milnes (Derbyshire, month's loan from 23 July)
Other news: Former wicketkeeper Richard Johnson returned to the club as assistant strength and conditioning coach, with ex-captain Jim Troughton back as fielding coach.
Overseas player: Colin Munro (New Zealand, for Twenty20); Sachithra Senanayake (Sri Lanka, until late May); Saeed Ajmal (Pakistan, from June until 4 September); Shannon Gabriel (West Indies, from 14 September)
Ins: Alex Gidman (Gloucestershire), George Rhodes (YTH), Alex Hepburn (YTH), Josh Tongue (YTH), Ben Twohig (YTH)
Outs: Nick Harrison (REL), Matt Pardoe (REL), Graeme Cessford (REL)
Overseas player: Cheteshwar Pujara (India, start of season until mid-May); Aaron Finch (mid-June to mid-July, then from late August); Glenn Maxwell (Australia, for Twenty20, then all formats from July to late August)
Ins: Josh Shaw (YTH), Cheteshwar Pujara (Derbyshire); James Middlebrook (Northants, short-term contract)
Outs: Azeem Rafiq (REL), Barney Gibson (RET)
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Work to mend the A591 and investigate restoring Pooley Bridge and Eamont Bridge is due to begin in the new year.
Cumbria County Council leader Stewart Young welcomed the money but said total restoration would cost much more.
"Repairing all the infrastructure in Cumbria alone will run into hundreds of millions of pounds," he said.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said the local transport system was "the lifeblood" of the region.
"We are determined to help families and businesses in Cumbria and Lancashire get back on their feet as soon as possible," he said.
Engineers said severe flooding and landslides caused by Storm Desmond had left parts of the A591 looking "like a bomb site".
Derbyshire Constabulary asked for Marcin Jaworski to be added to the sex offenders register, but did not want his name to be published by the media.
It argued he may leave the Shirebrook area to avoid public attention owing to hostility against foreign nationals.
However, police were successfully challenged by the Derbyshire Times.
At the hearing at Chesterfield Magistrates' Court, reporter Jon Cooper argued that publication of the Polish national's was in the public interest and in the interests of public safety.
The judge said the media plays a "vital role" in upholding open justice, and rejected the police's application for a reporting restriction.
Shirebrook has been referred to as "Sports Direct town" due to the estimated 1,500 people that have moved there to work for the retailer - mainly agency workers from countries such as Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania and Albania.
Supt Jim Allen, of Derbyshire Police, said: "Reporting restrictions were requested in this case because of concerns raised by local officers.
"There have been widely reported community tensions in the Shirebrook area, in the past, linked to the large number of Eastern European people who now live and work in the area.
"We respect the decision of the judge who ruled the case should be heard without restriction."
Mr Jaworski was questioned by police after being found drinking in a prohibited area within Shirebrook.
Further checks revealed he had been convicted of rape in Poland in 2014, so police applied for an order requiring him to sign the sex offenders register.
The hearing was adjourned until 5 May because Mr Jaworski, 20, of Eland Road, Langwith Junction, Shirebrook, was not present.
The ruling by US District Judge Andrew Hanen gives a coalition of 26 states time to pursue a lawsuit aiming to permanently stop the orders.
Some parts of the policy would have started to take effect on Wednesday.
US Attorney General Eric Holder said he is seeking to overturn the Texas ruling and the courts will ultimately decide.
The coalition of states, led by Texas and made up of mostly conservative states in the South and Midwest, say the order would increase costs for law enforcement, health care and education.
On Tuesday the White House defended the legality of its policy, announced by President Obama in November after immigration-reform efforts had failed repeatedly in Congress.
President Obama's unilateral move angered Republicans who are working to stop the executive action.
The House has approved a bill that would remove funding for the policies from the Department of Homeland Security's budget. The measure has failed to pass the Senate and President Obama is expected to veto the bill.
Republicans hailed Mr Hanen's injunction.
"The Texas court decision reached last night is a major turning point in the fight to stop Obama's lawless amnesty," said Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican.
The White House has said Obama's executive order is not out of legal bounds and that the US Supreme Court and Congress have said federal officials can set priorities in enforcing immigration laws.
Analysis: Thomas Sparrow, BBC Mundo, Washington
Far from the political debate that has dominated immigration, Monday's ruling has the potential to affect millions of undocumented immigrants across the country.
In fact, about 270,000 undocumented immigrants will be immediately affected. They came to the US as children and are eligible to apply under a programme that was due to begin this week but has now been postponed.
More generally, the halt may also increase the fear many Hispanics around the country feel about releasing their personal information for a programme that is limited in scope, temporary in nature and could be reversed by decisions like the one on Monday.
During a recent trip to the US-Mexico border in Texas, we spoke to many undocumented Hispanic immigrants who clearly expressed those fears.
One of them even said that "with this announcement, there is no hope, you don't know where your future lies," referring to president Obama's November executive action.
More: The silent enemy of Obama's migrant plans
Twelve states as well as Washington DC and the US Conference of Mayors have come out in support of President Obama's action, saying it would stimulate the economy.
The first of President Obama's orders - to expand a programme that protects young immigrants from deportation if they were brought to the US illegally as children - was set to start on Wednesday.
The other major part of President Obama's order, which extends deportation protections to parents of US citizens and permanent residents who have been in the country for some years, was not expected to begin until 19 May.
Announcing the surprise move in the Black Sea port of Odessa, President Petro Poroshenko said Mr Saakashvili had been granted Ukrainian citizenship.
Mr Saakashvili is widely credited with carrying out radical reforms in Georgia during his term in office in 2008-13.
However, current Georgian authorities accuse him of abuse of power and have demanded his extradition.
Mr Saakashvili left Georgia after his term as president ended in 2013. He denies that charges against him, which he says are politically motivated.
The complete surprise of Mikheil Saakashvili's appointment as Odessa governor has left a large number of political observers at a loss for explanation.
President Petro Poroshenko's reasons will be come clearer with time, but at the moment, many are struggling to see the strategy behind naming a former leader of another country to run a provincial government.
Saakashvili is a political outsider, with few ties to the Odessa region, and comes with a reputation for divisiveness and a high level of self-involvement.
But he is a also pro-Western, pro-reform and apparently very loyal to Mr Poroshenko — which will come in handy if he takes on local corruption and vested interests, as Mr Poroshenko apparently wants.
The move could be a stroke of genius on Mr Poroshenko's part — or a blunder of breathtaking magnitude. At the very least, it points to his lack of choices among home-grown candidates.
President Poroshenko made the announcement at a televised event in Odessa, with Mr Saakashvili standing beside him.
"We are united by our love of Odessa and Ukraine," Mr Poroshenko said, adding that that the new governor would bring in discipline and carry out much needed reforms.
"In just one year, Oddessites should feel that their living standards are higher."
The Ukrainian president also said his decision was part of his drive to limit the political influence of the country's oligarchs.
Although there has been so far no official reaction from Russia, Moscow has been highly critical of him after Georgia and Russia fought a brief war in 2008.
Unlike Ukraine's eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Odessa has not been hit by the fighting between government forces and pro-Russian rebels.
However, tensions in the strategic port remain high after clashes between pro- and anti-government protesters on 2 May 2014 left more than 40 people dead.
The majority of those who died were pro-Russian activists who perished in a fire in a trade union building. Investigations into what caused the blaze are continuing.
The Ukrainian government, Western leaders and Nato all say there is clear evidence that Russia is helping the rebels in the east with heavy weapons and soldiers. Independent experts echo that accusation.
Moscow denies it, insisting that any Russians serving with the rebels are volunteers.
More than 6,000 people have been killed in fighting in eastern Ukraine that began in April 2014 when rebels seized large parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. This followed Russia's annexation of the Crimea peninsula.
Mr Paterson, 54, and his wife Rose, rode 14 hours each day on the charity trek across the Mongolian wilderness.
The Patersons were the oldest of 23 participants who journeyed to Asia, to retrace the pony express communication trail, first set out during the reign of Mongol emperor Genghis Khan, more than 800 years ago.
Among the other politicians who will have to pay up after their epic journey will be Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson, while the Royal Irish Regiment's Benevolent Fund will be one of the beneficiaries.
Among the other good causes to benefit will be the Midlands Centre for Spinal Injuries.
Only 10 of those who took part completed the journey, which featured temperatures fluctuating from freezing to 35C.
The North Shrophire MP said it was the hardest thing he had ever done.
"One poor guy we were riding with from Hong Kong lost both his thumbs, one guy broke his wrist, we had people with cracked ribs and others had to drop out with severe dehydration," he said.
"The horses over there are not fully broken in and live a sort of herd life. The locals had to catch them every morning with a large loop on a pole.
"So it was very mentally tiring, you had to concentrate the whole time, you couldn't drift off, because you knew the horse could bolt at any time."
He said the journey would change his attitude to life.
"A lot of people think they have difficulties, well my goodness they should see the difficulties people have to face out here."
Mr Paterson added he was looking forward to collecting the money owed to him by Chancellor George Osborne.
"Good businessman that he is, the chancellor promised me a cheque, but only on completion," he said.
The vote in favour - by 46 out of 81 MPs - paves the way for Montenegro to join Nato late next month.
All but two of Nato's 28 members have ratified the accord.
Russia long regarded Montenegro and neighbouring Serbia as allies. It has now banned Montenegrin wine and said it might move to defend Russian interests.
The Russian foreign ministry said Montenegro's leadership and its Western backers had "ignored the voice of reason and conscience".
"We reserve the right to take steps aimed at defending our interests and national security."
Montenegro's Prime Minister, Dusko Markovic, dismissed Russia's wine import ban as politically motivated. Russia cited sanitary concerns.
A fifth of all wine exports go to Russia, and the ban will have a significant impact on sales.
"It is clear that the decision is in the context of Nato membership," Mr Markovic said.
Montenegro, home to about 633,000 people, was granted a membership action plan by Nato in 2009.
A decade earlier, Montenegro and Serbia were bombed by Nato planes in a three-month campaign during the Kosovo war.
Nato membership remains highly controversial in Montenegro, which broke away from Serbia after the collapse of Yugoslavia, becoming independent in 2006.
Earlier this month Montenegro charged 14 people, including two Russians, with plotting to overthrow the government last October.
The stadium and training facilities would be built at Kingsford, close to the Aberdeen bypass, near Westhill.
The club said the plans for the project would not be put before councillors in June as originally hoped.
The decision follows requests from the council and consultees for further information.
Aberdeen FC said if planning permission was granted in October, it could still have the stadium completed in 2020.
Objectors say concerns include traffic and parking issues.
The club believes the new stadium is vital if it is to achieve a sustainable future.
He was charged after television pictures captured the incident after the win over Portsmouth on 26 December.
An independent regulatory commission decided on Friday the 49-year-old was guilty of a charge of violent conduct.
Becchetti, who requested a personal hearing, can appeal against the ruling.
The Italian, who bought the O's in summer 2014, had accepted his actions were improper but strongly denied it was violent conduct.
"Mr Becchetti is deeply disappointed with the decision that has been taken by the Football Association Regulatory Commission, which he does not believe reflects the events on Boxing Day," said a club statement.
"Mr Becchetti will consider an appeal upon reviewing the written reasons of the panel."
28 October 2015 Last updated at 13:28 GMT
Models in Paris have taken to the catwalk dressed in clothes made entirely from chocolate.
The designs were made by stylists and famous chocolate makers called chocolatiers.
They were worried their creations might melt under the bright lights. So they had to think of ways to keep the models cool.
They said it was one of their biggest challenges.
Up to 200 Kosovo Albanians have travelled to the Middle East to fight and 16 of them have died, reports say.
Some of those held are suspected of involvement in Islamic State (IS) and Syria's Nusra Front.
Several European countries are trying to stop people volunteering for militant groups.
European Union ambassadors are expected to meet on Tuesday to consider ways of countering the group's advance in Iraq, AFP news agency reports.
Islamic State is one of the main jihadist rebel groups in Syria and is at the forefront of an insurgency against the Iraqi government.
The suspects arrested in Kosovo had either fought for or supported IS and Nusra Front, police spokesman Baki Kelani said on Monday.
"We confiscated long weapons including AK-47s, small calibre weapons, different electronic equipment, ammunition and explosives," he said.
An estimated 60 raids were carried out cross Kosovo. Among the sites targeted were makeshift mosques which may have been used as recruiting centres, he added.
President Atifete Jahjaga said in a statement that Kosovo would "not be a shelter of extremism" and the Kosovo government said any threat against the state would be punished "without mercy".
Kosovo unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in February 2008. Serbia rejects Kosovo's independence, although the two sides normalised relations in 2013.
The government has been pushing to end the practices, along with the lighting of firecrackers, to fight pollution.
The risks include raised levels of PM2.5, benzene and methylbenzene.
The protesters were followers of the Taoist religion. They say the practices are a crucial element of their rituals.
The centre of Taipei was filled with the sounds of clashing cymbals on Sunday as people from about 100 temples took part in the demonstration.
A 59-year-old man, who had travelled from the south of the country and gave his surname as Cheng, told the news agency AFP: "It is very important. Our religion is upheld by the burning of incense."
Joyce Wu, 34, said: "Gods can only feel our worship if we burn incense.
"I grew up in a rural village, how come I'm healthy and not sick? I think cars and factories cause more of a pollution problem."
Last year during a Taoist pilgrimage, government monitors found levels of harmful PM2.5 - particulate matter smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter - had reached more than 60 times the World Health Organization's recommended limit.
The government issued a statement saying it did not wish to ban the practice, but it called on religious groups to "take appropriate measures to reduce potential pollution".
One temple has stopped burning incense, while another has started playing recordings of the sound of firecrackers.
The sessions for gathering oral evidence will take place on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays of each week from 5 September.
The process is expected to span "several months".
Lord Hardie is leading the inquiry into the scheme, which went significantly over budget and was delivered years later than originally planned.
The probe was set up in 2014 by the then first minister Alex Salmond.
Evidence will be given by a number of witnesses who will be cited to appear.
It will supplement written statements from witnesses and the millions of documents already recovered during the course of investigations by the inquiry team.
The inquiry's core participants may be allowed limited cross-examination of the speakers.
Lord Hardie said the announcement marks a milestone in the inquiry's progress.
"The oral hearings form an essential part of the important work of the inquiry and the evidence heard will play a crucial role in informing my final recommendations," he said.
"In advance of these hearings, a significant amount of activity has already taken place including identifying, retrieving and reviewing more than six million documents and the ongoing gathering of statements from a significant number of witnesses."
Lord Hardie has vowed to provide "robust recommendations" to ensure future infrastructure projects avoid the problems experienced by the scheme.
The trams began operating at the end of May 2014 after six years of disruption and a long-running dispute between City of Edinburgh Edinburgh Council and contractors.
The eventual cost of £776m was more than double the sum earmarked for the project by the previous Labour-led administration.
Figures out at the end of last year showed the city's tram network is running at an average of 25% capacity.
The hearings will take place at the inquiry's offices in Waterloo Place in the city.
Liam Kerr, Scottish Conservative transport spokesman, said: "By the time the oral hearings into this fiasco get underway, it will have been more than three years since Lord Hardie was appointed.
"At the time, former First Minister Alex Salmond said the inquiry would be quick and thorough.
"We are now talking about an eye-watering bill of more than £8m.
"I would urge the Scottish government to confirm a publication date for the final report to at least provide some light at the end of the tunnel."
Vale of Clwyd MP Chris Ruane will get his first ever front-bench post as a shadow Wales Office minister.
Torfaen MP Nick Thomas-Symonds will speak on home affairs while the Merthyr Tydfil MP Gerald Jones moves from the Wales portfolio to defence.
Swansea East's Carolyn Harris becomes a shadow women and equalities minister.
The shadow cabinet includes three Welsh MPs - Christina Rees as shadow Welsh secretary, Nia Griffith speaking on defence and Owen Smith on Northern Ireland.
Wayne David keeps his role as a junior spokesman on defence on Ms Griffith's team.
Even hard-rocking Texas band ZZ Top watched the results unfold on their tour bus.
"We were just curious," singer Billy Gibbons told the BBC. "It was wild.
"I was watching in Las Vegas. If you think a dice game has good odds, you should have been in the big betting room there.
"The odds were huge. It was Britain all the way."
The band didn't mention the vote during their Glastonbury set - but many others did. Damon Albarn said: "Democracy has failed us, because it was ill-informed", while Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis vented his frustration by wearing a t-shirt bearing the slogan: "Abuse of power comes as no surprise".
But what does leaving the EU mean for musicians?
The BPI, which represents the British music industry, said on Friday, "We will, of course, press the government to swiftly negotiate trade deals that will ensure unimpeded access to EU markets for our music and our touring artists."
Artists at Glastonbury were worried about the impact of the weak pound on the cost of touring, and how red tape would affect their ability to play abroad.
This is what they said:
Lauren Mayberry: "I think the nature of touring is going to change massively. The summer we're looking at right now is just hopping from country to country within Europe and in order to do that when we're not part of the European Union, we would presumably need to go to a different embassy for every different country and apply for a visa for us and everybody in our crew."
Martin Doherty: "We also employ mainland Europeans within our crew, and they will struggle to get work permits and continue under the employ of our band. It's all very complicated."
Matt Healy: "I was literally leaving the European Union when I heard the result. I was in a queue in Copenhagen to get in a plane back to London and I didn't know which queue to get in. It's a weird time.
"It will make touring a lot harder - but freedom of movement isn't literally going to stop. There'll still be soft borders. I'm sure there'll be a European Visa.
"One of the things people who travel on tour buses through Europe were saying was that we'll have to get up every two hours when we [cross the border] into Luxembourg and Belgium. I don't think that's going to be the case. I just think our generation has been robbed of the opportunity for friendships and relationships and work opportunities.
Dan Smith: "I'm really gutted and really shocked. It's going to have a huge knock-on effect.
"One of the amazing things about Europe is the freedom to travel, and the freedom to work wherever you want. We're lucky enough as a touring band to get to go every weekend to play two or three festivals in different European countries and it's so easy. We can get on a ferry and go there, and it's something we've totally taken for granted. But now I imagine there'll be loads and loads of red tape to get through."
"I think we'll still have a positive relationship with Europe. I'm old enough to remember how it was before [integration] and the British passport has always been looked on as something that's fairly easy to get in and out of countries with."
Danish singer MO, the voice behind Major Lazer's Lean On, travelled to Britain the day after the results. She remains positive that she will be able to continue working in the UK without any major restrictions.
"Like everyone else, I'm just thinking 'what's this going to mean?'. But hopefully it won't be as hard as people fear.
"I've spent a lot of time queuing up in embassies for a visa. You have to be there in person and show your face but it's not too bad. I remember when I was going to India for the first time, I had to stay in the embassy six hours, early in the morning, standing up the whole time. But I was like, 'screw that, I'm going to India!'.
"It's always just about attitude. You have to accept this is the world, this is how it is. Hopefully someday it will be different."
Tim Booth: "As a band, we're pretty European in nature, so we were pretty upset. I feel sad that Britain has gone back to being an island, in a certain kind of metaphorical way.
Saul Davies: "The effect on touring remains to be seen. That's the whole point about change. Change brings about difference, difference is unknown until you're in it."
The new Bluebirds boss is also part of Chris Coleman's Wales coaching team.
Trollope was appointed on 18 May and flew to Malaysia for his first meeting with Tan and will rejoin the national squad in Portugal later in the week.
Meanwhile, Cardiff have announced they will play Borussia Mönchengladbach in a pre-season tournament in July.
The Bluebirds will FC St. Pauli, and VfL Osnabrück as well as Borussia, who finished fourth in the 2015-16 Bundesliga.
Trollope will stay with Wales throughout the European Championship, but Coleman has believes Trollope is unlikely to be able to do both jobs after the tournament.
BBC Sport has learned that the first meeting between Trollope and the sometimes controversial Tan was positive as the new head coach prepares to put his own backroom staff together at the Cardiff City Stadium.
Chang Xiaobing is "suspected of serious violation of discipline", according to a statement on the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection website.
The executive was reported missing by local media on Sunday.
He is the latest in a series of high-profile executives to become embroiled in Beijing's crackdown on corruption.
The government's ongoing anti-corruption drive resulted in more than 70 senior officials at state firms being investigated in 2014.
Top Chinese executives investigated
Little information was given on the investigation involving Mr Chang, but the statement mentioned his position as the former chairman of the country's second-largest mobile operator China Unicom.
The 58-year-old became the chairman at China Telecom in August. Earlier this year, there were reports that the government was considering merging the two telecom giants.
Government scrutiny of the top firms in the world's second largest economy has spread beyond state-owned enterprises.
Earlier this month, Guo Guangchang, the chairman of one of China's largest private conglomerates Fosun International, was also reported to have gone missing, which eventually led the firm to announce that he was helping with a police investigation. He reappeared in public a few days later.
Correspondents say that Beijing's crackdown on corruption is partly about using high profile cases to prove the government is serious about tackling corruption.
But many suspect that the downfall of some executives and other investigations can also be attributed to ongoing political infighting and an attempt to pressure high profile figures to toe the party line.
Dywedodd yr Athro Dr Glyn O. Phillips wrth Cymru Fyw bod bwriad Llywodraeth y DU i ddod â'u haelodaeth o Euratom i ben yn "ddinistriol" a bydd yn ei gwneud hi'n anodd i gael y staff priodol ar gyfer pwerdai niwclear fel Wylfa Newydd.
Euratom yw'r corff sy'n gyfrifol am gydlynu a rhannu ymchwil ac adnoddau ar gyfer y diwydiant ynni niwclear yn Ewrop.
Bydd y DU yn gadael y corff os yw'r mesur i danio Erthygl 50 yn cael ei gymeradwyo, a hynny achos perthynas gyfreithiol "unigryw" Euratom a'r Undeb Ewropeaidd.
Mynnodd datblygwyr Wylfa Newydd, Pŵer Niwclear Horizon, na fyddai gadael Euratom yn effeithio ar eu gallu nhw i staffio, hyfforddi, a chwblhau'r pwerdy newydd.
Mae llywodraeth y DU wedi dweud eu bod yn parhau i fod yn hollol ymrwymedig i'r safonau uchaf o ddiogelwch ynni niwclear.
Yn ôl yr Athro Phillips, enillydd nifer o wobrau gwyddoniaeth rhyngwladol, byddai gadael Euratom "yn ddinistriol i unrhyw waith niwclear sydd ym Mhrydain".
"'Dan ni wedi crynhoi'r holl adnoddau bellach yn Ewrop, yn CERN [Canolfan Ewropeaidd Ymchwil Niwclear, yn y Swistir]," meddai.
"Mae 'na ganolfan y maen nhw'n trio ei hadeiladu ym Manceinion erbyn hyn, i drio dod â rhyw fath o hyfforddiant, ond yn y pendraw, mae ein hymchwilwyr i gyd yn mynd yn ôl ac ymlaen i CERN.
"Os yw'r cyswllt hwnnw'n cael ei dorri a ninnau'n methu cadw cysylltiad, dwi ddim yn gweld o gwbl sut allan ni gynhyrchu'r bobl sy'n angenrheidiol i gynnal y pwerdai newydd maen nhw'n sôn amdanyn nhw."
Dywedodd bod hyfforddiant yn "hollbwysig" er mwyn staffio'r genhedlaeth nesaf o bwerdai, a bod hynny'n ddibynnol ar "weithio 'efo pobl eraill".
"Dwi ddim yn gweld Brexit, wrth dorri i ffwrdd, yn dod â dim un swydd newydd. Mae hynny'n golygu allwch chi ddim defnyddio adnoddau rhywun arall.
"Allwn ni ddim mynd i Euratom i wneud y gwaith, felly mae'n rhaid i ni gynhyrchu ein pobl ein hunain, mae'n rhaid i ni eu hyfforddi nhw ein hunain, mae'n rhaid i ni greu'r sefydliadau i'w cynnal nhw ein hunain, felly rhaid ailgychwyn o'r dechrau.
"Mae fel mynd yn ôl i'r oes o'r blaen a dechrau buddsoddi o'r dechrau. Mae'r peth yn hollol afresymol a dwi'n siŵr ei fod o'n anymarferol hefyd."
Byddai'r problemau hyn yn effeithio ar brosiect Wylfa Newydd, yn ôl yr Athro Phillips.
"Gyda Wylfa Newydd, mae'n rhaid mynd ymlaen, wrth gwrs, a rhaid i ni ddibynnu ar bobl o'r tu allan i gael eu hyfforddi, a gwneud y trefniadau i wneud hynny.
"Mae'r buddsoddiad yn mynd i fod yn fwy, ac wrth gwrs mae'r arian yn mynd i fod yn fwy wrth i'r bunt leihau yn ei gwerth. Felly dydy hi ddim yn argoeli'n dda."
Wrth ymateb, fe ddywedodd Pŵer Niwclear Horizon y bydd gadael Euratom yn achosi "problemau", ond na fyddai'n effeithio ar eu gallu i staffio a hyfforddi ar gyfer Wylfa Newydd.
"Er y byddai gweld y DU yn tynnu allan o Euratom yn peri problemau y byddai angen mynd i'r afael â nhw, rydyn ni'n hyderus y gallwn ddatrys y rhain yn brydlon ac yn unol â'n hamserlen i gyflawni ein prif brosiect, Wylfa Newydd," meddai llefarydd.
"Mae'r llywodraeth wedi nodi ei bod yn benderfynol o sicrhau nad oes unrhyw effeithiau negyddol yn sgil tynnu allan o'r rhaglen ac rydyn ni'n croesawu'r ymrwymiad hwn."
Dywedodd y cynghorydd Ieuan Williams, Arweinydd Cyngor Ynys Môn, fod yna gorff rheoleiddio'r diwydiant niwclear eisoes yn bod yn y Deyrnas Unedig.
Dywedodd wrth raglen y Post Cyntaf fod yna waith ymchwil hefyd yn cael ei wneud yn y DU.
"Mae gennym ni brifysgolion yn y wlad yma sydd yn dal i wneud gwaith ymchwil.
"Mae Imperial mewn partneriaeth gyda phrifysgol Manceinion, a hefyd mae Bangor yn siarad efo Imperial i ddod a rhyw fath o waith ymchwil i'r Parc Gwyddoniaeth newydd ar Ynys Môn."
Dywedodd llefarydd ar ran Llywodraeth y DU: "Mae gadael Euratom yn ganlyniad i'r penderfyniad i adael y DU am eu bod wedi eu cysylltu yn gyfreithiol mewn ffordd unigryw. Mae'r DU yn cefnogi Euratom a byddan ni'n hoffi gweld parhau o ran cydweithrediad a safonau.
"Rydyn ni'n parhau i fod yn hollol ymrwymedig i'r safonau uchaf o ddiogelwch niwclear a chefnogaeth i'r diwydiant.
"Mae ein bwriad yn glir, rydyn ni eisiau parhau â'n cydweithrediad llwyddiannus ar faterion niwclear sifil gyda'r UE."
Fe ddywedodd llefarydd ar ran Llywodraeth Cymru: "Rydym ni'n nodi bod Llywodraeth y DU wedi bod yn asesu goblygiadau gadael Euratom.
"Fe fyddan ni'n gofyn am fanylion pellach am y mater, ynghyd â sicrwydd na fydd gadael yn cael unrhyw effaith negyddol ar y sector niwclear yng Nghymru a'r DU."
Mae ymgyrchwyr amgylcheddol hefyd wedi ymateb i'r bwriad i adael Euratom, gyda phennaeth gwyddoniaeth Cyfeillion y Ddaear, Mike Childs, yn dweud: "Mae Euratom wedi bod yn brop gwleidyddol ac yn gefnogwyr i ynni niwclear yn Ewrop ers degawdau - ond does dim gwahaniaeth os yw'r DU i fewn neu allan achos carwriaeth ddiddiwedd Llywodraeth y DU gydag ynni niwclear."
Lewis Dunne, 16, was found on a towpath near Burrows Court in Eldonian Village, Vauxhall, on 15 November.
He had a shotgun wound in his back and died a short time later at Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
Jake Culshaw, 25, of Penrith Street, Birkenhead, Wirral, is due to appear at Liverpool and Knowsley Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.
Uefa also fined the Croatian Football Federation (CFF) 100,000 Euros (£70,000) and ordered their next two games to be played in an empty stadium.
Croatia are also barred from holding qualifiers in Split, which hosted the 1-1 draw with Italy on 12 June.
The CFF claim the incident was an act of "sabotage" and can appeal.
Croatia remain top of Group H, a point above Italy, even with the deduction.
The top two teams from each group automatically qualify for next summer's finals in France.
See all of the qualifying tables here.
The two-week campaign, run in conjunction with other forces in north-west England, saw firearms left at police stations across the region.
Overall, more than 100 items - including handguns, rifles and shotguns - were passed to police in Wales.
An amnesty in 2014 netted a similar haul of about 100 bullets and guns.
"We are fortunate not to have a gun crime problem here in north Wales, but we do have a large number of legally owned firearms and other older firearms in people's possessions," said Ch Insp Richie Green.
"Unfortunately, these firearms can fall into the wrong hands and may end up being used in crime."
A blunderbuss is a muzzle-loading firearm, often considered to be an early form of shotgun.
North Wales Police said, while the April campaign had come to an end, anyone with firearms they want to surrender can still hand them over at the forces main stations, or contact officers on the 101 non-emergency number to arrange collection.
Detectives from the Met Police counter terrorism command executed a search warrant at a home in east London on Tuesday.
Officers arrested Khalid Javed Baqa, 52, from Barking.
He was charged with the production and distribution of extremist material encouraging others to commit acts of terrorism, contrary to Section 2 of the Terrorism Act 2006.
He was remanded in custody at Westminster Magistrates' Court to appear at the Old Bailey on 30 June.
Police continue to search the address in Barking but said it is not linked to the investigation into the London Bridge terror attack.
The Frenchman, 29, joined the Canaries from Hamilton in February 2015, but made only eight first-team appearances.
He spent last season on loan at Dundee United in the Scottish Championship, where he scored 19 goals in 43 games.
"He is a goalscoring number 10 and a versatile attacking player that can play anywhere along the forward line," said Coventry boss Mark Robins.
Checkatrade Trophy holders Coventry have now made 12 summer signings following relegation from League One in May.
Goalkeeper: Liam O'Brien (Portsmouth)
Defenders: Rod McDonald (Northampton Town), Dominic Hyam (Reading), Jack Grimmer (Fulham), James Pearson (Barnet)
Midfield: Michael Doyle (Portsmouth), Liam Kelly (Orient), Peter Vincenti (Rochdale), Tony Andreu (Norwich City)
Strikers: Marc McNulty (Sheffield United), Maxime Biamou (Sutton United), Duckens Nazon (Wolves)
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
They clearly were not, as we have been inundated with photos of even tinier double yellow lines that have left people across the country scratching their heads in confusion.
Here are some of those vying for the title of shortest double yellow lines.
Adrian Gray photographed these petite double yellow lines in Wareford Lane, Headington, Oxford.
"It is in the middle of a long line of parking spaces, which makes it even weirder," he said.
"I can only guess as they are next to a road sign that there's some legal requirement relating to that sign.
"I was completely flabbergasted when I saw them, as even by the standards of Oxford road markings they are truly, deeply, useless!"
Elsewhere in Oxford, Richard Hillsdon spotted these double yellow lines sandwiched between a free parking bay and residents' parking in Mayfield Road.
"The other side of the pavement is just a wall and the houses and offices in this street where this is have no gardens or access, so it's useless and just wastes money and time," he said.
"They'll come up with some excuse like all the others why they had to do it, but there really isn't any excuse for this, is there?"
Charlie Long sent a photo of tiny double yellow lines used to separate parking bays in Norroy Road, Putney, south-west London - made more amusing by the fact a car is still parked outside of the bay.
"To my mind there was probably a six-hour meeting to decide how parking bays should be separated," said Mr Long.
Marianna Odale in Cambridge is troubled by these double yellow lines outside the Polar Museum in Lensfield Road.
"These have always bothered me," she said.
"They must be less than a foot long. Go figure."
These double yellow lines photographed by Simon Partridge in Norwich are even smaller.
"I'm sure they can't have taken long to paint," said Mr Partridge.
Frank Seabright was perplexed when he spotted these double yellow lines in Monmouth Lane, Lostwithiel, Cornwall.
"We thought we could not even park a skateboard on it," he said.
Mel Barker spotted some double yellow lines in Twyford, Berkshire. They were short because they had been painted around a parked car.
"It took over a week to join up the lines after the car had moved," she said.
Michael Cook spotted these short double yellow lines in Northumberland.
"I would have to get the tape measure out, but these have been in Alnwick for a while, along Aydon Gardens," he said.
"You can get a rough idea of the size, though, from the kerb."
They are not yellow, but these multiple white lines have made Park Road in Winchester "a laughing stock", according to Julie Husbands.
"Never mind yellow lines, here in Winchester we have authorised road graffiti by the council," she said.
"They've put parking bays right around the T junction, over the top of solid white 'no parking' lines, and even in front of garages.
"We must get white paint for free in Winchester. No common sense used at all."
The white oak tree from the classic 1994 film Shawshank Redemption has been felled in Mansfield, Ohio.
The tree appears near the end of the movie when Morgan Freeman's character Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding follows clues to its location.
Staff at a local visitors' centre received a call on Friday informing them that the entire oak was down.
Part of the tree had already fallen when it was split by lightning in a storm on 29 July 2011 - almost five years previously to the day.
"From what we know, winds knocked the tree over," Jodie Snavely, from the Mansfield and Richland County Convention and Visitors' Bureau told the Mansfield News Journal.
"It's obviously quite sad for Shawshank fans. But we tell fans that visitors can still come to see the Shawshank oak tree while it's here," she said.
The tree was one of the most popular tourist sites connected to the movie. When half the oak was lost after the 2011 storm, a story from the Mansfield News Journal went viral.
People have been posting images of the tree and reflections on its sentimental value on social media.
Dillon Carr from Mansfield, Ohio posted an image of the fallen oak on Instagram with this message:
"Rode my bike with some fellow Shawshank Redemption fans this morning to say a final farewell to the famous oak tree that fell yesterday.
"Goodbye old Shawshank oak. You will live on in nostalgia."
Other fans have taken to Twitter to write their goodbyes to the beloved oak.
Many have been including quotes from the film, such as "no good thing ever dies" from the Andy Dufresne character, played by Tim Robbins.
Near the movie's end, Morgan Freeman's character "Red" Redding opens up a box buried near the base of the tree. It contains a letter and cash to buy a bus ticket to see old friend Andy Dufresne, who had fled to Mexico after escaping prison.
The oak tree was where Dufresne had proposed to his wife.
"Promise me, Red. If you ever get out... find that spot," Dufresne had told Redding one day in prison.
Taking a cue from the film, Jeff Gentner from Savannah, Georgia proposed to his partner under the tree when it was still standing. He posted this striking image of the oak in better days.
He wrote on Instagram: "A few weeks ago Mollie and I got engaged! Back in 2009 while watching Shawshank Redemption, Mollie said, 'You should propose to me under that tree someday'. I didn't forget. This is the actual oak tree from the movie."
Jeff told the BBC the couple are sad that they will never be able to show their children the tree where they got engaged.
"I knew that the tree didn't have long since the lighting strike. I'm grateful we were able to pull the engagement off before it was gone!"
By Nathan Williams, BBC News
The Northern Ireland Secretary told the House of Commons that the situation in Northern Ireland was "very grave".
But the DUP leader Peter Robinson called her words "a holding statement".
Her "commitment to respond to concerns in the coming days" would delay talks, he said.
In her Commons statement, Ms Villiers said relationships between the political parties had "almost completely broken down."
"The brutal murders of Gerard Davison and Kevin McGuigan have brought into sharp focus the continuing problems around the existence of paramilitary organisations in Northern Ireland and the involvement of some of their members in criminality and organised crime," Ms Villiers told the House of Commons.
"Serious consideration needs to be given to whether the time is right to re-establish a body along the lines of the Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC).
The IMC was set up in 2004 to monitor paramilitary activity and the normalisation of security measures in Northern Ireland. It stopped work officially in March 2011.
Read more on how the crisis unfolded
She said the government would also look at ways to support efforts to tackle organised crime and cross-border crime in Northern Ireland.
But she added it was also vital to address the differences blocking the implementation of the Stormont Agreement.
"Without welfare reform and steps to tackle in-year budget pressures, there is a real danger that executive departments could start running out of money," she said.
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has said it is only prepared to attend more talks "in the right circumstances."
But Sinn Féin has warned the government against preconditions for the talks.
Sinn Féin MLA Conor Murphy said there should be no delays or preconditions in beginning all-party talks.
"These talks should begin immediately," he said.
"If people are not prepared to go into those talks, the only other option is an election. This is a farcical situation and it is becoming worse by the day."
Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt said: "The words uttered in the Commons today don't really move us forward very much. But it is a process and we are keen to see a resolution."
Alex Attwood, SDLP, said: "There must be no unilateral action by the British government in order to dig out the DUP from where they find themselves."
"Let the government send out the message that there is no compromise on the Good Friday Agreement or the rule of law and, if we proceed on that basis, then those who have held up these talks and held up this island might not continue to prevail.
"Let the talks begin."
Ms Villiers plans to resume her discussions with the five main Stormont parties on Wednesday.
The DUP and the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) were waiting to hear Ms Villiers' address to the Commons before they would commit to round table discussions with the other parties.
At the beginning of her address, Ms Villiers noted the change in the Labour leadership.
She said it would be helpful if the new shadow Northern Ireland secretary, Vernon Coaker, would confirm that "the consent principle, at the heart of the Belfast Agreement, will remain paramount".
In response, Mr Coaker said his party intended to "pursue a bipartisan approach based on the agreements reached - in particular the principle of consent".
"Our policy remains absolutely the same," he said.
The nine Labour and Tory politicians have made their appeal to the public in a joint letter.
But Leave campaigners including ex-Welsh secretaries David Jones and Cheryl Gillian have not lent their support.
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned many Labour supporters may stay at home and not vote.
As well as Mr Cairns and Mr Crabb, signatories to the open letter included former Conservative Welsh secretaries Lord Crickhowell, Lord Hunt and Lord Hague.
Labour Welsh secretaries Lord Hain, Lord Murphy, Alun Michael and Ron Davies also supported the letter, which said: "It's not an exaggeration to say that Welsh businesses, Welsh farmers and Welsh universities could suffer enormously if we left the single market."
Conservative MP David Jones, who was Welsh Secretary between 2012 and 2014 and is leader of the Vote Leave Cymru campaign, was not a signatory.
At a campaign event in north Wales on Friday, Mr Jones said: "Sovereignty is the key issue of this referendum.
"The question is whether we govern ourselves, whether we make our own laws, whether our parliament is sovereign and whether we want to rely upon ourselves and have the confidence in our country, and whether we want to rely upon laws that are initiated by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.
"Now is our only opportunity, our once in a lifetime opportunity, to make Britain an independent country again."
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown spoke at the Hay Festival on Saturday, warning that recent polls suggested "a large number of Labour supporters may not support Remain but instead remain at home".
"In one recent poll as many as 62% of skilled workers are at risk of voting Leave unless we send out positive messages on employment rights," he said.
"They feel economically insecure, they don't like the status quo and they need to know that Europe offers something better for their future."
After hosting a Q&A session at the Hay Festival, he told BBC Wales a "positive, principled, progressive message" on European membership was needed to help the remain camp to convince voters.
Meanwhile, Plaid Cymru leader and Remain campaigner Leanne Wood urged voters not to see the EU referendum as an opportunity to land a blow on Prime Minister David Cameron.
"This isn't and shouldn't be about deciding which Tories we side with. It should be about our future and the futures of our childrens' generation," she said.
"This issue is far bigger than the Tory party or people's feelings towards them - this decision on June 23rd will not only shape our future but our children's too."
The leader of UKIP in the assembly, Neil Hamilton, accused Ms Wood of "patronising words", saying she "seems to think the electorate are a simple folk who will not consider the arguments properly before casting their vote".
A number of campaign events are taking place across Wales on Saturday on both sides - with Mr Crabb and Mr Cairns visiting Swansea Bay University Campus and Vote Leave Cymru campaigning in Cowbridge.
Vote Leave Cymru's Ross England said immigration would put pressure on the availability of housing.
He said: "For as long as we remain in the EU, the UK government will be completely unable to control its own borders, placing huge pressure not just on public services but on the availability of housing."
Britain Stronger In Europe has argued that a Leave vote would "destroy" young people's hopes of getting on the housing ladder.
A tourism and antiquities ministry official said the extent of the damage at the Unesco world heritage site was unclear, but he had received reports that it had been demolished.
Hatra was founded in the days of the Parthian Empire over 2,000 years ago.
Militants have recently bulldozed ruins at the Assyrian city of Nimrud and destroyed museum artefacts in Mosul.
IS, which controls large areas of Iraq and Syria, says shrines and statues are "false idols" that have to be smashed.
Unesco condemned the destruction of the ancient city and said that it showed the "contempt" that IS has for the history and heritage of the Arab people.
"The destruction of Hatra marks a turning point in the appalling strategy of cultural cleansing under way in Iraq," said Unesco head Irina Bokova in a statement on Saturday.
Hatra, located about 110km (68 miles) south-west of Mosul, was a fortified city that withstood invasions by the Romans thanks to its thick walls reinforced by towers.
It is home to numerous temples and sculptures dedicated to gods including Apollo and Poseidon.
Said Mamuzini, a Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) local official, said the militants had used explosives to blow up buildings and were bulldozing other sections.
"The city of Hatra is very big and many artefacts of that era were protected inside the site," he said, adding that the militants had already taken away gold and silver.
One official told the Associated Press that residents in the area had heard two powerful explosions.
In a statement, the tourism and antiquities ministry blamed the international community for failing to help Iraq protect its ancient monuments.
It added: "The delay in international support for Iraq has encouraged terrorists to commit another crime of stealing and demolishing the remains of the city of Hatra."
Reports of the bulldozer attack in Nimrud, an Assyrian city founded in the 13th Century BC, emerged on Thursday.
On Friday Unesco head Irina Bokova condemned the "cultural cleansing" in Iraq as a "war crime".
"There is absolutely no political or religious justification for the destruction of humanity's cultural heritage."
Last week, IS released a video apparently showing militants with sledgehammers destroying statues and other artefacts in a museum in Mosul.
In the video, the objects are described as "false idols" and their destruction defended in religious terms.
IS has controlled Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, and nearby areas since June 2014 - a region with nearly 1,800 of the country's 12,000 registered archaeological sites.
The Parthian Empire was a major political and cultural force in ancient Iran. At the height of its power in the second century AD, it extended from modern-day Pakistan to Syria.
Hatra later flourished under Arab rulers, and became a major trading-post on the Silk Road across the Asian continent.
They frequently carried out guerrilla-style protests to raise awareness about their cause.
For one protest they wore wedding dresses splattered in red paint to symbolise the plight of abused women.
In another they called on the government to provide more female public toilets.
They thought they knew how to avoid problems with the authorities.
To mark International Women's Day on 8 March they planned to hand out leaflets and put stickers on public buses and subways to raise awareness about sexual harassment.
But before the protest even took place about 10 activists were rounded up by the police.
Almost a month later, five of the women - Li Tingting, Wang Man, Wei Tingting, Wu Rongrong and Zheng Churan - remain in custody.
They face public disorder charges - a catch-all law that is often used by the authorities to silence dissidents.
Now there is growing concern for the health of two of the women - Wang Man and Wu Rongrong.
They both suffer from serious illnesses - a heart condition and chronic liver disease - and have been moved to a hospital detention centre. Their lawyers say their conditions have worsened during their time in detention.
At a Beijing cafe, I met one of the activists who was detained before the planned protest but later released. She asked us not to reveal her identity, fearing government reprisals.
"I was very scared when I was first detained but now I feel I did something meaningful," she told me.
"But I'm very worried about what will happen to the others. If they're sentenced to time in jail it will be a heavy blow to our movement."
When I asked her if she would protest again, she replied: "At the moment I wouldn't do anything as extreme as protesting on the streets. We may have to change our strategy. But the movement will continue."
Despite growing international criticism, China is refusing to release the activists.
Speaking last week, Hua Chunying, a spokeswoman for China's foreign ministry, said: "No one has the right to ask China to release relevant persons, so we hope that relevant people will stop interfering in China's judicial sovereignty in such a manner."
But this case is part of what has been described by human rights groups as China's harshest crackdown in recent memory.
Since coming to power two years ago, President Xi Jinping's government has locked up journalists, lawyers, NGO workers and activists of all stripes.
He has warned against what he sees as western ideas infiltrating China and threatening the ruling Communist Party's grip on power.
One of the lawyers for the women, Liang Xiaojun, says now is a terrifying time for civil society.
"Lawyers and human rights activists are living in terror," he said. "We don't know when we'll be arrested."
"Even a women's rights group which poses no threat to the political regime is being targeted. It just shows how the police are abusing their powers."
According to Chinese law, the women need to either be released or formally charged by the middle of this month.
The police may let them go with a warning ringing in their ears that they will not be so lucky next time.
But if they are charged with disturbing the social order they face up to five years in prison.
Whatever the outcome, this case has sent a chill through activists in China.
Video footage from Thursday's concert in Edmonton shows the singer, whose real name is Marvin Lee Aday, falling on stage during his performance.
A post on his Facebook page said he collapsed due to severe dehydration.
He was admitted to hospital for routine tests, and additional tests are being performed but he is described as "responsive and recovering well".
The message extended "his heartfelt thanks for everyone's support and well wishes" and said he is "expecting a speedy and full recovery".
Earlier in the week, the singer had cancelled shows in Moose Jaw and Calgary because of ill health.
Rescheduling of concert dates have yet to be announced.
The 68-year-old is one of rock's most successful recording artists, with hits including Bat Out of Hell.
He was performing another hit, I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That), when he dropped his microphone and fell to the floor on Thursday evening.
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Musicians went to his side to help and the music stopped.
A spokesman for Alberta Health Services said a patient had been transported from the auditorium to a hospital.
Fans said they initially believed his collapse could have been a planned part of his performance, the Edmonton Journal newspaper reported.
The Northern Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton was cleared shortly afterwards and ambulances were seen outside the venue, the newspaper said.
Meat Loaf previously collapsed in 2003 at a performance in London, and again in 2011, during a July concert in Pittsburgh - an incident which he later blamed on an asthma attack.
The singer's album Bat Out of Hell has sold more than 43 million copies worldwide and continues to sell an estimated 200,000 copies annually nearly 40 years after it was released.
French troops "have brought support this afternoon to Malian units to fight against terrorist elements", he said.
Armed groups, some linked to al-Qaeda, took control of northern Mali in April.
Mr Hollande said the intervention complied with international law, and had been agreed with Malian President Dioncounda Traore. A state of emergency has been declared across the country.
Mr Traore used a televised address on Friday to call on Malians to unite to "free every inch" of the country.
He said he was to launch a "powerful and massive riposte against our enemies" after he "called for and obtained France's air support within the framework of the international legality".
The militants said on Thursday that they had advanced further into government-controlled territory, taking the strategic central town of Konna.
The Islamists have sought to enforce an extreme interpretation of Islamic law.
Residents in nearby Mopti told the BBC they had seen French troops helping Malian forces prepare for a counter-offensive against the Islamists in Konna.
By Hugh SchofieldBBC News, Paris
The rhetoric out of Paris suggests that from the French point of view, the situation in Mali has taken a dramatic turn for the worse in the last few days.
Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said it was vital to stop this new advance by the Islamists. If not, he said, then it wasn't just the state of Mali that would fall under their sway - there was a threat to the whole of Africa, and indeed to Europe.
So it would seem that a country that has been a growing but still peripheral preoccupation for France - and for the West in general - is now at the very centre of their strategic plans. There is a real fear that if the "terrorists" - as the French government calls them - succeed in taking over Mali, then it will become a rogue state much like the old Afghanistan.
Given the ties of family and trade with France, it would be France to pay the cost if that rogue state began to export its ideology. So a line has been drawn in the Sahel sand. For good or bad, this may well turn out to have been a momentous decision.
Mr Hollande said French military action had been decided on Friday morning and would last "as long as necessary".
"Mali is facing an assault by terrorist elements coming from the north whose brutality and fanaticism is known across the world," the French president said.
He said Mali's existence as a state was under threat, and referred to the need to protect its own population and 6,000 French citizens living there. France ruled Mali as a colony until 1960.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said the aim of the operation was to stop Islamist militants advancing any further.
"We need to stop the terrorists' breakthrough, otherwise the whole of Mali will fall into their hands threatening all of Africa, and even Europe," he told reporters.
He confirmed that the French air force was involved in the operation, but gave no details.
France was previously believed to have about 100 elite troops in the region. It also has a military base in Chad.
At least seven French hostages are currently being held in the region, and Mr Fabius said France would "do everything" to save them.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Twitter that the UK supported the French decision to help Mali's government against northern rebels.
The US and African Union have also expressed support for the mission.
Shortly after Mr Hollande spoke, the west African bloc Ecowas said it was authorising the immediate deployment of troops to Mali "to help the Malian army defend its territorial integrity", AFP news agency reported.
The Malian army said that as well as French troops, soldiers from Nigeria and Senegal were already in Mali - though Senegal later denied that it had any combat troops in the country, according to AFP.
The UN had previously approved plans to send some 3,000 African troops to Mali to recapture the north if no political solution could be found, but that intervention was not expected to happen until September.
Late on Thursday, an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council called for the rapid deployment of an African-led force.
The EU also said it would support such a mission, and speed up preparations for its own military training mission.
Ryan was responding to speculation that the 29-year-old rugby league convert is being viewed as an England possible.
"He's got the quality and potential to do that," Ryan told BBC Sport.
"But to play for England he's going to have to play well in an area that's got stronger over the last few weeks."
Auckland-born Te'o, who played one rugby league international for Samoa in 2008, qualifies for England through his mother, who was born and raised there.
He is currently in his second season with Irish provincial side Leinster, who he joined from Australian rugby league side South Sydney Rabbitohs, where he had been a team-mate of Sam Burgess, who was about to make the same switch.
He is not scheduled to join Worcester until the end of this season, but already Ryan has been asked about what path lies ahead for the second of this winter's five pre-agreed signings.
"He's a player of quality and he's English qualified but I've not had any conservations outside that," Ryan told BBC Hereford & Worcester.
"I know he's ambitious and that he's got aspirations to play Test rugby and I know he wants to do that through playing for Worcester. But I have no idea whether anyone else shares that line of thought.
"He's a real talent, a real athlete and is really driven to be successful. He's very direct. There's still things we think we can add to his game, but he's still got a lot to learn. The fact that we are bringing in a player of his quality, that he wants to come and that he sees what we're doing here is more important to me."
The speculation about Te'o comes on top of this week's revelation that Wigan and England winger Josh Charnley plans to switch codes to join Sale.
But it also comes at the end of a season in which the fate of Burgess in England's ill-fated Rugby Union World Cup campaign served as a warning to the dangers of over reliance on cross-code converts.
Worcester Warriors have so far have made five signings for the 2016-17 season.
They will also be bringing in another centre, New-Zealand-born Jackson Willison from French side Grenoble.
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Stars including Isla Fisher and Mel Gibson arrived in Sydney for the Australian film industry's glitziest annual awards on Wednesday night. On the red carpet Mathisen, however, squeezed herself not into a glamorous ball gown but a jumbo frankfurter.
She was one of 16 "sausage" protesters who stormed the AACTAs to highlight gender inequality in the film industry.
To chants of "end the sausage party!" the protesters, all members of the non-profit Women in Film and Television (WIFT), were forcibly dragged away, some rolling around on the floor, by security guards.
Out of 28 feature films pre-selected for the AACTAs Screening Tour, just two were directed by women. The event is, according to WIFT president Mathisen, "Australia's biggest sausage party".
WIFT's demonstration was tongue in cheek, as is their accompanying Sausage Party online music video. In the recording, the female sausages gyrate to a Peaches song while waving bananas and spraying whipped cream.
But the protest highlights a serious issue. In 1979 Gillian Armstrong became the first Australian woman to direct a feature film in nearly half a century with the classic My Brilliant Career.
Today just under 50% of film school graduates are women. Yet only 16% of film directors, 23% of screenwriters, and 32% of producers in Australia are female according to Screen Australia.
The numbers reflect what Deb Verhoeven, a professor of media and communication at Deakin University, sees as "systemic and persistent discrimination" in the film industry. It exists "at just about every level - wage equality, participation rates (inclusion), levels of funding for projects, sexual harassment".
The AACTAs, in particular, benefit men who have "become adept at ensuring their ongoing success". Australia is not alone. Hollywood, too, favours men, with just 1.9 percent of 2013's 100 top-grossing films directed by women.
At stake is not only career advancement but the kind of stories that we see on screen. Despite the success of franchises starring strong women such as The Hunger Games and Pitch Perfect, female-led content is "still considered to be speaking to a narrow minority of audiences rather than 50% of our population", says Mathisen.
She is adamant that "we need to make space for different stories".
In order to do this, Mathisen, 29, not only wrote, directed, co-produced, and starred in her 2015 debut feature, Drama, which has an 8.1 rating on IMDb and 4.5-star rating on iTunes. She insisted on a 50% quota for her crew.
Her decision came after realising the only section that consistently hired women was makeup and costume - often derogatorily dubbed the "glamour department" on film-sets.
For Drama - in which the protagonist Anna tracks down a former flame in Paris, disrupting her gay best friend's own relationship in the process - Mathisen made sure to hire equal numbers of women in technical roles, too.
In the US just 3% of cinematographers are women, according to a 2015 Celluloid Ceiling report. In Australia since 1958, only 10 female cinematographers have received accreditation by the Australian Cinematographers Society.
Yet Mathisen discovered "there's absolutely no shortage of women who want to work. There's just a shortage of opportunities. You have to break down the assumption that film is a male space."
Some organisations are making headway. Australian actress Rose Byrne formed an all-female production company, Sydney-based The Dollhouse Collective, in 2015.
This July, Screen Australia announced $3 million of funding towards Gender Matters, which will spearhead new film projects by women. The new initiative is hoped to help creative teams become 50/50 male-female by the end of 2018.
"Ultimately things like charters, guidelines and specific funding opportunities are the foundations of change," says Lucy Fisher, director of the Gold Coast Film Festival.
Fisher offers free childcare for industry panellists, insists that over 50% of speakers on festival talks are women, and deliberately showcases films with female content.
She insists that gender equality "doesn't will itself into existence - you really have to plan and make deliberate choices".
WIFT, too, believes that actual, rather than tokenistic change, will only occur with a rigorously enforced quota system - and that this is particularly important in an industry largely run on government subsidies, paid for by public tax dollars.
Crucial is changing the narrative about how we talk about women in film. In November Sally Caplan, Screen Australia's head of production, created controversy by stating the funding body wanted to make a "a system whereby organically we'll get to 50/50" once women are able to "believe in themselves".
Verhoeven believes such "strategies focused on bringing women 'up to speed' simply reiterate the belief that women are somehow the source or cause of their own failure".
Instead, she says, the lack of meaningful change is down to the fact that it is in the industry gatekeepers' interests - the majority of whom are men - to maintain the status quo that keeps them on top.
Male producers also tend to hire in their own image: on average male producers have creative teams which are 70% male. In one Australian study done over 10 years, roughly 40% of male producers worked with no women at all.
As journalist Scott Mendelson wrote in a Forbes article last month: "Men are offered the presumption of competence regardless of experience. Women are considered a risk regardless of experience."
Mathisen, for one, is done with "just been flat out ignored" and the feeling "of shouting into the void".
With the sausage party footage now doing rounds online, she hopes people will finally listen. Her message? "Enough talking. We want action and we want it now."
There were 209 convictions from 2012-13 to 2016-17, with more than half dealt with by the Metropolitan Police, Transport Minister Andrew Jones said.
In addition, 111 people were convicted of taking the practical or theory tests on behalf of others over the same time.
A total of about 1.5 million practical and 1.9 million theory tests are taken each year.
Mr Jones said the majority of investigations were conducted by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) until there was enough evidence to support an arrest and prosecution.
DVSA head of counter-fraud and investigations Andy Rice said: "The driving test is there to ensure that all drivers have the skills and knowledge to use the roads safely and responsibly.
"Anyone who tries to circumvent this process is putting innocent road users at risk."
Driving test fraud was a serious offence and dealt with accordingly, he said.
More than 1,100 licences have been revoked due to such activity in the past five years.
In September, a man was given a two-year prison sentence at Croydon Crown Court after taking a series of car, motorcycle and lorry theory tests on behalf of other people.
RAC Foundation director Steve Gooding said people hiring impersonators put everyone's lives at risk, because "neither we nor they have any idea whether their driving meets the required standard".
Driving safety was built on three pillars, he said - "roadworthy vehicles, responsibly driven by properly qualified drivers".
"This sort of behaviour is flagrantly kicking one of those pillars away."
The data was released in response to a parliamentary question by Lincoln MP Karl McCartney.
Cheaper clothing and footwear, offset by a rise in petrol prices, helped to maintain the rate at 0% for a second month, official figures show.
The figure was the lowest rate of Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation since estimates of the measure began in the late 1980s.
It means the cost of living is broadly the same as it was a year earlier.
However, the ONS said that if the rate of inflation was calculated to two decimal places, prices were 0.01% lower than a year before - the first fall on record for the CPI measure.
One of the main reasons the CPI rate remained broadly unchanged was rising petrol and diesel prices between February and March, the ONS said.
But an overall fall in fuel prices over the past year has been a major contributor to low inflation, it added.
The CPI figure leaves inflation well below the Bank of England's 2% target.
There had been speculation that the CPI rate - as measured to one decimal place - would fall below zero in March, and there remains a possibility that the rate could fall in the coming months.
However, few economists think the UK is at risk of the type of entrenched deflation that Japan has suffered from.
"Inflation should start to pick up in the second half of the year, especially as the downward pressure from lower oil prices eases," said Rain Newton-Smith, director of economics at the CBI business group.
She added that falling prices had benefitted households, and lower oil prices had been good for businesses in general. However, North Sea oil firms had taken a hit from the fall in the price of crude.
Martin Beck, senior economic adviser to the EY ITEM Club, said he continued to expect the Bank of England "to wait until early 2016 before raising interest rates".
In March, inflation as measured by the Retail Prices Index (RPI) fell to 0.9% from 1.0% the previous month, the Office for National Statistics said.
Like CPI, RPI inflation is calculated from a sample of retail goods and services. However, RPI is calculated differently and includes data such as mortgage repayments.
Nathan Weston, 22, pleaded guilty to prison mutiny at Birmingham Crown Court earlier.
He will be sentenced after the trial of seven other men who have been charged over the major disorder on 16 December, which involved up to 500 inmates.
They have been charged with taking part in a prison mutiny intending to overthrow lawful authority at the jail.
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John Burton, 39, Robert Smith, 33, Luke Mansell, 23, and Ross Wilkinson, also 23, all appeared in court to deny the charge.
Grant Samed, 30, did not enter a plea to the charge.
Ross Queen, 30, and Carl Brookes, 32, are both accused of prison mutiny and unauthorised taking of a photograph in jail.
A trial date was fixed for 11 September.
The Dons take a 2-1 advantage into the game, which has been switched to the AEK Stadium in Larnaca.
Ryan Christie put them in front after four minutes of the first leg, and Graeme Shinnie hit a stunning winner on 78 minutes after Jander's equaliser.
"We go over to Cyprus confident of getting the job done," said McInnes.
"We are disappointed to lose the away goal, but we thoroughly deserved to win the game."
McInnes said he was always confident his side would score goals, no matter who they are playing.
"We will be ready for them having more of the ball and we have to take the heat over there into consideration as well," he said.
"But we have had a couple of big wins when we have played against good teams like Rijeka and Siroki Brijeg in hot temperatures, so we can do that again."
McInnes is wary of having conceded an away goal but believes his team has the firepower necessary to reach the play-off round for the first time.
Striker Adam Rooney missed Thursday's match with a hamstring injury, but his manager has not given up hope of having his most reliable goalscorer fit to play in the return leg.
The hosts will be without Esteban Sachetti after the Argentine midfielder was sent off at Pittodrie, while coach Safronis Avgousti was sent to the stand.
McInnes hoped his side would have pressed home their numerical advantage, but added he was not shocked by the quality of Apollon's play.
"I'm not surprised they scored as they are a good team, but I was always confident that we would score at least two goals," he said.
"We finished the game strongly and, if it had gone on for another 10 minutes, I think we would have scored more.
"It was a very good team performance and we are beginning to show what we can be capable of in the season ahead.
"I can't not mention the sell-out crowd as well as they are a real asset to us and I just wish we could have that backing in every game at Pittodrie."
The Metropolitan Police were called to Crown Street in Acton at about 11:50 BST.
The teenager was taken to hospital in central London but was pronounced dead a short time later. His next-of-kin are yet to be informed, police said.
A 17-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of murder and is being questioned.
Some local businesses, including Acton Pet Stores, closed following the stabbing, with one employee saying police were "everywhere".
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Kingston Police's video, which shows a "prisoner" challenge officers to a dance off, has had more than 450,000 views.
While the acting leaves a lot to be desired, PC Daniel Graham, 33, impresses with his dance moves.
The viral craze was started by a police force in New Zealand.
Kingston Police have now challenged NPAS Redhill and Surrey Police to take on the running man challenge.
Sports promoter Hearn, 66, took over the O's during the 1994-95 season.
His decision follows the club's defeat on penalties by Rotherham in last season's League One play-off final.
Becchetti, who is the head of the Becchetti Energy Group, has previously been linked to takeovers of Reading and Italian Serie B side Bologna.
A statement on the Orient website confirmed that Hearn was in talks to sell the Matchroom Stadium outfit.
"The sale is subject to due diligence and Football League approval and the club will not be making any further comment at this stage," the statement read.
Dagenham-born Hearn, who first attended an Orient game aged 11, is also the chairman of World Snooker and the Professional Darts Corporation.
Orient were struggling financially when he took over the club, but have since established themselves in League One.
Hearn had wanted Orient to move from Brisbane Road to the Olympic Stadium, but the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) appointed West Ham United as their preferred bidders and, in March 2013, the Premier League side were awarded the right to occupy the stadium.
Hearn wants Orient to groundshare with West Ham and has been seeking a judicial review of the bidding process.
Becchetti, 47, is listed as a director of Leyton Orient Holdings Limited, which was registered as a private limited company at Companies House earlier this month.
Ms Stone will take on the role of overseeing the code of conduct and rules for MPs, including the register of financial interests.
She has previously served as the commissioner for victims and survivors of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Ms Stone will take over from current standards commissioner Kathryn Hudson in January next year.
Currently the chief legal ombudsman of England and Wales, Ms Stone has also worked for the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
She spent 11 years as chief executive of the charity Voice UK and was awarded an OBE in 2007 for her services to people with learning disabilities.
Ms Stone took on the role of victims' commissioner in 2012 but faced criticism the following year for an interview she gave in the News Letter in which she refused to be drawn on whether she believed the IRA and UVF were terrorists.
She later said she had "no hesitation at all in condemning all acts of violence".
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The Reds remain in third, nine points clear of fifth-placed Arsenal, who have three games in hand.
"Today you could feel it immediately in the dressing room," he said.
"Everybody was like, 'that's very important'. Of course, we have to keep on proving it, but it feels outstandingly good in this moment."
He added: "This was massive, it's absolutely massive.
"That's how it feels. We have won a few games this year, but this was really special."
The Reds fell a goal behind just before half-time when Jon Walters headed in Xherdan Shaqiri's cross.
But two second-half goals from Brazilian substitutes Roberto Firmino and Philippe Coutinho saw Liverpool seal an 18th league win of the season.
The pair had started on the bench, with Klopp saying Firmino had been suffering from exhaustion after his recent exertions for Brazil, and Coutinho had lost three kilograms (6.6 lbs) in the past week due to illness.
"At half-time it was a difficult decision to make because it was not clear that Roberto and Phil would be ready for 45 minutes," Klopp added, whose side have 12 more points than they did at this stage last season.
The Reds' next league game is at West Brom. They do not face any teams in the top six during their final six matches of the season.
Former Manchester United and Everton defender Phil Neville
"Having seen Liverpool's starting XI, I fancied Stoke to win this because their opponents were missing their front four of Coutinho, Firmino, Sadio Mane and Adam Lallana.
"They were all over the place in the first half. The Stoke goal was a poor one to give away.
"The game changed after Klopp brought the Brazilian pair on. Liverpool started to dominate possession.
"This was the most important three points of the season for the Reds."
The 21-year-old has been on trial with the U's during the League Two club's pre-season.
Last season Long spent three months on loan at Luton, making 11 appearances, before spending a further three months with National League side Braintree.
"I have played in League Two before so I know what to expect," Long told the club website.
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He told the crowd that the 21st Century was "Asia's century".
He is on his first trip to America since being elected this summer, when the US lifted a visa ban brought in on grounds of religious intolerance.
The former chief minister of Gujarat has always denied wrongdoing during deadly riots against Muslims in 2002.
He is due to meet President Barack Obama and top US business leaders.
Analysts say Mr Modi's visit has generated huge excitement among Indian-Americans who believe that he could help to portray India as a rising global power.
In an arena which has hosted Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Presley and Muhammad Ali, it was Narendra Modi, a one-time pariah, who received the superstar welcome.
Until recently, he could not even have walked through American immigration. He was refused a visa. But now, as the Indian prime minister, he stepped on stage at Madison Square Garden to chants of his name.
This was a rebranding exercise, national and personal. He predicted this would be India's century because of his country's youthful population and spirit of innovation.
To his largely Indian-American audience, which packed out the stadium, he also promised a simplified immigration procedure so that they could all join hands to serve Mother India.
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In an unusual display of glamour for a visiting foreign leader, Mr Modi took the stage at the New York venue made famous by the late rock star John Lennon and the boxer Muhammad Ali among others.
Flagging up modern India's achievements, he singled out its success in sending a satellite to orbit Mars - a considerable achievement, says BBC science correspondent Jonathan Amos.
India, Mr Modi boasted, had travelled through space to Mars at a cost of "seven rupees [£0.07; $0.11; 0.09 euros] per kilometre, much cheaper than travelling a kilometre in Ahmedabad" (Gujarat's biggest city).
India, he said, should be proud of "three things - democracy, demographic dividend and demand".
Pushing his "Make In India" campaign, he said India offered human resources and low-cost production.
During his four-day visit, Mr Modi is expected to meet Mr Obama in Washington, and will see top leaders of Fortune 500 companies, including Google, IBM, GE and Boeing.
Delhi and Washington have strong security and trade ties, but relations deteriorated in recent months.
India's refusal to sign a global trade deal, a row over alleged American surveillance on the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a diplomatic spat involving an Indian envoy to the US are among some of the issues causing tension.
On the first day of his visit, Mr Modi used a speech to the UN to renew his country's call for reform of the Security Council.
India has long lobbied for a permanent seat on the Security Council.
Mr Modi also said he wanted peace talks with Pakistan but insisted it must create an "appropriate atmosphere".
The UK said it would establish the 834,000-sq-km (322,000-sq-mile) zone around the Pitcairn Islands in the Pacific in 2015.
Data gathered by the drone will be beamed back to a satellite watch room to help prosecute unauthorised trawling.
The drone will patrol areas in the reserve designated as no-fishing zones.
The drone, made by US firm Liquid Robotics, will be directed by staff at the satellite watch room which is monitoring fishing vessels. The craft is equipped with a camera that can take snaps of fishing vessels that are in restricted areas, and satellite technology that can pinpoint their location. The unmanned craft starting patrolling late last month.
The Liquid Robotics drone, called a Wave Glider, is a two-part craft made up of an instrument-bearing boat that floats on the ocean surface that is tethered to a submersible. The craft uses the differential motion between the sea surface and the region the submersible traverses to propel itself.
The self-propelling propulsion system means the Wave Glider can stay at sea for months at a time.
The UK said it established the marine-protected area in the Pitcairns in 2015 and, at the same time, created a watchdog organisation that would try to protect its abundant sea life from fishing.
The seas around the Pitcairns are believed to be home to more than 1,200 species of fish, marine mammals and birds - some of which are unique to the region. It also supports the world's deepest and most well-developed coral reef.
The watch room to oversee the region has been created in the Harwell science park in Oxfordshire with funding from the UK government and the Swiss Bertarelli Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts.
5 July 2013 Last updated at 08:47 BST
It was the 98th hotdog eating contest in New York which is held in the city every Independence Day.
The winner of the men's competition was Joey Chestnut, he wolfed down 69 dogs in ten minutes to win the world title for the 7th year running, beating his own record.
Sonya Thomas chowed down 36 hotdogs to become the women's champion.
Ajose, 22, started his career with Manchester United before joining the Posh in July 2011.
He struggled to hold down a regular first-team spot at London Road and had loan spells with Scunthorpe, Chesterfield, Crawley, Bury and Swindon before being transfer-listed in May.
He could make his debut for Leeds at Millwall on Saturday.
Head coach David Hockaday told the club website: "Nicky was involved with a very good group of players in the Manchester United Academy and he was one of the high flyers in that group.
"He can play up front in a number roles and he is very talented. He is a super professional and is an ideal addition to our squad."
The holder of the winning ticket - bought in Worcester for the 9 January draw - has opted to remain anonymous.
About £66m had been up for grabs to players, but it was the unclaimed £33,035,323 that had people checking their old tickets.
In the days since the winning numbers were announced, Camelot has been inundated with claims.
Camelot said the fact that a ticket had been validated within 180 days of the draw meant it had not been submitted under its lost, stolen destroyed or damaged policy.
One woman, who bought a ticket in Worcester, had sought to verify whether hers was the winner after putting it through the wash, damaging its identifying barcode.
A Camelot spokesperson said: "It would have been awful if the ticket-holder had missed out on this substantial and life-changing amount of money. We would like to remind all National Lottery players to check their tickets every time they play."
The operator has been processing "hundreds of claims" of stolen, lost or destroyed tickets.
The prize money is half the record Lotto jackpot win - shared with a couple from Hawick who claimed their prize within days of the 9 January draw.
On Tuesday, Camelot warned it would take action against any fraudulent claimants.
The winning numbers were 26, 27, 46, 47, 52 and 58.
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Mr Ling had taken bribes, stolen state secrets and abused his power, state prosecutors said.
He was in effect chief-of-staff to President Hu, but was demoted in a surprise move in 2012.
China is running a high-profile campaign against corruption, and says it punished nearly 300,000 officials in 2015 alone.
Mr Ling had held a senior position in President Hu's government as head of the Central Committee's General Office.
There was speculation that his demotion may have been the result of political manoeuvring ahead of a leadership change - but there were also reports that his son's involvement in a Ferrari crash may have been to blame.
The authorities announced an investigation into him in late 2014, and he was expelled from the Communist Party and arrested in July 2015.
President Xi Jinping has made a campaign against corruption a centrepiece of his governing agenda.
Many high-profile political figures have been jailed after being caught in the net.
However, some observers see the anti-corruption campaign as a way for the Party to rein in officials seen as becoming too influential, or as a means of pursuing personal vendettas.
The 23-year-old, who lived locally but has not been named, was discovered by a member of the public at Miles Cross Hill, Ulceby, at 05:05 GMT.
Lincolnshire Police said the death was being treated as unexplained until a post-mortem examination is held. Officers have not said if the man was hit by a vehicle.
The A1104 in the area has been closed but is due to reopen later on Saturday.
Stubbs has been linked with a move to former club Bolton, who have been relegated to League One in England.
Hibs host Falkirk at Easter Road on Tuesday in the first leg of their Premiership semi-final play-off.
"There is only one thing on my mind right now and that is trying to achieve a great end to the season for the football club," Stubbs said.
"And nothing will deter me or make me lose concentration. It is as simple as that. I've got a job to do and I want to be successful."
Hibs finished third in the Scottish Championship but could still win promotion via the play-offs.
They have already beaten Raith Rovers over two legs and face another double-header against Falkirk on Tuesday and Friday this week for the right to face Kilmarnock in the play-off final, again over two legs.
The Edinburgh side will face Rangers in the Scottish Cup final at Hampden Park on Saturday 21 May.
"We have got an opportunity to bring success in the next 16 days," added Stubbs, whose side were beaten by Rangers in the play-off semi-finals last year.
Asked if he would expect to still be Hibs boss if they stay in the Championship or gain promotion, Stubbs - who enjoyed six seasons as a player at Bolton - replied: "I've got another year left on my contract, so nothing has changed.
"People were saying I was under pressure two weeks ago, and now I am getting linked with another job. That is the game. That's part of being a manager.
"If you're doing well, you get linked with jobs. If you are not doing well, you don't get linked with jobs.
"Some people might beg to differ, but it's speculation. That's all."
Bolton have been under the interim management of Jimmy Phillips, assisted by former Sunderland boss Peter Reid, since the departure of Neil Lennon.
He told BBC Newsnight it was "a job that doesn't exist" and compared the role to that of "director of football".
He also said his attitude to rebels who opposed his leadership would be one of "charity" rather than "malice".
Mr Smith says Mr Corbyn is "not a leader" but could "speak for the party" to the wider membership as president.
He said he would make Mr Corbyn party president if he managed to unseat him as leader, praising him for helping Labour "rediscover its radical roots" but saying he had "sloganised" about anti-austerity but had "never spelt out what he wants to spend".
Mr Corbyn, who launched his campaign to be re-elected Labour leader on Thursday, following the challenge from Mr Smith, told BBC Newsnight: "Owen Smith has offered me unopposed election to a job that doesn't exist.
"I don't want to be president of the party, I'm not even sure we should have a president of the party. What's a president for? It sounds to me a bit like a director of football. So no."
"The creation of a position of president of the party would actually require a rule change, and a constitutional change. It's not in his gift to offer unopposed election to anything - unless he has some control over the whole electorate that I haven't been told about."
Asked whether he would accept rebels who opposed his leadership back into the party, Mr Corbyn said: "Let's have some charity towards people - not malice. I don't do malice."
He said he had at no point felt like resigning - and said he has been coping with the pressure just fine. "Do I sleep well? Yes. Do I do other things? Yes. Do I read widely? Yes. Look at me I'm very happy."
During the interview, Mr Corbyn was asked if he stuck by his statement on the morning of the referendum result when he called for article 50 to be invoked "immediately".
"I may not have put that as well as I should have done. My view was, and is, that at some point article 50 is going to be invoked, obviously, it has to be."
But he made it clear he does not favour a second referendum. "I think you have to respect the result of the referendum, whether you welcome it or not, and respect the result which was, unfortunately, a vote to leave."
On immigration, he told Newsnight: "I have made the point all along that the single market does include free movement of labour and if you go away from that you're not in the single market.
"Let's look at the other ways of dealing with it first, rather than rushing to immigration."
Some 183,000 people have signed up in the 48-hour registration period to vote in the ballot which pits Mr Corbyn against Mr Smith, with the result due to be announced on 24 September.
They paid £25 each to become registered supporters by Wednesday's deadline, enabling them to have a say in the contest along with party members who had signed up before 12 January and people who joined affiliated trade unions and organisations before that date and who register by 8 August.
In his speech launching his campaign for re-election, Mr Corbyn vowed to tackle the "five ills of 21st Century Britain" - inequality, neglect, prejudice, insecurity and discrimination.
He also said that there would be a "full and open selection process" to choose every would-be Labour MP if new constituency boundaries were in place before 2020, in which current MPs would be able to "put their name forward".
Mr Smith said the Labour leader was effectively threatening to sack Labour MPs - Mr Corbyn's team said he had simply been setting out the existing rules.
However, the current rules state that selections following boundary changes are only open to sitting MPs.
Watch the full interview on BBC Newsnight on 21 July at 22:30 BST on BBC Two.
Merry Saltzman - the daughter of late Bond producer Harry Saltzman - told Playbill last week she had secured rights to stage a Broadway show.
But on Wednesday, Bond rights holders MGM and Danjaq denied they licensed any rights, legally preventing a show.
However, Saltzman has said her musical is a parody and did not need approval.
She added the show would go ahead as planned, opening in late 2017 or early 2018.
In a statement on the 007 website, Danjaq and MGM said they had not "licensed any rights to Merry Saltzman or her production company to create a James Bond musical".
"Danjaq and MGM jointly control all live stage rights in the Bond franchise, and therefore no James Bond stage show may be produced without their permission."
'Key word parody'
Responding to the statement, Saltzman told Playbill: "We are producing a parody, no permissive rights are required from Eon, Danjaq, MGM et al to produce our show; it will not infringe on their intellectual property.
"Eon, Danjaq, and MGM's statements are accurate as far as they go. [My company] Placeholder Productions' and my statements are also accurate. Placeholder did not claim to have purchased rights to a stage production from Eon et al (nor did we intend to imply we had).
"Placeholder did (and did claim to) purchase rights to a James Bond musical parody written by Dave Clarke with music and lyrics by Jay Henry Weisz.
"The key word here is 'parody'. Parody, the courts have repeatedly upheld, is fully protected under the fair use principle of the US Copyright Act of 1976 and, as such, does not require permission from the owners of the intellectual property being parodied."
Producers said James Bond: The Musical will have an original storyline and feature "several Bond villains, plus some new ones" as well as "our own Bond girl".
The world champion All Blacks have won their last 34 games at the Auckland ground, while Wales have not beaten New Zealand in 26 matches since 1953.
But asked whether his team would be daunted by the occasion, kicking coach Jenkins said: "I don't think so."
"It's New Zealand; no matter where you play them they're going to be tough."
Wales are returning to Eden Park for the first time since losing 21-18 against Australia in the 2011 World Cup third-place play-off.
That came after their World Cup dream had ended in a 9-8 semi-final defeat by France at the same venue, a game which saw captain Sam Warburton sent off for a tip-tackle.
"It didn't go too well for us on those occasions, but hopefully we can turn that around and play well and hopefully we can come away with something," said former fly-half Jenkins.
"It should be a fantastic occasion. It's a sell-out and it's their first game back as world champions.
"There's no bigger test than New Zealand in New Zealand and here at Eden Park, so the guys are excited and hopefully we can put out a big performance."
Jenkins says his side must do the basics well if they are to beat the All Blacks on their own turf for the first time.
"The back three they've got will cause damage to most sides so you've got to be accurate in your kicking and you've got to be accurate in your kick-chase," he said.
"You've got to make your tackles. We have to be organised and put some pressure on them.
"The last few times we've played the All Blacks we've been there or thereabouts with about 15 minutes to go.
"But that's why they're the best side in the world because they go away [from you] in the last 10 or 15 minutes. The game is never over and they keep coming."
Liechtenstein international Buchel, 27, did not make a first-team appearance for the U's last season and spent time on loan at League Two Barnet.
Shearer signed a 12-month contract on Tuesday after being released by Mansfield Town.
Midfielder Josh Ashby, 21, has signed a new one-year deal while he recovers from a knee injury.
For six weeks, it felt like we hadn't really heard anything new from Scotland's political leaders. Seven elections in just over three years will do that - policy platforms and attack lines get very familiar.
It had been a fairly tepid election, in truth. But Nicola Sturgeon changed all that during the STV debate.
Now maybe a she-said-she-said rammy isn't the most mature look for a nation's political discourse, but at least it was something new.
There remain quite a few questions, though...
During a spiky exchange with Ms Dugdale, the first minister referred to a conversation after the EU referendum saying: "You told me then that the change occasioned by Brexit meant Labour should stop opposing a referendum."
Ms Dugdale looked stunned. Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson looked delighted, and was quick to bring the issue up again.
Ms Surgeon repeated: "She said she thought Brexit changed everything and the Labour Party could no longer go on opposing a second independence referendum."
Ms Dugdale offered a denial of sorts on air - saying she opposed independence, but notably not referring to indyref2, the specific subject of the claim.
During the debate, she said: "The idea that I would do anything other than protect the United Kingdom and fight to remain in the UK is an absolute nonsense."
She hit out far more strongly on social media afterwards, joining her Scottish Labour colleagues in calling Ms Sturgeon's claim a "categoric lie".
Both sides confirm that a conversation took place - they disagree about the content.
It appears there is no formal record of the conversation. Neither side admit to taking any notes. Where does that leave us?
The problem for Labour is that the claim has an air of believability. After all, Ms Dugdale did say publicly, in a notorious interview with the Fabian Society, that it was "not inconceivable" that she might back independence to keep Scotland in the EU.
She quickly clarified her position, and has worked hard on her pro-union credentials since - but the Conservatives have made endless hay with the idea that Ms Dugdale is weak on independence.
But this is something different from those 2016 interviews. If it was the same thing, why would Nicola Sturgeon have broken a confidence to talk about it?
The SNP were quick to point to a Times interview where Ms Dugdale had previously referred to this private conversation - although they say the Labour leader's account was a selective one.
The SNP campaign up until now had focused very much on the Conservatives. Labour were almost an afterthought; Ms Sturgeon directed most of her fire at Theresa May and the Conservatives.
But recent polls have suggested the Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour surge was starting to have an impact north of the border. Were the SNP worried about losing votes to Labour in its old heartlands?
In the longer term, there's also an argument that the Conservatives are a more natural foil for the SNP. The SNP would far rather have a two-horse race against the Tories than against Labour - a poll in the Times this morning underlines that, with suggestions that Theresa May returning to Downing Street would boost support for independence.
Given they hold 56 seats, the SNP have been largely on the defensive in this election campaign. Naturally so, given their main role is to defend, rather than take, seats.
All of the other parties are trying to win seats in Scotland exclusively from the SNP; they are the target of choice.
This attack was a chance for Nicola Sturgeon to actually grab the reins and shape the narrative, for perhaps the first time in the campaign.
It's fascinating that she chose to do so with an attack on Labour, rather than the Conservatives. And it's fascinating she felt she had to use the content of a private conversation to do so - a move which could easily look bad in the eyes of some voters.
Ruth Davidson will be utterly delighted with this outcome. You could almost hear the crunch of the popcorn at Scottish Conservative HQ as the debate unfolded.
In the immediacy, the standout moment of the debate up until that point had been the three other leaders rounding on Ms Davidson about the child tax credit cap and the "rape clause".
Given their UK-wide competition is with Labour, the Conservatives will be doubly delighted that the morning headlines are all about Labour and independence, rather than that.
The Conservative campaign after all is centred squarely on opposition to indyref2. This latest row is a chance for them to shore up the unionist vote in their favour. They might even hope to gain a seat or two - a big Labour vote in Tory target seats could have split the unionist vote and left the SNP coasting to victory.
Talking of Ruth Davidson, interestingly she posted on Twitter that she had also spoken to Ms Sturgeon the day after the Brexit vote - and had taken the precaution of recording the conversation.
That tweet was hastily deleted, although it should be noted that simply recording a conversation for personal use doesn't break any laws.
She now says the first minister is a "clype", which is a rather more measured response - and an opportunity for the Tories to attack both sides.
Ms Sturgeon's immediate intention was surely to damage Labour. It's possible the SNP's army of doorstep-chapping volunteers had been reporting back concerns that the red vote was on the rise.
Revealing details of a private conversation might have some blowback for the first minister, but the SNP note that Ms Dugdale herself had spoken about the chat previously.
Damaging Scottish Labour's credibility might help shore up SNP votes in the likes of Glasgow - although those were considered fairly safe in any case.
For Labour, the blow is aimed at what their other main opponents, the Conservatives, have long considered the weak point in their armour: opposition to indyref2.
Ms Dugdale had spent much of the campaign reinforcing her message of outright opposition, which has taken an unexpected last-minute battering. Activists will be scrambling back out on the doorstep in the likes of Edinburgh South to start re-reinforcing the message.
For the Conservatives, it's a chance to put the debate squarely back in binary terms - Yes vs No; SNP vs Tory. A two-horse race, without Labour complicating matters.
And in truth, that's territory that suits the SNP every bit as much as the Conservatives.
The strike - which is part of a row over pay - will begin at 7am, and will involve some nurses, healthcare assistants, and porters.
The result of the strike ballot was announced last week, with more than two-thirds of Unison members saying they were prepared to take action.
The Department of Health said the NHS couldn't afford the union's demands.
The government has given NHS staff a 1% pay rise, but not for those who get automatic progression-in-the-job increases.
Those increases are given to about half of staff and are worth 3% a year on average.
The decision by ministers went against the recommendation of the independent pay review board, which called for an across-the-board rise.
The Unison general secretary Dave Prentis said: "NHS members don't take action often or lightly.
"For many of our members this will be the first time they walk out as the last action over pay was 32 years ago.
"The NHS runs on the goodwill of its workers, but this government has shown utter contempt for them.
"We are working with NHS employers to minimise the impact on patients."
Unison has 300,000 members who work for the health service in England.
The strike on 13 October will be followed by four days of action short of strikes.
A spokesman for the Department of Health said the NHS could not afford a general pay rise on top of incremental increases.
"We are disappointed that Unison is planning industrial action and has rejected our proposals to give NHS staff at least 1% additional pay this year and at least a further 1% next year," he said.
"NHS staff are our greatest asset and we know they are working extremely hard.
"This is why despite tough financial times, we've protected the NHS budget and now have 13,500 more clinical staff than in 2010.
"We want to protect these increases and cannot afford incremental pay increases - which disproportionately reward the highest earners - on top of a general pay rise without risking frontline NHS jobs."
St Johnstone converted two of those - both of which were awarded for grappling inside the box.
"I'll be watching very carefully," said Houston after the 3-0 League Cup loss.
"I was wondering, if it was St Johnstone playing Celtic or Rangers would the penalties have been given quite as easily?"
Danny Swanson was tripped in the Bairns box early on but Liam Craig's effort from 12 yards was saved by Falkirk goalkeeper Danny Rogers.
However, Swanson was successful in scoring the two penalties awarded for pulling.
"Paul Watson's might have been, I'd accept that," Houston told BBC Scotland. "The third one's an absolute joke.
"You see the ball get played into the box, Luke Leahy - you lift your arms to go for the ball - leans in.
"The fourth official's shouting stuff in the referee's ear as well so I don't know if he influenced the referee but it was never a penalty kick.
"I also looked at the incident where [Falkirk's] John Baird's looking to protect [the ball], Steven Anderson comes right through the back of him, doesn't get anywhere near the ball and John goes to ground. So, in my opinion, we should have had a penalty there as well."
Asked if he was aware of any new directives for officials to be more strict about jostling in the box Houston replied: "We've got to go to a meeting on 8 August where the central-based guys meet the referees.
"If there are new directives we should probably have been told by now.
"If they've got a directive about getting a hold of people then great because I've been saying for years too much of it goes on.
"But I see it every single game I watch on television in every league, people get a hold of each other and penalty kicks are not given.
"Bobby Madden, who I'll watch in particular, gave three penalty kicks, aided, I think, by the fourth official talking in his ear about 'watch this one, watch that one'. So it'll be interesting to see what happens."
But Houston said he had not tried to speak to Madden about the decisions to seek clarity on the awards.
"Absolute waste of time," he explained. "There's no point in me getting myself into trouble because nothing can change it.
"You'll get excuse after excuse and his opinion of it and I can't change his opinion. If he looks at the third penalty again or the John Baird incident, it'd be interesting to see what he thinks."
Their pet Lacey was being walked on a lead with three other terriers when she was attacked by a black "Alsatian type" dog in Oldbrook, Milton Keynes.
She died after sustaining internal injuries and broken legs. Her owner was bitten as he tried to rescue her, as reported in the MK Citizen.
The owners reported the attack and said police were investigating.
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Lacey's owner Ron, 75, who did not want to give his surname, said: "I had two of the dogs on leads, and my wife had the other two.
"The dog lunged at my arm and pulled me down to the ground as it tried to get to my dog. It bit me four times."
He said his other three dogs were saved by a passing postman who bundled them into the back of his van.
The incident left him "absolutely terrified" to take his other dogs for walks, he said.
His wife Valerie said she had struggled to leave the house since the incident and was having panic attacks.
"As soon as I open the front door it all comes flooding back. I can't get it out of my head - it will stay with me until the day I die," she said.
"All I can see is Ron walking towards me with her, and bringing her in the house. You could see her intestines... and her legs were ripped off.
"There's no way ever that dog should not a have had a collar on and a lead. That wasn't a little dog-on-dog scrap. That dog was out to kill.
"If it hadn't been for our heroic postman, I think it would have been more dogs," she added.
The plant, to be built on the Bilsthorpe Colliery site, would use waste to generate electricity, which would be fed into the National Grid.
Peel Environmental said the power would be generated by reacting organic material at high temperatures with oxygen or steam to create syngas.
The process, called gasification, is considered to be more energy efficient.
The company said it would handle around 120,000 tonnes of non-hazardous waste each year.
This would be generated by businesses and households in Nottinghamshire, with around 23,000 tonnes recycled into other products, while the remainder would be used to generate electricity.
The project is expected to create around 40 jobs at the site which ceased coal production in 1995.
The group hopes to submit a planning application to Nottinghamshire County Council in the autumn.
Those affected include government job applicants, federal contractors, and over a million of their partners, the Office of Personnel Management said.
The figure is more than five times higher than the number of people that were feared to have been affected.
The data breach, which came to light in April, was widely blamed on China.
Authorities in Beijing have publicly denied any involvement.
The breach prompted a series of hearings in Congress and widespread criticism of the state of US cyber defences.
Politicians from both parties demanded OPM boss Katherine Archuleta be fired.
House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, said President Barack Obama "must take a strong stand against incompetence in his administration and instill new leadership at OPM".
Last month, officials said personnel records of 4.2 million current and former federal government employees had been stolen in an incident.
On Thursday, OPM said that while investigating that breach they discovered additional information had also been compromised, including the social security numbers of 21.5 million individuals.
The stolen data also includes health and financial information, criminal records, and the names and addresses of government employees and their relatives.
Those affected include 19.7 million people who underwent background checks and 1.8 million others, mostly the partners of job applicants.
OPM serves as the human resource department for the US government. The agency issues security clearances and compiles records of all federal government employees.
The agency said that it had "no information at this time to suggest any misuse or further dissemination of the information that was stolen from OPM's systems."
But it said that for anyone who underwent a background investigation in 2000 or afterwards "it is highly likely that the individual is impacted by this cyber breach."
Last month, US intelligence chief James Clapper said China was the "leading suspect" in the massive data breaches.
His comments came after three days of high-level talks in which China and the US agreed to a "code of conduct" on cyber security issues.
Earlier this week, US Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said China was "trying to hack into everything that doesn't move in America".
China has dismissed claims of involvement as "irresponsible and unscientific".
Corrosion has been found in the building's new heating system.
It means a major repair job has to be completed before it can open to patients.
The delay will be longer than first thought, as workers are employed trying to fix the plumbing problem.
It is understood the damage to the pipes was detected in the hot water heating system during final checks.
The main emergency department for Belfast, and intensive care for patients across Northern Ireland, will fill the first six floors. The top three floors will eventually house maternity services.
The new 12-storey building was due to be handed over to the Belfast Health Trust in November 2012, but that deadline was missed.
The Department of Health has confirmed the trust will not take control of the building until 2014 at the earliest.
"Significant delays in the completion of this project have been due to problems with corrosion in the closed water systems identified in the commissioning process," it said.
"Handover of the completed fully commissioned building is now expected in 2014."
Once the trust does take ownership of the new state-of-the-art building, it is thought it will be another three months before it is ready to admit patients.
UNISON health trade union spokesman Ray Rafferty, who is based at the Royal, said his main concern was "that the building is going to be delayed by 12 to 14 months".
"That means services are delayed, and patients are going to suffer because of these delays," he added.
"The knock-on effects are many, we have an emergency department which is in a temporary building. The building is not fit for purpose."
The main contractor McLaughlin and Harvey declined to discuss the cost of the repair work, answering "no comment" to any queries, but a letter from the Health Minister Edwin Poots, seen by the BBC, said the cost would be "significant".
UNISON estimates the repair work could cost anywhere between £2m and £5m.
The Department of Health said the main contractor was responsible for the repairs.
A spokesperson said: "There are no additional costs for the department from this corrosion problem."
The correspondence from the health minister said: "It may be necessary to incur expenditure like additional design fees, expert opinion etc which would then have to be recovered through settlement of the case, whether through the application of contract conditions, or if necessary, litigation."
The minister added: "The main contractor McLaughlin and Harvey, and the mechanical sub-contractor, Vaughan Engineering, have both advised their insurance companies of the issue as the cost of rectification will be significant."
Lieutenant Peter Coughlin assaulted the woman after inviting her back to his room while he was stationed in Oman.
The 34-year-old, now based at Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, was convicted of assault by penetration after a court martial trial at Portsmouth Naval Base.
He has been ordered to sign the sex offenders register.
The attack happened on 20 March 2015, when Coughlin was based at Musannah airbase near Muscat.
Judge advocate Robert Hill said the officer had acted in an "episode of pure madness" and was "clutching at straws" by believing his victim was attracted to him.
The trial heard the defendant and victim had been drinking at a hotel before returning to the airbase.
Coughlin, a training officer for 814 Naval Air Squadron, suggested watching a film in his room but the woman fell asleep on his single bed.
In a video shown to the court, the victim said: "I felt physically sick, I couldn't really understand what had just occurred, I just burst into tears. I went to have a shower, I tried to process it, I should never, never have gone into his cabin."
Sentencing Coughlin for an offence of sexual assault by penetration with his fingers, Judge Hill said: "In an episode of pure madness you failed to resist the temptation. She trusted you completely."
He added: "It would be remiss of me if I didn't pay respect to the position of your wife, also a serving officer. The court commends her strength of character, resilience and fortitude."
In just two words, Josh Hawkins teaches the basics of the Australian vernacular.
The 30-year-old's advice is to "abbreviate everything".
"We're from Australia. We love a good chat, but not for too long," Josh says at the start of the video, which also stars local actor Rhys Keir.
The pair then run through a list of some of Australia's favourite abbreviations, including:
The clip has already been viewed on Facebook more than 1.5m times since it was uploaded on Monday.
It has been a surprise success for Josh, and a little like lightning striking twice, after he made headlines in May for his trick-shot video "The thug life chose me".
"It was pretty insane and I didn't think it would happen again," he told the BBC.
His only regret: misspelling the town of Wollongong (south of Sydney).
"Practically the whole town has been messaging me.
"I was in a rush so I didn't spell-check it and I got a whole bunch of messages today."
He says he will use his appearance on breakfast television on Wednesday to issue a very public apology to Wollongong.
The team, from the University of Bristol, found that raindrops kick off very fast vibrations in the lid of the plant's jug-shaped leaves.
This propels ants from the lid into the pitcher trap below, where they drown and are consumed by digestive juices.
The findings, published in the journal PNAS, are based on high-speed cameras and laser vibration measurements.
Using these instruments, Dr Ulrike Bauer and her colleagues recorded extremely fast movement in the lid of the pitcher leaf, after it was hit by a raindrop.
It wobbles like a stiff spring, she said.
"You have a raindrop hitting the surface and that causes it to move down, fast. Then because of this spring property, it moves to a certain point and springs back.
"You get an oscillation, very similar to when you put a ruler on the edge of your desk and flick the end down with your finger."
This movement is unique in the plant kingdom, Dr Bauer said - partly because of its speed, which easily outstrips the insect-trapping manoeuvres of other carnivorous plants, and partly because of the way it exploits an external energy source.
"Having a fast movement in a plant is unusual in itself," she explained, "but having a fast movement that doesn't require the plant to invest any energy - it just requires it to build the structure - that's something quite surprising."
The findings place the species in the study, Nepenthes gracilis, into its own carnivorous category; it belongs neither with "active" carnivorous plants, like flytraps, nor motionless "passive" insect eaters - like most other pitcher plants.
Key to the pitcher's rain-powered trap is the stiffness of its lid. When the team studied another species, which catches ants using only the slippery rim of its pitcher, they found it had a more bendy lid.
This meant that vibrations from a falling raindrop were concentrated right at the tip - much like the motion of a springboard used in competitive diving, Dr Bauer explained.
"It concentrates the acceleration at the very tip. If you try to jump off the middle of a diving board, it's not very effective. That's why divers walk to the very edge."
This is no good for the pitcher plant, if it is going to bounce ants into its maw.
"The pitcher wants to maximise the area where insects fall from that surface," Dr Bauer said.
So the stiff lid on the leaves of N. gracilis is perfectly adapted, because it spreads out the movement - and the danger for its prey.
Royals keeper Grace Moloney foiled Mead before Lois Roche put Reading ahead with a deflected free-kick.
Mead rounded Moloney to level after the break and then had an effort cleared off the line by Kirsty McGee.
Sunderland keeper Rachael Laws made a series of saves as Reading earned their first ever point in the top flight.
Sunderland Ladies: Laws; Holmes, Bannon, Williams, Sjoman; Furness, Chaplen, Staniforth; Joice (Ramshaw 46), Mead, Johnston (Kelly, 46).
Substitutes not used: Gunn Olsen, McDougall, Roche, Beer, Potts.
Reading Women: Moloney; Jane, Bartrip, McGee, Rowe; Hines, Roche, Estcourt (Bruton 58); Ward (Jones 90), Boho Sayo, Follis.
Substitutes not used: Earps, Cox, Scott, Horwood, Walkley.
Attendance: 699.
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A study for the Ambition School Leadership charity found deprived youngsters in these six areas were 20.1 months behind at GCSE level.
Schools minister Nick Gibb said it showed the importance of targeting support at areas that were "the most challenged when it comes to social mobility".
There have been six opportunity areas named by the government so far - Norwich, Blackpool, Derby, Oldham, Scarborough and West Somerset - with the promise of more to follow.
There will be £60m of extra spending to promote social mobility in these areas, such as linking schools to businesses, universities and careers advisers.
The study shows how far "persistently disadvantaged" pupils - who have been eligible for free school meals for four out of five years - have fallen behind in secondary school.
They were found to be the equivalent of 20.1 months behind the average for children who were not on free school meals in other parts of England.
Pupils in the "opportunity areas" who were not on free school meals were also behind their counterparts in other parts of England - by 4.7 months.
The study looked at pupil achievement between 2010 and 2015 and found that the gap had widened.
Ambition School Leadership has been created from bringing together two education charities, Future Leaders Trust and Teaching Leaders, which had worked to improve school leadership, particularly in disadvantaged areas.
James Toop, chief executive of the new charity, said: "We know great leaders at all levels make great schools. We're going to be working even harder to reach these schools and give the children they serve a great education."
School Standards Minister Nick Gibb said the study showed the need for the government's plans to "make more good school places available, to more parents, in more parts of the country".
He said this would include "scrapping the ban on new grammar school places and harnessing the resources and expertise of universities, independent and faith schools".
"This report underlines the need to focus our efforts in the areas identified as the most challenged when it comes to social mobility."
A separate study from the the Education Policy Institute looked at Ofsted inspections in schools with a more disadvantaged intake.
The researchers claimed inspectors were more likely to have harsh judgments on schools with higher proportions of pupils on free school meals - and that they could be too generous to those with a wealthier intake.
An Ofsted spokeswoman rejected this claim, saying that inspectors would "mark down coasting schools in leafy suburbs where we see pupils not making as much progress as they should".
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The HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) gave YOI Feltham in west London its lowest judgement for safety after finding levels of "very serious" violence had risen.
The prison on the same site was also found to have had a "significant increase in violence".
However, staff were also praised for "many examples of good work".
Feltham A holds boys aged 15 to 18, while Feltham B is a prison for young adults aged 18 to 21.
Chief Inspector of Prisons Peter Clarke said violence at the young offenders institution was a "serious problem" and "a serious assault on an officer" had happened while the inspection took place.
As well as a rise in violence, inspectors also criticised how long boys were allowed out of their cells as a result of a strict but "ineffective" regime used to manage behaviour.
About 40% of boys were locked up during the school day while 30% were allowed out of their cells for only two hours each day.
This meant some were prevented from being able to use basic amenities including showers and telephones, inspectors said.
Feltham B was also found to be an "unsafe environment" with inmates "often afraid for their own safety".
"Prisoners were enduring a regime that was unsuitable for prisoners of any age, let alone young men," inspectors said.
Nevertheless, staff at both the YOI and prison were praised, with healthcare - particularly mental health provision - described as "impressive".
Work to resettle offenders back into the community upon their release from both institutions was also considered to be "generally good".
Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Mr Turnbull said Mr Abbott had not yet indicated his plans.
Mr Turnbull on Monday successfully challenged Mr Abbott for the country's top job.
The new prime minister would not comment on the cabinet's make-up.
Earlier, Treasurer Joe Hockey refused to comment on speculation he would be dumped from the portfolio.
Political pundits have tipped Social Services Minister Scott Morrison to take over the Treasury portfolio.
Mr Abbott was absent from question time in parliament on Tuesday when Mr Turnbull debuted as prime minister.
"I have had a discussion with Tony Abbott but he hasn't given me an indication [about his future]," Mr Turnbull told reporters in Canberra.
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday phoned Mr Abbott to commend his leadership in the fight against the so-called Islamic State group, local media reported.
Asked if he would include more women in the cabinet, Mr Turnbull would say only "there is no greater enthusiast than me for seeing women in positions of power and influence in parliament, in ministries right across the country".
He was speaking at a press conference with state premiers from New South Wales and Victoria about rolling out the next stage of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), which is worth A$22bn ($15.7bn; £10.2bn) a year.
The scheme, which coordinates funding of and access to services for people with serious and permanent disabilities, is funded by federal and state governments.
Since it started in the autumn of 2007 it has made four million small, short-term loans, amounting to more than a billion pounds in all.
The firm has attracted plenty of criticism, suggesting it is little better than a digital loan-shark, exploiting the skint and vulnerable.
In January the firm was at the centre of controversy about adverts encouraging students with jobs to take out loans to pay for things like trips abroad.
And in March fans of some football clubs called for the company's adverts to be removed from their clubs' websites.
This week it attracted more attention by launching a loan service aimed at businesses which are short of cash.
Errol Damelin, Wonga's founder, is remarkably unperturbed by the critics.
At a briefing for journalists this week, he was happy and confident about the prospects for his business, and also the legitimacy of short-term money lending.
According to him, Wonga is the equivalent of iTunes for the financial world.
"Wonga is a platform for the future of financial services, the digital revolution has not yet begun in financial services," he said.
Likening his company to firms like Google, Amazon, PayPal and Netflix, he argued that using technology and data about his customers would be the key to success.
"Wonga is on a multi-year and multi-decade journey to build the future of financial services, using data and technology to make objective and unprejudiced decisions," said Mr Damelin.
People borrow money from Wonga by applying on its website.
This offers a swift decision and then transfers the money into a bank account within 15 minutes.
The firm employs more than 100 staff just to develop its technology and make sure the site works properly.
Its key feature is that it combines information about potential customers in a massive in-house credit scoring operation.
Errol Damelin said his computers use artificial-intelligence software to collect and digest up to 8,000 different pieces of information about applicants to decide if they should be offered loans.
"We have built the world's first, completely straight-through processing system for credit, so when somebody comes to Wonga as an individual, or as a business-owner, and applies for a cash advance, the whole process is completely automated," he said.
So, no more putting on a suit and tie and begging a bank manager for a loan or a bigger overdraft, at least for short-term cashflow problems.
Wonga's technology filters out applicants who are thought to be too risky, and about 66% of them are currently turned down for not being credit-worthy.
For instance you have to have a regular income, a bank account, a functioning debit card, a mobile phone and a good credit record.
The result of this filtering is that so far only about 7% of Wonga borrowers have failed to repay.
This is a lower level of default than the 10% bad debt rate on credit card lending, which has led banks to write off billions of pounds in the past few years.
The credit scoring process, however, is more sophisticated than just asking a few simple questions.
The firm's technology allows it to measure how the customers use the website itself, as this offers some valuable insights.
For instance, potential borrowers use the online sliders on the computer screen to determine how much they want to borrow and for how long.
The firm has found that people who immediately shove the slider up to the maximum amount on offer, currently £400 for 30 days for a first-time applicant for a personal loan, are more likely than others to default.
"The great thing about that is that our decisions are always objective, we are not subject to the same kind of imperfections that traditional lenders have, where different bank managers have different preferences and often prejudices which affect how people get access to credit," Damelin argued.
What about the cost?
Wonga makes no bones about the fact that the APR it charges, a standard measure of interest costs, is a frankly incredible 4,214% a year.
That is stated clearly on the front page.
Borrowers are told exactly how much they will have to repay, and when.
But Errol Damelin said that for his target audience, price is not the issue, and nor should it be.
Speed, convenience and transparency are what he is selling - as well as cash.
"We have dared to ask some hard questions, like how can we make loans instant, how can we get money to people 24 hours a day, seven days a week, how can we be totally transparent?" he said.
"So what we have built is a solution around speed and convenience, and helping people by dealing with them when they want to deal with us."
Wonga rejects the criticisms of its business by pointing out that its users appear very happy.
Using a measure of customer satisfaction called the "net-promoter" score, it says it has a score of more than 90%.
In essence, most of its customers would be happy to recommend its services to their friends and family.
By contrast, most banks have negative scores, and even highly-rated banks like First Direct score less than 50%.
Even so, the regulated money lending industry has a poor image and is coming under renewed scrutiny.
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) announced in February that it would look again at the lending practices of the many firms that offer payday loans.
Two years ago it concluded that they and other high-cost credit businesses - like home-credit lenders and pawn brokers - should not have their interest rates capped.
Now it is concerned again at shoddy selling practices, like targeting loans at people who cannot afford them, and letting their debts roll over to become bigger.
Wonga insists it has nothing to do with the spivvier end of the growing payday lending business.
For Errol Damelin, the target now is to widen his business by lending to small companies suddenly short of cash.
"Financial services is a challenging place to innovate in, so we are responding where we can deliver a better service," he says.
"Businesses have been crying out for a solution that is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to solve relatively small, relatively short-term cashflow problems."
In his first news conference since July, Mr Trump said he would submit a plan to repeal and replace the 2010 law "essentially simultaneously".
Senate Republicans have started a process to repeal parts of the law, but have yet to reach a replacement plan.
There seems little consensus on what would replace Obamacare.
Mr Trump's remarks clash with congressional Republicans' plan to repeal the law, but delay the process to pass legislation on a substitute for up to three years.
The president-elect said he would like to see President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, also known as Obamacare, repealed and replaced "probably the same day, could be the same hour".
He insisted his administration would have a plan in place as soon as Representative Tom Price, his nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary, is confirmed.
Mr Price's hearings are due to begin next week.
Mr Trump did not offer any details on his vision to replace the healthcare law, but argued it was "imploding" and Republicans would do "a tremendous service" for Democrats by replacing it.
He added his plan would be "far less expensive and far better".
Republicans have already taken steps to dismantle Obamacare through a budget reconciliation bill.
The Republican-led Senate has been working into the night on the bill, with a vote expected early on Thursday to set the process in motion.
If the budget resolution is passed, a committee would write repeal legislation that could come to a vote next month.
"We must act quickly to bring relief to the American people," said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
However, Republicans have only a slender majority in the chamber and increasing numbers of their senators are voicing concerns about overturning the law without a replacement to show voters.
The US Chamber of Commerce, which is the country's largest business lobby group, warned on Wednesday it could be a mistake to quickly repeal Obamacare without developing a replacement insurance plan.
A day earlier, the Health and Human Services Department said more than 11.5 million Americans had signed up for plans in this open-enrollment period, the highest such figure in the bill's history.
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Sergio Aguero's penalty earned a 2-1 win, with keeper Joe Hart saving a penalty before the Germans took a 1-0 second-half lead.
Nicolas Otamendi scored the equaliser as City recovered from the 2-1 loss to Juventus in their opening Group D game.
"We had a bit of luck to win the game," said the 62-year-old Chilean.
City had been beaten in three of their four previous matches in all competitions, including Premier League losses to West Ham and Tottenham as well as the defeat by the Italian champions.
"Against Juventus and West Ham we didn't deserve to lose and maybe today we didn't deserve to win but we did," added Pellegrini.
But the victory - only the third in their past 12 Champions League matches - boosted their hopes of reaching the knockout stage for a third successive season under Pellegrini.
City remain third in the group after two matches, level on three points with Spanish side Sevilla and three adrift of Juve.
England international Hart said his team were below their best against Monchengladbach, but disagreed with his manager about the final result.
"We were disjointed as we had been in the last few games, but we deserved to win," said the 28-year-old.
"We had some really good chances. It may have come late but Sergio Aguero is a cool guy and he will score.
"They've got some good movement - Kevin de Bruyne warned us about them. They've a very fit team and they work themselves into the ground.
"We profited when they were a little bit tired at the end. They made a few mistakes and we kept our quality."
Now Pellegrini hopes his squad - who were missing defender and captain Vincent Kompany through injury and saw midfielder Yaya Toure taken off at half-time - can get through to the international break without picking up any more knocks.
His players will link up with their national squads after Saturday's home league match against Newcastle.
"We need the international break because we have eight injured players and we don't have many options," he added.
"It is important for the players to beat Newcastle on Saturday and then after that we have 15 days."
Champagne and Blackmail, which were directed by the British master of suspense during the late 1920s, will be shown with live musical accompaniment.
A three-month long season will also see all 58 of his films - including Psycho, Vertigo and The Birds - screened.
Actors Tippi Hedren and Bruce Dern will also take part in live events.
Speaking at a launch in London on Tuesday, Heather Stewart, the BFI's creative director, said that the BFI had wanted to get out its "big guns", like other big cultural organisations, during Olympic year.
"The idea of popular cinema somehow being capable of being great art at the same time as being entertaining is still a problem for some people," she said. "Shakespeare is on the national curriculum, Hitchcock is not."
She said that in the same way that Picasso had changed the face of modern art, Hitchcock was also a game-changer. "After Psycho, in particular, film-making could never be the same again."
An open-air screening of Blackmail, directed by the 30-year-old Hitchcock in 1929, will be staged in the forecourt of the British Museum on 6 July as part of the BFI's involvement in the London 2012 Festival
celebrations.
The film will feature a live score by award-winning composer, musician, writer and broadcaster Neil Brand, performed live by an ensemble of 18 musicians.
A short clip of Blackmail was screened at The Genius of Hitchcock
launch event, accompanied by the new score.
Describing Hitchcock as an "incredibly seductive" film-maker, Brand said he had not tried to replicate the music of the silent era. "This is for an audience now."
Hitchcock's 1927 boxing drama The Ring will be shown at the Hackney Empire, with jazz and hip hop artist Soweto Kinch providing live music and fellow Mercury prize nominee Nitin Sawhney will score The Lodger: A Tale Of The London Fog.
After performing a live saxophone solo over a clip from The Ring, Kinch said: "The dance sequences in this film have travelled really well with time. There's a particular beat and a tempo that means I'll be able to twin the old with the new."
Film critic and chairman of the London Film Critics' Circle Jason Solomons said of the Hitchcock retrospective: "What strikes me is the modernity of the project. We're seeing him now as a cool indie British film-maker."
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He added: "Music is the first step to reframing how we see cinema. There are different strains of world music and it proves that his films belong to all of us."
Both The Ring and Champagne will be screened live on The Space - a digital arts service
which has been developed by Arts Council England in partnership with the BBC and BFI.
Ruth Mackenzie, director of the London 2012 Festival, told the BBC: "Alfred Hitchcock is one of the great artists of the 20th Century and like all great artists he makes us look at the world differently - and he makes his art form transform itself after his input."
The BFI on London's South Bank will also house an exhibition paying tribute to Hitchcock, who died aged 80 in 1980.
Over his career, spanning six decades, the director was nominated for five Oscars - but won just one honorary statuette, in 1968.
Protesters say the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will lower European standards on food and environmental protection, and could lead to outsourcing and job-losses.
Supporters of the deal say it promises to lower tariffs and promote growth.
The demonstrators were also protesting against a similar deal with Canada.
There were large crowds carrying flags and banners in seven German cities, including Berlin, Munich, Hamburg and Frankfurt, all braving cool and wet weather.
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"I want us to get rid of TTIP and for European social and environmental standards to be respected, maintained and improved," said Peter Clausing in Berlin.
Many demonstrators said the deal would lead to exploitation of people by businesses on both sides of the Atlantic.
"It will be the enterprises and banks that will have power over people worldwide", said Tobias Kuhn. "That is a no-go. People need to know that and we will protest until there's no chance of that happening anymore."
The EU and the US began negotiating the trade deal in 2013, aiming to create the world's biggest free trade market with 850 million consumers.
A new round of talks is due to start in October, and President Obama says he wants the deal to be concluded before he leaves office in January.
A similar but smaller trade deal between the EU and Canada, called the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA), is due to be signed in October.
The objective of the proposed TTIP deal is to remove or reduce barriers to commerce between the US and the EU. Negotiators are working towards eliminating most tariffs.
But the plans face opposition in Europe from citizens as well as some governments.
The French government has strongly opposed it, with President Francois Hollande casting doubt on when the deal would be reached.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel backs TTIP, but Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel last month said the talks on TTIP had "de facto failed".
Mr Gabriel, who is the chairman of the CDU's junior coalition partner, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) does support the CETA deal with Canada, which he sees as a counterweight to China's increasing economic power.
While supporters are used to seeing changes in playing personnel, this campaign feels like a significant step into the unknown with Swansea now in the hands of US owners.
The people's club is now owned by investors, though the supporters' trust has retained a 21.1% stake in the Swans and influential chairman Huw Jenkins remains in the role.
However, dreams that heavy investment from the new owners and increased television revenue would translate into a summer or recruitment have proved unfounded, with Swansea arguably selling as many key players as they have managed to sign.
The failure to 'bring home' former midfielder Joe Allen, will also rankle.
"I suppose we are all a little impatient, I guess even more so as we didn't bring in Joe Allen," coach Alan Curtis admitted after losing out on the Wales midfielder.
"I think there is a lot of frustration, with the supporters, but also with the players and maybe the board themselves."
The failure to sign Allen, who joined Stoke despite Swansea registering their interest, was not the only body blow they have suffered.
After eight-years and over 350 games, defender Ashley Williams has departed for Everton in a move the Swans say the Wales captain instigated.
Manager Francesco Guidolin also opted to allow a trio of strikers, Alberto Paloschi, Eder and Bafetimbi Gomis to leave the club, though it is the sale of Andre Ayew, Swansea's top scorer last term, that leaves the biggest dearth in terms of goals.
However, confidence will be high that Swansea have signed players who can provide the goals to more than make up for the absence of the Ghana forward.
Spanish international Fernando Llorente arrives with a pedigree as large as his six foot six inch frame, having excelled previously in both La Liga and Serie A.
He is joined by record signing Borja, the 23-year-old Atletico Madrid forward, who scored 18 La Liga goals on loan at Eibar last season.
Influential midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson will be charged with providing the ammunition for Swansea's Spanish contingent, with his new contract. signed amid serious interest from other Premier League clubs, perhaps Swansea's most significant off-season deal.
The additions of Netherlands duo Leroy Fer and Mike van der Hoorn also boost a club still seeking a replacement for Williams.
The Swans could be forgiven for feeling the fixture computer has conspired against them as they face an exceptionally tough start to the season.
While they will feel confident of their prospects in openers against Burnley and Hull City, two sides expected to be battling the drop, the Swans then face a succession of difficult contests against the Premier League's glitterati.
The Swans visit champions Leicester at the end of August before clashes with Chelsea, Southampton, Man City in September.
Clashes with Liverpool, Arsenal and a visit to Stoke follow in October, with Man United, Everton and Tottenham all in action against the Swans by the beginning of December.
A flying start will be extremely tricky, so Swansea need to ensure their Spanish revolution begins with a bang, not a siesta.
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The estimated eight-metre-long (26ft) snake was spotted Thursday under a fallen tree on the island of Penang.
It died on Sunday after laying eggs, Herme Herisyam, operations chief for Penang's Civil Defence Department's southwest district told the BBC.
The current record for longest snake ever caught is 7.67m (25ft), Guinness World Records says.
Medusa, a reticulated python weighing 158kg (24st 12lb), is kept at a haunted house in Kansas City, Missouri.
The Malaysian snake, also thought to be a reticulated python, has not been officially measured by record keepers.
Mr Herisyan said it weighed 250kg (39st 5lb) and took 30 minutes to rescue.
Another civil defence official said that the snake's capture and the attention it received likely compounded the stress of laying eggs.
Muhammad Aizat said the snake laid one egg, before going "quiet".
It was due to be transferred to the government's Department of Wildlife before it died.
The 33-year-old, who has 31 Scotland caps, came through Hibs' youth ranks before joining Rangers in 2007.
Hibs head coach Neil Lennon described the signing as a "coup" for the club promoted to the Premiership last term.
Whittaker told Hibs' website: "When I decided to return to Scotland, Hibs was the club I hoped to come to."
The Edinburgh-born defender fell out of favour under fellow Scot Alex Neil at Carrow Road last season as Norwich failed to make a swift return to the Premier League.
And he returns to the club with whom he won the Scottish League Cup in 2007.
"While the discussions have taken a while, they have always been positive and I am very pleased to be back playing at Easter Road for the Hibernian fans and I hope I can play my part in ensuring a successful return to the top flight," Whittaker added.
However, he will not be available for Saturday's opening League Cup game against Montrose on Saturday as he requires international clearance.
Lennon told BBC Scotalnd: "He is a player I admired for a long time, even playing against him when he was a young lad.
"We have got him at a very good age, he's still only 32, and he is very versatile.
"He adds to the experience and quality we have.
"The squad is still thin and the striking position is the priority now."
Meanwhile, Hibs face competition from clubs abroad if they wish to sign Wales striker Simon Church.
The 28-year-old has been on trial with the Easter Road club along with former Liverpool winger Jermaine Pennant.
Church is a free agent after a hip injury ruined his spell at Dutch Eredivisie club Roda last season and is considering offers from overseas clubs.
He spent half a season on loan at Hibs' Premiership rivals Aberdeen during the 2015-16 campaign.
Church, previously with Reading and Charlton Athletic, scored six goals in 13 starts for the Pittodrie outfit but was released on his return to MK Dons and subsequently made only four starts for Roda.
Pennant, 34, who has also been on the books of Arsenal, Birmingham City, Real Zaragoza and Stoke City, ended last season on a short-term contract with English League One outfit Bury, making seven appearances.
The 24-year-old had to have three operations after injuring his ankle during England's 3-2 win over Germany in a friendly last March.
Butland played the full 90 minutes against the Seagulls, who won 2-0.
"Really comfortable being back out there," he tweeted.
"So happy to be back on the pitch again."
Lee Grant has been deputising for Butland in the Stoke first team this season, keeping nine clean sheets in his 29 appearances.
The Australian, 27, suffered a heart attack after a Super League game against Leeds Rhinos at Manchester City's Etihad Stadium in May.
Purtell, who joined the Bulls from Penrith Panthers in 2011, underwent heart tests in London this week.
"I didn't know what to expect really and I was in shock when the specialist gave me the news," Purtell said.
"It didn't really sink in until I was on the train coming home but I am obviously delighted.
"I felt myself that I'd be OK because I have been doing some training and felt good, but I am not a medical person so it was pretty awesome to get that news from such an eminent specialist."
Purtell, who is 12 months into a three-year contract with the Bulls, felt unwell on the coach after the 37-22 defeat in Manchester and was taken to Leeds General Infirmary.
"Last year was a tough one for the Bulls but the boys all bonded together and stuck by me and the club has been absolutely tremendous throughout," he added.
"I am just looking forward now to getting back into full-time training and playing games with my mates. That's what I want to do most of all."
Bradford coach Francis Cummins said: "It's great for us because we have got one of our star players back.
"But for Adrian it's an amazing piece of news because we weren't even sure whether he would be able to live a normal life, let alone play again."
Domingo's owners Paola Albertazzi and Richard Haggerty of Eryrys, near Mold, regularly carry out local litter picks and bring their pet llama along to help out.
He has a bespoke harness to carry rubbish more easily.
Now Domingo is now the official mascot for Keep Wales Tidy's Spring Clean Cymru campaign.
The pair got Domingo in 2009 to be a companion for one of their horses - and said he is now part of the furniture.
"I have always gone out litter picking and I noticed that having Domingo with me makes people take a bit more notice," Paola told the BBC's Post Cyntaf programme.
"And of course, he loves the attention."
Community groups, schools and businesses are being encouraged to take part in the campaign, which runs from 1 to 5 March.
Right-back Neal Eardley, 28, and midfielders Paul Anderson, 28, and 21-year-old Emmanuel Sonupe are also leaving the club.
Diamond's fellow centre-back Gabriel Zakuani has been offered a new contract but four others have been transfer listed.
They are Jak McCourt, Harry Beautyman, Raheem Hanley and Rod McDonald.
Centre-back Diamond, 32, and Smith, 24, were both part of the side that won the 2015-16 League Two title.
Smith, who played 40 of Northampton's 46 games as they finished 16th in League One this term, pre-empted the club's official announcement by taking to Twitter to inform supporters he would be leaving.
"I will be moving on next season," Smith tweeted. "I have grown as a goalkeeper and as a person whilst being at this great club."
The 47-year-old Italian replaces Luciano Spalletti, who resigned at the end of the season and has since been appointed Inter Milan boss.
"It was like coming home after many years," said Di Francesco, who helped Roma win Serie A in 2000-01.
"There's a desire to achieve something big and build a team that entertains."
Di Francesco led Sassuolo to promotion to Serie A in 2013 and steered them to 12th spot in 2016-17.
Roma, who have signed Mexico defender Hector Moreno from PSV Eindhoven, finished runners-up last season and will play in the Champions League in 2017-18.
A major search is continuing for James Corfield, 19, who has not been seen since he left the White Horse pub in Builth Wells, Powys, in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
He had been due to meet family at the showground where he was camping with friends but never arrived.
His mother Louise Corfield said they were "desperate to know where he is".
She said at a press conference on Thursday: "This is totally out of character for James.
"He is so passionate about his farm animals and he hasn't come home to them.
"He would never leave them unattended, which makes us even more worried about where he is.
"James is a gifted cricket player and is due to play cricket this Saturday and his team Montgomery Cricket Club need him home for this.
"We're grateful for the many volunteers who are helping to search for him but we still can't find him and need your help. Where is he?
"We love you James."
Mountain rescue teams with kayaks and boats resumed their search of the River Wye at 08:00 BST on Thursday but were stood down at about 20:30.
Mark Jones, of Brecon Mountain Rescue Service, said gardens, sheds and grass verges were being searched.
Police dogs, officials from young farmers' clubs and the fire service's rescue boat are also involved in the operation.
Dyfed-Powys Police said about 200 volunteers were helping with the search.
Visitors to the Royal Welsh Show were being asked over tannoy announcements to contact the police if they had any information on his whereabouts.
On Wednesday, his aunt Gill Corfield said the family were "beside themselves".
Supt Huw Meredith, of Dyfed-Powys Police, said the force was growing "increasingly concerned".
Mr Corfield is 6ft 2in tall, of slim build, with short brown hair and was last seen wearing a blue Abercrombie and Fitch shirt and jeans.
Crews stopped the bonfire spreading to the apartment near Sandy Row but the building's windows cracked.
Bonfires are traditionally lit in loyalist areas on 11 July, marking the Twelfth of July commemorations.
About 30 residents attended the meeting on Thursday to discuss who will pay for repairs.
Politicians and a representative from the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) also attended the meeting.
The Housing Executive confirmed in a statement that it owns the land where the bonfire was built.
"We cannot comment any further at this time as we will fully investigate this matter," it added.
There is currently a degree of uncertainty amongst residents as to who will pay to fix the damage.
One female resident told the BBC the damage was extensive and she felt parts of the building were still "unsafe".
"Most of the residents living on the side of the building facing the bonfire have experienced cracked or shattered windows, melted windowsills and a lot of smoke damage to their balconies.
"We still don't really know who foots the bill for this.
"For 11 months of the year I am not scared to live here. Sandy Row can have a fantastic community atmosphere, but unfortunately, for a couple of weeks in July it isn't great.
"We just want it to be safe - we don't want people sitting in their homes fearing for their lives and staying awake to make sure their children are safe.
"Maybe it means moving the bonfire further away, making it lower and more stable, we would be fine with that," she said.
"The NIFRS were incredible. They were here until it was safe for them to leave," she added.
One male resident who attended the meeting told the BBC that residents in the building were "victims".
"No-one here is saying the bonfire has to go. We aren't attacking anyone's culture.
"Culture doesn't have to damage peoples' homes. It doesn't have to crack windows in children bedrooms. This is a mixed community," he said.
The NIFRS Area Commander Aidan Jennings said he had attended the meeting to talk to the residents about the Fire Service response on the evening.
"We had a technical plan for this building and on the night we had fire crews who were quickly in attendance," he said.
"Our position is that no fire is safe. The agencies work closely together - it was a difficult evening for our crews and I praise their actions on the night.
"Our deployment to the scene prevented fire spreading to the building".
Green Party MLA for South Belfast Clare Bailey told the BBC the residents she had spoken to were "fearful".
"Year-on-year they face this happening to their building. Every year the windows are cracked.
"Who's going to pay for this and who's going to take responsibility for this? If this is an annual occurrence, we need to know".
Alliance councillor Emmet McDonough Brown told the BBC he believed one solution could be to "reduce the height" of the bonfire and potentially move its location.
"We need to look again at the multi-agency approach. You couldn't have been in the room tonight and not felt the sense of fear that residents felt. We don't want this to be groundhog day."
Sinn Féin councillor Deirdre Hargey was also among those who attended the meeting.
"There is fear amongst the residents, fear that their building will be targeted further and I think there is anger this was allowed to happen," she told the BBC.
"They are just astonished this was allowed to happen. Those who lit the fire are ultimately responsible for what happened," she added.
Politicians who attended the meeting said they were trying to find out who is responsible for paying for repairs.
Button and team-mate Sergio Perez were trying revised bodywork in Friday practice at the Spanish Grand Prix.
Button said: "It's going to be quite a big gap to the front. There are some areas we need to work on.
"Everyone is improving so you need to make a bigger step than them and I don't think we've done that."
Button was 12th fastest in the second session, about 1.5 seconds off the pace-setting Red Bull of world champion Sebastian Vettel.
Perez was 13th, half a second slower than his team-mate.
McLaren revealed on Wednesday that the team had been afflicted by a problem that meant the car was not responding on the track in the way simulations in the wind tunnel suggested it should.
Button said the team had established that this was "much better" but added: "We still need more. Everyone always wants more performance and that's what we're working on now."
He said: "It's great we are able to get some parts on the car. There are some positives with the balance but also some areas that are not as good as I'd hoped, areas I didn't think we'd have to work on."
Perez also tried a new front wing, but he said that he was unable to draw immediate conclusions about its effectiveness because he ran a different set of tyres with it.
The Mexican admitted that McLaren no longer had any chance of battling for the championship.
"At the moment it is not realistic to think we are going to be fighting for the title," Perez said. "It is the fifth race and we are two seconds off the pace. We are in a similar situation to three weeks ago so points is the target."
Jamie Lee Sharp, 25, took the keys during a house raid in Gloucester along with James Honeywell, 26.
In the video he is seen revving the engine and boasting to friends on the phone about "his new car".
At Gloucester Crown Court, Sharp, of Gloucester, was jailed for four years and disqualified from driving.
Honeywell was jailed for 35 months.
The pair had broken into a house in the Longlevens area of Gloucester on 11 January and along with the car keys, stole a television, a wallet and several other items, the court heard.
After leaving, Sharp filmed himself just before he crashed into a wall in nearby Barnwood Road.
In the aftermath, Honeywell ran off leaving Sharp trapped.
Sharp, previously of Deans Way, Gloucester, pleaded guilty to burglary, aggravated vehicle taking, driving whilst disqualified, drink-driving and driving without insurance.
He was jailed for four years and disqualified from driving for 29 months, in June.
Honeywell, of Elmleaze, Longlevens, Gloucester, was jailed on Monday for 35 months after admitting burglary and aggravated vehicle taking.
He had failed to attend court on 19 November for sentencing and a warrant for his arrest was issued.
A woman was seriously injured in the hit and run in Humberstone Gate, Leicester, shortly before 17:00 GMT, police said.
Eyewitnesses told the BBC they saw a car with a smashed windscreen being driven "erratically" after the crash.
Others said the car appeared to have been deliberately driven at the group of pedestrians.
Liam Mahoney said he had to move out of the way for "a screeching car" travelling the wrong way down Halford Street.
"It mounted the kerb at speed, went along Halford Street, collided with two vans, carried on at speed, and then turned along Granby Street and we heard a lot of commotion," he said.
Company director, Dr Beejay Bhatt, 36, said he saw a car come "barrelling down the road" and mount a pavement before sending a woman "flying".
He said a teenager was then launched into the door of a fast food outlet and "bounced" off, with emergency services arriving minutes later.
"It was pandemonium," he said.
"Hundreds of people started crowding and the police had to put up this tape. It was like ten pin bowling."
Another eyewitness said: "I was on the side where the car drove over people. I was scared. I only just got out of the way.
"Everyone was just scurrying everywhere, like they didn't know what to do. There was quite a lot [of panic]."
A black car was found abandoned in nearby Bishop Street.
Ch Insp Dan Pedley, of Leicestershire Police, said: "There is considerable police activity in the area and roads are closed as a result of this incident which will understandably cause concern among residents and inconvenience to motorists.
"The investigation is in the early stages and officers are working to establish the exact circumstances surrounding this incident."
Police have said Humberstone Gate is currently closed, from its junction with Charles Street to its junction with Wharf Street South. Yeoman Street is also closed.
Diversions are in place and motorists have been advised to find alternative routes, the force said.
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Steve Shingler's two penalties sent the Blues in with a three-point lead at the break while they went ahead when Aled Summerhill scored the game's first try.
Francis Saili touched down as the visitors rallied late on, with Rory Scannell kicking a drop goal.
Conor Oliver crossed for the visitors late on to seal victory.
The defeat means Cardiff Blues' hopes of a top six finish suffered a blow as they remain in eighth in the Pro12.
Munster move up to second thanks to the win and are now a point behind Ospreys, with Leinster still to play Scarlets on Saturday.
The hosts' task could have been made much harder when Willis Halaholo was sin-binned for a high tackle on Andrew Conway just after the break, but Summerhill crossed moments later.
With Wales retaining their Six Nations players in hooker Kristian Dacey and wing Alex Cuthbert, Matthew Rees and Summerhill stepped up with the latter making an impact in the second half.
Cardiff Blues: Matthew Morgan; Aled Summerhill, Willis Halaholo, Steven Shingler, Tom James; Gareth Anscombe, Lloyd Williams (capt); Corey Domachowski, Matthew Rees, Anton Peikrishvili, George Earle, Jarrad Hoeata, Macauley Cook, Josh Navidi, Nick Williams.
Replacements: Kirby Myhill, Marc Thomas, Taufa'ao Filise, James Down, Sion Bennett, Tomos Williams, Garyn Smith, Rhun Williams.
Munster: Andrew Conway; Darren Sweetnam, Jaco Taute, Rory Scannell, Ronan O'Mahony; Ian Keatley, Duncan Williams; Dave Kilcoyne, Rhys Marshall, Stephen Archer, Darren O'Shea, Billy Holland (capt), Dave O'Callaghan, Tommy O'Donnell, Robin Copeland.
Replacements: Kevin O'Byrne, Peter McCabe, Brian Scott, Fineen Wycherley, Conor Oliver, Abrie Griesel, Dan Goggin, Francis Saili.
Referee: Mike Adamson (Scotland)
Assistant referees: Emanuele Tomo (Italy), Jon Hardy (Wales)
TMO: Jim Yuille (Scotland)
Arthur Heeler-Frood, 15, of Axminster, Devon, failed to arrive at school on 6 September and has not been seen since.
His mother Caroline said she and his father, Jeremy, were missing him "terribly".
She said: "We don't know that you are safe or what situation you're in. I don't think you realise how hard it is for us. Please make contact."
Devon and Cornwall Police has urged anyone with information to get in touch.
Supt Sam de Reya said: "We are appealing to business owners, likely to be restaurateurs, hoteliers and cafe owners, who may have had a young man work for them in the last four to five weeks or anyone who may have provided accommodation to him in that time period."
Arthur is described as white, 5ft 4ins-tall, of slight build with short, light brown hair which may be short or shaven.
For many in Kiev, to be patriotic is to be cool.
White-and-black T-shirts with the Ukrainian trident, a national symbol, are commonplace in hipster bars and shopping malls.
Vyshyvankas, a usually white shirt or dress with a traditional floral pattern, are also in fashion.
Ukrainian blue-and-yellow flags are commonplace on the dashboards of vehicles.
And all of the above are particularly easy to spot now, as the country marks a quarter of a century of independence from the Soviet Union.
But what does it mean to be Ukrainian in 2016?
Journalist and civil rights activist Maxim Eristavi believes what Ukraine calls its "Maidan Revolution" sparked an "unprecedented quest" among many Ukrainians as they tried to fathom an answer to that question.
For Mr Eristavi, it is not about language or ethnicity.
He hopes Ukraine can forge an identity based on common "values", embracing the diversity of nationalities and ethnicities that live in the country.
Inevitably, Ukrainian attitudes have, to a large extent, been shaped by recent events in the country's history:
And at a Ukrainian scout summer camp for teenagers on a Sun-soaked tiny island surrounded either side by two prongs of the vast Dnipro river, north of Kiev, what it means to be Ukrainian is predominantly about the "I-word": independence.
Ukraine might have declared its independence on the 24 August 1991, but in the face of a resurgent Russia on the world stage, under President Vladimir Putin, many Ukrainians believe the country is again fighting to defend its sovereignty today.
Population 44.9 million
Area 603,700 sq km (233,090 sq miles)
Major languages Ukrainian (official), Russian
Major religion Christianity
Life expectancy 64 years (men), 75 years (women)
Currency hryvnya
Olla, 21, says when she travels abroad she is happy to tell people that "Ukraine is not Russia".
"It is a country with its [own] history and mentality," she says with a wide smile.
For the captain of the scout camp, Ludmilla Dobrynina, being Ukrainian is "being proud" of her friends who have been killed in the war in the east of the country.
Several young Ukrainian scouts spoke of their sense of duty in the face of adversity, and of belonging to a wider cause.
While Ukraine's political class has been criticised at home and abroad over the depth and speed of its programme for change, Ukraine's civil society has been a beacon of hope for those who hope to truly change the country.
For Marina Shlyonska, the finance manager at a top Kiev hotel, the energy and drive of volunteer movements mean Ukraine has a bright future.
"To be Ukrainian is [to be] independent, self-confident and free," she says.
But for all the optimism of younger generations, some believe Ukraine is not on the right path.
Mikhail Pogrebinskiy, a political analyst and ex-adviser to former President Leonid Kuchma (in office from 1994-2005), says Ukraine's current elite has an unhealthy obsession with distancing the country from Russia.
"The main foundation [of Ukrainian identity]," he says, is "I'm not Russian".
He says this mentality has damaged the economy, and serves to create tension within areas of the country where people still have a strong affinity with Russia.
A recent poll, carried out by Mr Pogrebinskiy's organisation, the Kiev Centre of Political Research and Conflict Studies, found 25% of respondents favoured a union with Russia and Belarus.
The survey of 1,802 people was carried out across Ukraine but - crucially - not in Crimea or the eastern Donbass region, which borders Russia.
Here lies Ukraine's most intractable problem: reconciling its long-standing cultural and economic relationship with Russia after Moscow seized Crimea and - according to plenty of credible evidence - has been directly involved in the war in Ukraine's east. Although, Russia denies direct involvement.
Mr Eristavi says the "biggest danger" when it comes to shaping Ukraine's post-2014 national identity, is if Ukrainians simply paint themselves "as some anti-version of Russians".
He believes that Ukraine has to search for "more positive definitions" of what it means to be Ukrainian.
Twenty five years after independence, the process of shaping and defining Ukrainian identity goes on.
The Moroccan international full-back made 23 appearances and scored once since joining Hearts last summer.
His last match for the club was in a 2-0 defeat by Partick Thistle in February.
Rherras played for Morocco at the Africa Cup of Nations but was an unused substitute in their three Group C matches and in their quarter-final defeat by Egypt.
Anglesey council's executive committee decided to close Llangefni Golf Course in January citing annual losses.
But on Tuesday the council agreed in principle to transfer the management to a local social enterprise group.
The council said it would now enter into "detailed negotiations" for Partneriaeth Llangefni to manage the facility until April 2017.
The 23-year-old world number 69 will now play 20th seed Sloane Stephens of the United States.
In the men's event, British number three Kyle Edmund will face world number one Novak Djokovic after beating Czech Jiri Vesely 6-4 5-7 7-6 (8-6).
Watson won her third WTA Tour title in Monterrey earlier this month.
"I'm very happy with today," she told BBC Sport. "I don't think my opponent was at her best.
"It will definitely be a tough next round against Sloane. We've known each other a very long time and she's a great player, a great all-round athlete."
Edmund, 21, held his nerve in a gruelling two-and-a-half hour contest, eventually sealing victory on his fourth match point.
"I knew I needed to hit out, don't go within myself," he said. "It was important not to get down on myself, otherwise it would have cost me."
The world number 82 will now take on top seed Djokovic for the first time, although he did practice with the Serb at Wimbledon a few years ago.
"I'm very excited," said Edmund. "It will be a tough match, he's obviously the guy to beat at the moment. It will be a great experience just to see where my game is at."
The Daily Telegraph described a "culture of bullying", with workers subjected to abuse and harassment.
The GMB described the trust managers as "unaccountable" and called on Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to step in.
Secamb said the news report covered "historic allegations", most of which had been dealt with.
The news report, based on a dossier of documents, claims two 999 call handlers attempted suicide and a third considered crashing her car to escape abuse.
Several workers claimed they were under such pressure they could not concentrate on emergency calls at the operations centre in Coxheath, Kent.
GMB Southern region secretary Paul Maloney said he welcomed the newspaper's investigation but called for it to be followed up with a "clear-out" of the alleged culprits.
Regional organiser Gary Palmer said: "Workplace bullying is bad enough at any time, but the scale and intensity of the bullying endured by staff at Coxheath is shocking."
A spokesman for Secamb said: "The article in The Telegraph covers a range of historic allegations, most of which have been investigated and dealt with.
"Others are unsubstantiated, with no evidence to support them.
"We take the issue of bullying and harassment very seriously and have been working hard to address this area of concern."
He said the issue had been highlighted by the Care Quality Commission and work included "improving internal avenues for serious concerns to be raised" and structured support for staff.
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.
The American, whose last fight was a points victory over Andre Berto, said he will be doing his "homework" on McGregor, a two-weight world champion in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
"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."
Britain's Nathan Cleverly will feature on the undercard of the Mayweather-McGregor bout, as the 30-year-old Welshman will aim to make the first defence of his WBA light-heavyweight title against Sweden's Badou Jack.
"Helder's my boy," said Shi. "I don't want to let him go.
"Especially this season, he cannot go, as he is so important to the squad.
"There is strong interest from other clubs but my job is to keep him. It's very important for him to go to the Premier League, but together with us."
Costa was Wolves' first signing following their takeover by Chinese group Fosun when he signed from Benfica last summer, initially on loan.
He then became their record signing when he joined on a more permanent basis in January, completing a £13m move and signing a four-and-a-half-year deal.
"The first job was for him to come here," added Shi. "If I want to have a good career with Wolves, then that is bound up with Helder very tightly. Why should he go? I have to keep him."
On the back of the club's best season-ticket sales since relegation from the Premier League in 2012, fuelled by three new signings - Ryan Bennett, Roderick Miranda and Phil Ofosu-Ayeh - Shi promises further investment in new players for new head coach Nuno to work with.
"Money is not a problem," he added. "The only tricky thing is Financial Fair Play. I am not a supporter of that, but we have to think about it.
"The important thing is getting the quality. We need strong players. The goal for the season is only about promotion. We will focus only on this season. We will not think too much about the long-term future."
Interview with Jeff Shi recorded for BBC Sport by Wolves TV.
The Arches board said there was "no other choice" after Glasgow Licensing Board's decision hit revenue by over 50%, making the business "untenable".
The licensing board imposed a midnight closing time after police complaints about drug and alcohol incidents.
The move was opposed by almost 40,000 people in an online petition and 400 arts figures in a letter of protest.
A statement from the Arches said: "Following a meeting of The Arches board of directors, and having taken due legal advice, the decision was taken today to start the process of appointing administrators for both Arches Theatre and Arches Retail Company Limited.
"This follows last month's decision by the Glasgow Licensing Board to curtail the licensed hours of the leading multi-arts venue, effectively preventing the organisation from continuing its very successful and popular programme of club nights.
"Without the income generated by this strand of activity, which generated over 50% of the companies' annual turnover, The Arches' business model is untenable."
The nightclub's licence was restricted to midnight by the licensing board. It had previously been allowed to stay open until 03:00.
Gordon Kennedy, chairman of the board of directors, said the decision was taken with "deep regret", but said they had been left with "no other choice".
Mr Kennedy also thanked those who had supported the campaign to reinstate the venue's licence, and said he had been "humbled by the hundreds of artists and industry professionals from all disciplines who have lent their signature and their voice to the cause".
He continued: "Our hope is that the administrators, working with partners and stakeholders, can salvage some of the activities for which The Arches is renowned."
The company's executive director Mark Anderson added: "We would like to gratefully acknowledge the invaluable contributions made by all staff, board, artists and partners over the years.
"We offer heartfelt thanks to our loyal customers who supported us throughout the years and were instrumental in making The Arches the iconic venue that it will always remain."
A Glasgow City Council spokesman said: "We have been working with the Arches and other funders for some time to develop a sustainable model to provide a long term financial solution for the Arches to continue to operate.
"We remain committed to trying to identify opportunities for their work to go on."
Meanwhile a spokesman for Glasgow City Council's licensing board said the decision had come following evidence of "over 200 drug-related incidents detailed at the most recent hearing, as well as numerous call-outs to the ambulance service, which often related to people in life threatening situations".
A statement from the board said: "The continued operation of the Arches' late-hours licence threatened public safety, created a risk of crime and endangered the health of individuals.
"Unfortunately the conditions the Arches agreed to following the death of one of their customers did not curtail problems at the venue and the board had no option but to take further action.
"The financial situation of a premises can never be a factor in the decision making process of the board."
Chief Supt Andy Bates, Police Scotland's divisional commander for Greater Glasgow, said: "Our primary role was to protect and ensure public safety and in our view the frequency and volume of incidents that were occurring at the Arches nightclub would have resulted in fatal consequences had we not acted.
"We remain committed to supporting and working with the licensing industry across Glasgow and Scotland to ensure a safe environment for the public."
On its website, the company said that all events scheduled at the Arches from Wednesday onwards would now be cancelled.
Scottish Green MSP Patrick Harvie said the loss of the venue was "entirely avoidable".
"I'm disappointed that the city council decided to force The Arches into this position, and I'm surprised that despite the wave of public support not one other Glasgow MSP saw fit to support my call for a rethink.
"It remains open to Glasgow, to the Scottish government, and to the arts community to try and find a new life for this important venue."
Last month, more than 400 cultural figures - including Makar Liz Lochhead, novelist Irvine Welsh and members of Mogwai, Belle & Sebastian and Franz Ferdinand - signed a letter criticising the licensing board's decision.
The letter stated: "The Arches' importance to the future of the cultural life of Scotland cannot be overstated, and yet this latest decision leaves it in an extremely compromised situation, the cultural ramifications of which are huge."
The online petition, which reached 39,239 signatures, claimed the loss of the nightclub licence would endanger the city's arts scene and economy. It also accused the police of "harassment".
Shortly after the news was announced "The Arches" began trending on twitter.
The Arches thanked Glasgow City Council for their support over the years tweeting: "THANK YOU @CreativeScots @GlasgowCC, all our staff & artists, and all of YOU for 25 years of support. #TeamArches"
Underground house DJ Bontan, who had previously headlined at the Arches, tweeted: "Absolutely gutted about The Arches. Ran by some of the soundest people you're likely to meet & an amazing venue."
The giant Menorah in St Andrew Square is one of more than 20,000 to light up city centres around the world.
Organisers said the Menorah symbolises a universal message of religious freedom.
It will be lit at 18:30 in Edinburgh. It will be followed by a reception at the Royal bank of Scotland with the Lord Provost of Edinburgh.
There will be live music, dancing, doughnuts, latkes, and traditional Hanukkah foods.
Rabbi Pinny Weinman, of Chabad Lubavitch of Edinburgh, said: "The eternal message of the Menorah lights has attained particular significance in light of current world events where the forces of oppression and darkness are ever-present.
"As we experience additional countries and entire regions being freed of their oppressors, we relive the experience of Hanukkah in our very own times.
"It is the story of a little light pushing away an empire of darkness, human sensibility defying terror and brute force, life and growth overcoming destruction."
The Robin CEA DR400 suffered propeller damage during the crash 14 miles (23km) from Gloucestershire Airport just before 16:00 BST on 15 April.
An Air Accidents Investigation Branch report said there was insufficient fuel despite initial checks suggesting otherwise.
It said it was in the air about 10 minutes when the engine stopped.
None of the three people on board was injured.
Hundreds of fans packed out Islington's Grade I-listed Union Chapel to pay homage to the 69-year-old musician who died of cancer on 10 January.
The service saw an eclectic mix of artists, including the Magic Numbers and ex-Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock, perform the star's music.
Bowie's death was confirmed two days after he released his album Blackstar.
Since then, tribute concerts have taken place around the globe and scores of his hits have re-entered the UK charts.
Fans filled the small north London chapel as Bowie's best-known tunes, played by an organ, echoed around the hall.
A huge screen showed images of the star in his many guises, before the part gig, part remembrance service kicked off with a rousing mass sing-along of Starman.
Maggi Ronson, sister of late Bowie guitarist and collaborator Mick Ronson, was joined by The Featherz to sing Ziggy Stardust, paying tribute to Bowie's "massive influence".
Guy Pratt, a former bass player for Pink Floyd and Roxy Music, told the audience that Bowie was the "greatest artist I've known in my lifetime", before performing Life on Mars with members of The Feeling.
The gig, streamed live on YouTube, saw a marathon five hours of Bowie's hits performed, interspersed with clips of the star's interviews and music videos, and readings and tributes by journalists, authors and those who worked with him.
There were Bowie-esque quirky moments too, as Where Are We Now? was performed on a saw and Wild Is the Wind was strummed on the harp.
Flowers and candles adorned the dimly-lit, smoky hall, which is a working church and music and comedy venue.
At the back, a wall of remembrance saw fans, many sporting Bowie's trademark Aladdin Sane lightning bolt, post personal tributes and messages.
One said: "Thank you for giving my son the freedom to be himself." Another: "RIP David, the soundtrack to my life."
One read: "You left amazing music with us forever and you will always be remembered."
Comedian David Baddiel told the audience: "I assumed Bowie was immortal. I thought he was a space god who had come to live amongst us. And I couldn't process that he had died...
"He is, was, the greatest tunesmith we have."
Organisers said the event was a chance for those who were "inspired, influenced or touched" by Bowie's work to pay tribute.
One, Neil Lindsay, said it was "for fans by fans".
"He's been around all our lives but he's still as relevant and interesting now. You can't say that about all artists who become legends," said Mr Lindsay.
"He was still innovating even in the way he said goodbye."
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In a BBC interview, he refused to be drawn on his preferred leadership candidate but said it was "essential that the correct leader emerged".
He also called for "a genuine debate" about the party's direction.
Yvette Cooper, Liz Kendall, Mary Creagh and Andy Burnham are in the race to be named Ed Miliband's successor.
Since Labour's election defeat, the party leadership contenders, MPs and union leaders have been trying to work out where the party went wrong.
Jon Cruddas - who wrote the election manifesto and is now leading a review into the defeat - said Labour was facing arguably the greatest crisis in its history.
Labour lost because it focused on "micro policies" and now needed to fundamentally rethink who it was for and what it represented, he said.
Mr McCluskey told BBC Radio 5 live's Pienaar's Politics Labour had to demonstrate it was "the voice of ordinary working people" and "organised Labour".
"If they do that in a way that enthuses us, then I don't believe that the mountain that is ahead of us is un-climbable.
"But it's up to them. If they don't, if they kind of inject more disillusionment in the party then the pressure will grow from our members to rethink. It's certainly already growing in Scotland," he added.
The Unite leader denied that Mr Burnham was his favoured candidate, and said Labour-affiliated trade unions would organise a hustings where all the candidates could make their case.
In the interview, Mr McCluskey also said the left needed to "challenge" UKIP, and he said there should be a debate on the free movement of labour.
The struggle over Labour's future direction is now focused on its links with the unions.
In a passionate speech on Saturday, the party's outgoing leader in Scotland, Jim Murphy, denounced what he called the destructive behaviour of the leader of Britain's biggest union, Len McCluskey.
On Sunday the frontrunner in the leadership contest, Andy Burnham, struck a very different tone.
"I've been speaking to Len," he said, though he stressed he was also talking to business leaders and others as he musters support for his campaign.
Mr Burnham and his team have been trying to shrug off suggestions that he is the "union candidate", saying he wants to unify the party.
Read more from Carole here.
His comments follow calls from Mr Burnham and Ms Creagh for an early referendum on UK membership of the EU.
Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to renegotiate a "better deal" for the UK and hold an "in-out" referendum by the end of 2017.
Mr Burnham told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show that he had been watching the changing public opinion and felt "a prolonged period of uncertainty" was "the worst of all worlds for business".
He said the vote should be brought forward to 2016, adding he wanted to make the pro-European case, but said it was only winnable if there was a credible package of immigration reforms.
The shadow health secretary added that if Mr Cameron did not deliver on reforms "we'll be sleepwalking to exit" from the EU.
He said he supported free movement of people but not the freedom to claim benefits. Labour needed to make that change, he said, and have an immigration policy people support.
Rival leadership candidate Mary Creagh said she thought the referendum was "throwing a long shadow over British jobs and British growth" and "if it's going to happen, it should "happen quickly".
The shadow international development secretary also told the BBC's Sunday Politics programme that Labour's proposed "mansion" tax on properties worth more than £2m should be dropped.
"It alienated a whole bunch of people - it said that we are against them getting on and doing well."
She added that the party needed to look again at its policies and make sure they "reach out of people who get on, want to earn money and want to do well for their families".
On the state of the party, Mr Burnham said he did not accept it was "ground zero", but Labour had lost its "emotional connection" with millions of people and needed to re-establish its reputation on the economy.
The last Labour government was "not profligate" but "we did let the deficit get too large", he added.
He said Rachel Reeves, shadow secretary for work and pensions, and "one of the best brains in the party", was helping him to come up with a pro-business, fiscally- responsible approach.
Mr Burnham said he had spoken to Mr McCluskey since the election. Ms Creagh refused to be drawn on her view of Unite's role in Labour's leadership election, which will be decided using the one member, one vote system.
In his BBC interview, Mr McCluskey also hit back at claims made by outgoing Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy that he was the "kiss of death" for the party.
Mr Murphy had used him as a "bogeyman", adding that the majority of Unite members in Scotland voted for the SNP.
Labour lost all but one seat in Scotland, as the SNP swept up 56 of its 59 seats.
The musician's ex-partner Pardeep Sall bombarded her with phone calls and texts, and even entered her flat, after refusing to accept their break up.
Stalking is a "personal terrorism" that left her fearing for her safety and forced her parents to move house, she told the Victoria Derbyshire programme.
Sall was convicted of stalking in May.
He was given a 12-week suspended prison sentence and an indefinite restraining order. He denies the offences, and is appealing the conviction.
Shoniwa, whose band had a hit with Don't Upset the Rhythm (Go Baby Go) in 2009, made the decision to speak publicly to highlight a call by MPs and campaigners for the maximum stalking prison sentences to be doubled from five to 10 years.
Her own experience of stalking, which began last year, was a "terrorising campaign" that was like being "killed from the inside out slowly", she said.
"It's literally like murder in slow motion. It's a sinister kind of personal terrorism that should not be tolerated," she said.
"It's nothing that I would wish upon anybody.
"The perpetrator involved in my case used to brag about having ruined other people's lives before, and that's when I saw warning signs.
"He would go around bragging that he was above the law and it was really exciting to damage people and try to play this psychological game that doesn't just affect them, but extends to their families and dozens of people around them."
The "ricochet effect" of the harassment left her constantly worried about the safety of her friends and family, Shoniwa said.
The judge who sentenced Shoniwa's stalker said he had been "in the grips of a very powerful obsession", according to reports.
You should contact the police if you're being stalked - you have a right to feel safe in your home and workplace. Call 999 if you or someone else is in immediate danger, otherwise contact your local police.
Shoniwa is backing the call for stalking offence sentences to be increased, and is also campaigning for a register of convicted stalkers, similar to the sex offenders register.
Conservative MP Alex Chalk, who is leading a group of MPs lobbying Parliament for increased sentences, said stalking could be "the gateway to serious violence", but was treated as a minor offence.
"If you compare it with other offences, for example burglary, another violating offence, has a maximum sentence of 14 years," he said.
"And yet five years for stalking, it just doesn't bear any comparison.
"The fact is the law still treats it as a minor offence. The judge has got to have powers to protect the victim, and they just don't have them at the moment."
It is the latest attack in the drought-stricken Laikipia region by suspected herders, who have been invading private property in search of fresh grazing.
There were no visitors staying at the Mukutan Retreat at the time of the attack, according to local reports.
The attack may have been retaliation for a police operation, reports said.
Earlier this week, police reportedly shot dead about 100 cattle in the surrounding Laikipia Nature Conservancy, which is owned by Ms Gallmann.
Ms Gallmann, who is best known internationally for her memoir I Dreamed of Africa, has not commented.
Her daughter, Sveva Gallmann, also a conservationist, described being caught up in the attack:
"Our operations buildings and our house came under direct gunfire from armed men," Reuters news agency quoted her as saying in a statement.
"My nine-month-old daughter was in the house with her carers and I was shot at three times as I ran between the buildings to get to her."
Laikipia, which covers about 10,000 sq km in Kenya's central highlands, is where some of the country's largest white landowners are based.
Insecurity has risen sharply in recent months as a drought has led armed herders to seek out new pasture, pitting them against big landowners and smallholders.
Tens of thousands of cattle are thought to have been driven onto private land and at least a dozen people have been killed.
British rancher Tristan Voorspuy, who also ran a safari company, was shot dead in early March while inspecting his lodges in Laikipia.
Hundreds of herders have been detained as part of police operations, and the authorities have accused some local politicians of using racially charged language and inciting locals to occupy private property illegally, ahead of general elections due in August.
The MP for Laikipia North, Matthew Lempurkel, was charged with incitement earlier this month.
An additional factor, some of the landowners say, is that there is now just too much livestock in the region, causing overgrazing and destruction of previously fertile land.
The BBC's Ferdinand Omondi in Nairobi says the pastoralists appear now to have resorted to a scorched earth policy in their battle for grazing.
As well as the attack on Ms Gallmann's lodge, they set about 4 sq km of the Laikipia Nature Conservancy on fire.
The herders accused police of trying to force them off the land by shooting their livestock. Police say the livestock were killed in crossfire with the herders, who were using the animals as shields.
The BBC's Alastair Leithead tried to approach herders last month to ask about their grievances, but was forced to retreat when they shot at him.
Ms Gallmann owns about 360 sq km in Laikipia, which is home to rare wildlife, birds and trees. Her organisation also runs community, education, arts and sports projects.
The Mukutan Retreat lodge is made up of four stone and wood cottages, perched on the edge of the Mukutan Gorge.
Visitors can pay more than $650 (£525) a night to stay there, according to travel websites.
Lauren Arbuckle's ex-fiance sued her after their relationship ended because of squabbles over wedding finances.
Devin Sherrington sued for the return of the ring and a $6,000 loan after the three-year relationship fell apart.
A Nova Scotia court found that although she ended the relationship, it was not her idea to break up so she did not have to return the gift.
Small claims adjudicator Gregg Knudsen said that since the 3.25 carat diamond ring was gifted on the condition the two would marry, the entire matter rested on who ended the engagement.
If Ms Arbuckle, a hairstylist and make-up artist, ended it, then she must relinquish the gift, he said. However, if Mr Sherrington, a personal trainer, broke it off, then the gift was rightfully hers.
The couple had been engaged for one year before deciding to call it quits because the two could not agree about how to pay for the wedding.
Ms Arbuckle wanted a lavish affair, while Mr Sherrington wanted something more cost-conscious.
He didn't believe his fiancee could afford her half of the wedding cost, the court heard, and feared he would get stuck paying for the whole bill.
He suggested postponing the wedding but she did not want to. Finally, she decided to end the relationship.
At first, Mr Sherrington told Ms Arbuckle she could keep the ring, text messages show. But later, he asked for it back, as well as money he says he loaned her for a trip to Mexico.
Ultimately, Mr Knudsen found that it was Mr Sherrington who called off the engagement, and so the ring rightfully belongs to Ms Arbuckle - although he also ruled that she had to pay him back about C$3,000 for the Mexico trip.
"I find the postponement was an indefinite postponement, sufficient to treat the engagement as over. Ms. Arbuckle may have ended the relationship but Mr. Sherrington ended the engagement," he said.
But Ms Arbuckle's victory is short-lived, as she has had to file for bankruptcy and all her assets - including the ring - are being held by a trustee.
Wenger's Arsenal side come up against Jose Mourinho's Manchester United on Sunday, battling to reach the Premier League's top four places.
Mourinho has questioned the desire of defenders Luke Shaw, Chris Smalling and Phil Jones to return from injury.
"You can do that in extreme situations but it has to be handled carefully," said French manager Wenger.
Portuguese boss Mourinho questioned full-back Shaw's commitment and focus to the club last month and then said the player used "his body with my brain" after the 1-1 draw against Everton two days later.
The former Chelsea manager was also unhappy with the "cautious" mentality of centre-backs Smalling and Jones for failing to play through pain during the Manchester derby.
Smalling has been struggling with a leg injury, while Jones suffered a toe problem in a training ground tackle made by his team-mate.
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This week, former Blackburn striker Chris Sutton said Mourinho was "humiliating" his players by querying their dedication to the Red Devils.
Wenger added: "Ideally you have to be careful with that because you cannot do that in every single game.
"You can do that in extreme situations but it has to be handled carefully because it just makes that stress level worse for them. Top players have a good and objective assessment. They know well where they stand.
"You cannot always say to the players 'we are all in the same boat and in this together to achieve something' and then you jump out of the boat and say, 'it's your fault now', but when it goes well you take the credit.
"You are in a position where you have to be part of it and fight for them when it doesn't go well, you have to control what you say."
United go into the game five points ahead of sixth-placed Arsenal, having played a game more, but are four points adrift of rivals Liverpool who are in fourth position.
BBC Sport's Simon Stone:
Manchester United winger Ashley Young has been ruled out of the game at Arsenal with a hamstring injury.
Young, 31, was injured after coming on as a substitute in the Europa League semi-final win over Celta Vigo on Thursday.
It is not known exactly how long Young will be out for but there are fears he could be sidelined for the rest of the season.
United manager Mourinho has threatened to play youngsters at the Emirates Stadium after deciding to prioritise his side's European campaign.
Four players yet to make a first-team appearance have been included in his travelling squad for tomorrow's game.
Matty Willock and Scott McTominay have been included in recent United squads. They have travelled to London, along with 20-year-old England Schoolboys winger Demetri Mitchell and teenage USA Under-19 international defender Matt Olosunde.
Arsenal could be without midfielder Granit Xhaka who has a calf problem, but defender Shkodran Mustafi could play after returning from a back injury.
Drew Nelson says an impasse at Westminster "will help to focus minds".
As part of its Northern Ireland Plan, which will form the basis for negotiation should next month's general election prove inconclusive, the Democratic Unionist Party says it will ask Westminster for "legislation for a new way forward on parading which respects the fundamental rights of assembly".
The Orange Order says the the Public Processions (Northern Ireland) Act 1998 is weighted heavily in favour of nationalist protestors.
Mr Nelson, the order's Grand Secretary, told the BBC One Northern Ireland programme The View "whichever party is in power they should review and amend this legislation because the legislation is flawed - not to buy some votes to keep them in power for a few years but because it's the right thing to do".
"Opportunities arise at different times and if there is a hung parliament, which is speculation at the moment, it may be that will help to focus the minds," he added.
"Anyone who can achieve some advantage by using some leverage would be foolish if they didn't take that opportunity and, if the unionist family which is returned to Westminster have an opportunity by virtue of their numbers to exercise greater influence than they are able to when it is not a hung parliament, then they should take that opportunity"
But others tell the programme that in their view neither the Conservatives or Labour are likely to negotiate on parades to buy DUP support.
Garvan O'Doherty, a Londonderry businessman who helped broker agreement on parades in the city, said he would "suggest the two main parties will stay clear of this issue".
"It is too hot for them and it is up to us locally to resolve once and for all," he said.
"We've go to stop going round in circles. We need to make a stand and we need to compromise."
A former parades commission chair Peter Osborne agrees.
"If you go back 20 years, you see in Portadown and elsewhere from then on that if you take these issues into high level political involvement it won't work," he said.
"This is about a local parades issue. Local dialogue is the way forward on this issue and I think there is room to resolve this and make a really big statement for the people of Northern Ireland."
Gareth Gordon's report will be broadcast on The View on BBC One Northern Ireland at 22:45 BST on Thursday, 23 April.
The 26-year-old Scot finished in 42.734 seconds, ahead of second-placed Arianna Fontana of Italy (42.835secs).
On Saturday, she won gold in the first of two 500m events in 43.590 seconds.
Shanghai is the third World Cup event of six to be held over 2016-17, with the next taking place in Gangneung, South Korea, from 16-18 December.
Christie, who also won gold in the season-opening event in Calgary, Canada in November, leads the women's 500m overall rankings from Fan Kexin of China and Canadian Marianne St-Gelais.
She also broke the 500m world record in a quarter-final at the second World Cup in Salt Lake City, USA but fell in the final.
They say the contraption is like a wind tunnel for studying movement on unstable surfaces.
Tests of this kind could help design robots to handle inconsistent terrain - such as might be found on Mars.
For now, the team has identified key aspects of leg shape and movement that help maintain speed on flowing ground.
The results appear in the journal Bioinspiration and Biomechanics.
"The pioneers of flight looked at different wing designs in a wind tunnel, and now we can do this with robotic design," said senior author Daniel Goldman, from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
By adjusting the rate at which air is pumped through the sand, Prof Goldman and his team can control precisely how fluid the surface becomes.
They used this system to observe the motion of a six-legged "Sandbot", four species of small lizard and one crab, over a range of conditions.
Then they modelled how the interplay of factors such as step rate, leg length and foot pressure affected the critters' progress.
Sure enough, it was shapes and gaits that minimise foot pressure that were the most useful on weak ground.
"It's important to understand the biomechanics and controls of good movement," Prof Goldman said. "If we can find out how these animals solve the problem, we can make better robots."
Er i Bale beidio dechrau'r gêm fe ddaeth ar y cae gyda 13 o funudau yn weddill o'r gêm i wynebu Juventus.
Cristiano Ronaldo oedd seren y gêm wrth iddo sgorio dwy allan o'r bedair gôl i Real Madrid.
Real aeth ar y blaen yn gyntaf gydag ergyd gan Ronaldo cyn i Mario Mandzukic sgorio gôl wych i Juventus gyda chic dros ei ben.
Roedd y gêm yn gyfartal 1 - 1 ar yr egwyl.
Fe ddechreuodd yr ail hanner yn danllyd ond Real Madrid oedd yn rheoli'r meddiant.
Sgoriodd Casemiro ail gol i Real gydag ergyd o du allan i'r cwrt cosbi a gymerodd gyffyrddiad ar ei ffordd i'r rhwyd oddi ar chwaraewr Juventus.
Fe aeth dwy yn dair wrth i Ronaldo dorri calonnau'r Eidalwyr pan gyfeiriodd y bêl am ei ail o'r gêm.
Gyda'r sgôr yn 3 - 1 dyma Gareth Bale yn camu i'r cae i gymeradwyaeth uchel Stadiwm Cenedlaethol Cymru.
Gyda phum munud yn weddill roedd Juventus lawr i 10 dyn ar ôl i'r eilydd Juan Cuadrado weld ei ail garden felen o'r gêm.
Yn munudau olaf y gêm, gyda chyrff blinedig roedd Real Madrid yn llwyr reoli'r gêm a fe sgoriodd Marco Asensio bedwaredd Real yn dilyn croesiad gan Marcello.
Roedd hynny yn ddigon i sicrhau'r tlws i Real Madrid am yr ail flwyddyn yn olynol ac yn sicrhau bod Bale yn cael codi'r gwpan yn ei ddinas enedigol.
Dywedodd Gareth Bale ar ddiwedd y gêm:
"Mae Caerdydd wedi gwneud gwaith gwych fel dinas i gael y gêm ymlaen ac rydym i gyd yn ddiolchgar o hynny.
"Roedd hi'n freuddwyd i mi ennill y gystadleuaeth yma yng Nghaerdydd, mae hi wedi bod yn dymor anodd i mi o ran anafiadau ond dwi wrth fy modd," meddai.
In a statement to the Times newspaper, she said she would not be "formalising my recent nomination".
The 56-year-old MEP for South East England said she did not have "sufficient authority" to see through changes she had planned.
Ms James succeeded Nigel Farage on 16 September after he quit in the wake of the UK's vote to leave the EU.
She had not appointed a deputy and UKIP officials were unable to say who was leading the party.
Speaking to Radio 4's Today programme, UKIP chairman Paul Oakden said he would check with the Electoral Commission to see who the party leader was and admitted it could technically be Mr Farage.
Asked whether Mr Farage would return to lead the party again, Mr Oakden said it was "very unlikely" but added: "I wouldn't say anything is impossible."
However, Mr Farage told the BBC that he was "technically" party leader again but would not be contesting any future leadership contest.
Mr Oakden previously said he would look to hold an emergency meeting of the party's national executive committee to confirm the process for electing Ms James's replacement.
"Whilst the decision is unfortunate, it is one that Diane is entitled to make. We thank her for all her work as leader, and as a hard-working MEP, a role she will continue with her customary vigour."
Ms James, who posted her statement to the Times on her Twitter account, said since her election she had been in discussion with party officers about her role as leader.
"It has become clear that I do not have sufficient authority, nor the full support of all my MEP colleagues and party officers to implement changes I believe necessary and upon which I based my campaign," she said.
"For personal and professional reasons therefore, I will not take the election process further."
The former Conservative councillor, who defected to UKIP in 2011, said she will "continue to concentrate fully" on her activities and responsibilities as an MEP, adding it was her "final media statement on the issue".
Her decision is also thought to be partly due to a family illness.
By Alex Forsyth, political correspondent
Diane James took over UKIP at a time when it was beset by rifts and infighting.
There were different factions within the party that were struggling to come together and agree on its future direction.
When elected, she made a point of saying that the focus for her was on unity - the party needed to get behind her and rally around.
She wanted to make some changes about the way the party was governed, how its ruling body, the national executive committee, ran things.
Reading between the lines of her statement, it seems she does not feel she can continue do that.
Read more: UKIP turmoil returns after resignation
Ms James, a former businesswoman and healthcare professional, saw off four other contenders - Lisa Duffy, Bill Etheridge, Liz Jones and Phillip Broughton - in the leadership battle.
She won with 8,451 out of the 17,970 votes cast, ahead of Ms Duffy, who received 4,591.
One-time frontrunner Steven Woolfe was barred from standing after submitting his nomination papers too late, while Suzanne Evans was unable to take part as she was suspended at the time.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, Ms Duffy said she would not rule herself out from standing again for the leadership of the party.
She said: "I've said to the party chairman, I am happy to do whatever the party wants to do to keep it going."
Ms James, in her acceptance speech at the party's conference in Bournemouth, had said: "We are going to confound our critics, we are going to outwit our opponents, we are going to build on our election success that we have achieved to date and do more."
But the race to replace Mr Farage had exposed bitter divisions within UKIP, with Ms James encountering criticism from some in the party after declining to take part in hustings debates around the country with her rivals.
Ms James's resignation prompted speculation Mr Farage - UKIP leader from 2006-2009 and 2010-2016 - might return to lead the party for a third time.
However, he told the Press Association: "I'm not coming back, I'm retired."
The face of Euroscepticism in the UK for nearly two decades, Mr Farage helped turn UKIP from a fringe party into the third biggest in UK politics - in terms of votes at the 2015 general election.
Announcing his decision to stand down, he said his "political ambition has been achieved".
Responding to Ms James's resignation, UKIP's only MP, Douglas Carswell, said: "I'm sad and surprised. I just hope she's alright".
Meanwhile, a number of senior UKIP members in the East of England have told the BBC of having "nagging concerns" about the "radio silence" from Ms James's camp since her election as leader.
They suggested that unless UKIP's national executive committee changes party rules, Lisa Duffy - who was backed by many anti-Farage supporters - "made sense" as an interim leader.
Vishwanathan, who mainly composed music for Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam language films, had been receiving treatment at a private hospital.
He composed scores for more than 1,700 films, including some of the biggest hits in the southern Indian industry.
Vishwanathan is best known for his work on films such as Bama Vijayam, Galatta Kalyanam and Deivamagan.
He composed music for films featuring stars who later went on to become top politicians and chief ministers of southern states - NT Rama Rao, MG Ramachandran, M Karunanidhi and Jayalalitha.
The Hindu newspaper said Vishwanathan's compositions "transcended every known category of music and [he] refused to be pinned down to musical traditions".
MSV, as he was popularly called, fused world music with Indian cinema music in his popular compositions.
"For an entire generation of post-Independence and 1960s Tamil people MSV's songs marked their growing milestones, from the first flush of romance to serenading crooning numbers, philosophical and spiritual songs and toe tapping numbers," wrote Outlook magazine in a tribute.
Born in Kerala, Vishwanathan entered the film industry as a child actor before becoming a student of a local music teacher.
Vishwanathan started his career as a composer with the 1952 film Tamil Panam, starring Sivaji Ganesan.
With fellow composer TK Ramamoorthy, he composed music for films like Paasamalar, Sumaithaangi and Server Sundaram.
The Swans are bottom of the Premier League after Saturday's heavy defeat.
New head coach Paul Clement admits it will be "very hard" to keep them up, but Wenger has hope for Swansea.
"When you lack confidence you need a win and when you lose again, it seems difficult. I feel they have enough quality to get out of it," he said.
"When you're down there it's a vicious circle because you lack confidence.
Swansea showed signs of improvement in the first half against Arsenal, pressing the Gunners high up the pitch and limiting their scoring opportunities.
Wenger praised the Swans for their "unbelievable" workrate but, once Olivier Giroud had given Arsenal the lead, Clement's side simply unravelled.
Swansea's defence was already the leakiest in the Premier League before the Gunners' visit, and the hosts' second-half capitulation underlined the daunting challenge Clement faces in trying to preserve his team's top-flight status.
"Everyone knows the task at hand is a very hard one but we're all up for it," said the former Bayern Munich assistant manager.
"There are games we are not necessarily expected to win. That's maybe one today, though we would have wanted the scoreline to be much closer.
"This is a team over recent weeks which has had some crushing defeats, goals have gone in and the players are all human beings. They go through good periods, bad periods and confidence can be affected.
"My job is to try and get them as organised as possible and well prepared as possible.
"When you're a player and you know you're well prepared, you've got a better chance of being confident and a better chance of getting results."
Ex-England midfielder Danny Murphy: "Arsenal have missed Mesut Ozil for a few games but he made a big difference against Swansea. Ozil was exceptional in crucial areas of the pitch.
"He makes the right decisions nine times out of 10. Ozil gives that extra quality and class in final third. Arsenal are a better team when he is in it. Alexis Sanchez and Ozil together make Arsenal an exceptional and dangerous team.
"Paul Clement will be on training pitch as long as he can. He is a workaholic. He will be quite savvy in the transfer market. He will improve Swansea but whether it will be enough, we'll have to wait and see."
Ex-Arsenal striker Ian Wright on Swansea's penalty appeal: "Swans boss Paul Clement said he thought it was a penalty. I didn't think it was. Ki Sung-yueng was searching for the (Laurent Koscielny's) foot and I think he kicks the foot. Those have been given."
On Sanchez's reaction to being taken off: "He is disappointed. He doesn't want to be taken off. He's so integral to Arsenal. If Sanchez is not there, there is massive problem."
Dozens of others were injured in the blast in a chapel adjoining St Mark's cathedral during a Sunday service.
Many of the victims are thought to be women and children.
Egypt's Christian minority has often been targeted by Islamist militants. Christians gathered to show anger at the attack, the worst in years.
Egypt has seen a wave of attacks by militants since 2013 when the military overthrew President Mohammed Morsi, an elected leader who hailed from the Muslim Brotherhood, and launched a crackdown against Islamists.
Some of Mr Morsi's supporters blamed Christians for supporting the overthrow.
The explosion happened at about 10:00 local time (08:00 GMT). Video footage carried by regional media showed the interior of the church littered with broken and scattered furniture, along with blood and clothing on the floor.
"I found bodies, many of them women, lying on the pews. It was a horrible scene," said cathedral worker Attiya Mahrous.
"There were children. What have they done to deserve this? I wish I had died with them instead of seeing these scenes,'' another witness told the Associated Press news agency.
President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has declared a three-day period of national mourning.
In a statement, he condemned the attack, calling for the perpetrators to be hunted down and punished.
"Vicious terrorism is being waged against the country's Copts and Muslims. Egypt will emerge stronger and more united from this situation," he said.
Coptic Christians make up about 10% of Egypt's population.
St Mark's Cathedral is the headquarters of the Coptic Orthodox church, and the home of its leader, Pope Tawadros II.
The Coptic Orthodox Church is the main Christian Church in Egypt. While most Copts live in Egypt, the Church has about a million members outside the country.
Copts believe that their Church dates back to around 50 AD, when the Apostle Mark is said to have visited Egypt. Mark is regarded as the first Pope of Alexandria - the head of their church.
This makes it one of the earliest Christian groups outside the Holy Land.
The Church separated from other Christian denominations at the Council of Chalcedon (451 AD) in a dispute over the human and divine nature of Jesus Christ.
The early Church suffered persecution under the Roman Empire, and there were intermittent persecutions after Egypt became a Muslim country. Many believe that continues to this day.
Bishop Angaelos of the UK's Coptic Orthodox Church said his prayers were with Egyptian Copts, "as well as for the broader Egyptian society that fall victim to similar inhumane attacks."
On Saturday, six policemen were killed when a bomb exploded on a main road leading to the pyramids at Giza. The explosion, at a police checkpoint, was the deadliest attack on security forces in Cairo in more than six months.
A recently formed militant group called Hasm said it had carried out that attack.
Egypt's Coptic Christian minority has long complained of discrimination in the mostly Muslim nation.
Two people were killed outside St Mark's cathedral in 2013, when people mourning the death of four Coptic Christians killed in religious violence clashed with local residents.
In February this year, a court sentenced three Christian teenagers to five years in prison for insulting Islam. The teenagers had appeared in a video, apparently mocking Muslim prayers, but claimed they had been mocking the Islamic State (IS) group following a number of beheadings.
Egypt has pursued a number of blasphemy cases since the country's 2011 uprising. Many of those cases have been against Copts.
Most of the Islamist militant attacks of recent years have been focused in the Sinai province, where an IS-linked jihadist group is active, but Cairo has also suffered a string of attacks in the past two years.
Look Up, by Singaporean photographer Chay Yu Wei, appeared to capture a plane just as it flew over a building.
But Nikon and Mr Chay had to apologise after thousands pointed out the plane had very clearly been edited in.
It has also emerged that an identical image was posted on Instagram by another photographer one year ago.
Singaporean photographer Lee Yik Keat, who posted that image, called it "the classic lookup". He told the BBC he could not tell if it was the same photo, but said he had always freely admitted his was a composite.
11 January - Nikon Singapore announces its monthly amateur photography competition on Facebook asking for people to "enchant us with your monochrome photography", with a trolley bag for the winner.
The terms of the competition say the photos must be original works, though doesn't specifically bar editing.
Mr Chay, who Instagrams as @yuuuuuwei, uploaded his entry.
The following week - One user asks Mr Chay on his Instagram how long he waited for the plane to pass overhead. He replies "Not too long, I was lucky" with two smiling emoji.
28 January - Mr Chay is announced as the competition winner. Nikon says he chanced upon some ladders while on a photo walk of Singapore's Chinatown and thought it was make an interesting shot. "Little did he expect to catch an airplane in mid-air."
Almost immediately, people began questioning the photo.
Running it through Photoshop and playing just slightly with the colour levels showed very clearly a white box around the plane, indicating it had been cut and pasted onto the shot. The plane itself also appeared pixellated.
Much of the anger fell on Mr Chay, with photographers turning on his Instagram to accuse him of deliberate fakery.
"There's nothing wrong with the photo, I know tons of IGers who puts a plane on it or photoshop many stars etc, the problem is you shouldn't have lied about waiting for it, there are many people out there who isn't stupid," said one user.
Another user observed: "He took a similar photo last year as well. Must have been really lucky and skilful to have captured such low-flying planes twice."
But there was also anger at Nikon for what was seen as poor judgement, and bad handling of the row.
"The problem lies with the judges. May be photo-enthusiasts who are overly zealous in the quest for an 'impossible' or 'wow' factor in the entries. Please keep it real and get real practicing photographers to be the judges. It may help Nikon's reputation in many ways," MY Lye posted on the Facebook page.
30 January
Nikon posts an apology, saying "we should not compromise standards even for a casual photo contest".
"We have made an honest mistake and the rousing response from the community today is a reminder to us that the true spirit of photography is very much alive."
But many replies are not happy.
"It is appalling that a maker of serious photography equipment takes photography integrity so lightly," says Darren Lim. "If you truly made an "honest mistake", then rectify it. Don't try to justify by labelling it as a casual contest."
Also that night, Mr Yu posts an apology on Instagram.
He says adding the plane had been a "playful edit" and was "not meant to bluff anyone". He says he had been joking about being lucky to catch the shot.
But he says he "crossed the line by submitting the photo for a competition", and apologised to Nikon and the photography community.
31 January
In response to more criticism of the competition and its initial PR reaction, Nikon issues a second apology, saying it will "do the right thing by our community and by the standards that are expected of Nikon, and as such, we will shortly be removing Look Up from our pages".
Thanking users for their "candour" and continue support, it apologises that this means their comments will also disappear.
1 February
Local media report that a very similar photo to Look Up was posted on Instagram almost exactly a year ago by Lee Yik Keat.
Mr Lee tells the BBC he can't tell whether the picture was a copy or was inspired by his image, but that this method of making composite images "did not originate from me".
"I declared to my audience that it was two images into one edit and the tag was #putaplaneonit."
"I think this kind of editing is fine as long as it is declared, sometimes creative edits can spark other people's imagination so it can be useful. I think if he declared it was a composite and he wins it it is fine, however (if i am not wrong?) he did not inform Nikon upfront."
Despite the anger, it's fair to say some photographers have had fun with the row as an opportunity to show of their photo editing skills.
Sam Jones scored twice to secure a 3-1 win for Grimsby - their first in five matches - and condemn play-off chasing Blackpool to back-to-back defeats.
The result followed a 1-0 loss to Luton, leaving Blackpool eighth, two points off the play-off places.
"We're in there fighting and we've got a right good chance of it and it's how we respond now," Bowyer, 45, said.
Before the two setbacks, Blackpool had put together a nine-game unbeaten run, which saw them climb the League Two table and offer hope of promotion.
Fortunately for Blackpool, the three sides immediately above them - Stevenage, Exeter City and Carlisle United - all also suffered defeats on Saturday and Bowyer is now hoping the loss to Grimsby can spur his side on for the final five matches.
"The goals [Blackpool conceded] were embarrassing," he told BBC Radio Lancashire. "They [the players] have had a kick up the backside and we've now got to regroup and go again because the results have been kind to us.
"We've got some work to do now, but we've got five good games left now to try to finish strongly and get something out of this season."
Blackpool face League Two's form side Accrington, who are on a 13-game unbeaten run, at home before a trip to promoted Doncaster Rovers.
They are the latest in a series of job losses across the UK steel sector and follow news that administrators have been appointed to parts of Caparo Industries' steel operations.
The industry blames cheap Chinese imports for a collapse in steel prices.
Prime Minister David Cameron has said he will raise the issue with China's president during his UK state visit.
The jobs going at Tata Steel are in part of a division that the company failed to sell earlier this year.
Buffeted by collapsing prices and the strong pound, Indian-owned Tata has decided to cut back its UK operations.
Most of the jobs will go in Scunthorpe, which employs 4,000 people and is one of the UK's largest steel plants, but two mills in Lanarkshire will also be affected.
That has raised concerns about the future of the industry in Scotland.
The plants under threat are the Dalzell plate rolling works in Motherwell, which opened in 1872, and Clydebridge, in Cambuslang, which has been operating since 1887.
The plants became two of the giants of Scottish industry, with Clydebridge providing steel plates which were formed into many of the most famous ships built on the River Clyde.
The industry was at the heart of many Lanarkshire communities and Motherwell Football Club still use the nickname "the Steelmen" in tribute to the workers who supported them.
John Park, assistant general secretary of trade union Community, said: ""The significance of this is that it could be the end of steel production in Scotland.
"Tata Steel have to be persuaded to mothball the site rather than close it and the Scottish Government has to have a role in keeping the infrastructure secure and supporting short-time work until a future can be secured."
In the 1970s, more than 200,000 people were employed in the UK steel sector, but the number now stands at just 30,000. Unions say that one in six of those jobs is now under threat.
The collapse into administration of parts of steel processing firm Caparo on Monday followed the closure last month of the SSI steel plant at Redcar, with the loss of about 2,200 jobs.
The industry has blamed a flood of cheap steel being dumped on the global market by Chinese manufacturers.
Mr Cameron said: "The British government is doing everything that we can, and every issue that we can take up, we will."
But Roy Rickhuss, general secretary of Community, said: "We have had a succession of ministers, and now the prime minister, saying that they will 'raise' the issue of Chinese steel dumping, which we know is impacting on the UK steel industry and the global steel price.
"The prime minister needs to do more than 'raise' the issue. He needs to tell the Chinese premier what action he's going to take to stop Chinese steel damaging the future of a vital foundation industry in the UK."
Caparo administrators PwC said workers would be paid and briefed on developments, adding: "It is business as usual while the administrators' review gets under way."
During a national security forum, the Republican presidential nominee said the issue was a "massive problem."
NBC Host Matt Lauer asked Mr Trump about a 2013 tweet in which he said sexual assault was to be expected when you put women in the military.
He responded the tweet was "correct," sparking an immediate backlash.
People lambasted the New York hotel developer for suggesting that the presence of women in the military was to blame for an increase in sexual assault cases.
The Pentagon released data in 2013 that found a sharp rise in reports of sexual assault in the military.
Mr Trump shared his thoughts at the time, arguing that having women in the military increased the likelihood of sexual assault.
Mr Lauer asked Mr Trump about his tweet during the so-called Commander-in-Chief Forum in New York.
"Well, it is a correct tweet," he told an audience of veterans. "There are many people that think that that's absolutely correct."
When Mr Lauer asked him if the solution was to remove women from the military, Mr Trump dismissed the idea but added, "something has to happen".
"Right now, part of the problem is nobody gets prosecuted."
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The New York billionaire added that his solution would be to prosecute the accused within a military court system despite the existence of an established military judicial system.
"The best thing we can do is set up a court system within the military," he said. "Right now the court system practically doesn't exist."
"When you have somebody that does something so evil, so bad as that, there has to be consequences for that person," he continued. "You have to go after that person. Right now, nobody is doing anything."
Mr Trump's answer prompted a social media firestorm, where Twitter users accused him of blaming sexual assault on gender integration in the military.
Mr Trump's Democratic rival Hillary Clinton was also quick to respond, quoting Mr Trump's response to Mr Lauer.
But Mr Trump's remarks are not his first on women in the military.
The businessman has previously said there were "major problems" with women serving in combat roles while noting sexual assault in the military.
"You're in there and you're fighting and you're sitting next to a woman... now they want to be politically correct. They want to do it but there are major problems," he told CBS News.
"And as you know, there are many people that think this shouldn't be done, at a high level. I can say this, the number of rapes in the military are through the roof."
A 2015 US Department of Defense study found 22% of active-duty women and seven percent of active-duty men may have experienced some form of sexual harassment last year.
Meanwhile, more than 20,000 members of the military - both men and women - reported sexual assault in 2014 and more than 160,000 reported sexual harassment or gender discrimination, according to advocacy group Protect Our Defenders.
The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (Beam) is a demonstrator for the type of habitats that may be used to build future orbiting labs.
It is possible such rooms could even make for more living space during the many months it would take humans to travel to Mars.
The Beam was taken up to the station last month and connected to a berthing point on the Tranquility module.
Installed in compact form, it had to be inflated - something astronaut Jeff Williams eventually managed to achieve.
The new room will undergo two years of tests.
Engineers want to know if the structure is as robust as traditional metal modules.
Astronauts will not actually go in the Beam that often, given its experimental nature. And when they do, it will be to have a quick look around to check its integrity. Nothing will be stored in the room, either.
Most of the time, the hatch to the Beam will remain closed and controllers on the ground will monitor its status through a series of embedded sensors. These will track temperature, pressure, radiation and impacts.
The Beam has been produced in a partnership between the US space agency (Nasa) and American entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, who built his fortune on the back of a budget hotel chain.
His ambition now is to take that accommodation experience into orbit.
Although the vessel attached to the space station is only a little bigger than a broom cupboard, the businessman has plans for expandable modules that are substantially bigger.
He hopes to rent these out to anyone who wants to use them for science and even tourism - as hotels in space.
Already, Robert Bigelow has a rocket booked for 2020, to take up his BA-330 model, which, as the designation intimates, has a volume of 330 cubic metres (12,000 cu ft).
Renatas Timofejevas, 36, was operating a loading vehicle at Alba Proteins at The Racks, near Dumfries, when he was found crushed under the boom arm.
A court heard that if window glass on the JCB had been replaced he could not have leaned out and got caught.
The company admitted breaching the health and safety act over the incident in February 2010.
Dumfries Sheriff Court was told that there were no eyewitnesses to the accident.
However, it appeared that Mr Timofejevas had been killed after trying to reach out of a window in which the glass had been missing for up to eight months.
The court heard that if the window been replaced at a cost of just over £300, the worker would not have been able to lean out and be caught.
Sheriff Brian Mohan said the window was only one of a number of defects surrounding the vehicle.
The company admitted failing to provide plant that was safe and without risk to health in that the JCB had numerous defects - in particular window glass missing from the boom window of the operator's cab.
It was also admitted that there was a failure to have an adequate system in place ensuring that the vehicle was adequately inspected and maintained and a failure to ensure that it was only used by trained and authorised persons.
The 25-year-old's score was England's second highest in ODIs, in a total of 366-4 batting first at Taunton.
Katherine Brunt picked up five wickets and Anya Shrubsole (2-20) and Laura Marsh (3-29) helped dismiss Pakistan for 164 in the 45th over.
England have clinched the ODI series 3-0, with three Twenty20s to come.
Beaumont's innings was the joint-fourth highest ODI score in women's cricket history and only five short of Charlotte Edwards' effort from 1997 on the all-time England list.
She hit 20 fours in her 144-ball innings, and shared two century stands - 166 with Georgia Elwiss (77) and 119 with Natalie Sciver (48).
The Kent batter had scored her maiden ODI century in the record-breaking second game at Worcester, where the shorter boundaries had made aggressive scoring easy.
At Taunton, Beaumont failed to hit a six, but showed plenty of variety in her boundaries, including reverse-sweeping the Pakistan spinners on several occasions.
In this ODI series, Beaumont's scores read 70, 104, and 168 not out.
Their latest defeat saw Pakistan's fielding let them down again. They spilled numerous catches off Beaumont and Elwiss, and gave away several avoidable boundaries - but the hosts had their moments to forget as well.
England dropped a couple of catches at the start of the tourists' innings, Lauren Winfield and captain Heather Knight the culprits, both off Brunt's bowling.
The ground fielding also dipped in quality, allowing Pakistan to provide some resistance with the bat, and much like the second ODI, England had to wait until late in the run chase to confirm the victory.
Brunt was rewarded for her efforts with wickets in successive 43rd-over deliveries, and fittingly finished off proceedings with her fifth victim.
England captain Heather Knight: "Captaincy is easy when the girls play like that! The pleasing thing is how many different people have stood up and contributed. It's exciting cricket to watch and hopefully it will be the same going forward.
"There was a lot of change and talk about our batting order and I can't be more pleased how we responded. It was different tactics with bigger boundaries and we adapted well.
"Katherine Brunt bowled well and cleaned up the tail, and Laura Marsh did well too. Laura reads the game superbly and changes her pace up smartly as well."
Pakistan captain Sana Mir: "All credit to England for the way they have played throughout the series. If you're not on target, you will be punished. We knew the England bowlers are pretty good. It was difficult for us to chase such a big total and it was important for us to bat 50 overs, which we've been unable to do.
"We've not been able to play a lot of one-day cricket. We're more into T20 and hopefully we can take the positives out of this series and play well in the T20s."
Cameron Dickson was critically ill after coming into contact with toxic chemicals dumped at a site bonfire site near the Shankill Road.
His family have said he is now off a ventilator but remains in a "serious but stable" condition in hospital.
The inspections will focus on chemicals that may pose a risk to public safety.
News of the bonfire inspections is contained in a memo sent to all Belfast city councillors.
It states: "Council officers (including technical officers) and PSNI will deploy extra resources to carry out joint visits to all bonfire sites across the city in the coming days with a view to identifying any visible, immediate or acute chemical public health risks."
Bonfires are a long-held tradition in loyalist communities across Northern Ireland, and they are lit on 11 July every year to mark the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne.
Many children and young people spend months gathering wood, rubbish and other materials to build bonfires on waste ground within their communities.
Moftah Missouri said Gaddafi had told him personally that $20m (£13m; 15m euros) were donated to the campaign.
The allegations against Mr Sarkozy, first made by one of Gaddafi's sons, are already being investigated.
However Mr Missouri was quoted by a French newspaper last year, saying he had been unaware of any such payments.
Le Figaro, a conservative daily, interviewed the former interpreter when he visited Paris in April 2012.
In the new interview, Mr Missouri said: "Gaddafi himself told me personally, verbally, that Libya had transferred about $20m."
He was speaking in a video clip posted by France's Mediapart news website, with the full interview due to air on French public TV later on Thursday.
Gaddafi died from bullet wounds in 2011, after ruling Libya for more than 40 years.
It was during Nato-led air strikes on Libya in 2011 that Saif al-Islam, Gaddafi's son, first accused Mr Sarkozy of taking millions of his father's money for campaign funding.
Led by the then President Sarkozy, France spearheaded Nato's military campaign.
A French inquiry which opened this year was due to look at charges of "active and passive corruption", "influence peddling" and other issues, a judicial source told AFP news agency in April.
Mr Sarkozy, who lost the 2012 presidential election to Francois Hollande, is also under formal investigation over claims he received illegal donations for the 2007 race from France's richest woman, 90-year-old L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt.
He has denied all the allegations.
He has previously hinted that he may consider another run for the presidency in 2017, but the outcome of these investigations could determine whether he will make a return to politics, observers say.
Work on the Newbuildings to Strabane section of the new dual carriageway was due to go ahead in 2017.
But the Alternative A5 Alliance (AA5A) has lodged an application for leave to apply for judicial review.
The Department for Infrastructure said it will oppose the latest legal challenge to the project.
In 2012, AA5A won their judicial review into the planned new route after the court ruled an environment impact assessment had not been carried out properly.
John Dunbar from AA5A said that previous experience had given the group confidence to pursue a second challenge.
He said the group continued to oppose the project on "economic and environmental grounds".
Mr Dunbar said no one could now "put a figure on how much this (the A5) will cost".
"It just does not make sense," he said.
"The dual carriageway is just not necessary."
A Public Inquiry into the A5 is scheduled to get underway in early October.
Mr Dunbar said the scope of that inquiry was "much too restrictive".
"There are a number of other issues that we wanted to object to but they haven't been included in the scope of the inquiry."
He said there was no alternative but to launch a legal challenge.
A Department for Infrastructure spokeswoman confirmed the legal application would be opposed.
"In progressing any major road improvement scheme of the scale of the A5 dualling, there is always the possibility of a legal challenge from those who may be dissatisfied with the department's proposals," she said.
The preferred route for the A5 was announced in 2009. When complete it is understood it would lessen journey times by as much as 20 minutes.
Emergency services were called to the scene in the Lancefield Quay area at about 04:00 on Sunday morning.
One person has been arrested on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon.
The three people with injuries were taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, but have since been released.
Media reports have suggested the bank might have to pay the fine over allegations it broke trade sanctions against Sudan, Iran and Cuba.
The US Justice Department is currently looking into the claims.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said a fine of the size suggested would be "an extremely serious problem".
Speaking on the France 2 television channel, he added it would be an example of an "unfair and unilateral decision".
"The fine has to be proportionate and reasonable. These figures are not reasonable," Mr Fabius said.
His warning comes just two days ahead of Barack Obama's visit to France, where the US President is set to hold bilateral talks with French President Francois Hollande.
Mr Fabius said that if a fine of the reported scale was imposed, it would hit BNP Paribas' funds and result in fewer loans for French businesses.
"It's an extremely serious question that the Americans must handle in a spirit of partnership and not unilaterally," he added.
In April, BNP Paribas said it had already set aside $1.1bn to cover the cost of the violations.
At the time, the bank wrote in a document: "A high degree of uncertainty exists as to the nature and amount of penalties that the US authorities could impose on the bank following completion of the ongoing process: there is the possibility that the amount of the fines could be far in excess of the amount of the provision."
If approved, and if BNP admits to criminal wrongdoing, the settlement would be the largest criminal penalty in US history, surpassing oil giant BP's $4bn agreement with the US Department of Justice in 2012.
US regulators have recently stepped up their actions against banks that violate laws against money laundering and tax evasion, amongst other violations.
Earlier in May, Swiss bank Credit Suisse agreed to a $2.6bn penalty and admitted criminal wrongdoing in helping "tax cheats" avoid paying US taxes.
To date, the largest fine levied against a bank by US regulators for sanctions violations was the $1.9bn HSBC paid in 2012.
Bryant, 25, borrowed poles at last week's Hypo Meeting in Gotzis after his never arrived on a Swiss Air flight.
He fell 30cm short of his personal best in the pole vault and missed the qualifying standard by just 44 points.
"I'm now left chasing qualification events," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
"And I have to sit down with my coach to decide where we go next."
Swiss Air say they have since reunited Bryant with his poles and are working to establish what went wrong.
Bryant must now try to achieve the qualifying standard of 8,100 points at the remaining meetings before the Olympics begin in August.
He scored 8,056 points in Gotzis, but does have a personal best of 8,141.
A British Athletics spokesman told the Guardian that Bryant's case would be looked at "as an individual case", meaning he could yet qualify.
"It's an incredibly frustrating situation," he said.
"We checked the plane we were going to take would take poles. We got to the airport and they said: 'These aren't going to make the flight. The next day there's a larger plane'.
"But Sunday came and my poles were not there. I managed to borrow some off a Swedish athlete but they're not the same poles I've trained on.
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Police said the houses in Swindon were chosen because the thieves hoped to find high-value gold jewellery.
Two stolen vehicles believed to have been used in the break-ins have been recovered, with one located in Sweden.
Six people have been released on bail and police enquiries are ongoing with Interpol over four others arrested in Sweden.
The six bailed men were from Wiltshire, Wrexham, Oxfordshire and the West Midlands and a man and youth from Bedfordshire.
A Wiltshire Police spokeswoman said: "Research is ongoing to ascertain how Asian families are being identified.
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The People's Bank of China (PBoC) reduced the amount of money banks must set aside as reserves by one percentage point in a bid to spur more lending.
The announcement on Sunday came in the wake of data showing the country grew at its slowest pace in six years.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 2.02% to 27,094.93, while the Shanghai Composite lost 1.64% to 4,217.08.
Mark Williams, chief Asia economist at Capital Economics, said China acted because "downside risks to growth appear greater now.
"The decision is a response to the weakness of recent economic data. Most of the activity and spending data for March came in below consensus.
"Further reserve-requirement ratio (RRR) cuts are likely - perhaps another 150 basis points before the end of the year - along with at least one more cut to benchmark interest rates," he said.
China's latest RRR cut is the largest since the global financial crisis, and analysts say the move will inject about 1.2tn yuan ($193bn; £129bn) of liquidity into the financial system.
However, stocks in Hong Kong and Shanghai have been swinging between gains and losses as investors digest a separate move by Chinese regulators made late on Friday.
The China Securities Regulatory Commission said it would clamp down on the use of leverage in margin trading and allow funds to lend to short sellers.
This includes banning brokerages from using so-called umbrella trusts and the use of shadow financing, or unregulated accounts, for stock purchases.
Chinese stock markets have seen a rapid run up in value recently, causing concern among policymakers about excess leverage and speculation.
Shanghai's bourse has gained more than 80% in the past six months while Hong Kong's stock operator has become the world's largest.
"We don't see any solid foundation in economic data for recent stock market gains, but as long as policymakers are still easing, it is hard to see the rally petering out any time soon," Mr Williams said.
Stocks across the rest of the region were also mixed amid concerns about a possible disappointing US earnings season.
Wall Street had closed sharply lower on Friday, with the S&P 500 losing 1.1% and the Dow Jones falling 1.5%.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei fell 0.09% to close at 19,634.49 points while the broader Topix ended 0.4% lower at 1,582.68.
South Korea's Kospi closed 0.15% higher at 2,146.71 points.
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"I love digging," Jimmy Kickham, from Prince Edward Island, told CBC News, saying he feels pride in his personal project.
Mr Kickham, who owns a construction business, has been digging graves and trenches for more than 60 years.
"One day I just thought I'd do my own if I lived to be 90," Mr Kichkam explained. He is in good health but turns 90 on Thursday.
"I love digging. Just one of those things that gets into your system. It's just work. Money. No matter what they wanted dug, I could do it," he told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Mr Kichkam still works on most days, using the same earth mover that he bought 45 years ago.
"There's nothing different for me to dig a grave, just natural. I dug enough of them, God knows," he said, adding that members of his family needed some convincing.
"I seen the priest first and then the undertaker and got the measurements, although I knew the measurements from the ones I dug before," he said.
He hopes to be interred in the regional old-fashioned way, which involves laying a pine wood box in the ground in advance of the funeral.
Eric Gallant, a maintenance worker for the St Alexis church in Rollo Bay, said he had never come across anything like it.
"It's something else. That's one of a kind, I figure," he said. "The only thing that's missing is his casket."
"And me!" Mr Kickham quipped. | An 89-year-old Canadian has made headlines for digging his own grave. | 37,993,845 | 350 | 19 | false |
His arrest comes less than a week after the paper apologised to eight victims and set up a compensation fund.
Chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck and ex-news editor Ian Edmondson were arrested last week on suspicion of having unlawfully intercepted voicemail messages.
The News of the World said it was not commenting on the latest arrest.
Mr Weatherup has also worked as a news editor with the Sunday tabloid.
Since January, the Metropolitan police have been re-examining the phone hacking scandal after receiving "significant new information" about activities at the News of the World.
In 2007, the first police investigation led to the convictions and imprisonment of the then NoW royal editor Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, who was employed by the paper.
Mr Thurlbeck and Mr Edmonson were released on bail until September.
Mr Weatherup was arrested early on Thursday and questioned at a London police station. He has been bailed until September.
The BBC has learned that two police officers were at the News of the World's offices on Thursday afternoon and took some items away.
"The Operation Weeting team is conducting the new investigation into phone-hacking. It would be inappropriate to discuss any further details regarding this case at this time," a police spokesman said.
Mr Weatherup's profile on LinkedIn describes his 25 years in the media.
It says: "As well as breaking exclusive stories, managing huge budgets, I also advised stars on PR and media related matters."
It lists "crisis management" as a speciality.
He joined the News of the World in 1987, and left the paper in 1999 but rejoined as news editor in 2004.
The BBC understands that about October 2005 he stood down to become a senior reporter at the paper, with the title associate news editor. That title changed in 2006 to assistant news editor although he remained a reporter.
Following the News of the World's unreserved apology and admission of liability on Friday to eight victims, its owner News International wrote to another nine claimants asking for further evidence that journalists intercepted their voicemail.
The BBC understood that News International was ready to settle claims with eight people, including former Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, her estranged husband, lawyer David Mills, designer Kelly Hoppen, sports broadcaster Andy Gray, and Joan Hammell, a former aide to ex-deputy prime minister Lord Prescott.
Actress Sienna Miller was continuing with her legal action against the paper, despite the apology and admission, her lawyer said last week. Publicist Nicola Phillips also rejected the offer.
There are 24 active claims against the paper being heard by High Court judge Mr Justice Vos, with a meeting scheduled for Friday. | News of the World journalist James Weatherup has been arrested and bailed by police investigating phone hacking. | 13,078,353 | 597 | 23 | false |
But officials confirmed that the president will not see the ailing leader himself, who is in a critical condition in hospital.
Mr Obama is in Pretoria as part of his three-country tour of Africa and held talks with President Jacob Zuma.
They discussed economic co-operation as well as conflicts in the region.
Mr Mandela, who is 94, is critically ill in hospital, where he was admitted on 8 June with a recurring lung infection.
His ex-wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, said on Friday she felt it would not be right for President Obama to visit him while he was in a critical condition.
"I'm not a doctor but I can say that from what he was a few days ago there is great improvement, but clinically he is still unwell," she said.
Mr Obama, who is travelling with his family, arrived in South Africa from Senegal on Friday evening.
In a joint news briefing on Saturday morning, President Zuma thanked the US for its historic anti-apartheid movement, and Mr Obama for his role in it.
He said Mr Obama and Mr Mandela were "bound by history as the first black presidents of your respective countries, thus you both carry the dreams of millions of people in Africa and in the diaspora who were previously oppressed".
Mr Zuma said Africa was rising, and that Mr Obama's visit was "well timed to take advantage of this growing market", calling for greater US investment in South Africa.
Mr Obama said the "moral courage" of Mr Mandela was an inspiration to many regions of the world which are divided by conflict.
During his weekend trip, the US president will visit Robben Island, where Mr Mandela was imprisoned for 18 years.
He is also expected to meet Archbishop Desmond Tutu and give a major speech at the University of Cape Town. The address is due to take place on Sunday night.
On Friday, Mr Obama had said it was unlikely he would see Mr Mandela, saying he did not "need a photo op" with him.
Speaking on board Air Force One after leaving Senegal, he told reporters: "The last thing I want to do is to be in any way obtrusive at a time when the family is concerned with Nelson Mandela's condition."
"I think the main message we'll want to deliver is not directly to him, but to his family - is simply profound gratitude for his leadership all these years, and that the thoughts and prayers of the American people are with him, his family and his country."
The White House later confirmed that he and First Lady Michelle Obama will later "meet privately with members of the Mandela family to offer their thoughts and prayers at this difficult time".
"Out of deference to Nelson Mandela's peace and comfort and the family's wishes, they will not be visiting the hospital," said the statement.
Mr Obama met Mr Mandela in 2005 when he was still a US senator. Both men became the first black presidents of their nations and have received the Nobel Peace Prize.
His wife and daughters had a private meeting with Mr Mandela in 2011.
The US president has described Mr Mandela as a "hero for the world", whose "legacy will linger on through the ages", and who had inspired his own activism as a student.
Mr Obama will finish his Africa tour in Tanzania. It is his first prolonged trip to the continent since he became president in 2009. | US President Barack Obama is to meet members of Nelson Mandela's family during his visit to South Africa, the White House says. | 23,108,612 | 762 | 28 | false |
The sport's governing body began an internal review after several Para-swimmers made complaints.
The complainants are understood to include Rio 2016 medallists.
Swimming was ParalympicsGB's most successful sport in Rio, winning 47 medals - 16 golds of 152 available - and setting eight world records.
But it has now emerged the team, which is based at the Manchester Aquatics Centre, has been embroiled in a bullying controversy for the past two months.
British Swimming has appointed investigators to look into the allegations.
UK Sport said it was aware of the internal review and "disappointed" to hear the claims.
A parent of one of the complainants told the BBC that swimmers were "belittled and criticised".
"We were told elite sport was not about the welfare of athletes but the pursuit of medals. There was a culture of fear," the parent said.
In a statement, British Swimming told the BBC: "Whilst some athletes have expressed some concerns, we have immediately undertaken an independent fact-finding investigation into these.
"The investigation remains ongoing and, until it is completed, we do not propose to make any further comment."
UK Sport said: "While we are disappointed to hear of these allegations, we are reassured that athletes feel able to challenge any behaviour that they are uncomfortable with and that British Swimming are investigating.
"As part of our action plan following the independent review into British Cycling, we will be looking at sharing learnings and best practice across the entire high performance system to ensure we continue to support our best athletes to reach their full potential within a positive performance culture of the upmost integrity and ethical standards."
A British Paralympic Association statement added: "We understand that some athletes have raised concerns with British Swimming, their national governing body. Athlete welfare is of the utmost importance, therefore it is quite right that British Swimming have undertaken an independent fact-finding investigation into the matter, which remains ongoing."
The revelations come amid mounting concern over the culture of high-performance programmes at British sports, and whether medal success has come at the expense of athlete welfare.
Team GB and ParalympicsGB both came second in their respective medal tables in Rio.
British Cycling apologised last month for various "failings" after an independent investigation into allegations of bullying and sexism.
A leaked draft version of the report, due for publication, found there was "a culture of fear" in the national velodrome, and "cracks in terms of the climate and culture… were ignored in pursuit of medal success".
Several former riders and staff have complained about the way they were treated, with track cyclist Jess Varnish saying she was "thrown under the bus" and the victim of a "cover-up".
Former technical director Shane Sutton has always denied any wrongdoing.
British Cycling has introduced an action plan of reforms dedicated to improving training, governance and welfare.
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Last year, British Rowing coach Paul Thompson was cleared of bullying following an investigation.
Former GB rower Emily Taylor had claimed Thompson was "a massive bully". A review concluded more care needed to be taken of athletes' wellbeing and the culture at British Rowing was "hard and unrelenting".
Meanwhile, in 2016 the government asked former Paralympian Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson to conduct a comprehensive 'duty of care review'.
Publication of her report is imminent. It is expected to recommend significant reforms designed to improve the way athletes are treated by governing bodies.
Last month, UK Sport chief executive Liz Nicholl told BBC Sport there is "no excuse for not putting athletes first... there probably hasn't been enough attention in sport about how they do things.
"There's a lot of focus on operational delivery, probably not enough on leadership management and communication."
Janet Brewster did not expect to see a baby photo of her mother in a press release.
But there she was, Ms Brewster was sure of it, her mother Betty's chubby arms resting on her older sister's back, eyes looking directly at the camera.
"It was the eyes, eyebrows and hair that really struck me and I thought 'Oh my gosh, that has to be my mom,' because it looked so much like my youngest son," she says.
Ms Brewster emailed the image to her mother, now 69, who confirmed it was indeed her as a child, along with Ms Brewster's aunt Bella, their two brothers and a third, still unnamed, boy.
The image of the siblings, a snapshot taken when the family was living in a remote Hudson's Bay Company trading post and spent many of their days together, was being used by Library and Archives Canada to promote Project Naming, an initiative to help communities identify indigenous Canadians captured in photos in the archive's extensive collection.
That coincidence eventually led Betty Brewster to identifying a handful of other previously anonymous Inuit people in digitised images at the national archives, and other images of her and Bella, now 78.
"It started with that first photograph," Ms Brewster says.
Project Naming was first launched as a small one-off project with the goal of identifying Inuit people from the territory of Nunavut who had been photographed by Canadian government bureaucrats and employees working in the far north from the late 1800s to the mid-20th century.
The images rarely made their way back to the remote communities, but eventually ended up in the national archives, a repository responsible for collecting all significant government records in need of preservation.
As was convention at the time, many of the white people in the images were named for the record. The indigenous subjects were not.
"Most photos were described as being native, native-type, half-breed, Eskimo, or simply ignored in the photographs," says Beth Greenhorn, who has been heading the project for the archives since 2003.
"Terminology has changed and, because we are dealing with historical records that were created decades ago, I find it a bit painful to go through."
Updating the official record and terminology is one part of the project.
The other is helping youth connect with their community elders to better understand their past.
Ms Brewster says most of her family now knows the names of the children in the old images. Like family photos do, the images spurred a conversation about what their lives were like and where they were living.
Among the stories they shared with their family were Betty Brewster's time as an interpreter-translator for the Nunavut land claims agreement that led to the creation of Canada's newest territory.
"When you talk about reconciliation and about moving forward as a country and as indigenous people, Inuit people living in this country, naming people in those historic photographs is so important," Ms Brewster says.
"When you acknowledge people have names, it lends more credence to their life experience."
The project was inspired by Murray Angus, who oversaw a college programme for Inuit youth that brought them to the Canadian capital of Ottawa to study Inuit history, land claims, culture and language.
In the early days of the project, the pictures were transferred onto CDs and brought north by the students to be shared at community gatherings and to visits to elders for identification.
The project now uses social media outreach on Twitter and Facebook, where people can share the photos and offer clues.
Ms Greenhorn says it gives her "goosebumps" when she sees someone recognise a family member or even a photograph of their much younger selves in the images.
"It is this very elemental human reaction that it just drives the project forward," she says.
Images, now posted weekly, showcase the austere beauty of Canada's Arctic regions and its people, and glimpses into the past lives of ndigenous Canadians across what was a largely rural nation.
They also portray some of the darker parts of Canada's relationship with its indigenous people, including photos of children in the residential school system, which removed them from their homes and aimed to eliminate their culture.
The project is now entering its 15th year and has been expanded to include anonymous photographs from First Nations, Metis and Inuit people across Canada and all its northern territories.
Since the project's launch in 2002, about 10,000 images have been digitised. More than 2,500 people, places, and activities they are participating in have been identified.
Ms Greenhorn admits the number does not seem high but believes that each person named counts.
"Some of these portraits are so beautiful and they represent a life that was lived, someone that's contributed to their community that had a family and to not have a name for them is sad," she says.
"So when you do make a connection, when you get a name and add it to the record it's exciting and you think OK - there's one more done."
More than a few Thai people have noted their country was a trend-setter, electing billionaire telecoms tycoon Thaksin Shinawatra by a landslide 16 years ago, on promises to shake up the old order.
Mr Trump, though, might prefer not to dwell on that comparison, as his Thai trailblazer ruffled so many establishment feathers that he and his allies were blocked by a succession of military coups and court verdicts, with democratic governance suspended in 2014.
And then there is the man they were calling "Asia's Trump" months before the shock result in the US.
Rodrigo Duterte swept to office in the Philippines on dramatic pledges to tackle crime, shake up his country's foreign policy, and change its constitutional order.
On the first two, he has stuck to his word, leaving thousands dead in a violent anti-drug campaign and tearing down the long-standing military alliance with the US.
In much of this region, democratic values, which had appeared to advance in the early part of the globalisation era of the 1980s and 90s, are now losing ground.
Thailand is under a military government that routinely curtails civil liberties.
In Malaysia, opposition politicians are being prosecuted under a colonial-era sedition law, as Prime Minister Najib Razak battles a massive corruption scandal.
And in the Philippines, President Duterte has dismissed concern over the huge spike in extrajudicial killings.
Cambodia's strongman Hun Sen, who has ruled for three decades, has reduced the political opposition to impotence by relentless legal harassment.
Even in Myanmar, also known as Burma, where last year's election of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy raised hopes of a new beginning, the harsh treatment of the Rohingya minority and state pressure on journalists continues.
So when President Barack Obama announced his "pivot" to Asia five years ago, rebalancing US foreign policy towards this region, most governments welcomed the prospect of improved trade and US military engagement to balance the rising influence of China - but they did not welcome the American comments on human rights that went with it.
A Trump administration, then, may come as a relief to some.
Mr Trump has shown no interest in a values-based foreign policy stressing human rights.
Already President Duterte has noted the commonality of their brash speaking styles and suggested he might reconsider his threats to downgrade ties with the US, although he still wants to cancel the agreement his predecessor signed to allow US troops to use bases in the Philippines.
Thailand, which has bristled at occasional US expressions of concern since the last coup, may be a lot happier with a more hands-off President Trump.
Hun Sen openly backed Donald Trump before the election.
Prime Minister Najib was quick to congratulate him after the election, noting their past golfing partnership and perhaps hoping a Department of Justice investigation into allegations that billions were looted from his brainchild investment fund, 1MDB, may move more slowly under President Trump.
What is clear is that under President Trump the "pivot" is finished.
President Obama's rebalancing leaned heavily on:
Mr Obama was the first US president to attend the EAS every year.
But during the US election campaign, both parties attacked the TPP, reflecting growing public hostility to trade deals, which are believed to have cost American jobs.
Mr Trump has said it will be the first deal he tears up.
He is also unlikely to take much interest in Asian summits and has promised to get tough over what he says are unfair trade practices by China.
His isolationist tone could well dictate a US retreat from this region, leaving China the de facto dominant power in South East Asia, something that will surely worry Japan and South Korea.
However, there is so much we still do not know about a Trump foreign policy that it is difficult for governments here to formulate policy responses yet.
And, according to Thitinan Pongsudhirak, director of the Institute of Security and International Studies at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, President Obama's achievements here were often less than they appeared.
"The Obama 'pivot' ultimately proved shallow and unreliable, underpinned by rhetorical footwork with little substantive thrust," he says.
"It was akin to the inkless 'red lines' drawn in the Middle East, where US leadership was confined to 'leading from behind', eschewing boots on the ground in favour of remote-controlled drone attacks.
"Leading from the back often meant not leading at all.
"Obama is a popular leader because of his personal appeal, but his policy record is mixed.
"His administration too often walked loudly but carried a meek stick."
Mr Pongsudhirak is not alone in arguing that the US is already losing South East Asia, with smaller states like Laos, Cambodia and Brunei firmly under strong Chinese influence, and the larger states looking to China now more than Japan, the US or the EU for investment and loans.
And he says that trend will accelerate under President Trump.
The US has in many ways moulded modern South East Asia, fighting a destructive war in Indochina in the 1960s, decisively influencing the political shape of states such as Thailand and the Philippines, and, with Japan, initiating the era of trade-based globalisation in the 1980s.
It has had a profound cultural influence on most South East Asian societies and has been instrumental in disseminating the values of civil rights, media freedom and government accountability.
This influence has at times been resisted and resented. But if the US does now turn inward, and away from Asia, it may also be missed.
Kiss has promised major signings in the next few weeks, after the recruitment of New Zealand full-back Charles Piutau, who will join the club after a one-season spell at Wasps.
It had been reported South African Ryan Kankowski was on his way to Ulster.
But is has since emerged the 20-cap Springbok will not be joining the club.
Meanwhile, Louis Ludik has signed a contract extension with Ulster.
The former Sharks full-back joined the Irish province in 2014.
The 51-year-old, president of Rogers Media in Canada for the last five years, will start his role this summer.
An "honoured" Pelley said he wanted to ensure golf remained at the "forefront of the game" across the world.
O'Grady, 65, had been chief executive of the Tour, which runs the three leading men's professional golf circuits in Europe, since 2005.
David Williams, chairman of the European Tour, said: "Throughout the interview process, it was clear Keith has an unwavering passion for golf, as well as a strong grasp of the challenges and opportunities facing not only the European Tour, but the wider game of golf as a whole."
O'Grady, who will now take up a presidential role to represent the Tour through the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, said he would ensure a smooth transition.
"I am certain Keith will bring a fresh and business-focused perspective to the Tour," he added.
The midday bongs were the last regular chimes from the famous bell until the repairs to its tower are complete.
It will still be used for special occasions, including New Year's Eve and Remembrance Sunday.
There were cheers and applause from a crowd of tourists and onlookers on the green opposite as the final chime rang out.
The decision to switch it off to protect workers' hearing has sparked a debate about the length of time it will be silent, with MPs not being told it would be four years, the longest period in its history.
Prime Minister Theresa May has said "it can't be right" that the famous bongs will not be heard again until 2021 and has asked for the proposals to be reviewed.
The House of Commons has said it will look again at the length of time Big Ben will be silenced after "concerns" were raised.
The 13.7-tonne Great Bell has sounded on the hour for 157 years and last fell silent in 2007. The Great Clock it forms part of is to be dismantled and repaired.
Almost as one, the crowd that had gathered in Parliament Square and on the pavement outside the Palace of Westminster pointed their mobile phones up towards the famous clock.
The passing traffic paused, and as the last of Big Ben's bongs sounded - at least until November - cheers broke out.
Most of the people who had taken up Parliament's suggestion to witness the last bells spoke of their sadness at the switch-off, and plenty, like Brian Mignot from Tasmania, questioned the four-year timescale.
Some, like engineer Neil Tomlinson from Derbyshire, took a pragmatic approach.
"It's got to be repaired, so they're repairing it," he said, bemused at the fuss the plans have caused.
Others just said they wanted to be there.
"It's a momentous occasion", said one of the onlookers, Annette Nicholson, from South East London.
"I thought the crowd would be even bigger."
Mark Tan, who had just arrived in the UK on holiday from Singapore, said: "It's a historic moment but it's good so that it will continue for another 100 years".
Inside the Parliamentary estate, there was more clapping and cheering as noon was struck.
Labour MP Stephen Pound - who had hoped to be joined by "like-minded traditionalists" to witness the last bongs, said it was a "desperately sad" moment and that the decision showed a "real poverty of imagination".
Conservative Peter Bone said MPs had not been told the length of the switch off, adding that the timescale "doesn't make any sense".
"Maybe Big Ben will be silenced for a little while, but perhaps just until the end of this year, and then back bonging away from the New Year," he said.
But the SNP's Pete Wishart told them to "get a grip" over their "bizarre obsession" with the issue.
"The fact that even the prime minister is wasting time on this non-issue shows just how out of touch the Westminster bubble is, when MPs should be working for their constituents on the issues that really matter," he added.
Liberal Democrat MP Tom Brake, a member of the House of Commons Commission, said one concession to critics could be allowing Big Ben to chime on special occasions.
But he said it was "too early to say" whether it would be used on the day the UK leaves the EU in March 2019, as demanded by some Eurosceptic Conservative MPs.
He added: "I understand why people would get excited about Big Ben and the Elizabeth Tower and the clock because they are so symbolic and people come from all over the world to have their photographs taken in front of it, and that's why we need to ensure that these works happen to ensure that this symbol of our Parliament, our nation, is available for people to relish for years to come."
Straight after Big Ben had finished at midday, nearby Westminster Abbey rang its chimes "to say farewell".
During the repair work, the roof of the Elizabeth Tower will be stripped off and restored, the bell frame repaired, leaks into the clock room stemmed and a lift installed.
A brick enclosure in the tower will also be replaced with glass to allow Big Ben to be viewed by people walking up the staircase.
The "drab" colour scheme on the Great Clock will also be changed to give it a more "vibrant" look, officials have said.
The Ayrton Light, which shines when the Commons and Lords are sitting, will be "off for some time" but the timescale will not be finalised until later this year.
After meeting some of the families, Arlene Foster said she would try to help them in their quest to get the Police Ombudsman to carry out an inquiry.
She also said her party would ask the secretary of state to meet the families to discuss the allegations.
Mrs Foster said the recent claim, which the Chief Constable George Hamilton has strongly denied, had re-traumatised them.
After the meeting on Thursday, she told journalists: "I have been, and continue to be, a long time supporter of the RUC and the Police Service of Northern Ireland, but that doesn't take away from the fact there were a few bad applies around at that particular point in time, therefore we have to get to the truth of this.
"I hear what the chief constable has to say in relation to the truth of these allegations but when you listen to the families and how they have been re-traumatised we have to give them beyond reasonable doubt the certainty that it didn't happen.
"If it did happen then we need to find that out as well."
Opening batsman Finch, who remains in the 15-man squad for the tournament in India, was named T20 captain in 2014 but only led the side six times.
Test and one-day skipper Smith, 26, now leads Australia in all three formats.
Test wicketkeeper Peter Nevill, who has never played any limited-overs cricket for Australia, replaces one-day specialist Matthew Wade.
Spinner Ashton Agar, who has never played any T20 matches for Australia, is also included.
Australia have never won the World Twenty20 title in five previous attempts, their best finish coming in West Indies in 2010 when they lost to England in the final.
Squad: Steve Smith (capt), David Warner, Ashton Agar, Nathan Coulter-Nile, James Faulkner, Aaron Finch, John Hastings, Josh Hazlewood, Usman Khawaja, Mitchell Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Peter Nevill (wkt), Andrew Tye, Shane Watson, Adam Zampa.
The Lib Dem cabinet minister told the BBC that he had handed his report on Trident to the prime minister and deputy prime minister a fortnight ago.
The Lib Dems oppose a straight renewal of Trident, but the Conservatives say it would be "foolish" to abandon it.
Mr Alexander says when the report is published "people will see there are choices available to this country".
He said the review, which was agreed as part of the coalition agreement between the two parties, had lasted two years and was seeking to say whether "complete renewal of Trident in the way previously planned is the only way to protect our country in the future".
Trident is a sea-based nuclear weapons system, acquired by the Thatcher government in the early 1980s, made up of four submarines carrying missiles and warheads. Each component has years of use left, but they cannot last indefinitely.
The review into its replacement had not, Mr Alexander told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, come to any conclusions.
But it would be published in a few weeks and would show "there are alternatives where we can, as President Obama said in Berlin last week, move on from the Cold War postures of the past and try and set out a new future for this country with a deterrent which is credible but where this country can play a role in supporting disarmament in the future".
The £20bn like-for-like replacement of Trident was agreed by the previous Labour government, but has since been delayed as part of the price of the Lib Dems going into coalition with the Conservatives.
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Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron remains committed to maintaining a round-the-clock submarine-based nuclear missile system of the kind Britain has had since the late 1960s.
But the Lib Dems insisted the coalition carry out a review of cheaper submarine or land-based options, including abandoning round-the-clock patrols.
Mr Cameron stressed his commitment to Trident, which is based on the Clyde, during a visit to the west of Scotland in April.
"The world we live in is very uncertain, very dangerous: there are nuclear states and one cannot be sure of how they will develop," he told workers at a defence contractor in Glasgow.
"We cannot be sure on issues of nuclear proliferation, and to me having that nuclear deterrent is quite simply the best insurance policy that you can have, that you will never be subject to nuclear blackmail."
The Scottish National Party has said it would not allow nuclear weapons to be based in Scotland, should next year's referendum support independence, a move that would potentially add billions to the cost of replacing Trident.
Labour has said it will examine the outcome of the Lib Dem prompted review.
Shadow defence minister Kevan Jones said it was "absolutely right and necessary" for the UK to retain an independent nuclear deterrent but the cost needed to be taken into account.
Norfolk social services were told of concerns about the family after a spell at a women's refuge, but failed to properly intervene.
The review found chronic neglect caused "serious" long-term harm to at least two children. All four are now in care.
Norfolk County Council said it should have put the children in care sooner.
The review said the case concerned a "socially isolated and chaotic family" in which the parents had been in conflict for several years.
The mother was "unable to offer adequate care and keep them safe from harm". The father was not part of the household, referred to as Family L, but spent time there in order to see his children.
The children had witnessed domestic violence and suffered accidents including one in which a three-year-old had fallen out of a first floor window, the report said.
It found professionals from different agencies were focused too much on the children's special educational needs and the poor state of the family's home rather than the mother's behaviour, and were too sympathetic to her.
She routinely did not attend her children's medical appointments and regularly failed to get them to school on time.
The children were taken into care in April 2013 after a "number of risky circumstances" came to light including an incident when a toddler was found with adult medication in his mouth.
James Joyce, chairman of Norfolk County Council's children's services, said: "In this instance we didn't make the right decision early enough and for that we must apologise. Especially to the children of Family L.
"The point of a serious case review is to learn and improve from failings."
He was killed by snipers while trying to fire at police from an apartment window in the suburb of Forest.
Four officers were wounded in the raid. Police are still hunting two suspects who were in the apartment.
The raid was linked to an investigation into the jihadist attacks in Paris that killed 130 people last November.
The so-called Islamic State (IS) militant group said it carried out the attacks.
According to the prosecutors' spokesman, an IS flag was recovered from the apartment raided on Tuesday, along with Salafist (ultra-conservative Islamic) literature and Kalashnikov ammunition.
The spokesman told reporters that Belkaid was born in 1980 and had been living in Belgium illegally. He was not known to the authorities except for one case of robbery.
Police went to search an apartment in Forest on Tuesday afternoon. As they entered, they were fired upon by at least two occupants, the spokesman said.
While Belkaid was shot dead that evening, two suspects who were with him managed to escape and became the subject of a police manhunt.
The prosecutor's spokesman said further searches were carried out near the apartment, and more ammunition was recovered.
Two men arrested later - including one who was brought to hospital with a broken leg - have since been released without charge.
Much of Forest was under lockdown on Tuesday, including schools and kindergartens.
Belgium's De Standaard newspaper (in Dutch) quotes its sources as saying that investigators had been expecting to raid a safe house used in connection with the Paris attacks.
They had not expected the flat to be occupied, as its water and electricity had been disconnected for some time.
Officials have identified most of the people they believe to have carried out the assaults on 13 November - many of whom were based in Brussels.
Most of the suspects either died during the attacks or were killed in later police raids.
Parts of Brussels were sealed off for days after the Paris massacre amid fears of a major incident. Brussels police have carried out a series of raids.
French police also took part in Tuesday's operation in Brussels. One of the officers wounded in the raid was a French policewoman, officials said.
Information provided by the Belgian prosecutor's office on 16 March 2016
Bashar al-Assad said Mr Trump would be a "natural ally" if he fulfilled a campaign pledge to fight terrorism.
But he said it was "dubious" whether Mr Trump could "live up to his promises".
Mr Trump had previously said it was "madness" to oppose both Syrian forces and IS militants, and that fighting Syria could lead to fighting Russia.
Conflict continues to rage in Syria. Government aircraft on Tuesday bombed besieged rebel-held eastern districts of the city of Aleppo for the first time in three weeks, activists said.
More than 300,000 people have died since the Syrian civil conflict began in March 2011.
Speaking to Portugal's RTP state television, Mr Assad said: "We cannot tell anything about what he's going to do, but if... he is going to fight the terrorists, of course we are going to be [an] ally, natural ally in that regard with the Russians, with the Iranians, with many other countries."
Mr Assad said that Mr Trump's pledge to focus the fight on Islamic State (IS) militants was "promising", but added: "Can he deliver?"
"What about the countervailing forces within the administration, the mainstream media that were against him? How can he deal with it? That's why for us it's still dubious... That's why we are very cautious in judging him."
Current US policy is to strike against IS and other jihadists while supporting moderate rebels opposed to President Assad.
Mr Assad regards those groups as terrorists.
Some US media, including the New York Times, have suggested Mr Trump is likely to end aid for the rebels fighting Mr Assad because "we have no idea who these people are".
He has said fighting Syria could lead to fighting Russia and during the election campaign he had shown admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
On Monday, fellow Republican John McCain lashed out at Mr Trump's planned attempt to reset ties with Russia, saying the price would be the "butchery of the Syrian people".
In his interview, Mr Assad again condemned the current US policy, saying: "They think that they are the police of the world. They think they are the judge of the world. They're not."
He also called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a "sick person" and a "megalomaniac... out of touch with reality".
Turkey has carried out operations in Syria to back rebels opposing Mr Assad.
Meanwhile, conflict has resumed in Aleppo after a three-week lull by government forces and their Russian allies to allow civilians and rebels to leave.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group reported that at least five people had been killed as a number of areas were hit.
The Local Co-ordination Committees, an opposition activist network, also reported that a missile hit the town of Saraqeb in Idlib province, and that Russian warplanes had targeted the towns of Ariha, Ihsim, Khan Sheikhoun and Tal Nabi Ayoub.
The LCC also said there had been air strikes on several locations in Aleppo province on Tuesday, including one that damaged a hospital in Awaijel.
US state department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau condemned the renewed air strikes, adding that "Russia again has backed the Assad regime in their ruthless war against the Syrian people".
She said reported attacks on hospitals and a mobile clinic in Syria would be a violation of international law.
The 17,000-tonne structure was refloated on a high tide at 22:04.
The tugs Union Bear and Union Princess are towing the rig to the east side of Lewis.
The journey to Broad Bay covers about 54 miles (87km) and could take up to 21 hours to complete.
Once in Broad Bay, underwater inspections of the rig will be made to check for damage.
Transocean Winner could remain in the bay until mid-September to allow for repairs and a decision on its final destination.
The rig was being towed from Norway to Malta, from where it was to be moved to a yard in Turkey to be scrapped, when it broke free from a tug in a storm and was blown on to the shore at Dalmore, near Carloway.
It's the incongruity of it all.
The giant orange rig at a jaunty angle at the end of a typically gorgeous Hebridean beach, of course.
As you drive down to the scene there's an orange helicopter parked on a drive just outside one of the houses, branded with a company name from the Pyrenees.
Then there's the cluster of emergency services. Police. Ambulance. Coastguard.
The Salvation Army. Well, get so many people together working so hard, and they'll need support, teas and coffees.
And at sea, just a couple of hundred metres off the beach, the tugs and barges that should move the TransOcean Winner at high tide tonight. Zipping between them, a couple of fast RIBs.
VIDEO: Watch here as Huw Williams tweets footage from the scene.
Hugh Shaw, the Secretary of State's Representative for Maritime Salvage and Intervention, who is overseeing the salvage operation, said everything was done to prepare for a successful refloat.
He told BBC Alba that before being towed to Broad Bay, the rig would first be moved about five miles (8km) offshore from where it ran aground.
This would allow for checks to its buoyancy and stability before the longer towing operation.
Mr Shaw said eight anchors were to be used to hold Transocean Winner in Broad Bay in "any weather conditions".
The Warriors remain two points behind leaders Hull and will drop to third if Warrington beat Wakefield on Sunday.
Winger Solomona and Paul McShane touched down to give the hosts a 12-6 lead at half-time, Sam Powell replying.
Two more Solomona scores after the interval helped to seal victory, despite Wigan threatening a comeback.
Ben Flower sandwiched Solomona's second-half brace and the Warriors reduced a 14-point deficit to four points when John Bateman and Lee Mossop both crossed.
But their hopes of an unlikely win were thwarted by last-gasp efforts by Ryan Hampshire and Oliver Holmes for the Tigers.
Solomona took his tally of Super League tries in 2016 to 31 and the winger is well clear in the race to be the division's leading scorer, with his closest challenger - Corey Thompson of Widnes - second on the list with 20.
Castleford: Dorn; Hampshire, Crooks, Minikin, Solomona; Chase, Gale; Springer, Milner, Patrick, Holmes, Savelio, Moors.
Replacements: Jewitt, McShane, Cook, Millington.
Wigan: Tomkins; Charnley, Gelling, Sarginson, Manfredi; Williams, Smith; Crosby, Powell, Flower, Bateman, Isa, Sutton.
Replacements: Farrell, Mossop, Tautai, Nuuausala.
Referee: Joe Cobb
Hull City Council said it had asked the club to remove the pitch after it was laid at the Airco Arena, on Walton Street, on Tuesday without permission.
Clubs using the venue were told last month to vacate the building so the Tigers could use it for their academy.
Hull City have been approached for a comment.
The authority said it had written a letter to the Premier League side's stadium management committee notifying them it had breached its lease agreement with the council.
Hull City previously said installing the new pitch would allow it to apply for a new academy status.
Council leader Stephen Brady said: "The club have changed the use of the arena with scant regard for the impact on hundreds of people who use the facility day-in, day-out and the community sports clubs who are proud to call it their home.
"It's on their behalf that we take this action today."
Thousands of people signed a petition opposing Hull City's plans to install the pitch.
The England captain scored the opener and set up Ashley Young for the third.
"Sometimes you have to make choices in your career and at the moment it's better for me to play deeper," he said.
"It could be a bit different for England where I could still be the striker but probably next season that's where I see myself playing."
Tottenham's Harry Kane, Jamie Vardy of Leicester, Liverpool's Daniel Sturridge and Rooney's 18-year-old United team-mate Marcus Rashford were the other forwards named in Roy Hodgson's 26-man provisional squad for this summer's European Championship in France.
"I'm sure Roy Hodgson will have his ideas of where he thinks is best for me," Rooney, 30, told BBC Sport.
"It could be where I play for England, but that's down to Roy. I'm sure we'll speak when we meet up and he'll tell me where he wants me to play."
Rooney, England's all-time top scorer with 51 goals, is only four off Bobby Charlton's club record of 249 goals for United.
His goal on Tuesday was his 100th Premier League goal at Old Trafford.
BBC Sport have launched an England XI team selector, which lets you choose who you think should start at Euro 2016.
Within 24 hours, over 500,000 had picked their team. Only 51% of fans chose Rooney to start, but of those 83% put him in midfield.
When chosen in a traditional 4-4-2 formation - the most popular shape - just 7% had Rooney as one of their two strikers. But in that same formation, he got 200,000 picks as a midfielder - putting him as the third choice behind Tottenham pair Dele Alli and Eric Dier.
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Shaun Whiter and friend Joey Abbs were struck by the car as they changed a tyre near Newmarket on 1 July 2016.
Mr Whiter had to have both legs amputated and Mr Abbs was seriously hurt.
Mr Whiter says he still wants his legs back but is determined to "focus on the positives" like marrying Charlotte Way.
Before the accident, he was playing for Newmarket Town FC and Mr Abbs was in the Soham squad.
Within days of his operation however Mr Whiter, 28, had vowed to "walk down the aisle" with Ms Way.
He took his life-changing injuries well on the face of it, throwing himself into rehabilitation, and expressing hopes to take part in the 2020 Paralympics.
But losing both legs beneath the knee is not plain sailing and "I cry a lot", he said.
He had gone out that night specifically to help Mr Abbs change the flat tyre on his car when they were both struck by the vehicle.
The driver, Jan Adamec, 40, from Haverhill, failed to stop at the scene and "left us there to die" Mr Abbs, now 32, said.
Seriously injured himself, he recalls hobbling to his friend and holding his hand as they waited for paramedics.
"It was obviously bad. The pool of blood on the floor was unbelievable," he said.
"Shaun said, 'How can he just leave us here?'"
A year on, Mr Whiter is looking to the future.
"The dream would be to have children," he said.
He wants to be able to "walk to the park" and, despite facing two more years' rehabilitation, still has sporting ambitions.
"I would like to have a crack... but the main thing is to get married, have a family, and then see where it goes from there," he said.
Ms Way has "been there every single day", he said.
"Visually, people can see what's going on - they can see the legs - but Charlotte is there mentally, by my side," he added.
There is "bitterness", he admits, but "it's over and done with - you've got to move on".
Mr Abbs is back in training but the mental scars remain, and he has had time off work and is on medication.
"Even though I know it wasn't my fault I still feel that if I hadn't called Shaun, he wouldn't be in this position," he said.
However, Mr Whiter said he is determined to see the "positives".
"I do wake up some days and wish I could get up normally, but now I have to... put these [prosthetic] legs on.
"But, I've had amazing opportunities that would never have happened had that not happened.
"I'm the first to admit I want my legs back... but I've got to deal with it."
During the past year he has taken part in charity events, raising money for the air ambulance.
"For now, I'm going to take every challenge and every day and see where it goes," he said.
The hit-and-run driver Jan Adamec was jailed for three years and four months last September, after admitting two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
The project was unveiled on Friday at the Urdd Eisteddfod in Flint, with pupils from Ysgol Emrys Ap Iwan in Abergele, Conwy, and Ysgol Glan Clwyd in St Asaph, Denbighshire.
It is part of an ongoing campaign by the force to tackle the issue.
Officers said it helped young people relate to the issues.
"I hope the film will have a positive impact and raise awareness of what child sexual exploitation is, particularly to children and young people across north Wales who may be being exploited and who may not have realised it until now," said Det Supt Jo Williams.
"Child sexual exploitation is not acceptable and there is only one person to blame for it - the perpetrator, not the child."
Some of the Year 11 and 12 pupils were studying for their GCSE and A levels at the time of filming and took a few hours after their school day to take part.
"The pupils are glad to have been able to use their performing skills to share such an important message with other young people," added Kevin Jones, head of drama at Ysgol Emrys Ap Iwan.
Among 45 people the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was looking for, 12 were current or former employees of American Airlines.
A spokesman for the airline said it had a "zero-tolerance policy" for "this kind of activity".
Puerto Rico, a US territory, is a major drug shipment point in the Caribbean.
Three additional suspects were arrested in US airports, officials said.
"We have dismantled the two most significant drug operations at the airport," said Pedro Janer, acting special agent in charge of the DEA's Caribbean division.
In addition to the 12 people connected to American Airlines, warrants were issued for workers at Ground Motive Dependable, a company that provides baggage handling at the airport.
One government worker with Puerto Rico's Port Authority is also being sought.
The morning raid involved two investigations, one stretching from 1999 to 2009, and the other from 2010 to 2012.
According to the DEA, suspects in the first case would allegedly enter Luis Munoz Marin International Airport through employee entrances while carrying concealed drugs. They then passed the drugs to another person in bathrooms beyond security checkpoints.
In the second case, a group of 20 people are accused of smuggling 9,000kg (20,000lb) of cocaine by loading suitcases filled with the drug into the cargo area and ensuring their arrival at US mainland airports.
Some of the drugs belonged to Angel Ayala Vazquez, once considered Puerto Rico's top drug dealer, the DEA said.
Puerto Rico is seeking more federal funding to fight drug trafficking. US officials say more than 70% of the cocaine that arrives on the island is destined for the mainland.
Caldwell officially joined Town in February from Scottish club St. Mirren and has raised the concessions age on tickets to 18 years.
"We need to look at how we grow our fanbase here," Caldwell told BBC Radio Shropshire.
"The average age of our season ticket holders is, dare I say, too high."
Caldwell intends to use experience gained during his eight-year stay with St.Mirren, where he oversaw the club's move to a new stadium in 2009, to make a similar impact at Greenhous Meadow.
"We need to encourage young people, we did a lot of work with them at St.Mirren and engaged the local community and we have a great opportunity to market the club," he said.
"Even if they might have an affinity to Manchester United they're not going to be able to go there every week, whereas they can come to Shrewsbury.
"Improving the match-day experience is also on my hit-list. We have great facilities here and we can make the experience even more enjoyable and make sure people come back."
Shrewsbury are on course to secure their place in League One for next season with the club 17th in the table, nine points clear of the relegation zone, with 10 games to play.
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Police Scotland said that apart from her carers, the last independent sighting of Margaret Fleming was on 17 December 1999 at a family gathering.
The 36-year-old was reported missing by her two carers from her home in Inverkip at about 17:40 on 28 October.
Officers want to hear from anyone who knew Ms Fleming from her college days.
Ms Fleming, who is believed to have learning difficulties, is thought to have attended James Watt College in Greenock between 1996 and 1998.
Police said she had few contactable friends or family and checks on education, employment, health and welfare records had shown no trace of her.
An ongoing search of the house in Main Road which belonged to her carers, a man in his 70s and a woman in her 50s, will now extend into the garden.
Police said the work would be extensive, involving some excavation work.
Det Ch Insp Paul Livingstone said they had found no trace of a job, few friends, and no evidence of her contact with partner agencies and local services.
"One line of inquiry that I now must consider is the possibility that Margaret may have come to some harm," he said
"Our search will continue from the house into the grounds around it.
"This is a natural progression in the inquiry to assist our investigation to find Margaret."
However, he stressed it was still a missing person investigation.
"Margaret's carers have said that they believe she has a private side to her life and that she may have friends that they are not aware of," he said.
He told BBC Scotland that, according to her carers, she had friends she would sometimes visit.
"However, she kept that side very private, so we need to speak to anyone who has had any dealings with Margaret since 1999," he said.
Ms Fleming is described as about 5ft 5in tall, with collar-length black hair, brown eyes and has a heavy build.
When last seen, she was wearing a green tartan fleece or jumper, dark jeans or trousers, and dark Karrimor-type boots. She also had a satchel-type handbag.
It is believed Ms Fleming lived with her father in Port Glasgow before he died in October 1995.
She then lived with her grandparents and mother but moved in with carers, who were close family friends, in 1997.
She is thought to have been estranged from her mother since then.
Officers from the Major Investigations Team are now assisting police at Greenock with the investigation.
He later clarified his comments but the new Great British Bake Off host had lifted the lid on a big issue.
The beauty standards imposed on women in media are nothing new, but the experiences of their male counterparts have often been overlooked.
In recent years, more male stars have spoken out about their struggles.
This week, Blue singer and stage actor Antony Costa spoke about the fat-shaming abuse he faced on social media and explained the pressures of showbusiness.
"Me as a bloke being in this business, it's hard because you've got to keep up with the Joneses, you've got to been seen to have the six pack." he told ITV's Lorraine.
In a 2016 survey of more than 1,000 boys aged between eight and 18, 55% said they would consider changing their diet to look better and 23% said they believed there was "a perfect male body to strive for".
The survey also found that the four biggest sources of pressure on secondary school boys to look good were:
Despite the relentless pressure that young men can feel from the media, the survey found that more than half of the boys (56%) would find it difficult to talk to a teacher about their confidence and nearly one-third (29%) would find it difficult talking to their parents about it.
Here are nine male celebrities who have spoken out about body image and are calling on the media to change their attitudes.
After losing almost 50lb in a year, singer Sam Smith told NME magazine in October 2015 that negative body image has been something he has struggled with since childhood.
"I still feel pressured to look a certain way," he said. "For women, the pressure in this industry is horrendous and it's got to stop. But it's the same for guys, even though they won't speak about it."
He continued: "I want to be a voice for that: just because I've lost weight doesn't mean that I'm happy and content with my body. Because of the media, and because of what I feel I should look like, it's always going to be a battle in my head."
Yes, you read that right! Actor Chris Pratt - who plays the gun-toting, butt-kicking, ripped Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy - has struggled with body image, too.
In a press conference for the film in 2014, he said: "I'm sure I can't relate to what females go through in Hollywood. I'm sure I can't. But, I do know what it feels like to eat emotionally, and… to be sad and make yourself happy with food.
"And then to be almost immediately sad again and now ashamed and then to try to hide those feelings with more food. I know what that's like. It's a vicious cycle and it's a very real thing."
In an interview with Rolling Stone in 2016, talk show host James Corden opened up about how he dealt with his confidence in school.
He explained: "If you're big at school, you've really got two choices. You're going to be a target. If you go to school and you're me, you go, 'Right, I'm just going to make myself a bigger target. My confidence, it will terrify them.' That's how I felt in school."
Corden also touched on his frustrations on the way Hollywood represents larger people.
He said: "I could never understand when I watch romantic comedies. The notion that for some reason unattractive or heavy people don't fall in love.
"If they do, it's in some odd, kooky, roundabout way - and it's not. It's exactly the same."
Prison Break actor Wentworth Miller opened up about his depression after being the subject of an internet meme joke by The Lad Bible in 2016.
Miller wrote in a Facebook post: "In 2010, at the lowest point in my adult life, I was looking everywhere for relief/comfort/distraction. And I turned to food."
He continued: "It could have been anything. Drugs. Alcohol. Sex. But eating became the one thing I could look forward to. Count on to get me through".
Alex Sharp starred alongside Lily Collins in Netflix drama To The Bone, which follows a girl's treatment for anorexia.
When Collins' character is admitted into a recovery home with six other patients, she meets Luke (played by Sharp), the only male patient in the house.
Talking to Broadway World about portraying a man struggling with an eating disorder, Sharp said: "It happens a lot and I think sometimes - because it is under-discussed and a taboo subject generally - when it is discussed it tends to be more about the female experience, because it is more prevalent, numerically.
"There had never been a representation of that in a feature-length movie. So that was something I was very interested in doing."
Iron Man 3 star Ashley Hamilton told People in 2013 that he had suffered from bulimia and anorexia since he was a teenager and that he used drugs and alcohol to control his food addiction.
"I've been free from bulimia for years but I still struggle with food, restricting or overeating. That's been the hardest for me in sobriety," he admitted.
He continued: "It's almost like drug addiction is totally acceptable to talk about in Hollywood. But food addiction? Nobody wants to talk about that. It's really shameful as a man to have that."
The chart-topping singer told Planet Radio in a 2014 interview: "I was never really happy with my image and then I realised it was because I was eating fried food and drinking beer every day. You don't have to kill yourself by getting into shape. Just eat right and don't drink every day."
Commenting on body image pressures in the music industry, Sheeran said: "There's enough fat people in the industry and there's enough skinny people in the industry and there's enough ginger people in the industry.
"There's enough of everyone in the industry, and usually the ones that aren't attractive are the ones that do the best."
Before starring in Orange is the new Black and How to Get Away With Murder, Matt McGorry used to be a personal trainer and competitive bodybuilder, which actually made him more critical of his body.
When asked what we could do to change the conversation around male body issues he told US TV show Today: "When we lock our boys away from these feelings, not only are they more likely to hurt themselves but they're also more likely to hurt others and to be the ones who are policing masculinity amongst other men."
Despite being nominated as one of the world's "sexiest men alive" in 2009, Twilight star Robert Pattinson has still admitted to feeling insecure.
In an interview with Australia's Sunday Style magazine in 2013, the Twilight actor revealed he suffers from body dysmorphia - an anxiety disorder that causes a person to have a distorted view of how they look.
"I don't have a six-pack and I hate going to the gym. I've been like that my whole life. I never want to take my shirt off," he said.
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The robotic version uses the same forces to jump as the water strider - pushing off without breaking the surface.
It takes off with a downward force that never exceeds the surface tension of water - the force that "glues" surface water molecules together.
The South Korea and US team's advance is reported in the journal Science.
Lead researchers Prof Ho-Young Kim and Prof Kyu-Jin Cho, from Seoul National University, used water striders from their local pond in the study.
"To explore [their] amazing semi-aquatic motility, we collected [the insects] and recorded them jumping on water in the laboratory with high-speed cameras," the scientists said.
"[These imaging experiments] revealed that the insect rises upward while pushing the water surface downward and closing four of its legs inward."
So the team set out to build that motion into the design of their robot.
Each robot's 2cm (0.8in) body is made of layers of thin material folded into a vee-shape, with a spring running across its length.
When powered up for a jump, the spring releases, but slowly, dragging the ends of robot's body and its 5cm insect-like legs downward with gradually increasing force to the limit the water surface will withstand.
The robots - and the insects - also rotate their legs inward "to maximise the interaction time between the legs and the water".
The researchers envisage an environmental application for their robotic water strider - monitoring pollution in waterways.
But they added their goal had been not to commercialise their miniature robot, but to explore "a new possibility [for] a robot's aquatic mobility".
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A search for her began on Sunday after a paper published an article about her alleged abduction, prompting a social media campaign demanding she be freed.
Her family say she was abducted from the south in August by a man who forced her to convert to Islam before marrying her in the northern city of Kano.
The man denies it was against her will.
The alleged abduction has ignited the debate about child brides and forced marriages in Nigeria.
The UN said more than one in three girls are married before the age of 18, mostly in poor rural families in Africa.
The family say they have made several efforts to bring Ese back from Kano, some 900km (600 miles) away from her home in southern Bayelsa state, but were told she was no longer their daughter.
There have been some 50,000 tweets using the hashtag #FreeEse since Sunday to put pressure on the authorities to rescue the girl.
The alleged abductor of the girl was a long-standing customer of Ese's mother, who is a food vendor, reports the BBC's Chris Ewokor from the capital, Abuja.
Prominent girls' rights activist and former World Bank Director Oby Ezekwesili and human rights campaigners have called for the prosecution of all those involved in the alleged kidnapping.
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There have been reports that the marriage took place at the palace of the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, an influential Muslim leader in Nigeria.
But he has vehemently denied this.
The Emir said the girl was brought to his palace after her alleged conversion to Islam but he told the person to return her to her family because she was too young.
"We asked that if he really wants her he should wait for her until she turns 18 and then if she still wants him they can get married. No-one will stand in the way," Mr Sanusi said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Nigeria's Premium Times newspaper is reporting that the girl has said she wants to remain in Kano.
She told police she was not forced to convert to Islam, it reports.
In 2014, a 14-year-old girl used rat poison to kill a 35-year-old man she was forced to marry in the city.
In June, 17 men were sentenced for the sexual abuse of the vulnerable girl, which started when she was 12.
A serious case review found that between 2009 and 2011 opportunities were missed because there was not an "effective system" in place.
The report said services in the area had improved due to the case.
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Both West Yorkshire Police and Calderdale Council have apologised to the girl.
The Local Safeguarding Children Board's report said police and social workers were "unable to protect [her] because professionals in Calderdale did not, at that time, have an effective system for assessing and planning intervention for children at risk from sexual exploitation."
Det Supt Darren Minton praised the girl's "immense courage and bravery" in giving evidence against the men.
He said: "West Yorkshire Police accepts that opportunities were missed in the past to protect victims of child sexual exploitation, it is important to stress that child sexual exploitation is a top priority and we now have strong partnerships and better working practices with agencies."
The pedestrian, who is in his 30s, was walking at Mill Hill when the collision happened on Saturday morning.
He was was taken to hospital for treatment.
The road was closed for more than four hours between Ballylough Road and Clarkhill Road but has now reopened.
An inquest found Mary Muldowney, 57, probably would have survived if she had been transferred for surgery more quickly.
Doctors in Surrey had asked for an immediate transfer last July, but several units had no beds available.
Her son, Sean, said the family did not want the same thing to happen to another patient.
Ms Muldowney was first admitted to East Surrey Hospital with a suspected brain bleed.
Doctors requested an immediate transfer to a neurosurgical unit after a scan showed heavy bleeding.
Three units - St George's and King's College hospitals in London and the Royal Sussex in Brighton - refused.
Other hospitals also said they had no available intensive care beds.
The inquest heard Ms Muldowney was eventually transferred to Royal London Hospital after a Surrey doctor "went out of area" in "desperation", but surgery did not save her.
Ms Muldowneys' daughter, Sharon Callan, said: "It's really really upsetting to hear that your mum should and could be alive."
Her son Sean added: "Somebody needs to take responsibility for that, and unless somebody takes responsibility for that, and admits that there may have been a mistake somewhere along the line, you are not going to fix that error. That error will reoccur."
Irwin Mitchell solicitor Leanne Leighton said: "Her family want answers and to prevent it happening again."
Ms Leighton said: "The revelations at the inquest came as a shock to [the family].
"They were not aware of the full extent of the issues surrounding the availability of a bed. That is what we are going to investigate."
She added: "Tragically it is too late for Mary but her family want to prevent it happening again to another family."
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust and St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust both said at the time of referral Ms Muldowney "was not deemed to require life-saving surgery".
The Brighton hospital trust said it often took neurosurgical patients in emergency situations "even if we have no beds available", while St George's said it never "refused emergency admissions that require specialist care for any reason".
King's College Hospital said patient transfers were only accepted "when medical specialists have been consulted and it is clinically safe to do so".
It said it continues to see "high demand" but a new critical care centre was under construction and would add "significant capacity".
The Oak Leafers were denied a quarter-final meeting with Kerry as Conor Sweeney's two late points put Tipp into the last eight for the first time.
Mark Lynch scored a fine goal as Derry led 1-8 to 0-10 at half-time.
Kevin O'Halloran netted for Tipperary while Eoghan Brown got Derry's second goal to edge them into a narrow lead.
But Tipperary, better known as a hurling county, never gave up and got the stoppage-time points to earn a quarter-final meeting against Galway.
Derry had staged late comebacks to win in previous rounds against Louth, Meath and Cavan - but fell agonisingly short on this occasion.
They were outscored for most of the first half but Lynch's first-time shot into the net from Danny Heavron's lay-off gave them a huge boost.
But a mistake by Derry goalkeeper Thomas Mallon in the 48th minute was the big moment in what was an entertaining game.
Mallon slid as he kicked out, and the ball went straight to O'Halloran who advanced to find the net.
Three Michael Quinlivan frees and points by Josh Keane and sub Bill Maher had outsiders Tipp 1-18 to 1-13 up on 60 minutes.
Derry mounted a brilliant rally with Emmett Bradley, Heavron, Lynch, McGoldrick and Christopher Bradley all scoring.
Then came Brown's close-range goal from Ciaran McFaul's pass which edged Derry ahead.
The impressive Heavron added a point before having to off with cramp.
But it was not enough as Sweeney scored the points in time added on to end Derry's Championship season.
Saturday 23 July
All-Ireland SFC Qualifiers Round 4A
Clare 2-12 1-9 Roscommon
Derry 2-17 1-21 Tipperary
The Dow Jones and S&P 500 had their worst 5-day start to the year on record, both losing over 1% during Friday's trading.
The Dow Jones fell 167.65 points, or 1.02%, to 16,346.45.
The S&P 500 was down 21.06 points or 1.08% to 1,922.03 while the Nasdaq lost 45.80 points or 0.98% to 4,643.63.
US shares were hit hard this week by big falls in Chinese shares after trading was halted twice on the Shanghai market.
Better-than-expected jobs figures helped to lift the market in early trading. The non-farm payrolls figure showed the economy added 292,000 jobs in December.
The jobs report also showed the unemployment rate was unchanged at 5% in December, while October and November's figures were revised to show an extra 50,000 jobs were created.
But the figures were not enough to lift the markets as oil prices continued to spiral lower.
US crude reached $33.16 a barrel - the lowest point since 2004 - while Brent crude fell to $33.55 a barrel.
Petroleum linked stocks declined as a result. ExxonMobil finished 2% down and Chevron lost 1.1%.
Technology companies also suffered on Friday. Google's parent company Alphabet was down 1.6%.
One of the day's few winners was Campbell Soup, which rose 0.6% after the company announced it would label whether products contain genetically modified ingredients.
Campbell's is the first US company to take this step.
Zahid Iqbal, 31, Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, 25, Syed Farhan Hussain, 21, and Umar Arshad, 24, from Luton, pleaded guilty to terror offences in March.
They also arranged terrorism training, fundraising, and discussed the use of homemade bombs.
They will be sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court, in London, on Tuesday.
BBC home affairs correspondent Matt Prodger, who was at the hearing, reported that the four men smiled and giggled as the court was played recordings of conversations in which they discussed travelling to Pakistan for terror training, buying guns and making explosives,
They were also recorded talking about attaching an improvised explosive device to a toy remote-controlled car, driving it through a gap beneath the gate of the TA base, and detonating it beneath a military vehicle.
Iqbal was recorded telling Ahmed: "I was looking and drove past like the TA centre, Marsh Road. At the bottom of their gate there's quite a big gap. If you had a little toy car it drives underneath one of their vehicles or something."
Prosecutor Max Hill QC told the court the men were subjects of an intelligence-led joint investigation by counter-terrorism police and MI5 into the movement of individuals from the UK to Pakistan "for extremist purposes linked to al-Qaeda".
He said they had carried out physical training exercises in Snowdonia and the Brecon Beacons in preparation for travelling to Pakistan - where they expected to join groups linked to al-Qaeda.
"They discussed making an improvised explosive device (IED) following instructions from an Inspire magazine which they planned to adapt," he told the court.
"They also identified a target for such an attack, namely a Territorial Army base in their locality, although they also discussed targeting multiple sites at one time."
Iqbal was the ringleader who organised travel and training, and Ahmed was actively involved in the radicalisation and recruitment of others - organising physical training for the men and the purchase of survival equipment, the court heard.
In a recording from 15 January 2011, Iqbal said: "At least you'll get to meet the brothers and then it's up to them.
"They might even use you for something else in the meantime, cos there's lots of different other things, innit. There's people making weapons there, helping them making the bombs and stuff, other people transporting - maybe they will use you for something like that… you will be checked out and stuff."
The four men were arrested following a series of raids at their homes in Luton in April 2012.
Search warrants issued at the defendants' addresses uncovered evidence from mobile telephones and SIM cards, computers and digital media, travel documentation, passports and quantities of cash, the court heard.
A search of Iqbal's house found a hard drive containing a number of items including a copy of 44 Ways to Support Jihad, by Anwar al-Awlaki, the court heard.
A copy of Inspire magazine including articles on how to bypass airport security and avoid detection by X-ray scanning equipment, how to transport explosives in printer cartridges and how packages were shipped to Yemen in cargo planes was also found.
"This evidence supports the product of eavesdropping and surveillance in showing the radicalisation of the defendants and their commitment to engage in violent jihad - in the sense of violent terrorist attacks against the military and civilian population of western states such as the United Kingdom," Mr Hill said.
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Bailey, from Bournemouth, scored 104.695 points for his two routines.
The 22-year-old said: "It's been my aim for the last four years and qualifying the spot for Team GB just means the world to me. Hopefully I can secure the spot in my name [at the GB trials]."
Britain already has two female trampoline places at Rio.
It will be the first time Great Britain is represented by a male trampolinist at the Olympics since Gary Smith competed at the 2004 Games in Athens. | Nathan Bailey produced a fine performance at the Rio test event to secure Great Britain a male trampoline place at the 2016 Olympics. | 36,089,831 | 121 | 29 | false |
A report from the rural affairs and environment committee said the land management proposals need "more work".
The bill was also rejected by delegates at the SNP conference in October, who argued it should be strengthened.
Landowners say the bill as it stands would have "far-reaching and detrimental consequences" for business.
The Land Reform Bill proposes a series of changes, including an end to business rate exemptions for shooting and deerstalking estates, giving communities a right to buy land to help sustainable development, and making information on who owns land and its value more readily available to the public.
MSPs on the Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee were asked to prepare a report on the proposals.
Convener Rob Gibson said the committee shared the government's aim of delivering "radical" land reform, but said some parts as drafted "require more work to deliver their ambitions."
He said: "Key issues - such as improving transparency on who owns, controls and benefits from land, making the rent review process fairer and more transparent, and creating a better environment for investment in holdings by both tenants and landlords - require either further consideration or more detailed explanation."
Aileen McLeod, the minister for environment, climate change and land reform, said there was an "energising and exciting debate" around the topic, and said the Scottish government "welcome suggestions to improve and strengthen the legislation".
She said: "There is no doubt that the Land Reform Bill represents the most radical and ambitious programme yet, and is a vital next step in our land reform journey.
"We have an incredible opportunity to secure real, and potentially life-changing, benefits for people and communities across Scotland, and we look forward to exploring the ideas and suggestions of the committee to further strengthen the bill.
"The measures in the bill make important changes to specific rights and responsibilities over land, including provisions to increase the transparency of land ownership. It also puts Scottish communities at the heart of land reform by empowering them through a right to buy land to further sustainable development."
Landowners and gamekeepers have voiced concerns about some of the provisions of the bill, and welcomed the extra scrutiny brought by the committee.
A spokesman for the Scottish Gamekeeper's Association backed "a more robust assessment of economic, social and environmental impacts" of parts of the legislation, in particular ending the exemption from non-domestic rates for shootings and deer forests.
He said: "We are pleased the committee has recognised the fundamental role these activities play in rural communities.
"The Scottish government needs to provide a more rigorous analysis of community and economic impacts if it is to justify the removal of exemptions which currently remain in place for many similar rural industries such as aquaculture, forestry and farming."
David Johnstone, chairman of Scottish Land and Estates, said the committee had made a "very important intervention" on some topics, but voiced fears about making the bill "more radical".
He said: "The Land Reform Bill, as it stands, will have far-reaching and detrimental consequences for land-based businesses across Scotland, which employ many thousands of people and make a major social, economic and environmental contribution to rural communities.
"There has been so much rhetoric surrounding the bill that has been about 'righting historic wrongs' or 'giving lairds a bashing', that many landowners fear the bill could be in danger of becoming more about inflicting punitive measures on landowners rather than about meaningful reform to benefit all.
"We wholeheartedly agree that Scotland's land should be used for the benefit of the many and believe that both private and community ownership have an important role in delivering that benefit. We will continue to work constructively with the Scottish government and parliamentarians to achieve that objective and appeal for the contribution of land-based businesses to be recognised during the remainder of the parliamentary process." | The Scottish government's Land Reform Bill needs to be "enhanced and strengthened" to deliver the "radical changes needed", MSPs have declared. | 35,005,602 | 839 | 35 | false |
Under NHS rules trusts can be penalised for not hitting targets such as the four-hour A&E waiting time mark.
An investigation by BBC Radio 4's You and Yours programme found some trusts were fined over over £8m last year.
Hospital bosses said fines were counterproductive, but local managers insisted they were a useful tool to drive up standards.
You and Yours asked 164 hospital trusts in England about how much they had been fined. Of the 97 which responded, 46 had not been fined at all.
But of the remaining 51, the fines levied by local managers totalled £92m. The trust fined the most was Kings College Hospital NHS Trust which paid £8.4m in fines. The next highest was University Hospitals of Leicester which paid back £7.7m.
The largest number of fines - nearly £30m worth - were levied on hospital trusts for missing their 18-week waiting time target for routine operations like knee and hip replacements. A&E fines totalled nearly £18m.
Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents 200 NHS trusts, said: "We're not arguing that providers should get a free pass but fines are neither the best nor the only method for changing practice, particularly when they are often applied to issues that are beyond providers' control.
"We also view the increase in fines as ultimately reducing providers' ability to hire staff and fund service improvements, and that such a rise is therefore counterproductive to enabling the best quality care."
Stephen Conroy, chief executive of Bedford Hospital NHS Trust, was fined £2.8m for the last financial year. He said: "In the first week of January when there was a national problem of more patients turning up in A&E. We had to cancel every elective operation because we had so many people in A&E waiting to be treated and to have beds.
"We worked really hard to turn things around but then we got fined for ambulances queuing up to deliver patients, we got fined for not hitting the 18- week target to treat people because we cancelled those operations.
"When you are in crisis like that the fines provide no incentive at all. When you get overwhelmed normal business doesn't apply. There is no way the targets can provide any incentive for us to treat people any differently. All they do is make your financial position worse and make it harder."
Julie Wood, director of NHS Clinical Commissioners, which represents local managers, defended the system: "These fines are not about a trust paying back money to deliver, it's about withholding money when a trust has failed to deliver against a statutory mandatory performance standard.
"The money is held to reinvest in care and services that will help that local place to deliver those standards. It is not about money going back to the Treasury but reinvesting it in front line services to help the local system deliver against the national standards." | Hospitals are warning that fines for missing targets are in danger of threatening patient care. | 33,054,873 | 643 | 20 | false |
The Social Mobility Commission said it uncovered "stark differences" between how groups progress into work.
Some minorities have higher jobless rates, although poorer white boys are least likely to go to university.
Alan Milburn, chair of the Commission, said the British 'social mobility promise' was being broken.
"British families are told that if their children go to school and work hard, they will be rewarded with good jobs and opportunities. But for many groups this promise is being broken," says the commission's report.
"In recent months, the low educational attainment of White British boys has gained significant attention. However, when it comes to the transition from education to employment, this group is less likely to be unemployed and to face social immobility than their female counterparts, black students and young Asian Muslims."
The study was carried out by education think-tanks LKMco and Education Datalab, looking at how students progress through schooling, if they go on to sixth form and university, and how their achievements translate into jobs.
White boys from poorer backgrounds perform badly throughout the education system and are the worst performers at primary and secondary school, the report said.
Black children, despite starting school with the same level of maths and literacy as other ethnic groups, are most likely to fail maths GCSE.
Black boys face extremely high levels of school exclusion and perform substantially worse than their female peers.
And the report said that young black people also have the lowest outcomes in science, maths and technology A-levels and are the least likely ethnic group to achieve a good degree at university.
It is disadvantaged young people from white British backgrounds who are the least likely to access Higher Education.
Only one in 10 of the poorest go to university, compared to three in 10 for black Caribbean children, five in 10 for Bangladeshis and nearly seven in 10 for Chinese students on the lowest incomes.
But after school, it is young women from Pakistani and Bangladeshi backgrounds that are particularly affected.
Despite succeeding throughout education and going to university, they are less likely to find top jobs and are paid less than women from other ethnic minorities, the report concluded.
The Commission has called for action from government, educators and employers to narrow these gaps.
It has also published a list of recommendations, including avoiding setting in school and targeting specific groups to try and improve the system.
Mr Milburn said: "The British social mobility promise is that hard work will be rewarded. This research suggests that promise is being broken for too many people in our society.
"Britain is a long way from having a level playing field of opportunity for all, regardless of gender, ethnicity or background.
The report also showed the role of parents plays a large part in performance at school, as the more they engage, the better their children do, according to the research.
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Ryanair has cancelled more than 250 flights across Europe so far, including at least 26 flights in and out of Dublin and Shannon airports.
Easyjet cancelled 118 flights, with two between Belfast and Paris included.
Aer Lingus flights EI522 Dublin to Paris and EI523 Paris to Dublin on Wednesday have both been cancelled.
Air France has cancelled Wednesday afternoon's AF1816 flight from Paris to Dublin, as well as its AF1817 Dublin to Paris service.
Ryanair's cancellations at Dublin airport include flights to and from destinations in France, Spain and Portugal.
George Best Belfast City Airport said it did not expect its flights to be affected by the industrial action.
Customers have been advised to check the status of their flights before heading to the airport.
Irish state broadcaster RTÉ said all other Aer Lingus flights between Ireland and France are scheduled to operate.
"We will notify customers through all available communications channels should this situation change," an Aer Lingus spokesperson said on Tuesday night.
In a statement, Ryanair said: "We sincerely apologise to all customers affected by this unwarranted strike action and we call on the EU and French authorities to take measures to prevent any further disruption."
The company added: "It's grossly unfair that thousands of European travellers will once again have their travel plans disrupted by the selfish actions of a tiny number of French ATC [air traffic control] workers."
An Easyjet spokesperson said: "We can assure our passengers we are doing everything possible to limit the inconvenience of this strike on them."
Air traffic controllers in France are due to go on strike on Wednesday.
The SNCTA union of air traffic controllers told the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGCA) that the strike would take place on Wednesday and Thursday.
The DGAC said "disruption is expected over the whole country".
It requested that companies cancel 40% of flights as a preventative measure.
Further strike action is planned between 16 and 18 April and 29 April and 2 May.
Prince Andrew, who was a Royal Navy helicopter pilot in the war, paid his respects at the chapel of Pangbourne College in Berkshire.
The service was relayed on screens outside the chapel, to allow 870 veterans and relatives to take part.
Britain accepted the Argentine surrender on 14 June 1982.
Among those in the congregation was Ellie Smith, whose husband Petty Officer Ben Casey was one of the first servicemen to be killed in the conflict.
She said: "My husband always said he loved fighting for what was right. I have a lot of love and a lot of pride in my heart."
Another attendee, Rear Admiral Jeremy Sanders said: "It did get quite close because ships were getting tired, ammunition was constantly having to be resupplied."
The A48 in Morriston was shut and there were severe traffic delays in the area following the collision at Morriston Cross.
It happened at about 17:30 GMT, with the 46-year-old dying at the scene. The bus driver and passengers were uninjured.
Police have appealed for witnesses to the incident.
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Their game against Slovakia on Monday is now in doubt.
"We have been getting changed in public toilets on the way to matches," said Republic forward Aine O'Gorman.
Players representative Stuart Gilhooly said that they were being treated as "fifth-class citizens, the dirt on the FAI's shoe".
The Professional Footballers' Association Of Ireland solicitor accompanied women's team members at Tuesday's news conference.
"There is a possibility that the game against Slovakia will not go ahead. The last thing the women's international team want is to not play a game," added the PFAI official.
The players have indicated that they will refuse to train on Wednesday unless the FAI holds talks with their representatives at the PFAI and as of 17:00 BST on Tuesday evening, this had not happened.
The players are fighting for compensation from the FAI for lost earnings while on international duty and improved resources.
"What we want is for the FAI to empower and enable our players to commit to training camps and international games without having to worry about taking unpaid leave from work or being forced to use up all of their holidays," said captain Emma Byrne.
The women have grievances over a series of issues, including a demand for match fees of 300 Euros, bonuses of 150 Euros for a win and 75 Euros for a draw, gym membership for the squad and the provision of team clothing.
O'Gorman was joined by 12 other members of the Irish squad - including Stephanie Roche and captain Emma Byrne - at a news conference publicising their grievances on Tuesday.
The players also alleged that it was commonplace for the team to have to share tracksuits with the country's youth women's squads.
Former Arsenal goalkeeper Byrne, who has played 127 times for her country, said that the team had "given up" trying to deal directly with the FAI.
"We are willing to do whatever it takes at this stage," she added.
"We are fighting for the future of women's international football. This isn't just about us.
"I know players who have had to stop playing. They made the decision they couldn't play any more."
O'Gorman said that the FAI had warned the players that going public with their grievances could "endanger their careers at club and international level".
In response, an FAI statement said the governing body was "deeply disappointed that members of the team have threatened to withdraw from playing for their country".
"The ultimatum by the players concerned comes in spite of repeated invitations from the FAI to the players to discuss clear and tangible financial offers for the payment and compensation of members of the squad," said the statement.
"On five occasions in recent months the FAI has attempted to bring the players to the table, only to have the offer rebuked at every turn."
The FAI added the players had opted to stage Tuesday's news conference despite the governing body's decision to agree to a mediation process.
"The senior women's national team are provided the standards of care expected of a demanding high-performance environment, with top-level training facilities, hotel accommodation, dietary, fitness, performance analysis and medical and physio care.
"The team has also received significant increases in budget in recent years to attain this high standard, as well as the appointment of a Champions League winning coach."
Opponents of the scheme appealed to the Supreme Court in London after their case was dismissed by the Court of Session in Edinburgh last year.
The system would appoint a named person - usually a teacher or health visitor - to ensure the wellbeing of every child.
Judges say some proposals breach rights to privacy and a family life under the European Convention on Human Rights.
The court said the aim of the Act, which is intended to promote and safeguard the rights and wellbeing of children and young people, was "unquestionably legitimate and benign".
However, judges said specific proposals about information-sharing "are not within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament".
And they said the legislation made it "perfectly possible" that confidential information about a young person could be disclosed to a "wide range of public authorities without either the child or young person or her parents being aware".
The Scottish government has said it will not commence the legislation until the problems are fixed - meaning it will be delayed until after its intended implementation date of 31 August. It is understood the government still hopes to roll out the system before the end of the year.
Education Secretary John Swinney said the government would move to "provide greater clarity" about information-sharing and would start work immediately on the necessary legislative amendments.
The Scottish government has also indicated that proposed changes to the named person legislation would be scrutinised by MSPs at Holyrood, which is in recess until the start of September.
A spokesman for the group that launched the challenge said the "state snooper" scheme had been "blocked" and the government must go back to the "drawing board".
He called for "intrusive data-sharing powers" to be scrapped.
The ruling by Supreme Court judges - two of whom are Scottish - does not mean the controversial Named Person legislation cannot ever be implemented.
It simply means the Scottish government must make some changes to the law to ensure it complies fully with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
The charities opposed to the scheme had already seen judges at the Court of Session in Edinburgh rule on two occasions that it could go ahead.
The appeal to the UK Supreme Court was on a claim that it breached ECHR.
The judges said in general terms the law - part of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 - did comply.
But they ruled some changes are required to the scheme.
In particular the way in which information could be shared by named persons and others was ruled non-compliant.
The court has said the Scottish government must provide greater clarity about how health visitors, teachers and other professionals who will be Named Persons will share and receive information in their role.
Ministers said they will start work on this immediately.
Although the provisions of the legislation were due to be implemented at the end of August 2016, it will now be delayed until changes can be made.
The Scottish government contend that the system would help to protect young people and has accused opponents of misrepresenting the legislation, which was approved by 103 votes to nil by MSPs when it formed part of the Children and Young People Act in 2014.
The Supreme Court heard two days of evidence in March on the case.
The appeal was brought by the No to Named Persons (NO2NP) coalition, which includes the Christian Institute, Care (Christian Action Research and Education), Tyme Trust and the Family Education Trust.
They tried to convince the panel of five Supreme Court judges that the named person legislation authorised "unjustified and unjustifiable state interference with family rights".
Their arguments had previously been dismissed as "hyperbole" by the Court of Session, which said named person did not diminish the role of parents and had "no effect whatsoever on the legal, moral or social relationships within the family".
And while the Supreme Court did not oppose the legislation in principle, it said information-sharing proposals interfered with privacy and family life.
NO2NP spokesman Simon Calvert said he was "delighted" with the court's decision, saying it "proves our concerns were properly founded".
He added: "This proposed scheme was intrusive, incomprehensible and illegal.
"This ruling means the Scottish government has been blocked from implementing this scheme on 31 August. It must scrap its plan for state snoopers with intrusive data sharing powers. It has to go back to the legislative drawing board.
"The Big Brother scheme is history."
The Scottish government wants Scotland to be "the best place in the world for children to grow up".
It has said that most children and young people get all the help and support they need from their parents, wider family and community, but sometimes they might need a bit of extra support.
As part of its Getting it Right for Every Child strategy, the government proposed giving all children and young people from birth to 18 years access to a named person under the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014.
The Scottish government says the named person is intended to be single point of contact if a child or their parents want information or advice, or if they want to talk about any worries and seek support.
They will also be a point of contact for other services if they have any concerns about a child's wellbeing.
The law had been due to come into force across the country on 31 August of this year, although the policy had already been rolled out in parts of Scotland, including Highland, Edinburgh, Fife, Angus and South Ayrshire.
Mr Swinney said the government would start work to amend the legislation "immediately", so that the scheme can still be rolled out "at the earliest possible date".
He welcomed the judgement as a sign that "the attempt to scrap the named person service has failed".
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Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said the ruling was "important" and "a victory for campaigners" against "illiberal, invasive and deeply flawed" legislation.
She added: "Simply put, the SNP does not know better than parents when it comes to raising their children.
"We have consistently argued against the named person legislation on grounds of principle and practicality.
"I hope today's ruling will make the SNP stop and think again."
Labour is broadly in favour of named person in principle, but has previously called for a "pause" to ensure it is introduced "properly and proportionally".
Education spokesman Iain Gray said the handling of the scheme had been "a shambles from the very beginning".
He said: "Labour will always support the need to protect vulnerable children and ensure that families get the support they need and deserve.
"In light of this ruling, however, the implementation of this scheme must be paused for as long as it takes to sort it properly. That is the case Scottish Labour have made for many months now and it is more compelling than ever following the court decision."
Ross Greer of the Scottish Greens said his party would continue to give its full support to named person, but called on the Scottish government to do more to build public confidence and better explain what the scheme means in practice.
The Scottish Liberal Democrats submitted a motion calling for parliament to be urgently recalled.
Education spokesman Tavish Scott said: "A recall of parliament is the only way to ensure that reforms receive the scrutiny required. This is not a decision for a minority minister to make in his office. It needs full parliamentary approval."
According to research from Queen's University, Belfast, the answer is yes, in the case of children at least.
A study has found regret plays a "crucial role in helping children to make better decisions".
The research involved 326 Northern Ireland schoolchildren.
This study is entitled: Do children who experience regret make better decisions? A developmental study of the behavioural consequences of regret.
It found that by the age of six, only some children are able to experience regret, but those who do learn to make better decisions.
The research was led by Dr Aidan Feeney, a senior lecturer at Queen's School of Psychology.
"It's a much-maligned emotion but our study suggests that developing the ability to experience regret may be important," he said.
"It could have significant value to children's development because of its role in decision-making.
"We're not saying teachers and parents should deliberately expose children to serious regret.
"But showing them how things would have turned out differently if they'd made an alternative choice could benefit them."
One of the experiments had some echoes of the Deal or No Deal game show, as each child was invited to open one of two closed boxes.
Both boxes contained stickers, but one had more than the other.
The children were asked to rate their feelings and those who felt worse about having picked the box with fewest stickers were said by the researchers to have experienced regret.
They were offered exactly the same choice the next day and the study found that the children who regretted their previous decision were more likely to remember the outcome and switch to the other box that had more stickers.
"Adults know to switch their behaviour the next time when a different decision would have led to a better outcome," said Dr Feeney.
"They learn not to press the snooze button on their alarm, for example, because this has made them late for work before.
"However, less is known about how and when children experience regret, and how they learn from this emotion."
Dr Feeney said more research was needed to understand how anticipating regret influences decision-making in older children and adolescents.
"There's much concern over the choices some teenagers make, for example around sexual behaviour and alcohol," he said.
"We don't want teenagers to experience regret by making decisions with very serious consequences.
"Instead, we need to understand how learning about other people's regrets might help them anticipate feeling the emotion themselves and therefore chose more wisely," he added.
There were four experiments involved in producing the research paper.
In the first study, 78 children aged between five and nine years old took part.
On the basis of the results of that study, the researchers focused on six and seven year olds for the remaining experiments.
The children who took part were said to be from "predominately from lower-to middle-class backgrounds and of Caucasian origin".
The research was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the UK's largest organisation for funding research on economic and social issues.
Allman died at home in Savannah, Georgia, on Saturday, his official website announced.
The musician first found fame in the band he started with older brother Duane in the late 1960s.
In its heyday, the band was a staple on radio stations and released albums ranked among the best in rock history.
Allman, the band's lead singer and keyboardist, wrote several of their biggest hits, including Whipping Post, It's Not My Cross to Bear and Midnight Rider.
Among The Allman Brothers Band's best-known songs is Jessica, from 1973, which was used as the opening theme tune to Top Gear.
After news of his death was announced, singer Cher, to whom he was married in the 1970s, tweeted "words are impossible", before sharing a picture of the two together.
The band's first three albums made them stars, but then tragedy struck when Duane - whose talent as a guitarist was revered in the rock industry - died in a motorcycle accident aged 24 in 1971.
A little more than a year later, bassist Berry Oakley was also killed in a motorcycle accident.
Allman would go on to struggle with drug abuse, becoming a heroin addict in the 1970s.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, but said in his 2012 memoir My Cross to Bear he was too drunk to enjoy the ceremony.
After his death, singer Cher, who he was married to in the 1970s, tweeted "words are impossible", before sharing a picture of the two together.
Allman was diagnosed with hepatitis C in 1999 and underwent a liver transplant in 2010.
The father-of-five's cause of death was not immediately revealed.
The king's coffin was lowered into a vault below the cathedral floor during a reinterment service on Thursday.
A large piece of stone engraved with a deep cross lies on top of the tomb and 200 guests who won a ballot will be allowed to view it from 13:00 GMT.
The cathedral will open its doors to the public after the unveiling service.
The last Plantagenet king's remains were found beneath a Leicester car park in 2012.
More than 20,000 people queued to see the coffin in the cathedral earlier this week and long queues are expected after the hour-long service.
Rev Pete Hobson, acting Canon Missioner of Leicester Cathedral, said: "We'll welcome as many people as we can - just keep moving people and you'll all get a look."
He added that the service would have a "lighter feel" than Thursday's ceremony, which was presided over by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
"Thursday was a day for the nation, Friday is a day for Leicester and Leicestershire," he said.
Later in the evening 8,000 candles will be lit in the city's Jubilee Square and Cathedral Gardens before a firework display on the cathedral roof.
The two-tonne Swaledale fossil stone lies on a marble plinth, while the inlaid coat of arms is made of marble and semi-precious stones.
The reburial has not been without controversy. Campaigners who petitioned for Richard III to be reburied in York have described the events in Leicester over the last week as a "pantomime".
Richard, the last English king to die in battle, was killed at Bosworth Field in 1485, at the end of the Wars of the Roses.
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Experts reckon there are 500,000 bits of space rubbish floating around the earth.
Most of them are man-made bits of metal left over from satellites, rockets and other space missions.
They're going at 17,000 miles per hour and are a danger to other satellites and even to the space station!
And leaving junk up there isn't exactly environmentally friendly.
So how can geckos help?
Well, the lizardy reptiles have a special sticky grip which experts hope could be used to grab metal floating around the Earth.
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Out went the harder, crueller edge of Sean Connery's 007 to be succeeded by sardonic humour and the inevitable raised eyebrow.
He eventually became the longest-serving actor in the role, his seven Bond films becoming the most commercially successful of the franchise.
His tenure in the role also showcased an array of implausible gadgets and a host of new characters, designed to flesh out Ian Fleming's original plots.
Roger George Moore was born in Stockwell, south London on 14 October 1927, the son of a policeman.
At 15, he entered art college, and later became an apprentice at an animation studio, where it seems much fun was had at his expense.
"I was probably the lowliest in the entire building," he said. "They sent me on errands for things like tins of sprocket holes, and the guy in stores would say he didn't have any - and would rainbow paint do instead?"
Sir Roger was sacked for incompetence, but soon had a stroke of luck. His father, by now a detective sergeant, was called to investigate a robbery at the home of the film director, Brian Desmond Hurst.
DS Moore managed to effect an introduction that led to his son being hired as an extra for the epic, Caesar and Cleopatra.
Hurst paid for Sir Roger to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, before a spell of National Service with the Army where he rose to the rank of captain.
On his return to the theatre, he found acting roles hard to come by but his well-toned physique meant he was in demand as a model. One of his engagements was playing the doctor in Woman's Own medical features.
He also appeared, suitably attired in a sweater, on a number of knitting patterns, prompting at least one wag to christen him the Big Knit.
And in 1953, his looks and his minor roles in theatre and television plays impressed an MGM talent scout and Sir Roger set off for America.
Married at 17 to a fellow Rada student, Doorn Van Steyn, he was by now living with the singer Dorothy Squires, 12 years his senior, who soon became his second wife at a ceremony in New Jersey.
While Squires was popular in Britain, Sir Roger was rubbing shoulders with stars in the States, making his film debut with Elizabeth Taylor in The Last Time I Saw Paris and playing Lana Turner's leading man in Diane.
But it was through television that he first made his mark, as the dashing hero Ivanhoe in a 1950s series that had only a tentative connection with Sir Walter Scott's original novel.
He followed that with the lead role in an American TV series The Alaskans. It was not a great success. Despite being set in Alaska, it was filmed on a hot Hollywood set with the cast dressed up in furs. Moore found the filming difficult and an affair with actress Dorothy Provine did nothing to relieve the pressure.
He also appeared in the successful Western series Maverick, where he had the role of Beau Maverick, supposedly the English cousin of the lead character Brett, played by James Garner.
Ironically Sir Sean Connery had also tested for the part but turned it down.
Sir Roger's big breakthrough came in 1962 when the impresario Lew Grade cast him as the dashing Simon Templar aka The Saint, in a television adaptation of the Leslie Charteris stories.
The series, which ran for seven years, made Sir Roger a star on both sides of the Atlantic. Many of the Saint's characteristics, the easygoing manner, mocking eyebrow and ability to successfully charm every passing female, would later be incorporated into his role as James Bond.
In 1971 he teamed up with Tony Curtis in the TV series The Persuaders, as one of two wise-cracking millionaire playboys who floated around the fleshpots of the globe as a pair of freelance secret agents.
The success of the series owed a lot to the contrast of the rough-hewn New Yorker Danny Wilde, played by Curtis, and Sir Roger's suave Lord Brett Sinclair.
Sir Roger always denied that he had been considered as James Bond when the franchise launched in 1962 and was only aware of interest in him when Sir Sean announced, in 1966, that he would no longer play the role.
There was a long wait. George Lazenby was cast in the 1969 film On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Sir Sean was tempted back with an offer of £1.5m, a huge sum in those days, to make Diamonds Are Forever.
It really was the last appearance for Sir Sean and Sir Roger finally picked up the Walther PPK in 1973 for Live and Let Die.
He went on to make six more films, including The Spy Who Loved Me and Octopussy, before bowing out of the role at the age of 57 with A View to a Kill. It was his last film appearance for five years.
Sir Roger had some success in films such as Shout at the Devil, The Wild Geese and North Sea Hijack, but many of the newspaper headlines after he retired as Bond were about his life off screen.
In 1963, he became a father, when his partner, Luisa Mattioli, had a daughter, but it was to be another five years before Dorothy Squires agreed to give Sir Roger a divorce.
He married Luisa and they had two sons, but after 38 years, Sir Roger left her and they were divorced. He married his fourth wife, Kiki Tholstrup, in March 2002.
Sir Roger recovered from an operation for prostate cancer in 1993 and said he had led "an extraordinarily lucky, charmed life".
He had homes in Switzerland and Monte Carlo, but devoted much of his time to travelling the globe as a roving ambassador for the United Nations children's organisation Unicef, a role prompted by the scenes of child poverty he had witnessed in India while filming Octopussy.
He took up the position at the request of his friend and predecessor, Audrey Hepburn. His work was recognised by a CBE in 1998 and he was knighted in 2003.
Throughout his life Sir Roger cut a suave figure, always immaculately dressed. In 2015 he was awarded the accolade of one of GQ magazine's best-dressed men.
He was a lifelong supporter of the Conservative Party, giving his backing to David Cameron in 2011 when the prime minister faced criticism over his policy on the EU.
Despite his other work and achievements, Roger Moore never managed to quite shrug off the mantle of 007.
"Of course I do not regret the Bond days," he once remarked. "I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth I have always hated guns and what they represent."
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In the latest violence, 18 people were reported to have died in government air strikes in Aleppo and a Syrian warplane was said to have crashed near Damascus.
Speaking in Geneva, Mr de Mistura said he wanted to call a regional summit to prevent peace talks failing.
He said he thought that 400,000 people may now have died in the conflict.
The UN diplomat said he had "no proof" for the figure but said he feared it was not far off.
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He said the air strikes on rebel-held areas of Aleppo showed there were some "very worrisome trends on the ground" and said "urgent efforts" were needed to get the cessation of hostilities "back on track".
Speaking during a visit to the UK, Mr Obama said he was "deeply concerned" about whether the truce was "sustainable".
Talks in Geneva with the Syrian government and opposition delegations would continue into next week, Mr de Mistura said.
But he said a ministerial meeting of the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) - including the US, Russia, the EU, Iran, Turkey and Arab states - was now needed to save the truce.
"None of the sides have renounced it, delegitimised it, and it is still in effect. But it is in great trouble if we don't act quickly," he said.
The Syrian opposition delegation in Geneva, known as the High Negotiations Committee (HNC), and rebel forces inside Syria have accused the government of repeatedly violating the terms of the truce brokered by the US and Russia.
On Monday, rebels said they had begun new attacks on the army in response to alleged violations.
In Geneva the HNC said the government was "not a serious partner" while the government hit back by accusing the HNC of "sulking".
Mr Obama said he would try to keep the truce in effect and stressed that even if it collapsed he would work to put it back together.
He said that although Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's backers had succeeded in keeping him in power, they also knew they could not defeat the opposition militarily.
"We cannot end the crisis in Syria without political negotiations and without getting all the parties around the table to craft a transition plan," he said.
Meanwhile activists said fighting was continuing in several parts of Syria.
In addition to the deaths in Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory on Human Rights - a UK-based monitoring group - said seven people had died in clashes between the army and Kurdish forces in the north-eastern town of Qamishli.
A government warplane crashed near the capital Damascus on Friday.
Fighters from the Islamic State group said that they captured the pilot, named as Azzam Eid, after he parachuted from the plane, according to the IS-affiliated news agency Amaq.
IS said it had shot down the plane, but the Russian news agency Interfax, quoting Syrian military sources, said it had crashed because of a technical fault.
Bellerin, 22, promised to donate £50 for every minute he played for Spain in the European Under-21 Championship in Poland. The money will go to the British Red Cross.
He played 381 minutes as Spain reached Friday's final, losing 1-0 to Germany.
At least 80 people died when fire engulfed Grenfell Tower, in North Kensington, London on 14 June.
Manchester City and England winger Raheem Sterling, who grew up in north west London, has also made a substantial donation to those affected.
"He can't move, he can't feed himself, he's blind, there's no speech," he explains.
Jamel, 17, was stabbed in the heart outside a supermarket seven months ago. Paramedics brought him back from the dead, but his quality of life is now extremely low.
He had never been in trouble with police and never carried a knife.
He is another victim of London's knife crime, something his dad describes as an "epidemic".
"It's just like demons have taken over the youth of today. There are no morals, there's no love. It's insane," he said.
The new Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service, Cressida Dick, was among those who said they were moved by Patrick's words.
So how are London's politicians promising to help Scotland Yard tackle knife crime, and more broadly, help to keep us safe?
Note: All the parties wrote their manifestos before the Manchester suicide bomb and the London Bridge attack but they had all promised to step up the fight up against terrorism, in different ways.
Labour say they will pay for 10,000 extra police officers across the country.
The party claim they are vital for community safety as well gathering intelligence in the fight against terrorism.
But shadow home secretary Dianne Abbott, who initially struggled to explain how much they would cost, also couldn't say how many additional PCs London would get.
The Conservatives are not promising extra police, but Minister for London Gavin Barwell has said the Tories will protect the police budget and recruit more officers into the security service MI5, MI6 and the UK's communications intelligence agency, GCHQ.
The Tories also say they'll improve the response to cybercrime by incorporating the Serious Fraud Office into the National Crime Agency.
The Liberal Democrats say they'll invest an extra £300m in local policing.
The party claim this will reverse a recent increase in violent crime - last month the Met said knife crime had risen 24% and gun crime has gone up 42% over the past year.
Sir Vince Cable, the party's shadow chancellor, said he was concerned Brexit would affect the sharing of intelligence which could prevent a terrorist attack.
The Lib Dems - along with the Greens - are offering a second referendum on Britain's membership of the EU.
UKIP say they'll recruit an extra 20,000 police officers. Again, it's not clear how many would be in London.
Deputy leader of UKIP Peter Whittle, a London Assembly member who stood as the party's mayoral candidate last year, said his party had calculated the move would cost £1.3bn.
UKIP has also promised to hire 7,000 more prison officers and bring 4,000 more staff into the border force to better prevent terror suspects coming in and out of the UK.
The Green Party say they, too, will invest more in community policing.
They believe eyes and ears on the ground is a vital way of gathering information which can be used to help thwart terror plots.
Sian Berry, another London Assembly member who ran in the 2016 London mayoral election, says the government's Prevent strategy for tackling extremism needs to be re-worked.
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So, for many parties the promise of more bobbies on the beat is a popular one. Polls show people like the sight of an officer pounding a street near them particularly at a time of high alert.
Three UK terror attacks have succeeded this year and Scotland Yard says it has foiled five other plots since the Westminster Bridge attack in March.
In all, 18 attacks have been stopped since 2013 but aside from the huge challenge of combating terrorism, the nature of other crime is changing.
More investigators are needed to deal with specialist crime, including fraud and sexual offences.
Last week the Met said it would start recruiting members of the public as detectives as it tries to fill 600 vacancies at Scotland Yard.
But when it comes to policing, there is only so much politicians can do.
The mayor of London, for example, helps set the Met's budget and gives priorities, but it is Cressida Dick who has full operational control.
For example, she has already said she would back an increase in the use of stop and search if it were intelligence-led and brought down knife crime.
For Patrick Boyce though, still at his son Jamel's side, any victory in the war against knives in the capital will be hollow.
He says victims' families have been failed by successive politicians of all colours who haven't been tough enough.
Patrick believes young people need to be given more discipline and structure, whether it's a job, training or even military service.
"If these guys want to go round killing people, carrying knives, then put them in the army," he said.
Jamel Boyce turns 18 in August and it should have been the happiest of celebrations.
But rather than planning a party, Patrick is arranging the complex care his boy will need for the rest of his life.
"It's not just my son I've lost. I've lost my friend, my confidant, my future really."
On Friday the prosecutor mentioned the names of several witnesses, thinking the microphones were off.
The blunder took place during the trial of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo for crimes against humanity, charges he denies.
The judge said he did not know whether it was "recklessness, superficiality or stupidity" that caused the mistake.
Presiding Judge Cuno Tarfusser added that he did not want to "speculate about something else".
The ICC has ordered a formal inquiry.
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The BBC's Anna Holligan in The Hague reports that the incident was relayed to the public gallery and the recordings have since spread on social media, and even appeared on YouTube.
Our correspondent adds that protecting witnesses is one of the key promises of the ICC, and the court goes to great lengths to shield the identities of sensitive witnesses from the public by pixellating their faces and disguising their voices.
In some cases, witnesses are even moved to a new country and given a new identity.
This is the highest profile trial yet for the ICC, which has only convicted two people, both Congolese warlords, since its establishment in 2002.
Mr Gbagbo, 70, and ex-militia leader Charles Ble Goude, 44, deny murder, rape, attempted murder and persecution in the violence after Ivory Coast's election in 2010.
Mr Gbagbo sparked a crisis in Ivory Coast after he refused to step down following his loss to Alassane Ouattara in the presidential vote.
There were bloody clashes between rival forces over five months in 2010 and 2011.
Some 3,000 people were killed.
At the start of the trial the prosecution said it planned to bring forward 138 witnesses.
The trial is expected to last three to four years.
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A man was filmed on CCTV trying to set fire to the mosque at 20:25 GMT on Friday, before fleeing the scene on a moped.
Scotland Yard said the arson attempt in St Thomas' Road was reported on Saturday morning.
The suspect was described as a white man who was wearing a hooded top. No arrests have been made yet.
"At this early stage police are treating the incident as a hate crime," a Met Police spokesman said.
An appeal for witnesses has been made.
The 36-year-old spent six years at the club, scoring 3,620 first-class runs at an average of 31, including five centuries, and taking 95 wickets.
Derbyshire's cricket advisory director Kevin Dean said: "He made many notable contributions, no more than in our 2012 promotion-winning season.
"But both parties feel that the time is now right to move on. We wish Wes all the very best for the future."
Durston's departure was announced hours after Derbyshire's signing of all-rounder Luis Reece, 26, from Lancashire on a two-year contract.
Police said the drugs found in Mullaghbawn on Wednesday were thought to be worth £275,000.
The find was made as part of an international drug trafficking investigation, a spokeswoman said.
The men, aged 32, 40 and 53, are expected to appear before special court sittings in Newtownards and Newry on Saturday.
They have been charged with various drugs offences, including conspiracy to supply cannabis.
Police said the arrests were made as part of an international investigation into the supply of 'skunk' cannabis in Northern Ireland.
The PSNI is the lead investigator in the operation, which involves officers from the Italian police and the National Crime Agency.
The project to revamp Saundersfoot has already been awarded £463,500 in European regional funds, as well as £200,000 in tourism development cash.
The rest of the funding is being met by the Harbour Commission.
Deputy Minister for Culture, Ken Skates, opens phase one - the new harbour decking area - on Wednesday.
The project also includes a new slipway, sea wall, visitor pontoon and dry boat racking facilities.
The harbour project is the first part of a £4m scheme to boost tourism and jobs in the town.
Mr Skates said: "Saundersfoot harbour has long been recognised as one of the jewels in the crown of Pembrokeshire.
"This development will help establish a reputation for the harbour as a high-quality international marine destination and make it an iconic tourism destination for Wales."
A rugged, mountainous country, with lush valleys to the south and north, it is Central Asia's poorest nation.
Tajiks are the country's largest ethnic group, with Uzbeks making up a quarter of the population, over half of which is employed in agriculture and just one-fifth in industry. A third of Tajikistan's population is under 14 years of age.
The Tajik language is very close to Persian, spoken in Iran, and to Dari, spoken in Afghanistan.
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The five-year civil war between the Moscow-backed government and the Islamist-led opposition, in which up to 50,000 people were killed and over one-tenth of the population fled the country, ended in 1997 with a United Nations-brokered peace agreement.
Tajikistan's economy has never really recovered from the civil war, and poverty is widespread. Almost half of GDP is earned by migrants working abroad, especially in Russia, but the recession in 2009 threatened that income. The country is also dependent on oil and gas imports.
Economic hardship is seen as a contributing to a renewed interest in Islam - including more radical forms - among young Tajiks.
Tajikistan has been accused by its neighbours of tolerating the presence of training camps for Islamist rebels on its territory, an accusation which it has strongly denied.
Tajikistan has relied heavily on Russian assistance to counter continuing security problems and cope with the dire economic situation. Skirmishes with drug smugglers crossing illegally from Afghanistan occur regularly, as Tajikistan is the first stop on the drugs route from there to Russia and the West.
Russia maintains military garrisons in Tajikistan and in 2004 took back control over a former Soviet space monitoring centre. These developments were widely seen as a sign of Russia's wish to counter increased US influence in Central Asia.
Economic ties with neighbouring China are extensive. China has extended credits and has helped to build roads, tunnels and power infrastructure. Chinese firms are investing in oil and gas exploration and in gold mining.
Twins Ethan and Joe Paragreen, aged 10, left their pumpkins on their doorstep in Oakham, Rutland, on Saturday.
But half an hour later, mother Melanie realised they had disappeared and tweeted PC Joe Lloyd.
PC Lloyd said the praise for his actions has been "humbling".
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PC Lloyd said, in his 15 years with Leicestershire Police, he had never heard of anyone stealing a pumpkin.
"I thought it'd be a nice thing to do," he said. "I didn't even think about it.
"I read the tweet, replied saying: 'That's terrible', was driving to work and was a bit early, so I popped into the local shop [to buy the pumpkins]."
After enlisting the help of his colleagues, PC Lloyd dropped off the carved and lit pumpkins on Sunday.
Melanie Paragreen, 45, and her sons discovered the spooky surprise after returning from a friend's house that evening.
"I really feel Joe and his team deserve all the praise they get," she said.
"At first we thought the pumpkins had been returned, but we realised the carvings were different and then I got a message from Joe.
"It was such a lovely gesture - it's policing at its best."
Colin McSweeny, 59, of Thornton Heath, south London, was found guilty of murdering 24-year-old Sean McSweeny.
The Old Bailey heard the former fireman bludgeoned his son with a scaffolding pole because he had suggested moving out with his five-year-old daughter.
McSweeny, who planned to dispose of the body in the River Thames, must serve a minimum of 14 and a half years.
The court heard Sean told his parents of his plans to move out of the property he shared with them, but they were concerned about the safety of his daughter if she went with him.
McSweeney said they argued in the garage and his son turned around holding golf clubs and shouting at him.
He told the Old Bailey: "I [thought I] was going to be killed... I just struck him. I heard his last words were 'oh lord' then he fell to the floor."
McSweeney said he washed his son's face and spent the evening in his house with a police officer friend, Sarah Lavington, who had been invited to help celebrate his wife's 60th birthday.
Later that night, he bundled Sean's body into the boot of his car and drove to Deptford Wharf where he planned to dispose of the body in the River Thames.
After deciding against dumping his son's body in the river, his vehicle was stopped by police who found Sean's body in the boot.
Ground investigation operations are to be done between Inverness and Gollanfield and Gollanfield and Auldearn, near Nairn.
Transport Scotland said work was scheduled to begin on 26 June and could last until November.
It said there could be traffic restrictions over the next few months.
The restrictions will include short sections of road controlled by temporary traffic signals.
Of a total of almost 1,000 investigation locations, only 36 of these will take place near the A96 or other side roads, said Transport Scotland.
A spokesman said: "This ground investigation is needed to get important information on the existing ground conditions in the vicinity of the A96 between Inverness and Auldearn as we progress our plans to dual the road.
"Although the vast majority of the work will not require any traffic management, a small fraction of investigative work will take place beside the carriageway.
"We would thank road users and local communities in advance for their patience during any short duration traffic management operations which may be required as the works progress."
The spokesman added: "The contractor will closely monitor the operation of the small amount of traffic management that is required to ensure that delays are kept to a minimum.
Anna Swabey, 25, from Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, was given three months to live in 2015. Shortly after, she met Andy Bell, 26, on a dating app.
The pair were due to marry on Saturday in the Yorkshire Dales.
Miss Swabey launched a fundraising appeal for Brain Tumour Research which has raised more than £70,000.
Her mother, Linda, said: "Our darling Anna would have been so proud to see how her story has touched so many people around the world.
"We have been overwhelmed at the messages of love and the donations which have been made in our daughter's memory.
"Many have come from people she never met but who have been affected by her story."
Mrs Swabey added: "We are determined to continue the work she started. If there is one good thing to come of this tragedy, we hope that Anna will have achieved her fundraising goal in order to help others."
Following her diagnosis, Miss Swabey described her treatment in a blog she called Inside my Head.
In her final post on 8 July, she said chemotherapy had left her feeling unwell but added her spirits had been lifted by her hen party in York.
But what do the other EU countries think?
The German government says the draft is an "ambitious package" of proposals, and it is now "looking at the package in all its details". It says it will try to play a constructive role in the negotiations that follow.
However, France says there need to be some limits on the proposals.
According to government spokesman Stephane Le Foll, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told colleagues: "We must stay within the current treaties and there can be no interference from non-eurozone countries in the eurozone.
Poland's President Andrzej Dudahas previously indicated that he would not agree to any final deal unless the proposals to let the UK suspend social payments to migrants were acceptable to him.
However on Wednesday, Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski said parts of the draft deal seemed "beneficial" because they "would not affect people who have already migrated to Britain - they will not lose any social benefits".
The Czech Foreign Minister, Tomas Prouza, has told the BBC he thinks "the UK does have a case of many people coming in and needing to change its social system."
"But what is also important for us in this deal is that it's not changing the rules for those already working in the UK, where they have been contributing to the system."
Finland's Prime Minister Juha Sipila said that his country "can live" with the package proposed by Mr Juncker, while Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders said the draft "paves the way for an agreement in the European Council".
There have also been lively responses from the European Parliament, which debated the draft measures on Wednesday.
Belgian MEP and former Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt said Britain would be "a dwarf" without Europe.
"We Belgians, we know that we are dwarfs, but maybe they're going to know it also."
However, he added that the EU needed the UK as well: "Europe without Great Britain doesn't count; is not a counterweight against China, against Russia, against the United States."
"Putin wins in this game if Britain leaves. He likes the idea of a divided Europe."
German MEP Rebecca Harms from the Greens/European Free Alliance group urged members to think about what the EU had achieved.
"We came from war, we achieved peace," she said.
Italian MEP Gianni Pittella, of the centre-left S&D group, argued: "The UK outside the EU is weaker. We need to be able to speak clearly about the advantages that UK citizens get, because of the continued membership in the European Union."
German MEP Gabriele Zimmer from the left-wing GUE/NGL criticised the draft proposals, describing any opt-out for the free movement of EU workers as "the idea of the social union being buried".
"There is added value for UK citizens if they stay. Not just interests of financial markets should be taken into account."
Meanwhile, Polish MEP Zdzislaw Krasnodebskim, from the right-wing ECR group, told the BBC that EU workers should be treated fairly.
"According to all statistics the Poles are very successful in Great Britain, so I do not see why they shouldn't be paid the same benefits as a British worker."
France's Marine Le Pen from the eurosceptic ENF group dismissed all the negotiations as "merely theatre".
"The Brits have had enough of the EU. Finally the EU will be seen for the charade it is and people will get sovereignty back," she said.
European commentators have been expressing reluctant acceptance of the EU reform deal tentatively agreed with the UK.
The negotiations are being widely depicted as a largely sham process designed to help David Cameron to convince sceptical Britons that he wrung painful concessions from the EU.
"The show can begin," Arnaud Leparmentier writes in France's Le Monde of the negotiations, which he says are about "nothing of substance".
In Poland, which has been vocally opposed to restrictions on benefits for EU migrants, the Gazeta Wyborcza daily says keeping Britain in the EU should be seen as Poland's overriding concern, even at the expense of Poles working in the UK.
"No matter how brutal but effective this is, it is worth sacrificing part of their benefit rights in Britain in order to save the EU from Brexit."
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Police said the accident, which involved a Renault van and a Mercedes van, happened at 11:15 on the A75 near Eastriggs, in Dumfries and Galloway.
The 67-year-old female passenger in the Mercedes was pronounced dead at the scene.
Another passenger, a 38-year-old woman, was taken to Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary by ambulance.
Her condition was described as stable.
The 67-year-old driver of the Mercedes was taken to the same hospital to be treated for a chest injury.
The two male occupants of the Renault were taken to hospital as a precaution.
Inquiries are continuing into the cause of the crash and any witnesses have been asked to contact the police.
Aldren Tomlinson, who worked at King George Hospital in Ilford for 15 years, was sacked on 10 February despite agreeing to pay for the meal later.
His employers, Sodexo, restored the 45-year-old's job on Thursday morning.
A spokesperson said they "received an appeal, reviewed the situation and offered the employee reinstatement".
The decision came an hour before a protest was due to be held outside the hospital in support of Mr Tomlinson.
The NHS worker was dismissed for theft of company property after asking canteen staff if he could delay paying for his breakfast because he had left his wallet at home.
The canteen staff member who served him claims he did not hear Mr Tomlinson properly.
Mr Tomlinson, from Forest Gate, said he had trouble sleeping after being branded a thief and had been seeking counselling.
"To see so many people feel my pain and feel my struggle" helped him through what was a "very difficult time" he told BBC Radio London's Vanessa Feltz Breakfast Show.
"Without these people I don't know where I would be. I cannot thank listeners enough."
He said was "looking forward" to returning to Sodexo, a private company that provides staff for the NHS, on Monday.
Michael Dooley, organiser for the GMB, which had arranged the hospital protest, said: "GMB welcome the common sense decision to reinstate Aldren to his job as hospital porter."
An appeal hearing against his sacking was scheduled to be heard next week.
The 55-year-old vegetarian had planned to perform at Reykjavik's Harpa concert hall but axed the date, saying it declined to observe his stipulation.
"I love Iceland and I have waited a long time to return," the former Smiths frontman told the True To You fan site.
"But I shall leave the Harpa Concert Hall to their cannibalistic flesh-eating bloodlust."
Morrissey is scheduled to play six UK dates next month, beginning at the Nottingham Capital FM Arena on 13 March.
The singer published his autobiography last year and is currently working on his debut novel.
Dean Bowditch tapped in for the Dons before Rob Hall doubled the lead with a cross that evaded everyone.
Will Grigg added a quick-fire third from the penalty spot before Hall scored a fourth with a deflected effort in a spectacular first half.
Hall completed his hat-trick before Jay Simpson grabbed a consolation goal and Dele Alli struck the Dons' sixth.
MK Dons remain in third in League One, and are eight games unbeaten, while Orient slip into the relegation zone with three games left to play.
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MK Dons manager Karl Robinson told BBC Three Counties Radio:
"We knew the enormity of the challenge, we knew we had to win here today.
"I think all of the players deserve a special mention, because I thought they were outstanding. It was a really good afternoon.
"We have to be in that winning mentality, where we want to win in everything that we do. It's a phenomenal run we're on, we're seven or eight now unbeaten.
"If we end up on 91 points and don't go up I think it would be quite remarkable, it's important now that we refocus our minds totally on Doncaster."
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Leyton Orient captain Nathan Clarke speaks to BBC London 94.9:
"I'm lost for words unfortunately, we came here off the back of some good results and good team performances but we did so many things wrong.
"As players we haven't just let ourselves down, we have let a good number of our travelling fans down - we need everyone to stick together.
"As professionals that shouldn't happen and we need to put this to one side. With only three games left we can't dwell on this."
An elephant that gives tourist rides has killed its handler in Zimbabwe's Victoria Falls National Park.
Enock Kufandada was looking after several domesticated elephants when one of them charged at him on Saturday.
No-one saw the elephant attack but they heard the screams and trumpeting of the elephant, Brent Williamson from the tour operator told the BBC.
The elephant has since been put down.
"I heard him screaming and crying for help, but it was just for seconds," an unnamed eyewitness told Zimbabwe's Newsday newspaper.
"I then rushed to check on him and that is when I met the elephants walking on the road and I spotted Mbanje [the elephant] following from behind covered with blood all over.
"My blood went cold and I already knew what I was about to witness… he was torn apart, all body parts were ravaged."
According to the Chronicle newspaper, Mr Kufandada's son went to the scene of the accident on Sunday and "helped pick up some body parts that were scattered all over the place".
The tour operator, Adventure Zone, describes the rides it offers on its website as "elephant back safaris" where tourists "get close to these giants and interact with them".
It adds that "each elephant is under the charge of a handler - the trips are lead by a professional guide, who is armed and carries a first aid kit and handheld radio".
Their statement said the truce did not include so-called Islamic State (IS) and the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front.
World powers agreed on 12 February that a truce would come into effect within a week, but that deadline passed and scepticism remains over the new plan.
On Sunday 140 died in bombings in Homs and Damascus as the violence continued.
More than 250,000 Syrians have been killed in the conflict which began in March 2011.
Some 11 million others have been forced from their homes, of whom four million have fled abroad - including growing numbers who are making the dangerous journey to Europe.
History of the conflict - how the civil war has spread
Mapping the war - the shifting territorial gains
Separately, Syria's government has called a parliamentary election for 13 April. The last was in 2012 and they are held every four years.
The White House said that President Barack Obama had phoned his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at Mr Putin's request to discuss the efforts to establish the cessation of hostilities.
After their phone call, the joint Russian-US statement was released.
The truce applied to "those parties to the Syrian conflict that have indicated their commitment to and acceptance of its terms", the statement said.
This excluded IS, Nusra and "other terrorist organisations designated by the UN".
Air strikes by Syria, Russia and the US-led coalition against these groups would continue, the statement read.
It said that armed opposition groups taking part would have to confirm their participation by midday on 26 February.
Russian and Syrian planes would halt any attacks on the armed opposition groups.
Russia and the US will work together to "delineate territory where groups that have indicated their commitment to and acceptance of the cessation of hostilities are active".
The deal also sets up a communications hotline and calls for a working group to monitor ceasefire violations.
Syria's main opposition grouping, the High Negotiations Committee, said it would accept the truce, but its commitment was conditional on the lifting of sieges, an end to attacks on civilians, the freeing of prisoners and the delivery of aid.
US Secretary of State John Kerry welcomed the deal, saying: "If implemented and adhered to, this cessation will not only lead to a decline in violence, but also continue to expand the delivery of urgently needed humanitarian supplies to besieged areas."
Russia and the US back opposing sides in the war; Moscow is President Bashar al-Assad's strongest ally.
On Saturday, President Assad had said he would be ready for a ceasefire, if what he termed "terrorists" did not take advantage of the lull in the fighting. But he had previously cast doubt on the success of a truce.
Government forces, backed by Russian air strikes, have been making advances against rebels around the northern city of Aleppo.
Analysts say there will be huge scepticism about the possibility of an effective ceasefire, given the current fighting and failure of the first deadline.
Air strikes will continue and it is unclear whether Kurdish forces, which have been making ground in the north, sparking artillery fire from Turkey, will abide by any truce.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said fighting and air strikes continued unabated on Monday, with IS fighters attacking the army's main supply route between Damascus and Aleppo.
Islamic State militants said they carried out the attacks in Homs and Damascus on Sunday.
Russia said the attacks were aimed at "subverting attempts" to reach a political settlement.
On Monday, a spokesman for the US-led coalition fighting IS in Syria, Col Steve Warren, said he believed that IS was "beginning to lose".
He said the number of Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria, previously placed at between 19,000 and 31,000, was now between 20,000 and 25,000.
"They have been able to replenish their forces at roughly the same rate as we've been able to kill their forces. That's hard to sustain," Col Warren said.
Meanwhile, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria reported its findings on Monday. They include:
The 20-year-old scored twice in 19 appearances for the League Two promotion chasers earlier this season.
He returned to Palace in January and went on to make his first Premier League appearance in February, coming off the bench in a 1-1 draw with Swansea City.
Boateng is available for Plymouth's trip to Morecambe on Friday.
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Prof Ken Caldeira, of Stanford University, presented research at a major conference on the climate risks and impacts of geoengineering.
These techniques have been hailed by some as a quick fix for climate change.
But the impacts of geoengineering on oceans, the water cycle and land environments are hotly debated.
They have been discussed at a meeting this week of 12,000 scientists in Vienna.
Researchers are familiar with the global cooling effects of volcanic eruptions, seen both historically and even back into the deep past of the rock record.
With this in mind, some here at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly have been discussing the possible worldwide consequences of pumping sulphate aerosols into the stratosphere to attempt to reflect sunlight back into space and cool the planet.
Two hundred years ago this month, the huge volcano Mount Tambora erupted in Indonesia, throwing tonnes of gas and ash into the stratosphere.
Are ideas to cool the planet realistic?
Maybe as much as 100 million tonnes of sulphur dioxide aerosols spread as a blanket around the globe, acting like a planetary sunshade.
Global temperatures plummeted, and across America and Europe 1816 became known as the year without a summer.
Such global cooling processes, but managed in a geoengineering solution, have been touted by some as a possible mechanism to extricate the planet from its path towards a warmer future.
Solar radiation management would use stratospheric sulphate aerosols to dim the Sun. Using a variety of climate models, Ken Caldeira, from the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, California, has investigated the likely consequences of such geoengineering on agriculture across the globe.
His research shows that while dimming could rapidly decrease global temperatures, high CO2 levels would be expected to persist, and it is the balance between temperature, CO2, and sunlight that affects plant growth and agriculture.
Exploring the regional effects, he finds that a stratospherically dimmed world would show increased plant productivity in the tropics, but lessened plant growth across the northerly latitudes of America, Europe and Asia.
It is easy to see how there might be geopolitical shifts associated with changes in regional food production across the globe.
"It's probably the poor tropics that stand to benefit and the rich north that stands to lose," said Prof Caldeira.
But what if geoengineered sulphate aerosols were, nonetheless, deployed and then a large volcanic eruption like Pinatubo in the Philippines took place? Three such eruptions occurred in the last century so the scenario seems likely.
Hannele Korhonen, of the Finnish Meteorological Institute, suggests that the climate impacts could be quite unexpected.
Her results indicate increased temperatures in the Southern Ocean and in northerly latitudes, as well as the mid-Pacific, but cooling in African and Asian mid-latitudes.
Regional weather patterns would still change, as they did after Tambora in 1816, with similar widely felt disruption.
"Deploying solar radiation management methods would lead to a completely new climate state with enhanced greenhouse effect and reduced solar radiation," said Korhonen, adding: "There are great uncertainties, related especially to the regional climate impacts of solar radiation management."
Commenting on the results, Helene Muri, of the University of Oslo, said: "These modelling experiments have highlighted the new risks associated with solar radiation management. The safest option is, of course, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and aim for a more sustainable way of living and managing the planet."
It is not at all obvious what the other consequences of global geoengineering approaches might be. For example, Patrick Applegate from Pennsylvania State University, reported that solar radiation management may yet fail to prevent sea-level rise from melting ice sheets, which respond on much longer time scales than the temperature effects of solar shielding.
Aside from being ineffective in stemming sea-level rise, solar radiation management - according to results from Jerry Tjiputra at Bergen University - would lead to increased ocean acidification in the North Atlantic.
These results also suggest that climate engineering could not offer a long-term solution, with the world eventually being in the same place, by 2200, as it would reach without any geoengineering interventions.
Asked whether he believed solar radiation management would be deployed, Prof Caldeira responded: "A lot has to do with how bad climate change will end up being. Humans are quite adaptable as a species.
"On the other hand, projections for summers in the tropics suggest almost every summer will be hotter than the hottest summer yet on record, associated with crop failures. There is the possibility that there would be widespread crop failures in the tropics in the summer.
"The only thing a politician can do to start the planet cooling is solar geoengineering. If a catastrophic outcome does occur, the pressure to deploy a scheme could be overwhelming.
"Research into this is an act of desperation on the part of scientists. People see the greenhouse gas concentrations increase and are looking for other ways to reduce environmental risk."
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is due to publish its latest findings on Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust on Wednesday.
But sources have told the BBC the CQC will recommend the trust goes into special measures.
Neither the trust or CQC would comment ahead of publication of the report on Wednesday.
The trust runs the Royal Sussex hospital in Brighton and the Princess Royal in Haywards Heath.
It means the leadership of the trust will be rated as inadequate and it is expected a number of other serious issues will be highlighted by inspectors.
The CQC will demand such issues are sorted out quickly.
After its last inspection in June 2015, Brighton's A&E was rated as unsafe.
The trust has been consistently one of the worst performers in England on a number of key performance indicators.
In particular, it's A&E department has seen a consistent rise in the number of people coming through its doors.
The trust is also struggling financially with a potential deficit at the end of this financial year of more than £70m.
This will be another blow for staff, who were praised in the last CQC report for their care and commitment.
The trust is currently in the middle of a £480m redevelopment and has said changes have already been made to address concerns raised in previous inspections.
Reuters made the allegation on Tuesday, saying Yahoo had created special software to comply with a classified directive.
The tech firm said the article was "misleading" but did not explicitly deny that it had carried out such an order in the past.
Privacy rights campaigners have raised concerns about its alleged behaviour.
The EU's lead data regulator is also looking into the matter.
"The article is misleading," said Yahoo's statement.
"We narrowly interpret every government request for user data to minimise disclosure.
"The mail scanning described in the article does not exist on our systems."
Yahoo is in the process of selling its main business to Verizon Communications in a $4.8bn (£3.8bn) deal.
Some analysts have suggested the telecoms firm might seek to pay less in light of the news agency's article and an earlier revelation that about 500 million Yahoo accounts had been hacked in 2014.
Reuters reported on Tuesday that three sources had told it that Yahoo had scanned all incoming emails for a string of characters on behalf of either the FBI or the National Security Agency (NSA).
Although Yahoo had previously challenged other requests for data, Reuters said it had decided to comply this time as it thought it would lose.
The report said the firm had installed a program to carry out the task in early 2015, but Reuters was unclear about what information was actually handed over and did not say if the software was still in use.
The report appeared to contradict Yahoo's transparency report, which said that the US had requested data from tens of thousands of its members' accounts in 2015, rather than hundreds of millions.
Yahoo initially said only that it was a "law-abiding firm" that complied with US laws.
Other tech firms were more explicit.
"We've never received such a request, but if we did, our response would be simple: 'no way'," said Google.
Facebook said it had "never received a request like the one described in these news reports from any government and if we did we would fight it".
Microsoft added it had "never engaged in the secret scanning of email traffic".
And Twitter said: "We've never received a request like this and were we to receive it we'd challenge it in a court."
Neither the NSA nor the US Department of Justice has commented on the claims.
But the office of Ireland's data protection commissioner said it was making enquiries.
"Any form of mass surveillance infringing on the fundamental privacy rights of EU citizens would be viewed as a matter of considerable concern," it said in a statement.
Internet rights campaigners also raised concerns.
"This is the first public indication that the government has compelled a US-based email provider - as opposed to an internet-backbone provider - to conduct surveillance against all its customers in real time," blogged the Electronic Frontiers Foundation.
"The story explains that Yahoo had to build new capabilities to comply with the government's demands, and that new code may have, itself, opened up new security vulnerabilities for Yahoo and its users.
"We read about new data breaches and attempts to compromise the security of internet-connected systems on a seemingly daily basis.
"Yet this story is another example of how the government continues to take actions that have serious potential for collateral effects on everyday users."
Amnesty International has also been critical.
"For a company to secretly search all incoming emails of all its customers in response to a broad government directive would be a blow to privacy and a serious threat to freedom of expression," said Sherif Elsayed-Ali, the organisation's head of technology and human rights.
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Police issued a picture of a suspect after reports a man with a three-month-old baby was asking people to buy the child in Barton Arcade on Sunday.
A 28-year-old man, arrested on suspicion of child neglect, has been bailed until September.
The baby's mother was reported missing last month, police said.
The baby girl is safe and well, added a police spokesman.
Poppy Widdison, from Grimsby, died from a cardiac arrest in June 2013.
Michala Pyke, 37, of Ladysmith Road, and her ex-partner, John Rytting, 40, of Frederick Street, deny child cruelty.
Ms Pyke has told Hull Crown Court the text was an attempt to catch out co-accused Mr Rytting.
She told the court she suspected Mr Rytting of feeding the four-year-old sedatives, and "blue smarties" was a reference to diazepam.
The prosecution claim the pair gave the little girl drugs shortly before her death in 2013, a charge they both deny.
Ms Pyke admitted under cross examination telling police and a previous judge under oath those texts to her former boyfriend were about sweets.
Giving evidence for a second day she was asked by Timothy Roberts QC, who represents her co-accused, about a text in which she said: "She can have a blue smartie and go to sleep! LoL!xx"
"It was my twisted way of trying to get information but it didn't work anyway", she replied.
Ms Pyke told the court that she was addicted to drugs and that Mr Rytting was giving her free heroin up to Poppy's death.
The court also heard her daughter was named because of the name's link to heroin by her former partner, Poppy's dad Brendan Widdison.
When Katherine Goddard, Ms Pykes' counsel, why her evidence was "inconsistent" she said that she just didn't want to "admit it" until now.
Ms Pyke has admitted emotional abuse, Mr Rytting admits some drugs offences and both admit a charge of cruelty relating to having unsecured drugs in the house but both deny ever giving prescription or controlled drugs to the little girl.
The trail continues.
The company said home managers, deputy managers, relief managers, activity co-ordinators and administrators would not be directly affected.
Southern Cross said it expected the cuts to be completed by October, after a period of consultation with unions.
Unions called for the government to step in with financial support.
Southern Cross has already deferred 30% of its rent to landlords of its 750 homes as it tries to avoid bankruptcy.
The Darlington-based company's current rent payments total about £180m a year.
Last month, it reported half-year losses of £311m and warned that it was in a "critical financial condition".
"In today's announcement we are engaging with colleagues to put in place the best possible staffing model for our future needs, and one which fully embraces the best practice available to us," said Southern Cross chief executive Jamie Buchan.
The company said the job reductions were part of an ongoing programme of change, instigated by its senior management team 18 months ago.
It said the cuts would not jeopardise the quality of care provided to its 31,000 residents, but this was disputed by unions.
"The care sector is hugely labour intensive, and there is no doubt that job losses on this scale will mean elderly people in Southern Cross homes get a lower standard of care and some homes may be at risk of closure," said Dave Prentis, general secretary of Unison.
Paul Kenny, general secretary of the GMB union, said: "This is the start of a disaster for the residents as well as a kick in the teeth for the staff.
"The is the trigger for the government to step in with immediate financial support to ensure that Southern Cross continues to operate and continues to provide a home for 31,000 elderly and vulnerable residents."
Judy Downey, chair of the Relatives & Residents Association (R&RA), a national charity for the welfare of older people in care, also called for government action.
"We cannot just sit back and allow frail, vulnerable people to suffer, we want to see the government taking emergency action to safeguard these residents who are all at risk - even if that means taking over the assets of these homes and running them as a going concern," she said.
Darren Neil McCormack, 35, pleaded guilty at a Jersey Royal Court sitting held held in the Magistrates' Court building.
He will be back in court on 8 January for sentencing after reports have been prepared for the judge.
Mr Chevalier, 46, was discovered in his flat in Duhamel Place, St Helier, with "extensive" injuries.
The atmosphere between the two sets of supporters has been "good-natured".
It follows clashes in nearby Lille on Wednesday, where many are staying.
After the game, Gareth Bale said his team's loss was "massively disappointing" but he added that "the tournament is not over yet".
First Minister Carwyn Jones echoed the sentiment, tweeting: "Well played but unlucky today... We've still got a great chance to qualify."
In the fanzone in Lille, Wales fans were still chanting and in an upbeat mood after the game, with some talking about "camaraderie" with England fans.
Wales face Russia in their final Group B game on Monday night and can still qualify for the last 16 stage of the tournament.
There has been a high level of security in Lens and Lille where trouble broke out on Wednesday, with some English and Russian supporters being detained after scuffles.
At least 37 people were arrested as riot police fired tear gas and charged at hundreds of England fans.
The Russian football team have already been given a suspended disqualification from the tournament following attacks by their supporters on England fans at their opening fixture in Marseille on Saturday.
An alcohol ban remains in place at both locations, but Supt Steve Furnham, the Welsh Police Forces' lead for Euro 2016, said it was "very difficult to police".
Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns, who attended the match, said he was in touch with the Home Office and French authorities and appealed to Welsh fans "to be vigilant, and to avoid any provocation".
In the fanzone in Lille, Wales fan Andrew Frost, 46, from Newport, said he was "gutted" about the result but he described the atmosphere with the England fans as "wonderful".
Alan Hall, 46, also from Newport, said the England and Wales fans had been "absolutely brilliant together".
Christopher Facey, of Tonypandy, Rhondda Cynon Taff, said: "It's a bit devastating but I'm proud of the team and I'm proud to be Welsh."
Michelle Airey, who lives in England but grew up in Cardiff, said: "It'll be alright, we can both go through."
Another fan, Jack Taylor, from Swansea, told BBC Radio Wales he had quit his job to follow his team to France.
"I'm having the time of my life, I'm happy I'm here," he said. "I checked my bank balance yesterday and it didn't look great but I'll care about it when I get back."
In Wales, thousands of of people watched the match at fanzones in Cardiff's Bute Park as well as Castle Square in Swansea.
Schools across the country also allowed pupils to watch the game, including children from Gareth Bale's former school Whitchurch High, in Cardiff.
Restrictions during the alert meant cars could only be driven on alternate days, depending on whether its number plate ended in an odd or even number.
Statistics showed about 112,800 vehicles violated the rule - in just four days - newspaper Beijing News and state broadcaster CCTV said.
The most recent alert ended on Tuesday.
The penalty for driving on the wrong day is 100 yuan ($15; £10) for every three hours on the road.
The four-day alert was part of government efforts to address often dangerous levels of pollution in Beijing.
It was only the second red alert - the highest of four tiers of air pollution warnings - ever issued for the city, with the first coming earlier in December.
The four-day alerts trigger restrictions on factory and construction work, and barbecues, among other things.
The authorities had been criticised in the past for rarely issuing pollution warnings, despite facing several bouts of serious pollution. The current alert system started two years ago.
Car use is high in Beijing - of 5.6 million registered cars, buses and taxis in the capital, 4.3 million are private cars.
Long-term exposure to high levels of PM2.5 - a type of pollution involving fine particles less than 2.5 microns (0.0025mm) in diameter - has been linked to lung damage and respiratory illnesses.
The World Health Organization (WHO) considers PM2.5 readings of 25 micrograms per cubic metre as the maximum safe level. During the recent red alert, pollution peaked at 508 on Tuesday, according to the US Embassy's air pollution monitoring service in Beijing.
The US monitoring service describes that level as "beyond index" - one level above "hazardous", which stops at 500.
Coal-powered industries and heating systems - in heavy use during the cold Beijing winter - are major contributors to the pollution.
The air quality is often made worse by weather conditions and the city's geography - Beijing is bordered to the south and east by polluting industrial areas, and to the north and west by mountains that trap the dirty air over the city.
In his new report for the government, called HS2 Plus, he says the initial part of the project should run from London to Crewe by 2027, instead of merely reaching Birmingham by 2026.
Sir David said building a new hub at Crewe was "the right strategic answer".
The second phase of HS2 could then be completed by 2030 instead of 2033.
"The section north of Birmingham to Crewe is relatively straightforward to build, and relatively lower-cost than other parts of the northern network," he told the BBC.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said Sir David "proposes to deliver benefits, particularly benefits to the Midlands and the North, more quickly".
The government will commission HS2 Ltd and Network Rail to look at a number of Sir David's proposals in more detail.
Earlier this month, Mr McLoughlin admitted that legislation needed to build the high-speed rail project would not become law before the next general election in 2015.
By Norman SmithChief political correspondent, BBC News Channel
Sir David Higgins was charged with finding savings in the £50bn bill for HS2. He hasn't done that. Instead, he's said to the politicians: "You are the people who are forcing the cost of this project up through political uncertainty, because you have not come up with any clear decision about giving the go-ahead to this line."
The HS2 bill is trundling through Parliament at a snail's pace. It could well drag on after the next election, and that will be only to give the line the go-ahead to Birmingham. To go north of that, to Crewe, will require another piece of legislation, which could take even more time.
Sir David does appear to have brought Labour on board, by his idea of extending the line to Crewe by 2027. However, some Conservative MPs remain deeply hostile to the line, because it will go crunching through the countryside in their constituency.
Sir David called for "a more comprehensive development" of Euston station, which is HS2's London hub.
"Let's do Euston properly. Let's think about it now. It's not going to be easy, I have to say, to redevelop that station. It is a mess," Sir David told the BBC.
Mr McLoughlin said: "More can be made of Euston station. It is a significant opportunity to maximise the economic potential of the line and regenerate a site that has been neglected."
Sir David questioned plans to link HS2 to the HS1 Channel Tunnel high-speed rail link at St Pancras.
He said: "The current proposed HS1-HS2 link is, I believe, sub-optimal and should be reconsidered."
"It has functional limitations. Let's scrap this, it's a £700m saving."
There should be a study to look at other methods of linking HS1 and HS2, he said, ranging from a whole interchange at Euston and St Pancras through to "a more ambitious high-speed link".
The first phase of HS2 is currently scheduled to link Birmingham and London by 2026.
Under the existing plans for phase two, tracks to cities including Leeds and Manchester would be built by 2032 or 2033.
The projected cost of the project is about £43bn - including a contingency of more than £14bn - but this estimate does not include the trains, which will cost about £7bn.
Sir David said HS2 was "vital for the future of the country", adding it could be "a catalyst for fundamental change".
If his plans to speed up phase two were adopted, he said, "it would deliver the benefits of HS2 - in terms of better services to the north - much sooner".
Scottish Government Transport Minister Keith Brown said it was "disappointing to note that Scotland has been omitted from the plans".
"The business case for high speed rail is stronger if Scotland is included from the start," he said.
Sir David said the speed that HS2 was passing through the Westminster legislative process was "a risk" to the project, and urged legislators not to delay the project unduly.
"Infrastructure is critical to this nation. We can't have a log-jam of approvals process," he said.
Sir David was responsible for ensuring London's Olympic Park was built on time and on budget as chief executive of the Olympic Delivery Authority. He has been HS2 chairman since January.
His appointment was viewed as a sign the government was sticking to its plans for the controversial project despite opposition, including from some of its own MPs.
Business Secretary Vince Cable said in an interview with the Observer on Sunday that there was a "compelling case" to speed up the extension of the HS2 rail link northwards.
He said it would "ensure the economic benefits can be shared sooner by everyone around the country".
However, shadow chancellor Ed Balls has said previously that a Labour government will sign "no blank cheques" for the controversial high-speed rail link, saying HS2 needs to represent "value for money" to retain Labour's support.
Shadow transport secretary Mary Creagh said: "David Higgins has made it clear that there are significant savings to be made if David Cameron gets a grip of this project and stops all these delays.
"The government must now act so this scheme can be delivered under budget."
Opponents of the scheme question how easy it will be to speed up the construction of HS2.
Richard Houghton, spokesman for HS2 Action Alliance said: "Bringing forward work will not be as simple as it sounds.
"Unless there are plans to circumnavigate the statute book, then a separate Hybrid Bill will have to be introduced."
HS2 Action Alliance, which represents a coalition of groups opposed to the new rail link, says the project will be a "huge waste of money" and claims it will cause severe environmental damage, with the first phase alone having an impact on 130 protected wildlife sites.
Robbie Owen of Pinsent Masons solicitors, whose clients broadly support HS2, told the BBC that Sir David's report was "incisive and powerful".
"I think, in all, this [report] will hopefully help forge a much stronger cross-party consensus for the project," said Mr Owen, the head of infrastructure planning and government affairs at the law firm.
"It's crucially important to transform the economic shape of the UK and to try to rebalance the country away from all the emphasis on the South East," he said. "We just can't carry on as a country eking things out in terms of our infrastructure."
Screening of people arriving from Ebola-affected areas will start next week, but the mayor of London said this was a "far from perfect solution".
He said "you can't test everybody" and some infected people would get through.
A consultant has called screening a "political gesture", but a government expert said it would save lives.
Mr Johnson - who has been selected as the Conservative candidate for Uxbridge and South Ruislip in the 2015 general election - said blood tests could not be done on every person arriving in the UK, and temperature checks would not catch every case because the virus had an incubation period of up to three weeks before symptoms start.
"I have little doubt that eventually there will be a case of Ebola in this country and probably in this city," he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.
But he said "fantastic" medical preparations were in place.
Screening - to be introduced at Heathrow and Gatwick airports and Eurostar terminals - will include questions about passengers' travel history and a "possible medical assessment", health officials said.
It is expected to focus on people who have recently been to the worst-affected West African countries - Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
In email seen by the BBC, a senior consultant involved in the screening programme said it was "unlikely to provide public health benefits".
But the government's chief medical officer, Dame Sally Davies, said although it was a "blunt instrument" it would save lives.
She said screening was "unlikely" to pick up any cases but stressed the "great advantage" would be to alert people to what symptoms to look for and what to do if they fall ill.
This would reduce their chances of dying and of spreading the virus to others, she said.
Ebola symptoms: What to do in the UK
Symptoms of Ebola include fever, headache, vomiting, diarrhoea and bleeding - but these are similar to more common infections like flu and some stomach bugs.
If you have these symptoms and have had contact with an Ebola patient, ring 111 first. Do not go directly to A&E or a GP.
If there has been no contact with Ebola, seek help from 111, your GP or A&E if necessary.
The chances of developing Ebola in the UK are low.
Similar measures are being taken in the US, with screening under way at New York's JFK airport and checks at some other airports due to start in the coming days.
US officials have said a Texas healthcare worker who treated an Ebola patient has tested positive for the virus.
Figures published by the World Health Organization on Friday showed there had been 4,024 confirmed or suspected Ebola deaths in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone during the current outbreak.
Surgical cap
Goggles
Medical mask
Scrubs
Overalls
Apron
Double gloves
Boots
Respirator
The cap forms part of a protective hood covering the head and neck. It offers medical workers an added layer of protection, ensuring that they cannot touch any part of their face whilst in the treatment centre.
Goggles, or eye visors, are used to provide cover to the eyes, protecting them from splashes. The goggles are sprayed with an anti-fogging solution before being worn. On October 21, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced stringent new guidelines for healthcare personnel who may be dealing with Ebola patients. In the new guidelines, health workers are advised to use a single use disposable full face shield as goggles may not provide complete skin coverage.
Covers the mouth to protect from sprays of blood or body fluids from patients. When wearing a respirator, the medical worker must tear this outer mask to allow the respirator through.
A respirator is worn to protect the wearer from a patient's coughs. According to guidelines from the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), the respirator should be put on second, right after donning the overalls.
A surgical scrub suit, durable hospital clothing that absorbs liquid and is easily cleaned, is worn as a baselayer underneath the overalls. It is normally tucked into rubber boots to ensure no skin is exposed.
The overalls are placed on top of the scrubs. These suits are similar to hazardous material (hazmat) suits worn in toxic environments. The team member supervising the process should check that the equipment is not damaged.
A minimum two sets of gloves are required, covering the suit cuff. When putting on the gloves, care must be taken to ensure that no skin is exposed and that they are worn in such a way that any fluid on the sleeve will run off the suit and glove. Medical workers must change gloves between patients, performing thorough hand hygiene before donning a new pair. Heavy duty gloves are used whenever workers need to handle infectious waste.
A waterproof apron is placed on top of the overalls as a final layer of protective clothing.
Ebola health workers typically wear rubber boots, with the scrubs tucked into the footwear. If boots are unavailable, workers must wear closed, puncture and fluid-resistant shoes.
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Sutton resigned ahead of the Rio Olympics amid allegations of sexism.
Wiggins said it was Sutton's influence that pushed him to return to track cycling in Rio, where he became the first Briton to win eight Olympic medals with gold in the team pursuit.
He added: "I know Shane better than anyone and I believe he'll be cleared."
Sutton was initially suspended by British Cycling after bullying allegations from cyclist Jess Varnish, while more allegations followed from other athletes, including Para-cyclist Darren Kenny.
British Cycling formed an independent review to investigate the claims before Sutton stepped down in April.
Wiggins thinks Sutton will come back into the British Cycling fold if cleared.
"I spoke to him two weeks ago and he said his life is pretty empty without this. I think he has the right to (return). Why not?" Wiggins said.
"I don't want to dismiss the claims that have been made by certain people, but I understand more than anyone that there are two sides to every story.
"I think the tone of how some things are said can be skewed quite a bit as well.
"There are two ways you can take (something) on board when someone says something. And how it's written isn't necessarily how it's said."
Sutton had been involved with British Cycling for 14 years, helping them to a record haul of medals at London 2012 with eight golds, two silvers and two bronze.
Wiggins worked with Sutton during his 2012 Tour de France victory, and credits the Australian with helping him win five Olympic gold medals.
"I came back to the track squad because he was in charge," Wiggins said.
"He encouraged me to come back and I probably wouldn't have come back had it been somebody else in charge 18 months ago."
And he believes it is Sutton's work up until his resignation that has seen seven cycling medals for Team GB - so far - in Rio.
"All this stuff is a result of his work. He was in charge of it," he said.
Last week Varnish said she would "not recommend" anyone joining British Cycling due to "cracks" in its culture, citing sexism.
But Wiggins said: "This whole sexism thing, I'd never, ever seen any sign of that, really.
"I think there's a lot of bitter people that didn't make the grade, got the boot and they have now come out picking holes in things.
"I think for every one of those there's equally successful people - the Laura Trotts of this world and Becky James - that have been successful.
"If my daughter wanted to get into cycling, which she does, would I be happy for her to go into British Cycling now? I 100% would be."
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The Labour leader said he thought introducing the limit would be "the fairer thing to do".
Mr Corbyn said he was "not wedded to a figure" but told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "Let's look at it."
He said the UK's levels of income disparity were getting worse, saying this cannot go on "if we want to live in a more egalitarian society".
"I would like there to be some kind of high earnings cap, quite honestly," he said.
Mr Corbyn added: "We cannot set ourselves as being a sort of grossly unequal bargain basement economy on the shores of Europe."
The idea of a maximum earnings cap was suggested by Mr Corbyn during Labour's 2015 leadership contest.
Speaking on Sky News, Mr Corbyn said a wage cap would be "somewhat higher" than his salary of approximately £138,000, adding that the salaries some footballers receive are "simply ridiculous".
He said: "Why would someone need to earn more than £50m a year?"
Labour has also said it will introduce a "real living wage" of at least £10 an hour if in power.
On Wednesday the High Pay Centre think tank claimed top bosses would have earned more by midday than typical workers earn in the entire year.
In his Today interview, which came ahead of a speech on Brexit later on Tuesday, Mr Corbyn also said he would be prepared to join striking Southern Rail workers on the picket line in their long-running dispute over the role of guards.
Sandhu, 29, who competed in the 125kg men's freestyle, tested positive for an anabolic steroid in September.
"It is sad that his reputation within the sport has been tainted because of his own actions," UK Anti-Doping chief executive Nicole Sapstead said.
British Wrestling said the news was "extremely disappointing".
A BBC State of Sport investigation into doping in amateur sport led to UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) saying drug use at every level of sport is "fast becoming a crisis".
Sandhu argued he had not acted intentionally and that the positive sample had resulted from taking a contaminated supplement.
"Athletes are solely responsible for any substance which is found in their system, regardless of whether there is an intention to cheat or not," Sapstead added.
"No-one can ever guarantee that a supplement is free from prohibited substances and taking them will always carry an element of risk."
Sandhu's ban has been backdated to start from 14 October 2016, meaning it will run until October 2020.
"It is extremely disappointing news - for the athlete and the sport," added British Wrestling Association chief executive Colin Nicholson.
"The sport is working with Ukad to make sure that athletes are educated in anti-doping.
"The British Wrestling Association has a zero tolerance approach to doping in sport and believes in wrestling clean."
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Prior to that, Pendleton's mount Minella Theatre had been jumping well in the Black Forest Club Members race.
The three-mile race was won by favourite Jepeck.
Pendleton, 35, who was unseated in her third competitive ride at Newbury last month, is aiming to ride over jumps at the Cheltenham Festival in March.
She retired from cycling in 2012 after adding gold in the keirin in London to the sprint title she won at the Beijing Games in 2008.
Trainer Alan Hill said the ground "was a little soft" for Minella Theatre, but that Pendleton had ridden him "sensibly" and would look to compete again within weeks.
"The most important thing was that we got her good race experience," said Hill. "The horse jumped well, she rode him well and now we've got that first ride under her belt."
Josh Davey took four wickets as the Scots prevented the Dutch reaching their target of 149.
Davey ended a 53-run opening partnership between Ben Cooper and Michael Rippon and Con de Lange's two for 17 also proved crucial.
Earlier, all-rounder Richie Berrington top-scored for Grant Bradburn's side with 38 runs as they reached 148-7.
The Scots beat opening Group B opponents Hong Kong on Saturday and the top two from the two four-team sections will progress to the semi-finals.
In Group A, Ireland recovered from an opening loss to Afghanistan by beating Namibia.
The aircraft, which had one person on board disappeared from radar three miles out at sea.
It had been due to land at Blackpool Airport at 09:15 GMT after its journey from the Isle of Man. The debris was found off the Lancashire coast.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said further searches had been suspended due to failing light.
Matthew Mace, duty controller at the UK Coastguard, said: "We have used all the means and assets available to search an extensive area off the Blackpool coast.
He said crews would "review overnight what searches will be conducted tomorrow".
Lifeboat and helicopter teams had been searching a 45 sq nautical mile (154 sq km) area.
The Coastguard said there was a "strong likelihood that this aircraft may have ditched into the sea".
Coach Scott Bemand keeps the same squad who beat defending Six Nations champions Ireland as England look to make it four wins from four games.
Harriet Millar-Mills drops to the bench to make way for second row Taylor.
"The team has improved with each win and we look forward to having the support of a home crowd," Bemand said.
England kicked off their 2016 Six Nations campaign with a 32-0 win over Scotland.
They followed that with a 33-24 victory over Italy before beating Ireland 13-9 at Twickenham.
England: Katie Mason, Lydia Thompson, Lauren Cattell, Ceri Large, Lotte Clapp, Amber Reed, La Toya Mason, Sarah Hunter, Izzy Noel-Smith, Abbie Scott, Tamara Taylor, Emily Braund, Vickii Cornborough, Emma Croker and Rochelle Clark.
Replacements: Amy Cokayne, Heather Kerr, Bianca Dawson, Harriet Millar-Mills, Poppy Leitch, Bianca Blackburn, Ruth Laybourn, Leanne Riley.
Democrat Bo Eaton met Republican Mark Tullos to draw straws and Mr Tullos drew the shorter one.
Mr Eaton's fateful grasp of the longer straw gave him the victory, keeping Republicans from having a supermajority in the state house.
Mr Tullos, not admitting defeat, filed an appeal on Friday.
Mr Eaton, a farmer, was excited about his win.
"There's always happiness in a good crop year," he said after winning.
Mr Tullos apparently left the room quickly and did not show emotion.
Mr Eaton, a 20-year incumbent, had said he did not approve of the straw-drawing, but he would accept the results.
"Look, my life's a gamble," he said, according to the New York Times. "I'm a farmer. I depend on the weather and the rain. The statute's clear, but my life is not."
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant presided over the short straw-drawing ceremony.
Each candidate had received 4,589 votes in the legislative election for the House seat.
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 24 states legally decide the outcome of tied legislative elections by drawing straws or flipping coins.
Similar cases have happened in New Mexico and Alaska, using a coin toss.
Connecticut decided in 2007 to eliminate chance games for breaking ties, a year after a coin toss determined a state house election.
Charity worker, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, was arrested at Tehran Airport in April 2016 while visiting family in Iran with her daughter.
The 38-year-old, who maintains her innocence, has lost the final stage of her appeal against the sentence.
Her husband said there were no more legal options to overturn the sentence.
Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who works for the charity the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was imprisoned for five years in September and then lost an initial appeal against her sentence in January.
She was accused of allegedly plotting to topple the government in Tehran, but the official charges against her have not been made public.
Iran refuses to recognise dual nationals and denies them access to consular assistance.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has said it is "deeply concerned" by the latest court decision.
The British ambassador to Iran visited Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's two-year-old daughter Gabriella last year, who has been placed in the care of her Iranian grandparents, after the Iranian government confiscated her passport.
A spokesman for the FCO said: "Iran continues to refuse the UK access to her. The prime minister and foreign secretary have both raised Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's case with their counterparts in Iran.
"We continue to press the Iranians for access and for due process to be followed, and are ready to help get her daughter back safely to the UK if requested."
But speaking from the UK, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband, Richard, said he would continue to put pressure on the UK government.
"We've had a year, the legal process is finished, so I think the government needs to step up, find a way to visit her, say that she's innocent and call for her release publicly," he said.
"As her husband, I can say Nazanin is innocent until I am blue in the face. I have spent a year doing it.
"But it makes a clear difference that the government hasn't. It indulges the whispers."
Monique Villa, CEO at Thomson Reuters Foundation, said she was "entirely convinced" of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's innocence and called for her immediate release.
She said: "This extinguishes the last hope we have had of legally overturning a punishment where the crime remains a mystery.
"Nazanin was given no court hearing for this final judgement. She is not a spy but an innocent mother who travelled to Iran only to show her baby to her parents."
Ms Villa added that Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe has never had dealings with Iran in her professional capacity at the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Rene Tkacik, a 44-year-old Slovakian national, was crushed to death by poured concrete in Holborn, central London, on 7 March 2014.
The jury ruled his death had accidental contributory factors including him not being able to understand all briefings.
The exclusion zone definition was also unclear as it sometimes changed.
St Pancras Coroner's Court heard Mr Tkacik was found within an exclusion zone where wet concrete was being poured, which had not been clearly marked at the time of his death.
The jury had learned that Mr Tkacik, of Hackney Road, east London, was a "hugely experienced" worker.
He had been working in the UK to earn money to send home to his family in Slovakia so he could pay for his daughter Esther to go to university.
The jury was shown a digital reconstruction of the 80ft (24m) deep tunnel in Fisher Street, Holborn, where Mr Tkacik died.
The tunnel was so deep it took an emergency team six minutes to reach him from ground level, the court heard.
His wife Renata Tkacikova, said: "Rene was a loving husband and father - we miss him very much.
"I have struggled without him. I do not feel that I have come to terms with my loss and I do not understand how this incident could have happened.
"Rene had gone over to London to work and we had never contemplated that we would not see him again."
In a statement, Crossrail said: "Safety has always been, and continues to be, the number one value for Crossrail and is critical to the delivery of the project.
"Crossrail has a good safety record and sets the most stringent contractor safety requirements in the industry. There is nothing so important on Crossrail that it cannot be done safely."
More than 20 Northern Irish sites feature in the HBO series to make the mythical worlds of Westeros and Essos.
Binevenagh mountain in County Londonderry, Ballintoy harbour in County Antrim and Tullymore forest in County Down are some of the places that have been used for filming.
The mobile app was the idea of the film agency Northern Ireland Screen.
It gives fans an interactive tour of the locations, as well as information about them and the show's scenes in which they featured.
A trailer for the sixth series of Game Of Thrones was released earlier this week.
Northern Ireland Screen's Richard Williams said "people will be surprised by the range" of locations the series uses for filming.
"This is a celebration of these locations in Northern Ireland," he added.
"Game of Thrones has now become a huge part of Northern Ireland culture and we know the appetite for information about the show is vast around the world."
John McGrillen, the chief executive of Tourism Northern Ireland, said the app would "enable visitors to make the link between the Game of Thrones fantasy and the spectacular real-life setting".
In January, a distinctive tunnel of trees at one of the show's Northern Ireland locations was damaged by high storm winds.
Less than two years ago Turkey was a major player in Central and South Asia.
Turkish diplomats were mediating peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government and between India and Pakistan.
Turkey was creating a new regional co-operation over Afghanistan through its Istanbul process, while shoring up the resolve of the five Central Asian republics and making sure they did not all fall into the hands of Russia.
It was even mediating internal political disputes in Pakistan between the government and the opposition. Everyone it seemed trusted Turkey.
Then suddenly it all stopped.
Turkey disappeared from the world stage and became enmeshed in multiple political problems of its own.
Most importantly for the region, Ankara did nothing to stop foreign fighters crossing its border and joining the Islamic State (IS) group, which was wrecking havoc in Iraq and Syria and rapidly spreading its tentacles to Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia.
Turkey's disappearance and then its apparent connivance in allowing IS fighters through its borders caused enormous consternation in the Central Asia region, because these countries were seeing hundreds of their youth joining up with IS every month.
Afghanistan became a virtual free for all, with Iran forcing Shia Hazara youth to fight for President Bashar al-Assad, while other mullahs recruited Pashtuns and Tajiks to fight for IS.
Meanwhile, China began to play a major role in the region - pursuing the same goals as Turkey - but more methodically, such as brokering peace between the Taliban and Kabul and between India and Pakistan and finally giving full membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to India and Pakistan.
Now at long last Turkey may be back as a key regional player.
In the last few days it has re-established its military presence in the Middle East by doing a much awaited U-turn against the IS.
It has promised to stop infiltration of foreign fighters through Turkey, crack down on IS cells and pledge to play a leadership role against IS in the entire region.
Only Turkey has the half a million strong army, NATO-level fire power and equipment and the will to take on IS and put boots on the ground to do it.
IS now represents, ''a national security threat to Turkey'' a senior official in Ankara told the New York Times recently.
All this is music to the ears of governments in South and Central Asia who are looking for a natural leader like Turkey to help forge a common strategy against IS.
The US is seen in the region as a retreating power, as it pulls out from Afghanistan and ceases to play any major role in mediating an end to conflicts either in Afghanistan or between India and Pakistan.
Moreover, there is little competition between Turkey, China and the US, as all want to achieve the same goals.
All these governments are deeply worried at the infiltration of IS into their countries. Afghanistan is already seeing an intense power play with young Taliban deserting their leaders and joining IS.
In Pakistan there is a race amongst some groups to declare themselves the leaders of the IS movement, even though, in reality IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has not anointed any such leader or group.
In Central Asia IS has penetrated the top echelons of government, with the desertion to IS of Colonel Gulmuod Khalimov, the commander of Tajikistan's Special Forces.
Even though these countries are facing similar threats from IS, al-Qaeda and the Taliban, there is no common strategy and only a minimum of military and intelligence co-operation.
This is where Turkey, which is well trusted by these states, could play a major role.
Turkey's Istanbul process, which aims to bring all the countries of the region together, could now enhance its role to bring about a joint military strategy to combat IS.
The next summit meeting of its members is due to take place in Islamabad in December.
IS has always been much clearer about its intentions.
It has always wanted to drag Turkey into the regional conflict zone, so that its Islamist government could be exposed as being pro-Western.
IS has also wanted to undermine Turkish power in the region and attack the seat of the last caliphate - the Ottomans - who ruled Turkey for half a millennium, so that IS can install its own caliphate.
IS has established cells in Turkey, one of which carried out the provocative suicide attack on 20 July that killed 32 and wounded 100 people in the border town of Suruc.
Turks held massive demonstrations demanding the state protect the people - a factor that led to the Turkish U-turn.
Now Turkey will bomb IS positions in Syria and those of Turkish Kurds.
It has allowed US fighter bombers to use its Incirlik air base in southern Turkey to bomb IS targets - hugely shortening the flying time for US aircraft.
Turkey's involvement could tilt the battlefield against IS and certainly contain the foreign recruits trying to join it.
All these reasons are why the leaders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia have welcomed Turkey's return to playing a role against IS in the Middle East region.
They are hoping it can help coordinate their multiple wars against IS into one seamless strategy, which will effectively combat this latest menace to stability in the region.
Ahmed Rashid is a Pakistani journalist and author based in Lahore.
A recent government directive has ordered such lenders to suspend all activities wooing student borrowers.
The move follows reports of exorbitant interest rates and unsavoury practices in the industry, including demanding "nude selfies" as collateral.
Online peer-to-peer moneylending has grown popular in China in recent years.
Known as "wang dai" in Chinese, it sees strangers providing small loans to others via websites and phone apps.
The directive (in Chinese) was made by China's banking, education and social security authorities, according to a copy released by the Jiangxi provincial government on its website on Friday.
It said the measures were needed to address moneylenders "making extortionate loans" and other behaviour that has "severely harmed the safety of university students".
The exact number of online moneylenders in China is not known, but one microfinancing portal called Wangdaizhijia lists at least 500 such platforms.
In recent years some moneylenders and loan sharks have begun targeting university students in need of quick and easy credit, according to Chinese reports.
Some students have since fallen prey to spiralling debt as a result of high interest rates.
In some cases, borrowers were instructed to send naked pictures of themselves, with their identification cards, to the lender as collateral. They would threaten to release the pictures if the student defaulted on their debts.
In December the naked pictures and contact details of more than 100 young female borrowers were leaked online, causing an outcry and shining a spotlight on the underground business.
Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz was urged by a doctor to attend psychiatric hospital weeks before he crashed the plane on 24 March 2015, but his employer was never alerted, their final report says.
All 150 people on board died as Flight 9525 hit a mountain in the French Alps.
Investigators believe Lubitz brought down the plane deliberately.
He had been suffering from severe depression, they said, but doctors had been unable to disclose this.
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The report, by the BEA investigation agency, said confidentiality had to be balanced with the risk an individual might pose to public safety and that "clearer rules" were needed.
It was also critical of pilots being able to make self-declarations about their health, which allowed them to hide any illnesses.
A union representing German pilots welcomed the recommendations as a "balanced package of measures", but it said strict rules on data protection needed to be developed in conjunction with criteria for suspending confidentiality rules.
Correspondents say privacy is a highly sensitive issue in Germany, a country which has in the past seen extensive state surveillance, most recently under the Communist regime in the east.
The report points out that strict German laws on protecting confidentiality are balanced by provisions protecting anyone who acts to prevent an immediate danger.
Countries including Canada, Israel and Norway have specific laws on confidentiality for pilots.
The head of the BEA investigation, Arnaud Desjardin, said Lubitz had in December 2014 begun to show symptoms that "could be compatible with a psychotic episode" but this information was not passed on to Germanwings.
The report also calls for more stringent medical checks for pilots - it recommends regular analysis to check for "psychological or psychiatric problems".
But it has not suggested any change to cockpit rules. Lubitz was able to lock the pilot out of the cockpit while he crashed the plane, taking advantage of a system designed to prevent hijackings by attackers elsewhere on board.
"A lockage system cannot be created to prevent threats coming from both outside and inside the cockpit," Mr Desjardin said.
Many airlines now require at least two people to be in the cockpit at any given time.
Both Germanwings and its parent company Lufthansa have previously said that Lubitz, 27, had passed all tests of fitness to fly.
Lufthansa has also acknowledged that it knew the co-pilot had suffered from severe depression in 2009 while training for his pilot's licence.
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But Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho accused Wenger of moaning as Arsenal lost 2-0 and had two men dismissed.
Arsenal defender Gabriel was sent off after clashing with Costa at the end of the first half.
"He [Costa] will do the same again next week and the week after that and he always gets away with it," said Wenger.
When asked if the FA should take retrospective action, Wenger added: "That is the least they could do.
"Costa can do what he wants and yet he stays on and everyone who responds to him has to be sent off. He hits Koscielny in the face yet he gets away with it.
"I understand referee Mike Dean's decision to send Gabriel off. He was guilty and should not have got involved but why does Costa stay on the pitch after what he has done?
"Costa is always involved in provocation and he used the naivety of Mike Dean well. It is nothing to do with the strength of a referee. You expect him to make the right decision."
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Mourinho responded by suggesting Costa was man of the match, adding: "I think you should speak about Gabriel Paulista, a good player, and his mistake.
"If you want to speak about Diego Costa, he plays like he has to play and that is why you have full stadiums and you sell the game to television around the world for millions, because the game has to be played like that."
And Mourinho likened Costa's physical approach and passion to those taking part in the Rugby Union World Cup.
He said: "I will go to a game on Sunday that I consider comparable in terms of dedication and passion - New Zealand against Argentina. I go because I love it and Diego was fantastic - man of the match."
Mourinho could not resist a swipe at Wenger as he said: "I have played against him 15 times and the only time he didn't moan was the day we lost in the Community Shield."
Arsenal midfielder Santi Cazorla was later dismissed for a late tackle on Cesc Fabregas.
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Speaking on Final Score, former Tottenham striker Garth Crooks pulled no punches when delivering his assessment of Dean's decision to send off Gabriel.
"Mike Dean is a great referee but he has got one fault," Crooks said. "He wants to be the star too often, and it is really getting on my nerves because it's spoiling great games.
"Don't go looking for excuses to send players off, because that is not your job. People come to see great games of football, not to see you get overly officious like a petulant schoolteacher.
"If nobody had been sent off in that situation then nobody would have screamed. The only people interested in sending players off were the officials. Nobody else.
"The fans weren't and nor were the players. We all want to see 11 players playing against 11 players. We want to see a great game."
Currently, parents do not need to tell their local authority when a child is being taught at home, unless they have been removed from school.
Portsmouth and Reading are among the councils who want a register after the number of home-taught children in the UK rose by 65%, between 2009-15.
Parents say the state should not dictate what is best for children.
Portsmouth City Council's education cabinet member, Councillor Neill Young, said: "I think it's important that we get a registration scheme so that we can monitor these young people being home educated.
"But also we have to think about the safeguarding of these young people.
"People who don't want the local authorities to know what they are doing would be a cause for concern on a number of different levels."
Reading Borough Council agreed there should be a "mandatory requirement to register children".
Kathryn Smutek, who educates her five children at home in Portland, Dorset, admitted they are "not monitored", but "we wouldn't be hard to find if they wanted to find us".
"They are learning all of the time... I don't want to prove it and, legally, I don't have to, but they are sociable children, they're happy children," she said.
"People need to be free to educate and to live the way that they see fit, within the bounds of the law."
Sam Martell, from Wheatley near Oxford, said that home-educating her four children was simply "an extension of parenting" and no register was needed.
She said: "It's insulting to think that people who have chosen this way of life may be harming their children."
A Local Government Association spokesman said the majority of home educators worked with councils to provide a good education.
"[But] in the small number of cases where there are concerns for children being home-educated, gaining access to properties is extremely difficult, and councils need more powers to ensure children's safety," he added.
The Department for Education said home education needed to be "of suitable quality".
A spokesman said: "We are taking steps to ensure the system is as robust as it can be when it comes to protecting young people, while at the same time safeguarding the rights of parents to determine how and where to educate their children."
It follows comments from the UK prime minister that "now is not the time" for another vote to take place.
Speaking on the BBC One's Andrew Marr programme, the former first minister was unwilling to be drawn on whether an advisory referendum should be held.
An advisory referendum could be held without the consent of Mrs May, but would not be binding.
When asked if there would be such a referendum, Mr Salmond said: "I leave these matters to the person responsible, that's the first minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon.
"The Theresa May line that now is not the time is not going to stand.
"Back in the day, I remember David Cameron telling me there wasn't going to be a Scottish referendum but that didn't last against the democratic wishes of the Scottish people and the Scottish Parliament and neither will the Theresa May line.
"It won't necessarily crumble either today or tomorrow or next week, but over the next few months that line will crumble."
He added: "Remember self-determination delayed, like justice, is self-determination denied and it just won't stand politically. So my predication is that the Theresa May position will crumble over time."
Nicola Sturgeon has dismissed talk of taking court action or holding a snap election to break the deadlock over a second vote on Scottish independence.
She has called for the poll to be held before Spring 2019 or when there is clarity on the deal that will see the UK withdraw from the EU.
The first minister maintains that it is then that Scots should be able to chose between a future UK outside Europe or an independent Scotland.
However, the prime minister has repeatedly said that the focus of Brexit negotiations should be on getting the best deal for the whole of the UK.
In response to suggestions that the Scottish government could hold an advisory vote, the Scottish Conservatives finance spokesman Murdo Fraser said: "It's deeply ironic that a government which hasn't passed a single substantial bill since the election may prioritise one that isn't competent.
"This isn't the kind of plan any responsible political leader would seek to take, especially over something as serious as a nation's future.
"Less than three years since the last referendum, now is not the time to go back to more division and uncertainty over Scotland's future.
"The first minister must stop the games and begin to act for the whole country, not as a recruiting sergeant for an independence campaign most people don't want."
The Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said the SNP's case for another independence referendum was "increasingly feeble" given their refusal to guarantee EU membership.
He said: "The SNP can't use the Brexit vote to claim a mandate for another referendum when they refuse to say that they would take us back in. It shows that the EU was just an excuse and that it has only ever been about independence for the SNP.
"The SNP are using EU supporters to push for a referendum but will sell them out to get independence. They would risk Scotland being out of both single markets which would be a disaster".
In a separate development, a cross-party group of 50 senior European politicians have pledged their "full support" for an independent Scotland's membership of the EU in a letter to the Scottish Parliament's Presiding Officer Ken MacIntosh.
The MEPs and parliamentarians from Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Greece and Malta, say "Scotland would be most welcome as a full member of the European Union" if Scotland votes for independence and pledged to make the process "swift, smooth and orderly as possible".
The European politicians criticised the UK government for pursuing a hard Brexit, and for refusing to "properly take into account the preferences of Scottish citizens in the withdrawal process".
They said they recognised that "Scotland voted strongly to remain in the EU" and that now "the question of Scotland's constitutional future, and your relationships with the UK and EU, are for the people of Scotland to decide."
The letter was an initiative of Scottish Green MSP Ross Greer and German Green MEP Terry Reintke.
Formal discussions have begun between Irish and Hounslow Borough Council about playing rugby in west London.
Irish, relegated from the Premiership last season, currently play their home games at Reading's Madejski Stadium.
Planning permission has been granted for a 20,000-capacity ground to replace Brentford's current Griffin Park.
But construction at the site in nearby Lionel Road has been delayed since December 2013.
In April, Hounslow Borough Council was granted central government approval to allow a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) of the remaining land required by Brentford Football Club.
In a statement, Irish said "numerous discussions have taken place with a variety of clubs over the last five years" about a potential groundshare in London.
The Madejski Stadium has been Irish's home since 2000 and the club have committed to staying there for the coming season.
The Exiles are contracted to groundshare in Reading until 2025-26, but a get-out clause can allow the deal to break early should they wish to make the move to Brentford.
Ajmal, 37, may not be available until later in the season after being named in Pakistan's squad for the tour of Bangladesh starting next week.
"We are very happy with Senanayake, who is a proven international player," said Worcestershire director of cricket Steve Rhodes.
Off-spinner Senanayake, 30, has played one Test and 45 one-day internationals.
He appeared in five ODIs against England last summer, but was banned from bowling in July because of an illegal action.
Senanayake, who has never played county cricket, was cleared to return in December after remodelling his action.
Rhodes said: "What we did enjoy last year was a really good balance of our attack with having a spin bowler who could bowl plenty of overs in Saeed.
"His great strength was how he could keep it tight but also attack and we are very optimistic a player like Senanayake can do something similar.
"He's got a lot to prove in four-day cricket because he wants desperately to get into the Test side."
Senanayake's signing is subject to visa approval and receipt of a no objection certificate from Sri Lanka.
Three pairs of Lord Howe Island stick insects have reached adulthood and laid eggs after they themselves hatched from eggs brought from Melbourne Zoo.
The critically endangered creature was thought to be extinct for almost 80 years until its rediscovery in 2001.
Only about 20-30 individuals are left in the wild.
Mark Bushell, curator of invertebrates at Bristol Zoo, said he was "ecstatic".
"To have the opportunity to work with this critically endangered species is a dream come true for me, and now to have bred them is a career highlight.
"This species is very difficult to keep, so to have six individuals reach adulthood is an incredible success for the global conservation programme for this species, to help bring them back from the brink of extinction."
A batch of 300 eggs was sent to Bristol from Melbourne last November as part of an international effort to save the species.
Other eggs were sent to zoos in Toronto and San Diego, with the aim of eventually returning the species to Lord Howe island.
A report by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) said it is one of several emerging security threats not being dealt with properly.
It comes as air traffic control is modernised to use satellite technology.
The US Department of Transportation said it was "committed to strengthening capabilities against evolving threats".
GAO investigators spoke to cyber security experts who said onboard firewalls intended to protect avionics from hackers could be breached if flight control and entertainment systems use the same wiring and routers.
One expert told investigators "a virus or malware" planted on websites visited by passengers could provide an opportunity for a malicious attack.
Michael Huerta from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which oversees airspace, agreed with the GAO's findings and said it had begun working with government security experts to make the changes needed.
"This threat will continue to evolve and it is something that needs to be at the forefront of our thinking," he told a Senate oversight panel.
Congressman Peter DeFazio said: "FAA must focus on aircraft certification standards that would prevent a terrorist with a laptop in the cabin or on the ground from taking control of an airplane through the passenger wi-fi system."
The Department of Transportation said the FAA was "committed to strengthening our capabilities to defend against new and evolving threats with a high degree of urgency".
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Martin, who won quadruple sculls silver in 2012, came back at Drysdale in the closing stages with both men stopping the clock at six minutes 41.34 seconds.
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Only a photo could separate the pair.
Czech two-time silver medallist Ondrej Synek took bronze, finishing 3.24 seconds behind Drysdale and Martin.
The win is New Zealand's second rowing gold of the Games, out of a total of eight Kiwi medals in Rio.
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Up to 134 matches a season will be shown live on TV in the UK and Ireland over nine weekends.
Live streams will also be available on the firm's app and website.
BT Sport also has the rights to the Aviva Premiership and the Anglo-Welsh Cup, It will show up to 69 live premiership matches this season.
The new European deal will kick in after the forthcoming season, the last of the current deal which has seen both BT Sport and Sky Sports sharing the rights to broadcast the competitions.
Vincent Gaillard, chief executive of European Professional Club Rugby, welcomed the news.
"We are delighted to move to a single pay-TV platform for European club rugby with a premium broadcaster in BT Sport, who share our commitment to the promotion of our competitions," he said.
"The interest that we have seen through the tender process shows how the tournaments continue to go from strength-to-strength."
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All tobacco products have been banned at the facility, making Guernsey the second European jurisdiction to ban smoking anywhere on prison grounds.
The island has followed the Isle of Man's lead in implementing the move, which allows prisoners electronic cigarettes as a tobacco substitute.
The smoking ban, which aims to curb the effects of passive smoking, was backed by Guernsey's Home Department.
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